Cultivation: I have an omnipotent land

Chapter 98 Desperate Counterattack

One day later, in a certain forest.

Xiao Ming leaned against a treetop, looking ahead with a puzzled expression. A large number of golden-feathered birds hovered low in the air, seemingly searching for something.

This place is only fifty miles from the border wall, but those golden-feathered birds are blocking our way.

This was the third time this had happened. Every time Xiao Ming was about to approach the border city wall, these golden-feathered birds would appear in front of him without warning, as if they knew his route and were waiting for him at the end.

Seeing that the flock of golden-feathered birds and beasts was flying in this direction, Xiao Ming had no choice but to flee the place.

As he moved quickly, he suddenly noticed a shirtless man meditating and regulating his breathing under a large tree not far away.

"I wonder which fellow Daoist has arrived?" Che Hong opened his eyes.

"Car lane friend." Xiao Ming stepped out of the shadows.

"Fellow Daoist Xiao's methods are indeed impressive. If you hadn't revealed your aura, I probably wouldn't have been able to detect you." Che Hong looked at the young man in front of him with some surprise.

"Hey buddy, looks like you didn't manage to get out either."

"Damn it, I almost made it out, but then I suddenly plunged into the beast tide and almost couldn't get out," Che Hong coughed, still somewhat shaken.

"How did they track us down?" Xiao Ming asked, puzzled.

"Who knows? These barbarians may be weak, but they have a lot of strange tricks up their sleeves. Who knows what kind of tracking mark they've placed on us?" Che Hong said irritably.

"It looks like they've set up a defense line against the beasts fifty miles from the city wall. They'll swarm us as soon as we get close."

With interceptors in front and pursuers behind, things are indeed in a bad situation.

Looking back now, those barbarians may have deliberately let them break out of the encirclement separately. After all, if six Foundation Establishment cultivators were gathered together, even if they couldn't escape, their desperate efforts would still cause them considerable losses.

However, with tracking marks, their deliberate dispersal actually benefits the barbarians, making it easier for them to defeat them one by one.

"We must find a way to remove the tracking mark, otherwise we'll be worn down," Xiao Ming said thoughtfully.

"If you have any thoughts, feel free to speak them out," Che Hong said, looking at Xiao Ming.

"We have no choice but to take the risk." A ruthless glint flashed in Xiao Ming's eyes.

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Two golden-feathered birds circled in the air, and a cultivator who was unconscious was tied to the claw of one of them.

Behind these two high-level golden-feathered birds followed a herd of low-level golden-feathered birds.

According to the tracking marks, the herd of beasts soon arrived at a deep canyon.

"Huh, did it hide in this canyon?" said the man wearing bird feather ornaments on the fifth-tier golden-feathered bird.

"Lord Mingyu, this canyon is deep and dangerous," the barbarian youth beside him warned.

"Of course I know that. Let the Golden Feather Bird go in and scout things out first." Mingyu took out the bone flute and started playing music again.

Influenced by the music, the flock of golden-feathered birds immediately surged into the canyon and began searching everywhere.

Soon the golden-feathered bird sent back a message: a young cultivator was sitting cross-legged in the depths of the canyon, meditating.

The two smiled slightly and immediately rushed over, whereupon they found a gray-robed monk with his hair tied up.

"You're so impatient. You're about to die, and you still have the mood to meditate," the barbarian youth said mockingly.

Xiao Ming slowly opened his eyes, his gaze sweeping over the two barbarians on the golden-feathered bird before quickly looking at the unconscious cultivator.

"Yang Zhiyuan!"

It seems this woman was more unlucky; she didn't manage to escape.

"Stop looking, you'll soon be just like him," Mingyu said calmly.

"I think you've been so blinded by the desire to escape that you're trapped in this canyon with nowhere to go. Even if you had wings, you couldn't escape."

"That's right, now even if you grow wings, you can't escape."

Xiao Ming slowly raised his head and suddenly clenched his fist.

Boom boom boom...

Violent explosions occurred one after another on the cliffs on both sides of the canyon, cracks spread continuously, the cliffs collapsed, and countless boulders rolled down.

"Are you insane? You actually want to die with us?" The two barbarians' expressions changed immediately.

"That's not necessarily true."

Xiao Ming's figure darted swiftly among the collapsing boulders. Even when he was unfortunately hit, his protective aura was more robust than that of an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator, and the thousand-pound boulder only caused a ripple.

However, there were simply too many boulders rolling down, and a huge shadow loomed over them—it was a boulder with a diameter of ten zhang (approximately 33 meters).

Xiao Ming's eyes flashed, and he took the initiative to go to meet him.

With a flick of his sleeve, several talismans that allowed him to burrow underground flew out.

At this moment, the earth's veins are undergoing violent changes. If one were to use an earth-遁符 (earth-遁符, a type of talisman) to burrow underground, one would likely be directly exposed to the aftershocks of these changes. At best, one's internal organs would be damaged; at worst, one would be crushed into pieces by the shockwave.

However, Xiao Ming had a different use for it. With his magic power, a talisman that allowed him to escape into the ground flew out and stuck to the surface of the rolling boulder.

With the activation of the Earth Escape Talisman, Xiao Ming's body disappeared into the boulder, passing through it like a phantom.

Next, Xiao Ming followed the same method and pasted the other earth-遁符 (earth-遁符) on several boulders along the only path.

By relying on this extremely extravagant method, Xiao Ming managed to carve out a way to survive.

Rumble...

Countless boulders rolled down, and the collapsing cliffs completely buried the area.

After a while, when everything quieted down, a sound suddenly came from the pile of rocks.

The two golden-feathered birds broke through the rocks and flew back into the air.

As a Foundation Establishment level demon beast, the Golden Feathered Bird has relatively strong defense, so it wouldn't be killed by the boulder. However, those Golden Feathered Birds at the Qi Refining level were not so lucky.

Except for a few who managed to escape in time, most were buried alive under the boulder and could not escape.

The two barbarians, however, were protected under the wings of the golden-feathered bird and survived by sheer luck.

"You're ruthless, kid."

Although the two barbarians were furious, seeing that Xiao Ming was unharmed, they dared not be careless. Instead, they adjusted their positions to surround Xiao Ming.

"Don't get too cocky, it's still two against one," Ming Yu said coldly.

"Is that so?" Xiao Ming's face revealed a playful smile.

Just then, a furious roar suddenly came from above.

A muscular figure with a bare upper body descended from the sky like a falling meteor, crashing heavily onto the fourth-tier golden-feathered bird.

The barbarian youth sitting on the golden-feathered bird was the first to be hit. His physical strength was comparable to that of an ordinary body cultivator, but how could he compare to Che Hong? With just one impact, he was turned into mincemeat.

Bathed in blood, Che Hong's body seemed to grow an inch taller and stronger. He spread his arms and wrapped them around the Golden Feather Bird's neck, assuming a naked strangulation position.

Che Hong is a Foundation Establishment cultivator with a physical body strength comparable to a magic weapon. Once locked down by him, even demonic beasts would find it difficult to break free.

It bit its tongue, spitting out a venomous tongue that transformed into a sharp arrow that struck the golden-feathered bird in the eye.

The fourth-tier demonic beast let out a miserable cry and fell to the ground, lifeless.