Chapter 184 Another Group of Pursuers
Fortunately, the disciple from Spirit Beast Mountain had quite a bit of experience, and he quickly controlled the spiritual bird again, and it fled away in a flutter.

Mo Juren fell down, and Honglian Sanren beside him controlled the magic weapon to transform it into a large floating lotus platform, which caught him steadily.

After Mo Juren landed safely, he took out a piece of white cloth and slowly wiped the poison of the fragrant silk on the Xuanguan sword in his hand.

As the three of them watched, the spiritual beast or bird in the distance flew slower and slower, and lower and lower, until it finally fell headfirst to the ground with a whoosh.

Mo Juren snorted coldly when he saw this, and took out two improved versions of the Qi-restoring pills and said to Madam Xiang and Honglian Sanren,
"Use my Qi-restoring pills, recover your mana quickly and then go down the mountain immediately. This time the people from Spirit Beast Mountain should not be able to catch up with us."

The two girls followed his instructions and soon discovered the unusualness of Mo Juren's Qi-restoring pill. They then meditated silently to recover.

When the three of them had recovered some of their magic power, they began to flee south again.

On the way, Madam Xiang offered some advice:

"Master Tie, if we go further south, we may reach the border of Zijin Country. High-level monsters often appear here, and it is a natural dangerous place."

"In addition, some sects in Zijin Country are very hostile to the independent cultivators of Yue Country, and they often kill those who cross the border. From now on, we can no longer travel south."

Mo Juren nodded and said,

"The more dangerous the place, the safer it is. When we really reach the border, we will go east along the border and leave Gyeongju."

Afterwards, the three of them saw another area with undulating mountains. Honglian Sanren said first,
"Brother Zhang Tie, the area ahead is the Mengshan Mountains on the border of Zijin Country,"

"This section of the mountain range is not as frequented by cultivators as the area near Tainan Market. It is still wild and full of unknowns. It would be very dangerous for us Qi-refining cultivators to enter rashly."

Mo Juren smiled and said,
"It seems that Sister Honglian knows a lot about Mengshan. So I'll follow your instructions and head east from here. As long as we return to Lanzhou, it might be safer to enter Mengshan again."

Honglian Sanren said confidently,
"That's right. There are often beast hunting teams in the Mengshan Mountains in Lanzhou. When we get there, Honglian might be able to contact some familiar independent cultivators."

In this way, they were getting closer and closer to Lanzhou, and the three of them felt that victory was in sight.

However, not long after, a huge leopard-like spirit beast suddenly appeared from behind and chased after them at a very fast speed.

The leopard had a slender body and was extremely agile. It could climb mountains and jump over streams as if it were walking on flat ground.

If you look closely, you can see that there is a person lying on the leopard, which makes it obvious that it is a spiritual beast being controlled by someone.

Mo Juren and the other two were immediately frightened and quickly fled eastward.

Soon the leopard caught up, and the beastmaster laughed loudly,

"You remnants of the Five Poison Sect, you have escaped for so long, and you dare to hurt the spiritual birds of my disciples from the Spirit Beast Mountain."

"Why don't you surrender quickly in front of me, Feng De!?"

It turned out to be Feng De, the foundation-building cultivator from Lingshou Mountain!
Mo Juren felt a headache. Now the three of them were wearing the same black clothes. Feng De regarded them as remnants of the Five Poison Sect. He couldn't explain clearly even if he wanted to distance himself from them.

Madam Xiang was Feng De’s main target, so she naturally tried her best not to be caught.

Fortunately, Honglian Sanren, who had nothing to do with the matter, did not feel afraid because he had offended the monks of Lingshou Mountain for no reason. He always followed Mo Juren and advanced and retreated together.

So the three of them worked together and did not hold each other back. They all tried their best to escape and tried to buy time along the way.

Mo Juren saw that the leopard was very agile and seemed not to be affected by the terrain, so he took the two girls to a flat road and tried to increase his speed. In his hand, he had already hidden the Sky Thunder that he had bought at a high price, ready to deliver a fatal blow.

It is said that the power of this Heavenly Thunder is so strong that even a Jindan cultivator cannot escape unscathed. Naturally, he is full of confidence in dealing with Feng De, who is only in the Foundation Establishment stage.

However, Mo Juren was still a little nervous about killing the foundation-building disciples of a major cultivation sect, so he asked Madam Xiang,
"Feng De is a foundation-building cultivator from Spirit Beast Mountain. What will happen if we kill him?"

Madam Xiang said in a slightly anxious tone,

"Master Tie, don't be impulsive. Foundation-building cultivators usually leave soul tablets in the sect."

"If he died outside, someone would come to investigate, which would bring endless trouble to Tie Ye."

"If... it is unavoidable, I will surrender. At worst, I can... find an opportunity to commit suicide later. I will never let you, Master Tie, get involved."

Mo Juren said,
"Madam Xiang, please don't think like that. The three of us are all wearing black clothes now, so I don't think he can see through our true identities."

"As long as we can completely kill him, by the time his sect sends someone to investigate again, we will have already fled far away."

Before Madam Xiang could reply, it was unclear what expression she had under her black dress.

At this moment, a strong light suddenly appeared from the diagonal direction in front of them, and then an arrow came flying like a meteor, bringing with it a sharp whistling sound that made people's ears hurt.

The powerful sharp momentum made Mo Juren and the other two almost pale as death, and they quickly turned sideways to hide.

Fortunately, the arrow was not pointing in front of the three people, but was pointing directly at the leopard spirit beast under Feng De.

Feng De was suddenly attacked and stopped, then he frantically made hand gestures and summoned three ground spikes at his side to resist the attack of the flying arrows.

With two sounds of "bang...bang", the raised ground spikes were pierced through in two sections and turned into dust and scattered.

Fortunately, the speed of the flying arrow slowed down after all, and was finally blocked by the third section of the ground spike.

And the flying arrow seemed like a living thing. It suddenly drilled into the ground and disappeared without a trace.

Feng De was forced to stop and angrily said to the front,

"Guan! You, the haunted fellow, are here to ruin the good things of Spirit Beast Mountain again. Do you really think that I, Feng De, am a living Bodhisattva!?"

Sure enough, a figure flew over from afar in front of Mo Juren and the other two. He was wearing a yellow silk shirt and holding a bow-shaped magical weapon. It was Guan Zhengyi, the foundation-building cultivator from Huangfeng Valley.

On his feet was a green leaf-shaped flying magic weapon, flying steadily in the air, looking as if he was looking down from above.

Mo Juren and the other two were stuck in the middle, unable to move forward or backward. The three of them stood in a circle with their backs to each other. Mo Juren whispered in their ears,

"If a fight breaks out later, you two must help me block it for a while. I have a powerful weapon in my hand, but I need to find an opportunity to kill these two together."

In Mo Juren's eyes, Honglian should be hiding a relatively high level of strength, so he has high hopes for her.

Sure enough, Honglian nodded and agreed, and did not show any fear.

(End of this chapter)