Chapter 224 Diao Yuanzheng's Action
After listening to Mo Juren's analysis, Zhao Han immediately said,

"As I see it, the grid maze just now is 'observation', and the quicksand array here is 'questioning', right?"

Mo Juren smiled and said,

"Fellow Daoist Zhao is right. In addition to 'observation' and 'questioning', there are also the first two stone doors. They should be a test of the doctor's common 'pulse feeling' technique. You can explore the situation behind the door and directly open the mechanism behind the door."

The fifth sister Xiaorong said in a tender voice,

"I understand! In that case, could this place be a secret place where one can test the doctor's medical skills?"

Mo Juren thought to himself, Fifth sister, you guessed it right. This is originally the place where the Medicine Sect is passed down its legacy. These formations should be set up to select disciples of the Medicine Sect who meet the requirements.

Moreover, this place has no other benefits except the formation. The six people have been here for a long time and have not gained anything.

However, it is better not to tell them about this. After all, Diao Yuanzheng and another group of people ahead should have also gotten through, and they might encounter them at any time next.

So Mo Juren said quickly,
"What Fellow Daoist Qin said should be pretty much correct. Let's go and see what else will appear ahead."

The six people resumed their previous formation, divided into two groups of three, and continued to move towards the next passage.

This time the passage was very long and turned several times, as if it was circling a large house.

Soon, the six people passed through the passage and arrived at the fourth stone cave space, where they finally saw the figures of other wandering cultivators!
The space here is even larger than the second stone cave. There are nearly a dozen huge stone men standing neatly in the cave, each of them is six or seven feet tall.

Moreover, these stone men all held various weapons in their hands, formed a formation, and were quite powerful, blocking the front of the passage.

Those who were fighting against these stone men should be the independent cultivators who broke in earlier. There were more than ten or twenty of them standing in two groups. Some of them seemed to be injured and were leaning against the wall in twos and threes to recover from their injuries.

Among the two gangs, one was a group of scattered cultivators with disheveled clothes; the other was a group of people all wearing the iconic attire of "Gu sellers" - all in black and wearing hoods.

Among them, there were four strong men on the side of the Gu seller who were carrying a square platform on their shoulders, which was very eye-catching in the crowd.

This platform was as big as half a bed and was covered with array patterns. In the middle sat a thin monk with sparse, dry yellow hair, a gloomy face, and a cunning look.

As soon as Mo Juren and the other six people appeared, they were immediately discovered by this person and looked straight over here.

His narrowed eyes revealed a cold light, and he said in a sharp voice,

"I was wondering who it was, it turns out it's the Five Friends of Mengshan! You are so brave! Do you dare to come and snatch things from me!?"

Wang Zhuo and others pretended to be surprised and said,
"So it's Senior Diao! I'm so sorry. We just happened to pass by here and found something unusual here,"

"I originally thought that there might be some secret realm coming out, so I ventured in to investigate. I didn't expect that it was Senior Diao who was here."

After that, the five friends from Mengshan stood in a row, showing a hint of confrontation, as if they were not afraid of Diao Yuanzheng's strength. Diao Yuanzheng's eyes turned cold, but he did not flare up on the spot, and the surroundings suddenly fell into a brief silence.

Mo Juren hid behind the Five Friends of Mengshan in a very low-key manner, and not many people noticed him.

However, among those wandering cultivators, Mo Juren found a familiar face, Hu Pinggu!
She was alone in the crowd and didn't see the mute Xiong Dali who was always with her.

Although it was strange, this was not the time to recognize each other and reminisce about the past.

I heard Diao Yuanzheng suddenly started laughing secretly, and then he said louder and louder,
“Hahahahahahahaha… Just the five of you want to go against me. I think you are really bold!”

Wang Zhuo raised his head and was about to answer when Diao Yuanzheng suddenly pointed at him.
"Stop my witch spirit fire first!"

Suddenly, a jet of black light burst out from his sleeve and transformed into a ball of icy flame that attacked the Five Friends of Mengshan.

Wang Zhuo and others did not panic when suddenly attacked. The second brother Xie Hong pulled Wang Zhuo out of the fire. The three people behind him had already been ready to move. Five or six talismans exploded in succession.

Fireballs, ice arrows, wind blades and other kinds of spiritual power rushed together, destroying Diao Yuanzheng's witch spirit fire into nothingness.

Diao Yuanzheng was not in a hurry. After a cold snort, he threw out four or five black shadows and drilled directly into the ground.

Wang Zhuo on the other side was not idle either. He held out his large shield magic weapon, and as if he could predict Diao Yuanzheng's attack path, he suddenly slammed the large shield onto the ground, immediately forcing out the dark shadow hiding underground.

The three black shadows actually had vague shapes of monsters, like big cats, which scratched and attacked Wang Zhuo's shield madly with their sharp claws, making it squeak. They even had the upper hand and were about to tear the shield apart.

Behind Wang Zhuo, his second brother Xie Hong and third brother Zhang Xing hurriedly helped to hold up the big shield, and after inputting two streams of magic power, they finally pinned down the black shadow on the ground and made it unable to move.

Fourth brother Zhao Han and fifth sister Qin Xiaorong, a gun shadow split into two blades, and a sword edge swung out cold air, strangling the three black shadows alive.

But what the five friends didn't notice was that, apart from the three black shadow beasts released by Diao Yuanzheng that attacked them and were destroyed, there was actually another one underground that suddenly attacked Mo Juren who had been standing behind!
On Mo Juren's side, seeing that the five friends of Mengshan attacked together and were able to withstand Diao Yuanzheng's two moves, he felt relieved.

But suddenly he felt a chill under his feet, and a ferocious shadow beast had already broken out of the ground and was grabbing his lower body.

Fortunately, Mo Juren was also a man of quick reactions. He immediately used a move to turn the world upside down. He raised his feet to the sky and pressed his hands downward. His magic power condensed into a divine hand, which blocked the upward momentum of the black shadow beast and used its force to jump into the air.

Everyone's eyes flashed, and they saw Mo Juren, who was pushed into the air, suddenly disappear. Then, the shadow beast that had just jumped out of the ground was turned into a wisp of black smoke and dissipated under the heavy pressure of Mo Juren, who suddenly flashed forward with the Luoyan Step and used the Xuanguan Sword.

Seeing that Mo Juren had a plan for dealing with the situation and escaped without any danger, the five friends from Mengshan felt relieved and quickly moved their formation to cover him with the protection of the big shield.

Diao Yuanzheng saw that he had not gained any advantage after two moves, and even failed to kill an unknown person to show his power, so he snorted coldly and wanted to attack again.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, someone burst into laughter...

(End of this chapter)