Chapter Sixteen: Treasure Map

  By the gentle stream, a land dragon quietly drinks water, its massive body adorned with bottles and jars.

  Mo Yan sat high on a sedan chair on the back of a dragon, fiddling with a blue smoke bomb in his hand, lost in thought.

  These two days, Shi Yan's shadow often emerged in her mind, and she couldn't shake it off. As soon as she thought of the naked possessive desire in Shi Yan's eyes, she became sleepless and appetite-less, and hated that she couldn't catch Shi Yan to break his bones and joints to feel relieved.

  Because of Karu's death, the medicine slaves who followed her all the way also lost their use and were released early.

  Now, there are only eleven Mo Family warriors who have reached the post-heavenly realm with her. This force is far from enough to allow her to let go and continue searching for Shi Yan's trail, and can only wait for the arrival of reinforcements from the family.

  A burst of blue light suddenly shot up into the sky five miles ahead, with thick fog swirling in the blue glow, slowly dispersing.

  "It's finally here!" Mu Yan Yu's expression was exhilarated, and she hastily tossed the blue smoke bomb in her hand into the air, where a similar mass of hazy blue light exploded above her head.

  The warriors beside Dilong were all smiling, clenching their fists and ready for a big battle.

  In less than a moment, three figures flew over from afar. The first person had long whiskers and a faint smile at the corner of his mouth. He quickly arrived beside Mo Yan Yu and laughed loudly: "Yu Er, where is Master Kalu?"

  "Third Uncle, Master Kalu is dead." Mo Yan Yu explained with a stiff face: "We encountered a little thief on the road. The little thief only had the cultivation of the Post-Heavenly stage, but somehow managed to behead Master Kalu."

  Mo Chao's face changed, his expression suddenly becoming gloomy and stern. "Have you gotten the things from Kalu?"

  Moyan Yu shook her head, "Also been taken away by that little kid."

  "Good riddance!"

  Mo Chao's song was low and scolding, his face gloomy, coldly humming: "We received news that Kalu stole a fragment of the 'Tianmen' painting from his master, now his master Mu Xun is looking for him everywhere to retrieve that fragment. It's said that the 'Tianmen' leads to the 'Shen Yu' realm where spiritual and even sacred martial arts are hidden. I brought two offerings and rushed here in a hurry just to get that fragment, but you didn't take good care of him! You're really stupid!"

  "What?" Mo Yan's delicate face was full of shock, "How could such a thing happen?"

  "If he hadn't stolen his master's treasure map, how would Karu agree to leave Yao Wang Valley with you? Do you really think Karu is tempted by the wealth and nobility of my family? Humph, he's actually afraid of Mu Xun's pursuit and killing, that's why he wants to take refuge in my Shang Alliance."

  Mo Chao's face sank, and he pondered for a moment before lightly shouting: "Tell me the details of what happened. That kid should still be in the Dark Forest, we must find him! The treasure map is of great importance, our Mo family must obtain it!"

  Mo Yan also realized the seriousness of the matter. Except for the two times when Shi Xiang was indecent to her, she told everything else in detail without leaving out a single thing.

  "Idiot!" Mo Qingge scolded again, furious: "You didn't even chase after him? That little brat only has the cultivation of a Post-Heavenly Boundary, no matter what method he used to kill Karu, he must have paid a considerable price, maybe his injuries are also extremely severe. As long as you catch up to him, you can definitely easily behead him! What an idiot!"

  "I was afraid of losing even more, so..." Mo Yan Yu lowered her head in shame.

  "That little kid only has a mortal realm, and you're actually afraid of him?" Mo Qingge was furious, stamping his foot. "You've truly wasted the family's resources! What are you still standing there for? Don't give me directions! You! You! You! Send Di Long back to Shangmeng along the safe route, the rest of you follow me and continue searching!"

  ……

  Shi Yan had been chasing for two days, but he hadn't seen a single ghostly figure.

  Under the cool moonlight, Shi Yan leaned against an ancient tree, furrowing his brow and temporarily dispelling the idea of continuing to pursue.

  He took down the backpack from behind Karu and opened it. Shiyan stared at the things inside in a daze.

  There is a volume of Poison Classics in the backpack, several bottles of poison refined by Kalu, and two ordinary martial arts books, "Wu Guang Shield" and "Xuan Yin Jue".

  Apart from this, there is only one yellowish wax map left. The map depicts two mountain peaks like a woman's twin breasts. Shi Yan also looked at it for the past two days but couldn't figure out anything and didn't take it to heart.

  In the two martial skills, "Xuanyin Jue" requires collecting Xuanyin Qi. Shi Yan spent two days searching for it but didn't know where to find Xuanyin Qi and didn't take it seriously either.

  It is the cultivation of "Wu Guang Shield" that does not require any other assistance, just follow the meridian diagram to operate the essence and Qi can be cultivated.

  He took out the "Wu Guang Shield" martial skill from his backpack, Shi Yan closed his eyes and silently memorized it, forcing the cultivation method of "Wu Guang Shield" into his mind, deciding to try cultivating it.

  "Wu Guang Shield" is a purely defensive martial skill, using the essence in the body to form a layer of black light on the surface of the body to defend against the opponent's attack. "Wu Guang Shield" is only an ordinary martial skill, and its cultivation does not require any threshold, as long as there is essence flowing inside the body.

  He put his backpack away, observed the surroundings quietly, and climbed up the ancient tree behind him, hiding his body in the dense branches and leaves before starting to cultivate "Wu Guang Shield".

  After entering the Innate Realm, his meridians were unobstructed and as soon as he had an idea in mind, his essence could quickly roll through his meridians.

  Close your eyes, hold your breath and concentrate, Shi Yan followed the "Wu Guang Shield" meridian chart to quietly gather his essence for cultivation.

  The fine vital energy normally flowed through his body in a steady stream, but Shi Yan carefully controlled it, suddenly speeding up the flow of vital energy.

  Pong!

  A dark mist suddenly emerged from his body, and the mist was like a substance with strong elasticity, slowly pushing aside the branches that hid him, forming a thin membrane as thin as a cicada's wing, wrapping his entire body.

  Shi Yan's mind was greatly settled, knowing that his cultivation direction was correct, and he once again accelerated the speed of his Essence Qi circulation.

  The dark glow overflowing from his body gradually grew, starting from half a meter and slowly increasing to one meter, exactly the same as when Karu first deployed "Dark Shield".

  After a long time, Shi Yan slowly exhaled a mouthful of turbid air. The vital energy in his body had circulated six major cycles, and he slowly opened his eyes.

  Very successful!

  Shi Yan smiled and found that this "Dark Shield" martial skill was not difficult to cultivate.

  It only took one night for him to grasp the key points, and from then on, as his spiritual energy increased, he only needed to speed up the circulation of his spiritual energy to make the defensive power of the "Black Light Shield" stronger and stronger.

  She raised her head and looked up at the sky, finding that the moon had disappeared, and it seemed that dawn was approaching soon.

  No rush to leave immediately, Shi Yan calmed down and once again urged the essence in his body to flow towards his left arm. When the essence touched the first acupoint, Shi Yan's mind suddenly moved, and the essence began to rotate rapidly along with the air swirls in the acupoints.

  Three breaths later, Shi Yan's mind changed again. The vital energy suddenly reversed its flow, and a tearing pain came from that meridian!

  This is a unique phenomenon when practicing "bursting".

  Enduring the pain that was transmitted from his arm, Shi Yan gritted his teeth and continued to urge on his vital energy, using the same method as when he had cultivated his right arm.

  His left arm muscle contracted and gradually withered away, a faint white mist slowly overflowing from his left arm...

  The white fog contains negative emotions such as fear, ferocity and despair, with a strange power that bewilders people's minds. These negative emotions come from the acupoints in the left arm, temporarily bound by the white fog. Once they interact with others, they can fly out directly from their arms.

  The sun is high in the sky.

  In the ancient tree's branches, Shi Yan was drenched in sweat, his eyes sharp as knives, staring fixedly at his left arm. Under his gaze, his left arm was shrouded in a misty aura, with threads of evil power entwining it like a malevolent spirit, making him feel an intense and uncontrollable rage.

  "Hoo-hoo!"

  Heaving heavily, controlling his inner desires, Shi Yan slowly withdrew the essence from that arm, the essence gradually returned to his lower abdomen, and the arm slowly recovered normally. The white mist wrapped around his arm followed his meridians back into the acupoints, until it all disappeared without a trace.

  Propped weakly against the tree trunk, Shi Yan's face was pale and his emotions were complicated.

  This "berserk" martial art can trigger the various negative powers hidden in his meridians, but those negative powers will also disturb his mind. This martial art uses a double-edged sword, and when killing enemies, it may also cause him to enter a state of losing his rationality. The power of "berserk" is astonishing, but it is also extremely dangerous.

  However, thinking of the powerful technique that shattered Karu's "Dark Shield" and the strange sensation when the negative energy surged into Karu's mind, Shiyuan made up his mind to cultivate this evil technique as soon as possible. He wanted to see what would happen if all the negative energies in his body were released at once.

  He faintly felt that once he had fully cultivated the first layer of "violent walking", his body would undergo a huge change, and his own strength might suddenly surge by one or two times.

  "Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" The sound of tearing through the air suddenly came from afar.

  Shi Yan furrowed his brow, quietly withdrawing the aura from his body, and even the flow of his internal Qi was halted. He silently gazed downwards.

  Before long, seven figures wearing gray clothes and pale masks suddenly stopped beside the ancient tree under him, as if waiting for something.

  On the shoulders of these seven figures in gray robes, six people embroidered silver star badges, and one person embroidered a silver crescent moon badge.

  "Hum, hum, hum!" A strange wave came from the front of the forest, and the wave seemed to be a signal for communication.

  Under the ancient tree, the tall and thin gray-clad man with a silver crescent moon emblem on his shoulder had an icy cold glint in his eyes behind his mask. He listened quietly for five seconds before saying in a cold voice, "In the small valley twenty miles away, our undercover agent has already spotted them, follow me!"

  Seven people hurried by in a row.

  It wasn't until the seven of them had left for about ten breaths that Shi Yan finally emerged from the leaves, his face gloomy and hesitant for a moment. He jumped down from the tree and quietly made his way up.

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