Chapter Fifty-Three: Sitting in Meditation at the Mystic Tower

  After a loud explosion, the middle-aged man was surprisingly standing on the ground unscathed, but all the trees within a five-meter radius around him had turned to dust. In front of him, the nine shadow apes were growling at him with their mouths open wide.

  A middle-aged man's angry face emerged, apparently very angry at the appearance of these nine shadow apes. He picked up the dragon-headed staff and shouted: "Poison Dragon Decision! Nine Dragons Rushing Forward!"

  Only to see the top of the dragon stick, nine magnificent golden giant dragons appeared, each emitting a powerful destructive force. The nine shadow apes opposite also moved, and suddenly made a sharp turn, "Bang" in an instant, one of the nine shadow apes turned into a row of nine shadow apes! The entire space was suddenly emerald green!

  "One, two... ten! Ten Nine Shadow Apes! Ah, is this the Nine Shadows Technique of the Nine Shadow Ape?" Ye Xuan was completely stunned by these ten Nine Shadow Apes.

  Even the middle-aged man showed a look of surprise, but there was no time to think in battle. The ten Jiuying Apes immediately surrounded him and simultaneously raised their sharp palms to slap him, but his Jiulong Bengteng was not weak at all. He single-handedly wielded nine giant dragons and constantly intersected with the ten Jiuying Apes.

  However, the middle-aged man suddenly dodged too late, and one of the nine shadow apes rushed over and slapped him with a "bang", sending the Xuanhua Pagoda in his hand flying. The black pagoda flew in an arc and fell into a lake far away.

  "Boom!"

  The black tower suddenly sank to the bottom of the lake, which made the middle-aged man suddenly angry, but he had no way out. After all, he only had a pair of hands and two legs, and now there were nine shadow apes surrounding him, constantly attacking him, and these nine shadow apes were thick-skinned and hard to hurt.

  Time passed second by second, the middle-aged man's Xuan Qi was slowly consumed, but the Nine Shadows Technique that the Nine Shadows Ape had been born with and inherited through bloodline showed no signs of weakness. The middle-aged man furrowed his brow, leaped up, and jumped out of the Nine Shadows Ape's encirclement, dashing towards the forest. He now wanted to shake off this damned Nine Shadows Ape, he must obtain the Situ Xuan Tower that he had finally gotten his hands on.

  The nine avatars of Jiuyingyuan suddenly stopped, a huge emerald ripple gathered towards Jiuyingyuan, and once again became one. Then, with its robust legs, it chased after the middle-aged man.

  "Ah! The opportunity has arrived!" Ye Xuan saw the middle-aged man run away, extremely excited. After they disappeared, Ye Xuan didn't say a word, jumped out from the weeds, rushed to the lake, and without even taking off his clothes, he took a big leap and "splash!" jumped into the water.

  But Ye Xuan was wrong, the lake water was only over a meter deep, and with one big jump, he landed in the mud.

  "Ah! I've got it!" Ye Xuan stood up, shaking off the mud and sand from his head. He bent down and searched with his hands for the Situ Xuan Tower that had fallen into the water. Finally, he found it in a corner of a rock, feeling its warmth like jade, and pulled it out.

  With the dark, cone-shaped Xuan Tower in hand, Ye Xuan felt that this Xuan Tower contained a huge amount of energy, causing every cell in his body to vibrate with excitement, and a comfortable feeling spread throughout his entire body.

  "Haha, this Jade Tower is mine!"

  Ye Xuan excitedly laughed, but just as he finished speaking, the old man suddenly said: "Stinky brat, hurry up and run, two powerful auras have appeared, I estimate that the middle-aged man and Jiu Ying Yuan are coming back!"

  Ye Xuan heard that, without saying a word, he jumped out of the lake and quickly ran into the dense forest, cursing as he ran: "Damn it! I just got my hands on the treasure, won't I be risking my life now? Look at that old man with the Qilin golden hoop earlier, he flew away with one foot, while I'm still running for my life like a rabbit in this thicket!"

  Just as Ye Xuan disappeared, two figures flew towards the lake like shooting stars and arrived at the lake in an instant. These two figures were surprisingly the middle-aged man who had just fought with Jiu Ying Yuan and the old man in brocade robes holding the Qilin Golden Hoop.

  A middle-aged man stared at the lake water with a pair of stern eyes, the lake water was murky, and then saw the muddy footprints on the shore, his face suddenly changed, and he exclaimed: "It's not good, someone has entered this lake!"

  The old man in the brocade robe furrowed his brow, took out the Qilin golden hoop, and threw it towards the empty space above the lake. Instantly, the golden hoop burst into a brilliant light that illuminated the lake surface, and the murky water quickly became clear at a visible speed. Afterwards, the objects on the lake bed were clearly visible, but there was no Situ Xuan Tower.

  "Who's so bold as to take away our goods!" said the middle-aged man with a gloomy face.

  However, the old man in brocade looked thoughtful and glanced at the middle-aged man, asking: "What to do now?"

  "I'm sure the person who took away the Xuan Tower hasn't gone far!" The middle-aged man said, clenching his hand tightly around the Linglong Golden Staff.

  He had just finished speaking when a loud rumbling sound was heard, and a powerful gust of air rushed towards the two of them. A bright green light enveloped the two people and their surroundings, transforming everything into a green world. In the wake of the gust, a dark green giant ape emerged, none other than the Nine-Shadowed Ape that dwelled deep within the mountains.

  The two of them immediately urged the Xuan Zhi force to counter the opposing airflow, and the brocade-robed old man exclaimed in surprise: "This Jiu Ying Yuan actually opened the seal of our two people's Xuan Zhi so quickly!"

  Just as he finished speaking, the powerful airflow and the two men's strong Xuan energy violently collided with each other!

  ……

  Ye Xuan didn't know how long he had been running, because the forest was dangerous, and with the Situ Xin Tower in his arms, he kept going without stopping. Finally, after walking for several hours, Ye Xuan was overjoyed to see the mercenary group's people, and saw Lao San, who also saw Ye Xuan rushing towards him from the side.

  Everyone's eyes widened as they saw Ye Xuan rushing over.

  "My god, isn't this Ye Xiao's brother? You're not dead!" Lu Lao San exclaimed, carrying the Ghost Head Knife.

  Ye Xuan walked up to them, took a look, and found that the group of forty or fifty people had dwindled down to just over ten, with several of them having injured arms and legs. The only thing that surprised him was that Luo Cuihua was unscathed, still holding onto her Dragon Capturing Rod.

  Ye Xuan said: "I didn't run into Jiu Ying Yuan! But this journey has exhausted me to death! I was too busy escaping for my life."

  "Yeh Xiao, you're lucky! Look, we're the only ones left. That Nine-Shadowed Ape was chasing us, killing many people. We thought for sure we were done for, but somehow it just stopped and ran off into the depths of the mountains. What a close call!" Lu Lao San said with great emotion.

  It was Luo Cuihua who walked over with an innocent face, smiling and looking at Ye Xuan asked: "Little Yezi, I think you just ran out of the depths of the mountain range earlier!"