CHAPTER 253: ACQUAINTANCE

Using their spiritual sense, Zhen Yuan and Shen Xu saw a group of five chasing a lone cultivator.

At a glance, the five were peak-stage spirit transformation realm cultivators, while the prey was a nascent soul realm cultivator.

Before the two could react, the five caught up with the man and effortlessly knocked him down.

"Ayuan, that man..." Shen Xu started and Zhen Yuan nodded with a solemn expression.

"What do you want to do?" He asked.

If possible, Shen Xu didn’t want to get involved in other people’s affairs.

However, the involved person was an acquaintance and Shen Xu couldn’t be heartless.

That said, their friendship wasn’t so deep that he was willing to risk himself and his loved ones to save the person.

Considering this, he turned to Zhen Yuan.

"Ayuan, can you handle them?" He asked.

"My cultivation is equivalent to the early stage of the void refining realm." Zhen Yuan said and the double immediately understood.

"In that case, let’s..., what just happened? Why has he become like this?" Shen Xu asked, looking at the scene in disbelief.

While he and Zhen Yuan were talking, each of the five placed a hand on the fallen man and in the blink of an eye, the man aged and withered.

Seeing this scene, Shen Xu and the others were naturally shocked.

"It’s the soul-draining technique of the Ten Evils sect." Feng Xue muttered in a shocked voice.

"Why can a person from the mid-level worlds use a technique from the Tianxuan continent?" She continued.

"Soul-draining technique? What is it?" Yang Shi asked.

"It’s an evil technique that steals the qi, body cultivation, and soul of a cultivator. Master, we need to hurry if you want to save the person." Feng Xue said in an urgent voice.

"His qi and body cultivation have already been drained. We need to rescue him before they can completely drain his soul."

Hearing this, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan didn’t hesitate.

Originally, they wanted to save the person because he was an acquaintance.

However, after witnessing such an evil scene, their motivation became more than saving the person.

No matter what, they couldn’t allow evil cultivators to continue roaming the Yunshan secret realm.

"Let’s go." Zhen Yuan said and the four rushed forward.

Three breaths later, they arrived before the five and immediately unleashed a flurry of attacks.

"Senior brother, look..., four more have brought themselves to us. There is even a beautiful woman." One of the men said in an excited voice.

"Why does this woman look familiar?"

"Stupid, hurry up and defend yourselves."

In the blink of an eye, the scene turned to chaos.

Shen Xu attacked one opponent and dragged him several metres away.

At the same time, Yang Shi and Feng Xue cooperated to attack another, while Zhen Yuan dealt with three.

"Are you looking down on us?" One of Zhen Yuan’s opponents asked in an angry voice.

Unfortunately, Zhen Yuan couldn’t be bothered to answer.

Instead, he threw a stack of talismans and controlled them to form a formation above the three.

’Have a taste of my level five lightning talisman-formation.’ He thought and immediately activated the lightning talisman-formation.

A moment later, nine lightning bolts fell from the sky and attacked the three.

However, the three were not vegetarians.

When they saw the lightning, they immediately activated shields and turtle shell talismans.

Unfortunately, Zhen Yuan’s level five talisman-formation was equivalent to a level six attack.

Although the three defended themselves, some lightning still hit them and bloody burns appeared on their bodies.

"You..., what did you do?" One of the evil cultivators asked in a horrified voice.

"What kind of talisman did you use?" Another asked but Zhen Yuan didn’t answer.

Before the three could react, he threw a batch of talismans and another lightning talisman-formation appeared above his opponents.

Seeing this, the three tried to escape but the attack range of the talisman-formation was large and they couldn’t avoid the attack.

On instinct, one of the men grabbed his brother and used him to block the lightning.

As a result, one of the opponents died, another was severely injured and the last didn’t receive any injuries from this attack.

"Bastard, do you know who we are?" One of the two angrily asked and without waiting for Zhen Yuan’s answer, he answered his own question.

"We are disciples of the Ten Evils sect in the Tianxuan continent. Do you dare to kill us? Our master will not let you go if you dare to kill us."

Zhen Yuan narrowed his eyes when he heard that.

He wasn’t afraid of trouble and didn’t care that the evil cultivators’ master was a big deal.

What he cared about was what the person revealed.

After all, the Yunshan secret realm was a mid-level hidden place and was not open to cultivators from the Tianxuan continent.

If it was just one cultivator, Zhen Yuan would think they were involved in a space accident and incidentally appeared in the Yunshan secret realm.

However, it was a little difficult to make that conjecture for five cultivators.

’Do Tianxuan continent cultivators have a way to enter the Yunshan secret realm?’ He wondered.

A moment later, a brush appeared in his hand.

This brush was his law scripting brush and looked magnificent with its black handle, silver hair, and golden runes.

Soon after, Zhen Yuan waved the brush and a golden domain appeared several metres away.

While his opponents were shocked, Zhen Yuan hit them into the domain and turned to do the same to Shen Xu and Yang Shi’s opponents.

"Ayuan, what’s going on?" Shen Xu asked in a surprised voice.

"They are from the Tianxuan continent. We need to search their souls before we kill them." Zhen Yuan explained.

"Before that, you need to save this person. His soul is about to dissipate." Feng Xue said.

Hearing this, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan turned around to see a broken and almost transparent soul floating above the withered body.

"Li Wenqiang, how did you get yourself into this trouble?" Shen Xu muttered.

At the same time, he took out a branch of the soul nourishing tree, made some hand gestures and the soul was sucked into the branch.