Chapter 55

With Chen Chaoyan helping them out of the predicament, a mournful phoenix cry emitted from the blood sea.

However, the old bloody shadow demon had serious injuries and could not revive the blood phoenix.

A torrential blood river flew out and swept Chen Jiezhi and the others toward the deep mountains of Dragon Ridge.

Upon seeing that, Chen Chaoyan quickly rushed forward to help share its burden.

Chen Jiezhi and the others jumped from the blood river to the Cloud Net Canopy.

The Cloud Net Canopy transformed into a cluster of clouds and flew toward the deep mountains together with the blood river.

On the ground, dark-red blazes suddenly rose to the sky.

A dozen lines of fire stretched into the air and shot at the Cloud Net Canopy.

A group of Fortune Celebration Temple disciples had launched attacks together.

At the same time, a curved moon streaked across the sky and slashed at the Cloud Net Canopy.

The Mirror Moon Tower elder wielded his scimitar again.

Chen Chaoyan drove the Cloud Net Canopy in an orderly manner.

Streams of water reappeared and transformed into a large river in the air, stopping those dozens of dark-red lines of fire.

The True Rootless Water left by Mister Black Cloud on the Cloud Net Canopy and the Arcane Fortune Li Fire intertwined, creating a large blazing mist.

A cold moonlight beam cut through the mist and reached Chen Chaoyan and the others.

But a talisman on the Cloud Net Canopy was now shining brightly.

The glow went from bright to dim.

Then, as though a curtain of night had been created, it devoured all the light.

The crescent blade light cut into the darkness, but it never returned.

The Mirror Moon Tower elder was so horrified that he could not help but slow his pace.

Chen Jiezhi and the others were both shocked and delighted at their rescue.

Chen Chaoyan was curiously looking at their side.

There was a girl who was younger than her and looked to be about ten years old.

The fear on the girl’s face had not yet dissipated, but now she was curious and sizing up the Cloud Net Canopy.

“Third Uncle, Ninth Granduncle, Twelfth Granduncle, Elder Guo, this child is…” Chen Chaoyan was even more curious.

“I found her on the grounds of the Forgotten Truth Temple. The Forgotten Truth Temple planned to get her to join the sect. She’s also a Daoist cultivation genius like you.”

Chen Jiezhi said, “Senior Bloody Shadow decided to take her back to the fortress.”

Chen Chaoyan understood. “I see.”

She looked at the girl and smiled. “Our Chang’an is much stronger and more fun than the Forgotten Truth Temple.”

“This umbrella…” The girl was still curiously looking at the Cloud Net Canopy.

“It’s called the Cloud Net Canopy. Um… you may have heard of it from the Forgotten Truth Temple.” Chen Chaoyan scratched her head. “But it’s now a treasure of Chang’an Fortress.”

The girl nodded in a puzzled manner.

Chen Jiezhi brought the conversation back to the subject. “Chaoyan, your current cultivation level…”

They had seen the Cloud Net Canopy’s ability before and knew about its power.

The purple lightning that dissolved the azure lightning in the sky, the darkness that swallowed the moonlight, and the True Rootless Water that resisted the Arcane Fortune Li Fire were not the original abilities of the Cloud Net Canopy.

Besides, if Chen Chaoyan was still at the third realm of Daoism, the Foundation Establishment realm, she would not have been able to use the Cloud Net Canopy with such great power.

“Before I came here, Mister Black Cloud added Dharmic powers to this Dharma artifact,” Chen Chaoyan said with a smile.

Chen Jiezhi and the others suddenly said, “No wonder.”

The Cold Mountain Sect Master Guo Zi turned to look at his disciple Hui Tianyu.

Hui Tianyu seemed to know what was in his sect master’s mind. “Both Miss Chen and I witnessed it. It seems that Senior is highly accomplished in the Martial Dao and Dharma spells.”

The Night Elegance Sword and the improved version of the Cold Mountain Sect’s mental cultivation technique originated from Mister Black Cloud.

Thanks to him, Guo Zi could break through from the fourth to the fifth realm of the Martial Dao, and most members of the Cold Mountain Sect, including Hui Tianyu, broke through their bottlenecks and raised their cultivation realms.

This was why the Cold Mountain Sect had thought that Mister Black Cloud was a Martial Dao cultivator like them.

Guiding Chen Chaoyan was more likely acting on behalf of the Chang’an Fortress Lord.

But now, it seemed that Mister Black Cloud’s attainments in Daoist spells were also extremely profound.

Thanks to his arrangement, everyone was able to escape this time.

The Mirror Moon Tower elder, whose weapon had been seized by the other party’s Dharma spell, looked grave and was hesitant to catch up.

The Fortune Celebration Temple elder yelled, “Her Dharma spells are getting weaker and weaker!”

The True Rootless Water that extinguished their Arcane Fortune Li Fire earlier was significantly stronger than the stream of water blocking the lines of fire from the Fortune Celebration Temple disciples now.

Everyone’s eyes lit up.

The azure thundercloud in the sky moved silently, chasing after the old bloody shadow demon and the Cloud Net Canopy.

The people and horses of the Fortune Celebration Temple and the Mirror Moon Tower followed suit.

Chen Chaoyan looked back and could not help but smile bitterly.

A Chen clan elder beside her asked, “Where is Mister Black Cloud?”

“He said that this is a test and training for me.” Chen Chaoyan sighed. “He won’t intervene, and it’s all up to me to help everyone break out of this predicament and return to Chang’an.”

At the side, Hui Tianyu nodded.

The other people’s hearts sank.

“Senior Bloody Shadow fought with the eighth-realm abbot of the Forgotten Truth Temple, and they both ended up in an internecine outcome. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been in such a mess,” Guo Zi said in a deep voice.

An old man surnamed Chen sighed. “We are still to blame for not being able to bring anything back from the secret cave, or Mister Black Cloud would not be just standing by and doing nothing.”

“There’s nothing in the secret cave, so we couldn’t have brought anything back with us.” The other Chen clan elder looked vexed. “We could only bring back the little girl, but it’s not what Mister Black Cloud wants.”

Hui Tianyu asked, “What is the situation in the secret cave?”

“It’s a long story.” Chen Jiezhi sighed. “If we can return to Chang’an, let’s talk about it in more detail.”

With these few words, the azure thundercloud behind gradually caught up.

Lightning rolled in the thundercloud.

A few streaks of azure lightning struck.

Chen Chaoyan performed hand seals. Purple lightning flashed on the Cloud Net Canopy and struck the azure lightning.

Compared to the previous intense confrontation between the two lightning techniques earlier, the azure lightning had the upper hand this time.

Chen Chaoyan dealt with it calmly.

The power of the lightning technique on the Cloud Net Canopy was not as strong as before, and the purple lightning alone could no longer fight against the azure lightning.

But under the control of the young girl, a large number of clouds were produced from the Cloud Net Canopy.

Shrouded by the clouds, the figures of the people disappeared without a trace.

The power of the azure lightning was already weakened after it had cut through the purple lightning, but when the clouds thinned them further, it was difficult for them to injure the people on the Cloud Net Canopy.

However, a soft laugh rang out from the azure thundercloud.

The next moment, a vast amount of lightning suddenly appeared from the periphery of the clouds like a vast sea of thunder and lightning.

The lightning came from all angles and all directions, completely encircling the clouds.

At the same time, streaks of faint lightning kept moving around in the cloud.

It was as if these streaks of faint lightning had a pulling effect on the lightning outside, attracting the lightning outside to shrink toward the center and gather on the clouds created by the Cloud Net Canopy.

“The Azure Cloud Temple’s Yin-Yang Lightning Sea!” Chen Jiezhi’s expression changed drastically.

The Yin-Yang Lightning Sea alternated between the real and virtual back and forth in succession, playing cat and mouse.

It was guided by Yin and gathered by Yang.

It did not matter that the clouds dissolved the previous Yin lightning. It was actually a primer for the subsequent Yang lightning.

The next moment, the ambush would spring, leaving no way for the opponents to avoid or retreat!