Chapter 91: Unexpected Wood Vine Divine Ability, the Inner City's Great Formation Finally Breaks
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“What!?”
At this moment, Lu Mian was already at his limit.
He needed rest, needed to heal, needed—just one breath!
But that roaring water dragon twisting toward him, its momentum far greater than the fire sickle spell or the vine whip strikes from those two cultivators, instantly shattered all his thoughts.
Someone was ambushing him!
Sure enough, someone had been hiding in the shadows all along!
Lu Mian’s eyes filled with despair, and through the spiraling water tornado, he caught sight of a figure a few hundred meters away—standing silently at the edge of the alley.
Yu Xian!
This young man… he didn’t recognize.
But it seemed that at the moment of death, one’s thoughts become exceptionally clear, memory extraordinarily vivid.
He suddenly noticed Yu Xian’s eyes—calm, cold, emotionless.
So familiar… those eyes were so familiar!
“It’s you… it’s that middle-aged Daoist!?”
“It’s you!? AHHHH!!”
Lu Mian let out a final scream of despair, rage, and unwillingness before being swallowed whole by the roaring water tornado, exploding into fragments across the sky.
Yu Xian then swiftly soared into the air, collected the three storage bags, and disappeared into the distance.
From the moment Lu Mian had tried to draw trouble onto Yu Xian in a desperate bid to escape—trying to use him as a scapegoat—they had become enemies.
No matter the reason, no matter the desperation.
Anyone who uses strangers as shields to escape death is the worst kind of scum—shameful and deserving to die.
So in killing Lu Mian, Yu Xian felt no hesitation whatsoever.
Though the battle had drawn quite a bit of attention, and some cultivators were eyeing the spoils like vultures, Yu Xian’s swift and decisive strike shattered all those thoughts.
Seeing him collect the bags and vanish, the other lurking late-stage Qi Condensation and peak-stage cultivators could only sigh in regret and rush off to seek other fortunes.
Yu Xian, meanwhile, reappeared at a quiet corner of the southern city a while later.
He found a half-destroyed house, its interior littered with the corpses of commoners, and casually sat down in a clean corner.
For now, this location should be safe. Most rogue cultivators had already cleaned out the outskirts and were now swarming toward the city center, hoping to break into the rich Inner City once Liu Jinyun finally shattered its great defensive formation.
This corner house, devastated and with no valuables left, was unlikely to draw any more attention.
Sometimes, it wasn’t cultivators doing the killing.
In this chaotic city, mortal-on-mortal slaughter for wealth was the true cause of most of the tens of thousands of deaths.
Yu Xian could tell at a glance: these people hadn’t died to spells or magic treasures—they’d been hacked to death with common blades and stolen clean.
Once chaos erupts…
Greed, slaughter, plundering… no one is immune.
The only law becomes the law of the jungle.
With a breath to steady himself, Yu Xian stopped thinking and pulled out the three storage bags.
As expected, all were low-grade storage bags with pitiful space.
The first was cramped and filled with mediocre things: a few dozen mid-grade spirit stones, a pile of low-grade ones, junk-grade treasures and charms, nothing valuable—except for a tier-3 superior-grade saber, which might fetch a decent price.
The second bag was even poorer. Not even a single mid-grade stone, just a few hundred low-grade ones, plus some basic healing and cultivation pills, and a couple of techniques:
“Great Fire Sickle Technique” and “Spirit Fire Art”—both trash compared to high-level arts like Fire Flood Dragon Technique or Eternal Spring of the Wood Arts.
Yu Xian shook his head and only took the spirit stones, leaving the rest.
Then came the third bag.
Even more pathetic.
But Yu Xian’s eyes soon stopped on a single book:
“Wood Vine Divine Ability”
His eyes sparkled.
He waved a hand to draw the book out, and opening the cover, he immediately saw: three spells per page, five pages in total—fifteen wood-element spells in all.
No explanations, just pure spell structure and visual diagrams—anyone could theoretically learn them.
He didn’t know how the previous owner obtained it.
Every page contained an offensive, a defensive, and a healing spell.
And their power increased with each level:
Page 1: Vine Technique, Vine Armor, Spirit Vine Healing — usable at early Qi Condensation
Page 2: Ten-Zhang Vine, Divine Wood Armor, Wood Conversion Healing — required peak Qi Condensation or Foundation Establishment
Page 3: Sky Spirit Vine, Spiritwood Armor, Wood God Protection — Foundation Establishment only
Yu Xian guessed pages 4 and 5 were for late Foundation Establishment or even Golden Core cultivators—no need to even look yet, as it would only disturb his mindset.
He was tempted to skip straight to Page 2, but suddenly paused.
“These fifteen spells… they look separate, but they feel like a progressive system. If I skip the basics, it might impact future mastery…”
Understanding this, he flipped back.
He now saw the book as one complete system—a powerful composite technique called Wood Vine Divine Ability.
So he would start with the basics.
Vine Technique
Yu Xian formed hand seals, and using wood-element spiritual energy from his Eternal Spring Wood Arts, he directed it through his meridians.
In the next moment—
Whoosh!
A two-zhang long vine burst from behind him, lush green, twisting with a sharp snap through the air like a whip!
Incredibly tough and flexible, Yu Xian didn’t even need to test it to know: it could resist attacks from even tier-2 magic weapons.
His eyes brightened.
He hadn’t expected such natural compatibility with wood-type spells.
He had thought it would take time to comprehend—but just forming the seal and directing the energy, it had already activated!
Snap! Snap! Snap!
The vine roared with each swing—it was powerful already, and Yu Xian was certain that with time and practice, it would grow thicker, longer, and multiply into several vines—like the dead cultivator’s own techniques.
Except that man had practiced for over a decade.
Yu Xian had just started.
If that guy hadn’t been blown up by a Golden Core stage charm, he might’ve died of sheer envy.
Yu Xian was innately attuned to wood-element magic!
He smiled, and with a thought, the vine dissolved into green mist and vanished.
Next, he formed another seal—
Using Eternal Spring Wood Aura, his dantian swelled, and his spiritual platform shimmered green.
A thin greenish-gray vine armor materialized on his body.
“This is Vine Armor Technique… looks so similar to Spiritwood Armor or Wood God Armor… are they related?”
He muttered as he studied the light armor forming around him.
Back when he killed Huang Hanxiao, that man had used Wood God Armor to block a late Foundation Establishment talisman—Golden Light Slash.
But Huang’s version seemed unorthodox. No trace of the technique was in his storage bag.
This… this was the real deal. Though for now, it was just Vine Armor.
Yu Xian summoned the tier-3 superior saber and tested its toughness.
He pressed the blade against his abdomen—slowly increasing force.
Crack. Crackle. Crackkk… BANG!
Finally, the armor shattered—and he stopped.
“Not bad. For now, it’s not as strong as Earth Wall, but it’s body-worn and flexible. As it evolves into Spiritwood Armor, it’ll definitely surpass Earth-type defenses.”
Pleased, Yu Xian looked at the third spell—Spirit Vine Healing.
He prepared to test it, but—
BOOOOM!!
A loud explosion shattered his thoughts.
Yu Xian’s eyes sharpened. He shoved the book away, rushed out of the ruined house—
There, in the distance!
Above the Inner City, the massive barrier that had protected it for so long—under Liu Jinyun’s relentless assault with two colossal swords—finally… shattered!
