As soon as Mo Fan emerged from the ground, he executed the Seven Star Dragon Wander Step, turning into an afterimage to dodge the attacks of the two Core Formation cultivators.
Immediately afterwards, his black wings unfurled behind him, instantly activating his Fire Spirit Body, and his speed surged nearly tenfold!
In the blink of an eye, he appeared before the cultivator who had deployed the Eight Trigrams diagram.
So fast!
The Core Formation cultivator’s pupils contracted sharply, then he gritted his teeth and frantically urged the Eight Trigrams diagram, intending to shred the fellow before him.
Yet the next moment, he discovered in horror that a dark red armour had appeared on the surface of this fellow’s body, actually blocking the Eight Trigrams diagram’s attack outright!
“Is this all your magical treasure can do?”
Mo Fan curled his lip, greatly disappointed, and raised his hand for a punch!
“Then you can die!”
With one punch, the Core Formation cultivator exploded into a cloud of blood mist in mid-air!
This scene fell into the eyes of the other Core Formation cultivator, leaving him utterly numb with shock, yet he still steeled himself, sacrificed his own magical treasure, and slashed towards Mo Fan’s neck.
“Clang!”
With a sound of metal clashing, the magical treasure was blocked by a massive palm, then grasped firmly in hand.
“So it’s a flying dagger?”
Mo Fan swept it with his divine sense and saw clearly what the magical treasure in his right hand was, then his body flashed and vanished from the spot.
Seeing this, the cultivator immediately formed seals, laying down a layer of golden light shield around his body, then sacrificed a top-grade defensive magical artifact, only then feeling slightly at ease.
But soon his body shuddered violently, he looked down to see his abdomen pierced by a fist, and between the fingers of that fist was clutched a golden core!
“How… is this possible!”
The cultivator’s eyes widened, then he saw the fist withdraw from his body, felt a suction force transmit, and his entire person instantly vanished from this world.
“As expected, the physical bodies of human cultivators are far too fragile, even Core Formation cultivators cannot withstand a single punch from me!”
Mo Fan stuck out his tongue and licked his lips, while looking at the two golden cores in his hand, his gaze growing brighter.
He suddenly realised that perhaps this was not a bad thing for him!
“Clap, clap, clap, clap…!!”
Just as Mo Fan collected his spoils of war, a burst of applause came from afar, drawing his gaze over.
“Fellow daoist’s strength is impressive, this is the first time Cang has seen someone cultivate their physical body to rival magical treasures, even those so-called demon clan prodigies in the Divine Domain are not as remarkable as fellow daoist!”
Cang Gu smiled as he spoke, a trace of wariness appearing for the first time in the depths of his eyes.
Because this time, he still had not managed to probe this fellow’s true strength.
Mo Fan ignored him, instead deploying his Charmed Ghost divine ability, instantly imprisoning the wandering souls of the two Core Formation cultivators he had just slain, and he did not spare the minor ones on the ground either, taking them all into the Charmed Ghost space.
Before wandering souls truly became charmed ghosts or fierce ghosts, ordinary cultivators could hardly see them, even Cang Gu, who now possessed mid Core Formation cultivation, had not noticed.
But he sensed something unusual with his divine sense, subconsciously looking towards the tiger pattern mark on Mo Fan’s forehead, as well as the white tiger phantom manifesting behind him.
“So this fellow is a white tiger demon?”
Cang Gu’s eyes narrowed slightly, subconsciously linking Mo Fan with the White Tiger Holy King of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.
White tigers were rare in the world, yet he had encountered one here, so he could not help but suspect the relationship between Mo Fan and the White Tiger Holy King.
“It seems this fellow’s background is far more powerful than I imagined!”
“That works too, if I can cooperate with such a fellow, it will surely make many old monsters wary, which will be more beneficial for my exploration of the Dragon Ruins.”
With a turn of his thoughts, Cang Gu’s expression returned to normal, and he immediately smiled at Mo Fan, saying, “Cang truly finds fellow daoist increasingly inscrutable, just now I suddenly thought of something concerning fellow daoist, and after thinking it over, I feel it is best to tell you.”
“What is it?”
Mo Fan looked at him, though inwardly on full alert.
He had seen Cang Gu’s behaviour earlier and knew full well the other was no kind person.
Mo Fan was very clear that if he had shown the slightest sign of weakness earlier, or performed less impressively, this Cang Gu would likely have attacked him without hesitation.
“The reason these cultivators were hostile towards you, fellow daoist, is because you have been bounty hunted!” Cang Gu grinned.
Bounty hunted?
Mo Fan’s face remained expressionless, but understanding dawned in his heart instantly.
No wonder those fellows were determined to deal with him, if there was a bounty, that explained it.
“Is it Yellow Mystic Valley or Tianlu Sacred Ground?” Mo Fan asked casually.
This was not hard for him to guess, after all, the only forces he had offended upon entering this place were these two.
“It seems fellow daoist already has an idea.”
Cang Gu’s eyes flashed, and he smiled, saying, “The one who issued the bounty on fellow daoist is precisely that Young Master Thousand Illusions of Tianlu Sacred Ground!”
Next, Cang Gu recounted the bounty details to Mo Fan.
After listening, Mo Fan was not particularly surprised, but gave Cang Gu a deep look, frowning as he said, “Why tell me this?”
Even if Cang Gu did not say it, Mo Fan could learn the situation from the imprisoned wandering souls earlier.
Moreover, it was obvious that this fellow had known about it from the start and had not told him in order to use those fellows to test him.
“Because I want to become friends with fellow daoist.”
Cang Gu smiled as he spoke, his eyes full of sincerity.
“Become friends with me?”
Mo Fan immediately sneered upon hearing this, then said in a cold tone, “Now I have offended both Yellow Mystic Valley and Tianlu Sacred Ground, and been bounty hunted by that Jiang Wu, enemies on all sides, you really want to be friends with me?”
“Why not?”
Cang Gu shrugged, then continued, “The immortal path is difficult, all beings struggle to cross, if one halts out of momentary fear, there will be no hope of the great dao in this lifetime!
Besides, I trust fellow daoist’s character, even if we become friends, you surely would not drag me into trouble.
The calamity is of your making, you cannot expect friends to take the blame for you, right?”
“Character?”
Mo Fan looked at him with amusement, then said indifferently, “Then you are mistaken, I am not of the human race, how could I have character?”
“I think it is best we keep some distance, we do not necessarily have to become friends.”
“By the way, the information just now is important to me, thank you!”
For something without benefit, Mo Fan naturally had no wish to do it.
He did not know much about Cang Gu, to expect him to befriend the other based on one sentence, how could it be so easy?
Of course, Mo Fan’s refusal was also out of fear that he might be stabbed in the back by this fellow later.
Mo Fan’s words left Cang Gu wide-eyed, then he awkwardly scratched the stubble on his chin and laughed dryly, saying, “Fine! Since fellow daoist is unwilling, Cang will not force it.”
With that, he retreated more than ten zhang, putting greater distance between himself and Mo Fan, only then sitting cross-legged again with peace of mind.
Mo Fan followed Cang Gu’s example and sat cross-legged on the ground, always vigilant of the other’s every move, while also releasing the two Core Formation stage charmed ghosts he had just subdued, obtaining much useful information from their mouths.
As expected, the bounty matter was no different from what Cang Gu had said.
This made Mo Fan’s killing intent towards Jiang Wu grow even stronger.
The other was determined to put him to death, so naturally Mo Fan would not swallow this grievance easily.
“There is one more day, once we enter the Dragon Ruins, this king will collect all accounts with interest!”
A cold glint flashed in Mo Fan’s eyes, then he felt the vast feedback force within his body, instantly causing his spiritual liquid sea to expand a few more points.
“Perhaps I can use this time to refine these two golden cores!”
With a flip of his hand, two golden cores instantly appeared in Mo Fan’s palm.
