The Legend of the Princess' Counterattack

Chapter 236: Journey to Lingxu Valley

Yun Yao and Chu Mochen stood at the foot of the sect mountain, looking at the mountains in the distance. They were full of expectations for the spiritual plants in Lingxu Valley, but also a little nervous about the dangers they were about to face. Lingxu Valley was a place full of mystery and danger in the legend of the cultivation world. Countless powerful monsters lived in it, and there were various ancient and powerful prohibitions. Many cultivators who went there to explore never returned. But in order for Yun Yao to break through the bottleneck of the middle stage of the foundation building realm, they resolutely embarked on this journey full of unknowns.

At first, their journey was smooth. Although the road was rugged, they were able to quickly travel through the mountains and forests with the skills of a cultivator. The sun shone through the dense leaves, forming patches of light, and the birds around them chirped happily, as if it was just an ordinary walk in the mountains. However, this peace did not last long.

As they went deeper into the forest, the spiritual energy in the air began to become disordered, and a faint sense of oppression was emitted. Yun Yao and Chu Mochen looked at each other and saw vigilance in each other's eyes. Suddenly, a low roar came from the front, and then a huge monster rushed out of the woods. This monster looked like a black bear, but its body was emitting black flames. Every step it took would burn the ground under its feet.

Yun Yao reacted quickly, forming seals with both hands and chanting a spell, and an ice-blue shield instantly appeared in front of them. Chu Mochen clenched his sword, the sword body flashed with light, and he took a fighting posture. When the monster saw them, a fierce light appeared in its eyes, and it pounced on them fiercely. It was extremely fast, bringing up a black whirlwind.

Chu Mochen was the first to attack. He flashed and rushed towards the monster like a flash of lightning. He swung his long sword and slashed the monster with sharp sword energy. But the monster had thick skin and flesh, and the sword energy only left shallow marks on its body, which angered it. The monster opened its bloody mouth and spewed out a stream of black flames. The flames were like a torrent, sweeping towards Yun Yao and Chu Mochen.

Seeing this, Yun Yao increased the shield's spiritual power output and mobilized the water spiritual power in her body, spraying a stream of water from her mouth. The water flow met the flames, making a sizzling sound, and a large amount of water vapor spread out. Under the cover of the water vapor, Yun Yao cast a wind spell to blow away the water vapor, forming a mist that temporarily blocked the monster's sight.

"Now!" Yun Yao shouted. Chu Mochen understood. He closed his eyes and, relying on his perception of Yun Yao's aura, rushed through the mist and toward the monster again. This time, he focused all his spiritual power on the long sword, which glowed brightly, as if it had turned into a burning torch. He jumped high and stabbed the monster's head with his sword.

The monster felt the threat from above, raised its paw, and slapped Chu Mochen hard. The paw collided with the sword, making a loud noise, and the powerful impact sent Chu Mochen flying. Yun Yao hurriedly cast an earth spell, forming a soft mound of earth where Chu Mochen landed, reducing the impact of his landing.

"Are you okay?" Yun Yao ran to Chu Mochen and asked with concern.

"I'm fine. This monster is too powerful. We have to think of another way." Chu Mochen stood up, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said.

Yun Yao looked at the monster in front of her and thought about countermeasures. She suddenly remembered that she had seen a record of this kind of monster in the ancient books of the sect. This monster was called the Flame Demon Bear, and its weakness was a piece of red scale on its abdomen. However, it was not easy to attack its abdomen. Someone needed to attract its attention, and then another person took the opportunity to attack.

"I'll attract its attention, and you find an opportunity to attack its abdomen." Yun Yao said to Chu Mochen.

"No, it's too dangerous." Chu Mochen refused without hesitation.

"There's no time to argue. This is our only chance." Yun Yao looked at Chu Mochen firmly, her eyes full of determination.

After saying that, Yun Yao rushed towards the Flame Demon Bear without waiting for Chu Mochen's response. She cast various spells, and rays of light flashed in front of the Flame Demon Bear's eyes, successfully attracting its attention. The Flame Demon Bear roared angrily, gave up attacking Chu Mochen, and turned to pounce on Yun Yao.

Yun Yao dodged the Flame Demon Bear's attack while leading it to an open area. Chu Mochen took the opportunity to go around the Flame Demon Bear and approached it carefully, his eyes fixed on the red scales on the Flame Demon Bear's abdomen. The Flame Demon Bear seemed to sense the danger behind it, and it suddenly turned around and swung its paw backwards.

Chu Mochen was prepared. He dodged to the side. Then, he seized the opportunity and rushed towards the Flame Demon Bear. His long sword pierced the Flame Demon Bear's abdomen like a meteor. The Flame Demon Bear wanted to dodge, but it was too late. The long sword accurately pierced the red scales on its abdomen, and a stream of blood gushed out.

The Flame Demon Bear roared in pain, struggling madly, waving its paws everywhere. Chu Mochen held the sword tightly and swung it hard, leaving a large cut on the Flame Demon Bear's abdomen. Yun Yao also took the opportunity to attack, casting a powerful lightning spell, and a thick lightning bolt fell from the sky, hitting the Flame Demon Bear's head.

Under the combined attack of Yun Yao and Chu Mochen, the Flame Demon Bear finally couldn't hold on, and its huge body fell to the ground with a bang, raising a cloud of dust. Yun Yao and Chu Mochen breathed a sigh of relief, and they walked to the Flame Demon Bear's body and took out its inner elixir. The inner elixir exuded a rich spiritual power and was a rare treasure.

"This time, thanks to the idea you came up with, otherwise it would have been difficult for us to win." Chu Mochen looked at Yun Yao and said gratefully.

"We are partners, and we should cooperate with each other." Yun Yao responded with a smile.

After taking a short rest and recovering some spiritual power, they continued their journey to Lingxu Valley. As they got closer and closer to Lingxu Valley, the surrounding environment became increasingly harsh. A pungent smell filled the air, the trees became sparse, and the land became dry and barren.

Finally, they arrived at the entrance of Lingxu Valley. At the entrance was a huge stone gate, which was engraved with various mysterious runes and flickered with a faint light. Yun Yao walked forward and carefully observed the runes on the stone gate. She found that these runes seemed to be an ancient ban that required specific spiritual power fluctuations to open.

Yun Yao closed her eyes, mobilized the spiritual power in her body, and slowly injected the spiritual power into the stone door according to the rules of the runes. As the spiritual power was injected, the runes on the stone door gradually lit up, emitting a dazzling light. After the light flickered for a while, the stone door slowly opened, and a strong suction force came from the door, sucking Yun Yao and Chu Mochen in.

After entering Lingxu Valley, they found themselves in a strange world. Surrounded by a mist, various lights flickered faintly in the mist, as if hiding countless dangers. Yun Yao and Chu Mochen walked forward cautiously, and every step was full of vigilance.

Suddenly, a group of ghost-like creatures floated out of the mist. These creatures were emitting a faint blue light, and their eyes were empty. They pounced on Yun Yao and Chu Mochen with their fangs and claws. Yun Yao cast a purification spell, and a white light shot out from her hand, rushing towards those ghost creatures. But these ghost creatures did not seem to be afraid of the purification spell. They easily passed through the white light and continued to approach Yun Yao and Chu Mochen.

Seeing this, Chu Mochen unleashed a sword energy that swept towards the ghost creatures like a whirlwind. The ghost creatures were hit by the sword energy and made sharp cries, but they were not destroyed. Instead, they split into more small ghost creatures.

"What are these things? Why can't they be killed?" Yun Yao frowned and said anxiously.

"I don't know either, but we can't just sit there and wait for death." Chu Mochen said, gripping the sword tightly.

Yun Yao calmed down and carefully observed the behavior patterns of the ghost creatures. She found that although these ghost creatures seemed to have no entity, their actions were controlled by a kind of spiritual power fluctuation. As long as the source of this spiritual power fluctuation was found, they could be destroyed.

Yun Yao closed her eyes, mobilized the spiritual power in her body, spread it out, and felt the spiritual power fluctuations around her. Soon, she found that the source of the spiritual power fluctuations was in a small valley not far in front of them.

"It's in front, let's go there and take a look." Yun Yao pointed to the small valley in front and said.

They walked cautiously towards the small valley. When they arrived at the small valley, they found a huge spiritual power vortex in the valley. Ghost creatures were constantly generated from this spiritual power vortex.

Yun Yao and Chu Mochen looked at each other, and then attacked at the same time. Yun Yao cast a sealing spell, and a golden rune flew out of her hand and slowly flew towards the spiritual power vortex. Chu Mochen cast a powerful sword energy, which combined with the rune to form a powerful force and rushed towards the spiritual power vortex.

Under their combined attack, the spiritual vortex gradually shrank and finally disappeared. The ghost creatures also vanished into thin air as the spiritual vortex disappeared.

After resolving the crisis of ghost creatures, Yun Yao and Chu Mochen continued to explore Lingxu Valley. They encountered various dangerous restrictions, some of which were powerful spiritual barriers, and some were rune traps that would suddenly attack. But with Yun Yao's system prompts and their wisdom and courage, they were able to escape danger again and again.

While crossing a swamp, they encountered a plant that released poisonous fog. The fog spread, making it difficult for them to breathe and blurry their vision. Yun Yao quickly cast a detoxification spell to temporarily protect them from the invasion of the poisonous fog. Then, she used the system's analysis function to find the source of the poisonous fog, which was a huge poisonous flower in the center of the swamp.

Chu Mochen cast earth magic to open a path in the swamp, and they quickly rushed towards the poisonous flower. Yun Yao cast various spells to attack the poisonous flower, and the poisonous flower was not to be outdone, fighting back with vines and poisonous thorns. After a fierce battle, they finally succeeded in destroying the poisonous flower and eliminating the threat of the poisonous fog.

As they continued to go deeper into Lingxu Valley, they were getting closer and closer to the place where the spiritual plant was. But they also knew that the closer they were to the goal, the greater the danger would be. They didn't know what challenges they would encounter ahead, but they all had a firm belief in their hearts that they must obtain the spiritual plant for Yun Yao and break through the bottleneck.

When they passed an ancient stone bridge, there was a surging river under the bridge. The water flowing in the river was not ordinary water, but contained a powerful corrosive spiritual liquid. As soon as Yun Yao and Chu Mochen stepped onto the stone bridge, it began to shake violently, as if it would collapse at any time.

Yun Yao cast a stabilizing spell to try to stabilize the stone bridge. But the shaking of the stone bridge did not stop, but became more and more violent. Chu Mochen saw the spiritual liquid under the bridge, and his heart moved. He cast a water spell to lead the spiritual liquid under the bridge to the stone bridge, and then used spiritual power to control the spiritual liquid to form a protective film on the stone bridge.

Under the protection of the spiritual fluid protective film, the stone bridge finally stopped shaking. They walked across the stone bridge carefully and continued forward.

Finally, they arrived at the valley where the spiritual plant was. The valley was filled with rich spiritual energy, and in the center there was a spiritual plant emitting colorful light. There was a powerful ban around the spiritual plant, and a huge guardian beast was guarding it.

When the guardian beast saw Yun Yao and Chu Mochen, it let out an earth-shaking roar and pounced on them. Yun Yao and Chu Mochen knew that a difficult battle was about to begin. They took a deep breath, clenched their weapons, and prepared to meet the challenge.