Everyday the protagonist wants to capture me

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When he finished the hand seals, three enormous, long, and slender water dragons hovered over the river, majestic-looking and with exquisitely beautiful scales. They roared loudly in a high-pitched tone then charged towards the demonic insects.

This technique was the result of Chu Yu’s three years of practice.

Blue rays of light cluster together densely. The hem of Chu Yu’s robes fluttered. From behind, his figure was straight and relaxed, truly as if he was an immortal who descended into the mortal realm. Xie Xi extended his hand almost unconsciously and when he touched Chu Yu’s back, Chu Yu’s body unexpectedly went limp and fell down.

“Shixiong!”

Xie Xi hurriedly embraced Chu Yu. Lifting up Chu Yu, he kicked Xun Sheng and took control of it, hurriedly saying: “Shixiong, what happened to you?!”

Chu Yu, pale and weak, shook his head: “The spiritual energy consumption of that technique was a little too much. I’m just exhausted, that’s all …”

The three water dragons cast water arrows from their mouths and used their claws and tails to attack the demonic insects. The two forces fought each other with equal ruthlessness. Neither one had any intention of giving way to the other. This Qi technique was quite powerful. The water Qi can only change into that form after the cultivator has reached the Core Formation stage. Chu Yu was skilled at using this technique after three years but even so, his Qi energy was still depleted by its use.

In addition, he also spent a lot of his spiritual power to flee to this place. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have almost collapsed just now.

Xie Xi frowned. He lifted Chu Yu closer to his chest, held on tightly to his waist with one hand, and used the other hand to insert spiritual energy into his body.

The demonic insects shouldn’t be an urgent threat right now. Xie Xi looked at Chu Yu’s pale face. Xie Xi’s lips tightened; he wanted to take Chu Yu to a safe place immediately so Chu Yu can recuperate.

Xun Sheng suddenly leapt out of its sheath and lit up as it was activated. There was a clanging sound as the immortal sword blocked an attack from behind.

Xie Xi’s face was expressionless as he looked behind him where there were people dressed in the black, hooded robes of a cultivator. They looked murderous and their spiritual auras were black.

So obvious! They were too lazy to even disguise their spiritual power.

Xie Xi’s eyes darkened: “Demonic cultivators.”

The dazed Chu Yu was suddenly jolted to alertness. He tilted his head and looked behind his back. He couldn’t help but tremble – Xie Xi was focused on the wrong thing.

WTF! Young man, can’t you see the hundreds of blood-red demonic insects behind those men?

If you kill this group then another group will appear, and so on, generation after generation, endlessly!1

A few of the demonic cultivators opposite them hissed. They didn’t seem to want to respond to Xie Xi’s statement.

The expression on Xie Xie’s face remained unchanged. He calmly looked at the demonic insects and said: “Yu Shou Sect.”

Three years ago, in the small town of Qinghe, the ones who stirred up the water demons were the people from Yu Shou Sect. At that time Chu Yu was still puzzled about the reason why the demonic cultivators came all the way to Jiao Xiu. Now that he saw them here, he realized that it was probably because of these demonic insects.

The eggs of these demonic insects grow in spirit veins.2 Once the eggs are laid, they root themselves in the spirit vein and are impossible to remove unless the spirit vein itself is removed. But removing the spirit veins would make the entire place for miles around barren and devoid of Chi. Those cultivators below Nascent Soul stage will be unable to draw on the almost nonexistent spiritual energy remaining in that place.