Battle of Skeletons

Li Yunfan's face paled in shock. He thought to himself, "This is bad." He hurriedly mobilized his spiritual power to form a red and yellow True Yang Shield, and at the same time, he quickly moved away from the altar.

The True Yang Shield is a special protective shield recorded in the True Yang Manual. It can not only isolate the erosion of Yin Qi and demonic Qi, but also weaken the power of evil spirits.

The reason it is red and yellow is simply because Li Yunfan's fire-attribute spiritual energy is intertwined with the yang attribute of the True Yang Technique.

Seeing that the skeleton was strange and clearly resembled an evil entity, Li Yunfan naturally chose to use the True Yang Shield for protection rather than an ordinary protective spiritual shield.

A faint red light flickered in the skeleton's eye sockets, and the entire dark red skeleton instantly flew up, raising its bony arm to slash rapidly at Li Yunfan!

Seeing this, Li Yunfan waved his hand and shot out a beam of dark spiritual light. The light rapidly grew larger in the air, and in the blink of an eye, it grew to be more than a person tall. It was the Xuan Turtle Shield that Li Huayuan had bestowed upon him!

The moment Li Yunfan finished making these preparations, the skeletal arm of the skeleton struck the Xuan Turtle Shield solidly!

A loud "clang" rang out!

The skeletal arm, as hard as metal, struck the Xuan Turtle Shield with a clanging sound.

Seeing that its attack had been blocked, the skeleton's eye sockets flashed red light again, and its free left hand began to form a hand seal. The next second, dozens of burning fire spikes suddenly appeared out of thin air on the top of the cave!

Upon seeing this, Li Yunfan's pupils contracted, and he suddenly raised his hand and slammed it onto the Xuan Turtle Shield in front of him, causing the entire shield to immediately emit a burst of spiritual light.

The skeleton felt an immense force emanating from the shield, which sent it flying.

However, at the same time the skeleton was knocked away, its left hand suddenly swung downwards, and the fire spikes that had already condensed immediately whistled and pierced towards Li Yunfan below!

Seeing the skeleton being knocked away, Li Yunfan thought to himself that this was a good opportunity. He used his Wind Control Technique to quickly leave his original position and nimbly dodged the fire spikes in the cave.

At the same time, he kept his divine sense fixed on the skeleton, in case the other party used any tricks.

Suddenly, he noticed that the red light in the skeleton's eye sockets dimmed slightly, and he was taken aback for a moment before realizing the reason.

"It seems that a wisp of a soul remains inside this skeleton, but because so much time has passed, it's about to dissipate..."

So he suddenly turned his body in mid-air and released more than a dozen low-level initial stage ice rain talismans with a wave of his hand. The talismans transformed into countless ice raindrops in the air and shot straight toward the skeleton.

Upon seeing this, the dark red skeleton's eye sockets flashed with a dim red light again. It clasped its hands together in a hand seal, and a solid red spiritual shield immediately appeared around its body, blocking all the icy rain.

However, after it cast the protective shield, the red light in its eye sockets suddenly dimmed, leaving only a faint glow.

"Just as I thought!"

When Li Yunfan saw the change in the light in the skeleton's eyes, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly.

In his view, the skeleton obviously couldn't hold out for much longer, and as long as he could slowly stall the opponent, he could win the battle without much effort.

The dark red skeleton seemed to know it could no longer hold on, so it made hand seals again. The dark red color on its bones slowly gathered towards its ribs, and the skeleton gradually turned grayish-white...

Li Yunfan's divine sense had been constantly focused on the skeleton, so he naturally noticed the changes in it, and a bad feeling arose in his heart.

Although he didn't know what the other party wanted to do, he was certain that the other party wanted to use this move to kill him completely.

After all, the supernatural abilities of ancient cultivators were not only extremely mysterious but also incredibly powerful, and Li Yunfan dared not gamble with his life.

Just as he was pondering whether to leave first, the skeleton's eye sockets flashed red light, and a fiery red sphere condensed on its chest ribs.

The next moment, a red beam of light, about the thickness of a little finger, shot out from the sphere and went straight toward Li Yunfan!

Li Yufan's expression changed drastically. Without thinking, he immediately raised the Xuan Turtle Shield in front of him, while continuously injecting spiritual energy into the shield in an attempt to block the red beam of light.

However, to Li Yunfan's great surprise, the red beam of light seemed to be indestructible and actually pierced a small hole in the Xuan Turtle Shield!

In such a short time, Li Yunfan had no time to react before the red beam of light pierced through his chest!

"puff!"

The damage to the magical artifact, coupled with the injuries caused by the red beam of light, made Li Yunfan cough up a mouthful of blood!

With a loud "thud," he fell from mid-air, and the Xuan Turtle Shield, having lost its power, crashed straight to the ground...

The skeleton, its entire body now white, saw that its attack had worked. The faint red light in its empty eye sockets flickered a few times before going out completely, and the entire skeleton fell straight down from the sky.

Li Yunfan, who had fallen to the ground, looked extremely pale and his eyes were filled with disbelief.

The red beam of light emitted from the skeleton, of unknown origin, not only pierced his body but also left behind a stubborn spiritual force that continuously disrupted his meridians and the flow of spiritual energy.

Li Yunfan wanted to eliminate that spiritual power, but at this moment, the spiritual energy in his body was like a headless fly, running around wildly and completely out of control!

Just as he was inwardly laughing at himself for going too far this time, he suddenly remembered something in his storage bag.

"The Rejuvenating Pill!"

So, forcing himself to stand up, he laboriously reached into his storage bag and began groping for the Rejuvenation Pill...

Three months later, Li Yunfan, looking somewhat pale, sat cross-legged on the ground of the cave. The small hole in his chest had completely healed.

"call!"

With a soft exhale, Li Yunfan slowly opened his eyes, looked down at his chest, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"If it weren't for the Rejuvenation Pill bestowed by my master, I'm afraid I would really have died here this time..."

Thinking back to that harrowing moment three months ago, Li Yunfan couldn't help but feel a lingering fear.

"The supernatural powers of the ancient cultivators are indeed powerful; that red spiritual light actually pierced through the top-tier magic artifact, the Xuan Turtle Shield... But the most terrifying thing is the stubborn spiritual energy that remained within my body..."

At that time, after Li Yunfan swallowed the Rejuvenation Pill, its powerful medicinal effect immediately repaired his external injuries. It was also with the help of this medicinal effect that Li Yunfan gradually brought his chaotic spiritual energy under control.

It took him another three months to completely expel that stubborn spiritual energy.

"After breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage, I unconsciously developed some arrogance... thinking that the cultivation world was just like that, not very dangerous... It seems that I must be more careful in the future, otherwise I may not be so lucky next time..."

After thinking it over, Li Yunfan took a deep breath and stood up from the ground.

Looking at the Xuan Turtle Shield with a hole in it and greatly diminished spiritual energy, Li Yunfan couldn't help but feel a little regretful, but he still waved his hand and put it away.

He then walked up to the pile of broken bones and, just as he waved away the tattered blue robe covering them, a gray storage bag suddenly fell out.

Li Yunfan raised an eyebrow slightly and reached out to take it in his hand.

After a quick inspection, I found that there were no restrictions on the storage bag, so I slowly probed into it with my divine sense and began to examine the items inside.

A moment later, Li Yunfan frowned slightly, then turned the storage bag upside down and shook it gently, causing the items inside to spill out.

A jade box with a sealing talisman, a smooth sphere the size of a fist, a porcelain white jade bottle, a small, square, ancient-looking tripod, and three jade slips of different colors.

"These ancient cultivators are far too poor!" Li Yunfan murmured to himself as he looked at the items in front of him.