The Romance of the Immortal Cauldron

Five years later.

On the edge of Xiaoyu Island, Ma Xiu drove a black short knife to continuously attack a middle-aged man in front of him.

This man held on with the shield in his hand.

"Fellow Taoist, what a misunderstanding. I really broke in unintentionally." The middle-aged man shouted anxiously.

"Misunderstanding... You knew there was a magic circle here, but you still wanted to force your way in. Are you telling me about the misunderstanding now?" Matthew said coldly.

As he spoke, there was a sound on the ground beneath the middle-aged man's feet.

When he looked down, he saw a long pink snake about ten feet long coming out.

After the long pink snake appeared, it bit him on the ankle.

"what!"

The middle-aged man let out a scream, and his eyes flashed with a stern look. He was about to attack the pink snake, but his body swayed slightly and fell to the ground.

After waiting for a while, I saw that the middle-aged man had completely died.

The long pink snake slowly crawled over, swept its tail, and flew towards Matthew with the storage bag on its waist.

And it sprayed a ball of pink mist from its mouth and fell on the corpse.

The corpse covered in pink mist was decomposing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As the pink long snake sucked in its mouth, the aerosol and the remaining corpses were all sucked into its mouth.

After disposing of the corpse, the pink snake returned to Matthew's side unhurriedly.

"Good job." Matthew smiled slightly and said after throwing out a pill.

After the long pink snake swallowed the elixir in one gulp, it twisted its body and got into the ground.

"This is the fifth time I have been disturbed. It seems that Xiao Yudao can't stay any longer." After checking the storage bag in his hand, Matthew shook his head and muttered to himself.

His retreat this time was not going very smoothly. Although his cultivation had reached the late stage of foundation building, people had been touching the magic circle frequently since three years ago.

At first, those people left after touching the magic circle, and Matthew didn't take it seriously.

But something happened later, and someone started to attack the magic circle.

At the critical moment of practice, he was interrupted, which made Matthew angry and annoyed.

In order to teach the people outside some lessons, Matthew deliberately opened the magic circle, let everyone in, and directly used the power of the eight-door golden light array to kill them all.

It was also at that time that Matthew learned that the Jiuyou Tianjue Snake preferred to devour meat.

In order to prevent others from disturbing him again, Matthew hung the heads of those people outside as a warning.

This did have some effect, and no one bothered him again for a while.

But this year, he only entered the first level of the Black Dragon Art. Before he could consolidate his cultivation, someone started to attack his formation again.

To this day, Matthew has killed five waves of monks who tried to break in.

Matthew showed no mercy to these intruding monks and killed them all one by one.

Back in the cave, Matthew packed up the things inside and left.

After canceling the two sets of magic circles outside, Matthew went straight to Yucheng.

He needed to figure out what caused so many monks to come here.

Xiaoyu Island is a very remote island. People who come here either spend the rest of their lives in peace or find a secluded place to retreat like him.

On the way to Jade City, Matthew saw many monks wandering around the island.

I even encountered two monks fighting each other for a place.

When he came to Jade City, he found that there were many more monks here than when he first came.

After walking on the street for a while, Matthew came to a pub.

The last time I passed this pub, there was no one inside.

When I came in this time, the first floor was already full of people, and Matthew was taken to a window seat on the second floor by the waiter.

After Matthew sat down, he ordered a few side dishes and then used his spiritual consciousness to listen to other people's conversations.

"Have you heard that even Shake Island fell a few days ago?"

"Of course I heard about it. I also saw with my own eyes that the two Nascent Soul protectors of the Tushu Temple died and escaped. The one who escaped only had one Nascent Soul left."

"Shaanji Island can be ranked among the twenty largest islands in the inland sea. The protective formation on it is extremely powerful, and it is not immune to it."

The people sitting in the tavern were all monks who had recently fled here. What they talked about most was about what happened in the Immortal Sea recently. This is why Matthew chose the tavern.

People here talk about all kinds of things, and Matthew can only listen to the ones that interest him.

Entering the later stage of foundation building, his consciousness has expanded to a range of nearly ninety feet. As long as others don't use soundproof covers, they can easily hear him.

After sitting for a while, Matthew picked up the wine bottle on the table and came to a nearby table.

There are three people sitting here, two men and one woman.

The three of them were all talking about the Sea of ​​Prisoners, and Matthew listened to it the most.

Seeing the strange monk appear, the three people who were talking immediately fell silent.

"Li Mu, I wonder if I can get to know the three of you." Matthew put the wine bottle gently on the table and said with a smile.

"We are strangers to fellow Taoists, so this would be a bit too abrupt." The ordinary-looking female cultivator looked at Matthew warily and said.

"Li just came out of seclusion and just wanted to know what happened recently." Matthew said with a slight smile.

"I see that Fellow Daoist Li's face is kind, and he doesn't look like a vicious person. You might as well sit down." After the three of them chatted for a few words using voice transmission, the middle-aged man sitting in the middle spoke.