Chapter 500 Hostages

The middle-aged male cultivator said, "We came to this reef sea for your trial, so it's better not to cause trouble. Besides, he and I are both in the middle stage of Jindan cultivation. Once we start, I can't take care of your safety."

"But..." The young female cultivator pouted, looking unconvinced. "There are other Jindan cultivators in our Cui family here, so how can we be afraid of him alone."

"No buts. Go back now and continue your trial. You must kill a second-level monster alone to complete this trial."

There was a hint of anger in the voice of the middle-aged male cultivator.

The young female cultivator felt wronged and turned to fly to the reefs.

The middle-aged male cultivator shook his head, looking helpless.

He saw the young female cultivator dive into the sea and fly to the reefs nearby.

There were more than 20 young cultivators from the Cui family participating in this trial. To ensure their safety, four Jindan cultivators accompanied them.

The middle-aged male cultivator also had to take care of other young disciples, so it was impossible for him to keep staring at the female cultivator.

After flying for more than a hundred miles, Song Wen plunged into the sea, then restrained his breath, dived to a depth of forty miles underwater, turned around, and returned to the reef sea area.

He came across millions of miles, how could he leave easily?

The Cui family blocked the reef sea, which was somewhat beyond his expectations.

He originally planned to find a hidden place in the reef group to refine the third-level demon-attracting incense. Then go to the deep seabed and use the demon-attracting incense to lure out the abyss sea butterfly.

The appearance of the Cui family completely disrupted his plan.

Song Wen stopped at the periphery of the reef group and released six holy armor Gu to investigate the situation on the seabed.

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Cui Qiao was in a bad mood. As a genius with seven spiritual roots, she grew up under the care of the elders of the Cui family. Although she is now 23 years old and is already a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building, in fact, she does not have a clear understanding of the world of cultivation.

She thought this trial would be very easy.

Unexpectedly, after seven days, she hadn't even seen the shadow of a second-level monster, let alone hunting a second-level monster alone.

If the other tribesmen who participated in the trial also gained nothing, Cui Qiao might be able to keep a normal mind.

However, several tribesmen have successfully completed the trial, including Cui Xin, who has always been at odds with her. This made Cui Qiao angry and anxious.

Just now, she also met a passing Jindan cultivator who acted recklessly and didn't take her, the Cui family genius, seriously at all. He wanted to kill her right away. However, after the third grandfather came forward, the Jindan cultivator had to retreat.

Cui Qiao dived deeper, thinking of trying her luck in the deep sea.

The deeper she went underwater, the thicker the reef pillars became, standing densely together, like a maze of stone pillars.

Cui Qiao bypassed a stone pillar that was dozens of feet long.

Suddenly.

A sesame-sized insect appeared in front of her.

Cui Qiao was startled. Before she could react, the insect suddenly accelerated and hit her forehead.

She felt a huge impact, accompanied by a sharp pain. Her vision began to blur. She blacked out and fainted.

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Song Wen looked at Cui Qiao, who was captured alive by the Shadow Gu, with a strange look on his face.

It's true that enemies often meet on a narrow road.

After letting the Shadow Gu guard the surroundings, Song Wen performed the Soul Searching Technique.

In Cui Qiao's memory, there was not much useful information.

This reef sea area is inhabited by a large number of ordinary marine fish. Therefore, some monsters often come here to feed, including some second-level monsters.

Every twenty years, the Cui family will let the newly promoted foundation-building monks take a trial to hunt second-level monsters. The location of this trial was chosen in this sea area.

The people of the Cui family have been here for seven days. Most of them are active in shallow waters and have not found any traces of the Abyss Sea Butterfly.

After the soul search, Song Wen was about to find out Cui Qiao's life, but when he was about to do it, he suddenly stopped.

In Cui Qiao's memory, there is information about her closest relatives.

Her grandfather is a Jindan peak cultivator named Cui Gu, who is the leader of this trial.

Cui Gu cares about his granddaughter Cui Qiao very much.

"Maybe I don't need to do it myself to deal with the Abyss Sea Butterfly." Song Wen thought to himself.

The intelligence mentioned that the Abyss Sea Butterfly here is a third-level peak monster, and the seabed is its home ground. Song Wen is not sure that he can kill it.

Song Wen dragged Cui Qiao and dived to the bottom of the sea.

The depth of this sea area is not deep. After diving more than 120 miles, they reached the seabed.

The deeper you go, the greater the pressure in the water, especially after more than 100 miles, the water pressure rises sharply by almost geometric multiples for every mile you dive.

At this depth, Song Wen could clearly feel the pressure of the water on his body, so he had to put up a magic shield.

Not to mention Cui Qiao, if Song Wen hadn't used magic to protect her, she would have been squeezed into a ball of flesh.

The seabed was not flat, with jagged rocks. Among these undulating rocks, there were many fish and beast caves. In the seabed hundreds of miles away from the reefs, Song Wen chose a slightly larger cave.

Deep in the cave, he set up the "Positive and Negative Four Symbols Formation" to support a waterless area.

Song Wen searched Cui Qiao and took out all the things related to cultivation from her body to ensure that she could not contact outsiders, and then threw Cui Qiao into the formation.

Then, Song Wen set up the "Qi Condensing and Spirit Isolating Array" outside the "Positive and Negative Four Symbols Array". In this way, unless someone enters the cave, it is difficult to find Cui Qiao here.

After arranging everything, Song Wen came to the reefs on the seabed and began to search the area near the reefs.

On the seabed, those stone pillars can no longer be called stone pillars, but stone mountains. They are almost close together, leaving only some narrow gaps.

Because the reefs are crowded together, it is difficult for Song Wen to enter them. He can only circle the reefs and search slowly on the periphery.

It took nearly two hours for Song Wen to circle the reefs. Except for some small native sea beasts, no traces of the abyss sea butterfly were found.

Most of these sea beasts have hard shells, but no spiritual fluctuations, and they are not even monsters.

Not long after Song Wen returned to the cave, Cui Qiao woke up slowly.

She saw Song Wen enter the formation, her face was full of fear, and she hurriedly retreated to the back, but the cave was narrow, she only retreated a few steps and reached the edge of the cave.

"I am a member of the Cui family, how dare you kidnap me!"

Cui Qiao's tone was tough, but she could not hide the timidity on her face.

Song Wen said, "It seems that the soul search did not hurt your brain, then you are still useful, otherwise, you can only feed those seabed fish beasts outside."

Cui Qiao was extremely terrified, but still held on.

"You'd better let me go now, otherwise, my Cui family will definitely not let you off easily."

Song Wen's mouth curled up a smile, "This formation only opens a one-way external defense, you can leave at any time if you want."

Cui Qiao's expression became a little suspicious.

"Really? Would you be so kind to let me go?"

Song Wen said, "But I have to remind you that with your cultivation level, you can't withstand the water pressure at the bottom of the sea. Once you leave this formation, you will be squeezed into a ball of meat by the water pressure."

"You..." Cui Qiao's face turned pale, "What do you want to do by arresting me here?"

Song Wen said, "I just want to ask the Cui family to help me with something small."

"You want to threaten the Cui family with me!" Cui Qiao reacted instantly, "You are so brave."

Song Wen said, "I hope they will be threatened, otherwise you will be useless."