Hei Cheng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he gave a sinister laugh. He had an investigation killer move and had discovered Li Shan Immortal's figure in the pear orchard.
He immediately pushed the Hidden Arrow Immortal Gu to its limit, and three hidden arrows shot through the air toward their target.
The pear orchard erupted into chaos. Countless tree roots, like tangled dragons, stretched out, extended, and writhed, desperately trying to intercept the three hidden arrows.
At this critical moment, Li Shan Immortal gritted her teeth, her eyes bright as lamps.
She shouted in her heart: "Linked Earth Flowers!"
The ground exploded with a bang, and a giant man-eating flower burst out like lightning.
The man-eating flower opened its huge mouth and swallowed one of the hidden arrows. Then, the entire flower's volume shrank to less than half its size, temporarily trapping the arrow.
Hei Cheng snorted coldly, his eyes brightening. The swallowed hidden arrow was about to shoot out, forming an obvious sharp bulge on the surface of the man-eating flower.
But one after another, man-eating flowers emerged from the ground. The second man-eating flower swallowed the first one whole, its volume shrinking sharply. Then a third one swallowed the second, and so on. After seventeen or eighteen such swallows, Hei Cheng's connection to that black arrow was weakened by thirty percent.
Hei Cheng knew that this black arrow would not be able to escape for a short time, so he focused his attention on the remaining two.
Li Shan Immortal's face turned pale, and she shouted again: "Dim Sky Flowers!"
Pear blossoms filled the sky, white as snow, fluttering and turning into specks of light.
The hidden arrows were extremely fast, but there were many specks of light, densely packed, and during their flight, they were stained by many.
These specks of light landed on the small hidden arrows, immediately emitting hot sparks, leaving white spots on the arrows. Both their speed and power slowly decreased.
Hei Cheng snorted coldly, aware that the enemy was prepared. He was in the open while the enemy was hidden; his Immortal Gu Hidden Arrow was widely known, so it was being countered.
However, he was not to be trifled with. Although he had not developed an immortal killer move centered on the Hidden Arrow Immortal Gu, he had continuously experimented, resulting in several mortal killer moves specifically designed to guide changes in the hidden arrows.
Hei Cheng's eyes widened as he activated a set of mortal Gu in his immortal aperture. The two hidden arrows suddenly flew toward each other, colliding in midair, merging into one.
The merged hidden arrow was pitch black, profound, without a single speck of light. It regained its previous speed and power.
Like lightning, the black arrow shot fiercely into a huge tree trunk in the pear orchard.
In Hei Cheng's investigation vision, Li Shan Immortal was hiding inside this trunk.
But the next moment, Li Shan Immortal's voice came from another direction: "You fell for it, Hei Cheng. Weeping Tree Flowers!"
A flower bloomed inside the tree trunk, its center oozing rich nectar, fragrant all around.
The hidden arrow had only struck a wooden puppet resembling Li Shan Immortal. The nectar spread from all directions, firmly wrapping the hidden arrow.
Then, the nectar solidified like amber, sealing the hidden arrow tightly inside.
"Hei Cheng, you will definitely lose today!" Li Shan Immortal's true body stood proudly on a tree crown. Though her face was pale and she was sweating profusely, her eyes were bright and her aura was strong.
A large part of Hei Cheng's power came from the Hidden Arrow Immortal Gu.
This was an offensive killer move. Li Shan Immortal only had one Immortal Gu, the Oath Gu, and could not directly defend against it. So she had to think hard and use three mortal killer moves to temporarily restrain the hidden arrows.
With the hidden arrows thwarted, it was as if Hei Cheng had lost his strongest attack.
"Is that so? Do you really think that's all I have?" Hei Cheng stood in the night, looking down at Li Shan Immortal below, a mocking smile at the corner of his mouth.
Under Li Shan Immortal's gaze, he extended his hand and slowly opened his palm, revealing a black bead.
This black bead, the size of a rice bowl, was shiny and bright all over, like black crystal. Through the semi-transparent surface, one could vaguely see a small pig-like beast inside, lying prone and snoring.
Seeing this bead, Li Shan Immortal's eyes widened in terror: "Is this the Black Prison?!"
Hei Cheng nodded slightly: "That's right, it's my Hei family's six-turn Immortal Gu House—the Black Prison."
His tone was calm but tinged with pride.
Hei Cheng was not the Hei family's supreme elder, but to ensure the success of this mission, he had spared no expense in borrowing this item from the Hei family's supreme elder.
"This is bad..." Li Shan Immortal's heart sank to the bottom. The Black Prison was a beast pen, inside which was trapped the ancient desolate beast Tusk Pig. If it were released now, Li Shan Immortal would be in grave danger.
Whether it was the Pear Orchard, Linked Earth Flowers, Dim Sky Flowers, or Weeping Tree Flowers, they were all mortal killer moves. Li Shan Immortal had exhausted her wits to deal with Hei Cheng's Hidden Arrow Immortal Gu, using three killer moves in succession to barely temporarily seal the arrow.
But she was also mentally exhausted and had a splitting headache. Although she occupied the pear orchard battlefield, in the confrontation with Hei Cheng's night, she had long fallen into a disadvantage, barely holding on, hoping that Hei Lou Lan would successfully transcend the tribulation and come to support.
However, the Tusk Pig was an ancient desolate beast; destroying the pear orchard was as easy as trampling a vegetable garden. Once the pear orchard was broken, the three "flower moves" dependent on it would also weaken greatly, allowing the hidden arrows to break free.
"Then all my efforts so far will be in vain!" Li Shan Immortal gritted her teeth. Just then, she heard Tai Bai Yun Sheng's loud warning—"Careful!"
Careful of what?
Li Shan Immortal turned her head and saw a hidden arrow silently shooting toward her, only a foot away.
"How is this possible? I set up defenses around..." Li Shan Immortal was shocked, but it was too late.
The hidden arrow shot like lightning, piercing through her forehead, passing straight through her head, and exiting from the back.
"Aunt!" Hei Lou Lan cried out, having finally digested the three qi and regained mobility. But when she opened her eyes, she saw the tragic scene of her loved one, who had always treated her well, with an arrow through her head.
"It's over." Hei Cheng indifferently put away the spherical Black Prison.
Li Shan Immortal had only truly sealed two hidden arrows. At the moment when the two arrows merged, Hei Cheng had secretly shot a third hidden arrow. Using the Black Prison to distract Li Shan Immortal, he subtly activated several mortal killer moves to quietly dismantle the defenses around Li Shan Immortal.
But the next moment.
A light shone over, and Li Shan Immortal reverted to the previous moment, her wounds completely gone, her head intact.
Immortal Gu Person as Before!
In the distance, Tai Bai Yun Sheng breathed a heavy sigh: "Close call, almost didn't make it!"