David's Adventures in Wonderland

Chapter 6

Han Elder remained calm and collected, pouring himself a cup of tea and lifting the white hair covering his face to take a sip. At that moment, David felt a chill run down his spine. Han Elder's fingers were as dry as iron bars, with only a layer of old skin covering the bones. And his jaw, now exposed, was wrinkled and devoid of any luster, like a crumpled piece of paper. His lips were thin and black, lacking any blood or vitality, and even his tongue seemed shrunken.

"Come with me," Han Elder said calmly, putting down his tea cup. David was terrified, knowing that the gap in power between him and a higher-level cultivator was too vast.

"Aren't you afraid of divine punishment for using living people as medicine? Even your fellow cultivators might not accept it," David said, thinking of ways out. If he were caught by Han Elder, it would be more terrifying than death.

"I'm prepared. No one will know about any of this," Han Elder said, like a dead tree trunk sitting across the table. The calmer he was, the more ominous he seemed. David retrieved the jade pendant that Elder Wu Qingfeng had given him and said, "If you kill me, Elder Wu Qingfeng will find out."

Han Elder pointed his finger, and a gloomy aura surged forward, shattering the jade pendant into pieces with a 'bang.' The piercing cold persisted, and Han Elder said, "We're more than a thousand miles away from Lingxu Cave. Wu Qingfeng won't notice anything if I break the pendant here."

He went on, "You're alert and clever, I must admit. After I subtly marked you in the ruins, I wanted to capture you, but you ran away before I could locate you. It took me until now to find you."

"You old bastard."

"Let's go." Han Elder stood up, and the people in the building parted like avoiding a demon. David was as agile as a cheetah, trying to escape through the window.

"Why bother doing such useless things?" Han Elder restrained him with strength greater than what David could muster. Different cultivators had an insurmountable gap in power, and David's heart turned cold. He didn't want to be made into medicine alive and preferred being killed by the Jiang family instead.

It took them half a day, and the sun was about to set when they arrived at a range of mountains. "Why hasn't the Jiang family's knight shown up yet?" David was anxious.

"Greetings, old friend." Han Elder shouted towards a mountain valley, and the rolling sound waves echoed through the mountains. At that moment, a figure appeared in the sky, racing towards them at incredible speed. The Jiang family's knight had been searching the area but was drawn to the sound. He was incredibly powerful, radiating a terrifying aura of killing intent, covered in armor, and riding a fierce beast that swooped down with great wind force, breaking any nearby foliage.

"Who are you?" Han Elder pulled David back as a white-haired, sinister-looking old man emerged from the mountain valley. He did not look like a righteous person.

"Leave the boy with me," the Jiang family's knight spoke in a cold tone, scanning Han Elder and the old man who had emerged from the valley.

Han Elder sensed the other's strength but could not abandon David. He shouted at the valley's old man, "Come help me!"

"Chi" The knight from the Jiang family acted decisively and a bloody light slashed through the sky, it was a blood red iron halberd, radiating a terrifying energy wave, with unknown amount of cultivators' blood on it.

"Dang" Han elder summoned a green wooden ruler, shimmering with blue light, and met it head-on. However, he was instantly hit and flew back, his whole body trembling as he quickly pulled David and retreated towards the valley entrance.

At the same time, the old man at the valley entrance also made his move, summoning a copper mirror and shining it towards the Jiang family knight. "Chi chi chi" At the same time, Han elder summoned twelve green wooden swords, tracing out a mysterious trajectory, sealing off all directions and trapping the knight in it.

"Such a petty trick" The knight showed no signs of fear and urged his mount, soaring up into the air, avoiding the copper mirror's shine and sweeping his blood red iron halberd horizontally to break through the twelve green wooden swords.

"This person is too strong, let's not hold back and find a way to get rid of him" Han elder anxiously shouted, at the same time sealing off David and throwing him into the valley.

"Bang" David fell to the ground and didn't dare to delay even a moment, quickly activating the mysterious techniques recorded in his Tao scripture to break through the restriction. Fortunately, Han elder's sealing technique was too simple, he didn't know David 's background, and when the Tao scripture technique was activated, it quickly broke through the restriction.

"You guys fight to the death, it's best if you both end up injured" David arrived at the deepest part of the valley, climbed up the cliff and left this place. He quickly rushed out of the mountain, and when he saw a rushing river, he didn't hesitate, diving straight in. Sinking into the river, he didn't know how many miles he traveled before countless stars appeared, and David finally came to shore. In the wilderness, there was no one around. He rested for a while before striding towards the distant lighted city.

"Hehehe" Suddenly, a creepy laughter came from behind him, making David's hair stand on end. He was startled but didn't look back, simply running forward. However, the sinister laughter seemed to come closer and then farther, like an owl's haunting cry, always lingering around him.

"Old bastard, you have amazing luck" David stopped, realizing that he couldn't escape. In the darkness, Han elder's thin figure appeared like a ghost, his left arm had been cut off, hair in disarray, and his whole body covered in blood, looking like a ghost in the night.

David felt a chill from head to toe, his whole body shivering with cold. This old man had not been killed by the knight from the Jiang family, and now David was completely trapped in a desperate situation. "My poor old friend was chopped into minced meat, and I had to use all my tactics to escape," Han elder's voice was extremely cold, like a vengeful ghost gnashing its teeth. "He didn't leave you with your life, it's a pity," David taunted.

Han elder's eyes shot out two cold sparks, silently drifting towards him. His withered body exuded a deathly aura. David waited until the distance was sufficient, summoned the Golden Book, and launched a suicidal attack. However, he had no chance at all. A green light shone in the night, like a ghostly fire, enveloping him, and sealing him off. In the darkness, Han elder's withered body approached, white hair fluttering, revealing a dry, terrifying and scary face with two eerie eye sockets. "I like fresh life. Your body is full of vitality. I think your blood must be sweet," Han

elder grabbed David's arm and soared into the sky.

David's heart was completely chilled. After all the hard work and effort to escape for so many days, he finally couldn't escape death. "I left a mark on you, you can't run away," Han elder's body emitted a greenish light, carrying David, and disappeared in the sky. He did not return to the Lingxu Cave-heaven, but brought David to a remote mountain in Yan region, deep into the mountain through a cave on a cliff.

"Don't be afraid, death is not painful," Han elder's eyes flickered with a terrifying light. The cave in the mountain was very deep, decorated with pearls along the way and not dark at all. Han elder quickly brought David to a spacious stone room with the smell of herbs emanating from it. There were more than ten large medicine cauldrons, each over a meter high, and intricately carved, looking very ancient.

"I finally gathered all the medicinal herbs, hahaha," Han elder laughed loudly, his voice extremely unpleasant, like a vengeful ghost crying, making people's scalp tingle. In addition to the medicine cauldrons, there were also more than a dozen medicine cabinets in the stone room. Han elder opened them one by one, and an aroma of medicinal fragrance permeated the air.

"Look at what I have prepared for you, all of them are priceless spiritual medicines," he opened a wooden box, revealing a lotus seed the size of a pigeon egg. It was translucent black, like carved from black jade, emitting a thick fragrance that permeated into one's bones.

"Do you know what this is? This is the lotus seed produced by the Black Jade Divine Lotus, which only fruits once in 500 years and its rarity and value are unimaginable. It contains endless vitality essence," Han elder put down the wooden box, opened an ancient jade box, and a sparkling green color emerged. A green fruit the size of an egg, like carved from green jade, emitted a soft light and was shimmering.

"Do you know what this is? This is the fruit of the legendary Green Jade Snow Lotus, grown on a snow mountain tens of thousands of meters high, not seeing sunlight for thousands of years, guarded by powerful beasts. It took me eight years to finally pick one." These things all contain extremely strong vitality essence. If David takes them, he will definitely be able to open up a larger Golden Sea of Bitterness.

Han elder continued to walk forward, picked up another wooden box, and as soon as he opened it, a faint red light shot out. A plant with nine leaves, as if carved from red jade, sparkled with a special grass fragrance, wafting through the air. "Do you know what this is? The legendary Nine-Leaf Phoenix Grass," Han elder seemed very excited, saying, "It is said that only the land that has been stained with phoenix blood can grow this kind of divine grass. I spent more than a decade away from Yan region, traveling through endless ancient lands and ruins, just to find this plant.

It is priceless and a rare spiritual treasure."

Han elder kept opening those boxes and brought out more than ten kinds of spiritual medicines, each extremely precious, rare and of inestimable value. In the cave, there was dazzling light, and different colors of light emanated from various spiritual medicines, emitting a pleasant and intoxicating fragrance. Even in this situation, David was ecstatic and dizzy, these rare spiritual medicines were too precious, and if he could take them, his cultivation would definitely soar.

Han elder sneered, "You don't have to be jealous and envious, you will be refined together with them in the same medicine cauldron." "You have collected so many spiritual medicines, it should be enough to extend your life. Why did you capture me?"