A hint of extremely subtle amusement flashed in Yang Che’s eyes.

He unhurriedly and calmly put away the dark green bead Magic Treasure of the two old women from before, and then collected the beautiful woman’s Storage Pouch.

The Late Stage Core Formation old man, who was consumed by anger, couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart when he saw that Yang Che showed no sign of fear. He immediately forced down his rage, compelling himself to calm down.

The more Yang Che appeared to be fearless, the more vigilant the old man became.

Gradually, after the old man suppressed his fury, a calm expression began to surface in his eyes. He slowed his steps and did not rashly approach Yang Che again.

Just then, the young man in the Middle Stage Core Formation suddenly seized the opportunity to take out a Spirit Talisman and swiftly slapped it onto himself.

He was about to use the power of this Talisman to escape, but unexpectedly, the Late Stage Core Formation old man pointed at him with an extremely sinister expression.

Immediately, countless black mists strangely appeared around the man, directly engulfing him.

Following closely, the man’s incomparably shrill screams quickly sounded within the black mist, then were swallowed by the black mist.

When the black mist dissipated, a pool of dark blood and a pile of skeletal white bones were left on the originally dry sand.

Seeing this scene, Yang Che’s eyes, hidden beneath the strange hazy white light, couldn't help but narrow slightly.

Clearly, this old man had been hiding something before and had not used his true strength.

At this moment, black mist began to rise around the old man. From within the mist, a ferocious ghost head rushed out, opening its large mouth and viciously lunging towards Yang Che.

Seeing this, Yang Che felt a faint sense of déjà vu.

However, without any hesitation, he quickly condensed a patch of thunderclouds, directly enveloping these ghost heads. Then, with a heavy grip of his single hand, as the thunderclouds shattered, these ghost heads also vanished without a trace.

The old man’s expression changed slightly when he saw that Yang Che was using a lightning-attribute Spell.

But very quickly, he snorted coldly and raised his arms.

Immediately, a strange scene occurred.

Accompanied by a flash of blood-red light, his two arms suddenly split into four.

At the same time, each arm held a long, ink-black saber.

Yang Che’s eyes immediately lit up, and memories surged in his mind.

He immediately recalled that when he first entered Wulong Valley, he and Wen Xingyao had jointly dealt with a demonic Cultivator who had performed Possession in the Hanging Waterfall Medicine Garden.

The Cultivation Technique used by that demonic Cultivator was almost identical to that of the old man before him, without any difference!

This immediately caused great confusion in Yang Che’s heart.

Just then, the four black sabers had already transformed into four streaks of ink-black dark light, fiercely slashing towards Yang Che.

Yang Che’s expression was calm.

The young man being killed by the old man happened to remove Yang Che’s last lingering worries.

So Yang Che decided to kill this old man as quickly as possible.

The Flash Cloud Boots under his feet flashed with a faint light, and Yang Che’s figure instantly vanished from his original spot.

“Instantaneous Movement?”

The old man was greatly alarmed.

The next moment, he felt a sudden chill on his back.

The old man almost instinctively leaped forward at high speed.

Yang Che, who appeared behind the old man, immediately showed a strange smile in his eyes.

This old man had, after all, fallen into the Sky Screen Earth Net he had laid.

The moment the old man’s figure stabilized, the Tai Xuan Hidden Light Formation, composed of three hundred and sixty Flying Fire Needles, was immediately activated by Yang Che.

Overwhelming yellow sand flew up, within which countless transparent threads intertwined, abruptly passing through the old man’s body.

Just as an expression of disbelief surfaced on the old man’s face, he was sliced through by the threads. Blood splattered, and his body was divided into hundreds of small pieces, falling onto the yellow sand.

After collecting the Flying Stealth and the old man’s Storage Pouch, Yang Che cast a fireball to burn all the fragmented corpses in this area to ashes, then swiftly flew away, disappearing into the vast desert.

...

Several days later.

After a careful search, Yang Che finally arrived at a cliff in the depths of a desert.

It was as if some incredibly powerful force had suddenly cut the originally intact desert in half, creating an enormous desert crack, forming a cliff.

Such cliffs are not uncommon in this Ancient Remnant Sand Sea.

Above this cliff, it was still desert.

But sinking to the bottom of the cliff, hard, scorching rocks gradually appeared.

At this moment, Yang Che was already standing on these slightly warm rocks.

Looking around, it was like being at the bottom of a dried-up great river.

Yang Che was about to follow what Dou Ming had said and find a hidden small Teleportation Array here, but he suddenly sensed a large number of powerful Cultivators appearing in the sky, like a vast army, flying across the sky.

Fortunately, Yang Che had always been using the Stealth Technique, otherwise, his tracks might have been discovered.

Only after these Cultivators gradually moved away did Yang Che continue to search for the hidden Teleportation Array at the bottom of this cliff.

After quite some effort, Yang Che found the Teleportation Array that Dou Ming had mentioned.

No, more precisely, after he inserted Spirit Stones and activated this Formation, he discovered that it was a ‘Teleportation Gate’.

Yang Che’s current attainments in Formation Restrictions were already far superior to what they once were, so he already knew that a Teleportation Gate was actually a more Advanced type of Teleportation Array.

When a regular Teleportation Array teleports, it must first be charged with Spirit Stones, and then the ‘teleported person’ must stand within the Teleportation Array before the teleportation can be activated.

This kind of teleportation creates quite a large commotion, especially for Ancient Teleportation Array-like ones, which cause a rather grand spectacle during teleportation.

However, a ‘Teleportation Gate’ is not only more convenient for teleportation, but it can also be done silently and is more concealed.

For example, the Teleportation Gate before him, once activated, resembled a smooth, rippling mirror.

Yang Che only needed to hold Spirit Stones and walk directly into it to be teleported to the designated location.

And after teleportation, the Teleportation Gate would automatically disappear and hide.

...

When Yang Che emerged from another ‘Teleportation Gate’ that also resembled a rippling mirror, he immediately found that he seemed to have been teleported to an Oasis.

However, the sky here was very dim, and in the distance, vague mountain ranges could be faintly seen, majestic and continuous.

From daylight to dusk in an instant, Yang Che was pleasantly surprised to find that the aura here made him feel incredibly comfortable, as if there was an inexplicable sense of closeness.

“This should be the Dark Abyss.”

He stood in silent contemplation, carefully pondering.

Yang Che knew that his purpose in entering the ‘Dark Abyss’ was to find that Grandmaster-level Talisman Maker and hoped to receive his guidance to improve his Talisman Making Dao.

After all, to become an Array Symbol Master, one must first elevate both the ‘Formation Restriction Dao’ and the ‘Talisman Making Dao’ to at least the Grandmaster level.

In the Cultivation World, both Formation Masters and Talisman Makers are rarer compared to Alchemists and Artifact Refiners.

And those who can reach the Grandmaster level are even rarer, the rarity among the rare.

So when Yang Che learned that there was a Grandmaster-level Talisman Maker in this ‘Dark Abyss’, he naturally did not want to miss such a rare opportunity to improve his Talisman Making skills.

Not only him, but even Tianxie Ziyin fully agreed and supported him in coming to the Dark Abyss to find this person and study diligently.

It’s just a pity that finding this person was not easy.

Those people from the Dark Abyss whose soul blood had been collected by Tianxie Ziyin also did not know how to approach this elusive and mysterious Talisman Maker.