Chapter 157: Fate 3 You are also a fool

When Qi Youwei picked him up, he searched Li Yanze and found that he had no weapons and his bag was not on him. Li Yanze should be unarmed at this time.

As expected, these monks were all equally arrogant, thinking that even if they had lost their spiritual power, they would not be defeated by a mortal.

Li Yanze had already stopped, Qi Youwei turned his wrist slightly, and the cold edge of the dagger flickered out a line of cold stars.

As soon as Li Yanze made a move, the dagger would immediately stab into his heart.

"Two gentlemen! Two gentlemen!"

Li Yanze retracted his raised hand, turned his back and shouted to the door: "Uncle Feng? What's the matter? "

Qi Youwei looked at his back. This was clearly a perfect opportunity to take action, but he just couldn't convince himself to do it.

After Li Yanze finished shouting, he turned around and naturally pulled Qi Youwei up. Qi Youwei turned his hand instantly, and the dagger turned into a silver ring on his hand.

"Don't worry." Qi Youwei opened the door bolt and smiled at Li Yanze, comforting him.

There was no sign of the strong murderous intent he had just shown.

"My two lords, have you seen Xiao He and Xiao Sui?"

Before Qi Youwei could react to what this little wheat spike was, Li Yanze beside him had already jumped up.

"Xiao He and Xiao Sui are missing? Xiao Sui likes to run around, but Xiao He is always very well behaved and would not stay out until this time."

Qi Youwei looked at Li Yanze. This idiot had been here for more than four days and had been lying in bed for two days. He knew more people in this village than him, especially the children.

"That's exactly what you said, young master. All the kids who were playing have gone home. When we asked them, they all said they went to the back of the village, but we searched everywhere and found nothing."

Xiao He and Xiao Sui were children of Feng Bo's family. They followed him and laughed for a while in the morning. Li Yanze couldn't sit still. Moreover, although the big demon in the back mountain of Taoxi Village had been eliminated, there were still some harmful little monsters that he hadn't dealt with in time.

"I'll go help!"

After Li Yanze finished speaking, Qi Youwei immediately said, "Then I'll go too."

Li Yanze looked a little hesitant. He was not in good health but he was still running around. Qi Youwei looked at his expression and wondered if he had sensed the spiritual power of the silver ring and wanted to take the opportunity to escape?

"Then you have to follow me closely."

Qi You frowned slightly. Provocation?

It seems that this idiot is not as stupid as he looks. Even in this situation, he can still pretend that nothing is wrong.

Their courtyard is behind Taoxi Village, close to the mountains, and a little far away from other villagers' houses.

As soon as he left the hospital, Li Yanze subconsciously raised his hand and made a gesture. A light flashed between his eyebrows, and then it went out with a puff. Li Yanze looked at his right hand, clicked his tongue, shook his hand, and looked at Qi Youwei.

"I really don't have any spiritual power at all."

Qi You raised his eyebrows slightly and pointed at him?

Li Yanze was not in a hurry. He lowered his eyes and counted with his fingers. After a while, he figured out the direction.

"East, valley."

Qi Youwei followed him and couldn't help asking, "Aren't you unable to use spiritual power? How do you know where they are?"

Li Yanze casually plucked several dogtail grasses from the roadside and explained to him, "I calculated it. When you practice Taoism, you not only cultivate spiritual power, but you also need to know how to tell fortunes."

Li Yanze's fingers were nimble and he was never idle for a moment. In a short while, he made a rabbit by tying two dogtail grasses into a knot.

"I'm slow at calculating. My senior brother is more specialized in deduction. I can only calculate the direction."

Qi Youwei's attention quickly shifted to his fingers. This fool's hands were quite skillful...

"This is for you." Li Yanze picked out the one with the longest ears and the fullest shape among a bunch of foxtail grass rabbits and handed it to Qi Youwei.

Qi Youwei came back to his senses, pinched the long grass stem, and let the furry dogtail grass rabbit sway in the wind.

He looked at Li Yanze who was busy with his work with his head down, and saw the sunset light shining on his face. The fine hairs on his cheeks became clear and just as furry.

Maybe the way fools survive is to be like herbivores like this, making people relax their vigilance. Even if you know that he can bite people to death when he gets angry, you still think he is innocent and harmless.

Li Yanze led Qi Youwei all the way into the valley. There was still daylight now, and it would be bad if it got completely dark in a while.

None of them shouted. Only when they came to a fork in the road would Li Yanze stop and count, and then he would quickly find the direction.

The light in the woods gradually dimmed, and it seemed that only the sound of their footsteps could be heard. Looking at the lush green environment for too long was like looking at a ghost wall, and the cool air from the mountains penetrated straight from the soles of their feet into their hearts.

“We’re back here again.”

Qi Youwei glanced at the tree trunk beside him and spoke calmly to Li Yanze who was frowning and calculating.

Li Yanze was stunned and observed the surrounding environment. There were a lot of grass here, and it seemed to be in the middle of a forest. In the dim sunlight, he couldn't see where the road was, let alone what was behind the grass.

He, a man who traveled around the country all year round and spent the night in the woods, didn't notice it at first.

"The location of Xiaohe and Xiaosui has not changed. The calculated location cannot be wrong. It could just be that we are going in the wrong direction."

Li Yanze almost asserted that Qi Youwei leaned against the tree trunk and looked at him with his eyes downcast.

"The calculation must be correct?"

"That's for sure."

As he said this, he closed his eyes and made a gesture, and a ray of golden spiritual power emerged from his brows. This was the maximum spiritual power he could mobilize at present. Qi Youwei couldn't help but recall the comfortable feeling when he saw it.

That strand of golden spiritual power was also familiar with Qi Youwei. As usual, it played around on Li Yanze's shoulder for a while, and immediately rushed towards Qi Youwei.

Qi Youwei stretched out his hand, and the strand of spiritual power wrapped around his fingers and reached his palm. Qi Youwei clenched his hand suddenly, and the strand of golden spiritual power came out from between his fingers and waved as if to say goodbye.

Li Yanze smiled and rubbed it with his fingers, flicking it in a certain direction.

Soon, there were ripples around like water waves, and the surrounding scene changed. Li Yanze walked to Qi Youwei first.

The golden spiritual power flew back to them, swung left and right, and hooked Li Yanze's hair forward. Soon, they were brought to the bushes, and in front of them was a bluestone half a person's height.

Li Yanze stretched out his finger to hook down the strand of spiritual power, then turned around and flicked his hand slightly towards Qi You.

Qi Youwei subconsciously tightened the silver ring on his wrist, watching the spiritual power flying around him without changing his expression, and lightly hooked his hair.

"There is something strange here, leave it to protect you."

Qi Youwei held the spiritual power in his hand. This little spiritual power, which was less than a handful of hair, was all Li Yanze had. Now he had to stay with him... to protect him.

Or surveillance?

Li Yanze didn't care about his little tricks. He walked around the bluestone and examined it carefully. Finally, he squatted down and pinched the paper ash in front of the stone with his fingers.

It's Fu Hui.

It looked like there was talisman paper there originally, and it was obvious that someone who understood Taoism had arranged something there.

“There is a formation.”

Li Yanze's tone was calm, yet sounded inexplicably heavy. This unfamiliar feeling made Qi Youwei unable to help but look at his expression.

Li Yanze looked at the paper ash on his fingertips, flicked it with two fingers, and then put it to the tip of his nose and sniffed it lightly.

“It took a lot of work.”

Qi Youwei didn't know what he saw, but he saw him pick up a branch and start digging. His confident attitude made it seem as if he had buried something in there.

After a while, Li Yanze picked out a red rope, passed the branch through the ring and pulled it out, and a small red sachet was taken out.

Qi Youwei himself didn't know why, but he kept looking at Li Yanze and didn't pay much attention to what he had dug out.

It was not until Li Yanze opened the cloth bag, unfolded the talisman folded in a triangle, and whispered out a birth date.

"This horoscope... is very unusual."

Qi Youwei's face changed, he looked at the cloth bag, and suddenly stepped forward to ask Li Yanze: "It's getting late, are you sure you can find Xiao He and Xiao Sui?"

Li Yanze came to his senses, put the thing aside, quickly restored it to its original state, wrapped it up and put it away.

"Someone has set up a formation here. Anyone who enters this formation will be trapped in this place forever. Even if they feel something strange, they won't notice it. They can't get out unless they break the formation."

"They are quite surprised. If they press a person's birth date, that person will not be affected when entering the formation."

Qi You smiled faintly and uttered two words with ambiguous meaning: "Really?"

"I figured it out, and it won't be wrong this time."

Li Yanze didn't have time to think about it, he had to find the two children first. As the night deepened, the two children would be in danger in the mountains.

Soon they heard the faint cry of a child. Li Yanze's eyes lit up and he subconsciously grabbed Qi Youwei's hand and ran forward.

Qi Youwei looked at his hand that had picked up branches and touched dust, frowned, but didn't shake it off.

"Little wheat spike!"

The two children were tied up with their hands behind their backs, and they were so scared that they were crying and sobbing. I guess they were tired of crying and had no strength left.

Qi You took a quick glance, frowned slightly, and grabbed Li Yanze, preventing him from going over immediately.

"They were tied up."

Li Yanze naturally understood, but in his opinion, there was nothing more important than bringing Xiaohe and Xiaosui back to a safe area first. He pushed away Qi Youwei's hand, hooked his fingers, and took back the spiritual power that had been protecting Qi Youwei's body.

"Brother Qi, please stay here and don't move!"

Qi Youwei tried to grab him but missed, and watched him use his spiritual power to protect the two children.

Just abandon him like that? Oh, it turns out that he wasn't going to take good care of his lifesaver.

Li Yanze ran back with the two children, one in each hand. There was a slight vibration in the air, but the leaves did not move.

"Shh, don't cry, just listen to your brother later, okay?"

Li Yanze could sense the monster coming without using his spiritual power, so he took out two little rabbits made of dogtail grass and gave one to each of the two crying children.

Qi Youwei's mood became even worse, but he still looked gentle and kind as he pulled the two children over by the collars.

Li Yanze had just settled down when an attack came. Li Yanze immediately turned around and protected the three of them behind him.

His hands flew and he made a hand gesture. A small wisp of golden spiritual power returned to his hands, and gradually formed a defensive magic circle in the air.

The spiritual powers collided and the fragile magic circle shattered, but at least it was blocked.

As expected of a genius in cultivation who was born with the golden elixir, he should be able to maximize the effect of the magic circle by using such a small amount of spiritual power.

The arrangement of the magic circle just now was indeed as he said, and it took a lot of thought. But for Li Yanze, it was just a matter of a glance.

Even if all the cultivators in the imperial capital were added together, they wouldn’t be half as good as this fool.

A black tiger ran out of the woods and spoke in human language: "Where did you come from, you stinky Taoist priest, to steal my food?"

Li Yanze's spiritual energy was running thin, and there were undoubtedly three mortals hiding behind him. This black tiger was just a small monster, but how could it not squeeze the soft persimmon that was delivered to its door?

Qi Youwei looked at them coldly, dragged the two children behind him, and shifted his gaze to Li Yanze, who was holding only a branch in his hand.

The bright moonlight shone into the woods. Li Yanze's expression was as frosty as ice, without any panic or hesitation.

He turned his head and looked at Qi Youwei, his ponytail swaying slightly: "I'll hold it back, you find a chance to run."

Restrain? What could he use to restrain it? Without spiritual power, he was just a mortal who was stronger than ordinary people. If it was an ordinary tiger today, he could handle it, but now...

Qi Youwei subconsciously grasped the silver ring on his wrist, but he reacted the next moment.

What was he thinking? Just let him die in the tiger's mouth, and then he would use the silver blade to split the pill and use it. By then... a little black tiger demon would be nothing more than a piece of cake.

Li Yanze waved his hand and made a sword flower with the branch, infusing golden spiritual power into it, and had already rushed forward.

Qi Youwei turned his head and looked at the two children without a smile on his face.

"Follow the path ahead and run back along the marks on the tree trunks along the way."

Xiao He and Xiao Sui were inexplicably more afraid of this older brother than the tiger, and they kept nodding like quails. Qi You lowered his eyes and looked at them. The two children held the dogtail grass rabbits tightly in their hands.

It's such an eyesore.

Qi Youwei stretched out his hand and forcibly pulled away their dogtail rabbits, and pushed them lightly: "Now, get out."

Qi Youwei withdrew his gaze indifferently, twisted the grass stems twice with his fingers, and crushed the two dogtail grass rabbits with his palms.

"Brother Qi, why don't you leave? Don't worry about me!"

Li Yanze's waist and abdomen injuries had not healed yet, and his spiritual power was so small, but he managed to hold on until now with a branch. Qi Youwei looked at his back and did not move a step.

Should we say that this black tiger demon is a waste, or that Li Yanze is indeed a rare genius.

Li Yanze covered his waist and abdomen, gasped twice, and felt something sticky. He wiped his hands hastily and picked up a branch to lead away the black tiger that was about to pounce on Qi Youwei.

Li Yanze moved very quickly, and the black tiger was led around in circles. Neither side could do anything to the other.

Qi Youwei gripped the silver ring, a stream of light passed by, and spiritual power leaked out. The black tiger was instantly attracted over, ignoring the scratches on its claws caused by Li Yanze.

Qi Youwei looked at it coldly as it pounced towards him. Li Yanze frowned, covered his waist and abdomen, turned around and completely gave up defense, turned around and hugged him to block the attack.

Qi Youwei's heart tightened. The panic and heartache made his heart ache, but he didn't show any of it.

The black tiger was about to pounce with its claws, but Li Yanze had already hugged Qi Youwei's waist. A golden light flashed, and the black tiger seemed to be scalded. It shrank back and roared angrily.

Qi You looked at the foxtail rabbit that flew out of his sleeve in slight surprise.

The golden light dissipated, the foxtail grass rabbit also shattered, and the smell of grass and trees lingered.

Li Yanze breathed a sigh of relief and stood up, holding Qi Youwei's shoulders.

"Fortunately you didn't throw it away." Li Yanze's face was pale. He covered the cracked and bleeding wound with one hand and picked up the branch with the other hand.

"Haha, it really came in handy." Li Yanze smiled at Qi You.

What are you laughing at... Qi Youwei couldn't hold back the expression on his face. His weak heart kept beating, tormenting him so much that he wanted to grab Li Yanze tightly.

"You have no spiritual power, you will die." Qi Youwei's faint smile faded, and his eyes were gloomy. "Throw me away now, or throw me to the black tiger to eat. Your ability is more than enough to get you out of this."

"Li Yanze, why don't you run?"

Li Yanze had turned around and re-infused his spiritual power into the branches, adjusting his breath and confronting the black tiger.

"Ah? What do you mean by running?" Li Yanze couldn't be distracted. He just heard something about running and reminded him, "Hurry up and run down the mountain. I will buy time."

"You were born with the Golden Elixir, and I am born with the Heavenly Defect... Don't you know everything?"

Li Yanze heard it, but had no time to think about what he was talking about. He held up the branch to hold the black tiger back.

"What? Go away and leave me alone."

Qi Youwei tightly grasped the silver blade in his hand.

Maybe he just wanted to get me away and delay time. Once I ran, Li Yanze would be able to get away.

It was just a block, so what? He was just giving protection to all the weak, and he was just so upright that he was stupid...

He doesn't have to do anything, just wait for him to die here.

Qi Youwei's face gradually became expressionless as he watched Li Yanze gradually become exhausted and it became very difficult for him to dodge.

It will be there soon.

Everyone had said that he wouldn't live past thirty... It was only a year left, now all he had to do was wait.

If he gets the golden elixir, he won't have to die, and he won't have heart attacks again. Living a life worse than death...

Li Yanze dodged the black tiger's claw by leaning sideways, but was a step late due to the injury on his waist and abdomen, and his arm was immediately scratched and bleeding.

Qi Youwei's eyelids jumped, and he suddenly raised his hand and threw the silver blade in his hand towards Li Yanze. The silver light became brighter, and the silver blade flew straight towards Li Yanze.

Li Yanze sensed this powerful spiritual power, covered his arm and looked back in surprise.

All he saw was Qi Youwei covering his chest with his hands, his lips were purple, and he was looking at him with a gloomy face.

"Take it and use it."

The silver blade stopped beside his hand. Li Yanze widened his eyes, reached out and grasped the silver blade. The powerful spiritual power in the magic weapon was immediately called upon by him.

Qi Youwei, you are also a fool.