Chapter 27: Preparing for Battle. It seems they really are after us. ...
The first to notice something amiss was Yun Dan, who had the highest cultivation level.
"I seem to faintly sense the aura of the sea race's undead." Yun Dan took out the talisman she always carried and cautiously looked around.
Upon hearing this, Lin Jianyu also tried to sense her surroundings, but she couldn't feel anything. However, this did not stop her from remaining vigilant about her surroundings.
After remaining vigilant for a while, and seeing no movement whatsoever, she couldn't help but ask Yun Dan, "Have they left?"
Yun Dan said, "I don't know, let's leave here first." After saying that, he took the lead and walked forward.
Lin Jianyu and the others followed closely behind.
After walking a few steps, Yun Dan suddenly stopped again.
Upon seeing this, Lin Jianyu asked, "Have you arrived?"
Yun Dan did not answer her question. He raised his hand and lightly touched the air in front of him, discovering that an invisible wall was standing in front of them.
“It’s a barrier,” he said.
"A barrier?" Lin Jianyu also touched it, the texture was a bit strange, he couldn't tell what material it was. "How come there's a barrier here?" There was clearly nothing here when they came before.
"It was probably set up by the sea creatures' undead," Yun Dan said, though he wasn't entirely sure.
"Can we break through it? Or should we just take a detour?" Lin Jianyu asked.
"I'll give it a try." After saying that, Yun Dan directly stuck the talisman in his hand onto the barrier. Then, he used his spiritual power to activate the talisman, which quickly spontaneously combusted in the air, but the barrier remained completely unmoved.
"Let's take a detour!" he said. "Hopefully they're not coming for us." Otherwise, things are likely to turn bad.
"I have a feeling they're targeting us," Zhu Liu muttered to himself.
"Pah, get it out of your mouth!" Lin Jianyu slapped his mouth.
Zhu Liu was in a bit of pain from the beating and instinctively covered his mouth with his hand.
Will the big boss come to our rescue?
"At such a distance, unless it's telepathy, the possibility is slim." Lin Jianyu shattered his illusions, although she also hoped that Lu Jiao could come to rescue them.
“Tell the big boss you’re in danger and ask him to come and save us,” Zhu Liu said.
"I don't have that skill, thank you!" Even if she could truly communicate telepathically, it would be with her master, not with Lu Jiao.
Zhu Liu wanted to say something more, but he bumped his head into a transparent wall, wincing in pain.
"Why is there a barrier here too?" They had just passed through it.
"Looks like they really are after us," Yun Dan said calmly. "Prepare for battle!"
"I forgot my master's sword, give me a talisman." Lin Jianyu intended to participate as much as possible.
Zhu Liu and his companions did bring their magical artifacts, but their combat strength was only average.
Yun Dan, the most talented player, became the team's hope.
that is……
Ten minutes passed, and there was still no movement.
"Is this undead guy planning to starve us to death?" Lin Jianyu said while eating sunflower seeds.
"You actually have the mood to eat sunflower seeds at such a tense moment!" Zhu Liu was truly impressed by her.
“What do you know? I’m just trying to lull the enemy into a false sense of security,” Lin Jianyu said.
Only a fool would believe her if he followed the crowd.
"You're just bored while waiting."
"You've been standing for over ten minutes, aren't you bored?" Her legs were aching from standing, and the fact that she didn't sit down was already the greatest respect she could show to the enemy.
Going with the flow is alright, it's not too boring.
"We forgot to schedule an appointment with the big boss when we came out, otherwise, he would have been looking for us in a little while."
"Who would have thought that going out to buy supplies would lead to encountering sea monsters?" If she had known she would be this unlucky, she wouldn't have thrown a tantrum to get Lu Jiao to agree to let her come along. She would have stayed obediently by Lu Jiao's side and could have taken a nap right now.
“This never happened before. It must be because you were with us that we’re so unlucky. Don’t go with us next time,” Zhu Liu said.
"Even if you beg me next time, I won't go."
"Do you feel your spiritual energy slowly draining away?" Yun Dan asked.
Upon hearing this, both Zhu Jin and Zhu Liu checked their spiritual energy and found that it was indeed slowly dissipating. Zhu Liu's loss was particularly noticeable; he didn't have much spiritual energy to begin with, and this loss was like adding insult to injury.
Lin Jianyu did not check. Although she also had spiritual power, she had used it up almost entirely along the way, so there was no need to check.
"So, this is a barrier that consumes spiritual energy? It waits until our spiritual energy is almost depleted before it comes out to reap the rewards. This isn't just a spirit with some sense left; could it be our master? Is he testing you?"
First, use the formation to deplete their spiritual power, then reap their heads. This is indeed not something a mindless undead would do. However, undead that still retain their rationality are very strong. For a strong undead to deal with a few small fry like them, there is no need to go to such great lengths, unless the other party is really their master and is testing them.
But is that even possible?
Lin Jianyu and Zhuliu didn't understand Changkong's character, but Yundan and Zhujin did. He wasn't the type to test his disciples; he had always neglected his four disciples.
“It can’t be our grandmaster,” Yun Dan said. “Our grandmaster wouldn’t be so bored. Even if he wanted to test someone, he would just slap them to death.”
"I can't hold on much longer," Zhu Liu interrupted their conversation. "My spiritual power is almost gone."
"What are you persisting in?" Lin Jianyu asked.
"When spiritual energy is depleted, a person becomes weak. Don't you feel it?" Zhu Liu looked her over carefully. She could still eat sunflower seeds, and her complexion was rosy. She didn't look like she had exhausted her spiritual energy at all. "This is not scientific! Your cultivation is so much lower than mine. My spiritual energy is almost exhausted. How come you are still like nothing happened?"
Lin Jianyu was indeed fine and felt no discomfort; at most, her legs were a little sore from standing for so long.
However, her cultivation level was indeed lower than Zhuliu's, although not by that much, it was still lower. There was no reason why Zhuliu's spiritual power was almost exhausted while she acted as if nothing had happened.
She tried to sense the spiritual energy in her body. It wasn't much, but there was still some. After sensing it for a while, she found that the spiritual energy in her body not only hadn't been lost, but was also slowly increasing.
This is actually a normal phenomenon; spiritual energy is consumed and will also recover. However, under the current circumstances, it seems a bit abnormal.
"This barrier doesn't seem to work on me. My spiritual power hasn't been lost; on the contrary, it's slowly increasing." With that, she sat down to meditate and tried to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy.
You won't know until you absorb it, and once you do, you'll be surprised by how rich the spiritual energy here is.
"The spiritual energy here is very rich; you should try to absorb it as well."
Yun Dan tried to absorb some spiritual energy, but found that there was no spiritual energy at all.
Zhu Jin and Zhu Liu were the same; not only did they fail to absorb spiritual energy, they also consumed their own spiritual power. Zhu Liu, whose spiritual power was already depleted, was completely exhausted by this absorption.
“I suspect you’re trying to scam me,” he said.
"No." Lin Jianyu knew when to trick people, "Give me your hand, and I'll transfer some spiritual energy to you."
The feeling of having one's spiritual energy depleted is not pleasant, so Zhu Liu didn't stand on ceremony and directly gave her his hand.
Lin Jianyu took his hand and asked, "How is spiritual energy transferred again?"
Zhu Liu: "..."
Zhu Liu almost couldn't keep his own coffin lid closed.
"When your senior uncle was teaching you, did you actually study properly?"
"No!" Lin Jianyu said truthfully.
When Wen Boyan was teaching them these things, she was still a staunch materialist who did not believe in the existence of spirits in this world, and naturally could not learn them properly.
"It's very simple. Just like you absorb spiritual energy into your body, you just need to reverse the flow of spiritual energy from your body into mine."
Lin Jianyu felt that he had taught him, but not completely. In the end, he relied on recalling the methods Wen Boyan had taught them to help him replenish his spiritual power.
She didn't have much spiritual power, and she didn't replenish much of it, but she did manage to replenish it.
"This formation is really useless against you."
"Wasn't it a barrier?" How did it turn into an array?
"A barrier is a type of formation, also known as an array," Zhu Liu explained.
"Oh." Lin Jianyu understood. "Why doesn't this formation work on me?"
"Could it be because you're a pure-blooded human? Or perhaps, a hybrid?" Zhu Liu guessed.
"Pure-blooded humans are out of the question. We don't even know if hybrids actually exist, so there's no need to single them out." She still felt that the term "hybrid" might just be something Lu Jiao used to insult her. Although she couldn't understand his reasons for doing so, he never needed a reason to do things that harmed others without benefiting himself.
"Why is it that it's useless to you? It's useless to any of us, but it's more useful than it being useless to you," Zhu Liu said.
“What use is it if it’s useless to you?” Lin Jianyu asked.
Zhu Liu thought about it for a moment and realized that it was useless and of no use to him; they would still be trapped in this barrier and unable to go anywhere.
"May the ancestral master protect us, and may the great one come to our rescue quickly!"
"Why are you praying?" Lin Jianyu's lips twitched involuntarily.
"Otherwise what? What else can we do?" Zhu Liu asked.
"Cultivate!" Lin Jianyu closed his eyes and began to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy.
As she absorbed more and more spiritual energy, Yun Dan noticed that their spiritual power was gradually stopping.
"It's useful, Junior Sister, quickly absorb more spiritual energy."
Lin Jianyu was trying her best to absorb the knowledge, but her speed was limited, and she couldn't speed it up at all.
However, it did have some effect.
The spiritual energy in Yun Dan and the others has stopped dissipating.
The fact that spiritual energy is no longer being lost means that the formation may be about to fail.
Yun Dan walked to the edge of the barrier and pasted another talisman on it. He used his spiritual power to activate the talisman, and it quickly ignited in the air. However, the barrier was no longer completely unmoved as before; it began to loosen slightly.
Even a tiny bit is better than nothing.
He didn't rush to try again, planning to wait until Lin Jianyu absorbed more spiritual energy before attempting it.
However, the people behind the scenes did not give them that opportunity.
Two sea creature undead quickly appeared within the barrier.
One controls the wind, the other controls the water; both are quite powerful.
After they appeared, they had a clear objective and headed straight for Lin Jianyu.
Yun Dan and Zhu Jin tried their best to stop him, but Lin Jianyu's cultivation was still interrupted.
There was no other way; the space inside the barrier wasn't large, and she was easily affected, so she simply joined the battle with Zhu Liu.
Zhu Liu fought in front, while she channeled spiritual energy into him from behind, providing excellent support.
Unfortunately, her spiritual power was limited, as was Zhu Liu's ability to flow. Their addition did not have much effect, and Zhu Liu was even injured as a result.
"I really miss the days when I could just hide behind a big shot and do nothing," Zhu Liu said.
Lin Jianyu also reminisced, but reminiscing was of no use.
"Give me the sword, I'll go help." She held the Flowing Magic Sword, ready to rush forward and hack and slash wildly.
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