"I figured it out! I figured out that my friend is facing a new predicament."
It's Xu Zhiyi's voice!
Su Lin was taken aback, but his expression remained calm.
He noticed that the others were completely still, which meant that Xu Zhiyi had obviously used the card's mechanics.
Su Lin remained calm, occasionally exchanging whispered conversations with Xu Zhenshu. The way the two, brother and sister, whispered to each other was filled with the tenderness of young swordsmen, and no one noticed anything unusual.
"Mr. Su is truly calm under pressure; I don't even need to remind you not to make a sound."
"However, I still want to remind you to trust my cards. Although I am not strong in combat, the special effects of some of my cards may be able to help you."
"Hmm... Let me see. A reversed Wheel of Fortune card indicates that an uncontrollable factor has caused you to be unable to obtain what you desire."
“Very well! A sacrifice is needed to turn the gears of fate around, so let me save Mr. Su from his ‘unfulfilled desire’!”
Xu Zhiyi's voice was full of laughter. She was still a bit eccentric, but Su Lin could tell that she seemed to be planning something.
Heaven knows what this woman is planning. She was supposed to be reuniting with the disciples of various sects at Pingfeng Mountain, so why did she suddenly come looking for me again? Isn't she afraid of being discovered by the big shots like Fusheng Zuike?
Before Su Lin could sort out these issues, a commotion broke out at the front of the group.
"There's fighting going on up ahead!"
A Sword Pavilion disciple cried out in alarm, startling Xu Zhenshu. She couldn't continue talking to Su Lin and quickly spurred her horse forward.
The two rode together, and Su Lin was also led to the front of the group to look out.
They saw several corpse puppets chasing after more than a dozen righteous disciples, half of whom were escaped players! Leading them were Xu Zhiyi and her group!
"Reinforcements are just ahead! Run there quickly!"
Xu Zhiyi looked up in surprise and loudly reminded the disciples around her. The dozen or so people perked up and fought hard against the corpse puppets, speeding up their escape from the battlefield.
However, the Corpse Puppet was too powerful. Even at extremely short distances, several righteous disciples were still killed on the spot, including one surviving player from the righteous faction.
"It's Junior Sister Xu!"
The White Fairy arrived at the front of the group, her pretty face tense, her eyes filled with both shock and anger: "The corpse puppet of the Thousand Machine Poison Lord! He hasn't escaped yet, and he dares to chase after my sect's disciples!"
"Let's go rescue them!"
Xu Zhenshu hurriedly drew his sword, about to rush forward, when he heard a faint, cold snort from the forest: "Inhuman thing, playing tricks."
It's the voice of a drunken wanderer!
The moment Su Lin heard the sound, he didn't make any move. He only felt a breeze blowing through the forest, carrying a wisp of heavy internal energy, which then drifted into the forest wind and reached behind Xu Zhiyi and the others.
"Splash! Splash! Splash!"
Several corpse puppets collapsed to the ground, their bodies stiff, their limbs straight, and their skin black and purple, clearly indicating that they had been poisoned by some kind of neurotoxin!
Su Lin witnessed this and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
A few corpse puppets at the Free and Unfettered Realm are enough to make all the martial arts masters in the world change color, but at this moment they are as fragile as ants in front of the Drunken Master of Life.
He knew that Shuyu Heavenly Palace was skilled in poison and medicine, but he never expected that Fusheng Zuike's methods were even more terrifying. Su Lin couldn't see how he did it at all, and he could accurately locate and poison the enemy from a distance.
Moreover, these enemies were already corpses, so ordinary poisons were useless against them, yet he still dealt with them swiftly and efficiently.
Not long after the corpse puppet collapsed, a faint cry of surprise came from behind Xu Zhiyi and the others: "Heavenly Fragrance Asks for Immortal Wine! Oh no, it's Floating Life Drunkard!"
It was the voice of the Thousand Machine Poison Lord. He recognized the move and panicked, trying to turn and flee.
"This brat is arrogant! He didn't bow to me and dared to run away!"
Fusheng Zuike laughed loudly, and Su Lin suddenly became distracted. He saw a middle-aged man in white robes standing on the tip of a reed in the forest. He held a jade flute and moved with a graceful and unrestrained air, possessing unparalleled lightness skills.
"I want to see why this monster from Thousand Machine City dares to chase my Heavenly Palace disciple. You stay here and protect him."
Without turning his head, the drunken traveler gave a nonchalant order, and the elder's respectful voice echoed from the forest: "Senior may go, I will not lose anything here."
Before he could finish speaking, the white-robed man had already vanished. His profound skill was almost identical to that of Senior Li of the Sword Pavilion, and his martial arts were so advanced that they were almost like those of an immortal.
"Junior Sister Xu!"
Seeing that the pursuers had been dealt with properly by the sect's elders, Bai Xianzi quickly sheathed her sword and rushed forward to protect Xu Zhiyi and the other disciples as they entered the convoy.
Xu Zhenshu, as the team leader, also dismounted and went forward with Su Lin.
"Junior Sister Xu, are you injured? Why is the Thousand-Machine Poison Lord chasing after you?"
Xu Zhenshu stepped forward to inquire, and Sword Pavilion disciples rushed forward to treat the injuries of the other disciples, while also keeping them all under supervision.
The caravan bore a heavy responsibility, so naturally they dared not be careless, and were very vigilant even when encountering righteous disciples.
Xu Zhiyi had an arm injury and was being treated by her disciples. While she cried out softly in pain, she respectfully explained, "After Pingfeng Mountain was attacked tonight, I was supposed to join the disciples of various sects to enter the city, but I was attacked by sword assassins from the Boundless Sea on the way."
"My strength is too weak to fight back, so I can only lead my men to flee, but we got lost on the way."
"Fortunately, we encountered other disciples who led the way. Just as we were about to return to the front line, we ran into Qianji Poison Lord, who had been driven away by Senior Brother Su. He saw that we were outnumbered and easy to bully, so he wanted to kill us all."
"We disciples and others tried every means to escape, but fortunately we encountered our senior sisters, otherwise we might never have been able to return to the sect to see our master!"
Xu Zhiyi choked up as she spoke, her pretty face pale, her beautiful eyes filled with tears, she looked extremely pitiful.
Her explanation was clearly false, and Su Lin saw through it at a glance, but it was still somewhat believable. Although Xu Zhenshu was a little suspicious, she didn't take it too seriously.
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