Chapter 40 Spread
Wen Tianyu let out a long breath and asked, "...Then what exactly do you want?"
“I told you, there are only so many excuses for doing bad things,” Xie Nanfeng said, unable to escape Wen Tianyu’s magic array, and sat down on the spot. “The first thing is to make Qingjue kowtow ten times to my Xie family to apologize. Is that too much to ask?”
Yan Shiqun gritted his teeth, but Wen Tianyu pulled him back with a stern face.
"My second matter is that I want that traitor Jie Zhou dead. What right does he have to live so carefree?"
Ignoring the expressions of the three people in front of him, he said, "The third thing is that the entire cultivation world must bow down to us before the Xie family can be worthy of being the number one aristocratic family."
"Dream on!" Yan Shiqun had been holding back for a long time: "You're a petty person, but your ambition is quite large!"
“Say whatever you want,” Xie Nanfeng said, “You can refuse, or you can exchange it for the lives of the entire Liu Chun.”
Wen Tianyu had been trying to contact Shangqing Jue, but to no avail. It was likely that the connection between this area and the outside world had been severed, and it was obvious that this was intentional.
"I have already spread the poison, and your fellow disciples have probably been captured by the other two. I can indeed make an exception for you because of your strength and give you better treatment. It's not too late to join me now."
"...A charade." Yan Shiqun really didn't want to listen to his nonsense and said, "Why didn't I just kill him now!"
"No!" said the head of the Yun family. "He's deliberately trying to provoke us."
Wen Tianyu silently remembered those words and stepped forward, saying, "We don't need to die together. You can't get out, and we can't touch you either. There's no need to provoke each other."
Seeing that he was unmoved by reason, Xie Nanfeng said coldly, "You seem to know quite a bit, kid."
"Likewise."
Jie Nanfeng wanted to say something more, but suddenly sensed the presence of the other people, and his smile returned. He said, "But now we can add some chips."
A teleportation talisman glowed behind him, and Wen Tianyu and the other two looked over alertly.
Jie Nanfeng turned around: "Is it all done?"
He turned around and was stunned.
Two accomplices were bound to the ground with several silver threads, one end of which was held by a little girl whose foot was on one of their buttocks. A long sword was held in the hand of another little boy, held horizontally beside their heads.
They both answered in unison for others, their tone cheerful.
"nailed it!"
Jie Nanfeng's lips twitched again.
He, Immortal Lord Wuqing, did not raise a group of puppies or kittens.
They are a group of monsters.
Jie Nanfeng gritted his teeth: "Two useless things."
Li Shuyu lay on the ground, speechless, thinking: "If you're so good, then you do it. If it weren't for the Gu in your hands, your fate might not be any better than ours."
“Linglai, Aju,” Wen Tianyu said from afar, “Are you alright?”
“It’s alright,” Ruan Linglai said. “Their attempts to sow discord are ineffective, and the poison isn’t in their hands.”
Aju raised an eyebrow at Li Shuyu: "You don't really think that a few words can sway a decade of friendship between fellow disciples."
Li Shuyu: "..."
Jie Nanfeng stood up again and said, "They're just a few kids. In the end, it's just bluffing. I don't mind if a couple more of you come to die."
"You think you're the only one who can cut off this space's connection to the outside world? This is my territory. Without Immortal Lord Wu Qing, let's see how you stop me!"
He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and the black mist beneath his feet rose again, instantly filling Wen Tianyu's entire protective barrier.
The entire valley floor began to tremble violently, with rubble raining down from above, and a crack appeared in the container holding the Gu worms.
Wen Tianyu realized something was wrong: "He's trying to force his way through the barrier! Protect that stone first!"
The Yun family head and Yan Shiqun stepped forward with their swords drawn. Just as a huge rock was about to crash into it, Aju threw several darts with talismans attached to them, blasting the rock apart. Taking advantage of this moment, Yan Shiqun and the Yun family head smashed the falling rubble to pieces.
Yan Shiqun instinctively wanted to use the burning fire, but suddenly realized that these Gu worms could not be burned, so he could only withdraw the warm current from his palm.
He angrily thought to himself, "When did I become so concerned about human life? It's ridiculous!"
Wen Tianyu used his internal energy to stabilize the barrier trapping Jie Nanfeng, frowning with difficulty, and said, "We can't let him out...! Ling Lai, help me protect the formation, Patriarch Aju Yun, protect the Gu worms, and leave those two to Ayan!"
Ruan Linglai immediately withdrew the silver thread, turned around and reinforced the magic array around the edge of the barrier, and Yan Shiqun landed in front of Li Shuyu and Zhao Laosi.
He stopped speaking and instead used a low, menacing voice to pour into the two men's ears: "If you don't behave, I'll take my anger out on you first."
Ruan Linglai and Wen Tianyu's efforts to reinforce the magic array were not going smoothly. The black energy kept crashing outwards, and many more emerged from the Gu worms and rushed back in. There were also many small black ghosts popping up on the ground. The scene was chaotic and they were unable to do anything about it.
Ruan Linglai pulled hard on the silver thread, feeling the spiritual power attached to it being continuously drawn away, and her whole body was pulled forward quite a distance by the huge suction force.
Wen Tianyu reached out and pulled off the pendant from his body, throwing it aside. His eye emitted a white light as he focused all his attention on stabilizing the formation, many images flashing through his eyes.
He fully released his spiritual power to stabilize the formation, and fragmented glimpses of other people's past lives flashed before his eyes.
Jie Nanfeng was indeed a member of the Jie family, and he had done a lot of things with them.
On the Dead Sea ship, there were maps marking the locations, indicating that there was more than one place to release the Gu worms, as well as a series of records of their past plans.
This included, but was not limited to, burning down Yuanmuyuan and massacring the people of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou. If it weren't for the strong opposition from the former Qing dynasty patriarch, Qing Jiujie, they probably would have succeeded much earlier.
Xie Nanfeng was a deserter. He resolutely abandoned the entire Xie family and fled, hiding his identity as a waiter in a tavern. He was extremely jealous of Xie Zhoujian, who was gradually gaining some positive reputation.
Based on their relationship, he should be considered Jie Zhoujian's cousin.
The Li and Zhao families were also involved in the plan, but they never did anything wrong on the surface, so few people mentioned it.
A century has passed, and the family has long since changed. Apart from the Xie family, which is now universally reviled, the Li and Zhao families will no longer do anything they shouldn't.
Li Shuyu—no, that's not his name. Li Shuyu is the name of his deceased elder brother, and also his code name when he travels the martial arts world.
His real name is Li Wei. He was never valued in the Li family and was often told that he was wicked. Cultivators are forbidden from taking shortcuts, but he insisted on studying forbidden books to improve himself. In order to attract the attention of the other members of the Li family, he cultivated his illusion techniques to the extreme.
Zhao Laosi, whose real name is Zhao Cansi, is the fourth son of the Zhao family. He is strong but not very bright. Unlike the current Li family, the Zhao family has not severed ties with the past and has always harbored resentment about unifying the cultivation world.
The fragmented thoughts from the three of them flooded into Wen Tianyu's mind all at once. With nothing to suppress his spiritual power, his abilities gradually became out of control, and the flashing fragments became increasingly chaotic. The various voices were so loud that his brain felt like it was about to split open.
A red streak of blood ran down his white eye.
Even so, Ruan Linglai was a little exhausted. Her silver thread came into direct contact with the black energy, and she was so weak that she coughed up blood. The black energy rushed towards her along the silver thread.
The Yun family head swiftly severed the silver thread, caught Ruan Linglai to prevent her from falling, and quickly led her away from the area.
Yan Shiqun stared intently at the barrier. In his eyes, everything around him slowed down many times over, and his senses became sharper due to his intense focus.
He would act as soon as...
The barrier broke the instant a drop of water fell into the air.
Before the water droplet even hit the ground, black energy burst forth from within, and the blood lotus appeared on Yan Shiqun's head. He raised his hand, and flames erupted from his palm.
Just as the water droplet was about to touch the ground, golden runes appeared in front of Wen Tianyu. The pattern was a life-saving talisman that Qing Jue had given them.
A splash of water landed on my body.
A strong gust of wind dispersed the swirling black smoke and extinguished the burning fire that had separated the geese from their flock.
The white-robed immortal stood ramrod straight in front of Wen Tianyu, holding a folding fan in his outstretched hand. The force he had just exerted was so great that several of them almost lost their balance.
Aju murmured, as if she had survived a close call, "I was so scared..."
Actually, he didn't know why he needed to protect this stone, but Senior Brother Wen said it must be very important, because it was too dangerous just now.
Qingjue reached out, and the pendant on the ground flew steadily into his hand. He turned around and put it back on Wen Tianyu, who was kneeling on the ground, and fed him a calming pill.
His eyes finally returned to normal, the noise in his head gradually dissipated, and he took several deep breaths.
Qingjue patted his head before standing up: "Well done."
"Cough cough..." Wen Tianyu: "Master..."
"Master!" Ruan Linglai ran over, clutching her aching arm, and knelt down in front of Wen Tianyu, supporting him with her other hand: "Tianyu! Are you alright?"
“Hmm, I’m fine…” Wen Tianyu quickly explained, “…Master! The Gu worms and he can’t be killed…Those worms have the spirits of Young Master Yun and the others on them, and they are connected to that person. If we kill them, their spiritual veins will be completely severed and they will die.”
Qingjue then realized why Yun Yuelin and the others had suddenly vomited blood: "Hmm."
"Senior Brother Wen! Master...!" Aju called out from afar, feeling a sense of security returning. After a short sigh, he said, "That's great."
Qingjue turned around and looked at Jie Nanfeng, who had broken the barrier.
"You dare to mess with my obedient disciple?" Qingjue closed Wanlifeng's hand and looked over indifferently: "Have you thought about how you're going to die?"
Jie Nanfeng felt the overwhelming power of the opponent in the first second, but he tried to smooth things over by smiling slyly and saying, "I didn't touch them, they just ran into me on their own."
Someone stepped on his head and kicked him, interrupting him, and used the momentum to fly to the other side.
Yan Shiqun threw the two people, their faces contorted in pain, behind Qingjue and said, "Break their legs."
“These two will be severely punished later,” Qingjue raised his hand, lifted his folding fan, and pointed in a direction. “Master Yun, I entrust my few obedient disciples to your care. Take them outside.”
The Yun family head nodded.
“Aju, come here, help Ayan take these two people out as well.”
Aju jogged back and said, "That stone..."
"Leave it to me."
"good."
Aju took a step and suddenly felt a stinging pain in his palm. He reached out and bit his palm, only to find that he had accidentally come into contact with black energy, and black patterns were spreading across his palm.
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Author's note: Yesterday, because I forgot to set the timer, my little red flower broke [heartbroken] (mourning).
And then it was mistakenly posted as the next chapter! [Heartbroken][Heartbroken] You guys need to reread it! [Crying]
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