Chapter 29: Are you kidding me?
"Blue Sea Sword Technique—Tide Flat!"
The sharp sword light flashed by, and the girl with black hair and black eyes smashed the huge tree thrown by the black dragon. Then she quickly reached out and supported Qi An's staggering figure after being injured.
"Sorry, I'm late! Are you okay, Brother Qi?"
Qi An stared at Chu Sheng's face in a daze.
In the short few seconds from being hit to breaking free, Qi An experienced a complete life in the illusion.
As a ruthless swordsman, Qi An shouldn't be so easily deceived, but the overlap between illusion and reality made him waver.
Jade Sea Sword Technique, Jade Sea Sword...
Qi An quickly broke free from the illusion and felt something flash through his mind, but now was not a good time to delve into such things. It took him less than a second to organize his thoughts, and then he spoke seriously to Chu Sheng.
"Thank you, Junior Sister. Yuan Qi and I are here, so we can't stay here for long. Now is the time to go find Hua Meng..."
"I'm here to help you, Brother Qi An." Chu Sheng briefly summarized the causes and consequences explained by Fang Yuan to Qi An.
"Wawa has just identified that this black dragon is not a spiritual beast, but a pure-blooded demon. If we kill it here, it will only put the Zhongnan Dao Sect in a position of betrayal. Under this premise, our actions will be restricted. We need to find a way to subdue it on the spot and disable it."
"...That's true," Qi An admitted. He took a deep breath and tried to use his spiritual power to repair himself, but he found that the spiritual power stagnation that had caused his injury was still continuing.
The young swordsman frowned slightly, then quickly tore a strip of cloth from the hem of his clothes and tied it around the wound. The blood that was originally flowing from his chest and abdomen was temporarily stopped.
He looked at the black dragon that was once again surrounded by Yuan Qi's temporary defensive formation with a serious expression.
"But it's gone mad now. Even if Yuan Qi, Ye Ziqing, and I join forces, we can't do anything about it. In this situation, what do you want to do, Junior Sister Chu Sheng?"
Qi An admitted that just based on the few moves he had just seen, it was enough to prove that Chu Sheng's talent in swordsmanship was as good as that of a pure swordsman.
Although Chu Sheng possessed the ability to fight above her level, just like any other sword cultivator, it was important to note that her cultivation was only at the late stage of foundation building...
If she said that she wanted to cross the two major realms of Jindan and Yuanying and fight with the black dragon that was almost half a step away from becoming a god, it would be simply a fairy tale!
"Of course I have a way."
Chu Sheng opened his palms, feeling the surging spiritual power flowing through his meridians like waves and rolling up the tide, and then spoke softly.
"——Because I am going to overcome the tribulation and advance here, Senior Brother Qi An."
"Are you kidding! This is absolutely not possible!" Gui Xuan, who was worried about Chu Sheng, ordered Yuan Qi to bring him here. As soon as he got close and heard these words, he immediately thought of the specially customized Huiling Pill.
"It's only been a short while since you've achieved a breakthrough in your cultivation, and you're already going through another tribulation. Are you kidding yourself about your own path?! If Venerable Yunmeng wakes up and finds you participating in a Dharma cultivation competition—"
"If Master wakes up and finds out that with your help, I have directly broken through to the Golden Core stage in the Dharma Cultivation Competition, I'm sure he will be very grateful to you." Chu Sheng smiled nonchalantly and pulled down Gui Xuan's hand that was holding his shoulder.
"What are you afraid of, Guixuan? Did the last lightning strike make you scared?"
Yuan Qi checked Qi An and felt relieved after seeing that the wound had been treated simply.
"What's going on?"
"I don't know what happened just now, but my spiritual energy suddenly stagnated, and it hasn't recovered yet." Qi An didn't take it seriously. "It's okay. We sword cultivators are not like you magic cultivators. Even if we don't have spiritual energy, we still have sword intent to use. We won't hold you back."
"No, this just shows that the problem is quite serious." Yuan Qi shook his head.
He didn't notice it when he was not close to this area, but the moment he landed with Gui Xuan, Yuan Qi also felt the same abnormality as Qi An.
As a cultivator of Dharma, the impact of stagnation of spiritual power on him is more serious than Qi An's.
However, Yuan Qi reacted quickly. After realizing that something was wrong, he immediately cut off the connection with the external spiritual power. This preserved the normal spiritual power of a Jindan stage cultivator in his body, making him look no different from usual.
"Junior Sister Chu Sheng said this is a pure-blooded demon? That makes it clear. No ordinary spirit beast could have so many racial talents. This black dragon has already demonstrated the ability to create illusions. Now it seems that controlling the flow of spiritual energy in the surrounding environment is probably also one of its racial talents."
"If you and I run out of spiritual energy and can't use our killing moves, facing this demon race that is halfway to becoming a god..."
It's as if this was deliberately planned by someone, every step is so frustrating!
Yuan Qi and Qi An fell silent as they watched the black dragon gradually breaking through the formation, and then Yuan Qi took the lead in asking Qi An.
"What did Junior Sister Chu Sheng say just now?"
On the other side, Gui Xuan was still desperately shaking Chu Sheng, trying to change her mind with her feeble words. The Young Master of Liangyi Valley, who had always acted recklessly and left others to clean up their messes, was now, for the first time, frightened and terrified behind someone, unable to do anything.
"Chu Sheng, I beg you to be kind. You really can't do this. Other than that, I'll accompany you to do whatever you want... I've already told you not to take things for granted! That's a tribulation thunder! How can you summon it and send it away at will? How can you do it just like that?"
Chu Sheng was shaken unreasonably by Gui Xuan until she felt dizzy and dazed: "But you already said that the lightning itself is not something that can be summoned and sent away at will..."
Ever since arriving at Zhongnan Taoist Sect, perhaps due to the boost brought by the exceptionally pure spiritual energy here, every person Chu Sheng saved, every bit of concern and gratitude from others for him, have gradually increased the speed of the Tongxin Jue.
The speed was from slow to fast, from nothing to something, from empty to completely complete - and the moment Fang Yuan grabbed Chu Sheng's clothes, the girl heard the sound of a barrier that had been blocking her and the Tao, shattering.
"So advancement happens naturally, just like eating and drinking. I can't control it!"
Gui Xuan, who had just broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage and could clearly see that she would not be able to make another major breakthrough in the next few decades, looked at the bottle of Huiling Dan that Chu Sheng had taken out and was instantly in a state of panic: "..."
So, what you mean is that after staying in Zhongnan Dao Sect for less than four days, you felt the opportunity for a breakthrough and were about to advance from the Foundation Establishment Stage to the Golden Core Stage?
What kind of trash is this? Who on earth said that the disciples of Master Yunmeng were useless and unsustainable? You're telling me that a genius who's about to break through to the Golden Core stage before the age of twenty is useless? I think you're blind. Get down!
Gui Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, but when she saw Chu Sheng's innocent expression, she felt a little suffocated in her chest.
——Do you know that you are really irritating like this?
"I see."
Yuan Qi also learned the cause and effect of the matter from Qi An. For some reason, Qi An did not explain his illusion to Yuan Qi, but this did not affect Yuan Qi's judgment.
Although the leader of Zhongnan Taoist Sect did not know Chu Sheng's background, in his opinion, it was easy for Hehuan Sect disciples to make progress due to their special skills, and what Chu Sheng said was not worth making a fuss about. Therefore, Yuan Qi was the first to accept Chu Sheng's suggestion.
"Junior Sister Chu Sheng, how is your attainment in formation?"
"Although I don't know how to arrange it, I can understand it and use it." Before Chu Sheng finished speaking, Yuan Qi took out a team leader token of a different color from his arms and threw it to her.
"Take this, and if you feel your life is in danger during your future tribulation journey, activate it immediately."
Chu Sheng held the new token in his hand and studied it for a moment before putting it away: "No problem."
"How long can the formation that traps the black dragon last?" Qi An asked.
"Twenty breaths," Yuan Qi said, "If this plan fails, I will ask the elders to forcibly break through this space..."
He made his decision calmly, seemingly without the emotional struggle he'd just experienced while arguing with Gui Xuan. "Any casualties or accidents among the sect disciples caused by this will be solely borne by me."
Qi An was stunned by this decision, which was completely inconsistent with Yuan Qi's usual style. "What? Yuan Qi, you..."
The others seemed to be arguing, but none of this concerned her. Chu Sheng raised her head; she had quietly entered a strange state.
Her vision grew so high that she could clearly see Chen Duo'er and Yuwawa grabbing Fang Yuan and beating him up; she could clearly see Hua Meng frantically trying to reconcile the relationship between Yan Hu and Qing He, who were on the verge of a fight; and she could clearly see the elders of Zhongnan Dao Sect dismantling the formation with anxious expressions outside this space...
Seeing the black dragon's frenzy and rage, and seeing the worry appear on Gui Xuan's face for the first time, Qi An and Yuan Qi also raised their heads at this time, looking at the sky that seemed endless and contained countless secrets.
——Here it comes.
In the extremely dark, deep and thick clouds, a lightning snake that was more than five times more powerful than the previous one suddenly fell down and slammed into the defensive magic circle with a deafening sound!
"boom!"
Ling Fengzhi used a sword to shake off the bird-shaped monster that was clinging to him. He was caught off guard by a sudden gust of cold wind from behind. The beast-shaped monster was huge and covered in poison. It only took a flash of its sharp claws to injure the young swordsman's lungs!
Ling Fengzhi swallowed the blood that threatened to spill from his throat, then stabbed the culprit who had injured him through and through. Arriving at the garrison, he encountered a demonic riot, and the guides were all killed. Being in such a predicament in an unfamiliar place, Ling Fengzhi's luck could not be described as bad.
But at this critical moment, all emotions can only be thrown aside. The first priority at this moment is obviously how to ensure that one can survive!
——Survive...? Can I survive?
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