Chapter 31: Undercurrents Surge
"Guixuan, get ready and come!"
Listening to the rhythmic roar of thunder in the sky and the sound of the defensive formation gradually collapsing, Chu Sheng patted Gui Xuan's shoulder and spoke very easily while holding up the Tianyan Demon-Suppressing Umbrella.
"What a familiar prelude! Are you moved, huh?"
"…If you feel chest tightness, take the white one. If you have a leg cramp once, take the yellow one. If you have two cramps, take the green one."
Gui Xuan was deliberately interrupted by Chu Sheng, but she turned a deaf ear to him and just wanted to categorize the prescriptions and stuff them into her mind.
"In short, I've prepared all the elixirs for various special situations for you. Stop dwelling on that all-purpose Soul-Restoring Pill, okay? It's not for you to take right now. Don't touch it. Do you understand?"
"I understand, I understand, I understand. You've become so talkative, Guixuan. You weren't like this before."
Chu Sheng twitched the corner of her mouth, "Why have you become like an old woman?"
"Who am I doing this for? If you die here, what will happen to my advancement in the future?
If my cultivation stagnates, my father and the entire Liangyi Valley will go crazy. Rounding it off, it's almost like my father and I will have to die right there with you!"
Gui Xuan crossed her arms, her face adorned with Zhuo Qing's delicate features, a half-smile of impatience on her face. "Chu Sheng, you're about to advance to the Golden Core stage anyway..."
"I've already said it. I, Wuqingdao, don't make appointments."
Chu Sheng knew what this guy was going to say next without even listening, so he immediately reached out and ruthlessly pushed Gui Xuan's head to the other side.
"As long as we don't talk about this, we can still be friends who can have fun together!"
"...If you were willing to sign a Taoist partner contract with me, there wouldn't be so much trouble!" Gui Xuan was discouraged, but Chu Sheng's reaction was also within his expectations.
Therefore, after saying a few words, he opened the shield-shaped magic weapon in his hand and watched the defensive magic circle that was about to be broken by the dual effects of thunder and black dragon, ready for battle.
"Then let's do as we agreed..."
"Hey, I didn't tell you, okay?" Chu Sheng patted Gui Xuan's shoulder and looked at him in surprise.
"When did I promise you anything?"
"Huh?" A question mark slowly appeared above Gui Xuan's head, and her heart was suddenly filled with an ominous premonition. "Chu Sheng, you..."
"I've already told you, Guixuan, why are you, a weak medical practitioner in the Foundation Establishment Stage, here to carry the heavy shield for me?"
As the defensive formation shattered, Chu Sheng slapped out with a palm without hesitation, incorporating most of his spiritual power.
After Gui Xuan's careful 1v1 training over this period of time, her physical fitness is now no different from that of a Jindan stage cultivator.
Therefore, this lightning attack directly knocked the defenseless Gui Xuan out of the core area of this thunder tribulation!
"So you better get out this time! You must survive, and remember to help me when you see me dying!"
The finishing touch was delivered by Chu Sheng, who knocked her from the core area to the sides of Yuan Qi and Qi An. The mask that Gui Xuan had been maintaining perfectly on her face was completely shattered by Chu Sheng on the spot.
The Young Master of Liangyi Valley had never been so angry before, so Gui Xuan didn't care that she was a female cultivator at the moment, and simply used her real voice to curse angrily.
"Chu Sheng—! You're a bastard who's courting death every day without even considering the day!!!"
"...Gui Xuan?! Why is it you?" Qi An was shocked. "So you are Zhuo Qing?!"
"——Is this kind of thing still important at this moment?! Qi An, you are a blind idiot!"
At this moment, Chu Sheng, who had triggered Gui Xuan's emotional outburst, drew his sword with extraordinary calmness.
She carefully observed the movement of the thunderclouds, and relying on the flexible positioning of the Tianyan Demon-Suppressing Umbrella, she successfully sent the first bolt of lightning crashing down on the Black Dragon, which had already fallen into a completely violent state!
"roar--!"
Outside the barrier, the third elder of Zhongnan Taoist Sect, the True Lord Powang who was in the late Nascent Soul stage, was desperately trying to break the unknown formation stacked by the villains.
As a Yuanying Zhenjun, Powang Zhenjun could not be ranked among the sects full of masters.
But he was originally a casual cultivator of formations who learned from the Penglai Islands.
Unlike the dual-line swordsmanship, the path of cultivation for medical practitioners and formation practitioners is far from easy, and only a few can advance all the way to the Spiritual Transformation stage. Therefore, Powang, relying only on his late Nascent Soul cultivation, still holds the position of elder of the Zhongnan Dao Sect.
Even if it is just at the bottom of the class, it is still something that countless people can't reach!
Naturally, as the leader of the magic practitioners, Zhongnan Taoist Sect also has elders who are more proficient in formations than him.
However, a riot broke out at the border, and the sect was at peace at the time. More important than staying in the sect was that the border defenses must not be lost.
So all the elders went to provide assistance at this moment, leaving only the Zhongnan Taoist Sect half empty.
The Grand Elder is nearing the end of his life and has already entered into a state of seclusion. He will never show up unless the sect faces a life-or-death situation.
The leader of Zhongnan Taoist Sect had previously gone to the northern border with his Taoist companions to congratulate the leader of Lingxiao Pavilion on his breakthrough to the Mahayana stage. He should have been able to return before the Dharma Cultivation Competition was held.
Unexpectedly, perhaps because the Pavilion Master of Lingxiao Pavilion had just passed the tribulation, the place where he passed the tribulation had a strong Taoist charm left. Without any warning, the Sect Master's Taoist companion also began to advance from the place of transformation to the Mahayana stage to prepare for the tribulation!
The Mahayana Tribulation Thunder was extremely dangerous and long. The Sect Master's Taoist partner was pregnant with a fetus, so the Sect Master was forced to stay in place to protect the Dharma. At this time, he could not leave at all.
He had no choice but to rely on the True Lord Powang above him. The more he tried to decipher this formation that came from nowhere, the more suspicious he became.
——The precision and strength of this formation cannot be achieved overnight!
Being able to avoid all patrols, warnings, and defensive formations in a behemoth like the Zhongnan Dao Sect, a leader in the field of magic cultivation, and accomplish this under everyone's noses, can almost completely eliminate the suspicion of outsiders...
It could only be that there is a traitor within the sect!
All the cultivators who are able to participate in the Dharma Cultivation Competition this time are the best in their own sects.
It can be said that all the talented people who may emerge in the next hundred years in all the sects of the entire cultivation world have gathered here because of this grand event.
If something goes wrong in this competition, not only will the sect of magic cultivation suffer an unprecedented major blow, the position of the leader of the magic cultivation of Zhongnan Taoist Sect will be forced to be overshadowed, and even the Mountain Alliance formed by the human and demon races will be torn up in an instant!
At that time, the demons who were fighting against the alien demons together with the human monks at the border would undoubtedly riot immediately...
If they are betrayed by their allies, the human monks who are wholeheartedly devoted to exorcising demons will never sit idly by and wait for death, but will fight back desperately. If they really fall into such a situation, it will be tantamount to the beginning of another era of chaos!
This series of chain reactions, like a domino effect, is a terrifying future that can be foreseen by the True Lord Powang at this moment.
If even the demonic riot was anticipated by the mastermind behind the scenes, then this person's character is definitely not just vicious. Who on earth could be capable of doing this?
"What's going on? Why hasn't the defensive formation been broken yet?"
When True Lord Powang was deep in thought, a passage suddenly opened up in the defensive formation of Zhongnan Taoist Sect. A thin young man with black hair with a hint of white appeared and asked in a hurry.
"Ye Ziqing?"
True Lord Powang hadn't had time to get angry at this blunt accusation. After seeing who was coming, his emotions seamlessly changed into great joy:
"——You're here! Come and take a look at the array pattern combination here. Those damn thieves have hidden a lot of traps in there!"
Ye Ziqing jumped down from the pen-shaped flying magic weapon he was riding without hesitation.
The moment Ye Ziqing landed, the magic weapon made a loud noise and a puff of black smoke instantly came out.
As a manned flying magical instrument, it couldn't even shrink and retract itself. After losing control, it fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
This portable flying magic weapon, which would have cost at least tens of thousands of spirit stones in the Duobao Pagoda, was forced by Ye Ziqing to move forward at full speed for a long time. It was unable to bear the burden and was now scrapped on the spot!
Ye Ziqing didn't care how valuable the thing he had scrapped was. The eldest brother, who knew what Chu Sheng was doing in there, didn't have the extra energy to think about these details.
He took two steps at a time and arrived in front of True Lord Powang. However, after concentrating on scanning the array pattern combination for a few times, he came to a conclusion:
"True Lord, what we need to do now is not to forcibly break the formation. If we insist on breaking it by force, it will play into the opponent's hands.
Rather than dismantling it directly, it's better to dissolve its formation pattern and find a way to open a backdoor and rescue the people first."
As soon as the words came out, Master Powang pondered in his mind for a moment, and suddenly felt that the mystery that had been shrouding his eyes had suddenly cleared up, just like seeing the sunrise after the clouds had parted.
"Ziqing is absolutely right. This method is indeed feasible!"
As a cultivator in the middle stage of the Golden Core, even though he was a major realm away from True Lord Powang, Ye Ziqing was still able to find the breakthrough point of the formation faster than True Lord Powang despite being a newcomer...
This is Ye Ziqing, the eldest disciple of the Hehuan Sect. Every time people from Lingxiao Pavilion and Penglai Island wake up in their dreams at midnight, they feel heartbroken that they have not been able to recruit him into the fold of the formation genius!
Business was important. Before True Lord Powang could lament the cruelty of the gap in talent between people, he immediately began to work with Ye Ziqing to weave a formation pattern to connect the exit.
The speed at which two monks weave the array pattern together is more than a minute and a half faster than that of one person.
However, within the time it took to stick up an incense stick, a small gap was artificially created in front of everyone in the defensive formation.
“—We’re saved!”
"Medical! Medical! We still need a medical here!"
"There are still people inside, bring them out quickly!"
Hua Meng stood at the most dangerous intersection of the formation's gap, hurriedly urging the sect disciples still inside the formation. "Hurry up!"
"——Senior Brother Ziqing?" Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, and imitated Chu Sheng's way of hugging the two fellow disciples from the front and back, and brought them out safely by himself.
After seeing the familiar figure standing outside the door, Fang Yuan couldn't hold back the tears that he had been trying so hard to hold back, and burst out immediately.
"Great, Brother! Go in and help Sister!"
"In order to control the black dragon, Senior Sister Chu Sheng has gone crazy. She has only just established her foundation and now she is forcing herself to form a pill!!!"
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