Under the bright and stunning starry night sky, the three of them lay on the back of the little narwhal, floating in the extremely dreamy clouds, just a little bit cool.
Xia Xiao's strength made her no longer afraid of low temperatures, but Ah Zhu hugged herself tightly. At this time, the several-meter-long white and red wings gently covered her like a quilt, making her feel very warm when she opened her eyes and saw Xiao Ran's gentle smile.
Xiao Ran motioned her to come closer to her, and Ah Zhu did as she was told, leaning into her extremely long embrace, and soon she felt warm. Xia Xiao couldn't help but sigh as he watched the two girls like this. Just now she was angry with Xiao Ran, but now they were as close as real sisters. Are all girls so strange? In addition to saying one thing and thinking another, they also love to hide their true thoughts like this.
Noticing his gaze, Ah Zhu's voice, although very low, still reached Xia Xiao's ears in the quiet night sky.
"I'm just annoying you. It has nothing to do with Sister Xiaoran."
Xia Xiao smiled and continued lying there, covering himself with Xiaoran's wings and closing his eyes.
In the face of darkness deeper than the night, this was one of the few quiet moments they had, and it was rare for them to have it again, so they cherished it very much and fell asleep very quietly. At some point, they woke up one by one, but they still lay there, not disturbing each other, but no one fell asleep again.
The three of them were a little greedy for such time, but when the day broke, they once again embarked on an endless journey.
This process was extremely boring. Ah Zhu looked at the grassland on the ground. Most of the time, there was nothing on it, only ordinary green. Occasionally, a few groups of horses with grass and mud on their backs reminded her of the scene when she and Xia Xiao entered the Goulongbang clan. Those grassland specialties made her feel disgusted and horrified, so she still liked to look up to see the extremely pure sky.
The clear sky and the starry sky kept switching, and there were occasionally thunder and lightning and dark clouds. Whenever that happened, they would rise a little higher and reach a very high place, as if they had left the wilderness world and arrived in another world.
Unfortunately, they didn't have the strength to stay in such a place for too long, but Xia Xiao quickly changed his plan, or started to carry out the next stage of the plan.
In the past, the little narwhal only appeared when they were resting. Although he had the innate ability to fly and travel through space, after signing the spiritual contract with Ah Zhu, he was constrained by her current strength and found it difficult to release his original power.
This is how the spiritual contract works. His power will act on Ah Zhu, speeding up her cultivation. It can also be said that it does not belong to him. But in the future, when Ah Zhu reaches a realm that the little narwhal cannot reach, she will bring a force back to him, allowing him to break through the shackles of his bloodline.
This kind of rule is another understanding of the spiritual contract, but few people in the Great Wilderness do so. However, some people and their contracted beasts are partners, so they don't have deep hatred or even lose their minds. Just like Ah Zhu, she loves her little narwhal very much. Xia Xiao used it to travel, which made her feel distressed.
Xia Xiao sat cross-legged and pulled open a scroll, attracting Azhu's attention.
"What are you going to do?"
Azhu's tone was a little fierce. She didn't want to consider Xia Xiao's feelings now. She just wanted to say it if she didn't like it.
Sure enough, Xia Xiao looked a little aggrieved just as she thought, and he didn't dare to speak too loudly.
"Use the talisman formation. We will reach our destination tomorrow. We can't use it in front of her."
"Be careful, don't hurt my baby."
Xia Xiao nodded, and did not continue to make trouble. Instead, he formed a hand seal, mobilized a lot of vitality in his body, and injected it into the talisman array. What he was activating now was one of the talisman arrays cast by Senior Sun Zhonglei. He was first sure that the senior knew his plan from these talisman arrays.
There are five talisman formations. One is extremely powerful and has the ability to attack without leaving any room for maneuver; one is an indestructible multi-phase defense; one is control; one is an ultra-long-distance space jump; and the last one can close a silent world within the universe. It is truly powerful.
There wasn't a trace of earth element in the energy of these talisman formations, and what Xia Xiao was pressing with his palm at this moment was the last talisman formation, which was also the first one he was going to cast.
Starting from the level of a powerful person, practitioners can properly control and change space. If Xia Xiao does not close the silent space, he will never know how many people and how many vital energies are aimed at him. And as long as it is closed, it will have no effect on the three of them, but for the woman, her movements will be much slower.
Even so, Xia Xiao still couldn't keep up with her speed, but Sun Zhonglei, with the strength of a three-star divine talisman master, could defeat him as long as he combined the talisman array. But the premise of everything, including protecting the three of them and rescuing Shangshan, was to cast the talisman array. Only then could he rely on the timely support of the academy and the adaptable Zou Shou Church to get himself out of danger.
But are these talisman arrays so easy to activate and take over?
When Xia Xiao tried to activate the first rune array, he felt extremely difficult. There was a lot of vitality in the rune array, and he only needed to replenish less than one-tenth. This was the limit of engraving the rune array, and only Sun Zhonglei could do it. Chuan Lian, who was only a three-star master of the rune, only used two-thirds of the vitality every time he engraved the rune array for Xia Xiao, and the rest needed to be replenished by himself. Although the former's vitality requirement seemed small in comparison, in fact, that one-tenth was many times that of one-third.
Xia Xiao felt that his vitality was being sucked away, but he had much more vitality than other practitioners of the same level. After all, he had four spaces to store vitality properly, not just the vitality tree. Although Xia Xiao had not yet fully understood and mastered the complexity, at this moment in front of this talisman array, he had to release all the pure vitality in the vitality tree to be sufficient.
For a moment, Xia Xiao felt extremely tired, but he finally lifted the talisman array in the scroll to the top of his head. The talisman array was like a mountain, but it only pressed down on Xia Xiao. The back of the little narwhal under his buttocks also had ripples, but it was only the space that was moving, and he himself was not affected too much.
Xia Xiao held it up, his face twisted, his eyes bloodshot. Is this the power of a three-star divine talisman master? This was the first time he controlled this kind of talisman array, and he was both terrified and excited by the power within. If this talisman array was used against him, he would be crushed into pieces in an instant, and he would become one with the dust.
Xia Xiao suddenly gained a little confidence, but he still seemed blind. What he needed to do now was to find a carrier with his vitality to ensure that it could be used at any time without wasting even a second. Xia Xiao couldn't make a seal at this time, but Ju Mang and he had such a good understanding that they could get out of that space directly.
"Leave it to you!"
“This is a big job.”
Facing the thousand-foot-long talisman array, cold sweat started running down Ju Mang's forehead before he even started. He flew to the side of the little narwhal, pointed his iron-like claws at it, and then pinched it hard. The feeling of being nearly bursting made it cry out very heavily.
Xiao Ran looked at it and felt extremely nervous. She held her hands to her chest, prayed silently, and her eyelids kept twitching.
"It's okay, Ju Mang can handle it."
Xia Xiao believed in Ju Mang, his eyes were full of certainty, but the latter was in an extremely embarrassing situation at this time, his body seemed to be twisted into a ball of dripping ink under the vitality. If he had to withstand the impact of the talisman array, Ju Mang might have disappeared long ago, but he was just a carrier at this time, so it was not that terrifying.
No matter how strong the talisman array is, it can also use a stone and a piece of paper as a carrier. It all depends on the strength of the talisman master. Xia Xiao is not a talisman master, and Ju Mang is even less so, so he can only rely on the vitality left by Xia Xiao in the talisman array and take it into his claws or body.
Ju Mang tried his best, but finally, he was unable to shake the talisman formation, which was even difficult to move, and he finally captured the vitality that Xia Xiao left inside.
It was at that moment that the talisman formation became controllable. Although this talisman formation was cast by Sun Zhonglei, the connection had been disconnected and taken over by Xia Xiao, so Ju Mang was able to pull it into his body.
Instantly, the sky, which had become extremely bright, released a wave of air, breaking through the thick clouds within a radius of dozens of miles. Darkness then took over the sky again, returning it to darkness.
Everything happened in a flash, which made Xia Xiao and Ju Mang's brains ache. Ju Mang was extremely tired after completing all this, and fell from the spot. Xiao Ran rushed out and carried him to the back of the shocked little narwhal. The breath of the previous talisman array made him feel suffocated, and his body even froze. His strength was not good enough, and he was young, so it was difficult for him to represent the void beasts. Because he did not speak, he did not make the already tense atmosphere more chaotic. But the power just now was enough to defeat some void beasts, but it was only some.
Seeing Ju Mang sweating all over and even twitching, Xia Xiao said:
"Take some time to get used to it."
Ju Mang nodded with a heavy breath, and Xiao Ran looked after him, releasing his vitality for him to absorb. Their vitality was all complete wood element, and although Ju Mang's was more than one level stronger, it was not a big deal.
Xia Xiao's breathing was also heavy. He was thinking, why, why didn't the woman show up at this time? He was very curious and wanted to know the answer urgently. Now, with every passing day, he would become more uneasy, as if he had fallen into a fatal trap. He would not die on the spot, but he could not climb out. This was completely different from his own path.
Xia Xiao couldn't figure it out, but he saw something in his dream. It was a black chess piece that kept turning over in his dream. Xia Xiao thought it would change, but it just kept floating and spinning. After watching it for a long time, Xia Xiao was not bored, but felt that he had seen it somewhere before, so he tried to touch it. At first he couldn't catch it, but finally he held it tightly in his hand.
What does a black chess piece represent?
Xia Xiao was in a bad condition at this moment. He looked at his palm, which was covered with black and red blood. The blood kept flowing and finally only one chess piece was left, a black chess piece!
"Why?"
No one heard the whispering voice, Xia Xiao seemed to be talking to himself, he was extremely confused, he wanted to know why all this happened. The attitude of that woman was always tormenting him, Xia Xiao hated making enemies, but he was never afraid of facing enemies, he could win the battle sooner or later even if he couldn't win now. But this woman's attitude made him feel strange.
Am I overthinking it?
Xia Xiao thought that it would not happen. Even if she didn't keep looking at the alarm clock, it would ring at the appointed time. How could she not notice the powerful fluctuation of vitality just now?