"Ha! I lost."
Zhang Yan looked at the starry sword energy in front of her with a dazed look. It was like a galaxy that suddenly appeared in the snow. She hummed softly,
"I can't use corresponding means to break your sword intent."
"In fact, the sword intent is just a manifestation of the sword cultivator's will." Seeing Zhang Yan admit defeat with martial virtue, Li Shiyin gave advice, "Senior, your cultivation is unfathomable. I believe you will soon be able to comprehend your own sword intent."
Seeing that the two had finished talking and the round was over, Qin Ran spoke up:
"This is the sword will's blessing on the second level of sword energy. Next is the sword will's blessing on the third level of sword energy. At the same time, let me show you the sword formation."
"Sword formation!?" Zhang Yan was quite surprised. "Could it be that the sword energy formed a formation?"
“Sword formation…” Unexpectedly, Li Shiyin was also surprised. She quickly turned around and looked at Qin Ran, blinking her big eyes and asking, “Master, how can I know how to form a formation?!”
Qin Ran smiled and blinked, then transmitted his thoughts with his soul, saying, "Just summon the sword energy, and I will help you set up the formation."
Li Shiyin felt relieved, looked at Zhang Yan again, and said with a smile: "My master is very good at formations, and I also study it from time to time.
"Master often told me that everything in the world is a formation, the tendons and muscles of the human body are formations, and the skills and supernatural powers are formations.
"He taught me to combine sword energy and formations to obtain a sword formation. The sword energy blessed by sword intent is used as the formation material to set up the formation. Because it is sword energy, changes in sword energy will also change the formation. I believe this is a path with unlimited potential.
"Senior, please look..."
As she spoke, hundreds of sword energies flew out from her body, like a swarm of dancing bees or a flock of migratory birds.
Qin Ran looked at Li Shiyin who was speaking so seriously, and couldn't help but look strange. Because he was actually the one who said this, and he did ask Li Shiyin to study it together, but... this silly kid Li Shiyin had never learned a formation in a day!
Sword energy flew out from the sky, dancing in the air. At a certain moment, the sword energy seemed to have consciousness and arranged itself in a regular pattern between the two people from the Wuyin Sword Sect and Qin Ran's master and disciple.
As the sword energy grew, the figures of the four people became more and more blurred. Suddenly, at a certain moment, their figures and sword energy disappeared out of thin air, leaving only a field of white snow. It was as if they had never appeared, or had been teleported away.
“They…” Zhao Yaqing’s expression changed. She took a step forward and searched carefully. “Did they teleport away?”
She still remembered that Kieran knew how to set up a teleportation formation.
Aunt Mei held her back and said, "They are still here, but the formation has just been activated."
Zhao Yaqing finally breathed a sigh of relief.
but……
She looked at the open space in front of her, and she felt something was wrong. Li Shiyin showed Zhang Yan the sword formation, but all four of them entered the formation?
In the formation, Zhang Yan and the young man in black looked at their surroundings in surprise. They had already entered the formation, and this formation was indeed arranged with sword energy.
There is such a strange thing?!
“How about it?” Qin Ran said with a smile, “If you two are interested, I can give you the formation diagram.”
Zhang Yan and the young man in black were stunned, retracted their gaze and looked at Qin Ran. It was Qin Ran who gave them the formation. Could it be that Qin Ran was the one who set up the formation?
"What are you doing..." The young man in black narrowed his eyes. He set up such a formation to create an environment for them to kill him?
“I have a piece of extremely important information to share with you two…” Qin Ran said with a bow, “It involves your lives and property, as well as the safety of the sect!”
Zhang Yan looked at Li Shiyin and understood a little.
"You risked your lives and came all the way here just to give us information?" she asked. "Are you so kind?!"
“If your life and property are at stake, then ours will be at stake as well.” Qin Ran said calmly, “In the current situation, if we separate, we will both lose, but if we unite, we will both gain!”
"Do you mean that we should cooperate?" The young man in black laughed as if he had heard a huge joke.
Qin Ran didn't care. He looked at Zhang Yan and asked, "Do you know the reason why Xuan Qin invaded Northern Chu?"
"The general trend of the world is to split and unite. The mortal dynasties have been going on for hundreds of years, but it's just the same thing. Why should I care about the details?" Zhang Yan didn't care. "Maybe when I finish my retreat next time, Xuan Qin will no longer be there."
“Then…” Qin Ran asked again, “Do you know why Yuntian Sect tried its best to help Xuan Qin?”
Zhang Yan was stunned and frowned. She didn't know this either.
She is a cultivator with a long life, and doesn't care about worldly matters. But... Yuntian Sect is also a sect of immortals, so they should also look down on worldly matters.
"Perhaps..." she guessed, "The Xuanqin court has a favor with the head of the Yuntian Sect?"
"What kind of favor is worthy of Yuntian Sect sending Yuanying cultivators to help?" Qin Ran asked with a smile, "Even after several Jindan cultivators died, Yuntian Sect has no intention of withdrawing, and even has new cultivators coming. What kind of favor is this?"
The promise of a Nascent Soul cultivator is priceless... It is something that cannot be purchased with thousands of high-grade spirit stones, let alone sending a Nascent Soul cultivator to be ordered around.
This made Zhang Yan realize that there seemed to be something fishy going on here.
"But what if it's not a favor between them, but an equal transaction for some kind of conspiracy?" Qin Ran looked at Zhang Yan and asked further, "Is it that the Xuanqin court and the Yuntianmen are working together for a heinous conspiracy!"
"You mean..." Zhang Yan asked thoughtfully, "Could it be that Yuntian Sect has ideas about Beichu's sect?"
"Too small! Too small!" Qin Ran shook his head, "It's not just Xuanqin and Beichu, but the entire Immortal Relics Land!
"Xuan Qin intends to unify the entire Immortal Relics Land, and Yun Tian Men intends to unify all sects. Xuan Qin is responsible for the mortal world; Yun Tian Men is responsible for the spiritual world. Xuan Qin will become a super empire, supporting Yun Tian Men and providing Yun Tian Men with all the resources it needs, including students; Yun Tian Men will become a super sect, protecting Xuan Qin.
"They intend to integrate all the resources in the Immortal Relics Land and build a super sect!"
These words stunned Zhang Yan and the young man in black. They couldn't believe it, but suddenly they felt it was possible.
"He...he..." The young man in black was so scared that he stuttered, "How can a small Yuntian Sect defeat all the sects in the Immortal Relics Land?"
"When Emperor Xuan Qin unified the mortal world, not even a single cultivator cared. But when he unified the world, he transferred all the mortal resources of the Immortal Relics Land to Yuntian Sect. There is no doubt that Yuntian Sect will become more and more powerful.
"When the time comes, Yuntian Sect will devour sect after sect. Given the indifference of the cultivators, they will surely sweep across the world like an avalanche."
Qin Ran looked at him, smiling, and then said meaningfully, "Besides, they don't have to complete it in a short time. They can unify it slowly over a very long time."
This statement hit the nail on the head, because this was exactly the strategy adopted by the Wuyin Sword Sect and Zhishengu against the Daojian Sect. The black-clothed young man and Zhang Yan could not help but fall into endless silence.
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