Chapter 27 Those who die on the same day, month, and year will still be good friends in the next life.
Last night, Yu Sui resolved the issue of competing for the Five Elements Qi in the Breath Soil, and then condensed the Five Elements Light Cores into one, preparing to focus on cultivating this one Light Core to improve his realm.
Judging from the current level of the Five Elements Light Core, she is a first-level, ninth-class sorcerer.
The star chart should have opened a basic military formation for her, but something went wrong and it opened a special-grade military formation instead.
The world, filled with the smoke of war and the stench of blood, reminded Yu Sui of the strange fire within her body.
If I had to find an explanation within myself, it would only be this.
At this moment, Yu Sui looked innocently at his companions, but in his heart he was thinking: if we are exposed, it would be best to kill them in the midst of the enemy formation.
They were supposed to challenge the enemy formation together, but three of them died, leaving only her. No matter how you look at it, she would be suspected.
There will be too many problems later, so it's best not to take action unless absolutely necessary.
Wei Ren stared at Yu Sui and said, "You've been a pacifier for over ten years, and suddenly you have the Five Elements Light Core and have opened up a top-tier armored formation at the first level. It's hard not to suspect that something's going on."
Yu Sui said with some surprise, "You seem to know me very well."
Wei Ren only showed his usual lazy smile: "We are both from Qingyang, and I am a disciple of the Farmer's School. I have been hearing your name since I was a child."
His words were joking, yet they were all true.
When Yu Sui heard him mention the peasant family, he understood that this person was probably related to Lady Su and Xi Rang.
More and more evil spirits emerged from the flames ahead. Their charred bodies were stained with countless sparks from the fire, and they fell with every step. The sparks that fell to the ground rolled and gathered together, igniting another place.
Life goes on and on, never to be extinguished.
"Did we make a mistake? Can we go back and start over?" Xue Mushi asked.
Li Jinshuang said, "Break the formation, or wait until the time comes before we go out."
"This can't be broken, can it?" Xue Mushi scratched his head and said, "Can you even break it?"
Xue Mushi looked at Yu Sui and felt that this was a military formation that she had created based on her level of expertise, so perhaps there was a way to deal with it.
Yu Sui scratched his head as well: "I really only became a ninth-rate sorcerer last night, and this is the first time I've ever seen a military formation. There's not much hope of breaking it. How long will it take for it to disappear?"
In the end, she went to see Li Jinshuang.
Li Jinshuang's expression was solemn: "It's hard to say, I've never seen a special-grade armored formation before."
"I doubt it will disappear in ten days or half a month. Otherwise, we'll just have to wait for outside interference," Wei Ren said. "But who would have thought we'd be trapped in the elite armored formation? We'll have to find a way to break through on our own."
Xue Mushi stared blankly at the hellish scene before him, then said to Yu Sui, "You are Nangong Ming of the Thirteenth Realm, right?"
Yu Sui: "..."
This person has already given up on themselves.
Yu Sui glared back and said, "Isn't that why you got dumped?"
Xue Mushi hung his head and became withdrawn.
"No matter what, survive first." Wei Ren put away his usual carefree attitude and became serious. The five elements energy surrounded him to form a protective barrier, and his eyes were fixed on the evil spirits holding the Soul-Destroying Swords in front of him. "They're here."
As Li Jinshuang drew her sword, she took a step to the side, blocking Yu Sui's path. She then slashed horizontally with her sword, unleashing a sweeping sword aura that caused a visible tremor of the five elements.
The demons, wielding swords and charging forward, leaped up and perfectly dodged the attack. Sparks fell from the sky, and the sharp sounds they made as they roared were also a form of attack, enough to disturb others' minds and amplify their fear and murderous intent.
Wei Ren cursed under his breath after seeing it. This was a top-tier elite infantry formation. Even the soldiers were all expert swordsmen.
The demons swarmed in, their eyes glowing crimson gold, their fangs bared in a sinister arc, their hearts filled with murderous intent as they charged toward the four.
After Xue Mushi and Wei Ren used their wind-riding technique to retreat, the evil spirit that leaped up after dodging Li Jinshuang's sword energy threw out its sword and saber. The sword and saber shattered into countless fragments during the throw and flew towards the two who were retreating using their wind-riding technique.
The evil spirits were chasing them very fast; they weren't running at all, but rather using wind manipulation techniques just like the demons.
Li Jinshuang clashed with the demons charging at the forefront. The clash of their swords produced a crisp sound, and the swords trembled. Li Jinshuang exerted force in her hands, severing the demons' swords and decapitating them with a sweeping motion.
Before Yu Sui could praise the beauty of her decapitating sword strike, more evil spirits leaped up and slashed at Li Jinshuang.
Li Jinshuang never stopped, slashing with each step, always completing a cycle within nine steps, luring the charging evil spirits into her sword formation, breaking their weapons and beheading them.
The Nine Turns of the Nine Strategists' Techniques, a cycle of nine steps, will disarm any enemy who enters the Nine Turns Sword Formation.
There are just too many evil spirits.
Li Jinshuang was dragged to the spot; killing one would bring a hundred more.
As she decapitated the demons with her Nine Revolutions Sword Formation, the evil spirits that followed behind stopped rushing forward blindly. Instead, they stared at the edge for a moment before pressing their hands together on the sword to begin their spell.
Li Jinshuang caught a glimpse of this scene out of the corner of her eye during the battle. Her brows furrowed just as the evil spirits who were casting spells on their swords attacked simultaneously. They leaped up from above and slashed at Li Jinshuang, cutting through her sword formation one after another. Seven swords and sabers pressed down at the same time. After knocking away several evil spirits that were close to her, Li Jinshuang immediately used her sword to block the seven swords, but was knocked back from the Nine Revolutions Sword Formation by the sword energy.
The sounds of swords clashing rang out continuously.
Li Jinshuang was overwhelmed by the combined attack of the seven evil spirits and was about to lose her footing; if she retreated any further, she would be pushed into the midst of the evil spirits.
The army of demons before them were almost all masters of swords and knives. They were battle-hardened and were not only excellent soldiers but also low-level sorcerers.
With each movement of the evil spirit, it would shake off the scattered sparks on its body. Yu Sui used the Wind Control Technique to evade the evil spirit's pursuit, and was surrounded by three or five evil spirits several times, but managed to break through each time.
Given the current situation, we have no choice but to take action.
As Yu Sui dodged, she suddenly turned around, and the demon at the front, wielding a sword in both hands, slashed at her.
Zhen Gua, Sheng Shu, Thunder Breath.
The moment Yu Sui turned around, a ghostly blue light flashed in his eyes. Tiny, numerous lightning snakes leaped from the longsword, coiling around it and halting the attack. The evil spirit was covered in tiny lightning snakes, and when it exploded, it was burned to ashes.
The problem of the Breath of Earth had not been solved, but Yu Sui, under the guidance of the Sage Chang Gen, had memorized how to generate the sixty-four hexagrams.
Last night, due to limited time and emotional factors, Yu Sui only sparred with Mei Liangyu on the Wind Control Technique.
Now, the evil spirits within the armored formation are perfect practice targets for Yu Sui.
The five elements of energy spread out on her body to form a protective barrier. Yu Sui snatched the long sword and slashed at the pursuing evil spirits. After cutting a path through the pile of evil spirits, she used the Wind Control Technique to leap up and slash at Li Jinshuang with her sword.
The longsword swept horizontally, and the sword energy it unleashed sent the sparks and reeds flying in the air. The lightning snake fell with the sword energy and pounced on the seven evil spirits.
Yu Sui beheaded the evil spirit, and three of the evil spirits reacted quickly and retreated. Li Jinshuang's pressure eased, and she cooperated with Yu Sui to counterattack, beheading the remaining four evil spirits who had not yet retreated.
Ashes and sparks brushed against Yu Sui's face. She raised her hand to wipe them away, tidied her slightly messy hair, and met Li Jinshuang's surprised gaze. She said softly, "I also studied swordsmanship at the National Academy for four years. Although I learned slowly, I still know how to do it."
In Li Jinshuang's eyes, Yu Sui was gentle, innocent, and beautiful.
These were things her grandmother said she didn't need and wasn't allowed to have. Her grandmother told her that she should despise all weak, innocent, and beautiful children because they were all weaklings.
Even though Yu Sui's face was smeared with ashes, her bright almond-shaped eyes calmly gazed at the evil spirits ahead, without a trace of panic or fear. The bloody wind of the battlefield blew her pink skirt, and the ornaments on her waist and headdress made a clattering sound.
The pink hue reflected in Li Jinshuang's eyes was as beautiful as a peach blossom, but it was something she could never touch. Even glancing at it would lead to her being scolded and interrogated. "You dare to covet these bright and precious colors? Have you not yet been able to let go of the weakness in your heart? Do you want to be a weakling whose entire clan is slaughtered without any power to resist?"
At this moment, Li Jinshuang looked at Yu Sui in front of her, the light of thunder flashing, gathering into a beam of light in her dark eyes.
She asked herself:
Is this really a weakling?
More demons pursued Xue Mushi and Wei Ren. The two tried to escape the encirclement several times but failed. Now they were completely surrounded and forced to fight back to back.
Both of them had the five elements burning on their bodies as a form of defense.
Wei Ren glanced back out of the corner of his eye and said with a forced smile, "You're supposed to be a Taoist disciple, so why don't you use even a fraction of the Five Elements Life Technique? Nangong Sui can use Thunder Breath even at the first realm, what about you?"
Xue Mushi said, "I don't know how."
"Why don't you know it?" Wei Ren asked through gritted teeth. "Taoism, the Way of Ghosts, the Yin-Yang School, and the School of Military Strategy—the Five Elements Theory is the forte of these four schools, and it's one of the nine arts that disciples must learn. You say you don't know it? Then how did you attain these four realms?"
Xue Mushi hesitated for a moment and said, "I learned it through divination."
Wei Ren: "..."
He said expressionlessly, "Then why didn't you foresee this calamity before you entered the Asura Hell?"
Xue Mushi was honest: "My level of understanding is not high enough."
Wei Ren bluntly retorted, "You really can't blame the Holy Maiden of the Yin Yang School for being jilted."
Xue Mushi lowered his eyes, looking dejected.
"If you don't pull yourself together, I'm not going to bother with you anymore. In this elite armored formation, even the soldiers are low-level sorcerers. You might really die." As soon as Wei Ren finished speaking, the demons that had leaped high into the air swung down with swords and blades, knocking the two of them away.
Xue Mushi was pushed away by Wei Ren. In the flash of the sword, Wei Ren, who was a step too slow, had his sleeve ripped open and the blade cut a long wound that reached his shoulder.
Wei Ren clicked his tongue and tried to snatch the sword back to retaliate, but the demon whose sword was taken immediately retreated, and another demon with a sword took its place.
The clash of their swords produced a dull thud. The demon's attack speed increased, and sparks flew from the twin swords. Wei Ren was forced back by the rapid onslaught, powerless to fight back.
His expertise in poisons was useless against the evil spirits in the armored formation. In the hellish realm of Asura, Wei Ren was the one most severely restrained.
Wei Ren had already noticed the evil spirits attacking from behind, but he was being suppressed too much by the evil spirits in front of him and couldn't spare any strength. Just as he lowered his brows, he suddenly heard the sound of copper coins clashing.
The four copper coins encircled Wei Ren and the evil spirits he was fighting, their crisp, melodious sound penetrating all barriers in the world and reaching the depths of his soul.
Xue Mushi held the fifth copper coin in his hand, and the transparent five elements energy he used resonated with the four copper coins, creating another world in the universe and freezing all the evil spirits within it.
The pursuing demon was frozen in mid-air, its longsword already landing on Wei Ren's head, brushing against his hair. The demon's sword swung from the front grazed Wei Ren's forehead, but stopped just as it made a bloody cut.
Wei Ren reacted quickly, immediately slashing off the head of the evil spirit in front of him with his sword, and then slashing off the head behind him.
"Why didn't you use this skill sooner?" Wei Ren glared at Xue Mushi after he finished slaying the evil spirit.
Xue Mushi, however, said with a stern face, "It won't be under control for long, so hurry up."
Wei Ren then snatched a long knife and, wielding both the knife and sword, slew all the evil spirits within the copper coin realm.
Xue Mushi's divination technique, Qi Ding, can freeze the world within the divination he arranges. It's not simply freezing time, but rather extracting the five elements from the divination world. As a result, the evil spirits in the military formation, which rely on the five elements to exist, are unable to move.
It is considered a ninth-rate technique that can somewhat counter military formations.
Wei Ren had just finished killing the evil spirits within the divination technique when he suddenly looked up towards the city. They were quite a distance from the city gate, practically in the center of the battlefield. Because of the city gate guarding the general, none of them dared to go over there; only a fool would run that way.
Countless evil spirits also chased after them from the raging fire on the side of the city's defending general. At this moment, what was chasing them was not only an endless stream of evil spirits, but also a rain of arrows falling from the sky.
The rain of arrows, carrying sparks like falling stars after a cataclysmic collapse, came from the high and distant heavens, bearing the power and killing intent to destroy everything. The flames burning at the tips of the arrows flickered due to the force of the impact.
The rocket emitted a sharp whistle, grazed Xue Mushi's cheek, leaving a wound from which bright red blood flowed.
At the same time, an arrow knocked back the floating copper coins, sending four coins flying. Xue Mushi's divination world collapsed, and the evil spirits guarding not far away instantly pursued them.
Yu Sui looked up and saw a rain of arrows falling from the sky. He said to Li Jinshuang, "We can't win. Let's run."
Finally, he used his Wind Control Technique to fly into the reeds.
Li Jinshuang killed the last evil spirit and then turned and ran away.
The four fled for their lives, wanting to get away from the army of demons on the other side of the city. They ran in the opposite direction, but what blocked their way was a vast expanse of reeds that seemed to stretch endlessly. They had to cross these tall reeds to reach the other side of the battlefield.
Arrows rained down and demons pursued them, moving swiftly, but the four fleeing souls moved even faster. The once quiet reeds rustled and swayed with their running, and Yu Sui's pink dress was stained a glaring red by the blood-soaked reeds.
As the reeds swayed, more and more reed flowers appeared, raining down like arrows. Sparks ignited the ground, and the burning flames engulfed the reeds, beginning to devour them.
Yu Sui heard her own heartbeat once again. Everything around her was quiet, except for the pounding of her heart, which reminded her whether she was still alive.
The intense heartbeat, the reeds brushing against her cheeks, the bright red reed flowers flying past her eyes, the stench of blood lingering in her nostrils, the lingering smoke and fire of the battlefield—all these things seeped into the deepest recesses of her soul through her eyes, ears, nose, and the pores of her skin.
It stirred up her deep-seated desires.
The murderous intent that forever lingers on the battlefield, the immense power that controls it all, the demons wielding swords, the sparks from clashing blades, and the splattering blood.
So this is what it feels like to be alive.
Yu Sui, who was using her wind-riding technique to run forward, gave an inopportune laugh. The reeds, which were taller than her, blocked the road ahead, just as when she came into this world, her path ahead was always obscured, and she could not see where to go.
What lies ahead?
Even knowing it's dangerous, but not knowing exactly what the danger is, one can only cautiously test everything.
It seems that Yu Sui has traveled a long road and finally found a place where she can rest and relax today.
Stimulated by the blood and fire on the battlefield, Yu Sui finally felt that she was still alive.
Those who are not yet dead.
Yu Sui gripped the hilt of his sword tightly. Sensing the clash of the five elements ahead, he swung his sword horizontally, cleaving the reeds in two, revealing its true form ahead:
Moonlight peeked out from behind the dark clouds, casting a silvery glow that reflected in the long river that separated the battlefield. The river flowed gently, its waters crystal clear, where black and white fish frolicked.
The huge black shadow was also reflected on the water.
They stood densely packed along the riverbank, and the armored horses slowly raised their eyes to look at the people emerging from the reeds on the opposite bank.
The black-clad cavalrymen carried weapons on their backs, their bodies hidden beneath their armor, only their crimson-gold eyes, like those of demons, visible beneath their helmets, fixed intently on their enemies in the darkness.
As dark clouds swallowed the moon, the golden light shining on the ground belonged to the divine soul cores of the black-armored cavalry.
Millions upon millions.
Yu Sui abruptly stopped, staring at the soul core of the black-armored cavalry on the opposite bank, not daring to take another step forward.
Li Jinshuang, who arrived next, also paused, silently tightening her grip on her sword.
Wei Ren and Xue Mushi rushed out of the reeds and saw the scene on the other side of the river, and couldn't help but shudder.
If the evil spirits are masters of swords and blades, then the black-armored cavalry on the other side of the river are ninth-rate sorcerers of the thirteenth realm.
Thousands upon thousands of people in the Thirteen Realms.
This is the ultimate armored formation, Hell Shura!
This thing is basically designed for ninth-rate Saint Realm cultivators to attempt.
Wei Ren and Xue Mushi slowly looked at Yu Sui on their left.
Yu Sui said softly, "To die on the same day, in the same month, in the same year is a kind of fate. We'll still be good friends in the next life."
Wei Ren said expressionlessly, "Who's your friend?"
Yu Sui stared at the thirteenth-realm black-armored cavalry in front of him and said softly, "They're about to die. It's not a loss to make friends before they die. Do you have any friends? You don't, do you?"
Wei Ren: "I have it."
Xue Mushi scratched his head, seemingly afraid of alerting the Thirteen Realms army opposite him, and lowered his voice to say, "I have one too."
Only Li Jinshuang remained silent.
Yu Sui glanced at Li Jinshuang, who remained silent but was on edge, ready to fight at any moment, and said, "That means Li Jinshuang doesn't have it."
Li Jinshuang still did not reply.
There seems to be no need to refute it; she truly did not.
Yu Sui continued softly, "This shouldn't be my problem. You all saw it just now; I only have the strength of the first realm."
Wei Ren retorted, "If it's not your problem, whose problem is it?"
Yu Sui said, "Then it's a problem with the star chart. My senior brother said that when problems arise, don't look for the cause in yourself. Be confident, it must be someone else's problem."
Wei Ren's eyes twitched slightly as he listened, inwardly cursing Mei Liangyu for teaching her such nonsense.
After a moment of silence, Xue Mushi said, "I don't want to die here."
Wei Ren sneered, "I don't want to either."
“Alright then, if you die, come and take revenge on me. If you survive, let bygones be bygones and we can go out and make friends,” Yu Sui said. “Turning enemies into friends is a kind of low-class skill, isn’t it?”
Wei Ren said, "Your master, Elder Chang, will regret taking you as his disciple."
Yu Sui laughed and said, "I bet he won't."
"Li Jinshuang," Yu Sui called softly, looking at the black-armored cavalry ahead, "I'm giving you a chance to make friends, don't waste it."
Li Jinshuang didn't say anything after hearing this, but silently changed to holding the sword with both hands.
This kind of elite armored formation is still too difficult for them. If the black-armored cavalry on the other side were to attack together, they could unleash tens of thousands of thirteenth-level ninth-class techniques, instantly killing these four people.
If we retreat further, there are still Saint-level generals guarding the city who are not at the Thirteenth Realm. Their eyes are filled with fire, and if we appear in their field of vision, we will be burned alive.
Even if they aren't burned to death by the city's defending general, they will have their five elements exhausted by the endless stream of evil spirits, fighting to the last moment before dying.
No matter what, they can't escape death.
Wei Ren said to Xue Mushi, "Aren't you good at divination? Can you try to find out if there's a way to break this deadlock?"
Xue Mushi said with a bitter face, "I don't divine good or bad fortune, wealth or poverty, life or death. What I've learned is how to kill."
Upon hearing this, the other three all looked at Xue Mushi, each with a different expression.
Xue Mushi sighed softly and said slowly, "I only learned this one of the Taoist Seven Killings Divination."
“If I remember correctly, this seems to be one of the nine arts that are forbidden to be practiced by Taoism,” Wei Ren said.
Yu Sui asked curiously, "Is it amazing?"
“Impressive, impressive and sinister, that’s why you’re forbidden from practicing it.” Wei Ren said, looking at Xue Mushi. “I didn’t expect you, who looks like a blockhead, to be so bold as to dare to learn the divination techniques that your Taoists strictly forbid. Is that why you were jilted at the altar?”
Xue Mushi: "..."
"What I mean is, I don't want to die. Even if it exposes my knowledge of the Seven Killings Divination, I want to get out of here. Even if I'm expelled from the academy, I want to live." Xue Mushi said after a moment of silence, his previous slow and deliberate manner replaced by a newfound determination.
He took a step forward, but Yu Sui stopped him: "Hey, wait, don't rush in alone. To break the enemy formation, you have to kill the city's general. What are you doing fighting these thirteenth-realm dead soldiers?"
Xue Mushi: "..."
The boy, who had just been full of courage as if he were about to save the world, was discouraged by the shouting.
With a forced smile, Wei Ren asked, "Besides the impossible method of killing the city's general, what other options are there?"
Li Jinshuang said in a low voice, "This is an armored formation without a master. No one will issue military orders. It will only launch a magical attack when it detects an enemy. This river in front of us should be the key to triggering the Thirteen Realms of Undead Soldiers on the other side. As long as we don't cross the river, we won't trigger their attack."
“But evil spirits will still be chasing us,” Wei Ren said. “Where can we hide?”
Yu Sui took two steps back: "Anyway, we can't cross the river."
She would rather fight the evil spirits than be instantly killed by thousands of Thirteen Realms Dead Soldiers while crossing the river.
“The military formation is also a materialized form of the Five Elements technique. It may not be able to kill the defending general, but perhaps it can break down the Five Elements energy and speed up its disappearance,” Li Jinshuang suggested.
Wei Ren stroked his chin thoughtfully as he listened: "That sounds reasonable. Like Xue Mushi's divination technique just now, it drained the Qi of the Five Elements within a certain range."
“But I can’t cover such a large military formation,” Xue Mushi said, hanging his head. “If it comes again and again, until I’ve exhausted all my five elements, it won’t change in the slightest.”
The sheer volume of the Five Elements Qi maintaining the elite armor formation was beyond their comprehension. Even if Xue Mushi's divination techniques were limited to a certain range, and he were killed by the evil spirits, the Asura Hell would still be firmly trapped here.
Yu Sui said, "What if I use the Five Elements Generation Technique to expand?"
Xue Mushi looked up and asked, "How much can it be expanded?"
Yu Sui estimated, "Ten times the original amount, perhaps?"
Xue Mushi thought for a moment and said, "It's not enough, it's still too little. Even ten times is only enough to make a towering tree shake off a single leaf."
"Then let's think of other ways to disrupt the Five Elements' energy," Wei Ren said.
Yu Sui looked at the black-armored cavalry on the opposite bank. Although she possessed the Divine Eye of Heaven, she had only resonated with it on a few mountains related to the communication array. At other times, she had no idea how to use this power.
Just like now.
No one taught her, and no one told her what kind of power it was.
Yu Sui relied entirely on the awareness of this power to guide herself when it was time to appear.
She was just a child with the power to destroy the world, but she had no combat experience and no one to guide her, so she could only figure it out on her own.
It's actually quite simple for Yu Sui to get out.
With just a single spark of strange fire, the power to destroy heaven and earth could easily shatter the elite armored formation before them.
Yu Sui's thoughts inevitably drifted to the strange fire. As she lowered her head, she saw the black and white fish playing in the river reflected in her eyes. In a daze, she heard someone chuckle softly in her ear.
Yu Sui, underwater, whispered in her ear with a smile, "How about I borrow your power?"
"It would be better to burn them all to death."
"I can do it."
Hesitation will only kill you.
The battlefield was littered with corpses, and killing intent was everywhere. This seemed to be the favorite sight of the Strange Fire, and everything before its eyes was exactly what the Strange Fire wanted to see.
Yu Sui said to the strange fire in her mind, "Shut up."
She looked away and said to Xue Mushi, "A hundred times, I can increase it a hundred times."
Xue Mushi looked up in surprise.
Wei Ren hissed, "Don't let yourself get driven crazy first."
“I don’t want to die either.” Yu Sui stared at Xue Mushi and said, “I’ve managed to live this long, and even if I’m going to die, I don’t want to die here.”
Xue Mushi saw himself in Yu Sui's eyes—a different face, but the same gaze.
This time, Xue Mushi did not hesitate to ask her if she could do it. Instead, he remained silent for a moment and then said, "Okay."
Wei Ren pinched the bridge of his nose: "Are you two crazy or am I? What do you think?"
He turned to Li Jinshuang and asked.
Li Jinshuang turned to look in the direction of the city's guard general, but did not answer. She simply said, "The evil spirits are catching up."
Wei Ren seemed to have given up struggling. He sneered and vented all his frustration on these evil spirits. He turned around and walked back to the front, saying to the others with his back to them, "You two better hurry up. If the evil spirits attack, I won't be able to help you."
Li Jinshuang gripped her sword with one hand, standing guard at the front line alongside Wei Ren.
Yu Sui said to Xue Mushi, "It's not necessary to drain all the five elements. We can focus on a single point and make it unbalanced, which will also count as a success."
With the five elements out of balance, the threat within the military formation is greatly reduced.
Xue Mushi thought for a moment and said, "Then let's target the fire element of the Five Elements."
That's perfect, she has a natural ability to suppress the fire element.
Yu Sui nodded and pointed ahead, "Turn around."
Xue Mushi was taken aback for a moment, then obediently did as he was told. Only after turning around did he ask, "Why?"
"It's a unique skill, and it can't be seen by others," Yu Sui said. "I'm not as bold as you."
She was referring to the Taoist forbidden technique Seven Killings Divination, but in doing so, she was also implying that she wasn't using any legitimate, low-level techniques.
Xue Mushi: "Okay."
Without asking any further questions, he took a few steps forward, turned his back to Yu Sui, and opened his palm, revealing four copper coins standing upright in his hand: "Let's begin."
Li Jinshuang and Wei Ren were both ordered by Yu Sui not to look back. They didn't have time to look back at the moment, as they were busy killing the evil spirits that were chasing after them.
Wei Ren no longer intended to hide his abilities. He formed a hand seal and exhaled golden energy of the five elements.
The nine schools of rural life, the illusionary beasts and snake shadows.
From the darkness, serpentine shadows silently emerged, crawling out from all directions. As the darkness clung to the pursuing demon, they opened their mouths and bit into the demon's vital spot.
A serpentine phantom emerging from the darkness tore at the demon's neck, severing its head.
The starlight falling from the demons scorched their phantoms, but soon they grew back from the darkness, just like demons born from flames, endlessly regenerating.
Li Jinshuang, who had severed the demon's head with a single sword stroke, glanced at Wei Ren, who was still maintaining the Nine Streams Technique, and frowned slightly.
Not to mention Xue Mushi, even the Nine-Style Technique that Wei Ren is currently using is something the Farmer's Clan forbids him to learn. The Farmer's Clan has even said that anyone who learns the Illusionary Beast Technique will become the Farmer's Clan's mortal enemy.
"Don't look at me." Wei Ren, with a fine layer of sweat on his forehead, raised an eyebrow and grinned wickedly at Li Jinshuang. "You'll die if you keep looking."
Three evil spirits leaped high into the air and slashed down at Li Jinshuang with swords. She retreated to dodge and swung her sword back. The serpentine phantom tore at the evil spirits' sword-wielding hands, disarming them.
The two worked together to hold the front line.
Suddenly, a bright light flashed behind them, the moonlight shimmering, but neither Li Jinshuang nor Wei Ren turned around to look.
Xue Mushi didn't turn around. He was trying his best to stabilize the divination world circled by the copper coins and extract the fire element from the Asura Hell.
Yu Sui closed his eyes, delved into the depths of his consciousness, and stared at the strange fire, which produced another hundred Five Elements Light Cores that were peeled away today.
The five elemental light cores, shimmering with a faint white light, were stripped of their strange flames and floated in a long line around Yu Sui. They were tiny, usually invisible to the naked eye.
The extracted light core reflected Xue Mushi's calm and collected divination aura in front of him. Yu Sui connected it with the Eight Trigrams Generation Technique, amplifying Xue Mushi's divination aura to a hundredfold, and continuously drawing the Five Elements Fire from the armor formation.
As they extracted the sparks, the eerie flames on the demons' bodies noticeably diminished. Without the support of those sparks, they became nothing more than charred, black corpses, moving slowly.
The four of them quickly exhausted their five elements energy, but saw some results, and hope rose in their hearts. Perhaps they could succeed.
Change can happen in an instant.
The black-armored cavalry watching from across the river suddenly moved.
The horse carrying the black-armored cavalry took two steps forward, arriving at the very front of the riverbank. The cavalryman on horseback had crimson eyes and held a long spear. As he bent his body and leaned back, the spear bounced back like a bowstring being released, and he threw it, the silver tip gleaming, heading straight for Xue Mushi.
Xue Mushi and Yu Sui sensed the murderous intent of the shot at the same time, and they acted simultaneously.
Hundreds of light cores shattered, and the burst of Five Elements Qi slowed the silver spear down for a moment. When Yu Sui stretched out his hands to block the spear, lightning snakes flashed and crawled all over the spear to help pull it back.
Xue Mushi turned around and happened to notice that the black-armored cavalry on the opposite bank were preparing to throw their second shot.
In a flash, lightning struck, and Yu Sui was sent flying by the first spear, rolling several times in the reeds.
Li Jinshuang and Wei Ren, who were too late to catch her, turned around in shock.
Why have the Thirteen Realms' Dead Army on the other side of the river made their move?!
The five copper coins that Xue Mushi had arranged in formation instantly blocked his way. With their holes facing each other, countless black lines instantly emerged, connecting heaven and earth. They were straight and dense, and the moment they grew, they cut through everything in this world.
The Seven Killings hexagram, the first hexagram is strangulation.
The black lines extended to the rear, tearing apart the evil spirits that had resumed their normal behavior after the disappearance of the divination energy.
But that couldn't stop the second shot fired by the black-armored cavalry.
When the gun shattered, the burst of Five Elements energy also shattered Xue Mushi's Seven Killings hexagram, and the black line vanished in an instant.
Yu Sui stood up from the ground, raised his hand to wipe the blood from his face, and heard the sound of the thirteen realms' ten thousand troops drawing their swords on the opposite bank.
Tens of thousands of fallen soldiers drew their swords at the four men on the opposite bank, preparing for battle.
The aura of death spread, pressing heavily on everyone's hearts. Faced with tens of thousands of thirteenth-level ninth-rate sorcerers, they had no chance of winning.
Wei Ren thought they were doomed.
Li Jinshuang will never make any friends in her life.
Xue Mushi, who had been knocked back and fallen to the ground, clenched his fists.
The fierce wind on the battlefield blew the blood-red reeds, some of which fell into the river. When Yu Sui looked up at the army on the opposite bank, her eyes shone with a magnificent light.
It was just after nightfall.
As darkness fell, the stars reappeared on Earth.
Mei Liangyu and the others who came out of the martial arts arena didn't look too good. They were not satisfied with today's results. Although Wei Kun did not succeed in advancing to the top tier, he was not beaten up by them either. After he found out that he was going to be matched against Mei Liangyu in the draw, he simply gave up.
Mei Liangyu waited for him all day, only to be met with this result; his expression was as cold as a snowman in winter.
Nian Qiuyan was busy calming down Kong Yiyi, who was about to grab Wei Kun and beat him up. He held her back from going, but he couldn't hold her back by himself, so he asked Cang Shu to help hold Kong Yiyi back.
Cang Shu glanced at Mei Liangyu, who was striding towards the exit of the martial arts arena, and asked Xing Chun, "Can you stop her?"
Xing Chun made a gesture to reassure him: "I can hold him back, I can hold him back."
Cang Shu then went over to help Nian Qiuyan.
Xing Chun followed Mei Liangyu to the outside of the martial arts arena. It was quite lively outside, with many students who were advancing to higher levels still there, including Gu Gan and his group.
Gu Gan was waiting for someone by the Yin-Yang Five Elements arena. Hearing the commotion in the martial arts arena, he looked over and saw Mei Liangyu walking out with a cold face. He raised an eyebrow slightly.
Xing Chun caught up with Mei Liangyu and shouted, "Hey, it's a good thing we didn't let him return to Class A. He's been hiding from you like a dog, and as long as you're here, he won't dare to leave the outer city. Besides... hey, what's going on over there?"
Mei Liangyu continued walking forward, while Xing Chun looked at the Yin Yang Five Elements Field and said, "Hey, hey, come back! Look at Nangong Sui, your junior sister, did they come out of the beginner trial?"
The star map within the Yin-Yang Five Elements Field was activated, and the disciples undergoing the trial were sent back.
The stadium was ablaze with star power at that moment.
Mei Liangyu turned around and looked past Gu Gan and the others, his gaze landing on Yu Sui, who was covered in blood and wiping his face. He stopped in his tracks, his eyes narrowing slightly.
Gu Gan, who was waiting for Yu Sui at the edge of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Field, was also stunned by the four people who came out.
None of the four who came out were clean; they were all covered in blood and wounded.
Yu Sui was wiping the blood and ash off her face when she looked up and saw a number of people standing there. They were all familiar faces, and she paused for a moment.
Wei Ren glanced coldly at Gu Gan and the others beside him: "What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen someone who just came out of the trial?"
He's really unhappy now.
Yu Sui was too tired to explain, and looked at Xue Mushi and said, "You restart, I can't afford to lose two points."
Xue Mushi pointed at Li Jinshuang: "Let her go."
Before Li Jinshuang could refuse, Wei Ren said, "We're both at the fifth realm, it doesn't matter if you go or I go, I don't believe in evil, you try opening another Asura Hell."
Li Jinshuang was straightforward and directly reached out on the star map to start a new trial.
The four blood-covered figures that had just appeared vanished into the Yin-Yang Five Elements Field in the blink of an eye, leaving behind only bewildered onlookers.
[Author's Note]
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