Chapter 209 The Farmer's Saint "Villains" Group
Yu Sui left the Five Elements Light Cores beside Ou Rushuang, but Ou Rushuang's Azure Blood Golden Butterfly disappeared instantly and could not be monitored by the Light Cores. She did not know where the other party went or what information it conveyed.
Among the Taiyi Saints who are related to Xuan Kui, the only one known to date is Ou Rushuang, the Saint of the Farmer School.
There are quite a few students not in the dormitories tonight.
Mei Liangyu wasn't afraid of losing points at all, but Yan Xiaochuan was worried. Every time he surfaced from the sea, he would look at Mei Liangyu, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping himself.
He didn't even bother to watch Zhang Xiangyun's jokes, nor did he ponder the secret of the Wind Listening Ruler. Instead, he stared longingly at Mei Liangyu, preoccupied with his own credits.
"Senior Brother Liangyu, if you can't find a place to stay, that's five points!" Yan Xiaochuan muttered as he climbed up the plank road, gripping the rope. "I might not even earn five points in a year."
"How come you can't even earn five credits a year?" Mei Liangyu paused in her play with the wind-listening ruler, turned her head to look Yan Xiaochuan up and down, her face showing a hint of disdain and disappointment. "Is earning five credits that hard?"
"It's really tough," Yan Xiaochuan said pitifully, holding the water off his clothes. "Even if I earn some, it gets deducted, so at the end of the year it's like I haven't earned anything at all."
Mei Liangyu thought about how almost all the credits she earned in a year had been deducted due to various reasons.
“You can earn it back later, I’ll teach you,” he said.
Yan Xiaochuan, who had just been listless, instantly perked up. Compared to learning military martial arts and finding the Sea Eye, he was more interested in how to earn academy credits.
"Can you teach me tomorrow?" Yan Xiaochuan wiped the water off his face, looking at Mei Liangyu with wide, curious eyes. "Or now is fine too, Senior Brother Liangyu, just tell me and I'll listen!"
“Another day.” Mei Liangyu put away the Wind Listening Ruler and refused outright. Looking down at the sea below, he said, “When you’re teleporting through the Sea Eye, you can’t use the Nine Streams Technique or mobilize the Five Elements Qi. You can only rely on holding your breath.”
"You need to practice more. It's best not to breathe in the eye of the sea."
Yan Xiaochuan nodded and agreed earnestly.
Mei Liangyu also had to go into the sea this time, slowly gather the surrounding five elements of energy, hide them in a certain area underwater, and then guide them to fight.
Doing all this without letting the others in Taiyi notice anything amiss.
Yan Xiaochuan, on the other hand, practiced holding his breath.
The two agreed to go into the sea at the same time.
The seabed beneath the Uzbeks was pitch black, and Mei Liangyu's diving position was even below Yan Xiaochuan's. He did not use the Zhou Tian Fire for illumination, but instead blended into the darkness, sensing the rising and falling air in the seawater.
The Uz Sea he chose was remote and dangerous, and no one would come here on ordinary days. Those who did come would not dare to go underwater or to the more dangerous central area of the sea unless they had the strength of the thirteenth realm.
Although there are no dangerous waves nearby, the Five Elements Qi gathered underwater is extremely fierce and can interfere with the use of Five Elements Qi by sorcerers of the lowest order.
The terrain is also quite complex, and no one ever comes here on ordinary days. Those who do come are like him, sneaking around and doing things that can't be seen in the light.
When Mei Liangyu realized that the formation placed on the sea surface had been triggered, he began to rise, having already mentally considered who might come here.
The saints of the academy, the sorcerers of the outer city.
When Mei Liangyu surfaced and saw the woman in white standing on the boardwalk, she quickly pushed Yan Xiaochuan, who was about to pop his head out, back down.
Yan Xiaochuan, who was already suffocating and about to drown, choked on his water when pressed like that, and couldn't help but use his Five Elements Qi to calm himself down.
"It's you?" The woman in white standing on the boardwalk had a pale face, her delicate brows slightly furrowed, and her bright eyes were fixed on Mei Liangyu in the sea. After recognizing her, her gaze softened. "What are you doing here?"
Wan Guiyue, a sage of the Legalist school.
She needed to find Wei Ren in the deserted sea, but she also needed to avoid being seen by others, so she chose to go across the Uzbek Sea.
"Dean Wan." Mei Liangyu shook the water droplets off his face, greeted her, and said with a smile, "I was studying the Five Elements technique of the Yin-Yang School, and I deliberately chose a place where no one would come, but I didn't expect to run into you today."
After he finished speaking, he added, "Are you feeling better?"
When Wan Guiyue saw the array surrounding the mountain, she thought it was the mysterious person hiding behind the Listening Wind Ruler deliberately blocking her way, but she didn't expect it to be Mei Liangyu.
The point is that if this child discovers he's here, given his intelligence, he'll inevitably discover something in the future.
Wan Guiyue's mind raced. She coughed lightly twice and said, "With the medicine given by Dean Jiang, I won't die anytime soon. It's just that I've been feeling a bit bored staying indoors lately, so I came out for a walk to clear my head."
Mei Liangyu then asked, "Where are you planning to go?"
Wan Guiyue smiled and said, "Just take a stroll. Since you're studying the Five Elements theory of the Yin-Yang School, I won't disturb you."
Mei Liangyu floated towards the shore, nudged Yan Xiaochuan who was hiding in the sea, and told him to go further away. Yan Xiaochuan had no choice but to turn around and swim away.
"It's rare to see Dean Mei come out. I have some Legalist techniques I'd like to ask you about." Mei Liangyu raised his head to look at the woman on the plank road, his eyes dark and unfathomable.
Wan Guiyue lowered her eyes and looked at him.
Zhou Tianhuo's light illuminated the dark mountain walls and the sea. The young man looked up, his angular face covered with glistening water droplets that slid down his neck, leaving streaks of water. His soaked clothes outlined the strong and slender lines of his upper body, exuding the charm of a mature man.
He is no longer the naive child who first came to Taiyi.
That handsome face was somewhere between a boy and a man. If he toned down his usual arrogance and laziness, and his sharp phoenix eyes were to soften with a gentle smile, he would look just like his father when he was young.
In a daze, past memories overlapped with the present. On the same night, with firelight flickering, a man emerged from the sea, looked up at himself, and smiled.
Wan Guiyue's gaze lingered on Mei Liangyu's face, her heart wavering.
Yu Sui saw this scene through the Five Elements Light Core left beside Mei Liangyu. As she wiped the water off her face with her sleeve, her brows furrowed slightly for a moment.
The sea around the deserted island is chaotic. Influenced by the five elements, the waves surge one after another, fierce and rapid. The currents in the sea are so strong that they are hard to resist. A single wave can sweep a person away to who-knows-where.
Xun Zhiya and Zhongli Shan went into the sea to find Wei Ren. The underwater world was very dangerous due to the rapid currents and the turbulent waves. The violent energy of the Five Elements made the seawater extremely fierce.
The two people underwater need to rely on their protective energy and some Bagua life techniques to avoid being injured by the waves. If they are unprepared, their bones will be shattered under the dual attack of the waves and water pressure.
Wei Ren's critically injured and dying body fell into the sea and was very likely to be torn to pieces.
While Zhonglishan and Xun Zhiya gave up the search and returned to shore, Wei Ren had already been carried far away by the sea, from the surging waves to the gradually calming sea.
The sea waters flowed out and dispersed into the mountains and rivers.
As night deepened, the five elemental light cores that Yu Sui had left on Wei Ren exploded one after another, replenishing his five elemental energy and protecting him from the attacks of the waves.
The sixth-realm light core left in Wei Ren's body seemed to be searching for something. After absorbing all the faint residual energy in Wei Ren's body, the dust-sized light core began to change.
Arriving at a mountain river from the boundless sea, the current slows down, and the banks are lined with lush green forests, with occasional clusters of pink flowers hidden among them. Shen Tianxue, standing on the raft with a bamboo basket on her back and a sickle in her hand, couldn't help but turn her eyes to look.
Pei Daiqing squatted by the bamboo raft, washing his muddy hands. Next to him was a basket full of herbs he had stolen from a doctor, some very precious and others strange and unusual.
The two of them stole medicinal herbs from the doctor's house while Jiang Shulan was away, but they were caught by Yu Sheng of the Legalist school because they went to Yueshan to watch the excitement, and all the herbs were returned.
Shen Tianxue, with her fiery temper, couldn't tolerate it. After lying in wait for many days, she finally succeeded again.
They are now happily leaving the academy.
Pei Daiqing washed his hands in the water and said to Shen Tianxue, "This time we have to go further away. Let's not go to Shuizhou either. That old man from the Ming family has impure thoughts about Dean Jiang. If he knew we had taken Dean Jiang's medicine, he would definitely chase after us to go back and fawn over us."
Shen Tianxue scoffed, brandishing her sickle with disdain, "At your age, still doing this kind of thing."
Pei Daiqing laughed and said, "If you really want to talk about it, it's wrong of us to steal."
Shen Tianxue said, "If it's wrong, it's wrong."
Pei Daiqing nodded and said, "If they have the ability, they can take it back. If they can't, that's their problem."
After washing the mud off his hands, Pei Daiqing shook them off and was about to get up when he suddenly saw a pale white face appear on the rippling water.
An ordinary person would have screamed in terror or even fallen into the river, but Pei Daiqing blinked and stared intently at the boy's "corpse" floating up from the water.
"Ah Xue, look what this is?" Pei Daiqing called out to Shen Tianxue.
Looking at Shen Tianxue in the distance, he turned back, glanced at Wei Ren who was drifting with the current on the bamboo raft, and said indifferently, "The corpse, don't worry about it."
She didn't care or show any surprise. When she saw Wei Ren floating up from the river, she looked at him as if he were an ant on the riverbank.
"I just washed my hands?" Pei Daiqing looked up at Shen Tianxue.
Shen Tianxue tossed him a handkerchief: "Wipe yourself."
Neither of them paid any attention to the boy drifting along with the bamboo raft.
This virtuous farming couple did not concern themselves with worldly affairs, nor did they meddle in others' business. Everyone else had their own destiny, and in this world, they only cared about each other; other people and things were unimportant.
The two began sorting through the herbs in their baskets, completely ignoring Wei Ren standing nearby.
It wasn't until the scorpions and venomous insects on Wei Ren's body sensed that their master was in grave danger and fled to the bamboo raft that they attracted Shen Tianxue's disdainful gaze.
Pei Daiqing smiled and waved away the scorpions and venomous insects that were still trying to climb up. The scorpions and venomous insects that had already climbed up did not dare to approach the two of them and stayed far away.
A black shadow silently shredded them and spat them into the river.
“Looks like he’s a student from our farming family.” Pei Daiqing turned to look at Wei Ren. “He has injuries caused by the techniques of the Fangji School, Legalist School, School of Names, and Taoist School. He must have offended quite a few people.”
Shen Tianxue was still rummaging through the things in the basket, without even looking up, and said, "His light core was shattered, and his skills are not up to par."
Pei Daiqing: "It seems like he took on many opponents by himself."
"Don't just pick up random people from the street. How do you know so many people beat him up? Did he do something heinous that angered everyone?" Shen Tianxue looked up at him, her eyes sharp. "Have you forgotten what kind of trash you used to pick up?"
“Ah Xue, what I mean is that with all these injuries, he should have died long ago. Even the poisonous creatures he raised abandoned him, and he’s been drifting with us for so long, yet he’s still clinging to life?” Pei Daiqing pointed at Wei Ren. “He’s lucky to be alive.”
"Tell him to get lost, he's annoyed to look at." Shen Tianxue tapped the bamboo raft with her sickle, causing it to accelerate and instantly leave Wei Ren behind.
Pei Daiqing placed the herbs that Shen Tianxue had sorted into another basket. A moment later, he suddenly caught a glimpse of something familiar chasing after him.
He turned around, and the accelerating bamboo raft was caught up by the "corpse" again.
Shen Tianxue also saw it. She frowned and continued to speed up. After a while, the "corpse" also sped up and moved side by side with the bamboo raft, sticking close to it.
Shen Tianxue: "..."
This is truly unbelievable.
Pei Daiqing couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Shen Tianxue's gaze turned sinister. She stood up, preparing to nail the man to the shore with a scythe, but then she saw the shadows around the boy begin to twist into three strangely shaped shadows.
The forbidden technique of the farmer, the phantom beast.
Wei Ren should have died, but he was still clinging to life. His internal power was out of balance, and he was now being attacked by the phantom beast. The three twisted black shadows seemed to be stuck in the rippling water, and they were about to devour their master.
Shen Tianxue narrowed her eyes, her scythe flying out and shattering the three illusory beast phantoms. She then caught the returning scythe, changed her mind, and raised an eyebrow, saying, "Pull him up."
Yu Sui, who heard these words through the Five Elements Light Core, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
She finally won her gamble.
[Author's Note]
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