Chapter 215 Master Locksmith
After nightfall, Mei Liangyu found Yan Xiaochuan and took him to the Uzbek Sea.
On the way, Yan Xiaochuan told him about some recent events involving famous figures, while Mei Liangyu lowered his head and played with the wind-listening ruler, occasionally responding with a few words.
Not long after the two left the academy, they encountered Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu blocking their way on the mountain path.
The two men stood under the streetlights, bathed in warm orange light, but to Yan Xiaochuan, they appeared sinister.
Yan Xiaochuan stopped Mei Liangyu, who was about to walk forward without looking where he was going, and said in a low voice, "Hey, Senior Brother Liangyu, there are dogs ahead."
Zhang Xiangyun laughed in anger upon hearing this.
Mei Liangyu then raised his head from the Wind Listening Ruler, casually glancing at the two people in front of him without saying a word.
Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu walked to the middle of the road. Before they could speak, Yan Xiaochuan cleared his throat and said loudly, "Senior brothers, as the saying goes, a good dog doesn't block the way."
"You're quite the smooth talker," Zhang Xiangyun said with a forced smile. "I just don't know if your martial arts skills are as good as your words."
The two people in the middle of the road clearly had ill intentions. Zhang Xiangyun didn't waste any words. As soon as he finished speaking, he threw out the divine wooden divination stick in his hand, which floated in front of him. The mountain and water divination array that he had set up beforehand appeared.
The terrain was altered the instant the trigram formation appeared.
The ground suddenly cracked, like a crawling snake, as if the earth had been cleaved in two, splitting into insurmountable ravines that separated Yan Xiaochuan and Mei Liangyu.
The military tactics of the Fangji family can alter the terrain and besiege thousands of troops.
Using this phrase on Mei Liangyu at this moment can be seen as Zhang Xiangyun's recognition of Mei Liangyu's strength.
Under the immense pressure of the mountain, Mei Liangyu and Yan Xiaochuan each ignited their protective aura to withstand the immense pressure within the divination formation.
The ground continued to collapse, and Yan Xiaochuan concentrated and uttered: "Xing Tu".
A wisp of golden Five Elements Qi drifted out of Yan Xiaochuan's mouth as he spoke, spreading outwards. The cracks in the ground that were spreading towards his feet were briefly stopped, and the ground began to tremble.
Luo Fu held a purple talisman between his two fingers, and with a wave of his hand, the Divine General Zhaoming appeared in the void.
The golden thread materialized into a colossal, humanoid statue that stood before Luo Fu. It was surrounded by lightning, resembling a thunder god descending from the heavens, exuding majesty. It held thunder hammers in both hands and struck heavily towards Mei Liangyu and Yan Xiaochuan.
Thunder roared, and as Luo Fu and Zhang Xiangyun set up a barrier against the ghostly Taoists, several golden lightning bolts were summoned to shatter Yan Xiaochuan's spirit, allowing the stagnant ground fissure to continue its advance.
Yan Xiaochuan let out a howl and immediately flew backward. He couldn't step on the ground, and if he used the Wind Riding Technique to fly through the air, he would be struck down by the golden lightning, which was a worry.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu's target was Mei Liangyu, not Yan Xiaochuan, which just kept him from helping.
Both of them were focused on Mei Liangyu.
Golden lightning bolts streaked across the sky, with the divine general Zhaoming blocking the way. The ground collapsed, creating a scene resembling the end of the world in the darkness.
Mei Liangyu still held the Listening Wind Ruler in his hand, without retreating or dodging. Instead, he stood still, looking up at the towering Zhaoming God General. Thunder and wind howled, brushing past his cheeks, and his clothes and hair were all covered with golden protective energy.
Mei Liangyu's phoenix eyes, half-hidden in black, swept lightly over the serpentine golden lightning bolts. With one hand forming a hand seal, he also summoned Taoist golden lightning.
Golden lightning flashed, and lightning lines spread out behind him like a spider web, turning into purple light in the blink of an eye and crushing all the serpentine golden lightning bolts that came towards him.
Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Thunder.
Luo Fu's eyelids twitched, and the dazzling purple lightning light was reflected in his pupils. He felt a momentary unease in his heart.
The strongest form of the Taoist Heavenly Gang Five Thunders can crush and destroy the Qi of the Five Elements.
Mei Liangyu didn't know how to do it before, did she?
When did he reach this level?
Luo Fu didn't think this person had ever seriously cultivated.
The moment these thoughts flashed through his mind, he saw the purple lightning rushing forward, crushing the golden lightning in an instant and passing through the Zhaoming God General. After being pierced, cracks appeared on the God General's body, and like a mirror falling to the ground, it shattered into countless fragments with a bang and disappeared.
The swift purple lightning had not stopped, its target pointing directly at Luo Fu behind Zhaoming Divine General.
Forced to ignite his protective aura, Luo Fu rapidly formed hand seals. The golden Heaven and Earth Universe Shield was instantly unleashed when it clashed with the purple lightning, sparking a fierce burst of sparks.
The light of the divination array emanated from beneath Zhang Xiangyun's feet, and countless runes appeared and disappeared around him. He formed hand seals, summoning the runes representing the power of the Zhen trigram within the divination array.
Runes flashing with lightning line were arranged in front of him, which Zhang Xiangyun then shattered completely.
Mei Liangyu raised his hand in the direction of Luo Fu, and the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Thunder he summoned disappeared halfway through its flight.
Zhang Xiangyun extracted the power of the Zhen trigram from the Mountain and Water Trigram Formation, directly destroying the Taoist thunder magic of Mei Liangyu's school.
However, Mei Liangyu reacted extremely quickly, immediately stopping his hand and forming a hand seal. The Nine Palaces Qimen Luojing Instrument instantly appeared in front of him, the sutra plate spinning rapidly, the runes on the inner and outer plates constantly intersecting, the Heavenly Heart Index opening twelve teleportation gates in the void.
Within the mountain and water formation, the heavy mountain terrain made movement difficult. Mei Liangyu used the Qi Gates to teleport, instantly passing through the twelve Qi Gates to Yan Xiaochuan's side. He then scooped up the boy who was almost pulled into the abyss of the earth's fissure and threw him into the Qi Gate, teleporting him to the flat ground at the very back.
Yan Xiaochuan fell to the ground from the air vent, got up and looked in Mei Liangyu's direction: "Senior Brother!"
Just as Zhang Xiangyun was about to continue drawing power from the divination array, he suddenly heard a very soft laugh. The man's warm and powerful voice reached the ears of everyone present: "It is a fortunate thing to see you all working so hard in your cultivation tonight."
Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu's expressions became subtle, especially Luo Fu, who subconsciously stopped what he was doing.
The man standing outside the mountain and water divination formation did not intervene in the battle. He simply stood there, looking at Mei Liangyu and the others with a faint smile.
He wore a Tai Chi topknot, just like Luo Fu, and a blue Taoist robe. His eyes were bright.
Liang Zhen, a Taoist sage.
Liang Zhen's gaze first swept over Luo Fu and Zhang Xiangyun, and finally settled on Mei Liangyu in the divination array. His already bright eyes reflected the rotating compass.
"Dean Liang?" Yan Xiaochuan scratched his head and called out quietly.
Being caught fighting in the outer city by a saint from the academy is a case of bad luck or good fortune.
"Why has everything stopped?" Liang Zhen asked with a smile.
Zhang Xiangyun's eyelids twitched. He put away the divine wooden divination sticks and dispelled the divination array. Mei Liangyu, without changing his expression, removed the hand seals. He listened as Zhang Xiangyun smiled and said, "Dean Liang, we just met on the road and got a little interested in a friendly match. We're afraid we'll make a fool of ourselves in front of you."
Yan Xiaochuan looked at Zhang Xiangyun, his eyes filled with the words "You're shameless."
“It was absolutely brilliant, how could I possibly embarrass myself?” Liang Zhen said. “It would have been better if you had finished fighting.”
Mei Liangyu played with the Listening Wind Ruler in his hand and laughed, "A proper sparring session will prohibit certain moves. If we finish fighting tonight, it's hard to say whether what's prohibited is a move or a life."
Zhang Xiangyun pretended not to notice the sarcasm in his words, bowed to Liang Zhen and said, "It's more interesting when there's give and take. Let's stop here for today and give ourselves time to review so that we can make progress tomorrow."
Liang Zhen nodded in agreement, then flicked his sleeve and looked toward the academy: "Alright, since that's the case, are you going back to the academy? Why don't you travel together?"
He seemed eager to get closer to the students and extended a friendly invitation, but the four of them tacitly shook their heads, bowed, and then used their respective wind-riding techniques to disperse to the outer city.
After Yan Xiaochuan and the others had walked a distance, he asked Mei Liangyu, "Senior Brother Liangyu, what do those two mean by this?"
“Impotent rage.” Mei Liangyu lowered his head and listened to Feng Chi, then sneered, “You stumbled at someone else’s hands but came here to seek trouble with me.”
He hasn't even made a move yet.
Halfway there, Mei Liangyu grew increasingly angry. She put away the Wind-Listening Ruler, turned around, and said, "I'm not going tonight."
Yan Xiaochuan turned around in perfect unison with him: "Then where are we going?"
Mei Liangyu said, "Let's go to the clinic."
Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu successfully cornered Mei Liangyu in the outer city and executed the divination formation smoothly. However, before they could snatch the Listening Wind Ruler from Mei Liangyu, they encountered the Taoist sage Liang Zhen, and the fight naturally came to an end.
Gu Gan did not act with them.
While they were waiting outside the college to ambush people, Gu Gan quietly arrived at Wei Ren's dormitory.
Gu Gan had been waiting for quite a while. Once there was no one coming or going in the corridor, he used a Taoist invisibility talisman to conceal his figure and came to the door to unlock the talismanic lock on the door.
The lock on the dormitory door was not difficult for Gu Gan.
There's a joke at Taiyi Academy called "Master Locksmith," because there was once a disciple of a master locksmith who specialized in using the master's words and the Nine Schools of Locksmithing. And the master's Nine Schools of Locksmithing were indeed more skilled than other schools in this regard.
Compared to other disciples of famous masters, Gu Gan also possesses the Divine Mechanism Heavenly Official, which is effective against certain placement-type Nine Stream Techniques. For example, the Divine Mechanism Heavenly Official can also eliminate the power of the restrictions on the doors of the dormitories.
However, the secret passage under the famous Xiaoyao Pool is not acceptable.
Gu Gan didn't go with Zhang Xiangyun tonight because he wanted to check Wei Ren's dormitory to see if there were any other clues.
The corridor was dimly lit, and it seemed that no one was in the houses on either side. No one had turned on the lights in the inner rooms, so the large shadows in the corridor provided Gu Gan with perfect cover.
He used the Invisibility Talisman to enter the house, silently scanned the area for a moment, and saw a number of recently dead spiders, scorpions, and other poisonous insects in front of a door.
Gu Gan stepped forward and pushed open the door. The room was filled with dead poisonous insects. If no one cleaned it up, it would rot and stink in a few days.
He wrinkled his nose in disdain, subtly surveyed the room before him, and then pointed out a few characters in the air, instructing them to search for something in the room that shared his name.
Gu Gan is looking for the Wind Listening Ruler, the Black Box, and the fragments of the Pagoda.
He guessed that Wei Ren might have another "listening ruler" that connected him to the mysterious person.
Or perhaps traces of his conspiracy with others could be found in Wei Ren's house.
Besides asking the spirit for help, Gu Gan also searched the house himself, trying to find something useful. Apart from the dead poisonous insects scattered all over the floor, Wei Ren's house was relatively clean and tidy.
The bed and blankets were neatly folded, and the clothes were hung properly on the hangers. The small bookshelf next to it was piled with books about farming, and several of them showed obvious signs of being read over a long period of time.
Gu Gan flipped through the book and found that all the words and phrases related to the Breath of Earth had been marked.
This kid's cultivation was crippled, yet he still coveted the Breath Soil and tried to find an opportunity to harm Sui Sui. He truly deserves to die.
[Author's Note]
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