Chapter 373 What do you think of Nangong Sui?
Yu Sui was still surprised by the message she had just received when a second message quickly came into view:
"To lend you money?"
Are you crazy?
Why would someone keep something this important in a money exchange?
Yu Sui was afraid that the Yin Yang Monster would actually do that, so he sent a telepathic message directly. The message was answered shortly after it rang.
She was somewhat surprised, thinking the other party wouldn't answer.
Gongsun Qi looked at the shimmering surface of the Listening Wind Ruler without speaking, but Yu Sui heard the howling sea wind from his side, wailing like ghosts and wolves.
Is it the beach on the island of government offices, or the beach in the outer city?
No, he got the fragment of the Floating Pagoda, the one from the Abyss of No Return?
At Taiyi Academy?
The yin-yang monster is clearly not a student of Taiyi, so how did he get in?
In a short time, many guesses flashed through Yu Sui's mind. As her eyelashes trembled, the three people in front of her had already started fighting.
Qin Yidong was happy to show off her newly acquired thirteenth-realm Ghost Path God Contract. After she formed hand seals, a white wave of energy exploded out, and a huge black shadow appeared behind her.
The shadowy figure unfurled enormous bone wings nearly three meters long. The seemingly hard bones drooped and swayed naturally and lightly, and each bone wing shimmered with black runes.
When the tiger opened its golden eyes, a deafening tiger roar echoed through the forest. Birds and beasts fled in a frenzy, and rabbits and squirrels that couldn't escape in time bled and fell to the ground dead.
The Ghost Path summons the flying phoenix and tiger.
The sound barrier of the tiger's roar enveloped the forest, making it feel as if a huge rock was pressing on one's chest and as if a thousand needles were pricking one's ears. Yu Sui couldn't help but ignite his protective aura and raise his hand to block the sound barrier.
The Ghostly God of the Thirteenth Realm, born from the deathly aura of the Abyss of No Return, possessed a ferocity far surpassing that of other Gods of the Thirteenth Realm. His golden beastly eyes, powerful enough to intimidate those below the Thirteenth Realm, instilled fear in them, weakened their fighting spirit, and rendered their limbs stiff.
Qin Yidong stood on the head of the Flying Phoenix Tiger, looking down at the three people on the ground.
Sheng Fei made the first move, wielding the golden dagger Demon-Slaying Blade. He used the Wind Riding Technique to leap up and attack Qin Yidong. The dagger struck the long bone wings, creating sparks. With his other hand, he made a hand seal, suppressing the incantation that was about to fly out from the bone wings.
Just as the Demon-Slaying Blade was about to reach its end, it was shattered by a claw from the Flying Phoenix Tiger, knocking Sheng Fei, who was about to approach, back to the ground.
"Foolish." Qin Yidong looked at Sheng Fei and commented bluntly, "I thought you were more mature than before, but you're still just as reckless."
The Flying Phoenix Tiger flapped its enormous bone wings, creating a hurricane that uprooted trees and whipped up grass, sending dust and petals flying. Within the hurricane, these particles transformed into blades of light that hurtled towards Sheng Fei.
Within the range of the tiger's roar, Sheng Fei, whose body was still recovering from injuries, felt a tightness in his chest and shortness of breath. He was swept to the ground by the Flying Phoenix Tiger, and just as he regained his footing, he faced countless light blades.
Gu Gan stepped in front of Sheng Fei and used the Divine Mechanism Heavenly Official to neutralize the massive attack.
"You don't seem to be in the right state of mind," Gu Gan said sarcastically, glancing sideways at Sheng Fei. "Are you in such a hurry to go and die?"
After being mocked by Qin Yidong and Gu Gan, Sheng Fei took a deep breath, pressed down on his throbbing temples, and remained silent.
Gu Gan was somewhat surprised to see this, but he did not continue to target Sheng Fei. Instead, he looked up at Qin Yidong and shouted, "You have no chance of winning against us. Not to mention that the name bestowed by the master is a natural counter to your ghostly summoning spirit, against my divine strategist, everything you do is in vain."
Qin Yidong stared at him coldly, and when she heard the last part, she gave a half-smile.
Gu Gan, always maintaining a certain demeanor towards girls, continued, "I just need you to tell me whether the fragments of the Floating Pagoda are with you."
"Since you're so confident, then use your strength to get my answer." Qin Yidong sneered, and the Flying Phoenix Tiger flapped its wings again.
Gongsun Qi heard the tiger's roar coming from Yu Sui's direction and assumed she was caught in a fight, so he said, "Are you going to die again?"
The calm and steady male voice startled Yu Sui.
This was the first time she had heard the voice of the yin-yang monster without any disguise; its calm tone made it sound reliable.
Yu Sui distanced herself from the three fighting men, retreating to a corner and asking, "Where are you?"
Gongsun Qi: "There's no time to help you."
Yu Sui guessed: "Mechanical Island?"
Gongsun Qi didn't hide anything: "It will take some time to get to the academy from here."
The message she had just seen from the Wind-Listening Ruler flashed before Yu Sui's eyes, and she asked again, "Did you come in with the people from the Mechanical Family?"
During the night, many mechanical sorcerers come to the academy to repair things. If a Yin-Yang monster can enter the academy without being suspected, then he is a sorcerer disguised as a mechanical sorcerer.
Gongsun Qi: "Clever."
But it was of no use.
Yu Sui said, "Then come again, I'll wait for you at the dormitory."
“I can’t go,” Gongsun Qi said. “A sage is looking for me on your side.”
Yu Sui was startled: "Who?"
Gongsun Qi: "A sage of military strategy, the madman of Chu."
Yu Sui didn't know how he had offended this person, but after asking him in detail, he learned how the fragments of the Floating Pagoda in the hands of the Yin-Yang Monster came about.
It turned out that during their fight, the two accidentally broke the barrier of the withered altar, releasing the fragments of the Floating Pagoda. Kuang Chu seemed unaware of what they were before Gongsun Qi took them away.
"Do you know that the fragment has an unusual control over us?" Gongsun Qi asked.
“I know.” Yu Sui kept an eye on the fight in front of her and said in a low voice, “To other people, the fragments feel gentle and reassuring, but to us, they seem to make us fall into a deep sleep and lose our autonomy.”
Gongsun Qi said, "This is also one way to distinguish the destroyers of the world. Another way is that Shui Zhou is studying a kind of stone called the Fire-Absorbing Ice Stone."
Yu Sui was somewhat surprised. He seemed to have only been in Taiyi for a short time, so how did he know more than him?
"You should also know about the sea fire that erupts from the eye of the sea, right?"
"Know."
“Once the Fire-Absorbing Ice Stone absorbs the sea fire, it can no longer absorb the energy of those carrying the strange fire. Therefore, the water boat can use the Fire-Absorbing Ice Stone to test the destroyers of the world,” Gongsun Qi said. “Soon, they also plan to do this. If they are lucky, they will find the first unlucky one. You can tell the rest of the people when you have time.”
Upon hearing this, Yu Sui was not surprised that Shui Zhou had developed a method to identify the destroyers of the world. Instead, she suddenly remembered Mei Liangyu, who had gone to Shui Zhou.
At that moment, her heart pounded for a split second.
Yin Yang Guai is a sorcerer disguised as a mechanic, and this is definitely not without the help of mechanics.
He quickly learned about the movement and research results of the Water Boat, and even knew the method of using the Fire-Absorbing Ice Stone to detect the World Destroyer.
...Did my senior brother say that?
Yin Yang Monster wasn't interested in the Floating Pagoda fragments, otherwise he wouldn't have handed them over to her. So what was he doing in the Abyss of No Return?
"How do you know these watercraft secrets?" Yu Sui gripped the Wind Listening Ruler tightly, a bad premonition suddenly rising in her heart. Her voice softened. "Who told you?"
Gongsun Qi said calmly, "If you don't want the fragments, I'll sell them to someone else and return them to you."
“Yes!” Yu Sui paused, then tentatively asked, “A disciple of the academy was taken away by the Water Boat Saint. His name is Mei Liangyu, and he is the disciple of the Taiyi Ghost Daoist Saint Chang Gen. He seems to know a lot of information related to the Strange Fire.”
After listening, Gongsun Qi simply hummed in response. After a brief silence, he asked again, "What is your relationship with this person?"
“It’s fine,” Yu Sui said.
Gongsun Qi: "He didn't tell you anything about the strange fire?"
Yu Sui: "No."
Gongsun Qi: "The relationship isn't that great either."
Yu Sui: "..."
Gongsun Qi's tone remained calm throughout, revealing no emotion: "I did hear a sorcerer from the Mechanist School mention this person, saying that he has a girl he likes in the academy named Nangong Sui. Are you aware of this?"
It seems like everyone in the world knows that Mei Liangyu likes Nangong Sui.
Yu Sui answered without changing his expression, "I know."
"What do you think of Nangong Sui?" Gongsun Qi asked again.
You want me to praise myself?
Yu Sui rolled her eyes, feigning confusion, and asked, "Why are you suddenly bringing up Nangong Sui?"
Gongsun Qi: "You brought up Mei Liangyu first. Since he likes Nangong Sui, it's hard to guarantee that he won't tell Nangong Sui the secrets related to the strange fire."
He actually said it.
Yu Sui couldn't help but scratch his cheek, and then heard Gongsun Qi say, "Nangong Sui is from the Nangong family of Qingyang. His father promoted the cooperation between the six kingdoms and Shuizhou to find the destroyer of the world. If Nangong Sui knows the secret of the strange fire, it is the same as Nangong Ming knowing it as well."
He seemed to think that this world-destroying girl didn't quite understand these complex power struggles, so he patiently explained them to Yu Sui.
Yu Sui felt increasingly horrified after hearing this.
If I were to tell Gongsun Qi now that I am Nangong Sui, I wonder how he would react.
Yu Sui couldn't help but try to "clear her name," otherwise, given the strange way the person was thinking, once they knew her true identity, they would definitely no longer believe her and would always remain suspicious and wary.
"I heard that Nangong Sui and her father don't have a good relationship."
Gongsun Qi: "What you heard is different from what I heard."
Yu Sui: "I heard that Nangong Sui destroyed his father's Xuan Kui stronghold in Taiyi."
Gongsun Qi's response remained calm: "It's just infighting within the Nangong family. As a weak princess in the capital, she needs to win over the Nangong family's influence in Taiyi to maintain her position."
That's true.
Yu Sui discovered that proving she was different from Nangong Ming and not on the same path was no easy task.
Even if she possesses a different kind of fire and is a destroyer of worlds, others will still suspect that Nangong Ming deliberately had her use this identity to capture the remaining destroyers of worlds.
Not every world destroyer is as foolish as Xue Mushi.
Especially Mingyueqing and Yin Yangguai, those two old foxes.
They have their own stories, stances, and thoughts. Once they refuse to accept Yu Sui's identity, the most dangerous person becomes Yu Sui herself.
While Yu Sui was deep in thought, Gongsun Qi asked, "Are you speaking well of Nangong Sui?"
"It's not exactly a compliment, it's just that what you heard is different from what I heard." Yu Sui thought to herself that she couldn't reveal herself first, she had to figure out the identity of the Yin-Yang Monster before making a decision. "If you can't come to the academy, then I'll come to the Mechanical Island."
Gongsun Qi asked, "When?"
Yu Sui: "Tonight."
As soon as she finished speaking, the tiger's roar and the hurricane in front of her affected her. The hurricane that swept towards her, which was capable of annihilating the five elements, stirred up dust and forced Yu Sui to use her wind control technique to change her position.
Hearing the commotion on her side, Gongsun Qi said, "Then concentrate on fighting, don't die."
He hung up the voice transmission and sent the address and time to Yu Sui via text message.
Qin Yidong remained aloof, looking down at Sheng Fei and Gu Gan who kept their distance from her, and mocked, "Didn't you say that the name bestowed by a master is a natural counter to my Ghostly Path of Summoning Gods? How come after so much time, you haven't made any progress at all?"
"So what if you're a Divine Strategist? Under the intimidation of the Tiger, you don't even dare to use the Divine Strategist Technique."
The tiger's fear intimidates and stiffens the body; the oppressive fear causes the mind to go blank for a moment, forgetting what kind of low-level technique was intended to be used.
Gu Gan's eyes twitched slightly as he looked at Qin Yidong's arrogant demeanor. He didn't really want to use any other tactics, but continuing like this was pointless. Qin Yidong was covered in extraordinary weapons and treasures, and with the added intimidation of the Tiger's Fear, he was truly impossible to fight or dodge.
"Go and attract her attention, preferably through close combat," Sheng Fei's cold, hard voice rang out behind Gu Gan.
Gu Gan: "Why should I listen to you?"
Sheng Fei also said coldly, "I don't want to argue with you, nor do I want to waste any more time with this woman."
"You can do it?" Gu Gan frowned. "I can't use the power of famous people recently, otherwise..."
Sheng Fei said impatiently, "If you can't do it, then I will."
Gu Gan glanced at Yu Sui in the distance and sneered, "If you lose, you'll be the only one who loses face."
Sheng Fei remained silent, forming a mudra with his hands and closing his eyes to gather his energy.
Gu Gan shot out like a sharp arrow towards Qin Yidong, while Fei Feng Hu flapped its wings and sent out countless slender bone blades.
Yu Sui glanced casually at Sheng Fei, then paused when she noticed the sword wound on his body. She picked up the Listening Wind Ruler to read the message Mu Mengbai had sent earlier.
Mu Mengbai asked her if she had seen Sheng Fei, and said that Sheng Fei had almost lost his life and had reflected on his actions, becoming more composed than before.
He also wanted to help Sheng Fei mend the broken relationship between the siblings.
Yu Sui asked Mu Mengbai, "What happened between him and Su Jichun?"
Mu Mengbai: "Little sister, you don't know, those two almost scared me to death! Do you know where they fell? They fell into the Drywood Platform! And they even ran into a battle between Saints! If it weren't for me, he would have almost died on the Drywood Platform!"
Sheng Fei and Su Jichun are at the withered tree platform.
He was there and knew who had the fragments, but he said nothing.
The yin-yang monster didn't mention that he met two Taiyi students at the Drywood Platform.
Yu Sui began to examine the injuries on Sheng Fei's body.
There were marks on his chin and neck from sword energy, as well as burn marks from intense fire.
As the dean of Taiyi, Kuang Chu would not harm his students, but would protect them.
The sword wound wasn't caused by Kuang Chu, but the person Kuang Chu fought was Yin Yang Guai.
Yin Yang Guai seems to know a lot about the situation in the six kingdoms. Anyone who pays attention to this kind of thing should understand what kind of person Qingyang Nangong Ming is.
Sheng Fei also looks like his father.
If the Yin-Yang Monster is indeed related to his senior brother, then it actually confirms that he has a bad relationship with the Nangong family.
Is that why you inquired about Nangong Sui?
If he saw Nangong Ming's child...
Yu Sui Chao Sheng Fei walked away.
Sheng Fei closed his eyes and saw a wall of energy filled with characters and incantations. Golden lines twisted into special characters, and by deciphering their meaning, one could release and control their power.
He focused his mind on gathering the energy of heaven and earth, searching for their names.
We're almost there.
The master's secrets are revealed through the use of pseudonyms.
Sheng Fei's hands, which were forming hand seals, changed, and a wisp of golden five-element energy began to swirl around him.
"Light up the Qi, Flying Phoenix Tiger."
The moment the young man opened his eyes, three golden characters flew toward the trembling Flying Phoenix Tiger and firmly suppressed it.
"Tiger Roar, retreat!"
"Tiger fears, retreat!"
Following Sheng Fei's order, the Flying Phoenix Tiger, which had been suppressed by the Qi-infused alias, struggled and howled, but obeyed and removed its roar and fear.
A look of painful struggle appeared in the tiger's golden eyes.
Qin Yidong turned around angrily to look at Sheng Fei. Just as he was about to make a move, Gu Gan leaped up and knocked him down from a high place, separating him from Fei Fenghu. After the distance was increased, Fei Fenghu was in even more pain and was suppressed by the Qi Transformation.
Just as he was about to destroy Flying Phoenix Tiger, Sheng Fei suddenly coughed due to his old injury, which dissipated his energy. He forced himself to use Qi Transformation while still recovering from his injuries, but could only maintain it for a moment and was unable to suppress Flying Phoenix Tiger in one strike.
Gu Gan turned around speechlessly: "How could you..."
"Sheng Fei!" Qin Yidong arrived in front of Sheng Fei with even greater anger, bringing with her the equally furious Flying Phoenix Tiger. A huge black shadow rose into the air behind her, its outstretched wings casting a shadow of fear over the young man.
As soon as the tiger roared, Sheng Fei felt a tightness in his chest. Gu Gan was about to move to take Sheng Fei away when a golden light flashed and a girl's cold voice rang in the ears of the three: "Point your Qi, Flying Phoenix Tiger."
Yu Sui glanced at Fei Feng Hu, and three golden characters flew down onto the huge black shadow, instantly killing it.
Before Qin Yidong could react, the Flying Phoenix Tiger behind him had already been shattered by Yu Sui's Qi Transformation.
"You..." Qin Yidong stared in disbelief at the girl walking towards Sheng Fei.
She saw the golden butterfly fly back to Yu Sui's fingertip and suddenly realized that it was a famous family's extraordinary treasure, the Hidden Armor Scroll.
Sheng Fei stared blankly at Yu Sui as she approached, before he could form any thoughts, when he heard a clear bell ring. He looked into the girl's extremely dark eyes and gradually lost himself in thought.
"Whom did you see at the Deadwood Platform?"
Yu Sui's soft voice reached Sheng Fei's ears, guiding him to respond. So he told him the truth: "Kuang Chu... and a military strategist."
"He was wearing a government uniform... and asked me who I was..."
"What did that military strategist do?"
"He wanted to kill me, but was stopped by the protection of the sacred tree."
"..."
Yu Sui's heart sank.
The worst possible outcome.
One of the destroyers of the world is an enemy of the Nangong family.
"Sui Sui!" Gu Gan's call broke Yu Sui's spell on Sheng Fei.
Sheng Fei snapped out of his daze, realizing what had just happened, and his face turned extremely ugly: "What did you just do to me?"
He didn't remember what he said, but he did remember the feeling of being powerless and terribly helpless.
Yu Sui smiled innocently at Sheng Fei and said, "Aren't you happy that I just defeated Qin Yidong's Ghostly Summoning God for you?"
Sheng Fei recalled the scene of Yu Sui using the Qi-based alias to suppress Fei Feng Hu with absolute dominance, and his five fingers under his sleeves clenched tightly.
She did it on purpose.
They deliberately used the same low-level tricks.
Sheng Fei looked into the girl's bright, smiling eyes, took several deep breaths to suppress his agitation, forced himself to look away, and looked back at Qin Yidong, saying fiercely, "The antidote."
Qin Yidong's expression was also very unpleasant. She stared at Yu Sui and said, "You didn't defeat her, so what right do you have to ask me for the antidote?"
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