Chapter 237 You Run First and I'll Hold You Back
Logically speaking, having served under Ying Wujiu for many years, the relationship between Lei Nu and Shi Kui should not be too bad, even if it is not very good. But the bad thing is that one of them is very close to Shui Mei and can't stand this stinky man who makes her sisters sad, while the other is a walking corpse without any emotions and doesn't know how to interact with people. The atmosphere is quite tense.
The corpse puppet ignored the thunder girl's weird temper and said coldly: "Look for the water spirit."
Wow, when did this dead guy finally come to his senses?
The girl sneered, "She doesn't need you to find her, you corpse puppet, you dare to disobey orders, I will report you to the Lord and you will suffer!"
She turned around and left, looking like she was going to complain to Ying Wujiu. Seeing this, the zombie's eyes turned cold, and he slowly grasped the long sword behind him. He didn't know if he wanted to attack, but Lu Yan blocked his movement with his folding fan: "Don't worry, let her go."
The puppet paused. "She'll tell on you."
Lu Yan opened his folding fan and said, "You are not understanding women's hearts. You really don't. She is clearly trying to scare you. If you go and complain, the Lord will punish you, which will hurt Shui Mei. What is she trying to achieve? We just need to hide and pass the test."
When the corpse puppet heard the words "it will only make the water spirit sad", his eyes fluctuated slightly, and he finally put the sword back.
Lu Yan took the lead and walked in front: "Don't just stand there, let's go and look for the others."
The first test given by the Demon Realm is to successfully survive in the illusion for a day and a night, and have at least two pass tokens in your hand before dawn. What does this mean?
Each person has only one token, which means that if you want to get another one, you must break your head and snatch it from others. In other words, at least half of the people will be eliminated in the first round of the trial.
To put it bluntly, it is possible that half of the people will die.
It was not known whether it was Lei Nu's deliberate revenge, but it took Lu Yan and the corpse puppet about an hour to crawl out of the deserted cave. As soon as they landed, they heard the sound of swords fighting not far away. It turned out that two groups of people were fighting, and one of the groups looked very familiar. They were the group of Wuwang Sect disciples who had chased Lu Yan and called him senior brother.
"Xiao Quan! If you know what's good for you, just hand over the token and I will spare your life. If you continue to resist, I will break your arms and legs, and that's beyond my control!"
"Chongguang, if you have the guts today, kill us all! Otherwise, when we get out of this illusion, my Wuwang Sect will fight you to the death!"
The man laughed loudly upon hearing this: "It's just a fool's dream. If we get the soul, how can we be afraid of you, the Wuwang Sect? Will you still have someone to support you after Nan Tuo's death? I don't believe that the donors will go against me for a few bastards like you!"
Lu Yan looked at the two groups of people fighting not far away, and roughly estimated the difference in strength between the two sides. He found that they were equally matched. He pointed at them and whispered to the corpse puppet: "See? They will both be injured in a fight, and we will take the opportunity to snatch the token. This is called a bloodless battle."
Corpse puppet: "Shameless."
Lu Yan: “…”
Why does this living dead guy speak so rudely? He deserves to be kicked by his wife!
Lu Yan had a good idea. He would wait for the two groups of people to kill each other in the distance, and then he would go up and snatch the token. This would save energy and achieve his goal. However, Xiao Quan accidentally spotted Lu Yan's presence and shouted excitedly:
"Brother Lu! Come and save us! These bastards from Jiyang Palace are trying to do something bad to us!"
Lu Yan's eyelids jumped: "..."
Chong Guang heard this and realized that there were two people hiding not far away. He pointed his sword at Lu Yan and sneered, "Great, you bastards have hidden helpers. We just happen to be short of two tokens, so we'll use you two ignorant bastards to take over!"
As he stopped talking, the long sword in his hand shone brightly and stabbed straight at Lu Yan. Lu Yan didn't even look at him. He raised his hand to grab the sword and flicked his fingers. The long sword in Chongguang's hand flew out with a whoosh and sank into the ground not far away.
Lu Yan simply ordered: "Corpse puppets, go! Beat these ignorant creatures to pieces!"
The corpse puppet looked stern and motionless: "Why should I listen to you?"
Lu Yan: "Do you still want to remarry the princess?"
Corpse puppet: “…”
It was obvious that the corpse puppet was feeling very aggrieved. With a whoosh sound, the long sword behind him came out of its sheath and he rushed into the battlefield like a ferocious beast. In less than half an incense stick of time, the disciples of Ji Yang Palace were injured and fell down, lying on the ground groaning.
Lu Yan was not idle either. He immediately stepped forward and took off the pass tokens on their waists. Soon he had a bunch of them in his arms. However, when it was the turn of the seriously injured Chong Guang, he held on to the token tightly and refused to let go. He looked at Lu Yan with hatred. This man was too cruel. He didn't leave them a single piece:
"This is my...my stuff cough cough cough..."
Lu Yan fully demonstrated the word "shameless" to the extreme: "What do you mean by your things?! If I pick it up, it's mine. Is your name written on it?!"
Chongguang pointed at the words on the back of the token, which clearly showed his name: "This is my name..."
Lu Yan was furious: "How dare you carve your name on my things?!!"
Bang!
He knocked the man unconscious with one palm strike, and the world became completely pure.
There were seven or eight people in Jiyang Palace. It was more than enough for Lu Yan and the corpse puppet to divide the four groups. Just when they were about to leave, Xiao Quan and his fellow apprentices chased after them: "Brother! Brother! Wait for us!"
Lu Yan stopped and asked: "What's wrong with you?"
Xiao Quan said happily: "Brother, it's a good thing you're here, otherwise we would have been beaten to a pulp by those bastards from Jiyang Palace, and we wouldn't have been able to participate in the Sword-Asking Contest. There are exactly eight tokens, which is enough for us to share."
He took six tokens from Lu Yanhuai and distributed them to the junior fellow students behind him in a familiar manner: "Come on, take your own tokens quickly, we will rely on them to leave the illusion later."
Lu Yan was dumbfounded: "Do you have any shame?!"
Fuck, when did he say that these tokens could be distributed to them? This is the first time in my life that I’ve met someone more shameless than me!
Xiao Quan was stunned for a moment: "Ah? Brother, didn't you help us snatch these tokens?"
Lu Yan: “…”
Forget it, there’s no point in having so much.
Lu Yan slowly exhaled, thinking to himself, why bother arguing with a fool: "Forget it, you guys can take it, but don't call me Senior Brother anymore, you really have the wrong person."
He has always firmly believed in one thing: he is not afraid of opponents who are like gods, but he is afraid of teammates who are like pigs. It is obvious that Xiao Quan and his group have the potential to be pig teammates, so it is better to stay away from them as soon as possible.
However, while Lu Yan and the corpse puppet walked in front, Xiao Quan led his men to follow closely behind. Whenever they turned their heads to look behind them, they pretended to look around, and when Lu Yan retracted his gaze, they hurriedly followed him. They followed like this all the way until dark. Lu Yan found a place near a stream in the dense forest and lit a fire to spend the night there. Only then did they stop.
Lu Yan was sitting by the fire, and he glanced to the side inadvertently, only to see Xiao Quan and the others hiding in the woods not far away, being bitten by mosquitoes flying around, and they were in great pain, but they didn't dare to come to him, so he could only cower in grievance.
Lu Yan thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "Come over and warm yourself by the fire."
Xiao Quan and the others were overjoyed when they heard this, and they emerged from the bushes one after another: "Brother, you finally acknowledged us!"
Lu Yan didn't want to recognize them, but wanted to get some information. His face was covered with a layer of warm color under the firelight: "Are you coming here without an elder this time? What if something goes wrong along the way?"
It would have been fine if he hadn't asked. As soon as he asked, Xiao Quan's eyes turned red. He lowered his head and wiped his tears: "Brother, you don't know, ever since our master died, those bastards below us have been eager to step on our heads. This time, participating in the Sword-asking Conference is a life-or-death job. No one was willing to come, and it fell on us in a daze. When we left, there was no elder to escort us. If we hadn't met you, we would have gone to see King Yan a long time ago."
The Wuwang Sect is now in chaos, with disciples bullying the weak outside and the weak and afraid of the strong inside. After Nan Tuo's death, his sect lost its backbone. Unfortunately, those disciples were neither good at literature nor martial arts, and they only learned some trivial martial arts, so they were bullied by other disciples.
I don't know what the donors were thinking, they actually sent them here to participate in the Sword-Asking Competition. Isn't that just sending them to die in vain?
Lu Yan asked casually, "Where is the Sect Master? Why hasn't he come over?"
Xiao Quan revealed a shocking piece of news: "Hasn't the sect master already gone up to Feijue Peak? Not only the Wuwang Sect, but also the leaders of other sects have gone up together."
Lu Yan was slightly surprised: "Why?"
Xiao Quan looked puzzled and said, "They are all great cultivators, so naturally they don't need to participate in the trials with us disciples. They are all waiting on the mountain. I heard that it was the Demon Realm Lord who invited them. They are just waiting for us to pass the three levels and then participate in the Sword-asking Contest together."
Lu Yan breathed a sigh of relief without leaving a trace. He was too concerned. A master of Tan Yue's level naturally didn't have to take part in the trial with them. He must have been invited by Ying Wujiu to wait on the mountain out of courtesy. Everyone seemed to be in harmony on the surface, but it was a pity that it was a banquet for the nobles.
Lu Yan: "The Sect Master didn't give any instructions?"
Xiao Quan said uncertainly: "I heard a few words from the Sect Master and the elders. They said that the Demon Realm had committed many evil things and they just took advantage of this Sword-asking Conference to gather all the disciples from all sects and schools to let Ying Wujiu submit to the Immortal Sect. If he was unwilling, they would order him to be exterminated in one fell swoop."
The corpse puppet looked at Xiao Quan coldly, but unfortunately the latter did not notice.
Lu Yan laughed. Tan Yue's intentions were obvious to everyone. Even with a strand of hair, one could tell that Ying Wujiu would never submit to the Immortal Sect. Wasn't he just trying to find a reason to attack the Demon Realm? "Let's warm ourselves by the fire. We'll leave the secret realm together tomorrow."
As they were chatting, they suddenly heard a rustling sound in the dense forest not far away, followed by a tiger's roar. Everyone immediately jumped to the alert, wondering if they had encountered a wild beast out to hunt for food in the middle of the night? !
If it were an ordinary beast, it would be fine, but the dense forest here is nourished by the essence of heaven and earth, and the animals inside have awakened their spirituality, which is not comparable to those cats and dogs in the human world.
Xiao Quan saw a huge figure approaching from the end of the road. It was more than two people tall. He was so frightened that his legs went limp. He trembled and said, "Mom...Mom! It's a tiger spirit!!"
It's so big, it must have been cultivated for at least several hundred years!
"roar--!!!"
As the figure got closer, everyone finally saw the whole appearance of the giant beast. It looked like a tiger but not a tiger, and like a cat but not a cat. It had two sword-like fangs, its entire body was silver-white, it was majestic, and its eyes were cruel and bloodthirsty.
Xiao Quan was the first to throw away his sword out of fear: "Oh my god! I can't beat him! Let's run!"
The disciples of Wuwang Sect scattered in an instant. As they ran, they were actually quite loyal and did not forget to pull Lu Yan along with them. The corpse puppet, on the other hand, sat beside the fire without moving.
The silver giant beast ignored the corpse puppet and dug the ground with its claws. Then it rushed into the crowd like a flash of white lightning and directly knocked Lu Yan to the ground. Xiao Quan was so scared that he pissed himself and said, "Brother, run quickly. I'll hold him up!"
Lu Yan yelled, "Why don't you come over here and hold him up! Why are you running further and further away?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the giant beast above his head let out a deafening roar and opened its bloody mouth to bite him down. In a split second, Lu Yan grabbed the giant beast's mouth:
"Shut up!"
He's fucking loud.
The giant beast was irritable and ferocious: "Roar --!!!!"
Veins popped up on Lu Yan's forehead: "General Fengsha, if you continue like this, I will go to the Lord to have a detailed discussion!"
The beast's voice instantly turned into that of a kitten: "Ah~?"
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