Chapter 167: Sacked
"Guiyuanzong, Guiyuanzong, let's go to Guiyuanzong's mountain now."
Lin Du was mumbling to herself as she was about to look at the map when someone suddenly grabbed her sleeve. She knew it was Ni Jinxuan without even turning around. "What's wrong?"
"Junior Master, drink the medicine first." Ni Jinxuan said in a crisp voice.
Lin Du met her clear almond eyes and looked up at the sky hopelessly.
Above the black sky, Gui Yuan Zong’s flag was white and gold, and was particularly eye-catching.
"No, the Guiyuan Sect's flag is too bright. We have to go, otherwise I won't be able to sleep at night. It's blinding."
"The medicine will take an hour to boil. I promise that I will be able to catch up when I come back. Go and tell your second sister, Yuan Ye and Yan Qing, to come with me. We should follow the moral principles of martial arts and fight three against three, which is more fair."
Lin Du patted Ni Jinxuan's head and said, "Let's go."
"Uncle Junior Master, one hour! Otherwise the medicine will be too bitter if it takes too long to boil."
"Then when the time comes, help me take it off the fire first." Lin Du was playing with a hiltless short blade in his hand, followed by two bodyguards, Yan Qing and Yuan Ye, without looking back.
“But it will become cold once you take it off, and the medicine won’t be effective if it gets cold!” Ni Jinxuan shouted loudly while standing at the foot of the mountain.
"I will be back before the medicine cools down." Lin Du waved his hand, "Hurry up and follow the path I gave you back to the mountain. Don't let anyone see you. Take care of the house."
Ni Jinxuan pursed her lips and said, "Got it!"
She turned and walked into the woods.
Yan Qing has found the fastest way. "Gui Yuan Sect's formation should have been set up."
Lin Du took a look and said, "Let's go, change the flag and go back to take medicine."
The three of them immediately used their spiritual energy, leaving only three spiritual lights of different colors on the mountain road, extending all the way to a foggy mountain stream.
Lin Du stopped first, but Yuan Ye failed to brake and was pulled back by Yan Qing with one hand.
Yuan Ye looked horrified, "What's wrong?"
"There are formations." Lin Du tried. "The mountain fog obscures our vision, silver threads are buried in the ground, and rocks are on top. The level of the formation master of Guiyuan Sect is quite good."
"You can't even walk or fly, right?" Yuan Ye squatted down with his hands behind his back, and the Sky-Swallowing Frog followed behind him and landed behind him. "But Junior Master, how did you know that?"
"It's the spiritual consciousness that can see it." Lin Du raised his eyes calmly, "You haven't started practicing spiritual consciousness yet, so it's normal that you can't see it."
The spiritual power she cultivated was already overbearing, and a little bit of mist couldn't cover her up.
Yuan Ye's eyes widened. "My master said that the cultivation of spiritual consciousness basically starts with high-level cultivators who have reached the Qianyuan realm."
"Didn't your master himself start at the Huiyang realm?" Lin Du couldn't understand these brothers and sisters any better. "What they said is the norm, basically, but they are all exceptions beyond the norm."
Yan Qing turned his head and took a look, "Why did this frog follow me?"
"I told them to follow me. If they can't break it, let them explore it while they're getting the ransom. If they do break it, just pretend I didn't say anything and stay outside the valley."
Lin Du said, "This formation is still useful. Don't force it. Try another method."
She looked up at the sky. "The ground cannot be stepped on, the valley cannot be moved, and the secret realm cannot be flown. However, it was set up in the mountain stream to use the terrain to turn into water mist."
"Since it's water mist, it's easy to deal with."
The short blade in Lin Du's hand disappeared, and the next moment, it turned into a heavy iron folding fan.
"Xiao Wa, just stay outside. Yuan Ye and Yan Qing, I'll give you ten breaths to pass through. Go in and kill those three people within half an hour, and then change the flag."
Yan Qing and Yuan Ye looked at each other, "Ten breaths?"
"That's enough distance. I'm too lazy to move. You better not let me down."
As Lin Du spoke, he continuously input spiritual power into the folding fan, and the fan suddenly unfolded. It was clearly a spring moonlit night. When he looked up, he could not see the moon in the sky, but there was a rustling light on the ground.
With a wave of the fan, the mountain stream froze, stretching for three miles, and the originally gurgling sound of flowing water did not stop.
Lin Du's spiritual energy was still emanating continuously, and the water vapor that was originally filling the valley condensed in an instant, but did not fall down.
Under the dim light, the frost and snow formed in the air did not alarm any of the mechanisms in the array, and everything seemed to remain the same.
From the perspective of the Guiyuan Sect disciples, there was still no movement in the Shanjian formation, the mist did not fluctuate, and the sound of water did not stop.
"Put on the concealment talisman and hurry in. It's best to land on the side. If you can't land, step on the ice. But there is a wire outside the ice after going a little further in. If you can't do it, I will tell Second Senior Brother in person to train you on your footwork."
Lin Du was standing outside the formation, with an endless supply of spiritual power.
When the two heard this, they ignored the shocking scene before them, activated the invisibility talisman, and rushed in at the fastest speed using their martial arts.
Just kidding, whether you practice more or not is secondary, this is how people live to save their face.
As soon as they entered, the two knew what Lin Du had done.
There are mountain ditches in the formation, and thousands of silver wires that can cause harm are buried on the ground and in the water. If you want to walk on the mountain, you will be triggered by the huge rocks on the top of the mountain.
The frozen mountain stream at Lindu only has the surface covered with ice, while the water is still flowing underwater. The mist seems to be still there, but in fact the inside has become a fine ice surface that can be used for force.
The ice was very thin, so thin that it would surely break if one did not control the strength of one's feet. However, for the disciples of the Supreme Sect, it was only basic skills. One only had to use spiritual power to control the footwork.
Yan Qing didn't control his strength well at first, his heart skipped a beat, and his left foot touched the ice surface, and immediately returned to the thin ice formed by the surrounding mist.
Yuan Ye had already taken a big step forward, "Hey, you're done. You need to go back and do more training."
"You should know that Master never lets one of us train alone." Yan Qing followed very calmly.
Yuan Ye: ...I forgot about it.
Three miles, ten breaths.
Yan Qing counted to the tenth breath and found that it was not enough, and he became anxious.
"Keep going, I'm holding on. Ten breaths is not my limit, it's the limit I calculated for you." Lin Du's extremely cold voice rang out from their disciple token.
Yan Qing: ...
Although this method does consume spiritual energy, they are really not that weak!
At the fifteenth moment, the two finally crossed the mountain pass and landed silently on the territory of Guiyuan Sect.
This is a good natural valley, and the white and gold flag is particularly eye-catching in the campfire.
Three disciples of Guiyuan Sect were meditating around the fire. Two of them in the middle stage of Tengyun Realm seemed to have entered into a state of meditation, and one in the late stage of Tengyun Realm was keeping watch.
"Why is the night in this mountain so cold?" The man muttered softly, silently adding a few branches to the fire, which made a few crackling sounds.
Yuan Ye hissed and communicated with Yan Qing through his telepathy, "Can the two of us really win?"
Yan Qing smiled and replied, "Do you want to go back and practice more?"
Yuan Ye sighed and took out a sack. "They haven't found us yet. We can't defeat them head-on. Let's use the sack to fight them."
Yan Qing thought about it and said, "That makes sense."
The two men stepped forward silently, and the only awake monk's eyes suddenly went dark, "Who!"
Yuan Ye also quickly put sacks on the other two monks who were in meditation, and then, without waiting for anyone to react, he used the demon-binding rope to tie up the two men.
The man with a sack on his head was trying to pull the thing off his head with one hand, while with the other hand he quickly took out a sword talisman.
The sword energy swept across the sky, breaking the silence and darkness of the night.
Yan Qing swung his knife, the knife energy annihilated the sword energy, and without waiting for anyone to pull off the hood, he went up and slashed at him.
With a bang, the sword energy collided with the diamond talisman. The man took advantage of the situation to pull open the sack and faced the person who had just concealed the effectiveness of the talisman.
"Supreme Sect?" The man's expression froze when he saw two people, one red and one blue, in front of him.
"Oh, by the way, it's me, your grandpa." A huge iron-eating beast fell from the sky.
Yuan Ye made sure the two men were tied up securely, and then turned to help Yan Qing, who was only in the early Tengyun realm, to deal with the talisman cultivator.
The physical strength of the talisman practitioners is not strong, but those who come from Guiyuan Sect have plenty of spiritual talismans.
Yuan Ye played a supporting role, constantly controlling the iron-eating beast to cut off the people's retreat. Yan Qing swept away the talisman, and the sword energy rose steadily.
Bang!
The explosive talisman shook the entire valley. Yan Qing used his spiritual power to protect himself and ignored the aftermath of the explosion. He swung his sword forward. The sword energy formed an extremely sharp golden arc in the air, which brought with it the strong pressure to cut through a hill. It broke through another powerful shield of the Earth-grade defensive talisman in the air and slammed heavily on the man's chest.
The gauze robe of the Guiyuan Sect disciple was torn by the sword energy, and the man stepped back subconsciously and ran directly into the arms of the iron-eating beast.
The monk watched in horror as his body was grabbed by two steel claws and lifted high into the air.
"No, stop it! Stop it!" the man shouted.
Then the iron-eating beast stopped moving, its two claws still firmly restraining the man's upper body, its steel claws crossed in front of the man's chest, tightly holding the man's arms.
Yuan Ye uttered, "Alright, alright, send it out properly."
Upon hearing this, the iron-eating beast carried the man up the mountain.
Lin Du was hugging his arms and feeling sleepy when he suddenly saw from afar a strange-looking iron-eating beast suddenly appear on the mountain under the night sky.
The iron-eating beast stood on the top of the mountain, lifted up a human-like object, then aimed into the distance and threw it out in the standard posture of throwing a lead ball.
With a whoosh, the platinum-colored figure turned into a shooting star in the sky.
Lin Du: ...An artificial meteor, right? Then, let me make a wish.