Chapter 20 Penglai Island (10) Using Xiao as a Sword
[Announcement]: One team's score has dropped to one thousand points, ranking eighth. Please do not give up and keep working hard.
[Announcement]: Group 2 earned 700 points, with a total of 1,900 points, ranking first. Group 38 earned 200 points, with a total of 1,500 points, moving up one spot to third.
[Announcement]: There is still one and a half days left until the end of the trial. I hope all the disciples will work hard and achieve excellent results.
Yu Yongji was extremely anxious and could not sit still in his chair. He paced back and forth in circles around Master Yuyin.
Yu Yin Zhenren was almost dazzled by him and said helplessly: "The competition still has a long time to go, don't be impatient."
"How can I not be anxious? The kids were fine, how come they lost the fight?"
He saw that Xu Feihuai and Qu Wanqing were not much weaker than their opponents in strength, and they even had a tacit understanding in their cooperation, clearly having the upper hand.
How could we lose?
And Yun Bujin, too. It was a one-on-three situation, but it wasn't completely hopeless. So why did he just abandon his supplies and run away? How was that any different from surrendering?
Yu Yin Zhenren was much more optimistic than him: "The children all have their own plans in mind, we just have to watch carefully."
Yu Yongji shook his head repeatedly: "In this situation, Yingying's whereabouts are unknown. How can I feel at ease?"
"The key to the problem lies with her." Master Yuyin said with a smile, "You've seen her tricks before. How do you know that all this wasn't arranged by her?"
"Everyone knows the principle of the mantis stalking the cicada while the oriole waits behind. It just depends on what role she wants to play."
Yu Yongji's face darkened: "If something really happened, you'd regret it to death."
The spirit bird stared at the water mirror without blinking, trying to detect the fairy's movements as soon as possible.
The calm surface of the Hualong River suddenly fluctuated violently at a certain moment, and bubbles bulged and burst, repeating the cycle.
"Look, there's movement in the Hualong River!"
Yu Yongji looked up and saw that the water of the Hualong River was rippling all around, and suddenly a light blue figure jumped out.
Xie Rangchen looked at the water mirror with a thoughtful look.
He is good at paper-making and understands medicine.
According to Lingniao, she can also use seals to summon giant firebirds... It can be seen that his junior sister is a rare talent with the potential to "combine the strengths of a hundred schools."
The figure of the young girl was reflected in Xie Rangchen's clear eyes. Her hair was stuck to her cheeks, and drops of water fell down one by one. Her bright black eyes... looked so much like Aying.
He closed his eyes gently, moved his stiff body back a little, and leaned against the back of the chair.
If Aying were still alive and grew up to be the same age as her, she would also look so energetic that people would not be able to ignore her and would be attracted to her involuntarily.
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According to the broadcast, my senior sister is proceeding according to the plan.
Before leaving, Zhu Ciying communicated with Qu Wanqing and the other two in secret, telling them to let her lead Jian Yangqiu away while they looked for an opportunity to surrender and hide in the dark until she returned. Then, they would wait for Group Two to grow stronger before taking action.
She wasn't afraid that Group 2 would follow their lead, waiting for the other groups to slaughter each other and then reap the benefits. After all, Zhao Ze wasn't someone who could sit idle.
He was greedy enough. No matter how good the prize for first place in the trial was, he couldn't keep it all to himself. But the same could not be said for the spiritual plants he snatched.
Zhu Ciying wiped the water droplets from her face. Her clothes were sticking to her body, wet. She frowned, but didn't use her spiritual power to dry them out. She needed to use her spiritual power sparingly.
An angry beast roar came from the bottom of the river, the water splashed up again, and as the ground shook, the nine-tailed white fox fell to the ground.
Just like three hundred years ago.
Zhu Ciying remembered that this was the place where he and his second senior brother had their decisive battle.
The white fox opened its mouth and uttered human words: "How dare you steal my Golden Xuan Flower? Do you want to die?"
"What's yours and mine? Whoever gets it owns it." She retorted.
"Humph, over the past three hundred years, the cowardly human race has also begun to become unreasonable, just like that stink bug. I hate it."
"Since you refuse to hand it over, don't blame me for not giving you a chance to live."
He was still the same as he was three hundred years ago, arrogant and looking down on human monks.
Zhu Ciying gathered spiritual power in his palm, and the jade flute slowly appeared.
Both sides launched attacks almost at the same time.
The river was surging, the flute sounded low and melodious, and a few intelligent fish popped half of their heads out, quietly watching the girl playing the flute on the shore.
The sound of the flute turned into a gust of wind, sweeping up the green leaves on the tree and rushing towards the white fox. The white fox dodged sideways, and a few strands of hair fell off.
The green leaves are as sharp as knives, and they will leave tiny traces wherever they pass.
But this was just a trivial trick for the white fox. He didn't mind playing with her. It couldn't hurt him anyway. Besides, he was really bored after being sealed for three hundred years.
Meanwhile, Zhu Ciying's mood was far less relaxed. A demonic beast capable of speaking human language would be at least at the Nascent Soul stage in terms of cultivator power. With her early Golden Core stage cultivation, she stood no chance of victory in a real fight.
what to do?
Zhu Ciying's eyelashes drooped slightly, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind.
The only feasible way at the moment is to delay until Qu Wanqing and the others arrive and deal with it together.
But the white fox probably won't give her this opportunity.
Another attack was missed, and Zhu Ciying vaguely sensed something was amiss. Even if there was a level difference in strength between them, it wouldn't be a case of missing every move...
With this guess in mind, Zhu Ciying played the jade flute again. The green leaves rustled and formed into a sharp sword, which turned in mid-air and stabbed towards the white fox.
The white fox bent its limbs and suddenly jumped into the air to avoid the green leaf sword. At this moment, two other groups of green leaves that made up the vines rolled towards the white fox's hind legs from behind.
"A mere trifle." The white fox snorted coldly, revealing its sharp claws with its claws, and with a light sweep it cut it off.
He landed steadily and glanced at Zhu Ciying with disdain: "Boring."
The white claws gathered up all their demonic power and swung heavily. A black claw mark came towards him, and Zhu Ciying held the jade flute horizontally in front of him to block it.
This time, without the black talisman given by her uncle-master, and with the same full-strength attack from the Nascent Soul stage, she was unsurprisingly knocked away, her body embedded in the mountain, creating a human-shaped hole.
Zhu Ciying heard a sound of bones breaking. She struggled to grip the stone with her fingers and used the force to walk out of the pit.
Her forehead was scraped open, blood oozing out, flowing down her cheek and staining her clothes red. Her right leg hit a sharp rock on the mountain, breaking the bone.
However, to Baihu's surprise, she did not cry out in pain, but instead smiled as if relieved.
interesting.
"Are you laughing because you know you are going to die?" he asked.
"Not really." Zhu Ciying raised the corner of her lips slowly, "I just found something very interesting about you."
When the white fox heard this, he suddenly became interested and did not rush to give her the final blow.
"Tell me about it." Zhu Ciying swallowed a mouthful of blood with a sweet and fishy taste in her throat and exhaled: "You can read minds." The thing that she couldn't figure out three hundred years ago, now finally has an answer.
Why did the second senior brother's Phoenix Seal fail, and why did he have to use the sword in the end? It was all because the nine-tailed white fox could read minds.
"How did you know that?" The white fox was briefly surprised, then resumed its arrogant attitude. "So what if I know? Can you still kill me? I advise you not to overestimate your abilities and return the Golden Xuan Flower to me as soon as possible."
Zhu Ciying was unmoved.
She opened her mouth, every bone in her body ached, and her voice was so hoarse that she couldn't hear what she said.
The white fox had sharp ears and heard Zhu Ciying's words word for word:
"The Three Realms and Six Paths illuminate the birth and death, suffering and happiness of all living beings, and illuminate all forms and colors in the world, without any obstruction."
"Sky Eye, open."
A golden light suddenly appeared in the girl's eyes, as bright as the moon.
At the same time, outside the water mirror, Yu Yongji jumped up from his chair, pointed at Zhu Ciying's image in the water mirror, and stammered for a long time before finally saying, "I, I, I have a unique medical skill that can open my third eye!"
"When did you teach Yingying?"
Yu Yin Zhenren touched his chin and thought carefully: "I didn't teach her."
At the end, he added: "Mingran didn't teach me either."
"Then, then she's a genius who has come to understand things on her own?" Yu Yongji stared at Master Yu Yin with a burning gaze. "Such a rare talent. Why not let Yingying sever ties with you and become my disciple? I'll pass on everything I've learned to her."
True Man Yuyin: “?” Listen, is this what people say?
Xie Rangchen was also slightly surprised for a moment, and became more and more curious about Zhu Ciying, wondering how many other things she knew.
"But even if she opens her third eye, she doesn't have much chance of winning. The people I arranged have already rushed over, and I hope they can save her in time." Yu Yongji was excited, but quickly returned to reality.
——In the secret realm.
Although Baihu didn't know what magic He Zhu Ciying used, he was not panicked. With her abilities, she couldn't cause any trouble.
"Are you thinking that with my strength, I can't pose any substantial threat to you?" Zhu Ciying suddenly asked.
"You!" Hearing his thoughts spoken, the white fox felt a surge of anger. He had always been the one to fool others, but today, he was being teased by an ant he despised. How could he not be angry?
But what made him even more angry was yet to come.
Zhu Ciying only heard him say word by word: "Mind reading is indeed powerful, but there are ways to restrain it."
The white fox scoffed: "Just you?"
Zhu Ciying: "Yes, it depends on me."
"Just because I'm a lowly ant that you look down upon and treat as a plaything for your amusement."
"What a big tone!" The white fox roared, its body suddenly jumped up, and the nails on its two claws grew outwards a lot, as if it wanted to tear the arrogant girl in front of it into pieces.
Zhu Ciying held the jade flute in both hands, took a step back with her left leg, squatted down, and held the jade flute straight in front of her, a standard sword-breaking posture.
The fox's claws touched the jade flute, and the two faced each other, startling him for a moment. He had expected the flute to break in two if touched by his claws, but not only did it not break, it even held on with incredible strength.
It's really unreasonable.
Bai Hu's heart rang with alarm, and he glanced cautiously at the person before him. The way he held the flute didn't look like a musical cultivator at all. Would a musical cultivator use a precious magical instrument as a shield?
This person is clearly using it as a sword!
The sword is one of the indelible psychological shadows of the white fox, and the other is the sealing technique.
Although he was afraid, he was the strong one now, so he felt more hatred in his heart. He hated that damn swordsman for sealing him for three hundred years.
He must kill thousands and thousands of sword cultivators to alleviate the hatred in his heart.
He showed no mercy, his attacks were sharp and vicious. Zhu Ciying's golden eyes followed his movements, and she responded calmly, avoiding them narrowly every time.
White Fox was unsuccessful, and for a moment, he was in a state of panic. During this time, he tried several times to read Zhu Ciying's thoughts and feelings, but to no avail. She was like a hollow puppet, only able to swing a sword, her every move unplanned and driven by her body's instinctive reactions.
Baihu had to admit that if he allowed such an opponent to grow up, it would be difficult to deal with her in the future.
He must strangle her in the cradle.
The white fox increased the speed of its attack, trying to land its claws on her heart and dantian every time.
Zhu Ciying dodged with ease, not even attempting a counterattack. All her spiritual energy flowed into her right leg, reconnecting the broken bones.
"Damn it, damn it! I'm going to kill all the sword cultivators in the world of cultivation!" The white fox's eyes turned red with anger.
Zhu Ciying raised her lips slightly.
When she recalled the suffering she had endured when she entered the realm of unity between man and sword, she still felt frightened.
In her previous life, her master took a fancy to her talent in swordsmanship and brought her back to Huaijiang Mountain to be his disciple.
At that time, the master said, "Aying was born with a sword bone and has a deep affinity with the sword. Within ten years of learning swordsmanship, she will definitely ascend to the highest level. Rangchen, by then, even someone as brilliant as you will have to temporarily retreat from the spotlight."
He said this cheerfully as he watched a thin figure fly backwards three meters and fall to the ground.
"Master, please stop talking. You are harming me." Zhu Ciying got up from the ground. His clothes were soaked on his back. He had no strength in his body and staggered over.
She raised her eyes and looked at her master with resentment. The latter touched his nose, trying to ease his embarrassment.
Zhu Ciying hung her head in frustration. Since she came up the mountain, she had learned everything, and she learned very quickly. All the senior brothers and sisters praised her talent, and even the second senior brother, who had always been difficult to deal with, recognized her.
But until she met the senior brother.
The master had asked her to fight directly with the eldest senior brother, under the pretext of allowing her to gain experience in actual combat. At first, Zhu Ciying found it refreshing. The eldest senior brother's swordsmanship was exquisite, and his understanding of the way of the sword was even deeper than the master's. It was a great honor to have him as her opponent and to practice with her.
But after playing for half a month, Zhu Ciying's enthusiasm faded, and what followed was an indelible sense of disappointment.
When Xie Rangchen fought with her, the Jade Phoenix Sword never came out of its sheath, and she herself broke one spiritual sword after another, and new wounds were added to her body before the old ones healed.
The opponent, the senior brother, is too formidable. Every time she thinks she has made progress, she is slapped in the face by reality.
In the way of kendo, she is a newbie, while her senior brother is already far beyond her reach.
"Master, if you continue to fight, my Dao heart will be shattered." Zhu Ciying said.
The master was stunned. "Is it really that serious? I think it's quite good. Your fifth senior brother told me privately that you have made rapid progress in the past two weeks."
Zhu Ciying curled her lips and ignored him.
The master scratched his head and said flatteringly, "Then I'll ask him to apologize to you?"
"No."
Master: "Then what do you want, Ah Ying? Tie him up and throw him into the oil pan? As long as you ask, Master will definitely help you."
Zhu Ciying thought for a moment, then pointed to the pocket on Xie Rangchen's waist and said in a clear voice, "I want Senior Brother's pear paste candy."
The master immediately gave him a look and said, "Rangchen, hurry up, your little sister wants to eat pear paste candy."
Xie Rangchen: "Junior sister, are you seeking revenge for your personal gain?"
He smiled, took off the bag from his waist, and handed it to Zhu Ciying personally.
He said earnestly, "Little Junior Sister, you must grow up quickly and inherit Master's legacy as soon as possible, bringing glory to the way of swordsmanship."
Zhu Ciying: "What about Senior Brother?"
The young man was silent for a moment, then smiled faintly: "Of course I will follow you and protect you."
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Yu Yongji: "You, immediately sever your master-disciple relationship with Yingying."
Yu Yin Zhenren: “6.”
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