11th place in Jianshan Competition
"Who... uh uh..."
Before the man could even utter a word, an invisible force covered his mouth and dragged him behind a rock. He looked like he had seen a ghost, so frightened that he dropped his sword. "Mmmmm..."
"Shut up and you'll live."
The man nodded frantically, and the force in his mouth really disappeared.
"Do you still want to live?"
A voice appeared in the air and asked, frightening the man so much that his legs almost gave out. "You, who are you? I, I have an old mother above me and a younger sister below me. I've never done anything bad in my life. At most, I peed in someone else's vegetable garden when I was a child. Don't, don't kill me!"
Leng Can almost couldn't hold back his laughter and teased him, "I can not kill you, but I must take someone away tonight, unless you send me another one."
"Sure, sure." The man pointed behind the rock. "Anyone of them will do, as long as...who, actually..."
"Bang"
"You guys aren't that united." Leng Can put away the invisibility stone and reappeared, still holding the stone in his hand. The man fell to the ground, his body dissolving into ethereal smoke. "You still want to sabotage our plan? I'm not a man of martial virtue."
Ji Shufeng had already taken action, cautiously approaching the group and using a spirit stone to sprinkle powder, which floated in the air and landed on them. "Quiet space, appear."
The simplest success often requires the simplest approach.
She drew her sword and charged at the woman lying at the edge. The woman was awakened by the pain and turned into a wisp of smoke before she could even scream.
Leng Can ran to the other side in two or three steps, raised an eyebrow at Ji Shufeng, and mouthed, "One on each side."
Ji Shufeng nodded, "Yeah."
The person lying there is like a fish on a chopping board. Even if he wakes up, he cannot make a sound. When he wants to take the next step, his body has already turned into smoke and floated into the air.
When they killed the remaining two men, one of them twisted his body and woke up the other one, "Zi...Hahu..."
He couldn't make a sound. When he opened his eyes, he saw a sword stabbing straight at his heart. He immediately drew his sword and flew upwards. The sword only had time to scratch his calf. He supported himself and stood up, but couldn't say a word. "Ha... Hu..."
The only remaining companion had also turned into smoke and flew away.
Ji Shufeng raised his sword and said, "You are too careless. Surrender!"
"Hu...Ha..." The man gasped for breath and could only make some breathy sounds, "Ha..."
Leng Can laughed out loud and said, "Ha... I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."
The man saw that the situation was not right and tried to escape with his sword. Ji Shufeng immediately drew his sword and said, "Come up, Leng Can."
"Ji Shufeng, don't let him run away." Leng Can picked up all the spirit stones scattered on the ground, jumped onto the sword, grabbed her clothes and shouted.
The sky was dark and oppressive, and as I flew through the clouds I could even feel the moisture coming through them.
Ji Shufeng used the spirit stone on his sword to speed up. Seeing that the two were about to catch up, the man tapped his finger between his brows and injected spiritual power into the sword. The two followed closely behind him. Leng Can shot him with an ice ball, "Give up! You can't win!"
"Spiritual power will be exhausted sooner or later, so why bother struggling." There was always some distance between the three of them. Leng Can aimed at the tail of the sword and fired the ice ball, hitting the man. The man was shocked and staggered forward, but quickly stabilized and ignored his words.
"Otherwise, let's have a big fight, one on one. Flying around like this makes my face hurt in the wind." Leng Can rubbed his face and switched to fireball attack.
Just before hitting the tail of the sword, Ji Shufeng suddenly stopped, causing Leng Can to almost fall down. "What are you doing?"
"He entered the magic cave."
"What?" Leng Can looked down. "Let's go down and rescue him."
"Huh? Why?" Ji Shufeng asked in confusion.
"The monsters are numerous and difficult to kill. Besides, he's injured and definitely can't defeat them. If he's tortured to death by the monsters, it's better for you and me to kill him quickly." Leng Can analyzed seriously, "This is just a competition. It's about winning and losing, not about life and death."
"That's right, hold on to me and let's go in."
The two of them were more relaxed when they entered the magic cave again. From a distance, they saw the man hiding in the corner and struggling constantly. He was killing monsters with a sword. Because it was night, many monsters went out to find food, so there were relatively fewer monsters.
"That unlucky look really does resemble me." Leng Can used a fireball in one hand and an ice ball in the other, killing the monsters that kept climbing up to divert attention. "Hey! Are you still alive?"
The spirit stone was only effective for ten minutes, and after that, the man could speak.
He raised his head weakly, "Alive..."
"Okay." Leng Can killed the monsters around him and stretched out his hand to him, "Hold my hand and come up."
The man grabbed Leng Can's hand tightly, stood on tiptoe and pushed down against the wall, using the force to leap over the monster and fly onto the sword.
It was no easy feat for a sword to bear the weight of three people. Ji Shufeng's forehead was sweating. He channeled spiritual energy from his brows and injected it into the sword. "Hold on tight."
The sword flew up and out of the magic cave, and the few people returned to the original valley.
"call…"
"Are you okay?" Leng Can put the man on the ground and hurried over to support Ji Shufeng.
"Nothing, just draining my spiritual energy." Ji Shufeng waved her hand and leaned against the stone wall. "Just take a break."
"Why... did you save me?" The man covered his arm with the wound caused by the monster's bite, his expression painful.
"I don't want you to die too painfully. Leaving you behind is a serious offense. We will still kill you, don't worry."
"Ha..." The man smoothed his hair. "We were too careless and were ambushed by you. Even now, you've saved me."
"This is not something to be ashamed of." Leng Can tied him up with ropes made from spirit stones, then took out a healing spirit stone and placed it on his injured arm. "This treatment process will be a little painful, just bear with it."
"You're about to kill me, yet you're still...hiss...helping me"
"You're in a hurry to die," Leng Can said, glancing at him. "Don't worry, I'll never let you off easy, but there's no need to kill you now."
The man squeezed out a few words from his mouth, "Blind kindness."
Leng Can was so angry that he healed his leg and then kicked him again, "You ungrateful bastard."
"Ji Shufeng, take this." He threw the healing spirit stone to Ji Shufeng, "It will help you recover faster."
"Um."
Leng Can used the fire spirit stone to make a fire. The three of them being together had a different kind of atmosphere.
"My name is Xi Chengming, and I'm from the Magic School." The man took the initiative to introduce himself. "We can still be friends after the competition. There's no need to be so confrontational."
"Ji Shufeng, swordsmanship sect."
Leng Can said as he looked at the function of the spirit stone, "Leng Can, ruthless."
"The Way of Mercy," Xi Chengming said with a smile, "You kid actually practice the Way of Mercy?"
"Zi... That's what I mean." Leng Xue held up his clothes to show him, "There's something wrong with your eyes! You can't recognize clothes."
"My eyesight isn't very good," Xi Chengming admitted. "My glasses broke during the race. Now I can't see people clearly, and I can't even tell the difference between red and green."
Leng Can felt a little guilty, thinking that what he had done was not fair. He took out a spirit stone and placed it in his hand. "I just seized this from you guys. They say it can see things ten meters away. Try it."
Xi Chengming transported the spirit stone into his body, and when he opened his eyes again, Leng Can's face seemed to be magnified several times in front of him, and even the tiny pores on his face could be seen.
"Does it work?"
"Yeah." He nodded. "I can see it very clearly."
"Why didn't you tell them earlier?" Leng Can broke the pancake and shared it with Ji Shufeng. "Otherwise, how could they tell us all this now? It's pitiful."
"It's no use telling them." Xi Chengming smiled helplessly. "It's so rare to feel such a touch of warmth from someone who practices the ruthless way."
"That's what I said." Leng Can took out a pancake from his arms and stuffed it into his mouth. "We are just practicing the ruthless way, not stupid people who don't understand reason."
Ji Shufeng suddenly laughed out loud.
"why are you laughing?"
"I thought of Cong Mo." Ji Shufeng's expression softened. "She's like a piece of stubborn wood sometimes."
Leng Can felt like he had found a confidant and became excited. "Ji Shufeng, you feel the same way, don't you? She..."
Meanwhile, Cong Mo, who they were discussing, was chopping off the head of a monster. "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." Yin Yi kicked the person away. "I almost got ambushed. It's all thanks to you."
"Yeah." Cong Mo nodded.
"Don't you want some kind of token of appreciation?" Yin Yi leaned closer to her, his eyes almost filled with admiration. "Like thank you for the compliment, it's okay, or something like that."
"I saved you, so I think it's you who should be thanked." Cong Mo checked the number of people on the spirit stone. "There are still four people left in the swamp. Those two are in one place, quite far from us. We'll go look for them tomorrow. Let's find a place to rest tonight."
"Okay." Yin Yi followed her. "Cong Mo, can this spirit stone be used to see the situation in another place?"
"Can't."
"Even if we kill all the people in the swamp, it won't help! If we split them in half, there are still nearly forty people in the valley. We have to kill the other half."
"There are still twenty-eight people left," Leng Can said with a frown, "Why didn't you tell me earlier that you had this spirit stone?"
"I forgot." Xi Chengming smiled foolishly.
Leng Can paced back and forth, "Only Congmo is left in the swamp, which means we need to eliminate at least nine more people."
"Xi Chengming." Leng Can took out his sword and said, "I will kill you now!"
"Wait!" Xi Chengming yelled, sweat on his face, "Why don't we move forward together?"
"Are you crazy?" Leng Can put down his sword. "We killed your companions."
"Are you trying to take this opportunity to take revenge?" Ji Shufeng put the sword against his neck.
"Never," Xi Chengming swore. "My relationship with them is average. Although we're from the same sect, my cultivation level is too high, and I devote all my time to cultivation. My relationship with them is superficial. It's only because of my immense strength that they dare not harm me. But I know full well that if we're the only ones left, I'll be the first one eliminated by their combined forces."
"Why should we believe you?" Leng Can asked.
"I'll give you the spirit stones I have on me, and..." Xi Chengming said excitedly, "I have a spirit stone that can connect the fates of two people. If you live, I live, and if you die, I die. Otherwise, it won't affect you."
"Take out the spirit stone and let's take a look."
Xi Chengming transformed the spirit stone and gave it to Leng Can, "He's right."
"Do you really want to join us?"
"It's better than being eliminated," Xi Chengming said seriously, "and winning in the end is no easy task. More partners are always better than one less."
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