Hong Linying had already pounced from the air and was already behind Advisor Ji.
"Hahaha... It's just a trick of the thief, 'Zhiyin Bug'. Ah! What is this?"
Suddenly, a scream was heard throughout the forest. Hong Linying was halfway through his words when, with a loud shout, his body suddenly turned sharply in mid-air and fell to one side in a panic.
Division Master Ji still had his back to the two of them, but at this moment several tree roots suddenly broke out of the ground behind him and pierced through the lower body of the big man who was about to be hit by the "Big Stone-Opening Hand".
His chest, top of the head, and neck were straight, slanted, or crooked, with several bloody tree roots showing through. The big man had suffered several fatal attacks, and his fierce murderous intent suddenly disappeared. After his body twitched a few times, it was obvious that he was dead.
"Wood Thorn Technique" - a low-level magic technique, was exactly what Strategist Ji Jun had prepared in advance. He just took a protective measure because he was afraid that small animals would come and disturb him while he was absorbing souls to break through the barrier.
After thinking of Li Yan's previous "Wood Raft Thorns", he considered that he could also use the dense trees here to summon their underground roots as an attack. He didn't expect that this was the right time to use it.
However, he was not able to annihilate Hong Linying in one fell swoop, which made him feel very dissatisfied. It was not that he did not want to, but the spiritual power he could use at this time was pitifully small, and he could not make the roots shoot far away.
At this time, Division Master Ji didn't even turn his head, and kept muttering to himself.
"'Zhiyin Chong', it's actually 'Zhiyin Chong'!"
Suddenly he lowered his head, sniffed himself, then suddenly looked up at Li Yan and shouted.
"You put this kind of lowly thing on me, and I, your master, didn't even know it. Good, good, good, what a good trick, good trick, hehehe..."
At the end of his speech, he actually laughed sternly.
Strategist Ji was extremely furious. Firstly, with his rich experience in the martial arts world, he actually fell into the hands of this kid; secondly, if this kid had not used such a despicable method, he would have been practicing internal energy to heal his injuries at this time, so how could such a sudden change have happened
"Zhiyin Chong" has a rather elegant name, but it is actually a tactic used by the lowest class of underworld people, those petty thieves and petty thieves.
It is an ordinary herbivorous monster that cannot evolve to level one in its lifetime, which means it cannot awaken its spiritual intelligence.
But it has a natural skill, which is that it likes to spit out a dozen transparent round particles every day. These particles will emit a strong smell, which makes some other monsters dislike it. Its main function is to define a certain area for itself and drive away other monsters;
Or when it encounters food it likes but cannot take it away for the time being, it will spit out these crystal particles. Other monsters will find it difficult to swallow food stained with these crystal particles, but it can come back to taste it and take it away next time.
The "zhiyin insect" is extremely sensitive to the smell it exhales, and can find it within a hundred miles. This can be regarded as a survival skill given to it by God.
However, this ability is exploited by some low-class people in the underworld. After locking on a fat sheep as a target, they will quietly crush these particles on the person's body, smear them on his clothes or carriage, and then look for an opportunity to rob or steal.
Of course, Master Ji also knew this thing. The closer this insect was to the odor particles it left behind, the more excited it became.
But the key point is that this smell is very easy to identify for a martial arts master like him. Now when he heard Hong Lin mention this thing, he smelled it on himself, thought about it for a while, and understood everything.
No wonder Li Yan planted a large number of wild flowers in the valley, making the whole valley extremely fragrant, just to cover up the smell of the "Zhiyinchong" particles smeared on his clothes.
At the same time, your clothes are hung out to dry in the valley. During this process, when pollen is flying in the spring, a lot of pollen will fall on your clothes. When you put them on, your nose will be filled with the fragrance of these flowers, which will not be easily noticed even after you leave the valley.
Another point is that those flowers are planted in the valley. Whenever I return to the valley, I will smell these scents all the time. This will form a habit for me, and this habit will make people lose their vigilance.
Taking all these points into consideration, how could he still pay attention to the scent left by the "friend insect"
Knowing this, Advisor Ji was extremely angry and began to feel a little wary of Li Yan's intentions.
At this time, Hong Linying next to him had turned over and stood up, looking at the back of the person sitting cross-legged on the ground with horror, and the dying and miserable junior brother behind him.
A top martial arts master lost his life in an instant. The two of them had no idea of the trap set underground.
Just now, the two of them were following Master Ji from a distance, and they didn't see Master Ji digging any holes or doing anything here. They were definitely not ordinary martial artists.
But he is an extremely experienced master, who has led troops in battles for many years. Hong Linying is still somewhat confident in his observation and investigation.
They made their move only after they were sure that nothing was wrong. Suddenly, wooden spikes shot out from the ground, killing one person with just one strike.
But Hong Linying was also a ruthless man and of course knew the importance of timing. After a moment of hesitation, he soared into the air again.
However, he actually pounced on his junior brother, and when he was close to the dying man, he touched his body with his toes, and had already moved behind Master Ji, and punched Master Ji in the back of the head. He actually used his junior brother's body as a stepping stone to launch an attack.
The direction of his attack was also tricky. He did not attack from other directions because he was afraid that there might be traps in other directions. By attacking from this direction, those traps had already been triggered once. He then used the corpses as cover, so it was basically foolproof.
The other party used corpses as cover and was already on guard. Master Ji's spiritual power had begun to become disordered, and the power of his "Wood Thorn Technique" was even smaller. It really posed no threat to Hong Linying.
At this time, Ji Junshi really had no way to avoid it. He turned his head with difficulty, inhaled, hunched his chest and twisted his waist. Hong Linying's punch just brushed his ear and missed.
But he was a martial arts master with rich experience in fighting. Seeing this, he knew that Strategist Ji was in the critical period of recuperating from his injuries and could not get away.
The empty right fist circled back, forming a half-hug shape, with the knuckles protruding, turning into a phoenix-eye hammer, and smashed hard into Master Ji's left temple. At the same time, his left hand struck at his lower back at a short distance.
The way he closed his hands had already trapped Master Ji in his attack. Master Ji had no choice but to hold his chest and stretch his arms again, and actually let his body lean on Hong Linying's arms.
His right hand was still hanging far above Li Yan's head. This posture looked very ambiguous, like a woman nestling in the arms of a strong man.
With a dull "bang" sound, Hong Linying's left fist had already hit Master Ji's lower back hard, and his right hand circled in the phoenix eye style, but because Master Ji leaned back on his arms, his punch missed.
He knew that Master Ji had allocated some of his spiritual power to his lower back, but he was still a mortal after all. Hong Linying's dozens of skills were so powerful that he made Master Ji spurt black blood from his mouth, splashing a lot on his outstretched arm and Li Yan's face.
Seeing that his first move was successful, Hong Linying immediately launched a continuous offensive, using his close-range, short-range, inch-force skills.
He instantly raised his left and right fists, and started the "Double Wind Filling the Ears" posture, ready to strike at the head of Advisor Ji in his arms, with a successful strike causing his brain to burst.
But at this moment, he felt a great force in his arms. As the force pushed and pushed, a ball of fire suddenly appeared in front of Hong Linying's eyes, and he felt a blazing heat. At such a close distance, Hong Linying had no place to hide. In an instant, his whole body was on fire. At the same time as his body was on fire, he was pushed back several times by the great force.
Although he was rolling on the ground, the fire on his body had not been extinguished at all. Hong Linying screamed miserably in the fire and tried to stand up and rush towards Advisor Ji several times, but stumbled and fell while struggling.
After a few breaths, the whole person became silent and turned into a ball of blazing flames burning on the ground.
Just now, when Master Ji leaned towards Hong Linying's arms, no one noticed that Master Ji's disabled left hand moved.
He struggled to make a hand seal with his five fingers, and a fireball flew out from his fingertips and imprinted on Hong Linying. At the same time, spiritual power flashed between his four fingers, and a force pushed Hong Linying backwards.
"Fireball Technique" - another low-level magic technique. Many tendons in Master Ji's left hand were damaged and he could not move at all. He could only use it after Hong Linying got close to him. After taking a heavy punch, he successfully killed Hong Linying.
Looking back at the gradually shrinking fireball, Advisor Ji smiled coldly, but his expression changed drastically the next moment.
After barely exerting his spiritual power twice, it was finally on the verge of being out of control. Just after he fired the "Fireball Technique", the Soul Absorbing Technique started to operate on its own in an instant.
He was so horrified that he was about to concentrate and hold his breath to practice his skills with all his strength. Suddenly, a huge amount of spiritual power came from the top of Li Yan's head and drilled into his palm.
Division Master Ji went from being shocked to being panicked. Although the Soul Absorption Technique was operating on its own, he could still control how much of the opponent's spiritual power he absorbed. But the spiritual power coming at this time was so surging that there was no way he could absorb so much spiritual power at once.
But it was too late for him to stop it. The spiritual power flowed through his palm and instantly entered his body, and a scene that frightened Master Ji to death appeared.
As soon as Li Yan's spiritual power entered his body, the fire poison was like meeting oil and fire, and it boiled up with a "boom". He could no longer control it at all. The most terrifying thing was that those spiritual powers were incompatible with the wood-attributed spiritual power in his body.
This made Advisor Ji both shocked and angry.
"You... what kind of skills did you practice? Why is it of fire attribute?"
Before he could finish, another huge amount of fire spiritual power poured into his body, making his mind fuzzy for a while, but he also discovered more problems.
"This... This is not the first stage of Qi Condensation. You have actually cultivated to the peak of the second stage of Qi Condensation. Impossible!"
At this moment, he felt like he had met a ghost. Not only was the attribute of the opponent's spiritual power wrong, but even the amount of spiritual power was wrong. Either of these two would cost him his life.
The former goes without saying, and the latter will also cause your well-calculated balance to be broken in an instant.
Seeing his body boiling like a frying pan, Master Ji knew that he had completely failed, and he screamed in anger.
"Li Yan, you actually misled me, misled me! You die!"
At that moment, he exerted force to pull back his right hand and brought Li Yan into his arms. At this time, the soul-sucking technique had been mastered. The palm of his right hand was filled with the opponent's spiritual power, and he was unable to use his strength to destroy his head.
He still used the same method he used against Hong Linying, but this time he pulled Li Yan into his arms.
When Li Yan's body is close to him, he can use his left hand to print the "Fireball Technique" on Li Yan's body according to the law, and then shake it out.
He could have also moved closer to Li Yan on his own, but that would have made it easier for Li Yan to block his move.
Just as Strategist Ji was pulling and tugging, Li Yan suddenly opened his eyes wide and fiercely suppressed the output of spiritual power above his head.
At the same time, his right hand, which had been gathering strength for a long time, finally moved. He pulled the purple belt buckle around his waist. A white light flashed out and then sank into Master Ji's abdomen.
It turned out to be a sharp, soft blade several inches long, which Li Yan buckled onto his belt. The handle was the buckle of the purple belt.
Advisor Ji felt a chill in his abdomen, followed by a sharp pain. His right hand stopped moving. He looked down blankly and saw that Li Yan's right hand was tightly holding something and inserted it into his abdomen. He couldn't help but let out a low roar.
"You actually have a backup plan, then you... must die too."
When he raised his head, black blood continued to flow out from the corner of his mouth, and his right hand increased its strength to bring Li Yan into his arms again.
Li Yan was very anxious. He put more force on his hand and twisted it, trying to twist the handle of the knife in his hand and crush Master Ji's internal organs. However, he felt that the short knife in his hand did not move at all. It turned out that Master Ji had prepared for his move and wrapped the blade in his abdomen with spiritual power.
Seeing his body sliding into Master Ji's arms again, Li Yan became very anxious. He was originally leaning against the tree, but at this moment his body was pulled up, with his legs half bent and half extended.
Advisor Ji was sitting cross-legged beside him. Li Yan suddenly bent one leg, and with a burst of spiritual power, he kicked Advisor Ji's chest fiercely. Advisor Ji laughed when he saw this.
"Do you think you can stop me with just this little bit of strength?"
He thought that Li Yan's foot was just to kick his chest, using it as a fulcrum to prevent his body from sliding over, and his left hand could only hang at his waist and make small movements, and he could not raise it to imprint the "Fireball Technique" on his leg, so he had to pull Li Yan closer.
The next moment, Li Yan kicked with a crisp sound, and a white blade extended from the tip of his shoe and pierced into the heart of Master Ji's chest.
Li Yan couldn't help but feel happy, but the next moment a trace of confusion flashed across his face.
Just as his toes stabbed the blade, Master Ji showed a strange smile on his face, and his upper body, which was sitting cross-legged, suddenly shook. Li Yan felt that his toes had no obstruction and kicked into nothing.
It turned out that just as the white blade on Li Yan's toes had just pierced into Master Ji's wide black robe, Master Ji's upper body twisted and tilted strangely, and the white blade on Li Yan's toes had already slid past his chest inside the robe.
Then Master Ji suddenly straightened his body and pushed forward, right on the sole of Li Yan's shoe. A tremendous force attacked the sole of Li Yan's foot. There was a "click" sound, and Li Yan let out a heavy groan. His leg had been bent at a strange angle and fell to the ground.
"This is your final trump card, right? Nothing more than that!"
The hoarse voice of Division III sounded.