"… "
Did they hear it wrong
When Jianchou said the word "cooperation", they were still a little stunned; but when Xie Buchen looked at Chou and said the word "OK", the three people here couldn't help but wonder if they had heard it wrong.
The two standing in front of them were Yashan Jianchou and Kunwu Xie Buchen. They were genuine and definitely not some monsters in disguise.
But what did they hear
These two people can actually cooperate
Ever since everyone came out of Kunwu, whether on the way to the Hidden Realm or after arriving in the Hidden Realm, everyone could feel the subtle and indescribable atmosphere between Jianchou and Xie Buchen.
A mortal feud, a feud that will never end!
Now Jianchou actually said the word "cooperation" so calmly, instead of raising a knife to chop Xie Buchen
Not to mention Zuo Liu, even Ruhua Gongzi was stunned for a moment.
Jianchou, as the person who said this, did not explain further.
In her opinion, there was no need for explanation.
It's just a temporary expediency.
She knew it, and Xie Buchen knew it too.
Seeing that Xie Buchen agreed and swallowed the Daoquan Pill, Jianchou didn't waste any more time and turned around to fly back into the formation.
She wasn't worried about Xie Buchen at all.
Firstly, Xie Buchen is a Kunwu genius who can form a golden core and break through even when seriously injured. Although his cultivation has been damaged, it is still higher than that of ordinary cultivators.
Secondly, something as good as the Daoquan Pill is considered a holy medicine for healing in Yashan. It was prepared for her long ago by Fudaoshanren. It melts in the mouth and the medicinal power dissipates in almost a breath.
Although Xie Buchen did not have time to meditate and regulate his breathing, being able to move was enough to meet the requirements of this cooperation.
After Jianchou left, Xie Buchen moved his feet and followed him.
Zuo Liu was holding the notebook in his hand, looking at the two men from behind. He had the urge to have the flowery young man pinch him or beat him up.
Is this really not a dream
He pondered for a long time, and seeing that the two had reentered the formation, he thought that they might not be able to hear him, so he muttered: "Senior Sister Jianchou is really generous..."
They were fighting each other to the death before, but now they can cooperate calmly and there is no sense of incongruity.
How can you not be careless
However, Ruhua Gongzi and Xiahou She who were standing nearby had different thoughts after hearing this: Is he very generous
“It is indeed very big…”
The heart is big, the world is big.
Rarely, Mr. Ruhua actually spoke up and agreed with Zuo Liu.
He then turned his gaze and looked at Lu Xiangleng, who was still trapped and almost unconscious, but began to think about the two words "friend" and "enemy" in his mind, and what position each of them held in the heart of this "Daoyou Jianchou".
Xiahou She also heard the hidden meaning of Mr. Ruhua's words, turned his gaze, with almost no change on his expression, and looked at the two people who were walking away.
One is Yashan and the other is Kunwu.
One was dressed in plain clothes, the other in a green robe stained with blood, and they walked past one after the other.
There was no communication between the two people for the time being, but just walking in the void, there was an indescribable sense of harmony.
That is a kind of…
It is a feeling that can only be experienced by people who are acquaintances or even closer than acquaintances.
Be familiar with the opponent's speed and style.
There was a short distance between them, showing that they did not have a very good relationship, but the tacit understanding between their steps was difficult to conceal.
In order to rescue people in the shortest possible time, they must pass through the formation as quickly as possible, or directly break the formation and then bring people out.
Lu Xiangleng's condition was obviously not very good.
Whether it was out of personal friendship or out of companionship, there was no reason for Jianchou to stand idly by.
She stepped into the formation and took a deep breath.
When people are at the edge of the formation, they will only feel the gravity increasing. For Jianchou, this is a relatively simple thing.
Then, she subconsciously looked at Xie Buchen.
Xie Buchen was obviously not a cultivator who practiced physical cultivation, and his physical strength was not particularly strong.
But he had studied the Earthbind Array before, and even worked out many variations of it. He immediately made a hand gesture and set up a "array within an array" to reduce the pressure around him.
Although the small formation within the big formation is good, the effect it can play is really limited. After Xie Buchen swallowed the pill, his injuries recovered significantly, but it was not as swift as bringing the dead back to life. At most, he recovered some strength.
He definitely doesn't have any more spiritual energy to waste on setting up the formation.
At that moment, he swept his eyes, paused at a few places, and said directly: "Go left, break the position first."
The most critical factor restricting their speed of movement is the word "bind" in the Earthbind Formation. Even moving forward is difficult, so how can they move at a good speed
Xie Buchen's plan was very reasonable, but after he said it, he remembered that he had not expressed it in words, for fear that Jianchou did not know his intention.
Unexpectedly, when he looked up, he saw Chou had already walked out as he was told, his figure was so fast that only a shadow remained—
This clearly showed no hesitation at all.
Just because he said "cooperation", she gave him, the enemy who had betrayed her in the past, her full trust.
However, such trust only appeared this time, like a fleeting ephemeral flower.
Xie Buchen was distracted for a moment, and when he came to his senses, he saw Chou slashing at the void with a knife, which was the location of the formation base.
“Bang!”
The sword energy did not spread out, but condensed into a line precisely and hit the target directly.
Along with the sound of shattering, the pressure in the entire formation suddenly eased!
Xie Buchen immediately realized that his judgment was correct.
Jianchou immediately turned around and glanced at Lu Xiangleng below. Without such terrifying pressure, her consciousness seemed to be clearer.
“Buzz!”
With a slight sound, a ray of purple-gold light rose from the mud, instantly becoming the brightest place under the entire dark sky.
Lu Xiangleng opened her eyes slightly, knowing that her protective seal had finally been activated.
As a medicine girl, although she has the cultivation level of a middle-stage Jindan, in a fight, she cannot even beat a slightly stronger early-stage Jindan. Her only reliance is on the elixirs on her body and the magical instruments for protection.
When she was attacked before, she had activated the immobile bell as a defense, but now it was her own protective seal that suddenly activated.
The pressure of the Earthbind Array was so terrifying that it had actually suppressed the protective seal, making it impossible for Lu Xiangleng to use it.
At this moment, Jianchou and Xie Buchen chose to break the pressure of the Earthbind Formation first, which undoubtedly bought Lu Xiangleng a lot of breathing time.
When Jianchou saw that the situation had improved, he was relieved.
At this time, Xie Buchen, who had lagged behind her just now, had already walked up and stood closer to Jianchou: "The power of the earth is formed by borrowing the power of the earth, it is just auxiliary. This large formation has ninety-six small formations, and each one is a killing formation."
Ninety-six small formations nested together to form a large formation...
And every one of them is a killing formation
Jianchou's heart sank, and he understood why Xie Buchen stood by his side.
Without saying a word, the two continued on their way.
Just as Xie Buchen said, the subsequent route became much more dangerous. All kinds of strange things kept popping up in the air and under the water.
Some are sword qi, some are strange skeletons, and some are bizarre illusions...
Jianchou is trapped, and Xie Buchen is also trapped.
But no matter whether it was her or him, no one showed the slightest bit of strangeness or timidity on their face.
Even in the illusion array, it seemed that some illusion involving the grudge between the two people, or a soul-stirring demon was about to appear, but often Xie Buchen would see through the flaws as soon as his head appeared and before he could say a few words.
With just one word of guidance, Jianchou destroyed the formation with one strike of his sword, and was truly invincible.
…
"Qian position advances to forty-five, breaks sixth."
"Bypass the shock position."
…
He spoke one sentence after another, with almost no hesitation or pause. As Jianchou's speed became faster and faster, Xie Buchen's speaking speed also became faster and faster.
His calm eyes swept across the four directions quickly, his lips were still a bloodless and temperatureless blue, and the two thin lips touched each other up and down and flipped quickly, and he gave one prompt after another.
"Bang!"
The water surface on the left suddenly exploded, and a fiery red Vermilion Bird flew towards Jianchou.
Jianchou was holding the deer-cutting knife in her right hand and had just swung it when the Vermillion Bird flew over and instantly turned into a flame, as if it was about to rush towards her.
Xie Buchen frowned, raised his finger, and was about to do something.
Unexpectedly, Jianchou didn't even turn her head back, but raised her left hand, and the Human Emperor Sword, which she had been holding in her hand and had never used, together with the scabbard, drew a sharp arc!
Block with the sword!
"boom!"
The flaming Vermilion Bird, dragging a colorful tail of fire, unexpectedly crashed into the scabbard, instantly exploding into a shower of sparks.
At that moment, looking at it this way, it seemed as if Jianchou was holding a huge fireball in his hand, or as if he was trapping a huge fire phoenix.
The dark black scabbard doesn't seem to have any special patterns and even looks a bit old.
But after the flaming Suzaku collided with it, it was actually safe and sound.
On the contrary, this was an unlucky attack.
As soon as the flame hit the surface of the scabbard, it was like hitting a cold sea of mud, becoming sluggish and slow. One wanted to avoid it immediately, but it was difficult to escape.
Thus, all the flames were absorbed into the scabbard the moment Jianchou raised the sword to block.
In just a blink of an eye, the flames that were so fierce just now suddenly disappeared without even a spark.
Xie Buchen's raised hand stiffened for a moment, then he put it down again.
Jianchou raised his eyebrows, surprised that even the scabbard of the Human Emperor Sword was so powerful, but his pace did not slow down at all.
Keep moving forward!
Outside the formation.
Just now, Jianchou's action of raising the sword to block the attack successfully focused everyone's attention on the sword.
This time when they were in danger, Jianchou came to help, but they didn't say a few words to each other, and they even just met once.
Therefore, during that period of time just now, everyone paid attention to her, Lu Xiangleng, and even Xie Buchen, but no one noticed the sword in her hand!
Until this moment, Zuo Liu stared at the sword for a long time, his heart beating so hard that it almost jumped out of his throat.
He felt his throat dry and burning, as if he had just drunk a poison that could make a person mute.
"T-that sword... does it look familiar to us?"
How can it not look familiar
If that isn’t the Human Emperor Sword that Xie Buchen carried along the way, then what is it
They had witnessed the amazing power of this sword before when they were fighting each other!
Wow, in the blink of an eye he’s already at Jianchou’s side!
The handsome boy couldn't help but ponder it.
When Xie Buchen, the Kunwu genius, appeared again, his body was covered with holes. It is said that women have the most vicious hearts, let alone enemies
Xie Buchen's sword happened to be in Jianchou's hand. He didn't believe at all that Jianchou didn't have any strength at all given that the other party was covered in wounds.
Hearing Zuo Liu's question, Ruhua Gongzi leisurely unfolded the gilded fan and fanned it: "Daoyou Jianchou and Daoyou Kunwu Xie have a deep friendship. They are close friends. It's not a big deal for Daoyou Xie to lend his sword to Senior Sister Jianchou. What's the big deal?"
"… "
Zuo Liu was speechless for a moment, shocked by Ruhua's shamelessness.
Xiahou She was listening, but didn't interrupt.
He was not a talkative person, but his gaze fixed ahead clearly told them that he was still paying attention to the situation in the formation.
The flaming Vermillion Bird was just a trivial episode. Jianchou still maintained his high-speed progress, and Xie Buchen was still exactly one to three steps away from Jianchou, not too much, nor too little.
He pointed out the fastest way to break the formation one by one, his steps were very calm, but everyone could see the importance between his brows.
I have to admit that he is good-looking and talented.
Even if he stood calmly in the formation, he would not make people feel that he was too aloof.
So looking at it this way, one would not feel disgusted, but would only feel that the cooperation between him and Jianchou has reached the ultimate in tacit understanding.
When one person speaks, the other person will definitely understand the meaning and have the strong power to implement it.
One of them spoke clearly and accurately, made firm judgments, and had not made any mistakes so far; the other one acted ruthlessly and decisively, without hesitation, and had not failed so far.
The two of them, one talking and the other taking action, quickly approached Lu Xiangleng.
If people outside don't look carefully, they can only see the afterimages in the formation!
…
“Reverse the yin and yang.”
"Position 45, the center of the formation."
"Kang Long."
…
Xie Buchen sometimes would not directly state the directions of the Eight Trigrams, but would indicate the directions by the numbers and images of the trigrams.
This is because its location is too complicated. If I describe it in detail, it will probably take a while. Who knows what changes will happen in this time
All he could do was to avoid accidents as much as possible and nip them in the bud before they happened.
Use the fewest and most concise language to quickly indicate the direction.
But this also places high demands on the listeners.
If you are not familiar with the hexagrams and numbers, you will be confused just by hearing the two words "Kanglong". Then there is no need to talk about saving time. You will be lucky if you don't die here.
Fortunately, Jianchou knew everything.
The illogical and even extremely unfamiliar words spoken by others will be automatically deconstructed and rearranged in her mind to form a feasible route.
She walked boldly and carefully, often opening up a whole new world at the most thrilling moments.
Jianchou took a step forward and flew away to avoid the lightning that was falling from above his head.
Xie Buchen was extremely familiar with the battle formation, and he already knew where the "Wuzhang Drum" would fall this time. He walked in an unobstructed manner, and the lightning brushed past his wide, blood-stained sleeves and struck the wide water surface below.
The location where Lu Xiangleng was was right in front of him.
The countless muds around squeezed the purple-gold light held up by the protective seal, and it seemed that it would burst like a bubble. The light, which was not very bright to begin with, became even dimmer.
Jianchou and Xie Buchen both had a clear assessment of the situation.
One person took a step forward, and the other followed, and in the blink of an eye they entered the next formation.
He only heard a "buzzing" sound in his ears, and pieces of spiritual light burst out around him. Xie Buchen looked around and understood everything.
In the Spirit Snake Formation, all attacks are transformed from spiritual energy into snakes, and are soaked in snake venom.
Firstly, its speed is astonishing and its attack is agile. Secondly, its poison is astonishing. It does not target the body of the cultivator but the soul. Once touched, at least the cultivation level will drop, and at worst the person will become mentally disturbed and become insane.
Xie Buchen frowned slightly, but spoke calmly: "Left Six, Xing—"
When he finished speaking, his voice suddenly paused, and even he himself was stunned.
So natural and unexpected...
"Xing" is no longer a word used in hexagrams, but in Go.
He subconsciously looked at Jianchou.
Jianchou was facing sideways towards him, so he couldn't see the expression on her face. She seemed to frown slightly, but he didn't know whether it was because of the pause in his words or because of the word "star" that he blurted out.
In short, everything happened in a flash of thought.
While moving, Jianchou changed her direction to the left without hesitation. The moment she left where she was, countless poisonous snakes flew out, but all of them missed.
The Go board is square with nine special points on it, marked with thick circles. These are the so-called "star" positions on the board.
The "Tianyuan" on the chessboard is a "star" position at the very center of the chessboard.
Now that Xie Buchen blurted out the word "star" to indicate the location, Jianchou was not confused.
even…
She knew very well where the word "star" came from.
The formation in front of him only had one "star" position due to its layout. Being familiar with Go, formations, and Xie Buchen's Jianchou, he could easily deduce its position.
So, he flew up and slashed it with one blow!
"boom!"
A dazzling knife light cut through the darkness, and a huge light appeared.
Xie Buchen's eyes were also temporarily dimmed by the light, and there was a moment of emptiness.
Wherever his eyes looked, he saw the flash of swords.
Then, my mind and vision went blank for a moment.
He seemed to hear a voice coming from a distant river of time and space...
"So there is no position for 'star' in the formation?"
…
"It's not what it is, but it is what it is. If you take it, it's here."
A clean finger lightly touched the prepared sand table and pointed out a certain position, which was the point calculated by overlapping the position of the chessboard and the position of the formation.
Hence, from then on, the third young master of Marquis Xie’s mansion would occasionally refer to this complex direction as “star position”.
Even when he watched her playing chess with the Marquis's wife, knowing that she couldn't win, but couldn't lose easily either, he casually held his tea, stood by the window, and said with a smile: "You playing chess is more dangerous than me setting up a battle array..."
As he spoke, he tapped lightly on the window frame with his fingers.
"Thu."
A soft sound struggled out from the memories, and was instantly drowned out by the whistling wind.
Xie Bushen was still in shock.
Jianchou broke the formation with one sword, and all the attacks that had not yet been launched in the formation stopped immediately.
She wanted to move forward, but felt that Xie Buchen was not following her, so she turned back, only to find that he was distracted at this moment.
Xie Buchen has always had everything under control, and his scheming and tactics are first-rate, so how could he be distracted
She frowned and was about to speak.
“Whoosh!”
A surviving spirit snake suddenly appeared out of nowhere beside Xie Buchen!
It has a small, silvery-white body, but there is a dark purple mark on the top of its head, which makes it obvious that it is highly poisonous.
It swung its tail, leaving an illusory and dangerous trajectory, heading straight towards Xie Buchen's head!
How could Xie Buchen know what was happening around him when he was distracted
Seeing that the silver snake was about to succeed, Jianchou's brows furrowed even tighter, with a frosty and murderous aura between his brows. He turned his wrist and clenched the deer-cutting knife tightly in his palm.
The two-foot curved knife, with its tip glowing with the cold light of frost and snow under the bright moon, passed by Xie Buchen's ear at an extremely tricky angle!
With a turn of the wrist, the blade turns to the side!
The attacking snake was about to drill into Xie Buchen's head, but was stabbed away by Jianchou with a knife!
The two-inch position of the knife tip was just blocking the spirit snake.
"bite!"
It turned out to be a crisp sound of metal collision!
The spirit snake blocked the Deer-Cutting Knife, and the light around it dissipated, revealing its true form, which was just a silver plum blossom needle!
The attack failed, the formation was broken, and the plum blossom needle naturally flew backwards and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The blade was icy cold, projecting chill.
Jianchou still maintained the posture of holding the knife.
The deer-cutting knife stopped at the side of Xie Buchen. Xie Buchen's eyes moved, his pupils flashed slightly, and he felt a bit of coldness in his ears.
He has come to his senses.
Jianchou's frown had not relaxed, and there seemed to be some doubt in her eyes, but she did not ask Xie Buchen why he was absent-minded.
With a flick of the wrist, he withdrew.
She then took back the Deer Cutting Knife. She turned around and faced the formation again, saying calmly, "It seems that after entering the Nineteenth Continent, my research on the formation and the chessboard is still there."
Xie Buchen knew that she was referring to the word "star". He did not explain why he was in a trance. He was silent for a moment and just nodded: "Yes."
A simple word "yes" seems to be calm and peaceful, but it also seems to be full of twists and turns...
Jianchou was almost standing shoulder to shoulder with him, only three feet apart.
But these three feet are like a chasm that cannot be crossed.
Xie Buchen lowered his eyes and said, "There is only one formation left, just break it."
After dismantling the formation along the way, he already had a clear understanding of this formation.
Judging from the selection and combination of the formations, the one who set up the formation must be a master, but his strongest point is definitely not his attainments in formations, but his own cultivation.
All the various clever changes in the formations along the way are "skills", only the last formation requires "force". All the clever changes in the formations are just embellishments. In the end, if you cannot break it with "force", all previous efforts will be in vain.
Jianchou understood what Xie Buchen meant, raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked up to the person who set up the formation.
Undoubtedly, the last formation is Jianchou's favorite.
When she stood in front of the formation, she could see a vague circle that trapped Lu Xiangleng in the middle.
If we break this "circle", this little incident can be solved.
The Deer-Cutting Knife was put away and the Ghost Axe was out again. Jianchou held the Ghost Axe tightly, feeling the fighting spirit it conveyed to her, then she jumped high, and at the same time, she mobilized the spiritual power around her and slashed fiercely!
The overwhelming red swept away again.
When the sharp light of the axe touched the edge of the formation, a soft "pop" sound was heard.
Originally, this hidden world did not have much spiritual power supply, and the formation consumed a huge amount of spiritual energy. Moreover, the hidden world was now broken, so the power of the last formation was naturally reduced.
Jianchou did not underestimate it and directly used one of his killer moves, "Red Sun Slash", which naturally completely opened up the entire formation at this moment!
At this moment, a gap opened towards Jianchou.
Lu Xiangleng below has completely reached the limit of his ability to support.
At the moment when the red clouds in the sky shattered the boundaries of the formation, she raised her eyes in the flickering purple-gold light and saw the familiar figure.
In Lu Xiangleng's cognition, Jianchou is different from others.
She believed it when she first saw him.
A temperament that is completely different from that of the female cultivators in the entire 19 continents, and not even the temperament of ordinary women on the isolated islands of the human world. She is unique and powerful.
Everyone naturally regards her as the leader and takes her as the center.
Although Lu Xiangleng is a famous medicine girl, she is actually no exception.
The moment he saw her coming, many things flashed through Lu Xiangleng's mind.
It was the disgusted look on the wrist of an old woman who came to ask for water after she brought her some water, it was the stones thrown at her by a little beggar after she bandaged him, it was the cold looks when she was surrounded by people and no one came to her aid when her cultivation was still low...
Who will reach out to her
Is she really affectionate
or…
Is her choice really the right one
…
All the questions popped up in her mind the moment her consciousness relaxed.
The purple-gold light shook and then completely disintegrated!
Lu Xiangleng was pulled down by the force.
Below, there is a filthy mire, a bottomless abyss, a filthy mire…
Lu Xiangleng was actually a little confused, and even had an absurd idea in her mind: Otherwise, it would be nice to just fall down like this.
But the next moment, that familiar figure came over.
At the same time, a white hand stretched out towards her from afar!
At that moment, Lu Xiangleng raised her plain eyes and met Jianchou's eyes: no doubt, no hesitation, and no fear.
Her eyes were the purest of anyone she had ever seen.
Only determination.
Then she suddenly smiled.
The pure lotus is not stained by mud, and it is not evil.
At the moment when the sorrow passed by, she extended her hand to her, dignified and calm.
“Bang!”
The two palms were clasped together.
Jianchou pulled her and she instantly escaped from the quagmire on the swamp and fell towards the flat ground not far away on the opposite side.
…
At this moment, the hearts of Ruhua Gongzi and others finally settled down, and a smile appeared on their faces.
Even Xiahou She seemed to be relieved.
Xie Buchen neither stood on the side of Ruhua Gongzi and others, nor on the side of Jianchou and Lu Xiangleng. He just stood in the middle, looking at the entire broken formation.
No one knew if he was distracted again.
The wind blew his clothes, but his whole body did not sway at all, and remained motionless.