"Anan, do you know? I've been in the mine for five years. I kept a low profile for the first three years, and was tempered in life-and-death battles every day for the last two years. You should have seen the scene in the mine. It's a narrow passage with only two exits, front and back. If you get blocked, you'll die."
"I have no teammates. I am just one person with a gun and two swords. I often face either a few miners or groups of monsters. From the beginning, I have to fight for my life. No one gives me time to accumulate spiritual energy and use big moves. If I start to make a hand gesture, I will be dead before the hand gesture is made."
"Below the mine, the sect disciples' tricks are useless and not as effective as mortal martial arts. Everyone in the mine understands this principle, so they don't have any seventh-grade skills, high-level spells, or powerful magic weapons. All they have is a ruthless attitude that wants to kill you."
"Each of them can calculate their own spiritual energy to the extreme. They know how much spiritual energy each move will consume, and if they can't kill their opponent within a certain number of moves, they have to escape. They are really smart and use everything they can around them to win, even if it means sacrificing the lives of their teammates."
Jiang Yuebai's words made Lu Nanzhi silent. She put herself in her shoes and thought, if she was in a mine tunnel and encountered a group battle, she couldn't even use her sword. Even if she fought to the death, how many chances would she win
The more she thought about it, the more she felt sorry for Jiang Yuebai. She didn't know how she had managed to survive all these years.
Lu Nanzhi's depressed mood calmed down. In the fight just now, she was competing with Jiang Yuebai, and Jiang Yuebai was trying to kill her.
She lost from the beginning.
Jiang Yuebai took a sip of tea to moisten his throat. "You are a natural water spirit body. The amount of spiritual energy you have should be no less than my five spiritual roots, and the replenishment speed is also fast. But you created such a large water curtain at the beginning. Have you calculated how much spiritual energy is wasted?"
"It's not worth it just to intimidate me. I'm not afraid of you at all. You can't intimidate me, but instead make me alert and be fully prepared. How can you take advantage of the situation? You leave some strength in every move and every style, and you waste your energy."
Lu Nanzhi nodded. She had just followed the crowd and had not paid attention to this problem before. But now, looking at it from Jiang Yuebai's perspective, she realized that she was just a self-righteous flower in a greenhouse and had never seen a real storm.
Lu Nanzhi was glad that Jiang Yuebai had awakened her early on, otherwise, if she really faced a life-and-death crisis, she would surely die.
"In my opinion, the most effective way to start is to kill the most opponents with the least amount of spiritual energy and the fastest speed before they become alert, so as to reduce the pressure on me later. So, Anan, I will not spar with others, I will only take their lives. If I fail to take their lives, my kung fu of escaping is also first-rate."
Jiang Yuebai suddenly smiled, and Lu Nanzhi, who was originally serious, burst into laughter.
"I thought you were a man who would never give up, but it turns out you are as timid as a mouse."
"The world is big, but life is the most important. Reputation is nothing. Only those who survive have the most respect. By the way, I left in a hurry that year and forgot to ask you, has your spirit body recovered? Has the marriage been cancelled? And have you been punished when you returned to the Lu family?"
Jiang Yuebai asked repeatedly, and Lu Nanzhi sighed.
"Of course there is a punishment. My Lu family's ancestor has great magical powers. He found an object for me to gather the ice spirit energy in my body in my dantian. The effect on the spirit body is extremely weak, so the marriage..."
Seeing Lu Nanzhi in distress, Jiang Yuebai hurried to comfort her, "Don't worry, if that day really comes, I will help you find a solution. At worst, I can escape with you."
Lu Nanzhi smiled bitterly, "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Rest tonight and fight me again tomorrow morning."
"No, no, I can't kill you. If I fight you again, my edge will be worn out. I have to go out on a mission in two days. If you want to improve, don't go to the martial arts arena to spar. Find a place where you can fight for your life."
"A place where life and death are at stake..."
The next morning, Jiang Yuebai woke up from meditating in the side room of Lu Nanzhi's courtyard.
As expected, the spiritual energy on the thirty-six inner gate peaks was rich, but ever since she entered the eighth level of Qi training, she had a feeling that the spiritual energy in her body was becoming full and it was difficult to contain more spiritual energy. The spiritual energy that she had spent a lot of effort to introduce into her body could only dissipate because it could not be contained.
The efficiency of cultivation is not as good as before, and the progress of cultivation is much slower. If this continues, it would be considered fast to enter the ninth level of Qi training in five years.
Should I start taking pills? Or should I continue to be patient and polish my skills? Jiang Yuebai hesitated. Thinking of her grandfather's advice to try not to take pills, she decided to try for a while and find other ways.
"I want to tell Anan that I want this room."
After chatting a lot with Lu Nanzhi last night, Jiang Yuebai realized that Tiangang Peak is not easy to enter.
True Lord Fuyi has set up ninety-nine linked formations at the foot of the peak. If one wants to live on Tiangang Peak, one must break at least nine of the formations, and the formations will become stronger as one moves further back.
The more they break, the closer they live to the palace of True Lord Fuyi. So far, no one, including other Yuanying True Lords in the sect, has been able to break all ninety-nine formations.
Jiang Yuebai decided to stay with Lu Nanzhi for a while. Tiangang Peak was right next door. He would wait until she finished her mission and came back to break the formation.
I pushed the door open and went out. The courtyard was quiet. Lu Nanzhi was not there, but there was a piece of paper on the table.
[After listening to your words last night, I suddenly felt that the five years of hard work were all in vain. From today on, I will enter the Sword Tomb for the trial. During the small competition, we will fight again.]
"Something bad has happened to Jiang Yuebai!!"
Xie Jingshan rushed in in panic.
"I don't know what Lu Nanzhi has gone crazy for. He suddenly rushed into the sword tomb this morning."
Xie Jingshan ran in and saw the note in Jiang Yuebai's hand. He asked in surprise, "So it was because of you. What did you say to her that made her want to die? Wait, she said she would fight again. Did you... did you beat her?!"
Lu Nanzhi has already lost. If she had really gone into the ring with him and pinned him to the ground and beat him yesterday, wouldn’t his reputation have been ruined
That was a close call! That was a close call!
On second thought, Xie Jingshan felt that it was Jiang Yuebai, and defeating Lu Nanzhi was unexpected but reasonable.
After all, Jiang Yuebai is a pervert who never sleeps and doesn’t even bother to practice while mining!
"Is the sword tomb dangerous?" Jiang Yuebai asked.
"Of course!" Xie Jingshan came back to his senses and answered firmly.
"There are all kinds of brutal sword formations and sword intent left by powerful sword cultivators. Those things are not like humans. They have no reason and only murderous intent. The sect stipulates that only sword cultivators in the foundation-building stage can enter the sword tomb for trial. Moreover, nine out of ten sword cultivators who enter in the past generations will be seriously injured."
Jiang Yuebai nodded, "Don't worry, Anan knows what she is doing."
"But I don't know! I also want to know what you said to her last night!"
Xie Jingshan was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. Jiang Yuebai must have told Lu Nanzhi some tricks or secret recipes to improve his strength. These two despicable villains were excluding him!
Jiang Yuebai narrowed his eyes and smiled, "We just talked about our respective experiences over the years. By the way, what's wrong with you, Xie Jingshan? You have been escorted by powerful monks when you go out on missions in recent years. What is your origin? If you continue like this, you will never truly grow up."
Xie Jingshan gritted his teeth and said, "I can't do anything about it! It's all my grandfather's fault... I'm the only child in my family, and my grandfather is too worried."
Jiang Yuebai shook his head. "I have something else to do, so I'll leave first. I'll come drink with you when I'm done."
Xie Jingshan made a prompt decision, "Let's drink the wine after I come out of the sword tomb."
Jiang Yuebai was stunned, and Xie Jingshan turned around and left decisively.
Jiang Yuebai thought that Xie Jingshan was just talking, but she didn't expect that he really went to ask the sect leader for help and followed him into the sword tomb.
When the news came out, the whole sect was in an uproar.
Everyone was secretly cursing Lu Nanzhi and Xie Jingshan for being unkind and not leaving anyone a chance to survive.
You're already ranked first or second, why do you still need to enter the Sword Tomb Trial? Weren't you doing fine before and already doing well? !
The atmosphere in the entire sect suddenly became tense.
Flower Valley.
Jiang Yuebai returned to the old house and prepared to take some things and move in with Lu Nanzhi.
After all, this place brought back memories for her. She felt sad every time she came back. When she buried her grandfather and completed her tasks and came back, the old house would definitely no longer be there.
People should always look forward and not dwell on the past.
When she was very young, her mother taught her to crawl forward and not look back, because there was life ahead and only a burial ground behind.
Pushing the door open, Jiang Yuebai saw Lu Ying sitting alone at the stone table in the yard, with a lot on her mind. She didn't even notice her coming in.
"Lu Ying, what are you doing here?"
Lu Ying suddenly woke up, with a struggle hidden between her brows.
"I've been so busy running around these past few days that I haven't thanked you enough for forcing my way through the inner gate to find Xie Jingshan for me five years ago. Really, if you hadn't found Xie Jingshan to help me, I wouldn't be here today."
Jiang Yuebai was sincerely grateful. Now that he was older and more experienced, he thought back to the quarrel with Lu Ying and felt it was really childish. He was also too careless in his words and always hurt people's feelings.
"What are you doing back here?"
Jiang Yuebai was stunned, "Lü Ying, what do you mean?"
Lu Ying took a breath, staring at Jiang Yuebai with red eyes.
"Why did you come back when you were free and easy outside? Since you came back and became an inner sect disciple, why do you want to stay in Huaxi Valley? Can't you go away and stop bothering me?"
"Am I so cheap and easy to bully? Do you really want me to show off your superiority in front of me and let me serve as your foil, or do you want me to be your lackey, groveling and fawning on you? I'm telling you, I can't do that!"
"If you really still have some gratitude towards me, then get out of here as soon as possible, don't show up in Huaxi Valley, don't disturb my peaceful days, go be your inner disciple, be your favorite child, and let me rot in the mud, okay!"
(End of this chapter)