As soon as these words came out, Wei Changqing sneered: "Master Gu, do you mean that he can escape from us?"
It's no wonder that he would mock. With nearly twenty inner alchemy masters attacking at the same time, an ordinary person would have had his tendons and veins broken if he had to withstand such a force. Even if he didn't die, his Taoist meridians would have been severely damaged.
Zhan Renjie frowned and looked at Gu Pinglin: "You..."
Just now, he was under the pressure of the realm and could not remind in time, thus missing the opportunity. Gu Pinglin did not explain, and with his fingers, the Gu Ying sword became several feet long and suddenly slashed towards the water surface, splitting the water into two sides.
"Teleportation array!" someone gasped and exclaimed.
In the blink of an eye, the water in the pool closed again. Even though it was only a brief flash, the cultivators could see clearly that at the bottom of the pool was a fragment of a teleportation array!
"How could this be!" Wei Changqing's face changed. He still didn't believe it and controlled the sword to split the water.
The scene at the bottom of the pool once again appeared clearly before everyone's eyes.
"When did he set up the formation?" The Taoist governor of Feijian Palace was shocked. "How come no one in Penglai noticed it?"
Everyone looked at Nanzhu. Nanzhu frowned and waved her hand to order two disciples to go down and investigate. After a while, the disciples came up and reported: "There is indeed a fragment of the formation map below, and there are six corpses of disciples. They should be the earth vein guards."
"How is that possible!" Wei Changqing said repeatedly, "Even if he didn't die, he should have been seriously injured. It's impossible for him to set up a formation in such a short time, let alone kill someone!"
How could the two souls not be in the soul stone? When did he realize it? Gu Pinglin was also confused, and he could only force himself to stay calm and briefly explain: "It was Yan Sen who killed people and set up the formation. Yan Sen came here in advance to set up the formation and killed the guards."
Someone shook his head: "This small teleportation array can only be used once. Yan Sen has used it, so he can't use it again."
Gu Pinglin said: "He only needs to restore Yan Sen's remaining formation. Restoring the remaining formation does not require measuring the position of the formation symbols, which is faster and more convenient than setting up the formation from scratch. So there should have been two formation diagrams below, but we only saw one."
"So that's how it is." Everyone suddenly realized.
"Yan Sen was able to sneak into Penglai. This is strange," Lord Ping Cang pondered, "Why did he attack you, Master Gu?"
Gu Pinglin said: "It's just an old grudge."
Seeing that he was unwilling to say more, Lord Pingcang concluded that it was a personal grudge between the two and did not ask further: "It will take time to restore the remaining map, but I have never seen Master Duan Liu leave before. When did he go down to set up the formation?"
Gu Pinglin said: "He didn't go, someone helped him."
"Who?" Everyone was surprised.
Gu Pinglin glanced around.
It was those noble children, his "friends". He had been preparing since Yan Sen showed up. Yan Sen killed the ground vein guard, and no one noticed what happened below. He deliberately delayed time to attract everyone's attention, so that those noble children had the opportunity to go down and set up the formation. No wonder he always felt weird. He has always been very popular, but no one of his friends stood up to speak. This is unreasonable. But he was a step too slow. If he exposed it now, these people would not admit it.
For Duan Qingming, winning people's hearts is too easy. He is so outstanding that people look up to him and obey him unconditionally. He has such ability.
However, having set up this trap myself, how could I let him escape so easily
Gu Pinglin suppressed his chaotic thoughts: "This matter needs to be investigated by the South Island Master. It is important to catch Duan Qingming first."
"Since it happened on Linggui Island, I will definitely track it down and catch the accomplices." Shun Shigong bowed to Nanzhu, and was puzzled. "It's just strange. This boy is only an external elixir cultivator. After being hit by your powerful moves, his Taoist meridians should have been destroyed. How could he escape?"
Everyone was also very puzzled. Several inner alchemy masters felt humiliated. Wei Changqing's old face turned red.
An elder from Guangling Sect tried to smooth things over: "Is it because of the Demon Ancestor's technique?"
"That's right, this boy is so cunning at such a young age, we must root him out!" Wei Changqing snorted, "He should be seriously injured and won't last long."
Someone asked, "Although we know the entry diagram, we don't know where his exit diagram is set up, and where he teleported to?"
Wei Changqing said: "This is easy! The small earth vein can't teleport very far, he must still be on Penglai Island, just search the island!"
Nanzhu narrowed her eyes and said, "The island search is of great importance, so I'm afraid it's not appropriate."
"This matter is more important, why are you still hesitating!" Wei Changqing has a very high status in Feijian Palace, and he was quite impolite in his words. He forgot for a moment that Nanzhu was the master of Penglai Island. How could he let an outsider say to search the island? He was just impatient, "If we can't catch him, we must catch his accomplices!"
Nanzhu's face darkened slightly. She was about to say something else, but Gu Pinglin waved his hand and said, "I know where he went."
Xianshe Island also has a branch of the earth vein, and it is not small. A teleportation array is set up here, which can teleport to a distance of hundreds of miles. The Xianshe Island's large teleportation array is set up here, and several array diagrams are flashing continuously. Dozens of guards are on guard. When they see Nanzhu, they kneel down and salute.
Seeing the fragment of the battle formation diagram next to him, Wei Changqing was shocked and angry: "Damn it! He really escaped from here!"
Gu Pinglin breathed a sigh of relief instead.
He should have escaped. Even though he had not expected that he would ask the son of a noble family to help set up the formation, he did not think that he could be killed at the waterfall viewing platform.
After all, he is Duan Qingming.
He had the stone lotus seeds obtained from the Flame Bird Mechanism, which could repair the Dao Meridian. His first round was just to force him to use his trump card in advance. In this life, the "Heaven Repairing Art" did not have the ability to repair the Dao Meridian. If he wanted to escape, he could only use the stone lotus seeds to support himself in a hurry. It would take time for the medicinal power of the stone lotus seeds to fully dissipate. The next second round would be the real way to take his life.
Wei Changqing scolded the guards: "What are you guys doing?"
Nanzhu said coldly: "Yan Sen attacked, and they retreated into the barrier under my order. The cultivation of Penglai disciples is shallow, and they are not as brave as Elder Wei to fight Yan Sen alone. I can't let them take risks."
Wei Changqing reacted and his old face turned red and white. Yan Sen was a well-known devil, so how could he dare to fight with Yan Sen? He was just relying on his numbers.
Lord Pingcang shook his head at Nanzhu, with a hint of blame in his eyes: "Elder Wei is also eager to kill the demon."
Everyone agreed to help.
Nanzhu did not continue to mock Wei Changqing, and asked the guard in a deep voice: "Has anyone left?"
The leading guard replied, "We retreated into the barrier under the order of the island master. We saw a young man coming from afar. It seemed that..." He stopped to think.
Nanzhu said, "It's Mr. Duan Liu."
The guard shook his head and remembered: "It was Master Qi Thirteen."
"What!" Gu Pinglin's expression was stern.
Everyone was also surprised. Nanzhu frowned and asked, "How could it be him?"
The man was puzzled: "It was indeed the Thirteenth Young Master Qi. He spent half an hour setting up the formation and left. We all saw it. It can't be wrong."
They were clearly after Duan Qingming, but suddenly Qi Wan'er was brought up, and everyone was confused. The Guangling Sect elder laughed and said, "I heard that Qi Zhen was looking for his grandson, and it turns out that the young master has hidden in Penglai."
Nanzhu pretended not to know: "So the Thirteenth Master Qi has also come to Penglai? Could it be that he is here to look for Patriarch Duan and Senior Yuan?"
Obviously, although the large teleportation array in Penglai is ready, it requires specific spells to activate. Therefore, Qi Wan'er can only set up the array herself to leave. She used the most common and simplest teleportation array, which becomes invalid after one use. The incomplete map also confirms this.
Things were out of control and Gu Pinglin frowned.
Because of the concern for Duan family, the best way to deal with Duan Qingming is to use Qi family. I have no intention to betray Qi Wan'er, but I just want to use him to attract Qi family's people to avoid Duan Qingming's suspicion, so I reminded him to leave in advance, and at the same time sent Cheng Yi away by sending a letter, otherwise Cheng Yi would be stubborn on Duan Qingming's side and it would be easy to cause trouble.
But why didn't Qi Wan'er leave with Yao Feng? Where did he teleport to after returning to Fairy Snake Island
According to the plan, Qi's people would wait outside the Qizi Reef for Qi Wan'er to show up, but they "accidentally" met Duan Qingming who escaped from Penglai with serious injuries...
In a flash, Gu Pinglin said, "Not good!"
The large teleportation array suddenly began to flicker.
At Nanzhu's signal, the guard went over to open the battle formation diagram. After a while, a disciple appeared out of nowhere, and knelt down to salute when he saw Nanzhu and Lord Pingcang.
Without waiting for Nanzhu to speak, Gu Pinglin asked anxiously, "Is it Chess Reef?"
The disciple smiled and said, "I was just looking for Sect Leader Gu. The Qi family and their group met the Thirteenth Young Master near Chess Reef. The head of the Qi family specifically asked me to pass on a message to thank Sect Leader Gu."
Fallen in a trap! Gu Pinglin said: "Duan Qingming is still in Penglai!"
The teleportation array flickered again, and this time another guard came over: "Reporting to Lord Pingcang, Yan Sen broke out of Penglai Island from the east road, and many disciples were killed by him. Lord Liuyu has led his men to chase him out."
Yan Sen attacked from the east road, and those who died must be people from the main island. No wonder Guo Feng wanted to kill him. Nanzhu's eyes flashed with a smile, but she said angrily: "Damn it! Tell all the disciples to help Liu Yugong capture Yan Sen with all their strength!"
Lord Pingcang also said: "Send orders to all places to strengthen the guards!"
Yan Sen had already left, and Penglai Island could do nothing to him. Guo Feng chased him out just to save some face. In fact, no one wanted to offend Yan Sen, so they just comforted Nanzhu.
Wei Changqing couldn't help but ask, "Where is Duan Liu?"
Gu Pinglin did not answer, and said to Nanzhu: "Brother Nan, please make sure that people guard the land veins and important roads in Penglai, and then order the patrol disciples of Qizi Reef to strengthen patrols and monitor the ships coming and going."
Nanzhu nodded: "I'll arrange it."
"Everyone follow me!" Gu Pinglin said and then escaped.
Qi Wan'er was used. He had made a bet with Duan Qingming that he would not enter the Southern Realm for fifty years. If Duan Qingming took the initiative to cancel the bet and put forward conditions, he would definitely agree. Or, Duan Qingming was exchanging information about Qi Yanfeng with him.
Duan Qingming is always Duan Qingming, and he will never give his full trust to anyone.
Yan Sen was a master of Dan Yijing, and had enough strength to fight his way out, but Duan Qingming only had Wai Dan cultivation and was seriously injured. If he wanted to escape, the first choice must be the teleportation array. There was only one vein branch near Qizi Reef, which was large enough to be the best place to set up the formation. At that time, I took him to the outer area of Qizi Reef to hunt and kill the Moon Swallowing Beast because I knew he would not completely trust me, so I deliberately let him set up the formation - this person was very smart and his actions were difficult to control, so it would be better to take the initiative to give him a chance.
He used Qi Wan'er's information to lure Qi and let Qi wait at the Chess Reef so as to complete the final step of ambushing him. However, he made the fake come true and let Qi Wan'er show up on her own initiative to lead Qi away, and the game was cracked.
Gu Pinglin was not too disappointed.
This person is as cunning as a fox, so it is not surprising that he can break the deadlock. The most crucial thing now is that neither of them has a complete grasp of the other's layout and has to rely entirely on inference. Whoever's inference is more accurate will have a greater chance of winning.
He couldn't hold out for long after being injured, which was his advantage. Normally, after Qi left, he might have a chance to have people reset the exit map at Qizi Reef, but he had Nanzhu tell the guards at Qizi Reef to strengthen patrols, which eliminated this possibility. Moreover, the teleportation array required not only an exit map, but also a corresponding entry map. As long as they guarded several major branches of the earth veins on Penglai Island, he would have no chance.
How was he going to get out? Since he was still in Penglai, where was he hiding
The bright moon sets in the west, the night fades, and dawn is approaching.
In the guest house of Xianshe Island, the rockery and dead trees were still there, but there was no one under the trees. Xin Ji, Jiang Ruoxu, Leng Xu and other Lingxin Sect disciples were all on the corridor, and Bu Shuihan should still be sleeping. Seeing so many people pouring into the yard, Jiang Ruoxu walked over quickly: "Master..."
Gu Pinglin stopped him from talking, walked straight inside, turned around the rockery, walked up the stone steps, and pushed open Duan Qingming's door.
Someone exclaimed.
The room was quiet and tidy, the desk was spotless, and even the mattress was not wrinkled at all, as if no one had ever lived there.
A huge formation diagram was engraved on the ground in the center, and countless gray stones were scattered around it. They were actually scrapped spirit stones!
Lord Pingcang said: "The spirit stone opened the formation, and he really did come back."
Under normal circumstances, the teleportation array needs to be set up on the earth veins, but a small teleportation array with a short distance does not require much spiritual energy, and can be replaced by spirit stones. The cost is also extremely high. Thousands of high-quality spirit stones are consumed each time, and it can only teleport once. This is undoubtedly a huge amount of money. Few people in the cultivation world dare to do this, but Duan Qingming was once the heir of the Duan family, so it is not difficult for him to come up with so many spirit stones.
Wei Changqing said: "He was teleported back from the waterfall viewing platform, and then what?"
Everyone couldn't help but look at Gu Pinglin, who frowned and thought.
Xin Ji looked around and asked tentatively: "Maybe in another room..."
"Go to my room." Gu Pinglin interrupted him.
Meeting his gaze, Xin Ji shuddered and hurriedly smiled: "Master Gu has an idea, and I have the same idea."
Gu Pinglin walked to the side and opened his door himself.
The room was just as clean and tidy, even tidier than when I left earlier. The table and chairs were in the most suitable positions, and even the teacups that were casually placed there were put back in their original places. The only thing left was a book placed diagonally on the table.
Everything was in order, and this volume stood out.
On the old book, four words are particularly eye-catching: "Nine Chapters of Refining the Spirit".