Qin Wanwan and Jian Xingzhi chatted casually for a while, then returned to their room and began to prepare for tomorrow's affairs.
Qin Wanwan was mainly preparing the things needed after entering the maze, while Jian Xingzhi was busy preparing a gift for Qin Wanwan's parents.
The two spent an entire night filling their Qiankun bags, and finally gained some confidence in entering Xuanshan.
666 felt helpless when he saw Jian Xingzhi busying himself. He praised Jian Xingzhi against his will: "Master, you don't have to be so nervous, right? You... you are still quite likable."
"I don't know if I am liked by others," Jian Xingzhi hung the Qiankun bag on his waist, opened the door and walked out, "But no one likes someone who has beaten their daughter. I have to perform well this time. When I return to the fairyland, Master Taishan will not hate me so much!"
"What?"
Seeing Jian Xingzhi open the door, Qin Wanwan and others who were waiting outside turned to look over. Jian Xingzhi patted his Qiankun bag and said happily, "It's ready!"
The group came to the foot of Xuanshan Mountain with full confidence. Many people had already gathered around. Only two teams entered the semi-finals this time. They confirmed their identities quickly. After confirming their identities, Luo Bufan briefly explained the rules to them and asked them one last time: "Any questions?"
"no problem."
Qin Wanwan put her hands behind her back and answered confidently.
Venerable Miaoyan smiled and nodded: "I have no problem with that either."
"Yes." Luo Bufan raised his hand, and two light gates appeared in front of the two teams. "Please enter the maze at the same time."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Wanwan took the lead and rushed in with Jian Xingzhi and others.
After rushing into the light gate, the first thing they saw was a fork in the road. Jian Xingzhi and Qin Wanwan looked at each other. Qin Wanwan took out four ropes and looked at them expectantly: "This is the idea I came up with last night."
Everyone looked at the ropes, and Qin Wanwan explained to them: "Last night I found four of the longest ropes I could find. Tie the ropes around your waists and choose a path to run out. I can sense your location, draw a map, and then infer possible routes. You run according to my requirements. Once you have run through all the dead ends, only the way out will be left."
"Idea."
Xie Gutang nodded and immediately said, "Then tie him up."
"Wait," Jian Xingzhi stopped everyone and said confidently, "I have a faster way."
Everyone looked at him, and Jian Xingzhi vowed: "When I was digging ancient tombs, I often encountered mazes. There is a method that always works."
"any solution?"
Qin Wanwan was surprised. Jian Xingzhi turned and looked at the wall in front of him. He said confidently, "Just go ahead."
"Go straight... straight?"
Qin Wanwan was a little confused. Jian Xingzhi nodded and took out the map from her hand: "Look, we are now in the west, and the exit is in the east."
"That's right," Qin Wanwan didn't understand, "and then?"
"We just keep going east," Jian Xingzhi drew a straight line on the map, "and that's it."
No one understood, so Jian Xingzhi looked at everyone and asked, "What questions do you have?"
"This is a maze," Cuilv couldn't help but remind him, "There are walls blocking the way, how can you go straight?"
"Tear down the wall," Jian Xingzhi said, as if to say, "wouldn't it be enough to tear it down and make a road?"
Everyone was stunned. After a moment, Xie Gutang frowned and said, "I remember that the walls in the maze usually have special magic arrays and cannot be demolished."
"That's because you are not strong enough." Jian Xingzhi waved his hand. "A maze is made of walls, or it is an illusion. There are only a few ways to maintain the wall formations. I found a way a long time ago. Follow me!" Jian Xingzhi raised his hand and looked at the wall blocking their way with a fierce look. After rubbing his hands for a moment, he raised his hand and turned it in the air. A magic seal appeared in the air. He absorbed the spiritual energy, shouted, and rushed towards the wall!
Inside the maze and outside the water mirror, everyone opened their eyes wide.
A moment later, there was a loud "bang" and the wall collapsed. Jian Xingzhi stood in the dust and turned to look at the stunned people and called out to them: "Go!"
"This..." Luo Bufan looked at the scene in shock, then turned to look at Liu Yuehua beside him, "Is this considered a disadvantage?"
Liu Yuehua was speechless for a moment. After a moment, she gritted her teeth and said, "It's a skill to be able to dismantle it. Let's just watch."
After demolishing the first wall, Qin Wanwan and the others no longer doubted this method, and they followed Jian Xingzhi, who taught them the seals for demolishing walls. They demolished every wall they encountered along the way, and loud "boom" sounds could be heard throughout the maze.
They rushed towards the gate unhindered and after they had blasted the wall to the point where there was nothing left to blast, everyone looked up and saw a fork in the road ahead. The wall directly in front of them had already been demolished.
"This..." Nanfeng looked around, "Does this look like the place we first came to?"
No one spoke. Cui Lu observed the surroundings for a moment and confirmed Nan Feng's conclusion: "It seems like we are back again."
Jian Xingzhi didn't say anything.
Qin Wanwan thought about it and took out the rope again: "Why not use some simple methods..."
"Do not talk."
Jian Xingzhi raised his hand and held Qin Wanwan's hand. No one dared to make a sound. Jian Xingzhi closed his eyes and used his spiritual sense to distinguish the flow of spiritual energy around him.
After closing his eyes to watch all the "qi", he looked all the way to the end, and found that the "qi" seemed to touch something and flowed back from one direction.
“This space is circular.”
Jian Xingzhi opened his eyes and reminded everyone.
Xie Gutang understood immediately: "There is a formation here. They didn't just use the walls to change the route, but directly changed the entire space?"
"It's not just a formation," Jian Xingzhi looked around, "This place seems to be a special environment with extremely unbalanced elements. It is a circular space in itself. It's just that a big door has just been opened in the east, allowing us to get out. Once the door is closed, we will not be able to get out."
"Elemental imbalance?"
Nan Feng didn't understand, so Qin Wanwan explained to him: "Everything in the world, time and space are made up of elements. Various elements need to maintain a certain balance to maintain the normal form we ordinary people know. Once some elements change, to an extreme amount, it will form a state that is different from what we usually know."
"We are trapped now. It's a man-made circular space formation." Jian Xingzhi drew out his sword and led everyone to the location where the elements flowed back. His expression was quite serious. "But this huge space was created by nature. Ordinary people cannot open it, and the only exit is very easy to close. If we let Master Miaoyan rush to the exit—"
Jian Xingzhi raised his sword and struck the place where all the qi converged. The place where qi converged suddenly exploded, and a strong wind blew over. The huge light made it impossible to open one's eyes. After a moment, everyone fell to the ground, and then they heard the sound of "boom boom boom" of the wall collapsing next to them.
"It's Master Miaoyan who's tearing down the wall!"
Cui Lu recognized the source of the sound and spoke quickly. At this time, Jian Xingzhi had already rushed forward and slammed the walls to the east.
"He will definitely seal the exit!"
Jian Xingzhi spoke affirmatively.
At this moment, everyone realized that if they let Venerable Miaoyan rush forward and close the maze, it would not be a matter of losing the game, but they might stay here forever and never be able to get out.
Realizing this, everyone felt their hearts writhe as they heard the sound of a wall collapsing not far away.
Xie Gutang took a look at the seal on Jian Xingzhi's hand and remembered it immediately. Then a seal also lit up on his hand, and he rushed towards the direction where the sound of the wall collapsing came from not far away!
"Thank you, bro!"
Qin Wanwan hurriedly replied, and Xie Gutang said in a steady voice: "I'll go and hold them back."
As he spoke, Xie Gutang had already blasted open the last wall between him and Master Miaoyan, and slashed at him with a sword!
Venerable Miaoyan was not far away from them, only three walls away. Xie Gutang's situation was already under his control. He raised his hand, and countless silver threads flew out. The person behind him seemed to be controlled by the silver threads. He drew his sword in an instant and attacked Xie Gutang!
Cui Lu immediately joined the battle and told Qin Wanwan: "Follow Jian Xingzhi!"
"Wait for you ahead!"
Qin Wanwan did not hesitate. She rode on Nanfeng and rushed forward after Jian Xingzhi.
But no matter how fast they were, Venerable Miaoyan was not slow either. Xie Gutang was dragged by the emerald green puppet, and occasionally a few of them could touch Venerable Miaoyan, but his body was very fast and he slid away like a loach, and the people who were moving forward did not lose a bit.
Jian Xingzhi blasted open a wall, and Venerable Miaoyan blasted open a wall. Jian Xingzhi moved forward ten feet, and Venerable Miaoyan moved forward ten feet.
The two sides fought back and forth with no time to breathe.
Qin Wanwan followed them closely, and soon she realized something was wrong.
Every time Jian Xingzhi smashed the wall, he needed to use his spiritual power to blast the wall open. Every time the wall was blasted open, an extremely faint golden light would light up.
Jian Xingzhi didn't care about such details, but Qin Wanwan keenly caught the small golden light.
She didn't dare to remind them loudly, because Jian Xingzhi and Venerable Miaoyan were fighting for the last moment. If Venerable Miaoyan rushed forward and closed the door, everyone would be trapped here forever.
But she was still concerned in her heart and kept observing the golden light on the wall.
This is the light of the magic circle. What magic circle did Jian Xingzhi touch? Was it protecting the wall
Qin Wanwan did not dare to delay, closed her eyes, and began to track the direction of Jian Xingzhi's spiritual power.
The first time, Jian Xing's spiritual power disappeared too quickly. The second time, the third time...
Qin Wanwan tried to chase it several times, and finally on the last time, she saw a golden pattern, and spiritual power flowed into the pattern. Although there was only a small amount at the end, Qin Wanwan suddenly realized what it was.
This magic circle is the same as the one used by Ghost Town to summon Linglong Jade!
Linglong Jade appeared by chance. If it was summoned deliberately, it would require a huge amount of energy to guide it. Jian Xingzhi's spiritual power did not flow away directly, but flowed into this magic circle...
"Jane does it!"
Qin Wanwan reacted suddenly and yelled, "Jump up!"
As she spoke, she grabbed Nanfeng and leaped forward. At that moment, Jian Xing smashed the last wall with one punch. A spiral gate appeared in the open space dozens of feet away, and golden light and vines rose from the ground.
Jian Xingzhi unconsciously raised his head after Qin Wanwan reminded him, and the vine that broke through the ground was half an inch away from grabbing him.
Jian Xingzhi flipped in the air, Luo Shui unsheathed, and he flew between the vines that rushed out to grab him. He grabbed Qin Wanwan, raised his hand to blast away the overwhelming vines, and dragged her to a place not far away where there was no magic circle. He looked up and saw Xie Gutang and Cuilu still trapped in the vines. He raised his hand and a sword flashed, blasting a way for the two of them, and shouted: "Xie Gutang! Cuilu!"
When the two heard the sound and saw Jian Xingzhi making a way for them, they immediately retreated to the side of Jian Xingzhi and Qin Wanwan. As soon as they landed on the ground, they felt the ground shaking violently.
"This is… "
Cuilv was a little shocked.
The water mirror suddenly turned black. Luo Xingzhou, Liu Yuehua and the others were stunned for a moment, then immediately stood up: "It's Linglong Jade!"
But before they could leave, black fog rose from the ground, and everything around them turned into a thick black color.
"The Lord God said," a mechanical voice came from the black fog, "Everyone please be patient and do not leave your seat. Otherwise -"
As he was speaking, a young man who was running outside suddenly screamed. A green light flashed around him, and he became the only thing that everyone could see besides the black.
He seemed as if someone had sucked away his vitality, and his skin and flesh shriveled up instantly. But the moment he screamed, he turned into a pile of bones and scattered on the ground.
"No mercy for the killing."
Outside the water mirror, there was a mess. In the maze, Jian Xingzhi and Qin Wanwan were looking at a huge magic circle on the ground. In the center of the magic circle, the ground cracked like a blooming flower, and then light fell on the center of the magic circle. Master Miaoyan looked at the magic circle with tenderness in his eyes: "The last piece of Linglong Jade, with my spiritual power alone, is not enough to open this magic circle without shocking the old man. I guessed that you would tear down the wall and deliberately hide this magic circle behind the wall," Master Miaoyan said, turning to look at Jian Xingzhi, "Thank you so much today."
"You're welcome!" Hearing this, Qin Wanwan immediately counterattacked, "We are just looking for Linglongyu. Thank you for your help."
"Oh," Master Miaoyan shook his head, "How cute."
As he spoke, black energy gathered around him, and a familiar aura could be vaguely felt above him.
"My mother?"
Qin Wanwan reacted immediately. Jian Xingzhi squeezed her hand and said in a low voice: "You and Nanfeng should go."
Qin Wanwan raised her eyes, but before she could react, she saw Jian Xingzhi suddenly draw his sword and slash at Master Miaoyan, shouting, "Cui Lu, thank Gutang!"
Seeing this, Qin Wanwan rushed out the door without hesitation and called out, "Nanfeng!"
The south wind grew stronger the moment Qin Wanwan spoke, and Qin Wanwan threw herself on him, and the two of them rushed towards the exit. However, at that moment, Venerable Miaoyan raised his hand, and dozens of puppets appeared at the door, waving their swords at Qin Wanwan. At the same time, he moved and caught up with Qin Wanwan.
Jian Xingzhi followed closely behind him, and slashed with his sword just before he was about to touch Qin Wanwan, forcing Master Miaoyan to dodge.
A thunderclap carrying the magic formula from the upper realms roared down, and Venerable Miaoyan quickly leaped away. Cui Lu and Xie Gutang stopped the puppets on both sides, but in the blink of an eye, Qin Wanwan rushed out.
"Hey." Seeing Qin Wanwan riding Nanfeng out of the maze, Master Miaoyan's eyes showed a ruthless look. He looked up at the spiritual power that was gathering again in the sky, and said coldly, "Last year, let your daughter go find you. Wait a minute, I'll go find you."
After saying that, he turned around and rushed towards the center of the magic circle.
Jian Xingzhi followed closely.
The vines in the magic circle grew wildly when he appeared above the magic circle, and the thunder from above also fell to the ground at the same time. Jian Xingzhi dodged the vines, and Venerable Miaoyan dodged the thunder, and they rushed towards the light that was gradually condensing in the center of the magic circle.
Cui Lu and Xie Gutang were in a fierce fight with the puppets. Just as they were about to go back to help, they heard Jian Xingzhi's voice: "Take this teleportation array and wait for me outside. When the teleportation array lights up, make a final attack on it."
After saying that, a piece of talisman paper flew over from the air and Xie Gutang grabbed it.
Jian Xingzhi poured his spiritual consciousness into the sword and swung it fiercely in the direction of Xie Gutang!
The sword light illuminated the entire space, making it impossible to open one's eyes. More than a dozen puppets turned into ashes the moment they touched the sword light. Xie Gutang held the teleportation array and jumped out of the vortex-shaped exit together with Cui Lu.
The moment they jumped out, the sword light rushed to the door. After a loud bang, the two of them turned back together, and saw that there was nothing behind them but a dead forest.
Xie Gutang and Cui Lu were breathing heavily. Cui Lu lowered her head and looked at the talisman in Xie Gutang's hand: "What is this?"
"Teleportation array."
Xie Gutang swallowed his saliva, holding the talisman paper with the formation drawn on it, his hands shaking slightly.
Cui Lu didn't say anything. She thought for a moment and said, "He locked himself and the evil god inside. The only way to get out is to open a gap."
"This kind of place," Xie Gutang added, "is usually divided into a yin side and a yang side. He opened one side from the inside, and we need to open the other side from the outside."
"So he asked us to make the final move."
Cuilu understood, and the two of them fell silent.
Xie Gutang stared at the talisman paper, his mind full of what Luo Bufan had said to him last night.
"The barrier between life and death has been broken. Your master won't stay for long. We don't have time."
"Why did I ask you to come here in the first place? Because you are cultivating the Sword of Inquiry, and there is no one more suitable than you for this kind of mission."
"Gu Tang," Luo Bufan reminded him, "You are the Sword of the Heart. The Sword of the Heart is heartless. Do you remember?"
The sword of the heart has no heart, so he will not be soft-hearted.
Therefore, he was the perfect person to approach Jian Xingzhi and destroy him.
He closed his eyes and thought of the thousand-mile glacier in the realm of life and death, and felt his heart getting colder and colder.
He staggered to his feet and handed the talisman to Cuilu.
"Let's go." He walked forward hoarsely, "Go forward and find Qin Wanwan."
Jian Xingzhi sent Cui Lu and Xie Gutang away and fought alone.
He and Venerable Miaoyan rushed straight to Linglong Yu in the center of the magic circle. The thunder hindered Venerable Miaoyan's speed, and Venerable Miaoyan used vines to stop him.
When the two were about to touch the Linglong Jade, thunder struck Master Miaoyan and vines grew from the bottom to the top and tried to pierce Jian Xingzhi. Neither of them dodged or retreated, and Jian Xingzhi was still pierced through the abdomen by the vines, while Master Miaoyan was bombarded by thunder. The two grabbed the Linglong Jade at the same time, and Jian Xingzhi did not hesitate to use his spiritual sense to condense spiritual power to strike Master Miaoyan, snatched the Linglong Jade and quickly retreated.
Venerable Miaoyan felt pain and shouted angrily, "You are looking for death!"
Having said that, he no longer cared about anything else and drew his sword, slashing at Jian Xingzhi.
Thunder from the sky struck him one after another, but at the same time, countless black air came from all directions and gathered around him.
"Give me the exquisite jade!"
He shouted urgently, but Jian Xingzhi did not fight with him and just dodged, trying to find the direction of the surrounding Qi and focusing his consciousness on the sword.
The pain in his sea of consciousness made his face pale, but he didn't care. Ordinary spiritual power simply didn't have the ability to split this space, which was why he couldn't leave either Xie Gutang or Cui Lu here.
"Do you think they will save you?"
Venerable Miaoyan realized what he was trying to do and laughed contemptuously.
He cut off Jian Xingzhi's bun with one sword, and Jian Xingzhi's long hair spread out. Master Miaoyan followed closely with the second sword. Jian Xingzhi closed his eyes and felt the direction of the airflow.
"They won't, they are just using you! Jian Xingzhi, I am the only one you have in this world!"
As he spoke, Venerable Miaoyan dodged a bolt of thunder and pounced on Jian Xingzhi again.
It was at this moment that Jian Xingzhi suddenly opened his eyes.
Found it!
He rushed towards the place where the airflow was the slowest, raised his hand and stabbed the sword into the ground fiercely!
Dozens of lightsabers fell at once and pierced through his back.
Blood soaked his palms, he knelt on one knee on the ground, holding the exquisite jade in one hand and the sword in the other.
On the tip of the sword was the spiritual power condensed by his consciousness, inserted on a piece of talisman paper, the spiritual power broke through the airflow and penetrated the space barrier. He gritted his teeth and said, "Thank you Gutang, finish the sword!"
no respond.
Jian Xingzhi frowned as he heard footsteps behind him.
The Master Miaoyan didn't seem to be in a hurry. He walked slowly from behind him and asked, "Do you think you are particularly great?"
"Thank you, Gutang," Jian Xingzhi urged coldly, "replenish the sword."
"Do you think that if you sacrifice yourself for everyone like Lin Yanzhi did back then and trap me in his body, others will save him?"
As he spoke, Venerable Miaoyan walked to his side.
"Thank you Gutang!" Jian Xingzhi's hand trembled slightly as he clenched the sword. He lowered his head and spoke in a very low and soft voice, "I treat you, Cuilu, as a friend."
There was no response from the other side for a long time. He struggled to hold on to the open passage, waiting for Xie Gutang's final sword.
Finally, he finally heard Emerald's voice.
"Feel sorry."
Cuilv's voice was very calm: "But you and we are not friends."
The moment the sound fell, the aura at the other end of the teleportation array instantly disappeared.
Jian Xingzhi stood there in a daze.
They destroyed the teleportation array.
Destroyed his only means of getting out.
"How pitiful," Master Miaoyan half-knelt down and put his hand on his shoulder, "You were abandoned too."
"Do not believe?"
Venerable Miaoyan smiled, raised his hand, and saw a picture appear in the air.
Jian Xingzhi heard the voice, turned around, and saw Qin Wanwan riding on Nanfeng and running wildly on the screen.
She held her neck with one hand and the south wind with the other, lowered her body, and galloped through the woods.
She rushed up Xuan Mountain following the thunder. The higher she went, the more ice and snow there was, until finally, the mountain was covered with ice and snow, and she rushed to the entrance of a cave.
There was obviously a restriction in front of the cave. Qin Wanwan rolled over from Nanfeng's body, formed the Silent Mountain Seal, and pressed it on the restriction.
The restriction disappeared instantly, and the thunder disappeared with it.
Qin Wanwan rushed into the cave and screamed, "Dad! Mom! Where are you?!"
no respond.
She rushed in with Nan Feng, pounding the ice frantically: "Dad? Mom?"
She knocked for a long time, and stood in the cave in a daze: "Where are you?"
Just at this moment, she suddenly heard the sound of ice cracking behind her.
She turned around suddenly and saw the cracks in the ice behind her gradually getting bigger, and finally exploded with a loud bang, revealing a woman sleeping with her eyes closed inside.
The woman was wearing a red dress similar to the Dunhuang flying fairy costumes. She made a magic seal with one hand in front of her body, and held the other hand at her side with a thunder magic circle, as if she was casting a spell on someone.
She stared blankly at the frozen woman, watching her slowly open her beautiful eyes.
"Wanwan," a coughing male voice sounded from the side. Qin Wanwan replied in a daze, and saw Taiheng standing at the entrance of the cave in white clothes, with a sword hanging from his waist and a weak look on his face.
The moment he saw the long sword at Tai Heng's waist, Jian Xingzhi's eyes suddenly widened.
"Master..." His lips trembled, and he couldn't help asking, "Master?"