Chapter 334 – Unexpected Means

He’s back again?

There was probably a few seconds of silence, and the cheers were the first to rise from the common folk.

“Wait for me to stretch my legs? What Xu Yinluo means is that he didn’t fight seriously just now.”

“You see, his chest wound is gone …….. Sure enough, he didn’t take it seriously, haha, I told you, Xu Yinluo only needs to take out half of his strength in the fight, how can these two people be his opponent.”

Thanks to the phrase “let me stretch my legs”, he managed to mislead the general public into believing that Xu Yinluo was not serious about the fight from start to finish.

The healing of his wounds is also evidence of his “warm-up”.

This situation was shocking in the eyes of the top experts to a degree unimaginable to ordinary people.

That knife wound on his chest, how can he see the bone, how can he recover as before in half a column of incense time? Even I can not do ……….. Nangong Qianlou narrowed her eyes and couldn’t help but take a few steps forward, as if she wanted to see what was going on with Xu Qi’an’s chest wound.

Flesh and blood rebirth was an ability only available to the Third Grade, how did Xu Ningyan manage to do it? Jiang Ruzhong’s jaw dropped as he had a vague guess in his heart.

It is the divine difference that Vajra Divine Power comes with, it must be Vajra Divine Power …….. It is actually able to let people have the ability to regenerate blood and flesh at a low grade ……… Chu Xianglong s throat knots rolled, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and the salivation in his eyes could not even be hidden.

In this instant, the impulse to hurry back to the border rose in his heart, he wanted to offer the stone Buddha to the King of Zhenbei, with the King of Zhenbei’s strength at the peak of the third grade, his gaze was high, even if he didn’t cultivate Buddhism, he could still comprehend a thing or two.

If the bronze talisman was added, perhaps King Zhenbei would be able to cultivate the Vajra Divine Power.

At that time, the biggest contributor, himself, would also be able to get the King of Zhenbei to teach the Vajra Divine Power.

When the princess heard the smelly man beside her gulping, her heart flinched, and with her eyes hidden under the drapery, she secretly glanced at Chu Xianglong.

He, he actually gagged on a man?

Mentally burying him for a moment, the Wangfei’s attention returned to Xu Qi’an, muttering in her heart: this guy is still quite powerful, just say it, how can a man who is so noticed in a fight lose easily.

“Father, he, what’s wrong with him?” Butterfly Sword Blue Caiyi froze and twisted her head, looking at her father at her side.

Lan Huan shook his head wordlessly.

Hoo…… Xu New Year was relieved, his gaze not leaving Xu Qi’an as he spoke, ”My elder brother has always been sure of what he does. Since he can dare to participate in the Heavenly Man Contest, he must have something to fall back on.

“A gentleman should plan before he acts, that’s what I’ve always taught him.”

Wang Simu said sweetly, “Resignation old and Xu Yinluo a literary and a military, envy do not know how many people it.”

She can see that Xu New Year s words have bragging ingredients, but what does it matter, he is so good looking and talented, and his character is not annoying ……… Wang Simu is getting more and more centered on Xu Erlang.

……….

“Your Vajra Divine Skill has skyrocketed, what’s going on?” Li Miaozhen’s eyes widened as she scrutinized Xu Qi’an and said:

“Did you just hide your strength?”

No, no, the root of the problem was not whether or not there was any hidden strength, but how could he have cultivated the Vajra Divine Skill to this level!

This is unreasonable, this is unreasonable …….. Chu Yuanzhan growled inwardly.

He remained calm on the surface, but inside he suffered a huge shock that sent shockwaves through him.

Chu Yuanjian had once fought with Monk Jingshi and had some understanding of the Vajra Divine Power, and compared to the current Xu Qi’an, the Jingshi of that day was simply a fledgling young monk.

However, it was clear that the former was the one who had practiced the Vajra Divine Skill since childhood, while the latter had obtained this Divine Skill during a duel.

A full month of time …….. The knowledgeable scholar, at this moment, has a kind of unreal feeling of being in a dream.

“Miaochen, whether he hides his strength or not, you should never forget one thing.”

Chu Yuanzhan looked at the Heavenly Sect Holy Maiden and said word for word, “He’s been practicing the Vajra Divine Skill for a month at most.”

Li Miaozhen also reacted at this moment, her pupils contracting slightly, stiffening her neck and twisting it inch by inch as she looked toward Xu Qi’an.

The Holy Maiden of the Heavenly Sect was proud, and had never been the only one to be shocked by her talent, but today, she was truly shocked by Xu Qi’an.

“Many thanks to you two, for opening up the eight meridians for me and helping me to achieve a small degree of success in my Vajra Divine Skill.” Xu Qi’an arched his hand.

Oh, it turns out that just now, Lord Xu deliberately took a beating in order to hammer the Vajra Divine Power …….. Hearing this, the onlookers came to a sudden realization.

A reasonable explanation for why he had been beaten up just now was not how strong the outstanding disciples of the Celestial and Human Sect were, but rather, Xu Yinluo needed their attacks.

Li Miaozhen and Chu Yuanjian glanced at each other, no longer seeing the contempt Xu Qi’an had when he stepped on the boat.

The two felt the pressure.

“No matter what, let’s finish him off first. Let’s join forces to try and break his Vajra Divine Skill, otherwise by the time our chi fails, it will be difficult to wear down his golden body. At that time, there’s a real possibility that we’ll fall in the gutter.” Li Miaozhen proposed with a voice transmission.

“That’s what I thought.” Chu Yuanzhan nodded with a grave expression on his face.

The two of them instantly changed their positions and changed to standing side by side, facing Xu Qi’an.

“Wow, they’re teaming up against Xu Yinluo again.”

“See see, if Xu Yinluo wasn’t so powerful, how could they be like this.”

Seeing this, the onlookers became more and more certain that Xu Yinluo’s battle power was far superior to the two protagonists of the Celestials’ battle.

The jianghu people who were originally convinced that Xu Qi’an of the seventh, or sixth rank realm could not possibly defeat the outstanding disciples of the two Heavenly and Human Sects also revealed looks of astonishment and uncertainty at this moment.

“Thanks to the two of you for helping me step into the Minor Achievement Realm, now, I’m going to fight back.” Xu Qi’an grinned.

“Counterattack?”

Li Miaozhen skimmed her mouth and said with a blank stare, “We’re just planning to join forces to beat up your rock in the latrine, what kind of threat can you pose to us?”

Chu Yuanzhuan laughed lightly, “Your Heaven and Earth Slash may have grown, but after one slash, you are also ruined. And it’s impossible to defeat the Fourth Grade with your full strength slash.”

While the two were talking, Xu Qi’an silently took out a book, held it in his mouth, and laughed, “It’s time for you to see the power and awesomeness of the Confucian mouth cannon.”

Bang!

The ground collapsed, and Xu Qi’an was like a discharged cannonball, leaping high into the air and pouncing straight at Li Miaozhen. In the process, he clenched his right hand into a fist and viciously pulled it back towards the back.

Li Miaozhen knew the power of a martial artist’s physical combat and did not fight him head on, harnessing her flying sword to pull up and avoid Xu Qi’an’s fists.

The parry fell short, and Xu Qi’an, who couldn’t fly, inevitably plummeted downwards, and Chu Yuanjian really struck out, using his finger as a sword to execute the Human Sect’s Qi Sword Art.

In a flash, an unrivaled sword intent saved up and shot out.

Prickly ……. Xu Qi’an tore off a page of paper, ignited it with his qi, and leisurely said, “I have a pair of invisible wings.”

As the words fell, a pair of invisible to the naked eye but real wings appeared, and Xu Qi’an vibrated his wings in a beautiful turn, nimbly avoiding the sword qi attack.

The target is still Li Miaozhen.

Li Miaozhen was stunned to see Xu Qi’an in the form of a “swimming fish”, avoiding Chu Yuanjian’s sword qi, and then gliding sideways to kill in front of himself.

She responded calmly, her pupils glazed over, causing Xu Qi’an’s clothes to mutiny in droves, her belt tightening defiantly and finally collapsing on itself.

The collar constricts and tries to strangle the master, and the sable cap suddenly goes down over his eyes.

Sable Hat took great credit, and Li Miaozhen took the opportunity to pull up her stature, when a certain command announced by Xu Qi’an came to her ears, “My speed, surge three times.”

The golden body instantly caught up, and without using his eyes to see, he just slammed headlong into Li Miaozhen.

Bang!

Li Miaozhen was knocked out of the room, his throat churning with fishy sweetness, and his arm bones cracked.

Confucianism s words are so useful ……… If the occasion is not wrong, I want to try to find out where the sable cicada is. Xu Qi An thought to himself.

Li Miaozhen, who had been knocked away, cupped a simple hand seal with one hand, and at the center of his brow, light flashed, and a pocket-sized version of Li Miaozhen flew away, slamming into Xu Qi’an’s brow and disappearing, before drilling out of the back of his head.

The flying Xu Qi’an suddenly stiffened and seemed to faint, falling straight down.

Ding ding ding …….. Chu Yuanzhan took the opportunity to chop out a sword qi, hitting Xu Qi’an as if it were iron, crashing out dense sparks, but unfortunately, it was unable to break through the golden body defense at all.

However, these were unimportant, the sword qi that Chu Yuanzheng chopped out was mixed with the Heart Sword Art, and each strike carried a Yuan Shen attack.

This was the inspiration they had just received from Li Miaozhen, and they had discovered Xu Qi’an’s weakness – the Yuan Shen was not strong enough.

Normal martial artists wouldn’t be so unhelpful, because the strength of their Yuan Shen was practically honed. However, Xu Qi’an was like a student who was heavily biased in his English, but a normal student knew that “nineteen” was nineteen.

By the time he got to him, it was milking quite a bit.

In fact, in terms of the same realm, his foundation was solid enough, but in terms of overall strength, the physical body was far, far too powerful than the Yuan Shen, and was heavily skewed.

“Finish him off once and for all.”

Li Miaozhen felt the pain in her arms and was a bit moved, her wrists changed, and she touched the nine token flags like a magic trick, shaking her hands and throwing them out.

Duh …….

The nine token flags set up a nine palace formation, enveloping Xu Qi’an within. Then, she reached out and tapped on a pitch-black scented capsule at her back waist.

Wisps of black smoke emerged and merged into the Nine Palace Formation.

All of a sudden, ghosts cried and black smoke roamed the sky, sometimes manifesting human faces, either roaring or mourning.

The people of the capital who saw this scene turned white with fear.

“This, so many ghosts?!”

“Mom eh, will these ghosts harm people? This woman is so vicious, to use such insidious means against Xu Yinluo.”

Wangfei scared back and forth, she is most afraid of ghosts, sleep alone at night, often fantasize that the bed mantle side, will stand cloaked hair, full of blood female ghost.

Even with a maid in the same room with her, she was just as scared.

Mounted also scared to hide behind Huaiqing, chest can rest on the table of the eldest princess frowned: “You are the great Feng imperial daughter, purple gas accompanied by the body, idle ghosts and monsters can not get close to the body. It is the ghosts that are afraid of you, what are you afraid of?”

The mount jumped to his feet, “I’m afraid, I’m afraid, will the dog slave be eaten by a ghost?”

As Lan Caiyi witnessed the people’s panic and their concern for Xu Yinluo, she found it interesting that they were not afraid of the fourth grade experts, but were so fearful of the weak ghosts and monsters.

After the appearance of the ghosts and monsters, even the commoners who had full confidence in Xu Yinluo were shaken and thought that Xu Yinluo was in danger.

Lan Huan looked at his daughter and mentioned, “It’s not ghosts they’re afraid of, their fear comes from within. The first thing a martial artist needs to overcome is his inner fear when he uses his power to violate prohibitions and his sights are empty.”

Overcoming Inner Fear ……. Lan Caiyi nodded, and then looked at the Hundred Ghosts Formation and said, “Xu Yinluo seems to be caught in the ghost formation and unable to get out, which means that he is unable to overcome his inner fear?”

“No, he’s trapped by the Heavenly Sect’s formations, worthy of being the Heavenly Sect’s Holy Maiden, she’s already grasped the opponent’s weakness.” Lan Huan said.

“I’ve seen a similar formation last year when I dealt with the Earth Sect’s demonic dao, it’s very difficult to deal with, targeting the martial artist’s Yuan Shen attack, if the formation can’t be broken, even the most stubborn Yuan Shen will be slowly worn down.”

Yang Yan, who was silent, rarely spoke a large paragraph, which showed that he attached great importance to this battle and watched it with extreme concentration.

“They say that the Dao Sect specializes in raising and refining ghosts, and it’s true.” An honored nobleman said in a loud voice.

“Hey, even though Xu Yinluo has an undefeatable body of adamantine, he can’t carry off the erosion of the Hundred Ghosts on his Yuan Shen.” Another noble surrounded by guards spoke, his tone rather gloating.

Remember, when the imperial examination fraud case, the surname Xu a person and a knife in the noon gate to block the civil and military officials, composed poems to humiliate them.

After this incident, many magistrates wrote letters of impeachment, but they were all beaten back by His Majesty.

Suddenly, the ghost screamed piteously, as if it had met a natural enemy.

In the sight of the crowd, a golden light pierced through the hazy black smoke, snorting them away.

The thick black smoke instantly faded, countless grievous souls perished in the golden light, and Xu Qi’an’s figure appeared in the audience’s eyes, standing proudly with a brilliant golden elixir floating above his head.

The Golden Pill of the Taoist Sect is said to be invulnerable to all laws and to defy the turbulence of the world.

“Pop!”

Xu Qi’an snapped his fingers, and the Jindan exploded, the sudden burst of power dissolving the remaining black smoke, and the eight token flags were either pulled up or broken.

The formation broke.

Right at this moment, Chu Yuanjian ghostly appeared in front of Xu Qi’an, holding a sword condensed from finely crushed stones that blatantly chopped Xu Qi’an’s forehead.

Bang ……. The stone sword crumbled, but Chu Yuanzhan revealed a smile.

With this sword, he was using a heart sword, the sword cutting the flesh and the heart cutting the soul.

However, Chu Yuanjian heard the sound of burning paper and looked down in shock, realizing that Xu Qi’an was pinching a piece of paper that was about to burn out in his hand.

What is recorded in this paper …….. As soon as the thought arose, Chu Yuanzhan knew the answer, as his Yuan Shen suffered a tearing and severe pain.

Bounce back!

No, it was more than just bouncing back, what Xu Qi’an’s mouth was silently chanting was, I can bounce back attacks, my Yuan Shen is ten times stronger.

The only one who had suffered a Yuan Shen tear was Chu Yuanzhuan, Xu Qi’an’s Yuan Shen was ten times more powerful and didn’t have any problems at all.

Seizing this opportunity, Xu Qi’an slammed a head hammer into Chu Yuanjian’s forehead, hitting him with a long flow of blood and hitting his Yuan Shen nearly floating out of his body.

Relying on, the last of his sobriety, Chu Yuanjian explored his hand, and finally, gripped the longsword behind him.

Not good, the fourth fight hit the head ……… Xu Qi an s face changed, pressed in his ear, and whispered.

Chu Yuanjian’s body suddenly stiffened, and then slowly loosened his grip on the sword.

“You lose.”

Xu Qi’an dropped a sentence, vibrated his invisible wings, and killed Li Miaozhen.

He didn’t have time, how powerful the words of Confucianism were, and how terrifying the backlash would be after the rules were restored. His Yuan Shen was ten times more powerful, and the backlash afterward would cause him pain.

The repercussions of words followed by spells depended on the effect, for example, if Xu Qi’an only needed a pair of invisible wings, the repercussions at the end of the spell would be, at most, a few days of shoulder pain.

But if he says I’m ten times stronger, then it’s likely that he’ll turn into a cripple afterward and have to stay in bed for ten days and half a month.

Xu Qi’an had to rush to subdue Li Miaozhen before the backlash appeared, or else all his hard work would be in vain.

Words are powerful and backfire horribly, and the pros and cons are clear.

Without saying a word, Li Miaozhen rode her sword away, as the Heavenly Sect’s Holy Maiden, she did not say that she knew Confucian spells like the back of her hand, but she still knew these common sense.

She deliberately flew close to the river, her pupils glazed over, and the entire river was driven to do her bidding.

A pillar of water exploded up, obstructing Xu Qi’an and attacking him, achieving the purpose of delaying time despite not being able to cause damage to the golden body protector.

Jabla …….

Another piece of paper tore off, and Xu Qi’an was about to burn the paper when it suddenly rebelled, splitting itself into countless tiny pieces of shredded paper that floated down the river with the wind.

“Thumbs up ……..”

Flames rose from his palm, and there was a page hidden in his clenched hand, the previous one was just a cover-up. Early defense Li Miaozhen this move.

As the paper burned out, Xu Qi’an said in a deep voice, “Put down the butcher’s knife and turn back to the shore.”

Li Miaozhen, who was in flight, turned uncontrollably and actually flew towards Xu Qi’an, taking the initiative to crash into his arms.

Bang!

The two crashed together and tumbled into the river.

The entire Weimar boiled, huge waves lifting tens of feet high, washing over the banks layer by layer. No one could see the battle taking place at the bottom of the river, but understood that it was intense enough.

The whole process was maintained for a quarter of an hour, the original clear water, turned into a turbid “Yellow River”.

The river slowly regained its calmness, and the crowd of onlookers instantly tensed up, their eyes unblinking as they watched the river.

It is Xu Yinluo who won, right It must be him who won, he is so powerful …….. The civilians held their breath and searched for figures along the river.

The gongs of the night watchmen had their eyes fixed dead on the river.

The Twin Blade Sect Master, the Luya Sword Pavilion Master, the Beautiful Woman of Ten Thousand Flowers House, and many other experts of the rivers and lakes were staring at the surface of the river in a silent, solemn manner.

They knew that they were likely to witness the birth of a legend.

The legend of defeating a high-grade daoist sect with a low-grade martial artist.

The onlookers present, from the commoners to the jianghu people to the dignitaries and their guards, were densely packed with nearly a thousand people.

But at that moment, there was a tacit silence, so quiet you could hear breathing.

It was a great, great fight, ups and downs but sound.

Framed covered his chest and heard his beating heart, one after another.

Huaiqing’s hand gathered in his sleeve clenched quietly.

Wangfei tiptoe tiptoe tiptoe, under the drapery hat, the soulful eyes turned, searching the river surface ceaselessly, ceaselessly searching.

If this battle is won, the reputation that gradually cooled down after the end of the big brother s fight will be ignited once again, and he will return to the peak and become the focus of all classes in the capital ……… Xu New Year took a deep breath and calmed his excitement.

In the midst of all the attention, tending to calm the river, the back of a hand poked out first, and then the head, a head in a sable hat.

It seems that the sable hat had to be held down by hand for fear that it would fall off.

The figure gradually came ashore, cradling in his arms the wonderful woman in the Taoist robes, unconscious.

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PS: This chapter was originally written a long time ago, but then I re-reviewed the draft and realized that some of the details were still not handled properly, so I revised it for quite a while.