Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Knife of the Sky
Lead clouds blinded the eyes, and another heavy snow was coming.
Xie Yundu stood on the cliff, pursed his lips and stared at the central battlefield in the distance, his eyebrows became deeper and deeper, and he finally couldn't help but take a step forward.
Suddenlyβ
The strings clanged, and the wind struck the ground beneath his feet, splashing gravel!
Xie Yundu had no choice but to take a step back sharply, and said in annoyance: "Qixi Festival!"
On the rocks under the trees not far away, the woman in purple who was sitting with a piano in her arms looked at him coldly and said, "You can't go." β
Xie Yundu said angrily: "...... I'm really at odds with you!"
Qixi only said coldly: "You give me back my supernatural powers first." β
Xie Yundu opened his mouth, feeling powerless for a while, turned his head to look at the white tiger, and let out a long sigh.
Today's incident, he is really wronged!
What ruins, what supernatural powers-Lu Qiming's traces have not yet been found, how can Xie Yundu still have the energy to care about those that are insignificant, let alone know how the other cultivators in the Divine Domain are progressing in their exploration of the inner realm.
Xie Yundu just came all the way with Lao Bai, and happened to encounter this mural, so he took a casual look at it, and unexpectedly found that what was recorded on the mural was actually the Heavenly Dao Sword that he had just learned!
That's a coincidence.
Xie Yundu immediately thought, could it be that these ruins of the ancient battlefield were related to Cheng Yuan and Lu Qiming? When he was thinking, he subconsciously pulled out his sword and practiced the Heavenly Dao Sword in the order of the murals, and before he could react, he inexplicably activated the formation, and the original murals also collapsed at the same time.
Even so, Xie Yundu still hadn't figured out what was going onβbecause he didn't get anything at all.
- until Tanabata appeared.
After explaining for a long time with the anger of the girl, Xie Yundu knew that this was the place where Qixi had been enlightened, but she left for a short while, and when she came back, it was all gone!
The two of them talked about it, but for a while no one believed anyone - Qixi didn't believe that Xie Yundu didn't get the supernatural powers, and thought that he deliberately concealed them; Xie Yundu didn't even believe in the existence of supernatural powers, and didn't he know if there were supernatural powers or not?
However, the abilities that Yan Ling and Qiu Ze showed one after another made Xie Yundu have to believe it.
β but that's not the most important issue at the moment.
Xie Yundu's eyes stared at the rapidly changing battle situation below, and he didn't dare to relax for a moment in his heart. Xie Yundu originally thought that Chu Heyi's ability was enough to deal with it, but when Chu Heyi was just injured in the middle, Xie Yundu thought that he was deliberately showing weakness to the enemy, but he didn't expect that the situation would become worse and worse after that, and Xie Yundu knew that something was wrong with him.
Chu Heyi once said that Xie Yundu would continue to hide his position from the outside world, so even if he saw him being besieged before, Xie Yundu couldn't help but not make a move. But if this continues, Chu Heyi is afraid that he will really have to worry about his life, do you want him to continue to stand by and watch?
The reason Xie Yundu has also already thought about it - he just sees the road unevenly, although he has no friendship with Chu Heyi, but he just can't get used to the Lingmeng bullying people, can't he?
Thinking of this, Xie Yundu felt even more angry, and said sullenly: "Chu Heyi is your own person of the Martial Sect, how can you all act as if you didn't see it, and it doesn't matter how much you bully or how little!"
Qixi took his white fingertips and plucked the strings on the ground, and raised his eyes when he heard the words: "Xie Yundu, do you want to be nosy again?"
Xie Yundu's eyes looked at the battlefield, and the expression on his face changed again and again as they fought. He watched Chu Heyi pass by a deadly attack again and again, and couldn't help but let out a low cry, and subconsciously said, "If he wasn't strong enough, he would have been killed by you people who couldn't save him." β
Qixi casually played two or three notes and said, "So, if he wasn't so strong, wouldn't he be saved?"
Xie Yundu was speechless and said, "Qixi, you finally learned to joke." β
"You think I'm joking?" Qixi asked indifferently, "The Spirit Alliance Holy Envoy personally attacked, plus Yan Ling and Qiu Ze, who possessed supernatural powers, such a battle was enough to forcibly kill anyone present in a short period of time...... So, don't you think Chu Heyi is too strong? Before that, Chu Heyi's evaluation in the Gouyu Pavilion had always been only 'middle and lower'. β
Xie Yundu's eyes changed slightly, recalling the brief fight between Chu Heyi and himself before.
"Speaking of which," Qixi suddenly pressed his fingers on the vibrating strings and asked, "You don't seem surprised by this?"
"......" Xie Yundu pulled the corners of his mouth and laughed dryly. I think I was still a simple and lovely little girl when I first met Qixi Festival, but after following Xunguan for a long time, I also liked to play with my heart more and more, and I was going to be wound in if I wasn't careful.
Xie Yundu blinked and muttered, "That...... What kind of rating does Xun Shudud give me? Probably the highest. β
Qixi was silent for a moment, and said with a cold face: "Gouyu Pavilion is confidential, how can you know it with outsiders at will!"
Xie Yundu was taken aback, and said, "Give me such a high evaluation?"
Qixi held Han Shiqin and stared at him motionlessly, exhaled two quickly, and suddenly closed his eyes hard.
Xie Yundu snickered triumphantly in his heart, knowing that Qixi was going to subconsciously act like "out of sight and out of mind" when he was angry, and his habits when he was a child did not change when he grew up.
At the same time, he pulled a pinch of white tiger's hair, and prepared to apply oil on the soles of his feet and rushed over to support Chu Heyi-
Zheng!
Zheng Zheng Zheng!
It is like the essence of the four energies, when the strings burst outward when they were cold, they surrounded Xie Yundu and Lao Bai in the middle in a tic-tac-toe pattern!
Tanabata opened his eyes and repeated, "You can't go." β
"Qixi Festival! I will ...... when I come back," Xie Yundu said nonsense, and was about to leave with his sword, but he paused again.
The woman in purple shook her figure and stopped in front of him with a harp.
Xie Yundu frowned, and said in a deep voice: "Get out of the way!"
Qixi ignored it, and only asked, "Xie Yundu, the Lingmeng Yuwen Clan-Yuwen Jingyang was killed by you?"
Xie Yundu secretly gritted his teeth, was silent for a moment, and said: No, it's Cheng ......"
"But this matter is already weighing on you. Qixi interrupted lightly and said: "Since you have come to the ancient battlefield alone, your words and deeds represent the peach mountain behind you! Momoyama's transcendent status has a price, just because of your reckless actions, Momoyama has now been charged with killing the Yuwen clan's Guiyuan Realm overhaul, if you help Chu Heyi against the Spirit Alliance in a grand manner, it will be to completely push your Taoshan's position to the Martial Sect!"
"Xie Yundu," Qixi sneered, "This is a decision that concerns the entire sect, but you are only a junior disciple who can do it?"
Xie Yundu lowered his gaze, and his right hand tightly held the long sword Winter Night.
These words...... Doesn't he know it in his own heart? Need to be reminded by others by name?
But, but......
Still won't work.
Xie Yundu closed his eyes, breathed a sigh of relief silently, and said, "Thank you, but I know what I'm doing." β
He raised his head to look at the woman and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't bother your son-in-law to help this time." β
Qixi quietly watched him breathe, and turned sideways to get out of the way, "Remember your words." β
But in the next moment, the two of them paused at the same time, and Qi Qi suddenly turned his head to look at the central battlefield-
The cold sword qi suddenly cut through the sky, as if it came from outside the sky, cutting the void out of a dark spatial rift, and then fell heavily!
The gravel wind smoke rolled up, and what stood among the three of Chu Heyi and Lingmeng was a long black knife with blood lines blooming.
Xie Yundu was slightly stunned, and a sense of familiarity faintly rose in his heart, and the expression of Qixi around him had changed suddenly.
"Komaki ......" Tanabata muttered, tied the cold shiqin behind his back with his backhand, and his figure disappeared in place with a little tiptoe, and he used all his strength to move his way straight towards the central battlefield.
At this time, Xie Yundu recalled that the long knife that came out of the sky should be the nine strings of Ji Mu of Fengtianfu.
"You stopped me just now," Xie Yundu's fingers relaxed slightly, and he hooked his lips and said, "I'm going to go over first." β
Lao Bai lay on the ground again and said lazily: "Good thing." She's right, it's better not to go if you can. β
Xie Yundu shrugged his shoulders and was about to say something, but in the next moment, the whole person froze, his whole body suddenly tensed, and he suddenly looked back at a certain place in the distant mountains.
"What's wrong?" Lao Bai was startled by his reaction, noticing that Xie Yundu was looking back in the direction where the nine-string knife had just come.
Did he look at Ji Mu again? But Ji Mu had clearly appeared on the central battlefield with the long knife.
Xie Yundu pursed his lips and said in a low voice, "...... There are still people there!"
For a moment, he recalled what Chu Heyi had said to him that day-
β...... Lu Qiming must be with ...... I haven't heard of anything lately...... Ji Mu ...... Have you ever met any of the people I'm talking about?"
Xie Yundu's heart beat violently, and his hands unconsciously clenched into fists.
Lao Bai stood up again and said, "What's wrong?"
"Let's go. Xie Yundu's eyes unblinkingly pursued the gaze he felt, "I have to go there and see it - right now!"
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