Chapter 38: Azure Cloud (16)

“Open your eyes,” He Tingtong ordered. Yue Qianxun tilted his head back, his face smeared with blood. He inhaled sharply, trembling as he asked, “Am I going to go blind?”

He Tingtong took out clean water from his storage bag and carefully washed away the blood stains on his face. “Just a small spiritual backlash, not a big problem. But for now, don’t use your left eye or spiritual power.”

Taking out a clean piece of gauze, he covered Yue Qianxun’s eyes, wrapped it around his head, and tied a big bow on the side, leaving only the other dark round eye half-drooping listlessly.

Fu Fengyan rolled two paper cylinders and stuffed them into Yue Qianxun’s nose. Zhang Duixue rummaged in his pockets, took out two Qi-Replenishing Pills and threw them into his mouth, considered patching him up and treating his injury.

Fu Fengyan grabbed a stool in each hand, wiped the dust off, moved them close, and the four sat in a circle.

Yue Qianxun was forced to breathe through his mouth. Sitting on the chair, he looked dazedly at the three big brothers in front of him, sniffled, and said uncomfortably, “What do we do now? Have you all got enough points?”

Zhang Duixue raised his plaque. “I flew over from there and cut more, three hundred and thirty-two points.”

He Tingtong said plainly, “Exactly one hundred.”

Fu Fengyan lowered his head, picked up the plaque, and counted, “One hundred and one.”

“I only have ninety-six.” Yue Qianxun clasped his hands, squeezing them a bit tightly. “Now a group of them are chasing us, what do we do for the next two days?”

“You rest first, points are not urgent.” He Tingtong crossed his arms and looked at the few people in front of him. “We have completely offended Xie Xuanxiao, Xiangli Xuan, and that white-haired one.”

Zhang Duixue added, “Snow hair and purple eyes, should be the Young Master of the Fu clan.”

“I know.” He Tingtong glanced at Fu Fengyan from the corner of his eye. The other party pressed his hands on his knees, caught his gaze, tilted his head and smiled, looking somewhat sunny.

He still remembered that when he met Fu Fengyan, he also had white hair and purple eyes, although he quickly turned his hair and eyes black. Now even his facial contours were different from when they first met.

The Fu clan was also a noble family, but most of this surname lived in seclusion. Although their ancestors were rich, they gradually declined. They didn’t have much power in various immortal sects, nor had he heard of any powerful new talents.

Among the famous sects of the current age, within a hundred years old and above the tenth realm, there were only Qin Tan of the Sword Sect, Xu Jingzhen, the Young Master of the Immortal Alliance, Ling Hui, the Buddhist Son of the Great Brightness Temple, and Xie Xuanxiao, the Young Master of Yuanchen Palace, who was gaining momentum. Among them, related to noble families were only Xu and Xie.

Fu Fengyan should be related to the Fu clan, but they didn’t seem to be familiar.

This was indeed the first time He Tingtong dealt directly with a child of the Fu clan. In the past dozen lives, he had always studied dutifully, kept a low profile, acted steadily, never offended Xie Xuanxiao, and naturally never encountered such a siege as today.

But now was not the time to get information from Fu Fengyan.

Just after a chaotic battle, the four sat facing each other, looking somewhat wretched.

Zhang Duixue pursed his lips and said guiltily, “The Young Palace Master is determined to catch me now. With the name of Yuanchen Palace, there will only be more and more people encircling us. There are still two days before leaving the secret realm, our situation will become more and more difficult.”

“Points are already in hand, just need to hide from people, not a big problem.” He Tingtong bent his finger to push open the window, revealing a slit. He looked out twice and whispered, “I’ll keep watch, you guys regulate your breath and restore physical strength first. We’ll go back in half an hour.”

Zhang Duixue was confused. “Go back where?”

He Tingtong pointed to the tall city wall behind and smiled at the three. “They chase forward, we retreat backward. Isn’t it playing hide-and-seek? Just step on their shadows and follow behind their butts.”

Zhang Duixue frowned. “If we turn back now and run into the Young Palace Master…”

“Xie Xuanxiao consumed too much energy and must be regulating his breath now. Besides, he didn’t bring portraits. There are hundreds of people, do they all know what we look like?” He Tingtong’s gaze swept over the few people in front of him, raised his hand to touch his chin. “No, four of us walking together is indeed a bit too conspicuous…”

He Tingtong snapped his fingers. “Let’s switch it up!”

He unfastened his sword and stuffed it into Yue Qianxun’s arms. “Alright, Xiao Yue, now you are the only sword cultivator among us.”

One of the paper balls in Yue Qianxun’s nose fell out. He opened his mouth, looking at the heavy spiritual sword in his hand, making a confused sound. “Ah?”

In White Emperor City, day and night could not be distinguished. The sky was always dark and heavy, flashing with terrifying thunder. Extremely thick clouds almost touched the eaves, carrying a trace of black-red blood aura in the mist.

The city was divided into four quadrants: Vermilion Bird, Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise. The buildings also corresponded to the constellations in the sky one by one. The area they were currently active in coincided with the Vermilion Bird position. He Tingtong could find the way even with his eyes closed.

The confinement at the city gate was broken. The crazy cavalry rushed into the city to search everywhere. Hoofbeats shook the sky as he searched for living things to kill.

The teenagers in the trial walked along the wall, restraining their auras, carefully avoiding that crazy huge figure, and casually killing a few evil sins from the corners to add a few points for themselves.

This trial was really long and grueling, mainly because the environment was too oppressive. No one knew when that tenth-realm cavalry would rush out with a陌dao and hack people to death.

Under such circumstances, the Young Master of Yuanchen Palace still had the mood to catch people. Three families paid money, adding layers of rewards, generous rewards. This news soon reached everyone’s ears.

At the same time, gossip began to circulate secretly. According to people present at the scene, they saw with their own eyes the Young Master of Yuanchen Palace being forcibly kissed by a lecher while setting up the array, taken advantage of fiercely. afterwards, Xie Xuanxiao was ashamed and indignant to death, vowing to punish the person severely as a warning to others.

However, some said the Young Palace Master’s fiancée was abducted by a wild man, putting a big green hat on the Young Palace Master, angering him to vomit blood, so he gritted his teeth and wished to kill them quickly.

True or false couldn’t be distinguished, but on that day, many people indeed saw Xie Xuanxiao kissing a sword cultivator in mid-air, and some saw him walking inside with a dark face later, blood at the corner of his mouth, ordering a pursuit.

With a big melon right in front of them, basically no one didn’t want to get close and take a bite. Besides the trial, everyone pricked up their ears to gossip.

Some people who wanted to make money or build connections started to obey Xie Xuanxiao’s dispatch directly, guarding exits in all directions, searching buildings and houses. Others just wanted to take the exam and didn’t want to do such boring chores, but didn’t want to offend Yuanchen Palace either, so they all fell behind, started to team up, clearing evil sins, and chatting along the way.

White Emperor City was very large. The fastest group had already searched to the city center, but still failed to capture the figures of those four people.

A day and a night had passed.

Dean Xu sat in the main seat. The right side was empty, and on the left was the tenth-realm array master sent by Yuanchen Palace. The recording stone fully presented the scene in the secret realm. Because the Yuanchen Palace elder favored Xie Xuanxiao, he focused almost all the scenes on him, and then captured that forced kiss clearly.

Then it was like now, the whole venue was silent. All teachers kept their mouths shut, only exchanging teasing glances. The Yuanchen Palace elder pressed his head, looking gloomy.

Dean Xu leaned against the back of the chair and asked with concern, “Oh my, is this the Young Palace Master’s wife? Young and promising, young and promising! Heard the two have been engaged for a long time. It has to be young people nowadays, little couples really know how to flirt…”

The Yuanchen Palace elder glared at Dean Xu, successfully shutting him up, then whispered, “Where are those few little thieves? Where on earth did they hide?”

The jade plaques they carried were both for counting and recording. Scenes flashed in various places. The Dean searched and searched, finally seeing a few figures moving in an inconspicuous corner.

Kicking open the door, five or six teenagers blocked the doors and windows, displaying their skills. Talismans and immortal spells flew around, catching all the evil sins hiding inside in one net. The leading sword cultivator dragged his sword, struggling a bit to kill the black shadow. A ball of scorched fire burned, then the number on the jade plaque jumped, becoming exactly one hundred.

The teenager sighed deeply and sheathed his sword.

A girl beside him immediately applauded exaggeratedly. “Wow, so amazing. Thanks to Little Junior Brother’s protection, we could pass smoothly all the way!”

“Amazing, amazing.”

The teenager wore a cloak, the hood pressed on his head, blocking half of his face, only revealing a small section of pale chin. Lips tightly pursed, appearing particularly gloomy and silent.

“Noisy.” He scolded in a low voice, very aloof and domineering. Then he turned around, carrying the sword on his back, walking proudly at the very front, followed by a refined music cultivator in moon-white long robes, two delicate magic cultivators, two men and two women, going out flamboyantly.

The two teenagers who temporarily cooperated with them looked enviously at the shorty surrounded by girls. There were few female cultivators this year. Don’t know where this little sword cultivator got the luck to gain the favor of two girls.

Damn it! Could it be that only learning the sword has the most promising future?

So they chased after them and asked pesteringly, “Where are you going next?”

“Points are full, naturally going to the city center to join the fun, helping Young Palace Master Xie catch people.” The girl in the green silk skirt talked more, tilting her head to look at them. “Do the two fellow daoists want to go together? Heard the rewards are generous.”

Those two shivered and shook their heads. “Our points are not full yet, so we won’t join that fun. The commotion over there is big, afraid it will attract monsters. Fairies be careful.”

The girl curtsied, said thanks, then walked away with her companions.

The light green hair ribbon fluttered. The recording stone reflected He Tingtong’s face, really having a bit of beauty like a lotus out of water for a moment.

On the training ground, Dean Xu stroked his beard and pointed at the screen laughing. “These kids are really bad!”

The Yuanchen Palace elder sneered. “Unscrupulous, disgraceful.”