Chapter 170.

Ever since he had gotten acquainted with Jingtan Jushi, Jiang Ran had been following him to learn the way of formations.

Although Jiang Ran himself wasn’t sure if he would one day catch a great master of formations and thus acquire the relevant skills.

But rather than passively waiting for an uncertain future, the opportunity in front of him was naturally even more impossible to miss.

One had the intention to learn, while the other did his best to cater to the teaching despite feeling pain.

As a result, Jiang Ran’s attainments in formations had progressed rapidly over this period of time.

At this moment, he searched for a place to sit on his knees and began to quietly observe this sword weapon formation network.

In his hand, he pinched a few stones and occasionally made a trial and error.

Time passes in a second, in a short period of time, Jiang Ran has already changed several methods, but it is always difficult to cross this formation.

For a moment, he couldn’t help but frown.

Ruan Yuqing did not have much experience in this path, so she stood beside Jiang Ran and watched.

However, as she watched, she also found some clues:

“Young warrior Jiang, look at those huge sword weapons, it seems like something is carved on top of them.”

Jiang Ran had only paid attention to the formation earlier, but he hadn’t cared about what was on those sword weapons.

These sword weapons didn’t know how they were forged, and each of them was incredibly large.

It was like a huge stone pillar, and the relief carvings on it were indeed able to reveal some mysteries if one looked closely.

Jiang Ran temporarily moved his attention away from the formation, gazing at the relief carvings on the sword weapon, blinking his eyes:

“Is the …… engraving on this a picture of the eighteen layers of hell’s torture?

“But the sword artifacts here are definitely not just eighteen ……”

Listed before and after, there were a total of one hundred and eight.

Jiang Ran had already seen it just now, these one hundred and eight places could be divided into thirty-six Heavenly Deities and seventy-two Earthly Furies, and depending on their respective positions, they could be listed into a thousand formations.

It was precisely for this reason that it was really difficult to break through this formation.

“Not every sword has a relief on it.”

Ruan Yuqing said softly:

“Do you think this could be related to the way of breaking formations?”

“It’s hard to say. ……”

Jiang Ran sniffed, and his gaze couldn’t help but take a few more glances at the reliefs on those sword weapons.

He only felt that the tortures engraved on them were indeed extremely cruel.

This made Jiang Ran even more puzzled as to what kind of person made this place.

In the coffin in the center of this formation, what kind of person was lying there?

What is the purpose of the blood channels left in those rooms above, the blood that was channeled into that hollow?

One doubt after another was born in his heart, but then dissipated one after another.

Eventually gazing at the several sword weapons carved with reliefs, a moment later, the stone in his hand struck out once again.

This time, it was extremely smooth.

After a few stones fell, everything was safe and sound.

Jiang Ran and Ruan Yuqing couldn’t help but glance at each other, both seeing the color of surprise in the other’s eyes.

“Miss Ruan is really smart and clever, I only saw the formation when I was blinded, but I didn’t realize that there were hints hidden within the formation.

“The key to breaking the formation is really these sword weapons with relief carvings on them.

“Using this as a point, and then pushing according to the number of the Big Dipper and the Big Dipper, we can break the formation and go through.”

Jiang Ran was a bit elated for a moment.

Ruan Yuqing then laughed:

“Don’t mock me, young warrior Jiang, you’ve progressed so far in the formation in a short period of time, that’s what makes you a heavenly talent.

“Although I could see that there was something different about the embossed sword artifact, it was just luck.

“If you weren’t proficient in this, it would be a fool’s errand for the two of us to try to get past it.”

Speaking of this, the two looked at each other again and smiled.

But although they had found the doorway, it was still a toss-up as to whether or not they could safely pass through.

Jiang Ran took this opportunity to try a few more times to make sure there was no mistake before saying to Ruan Yuqing:

“Miss Ruan, if you want to cross this formation, you can’t deviate one step.

“I can’t let you follow me, we have to go over together ……”

“Good.”

Ruan Yuqing also didn’t get catty with him, so she handed her hand over.

Just looking at these two hands that were clasped together, Ruan Yuqing couldn’t help but smack his lips again:

“It always feels like all the cheapness has been taken up by you.”

“Have I?”

Jiang Ran raised an eyebrow.

“No? In the Ghost King’s Palace, I was pulled by you like this, and now that I’m here underneath the stagecoach station, I’m still being pulled by you like this.

“It’s not even good enough to spread this out for good.”

Ruan Yuqing gently shook her head.

“Then how about not spreading it?”

“Just sneak around like this, huh?”

“……”

Jiang Ran felt as if what they were saying was furiously surging in an unpredictable direction.

At that moment, he coughed and said:

“Let’s go, let’s go over first.”

“En.”

Ruan Yuqing nodded slightly and clasped the Soft Water Sword in her hand, ready to prepare for unexpected situations.

In the next moment, Jiang Ran’s feet came together, driving Ruan Yuqing’s figure to cut out heavy shadows, precisely the Heavenly Qian Nine Steps.

A little bit under his feet, he had landed on top of the chains of the first sword weapon.

The figure together, moving in the air, in the blink of an eye has already taken three steps.

However, when the fourth step leapt and was about to land on top of that platform, without warning, the fire suddenly rose.

Jiang Ran’s brows furrowed slightly, and with a point of his foot, his body rolled backwards, returning to the last landing point.

“What’s going on?”

Ruan Yuqing wrapped one arm around Jiang Ran, twisting her head to look at the scene of the flames spewing wildly, only to feel a little panicked in her heart.

If they were not careful, both of them would have to fall into this lava pool, with no bones left.

Jiang Ran mused slightly:

“Just now, I lightly struck with a stone, and the fourth step will allow me to ascend to the center platform.

“But after really arriving here, I realized that there is an additional change in the joints, so that I can only draw back ……

“Moreover, this change made the significance of this formation become more than just for blocking.

“It seems to want to guide us, to walk everywhere the formation wants us to go.”

“What does that mean?”

Ruan Yuqing didn’t understand a bit for a moment.

Jiang Ran mused slightly:

“Let’s go!”

Ruan Yuqing was stunned, in such a hurry?

In a moment of inattention, almost did not hold on, in a panic, the limbs had to pickpocket Jiang Ran.

It was really like a pendant.

Jiang Ran, however, had already taken a step down and arrived at another location, saying softly to her:

“Look.”

Ruan Yuqing looked up at Jiang Ran, only to feel her ears turn red and couldn’t help but glare at him:

“Did you do it on purpose?”

“Huh?”

Jiang Ran froze: “Deliberately what?”

“Deliberately letting me …… hold you like this?”

Ruan Yuqing gently shook her lower lip.

Jiang Ran was dumbfounded, and reached forward with a smooth hand.

He couldn’t help but smile:

“Miss Ruan this is a misunderstanding …… What’s more, it’s you who hung on to my body, I haven’t moved around.”

“You quickly shut up.”

Ruan Yuqing gave him a blank look:

“Forget it, believe you for once and consider it a situation. What did you show me just now?”

“Behind you.”

Jiang Ran reached out and pointed.

Ruan Yuqing turned around to look, and saw a relief engraved on top of a sword weapon behind him.

It was a person sitting cross-legged, with someone behind him poking the person’s head with a steel needle.

Although the text was only a few strokes, yet the pain …… that violently pierced the heart was still displayed to the fullest.

“This ……”

Ruan Yuqing frowned:

“Earlier there was the torture of ‘devouring the heart’, ‘bruising the bones’, ‘burning and boiling’ and so on.

“There are even new ones over here ……”

“According to my speculation, there are about a dozen more pairs of such reliefs, so when you and I walk through the entire formation, we should be able to see them all.”

Jiang Ran said softly.

Ruan Yuqing, on the other hand, frowned:

“But why do we need to let the people who enter the formation, see these reliefs?

“If we say that we just want to use it to scare people, this probably doesn’t make sense.”

“I’m afraid we’ll have to wait until we’ve seen it to have an answer.”

Jiang Ran said this, and then leapt up.

Ruan Yuqing frowned slightly, subconsciously wrapping her arms around Jiang Ran’s neck and gently glaring at him.

And after Jiang Ran had the experience of the previous time, this time he landed on his feet without the slightest ripple indeed.

The two of them then looked at another relief.

In this way, after looking at a total of seventeen, Jiang Ran and Ruan Yuqing had also completely circled around the formation.

They came to the final eighteenth Zun Sword Artifact.

This time, what was on it was no longer a horrifying relief.

Instead, words appeared ……

This text was twisted, as if it was written in blood, and it actually made one’s heart ache at the touch of it.

Jiang Ran’s eyes swept over the words, and his pupils contracted violently.

What was written on it was:

[Eighteen Heavenly Demon Records, The First Sorrow of All Ages!

……

……

Rumble!

A thunderclap resounded in the sky, and the rain became heavier and heavier.

Tang Yuyi and the others, at this time, were within a room.

With ugly faces, they looked at their surroundings.

This was a secret room.

Outside the secret room was an ordinary room.

The room was cleanly taken care of, probably the cleanest room within the entire stagecoach station.

They had originally come here to search for that old man.

However, they didn’t expect to find that old man until the end, but in the end, they found a secret room without dying.

There is nothing else in the secret room …… only the head, the human head!

Some of these heads are just chopped down, still with blood dripping.

Some were those that had been chopped off for many years, with no skin or flesh left, only withered bones.

Piled up in the corner of the chamber, some scattered, some neat.

It was a good thing that those present were all characters who had been in the jianghu for many years and had seen great scenes.

Otherwise, just the scene in this secret room, I’m afraid that one or two would have to be scared to death.

But even so, Cheng Tianyang, Dao Wu Ming, and their faces were not pretty.

“A stagecoach station that has been abandoned for many years, and there’s even a devil hidden in it.

“Just how many years has this person been entrenched here?

“And what is he doing by beheading these people?”

Dao Wu Ming’s face was blue.

If he was a member of the Sword Execution Division, he was considered a proper member of the public sector.

Taking this post station as an example, Jiang Ran wouldn’t be qualified to reside in a proper post station even with the Sword Catching Order.

But Dao Wu Ming could.

The reason why he didn’t go to the post twenty miles away this time was because this side was closer, and also because he still had Fengwu and the others with him.

They met on the road and went all the way to the Evergreen Mansion in company, so in the end, it was not good to throw them halfway there and run to the official post station to live by themselves.

Yet, he didn’t expect that he would encounter such a thing in an abandoned post station.

“Extraordinary people only have extraordinary plans.”

Cheng Tianyang frowned:

“This place is not suitable to stay …… for a long time Now that this person is nowhere to be seen, it is even more worrying for me.

“Gentlemen, we should still withdraw from this secret room first before making any plans.”

The crowd also nodded and departed from within this secret room.

Tang Yuyi walked at the end, taking advantage of the fact that the crowd wasn’t paying attention, she reached out and touched a human head, slowly pulling out a long needle from the center.

This needle was more than half a foot long, deep into the human brain, and there was not the slightest trace of it on the outside.

Tang Yuyi gently exhaled a breath, her expression slightly thoughtful.

Just don’t wait to understand, just hear the rainy night and the sound of alarm.

With the previous experience, this time the crowd no longer had the slightest hesitation, they all jumped up and came to the courtyard.

Then they saw that outside of the stagecoach station, which was previously deserted, they didn’t know when, but a large group of people had already come.

This group of people were all wearing red clothes, wearing swords on their waists, full of bloodthirsty aura.

Only, this time, everyone was confused, not knowing what to do.

And in the middle of their crowd, there was a figure streaming in, and wherever he passed, without knowing how he did it, there were people with their heads separated.

“It’s that old man!”

Ning Jiu Kite recognized it with a single glance, although this old man didn’t know when he got a set of black robes to cover himself, but it wasn’t so bad that he completely covered his face, and immediately shouted angrily:

“Old thief, where is my senior brother?”

With these words, he was about to rush over.

However, he was pulled by Dao Wu Ming:

“Hold it!”

Ning Jiu Kite subconsciously struggled, but was no match for Dao Wuming’s unheard of Dao Qi.

She could only stand in place and be anxious.

Dao Wu Ming had to say:

“First, look at this person’s means …… The people who are besieging him should be experts from the Blood Sword Hall.

“Blood Sword Hall master Xuanyuan Yidao is known as the knife array double best, in the array together has extraordinary attainments, these Blood Sword Hall disciples besiege this person, when it is also have the array in the body.

“If you rush in, I’m afraid you won’t be able to get him, but instead you’ll be trapped by the Blood Dagger Hall’s formations.”

Ning Jiuji Kite only gradually calmed down after hearing these words, only for her face to grow more and more anxious:

“What are the people from the Blood Sword Hall doing here?”

Tang Yuyi, on the other hand, glanced at Luo Qingyi.

They both knew why the Blood Sword Hall had come …… actually came at this time, a little later than expected.

Jiang Ran had killed Xuanyuan Yidao’s disciple, Chen Zixuan, the deputy hall master of the Blood Sword Hall.

If Xuanyuan Yidao didn’t come to retaliate, that would be called a duh.

It’s just that the Blood Sword Hall’s people came at an unfortunate time, running elsewhere to find it would be fine, but they came to this treacherous stagecoach station, and as a result, they encountered this old man.

Of course, whether this is a coincidence or not, I don’t dare to say now.

This old man should have been wandering around in the outside world, not knowing if he was trying to avoid their search, or if he had another reason.

He happened to collide with the people from the Blood Sword Hall, which led to a fight.

However, Tang Wuyi swept around the crowd several times, but she didn’t see Jiang Ran, and for a moment she was a bit worried.

I don’t know where he took Ruan Yuqing, where did he go?

Could it be that he had really gone to the wind and snow?

Thinking of this, she glanced at Li Tianyu again and said softly:

“Tian Yu, get ready.”

When Li Tianyu nodded at his words, he removed the large bow behind him, turned it slightly in his hand, and mortared it on the ground:

“Who to shoot?”

“Wait for now ……”

Tang Yuyi was not in a hurry.

Nowadays, the most anxious ones shouldn’t be them, but the people of the Blood Sword Hall.

In the middle of the scene, it would be heads raining down, this old man’s martial arts was weird to the extreme, seemingly normal moves, but on the contrary, he was able to make unusual effects.

Between the two hands when there is another mystery, but every time the air swept through, there are people’s heads fall to the ground.

In the heavy rain although not really see the specific situation, but also can vaguely see, between the gap between his two fingers, seems to be able to pull out a trace.

“Is there a silk thread on his fingertips ……?”

Jingtan Jushi’s voice, somewhat less certain came out.

“Thread ……”

Dao Wu Ming frowned slightly:

“Could it be him?”

“Who?”

The crowd immediately all looked towards Dao Wu Ming when they heard this.

Dao Nameless shook his head slightly, seemingly pondering something.

And right at this moment, a voice resounded:

“What a place of demons and devils, where swarms of demons clutter the land.

“Only, today, this seat will avenge my disciples, even if there are really evil demons descending, I shall cut them down with a single slash!!!”

As the voice fell, a figure was seen rushing up into the sky.

When the person reached mid-air, a single sword was already drawn.

Raised high above the top, both hands swung round and chopped downwards.

This knife does not talk about flowery work, is a big coincidence, with the power of a thousand pounds to crush the world.

It was Xuanyuan’s famous skill, ‘Thousand Pounds of Force’!

At this time a knife fell, as if the sky rain curtain were split in half.

Wherever the blade went, there was no enemy.

The old man covered his face with a black robe, his two hands were divided, and his eyes were visible between the gaps in the black robe.

The people present were too far away, plus there was a rain screen blocking them, so they couldn’t see the mystery.

But found that Xuanyuan Yidao figure suddenly stalled.

It seemed as if he had been badly undermined in the middle of this stare-down.

Tang Yuyi stared at him for a long time, and then, at this moment, she categorically opened her mouth:

“Shoot Xuanyuan Yidao to death!”

“Huh?”

Cheng Tianyang and Dao Wu Ming were both stunned.

Of course they had long seen Li Tianyu there ready to fire, but they didn’t think that at the end of the day, it wasn’t the old man who was fighting, but Xuanyuan Yidao?

Li Tianyu did not care about their surprise.

Chasing the clouds by the moon arrow has long been bow full moon, at this time the arrow tip flashing blinding light, suddenly a loose hand, instantly in this sky curtain of rain drew an empty line.

This was a strike of perfect timing!

Even that old man didn’t expect that Tang Yuyi would let Li Tianyu shoot Xuan Yuan Yidao at this time.

Not to mention Xuanyuan Yidao himself.

But he was in the end the mighty Blood Sword Hall Master.

Right at the moment when this cloud chasing arrow was about to pass through his chest, he raised his head fiercely and turned the Thousand Jun Blade in his hand.

Between the time and place, the arrow was slightly knocked away by one point.

It was this difference that made the arrow miss its full potential.

Although it passed through the chest, it did not penetrate the heart.

Xuanyuan a knife’s figure fell down in the air, the momentum of this knife also dissipated cleanly.

That old man surprisingly also did not take the opportunity to kill, eyes swept around, body shape a turn, lending that black robes together, it is like a walking dragon, in the blink of an eye has rushed out of the Blood Sword Hall disciples surrounded by the scope of the retreat towards the night.

“Chase!!!”

Tang Yuyi didn’t care about this.

The purpose of seriously injuring Xuanyuan Yidao had already been achieved, and now at this moment, it was only natural to catch up with this old man to find out where Jiang Ran and the others were.