Chapter 114: Obstacle course

Yes, we are in the enemy’s dream. What advantage do we have? The only advantage is to catch them off guard and buy some time.

Thinking about this, I took Zhu Zhuo’s hand and kept describing the location of the remaining four points in the palm of her hand, then said, “Do you know what the things I’m describing in your palm represent?”

Zhu Zhuo is not stupid. He answered me very seriously: “I know. I am very familiar with this city.”

The wind blew gently, my short hair fluttered, and my voice echoed in the square, blown by the wind and sounding somewhat ethereal: “Familiar? Familiar with every street and alley?”

Zhu Zhuo’s voice was also blown a little bit, and he replied to me: “Yes, the streets and alleys, even if not all of them, are familiar with most of them.”

“That’s good,” I said softly, and my voice seemed even more ethereal. Everyone stood behind me, and Huigen, intentionally or unintentionally, stood at the back. Tao Bai glanced at Huigen and also stood next to him.

I heard Tao Bai whisper to Hui Gen’er, “Master Hongren is so worthy of your respect that it’s worth dying for him.”

A smile appeared on my lips, and then I pressed my finger on a certain spot on Zhu Zhuo’s palm. Before, this spot represented one of the points. I whispered to Zhu Zhuo, “Go here. Try to take the shortcut. Take the small path.”

Zhu Zhu nodded.

At this moment, I suddenly shouted, “Let’s go!” The voice was loud, like thunder exploding in the sky, and it finally stopped wavering.

While talking, I glanced to the east, then picked Zhu Zhuo up in my arms and began to run. I said to Zhu Zhuo, “I’ll run, you point the way.”

A cruel game finally began at this moment.

I never knew that navigating the alleys of a city could be such a disastrous experience.

It’s like you’re in a maze, and soon you’ll know the cardinal directions, but even the left and right sides are a bit blurry.

“Even the alleys in Beijing are not this crowded, and there the scenery is beautiful, but here it’s just the same.” The wind blew past my ear, and I couldn’t help but complain, while also admiring Zhu Zhuo’s amazing familiarity with the area.

Except for my complaint, everyone in the group was silent. Here, you can imitate everything in the world, the sound of the wind when you run, the shock transmitted by the ground under your feet, but the only thing you can’t imitate is the exhaustion brought by running in the world, between each breath.

To be honest, the ten-minute sprint was easy for us, but I knew that the ease would end the next moment.

Finally, they appeared, right in front of us, a group of so-called inner-city elites wearing black cloaks.

Zhu Zhu was trembling in my arms, but I was relieved. I thought to myself, it was always worrying when they didn’t show up. Looking at the ghosts that suddenly appeared at the end of the alley, I had nothing to say to comfort Zhu Zhu, except for a simple sentence: “Don’t be afraid!”

As I spoke, my hand instinctively reached for the cloth bag behind me. It was only a shape-shifting item, and it was not considered a spirit vessel, but it did contain some of my magic items.

“I’ll do it, Chengyi.” Xiao Chengqian ran up to my side at some point, holding his copper-coin sword in his hand.

“You guys rush forward, I and Tao Bai will be fine with this kind of rear guard duty.” Hui Gen’er’s voice came from behind us.

There was no other way. We stopped running, and the whole team had to stop. Now we needed to run, run, and keep running until we reached our destination.

Hearing Hui Gen’er’s words, Xiao Chengqian and I looked at each other. We had a tacit understanding. During the run, I used my tongue to press against my palate to start the runes, while Xiao Chengqian used his magic sword to start drawing runes in midair.

In fact, I used the tongue-tip talisman quite often in the past, but only in emergencies when I was under pressure. I never used it to its full potential, for example, to suppress!

The greatest effect of the tongue symbol is to calm. In Taoism, the tongue symbol represents the heart, and the heart is the element of fire. Just as the cinnabar used to write the symbol is also close to fire, but its effectiveness is not as good as the fire of the heart itself. Just like lighting a bonfire in the wilderness, it is bright and always has the effect of frightening wild animals. In contrast, the attack effect of the tongue symbol is only slightly better than nothing.

Here, the soul power is given full play to its limit. Without a physical body, the Taoist cultivator’s soul has long been in training, and the nature of the five elements will naturally attach to the soul. Since it is not me who is attacking, it is naturally a deterrent!

Xiao Chengqian’s cooperation was also tacit. I used my tongue to draw the symbols, while he used his sword to draw them in midair. This method is easier than using your fingers to form the symbols, and the symbols formed by the magic weapon have a much stronger suppressing and expelling effect on ghosts than the symbols formed by your fingers.

So, this is also a kind of tacit understanding!

All this was done in a run, and as we saw the distance between us getting closer and closer, the elite team also rushed towards us. At that moment, we heard countless cries of ghosts, and a large area of fog came rushing towards us, as if thousands of troops were rushing towards us.

I didn’t expect that the lord of the castle, who was good at setting up a grand illusion, would have such a ghost under his hand! In the blink of an eye, he had already begun to use the environment to oppress us.

However, a mere illusion of a team of ghosts is really just child’s play for us. Xiao Chengqian and I had already formed a spell, and at the moment of convergence, we simultaneously released the power we had accumulated for a long time. Xiao Chengqian also shouted in an exaggerated manner, “Stop for Grandpa!” This kind of useless nonsense.

The wind blew, and the illusion vanished in an instant. The ghosts scattered, and it was as if they were in a quagmire. In the end, the firepower was not enough. If the master had used this tongue spell, the ghosts would have been unable to move for a short time.

The two of us, Xiao Chengqian and I, are no match for them… We are far from being able to do it. To be honest, I was only able to take advantage of my spiritual power and the combined soul. Some things can only be accumulated over time, and there is no room for cheating.

I was deluded into thinking that I was a good student, because I was proud of being able to summarize my so-called experience after a small fight. But Zhu Zhu was shaking even more violently in my arms than before. It wasn’t until we had run several meters that it said in disbelief, “That’s all it took to get past it?”

I smiled and said to Zhu Zhuo, “What else? You can look back.”

Zhu Zhu almost hid behind my shoulder and looked back, while I looked back with a swagger. One was Huigen, who was good at fighting ghosts, and the other was Tao Bai, who was suspected of being a pure yang body. Even if these ghosts were the elite of the elite, after being hit by my and Xiao Chengqian’s spells, they would only have one fate left to be dealt with by Huigen and Tao Bai.

It was a bit cruel, but Tao Bai, even as a soul, still had a trace of the yang energy. When he turned into a soul, even when I walked close to him, I had the illusion that his soul was so hot it was going to burn, not to mention when he no longer suppressed it and attacked with all his might.

As for Huigen, not to mention the sword, not even the rosary beads were of any use. It was just a pair of fists. The blood-colored tattoos on his chest and back began to flow again. The furious, glaring Vajra, with red energy flowing over his fists, was punching at a ghost that was having a hard time moving.

There was no thrilling scene, no punch, no sound of the fist hitting the flesh, but with just one punch, I saw that the fist of the wise root directly pierced through the body of the ghost. When it was withdrawn, a fist-sized hole appeared in the body of the spirit.

Tao Bai was still shy. I couldn’t understand why a man would wear a shy expression while fighting, as if he was ‘mocking’ his opponent. I just saw that Tao Bai’s fist and kick landed on the ghosts, and where they landed, pure golden flames ignited and spread…

“Xiao Bai is a bit special.” Lushan ran up to my side at some point and whispered a sentence.

My answer was very simple, just one sentence: “I have no intention of knowing your secrets. If you want to say it, you can say it. If you don’t want to say it, you can keep it to yourself for the rest of your life. This has no effect on our relationship.”

While I was talking, my pace never stopped. Zhu Zhu had already recovered from her panic and was now calmly telling me to go straight, turn left, turn right, etc.

Huigen and Taobai had finished quickly and caught up with the group.

Lushan was silent for a long time and asked me, “What kind of relationship are we in?”

“Friendship. If we experience a few more life and death situations, it might become a brotherhood.” My voice was calm, and I was thinking that we had already gone 500 meters, and we were halfway there. Although I didn’t want to play by the rules, I still habitually chose the nearest point. What a fool.

“Come on, do you want to completely tie us to your battleship with your emotions? Well, you’ve succeeded.” Lushan suddenly smiled, then stared ahead, and a group of so-called black-robed elites appeared in front of him.