Chapter 65 – Ambush on All Sides
Xue Qingqiu drifted into the Lone Tong Courtyard.
The moment she had just set foot on the ground, her complexion suddenly changed and her figure shot back.
Behind her, a black dagger suddenly appeared in the shadowy place. The moment the dagger appeared, even the last bit of moonlight that had spilled into the courtyard seemed to have been sucked into the air, and the sky and the earth were bleak.
Xue Qingqiu turned around and snapped her fingers, pointing on top of the dagger. The flying backward figure however, stopped under this exchange of blows, and after standing, he was still in the Lone Tong courtyard, not able to leave.
“Shadow Wing.” Xue Qingqiu spoke faintly, “This profit-oriented tenet of your Traceless Dao can only ever be a maggot.”
The black dagger floated strangely in the air, followed by a pair of hands suddenly emerging at the dagger’s hilt, and slowly expanding into an entire humanoid form, revealing Shadow Wing’s slightly pale face, obviously that snap of the fingers just now had made him quite uncomfortable.
Being said so by Xue Qingqiu, Shadow Wing wanted to retort something, but surprisingly held it back, and was silent for a while before replying, “This seat’s mission has been accomplished, Patriarch Xue take care of yourself …… This seat won’t make another move.”
The figure quickly disappeared again. Xue Qingqiu savored his words in silence for a while, and suddenly smiled, and there was actually a bit of sweetness in her smile as she murmured, “Xue Mu, thanks.”
She knew that although Shadow Wing had followed and provided her with directions to where she was going, and then launched a sniper attack when she realized the trap and intended to retreat, making it impossible for her to evacuate in time, and ultimately falling into the encirclement, but that was as far as it went.
Shadow Wing’s meaning is very clear, as long as you have the slightest hope of escaping, he won’t come to add any burden to you.
This is Xue Mu previously gave him the effect of drawing out a 10,000 gold cake, otherwise with the two clans’ thousand years of disagreement, at this moment, he would only be the most difficult Shadow Viper. The reason why he withdrew his hand now was that he still wanted to retain the possibility of cooperating with Xue Mu in the future, and he perhaps even inwardly didn’t want to kill Xue Qingqiu anymore because he was truly moved by Xue Mu’s offer of reconciliation between the two sides.
With one less King of Shadows sniping, the hope of escape would increase by an unknown amount. Xue Mu’s solo entry into the Tiger’s Den directly removed a strong enemy for her.
Xue Qingqiu’s demeanor was calm, and she leisurely said to the night, “Since this seat has already broken into the Curtain Heaven’s Formation, your aura that was concealed by the formation has already surfaced, so who are you still hiding from in the thatched pit? All come out.”
On her original eastward retreat, a middle-aged scribe appeared, dressed in a green robe, thin and upright, with a clear face and a kind smile, “Qingqiu Farewell.”
Looking at his scribe’s shirt, Xue Qingqiu smiled, “All along, I have felt that those who dance and play with ink are all cowardly and incompetent, not good enough to be used, and I rather don’t understand this special preference of Big Brother Leng.”
Leng Zhu laughed, “Listening to this tone, Qingqiu has changed her mind now?”
Xue Qingqiu’s eyes flickered with softness, and smiled sweetly, “Indeed, there is someone who has changed Qingqiu’s view of the literati, but this person is not Big Brother Leng.”
Leng Zhu lost his smile, “I’m not Lin Wu Ya either, there’s no point in Qing Qiu striking me.”
Xue Qingqiu ignored him and turned her head to look left.
Northeast is also a middle-aged man, the same tall and thin, but a brocade robe, behind the standing several into the Taoist powerhouse, around the side of the six female swordsmen, row than Leng Zhu most. Xue Qingqiu laughed, “Pan Kouzhi, still loves to make a scene.”
Pan Kouzhi’s face twitched, “Kouzhi, not Buckle.”
“So what does Kou Zhi mean, is it to use others as enemy bandits, or to let others become grass bandits?”
“From my heart.”
Xue Qingqiu nodded, “I think these six female sword attendants of yours are good, some day you can match my brother like this, it looks very presentable.”
Pan Kouzhi laughed, “To be complimented by Qingqiu, Mister Pan is not honored.”
Xue Qingqiu continued to look to the north, but it was a monk, “Master Yuan Zhong, Qingqiu has something to ask.”
Master Yuan Zhong put his palms together, “Amitabha Buddha, please speak, Master Xue.”
Xue Qingqiu nodded her cheeks in distress, as if this doubt had been bottled up in her heart for a long time, “Do you guys know of any Buddhist sect that has a moon white silk surplice, sewn with a silver patterned stitching, and a light belt tied around the waist. Instead, the inside of the surplice is empty, with no lining, not even a bottom?”
Yuan Zhong was stunned and thought for a while before he said, “I have not heard of this because of my shallow knowledge.”
Xue Qingqiu waved his hand with some disappointment, “Forget it, that kind of evil dress is a waste of time to ask you, it’s better to ask the King of Yong.”
Saying that, he turned to the northwest, with a very derisive smile, “The King of Yong is used to sleeping in flowers and sleeping in willows, and has a dual cultivation, should have heard of it?”
Ji Wu Yu’s fat face twitched, “Why has this king ever heard of this kind of lewd and evil pretense?”
Xue Qingqiu smiled and looked at the man in green beside Ji Wuyou: “This one is quite familiar.”
The man in green laughed softly and opened his mouth, his voice was very soft: “It’s just a guest of King Yong, his name is not worth mentioning.”
Xue Qingqiu laughed: “The top of the cave, also do Yong King’s guest, this can be somewhat rare.”
No one could hear the difference between this Yong and Yong, but the irony in her tone was clear. Ji Wu Yu’s face flushed with anger, and he coldly snorted without answering.
He would also like to say a few words “demon girl still showing off her tongue at the end of her life”, but Xue Qingqiu’s aura is really too strong, a bunch of the world’s strongest people surrounded her no one can easily be a head, let alone in him?
Xue Qingqiu also turned to the north, there stood four steel beasts, shaped like apes, her eyes also flashed the intention of gravity.
These were war puppets made by the supine masters of the Imperial Court’s Shen Ji Sect, known as the Shen Ji Beasts. Xue Qingqiu didn’t know much about this special occupation of the supine masters, she only knew that the materials used for this kind of Divine Machine Beasts were not mortal iron, and the inner cores were also very peculiar, claiming to be infinitely powerful and indestructible. Right now these four are not the town beasts of the Divine Machine Sect, but they are already Grade A, claimed to be able to be equivalent to a Dao-entry powerhouse. Of course if they were outside, this kind of organ beasts even if they were stronger would not be able to pose much of a threat to a Cave Void powerhouse, but in the capital the situation was reversed, her cultivation was restricted by half, this thing was at full strength, and with the number being quite high, it posed a threat.
In the middle of the Divine Machine Beasts stood an inconspicuous gray-clothed old man with an obscene look. Xue Qingqiu knew that this was one of the great supine masters of the Divine Mechanism Sect, who had always been devoted to organs and ingenious instruments and did not ask questions about the world, and even his name was not known to many people, but only his surname, Yu. This person personally operated these four Divine Mechanism beasts, enough to give anyone a headache.
Xue Qingqiu sighed, “Old Jade Head, are you also involved in this kind of thing?”
Old Jade Head replied woodenly, “King Yong has the right to call on some of the Class A Divine Machine Beasts.”
Xue Qingqiu nodded, no longer paying attention to him, and looked due west again. There were several white-clothed silhouettes there, with sword qi like a forest, austere and murderous. The one in the lead was a cold middle-aged man, the aura of Dao-entry on his body was extremely biting, clearly standing at the peak of Dao-entry. Xue Qingqiu inclined her head to look at him for a long time and suddenly said, “Why isn’t Lin Wuya coming?”
The cold middle-aged man said indifferently, “Mister Zhao’s presence here is enough.”
“Ha! Don’t make people laugh.” Xue Qingqiu laughed without giving face, “In this seat’s eyes, you, Zhao Kun, are not as threatening as your master’s niece. It would be better to send her to stand here and be more decent than you.”
Anger flashed in Zhao Kun’s eyes and he shut up.
Xue Qingqiu continued to look to the southwest and smiled faintly, “I heard that Sister Xue went to my Hundred Flowers Garden to play in the morning? Why don’t you stay for a few more moments to wait for Little Sister to come out and have a chat?”
Mo Xuexin indifferently said, “I am not your sister.”
Xue Qingqiu still smiled, “Some people appreciate sister’s chivalrous bosom.”
Mo Xuexin was stunned and instead lost her smile, “It’s rare for a Demon Sect Demon to say this.”
Xue Qingqiu smiled, “He is a bit different from others.”
Mo Xuexin laughed, “Your tone is like praising your lover.”
Xue Qingqiu’s smile did not change, “Maybe it is.”
Mo Xuexin closed her mouth with a strange expression.
Xue Qingqiu once again turned due south, “Old Niubizi, are you coming too?”
There were several old Taoist priests sitting cross-legged in the south, their Taoist robes of cloudy mountains and green bamboos, precisely the Xuan Tian Sect logo. The first one slowly opened his eyes, “Killing my Xinyi senior brother late at night, and Xue Mu killing my disciples. Does the Star Moon Sect really think that my Xuan Tian Sect is a persimmon that can be kneaded at will?”
“Oh, at this time even a broken outer disciple thrown at the rudder of the Capital Division has become your disciple? Why don’t you say it’s your direct descendant?” Xue Qingqiu laughed loudly, “Tian Man, don’t blame this seat for not reminding you, Canye has already gone south, you brought a large number of Dao-entry experts into the capital at this time, be careful of your Xuan Tian Sect’s emptiness, and it will be stirred up by Canye!”
“The little demoness can’t make waves.” The old Daoist dropped a sentence and closed his eyes.
Xue Qingqiu finally looked to the southeast and sighed softly, “Shentu Sin, are you really retarded?”
The gnarled bearded man stood in the southeast, a bloodthirsty carnal smile flashed in his eyes, “Don’t talk to this seat about great principles, this seat has never killed a Cave Void before, perhaps after this battle he will be able to merge with the Dao, it’s not known.”
Xue Qingqiu shook her head slightly, “I know that you are just addicted to killing, even if you bully the small with the big to kill Mu Jianli, you are just happy to see the hunt? But with all due respect, just relying on this is definitely not a way to merge with the Dao.”
Shen Tu Sin also shook his head and said, “Since our ancestors once used to kill to enter the Dao, Shen Tu can do the same. You and I have different paths, so it’s useless to talk more.”
Xue Qingqiu laughed: “Windstorm House, extinguish the love road, the devil’s door to two, maybe the Heping Sect is still somewhere, let me think about it …… is waiting for curry night? Oh …… is this the so-called righteous path to round up the devil’s door demoness?”
Under Xue Qingqiu’s smiling gaze, the people of the righteous path were silent. Not to mention not using the Demon Sect at all, even if they were just missing a Shadow Wing, they couldn’t lock onto Xue Qingqiu, and there was nothing they could do about it.
Xue Qingqiu silently counted, Lengzhu, Tianwen and that green man is the peak of Cave Void, Pan Kouzhi and Shentu sin middle stage of Cave Void, Mo Xuexin first entered the Cave Void is not too long, a total of six Cave Void, if you count yourself, the world of the world Cave Void actually arrived at half of the battle. The remaining thirty or so people have all entered the Dao, of which Yuan Zhong and Zhao Kun are both at the peak of the Dao, and there is also a Shadow Wing ambush in the dark, this lineup is really so strong that it makes people laugh.
Xue Qingqiu’s smile began to spread, the more he laughed, the happier he became, and then he laughed loudly, “The five sects of the righteous path, the three sects of the devil’s gate, and the two sects of the imperial court. There are six people who have caved into the void, more than thirty people who have entered the Dao, four Divine Mechanical Beasts, and the Formation of Curtain Heaven enveloping them, attacking a city and felling a country is nothing more than that. How fortunate is Xue Qingqiu to be able to enjoy such a feast alone, though I die, I have no regrets!”