Chapter 221

After mutually casting the Shi Liuyu Talisman, the nerves of the two squeezed in the coffin relaxed a lot.

They were no longer as highly vigilant as they had been just a moment ago.

As long as the Shi Liuyu Talisman didn't flare up, it had no effect on the body or mental state. As for what would happen in the future and whether they could successfully resolve it, they couldn't consider that far ahead for now.

Yang Qingxi muttered self-deprecatingly: "Life's encounters are truly wonderful. A year ago, I never would have imagined that the Gushing Spring Realm brat who was being chased by the Sui Sect forces outside Jiuli City would be lying in a coffin with me today, leaving me helpless and only able to let him plant the Shi Liuyu Talisman on me."

In her tone, there was naturally unwillingness and humiliation, as well as amazement at Li Youyi's achievements today.

At that time a year ago, she believed she could stand on the clouds and look down on the other person like an ant, like a soldier to be manipulated at will.

"Eldest Miss Yang, stop being sentimental; it's as if you've suffered a great loss. Move your face; my shoulder is getting a bit numb from you pressing on it! How much combat power do you have left now? What level of strength are you exactly? I think in the current situation, it's best for everyone to lay their cards on the table and stop hiding things."

Li Youyi had once heard Brother Zuoqiu Ting say that one of Yang Qingxi and Yang Qingchan was still hiding their true strength.

He originally thought what Brother Zuoqiu Ting meant was Yang Qingchan's Tai Xuan Flying Sword Art.

Now it seems the one hiding their strength should be Yang Qingxi.

Otherwise, she would never have been able to escape from the group of experts in the Far West Ash Region.

The coffin was very narrow, and no matter how they lay, their bodies were squeezed together. This kind of physical closeness and intense contact was something neither of them had ever experienced with any member of the opposite sex before.

It was like dancing with a venomous snake, tense and exciting, but no matter how soft or smooth, there wouldn't be any strange thoughts.

Because being bitten by a venomous snake would kill you.

Yang Qingxi didn't move her cheek, lying there like a dead snake hanging on a tree, adjusting her breathing and healing: "Hua Yuzi is very strong; his magic Qi invaded my meridians, and it's hard to refine it in a short time. Currently, if I fight for my life regardless of the cost, within five moves, I can erupt with combat power at the level of an ordinary successor. Within twenty moves, I won't lose to Yang Qingchan. After twenty moves, I might die suddenly..."

"'All-Silver Hundred Meridians'?" Li Youyi said.

Yang Qingxi gave a casual, light 'hmm'.

Li Youyi was secretly surprised and glad that the space inside the coffin was narrow, so the effect of her thick magic Qi was greatly reduced. The two of them were competing more on physical strength and reaction speed; otherwise, he really might not have been able to fight her to a draw earlier.

Inside the coffin, it wasn't dark, as it was illuminated by the spirit light from his brow.

Suddenly, Yang Qingxi's phoenix eyes widened: "There are three carriages in total! We are in the middle, seventeen feet from the front carriage and twenty feet from the rear carriage; they must all be within the attack range of the array. Clearly, we didn't have time to trigger the attack array at the Sui Sect stronghold earlier, but it was a blessing in disguise. At this moment, they would never dream that this coffin in the carriage, which they have violently attacked dozens of times, actually has a terrifying killing array."

Li Youyi nodded slightly: "Thinking from their perspective, if the coffin contained dangerous power, given your emotional state at the Sui Sect stronghold at the time, you would definitely have triggered it immediately. Since no dangerous power erupted at that time, clearly there was no danger. You're right; it was indeed a blessing in disguise, creating an excellent opportunity to kill Hua Yuzi."

Yang Qingxi said: "Hua Yuzi is definitely not in this middle carriage where the coffin is placed; at a distance of about twenty feet, the attack array might not be able to kill him. How about I pretend to surrender and lure him over first?"

"Don't; that would be counterproductive."

Li Youyi said: "Earlier, the coffin was attacked for so long that the people outside might already think you were shaken to death inside. If you speak up now, it will undoubtedly tell them there is something extraordinary in this coffin, and they will become suspicious instead."

"Right now, we need to think about two things. First, is Hua Yuzi in the front carriage or the rear carriage?"

"Because after the attack array is activated, we must leave the coffin immediately. Facing such experts, we have to fight for even a blink of an eye; only by catching him off guard and using speed to strike strength can we have a chance to kill him."

"We absolutely cannot spend time judging whether he is in the front or rear carriage after leaving the coffin."

Yang Qingxi's face finally moved away from Li Youyi's shoulder.

Her ear was pressed tightly against the coffin wall.

The sound of flowing water rang out in the coffin, but her long river intent couldn't be seen; she was using some kind of extraordinary auditory means.

Listening to the outside through the coffin and the array.

"Judging by the breathing sounds and breathing patterns, the two people in our carriage are not martial cultivators; they should be the two Disaster Fire Realm Great Thought Masters from the Three Chen Palaces."

"I am meeting the three people from the Far West Ash Region for the first time today, so I don't know their breathing patterns. But the left and right attendants are Ash Spirits, different from normal living beings, so their breathing is very easy to identify."

"I am very familiar with Chen Wenwu; he is in the rear carriage. The long, steady breathing of the person in the carriage with him is ten-to-ten Hua Yuzi."

Li Youyi said: "Then we only need to consider the second thing. What should we do if the attack array doesn't hurt Hua Yuzi?"

Yang Qingxi was silent.

After all, the attack array on this coffin was one-time use, and no one had ever activated it, so they could only make a rough judgment of its power. Whether it could cross twenty feet and hurt an expert of Hua Yuzi's level was an unknown.

Li Youyi said: "Let me make the decision! If it doesn't hurt Hua Yuzi, after we leave the coffin, we will immediately use water escape to flee; we must not have any extravagant hopes."

"If it does hurt him, then our first move after leaving the coffin is the best chance to kill him. If he withstands the first move, he will have the chance to release battle techniques and Hundred-Character Scripture magic tools, and the difficulty will increase greatly."

"At most five moves; if we can't kill the enemy within five moves, we must retreat; we cannot linger in battle."

Yang Qingxi felt a strong killing intent from Li Youyi and was quite surprised: "I have a reason to fight for my life. You seem to have an obsession with killing Hua Yuzi..."

In Li Youyi's mind, the miserable state of Yin Ten, Yin Fifteen, and Yin Sixteen emerged: "I just want to give Luan Sheng Lin You a big gift. So that after the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, when he returns to the Far West Ash Region, I won't have to travel thousands of miles to find him."

This kid...

Is quite a ruthless character.

As Yang Qingxi expected, the three carriages of the Far West Ash Region took Yuli Avenue.

Night fell, and the weather was bad.

On the ten-foot-wide street, the snow was three feet thick, the cold wind whistled, and there were no pedestrians.

The three carriages moved forward through the snow, not slowly.

In the middle carriage, a young female Great Thought Master was driving, and another male Great Thought Master was guarding inside the carriage.

The blood mud coffin inside the carriage was bound in circles by magic tool chains and suppressed by an array to prevent Yang Qingxi from escaping suddenly if she wasn't dead.

"Don't be so tense! After Eldest Miss Yang escaped inside, she suffered repeated heavy blows; even an iron man would have been shattered inside," the driving Great Thought Master laughed lightly.

A colorful hummingbird flew into the rear carriage, landed on Hua Yuzi's shoulder, and made a strange bird call.

As Hua Yuzi, who possessed the bloodline of the ancient immortal giant beast Six-Colored Peacock, he could understand bird language.

"Tang Wanqiu still couldn't hold his temper; mastering the Jiuli clan card made him too inflated, and he actually attacked Ge Xiantong directly," Hua Yuzi laughed.

Chen Wenwu asked: "Cang Li, Li Jiu Fu, and Li Ling all have quite remarkable combat power, plus the group of successor experts from the Snow Sword Tang Court; will Ge Xiantong be buried too?"

"The battle on New Year's Eve fully demonstrated that the competition of the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival cannot be broken through by force alone," Hua Yuzi said.

Chen Wenwu said: "Did the Snow Sword Tang Court fail?"

The mask on Hua Yuzi's face was liquid, constantly flowing and changing shapes, and he laughed: "Tang Wanqiu underestimated Ge Xiantong too much; not only did his scheme fail, but he also came up empty-handed. He was even counter-raided by Ge Xiantong, suffering heavy losses; it is said that quite a few Dragon Seed tickets and Dragon Bone tickets were snatched away."

Chen Wenwu naturally followed with a laugh: "Ge Xiantong can move freely without worries, and his fighting style is unpredictable, because Jiang Ning is sitting in the Prefecture Governor's Mansion, guarding the Longevity Pill tickets and stabilizing the imperial court's base camp. Just like Lord Hua is to the Young Venerable, one attacks and one defends, or they fight in two different places. The other experts don't have the extraordinary ability of Lord Hua to stand alone."

"Looking at Tang Wanqiu, he lacks such a top-tier number-two figure, which is why he suffered today's defeat."

Hua Yuzi pushed open the carriage door, and the cold wind whistled in.

Ahead, the lights on the stone heads of the Five Hearts Bridge appeared in his field of vision.

The Five Hearts Bridge was a stone bridge twenty feet long that could accommodate two carriages side-by-side. On the railings on both sides of the stone bridge, thirty-four stone beasts were carved, with square jade lamp shades on their heads.

Looking from afar, both on and under the bridge were bright yellow lights, creating interesting reflections.

Hua Yuzi said: "After crossing this bridge, we will enter the West City; then we will use heavy weapons to break the coffin. In any case, Yang Qingxi's Dragon Seed ticket must be seized."

"A single Dragon Seed is enough to cultivate a top-tier Dao Seed Realm expert in a short time. Its value is so great that it cannot be measured by money; besides the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, where else can it be found?" Chen Wenwu said.

There were only three Longevity Realm giants in the entire Three Chen Palaces.

Many million-strong clans only had one Longevity Realm giant.

Getting a Dragon Seed meant a chance to grow into an expert second only to the three ancestors within a few years. Who wouldn't go crazy for such a treasure?

"Clang! Clang!"

All three carriages drove onto the Five Hearts Bridge.

Without any warning.

A circle of blinding white profound light erupted from the middle carriage.

"Whoosh!"

In an instant, the power of the array snapped the magic tool chains on the coffin and tore apart the array set up by the two Great Thought Masters of the Three Chen Palaces...

The second circle, the third circle...

The white profound light spread out like water waves, layer upon layer.

"Whoosh! Whoosh..."

Nine layers overlapped in an instant, and the power of the array's profound light reached its peak, silently shattering the carriage in the middle into powder. The two Great Thought Masters were closest and couldn't react in time, turning into flesh and bone, flying out and falling toward the Li River under the bridge.

The front and rear carriages, twenty feet away, were instantly overturned and torn apart.

The left and right attendants in the front carriage couldn't react in time and were severely injured by the profound light; their human skin melted, revealing their true Ash Spirit forms, and they flew toward the other end of the bridge with sparks flying everywhere.

Fortunately, they carried protective treasures, which saved their lives.

Hua Yuzi was extremely alert; the moment the profound light spread, he mobilized his magic Qi to activate the magic tool talisman clothing on his body.

But only a few talisman scripts on his clothing had emerged when the profound light landed on him.

"Puff!"

As if hit by a heavy punch, the magic Qi in his body was instantly scattered, his internal organs were in severe pain, his throat tasted of blood, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Chen Wenwu reacted a fraction of a second slower than Hua Yuzi, but the Chen family was extremely good at refining defensive equipment, and for this most outstanding leader of the young generation, they naturally didn't spare any defensive power to protect him.

Of the four layers of defense on his body, one was activated passively.

He actually suffered the lightest injuries!

Hua Yuzi and Chen Wenwu, who were sent flying backward, hadn't landed yet when the blood mud coffin suddenly opened.

"Clatter!"

The sound of rapid flowing water rang out.

A silver long river rushed out from the coffin, brilliant and dazzling, illuminating both banks of the big river. Yang Qingxi stepped on the long river, her phoenix eyes sharp, holding Yang Qingchan's Tai Xuan Needle, and slashed through the sky with one sword directly toward Hua Yuzi.

This was the true form of the "Changhe Intent," not scattered streams.

Almost at the same time, with a bang, Li Youyi hit the coffin lid with one palm, sending it flying toward Hua Yuzi. Then he jumped out of the coffin, stepped on the Qingxu Cicada-Chasing Step, followed closely behind the coffin lid, running on the ground, and he deliberately roared: "Kill Chen Wenwu first!"

(End of chapter)