Chapter 222

After planting the Six Desires Talisman on each other, the nerves of the two squeezed in the coffin relaxed a lot.

They were no longer as highly vigilant as before.

As long as the Six Desires Talisman didn't flare up, it had no effect on their physical and mental state. As for what would happen in the future and whether they could successfully resolve it, they couldn't think that far ahead for now.

Yang Qingxi murmured self-deprecatingly: "The encounters of life are truly wonderful. A year ago, I would never have imagined that the greenhorn in the Spring realm who was being hunted by the Sui Sect outside Nine Li City would be lying in a coffin with me today, leaving me helpless and forced to let him plant the Six Desires Talisman on me."

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

At that time a year ago, she considered herself able to stand on the clouds and look down on him 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 going 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 this situation, it's best for everyone to lay their cards on the table and stop hiding things."

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

He had thought Zuo Qiu Ting was talking about Yang Qingchan's Tai Xuan Flying Sword Art.

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

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

The coffin was very narrow, and no matter how they lay, their bodies were squeezed together. This kind of intimate and intense physical 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 would be no other 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 with everything I have, I can erupt with combat power at the level of an ordinary inheritor within five moves. Within twenty moves, I won't lose to Yang Qingchan. After twenty moves, I might die suddenly..."

"All-Silver meridians?" Li Youyi said.

Yang Qingxi gave a casual, light "hmm."

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

It wasn't dark in the coffin; it was illuminated by the spiritual light from his forehead.

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 back carriage; they must all be within the attack range of the array. Clearly, we didn't have time to trigger the offensive 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 with the coffin; at a distance of about twenty feet, the offensive array might not be able to kill him. How about I pretend to surrender to lure him over?"

"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 back carriage?"

"Because after the offensive 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 surprise and speed can we have a chance to kill him."

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

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

Her ear pressed tightly against the coffin wall.

The sound of flowing water rang out in the coffin, but her long river intent could not be seen; she was using some kind of extraordinary auditory method.

Listening to the outside through the coffin and the array.

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

"This is my first time meeting the three from the Far West Ash Region, so I'm not familiar with their breathing patterns. But the Left and Right Attendants are Ash Spirits and are different from normal living beings, so their breathing is easy to identify."

"I am very familiar with Chen Wenwu; he is in the back carriage. That long, steady breathing in the same carriage as him is ten-to-one Hua Yuzi."

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

Yang Qingxi was silent.

After all, the offensive array on this coffin was a 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: "I'll make the decision! If it doesn't hurt Hua Yuzi, we will leave the coffin and immediately use water escape to flee; we must not have any delusions."

"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 intent and the Hundred-Character Scripture magic tool, and the difficulty will increase greatly."

"At most five moves; if we can't kill the enemy within five moves, we must retreat and not get entangled in the fight."

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

In Li Youyi's mind, the miserable state of Hidden Ten, Hidden Fifteen, and Hidden 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 go thousands of miles to find him."

This kid...

He is indeed a ruthless character.

As Yang Qingxi expected, the three carriages from the Far West Ash Region took Yuli Main Street.

Night fell, and the weather was bad.

On the ten-foot-wide street, the snow was three feet deep, 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 by magic tool chains and suppressed by an array to prevent Yang Qingxi from suddenly escaping if she wasn't dead.

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

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

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

"Tang Wanqiu still can't hold his temper; mastering the Nine Li tribe card has made him too arrogant, and he actually attacked Ge Xiantong directly," Hua Yuzi laughed.

Chen Wenwu asked: "Cang Li, Li Jiufu, and Li Ling all have considerable combat power, plus the inheritor experts of 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 won purely by force," Hua Yuzi said.

Chen Wenwu said: "The Snow Sword Tang Court failed?"

The mask on Hua Yuzi's face was liquid, constantly flowing and changing shapes, and he laughed: "Tang Wanqiu underestimated Ge Xiantong; not only did his scheme fail, but he also came up empty-handed. He was even counter-stolen 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 laughed along: "Ge Xiantong can act so 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. Just like Lord Hua is to the Young Master, one attacks and one defends, or they split up to fight in two places. The other experts don't have Lord Hua's extraordinary ability 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 Wuxin Bridge already appeared in his field of vision.

The Wuxin 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 Dragon Seed is enough to cultivate a top-tier Dao Seed realm expert in a short time. Its value is immeasurable by money; except for the Hidden Dragon Lantern Festival, where else can it be found?" Chen Wenwu said.

The Three Chen Palaces only had three Longevity realm giants in total.

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

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

"Clang, clang!"

All three carriages drove onto the Wuxin Bridge.

Without any warning.

A ring of blinding white Profound Light erupted from the middle carriage.

"Whoosh!"

In an instant, the power of the array shattered 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 ring, the third ring...

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 the closest and couldn't react in time, turning into flesh and bone skeletons, flying out and falling into the Lishui River under the bridge.

The carriages in front and back, twenty feet away, were instantly lifted 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 melting to reveal their true Ash Spirit forms, sparks flying everywhere as they fell toward the other end of the bridge.

Fortunately, they were carrying protective treasures, which saved their lives.

How alert was Hua Yuzi? The moment the Profound Light spread, he mobilized his magic Qi to activate the magic tool talisman robe on his body.

But only a few runes on the robe had emerged when the Profound Light landed on him.

"Pfft!"

As if struck by a heavy punch, the magic Qi in his body instantly scattered, his internal organs felt intense 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 forging defensive equipment, and naturally, they spared no effort to protect this outstanding leader of the younger generation with layers of defensive power.

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

He was actually the least injured!

Before Hua Yuzi and Chen Wenwu, who were flying backward, could land, the blood mud coffin suddenly opened.

"Clatter!"

A rapid sound of flowing water rang out.

A long silver 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 directly toward Hua Yuzi.

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

Almost at the same time, with a bang, Li Youyi slapped the coffin lid toward Hua Yuzi. Then he jumped out of the coffin, stepping on the Qingxu Cicada-Chasing Step, following closely behind the coffin lid, running on the ground, and he deliberately roared: "Kill Chen Wenwu first!"