Chapter 175: Taut String

Seeing Pei Ye was horrified. That person? Appeared in the building again?!

The young man subconsciously took a step out of the martial arts field, and at the same time had turned his head to look for Yang Yan's figure.

However, the people in the martial arts field had gradually dispersed.

"Don't be anxious, not just him," a voice came from his abdomen. "Still this pavilion, three people came."

Seeing Pei Ye stopped his steps. In the quiet martial arts field, he listened to the silent words from his abdomen. To outsiders, his whole person seemed to be nailed to the martial arts field.

But fortunately, there seemed to be no second pair of eyes here.

"That one-eyed man is still there, there is no one else in the room," the black cat's flat and cold voice came over. "Three people walked in, didn't sit... started talking."

"The one-eyed man is relaying the decision from the afternoon."

Quiet for a while.

"Finished, nothing new—hmm? One person wants to leave?... Someone brought in a night-traveling suit, he put it on."

Quiet.

"He left, the one-eyed man wants him to watch your friend in the green dress."

Seeing Pei Ye's heart subconsciously tightened first, but he quickly remembered that the other party's surveillance was originally reasonable and within the plan—if Li Bijun was not in the other party's line of sight, when the young girl showed a flaw, wouldn't it be like throwing a flirtatious glance at a blind person.

And the decision of when this battle would break out was in the young girl's hands. As long as she didn't act alone, the surveillance was just surveillance.

It was just that the young girl wouldn't have thought that this surveillance only came now.

"No, it's not simple tailing."

"What?" Seeing Pei Ye subconsciously opened his lips and made a sound.

"They had scouts tailing before, but this time they specifically let this elder go, it doesn't look like tailing, I think, it's more like—" The black cat didn't finish speaking, suddenly paused, and said, "Someone brought in two more night-traveling suits."

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". The one-eyed man and another person also put them on, that old man who sent the pills didn't, they seem not to intend to let him go."

"No, where are they going?"

"Don't know, the two of them are going out," the black cat paused for a while, then suddenly said, "Hey, why do I feel, this person... seems to be an elder of the Seven Serpents Cave too?"

". Who?"

"The old man who sent the pills."

Something slippery rolled up from Seeing Pei Ye's spine. Something in the young man's mind "clicked" and connected, but he didn't find it.

A kind of unease began to spread in his heart. Something... had always been ignored.

But he had no time to think carefully, because the black cat's voice sounded again.

"Hey, things seem to be a bit wrong." Its voice became more solemn.

Of course it was wrong. It started to be wrong from the moment the first person went out, and it was even more wrong that the two behind also changed into equipment!

Li Bijun clearly wouldn't start acting until two days later, they clearly had to wait for Li Bijun—where were they going now?

". What's wrong?" Seeing Pei Ye heard himself ask.

"They have an estimate of the enemy they are about to face—I know what those big and small circles in the afternoon represent."

"What do they represent?" When he came back in the afternoon, Seeing Pei Ye had guessed with the black cat that they represented Li Bijun and her Uncle Master. This was a continuation of the discussion at that time, but now his emotions had no room for thinking and discussion.

"Because the one large circle and three small circles in the line below exactly represent one Eighth Life and three Seventh Lives in this pavilion."

"." Seeing Pei Ye's heart skipped a beat.

"So the line above, what it represents is perhaps one Seventh Life, and one Eighth Life?" the black cat said. "Your friend in the green dress's trump card seems to have been seen through."

Seeing Pei Ye felt his blood flow accelerate.

The worst situation appeared so abruptly in front of his eyes.

This was a matter that overturned the entire plan—the Seven Serpents Cave knew that Cuiyu had an Eighth Life, they knew about the addition of that Eighth Life from the White Bamboo Pavilion!

This plan must be called off immediately.

"Hmm? Wait a moment," the black cat suddenly said again. "They stopped. Someone came in... it's very new and urgent news, oral."

A silence.

"What did they say?" Seeing Pei Ye couldn't help but say.

"Too quiet, I just jumped in."

". Only heard a tail, but this news had a great impact on them, the one-eyed man is walking back and forth in the room with his head bowed."

"What expression does he have?"

"Quite excited, but... also a bit nervous."

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"The one-eyed man asked if they could not go."

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"The person who brought the message said no. He wants them... to hold them back."

"Hold back what?"

"Don't know."

Quiet for a while.

"They brought in another night-traveling suit—that old man who sent the pills put it on—he is going too!"

Where exactly are they going?

This question still hung in Seeing Pei Ye's heart.

He had a guess, and this guess made him even more uneasy.

The black cat's side was silent for a while, Seeing Pei Ye only heard his own heartbeat.

"They left," finally, the black cat said.

"What was the tail you just heard?"

"That person said she was alone."

All the trepidation received a response at this moment.

"Who the fuck is alone?!"

"Calm down, Seeing Pei Ye."

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Seeing Pei Ye took a deep breath. In just two quarters of an hour, things suddenly changed into this state. The bright moon hung high, the night was quiet, and the martial arts field was empty. Seeing Pei Ye tried hard to sort out his thoughts that had been messed up.

Alone, of course, Li Bijun was alone. There was no need to hold any fluke; the young girl, whether actively or passively, had started all this in advance.

And the sharks that rushed over smelling blood already knew her trump card.

"Not necessarily, Seeing Pei Ye, don't be anxious, didn't you find that the order of these words is not quite right?" The black cat's calm voice came over. "I'll follow them, see where they are going, wait for my news."

"I'll go over immediately."

"Don't be anxious, the situation is not yet decided, rash movement is easy to cause chaos, I will call you when I arrive at the place."

"Then will it be too late?"

"Continue practicing sword for a while, Seeing Pei Ye."

". Good."

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Three black shadows floated out of Bowang Garden silently.

The black cat glanced at their direction, turned around, twisted, and jumped off the building.

On the roof under the moon, several hunting shadows flashed by. Behind them, a small and silent shadow followed from afar.

These three people, since leaving Bowang Garden, went straight north, without twists or hesitation, their goal was very clear. A straight line, from the Moon-Catching Tower to the North City, took less than half a quarter of an hour.

Here, the lights were getting fewer, slowly only the moonlight remained, and the houses became low and dilapidated. The cool lake breath blew from the west side, the black cat twitched its nose—they had been walking along the lake, and at this time they were sticking closer.

When the lake surface growing silver scales under the moon appeared in a corner of the line of sight, a black robe suddenly flashed and disappeared into the shadows of the buildings.

The black cat identified it; it was that old man who sent the pills.

The remaining two did not change their figures and still went towards the lake.

The black cat glanced at the place where the black robe disappeared and still followed them.

When the lake surface gradually expanded and had become a piece of splendor that could not be ignored in the field of vision, the two in front tilted their heads and talked for two sentences, and another black robe twisted and went in another direction. This time it was that one-eyed man.

Approaching the fight, several people began to arrange their formation.

Sure enough, soon, the last remaining black robe stopped behind a building, and the thick shadow cast by the eaves melted him into it.

Is this the place?

The black cat paused its steps and looked forward. It was already a shallow beach with reed clusters, by the Moon-Catching Lake. The wide and calm big lake was smeared with a layer of moonlight, like a silver mirror dropped by the Queen Mother.

And by this silver mirror, there was a tiny piece of green jade.

The young girl had her hands behind her back, and the sheathed Lost Emerald Sword was weighed on these hands. She lowered her head and paced, occasionally tilting her head dazed to look at the lake surface, her heart seeming to be entangled by some matter.

Her posture was very relaxed. At this distance, with the young girl's cultivation, she couldn't perceive the gaze cast on her in the dark at all.

In the shadows of the buildings, a cold light slowly slid out. The black cat had already felt the chill seeping from the extremely thin blade. When it touched the neck, it must not need the owner to use too much strength.

"Come on, Seeing Pei Ye," the black cat said. "It's about to start."

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Martial arts field.

The black cat's voice disappeared from his abdomen, Seeing Pei Ye returned to his own body from the Moon-Catching Tower, the cool night touched his skin again, and he took a deep breath of the cool night air.

Actually, Seeing Pei Ye was not without psychological preparation that this plan was seen through by the Seven Serpents Cave. Because this plan was not formulated by him, and he didn't touch the details of the entire plan, lacking enough sense of control over it. And the sense of security relied on the sense of control.

Since there was no sufficient sense of security, when the plan had an accident, he wouldn't be too panicked.

He came to the Moon-Catching Tower to investigate news the day after hearing this plan, just intending to perfect this plan and make his own preparations.

But he absolutely didn't expect the young girl not to give him this time.

She held her own plan and acted without authorization.

Isn't it that she dislikes the misunderstandings between friends in storybooks?

The two were indeed only acquainted for half a month, and the friendship was all in the light words, but when the first request for help was generated, the relationship between the two should have risen from conversation to arm-in-arm. In the Moon-Catching Tower, when Seeing Pei Ye requested help from her through Zhang Junxue, he had already prepared to repay this friendship.

But the young girl didn't seem to want to give this opportunity.

The touch of the sword in his hand went deep into his heart. Seeing Pei Ye tried hard to twist his restless thoughts together and put them back into these two swords of the Sparrow Department.

The black cat was right; this was an effective way to calm him down.

He tried to connect to the previous train of thought.

Under the new sword path realm, he had already felt the awkwardness of these two moves... why were they awkward?

Why?

To get the sword out, he had to find the answer on his hands.

Seeing Pei Ye's thoughts gradually sank in. He adjusted his body, flicked his wrist, and a clear sound rang out on the martial arts field.

He stabbed out the sword again and again, carefully experiencing its feedback. Gradually, the problem began to become clear in his mind.

——Too heavy, too slow.

"Cicada Sparrow Sword" stated clearly in the sword scripture from the beginning that the Sparrow Sword was a three-move killing sword, from one to three, the faster and lighter, the slower and heavier.

In all fairness, the sword writer implemented this train of thought very well, and the level was also very high. The design of these three sword moves had no omissions and could be called perfect, so Seeing Pei Ye had always been unable to find the problem in them.

Because they indeed had no problems.

The real problem was in the initial sword-writing train of thought. It wasn't until the sword path realm was reached that Seeing Pei Ye felt it.

Although the heavy sword was no longer very suitable, a moderate weight was fine. The most inappropriate thing was the slow sword.

The Sparrow Department must never be slow.

The sword written according to this, although called a good product, absolutely did not deserve the Cicada Department.

The first move 【Flying Copper Shadow】 was light and fast enough, so it didn't show any clues. The latter two moves slowed down, and the insufficiency showed.

Then why had this problem never been discovered?

Seeing Pei Ye could roughly guess the reason.

For one thing, the Cicada and Sparrow departments combined were still a set of sword techniques that, although asymmetrical, were complete enough.

Just like that move 【Marrying Branch to Attend the Banquet】 that Cheng Jiang Hong used at the town inn that day, the Cicada Department was a superior, long enough sword scabbard, while the Sparrow Department was the sword connected to it. With the two fitting together, it could explode with amazing brilliance.

And now, the Cicada Department was indeed a reliable enough scabbard, but the Sparrow Department was only a short dagger. The strangeness Seeing Pei Ye felt came from this. It was the so-called "asymmetry."

Then what was "complete"? It was that although the sword writer had no talent to write a "long" enough Sparrow Sword, his own rounded and superb sword technique attainments were enough for him to tailor the hilt of the dagger and polish the "interface" to be seamless.

Inserting this dagger into the scabbard—it fit perfectly!

Therefore, this looked like a set of sword techniques without any flaws, and by relying on the excellent enough Cicada Department, the Cicada and Sparrow combined could also explode with no small power.

For another thing, to practice the Cicada Department to perfection, there was actually a quite high threshold. That is to say, ordinary sword learners could at most learn 【Supporting Tree】 and 【Breaking Soil】 to perfection, 【Shedding Shell】 started to be strenuous, and to learn 【Spreading Wings】 and 【Clear Sound】, the effort had to be counted in years, and they couldn't be used in actual combat, so they would only think these two moves were useless.

As for the latter two moves, they could at most touch some fur.

——If one didn't perceive the length of the "scabbard" at all, naturally one wouldn't feel the shortness of the "sword." Perhaps in the eyes of others, the Cicada Department was the strange one, and the Sparrow Department was normal.

To see this problem, one had to stand at the same height as the sword writer. Otherwise, even if you practiced this sword for ten years, even if you discovered some clues, you would still find it difficult to get the hang of it.

Thinking of this section, a kind of inexplicable familiarity surged in Seeing Pei Ye's heart.

He searched for the source of this feeling in his mind, and his hands had already begun to try to change the force-using technique of the Sparrow Department—these three sword moves should be faster and faster, and the power should be greater and greater, one sword surpassing another. It should never compromise on speed for the sake of power. Only in this way could it deserve the wonderful Cicada Department.

Seeing Pei Ye stood quietly, trying hard to find that imagined feeling in his heart, while his body kept adjusting. This work was harder than imagined, which was also within expectations—if you really used it easily, wouldn't it be equivalent to creating a sword technique of the same level as the Cicada Department at will.

Seeing Pei Ye knew he didn't have this ability; he was just trying hard to find a direction.

Finally, at a certain moment, Seeing Pei Ye turned his wrist, and that subtle feeling suddenly manifested. Before it passed, Seeing Pei Ye stabbed out a sword.

He had indeed found the path.

Two powerful forces collided violently in his wrist. They were twisting, they were opposing, and they were even incompatible.

In an instant, it was as if Yang Yan's sword exploded in his wrist. The intense pain and numbness spread all the way to his fingers, and his five fingers stiffened like claws for a moment. The long sword fell out of his hand, drew a messy arc, and fell to the ground.

A "clatter" sound.

The young man who was about to step forward to pick it up was suddenly stunned, as if nailed to the spot by a dull hammer.

"Clatter"

Clatter.

He had heard this sound many times, but never once had it hit his mind so straightly, connecting everything together.

He found the source of that familiarity.

A voice rose from his abdomen, "Come on, Seeing Pei Ye," the black cat said, "It's about to start."

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"Seeing Pei Ye?"

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"Seeing Pei Ye?!"

". Have to wait a moment," Seeing Pei Ye tilted his head and looked in a certain direction. "You help her first, I have something here."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 176 =====