Chapter 362: Sword Flow

Seeing Pei Ye divided the remaining injury medicine among the few, but Guan Qianyan and Kong Lanting didn't want any, all giving it to Zhang Jingbi.

Under the infusion of the two's true Qi, this youth could barely stand up.

"Young Hero Pei, how is your injury?" Guan Qianyan asked at his bloody clothes with a hoarse voice. "... Need help?"

"It doesn't matter."

Seeing Pei Ye had already checked himself. There were countless small injuries. Before coming, there were two deep knife wounds on his back, which had already closed by now. The heaviest was the injury exchanged during the fight just now. There was a wound on his flank that was almost bone-deep, with sharp true Qi sent into it, and his left upper arm was pierced by a sword, also dripping with blood.

But for such an extremely dangerous battle, it was already a very ordinary degree.

"..." Guan Qianyan's impression of this youth from the beginning was silent, but before she felt he was dull, now he was cold.

"Then this array we have now, can it make the swords of the entire Kongdong vibrate?"

"Are you afraid of death?"

But the man's self-talking ink and paper suddenly flowed out from his heart—"I am not his master, nor his elder. Such an arrogant act of directly treating others as bait or tools is not an act of chivalry."

Seeing Pei Ye frowned: "Is every sword a magical tool?"

Xi Tianji just stared at him with bloodshot eyes.

This was something he suddenly found he wanted to do when he said goodbye to the woman and left Caiwu Peak.

He turned to the youth and said: "Young Hero Pei, this is the so-called 'Ten Thousand Swords as One' array technique unique to our Kongdong—every sword in Kongdong is inscribed with the same array pattern when cast, and then through this array, one call can get a hundred responses, achieving the effect of ten thousand swords harmonizing and ringing as one."

Guan Qianyan looked at him somewhat cautiously, wanting to say whether to try filling in the Kongdong sword patterns, but saw the youth suddenly squat down.

Now, however, there was a vague sense of freshness breaking through, making him suddenly feel "interested" again. This was a feeling that the woman asking him "what sword do you want to learn" hadn't brought.

And the star liquid stopped flowing at these two hook tips. After all, they didn't fully join, but clamped a small empty circle in the middle like pliers. It was the inside of this circle that wasn't outlined to connect, causing the star liquid to stop outside the circle.

Not using Zhanxin Liuli, but using this sword from Ji Feng to cut the throat of the person in front... It didn't mean much, but Seeing Pei Ye felt a trace of pleasure after a long time.

"Seeing Pei Ye, you love the sword, only one part is loving it itself. The remaining nine parts are loving the sword in your hand."

"Seems like..." Guan Qianyan touched her head in distress and turned her eyes. "Lanting! You come and see."

Seeing Pei Ye squatted down and took the Soul-Snatching Bead from his waist: "You took Zhang Jingbi's sword technique, what are you going to do here?"

Seeing Pei Ye opened his eyes and didn't speak.

After winning this match, Seeing Pei Ye truly felt the transformation of his sword technique.

Not an act of chivalry.

"... So beautiful." Guan Qianyan murmured.

Seeing Pei Ye put away the Zhanxin Liuli and turned to look at the complex array on the ground that was still missing a corner.

"You go back to the tunnel first." Seeing Pei Ye repeated. He tilted his head to look at the ghostly mist floating under the cliff, gradually understanding what they were calling.

He of course knew how perfect the structure and shape of this array was. He had seen it dismantled countless times by Qu Zhu's pen in 【Illumination of the Dark】. It was the only characteristic of the star insects in that buried star tomb.

"... It seems to be complete now." Guan Qianyan frowned as she looked, reaching out to point at the empty small circle, "The array outside seems to be used for 'calling,' while the small empty circle in the middle is drawn with the array patterns of the Kongdong swords."

But when these words fell, Guan Qianyan herself seemed to have suddenly thought of something and froze in place.

Seeing Pei Ye didn't move. Unlike the girl and the boy, he hadn't faced it, but he had already realized its existence twice.

Every battle forced him to break through his limits time and time again with death, and he indeed survived, able to chew on the treasures left behind after life-and-death sword fights.

Seeing Pei Ye seemed to have breathed a breath of fresh air after a long time. In his mind, the pressure of the Edict Map seemed to have truly lightened a bit.

Seeing Pei Ye understood.

Zhang Jingbi was stunned for a while and moved his steps tremblingly.

What kind of sword is it going to call?

"... Young Hero Pei, hurry, hurry, go, it is—" The girl's voice was dry.

Seeing Pei Ye's knowledge of array paths was limited to looking through those array books with Qu Zhu in 【Illumination of the Dark】. Now, this array was completely strange to him.

Seeing Pei Ye stood up slowly and said softly: "You go back first."

He still walked to the fallen man expressionlessly. Without true Qi to stop the bleeding, the area under the man had become a pool of blood, and his face under the disheveled forehead hair was as pale as paper.

The fluorescent light had already covered the entire cliff terrace. This was a huge pattern shaped like a crescent moon, only the two hook tips were almost opposite each other, wrapping into a circular shape. Inside the circle were nearly two hundred sword patterns arranged in a ring.

The large ring was for transmission, and the small ring was for pointing. Then, with such an array technique drawn here, what effect could it have?

Kong Lanting walked over, also paused for a while, and said somewhat hesitantly: "... Does this look a bit like the pattern in the Sword Belly Mountain?"

The 【Calling Sword Chapter】 itself was already an outstanding array technique of Kongdong, exquisite and beautiful, but under this array, it began to appear rough and mediocre... The entire cliff terrace seemed to be stars surrounding the moon.

Now with 【Quail Head】 on his body, he finally wasn't relying on some special accident, but won this duel of six against seven by the sword technique itself, even though every move was dangerous by a hair's breadth.

Because she suddenly found that this chill was too familiar. Just now, they had experienced such a life-threatening danger at the bottom of the valley.

Taking their sword souls from Zhang Jingbi, monitoring their entire process on this cliff terrace, and then following behind when they left... It must be able to uncover a large piece of mist, and even find Qu Zhu's location.

"... What?"

The girl hesitated and said in a small voice: "That is, it can make everyone's swords vibrate a few times as if connected. After one 'call and response,' there is nothing else, and it can't move... My mother said, this is used for warning."

The living creature created by Qu Zhu in front of the buried star tomb, the unbelievable thing seen by Zhang Meiqing on the night of his lonely exploration... They called it "Dragon Bone," or "Sword Flow."

From his palm flowed a ghostly fire that was as beautiful as a fairy. It flowed down like water. The youth closed his eyes, and a strange, ancient, complex, and beautiful array pattern was slowly outlined in this small circle.

He might have tried to commit suicide, but the black cat had always stayed here.

Seeing Pei Ye hadn't felt this "moved" for many days—traveling and staying with the woman he admired most, holding rare and profound sword classics to read and practice... His heart was always sunk to the bottom of the valley without moving.

Guan Qianyan's eyes lit up suddenly: "Yes, yes, yes, 【Calling Sword Chapter】!"

This of course wasn't his state these days. He had been fully focused on tracking that black robe, and after figuring this out, he even had a method that was likely to solve it once and for all—hiding himself secretly, only releasing the black cat.

He watched their direction stroke by stroke, but the array path knowledge that hadn't even entered the door was clearly insufficient to support him in completing this analysis.

"I seem to have seen this array." The girl's hesitant, hoarse voice sounded from the side.

A sharp chill began to invade the skin silently, and Guan Qianyan's half-open mouth also went dumb.

Xi Tianji stared at him stiffly, and suddenly said hoarsely: "If you don't kill me... I will tell you the method to open this array."

Seeing Pei Ye looked at these eyes: "I refuse."

Modified.

Seeing Pei Ye stared fixedly at this empty small circle, which was waiting for him to fill something in.

He pressed his sword against his throat, about to pull it horizontally, but suddenly paused and was quiet for a moment. He stood up, turned his head, looked at the pale youth behind him, and handed the sword out.

"How do you use this?" Seeing Pei Ye squatted down. "Can you complete it?"

Seeing Pei Ye indeed didn't look at the girl. He wrapped his left arm with a strip of cloth and raised his sword to walk toward the severely wounded Xi Tianji again.

In the seventeen years of his life, the old man of course never told him what "chivalry" was, but at this moment, Seeing Pei Ye remembered another sentence from the old man.

Cultivated and immersed beside the old man since childhood, then receiving the selfless teachings of the Yunlang successor, and then two months of non-stop sword learning, sword practicing... and life-and-death bitter battles.

"No, no, no—【Calling Sword Chapter】 is only useful in Sword Belly Mountain, because it must be very, very large to encompass Kongdong Mountain." The girl looked at him with wide eyes. "Young Hero Pei, something like this can only affect a very small part of the surroundings."

Seeing Pei Ye was stunned and turned his head: "Miss Guan recognizes it?"

It was his own choice to do it this way.

"That's not it." Guan Qianyan shook her head hurriedly. "A single sword has no magic, and it's very cheap. Only when 【Calling Sword Chapter】 is activated does it react, but actually 【Calling Sword Chapter】 itself is useless..."

Every time he struck a sword, he was visibly becoming better than the last time. An invisible threshold had been vaguely touched by him.

On the dangerous cliff edge, the bottomless ghostly mist suddenly began to disturb. A cold "clatter" sound swam across the cliff wall. This eerie, ghostly giant climbed up the cliff edge, first putting its head up, its long tail agile and graceful in the dark moon and hidden mist.

No head, tail, eyes, or eyes, no muscles, bones, blood, or veins. A "living creature" formed by silver light and sharp blades, one hundred and eighty-nine swords composed it, looking like what that creature from the buried star tomb looked like after it grew up.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 363 =====