Chapter 395: Reunion

Laughter, contradictions, blood—everything since leaving Fenghuai seemed to have swept across the surface of this sword. Seeing Pei Ye had never seen himself so clearly.

This was not a path no one had walked before. Some answers he had actually seen long ago, but realizing he had seen them was often a more difficult and lonely process.

Seeing Pei Ye looked at the sword body before him in a daze, and his own brows and eyes finally settled on it. The boy looked at him, and the corners of his mouth pulled into a peaceful and gentle smile.

He knew he was far from becoming a person as bright and strong as them, but in an instant, he truly touched that moving state of mind. After falling into the bloodiest darkness, you have already been able to wield your sword brutally with your life once more; shouldn't you also be able to face the result of this sword strike calmly?

In the many years to come, he would always strive to run toward it.

"Thank you, Miss Ming," Seeing Pei Ye said hoarsely.

He realized at this moment that for a long, long time, the woman had been trying to care for his mind. "Thank you for taking such pains for me."

Ming Qitian turned her head.

"I won't let you die," the boy looked straight into her clear eyes and promised earnestly.

There was no heavy anger, no hideous blue veins. He pursed his lips lightly and gripped the Heart-Slaying Glaze that had flown back from the rain curtain.

This was the eleventh quarter of an hour since Ming Qitian and Seeing Pei Ye entered the cliff cave. The "Ice and Snow Body" would take another half-quarter of an hour to complete its second cycle.

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Kongdong, Five Peaks Lotus Heart.

Ji Changyun walked into the deepest stone door of the Lotus Heart Pavilion with a face as heavy as water. Several formation masters were still sitting around here.

"Is there still no movement from that true Qi?"

"None seen, Mountain Master." Several formation masters had already accepted the news that the mountain gate had changed hands. "Since you gave the order, this true Qi has not revealed any traces, meaning he has not passed through any places protected by the mountain formation."

Which meant he had never left Kongdong.

Ji Changyun nodded coldly, pursing his lips, and walked out with his sword pressed without a word.

He indeed did not hide his emotions, because by now, these trivial details were no longer important at all.

Just as he still couldn't figure out how Sui Zaihua discovered his thoughts, he was incomparably clear that he must kill him at all costs before he contacted the people from the Immortal Platform.

The mountain formation had long been monitoring the blue bird in the Wu cave, but he didn't expect them to abandon this most reliable means and instead use Sui Zaihua to send a letter to the government office.

The difficulty of the two, Wu and Sui, exceeded his imagination, but he still believed that Zhang Xiaozhu didn't know about this, because the letter was sent out when 【Mountain Middle Jiazi】 had just been activated. If Sui Zaihua had known everything at that time, the subsequent things would not have happened at all.

He must have completed the probe from some details he still couldn't think of after meeting him.

Which meant the links were collapsing one after another—the failed sword strike in Sword Belly Mountain was seen by Ming Qitian and that boy with their own eyes.

The situation was already precarious. He could only bet everything at this moment. Just like the deal with 【Sima】, he would definitely keep the Immortal Platform in Kongdong, not letting them easily figure out the context... In this way, before dark when the Immortal Platform couldn't intervene, he would let the Huan Si Tower complete the hunt for the two who had escaped with serious injuries as soon as possible.

They had absolutely no power to resist. Ji Changyun believed that as long as they were one step faster than the Immortal Platform...

It was just that the sky had already begun to darken.

He didn't know the situation on Sima's side, but Zhang Xiaozhu, who should have appeared in Kongdong, had not shown up.

That Crane Inspector said the Terrace Master didn't know where he was, which was obviously a lie within a lie.

They certainly didn't trust Kongdong now, Ji Changyun was incomparably clear, but that made him grip his sword hilt even tighter. They were hiding Zhang Xiaozhu's whereabouts—what more important thing could Zhang Xiaozhu go do?

Of course... Ming Qitian.

After Zhang Xiaozhu learned of the current situation, he put the context of the matter aside, preferring to eliminate those first-hand clues with the conspirators, and also wanted to rush to the Great Kongdong to rescue.

This was indeed a move that made Ji Changyun very uncomfortable.

If he hadn't struck that sword, he could have ignored it entirely. But after one failed attempt, he absolutely could not let the two live.

Certainly, Kongdong was vast and had no clues, and it was almost impossible for Zhang Xiaozhu to find the two before Sima and Yi Duanzhi, but... what if?

You can never know what new strange artifacts or formation techniques the Immortal Platform has come up with in these few years, and what if Ming Qitian happened to be able to strike one more sword, thus attracting Zhang Xiaozhu?

The easiest thing to happen in this world is an accident—the Huan Si Tower planned for more than twenty years, originally waiting for Ming Qitian to enter Sword Belly Mountain to launch a surprise attack. It was a clean and neat plan, but now it had walked step by step to this situation.

Ji Changyun could almost not sit by and watch this happen.

But Sui Zaihua still hadn't been dealt with.

Ji Changyun stood in the cold wind and rain, closing his eyes for a long time.

If you can't find Sui Zaihua, then just control the Immortal Platform entering the mountain.

He must first ensure Ming Qitian's death.

In other words, Sui Zaihua could tell anyone what he knew, which would also definitely be the greatest disaster Kongdong would face.

But one sentence from Ming Qitian would plunge Kongdong into eternal damnation.

Ji Changyun adjusted his breathing, his old eyes as cold as thin blades, and he swept out of the mountain without expression.

If Ming Qitian was found by Zhang Xiaozhu first, only if he was also there could he ensure Zhang Xiaozhu's death.

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By the creek.

A green shadow and a line of fire swept over.

They only used one quarter of an hour to determine that the two who had fled with injuries had absolutely not crossed the creek.

No matter how much the boy thought or didn't think, he had indeed fought for another moment of survival.

Sima only paused for two breaths, then turned obliquely backward from this bank. Sure enough, after walking only one mile, he saw the traces of the boy that could no longer be hidden.

Sima stopped his figure, pushed aside the shrub branches with his sword, and looked at the ground—only one pair of footprints.

The man's shoes, crooked, deep, and heavy, with uneven step distances, walking deep and shallow in the muddy forest, with sporadic bloodstains scraped on tree trunks or branches.

—He was carrying the woman on his back, and even had no strength to leap through the treetops.

They were indeed two wounded beasts at the end of their rope.

For Sima, the only variable of hidden concern was the degree to which Ming Qitian was affected by the "Guxie Heart Scripture." Now the woman didn't even have the ability to move, representing that she could no longer use true profound Qi at all.

As expected, this was the foundation of her life, the place where all her cultivation was tied... Once collapsed, she was no different from a useless person.

On the road ahead, the boy tried hard to fake the appearance of the woman carrying him to fly, but now it was even more proof that they were weak and dying.

How far could a boy with exhausted true Qi and carrying a seriously injured person run in an hour?

No more than fifteen miles.

Sima loosened his grip on the sword hilt. He hadn't suffered any injuries in the previous battle, and now he still had seven or eight out of ten of his strength, while Yi Duanzhi looked at the blue-scaled, golden-eyed man beside him with a cold mask—only his life had been cut away, not his strength.

The vast and lonely deep mountains, the sky was just a bit dim... Within an hour, within a radius of one hundred miles, no one would disturb this hunt.

The green clothes swept up, and the flames followed closely. They chased straight along the traces. It could be clearly seen that the boy's true Qi was exhausted. Many times, he was running purely with wounded and tired tendons and bones, and then after the meridians produced some true Qi, he immediately used it up to complete a few impressive leaps.

It only took forty breaths.

The two came to the end of these stumbling footsteps. The footsteps stopped here, and the two seemed to have disappeared into thin air. Yi Duanzhi looked around with his spear, but Sima only looked back at this place—the high and deep canyon visible far ahead was the "Great Tianlan" famous in the Kongdong mountains.

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