Chapter 440

Sun Sun Tiecheng, the master of the City of Fools, once disguised himself as a hunter to trick Li Li Banfeng into the City of Fools. After Li Li Banfeng passed the test, he taught Li Li Banfeng two techniques.

He arrived suddenly, and no one knew when he had stood among the young ladies.

Li Li Banfeng said with a look of surprise: "Since you're here, I don't need to ask anyone else."

Sun Sun Tiecheng frowned: "What on earth are you here for?"

Li Li Banfeng smiled: "Isn't it New Year? I came home to take a look."

"Looking is fine, why are you causing trouble?"

"I'm not causing trouble. I want to learn another skill. Look at these people, so many years have passed, and they still think they are alive. It definitely isn't as simple as being 'categorical'..."

While speaking, Tang Tang Changfa and the young ladies all looked at Li Li Banfeng together.

Sun Sun Tiecheng gritted his teeth: "Stop talking, if you say any more, I'll beat you to death, beat you to death on the spot!"

Li Li Banfeng smiled: "Don't worry, we're all our own people, we know each other's roots. I just want to ask how this was achieved."

Sun Sun Tiecheng waved his hand, letting everyone in the book apartment leave the hall and wait in the backyard.

After everyone had left, Sun Sun Tiecheng rolled his eyes at Li Li Banfeng: "Didn't I tell you? You have to make them believe they are still alive. Being 'categorical' is enough."

Li Li Banfeng shook his head: "Just using this one technique, I'm afraid it won't work, right?"

Sun Sun Tiecheng hummed: "That's because your learning is not refined."

Li Li Banfeng didn't accept this: "This isn't a question of refinement. If being 'categorical' was enough to get things done, you wouldn't need to give them a body of flesh and blood, making them look so real."

"And I also discovered that they actually know they are already dead, and they also know this body of flesh and blood is not their own. Many people have to find ways to trade for flesh and blood."

"But everyone believes they are alive. Even knowing this flesh and blood was taken from someone else, they believe this meat grew on their own body."

"This kind of self-contradictory thing clearly exceeds the scope of being 'categorical'. There must be other mysteries."

Sun Sun Tiecheng smiled: "There is also the method of 'the fool's thousand worries' here. Think about it, whether they are dead or alive, they can't figure it out. Since they can't figure it out, they simply don't think about it. Doesn't that explain it?"

Li Li Banfeng smiled: "One is 'categorical', one is 'the fool's thousand worries', and I happen to know both. Is it such a coincidence?"

Sun Sun Tiecheng nodded: "Isn't it just such a coincidence! You know the techniques, go and master them yourself."

The two looked at each other for a moment and smiled knowingly.

After laughing, Li Li Banfeng sighed: "I was led into the sect by you, I am your disciple, is it appropriate for you to deceive me like this?"

"What kind of talk is that!" Sun Sun Tiecheng patted his chest, gave a thumbs up, and said, "All my disciples were deceived by me!"

"I'm different from them," Li Li Banfeng looked at Sun Sun Tiecheng sincerely, "They are all just playing along with you, I am sincerely wanting to carry forward our sect!"

"Don't give me that!" Sun Sun Tiecheng darkened his face, "Do you know any of my other disciples, to say they are just playing along?"

Li Li Banfeng said: "Let's not talk about how many disciples you had before. There were only two who passed the test in the City of Fools, and one of them is me. Shouldn't you take care of me?"

Sun Sun Tiecheng said: "I've taken enough care of you. I've told you everything you asked. You ran into the city to cause trouble, and I haven't settled the account with you yet!"

"The things you told me were clearly fake. Giving them this body of flesh and blood to make them like living people is not a technique performed through words and thoughts."

"This is a technique performed through external objects, and it's fundamentally not the same mechanism as 'categorical' or 'the fool's thousand worries'."

Sun Sun Tiecheng sniffed, folded his hands, and squatted on the ground.

I don't know why, but this seems to be his nature. As long as he is hit in the vital point by Li Li Banfeng, he will become this honest and simple appearance.

"There really is another technique here," Sun Sun Tiecheng told the truth, "But it's my sect's technique, I can't teach it to you anymore."

Li Li Banfeng folded his hands and squatted beside Sun Sun Tiecheng: "We're all our own people, what can't be taught? You've already taught me two, teach me one more."

"That won't do, you haven't entered my sect yet, I can't let you learn so many techniques." Sun Sun Tiecheng moved two steps aside, turned his face away, and didn't want to look at Li Li Banfeng.

Li Li Banfeng circled around and squatted in front of Sun Sun Tiecheng: "Then let me enter the sect. I am loyal to our sect."

Sun Sun Tiecheng turned his face to the other side again, continuing to hide from Li Li Banfeng: "You can't enter the sect yet, the time hasn't come."

"If the time hasn't come, then it's not my fault. Since I'm not at fault, why don't you teach me?"

"Anyway, I just won't teach you!" Sun Sun Tiecheng drew circles on the ground with his finger.

Chu Shaoqiang looked at Scholar Guo and Tian Tian Dasong: "You mean them? They don't have a clear status in the Inner Continent yet. To obtain Cloud-Ascending cultivation, they need to perform more meritorious deeds. For this, they are willing to die here. Ask the people around you: do they want to die?"

These two weren't Cloud-Ascending?

They were the so-called tenth-layer cultivators?

These two were indeed tenth-layer cultivators—tenth-layer cultivators with flesh and blood, and also the tenth-layer cultivators closest to Cloud-Ascending.

Saying they were willing to die was an exaggeration, but this battle was indeed the key to their promotion to Cloud-Ascending.

Li Li Banfeng took a step forward, only to be pushed back by an invisible force.

The technique hadn't dissipated yet; Li Li Banfeng couldn't charge through.

Chu Shaoqiang frowned and said, "Are you even listening to me?"

"No," Li Li Banfeng answered truthfully.

He really wasn't listening. From the moment he decided to fight this battle, nothing anyone said to him would be of any use.

Chu Shaoqiang sighed: "Take your people and leave. There are many of my old acquaintances here, and I don't want to lay a hand on them. My daughter is here, too; she ran over to fight me to the death for your sake—you're lucky enough. Even if you fight to the death here today, you won't be able to save Qiu Qiu Luoye. The only one who can save him is me. As long as he agrees to my conditions, he can live. He has no choice."

Li Li Banfeng still wanted to charge through by force when he suddenly heard someone shouting from behind: "Old Seven, run!"

Qiu Qiu Luoye had arrived: "Old Seven, didn't we agree? Leave the fighting to me; you run!"

He blocked Li Li Banfeng behind him and charged toward Chu Shaoqiang.

Chu Shaoqiang wasn't wrong; as long as the contract remained in the hands of the Inner Continent, no one could save Qiu Qiu Luoye.

Rather than implicating others, Qiu Qiu Luoye wanted to fight Chu Shaoqiang himself.

Although he was severely wounded, Qiu Qiu Luoye still broke through Chu Shaoqiang's technique.

Chu Shaoqiang didn't dare to be negligent and quickly prepared to meet the battle when he suddenly heard a loud noise from afar.

Boom!

The sound of a drum.

Everyone, including Li Li Banfeng, felt their chests shake.

What kind of drum could make such a loud sound?

In Puluo Continent, there was only one place where the sound of a drum could be this deafening.

Three people present had heard this kind of drum sound: Qiu Qiu Luoye, He He Yuxiu, and Chu Shaoqiang.

They all knew what the drum sound meant.

Boom!

Another drum beat, and in the depths of the jungle, a group of tall figures could be vaguely seen.

They weren't just tall; their physiques were very distinctive—their shoulders were very broad, and they had three human heads on their shoulders.

This was the unique drum sound of Sinner City. He He Yuxiu revealed a smile, Qiu Qiu Luoye stopped his steps, and Chu Shaoqiang tensed his nerves.

Juanzi walked over, and behind her, four three-headed people carried a newly made large drum, while one three-headed person held the drumstick, striking it once every ten steps.

The large drum was crudely made, but the sound was extremely loud.

In Sinner City, this kind of large drum was only struck under two circumstances.

First, it was struck during the New Year, representing Sinner City's expectations for life.

Second, it was struck when they could no longer survive, representing Sinner City's struggle for life.

Juanzi said to Li Li Banfeng: "Seventh Master, we just finished preparing our weapons; we are late."

Li Li Banfeng had prepared over a hundred weapons for them, but he hadn't expected that over three thousand three-headed people, excluding the children, had all come.

There weren't enough weapons; some held kitchen knives, some held hoes, and some had sharpened large trees to use as spears.

Juanzi turned around, looked at Chu Shaoqiang, and didn't speak again.

When it came time to fight, the one who usually spoke was Mengzi.

Mengzi asked: "Seventh Master, is it just the three of them?"

Li Li Banfeng nodded.

Chu Shaoqiang was clearly somewhat fearful of these three-headed people: "I know you have suffered a lot, and I know you still want to find a place to live here. I promise you, I will allow you to continue living here in the future; there shouldn't be any conflict between us."

Mengzi looked at Chu Shaoqiang and said: "You don't need to say so much; we came here to kill you."

Chu Shaoqiang still wanted to persuade the other side, and the best way to persuade was to divide: "I am from the Inner Continent; do you want to be enemies with the entire Inner Continent?"

Mengzi shook his head: "We have never been to the Inner Continent, and we don't know anyone from the Inner Continent; we are only here to kill you."

Chu Shaoqiang smiled: "Kill me? I'm afraid it won't be that easy. You will lose at least half your people; is it worth it?"

"Half?" Mengzi looked at the people behind him. "You underestimated it. Since we came, none of us intended to return alive."

Chu Shaoqiang was puzzled: "What is this all for?"

Mengzi only answered one sentence: "Because this is our home."

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The drum sound suddenly intensified.

Tian Tian Dasong was somewhat afraid.

Scholar Guo muttered: "My... my wounds haven't healed yet..."

When the drum sound became too dense to count, the three-headed people began their charge.

Over three thousand three-headed people charged toward these three people together.

Scholar Guo tried his best to stay close to Tian Tian Dasong.

Tian Tian Dasong was waiting for Chu Shaoqiang's tactics.

Chu Shaoqiang shouted: "Retreat!"

Then he ran first.

Tian Tian Dasong followed him, and He He Yuxiu chased after them.

"Of the thirty-six stratagems, running is the best!" Scholar Guo also wanted to run, but he had an extra trick; he used a technique to run.

Although he was severely wounded and couldn't use high-level techniques, the "A Word Becomes Truth" technique could still be successfully executed.

Scholar Guo moved a distance of over a hundred meters at an extremely fast speed, then activated the technique again.

"A leaf can block the eyes!" He hid in the woods, temporarily escaping everyone's sight.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, he heard a clear singing voice reach his ears.

"Hu ya ya ya~"

This sound was Scholar Guo's nightmare.

Li Li Banfeng, with his mouth full of blood and a smile, appeared beside Scholar Guo.