Chapter 31: Shouldn't Give Me a Chance

Drawing the Three Mystical Sword, the Illusory Fragrance on his wrist also protruded its head. Liu Xiaolou walked slowly toward the trees where Wei Hongqing and others disappeared, one step at a time, ready to engage the enemy at any time.

Walking forward for a while, he never walked over, which made him feel extremely confused.

A deep abyss suddenly appeared under his feet. Liu Xiaolou didn't pay attention and fell down. In shock, he stabbed his Three Mystical Sword toward the ten-thousand-fathom precipice on both sides, hoping to insert it into the rock peak of the precipice. The Illusory Mili Xiangjin on his wrist also threw out, winding toward the protruding stones or tenacious grass roots on the precipice.

But one effort after another had no effect.

Falling endlessly...

As he fell and fell, he could never reach the bottom.

Liu Xiaolou suddenly realized that this was an illusion array.

This was his first time encountering an illusion array, and being lost in the illusion of the array was a truly wonderful experience. He wanted to break free from the illusion, but he had no way to do so for the moment, only watching himself fall endlessly toward the bottom of the abyss of unknown depth.

Suddenly, a row of crossbow bolts broke through the cliff wall from one side, the tips gleaming with cold light, stabbing straight at his waist and ribs!

Liu Xiaolou found it difficult to maneuver in mid-air and had no choice but to raise his sword to block. But that row of crossbow bolts had immense momentum, and the inch-long arrow light could be seen erupting on each arrowhead; with his cultivation base, he feared it would be difficult to withstand.

Was this strike real or fake?

In his panic, Liu Xiaolou could not judge and could only make the worst-case plan, desperately pouring his true qi into the Three Mystical Sword to block the thunderous power of the crossbow bolts.

An arm reached out from the other side of the cliff wall, grabbed his lapel, and threw him horizontally toward the side of the cliff wall; Liu Xiaolou watched as he was about to crash hard into the cliff wall, closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, everything from just now had disappeared, and he had returned to the forest, his body about to crash horizontally into a large tree.

At the same time, several crossbow bolts grazed past him, nearly piercing him through!

It was Wei Hongqing who had acted in the moment of crisis, saving him from under the arrows.

Liu Xiaolou tapped his feet on the tree trunk and landed with the momentum; he saw a person sitting cross-legged in front of him, blood seeping from the corners of his mouth, and in front of his knees were several smashed and damaged array plate fragments.

Who else could it be but the Xishan Jushi?

Liu Xiaolou was stunned: "Jushi..."

Wei Hongqing and the others had already surrounded the Xishan Jushi, and Tan Bazhang said angrily: "Xiaolou, the thief we thought was him! He stole from the place he was guarding and even dared to ambush you; you almost died at his hands! It was in vain that we were thinking about saving him, what a wolf-hearted and dog-lunged thing!"

Zuo Gaofeng was even more resentful; he had two crossbow bolts stuck in his leg and arm, the arrowheads completely embedded in his flesh, and blood was flowing everywhere. He was so angry he couldn't speak, raising his axes and then lowering them, hesitating several times, but finally did not strike, looking at Wei Hongqing beside him.

Wei Hongqing asked in a low voice: "Why do this?"

The Xishan Jushi's crossbow bolts were already exhausted, and surrounded by the four, he knew there was no hope, so he threw an empty jade box on the ground, holding a spirit elixir in his palm, and shouted: "It was my momentary confusion, it is too late to say anything now, I only ask you brothers to give me a way to live, otherwise I will destroy this Foundation Establishment Pill!"

Tan Bazhang spat: "Bah! Who is your brother? You profit-seeking dog thing!"

The Xishan Jushi smiled bitterly: "A Foundation Establishment Pill, is it a small profit? If I had been with you at the time, I wouldn't have ended up like this... You shouldn't have given me the chance, you shouldn't have..."

Wei Hongqing looked at him steadily and said: "Jushi, you are only at Qi Refinement Stage 8; how is it possible to take a Foundation Establishment Pill without ten or twenty years? What use is it to you? It is not too late to seek a spirit elixir when you reach the Perfection of Stage 10..."

The Xishan Jushi shook his head: "Then it will be too late. How difficult is it to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill? I am already fifty this year; by the time I reach the Perfection of Stage 10, I will be at least sixty years old; where will I have the time to seek a Foundation Establishment Pill?"

Tan Bazhang shouted angrily: "So what? You betrayed your brothers? You wanted to swallow it alone?"

The Xishan Jushi stopped paying attention to him and said to Wei Hongqing: "Hongqing, give me a way to live, let me go, and you keep the Foundation Establishment Pill, how about that?"

Seeing Wei Hongqing hesitate, he added: "You know, I still have a niece in Yongshun who hasn't grown up yet; her parents passed away long ago, and she relies on me to raise her; if I die..."

Wei Hongqing said: "I promise you, I will raise her to adulthood."

The Xishan Jushi shouted: "No! I don't need you to raise her, I will raise her myself; I want to live, you promise me, let me go, otherwise I will destroy this spirit elixir!"

He twisted his body with difficulty, put the Foundation Establishment Pill in his palm to his mouth, and fearfully prevented others from approaching.

"Don't come over! Don't you come over!"

"Tan Bazhang, you step back, step back, otherwise I will eat it!"

"Brother Zuo, I'm sorry, it was my fault for shooting you with two arrows, I will definitely compensate you in the future!"

"Hongqing, give me a way to live..."

Several people stepped back a few paces, and he suddenly remembered something, then screamed and turned to Liu Xiaolou: "Xiaolou, you step back, step back quickly, don't come near... stay far away from me... far away..."

But it was already too late; his body swayed twice, and he felt light-headed, and in his panic, he wanted to stuff the Foundation Establishment Pill into his mouth, but his hand and mouth were misaligned, and the Foundation Establishment Pill fell from the corner of his mouth and dropped in front of his knees.

He still wanted to pick it up, but unexpectedly, his neck felt cold, and he felt the world spinning, turning several circles in a row, seeing the white clouds drifting leisurely in the sky through the treetops.

"Is it really as that senior said back then, that I will never reach Foundation Establishment in this life?" The Xishan Jushi had his last thought, his consciousness quickly blurred, and finally dissipated.

It was Zuo Gaofeng who struck; he wiped his axe on the West Mountain Hermit's body, wiped off the blood, and said fiercely: "Let you shoot me!"

Wei Hongqing walked up, picked up the Foundation Establishment Pill, put it back into the jade box, and tucked it into his bosom.

The eyes of Zuo Gaofeng and Tan Bazhang were fixed on the jade box, and only after the jade box was put away did they both sigh long and hard, then went to search the West Mountain Hermit's corpse, finding two spirit stones, an array book, and several small gold ingots, piling them together with the magic crossbow and crossbow bolts.

Wei Hongqing said: "You can divide these things."

Zuo Gaofeng was the oldest and had the highest cultivation among them, so he was not polite and first took the magic crossbow and crossbow bolts: "Brother Tan, Brother Liu, Zuo has use for this item, so I will not be polite."

Tan Bazhang opened the array book and read a few pages, then flipped faster and faster, shook his head, and stuffed it into Liu Xiaolou's arms: "This thing makes me dizzy, I can't understand it, and it's not my preference; I'll take the spirit stones and gold, and this book is for you."

In the path of cultivation, specializing in one field is extremely difficult, and most cultivators are unwilling to be distracted by other techniques, let alone array techniques, and this array book was not some supreme array secret, just a small illusion array, so Zuo Gaofeng and Tan Bazhang did not choose it; speaking of which, it was actually a bit of bullying the younger generation.

Liu Xiaolou had been staring at this array book; the feeling of being in the illusion array just now made him feel quite amazed, so he was very greedy for this array book. But he had the least seniority, so there was no way, and he could only choose last; fortunately, he finally got his wish. He also secretly made up his mind that if he was not that material and couldn't learn the array technique, he could take it to exchange for money, but he didn't know if he could exchange it for a spirit stone?

A signal arrow suddenly rose in the distance, and Wei Hongqing said happily: "You guard Lu Zian's corpse well, I will be back soon!"