Chapter 247: An Alternative Way to Kill Enemies

One must know that Pan Yun was already at the peak of the Fifth Stage, a half-step First Marquis, and had already stepped into the ranks of the first-tier experts in the jianghu.

Sure enough, Zhang Zhang Weiliang had just been surrounded. When a Japanese pirate slashed with a blade and he raised his sword to block, a black shadow swished past him...

Zhang Zhang Weiliang reacted quickly and immediately returned his sword. He only heard a clang as he blocked the black shadow's blade, but he didn't block it completely. His waist was scratched, and the black shadow stood still behind him, continuing to bend over, ready to attack again at any moment.

A junior brother was shocked, "This Japanese person's speed is so fast!"

"It's a ninja," Zhang Zhang Weiqin said nervously. "They also have a blade array. Zhang Weiliang can't beat them."

He immediately turned to find Pan Yun, "Junior Sister Pan, save Zhang Weiliang quickly!"

Pan Yun was hugging her sword, leaning against a tree on the side, and asked, "Why don't you go up?"

"We will go up, but these Japanese pirate reinforcements are clearly not ordinary people. We can't beat them at all, and Zhang Weiliang can't hold on for much longer."

Pan Yun: "Tell me first, who instigated you to incite Zhang Zhang Weiliang to deal with me?"

Zhang Zhang Weiqin gritted his teeth secretly, "I don't know what you're talking about."

"Then I'll wait a bit longer. I think Senior Brother Zhang Weiliang is a Fourth-Year student and a genius after all. Dealing with a few Japanese pirate ninjas shouldn't be a problem."

Zhang Zhang Weiqin's eyes were red with anger, "You did this on purpose! You knew the speed of these Japanese pirates, yet you made us set up the array here. You deliberately made us bump into them. Are you trying to kill us with the hands of the Japanese pirates?"

Pan Yun raised an eyebrow and leaned more firmly against the tree, "Since you've said so, if I don't do it, wouldn't I have borne the bad name for nothing?"

Zhang Zhang Weiqin opened his mouth and immediately apologized in a low voice, "Junior Sister Pan, it was my fault just now. I shouldn't have maliciously speculated about you..."

Zhang Ning, who had just selected a batch of captives to be helpers, walked over and saw Zhang Zhang Weiliang and the two Daoists surrounded by Japanese pirates and being closed in on one by one. He was shocked, "What are you doing? Didn't you say you were setting up an ambush and an array?"

Pan Yun snorted and looked at Zhang Zhang Weiqin.

Zhang Zhang Weiqin's expression changed again and again. Finally, he lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "It was the Third Elder, but the Second Senior Uncle also knew about this matter."

Pan Yun was curious, "Doesn't Zhang Zhang Ziwang support the Senior Brother? My Senior Sister and Senior Brother are so close, so we should be on the same side. Why did he still indulge Zhang Zhang Weiliang in dealing with me?"

Zhang Zhang Weiqin: "The Second Senior Uncle thinks that the Senior Brother will be seriously injured, and Junior Aunt Li should bear the majority of the responsibility. Moreover, he was originally opposed to the Celestial Master's Mansion's reforms."

"He supports the Senior Brother and opposes the reforms?"

Zhang Zhang Weiqin: "Supporting the Senior Brother and opposing the reforms don't conflict. Supporting the Senior Brother is supporting orthodoxy. The Senior Brother's talent and ability are the best among the three generations. If there is one person who can lead the Celestial Master's Mansion to its peak, it must be the Senior Brother."

"But the Second Senior Uncle feels that their reforms were wrong. When the Senior Brother and Junior Aunt Li were studying, the Second Senior Uncle was the one who opposed the reforms. He felt that it was all Junior Aunt Li who corrupted the Senior Brother," Zhang Zhang Weiqin looked up at Pan Yun and said softly, "For the past few years, the Senior Brother has been concentrating on recovering from his injuries, but the news of your enrollment only reached Long Long Hushan, and the Senior Brother came out of seclusion from the Celestial Master's Mansion to move to the Academy."

"The Second Senior Uncle feels that you are the same kind of person as Junior Aunt Li, and that the Senior Brother will only become unfortunate if he gets close to you."

Pan Yun clicked her tongue twice, looked Zhang Zhang Weiqin up and down, and said, "You understand Zhang Zhang Ziwang's thoughts so well, so the question is, are you Zhang Zhang Zhengchang's person, or Zhang Zhang Ziwang's person?"

Zhang Zhang Weiqin didn't answer this question, but paused and said, "Zhang Weiliang is the only descendant of the Second Senior Uncle's lineage."

Zhang Zhang Ziwang didn't marry, and his younger brother only had Zhang Zhang Weiliang as a son, so Zhang Zhang Ziwang raised Zhang Zhang Weiliang as his own son.

Otherwise, it would be a ghost story if Zhang Zhang Weiliang, with this talent and personality, could move into Fengqi Courtyard.

Zhang Ning had already drawn his sword and killed his way up. His martial arts were slightly higher than Zhang Zhang Weiliang's. Although he couldn't convert internal energy into Yuan Power to deal great damage, he had techniques!

Good martial arts techniques could greatly compensate for the lack of deep internal energy. Moreover, he had experience, and was much stronger than the three silly Daoists who only held swords, knew only two sets of basic sword techniques, and relied entirely on internal energy and Yuan Power output.

With some technical positioning, he quickly killed his way out with the three of them. At the same time, Japanese pirates also killed their way out from behind the corner in teams.

Seeing this, Zhang Ning felt his heart go cold. While dragging the injured Zhang Zhang Weiliang to retreat quickly, he turned his head and shouted at Pan Yun, "This is the talisman array ambush you were talking about? It's not as good as us lying on both sides of the forest and setting up a normal ambush."

Pan Yun swiped the talisman paper from Zhang Zhang Weiqin's hand, clamped it with her fingers, chanted a spell, and shot it out. The talisman paper carried the momentum of wind and thunder and swished onto the array points.

Two talisman papers made a pair, divided into wind, thunder, wood, fire, and metal, and quickly flew from Pan Yun's fingers to be fixed on the array points. In less than ten breaths, the talisman array was formed. Pan Yun stomped her foot, and the five array points were activated simultaneously. A loud thunderclap rang out in the sky, and lightning struck beside everyone's feet, scaring everyone so much that their hearts lost their rhythm.

Pan Yun, however, flew out like the wind, wrapped Zhang Ning and the others, and flung them backward. Their toes left the ground, and they retreated at high speed. They saw countless lightning bolts falling from thin air, and at the same time, a wild wind blew, sand and stones flew, and their vision became blurred, making it impossible to see figures.

Zhang Ning and the others were flung out of the talisman array. Their toes touched the ground, and they immediately retreated more than ten steps before standing firm.

Silence.

Looking at the thunder and lightning in the talisman array, it took Zhang Ning a long time to find his voice. He turned his head and asked Zhang Zhang Weiliang, "Is the gap between you Daoists so large? You set up for a quarter of an hour and only set up two array points, while she used less than ten breaths to set up three array points." Zhang Zhang Weiliang's heart felt as if someone had grabbed and twisted it, and then squeezed it hard, squeezing the blood out of his heart, making it incredibly uncomfortable. He said angrily, "It's as if the gap in your jianghu isn't large. You aren't much younger than the Jianghu Alliance Leader, right? The Jianghu Alliance Leader is almost entering the Dao through martial arts and is already a top-tier expert, while you can only come to fight some second- or third-rate pirates with us youths."

Zhang Ning was also angry, "Speak properly if you're going to speak. How can you mock people? I just saved your life."

"Do I need you to save me? If I hadn't taken all the talismans to set up the talisman array, I could have smashed them to death..."

"Who in the world doesn't make assumptions? If you have the ability, turn your assumptions into reality."

Pan Yun walked over from the thunder and lightning, holding her sword. Her face was half-hidden in the light and shadow, making it almost impossible to see her expression. Her voice was very soft as she asked, "What are you arguing about? Didn't you say you wanted to set up an ambush? People have already entered the array. Let's start now."

Zhang Ning looked at the talisman array where nothing could be seen and asked, "It's pitch black, and there's thunder and lightning, and sand and stones flying. How are we supposed to go in and ambush them?"

Pan Yun said, "Just walk the correct array path. This is two nested arrays."

Having said that, she stomped her foot, and five strands of Yuan Power were emitted from under her feet, hitting the array points with a swish. Their set of array techniques also took effect immediately.

The surrounding environment changed immediately.

Zhang Ning only felt the road become wider, and the trees on both sides became taller. Most importantly, the grave mounds in the forest all became huge and eerie.

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Pan Yun said, "There are seven of us Daoists, and all of us know these two sets of array techniques, so we are divided into four teams, with one person leading a group in."

Pan Yun turned her head to look at Su Ying, "Hero Su, Ah Xin, would you like to take four Green-Clad Guards and follow me?"

Su Ying nodded immediately, "Good."

"Miao Zhen, Miao He, you take Hero Hu and two Green-Clad Guards. Zhang Zhang Weiliang, you and this senior brother take Zhang Ning and four Green-Clad Guards. The remaining Green-Clad Guards will be handed over to Zhang Zhang Weiqin and this senior brother."

Senior Brother Jia immediately whispered, "Junior Sister Pan, my name is Xiang Shizhang. I have always been training outside, so we haven't met, but I have admired Junior Sister for a long time. I didn't expect..."

Senior Brother Yi pulled him away, "Junior Sister Pan, my name is Wang Dalei."

Pan Yun cupped her hands at them, "Senior Brother Xiang, Senior Brother Wang."

After assigning the routes, everyone turned and entered the array one by one. They instantly felt as if they were in the middle of the end of the world.

In the pitch-black world, sand and stones flew. They walked in the dense forest, unable to see their fingers, and lightning struck from time to time in the sky.

Su Ying, Ah Xin, and the others were incredibly surprised. One Green-Clad Guard even reached out and touched a tree. The tactile sensation was super real. He couldn't believe it, "How could there be trees when we were walking toward the center of the road just now?"

He slashed with his palm, and his palm felt intense pain. He whispered, "It's a real tree!"

Pan Yun didn't intend to explain the principle, only saying, "Follow me step by step. Don't walk the wrong way. If you walk the wrong way, getting lost is a small matter. If you bump into a group of Japanese pirates, I can't save you."

"Of course, if you want to take the opportunity to escape, you can, but you must be prepared to be trapped to death in this talisman array."

Ah Xin immediately said, "Daoist Priest Pan Sanzhu, rest assured. We will definitely not escape. We want to atone for our crimes with meritorious service."

Pan Yun nodded approvingly, "Not bad. After meeting the Jianghu Alliance, I will definitely plead for mercy for you."

Ah Xin breathed a sigh of relief. If she had said she would plead for mercy to the Imperial Court officials, they wouldn't have believed it. Pleading for mercy to the Jianghu Alliance, however, was very possible.

Pan Yun led them, turning left and right, and soon hid behind three trees. In front were five Japanese pirates walking forward carefully with bent waists.

As soon as a Japanese pirate approached, Pan Yun gripped the hand Ah Xin was holding the blade with and demonstrated for them.

She grabbed Ah Xin's hand and pushed it forward. The blade instantly pierced out, straight through the Japanese pirate's abdomen.

The Japanese pirate screamed and swung his big blade to hack forward, but Pan Yun pulled Ah Xin back a step, then turned and took two steps to the left. The two instantly appeared behind the side of another Japanese pirate. The Japanese pirate was startled and turned his head.

Before Ah Xin could react, Pan Yun gripped his hand and slashed fiercely. The blade instantly cut through the Japanese pirate's throat.

Pan Yun grabbed Ah Xin and retreated again, then walked two steps quickly to the right, instantly returning to the original point. They saw Su Ying already fighting two enemies alone, killing two Japanese pirates in succession.

And the four Green-Clad Guards were hiding behind trees, and the two Japanese pirates hacking wildly in front of them didn't seem to see them at all.

Good night.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 248 =====