Vol 3 Chapter 18: Go separate ways

To make up for the sixth day of the month
"City Lord Zhao, what's going on in this last episode? Shouldn't it be the wind gusts in the earth fire and geomantic omen?" Hu Xingwu had taken care of his injury and recovered his qi, and said in doubt.
Zhao Jingding also looked solemn, and hesitated: "If the old man didn’t guess wrong, this array should be the upside-down four-image array mentioned in the classics. It was formed by the four arrays of earth, fire, geomantic, and water. The strong formation is far more than the flame formation and the red water and blood formation. If it were not for a hundred-year low, I am afraid that the Jindan master will also fall in the meantime. It is said that when the real Guangyang was alive, he used this formation to kill three The soul is real."
"But why did the Four Elephant Array appear upside down suddenly?" Shi Xuan interjected. The abnormal formation of the formation often means something bad happened in the Immortal Palace. If you don't figure it out, entering the Inner Palace is also dangerous.
Seeing Shi Xuan open his eyes and questioning, Zhao Jingding saluted politely: "Thank you Daoyou Sun for helping the little girl, the old man will repay you later. As for why the upside-down four-elephant array appeared, the old man really doesn't know, so many times before the birth of Xianfu , This formation has never appeared before."
"Could it be that the formation center has sensed some danger, so it has increased the difficulty of the formation." Gao Xing guessed equally puzzled.
"How is it possible that the formation center has not been in charge for a long time, unless someone tries to control the formation center, or there is someone fighting near the formation center, and the danger level reaches the golden core. But now all the monks in the palace are still trapped. In the formation, just after the battle, where will anyone go? Even if someone goes there soon, who is the strength of the golden core?" Zhao Jingding retorted dismissively.
After discussing for a while, and did not find out the reason for the abnormal formation, Zhao Jingding calculated the time and said: "Let's recover our strength quickly, and then go out to avoid being preempted by the three major factions."
"Aren't you waiting for other Daoists?" Zhao Jinyu asked in surprise, but he quickly reacted. When everyone recovered their strength, the formation should have reached the state of 80 to 90%. At that time, it must have been Can't come anymore.
Liang Qingqing hesitated for a while before speaking shyly: "I saw Liu Heng and Liu Daoist have fallen, so I don't have to wait for him."
Oh, everyone gave her a meaningful look, but said nothing.
The rest was quiet, everyone seized the time to recover their strength. Zhao Jinyu quickly recovered because he didn't consume much in the later stage. At this moment, he felt that someone pulled the corner of his clothes and opened his eyes to see, but it was Lei Guangyao. He motioned to speak next to him with his wink.
He followed in confusion, Lei Guangyao cast a spell to block the voice, and asked, "Junior sister, I was really worried about you just now for my brother."
Thinking of the dangers before, Zhao Jinyu was still a little afraid: "I was really afraid of death at that time."
"En, then, how did Fellow Daoist Sun rescue you?" Lei Guangyao asked this question carefully.
Zhao Jinyu blinked: "I don't know. I was so scared at the time. When I woke up, I was rescued by Daoyou Sun. Then the two of us worked together and rushed to the exit." Zhao Jinyu thought of her silly behavior. Blushing in shame.
All of them worked together, Lei Guangyao felt a little unhappy, but knew that Junior Sister was in danger at the time, and there was no way, so he stretched out his hand and prepared to hold Junior Sister's delicate hand to comfort him.
But when Lei Guangyao's hand was about to touch Junior Sister's little hand, she saw Junior Sister shrink her hand in a panic, while looking around nervously.
"Junior Sister!" Lei Guangyao's tone contained dissatisfaction. At this time, shouldn't the girl lie on the chest of her sweetheart to comfort her? No matter how you hold your hand, it won't work.
Zhao Jinyu came back to her senses, remembering her reaction just now, frowning: "Father and big brother are here, it is not good to be seen by them."
Didn’t you say that you want to confess the relationship to the master, Lei Guangyao was angry and dull, blurted out: "Are you a little bit in love with that thief?!"
"How is it possible?! Is my Zhao Jinyu that kind of person?!" Zhao Jinyu raised her eyebrows, furious, "Second brother, if you talk nonsense again, I will ignore you!"
Lei Guangyao regretted it as soon as he said it. How could he say this kind of anger, which was obviously his own wild thinking, that was a thief, how could the junior sister have a good impression of him! So I immediately bowed my head and apologized: "Junior Sister, I was wrong. I was only angry with myself. I couldn't save you when you were most dangerous."
"Huh." Zhao Jinyu's anger faded a little. "Senior brother, don't think about it. For Fellow Sun Dao, I can only be grateful for his life-saving grace. And you don't want to humble yourself. After all, you were too far away from me at that time."
"Yes, yes, yes." Lei Guangyao could only nod frequently when he said wrong.
"Okay, everyone is recovering soon, and let's not hide to the side to talk." Zhao Jinyu did not give Lei Guangyao a chance to continue apologizing, and went back first.
In the gray fog, another person walked in. Jin Shijie, like Hu Xingwu, became a one-armed man. Only one of the nine white bones on the nine white bone whip was left, and the whole person looked like he had just risen from the grave. Zombies, dry and thin, no longer handsome.
"Ha, I didn't think there were so many Daoists who were safe and sound. It's really, really gratifying." Jin Shijie looked at so many people in surprise, and then grinned.
His surprise was also the surprise of everyone except Shi Xuan and Zhao Jinyu. Shi Xuan was because of incomplete information and lack of information, while Zhao Jinyu had little knowledge of the world.
Since the monks began to form a team to break through the barriers, the monks who died in the outer formations of Xianfu were reduced to single digits each time, which was all the casualties of the three major factions plus casual repairs. The casualties of fighting with each other in the inner palace became the bulk of the death toll.
However, with the horror intensity of this last wave, Zhao Jingding, Gao Xing, Jin Shijie and others all have a preliminary judgment, that is, if there are 13 monks who have entered the upside-down four-image formation, it would be great if six of them survived! The annihilation of the entire army is also reasonable.
Now, Zhao Jingding, Zhao Jinyu, Ling Hong, Lei Guangyao, Gao Xing, Hu Xingwu, Jin Shijie, Liang Qingqing, and Shi Xuan have a total of nine people, and it is not even ruled out that there will be monks coming.
"This time the team seems to be a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger." A few monks thought so in their hearts, "especially the bronze ancient lamp of the thief has the quality of the seventh heaven."
"Friend Jin Dao, hurry up and recover, we will be out soon." Zhao Jingding nodded to Jin Shijie.
Jin Shijie quickly took out the healing pill and took it, then meditated cross-legged.
After a while, another person walked into the gray mist. Xue Yingzhen, who was dressed as snow, made all the monks' pupils shrink suddenly.
Xue Yingzhen’s dresses are neat, her face is as usual, and she can’t tell that she has just returned from such a terrifying formation. It’s like she is going home after shopping. She looks calm and calm when everyone is looking at her. Please forgive me for being late."
Zhao Jingding retracted her suspicious eyes and chuckled: "It's not too late, it's not too late. Miss Xue, please hurry up and meditate to recover."
"No, I believe that few cultivators will go to the ancient library that the younger generation will go to, and it will be the same if they recover." Xue Yingzhen said lightly.
Upon seeing this, the cultivators stopped talking to Xue Yingzhen, and there were some things they couldn't ask, unless everyone broke their skin and started, even if they want to do it, they still have to regain their strength first.
After being quiet for a while, Zhao Jingding stood up and said, "Everyone, I believe everyone has recovered almost. Let's set off, or else we will come for nothing."
The other nine cultivators stood up and followed Zhao Jingding silently to the four-color vortex. The previous change in the formation method left a big shadow in everyone's hearts.
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Immediately after coming out of the four-color vortex, Zhao Jingding immediately displayed a light blue sea water shield to wrap everyone around, because the other monks in purple robes were coming out from the other yellow vortex next to them, who belonged to the Zixia School.
Both Yue Dingyi and his wife Ning Shouyi were embarrassed with broken robes, and they suffered a lot from the formation. At this time, they were a little surprised to see Zhao Jingding and the monks behind him. Yue Dingyi was late. It took a while before he said: "City Lord Zhao is really an expert, and he can bring out so many monks from the Upside-Down Four Elephant Array, only four of them have fallen. They are amazing, amazing."
While looking at Zhao Jingding, he looked at Shi Xuan and other monks. In line with the background of his words, there are only about ten disciples left behind him, almost half of them have fallen.
Shi Xuan also looked at the opposite with a little surprised, because he was surprised to find that Gu Yun and Fang Xuan were still standing there. The uncles of the two of them didn't know how many of them had died, but they were safe and sound, not knowing it was luck. It was really against the sky, and someone just happened to help.
Zhao Jingding smiled lightly: "It's just good luck." After finishing speaking, he no longer looked at Yue Dingyi, but turned and pointed to the four roads in front of him: "Friends, the one on the left is to Wanbao Tower, and the two in the middle are on the left. It’s to the Classics Library. The Baicao Pavilion is on the right. Everyone should go according to their wishes."
At this time, the two sides were unwilling to fight each other, and Zhao Jingding just used the spell to become natural. If you haven't even seen the treasure, it will kill you. Huang Fenggu and Hou Tu Sect will definitely have stomach pain while laughing, while desperately searching for the treasure.
Before the split, Zhao Jingding called Zhao Jinyu, Ling Hong, and Lei Guangyao together to explain some things, and at the same time whispered to Zhao Jinyu secretly, and handed Zhao Jinyu an artifact. Finally Zhao Jinyu and Lei Guangyao walked back, and together with Shi Xuan, Liang Qingqing, Jin Shijie, and Hu Xingwu, they took the leftmost path.
As for Ling Hong, he did not follow the arrangements before entering the house, but followed Zhao Jingding and Gao Xing to the Baicao Pavilion. Xue Yingzhen calmly and calmly set foot on the path of the classics library.
"Let’s set off too, we can’t let them preempt. I don’t know what happened to Huang Fenggu and Hou Tu Sect." Yue Ding explained to the remaining disciples, and then he and Ning Shouyi took five entrainment periods. The monks rushed to Baicao Pavilion, and the remaining six monks went to Wanbaolou.