Chapter 52: Whoever Runs Slow Blocks the Blade
Lin Qingyue winked at Ye Jingxian, who understood and spoke up.
“Since he hasn’t come, then proceed as Little Junior Brother said earlier. Do it.”
These words were spoken calmly, with a tone that allowed no doubt. Luo Wuhen raised the Golden Cicada Bow, about to strike.
“Wait! I’ll speak,” the Red-Eyed Illusion Spider shouted.
Ye Jingxian and the others exchanged glances and took her away from the city gate. As they left, Lin Qingyue made a hand gesture.
“I’ll tell you.”
Auntie Zi recalled as she spoke, “His name is Fan Yu. He was just an inner sect disciple who was framed by his fellow senior brothers and driven out. After we met, we bought two small huts in the north of the city and have been healing continuously.”
Li Jing interrupted and asked, “Inner sect disciple of which sect?”
“Lingxiao Sect.”
Hearing this, Li Jing retorted angrily, “Our Lingxiao Sect doesn’t have such a person.”
Hearing this, Auntie Zi, whose brain was still deep in recollection, suddenly raised her head. “You say Yulang isn’t from your Lingxiao Sect?”
“He lied to me.” The Red-Eyed Illusion Spider muttered in disbelief.
Seeing this, Lin Qingyue said, “Yeah, you even earned spirit stones to treat his illness. He lied to you; it’s really tragic. So who was the one who asked you to hold the auction?”
“It’s, it’s…”
She clutched her head and wailed, as if something was preventing her from saying it. Rolling on the ground, she couldn’t utter a single word.
“It seems we can’t get any useful information.”
Luo Wuhen looked at Ye Jingxian. “Let’s go.”
Ye Jingxian nodded slightly, then instructed Lin Qingyue, “Little Junior Brother, you guys wait here for our return. Do not go out.”
Saying that, he took out a bell from his bosom and stuffed it into his hand. “If something happens, shake it.”
Lin Qingyue watched the two leave, then looked at the bell in his hand.
It was a greenish jade bell, translucent and bright, with pure spiritual energy on it.
Eldest Senior Brother said to shake it and he would return.
For some reason, the more Lin Qingyue looked at it, the more he felt… why does this thing look so much like calling a puppy!
Lin Qingyue shook his head and put the bell away.
“You lied to me—!”
A piercing, sharp voice rang out. Lin Qingyue paused while putting the item away and looked back at Auntie Zi.
Her expression was clear, her eyes no longer filled with pain. Looking at the two who had disappeared, she finally realized something was wrong.
“Yulang didn’t come. It was your trick!”
Her entire face twisted and deformed, her expression ferocious. A pair of large blood-red eyes stared fixedly at Lin Qingyue and Si Yi’s group.
“Fox spirits indeed. I truly underestimated you.”
Lin Qingyue hadn’t expected her to sober up so quickly.
“I will absolutely not let you off.”
Because of anger and regret, Auntie Zi’s human face began to tend towards her original form, hideous and twisted, accompanied by a jie jie sound.
Since she was bound, she moved her body strangely on the ground, scaring Li Jing into leaning towards Lin Qingyue.
He grabbed his sleeve. “What exactly did you do?”
Lin Qingyue: “Didn’t do much, just hired a few people to put on a show.”
He wasn’t that stupid to really let the news that they caught the Red-Eyed Illusion Spider spread all over the city. Those people were all hired by him with money.
Letting them spew output for a while, while simultaneously allowing the fox spirit’s charm skill to take advantage of the weak point—this move was simply perfect.
After hearing Lin Qingyue’s explanation, Li Jing lamented the female demon’s bad luck.
“You are…” Li Jing was at a loss for words.
“What about me?” Lin Qingyue raised an eyebrow. “Do you know what this is called?”
He said, “This is having both courage and strategy, being extremely intelligent.”
Si Yi smiled at Lin Qingyue until his eyes curved. “Right, it’s extreme intelligence. To come up with such a method, simply a genius.”
Lin Qingyue gave a look of approval. “Good praise, continue next time.”
Totally ignored by everyone, the Red-Eyed Illusion Spider gritted her teeth. “I think ‘sly and cunning’ fits better.”
“Aren’t you a Sword Cultivator? Saying one thing and doing another, what kind of Sword Cultivator is that!!!”
She was truly exploding with rage, wishing she could tear Lin Qingyue apart by hand; extracting his tendons and peeling his bones would be hard to quell the anger in her heart.
Thinking that her Yulang would be caught by them because of her, she wished she could poke them full of holes.
“Hmph, I think not a Sword Cultivator, but a Cheap Cultivator (Jian Xiu).”
After struggling for a long time to no avail, Auntie Zi finally stopped moving. The binding rope was a refined magical artifact; she had no way to break free.
Just as she was losing hope, someone attacked from outside the barrier.
Lin Qingyue gently waved his slender, well-defined hand. A tiny stream of spiritual power merged into the barrier, allowing him to see the newcomer.
A man in a deep grey cloak, his body hunched, his back bent into a hump, raised his head, revealing that aged face full of wrinkles like withered tree bark.
He hooked up one side of his mouth, his triangular eyes staring straight at Lin Qingyue’s group.
“I… finally found you.”
It was unknown who this was directed at. The hoarse, dry voice carried intense paranoia and abnormal excitement.
“Where did this ugly, black, stinky old lump come from?”
Lin Qingyue carelessly wiped his sword, his eyes cold.
Such strong malice and dangerous intuition made him vigilant.
“Jiejiejiejiejiejie siss…”
The old man let out a terrifying laugh, staring at Lin Qingyue. He raised a finger bent like a withered old tree branch and pointed at him.
“You will do too.”
His nakedly aggressive gaze went back and forth between him and Si Yi.
Lin Qingyue lifted his half-drooping eyelids, corners of his mouth twitching, and scoffed coldly. The sword he was playing with pierced out of the barrier with a swish.
No one expected his movement to be so fast, completely different from before.
Although the deep grey-robed old man didn’t move fast, he was exceptionally proficient in crooked ways.
A black iron claw drilled out from somewhere and swiftly grabbed his sword.
“Die, thief!”
Lin Qingyue shouted loudly. The old man squinted and stared at him without moving. It seems he followed us and peeped for a long time.
For such a long time, none of them had discovered him, which showed he had some means.
Instantly figuring this out, Lin Qingyue took the opportunity to throw out a talisman and shouted at the sword, “Come back!”
The sword flew back. Lin Qingyue didn’t reach out to catch it, instead looking rather disgusted. “Wash yourself clean before coming near me.”
His every move was seen clearly by the person outside the barrier.
Lin Qingyue didn’t give a spare glance, just threw out two more array discs—one guarding the ground, one guarding above.
Then he took out a large handful of talismans and shouted, “All units, fall in!”
He summoned all his spirit swords, arranging them in order to form a circle. Then he pasted the talismans in his hand onto them.
The set of operations flowed like moving clouds and flowing water, orderly and methodical, making Li Jing and Si Yi’s eyes shine with evident surprise, admiration, and appreciation.
After pasting the talismans, Lin Qingyue looked at the two. “Handsome?”
Their movements were identical as they nodded simultaneously. “Handsome!”
“Do you want to see my consumed spiritual power, see if that’s still handsome? If you know it’s handsome, hurry up and give me spirit stones to replenish spiritual power, and help out by the way!”
The two reacted. “Oh.”
Li Jing looked at the Red-Eyed Illusion Spider Demon. “I’ll tie her up again.”
Si Yi looked at Lin Qingyue and stood in front of him. “I’ll block in front later.”
Lin Qingyue: “Okay.”
He was very decisive. Si Yi was stunned for a moment, lowering his head in slight disappointment. “Don’t worry, I won’t let you get hurt.”
Lin Qingyue raised his hand to pat his shoulder, found he was actually a head taller than himself, and lifted his hand higher to pat down.
“Don’t worry. When danger comes, I will definitely run.”
Not only run, but run faster than both of them.
Whoever runs slow blocks the blade.
As the saying goes, better the fellow Daoist die than this poor Daoist, hehe!
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