About ten miles further into the valley from where Qingshi and the others were, we found Lingmu Villa. This was a large-scale manor. It was about three miles wide from north to south, reaching the mountain walls on both sides of the canyon. It was more than five miles long from east to west, and the east gate was Facing the sea, to the west is the end of the canyon, backed by the green Lingxiu Mountain.
At this moment, in the grand, luxurious and gorgeous main hall of Lingmu Villa, the owner of the Villa, Zhenren Mu, was convening more than ten disciples with authority to discuss matters.
Mu Zhenren looks middle-aged, but he is actually over five hundred years old. He is of medium height and has a dignified appearance. He is dressed in a clean green coarse cloth robe without any pendants on his body. Compared with the luxurious decoration in the hall, his clothes seemed a bit untimely and shabby, but the clothes on him had a shocking effect, making people feel that it was not that his clothes did not match the decoration of the hall, but that the entire hall Luxury sets off his simple temperament and unparalleled aura.
All the disciples stood respectfully, not daring to look directly into his eyes.
"There is still no trace of Qingshi and his Xuanhu Gang members?" Mu Zhenren asked.
"Yes!" The eldest disciple replied respectfully, "The second, second, and third sons have searched for it several times, but they still haven't found it yet. I plan to personally lead a search at noon."
"Do you think, Senior Brother, that our abilities are too low to be found in the search?" The second disciple was obviously dissatisfied with Senior Brother's reply, "Or do you think we have no intentions?"
"I didn't mean that!" The eldest disciple said calmly, "This blue stone's spells are extremely powerful, and it also has incredible magical weapons. It's normal that you can't find them."
"Senior Brother, have you carefully examined all sixty-three corpses?" The third disciple disagreed and said, "Perhaps they were injured beyond recognition and cannot be recognized?"
"I've seen it all," the eldest disciple said in a calm tone, but his attitude was firm and clear, "No, none of the four people from the Xuanhu Gang came."
"He was not eaten by the spiritual beasts?" asked the ninth disciple.
"No!" said the eldest disciple, "We checked all the spirit beasts an hour ago, and detected and took out 203 storage devices from their bodies. I am sure that none of them belong to the Xuanhu Gang. of."
"Since you said Qingshi is so powerful," the second disciple said, "then is it possible that he has escaped?"
"Qingshi is indeed powerful! Otherwise, you wouldn't have been able to find traces of him even after leading several searches." The eldest disciple finally found a chance to fight back, "But I think Qingshi, no matter how powerful he is, can't compare to Master. I But I don’t doubt Master’s air-locking formation, I firmly believe that Qingshi’s group is still within the formation.”
"Uh..." The second disciple was so reprimanded by his senior brother that he didn't know how to express his words, and the glance that Mu Zhenren gave him made him break out in a cold sweat.
"No one can escape from the air-locking formation!" Mu Zhenren said, "There has never been one, and there will be no one now and in the future!"
"Disciple made a mistake!" The second disciple was frightened and said, "Master, please forgive me."
"Second brother," Mu Zhenren said, "your senior brother is not on the island all year round, do you really think of yourself as the boss? Compared with your senior brother, you are still far behind! Learn more from your senior brother!"
"Yes! Yes!" The second disciple said yes repeatedly, sweating.
"In that case!" Mu Zhenren said, "What do you think we should do now?" He asked the eldest disciple.
"We should be more patient," the eldest disciple said. "At the same time, please master, please relax the air-locking formation a little more."
"Continue to relax!" Mu Zhenren was a little confused, "Why?"
"Master's air-locking formation is really powerful," the eldest disciple said. "Under the current circumstances, Qingshi and the others have no chance at all, so they won't show up on their own initiative anyway. We have to give them some hope." , so that they will take the risk."
"I'm afraid that's inappropriate," the fourth disciple said, "It's just that we want them to have no chance of survival, but you still want to give them hope?"
"That's not the case!" said the eldest disciple. "With Master's methods, as long as they show up, there is no possibility of escape. But now they must have used some magic weapon to hide themselves. We may really We can't find them. Therefore, we can only give them some hope and let them feel that they have a chance to escape, so that they can take the initiative to show up. This is like gambling. If the opponent knows that there is no possibility of winning, then who will Betting with you? You have to give them the illusion that they can win."
"Well, that makes sense!" Mu Zhenren said, "But you just said you should be more patient. I think we should maintain the status quo for the time being. You can lead the search in person. If you still don't find anything, let's talk about it!"
"Master is wise!" the eldest disciple said, "I will..."
The eldest disciple suddenly stopped before he finished speaking and turned sideways to listen, as if he was sensing something.
"There is a spatial movement!" Mu Zhenren stood up suddenly, paused for a moment, and then said, "It's the sixth killing array! Who is responsible for searching this area?"
"It's...it's me!" the third disciple said, with horror evident on his face.
"How many times have you searched?" Mu Zhenren said with a stern voice, "Nothing was found?"
"I searched twice...twice, and Fourteenth also searched once." The third disciple said timidly, "No...by the way, I found that the spiritual source consumption of this killing array is a bit... It’s not normal, the consumption is too...too high.”
"Why didn't you report it then?" Mu Zhenzhen stared at him fiercely and said coldly, "Why did you say it now?"
"I was a little confused at the time," the third disciple said, "but the twenty-seventh sister said... that it was because there was the most expert among the people who came this time in this formation, so I... ..."
"The number one master?" Mu Zhenren was stunned and asked, "Who?"
"Tu Han, Vice President of Linya Chamber of Commerce!" the third disciple replied.
"Tu Han ranks fourth among the top ten targets," the eldest disciple said curiously, "Who said he is the number one master?"
"Twenty-seventh sister said it," the third disciple said, "I...I also saw the picture introduction of the senior brother. He is the fifth level of elixir, and has the highest level of zhenqi cultivation..."
"Confused!" Mu Zhenren scolded, "The highest level of Zhenqi cultivation means the highest combat power? Can you beat the fourth, fifth, and sixth brothers? You clearly noticed the abnormality but didn't believe yourself. Instead, you listened to the twenty-seventh sister. If so, you are useless..."
"Master!" The eldest disciple said bravely, "It seems that it is not appropriate to pursue the responsibility now. Going to check is the top priority."
"Of course!" Mu Zhenren strode out and gave orders, "You two, second and third, stay here and reflect. The others will bring their own teams and follow me immediately... Let the third and second sons go first. The seventeenth sister can be whipped a hundred times each! By the way, the same can be said for the fourteenth sister."
Mu Zhenren's perception was correct. The spatial changes he discovered were caused by Qingshi casting a spell in his own shielding array to destroy the array eye. Once the array eye was destroyed, the shielding array collapsed. At the same time, the same array eye and spirit also collapsed. Source's killing array.
Duan, Chen, and Hu suddenly appeared with three puppets with human bodies and animal faces. As soon as they appeared, they ran towards the east without hesitation.
Qingshi ran towards the west with a puppet. He activated the hiding function of Xuanyuanjia so that no one could see him. The puppet he brought was not an ordinary military formation puppet, but one of the six guardian puppets that he personally transformed. One, this one can also turn invisible.
From this sixth killing formation, it is about ten miles to the west to Lingmu Villa and about fifteen miles to the east to the entrance of the valley. In order to prevent being discovered, Qingshi did not go directly west along the main road, but groped forward along the south valley wall. There were several warning formations along the way, but Qingshi was invisible, and there were people who passed the formation. He has a horizontal formation technique, so he can sneak around without anyone noticing and is very fast.
Duan, Chen, Hu and the others ran towards the valley entrance along the way they came. Therefore, when Qingshi touched the south wall of Lingmu Villa, Duan, Chen, Hu and the others had already arrived at the entrance of the valley.
Duan Wutian took the lead. Without hesitation, he swung a black giant ax and slashed at the vaguely visible energy barrier of the air-locking formation. Suddenly, several cracks appeared in the barrier with a soft buzzing sound, and a circle of transparent energy ripples centered on the place where the ax fell, spreading in all directions.
With just one blow of the ax, cracks were cut into the air-locking formation. The sky-breaking ax made of bluestone was indeed a defense-breaking artifact. However, this is also because the air locking array is currently in a low power state.
Three small spaceships were flying rapidly over the treetops towards the entrance of the valley. There were twelve or three people on each spaceship. These were naturally Mu Zhenren and his disciples. They had just arrived at the sixth killing formation. In addition to seeing that the formation's eyes were destroyed and the killing formation had collapsed, they also found traces of someone heading east. So, on the advice of the eldest brother, Mu Zhenren took three spaceships and flew towards the entrance of the valley, while the eldest brother himself took another one and flew to the north. He thought that maybe Qingshi would discover the ultimate secret of the air-locking formation. The weak point is on the small ridge to the north, so go ahead and destroy it.
Mu Zhenren was less than two miles away from the entrance of the valley. At this time, violent energy fluctuations came from the entrance. With his naked eyes, he could see the cracks in the formation's barrier caused by violent attacks. At the same time, he also saw the figures attacking the formation. .
Although the attacks of these people were very effective, cutting cracks in the barrier and causing huge energy consumption to the formation, Master Mu was not angry but happy, secretly thinking: Are you trying to break the formation with brute force? It seems that this bluestone is nothing more than that.
Mu Zhenren raised his hand and took out a small and exquisite white jade array plate, and fiddled with it with his fingers. A strong wave of energy swept across the entire canyon instantly.
Duan, Chen, and Hu were working hard to destroy it. Seeing that this energy array wall was almost too much to bear, the three of them were secretly happy.
Unexpectedly, as a strong wave of energy swept past, Duan Wutian's next ax was less than one-third as destructive as the previous one.
"The formation is already operating at full capacity." Chen Tianye said, "Old Duan, please stop, it is no longer possible to break the formation."
"Damn it!" Duan Wutian spat, "What a pity!"
"It's no pity," Hu Hailong said, "The boss said it's probably impossible to break the formation with force. The old thieves are already here. Let's retreat quickly!"
"I really want to have a good fight with this old wooden thief!" Duan Wutian looked at the rapidly approaching spaceship and said through gritted teeth.
"Duan Tu, are you crazy?" Chen Tianye scolded, "Have you forgotten what Qingshi told you? Run first, and then fight if you can't run! Hurry!"
After Chen Tianye finished speaking, he turned to run south, with Duan Wutian and Hu Hailong naturally following behind.
"Old Duan, aren't you going to fight the old thief Mu?" Hu Hailong teased with a smile.
"Why fight? I just said that," Duan Wutian said, "Do you think I'm stupid?"
"I hope Qingshi can take the opportunity to destroy the old thief's lair!" Chen Tianye said, "otherwise we will really have to fight!"
The three of them were running quickly through the grass and trees, with the three puppets following behind them. With the experience from last time, they now throw throwing knives and spears towards the running front while running. This is throwing stones to ask for directions. If there is a magic circle in front, it will be triggered, causing energy fluctuations.
The three of them were running very fast, and there were a lot of trees covering them. It was not easy for Mu Zhenren and his spaceship to catch up for a while. Of course, Mu Zhenren felt that these people were already the turtles in the urn, and he was not in a hurry at all.
"Boys from the Xuanhu Gang!" Mu Zhenren was in a good mood. He stood on the bow of the spaceship with his hands behind his back, his clothes fluttering like a god. He shouted with a smile, "What's the point of running like this? Kneel down and surrender to me. Come on, tell me how you evaded the search. Maybe I will let you live as soon as I am happy, and I will reward you with a whole corpse at the end! Hahaha..."
"Don't chase me, old thief!" Chen Tianye ran and shouted without looking back, "If you know what's going on, let us leave as soon as possible, otherwise I, the men of the Xuanhu Gang, will destroy your rotten wooden villa."
"Hahaha..." Mu Zhenren laughed loudly, "Now you are running around like bereaved dogs, and you still dare to speak harshly..."
"Master!" On another spaceship, the four disciples noticed something was wrong and immediately shouted, "The Xuanhu Gang should be four people, there are only three of them, and the last three are puppets!"
"Oh!" Mu Zhenren was slightly startled, "One is missing? Well! Who is missing? Did you see clearly?"
"It's not very clear!" The fourth disciple shouted, "But I compared it with Senior Brother's picture album, and the missing one is probably the bluestone."
"Really?" Mu Zhenren looked at the meaningless running of the three people under his feet. Suddenly, he felt uneasy and thought, "Could it be that these people are deliberately attracting our attention to cover the blue stone to break the formation?" went?"
"Master, don't worry!" Disciple Nine said, "Senior Brother has already anticipated this possibility. Didn't he take Second Senior Brother and the others to Beishanliang?"
"Yeah!" Mu Zhenren nodded and said, "Whether that's the case or not, let's go down immediately and catch these guys! Follow me!"
