CHAPTER 128: CHAPTER 127: TIANYI TOURNAMENT (PART 19)

Jiang Yuesheng looked at the handsome young man opposite him, and had to admit that he had severely underestimated his strength:

"Ye Qingting, I have to admit, you are very strong."

Since when had this young man, who always looked up to them, grown into someone whose strength matched his own?

"But you should consider yourself lucky it’s a competition now; on a real battlefield, you would have already lost to my spiritual power attack." Ye Qingting’s spiritual power was far inferior to Jiang Yuesheng’s, putting him at a disadvantage in life-and-death fights.

Ye Qingting sneered, "Brother Jiang, have you lost your mind? On a real battlefield, you’d have long been lured into the Death Gate of the Reversal Strange Gate Array, no need for me to personally take action."

"Uh..."

Jiang Yuesheng was at a loss for words. Indeed, he was first caught in the opponent’s array trap. Who knew if there was a sure-kill Death Gate in the array; the superiority he felt just now was indeed a bit ridiculous.

At this moment, their mind devices simultaneously sounded the event broadcast:

"An Qing from Tianyi Courtyard, out! An Qing from Tianyi Courtyard, out—!"

Jiang Yuesheng’s expression changed drastically, and Ye Qingting seized the opportunity to launch an offensive. A sharp ice spike as long as a spear, densely packed like raindrops, shot towards Jiang Yuesheng.

Jiang Yuesheng snorted coldly, sweeping with his long spear to knock down a barrage of ice spikes, and leaping backward with his toes touching the ground.

A bizarre scene unfolded: Jiang Yuesheng clearly moved in the direction away from the ice spikes, yet in an instant, the directions were reversed, and he voluntarily jumped into the encirclement of ice spikes, immediately getting his left shoulder pierced, blood flowing profusely.

Jiang Yuesheng was horrified, igniting a blazing circle of flames with his body as the center, melting all the ice spikes. Ye Qingting’s next wave of ice spikes followed, and as Jiang Yuesheng continued to dodge, the incredulous happened once more as he again voluntarily jumped into the ice spike rain.

After several such encounters, Jiang Yuesheng’s black battle robe was shredded beyond recognition, full of holes. By now, if he didn’t realize that the array setup person was collaborating with Ye Qingting to trip him up, he would have been living in vain.

"Ye Qingting! Using a talisman array to win, what kind of skill is that?"

Ye Qingting retorted, "Don’t you always use my cousin’s talisman array too? You can use it, but I can’t? Such double standards are not good, right? As long as I can win, why do you care what methods I use!"

As another wave of ice spikes bore down, it made no difference whether Jiang Yuesheng dodged or not; he’d end up in the ice spike rain either way. He could only shield vital parts of his body in a layer of flame armor to reduce the damage.

The ice spikes, terrifying in speed, strength, and number, bombarded the flame armor densely, melting water into fire. The energy of the flame armor was quickly exhausted, unable to maintain its form, and disappeared.

Whether fortunate or unfortunate, an ice spike struck Jiang Yuesheng’s Transmission Array, ending this tormenting battle.

"Jiang Yuesheng from Tianyi Courtyard, out! Jiang Yuesheng from Tianyi Courtyard, out—!"

Qi Ming retrieved the Array Flag, and the area covered by the array reverted to its original state. He swallowed a Blue Medicine to recover his spiritual power, then, after a slight rest, ran over to Ye Qingting and said regretfully, "Brother Ye, we haven’t searched yet, what do we do?"

Ye Qingting put away his Ice Sword, patted Qi Ming on the shoulder, and comforted, "It’s alright."

Qi Ming became anxious, "How can it be alright? If the Competition Token is on him, wouldn’t our efforts be in vain?"

Ye Qingting said with a determined look, "No, based on my analysis, the Tianyi team’s Competition Token is either on the strongest, Captain Chu, or the most protected, Lin Caier. The chance of Jiang Yuesheng and An Qing carrying the token is very low."

At this moment Cui Tianxiao also came from another direction.

"Qingtian, Xiao Ming, stop dawdling, quickly go support Xing!"

"Let’s go—!"

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Time rewinds to before the Reversal Strange Gate Array was activated, Li Xing stood behind Chu Yunyi and Lin Caier, and as soon as the Great Array was activated, she attacked Lin Caier, planning to take down the person most likely carrying the Competition Token in one fell swoop.

However, Chu Yunyi reacted too quickly, almost simultaneously with Li Xing’s onset, he activated the Wind Rolling Dust Formation, escaping with Lin Caier.

Flying all the way to ten kilometers away, Chu Yunyi then chose a clearing in the woods to land. Lin Caier, still terrified, clutched Chu Yunyi’s sleeve, anxiously saying:

"Brother Yun, did you hear that, An Qing is out! Is this true? They actually managed to take An Qing out, it’s impossible! Should we go back and take a look?"

Chu Yunyi, looking serious, did not respond to Lin Caier, rather he stared fixedly at the thick forest not far away.

The large patches of purple broadleaf colocasias rustled and suddenly, a slender figure burst out of the colocasia clusters, stopping on the other side of the clearing, smiling broadly at Chu Yunyi and Lin Caier.

"Brother Chu, why did you fly so fast? You knew I was chasing, but didn’t wait!"

Chu Yunyi slightly frowned, deeply feeling that the arrival came with ill intentions: the speed of the Wind Rolling Dust was not slow, and there were no obstructions in the air. Logically speaking, it should have left Li Xing behind. Yet she traversed the perilous jungle filled with plant vines, not only kept up but also reached the clearing almost simultaneously with him, showing her speed, stamina, and plant affinity far surpassed ordinary people.

An Qing was out, indicating that the Expertise Defying team was clearly after their Competition Token. His unentrapment by the Great Array must have been unexpected to the opponent, yet they sent only Li Xing to pursue him, could they be overconfident?

"Li Xing, is there something you need from me?"

Li Xing stabbed the Heavenly Wolf Saber point-first into the ground, her elbow resting perfectly on its guard, her palm supporting her cheek, in a blend of flirtation and coyness, "Brother Chu, I just wanted to ask, do you have any extra Competition Tokens? Would it be possible to share a few with me?"

Li Xing, inherently slender and frail, with a delicate face matched with a soft voice, was simply like a tender little white flower, instantly capturing countless little hearts of the homebound men; the live broadcast screen was immediately drowned with pink bubble effects.

Before Chu Yunyi could react, Lin Caier was already furious: "Pah, you shameless thing, why should we share with you the Competition Tokens we worked hard for?"

When Li Xing showed a blank face, Lin Caier already found her displeasing, now she was even flirting and sweet-talking Brother Yun right in front of her; if Lin Caier could bear this, she might as well have been a saint.

"I was asking Brother Chu, why is Sister Lin getting so worked up?"

"You little—!"

"Hey—! This is a live broadcast; I’d advise you to watch your words, otherwise your character might collapse, and losing fans is all too easy."

The string named rationality in Lin Caier’s mind snapped; for the first time since the competition began, Lin Caier brought out her weapon, the Liriope Whip, swinging it at Li Xing’s face.

Li Xing’s mouth slightly curved upward, secretly delighted. This Lin Caier was too easy to provoke, wasn’t she?

Chu Yunyi didn’t expect that Lin Caier, who always needed protection, would so decisively launch an attack this time, so he was a beat slow in adding the Protective Wind Formation to her.

But in a bout between experts, a beat can decide life and death.

Seeing Li Xing’s sinister smile of success, she grasped the end of the Liriope Whip, yanked hard. Lin Caier felt an immense force from the whip’s end, losing her balance, flying towards the front.

Li Xing kicked the back of the Heavenly Wolf Saber, the Saber spun deftly. The blade sliced through the yet to be completed Protective Wind Formation from below, and in the next moment, Lin Caier, along with the whip, crashed into Li Xing’s embrace.

The Liriope Whip was not wasted either; Li Xing used it as a rope to bind its owner.