CHAPTER 218: CHAPTER 144: TRACKING THE NETWORK TO THEIR DOOR AND BEATING THEM TO DEATH

"But his teammates are already locked in a tough battle. If he doesn’t act soon and someone gets taken out, the situation might only get worse, right?"

Deep down, Jingyu naturally hopes that Jiang Yingrong and the other two girls can win.

After all, Ye Qingzhou is the Martial Arts Hidden Dragon of Xiang Province. If his performance in battle is too poor, it would be a disgrace to the whole province, causing Jingyu’s mood to be quite conflicted.

Also feeling the same conflict are Miao Yi and Leon, caught in a bitter struggle on the arena.

The clash of blades echoes as they continuously launch offensives against the opponents, searching for the array’s nexus and trying to break through it together.

However, after various attempts, facing Jiang Yingrong, Huang Liying, and Su Miaoling back to back, they still find no flaw and instead fall into a disadvantage.

At this moment, the battle on the stage begins to tilt towards the Silver City Team.

Jiang Yingrong, Huang Liying, Su Miaoling move gracefully, displaying sword dance techniques, looking like fairies in the forest weaving an intricate web of swords with their brilliant movements.

The web is dense and layered, with endless sword qi, leaving Miao Yi and Leon struggling desperately.

"Miao Yi, something’s not right!"

"I noticed it too!"

Miao Yi’s Forest Technique has reached Great Success, making him more sensitive than Leon to the peculiarity of the opponents’ sword array: "After the continuous high-intensity exchange, our primordial qi and stamina are declining, yet they remain full of vigor, completely unaffected, which is just too strange."

This situation is clearly abnormal.

"With a formation of three, which one is the array’s nexus, and which is the flaw?"

Leon is now frantic.

He keeps attacking but achieves no victory after a long battle, and his stamina is rapidly declining. At this rate, his vitality becomes increasingly bleak, and if things drag on, an inevitable defeat awaits.

"Maybe none of the three are the nexus..."

Miao Yi, despite being at a disadvantage, retains rationality and fighting spirit, observing the surroundings and striving to find the flaw in the enemy’s array even amidst the battle.

"Every formation has a flaw. The Peach Blossom Sword Array links the inner breath of the three of them, and there must be a node for the flow of primordial qi. Finding that node is akin to finding the nexus!"

Destroy the nexus, and the array will dissolve itself.

That’s the only method Miao Yi and Leon have to turn the tables. So, before the breakthrough appears, they must stick to it even if it means barely holding on.

But such perseverance is easier said than done.

At this time, Jiang Yingrong, Huang Liying, and Su Miaoling have already taken full advantage on the stage.

With the Peach Blossom Sword Array, their breaths are endlessly intertwining, tightening the net.

Light pink petals are falling all over, presenting a dazzlingly colorful and extremely beautiful scene for the audience watching the match.

However, caught in the rain of flowers, Miao Yi and Leon have no mood to admire the exquisite view before their eyes.

Because in the Peach Blossom Sword Array, the more beautiful things are, the more dangerous they become.

Those slowly falling petals are not real peach blossoms but countless fragments of sword qi.

Forest Technique, High-Tier Martial Technique, splendid sword qi!

Peach blossoms in full bloom, bright and radiant.

The petals drifting in the wind continuously block Miao Yi and Leon’s paths, leaving them cornered with no room for maneuver, trapped in a dead end, unable to advance or retreat.

Just as they were on the verge of being sliced by countless colorful sword qi shaped like peach blossoms...

"Sigh~"

Ye Qingzhou’s soft voice echoed on the stage: "If you don’t counterattack now, you’re going to lose."

"Hmm!"

Jiang Yingrong immediately became tense upon hearing the voice, while beside her, both Huang Liying and Su Miaoling simultaneously fixed their wary gaze on Ye Qingzhou.

Should Ye Qingzhou act recklessly, he would surely face their thunderous strike, submerged completely by the sea of flower sword qi.

Even though they were engaged in a match against Leon and Miao Yi, they’ve never overlooked Ye Qingzhou’s presence, for he is ranked seventh on the Hidden Dragon List, indeed a name to reckon with.

Miao Yi was too embarrassed to ask for guidance, but Leon wasn’t one to hold back, directly asking shamelessly for the answer: "Master Ye, where exactly is the nexus of the array?"

"Isn’t it right beneath your feet?"

"Beneath our feet?"

Leon looked baffled.

However, Miao Yi, aside from Thunderous Technique, also has considerable achievement in Forest Technique. Leveraging his Cangyun Thunder Bone’s sensation towards primordial qi, he immediately understood Ye Qingzhou’s hint, awakening with realization: "Using myriad flowers as bait, condensing inner breath to form the array, trapping the enemy within while standing outside it!"

"Can you speak in plain terms? I don’t understand!"

’Failure’ Leon erupted in frustration.

Miao Yi shot him a disdainful look: "Fool, the Peach Blossom Sword Array is based on Forest Technique, transforming the Forest’s Inner Breath into the roots of myriad flowers, deeply embedded underground. So, they have never been in the array, and naturally, there’s no nexus. Instead, it’s us who are within the array, unknowingly."

At this moment, Miao Yi also showed a vexed expression: "Why didn’t I think of this!"

He and Leon were utterly led by the opponent’s strategy. The opponents openly laid out the sword array while they foolishly advanced to probe.

As a result, all their strikes were absorbed and converted by the opponents’ array, the power of primordial qi channeled underground, strengthening the formation, allowing Jiang Yingrong, Huang Liying, and Su Miaoling to continuously replenish and become increasingly powerful in the battle.