Novel-X #684 - Thief
#684 - Thief
As the talismans flew away, the tremors of the earth spread into the distance, encompassing almost the entire mountain range.
The manipulator's expression changed drastically: “The Hundred Tribulations Forbidden Incantation?! It's the Hundred Tribulations Forbidden Incantation again?!”
“Xuan Yunzi, how could you also use the Hundred Tribulations Forbidden Incantation—you were just an outer disciple of the Taiqing Sect in life, and now you're just an old dog clinging to life with an incarnation! How can you do this?!”
His voice was hoarse.
Xuan Yunzi walked out of the Taoist temple, weak but resolute, and said: “Heh… It's true that I was an outer disciple, but I'm not an outer disciple now.”
“This old Taoist is the chief senior brother of the sixth generation of disciples of the Taiqing Sect, the sixth generation enshrined elder, the former elder of the Merit Transmission Hall, and the former elder of the Law Enforcement Hall!”
“Did you really think that I was just an ordinary old Taoist returning home, an ordinary old Taoist retiring? I was just deceiving you—I came here to completely solve the scourge and evildoer that my Taiqing Sect founder failed to eliminate one day!”
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“Of course, one incarnation of me might be a little reluctant—but what about five?”
Xuan Yunzi raised his head, and above the sky of this Prison Mountain Realm, above the Taoist temples in the distant Twin Saw Mountains and the other three mountains, there were also talismans flying by.
“This Hundred Tribulations Forbidden Incantation is the 'Overturning Earth and Destroying Mountains Sealing Incantation Formation' that my Taiqing founder used once back then. Now that it's used again, I wonder if you have come up with any countermeasures during the three hundred and fifty years you've been imprisoned? Hahahaha!”
After the old Taoist finished speaking, he laughed loudly, as if he had never been so happy in his life!
The rocks collided with each other, making deafening roars, stirring up echoes in the originally silent mountains.
Around this Taoist temple, cracks appeared on the surface of the rocks and the earth, and the violent shaking made even the martial artist puppets with excellent lower body skills unable to stand firmly.
The manipulator looked at the players who were also unable to stand still and hurriedly said again: “You bunch of idiots, you actually helped this old Taoist protect the Dharma and activate the Hundred Tribulations Forbidden Incantation—once this incantation comes out, the earth will shake and the mountains will collapse. Now it's just the beginning stage. After it's fully activated, it will be like a real earthquake disaster. The land within a hundred miles will collapse and fall, and then even the caster of the incantation and formation will not be spared; you are included in it, which means that this old Taoist doesn't care about your life or death at all!”
“Even if you are lucky enough to survive this catastrophe, all of us will still be sunk and sealed underground, with several large mountains pressing down on our heads again and isolated from the space of the talisman formation. We will not be able to appear in the world for hundreds or thousands of years!”
As the manipulator spoke, Xuan Yunzi said again: “Several knights from beyond the realm, I don't want to deceive you, but what he said is indeed true… When this forbidden incantation talisman formation is activated, I cannot protect myself—the reason why the founder was not affected back then was because the founder had already reached the transcendent realm of understanding the Great Dao.”
“I also have no way to send you out, but I, the old Taoist, guarantee that I will do my best to protect you during the fall… I heard before that you knights seem to need to 'reach Willow Town' and 'stop Willow Town from appearing'… Then, this is actually a good opportunity.”
“When this incantation is activated, because it is completely consistent with the forbidden incantation talisman formation used by my Taiqing founder back then, if I, the old Taoist, have not guessed wrong, my move will not only overlap with the founder's talisman formation and be able to resist it for another hundred years, but will also send me and you all into the talisman formation space that seals Willow Town and the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord,” Xuan Yunzi said with bright eyes and full of hope, “If there are no surprises, everyone… you and I will face the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord directly!”
“I, the old Taoist, originally planned to use this trick when my lifespan was approaching, but today you knights are also interested in this… I, the old Taoist, might as well choose today rather than another day, and please don't blame me—for the sake of the people of the Prison Mountain Realm, Xuan Yunzi sincerely asks you knights to enter the Twin Saw Mountain Talisman Formation with me to jointly fight against the demons and strive to kill it once and for all!”
Xuan Yunzi cupped his hands and bowed, then leaned over and knelt down.
Snowy Owl spat out a mouthful of air: “Old Taoist, you're good… you've managed to grab my sore spot!”
“Damn it, you set me up, but you're still justified… There's no way, the lives of the people in the Prison Mountain Realm are also lives—I'll settle the score with you after I win against that spider.”
As Snowy Owl spoke, Seagull also scratched his face: “That's right, you've already acted first and reported later, what else can we do? We'll help you!”
“Anyway, winning is also equivalent to us clearing the level—actually, when you think about it carefully, you don't even need to plot against us so much. It seems that we only have this path to clear the level now.”
Gao Shan's face was even more firm: “Now that things have come to this, we can only break the cauldron and sink the boat and fight with our backs to the water.”
These two members of 'Night Watch' and one member of 'Order' all have relatively high awareness and upright feelings. Although they know that Xuan Yunzi has plotted against them and forced them to go down to fight the big spider, considering that Xuan Yunzi's starting point is good, everyone doesn't care so much.
In Lin Yu's team of three, of course, there is no such straightforward acceptance of reality.
“This… are we really going? It sounds scary!”
Flying Dagger weakly put forward his own thoughts.
At this time, Lin Yu had also returned to the Taoist temple from outside the Taoist temple.
Listening to Flying Dagger's words, he curled his lips.
“Otherwise, what else can we do… Anyway, our original plan was to go down anyway.”
“And… we can't escape now either.”
As Lin Yu spoke, he pointed to the cracks outside the Taoist temple that were getting bigger and bigger—many of the puppet martial artists outside had already been swept up by the rolling rocks and rolled into them.
And there are countless talismans flying around in the sky, even if you have wings, it's really hard to escape.
But Li Nian lowered her voice and said.
“We can leave—Sister Zhu Ming, we can really leave if we want to.”
She moved closer to Lin Yu, blocked everyone's sight with her body, and took out a transparent bag filled with cyan gravel and a scroll.
“This is the [Flickering Scroll], a reusable instant short-distance teleportation skill for one person…”
“One person, short distance, even if it's instant, even if the cooldown time is shorter, we still can't escape.”
Lin Yu looked at Li Nian and shook his head.
Li Nian shook another transparent bag: “But there's also this.”
Lin Yu took a closer look and only felt that the things in the bag looked familiar.
“Wait, this is…”
“[Limit Breaking Jade]—although one is not enough to let this [Flickering Scroll] take us away, but… I have more than two hundred of them.”
Lin Yu instantly understood why Li Nian was so outrageous compared to other 'thieves'…
It turned out that her biggest trump card and special feature was these two hundred [Limit Breaking Jades]!
Li Nian looked at Lin Yu and said seriously: “Sister Zhu Ming, with these things, it's still no problem for me to take you away.”
“But I need to know… do we really need to escape?”
Lin Yu looked at Li Nian and felt the sincerity that the other party showed by revealing the [Limit Breaking Jade].
Lin Yu hesitated for a moment and also decided to be more honest with Li Nian.
“It seems that you have already seen it…”
“We really don't need to escape—rather, going to the Talisman Formation space to face that demon is exactly what I want.”
“Because that's not only a shortcut that's dangerous but may be the fastest way to clear the level, but there's also likely something I want inside.”
Li Nian nodded slightly when she heard this.
“I understand—since it's what Sister Zhu Ming wants, then I'll go with you.”
She smiled softly.
It was clear that they were about to face an extremely dangerous demon, but Li Nian seemed a little happy at this moment.
“Tell me earlier next time, Sister Zhu Ming—especially if there's something you want.”
“Don't forget, I'm quite good at getting my hands on what I want!”