Chapter 192

Chapter 187

The bird had been released and flown away long ago, but Zhao Yi still hadn't appeared.

Li Zhuiyuan wasn't surprised by this.

Others couldn't possibly be just sitting around doing nothing, quietly waiting for your summons; even if they wanted to come over, they would first need to finish their current tasks, and furthermore, after receiving your message, they would assume they would obtain the broken jade and make some arrangements beforehand.

The agency's tour group left by bus during the day, and the homestay became quiet again.

Before dark, Li Zhuiyuan returned to his room early and began today's sealing.

Although he intensely disliked this work, he had to continue doing it; theoretically, the later the broken jade erupted, the more beneficial it was for him.

The exquisite and small compass was placed by Li Zhuiyuan's side; while busy with the matters at hand, Li Zhuiyuan would also glance at the compass from time to time to check the results.

The corpse energy position representing the third piece of broken jade, after nightfall, showed more frequent movements, and the direction lacked any regularity.

This meant it was being repeatedly contested, with each change of hands accompanied by a massacre.

The next day at dawn, Li Zhuiyuan pushed open the door, welcoming the sunlight.

There were many checkouts, and yesterday's cleaning hadn't been finished, so Fat Jin Ge's parents had gotten up early again to busy themselves.

His girlfriend had already gone home yesterday because her father was ill; Fat Jin Ge planned to wait a few days, and after this busy period was over, he would buy some gifts to visit his future father-in-law.

"Are you here to stay at the inn? Please come in, please come in."

Fat Jin Ge saw the four people standing at the front door and immediately came out to welcome them.

His homestay was a bit remote, not in the city, nor in the ancient city, nor in the ancient town; normally, apart from him actively seeking travel agencies for orders and attracting guests, those who found their way to the door by themselves were friends and relatives introduced by old customers; this kind of guest needed to be received with more enthusiasm, as it was about reputation.

However, no matter how enthusiastically he invited them, those four people just stood outside the line between the doorstep tiles and the dirt road, not stepping inside at all.

Fat Jin Ge was a bit puzzled; even if they wanted to check the internal environment and room layout, didn't they have to come in to take a look?

He stepped back, looked at his signboard, thinking there might be some problem here.

The four people outside weren't unwilling to enter, but didn't dare to enter.

Because as long as they took one more step forward, they would be caught in the array.

Moreover, this array was of a very high grade, its internal composition very complex, containing multiple suppression effects.

The only drawback was probably the lack of concealment and hiding, as it was placed openly and grandly.

Of course, this might also be intentional, simply not wanting some reckless people to inexplicably break in.

"Young Master, it's here." Sun Yan raised her head and looked at the bird circling above, confirming.

Xu Ming hugged his arms, his muscles bulging one after another, emitting a bronze-colored oppression under the sunlight; he opened his mouth and said, "Young Master, is this inviting us into a trap?"

Behind Zhao Yi, there was still one person standing, wearing a black robe, with a veiled face; from the figure, it should be a plump-bodied woman.

She opened her mouth and said, "You don't go in, it's dangerous."

Someone who could set up this kind of array was absolutely not a simple character.

A few mice ran out from the nearby fields, came to Sun Yan's feet, making "squeak squeak" sounds.

Fat Jin Ge immediately took out a broom to drive them away, busily explaining, "You all rest assured, our homestay has no mice, we always exterminate rats, and check and clean every day!"

The mice were driven away by Fat Jin Ge, but what surprised Fat Jin Ge was that the young girl actually wasn't afraid of the mice running to her feet at all, instead very calmly turned her head, put her mouth close to that scarred-faced man's ear, and started whispering.

What Sun Yan said was: People just died here, many died, corpses without remains, Rat Rat told me.

Zhao Yi yawned, again lifted his head to look at the array in front, then casually threw his package behind, caught by Xu Ming.

"You all stay here, I alone go in to take a look."

Sun Yan, Xu Ming, and Shan Nu all leaned forward, wanting to stop his impulsive action.

Zhao Yi's voice sank: "Listen."

The next moment, the three people all stabilized their figures, no longer speaking.

Zhao Yi walked into the homestay, and Fat Jin Ge followed, planning to introduce the room types.

"My friend lives here, you go get busy, if you want to check in, I will call you to handle the procedures."

"Friend?" Fat Jin Ge saw Li Zhuiyuan sitting at the room door waving towards them, then understood, "Okay, then you all chat, I'll go prepare some fruits for you."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Zhao Yi walked to Li Zhuiyuan's front, smiling at the young man.

He could see that the young man's state was good, unlike the last time they met in Guizhou, where he was sickly and needed him to personally feed him medicine.

Li Zhuiyuan pointed to his own face, indicating the scar on Zhao Yi's face, and asked, "Did you open up a bigger life-and-death door seam for yourself again?"

Initially, Zhao Yi's life-and-death door seam was on his forehead; later, he personally dug it away, now only leaving a small, almost invisible scar mark.

But now, on Zhao Yi's left face, from under his nose extending over his lips, there was an additional very deep and thick scar.

Zhao Yi pulled open the buttons of his clothes in front, exposing his chest.

That scar wasn't only on his face, but continued downward, to his neck and then to his chest, finally falling to his heart position, where it was wrapped in a layer of black cloth.

He uncovered the black cloth; inside there was a blood-dripping depression, and in the deep depression lay a palm-sized spider, whose tail was also continuously bulging and shrinking along with his heartbeat frequency.

Li Zhuiyuan lowered his head, drank a mouthful of the flower tea sent by Fat Jin Ge, and said, "Originally, you are about to die."

Zhao Yi's heart had either been dug out or was almost scrapped; currently, he was relying on this life *gu* to replace his heart function, but this couldn't be long-term.

"Yes, I am about to die, and I still have to thank you."

Footsteps came from behind; Fat Jin Ge returned. Zhao Yi buttoned his clothes back.

Fat Jin Ge put down a plate of fruits and smiled, "You all eat."

Li Zhuiyuan asked Zhao Yi, "Did you book a room?"

Zhao Yi said to Fat Jin Ge, "Book four rooms, preferably all on the ground floor."

Fat Jin Ge busily waved his hand, "No, I didn't mean that, just some fruits to entertain friends."

"Book the rooms, then call the three people outside to come in, say it's what I said."

"Then okay, I'll help you book."

Fat Jin Ge trotted back to the front room.

Zhao Yi peeled oranges, put them in his mouth, and while chewing, said, "That time in Guizhou I couldn't catch up, I temporarily ran into a Miao border corpse *gu* sect ancient burial, almost died, relied on stepping on dog shit luck and picked up a life back."

Li Zhuiyuan said indifferently, "What's that got to do with me?"

Actually, it did have something to do with him; that wave with the old witch should have been jointly resolved by him and Zhao Yi, but he had processed it cleanly beforehand.

This was equivalent to forcing Zhao Yi's wave to fall empty, so the new wave would necessarily appear faster and fiercer, and the danger coefficient and difficulty would naturally greatly increase.

Zhao Yi shook his head, "Understood, anyway you're a heartless thing."

Li Zhuiyuan asked, "So, you originally shouldn't have come to Lijiang, right?"

"Right, not wrong, this wave in Lijiang originally doesn't have me; I found the news myself, actively came over, forcibly joined, and took this wave." Zhao Yi reached out and lightly touched his chest position, "I am urgently relying on this wave's merit to continue my life for myself."

The merit of walking the river is sometimes difficult to calculate specifically, somewhat illusory, but it is a real existence.

Tan Wenbin, after every use of ghost controlling technique, had to rely on each wave's merit to fill his *yang* life, this was "visible to the eye".

Secondly, there were some invisible ones, just like the previous wave in Guizhou:

Runsheng swallowed the *gu* child, Yinmeng got the *gu* insect, Tan Wenbin's two godchildren ate the resentment on the mural, and he himself got the copper coin sword.

Even Lin Shuyou, every time he deeply cooperated with White Crane Boy to fight enemies, could actually get benefits; after all, as an official general head, his current main way of upgrading his strength was in the integration and acceptance with the *yin* god.

Zhao Yi couldn't wait; who knew when his life *gu* heart would give him a sudden heart stop, so he urgently hoped to get involved in the next wave in order to gain a way to continue his life.

Once he succeeded, it was very likely that his life *gu* would change due to some opportunity or coincidence, from an unstable state to a relatively stable state for a longer time.

Li Zhuiyuan looked at Zhao Yi, spread his hands, "You see, you indeed have to thank me, because it is I who gave you the opportunity to continue your life."

Without the broken jade, he couldn't get on the table, couldn't truly enter this wave, where would the merit come from?

Zhao Yi put his hand on the chair back, crossed his legs, with a playboy attitude, his toes lightly swaying, said,

"You where is wanting to send me, you are wanting to lead disaster to the east."

"Not knowing good from bad."

"Heh, you in hand, are there two pieces of broken jade?"

Li Zhuiyuan didn't speak, just silently drank tea.

Zhao Yi continued, "Definitely have two pieces, with your character, you impossible let yourself without entry qualification. I guess again, among them one piece, you can always seal, another piece, you suppress not live, want to throw this hot potato to me?"

Li Zhuiyuan still didn't speak.

"Do you know or not, because you hid two pieces, outside that only one piece, triggered how tragic contention?"

Li Zhuiyuan put down the teacup.

Zhao Yi first lifted the thermos on the ground, filled his teacup.

Regarding the matter of only one piece of broken jade erupting corpse energy outside, with the other two pieces still missing, there were originally many guesses.

The most mainstream guess was that the holders of the other two pieces were still continuing to suppress the internal corpse energy.

This was very inconsistent with common sense, because the piece being contended, every temporary obtainer, the first thing done was to seal it, but all failed.

But this was also the most in line with common sense inference, because under the river's push, the three pieces of broken jade at this time must be in Lijiang territory; the *jianghu* has outstanding people, you think very difficult to do things, maybe others have that ability.

The instant Zhao Yi received Li Zhuiyuan's message, he knew that the young man had two pieces of broken jade in his hand!

Incredible things, if matched with incredible people, suddenly become normal.

He wouldn't naively think that Li Zhuiyuan was deliberately wanting to help him, so he decided to send him one.

At least before meeting, Li Zhuiyuan didn't know he was about to die and urgently needed merit to continue his life.

So, this piece of broken jade that the young man was originally going to give out, giving it to him Zhao Yi was giving, giving it to a dog was also giving.

The newly poured tea was very hot and couldn't be drunk; Li Zhuiyuan lightly rotated the teacup in his hand and asked,

"You want it?"

"Want."

"Cooperate in acting."

"Wait for its corpse energy to erupt, then I am forced by you to hand it over under public eye?"

"Um."

"Last night I reached cooperation with the other two groups to hunt down the broken jade holder, first kill that holder, then we internally contend.

After receiving your message, I immediately betrayed them, not only stood by without taking action, but also deliberately used a small accident to break the array I was responsible for setting up, letting them caught off guard and suffer heavy casualties.

That broken jade holder was still very surprised.

However, the broken jade in their hands also didn't last until dawn.

Those two teams that were originally cooperating, and my team, can be said to be relatively rare that can talk and reach a cooperation consensus.

So, their two teams have to be eliminated first, otherwise they will cooperate to target me."

Zhao Yi had indeed arranged things beforehand as Li Zhuiyuan thought, even already considering the teams that might cooperate to target him after obtaining the broken jade.

"The piece I give you, not counting today, I can still add one more seal, sustaining it for one more day. This is the arrangement time I gift you."

"Good, I can help you attract firepower, go be this leading bird."

"Why do you always like to make yourself look good? The other piece I have can indeed be sealed for a long time, but without me, it will also immediately erupt, and even if you snatch it, it's meaningless.

One piece of exposed broken jade will trigger a bloody storm; with two pieces exposed, the pressure will be much smaller, and pursuing three pieces exposed to reduce pressure isn't that important anymore.

Furthermore, you still have to consider whether you can have one more cooperation object at the final entry."

Zhao Yi asked with some playfulness, "Then, are you a qualified cooperation object?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "You can't ask me, you have to ask yourself."

Zhao Yi nodded, "Of course, you are."

What is the most important point of an excellent cooperation object... having a bottom line!

Zhao Yi had just betrayed his two cooperation objects last night, pitting them to their deaths; he didn't think he was a person with traditional moral bottom lines.

But he believed the young man in front of him had one, premise being that he didn't scheme against him and didn't touch the taboo first.

Having this feeling wasn't because his family ancestor granted the young man a magic tool, nor because he didn't make a move against this young man last time.

But because when the young man was taken care of by him, he once expressed painfully that he had committed a stupidity.

In dealing with the old witch, he originally didn't have to pay such a huge price, but in order not to let the old witch carry out killing blood sacrifice to the surroundings, he had gone to the lake bottom beforehand, increasing the difficulty of his own wave.

How to say it, you can be a dirty person yourself, but as long as your brain isn't wrong, you still hope the people around you are great and upright.

In the grassroots, although there's no lack of true heroes, you need to spend great effort to distinguish them, but Li Zhuiyuan, in Zhao Yi's eyes, although he couldn't understand why it was like this, the young man was indeed walking the orthodox path of the Qin and Liu two families' Dragon Kings.

Even if they had to scheme against each other in the end, even if he lost to him, he wouldn't feel that stifled; on the contrary, it would be more acceptable.

Li Zhuiyuan slightly tilted his head, looking at Zhao Yi, and asked,

"Thought it through?"

"Cooperate!"

Li Zhuiyuan nodded.

Zhao Yi asked, "Then the broken jade?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Don't need me to give you one more sealed day?"

"Want."

"Then give it to you tomorrow."

Zhao Yi blinked.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Zhao Yi, you are also a qualified cooperation object in my eyes."

Zhao Yi reached out to tidy his collar, saying as a matter of course, "After all, I also received the influence of my family ancestor, that Dragon King; family style..."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Because you are easy to handle."

Zhao Yi: "..."

"Dudu dudu!"

Zhao Yi used his fingers to tap the tea table, warning, "I think to enhance our cooperation friendship, we should at least say some polite words, don't you think?"

Li Zhuiyuan picked up the teacup, blew on it, and shook his head:

"A reason you can rest assured to cooperate with me is that you feel you have no confidence in handling me, and instead will become obedient, saving a lot of trouble."

"Papa papa!"

Zhao Yi used his palm to pat the tea table, asking, "Exactly how many fresh flower cakes have you eaten recently? Your little mouth is like it's smeared with honey."

At this time, Fat Jin Ge, holding four keys, trotted over and handed the keys to Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi: "Um?"

Fat Jin Ge said somewhat awkwardly, "I shouted several times, but the three outside still aren't coming in."

Li Zhuiyuan's mouth corner deliberately formed a curve.

Zhao Yi felt he had lost face.

Because Fat Jin Ge went to shout them, they didn't know if Fat Jin Ge was "falsely transmitting the imperial edict," so they didn't dare to come in.

But from another angle, even if Zhao Yi was trapped inside, his subordinates should have unhesitatingly rushed in to rescue him... or together fall into the trap and die together.

Of course, this was the ideal "subordinate state".

Obviously, Zhao Yi's team was not ideal.

Everyone had their own thoughts; once the core had a big problem, the remaining people would naturally consider dividing the luggage and returning to Gao Laozhuang.

Zhao Yi felt he was being looked down upon; he glared fiercely at Li Zhuiyuan and retorted, "What's wrong with this?"

Li Zhuiyuan said faintly, "My people will come in."

No matter how he rationally admonished them beforehand, even if hope was slim, Runsheng and Tan Wenbin would definitely come down to accompany him to die together.

Lin Shuyou... would also.

Yinmeng would too, but also depending in part on the reason that Runsheng had already gone down.

This was very interesting; the emotionless him, yet had a team willing to live and die together.

However, that old man, how come he hadn't come in?

Li Zhuiyuan asked, "Tian old man?"

Zhao Yi's expression darkened, "In order to save me, he was completely disabled; I arranged him in the old home's outer residence, and after every wave I finish, I will go back to visit him."

"Oh, condolences."

"Just disabled, not dead; this result is also good for him, he can live like an ordinary old man and enjoy his old age.

That old thing, after knowing he was useless, also became bolder, actually dared to urge me, this Young Master, to quickly marry and have a child to help him bring up."

Li Zhuiyuan said with a painful expression, "Elderly people are all like this."

"Why are you..."

Looking at the young man's painful expression that had just flashed on his face, Zhao Yi pursed his lips and didn't continue; instead, he said to Fat Jin Ge, "Help me tell them, if they are not willing to come in, then now for me roll!"

Fat Jin Ge: "Ah..."

After saying that, without waiting for Fat Jin Ge to pass the message, Zhao Yi himself got up and went out to shout at them.

In case some hothead actually moved, even if he called them back, that team would have divisions in their hearts and would be difficult to lead.

Zhao Yi personally went out and called the people in.

Xu Ming and Sun Yan, Li Zhuiyuan had seen before. One was a body refiner, one was a beast controller.

That veiled woman, Li Zhuiyuan glanced at her a few more times; she should be a *gu* master.

Zhao Yi introduced, "Miao border saintess, Shan Nu."

Shan Nu saluted Li Zhuiyuan; after finishing, she waited for Li Zhuiyuan to return the salute to her.

Li Zhuiyuan held the teacup, toasted her virtually, lowered his head, and took a small sip.

Shan Nu's breath changed; she felt the disrespect.

Zhao Yi scolded, "Retreat!"

Shan Nu retreated, but still with emotions.

Zhao Yi said apologetically to Li Zhuiyuan, "Newcomer, still not very understanding of the rules, don't mind, without her down the life *gu*, I can't live now."

Immediately, Zhao Yi said to them, "Pay the room fee, then go select your own rooms, we are staying here."

The three retreated.

Zhao Yi had contacted Li Zhuiyuan's people before; he could feel that the young man's team atmosphere and his subordinates were very different.

Originally, he had Grandpa Tian following him, and there was no gap; now, that guy whom he always disliked as old and useless and dragging him down had gone home to retire, and he started to miss him.

"Right, your people? All sent out to do things? You really trust me, dare to stay here alone and welcome my whole team."

Although he said that, Zhao Yi still thought that the young man's people should be nearby, possibly hiding somewhere.

Because the young man had set up an array here, after he entered, his perception was compressed and shielded.

Li Zhuiyuan: "Since we've mentioned this, then I won't be polite either; those medicines you left for me last time, do you still have them? Give me another share according to the same proportion."

Zhao Yi's eyes gradually widened; he tentatively asked, "So, your people..."

Li Zhuiyuan pointed to the three rooms on this side, and said candidly,

"All heavily injured and collapsed."

Zhao Yi's face began to flush red, and white smoke rose from his head.

Then, he suddenly stood up, punched the tea table, smashing it into pieces, and shouted hoarsely, "You're fucking doing it again!"

...

Zhao Yi compensated Fat Jin Ge for the tea table money.

Although Fat Jin Ge was initially unwilling to accept it, he still said it was his tea table's quality problem.

The medicine, Zhao Yi gave.

It was still given by Zhao Yi personally for Runsheng and the others to take.

Zhao Yi didn't have an unlimited supply of medicine; after all, this was a consumable item.

Just as Yinmeng spent a long time and effort re-extracting toxins from nature every time there was a gap in walking the river, Zhao Yi's medicine also needed to be made.

Before, it was Grandpa Tian who made it; now Grandpa Tian at home couldn't get out of bed, but he could continue to pound medicine.

Same as last time, Zhao Yi had no good way for the poison Yinmeng was afflicted with, he only took out some heat-clearing and detoxifying pills for her to take.

Li Zhuiyuan wasn't surprised by this; even if Yinmeng personally detoxified herself, she had no good way.

However, Zhao Yi suggested letting Shan Nu come to see Yinmeng; *gu* masters were also good at detoxifying.

But this suggestion was rejected by Li Zhuiyuan.

He could accept Zhao Yi giving him pills, but was unwilling to let that Shan Nu contact his companions.

In the young man's eyes, that Miao border *gu* woman was in an uncontrollable state, and she had deep thoughts.

Zhao Yi also knew this point; he also knew that Shan Nu liked him.

Although not the kind of love to death, Shan Nu indeed had an interest in him.

He precisely utilized this point to get her to leave the village and follow him to walk the river.

The two people stood on the rooftop terrace, their backs against the railing, appreciating the surrounding scenery.

Zhao Yi actually knew that last time in Guizhou, the young man should have really had a problem, and this time's problem was also real.

But compared to last time, this time he had nothing to be tangled about.

Kill them and seize the second piece of broken jade from the young man?

What did he want two pieces for?

Carrying two searchlights at night to attract bees and butterflies, did he think he wasn't dying fast enough?

In the end, he still had to give away one piece; to whom... it seemed the killed young man was the most suitable to give it to.

In short, now with the broken jade in hand, he should consider the next stage's entry.

Li Zhuiyuan listened to Zhao Yi narrate the things that had happened outside these days.

For example, who killed whom, who was schemed against by whom, who and whom cooperated then had internal conflicts...

These days, Li Zhuiyuan had been living in the homestay, enjoying Lijiang's unique peaceful years.

But outside, there was truly a continuous bloody storm.

Most people, Li Zhuiyuan was hearing their names, their families, their sects for the first time, and they had died before he had time to contact and get to know them.

After chatting, Li Zhuiyuan went downstairs back to the room to arrange the seal for the porcelain doll.

During this period, Zhao Yi brought his people and left the homestay.

They had to go arrange their own escape route after obtaining the broken jade.

Having saved the contention process, the escape route design could be more leisurely.

When Li Zhuiyuan finished today's seal, it was already past midnight.

He pushed open the room door and saw Zhao Yi sitting at the door holding a lunch box.

"Eat a little?"

In the upper lunch box was chicken bean cold powder, below was Lijiang *baba*.

Since he had given Li Zhuiyuan medicine for his companions, he naturally wouldn't mind these foods either.

The two people sat in the corridor and ate.

"The seal takes so long?"

"The first two owners arranged the seal too poorly, no sufficient gradualness."

"Hard work."

"The last time, finally don't have to face it anymore."

"There's a matter that needs your help."

"Let me help you with the escape route, arrange a few arrays?"

"That's right."

At this time, Tan Wenbin woke up; he supported himself against the wall and went out the door.

After seeing Zhao Yi, Tan Wenbin smiled, "Hello, our external captain."

Li Zhuiyuan opened his mouth, "Your family's Dihuang pill effect is really good."

Zhao Yi: "That is of course, our family's men, after adulthood will start eating this."

Tan Wenbin: "Your family's men, so not confident?"

"Binbin bro, you just woke up; you stay here and take care of them, I'll go help them arrange a bit and talk to you when I come back."

"Rest assured, little Yuan bro, leave it to me here."

Tan Wenbin had just woken up and was still very weak, unable to walk steadily, but he was weak, while the two dolls on his shoulder were still lively and jumping.

Li Zhuiyuan stood up, prepared to leave; his ears moved slightly, and he said, "A You also seems to be about to wake up, his breathing rhythm has changed."

Tan Wenbin: "I'll go see him."

"Um."

Li Zhuiyuan followed Zhao Yi out of the homestay, heading towards the escape points they had designed along the way.

During the time of Zhao family's Dragon King Zhao Wushang, the Zhao family's people's array level was very crude, but after so many years of development and learning, at least the array attainments Zhao Yi displayed were not to be underestimated.

Moreover, the arrays Zhao Yi arranged were not used for delay, obstruction, and concealment, all were killing arrays.

One by one array stakes were deeply buried underground; once activated, the effect was often just for an instant, all effects were on attack.

This kind of array didn't need to consider stability and sustainability, so arranging them was very fast and the materials were also simple.

In the specific array details, Li Zhuiyuan actually had nothing good to adjust; he just stood in front of the array, holding the array eye handed to him by Zhao Yi, then started waving his hands towards the surroundings, binding the surrounding feng shui atmosphere with this array.

After Zhao Yi saw this scene, his eyes widened directly.

He arranged arrays with full craftsman spirit, and the young man just casually added a stroke, giving it some charm.

"This is... the Dragon King family's inheritance foundation?"

Li Zhuiyuan didn't retort.

This was actually something he learned in the dream with Wei Zhengdao, but as for how he learned it, he didn't remember.

That forgotten dream was really strange; there were clearly no memory traces at all, but it seemed that the things to learn and useful information were not missing.

"That array in the homestay, why doesn't it have this feeling... ah, you hid it?"

"Um."

"You are truly ruthless."

"You're stupid, you couldn't see it."

Zhao Yi lifted his head, looked at the stars above, and gave a dry laugh, "Heh, hehe."

He had gotten used to it.

But he still curiously asked again, "You since surname Li, you say, if you didn't enter the Qin Liu two families, but entered my Zhao family, then wouldn't my Zhao family be able to..."

"Then there would be no matter of you Zhao Yi."

Zhao Yi's mouth corner twitched.

"But, that's actually not bad either."

"Don't dream, the sky is almost bright."

Li Zhuiyuan helped Zhao Yi arrange the arrays, upgrading them one by one, equivalent to increasing the array's killing power by 20%.

It wasn't a very exaggerated improvement, but it had a clever use.

Because the pursuers weren't without experience; after discovering they had fallen into a killing array, they would carry out corresponding defenses based on their experience and knowledge. This increased 20% attack power would greatly likely cause them to make experientialism errors.

After all, in the current big contention environment for broken jade, everyone would consciously save their strength.

Zhao Yi was clearer that simply hugging his head and fleeing was useless; killing could stop killing.

As long as enough people died because of pursuing him, the rest would subconsciously go contend for the other piece of broken jade.

Back at the homestay doorstep, Zhao Yi opened his mouth,

"That, if I escape around outside and finally really can't hide, can I or can I not return here again... to seek your protection?"

Li Zhuiyuan didn't speak.

Zhao Yi continued, "After all, we are cooperation partners, right?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "If I didn't let you come, would you not come?"

Zhao Yi: "If I really can't hold on, I will definitely come to seek refuge with you."

Li Zhuiyuan took out a stack of manuscript paper from his backpack and handed it to Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi took it and flipped through it, his gaze widening for the second time tonight; he asked, "How much do you look down on me?"

Originally high-end array principles were decomposed by the young man into one by one rigid and dull small grids.

For Zhao Yi, who was also proficient in arrays, this was simply an insult to elegance.

But at the same time, he had to admire it, because he couldn't do this kind of chewing down and simplifying complex problems like this.

"There's still some time before that piece of broken jade erupts; you all hurry up and, according to my drawings, help add bricks and tiles to my array."

In the newly added array part, it also included the integration of Zhao Yi and his four people's respective special abilities.

Zhao Yi classified these manuscript papers, handed them to his subordinates, and seriously instructed, "Quickly go arrange!"

"Understood!"

"Got it!"

"Okay!"

Just woken up, Lin Shuyou, who was supporting himself with crutches and painstakingly came to the courtyard to sit and breathe fresh air, heard the messy responses outside, and the corners of his mouth kept rising, rising higher and higher.

Heh, low level!

Tan Wenbin passed by Lin Shuyou's side, reached out and lightly patted his face a few times, surprised, "This time, the injury and overexertion also gave you facial paralysis?"

"Ah, no, no, I'm very good, Bin bro."

"Come, drink the medicine."

"Oh, okay."

Zhao Yi and the others were busy all night, and Li Zhuiyuan took the time to sleep.

This time, he slept until noon the next day to wake up.

He learned the news that Runsheng had woken up.

And Yinmeng's *gu* insect also started running around on Yinmeng's body, meaning Yinmeng was also about to wake up.

The Zhao family's pills indeed had remarkable effects.

Li Zhuiyuan decided that after this wave was over, it would be necessary to find Zhao Yi and advance a batch of medicine alone.

He could exchange it with Mengmeng's poison.

Alas, his team originally also had a doctor, but the doctor had gone down a crooked path.

Zhao Yi had been busy until now and finally finished; he came to report.

"Done."

Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes and felt a bit of this array; the young man was very satisfied.

He originally didn't think Zhao Yi could complete everything; completing 50% would have been very good, but Zhao Yi had overfulfilled the task.

If his walking river team had Zhao Yi in it, it would indeed be very helpful, but this was impossible; Zhao Yi could temporarily lower his head to him, but was absolutely unwilling to submit under others.

"You go rest, tonight the broken jade will break the seal and erupt; you all still have the last bit of time before escaping."

"I say, are you not afraid I'll leave some flaws in your array to make it convenient for me to return?"

"You can leave them, bet I can discover them, and bet that when you return, you dare or not activate and believe those flaws."

"Don't mention the word 'bet' to me; hearing it makes me panic."

"Normal, people who can't afford to bet are all like this."

"Heh, hehe."

Zhao Yi turned to prepare to go back to his room to sleep; Li Zhuiyuan took out an exquisite small array flag and threw it to Zhao Yi.

The other party grasped it directly without turning his head.

This was a sub-flag that could control this array, and the patterns on it echoed the array itself's patterns.

Zhao Yi: "Don't be like this, you're sudden, makes me a bit moved."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Don't misunderstand, giving you this is to make it convenient for you to break the array tonight and create the effect; after tonight, I will modify the array, and the flag in your hand will be useless."

Zhao Yi: "I say, do you need to be so careful?"

"I'm afraid you'll fail to escape, get killed, and the array flag will also be seized, causing safety hidden dangers to me."

"Heh."

Zhao Yi, holding the small array flag, poked his own chest several times.

"Hiss... oh oh oh!"

It seemed he had poked the big spider in his heart; it made him double over in pain and start panting, swaying back to his own room.

Time passed little by little.

At dusk, Yinmeng woke up.

Li Zhuiyuan went to check her condition; same as being poisoned last time, the person woke up first, her eyes opened first, but her brain hadn't yet come back to its senses, staring numbly at the ceiling.

Earlier, Runsheng had woken up, weakly sitting on the edge of the bed, encouraging her:

"It doesn't matter, it's good that you're awake; it's okay if your brain is gone, it wasn't that useful anyway."

Under Runsheng's sentence by sentence warm words, Yinmeng's blinking frequency became faster and faster.

As everyone was more and more heavily injured, everyone had their own suitable experience for how to recover from injuries.

Fat Jin Ge came to discuss with Li Zhuiyuan; his future father-in-law's illness seemed to have a worsening trend, so he had to bring his parents to the hospital to visit; tonight the homestay inside would be empty.

Li Zhuiyuan comforted him to go at ease, saying he would help watch the homestay.

Fat Jin Ge then brought his parents and drove away from here.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't know if this was a coincidence, but probably, there would be special arrangements in the dark.

Here, he still had to continue staying.

This feeling of purely sitting and waiting for clues to fall was really not bad.

Night gradually deepened.

Everyone on his side was arranged by him on the rooftop.

Runsheng, Tan Wenbin, and Lin Shuyou, although awake, hadn't recovered yet; they were all supporting themselves against the railing to maintain balance.

Then, under Tan Wenbin's adjustment, everyone showed an "indifferent" momentum.

But this momentum needed a transformation process; it had to become "panicked, lost, fearful, timid."

This was easy to handle; as long as they loosened their grip on the railing and retreated a few steps, with their current physical state, they would all become staggering and pale-faced.

Yinmeng hadn't completely recovered consciousness; she was arranged to sit in an armchair, her eyes open, with bottles and cans on the table in front of her.

Tan Wenbin observed her for a bit and said, "Don't say, Mengmeng looks quite scary like this."

Runsheng: "Indeed."

Yinmeng quickly blinked her eyes.

Zhao Yi brought his people and left the homestay; when leaving, he lifted his head, wanting to exchange a tacit eye contact with the young man on the rooftop.

But the young man didn't stick his body out of the terrace; he just kept lifting his head as he walked out of the homestay gate.

Everything was ready.

Li Zhuiyuan held the ceramic doll in his hand.

Finally about to say goodbye to you, you stupid thing.

"Crack... crack... crack..."

The ceramic doll started cracking, the speed becoming faster and faster; finally, it completely shattered, and immediately after, an invisible qi wave was transmitted from the broken jade.

If walking *yin*, one could see a black smoke signal rising from here.

Not long after, Li Zhuiyuan perceived one after another probing gazes starting to gather here.

Continuing to wait, borrowing the array's probing part, Li Zhuiyuan could capture one after another distant or close figures quickly approaching here.

The second piece of broken jade, waited so long, finally appeared!

However, more and more people were gathering, but Li Zhuiyuan waited a long time and still didn't wait for the first wave to rush the array.

Because no one was stupid; everyone was clear about how terrifying the array set up by someone who could suppress the broken jade's corpse energy for so long was.

However, this kind of hesitation and waiting was destined not to last too long; once more people gathered, they would soon collectively rush the array with extreme tacit understanding.

Leading the charge was Zhao Yi; his voice echoed in the night sky:

"Everyone, let's first break this array together, seize the broken jade from his hand, then we'll contend again!

I, Jiujiang Zhao Yi,

Here I set an example for everyone first!"

Zhao Yi brought his people and started rushing the array.

Holding the sub-flag, he could self-cancel when rushing the array, the actual effect was close to nothing, but the movement and light shadow effect he stirred up was really quite shocking.

Coupled with his agitation, more and more people around also started rushing the array; Zhao Yi and they were on the same side, but he deliberately mobilized the array's power from his perspective to confront them.

In the eyes of those rushing the array, this array seemed to have grown eyes, carrying out targeted counterattacks on them.

Just in this self-directed and self-acting, the level of this array set up by Li Zhuiyuan was higher than the actual level in everyone's hearts.

The young man wanted exactly this effect; he wanted to ensure that in the long period ahead, when he stayed here, no small groups would dare to come and disturb him.

But soon, Li Zhuiyuan also discovered that there were experts among this group of people, and not a few.

This *jianghu* indeed had numerous talents; it wasn't only he who had a smart head, nor was it only he who had opportunities.

Just like Xu Yijin buried there.

Even if it was him, one day suddenly being beheaded by someone when he was feeling good about himself wouldn't be strange.

In short, two fists are hard to fight four hands; if he just sat here and was beaten, this array really couldn't hold on for too long.

Of course, while Li Zhuiyuan was worrying about this here, the people outside were actually more shocked.

This was just a homestay, not someone's ancestral home; a temporarily arranged array could have such toughness, the array setter was truly terrifying!

"You think only you understand arrays? I, Jiujiang Zhao, also have array inheritance!"

Zhao Yi's voice continued to amplify outside.

This kind of approach was the normal way of becoming famous in the *jianghu*.

But Li Zhuiyuan still didn't like this style.

If he could now wave the array flag and directly turn this place into an array environment like the one in Fengdu, successfully trapping and killing everyone here, then he wouldn't mind shouting out his name as the successor of the Qin and Liu two families.

Shouting the name, and you all still couldn't die, it's just... quite meaningless.

Zhao Yi manipulated the sub-flag, leading the array to appear a violent tremor; for a time, it actually had a shaky momentum.

Tan Wenbin said in a low voice, "Retreat."

Runsheng, Tan Wenbin, and Lin Shuyou all let go of the railings they were supporting, retreated, and then stumbled with pale faces.

Li Zhuiyuan also retreated two steps, looking at the air with a grave expression.

Zhao Yi: "Hahaha! No matter how well you've arranged the array, it's just your small group; how can you possibly block me and other outstanding heroes of the *jianghu*!

Be sensible, I advise you to hand over the broken jade early, and you can be spared from being dismembered and dying miserably!

After all, corpse energy is evil and should be executed!"

Li Zhuiyuan threw the broken jade, which had already turned black, towards the front.

The crowd rushing the array outside suddenly collectively focused their gaze.

Li Zhuiyuan deliberately threw it towards Zhao Yi, and Zhao Yi himself was also manipulating the array to attract it; without accident, the broken jade fell into Zhao Yi's hand.

Zhao Yi: This broken jade, finally in my hand!

Li Zhuiyuan: Seek your own blessings, good luck.

"Everyone, please rest assured, this kind of evil thing, I, Jiujiang Zhao, am responsible for suppressing it and will absolutely not let it harm the human world!"

After saying that, Zhao Yi brought his people and directly slipped away.

Li Zhuiyuan turned to manipulate the array to counter-shock those rushing the array, helping Zhao Yi delay a bit of time.

"Damn!"

"Animal!"

"Bastard!"

One after another scolding voices were transmitted from around.

But most people, even too lazy to scold, directly chased after him.

When the person inside the array threw out the broken jade, no one thought about continuing to gnaw on this solid big array.

Everyone was clear that before, everyone was swarming, so the array could only passively defend, and everyone could be relatively safe, but if small groups went to impact, the array could leisurely carry out counterattacks.

Around the homestay, it quickly quieted down.

However, Li Zhuiyuan could vaguely feel that nearby, there should be no less than one pair of eyes still hiding in the dark, having stayed.

Obviously, this move was impossible to deceive everyone; some people would always have doubts, and it was even possible that someone proficient in arrays would see some trickery.

Li Zhuiyuan, on the contrary, was not afraid of this, because mere doubts were not enough to generate motivation.

Li Zhuiyuan's throat tasted sweet; he forcibly swallowed it back and again lifted his head to prevent his nosebleed from flowing out.

Manipulating the array before had already caused him a great burden, but he couldn't show it now.

He could be seen as having been forced to hand over the broken jade under group pressure, but he absolutely couldn't let outsiders see his team's weakness now.

The young man looked at the stars above; his voice, borrowing the array's power, spread out, and he opened his mouth to invite:

"Remaining everyone, if interested, may enter inside to drink tea and watch stars!"

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