Chapter 1326: Looks Like Your Mind Is Made Up

The plea for more money hadn't even left his lips,yet the request for aid came first.Jiang Wang stopped for a moment.He was quite sensitive to the words "help out" now.He had been diligently cultivating in Zhao, laying a firm foundation,steadily advancing toward the Outer Tower.It was precisely because he had to "help out" someonethat he had journeyed all the way to Duanhun Gorge.He had thought it would be a matter easily handled nearby,yet he ended up leaving the city, then leaving the country,climbing mountains and crossing ridges...Having traveled thousands of miles, he ended up making himself lame.With this current miserable state, how would the world view him if it spread?Sir One-Ear? The One-Legged Sword Immortal?Jiang Wang's complex feelings were difficult to express at that moment.In the words of the profound Master Kujue, it was –"Truly a turtle-shelled, soft-shelled, rotten straw sandal!"Now this old swindler was asking for help again?How could he be so shameless?A broken Peace Talisman, one he had been forced to buy,and now it demanded him to risk his life multiple times?!The more Jiang Wang thought about it, the angrier he became.But to make him turn and leave, he also...The previous accounts hadn't been settled yet!The Outer Tower realm was within reach, and top-tier Dao artsat the Outer Tower level... were truly much needed.Twenty yuan stones were no small sum either...Jiang Wang pondered repeatedly, then still hobbled inside with his staff.By his mother! Who would have thought that the fall on the streets of Linziwould actually lead to Duanhun Gorge?Yu Beidou fell, and I'm the one who's lame?With exceptional "difficulty," he entered the cave, and Jiang Wang saw –Forty-nine stone pillars, connecting roof to ground, forming a circle in the cave,like a stone prison. Within the "stone prison," Yu Beidou sat suspended mid-air,a ghost-head blade plunged into his head, his face covered in blood and grime.He actually looked even more miserable than himself!He saw that the old swindler was still maintaining his previous posture,one hand forming a mudra, the other pointing a sword-finger at the ground.However, lying on the ground was not only the blood fiend from before,but also another person.This was a somewhat thin middle-aged man dressed in scholar's robes.His long beard was soaked in blood, matted into a clump,and the five fingers of his left hand were all broken, looking bloody.This person was pressed horizontally on top of the blood fiend,both facing upwards, one horizontal and one vertical, intersecting.This bizarre posture was truly perplexing."Don't look, help me first!" Yu Beidou suddenly said.Perhaps feeling his tone was too blunt, he added, "Little friend.""Hehe." Jiang Wang smiled mirthlessly. "Venerable elder, look at my state,missing an ear and a broken leg, even walking is difficult.What more can I help you with?""..." Yu Beidou said, "Just bear with it a little longer.""No thanks!" Jiang Wang flatly refused. "Settle the reward,and let's part ways. I'm in a hurry to return to Qi to heal my wounds.""Little friend Jiang, can't we discuss this?" Yu Beidou's tone held some ingratiation.Jiang Wang refused, "My fate isn't hard enough, I fear I can't withstandmany discussions with you.""What words!" Yu Beidou chuckled dryly. "Let's have a good, measured discussion...""I just want to go back and heal my wounds now.""It seems your mind is made up.""Do you intend to default?""Alas, how deeply you misunderstand me, little friend!" Yu Beidou sighed."In that case, the yuan stones and cultivation method are in my storage box.Take them yourself and go."Jiang Wang raised an eyebrow. "I take them myself?"Yu Beidou said impatiently, "Do you see me with a free hand?"Indeed, he was holding a mudra in one hand, suppressing with a sword-finger in the other,sitting suspended in mid-air, not moving at all,not even bothering with the blade stuck in his head!Jiang Wang thought for a moment, then said with great dissatisfaction,"You said you'd only make me deal with the Lifeblood, but you didn't say therewere four great Human Fiends. I almost died outside, shouldn't you... add something?""What you say is not without reason." Yu Beidou replied readily. "Take it yourself.""How much?""Take as much as you feel is enough to compensate for the injuries you've sustained."Yu Beidou said blandly, "It's entirely up to your sense of morality and shame."He dared to say such a thing!If Chongxuan Sheng were standing here at this moment,at most he would leave Yu Beidou a Daoist robe.But it was Jiang Wang here now.He thought long and hard, only intending to take some healing expensesin addition to the agreed-upon reward."Alright!"Jiang Wang rubbed his hands together, supporting himself with the Xing Si staff,and squeezed through the gap between two stone pillars, arriving before Yu Beidou.He said very politely, "My apologies. Where is your storage box located?""Right there..." Yu Beidou suddenly exclaimed, "Oh dear! How did you get in?!"Jiang Wang was somewhat stunned.Didn't you tell me to come over and take the reward myself?Suddenly, within the area surrounded by the forty-nine stone pillars,blood light filled the sky, and gods cried and ghosts wailed.Looking back at the path he had come from, there was no gap to be seen at all.The seemingly broken great array, which had been quiet,suddenly began to operate.Yu Beidou had changed to an urgent tone, "This is the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Soul Shattering Slaughter Array!Only those of the Cave Manifestation realm can escape. Once the slaughter array is activated,anyone below the Divine Arrival realm won't last three breaths. Hurry and leave,I can't implicate you!"Jiang Wang: ...That turtle-shelled, soft-shelled, rotten eggplant! He had been tricked again!He had been lured into the array.Without even thinking, the fact that this broken array had shown no movement a moment agoand was now turned upside down must be due to this old swindler's manipulation.He said in the previous sentence that only those of the Cave Manifestation realm could escape,and in the next sentence he told me to hurry and leave. Who is he acting for anyway?"Didn't you say, Venerable elder, that this... something array,only those of the Cave Manifestation realm can escape?" Jiang Wang said slowly."Oh right." Yu Beidou seemed to react only then, his tone turning heavy."As things stand, there's only one way!"Jiang Wang was unwilling to cooperate with him, not saying a word.But Yu Beidou continued smoothly on his own, "See that fellow on the ground with the broken fingers?This slaughter array was set by him, and it's linked to his body.Kill him, and this array will dissolve on its own!""Hehehe."The Diviner, who had been lying on the ground observing with cold eyes for a long time,laughed contemptuously. "How many years has it been, and you still only know how to deceive people."That Jiang Wang could walk out of the Innate Chaotic Arrayand leave the four great Human Fiends inside. This legendary featfar exceeded his imagination.But things had already happened, and regret was meaningless. What mattered was facing it.At first, he didn't quite know what the relationship between Yu Beidou and Jiang Wang was,so he remained silent, observing with cold eyes. Now that he had tasted something,he spoke decisively."Do you know what Jiang Wang's identity and status are now?Such a peerless prodigy, with limitless potential in the future,yet you, with a few words, coaxed him to Duanhun Gorge to risk his life.Others treat you with sincerity, yet you speak not a single truth!Yu Beidou, can your conscience be at ease?"It was a pity he was lying on the ground, with a blood fiend beneath him as a cushion,so this righteous and stern speech somehow lacked a bit of momentum no matter how it was heard.Yu Beidou looked at the Diviner with a speechless expression and said to Jiang Wang,"This person is the Fortune Teller Human Fiend. He once used a blood reading to calculate you,trying to seize your Immortal Palace. I expended a hundred years of cultivationto block it for you with an unparalleled Heavenly Grade Worldly Protection Talisman.Today, in the Innate Chaotic Array, I risked my life to guide you,creating an opportunity for you to face the Human Fiend alone.It was also he who manipulated things, leading the four Human Fiends to one place,forcing you to face four at once..."His tone was sincere, "If I were you, I would definitely avenge this enmity,it cannot wait overnight!"