Chapter 161 Wanchang City

No wonder Xie Xunbai and Meng Qiaofu were nervous.

The move that Su Daoshan used was none other than the ninth move of the Phantom Cloud Palm [Like a Dream].

The name of this move sounds harmless, and it is silent when it is struck, just like a dream, real and unreal. But once it reaches the body, the power contained in it will burst out like a volcano with lava pressure accumulated for a hundred years. The power is the most terrifying move in the Illusion Cloud Palm.

More importantly, this move was like a dream, because the special internal Qi and Qi Jin could simulate a trace of dark power. Although it was not as good as the real dark power of a fifth-grade warrior, in a battle between seventh-grade warriors, this trace of dark power was enough to cause serious damage to a person.

However, this was not the reason why Xie Xunbai and Meng Qiaofu sounded the warning and actually stopped the duel.

The real reason was that Su Daoshan’s opportunity to capture it was too good.

On the surface, he just used the loach’s body skills to move up and down on the roof of the farmhouse, and then took advantage of the time difference between the farmhouse window and Fan Caiyi turning around to chase him, and briefly disappeared from Fan Caiyi’s sight, and then appeared behind Fan Caiyi in the mist and attacked. There was nothing strange about it.

But in fact, only experts of Xie Xunbai and Meng Qiaofu’s level knew that all of this was planned by this kid. Moreover, every step he took must be extremely precise to achieve such an effect.

Few people know that this was not the first time that Su Daoshan disappeared from Fan Caiyi’s sight, but three times.

The first time was when he climbed onto the roof, the eaves of the farmhouse blocked Fan Caiyi’s view on the ground. The second time was when Su Daoshan did not retreat but advanced, suddenly turned, slid under Fan Caiyi’s palm, and jumped down again.

This time, it was again the farmhouse’s eaves that blocked his view and made him disappear from Fan Caiyi’s sight again.

But the first two disappearances did not seem to be a problem for Fan Caiyi. She just had to chase after them. But in the eyes of a truly powerful person, this was actually the biggest problem.

Habit!

The battle between warriors is ever-changing. The more skilled the warrior is, the more he understands the importance of the environment and some details besides his own skills and strength. Sometimes, a tiny detail, even a tree, a stone, or a blade of grass, can determine the outcome.

The warrior’s habits are a very important factor.

If a warrior’s habit is developed by himself, it may not be a big deal. Because even if the opponent discovers this habit, few people dare to use it in a life-and-death fight. Because this habit belongs to others. You don’t know whether he exposed it to you intentionally or unintentionally. Therefore, it may be a fatal weakness or a trap.

If you pin your hopes of victory on the other party, you have already lost.

But if a warrior’s habit is developed by your opponent, especially without your knowledge, then the situation is different.

Fan Caiyi made this mistake.

In the previous confrontation, Fan Caiyi attacked first and pressed Su Daoshan all the way. All Su Daoshan could do was retreat. In terms of momentum and mentality, Fan Caiyi undoubtedly had the upper hand.

But the biggest problem with things going smoothly is that it often makes people’s mentality swell, and they unconsciously become more contemptuous and arrogant.

Fan Caiyi was no exception. Especially after she had suffered a small loss just now, and the opponent who was suppressing her tried to chase her with the strange skills stolen from her, she felt even more unconvinced. She didn’t notice that when she snorted coldly and said “Stealing the Mist, let’s see how far you can go”, her mentality was already unstable.

I was more annoyed and anxious. My attention was only on Su Daoshan, and I ignored the rest.

In this situation, when she found that Su Daoshan began to retreat again, and his cunning and slippery loach-like body movements made her pursuit repeatedly futile, she only thought about catching up with him and ignored Su Daoshan’s two brief disappearances.

She instinctively felt that no matter whether Su Daoshan jumped up or down, as long as she caught up with him, he would appear in her sight.

But when Su Daoshan jumped off the roof and disappeared from her sight for the second time, and immediately disappeared for the third time, she jumped off the roof but did not see Su Daoshan.

So, Fan Caiyi almost subconsciously felt something was wrong and began to look for it.

At this time, her attention was focused on the farmhouse. She did not realize how fatal her momentary daze and distraction were. However, at the same time, Su Daoshan teleported behind her almost on time, not even half a second late.

The time and location were just right.

In the view of Xie Xunbai and Meng Qiaofu, to be so precise meant that when Su Daoshan jumped into the farmhouse with the loach’s body skills, he had already chosen his position and used the mist dispersion to teleport to another position before he even landed on the ground.

Moreover, in the process of connecting these steps, he also completed two things.

First, Su Daoshan’s Mist Dispersion was learned by copying from scholars of the Taoism. After exchanging positions with Fan Caiyi just now, his Mist Dispersion needed time to recover before he could continue to perform it.

Second, the Phantom Cloud Palm is like a dream, and also requires a short period of accumulation of energy.

All of this was solved by Su Daoshan using the time difference in the process of guiding Fan Caiyi to chase.

Therefore, when he appeared behind Fan Caiyi, in fact, the outcome was already in suspense. As long as this palm was slapped out, Fan Caiyi, who was also a seventh-grade warrior, would not be able to solve it in a hurry.

He didn’t have time to teleport and was half a beat slow in his attack. The hastily stimulated blood and energy would only cause him to suffer a great loss in the face of Su Daoshan’s accumulated move.

This is why Xie Xunbai and Meng Qiaofu intervened.

As the two spoke, the fight stopped. Su Daoshan finally retracted his palm before hitting Fan Caiyi’s back, and Fan Caiyi also dispersed his internal energy in frustration, relaxed his body, turned around and glared at Su Daoshan, bit his lip and walked back to Xie Xunbai and Meng Qiaofu.

Xie Xunbai and Meng Qiaofu looked at each other with complicated expressions.

On the one hand, I was pleasantly surprised by Su Daoshan’s performance, but on the other hand, I was truly amazed by the boy’s evilness.

Although in a real life-and-death fight, Fan Caiyi could have easily withstood this move and killed Su Daoshan in the end, but as far as this competition was concerned, there was no doubt that Su Daoshan, who was only at the lower seventh level and in a lower extraordinary realm, won.

In terms of Hangu martial arts, he had only practiced four. And it had only been a few days since Xie Xunbai gave him the jade token of the martial arts. He could not compare with Fan Caiyi, who had practiced in the sect for many years and mastered at least a dozen unique skills.

In terms of experience, he hasn’t even entered a sect yet. He grew up in Yishan City. He can’t compare with Fan Caiyi, who has already gone out to explore the world.

But he just won half a move!
And the root of all this…

“The profound and unfathomable level of literary spiritual roots is indeed terrifying.” Meng Qiaofu couldn’t help but sigh, “What on earth is wrong with this kid’s brain? How can he read to this level?”

Xie Xunbai was also silent for a while.

He had witnessed with his own eyes that Su Daoshan’s spiritual root test had reached an unfathomable level.

From a certain perspective, a warrior’s spiritual root test is actually a criterion for judging his attainments in his own profession.

Scholars read, merchants do business, farmers farm, soldiers fight, craftsmen practice skills… If a person does not have high attainments in his or her own profession, then their martial arts level will not improve.

Therefore, these four words “profound and unfathomable” truly represent Su Daoshan’s academic attainments!

For ordinary warriors, the higher the attainments in learning, the higher the comprehension of martial arts and the observation ability in battle. In training and fighting, the advantages of martial artists with literary roots can be brought into play. The same is true for extraordinary professions. The higher the attainments in learning, the stronger the unique characteristics of scholars.

The unique characteristics of a scholar are his strong observation and judgment, a clear mind, a strong memory, and sharp eyes that can see through darkness and fog.

Once this unique characteristic reaches a certain level, the extraordinary scholar can even anticipate the enemy’s moves, not only will he be ahead of you in every move, making you extremely uncomfortable, but he will also control your reactions, weaknesses, confrontation situation, and surrounding environment throughout the battle. Just like writing an article, everything is linked together and you are arranged clearly.

During this process, he didn’t even need to think or deliberately calculate what to do in the first step and what to do in the second step.

Everything is just an instinct brought about by the unique characteristics of scholars.

Even though Su Daoshan is currently only at the lower level of the human realm, according to the estimation of Xie Xunbai and Meng Qiaofu, relying on his academic attainments, his extraordinary attributes may have surpassed those of scholars at the earth realm!

This is why he was able to defeat the strong with the weak and win this half move.

But such academic attainments and unique characteristics were too much for a 17-year-old extraordinary novice. Just like Meng Qiaofu’s sigh, they could not imagine how this kid read books!

“Come here.” Xie Xunbai waved to Su Daoshan.

Su Daoshan walked up to the three people.

“This time your Senior Sister Fan is sparring with you, firstly, to get a feel for you so that she can plan your training route.” Xie Xunbai explained, “Secondly, the situation has been strange these days, so we need to prepare for a rainy day. Knowing your strength will make it easier for the sect to make arrangements.”

Xie Xunbai paused and said, “Now it seems that with your strength, as long as you don’t leave Yishan City, you should be able to protect yourself.”

Su Daoshan’s mind moved, and he asked, “Uncle Master, are you guys leaving?”

Woodcutter Meng nodded and said, “The army has issued an order. We have just received a mission to clear out several bandit strongholds. Two of them are from the Blood Crow Cult and are a bit troublesome. I’m afraid we won’t be able to return for a while.”

Blood Crow Cult… Su Daoshan chewed on the name.

He knew that this was a sect of magic that was marked by red clothes and often wore a crow mask. It was one of the great sects of magic in the old era a hundred years ago. Although it was repeatedly suppressed and once declined, it grew stronger after the new era by joining the You Clan and running refugee camps.

Not all the demons were willing to join the You Clan. Some of them even considered the You Clan their enemy. Among all the sects, the Blood Crow Cult was the one that joined the You Clan the most thoroughly.

And this sect was also one of the several demonic sects that Ao Jiu mentioned earlier that were participating in Wanchang City this time.

Thinking of this, Su Daoshan frowned slightly and said, “I got some news about the offensive launched by the You Clan in Xiazhou, but I don’t know if it’s accurate…”

“Oh?” Xie Xunbai and Meng Qiaofu looked at each other and said with a smile, “Tell me about it.”

“I heard that the reason why the You Clan attacked Wen’an City this time and placed the wormhole exit in an abandoned ancient city was actually for another purpose,” Su Daoshan said, “They planned to use these two places as the core to attract and contain the army and sect forces of Xiazhou. In fact, they did not plan to attack the city, but to use this as a cover for the demon cultivators they drove to attack a secret realm.”

“Oh?” Woodcutter Meng asked in surprise, “Which secret place?”

“It’s called Wanchang City.” Su Daoshan said.

As soon as Su Daoshan opened his mouth, he found that Xie Xunbai and the other two were as shocked as if they were struck by lightning. Their eyes suddenly widened and their faces were full of disbelief.

Fan Caiyi asked in shock: “Where are you talking about, Wanchang City?”

Su Daoshan nodded and said, “Yes. I heard that this city is located between Beijun and Xijun, and its location just happens to form a three-legged formation with Wen’an City and Kelun Fort. As long as Wen’an City and Kelun Fort are pinned down, it can be like two doors, locking other people out…”

Su Daoshan’s voice became smaller and smaller as he spoke. The expressions on Xie Xunbai, Meng Qiaofu and Fan Caiyi’s faces said it all – it was obvious that they were not unfamiliar with Wanchang City, and even knew many things that he did not know.

“Uncle Master!” Fan Caiyi turned and looked at Xie Xunbai and Meng Qiaofu.

“Don’t worry,” Meng Qiaofu waved his hand, looked at Su Daoshan seriously and asked, “Where did you get this news?”

“Spiritual Realm…” Su Daoshan said, “As for the details, I am not in a position to tell you. But the credibility of the news is very high.”

Xie Xunbai and the other two looked at each other and nodded. Although they were somewhat curious about how this guy could get such information about the real world when he just entered the spiritual realm, since Wanchang City was mentioned, they actually believed it in their hearts.

You know, the thing they have been unable to understand the most is why the You Clan set the wormhole exit in Korenburg.

There was no village in front and no place behind, and the nearest Yishan City was also 80 miles away. If the You Clan wanted to invade Yishan City, they would never put the wormhole so far away.

Therefore, during this period of time, both the powerful members of the sect and the generals in the army were discussing this matter and trying to find out the truth. Scouts were sent out one after another, almost all of the surrounding areas of Kelun Fort were explored. The historical data about Kelun Fort were also dug up, and even some descendants of the original residents of Kelun Fort were found to ask questions.

But no matter which aspect, no answer was found.

Now after hearing what Su Daoshan said, and combining it with the information they knew, they found that everything made sense!

“I didn’t expect that the You Clan also knew about the secret realm of Wanchang City, and they went to such great lengths to do so…” Xie Xunbai said solemnly, “It seems that the rumors are probably true.”

Fan Caiyi said anxiously: “What should we do now? Without scholars of literature and Taoism, the secret realm of Wanchang City cannot be solved at all.”

Su Daoshan couldn’t help but glance at Fan Caiyi.

Since she is called the “Snow Fairy”, Fan Caiyi usually gives people the impression of being beautiful and cold. Not to mention being high and mighty, but she is also calm and indifferent, keeping a certain distance from everyone.

Previously in Yishan City, even when facing Yue Shifeng, the “lifesaver”, Fan Caiyi only nodded his head in appreciation and took a tour of the city with a group of children from aristocratic families. The next day, he closed the door to visitors in the name of recuperating from his injuries.

Although Su Daoshan’s contact with Fan Caiyi was deeper than that with Yue Shifeng and others, his impression of this senior sister was that she was cruel and unreasonable.

It was clearly her who shot the seed of Tao into her own forehead, but she came to her house the next day and threatened to kill him if she didn’t accept him as her disciple…

At this moment, it was the first time that Su Daoshan saw Fan Caiyi so anxious. The worried look on her pretty face, which was as cold as an iceberg, was pitiful and charming.

Facing Fan Caiyi, Xie Xunbai and Meng Qiaofu looked at each other and sighed.

“Cai Yi, if the You Clan is involved, then this matter is no longer something you can interfere with,” Xie Xunbai said apologetically, “The news must be reported to the Fiery Army and the leaders of the major sects. By then, someone else will naturally take over.”

“But…” Fan Caiyi said anxiously.

She didn’t say anything else. Su Daoshan glanced at her secretly and found that her eyes were red.

(End of this chapter)