Evening. Within the Jade Palace.
Before, Ming Feng was a powerful warrior at the sixth level of the Transcending Mortality Stage, and he had a bright future. But now, the Sword Qi of the fifth level tribulation had destroyed all the meridians in his body, making him unable to absorb any more Zhen Qi.
In other words, in this lifetime, Ming Feng would at most be stuck at this level and would never be able to advance an inch. Moreover, his meridians had been crippled. If he used more true qi to attack, it would cause severe pain throughout his entire body.
In other words, other than having rough skin and thick flesh, Ming Feng no longer had any martial power besides being able to live a little longer.
In front of him was a middle-aged woman clad in purple gold and a long skirt. She was dressed in extremely gorgeous attire, but her eyes were as cold as a viper's. Her thin lips covered in red lipstick were tightly pursed.
Today, she went to the Heavenly Fragrant Pavilion to do some maintenance, but when she returned, she saw that the main gate of the Jade Temple was broken, and the son she was so proud of had lost his tendons and muscles, she was so angry that she almost fainted.
"Mother, you have to uphold justice for me! Ming Yu destroyed my entire life's future, I will tell royal father tomorrow. " Ming Feng said hysterically.
"Nonsense!"
Li Fei slapped Ming Feng, flustered and exasperated: "We weren't important enough to be valued by Duke Ming in the first place. If we knew that Ming Yu had such a talent, we would definitely value him greatly and protect him with all our might. Besides, are you in control of this matter?"
In Li Fei's heart, royal authority was cruel. Once Ming Feng told Duke Ming about this, she would completely lose her favor.
"I …" Hearing Li Fei's question, Ming Feng couldn't say anything for a moment.
Sighing, Li Fei said resentfully, "In the end, no one will help you. Duke Ming will even punish you, and treat our Yutang as a cold palace!"
"Huh?" Ming Feng felt as if a huge rock had blocked his chest, making it hard for him to breathe.
"Therefore, I will do my best to suppress this matter and not let it spread to Duke Ming's ears."
Ming Feng was so angry that even his face was trembling. "That... Then let's just forget about it? "
He had clearly been wronged, but in the end, he still had to wipe Ming Yu's ass. Hearing this, Ming Feng's sullen face started to turn purple.
Li Fei's eyes slightly narrowed as she muttered to herself, "Of course not, I never thought that Yang Xuerong, a few years ago, you would go against me, causing me to be rejected by the Duke of Ming. Today, your lowly son is not letting go of our Jade Temple, you two are a complete slut!"
"In a few days, I will have your son quietly disappear from this world. Yang Xuerong, just you wait!"
"..."
In the courtyard of the Fallen Flower Hall, Ming Yu was practicing her swordplay.
From this afternoon until now, Ming Yu had been waiting for the men from Jade Palace to come and cause trouble. Ming Yu also had his own reasons. If things really didn't go well, he would inform Duke Ming and make things bigger.
However, the Fallen Flower Hall was quiet and peaceful, and other than a few officials who knew about what had happened in the Yuld Palace, no one else in the palace seemed to know about it.
When Little Shuang came back in the afternoon, she told everyone everything that had happened, but everyone could not believe her. If Ming Yu really crippled Ming Feng, how could the Jade De Palace not make a move? They thought that Little Shuang was just spouting nonsense because she was scared silly.
It was probably because Ming Yu had said something good in front of the Jade De Palace, Ming Feng was in a good mood, so he let Little Shuang go.
Ming Yu did not know of these rumors, his most important thing right now was to increase his combat strength.
In his battle with Ming Feng today, although Ming Yu had defeated Ming Feng, Ming Yu was also deeply aware of the importance of force. In the Great Ming Dynasty, there were hidden dragons and crouching tigers; Ming Yu's cultivation path had only just begun.
Moreover, Ming Yu had already thought that if they were unable to auction off the Array Patterned Bead in a short period of time, they could only earn the remaining two million inkstones, obtain the Crimson Gold Blood Lingzhi, and help Yang Xuerong revive.
If he could win the bet, he would naturally be able to quickly earn Mo Yu. However, having a strong combat strength was the prerequisite for all of this.
"Swish!"
Ming Yu suddenly slashed out with his sword, and the five layers of tribulation appeared once again. Who knew that Ming Yu would suddenly turn his sword around and pierce the sky behind him, adding another sword qi, it was impressively the six layers of tribulation!
The sword Qi let out a loud explosive sound, shooting straight into the clouds. It only disappeared after flying for a hundred meters, because the sword Qi was too sharp, even the air became slightly distorted.
Ming Yu kept the sword sheath and wiped the sweat on his forehead. He took a deep breath and calmed down his blood energy.
"Hm, your swordsmanship has improved a lot."
At this moment, a familiar sweet female voice rang out from behind Ming Yu. Ming Yu turned around to look, and discovered that Heiji was floating three inches from the ground. She was wearing a thin, black dress, and her arms were crossed over her chest, looking at Ming Yu with interest.
Even though Ming Yu knew that Hei Ji was pretty and well-prepared, the moment he turned around and saw Hei Ji, he was shocked for a split-second by her picturesque appearance.
Ming Yu kept the sword back into his storage pouch and asked, "What business do you have with me?"
Hei Ji pouted. "Tsk, I can't play with you since I have nothing to do? "Stingy."
Blackie's spiritual energy had finally been replenished with great difficulty, so naturally, she had to come out and take a deep breath.
"Alright, what do you want to play with?"
"Ai, you're such a old-fashioned person, why are you still asking me?" Hei Ji blinked her large, beautiful eyes and said, "Oh right, the formation pattern I taught you last time should have been learned by now. Why don't you draw it for elder sister to see?"
Ming Yu nodded her head. He was just in time to solidify his own method of describing the explosive array formation, so he entered his room and lit a candle flame on the table. He used a normal brush and ink to skillfully draw out the patterns of the explosive array formation.
Ming Yu did not want to waste green paper and pen. He did not like wasting time.
Hei Ji tilted her head as she looked at the drawing paper. "Not bad, you drew quite well. It seems you've spent quite a bit of time thinking about it."
From Blackie's point of view, Ming Yu had probably been painstakingly practicing and drawing for the past three days. He reckoned that after a while, he would be able to buy some red array patterns to try out the actual condensing.
It took him three days to condense 11 bead runes with blue rune paper. He really did spend a lot of effort and thought on it, so he said, "Mm, I spent a lot of effort, after all, my fist cannot leave my hand, it cannot leave my mouth. I will work hard to become a qualified rune master."
"Keep an eye on you."
Hei Ji blinked her watery right eye at Mingyu, and said, "Sister's time to come out for a breather is limited, why don't I teach you the second form of the Fire Controlling Array now?"
As he spoke, he pointed his index and middle fingers, and a string of memories flooded into Ming Yu's mind. This was the second move of the Fire Controlling Array: Golden Bell Array!
The golden bell formation was one of the most powerful type of defensive runes. It was capable of condensing golden bell-like runes in front of one's body, and was able to block the fatal blow of a seventh level Transcending Mortality Stage expert. At a critical moment, if one was able to block the enemy's fatal blow, they could instantly reverse the battle.
The Fire Control Array had a total of three forms. Just the combination of the first and second forms of the Fire Explosion Array had an extremely strong effect.
Ming Yu tried her best to memorize the traces of the Golden Bell Formation in her mind, and then replaced it with a new scroll. She began to draw with the brush, and Ming Yu discovered that the second move of the Golden Bell Formation was even more complicated than the Explosive Blazing Formation.
Many lines in the Explosive Fire Array had very large twists and turns, but in the Golden Bell Array, the twists and turns were very smooth and required a detour.
It took some time for Ming Yu to get used to the change in the lines, so he was prepared to draw another line. However, when Heiji was wandering around the room a few times, she discovered that Mingyu had only drawn less than a fifth of the golden bell formation.
Hei Ji shook her head. A sly smile flashed at the corner of her mouth. "Sigh. You're so slow. Give me the rune paper. I'll teach you personally."
He was about to get up and let Hei Ji draw when at the next moment, a slightly ice-cold hand grabbed the back of his hand, and his other hand gently moved away from Ming Yu's left hand to hold the drawing paper for her.
Mingyu was about to turn around, but her cheek lightly touched the snow-white skin of Hei Ji. Immediately, she felt a warm and soft sensation on her back.
Ming Yu subconsciously shivered.
"Don't move, look at my drawing, learn well." Blackie said with a serious expression.
As she spoke, Blackie began to lead Mingyu's hand and draw, constantly adjusting his posture. He used the most perfect lines to draw a textbook of inscriptions, and from Mingyu's back came a strange feeling of touch. His ears itched from Blackie's long hair, and the tip of his nose inadvertently caught a whiff of the faint fragrance on her body.
Ming Yu could not help but become restless. He stared fixedly at the picture scroll in front of him, but his mind was filled with strange thoughts …
Hurry up and end it, if this goes on, how can I endure it... Ming Yu prayed in her heart.
Hei Ji held onto Ming Yu's hand, carefully drawing each line. She deliberately slowed down, meticulously drawing every line, as if she was afraid that Ming Yu would forget about these drawing techniques.
"Why is your hand getting more and more stiff? "Don't hold the pen so tightly. Relax. Your wrist here needs to be nimble. As long as you pull it, the lines will naturally form." Blackie carefully guided.
"..." "Oh."
Just like this, after about a quarter of an hour, Hei Ji finally finished drawing the line. The golden bell formation flashed and floated into the array pattern bead that had been prepared long ago.
It was only when Blackie finally left that Mingyu finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, there seemed to be a warm current flowing down his nose. Immediately after, he heard Blackie's bell-like laughter.
"Hmm?"
Only now did Ming Yu realize that just now, she couldn't help but bleed out of her nose, and this damn flow of blood had indirectly exposed the strange feelings she had in her heart.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck …"
Hei Ji's almond eyes curved into two beautiful crescent moons. She felt that Mingyu's appearance was simply too adorable, even though she couldn't eat anything.
"…" Looking at the happy expression on Blackie's' trick ', Ming Yu suddenly realized that Blackie's serious expression was all an act. The real purpose was to pick him and tease him.
In the past, Blackie had already picked and teased Ming Yu twice, but back then, she was still open and open. Now, she was using such a subtle and brilliant method …
Ming Yu still vaguely remembered that he had made a vow that he would never fall for again, but in front of Hei Ji, he was still a little too tender …
"Wow, you're really going too far." Ming Yu wiped the blood from her nose and said indignantly.
"Yeah." Hei Ji moved closer to Mingyu's ear, letting out a light breath, and softly said in a playful voice, "Are you going to bite me?"
This kind of unbridled seduction caused Ming Yu to be unable to control the power of the Great Desolation within her body. Just as she was about to explode, Hei Ji slyly smiled and said, "Mmm … I'm tired. I'm going to sleep, you have to carefully comprehend the Golden Bell Formation. "
After speaking, he turned into a streak of light and drilled into the ancient jade in Ming Yu's chest. Once again, there was no sound, leaving Ming Yu sitting there in a daze …
"..." "F * ck your grandpa!"
He stood up and immediately walked into the latrine. He scooped a spoonful of cold water from the bucket and washed his face, then he looked at himself in the mirror and said with a bit of vexation, "Mingyu, look at yourself … a female ghost has made your blood boil …"
After a moment, Ming Yu returned to the wooden table. He still remembered when Hei Ji had told Ming Yu to carefully comprehend the Golden Bell Formation.
En, she was right. I need to carefully comprehend the Golden Bell Formation … But what the heck did I comprehend? How could I comprehend it now? She was obviously trying to drive me crazy!
Ming Yu felt a headache coming on. She took out a blue rune paper and consolidated the Explosive Flame Array a few more times, successfully forming it.
In this critical moment of life or death, besides burning blood, this Explosive Fire Array was also an absolute life-saving card!
After drawing this Explosive Fire Array, Ming Yu did not have the mood to continue drawing. He turned around and left the room. He took out the Throat Sealing Sword and started practicing in the courtyard!