CH 27

“I think I have a way to use jade tablets to form a teleportation array that can teleport a lot of people so that everyone can go out.” After speaking in one breath, that he almost choked on his saliva, Qin Le blushed again. After a while, no one spoke, as if everyone was struggling to understand what he had said. Suddenly, the disciples of Qingcheng Mountain cheered.

Although a decision had already been made just now, staying here also meant giving up hope of life for the time being. Who could be completely calm? 

Gu Qingqiao smiled and patted Qin Le. “Pretty good, but how sure are you?”

“Ninety percent.” The cubby young man’s eyes were firm. “I have studied the teleportation array of Lingshan before in the Qin family. The one on the jade tablet is the simplest transmission array. If combined together, add some magic seal or magic tools that can magnify the array, we can form a large array, the spiritual energy can reach more than twice the original, therefore there is no problem with taking more than thirty people out.”

The crowd moved quickly. Zhu Li went to the villagers, explained the current situation to everyone, and inspected their physical conditions.

The three beauties took out dry food and distributed it to everyone to somehow satiate their hunger.

Mu Xiyun took his sword again to observe the rising water level. Others took out the talismans they were carrying for Qin Le to use. He chose the stone platform as the place to cast the formation. After cleaning it, he placed the jade tablets one by one into a huge circle, took out a cinnabar from his Qiankun pouch, and began to draw complicated patterns on the ground, filling the gaps between the jade tablets.

A circle of talismans and instruments were placed surrounding the jade plates, and they were also carefully drawn and connected with the cinnabar.

The Senior Martial Sister of Qingcheng Mountain took the younger martial sister, Luo Qinghai, in her arms, and whispered to the side. “Do you remember Young Master Hu who you saw last year? The gentle and affectionate mouth with beautiful looks. As a result, a bear monster scared him into fainting. Fortunately, you were only obsessed with him for half a year.”

The junior sister’s face was flushed, and she said angrily, “Senior sister, why are you saying this all of a sudden?”

Her Senior Sister pointed at Qin Le’s direction with her chin. “Look at him, he seems timid and stammering in normal times, but now he has a heavy responsibility, and when he does things, he immediately becomes very focused. His mind is without any distractions. Sometimes, people who first tremble at the sight of a battle don’t know how strong they really are.” After she finished speaking, she touched her Junior Sister’s forehead then continued, “Remember, stop being wanton, this is the best choice.”

Luo Qingai smiled and looked at the little fat man who was crouching on the ground, covered in dust and cinnabar, unaware that he had become ” the best choice”.

“All right!” 

Since it had to accommodate dozens of people, the diameter of the array was two meter wide. In order to facilitate the villagers to enter the array, Qin Le had to really quickly finish and fill in the remaining gap of the array.

–After this would be finished, the villagers could then enter formation and sit at the center. The elderly, women and children included, and the young and middle-aged men were outside, holding hands and forming one body. The cultivators in the periphery would sit cross-legged with their backs to them, with Qin Le touching two jade tablets which were the head and the tail with both hands, and the others placing one hand on the shoulders of others, forming a circle. When activated, everyone would use their bodies as a medium to combine their spiritual energy into one. Finally, through Qin Le, this combined energy would then enter the jade tablets, which would connect seventeen small magic arrays together, and then through the magnifying effect of the talisman and magic weapon, a large magic circle would be activated–

Qin Le squatted outside the formation, drawing complicated patterns with his brush.

As soon as they thought that they could go out of the mountain, people couldn’t help but relax, and a few young men had even started to discuss their plans after going out. 

However, at this moment, something unexpected occurred! 

In the dense forest on the side, a tree noticeably shook. Mu Xiyun and Gu Qingqiao immediately raised their heads.

Qin Le was drawing lines sweating profusely, and out of the corner of his eyes, he saw a cold light flashing in Gu Qingqiao’s hand, and a knife suddenly passed by near his ear. Qin Le was startled, and went down to the ground in confusion, but he heard a “puff”, when the short knife shot into the dense forest behind him, as if it had hit something.

Qin Le was so frightened that his face turned pale, Gu Qingqiao had already stood up, turned over and jumped out of the formation, blocked Qin Le’s back, and said in a low voice, “Continue painting!”

A dark figure came rushing out from the dense forest.

At that time, the sky was bright, and the sun clearly illuminated everything around him, but the shadow was so fast that it was like a ghost and it was immediately in front of them before they could even see what it was clearly.

In a flash, Gu Qingqiao reacted fast and collided with the shadow.

The shadow was extremely tall, and Gu Qingqiao, who was more than seven feet tall, looked like a child in front of it. Gu Qingqiao raised his twin sabers upwards, his spiritual energy gathered his arms, and blocked the opponent’s powerful hand smashing down with both hands, and the two became deadlocked for a moment. The crowd exclaimed for a while, and only then did they discover that the visitor was covered in black hair all over his body, his lower jaw protruded and his eyes were red. It was actually a huge black ape.

The ape was extremely powerful, his arms stretched out nearly ten feet, and his arms swayed with a whistling sound, and his movements were huge. The claws seem to be very hard, and when they hit the saber, sparks burst out. After a few moves, Gu Qingqiao only felt that his arms were sore and numb, so he had to make a clever move– blocked its claws and slid it to the side, then kicked the belly of the black ape.

The black ape fell to the ground with a bang, blood dripping from the corner of its mouth, but it didn’t stop, instead, it was agitated by the blood. After getting up and staggering for two steps, he let out a roar and rushed over immediately.

“Oh my God, how can you still fight!” The disciples of Mount Qingcheng exclaimed. 

“Where did the ape come from, from the mountains?” 

As soon as he finished speaking, two more shadows emerged from the dense forest, rushing towards the crowd.

Mu Xiyun’s heart froze, and he pressed Zhu Yicheng, who was eager to fight, and whispered, “Take care of several junior sisters!” After saying that, he took advantage of his shoulders and jumped out of the magic circle.

On the other side, a green bamboo shirt flashed, and Deng Xian also jumped out. The two looked at each other and each faced a black ape. Qin Le knelt beside the formation, the spiritual power and gust of wind brought by the fight rolled behind him, he gritted his teeth, and with shaking hands, he didn’t dare to stop for a moment.

The magic circle was finally complete. Qin Le hurriedly jumped into the formation. The positions of the three people in the formation were originally scattered. Qin Le hesitated for a moment, and asked the Qingcheng Mountain disciples beside the gap to relocate to ensure the connection of spiritual energy. At the same time, he made room for the three men to stand in the array when they came back.

After nervously finishing the array, Qin Le shouted: “Come quickly, it’s okay to go!”

The three were still fighting with the black apes. These black apes were nimble in shape and excellent in physical strength. They were also rough and thick-skinned, and their long fight did not even consume much of their physical strength. Everyone was secretly anxious inside the formation, and the disciples of Qingcheng Mountain couldn’t hold back, so they had to step up to support.

The platform suddenly trembled. The next moment, all the people swayed. Unexpectedly, the water already reached the bottom of the stone platform, a large hole suddenly appeared on the soft soil, and the entire stone platform trembled and tilted to one side.

For a time, everyone in the formation was in danger, and the disciples of Mount Qingcheng hurriedly stabilized their bodies and helped the fallen villagers. The children cried out in fright and were hugged by their mothers.

“Qin Le!” Mu Xi shouted without looking back. “Activate the array!”

“What?” Qin Le shouted. “Then what about you?”

The three did not answer, only the sounds of swords clashing were heard. Looking from a distance, four black apes seemed to have rushed out of the forest, and the three of them had been surrounded and couldn’t be seen clearly.

Qin Le’s eyes were filled with the panic-stricken faces of the villagers and the crying eyes of the children. He looked back at the three people who were fighting in full swing, and his head was full of mad cries. “What should I do? What should I do? What should I do?”

But time did not allow him to continue to hesitate. The shaking of the stone platform intensified, and the soft soil under the platform was washed away by the torrent. Fortunately, this time it was the other side. After a while, the stone platform leveled again, but its whole body sank suddenly, as it fell more than five feet high.

All the people in the array exclaimed.

We can’t wait any longer.

The flood had already licked the edge of the stone platform, and a moment later, the water would flood the entire platform. If the formation drawn by cinnabar was washed away by water, no one would be able to get out.

Deng Xian’s voice came from a distance from above. “Qingcheng Mountain disciples obey the orders, go all out to protect the villagers, you are not to leave their side without permission!” 

“Senior Brother Deng!” 

The younger sister was so anxious that she burst into tears, but she did not dare to disobey her brother’s order. This was the most tangled moment for Qin Le since his birth. On one side were the helpless innocent villagers and on the other side were his comrades in arms who never despised his cowardice and always helped him. This young man who is afraid of flying boats, now bore the burden of life and death.

His face was pale, and suddenly, the last words of the ancestors of the Qin family sounded in his mind. 

“The Qin family guards the people, and will not hesitate to die!”

Qin Le closed his eyes and let the tears roll down, and stretched out his hands to the jade tablets. When the spiritual energy was transmitted, the jade plates lit up one after another. The lines drawn by cinnabar gave off a faint red light and all the lines were connected into one. The runes and magic weapons in the inner circle were also activated by the spiritual energy. Red light rose from the ground and began to bend inward after rising ten feet high. It was woven into a dome, covering everyone in the formation.

Qin Le looked at the three through the red light of the circle, but could only see the messy footsteps of the black ape. The dirt beside him came down, and the ground continued to tremble.

The formation flashed, and the people inside the array disappeared and the water finally submerged the stone platform.

Beside the dense forest, the battle of the three was still going on.

The open space at the edge of the forest was not large. Previously, the three of them had to pay attention to the direction of their strikes from time to time, so as not to interfere with Qin Le’s teleportation array, and they had to try their best to take the black ape away from the stone platform, which resulted in a deadlock. But now that everyone had been sent away, the three had no scruples. For a moment, the saber on the open ground was shining and sword lights were flying. The black ape was driven backwards to the edge of the clearing.

The ground shook again, and the edge of the clearing suddenly collapsed. Three black apes had no time to respond, and fell into the torrent with a howl. The three of them felt the pressure lightened, and the remaining four black apes became somewhat scared, and eventually were also defeated one by one and fell into the river.

“Huh…” Deng Xian took a breath. The Qingcheng Mountain Taoist disciple Deng Xian’s weapon was a whisk, which was now covered with blood. He appeared nonchalant about it, and merely walked to the water and washed it casually, then turned his head and asked, “What should we do now?”

Gu Qingqiao raised his eyebrows. “You rushed out without knowing what to do?” 

“This…” Deng Xian scratched his hair and smiled bitterly. “I didn’t think about it that much at that time.”

“Alas, what a pity!”

Gu Qingqiao cried out sadly, “I don’t know how to get out either! Do you know how Master Mu?” 

Mu Xiyun looked up at him, his pale eyes showing no expression. Just when Gu Qingqiao was about to surrender and said “I was wrong”, he turned around without saying a word and went to wash his sword by the water.

Gu Qingqiao looked at him in surprise, and the corners of his mouth twitched quietly. 

Deng Xian looked at his silent back and said in shock, “It couldn’t be helped!” 

After speaking, he immediately realized he made a mistake, and quickly comforted him. “It’s okay, let’s find a solution together.” 

Gu Qingqiao patted Deng Xian’s shoulder with emotion, “Junior Brother, you are really a good person!”

While Deng Xian was confused, Mu Xiyun, who finished washing his sword, turned around and said, “Come on. Let’s go up the mountain.”