Cunning Villain

As the old man begged for mercy, he slapped the two Protective Talismans he had treasured onto himself.

But Chen Mobai, having seen how viciously the old man had killed his companion just now, hesitated only for a moment before gritting his teeth and activating both Green Arrow Talismans in his hand. At the same time, five beads shimmering with multicolored light rose up behind him.

"Watch my Green Arrow Talismans."

Chen Mobai thought of the old man's method of ambushing the brown-robed youth just now and felt he was a suspicious, Cunning Villain, so he bluffed him.

Out in the open, the two Green Arrow Talismans erupted at the same time, ten Spiritual Arrows aiming at the old man whose body had risen with yellow and blue shields. In secret, he also controlled the five Glass Beads, letting them bloom with fluctuations of Five Elements Spiritual Power. They looked extremely dazzling, as if they were Magic Artifacts.

Sure enough, suspicion appeared on the old man's face.

After a bout of hesitation, the old man clenched his teeth and still chose to trust his many years of Magic Combat Experience, making what he believed was the correct judgment.

He felt that Chen Mobai's two Green Arrow Talismans, flaunted with beating drums and fluttering flags, were a feint. The true killing move should be the five bead Magic Artifacts that made no sound, yet overflowed with Five Elements Spiritual Power and were dazzling to the extreme.

In the end, he activated both of the Grade 1 Middle Rank Defensive Talismans he had for saving his life and forcibly withstood the ten Spiritual Arrows.

At the same time, the old man flung out that Black Banner again, stirring the Water Spirit Qi that the Azure Water Array could still control. It transformed into waves of flowing water that swept out, wrapping around the five-colored Glass Beads shooting over from another direction.

"Eh!?"

But who could have known that the instant the water flow formed from Spiritual Qi touched the colored beads Chen Mobai had sent flying out, the latter scattered like gypsum powder, rustling into flying ash.

"Damn it, I fell for it. This brat is so damned treacherous!"

The moment that thought flashed through the old man's mind, ten green long arrows condensed from more than half of Chen Mobai's Spiritual Power had already slammed one after another into the two Defensive Talismans before him.

The powerful impact forced the old man beneath the protective shields to retreat step by step despite himself.

The yellow and blue light shields were like light bulbs without enough electricity, flickering between brightness and darkness.

The old man was only at the Qi Cultivation Third Layer. Though his Magic Combat Experience was rich and his personal wealth was not bad, without the support of the Water Mansion's great array and after falling into the trap of relying too much on experience, he had been schemed against by Chen Mobai. At this moment, the Spiritual Power in his dantian was nearly drained dry by the two Defensive Talismans.

But at this time, even if he could not hold on, he could only force himself to hold on.

The old man took out a bottle of Qi Restoration Pills. No longer caring about waste or aftereffects, he swallowed them all in one breath. Then his face turned scarlet, but the fluctuations of Spiritual Power around his whole body abruptly rose by a level.

The yellow and blue light shields also seemed to have received enough Spiritual Power and began operating at normal power.

Bang! Bang! Bang!...

Seven green Spiritual Qi Long Arrows in succession were blocked, exhausting their power and dispersing, while the yellow light shield on the old man's body also reached its end, turning into yellow radiance all over the ground before vanishing.

But at this moment, joy instead appeared on the old man's face, because based on his many years of Magic Combat Experience, he had already calculated that his other Water Attribute Defensive Talisman could completely block the remaining three Spiritual Arrows.

It was not as if he had never killed a Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer cultivator in return while only at the Qi Cultivation Third Layer.

Just as the old man began thinking about how to counterattack next, kill Chen Mobai, and take this Water Mansion for himself, he suddenly discovered something.

"No, this brat was scheming against me from the very beginning!"

The old man wanted to adjust his position, but it was already too late. Chen Mobai's Spiritual Power erupted, and the remaining might of the Green Arrow Talismans burst out in one breath. Three green long arrows smashed heavily into the blue light shield on his body, pushing him back three more steps.

It was precisely these three steps that made the old man's back touch the stone door of the Side Hall in the middle of the Water Mansion.

Hiss! The deep-blue Lightning Restriction was triggered. Under the old man's despairing expression, it shattered the blue light shield that still had more than half its strength left. Then it sank into his body without any obstruction and, amid his screams, blasted him into pieces.

"Huff, huff, huff..."

Chen Mobai breathed violently, not only because the Spiritual Power in his body had been exhausted, but even more because this was the first time he had witnessed living people die before his own eyes.

Although he had seen such scenes countless times in films and television dramas.

It had never been like this, where he felt an indescribably enormous impact.

His mind went completely blank.

Though neither of the two people had been killed by him, both deaths were indirectly related to him.

Amid a wave of dizziness, Chen Mobai sat down hard on the ground.

He did not know how much time had passed before a fish with its eyes rolled white landed by his foot with a string of splashing water, and only then did Chen Mobai finally come back to himself.

One of the Formation Flags of the Azure Water Array had been smashed broken by his Green Arrow Talisman, and a flaw had already appeared.

The opening the old man had created now seemed as if it would remain there forever and no longer close.

This fish, while drifting in the water, had been very lucky and darted into that opening. After losing the protection of the current, it used all its strength to flop over to Chen Mobai's side, rolled its eyes back, and kicked the bucket.

"I have to think of a way to repair this protective great array."

Chen Mobai muttered to himself. Even now, he still did not know where this place was. According to what the old man had said, it was a place called the "Eastern Wasteland."

Here, there was no law and no heaven.

If other people discovered this Water Mansion, Chen Mobai felt that trying to reason with them would definitely be useless.

So it would be best to repair the Azure Water Array and hide the Water Mansion again.

But the path of formations was famously difficult to even enter. Among the four disciplines of Arts, Pills, Artifacts, Formations, although Chen Mobai worked quite hard in all of them, his grades were all average.

He walked up to the Formation Flag he had smashed broken, wound it together with rope, and set it upright again.

However, it was of no use.

With a sigh, Chen Mobai saw the Black Banner the old man had used just now to crush the Glass Beads. A flash of inspiration struck him, and he used the Levitation Technique to control it through the air, drawing this Black Banner over to replace the Formation Flag he had smashed broken.

After waiting for a quarter of an hour, there was still no reaction.

Chen Mobai set his mind spinning, recalling all the knowledge about the Formation Discipline that he had learned in class.

In the end, he thought of an example his teacher had once mentioned.

A formation was equivalent to a precise machine. After a problem appeared and replacement parts were swapped in for repair, Spiritual Power needed to be injected anew to activate it, just like new Equipment had to be powered on for a trial run.

Chen Mobai hesitated for a moment. After all, he was not a professional Formation Master, and he feared that there might be danger in this activation step.

But when he thought of these three days in the Water Mansion and the enormous help a Second Grade middle-rank Spirit Land provided for cultivation, he still clenched his teeth and decided to risk a try.

A stream of Spiritual Power was injected into the Black Banner.

There was still no reaction.

No, activation should have to be done at the main Formation Flag.

Chen Mobai thought of another point of knowledge and walked to the array foundation in the center of the front hall, pouring Spiritual Power into it.

Buzz! Then, under his delighted gaze, the opening in the Azure Water Array began to slowly shrink, finally vanishing completely.

It really worked.