A Bolt from the Blue

He had set up a hunter's trap for catching large demonic beasts on the mountainside platform, more for killing than capturing.

He had arrived two days early, but in his calculations, he thought he would have about a day and a night. He didn't expect Military Advisor Ji to be so cunning, considering too many aspects and overlooking the clues he left behind, while focusing on more possibilities. The black cloth map was, of course, deliberately left behind, and from the current situation, Military Advisor Ji still thought he had left it behind in his hasty escape, and that the trap he set here was just a precaution during his hiding.

After leaving the city that day and entering the mountains, he began to lay various camouflage traces along the way, aiming to confuse Military Advisor Ji's vision and buy himself more time. After arriving here, it took him almost half a day to choose these two ambush locations.

On the platform, he had his eye on the boulder. Due to years of wind and sun, the boulder had gaps and loosened from the ground, but because it was too heavy, it was still deeply embedded there. He found two stone pillars as thick as a baby's arm in the mountains, and took out some simple tools he had prepared, including the sinew of a demonic beast.

Of course, before this, he was not sure what kind of trap to set, but he considered as many traps as he could set in the mountains and forests as possible, and bought some easy-to-carry tools in the city in advance. He wasn't sure which ones he could use and which ones he couldn't, but he couldn't buy anything too big or too eye-catching. When he escaped from the Military Advisor's Residence this time, he tied them close to his body under his underwear. His black robe was loose, and he had secretly tried many times to determine the limit of what he could hide without being noticed by Chen An and Li Yin who were accompanying him.

He hollowed out the bottom of the platform rock little by little, slowly moved the two stone pillars in little by little to stabilize them, and finally formed a temporary balance, then tied one end of the demonic beast's sinew to a rope extending from the two stone pillars.

The next step was to make this section of the demonic beast's sinew taut, mostly hidden in the cracks at the bottom of the rock, with a little bit exposed, making it look like a "Ballista" ready to fire at a glance. He had accidentally seen this thing in the barracks and used it here after thinking about it.

Finally, he set up a rope loop in front of the crossbow arrow. After this rope circled around, it was hidden and tied to the boulder. When someone went to take out the "Ballista" from the gap under the boulder, it would be like pulling the trigger himself, taking away the boulder's balance. Because the boulder had been hollowed out in advance towards the cliff and the rubble cleared away, it would quickly slide down, driving the rope loop on the ground. The rope loop would instantly tighten, and if there was something in the loop, it would immediately tighten and lift it up, dropping it off the cliff.

This was a series of interlocking steps, and the calculation would fail if there was even one mistake. But the most difficult parts were two things: first, Li Yan occasionally had to sit on the boulder himself, and he couldn't break the balance of the support below, otherwise he would slide down the cliff with the boulder; second, when would the water bag tip over, and when would the spilled water fall on the demonic beast's sinew? All of this had to be done naturally, so that the visitor would see it without suspicion.

When Military Advisor Ji saw the water bags on the platform just now, he became suspicious of these water bags. He shook all the water bags separately and found that these water bags still had half a bag or a small half bag of water. After thinking about it, he understood that this was a part of Li Yan's plan. Otherwise, who would drink water and drink all the water bags, instead of opening one bag and putting it aside?

One thing that Military Advisor Ji couldn't deduce was that he thought Li Yan couldn't be sure when he would arrive. However, since his arrival, the time had been quite long, but he only saw Li Fang's water bag spilled once. If Li Yan had done this action twice in the meantime, he might have become suspicious. How did Li Yan allocate the time and when did he kick over the water bag? This puzzled him, but he was sure that Li Yan must be repeatedly using kicking over the water bag to lure the enemy.

Military Advisor Ji listened to Li Yan's words and stopped talking. He stood up and walked towards Li Yan. At this time, he had recovered a lot of spiritual energy and could already use the Spirit Absorption Art. He didn't want to talk any more, lest there be unexpected complications.

Walking to Li Yan's side, he used his only mobile right hand to lift Li Yan up and lean him against a tree to sit down. After Li Yan leaned back, he also sat cross-legged beside Li Yan. He tapped Li Yan's body several times with his right hand, and Li Yan suddenly felt a sense of relaxation and regained his freedom. Just as he was about to do something, a large hand clamped down on the top of his head, and a powerful suction force was generated. His body also lost its initiative, and he only felt the spiritual energy within his Dantian Qi Sea involuntarily surge towards the top of his head. He was immediately shocked.

Military Advisor Ji released the restraints on his body so that the spiritual energy in Li Yan's body could be mobilized by himself without any hindrance. He was not afraid of Li Yan taking the opportunity to resist, because as long as his hand gripped his crown acupoint, Li Yan would lose his strength.

Li Yan was anxious. He knew that this was a matter of life and death. If he was sucked away by him like this, it was estimated that he would be sucked dry of spiritual energy and lose his vitality in just half an hour. However, at the same time as his shock, the spiritual energy in his body was about to break out of his body.

"Then there is only the last fight. If I die, you have to die too." Li Yan was aroused by his ferocity and planned to reverse the attributes of the spiritual energy in his body, turning all the attributes in his body into fire attributes.

These were also the results of recent experiments and attempts on himself. Military Advisor Ji practiced the Black Night Curtain Azure Skill, which was of the wood attribute, so the spiritual energy he wanted to absorb was also of the wood attribute, to facilitate a breakthrough. And Li Yan could feel in his daily cultivation that when the spiritual energy flowed near the suppressed Fire Poison in the corner of his Dantian, only the wood attribute would elicit a mild reaction. Other attributes of spiritual energy caused a restless feeling, especially the fire attribute spiritual energy, which indicated the Fire Poison was...

More sensitive, so Li Yan planned to turn all his water spiritual energy into fire spiritual energy and let Military Advisor Ji absorb it. At that time, even if he didn't die on the spot, it was estimated that he wouldn't last long afterwards.

Of course, if his water spiritual energy were to be drawn over now, it would also cause great chaos in the spiritual energy within Military Advisor Ji's body. However, it was believed that the fire spiritual energy would cause greater harm and could trigger the power of the Fire Poison.

It's just that the moment the spiritual energy was sucked into Military Advisor Ji's body, he would notice that something was wrong with it. In anger, he would only need to exert force on the palm of his hand and slam it down on his head to kill Military Advisor Ji. But at the moment, Li Yan had no time to worry about it. Just as he was trying to change the spiritual energy, a sudden change occurred.

Suddenly, he heard a rapid whooshing sound in the forest, and two figures flew over, their robes fluttering in the wind.

"Haha, Little Brother Li, don't worry, I'm here." As he spoke, two figures had shot to the front of the two, it was Hong Linying and his burly junior brother.

Military Advisor Ji was shocked when he saw this, and quickly stabilized his spiritual energy, but his palm still remained on the top of Li Yan's head.

"Military Advisor Ji, did we two come at the right time?" Hong Linying asked after he stabilized his figure.

"It's you two? What clever hiding methods. I just searched within a few miles and didn't find anything. How did you do it?" Military Advisor Ji said without turning his head, with one hand on the top of Li Yan's head.

At this moment, he was annoyed, but he didn't show it. More than that, he was a little surprised. Just now, in order to ensure that he would not be disturbed when he absorbed spiritual energy, he had searched within a few miles, except for some small animals and birds on the trees, there was nothing that could threaten him.

"Oh? It seems you know my junior brother? With that said, Military Advisor Ji, you are extremely clever, you have been pretending not to know." Hearing Military Advisor Ji's words, Hong Linying did not answer but asked, but first heard that Military Advisor Ji seemed to know the existence of his junior brother.

"Then what is Marshal Hong's intention? Peeking at my shifu and me practicing?" Military Advisor Ji also asked without answering.

"Hehe, Military Advisor Ji, why do you say that? We are here just because we admire your sect's martial arts. Could you perhaps bring out your sect's manual and let my fellow disciples take a look? In this situation, I think you can't advance or retreat, right?" Hong Linying was even more direct, tearing away all pretense the moment he opened his mouth.

"I didn't expect Marshal Hong to have such a sharp eye. It's not impossible for you to view our sect's secret manual, but I don't have it with me. Why don't I go back to the manor and take it out and send it to you when it's dawn?"

Military Advisor Ji was really annoyed in his heart. This Hong Linying didn't come early or late, but came over when he had already 운전the Spirit Absorption Art. This time the timing was also very accurate. Once this technique was 운전, it could not be stopped, otherwise he would definitely suffer backlash. Fortunately, he had only just 운전the technique and could still stabilize his spiritual energy, but at most

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That is, it will only be delayed for a while.

This was actually a coincidence. Hong Linying knew that his two fellow disciples combined weren't a match for Military Advisor Ji, but he knew one thing: in the Jianghu, the most taboo thing when cultivating, circulating energy, or healing injuries is to be disturbed by others. At best, one would be seriously injured, and at worst, one would go crazy and die. So, the two of them had been hanging far behind Military Advisor Ji, but they also knew his skill was outstanding and they didn't dare approach too closely, content to simply keep his movements in sight.

They were also waiting, waiting for Military Advisor Ji to come over when he started healing, so that everything would be easily solved.

And with Military Advisor Ji only at the third level of Qi Condensation, his Divine Sense couldn't extend too far from his body. Though his eyes were sharp, he was no match for those who were deliberately plotting. When he searched outwards, the two of them spotted him coming from a distance and retreated. Once he returned, they immediately and slowly crept back over.

Until Military Advisor Ji launched the Spirit Absorption Art, the two of them looked at each other and immediately showed up. Who knew that their actions also happened to hit the defects of the Spirit Absorption Art.

"Then how can that be? Why don't Military Advisor Ji first verbally describe a few paragraphs of the formula and let my fellow disciples try to comprehend it?" Hong Linying shook his bald head and repeatedly denied.

"Hehe, it seems that Marshal Hong doesn't believe Ji. You see, Ji is practicing with his disciple. How about a little later?" Military Advisor Ji already felt that the spiritual energy in his body was starting to surge rapidly.

"In his waist!" At this time, a voice came with difficulty. It was Li Yan who had circulated his gong for a long time before he could barely resist the suction of the top door and open his mouth.

"Oh." Hong Linying and the two others heard this and quickly looked at Military Advisor Ji's waist. At this time, that piece of Jade Book was diagonally inserted into Military Advisor Ji's belt, and it seemed to shimmer faintly in the night, clearly not an ordinary object.

The two looked at each other, and their figures suddenly exploded into action. At the same time, they raised their hands and attacked. The big man struck Military Advisor Ji's back with a palm, and Hong Linying bent his fingers into claws and grabbed for the Jade Book on Military Advisor Ji's waist. At the same time, Hong Linying was still speaking.

"Military Advisor Ji, since you are unwilling to get up and send it over, I will take it myself, haha."

The sound actually carried a faint rumble of thunder, which was his secret application of the Buddhist "Lion's Roar." They were well-known figures in the Jianghu, veterans of many battles, and knew that Military Advisor Ji was using therapeutic exercises to heal at this time, and the most taboo thing was to be disturbed. While attacking, they also circulated their power to project sound and disturb his mind.

Military Advisor Ji had one hand crippled, and the other was generating suction with Li Yan's head, unable to be moved away. How could he have the ability to block? Still, he faced away from the two, expressionless, and asked without answering.

"Marshal Hong, when I came all the way this afternoon, I also explored this area first. I, Ji, am still confident in this point. You two didn't lay an ambush here with this kid, so in other words, you are tracking me here, hanging far behind me, so you can know my every move. Am I, Ji, saying it right? But I don't know how you did it?"