Chapter Twenty-Four: Yi Xiu Ya

  In a family of three, although they all had array masters, they themselves were not proficient in arrays. After another half hour, the three people found that they had walked back to their original place, which made the faces of the three people look somewhat unsightly.

  Fang Jin said somewhat impatiently, "Brother Lin, Brother Leng, I think it's better if we just use force to break through this clever scheme. Otherwise, if we continue to wander around like this, I'm afraid by the time dawn breaks, we'll still be on the mountain!"

  Lin Tianyang and Leng Qingfeng didn't have any good ideas either. After thinking for a moment, Leng Qingfeng slapped his storage bag and took out a Wolf Tooth Club artifact, saying: "Brother Fang's words make sense, let me try first!"

  After finishing speaking, he aimed at a large tree not far away and smashed it directly. Just as the wolf-toothed club was about to hit the big tree, who knew that in the blink of an eye, the wolf-toothed club had actually entered the big tree and disappeared.

  "It turned out that the big tree was an illusion!" As soon as they saw this scene, the three of them immediately ran towards the direction of the big tree. Sure enough, they directly passed through the big tree and a clearly different forest appeared in front of them. Meanwhile, Leng Qingfeng's wolf-tooth club was suspended in mid-air.

  Looking at the completely different scenery, Fang Jin asked: "Haven't we already walked out of the maze?"

  Lin Tianyang looked around and slightly furrowed his brow, saying: "I'm afraid not yet! However, I want to break the array, it's not difficult, otherwise, if a cultivator who doesn't move is trapped inside, wouldn't that be equivalent to losing the opportunity to become an inner door disciple?"

  "Has Brother Lin thought of a way to break through?" Fang Jin asked curiously.

  Lin Tianyang smiled faintly and said, "Of course, it's also about using brute force to break through cleverness. Just now, Leng brother's magic tool directly penetrated the big tree, proving that the big tree was an illusion. But do you think all the surrounding rocks, trees, and grass are illusions? I think as long as we destroy some real rocks, trees, and grass, we should be able to escape from this illusion array."

  Lin Tianyang finished speaking, and the two of them felt that what he said was reasonable. Without waiting for Lin Tianyang's orders, they took out their magical instruments and blasted them in all directions.

  After a burst of crackling and popping, the scene in front of the three people changed again. When they put away their magical instruments, they found that within a range of hundreds of feet around them, there were actually twenty or thirty cultivators also searching around. At this moment, suddenly discovering that walking out of the maze was also a burst of surprise and uncertainty.

  After seeing them, Leng Qingfeng couldn't help but laugh and say: "It seems that we not only walked out ourselves, but also indirectly helped many people!"

  Lin Tianyang looked at those people and suddenly let out a surprised cry. Leng Qingfeng heard it and asked in puzzlement, "Brother Lin, what's wrong?"

  Lin Tianyang narrowed his eyes and looked at a yellow-shirted woman among the twenty or thirty people, saying: "I don't know if you still remember that girl, I remember she only had a cultivation base of six layers in the Qi Refining stage, and should be leaving an hour after us. Although we spent a lot of time in the maze array, she's catching up too quickly!"

  Reminded by Lin Tianyang, Leng Qingfeng also remembered and said: "Yes, I remember that she almost didn't make it to the top of the mountain at first, how could she walk so fast?"

  Just as the three of them were puzzled, those people who didn't know how to leave the maze themselves mostly split into several groups and continued down the mountain immediately. Only the woman in yellow stood still, looking over here, seemingly realizing that Lin Tianyang and the others had broken through the maze.

  The three walked in and she deliberately said: "I am Xiū Yǎ, thank you for the three of you breaking through!"

  Yi heard that it was indeed the three of them who broke through, Lin Tianyang first returned the courtesy and said: "Miss Yi doesn't need to thank us, we just wanted to escape. I'm Lin Tianyang, this is Leng Qingfeng, and this is Fang Jin, we're all cultivators from Yongzhou's Sanxian Town!"

  Lin Tianyang introduced himself while sizing up Yi Xiuya in front of him, revealing a hint of unusual color on his face. This wasn't because Yi Xiuya was beautiful; on the contrary, Lin Tianyang discovered that this young girl's left cheek had scars all over it. Because her hair covered one side, he hadn't noticed earlier when they were at the mountain top due to the distance. Upon closer inspection, he also found that her left eye seemed to be blind!

  Yi Xiuya seemed to be unfazed that her appearance was being seen by Lin Tianyang and others, but instead, after hearing Lin Tianyang's name, she exclaimed in surprise: "Brother Lin, isn't he the one who killed Lei Yanzhong, a 13th-level Qi Refining stage expert, on the Life and Death Platform just the other day?"

  "Oh? You also know my name?" Lin Tianyang heard someone mention this again and wasn't as surprised as he was initially.

  Yi Xiuya nodded and said, "Not bad, Lin brother is only at the tenth level of Qi refining period cultivation, yet he has such endurance, it really makes this young woman admire him. Unfortunately, this young woman arrived a day late and didn't get to see Lin brother's skills, it's truly regrettable. However, being able to meet Lin brother here, I feel deeply honored!"

  Lin Tianyang couldn't help but praise her, saying: "Miss Yi is so young and yet she's already participating in the inner door assessment of Lei Yan Sect. Moreover, she left a whole incense stick later than us, but still managed to catch up with us. It's clear that Miss Yi isn't an ordinary cultivator!"

  Yi Xiuya listened to Lin Tianyang's words of praise, but didn't have the slightest expression of pride. Instead, he spoke extremely sincerely: "Brother Lin's praise is undeserved, I'm already 15 years old this year, and my innate talent isn't bad either. Yet after cultivating until now, I've only reached the sixth layer of the Qi Refining stage. How can that be considered not ordinary?"

  Lin Tianyang saw that she was not being humble, but rather speaking from her heart. It seemed that Yi Xiuya was indeed a person with an extremely strong will. Otherwise, with her cultivation level at the time, it would have been impossible for her to climb to the top of the mountain before the deadline. Thinking this, Lin Tianyang felt a bit more admiration for her in his heart and smiled: "Since we've met, I suppose it's fate. Want to walk together?"

  When Lin Tianyang invited her, Yi Xiuya's face lit up with joy and she said: "Brother Lin has invited me, I'm more than happy to accept!"

  A line of three people became a line of four, but the addition of Yi Xiuya did not slow down everyone's footsteps, on the contrary, the speed became even faster, and also knew why Yi Xiuya's downhill speed was so fast.

  Yi Xiuya raised a spiritual beast, which was a small, five-colored snake. The snake was only over a foot long, but it was extremely agile and highly sensitive to its surroundings. Whenever there was danger ahead, it would always sound an alarm first, allowing the four of them to safely avoid it.

  Proceeding cautiously along the way, they arrived at the foot of the mountain in less than half a day's time. After spending more than an hour, they had already reached the open area outside Lian Tian Town, and there were only a few dozen people who arrived before the four of them, including the cultivator.

  Li Li was sitting cross-legged on the high platform, looking at the time left until dawn, which was almost two hours away. The four of them found a place to sit down cross-legged as well.

  Although they didn't encounter any more risks along the way, they had consumed a lot of spiritual power to hurry along, so Lin Tianyang and the other two took out mid-grade spirit stones again to replenish their spiritual power.

  Lin Tianyang noticed that when he took out the middle-grade spirit stone, Yi Xiuya's eyes flashed with surprise and envy for an instant, while she herself was simply relying on meditation to slowly recover her spiritual power, not even taking out a low-grade spirit stone.

  Lin Tianyang slapped his storage bag and three mid-grade spirit stones appeared in his hand. He then stuffed the spirit stones into Yi Xiuya's hands.

  "Brother Lin, what's going on...?"

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