Chapter 120: Captured

  E Mei!

  Kong Zhan's heart moved, and he secretly thought, "They shouldn't be here for the Fire Dragon Essence, right? I just got scolded by Master for this matter, and now these people are coming to my doorstep. This is a bit too much!"

  Although there was some unease in her heart, the smile on her face remained unchanged, and it was even warmer than before.

  "Actually, the three of you are seniors from Emei. I don't know what instructions you have for stopping me here?"

  Ling Feng and the other two exchanged a glance, and finally, it was Ling Feng who spoke up, "In terms of seniority, you can be considered our junior fellow disciple. Calling you 'junior fellow disciple' shouldn't be impolite, should it?"

  "It's nothing, it's nothing, I'm just a junior!" Kong Zhuo hurriedly said, his politeness was such that even the most demanding person couldn't find any fault with him.

  "Alright, Master Kong's nephew, I and two fellow disciples have come this time mainly to ask you something!"

  "Please go ahead, senior!"

  "That day at the Dragon Platform Immortal Peach Assembly, Shifu's nephew was fighting against our sect's disciple Zhu Zifan and had taken away the Huo Li Xian sword from his hand. I wonder if Shifu still remembers?"

  "Indeed!" Kong Zuo's heart skipped a beat, but his face didn't change at all. "That's right, there is such a thing!"

  "So, what unusual things happened after Kong Shizhong obtained the Huoli Xianjian?"

  "What's abnormal about it?!" A hint of confusion flashed across, Kong Zhan slightly tilted his head, revealing a thoughtful expression, "I don't know what kind of abnormality the senior is referring to, that trial seemed quite normal to me!"

  "I'm asking you, where did the Huo Long Jing Yuan from Huo Li Xian Jian go?" As soon as Kong Zhuo's voice fell, a loud and violent voice rang out. It was a swordsman standing beside Ling Feng, who furrowed his brow slightly, seemingly displeased with his junior brother's sudden outburst. However, since he had already spoken up, he naturally couldn't immediately respond himself.

  "What is the essence of the fire dragon?!" Kong Zhuo's face showed even more confusion, "I don't know what you're referring to, senior!"

  "Hum, this Huo Li Xian Jian, apart from our sect's disciples, only you, an outsider, have held it. Long Tai Xian Xing will hand it over to the leader, and as soon as he does, he'll discover that the fire dragon essence within Huo Li is gone! If it wasn't you who took it, then who was it?!" The Sword Immortal's voice was stern and severe as he shouted.

  "This is ridiculous, from what this senior is saying, it seems that just because I took the Huo Li, the Huo Long Jing Yuan in it is something I took. I took the Huo Li because at the time I was competing with Zhu Zi Fan, and that sword can be said to be my spoils of war. Even if it was afterwards, I didn't return the Emei sword to you, you had nothing to say. Now it's good, I returned the sword, but you're still framing me. If I had known this would happen, I would have taken that sword to Luo Fu's forge and melted it down to recast it!"

  Kong Zhuo said, his tone was filled with resentment and a hint of grievance.

  "What did you say?!" The hot-tempered sword immortal was enraged upon hearing it, but just as he opened his mouth, Ling Feng's hand stretched out, signaling him to shut up.

  "Kong Shizhong, your words are reasonable, but this Huo Li is the treasure of our Emei sect. If the Huo Long Jing Yuan were to disappear without a trace, it would be a big deal. Therefore, we cannot afford to be slow. How about this: regardless of whether you took it or not, you will come with us to Emei and clarify things. If it is proven that you did not take it, I, Ling Feng, will apologize in person and offer ten Xian Xing as a gift. What do you say?"

  "Ten pieces of Xian Xing, what a big handwriting! Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with me!" Kong Zhuo thought to himself, but his face showed a difficult expression.

  "Senior, you're joking. I'm a disciple of Luo Fu, but not a disciple of Emei. If senior wants to take his disciples back to Emei, he'll probably need to get the consent of the disciples' seniors first. Otherwise, it would be impolite."

  Kong Zhuo said with a smile, and one sentence softly refuted Ling Feng's words.

  Ling Feng also looked helpless, and sighed with a bitter smile. If it were that simple, they would have brought Kong Zhuo back to Emei as soon as they discovered the disappearance of Huo Long Jing Yuan. But everyone knew this was impossible.

  In public or in private, Lingga Shangren would absolutely not allow them to bring Kongzhao back to Emei, unless Emei had irrefutable evidence, but they didn't, it was just suspicion.

  However, this suspicion is not unfounded. Huo Li is the treasure of Emei's Zhēn Pài, and after all these years, only one person has had the opportunity to come into contact with the Huo Li Xian Jian - Kong Zhan. As for the people within Emei itself, the Huo Long Jing Yuan was lost after the Xian Xing meeting. After the Xian Xing meeting, the only person who came into contact with this sword is the leader of Emei Sect, Bu Yang Shang Ren.

  "This sword is his, what does he want to extract the Fire Dragon Essence for? And even if he did, it would be enough to do it secretly, no need to announce it to everyone. After all, the sword is in his care, without his permission, no one can touch it, and naturally no one knows that the sword spirit has been lost. Why bother making trouble for himself by exposing this matter?"

  So, after some thought, it seems that Kong Zhan is the most suspicious.

  However, with just these, without substantial evidence, suspecting the best three-generation disciple of Luofu and wanting to bring him back to Emei, Luofu would naturally not do it. Now is not the time to turn against Luofu either, so this matter can only be handled in other ways.

  So they came in three.

  Their goal was simple: to secretly bring Kong Zuo back to Emei. As long as the person was under control, once they arrived at Emei, Emei would have a way to dig out the truth of the matter. Once there was evidence, even if it was Luo Fu, he would have to swallow his pride and accept the consequences.

  What if it really wasn't done by Kong Rong?

  There's no need to worry about this issue, there are ways to make Kong Zhuo admit it.

  Kong Zhan narrowed his eyes, the true yuan in his body circulated, and the smile on his face became even more gentle. These three people were able to chase after him, obviously they had come prepared.

  Although Ling Feng's words were polite, his tone was filled with an overbearing air that brooked no refusal. The question was, what made these three bastards so confident they could bring him back to Emei?!

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  "Big brother, what's the point of arguing with this kid? Just take him back directly!" The boisterous sword immortal on the side shouted out, he was extremely dissatisfied with Ling Feng being so polite.

  "This is a good idea!" Kong Zhuang glanced at the sword immortal and said, "I don't know what this senior's surname and name are!"

  "Emei Lingpu!" The sword immortal coldly shouted, and then with a flick of his sleeve, a white sword light shot towards Kong Zhuo's face.

  "What a joke!" Kong Zhuo's face turned cold, and with a raise of his hand, he deflected the sword light to one side.

  His body slightly retreated backwards, the third Emei swordsman standing behind him moved, his body slightly tilted, his hand raised, and a formless stream of energy blocked Kong Zhong's path.

  "Form up!"

  Ling Feng, who had been singing the white face, saw that his two younger brothers had taken action and naturally knew that it was useless to continue talking. He gave up the idea of continuing to persuade them and joined forces with his two younger brothers to set up a formation.

  Three Illusory Formless Array

  With a loud shout from Ling Feng, the three of them simultaneously emitted a green light, overlapping each other, transforming into the six images of Qian and Kun, unexpectedly trapping Kong Zhuo firmly within this light screen.

  "Interesting!" Kong Zhan's mouth twitched upwards, and he understood why these three people were so confident.

  These three formless arrays were set up, and they immediately cut off their connection with the yuan force of heaven and earth. Not to mention setting up a net, even sensing the earthly yuan force outside was impossible.

  Then it's just an illusion.

  The space that was originally formed by the light screen was very small, but soon after being trapped by Kong Zhuan, it suddenly burst out with a vast expanse of light, and what appeared before Kong Zhuan's eyes was an infinitely large space. This space emitted countless points of light, which quickly condensed into a boundless and mysterious world, with flowers, grass, trees, wood, water, and mountains, but without any spiritual energy.

  And the light screen around him had disappeared. Now Kong Zuo seemed to exist in the real world.

  Kong Zhan unfolded his body technique, transforming into a flowing light, attempting to forcibly break through the now vanished light curtain that had trapped him. However, he didn't expect that this world he thought was an illusion would turn out to be incredibly real. Unfolding his body technique only made him busy himself in vain. The space before him seemed endless, and after flying for a short while, he still couldn't see the end of it. Instead, he himself started to feel annoyed.

  The light screen in front of Ling Feng and the other two gradually dissipated, and in front of them, a triangular blue crystal floated in mid-air, each emitting a blue glow. The three crystals formed a larger transparent triangular space between them. Kong Zhuan was now inside this space, his body much smaller, like a headless fly circling around in the transparent triangular space, unable to find a way out or stop moving.

  "What a hassle!" Kong Zhuo was somewhat annoyed, muttered to himself, stopped his movement, and his body paused in mid-air for a moment before plummeting down towards the ground like a cannonball.

  "Boom——!" A loud noise, Kong Zhuo's feet heavily stomped on the ground, the grassland couldn't withstand this blow, and it violently shook. At the same time, several huge cracks opened up on the ground.

  "Hmmph——Pffft——!"

  Three Emei Sword Immortals' faces turned white almost simultaneously, and Ling Pu, who had the shallowest cultivation, couldn't hold back a mouthful of blood that he spat out, which landed on Ling Feng's face.

  "Calm your mind and maintain your spirit, begin to launch!" Ling Feng didn't even have the thought of wiping away the blood splattered on his face at this time.

  As his voice fell, the three triangular crystals in front of the three people all lit up.

  Kong Zhan's face changed almost simultaneously as he felt the pressure, an invisible pressure that came from all sides after his foot kicked the ground.

  "Hmm!" A cold hum, Kong Zhuo's sword flashed out of his hand and stabbed fiercely at the ground. The unmatched sword energy pierced through the earth and was about to pierce through the transparent space, but unexpectedly, the sword energy was blocked again.

  Ling Feng and his two companions saw Kong Zhuo's movement and shouted in unison, "Upper Qian, lower Earth, condense!"

  As soon as the word "condense" came out of his mouth.

  The space around Kong Zuo solidified, while Kong Zuo was like an insect trapped in amber, unable to move at all.

  "Damn, what kind of sorcery is this!" Kong Zhuan finally became serious, his body tempered by the Great Sun Crystal Golden Body Technique was not only incredibly strong, but also possessed extraordinary power. If it were just a matter of comparing strength, even all the cultivators in Middle-earth would be unable to resist him. With a single punch at full force, he could turn a mountain into dust. However, he had yet to reach the level where he could shatter space. But now, within this array that trapped him, space itself was solidified.

  "This little guy is quite difficult to deal with!" Ling Pu, who had just spat out a mouthful of blood, still looked pale, but his face was full of joy, and his tone was filled with great satisfaction. "However, being difficult to deal with doesn't matter, under our Three Illusory Formless Array, you'll still have to obediently surrender!"

  "Alright, no more nonsense!" Ling Feng's expression also relaxed, and with a wave of his hand, the transparent triangular space slowly shrank down, and Kong Zhuo inside it naturally also shrunk down along with it. In the end, it actually shrunk to the same size as the triangular shape in front of the three of them.

  The three of them exchanged a glance, nodded simultaneously, and with a simultaneous gesture, the three triangular crystals merged into one, combining with the previously miniaturized triangular prison that held Kong Zhong.

  The newly formed triangular shape is the same size as the previous three, but the color has changed to a transparent dark red. Kong Zhuo's figure also doesn't seem as clear and distinct as before, but rather somewhat blurry and faintly visible.

  Ling Feng stretched out his hand and beckoned, recalling the crystal into his palm. He took a glance at it and let out a soft sigh, "Let's go, this place is too conspicuous. If others find out, it'll be troublesome!"