Please call me Huanxian

Chapter 230: Fighting with wits instead of strength, disappearing before your eyes

I chatted with the rabbit for a while about the insights of the magic talismans. The two sides exchanged words invisibly, with both winning and losing, and each gaining something.

Xu Yuanchang closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then opened them again and did not continue drawing the magic talisman.

He slowly adjusted his breath to the best state, immersed himself in the state of illusion, and the misty and quiet air passed through the ring like a light fog. After several times, he once again grasped the mysterious feeling of "being helped by God". He silently realized the method of "using illusion to deceive the eyes".

Now that you've discovered a new use for the ring, it's time to try something different.

The whole person was shrouded in a hazy mist.

Without thoughts and without existence, one can see the true nature of the mind.

The subtle and invisible disturbances disappeared one after another, and he seemed to be left with only pure instincts.

A little bit of inspiration was tirelessly practicing brilliant magic.

The rabbit in the ring space was annoyed by the waves of shock, but no matter how loudly it shouted and jumped, it could not affect Xu Yuanchang who was in meditation and practicing illusion.

"That kid, is he refining the artifact space?"

A strange thought suddenly occurred to the rabbit, but he immediately denied it.

"Impossible, impossible. With the level of cultivation of this little fellow, it is already a stroke of luck for him to have a divine weapon recognize him as his master. He steps on dog shit every day when he goes out. How can he possibly be able to offer sacrifices to a divine weapon? He is too far away from that."

"That's not right. The little guy is using the artifact to practice, otherwise it can't affect the interior of the artifact space."

"When will this hard time end?"

The rabbit struggled for a while, let out a wail, and dived into the nest of colorful crystal stones.

Let the sky collapse and the earth turn upside down, no matter what, I am sleepy and want to get rid of my worries.

The small red willow tree in the corner of the guest courtyard swayed slightly, and Liu Xianfeng walked out of it. She realized that Fellow Daoist Xu's cultivation had entered a critical stage, and the fluctuations it emitted were quite large. She hurriedly cast a spell to strengthen the protection of that room and isolate it from any movement, so as not to disturb Fellow Daoist Xu's cultivation.

At noon the next day, I saw that Brother Xu had not finished his practice and left the house.

Liu Xianfeng asked Zeng Shanlang who was waiting to make his own arrangements, as he didn't know when Fellow Daoist Xu would wake up.

Monks may go into seclusion out of inspiration, sometimes quite suddenly.

Opportunities are rare, so please don't rush or disturb us.

Even if it is delayed for ten days or half a month, the speed of the rest of the journey will be accelerated. With Zeng Shanlang's leg strength, running 500 miles a day is no problem. However, Zeng Shanlang cannot use the time to practice Xuanjishu while traveling.

There is still enough time in the budget, so there is no need to worry about not being able to arrive at Nishihara Sendai Dojo within the specified time.

It was five days later when Xu Yuanchang suddenly woke up from his mysterious state. The calm energy stored in his body was almost exhausted, so he had to wake up.

As he came out of retreat, the rabbit in the ring space immediately sensed it and jumped out, shouting, "Master Xu Yuan, you almost tore the space apart, what's going on?"

Of course he was not afraid of the collapse of the artifact space, he was just taking advantage of the situation to find out what the human Taoist priests were doing?
He is curious sometimes, but he is just too idle.

Xu Yuanchang showed a comfortable smile. With the help of the magic ring, he immersed himself in it. He didn't know how long it took. Not only did he find the "illusion", he also learned the basic method of "using illusion to deceive the eyes" in that mysterious state.

If asked to explain how he learned it, he would be in a state of mystery that "cannot be expressed in words but can only be understood".

Once you know it, you know it. It's as natural as drinking water when you are thirsty. There is no reason to explain it.

The price he paid was that he had squandered all the tranquility that surrounded him.

It made him feel a little uncomfortable, as if he was not wearing a robe and was exposed to the public. It took him a long time to slowly calm down.

"Oh, sorry for disturbing Fellow Daoist Li's peace."

Xu Yuan said false polite words insincerely, and tried to speak in a calm tone: "I have learned the basic method of 'using illusions to deceive the eyes' during my retreat. Let me try it and see how it works."

As the magic was performed, his appearance and clothes suddenly changed, he looked rough and had a big beard.

Even his aura became strange, elusive and gave people the feeling that he was not easy to mess with.

This magic trick and Shi Wangchen's unique skill of Shinto transformation each have their own merits.

To cast the spell of illusion on himself, he does not need the magic stone as a medium, but consumes his magic power.

Tomorrow, he would try to use the magic stone as a medium to perform this technique on Zeng Shanlang to see how effective it is. He would already be 80% confident of being able to get through the thousands of mountains and hills.

After a long while, the rabbit said, "You can use the artifacts and treasures to practice illusion."

Xu Yuanchang pretended to be stupid and asked, "What artifact?"

Is the Dahuanxianguan Ring a magical artifact?

The rabbit said, "What does the treasure look like? Tell me about it, and I may be able to teach you how to use it correctly."

Xu Yuanchang laughed and said, "With my low level of cultivation, how can I have any magical weapon? Even if I have one, I can't use it. Brother Li, let's talk about something else. The 'Illusion Eyes' you taught me should have a follow-up."

He didn't want to reveal the four words "Dahuanxianguan" to an antique who lived thousands of years ago.

The rabbit suddenly didn't want to talk to the cunning little guy.

He refused to listen, kept talking about other things, and there was no point in talking.

……

It is early February at the western border of Jianshan Kingdom, and the spring breeze is finally arriving.

A spring rain brings green to the world, spreading to every corner of the desolate mountains and hills in the west. Scattered wild flowers bloom, swaying in the air, demonstrating the vitality.

Xu Yuanchang and Zeng Shanlang walked into Xiyang Market, exhausted.

We chose a fairly large inn to stay in.

This was their last stop on their way through Jianshan Kingdom. They had agreed with Nan Baolin, Meng Caiqin and others to meet up at the Wallless City in Shanyang Kingdom. People like Zhuang Yixie and Xue Chunni would meet up at another city and not take the same route.

"The man and woman we were following did not enter Xiyang Market. They went to the Mortal Town."

Liu Xianfeng stood in the guest courtyard, casting a spell at the red willow tree that was as tall as a person, communicating with the trees outside the market town.

Xu Yuanchang's face did not show any resentment for being followed all the way. He said, "According to the original plan, we will rest in the market until the afternoon of the day after tomorrow. Those people may have planted secret lines and are watching our movements in the market."

Liu Xianfeng was a little depressed and asked, "Master, why are they looking for trouble with us?"

"It's nothing more than for profit, or to seek revenge on us."

Xu Yuanchang doesn't take such things too seriously. He won't dwell on it if he can't figure it out. He believes that the truth will come out one day.

"Knock knock knock", there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard.

The two looked at each other and thought, they wouldn't come to their house so blatantly so soon, right?

His spiritual sense swept outside the courtyard gate and saw a beautiful woman in a plain dress, holding a delicate flower basket in her hand. The basket was covered with a piece of blue floral cloth, and there was something underneath. She was calling out to the courtyard: "Mu Ya from the Da Cang Dynasty, I am here to visit you, fellow Taoist."

Liu Xianfeng smiled and opened her mouth and silently gestured, "Sir, your peach blossom is here."

She hid in the red willow tree in the corner of the wall, and it was the young master's job to open the door and receive guests.

She quietly hid away and watched the show.

Zeng Shanlang, who was practicing boxing in the yard, quickly went into the west wing and bolted the door.

Xu Yuanchang walked forward, opened the gate, and looked at the woman outside through the wooden door. He had no intention of letting the strange woman in, and said, "I am very polite. I wonder what Fairy Mu is here for?"

He did not give his first name.

The woman looked weak and seemed to have a lot of experience in dealing with things. After returning the greeting, she took out a purple gold token to prove her identity and said with a sweet smile, "I am sorry for being so presumptuous. I hope you can forgive me. I am also a cultivator who has been practicing hard. I heard that there are many robber cultivators in the mountains ahead. The road is dangerous. I wonder if I can invite you to accompany me to cross it?"

Xu Yuanchang looked at the token carefully. This thing is not accurate. Any woman in the third floor can use it to fake it.

He refused without mercy: "I have already made an appointment with my companions, Fairy Mu, please find someone else."

The other party was able to find the door accurately, so they must have hired brokers to guard the intersections.

Seeing a monk from the third floor with a child entering the market, she could almost always find one. The woman smiled at the Taoist in green robe who was very cautious, and did not continue to pester him. She said "excuse me", picked up the flower basket and turned around to leave slowly.

Xu Yuanchang closed the gate to block out any prying eyes from outside.

Liu Xianfeng floated down to the yard and exclaimed: "'She is so graceful and charming, I feel pity for her'. Fellow Daoist Xu, you should invite her in. Let's close the door and interrogate her carefully, for example, whether there is any engagement..."

Xu Yuanchang interrupted with a smile: "Come here, I won't play you."

The little tree spirit had already run away with a giggle. She would not be fooled if she ate too much and her brain exploded.

That afternoon, Xu Yuanchang took Zeng Shanlang to wander around the small market town, going in and out of various shops. It was Liu Xianfeng who wanted to go shopping, hiding in a bamboo box, hoping to try his luck at finding a bargain, and the two of them were just there to accompany the guests.

I met the woman named Mu Ya on the street. She was walking and chatting with a burly man, and they seemed to be getting along very well.

The woman smiled and nodded to Xu Yuanchang in greeting.

After Xu Yuanchang responded, they went their separate ways.

He was not wary of Mu Ya, a stranger, but of everyone on the street.

The Shu family is extremely powerful in Jianshan State, and he now thinks no one is a good person.

When Xu Yuanchang was browsing the bookstore, he selected many books related to Thousand Mountains and the Shanyang Kingdom. He needed to learn more about them. He also bought a few more low-level fantasy stones when browsing the material shop.

When Zeng Shanlang was browsing in a weapons shop, he fell in love with a bronze carved magic hunting bow, which was paired with a pot of green feather magic arrows.

He took out three hundred spirit coins from his storage bag to buy it, and the money he had accumulated for a long time suddenly became empty.

Money is spent like water and the young man is hurting.

Liu Xianfeng, who really wanted to go shopping, arranged for Zeng Shanlang to look at countless items, but in the end he didn't buy any of them. In her words, "Once you've seen it, you own it."

She is very free and easy, she won't spend money recklessly.

Two days passed in the blink of an eye.

On a warm spring afternoon, Xu Yuanchang, dressed in a Taoist robe, walked down the market with a young man.

The two of them walked very fast and arrived at the outskirts of the Qianshan Hills a hundred miles away in about an hour. Looking around, they saw undulating low hills with patches of grass of different shades of dark and light. In the distance, it was gray, as if shrouded in invisible fog.

"They're following us again."

Liu Xianfeng reminded him through voice transmission, her teeth itching.

"Let's go."

Xu Yuanchang didn't care much and walked quickly along the foot of the hill, with Zeng Shanlang following closely behind him.

After walking for only a few miles, the two found themselves in an area of ​​chaotic spiritual energy that was everywhere, making people feel as if they were having difficulty breathing.

The man and woman behind also landed on the top of the mountain from the air. They didn't dare to continue flying, so they used the light body technique to follow them three miles away, and from time to time they observed from a high place the two figures walking in the valley ahead.

The sun sets and the sky gradually darkens.

The two suddenly found that there was only one figure left at the foot of the mountain at the bend ahead. Knowing something was wrong, they quickly sped up to catch up.

When they arrived, the night had enveloped the desolate mountains and wilderness, so where could they find anyone?
"What about people?"

"Just now it looked like it turned right. Let's look ahead."

However, the two men were anxiously searching the area over a radius of more than 20 miles, but the two people they were tracking mysteriously disappeared.

It is not advisable to use spiritual sense here. The crescent moon rises, and it is dim and cannot be seen far away.

In less than half an hour, three people arrived. One of them was a fat man in a white robe and brocade clothes. After asking about the situation, he scolded the two people who were following him.

"What's the use of you, you useless bastards? You can't even do the little things I asked you to do."

"Why don't you go find it quickly? What are you standing there for?"

"With the little guy in the Qi Induction Realm dragging him down, the Taoist priest surnamed Xu can't run far. Be careful. They may be hiding in a cave. No matter if there are people or not, throw the talisman at the cave when you see it to blow the cunning Taoist priest out. Don't be afraid of killing or injuring the child who is participating in the Bitter Path."

The fat man in white robe and brocade clothes stood on the top of the hill and got angry, and scolded several people away.

At the foot of the mountain in the southeast, about a mile away from the fat man, there was a forest formed by several short trees. Nearby were shrubs and green weeds. In the gap inside the forest grew a red willow tree, which was half a person's height, with branches and leaves hanging down like a canopy.

Xu Yuanchang and Zeng Shanlang sat cross-legged under a red willow tree, shrouded in darkness.

The aura on them changed with their appearance because of the magic they cast. The magic trick taught by the rabbit was truly amazing, and the red willow branches and leaves cast by Liu Xianfeng were used to conceal the magic.

The man and woman searched the area several times but found no trace of them.

Liu Xianfeng couldn't stand the fat man's arrogance, so he sent a message:

"That annoying fat guy, I wish I could catch him and beat him up with a golden camphor wood until his head is covered with lumps."

"Be patient and don't rush. Compete with wisdom instead of strength."

Xu Yuanchang transmitted the message calmly.

One of the black-robed monks who came with the fat man just now was the one who had followed them for many days, and there was still a phantom mark on his body.

He had previously conjured up an incarnation, turned right, and the incarnation disappeared with his thoughts, deliberately misleading the man and woman who were following him and making them confused and chase in the wrong direction.

Judging from the fat man's tone, it was guessed that it was a young master of the Shu family who actually brought people to arrest him.

Regardless of the life or death of the young man who was taking the hard-working path, it was obvious that he was used to being arrogant and domineering.

I don’t know what deep hatred I have against him?

A little impatience will ruin a great plan. The most urgent thing is to get out of the mountains and hills, unless you are blocked and have no way to retreat, then you can fight again.

Once he reaches the border of Shanyang State, the trouble caused by the Shu family will be easily resolved.

Hearing the occasional sound of talismans exploding in the distance, Xu Yuanchang waited silently.

About half an hour later, the four people who went out to search came back one after another and reported to the fat man that they had found nothing and suggested searching deeper.

The fat man got angry again and ordered one of them to go back to the nearest market and find a way to borrow a demon dog, use the collected aura, and dig three feet into the ground to find the Taoist priest.

The fat man followed the other three, cursing, and walked deep into the west of the rolling hills.

After waiting for a while, Xu Yuanchang and Zeng Shanlang, whose appearance had changed drastically, pulled away the branches and leaves, walked out of the forest, and left towards the south along the foot of the mountain.

The red willow tree that had made such great contributions quickly withered, lost its vitality, and finally turned into ashes.

After running quickly around the foot of the mountain for a hundred and twenty miles, Xu Yuanchang brought the young man to the vicinity of the famous chaos pit. They did not encounter any accidents along the way. The Shu family cultivators made such a big noise that even if there were robbery cultivators hiding in the dark, they would have retreated long ago.

They inserted the red willow branches deep in a copse, and after Liu Xianfeng cast a spell, the two of them went in and sat cross-legged.

Xu Yuanchang cast a spell to remove the illusion on the two people and calculated the time. When the crescent moon set in the west and there was still more than an hour before dawn, Xu Yuanchang cast an illusion on the two people again. After changing their appearance, he went west around the edge of the chaos pit in the dark.

We ran all the way until dawn.

Less than a hundred miles away from the mountains and hills, Xu Yuanchang simply found a patch of low woods to rest again.

At the critical moment, he didn't want to rush and make any mistakes.

The fat man who expanded the scope and searched all night by himself almost went crazy.

The borrowed demon dog sniffed the Taoist's scent, but it was of little use in the thousands of mountains and hills with chaotic spiritual energy. It searched around like a headless fly, but did not find any useful clues.

The fat man didn't believe it, so he assigned people to search for another day and interrogate several groups of monks who had traveled through thousands of mountains and hills on a painstaking journey, but still found nothing.

The men sent to several cities on the border of Shanyang State to inquire reported that the Taoist priest surnamed Xu did not show up.

The Taoist priest seemed to disappear out of thin air among the vast hills.

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(End of this chapter)