The Second Department Provincial City Chapter 52: Zhen Lan Xuan

  Under the Seven-eye Bridge, the river water is rippling, and the gentle breeze on the shore is pleasant.

  Qin Zi gently lowered her body, rolled up her sleeves, and stretched her slender white arm into the river to pick a few water lilies. She lightly bit her lower lip and slowly said: "I'm asking you to think carefully, since someone is taking care of you, I don't worry, it's just..."

  Yi Tian Xing saw that her tone suddenly revealed a little girl's emotions, and he couldn't help but feel a wave of emotion in his heart. He thought to himself that asking for too much was not possible, and playing with a little ambiguity seemed to be unfair to his own wolfish nature, but if he could often look at such an endearing girl, it wouldn't be bad either.

  Just as I was thinking about it, I heard Qin Zi's next sentence.

  "There is something at your place that I want."

  "The tone of your speech is quite unpleasant." Yi Tianxing shook his head and said, "If you're borrowing, your attitude should be better."

  "It's not borrowing, it's taking." Qin Zi said seriously.

  Yitian Xing looked at the woman's expression, slightly furrowed his brow, and knew that Jixiang Tian still couldn't let go of the kasaya in Guanyuan Temple. After a moment's thought, he replied: "There was indeed such a clause in the previous bet, but you didn't win. Moreover, what you want is not mine to begin with, I'm unable to give it to you."

  Qin Zi looked at this young man, feeling more and more that something was off. Looking at his face with a rogue expression, he didn't take the mysterious and unpredictable Tian Xiang as a threat at all. She couldn't help but secretly speculate about what he relied on. How could she have known that Yi Tian Xing fundamentally didn't have this concept of competing sects? Life and death struggles seemed to be still far away from his world. His words were somewhat arrogant and overbearing.

  A few days ago, she secretly investigated Yi Tianxing's cultivation and found that this student was just like an ordinary young master, muddle-headed and passing the days in a daze. If it weren't for knowing that he had extremely abundant fire elements in his body and that he had entered and exited the Return to Origin Temple several times, which was considered a forbidden path by many, she wouldn't have dared to believe that Yi Tianxing was also a cultivator.

  Yi Tianxing saw that she didn't speak and felt a bit strange.

  Qin Zisi thought for a moment and found that she still had to be more direct with this student, so she smiled slightly and said: "Since you won't give it to me, I'll just take it by force."

  After several days of retreat in the Temple of Return, Yi Tianxing's cultivation had greatly increased. Master Bin Ku had also said before that within the top three heavenly gates, except for a few exceptional experts, no one would pose a threat to oneself. Therefore, when he heard these words, he only felt that this girl was somewhat cute and naive, never thinking that such a delicate little girl could snatch something from his abnormal hands, so he chuckled and tied his shoelaces, ready to leave.

  Took another step forward.

  I felt something strange happening around me.

  The waves that had been crashing against the rocks beneath the Seven-Eyed Bridge all year round suddenly stopped in an instant, and the willow branches swaying gently in the breeze along the riverbank also fell silent at the same moment.

  He turned back in astonishment, but still saw only Qin Zi's beautiful profile and those few strands of hair.

  "I set up a small barrier, it can last for about half an hour."

  Qin Zifei said lightly, but the aura around her gradually became heavier.

  Yi Tian Xing furrowed his brow, only then did he realize that the woman in front of him had a rather high cultivation level, and it was faintly making him feel a bit afraid.

  He patted his belly, forced a smile and said: "I'm a natural-born genius, I don't want to bully you little girl. I heard that the young master of Jixiangtian is a genius in the cultivation world, why not change plans and have tea with him another day?"

  Qin Zi heard his words and smiled slightly. The orchid he had just picked by the river fell gently from his palm.

  When the orchid floated gently in the air, her right palm unfolded in front of her chest, and the shadow of her fingers seemed to overflow with orchid fragrance, gradually unfolding.

  And that orchid also suddenly disappeared in the process of falling down.

  The next moment, a faint misty aura like cyan jade appeared in Qin Zi's palm.

  Yi Tianxing couldn't recognize that this was the auspicious heavenly secret method borrowed from Daoism, the "True Orchid String" among the three spiritual string methods, but his intuition told him: something big is not right.

  His movements were too fast. The moment this thought emerged, a pair of iron feet had already kicked the ground by the river, and with a loud noise, the large stone on the riverbank was crushed by him in one foot. And he also borrowed this powerful force, his whole person was shaken into mid-air, slanting forward.

  He had previously heard the woman mention a boundary, so he thought it was the kind of blue Fudo-maru circle in the Guiyuan Temple, and he covered his face with both hands, then charged forward like a cannonball, hoping to break through this boundary.

  But his body slid through the air for a long time, yet it was empty and touched nothing.

  He was knocked flying by his own strength for a full three or four seconds, and at his speed, he should have run into something hundreds of meters away... but still nothing!

  His internal fire was in a state of micro-disorder, and he had actually fallen down to the ground.

  Another muffled sound.

  Yitianxing patted his butt and got up from the ground, only to discover... the chair he was sitting on earlier had been crushed by his own noble buttocks.

  It turns out that I was actually skydiving in a distant place!

  "What is this barrier?" Yi Tianxing's face turned solemn as he coldly said to Qin Zhi.

  Qin Zimo was silent, his right hand flat on his chest, and his left hand drew a beautiful light circle. Inside the boundary, the frozen willow branches suddenly moved towards Yitian Xing's body.

  Yi Tianxing's physical body was dozens of times more agile than that of an ordinary person. It wasn't easy for him to be entwined by these willow branches, but he dodged and weaved through the dense thicket like a flash of lightning, his movements swift and effortless.

  Qin Zhi furrowed his brow, placing his palm in front of him with the back of his hand facing upwards. The faint mist on his palm began to rise.

  "Bind!"

  As she shouted, Yi Tianxing suddenly felt the air around him becoming sticky, his speed greatly restricted. Before he could react, he was tightly bound by the dense willow branches.

  Qin Zi saw that he struggled slightly and couldn't move, so she lightly moved her lotus steps closer to him and said: "Ji Xiang Tian doesn't want to be an enemy with you either, it's just that some things need this Heavenly Cloak for now, please forgive me."

  Yitian Xing suddenly lifted his head, which had been lowered, and a sly smile still lingered on his face: "I'm often tied up too, I don't know if it's because I have the potential to be a bondage enthusiast."

  After saying this erotic remark, Qin Zhi was only two steps away from him.

  He shook his arms, and the willow branches on his body snapped inch by inch. He pounced towards Qin Zi, his hands flashing out like lightning, grasping Qin Zi's neck.

  "The iron lotus of the Guiyuan Temple can't bind me, let alone these fake willows." Yi Tianxing boasted to the beauty while carefully staring at the smoke ring in her palm. He always felt that there was a very terrifying power hidden inside, and he didn't dare to be careless.

  "A cultivator like you, how can you have a physique like this?" Qin Zi was shocked and then smiled slightly: "Since you can see that it's a fake body, then you've only broken the physical body, but where can you break the spiritual body?"

  Yi Tian Xing's fingers pressed against her neck, Huo Yuan was about to speak but didn't, only feeling a softness at the point of contact, and somewhat distracted. Upon hearing this sentence, his heart became vigilant, yet he saw Qin Zi smile slightly and place her right palm on top.

  This move was equivalent to five fingers gently lifting a wisp of smoke that couldn't be described in words.

  Gently scoop up.

  Yi Tian Xing's body suddenly felt a surge of pressure, as if the number of willow branches on him had increased exponentially. Although he knew there wasn't a single branch on him, he felt as though countless unyieldingly tough branches were binding him, and they were constantly constricting.

  He grunted and his muscles tensed up, barely withstanding this strange and eerie void power.

  He turned his head again, only to see that Qin Zi had already left the palm of his hand and was standing several steps away, looking at him with a coquettish expression.

  "It's no use struggling." Qin Zi said calmly.

  Yi Tianxingsuddenly hummed, and the true yuan in his body was rapidly circulating. He didn't believe this evil thing - something that couldn't be seen with the naked eye could bind him? But Qin Ziyu's Daoist secret method "True Lan Xuan" was indeed formidable. The shadowy threads were everywhere, binding him tightly, and when he exerted force, he found himself from head to toe, entirely entangled in a strange power struggle, as if all 36,000 pores on his body were competing with this extremely fine power.

  But this extremely subtle opposition was really difficult for him, a rough and unpolished cultivator, to grasp.

  Subtleties are hard to grasp, and accumulation of sand can form a tower. The overall balance of power also appears chaotic.

  And in the confrontation of magic, what matters most is order.

  Yi Tianxing was unable to grasp the order of his own power, and at this moment, he had a thousand jin of golden dragon elephant strength, but he could only struggle east and west, exerting his strength in vain. Every time he collided, it seemed as if countless powers were unleashed. Alas, these powers seemed to be entirely stuck in the mud, and within the slippery texture, there was an extremely mysterious and subtle force at work, making it impossible for him to break free from this constraint.

  Yi Tianxing slightly calmed his mind and stood honestly within the boundary constructed by Qin Ziyu.

  "What kind of reason is this?" He also wouldn't let go of the opportunity to ask for advice in this situation.

  "You have a strong physique and infinite fire element, but you don't know how to use them. In the three days you spent in Guanyuan Temple cultivating your Tao, you only learned some internal cultivation methods, but when it comes to external control, even a child among cultivators is better than you. Using your true yuan like this without any method or discipline is like an oil field that's been set on fire - it burns fiercely and looks impressive, but it's completely useless. A real master would of course know how to use the oil where it should be used, making every burn a source of power."

  After she finished saying this, she slightly loosened her right palm's five fingers, and Yi Tianxing also felt the restraints on his body loosen a bit. However, he didn't dare to make any sudden movements, although he was somewhat resentful of her disdain. But upon discovering the situation, it seemed that reason was also on her side, leaving him no choice but to acquiesce.

  Fortunately, I'm not afraid of being beaten up.

  Yitian Xing comforted himself in his heart, and joked on the surface: "It turns out that cultivation is burning oil, no wonder the Tibetan disciples are used to offering butter lamps."

  Qin Zi slowly walked forward and said in a low voice: "Being poor with words is a bad habit."

  She held up her right palm like a lotus leaf, gently suspending the wisp of smoke in mid-air, then lightly snapped her left fingers.

  With a snap of his fingers, a slight disturbance appeared in the air, and a loud humming noise erupted from within the barrier.

  Yi Tian's eyebrows furrowed, his body bound by an invisible aura like a drunken shrimp. Under the effect of his extremely terrifying power, he finally sprang up, his waist and abdomen suddenly exerting force, sending him flying from the ground to mid-air, narrowly avoiding several whistling wind blades.

  But two of them still didn't dodge, tearing through his clothes and leaving a shallow gray mark on his body.

  Yi Tian Xing felt a wave of sharp pain on his shoulder, and he was shocked. He thought to himself that the woman's finger summoning wind blades had almost the same power as bullets. Thinking about her method of conjuring a boundary, her control over the air, he couldn't help but feel terrified. He wondered what role this girl played in Jixiang Tian, how she could be so formidable, and he found himself unable to think of any way to counter her.

  Qin Zi saw that he could still move, and his expression was slightly astonished. Seeing the wind blades slash at his body, he involuntarily took a step forward, seemingly quite concerned about his life and death. Until finally seeing him twisting on the ground like a drunken shrimp, he couldn't help but smile faintly: "I have no ill intentions, if you don't dodge, these few wind blades will only cut through your clothes."

  Yi Tian Xing's heart was shocked, only now did he admit that the opponent had enough strength to harm himself. After realizing this point, he couldn't help but sigh that the world is vast and full of wonders, and the seemingly weak little girl in front of him turned out to be a cultivator with an even more profound True Yuan than Bi Xi.

  His heart was icy, but his face still wore a harmless and innocent smile.

  "You're so beautiful, do you need to use this method to flirt? I'll teach you some good moves, as long as you're willing to try them out. You don't have to undress me, I'll willingly transform into a pervert myself..."

  Qin Zi's brow furrowed slightly, her right hand's five fingers curled in, and the misty palm was pinched into a flat shape by her slender, green onion-like fingers.

  Yi Tian Xing felt the air around his body suddenly tighten, and the words he was about to say were abruptly cut off. He only felt that every inch of his skin was under tremendous pressure, and his clothes were pressed against him like the tin foil on a cigarette pack, wrinkled and tightly stuck to his body.

  He didn't want to be tied up like this, thinking of a solution in his heart, silently reciting scriptures. At this time, the true yuan in his body was running rapidly like a whirlpool, but unfortunately, the true energy in his body was insufficient, and every part of his skin felt pressure, every muscle was trembling slightly, he couldn't exert his strength at all, just like struggling desperately at the bottom of the deep sea.

  "Think thus, and don't let your mind wander!"

  He muttered to himself in his own sea of consciousness, the thought-provoking Dharma that he had never fully grasped while meditating on the Three Flavors Sutra suddenly opened a crack in the door for him in this desperate situation. As he lightly chanted the sutra, Yi Tianxing relaxed his control over the True Yuan within his body, allowing it to flow slowly with the external pressure, hiding in the natural way, following the Buddha's heart without obstacles, and the True Yuan gradually returned to being under control, and the chaotic phenomenon slowed down.

  Taking advantage of the opportunity, he activated his magical portal, and a surge of fiery energy burst forth from within him. With a low growl, he raised his finger slightly, and three extremely high-temperature crimson flames shot out in succession towards where Qin Zi was standing.

  Qin Zi indeed had great magical powers, and with a gentle wave of her left hand from top to bottom in front of herself, a smooth icy surface like a mirror suddenly appeared without warning right in front of her.

  Hehe sounds echoed, and the ice surface completely melted away. The three scarlet flames summoned by Yitian Xing also vanished without a trace.

  But it was at this moment that Yi Tianxing felt the external pressure that had been piercing through everything, slightly alleviated. The previous overwhelming pressure, as the air around him slowly compressed, his body was fine, only his eardrums were a bit painful from the shock, buzzing with a humming sound.

  At this time the pressure gradually decreased, and his consciousness became clear again. He raised his head to see that the incredibly fierce little girl had a faint blush on her cheeks, and she turned her body sideways.

  Yi Tian Xing was taken aback, and subconsciously lowered his head to look, only to see that due to the pressure in the air, his clothes were tightly stuck to his skin, clearly outlining a certain unseemly area.

  He lifted his head and smiled foolishly at Qin Zi, who had turned her face away.

  This smile, however, threw away the bit of truth he had just realized, and also missed this rare opportunity.

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