Chapter 1086: Was It By Manipulation by the G.o.ds or the Arrangement by the System?
s.h.i.+ Feixuan had always been the disciple chosen by Kind Boathouse to enter the world. This time, it was no exception. The person Kind Boathouse sent over after Happy activated the quest was her.
Right after Evil King finished speaking, a pet.i.te figure in white shot over lightly and landed at the heart of the lineup of Buddha statues. Her feet landed on the ground, and together with Happy and Evil King, they formed a tripart.i.te balance of forces.
“I, s.h.i.+ Feixuan of Kind Boathouse, greet Evil King on behalf of my senior sister.”
When she saw that Evil King was controlled by evil, s.h.i.+ Feixuan had her expression change slightly, and she frowned a little. She greeted Evil King calmly.
Happy frowned discreetly.
s.h.i.+ Feixuan wanted to use her senior sister to bring out Evil King’s other personality, but it was clear that she did not know that even the cl.u.s.ter of Buddha statues could not suppress the evil within Evil King. It was clear that the Willpower point had been added to his evil side, and not his kind side. Hence, it was impossible for s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s plan to work.
Just as Happy expected, when s.h.i.+ Feixuan mentioned her senior sister, a flash of red quickly flashed in Evil King’s eyes.
“You ignorant fool. Do all of you of the current generation in Kind Boathouse only know how to use these petty tricks?” He did not move, but his body vanished from where he stood like a phantom. Then, he appeared in front of s.h.i.+ Feixuan. He was so fast that s.h.i.+ Feixuan was caught slightly off guard.
She reflexively tightened her grip over her sword and retreated.
Bang!
Before she could draw her sword, Evil King swung his palm and violently interrupted s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s action. Her longsword was shoved back into her sheath, and soon, her body shuddered. With just one exchange, she managed to make Evil King suffer quite the large setback. The difference between the strength of those who were just at the beginning stage of Myth Realm and those who were at the peak of Myth Realm was revealed fully at that moment.
Happy was also stunned.
While the strength of his spiritual perceptual was so strong that it did not lose to the version of himself three years later, Happy quickly noticed that he had underestimated s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s strength.
The s.h.i.+ Feixuan three years later had already reached the middle stage of Myth Realm. Even when she faced Evil King, she could still stand against him and resist him a little, but this one did not seem to have become mature and strong.
‘d.a.m.n it!’ Happy reacted quickly. He scowled and attacked quickly.
When Evil King’s second palm strike was about to land on s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s body, Happy’s Dragon Saber came charging over.
It carried with it a sharp saber glare that could destroy everything, and even Evil King had to face it properly. He snorted, turned around, and glared at Happy. Then, with one backhand, he easily shattered the saber glare that filled the air.
The Spiral Force that was hidden within the slash stirred up the shattered saber glare and shattered Evil King’s Undying Seals. He cried out in surprise. “Spiral Force! How did you learn Kuo Zhong and Xu Zhiling’s Spiral Force?!”
Happy did not care about how surprised Evil King was. While he was under Moon in Well’s status, he executed a saber glare that brought with it a unique Spiral Force which did not fear Evil King’s Undying Seals. Happy masterfully and ingeniously used Moon in Well continuously. He occasionally attacked with Joined Finger as well, and he managed to fight to a standstill with Evil King.
s.h.i.+ Feixuan looked surprised by the side.
But Happy knew that he was only able to fight against Evil King because he mastered Tendon Changing Cla.s.sic, which allowed his strength to increase to Inaction Realm, and since he had Nine Yang Divine Skill, it allowed him to imitate multiple Myth Realm elites’ martial arts and could also provide him with waves of endless qi.
The other reason was because he had great experience in fighting against the Evil King over here. He had long since understood some of the tactics Evil King used. Even if Evil King fought at full strength, Happy had a countermeasure against it, such as Fire Qilin Blood.
When he thought of this, Happy reminded s.h.i.+ Feixuan of something with a grave voice, “Miss s.h.i.+, please go and activate the mechanism, and do it quick! I cannot block Evil King for long!”
His words allowed her to snap out of her daze.
It was only then that s.h.i.+ Feixuan remembered that her goal for this trip was to s.n.a.t.c.h the legacy left behind by the divine monk in Dafo Temple before Evil King. She instantly removed herself from the shock and surprise toward Happy’s strength.
She swept her gaze over the area.
s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s gaze landed on a flagstone at the heart of the formation.
But unfortunately, Happy was fighting against Evil King nearby.
Happy instantly noticed s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s hesitant and troubled gaze. He discreetly lured Evil King more than one hundred feet away.
s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s eyes lit up, and with a huge stride, she arrived at the heart of the formation. She pushed her fingers together, and with one palm strike, she crushed the flagstone.
In an instant, movement rapidly appeared below the cl.u.s.ter of Buddha statues.
Under Evil King, Happy, and s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s grave gazes, the thousands of Arhat statues in the area slowly turned and started moving.
Four stone plates rose up the heart of the formation.
“I found it!”
Once s.h.i.+ Feixuan spoke, an astonis.h.i.+ng, mighty pressure and qi wave suddenly rose from Evil King. Happy was caught off guard, and he was pushed back by the force.
“Miss s.h.i.+, be careful!”
When he saw that Evil King had cast him aside to appear behind s.h.i.+ Feixuan like a phantom, Happy was shocked.
At that moment, s.h.i.+ Feixuan finally showed the strength in Clear Sword and the wisdom of the successor of Kind Boathouse. Without even turning her head around, she executed Clear Sword, and her sword released a light that was as bright as the moon. In an instant, she pierced through Evil King’s seal. At the same time, she flung a hand, and she slapped away the four flawless, white stone plates that showed up.
Whoos.h.!.+ Whoos.h.!.+ Whoos.h.!.+ Whoos.h.!.+
Two white stone plates shot out and landed in the depths of the Arhat Formation that had been activated.
One of the remaining two white stone plates shot to the left, and the last one went to the right.
But Evil King could be said to have reacted incredibly quickly.
He went in the direction where the first two stone plates went. When he jumped over s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s head, he struck s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s shoulder lightly, and s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s veil was dyed red with blood. The veil flew in the air, but s.h.i.+ Feixuan still used the force in Evil King’s strike to fly to one of the white stone plates she sent flying.
When he saw this, Happy, who had been wondering about whether he should chase after Evil King, was suddenly stunned.
One second later, Happy tapped against the ground, and without any hesitation, he chose to run in the other direction where s.h.i.+ Feixuan was, where the last, lone stone plate was and which Evil King as well as s.h.i.+ Feixuan never bothered to check.
If there was anyone else in the area, when they saw the three people charge to three different directions, they would definitely find it incredibly strange.
But that was what happened.
When Evil King saw that the four stone plates split up, his first target was naturally the two stone plates which were stuck closely together, since that meant he could multiple stone plates in one go.
And s.h.i.+ Feixuan knew that she could not stop Evil King, but she did not want Evil King to get all the stone plates either. Hence, even though she was injured badly, she still resolutely wanted to seize one stone plate back to Kind Boathouse.
And Happy, the protagonist of the quest…
Originally, Happy’s goal was to get all four stone plates.
But because of his carelessness, the system had actually set him up.
s.h.i.+ Feixuan was not strong enough to fight against Evil King. In fact, she did not even have the strength to face him, and she was already injured badly. They had to face a large group of Arhat Buddha statues in the Arhat Formation later, and they were all at Myth Realm. Happy believed that he was still not strong enough to fight against the Arhat Formation and Evil King at the same time.
However, when Happy saw the distribution of the four stone plates, in an instant, he thought of something.
The distribution of the stone plates in this world seemed to have mysteriously coincided with the distribution of stone plates three years later.
Everything seemed to have been scripted.
Perhaps it was due to some force of power in the dark, Evil King gained two stone plates again, and Kind Boathouse gained one plate. Only one plate could possibly land in the player’s hands.
When he saw this situation, Happy’s first thought was that the system had set this up this way since a long time ago. The player was only allowed to get one martial art from the quest.
Even if the player was too strong, other situations might still appear.
For example, even if he fought against s.h.i.+ Zhixuan head-on, not only would s.h.i.+ Zhixuan’s strength reach terrifying degrees, if he started fleeing, perhaps no one in the world would be able to chase after him.
As for s.h.i.+ Feixuan, even though she was currently heavily injured, Kind Boathouse was a mysterious and unfathomable organization. Aside from s.h.i.+ Feixuan, who wandered around the world of martial artists, no one knew where its other members were. Provoking Kind Boathouse was clearly not a wise decision.
The instantaneous series of thoughts allowed Happy to quickly make his decision.
However, Happy made another incredibly bold decision at that moment.
At the same time he chased after the stone plate, he quickly wrote a letter to Young Yu Yan, who was outside the Arhat Formation, to ask her about whether it was possible for her to activate a quest to help s.h.i.+ Feixuan.
While he was airborne, he swung his brush.
[s.h.i.+ Feixuan is injured badly! Help her!]
Flap flap flap!
A snow-white messenger pigeon charged into the sky.
Even though s.h.i.+ Feixuan was injured badly and the possibility of her charging out of Arhat Formation was not great, Kind Boathouse was a sacred place for Buddhists, and his instincts told him that while s.h.i.+ Feixuan had the strength to leave the Arhat Formation, it was still unknown whether she could return to Kind Boathouse safely.
To Young Yu Yan, this was a chance!
*****
Thud!
At the moment his feet landed on the ground, Happy’s eyes landed on the stone plate, and his eyes sparkled brightly. But soon, his heart returned to the calm state granted to him in Moon in Well, and he was as calm as the water in old wells.
He knew that from the moment he touched the stone plate, he must get ready to rush out of the Arhat Formation.
*****
Young Yu Yan released the messenger pigeon in her hands.
Whoos.h.!.+
She tapped against the ground, and Young Yu Yan gently landed on the head of the Arhat Buddha statue that was at the outermost layer of the formation.
When she looked down from above, she soon noticed three abnormal sights among the cl.u.s.ter of Buddha statues.
The sounds in one place were incredibly loud, and the Arhat Buddha statues over there all shattered as if they were placed in a grinder.
Evil King!
In another direction was a familiar presence. The fierce and domineering saber will from Dragon Saber and the Ten Styles for War, which allowed its user to advance with an indomitable momentum… was definitely from Happy!
The third direction was different. The Arhat Buddha statues over there were the only ones not attacking even though they turned around nonstop.
A snow-white figure traveling lightly moved about different Arhat Buddha statues. Even though she seemed to be in grave danger, she was progressing much faster compared to Evil King and Happy, and she was breaking out of the formation much more smoothly.
‘s.h.i.+ Feixuan.’
Once she was certain of her target, Young Yu Yuan stomped on the head of the statue and jumped to the direction where s.h.i.+ Feixuan was without hesitation.
*****
It was just as Happy expected.
Even though s.h.i.+ Feixuan managed to stagger out of the Arhat Formation, the successor of Kind Boathouse looked in an incredibly bad condition after she lost her veil. Her face was pale, and right after she rushed out, her body immediately became limp, and the stone plate in her hands quivered because she could not hold it tightly.
But this did not affect s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s wariness to her surroundings.
“Who is it?!”
Right when the sound of sleeves fluttering entered her ears, s.h.i.+ Feixuan immediately forced her true qi out and got up from the ground, but it was clear that she had a hard time even holding her sword.
“It’s me, Miss s.h.i.+.”
“Miss Yu Yan, it’s you.”
It was only at that moment that s.h.i.+ Feixuan noticed that the person who came over was Young Yu Yan, whom she met a few times. Her heart relaxed, and she instantly lost the last bit of strength supporting her. Her body fell limp against the ground.
“Miss s.h.i.+! Please wake up…”
Young Yu Yan was stunned! She did not expect that s.h.i.+ Feixuan would be injured so badly…
“Evil King is about to arrive soon. Send me to an inn called Fate with Wealth, hurry.” Before she fell unconscious, s.h.i.+ Feixuan finally issued a quest.
Young Yu Yan cast a glance at the stone plate disappearing from s.h.i.+ Feixuan’s arms before she cast a glance at the unconscious person. She frowned, took the quest, picked up s.h.i.+ Feixuan, and with a few jumps, quickly went to the nearest city.
Right when Young Yu Yan left into the distance with s.h.i.+ Feixuan, Evil King broke out of the formation with a bang.
His gaze focused, and he stared at the direction in which Young Yu Yan disappeared with a ruthless gaze.
However, before Evil King could do anything, a loud sound rose. An Arhat Buddha statue crumbled, and while shattered stone pieces flew in the air, a black figure shot out of the formation from a spot near the stones.
Happy entered s.h.i.+ Zhixuan’s field of vision with a white stone plate.