The Emperor Reigns Them All Chapter 166 Deathtrap 1

It was raining and thundering at night. Lightning occasionally illuminated the restless refugees' faces under the eaves of the courier station.

Hundreds of steps away from the courier station, a person with an umbrella was walking towards the courier station on the broad official road.

The umbrella was the most common oil-paper umbrella, and its surface was painted with green lotus leaves and pink lotuses. The hand that held the umbrella was scarlet, and the fingers were slender and long. The woman under the oil-paper umbrella was tall, and her legs which were longer than one meter walked forward step by step.

The woman with the umbrella was accompanied by a middle-aged Taoist with a sword on his back. The Taoist put his hands in his sleeves and glanced at the courier station occasionally with a calm look. He didn't have an umbrella, but neither did he get wet. A gust of wind brushed his face, but his dry clothes and hair didn't flutter at all.

"You don't have to come," the Senior Priestess spoke first, slightly dissatisfied.

"I have to come," the middle-aged Taoist said calmly.

"Master doesn't trust us?" The Senior Priestess frowned.

"A little bit," the middle-aged Taoist said bluntly.

"Why?" The Senior Priestess held back her anger.

"Your strength," the middle-aged Taoist answered.

"Master doesn't trust our strength, but trust yours?" The Senior Priestess sneered.

"With me, the master can rest a.s.sured."

"I don't understand."

"You should understand."

The Senior Priestess stopped and looked far away at the courier station with dim light, silent for a while. "The Black Office does arrive at Lai Prefecture, but so what? There are only three cultivators around Cui Keli, and only one person is worth our attention."

The middle-aged Taoist also stopped. "Is it the one who fought against you in the Jimo Villa or the one with the peach wood sword on his back?"

The Senior Priestess said, "The one with the peach wood sword on his back is just in middle-level Qi-refining. Even though he is the disciple of that man, there is nothing to fear now."

The middle-aged Taoist didn't comment.

The Senior Priestess turned to look at him. "Who on earth is the black-robed childe we fought?"

The middle-aged Taoist said, "This is the reason why master dispatched me here."

The Senior Priestess asked, "What do you mean?"

The middle-aged Taoist answered, "I don't know."

The Senior Priestess said, "Is he the man of the Black Office?"

The middle-aged Taoist said, "The Black Office cannot be underestimated."

The Senior Priestess sneered.

The middle-aged Taoist said, "The new commissioner of Pinglu is Prince An Li Ye. Although he hasn't arrived at Lai Prefecture, he has already disrupted Pinglu Jianghu. He is up to no good. We all looked down on him before."

The Senior Priestess asked, "It's just because of Qi Prefecture and the Black Office?"

The middle-aged Taoist said, "Isn't that enough?"

The Senior Priestess said, "How much trouble can they make?"

The middle-aged Taoist said, "The Black Office has issued 23 invitations within three days, and all the people who have accepted the invitations stay at the place, including the w.a.n.g family."

The Senior Priestess was stunned.

She asked, "Have you seen them?"

The middle-aged Taoist answered, "Why should I see them? What I want to meet is the Black Office."

The Senior Priestess said, "Are there men of the Black Office at the courier station?"

The middle-aged Taoist said, "Maybe."

The Senior Priestess said, "And if so?"

The middle-aged Taoist said, "Kill them, of course."

The Senior Priestess said, "How many people did master dispatch to deal with the Black Office?"

The middle-aged Taoist said, "It doesn't matter how many people were sent, and the important thing is that enough people were sent to get rid of the Black Office."

The Senior Priestess said, "The Cui family has already accepted the invitation and made it clear that they will follow his orders. If the black-robed childe is really from the Black Office, then Cui Keli must be protected by the Black Office secretly."

The middle-aged Taoist said, "I intend to make them expose, and then I will track down the Black Office."

The Senior Priestess said, "Will they really show up?"

The middle-aged Taoist said, "They have already appeared."

Seven or eight cultivators in cyan robes had already appeared from both sides of the courier station and were walking towards the Senior Priestess and the middle-aged Taoist from the official road.

The middle-aged said, "I have a question."

The Senior Priestess said, "You have enough time to ask."

The middle-aged Taoist asked, "Why do you have an umbrella?"

The Senior Priestess smiled brightly. "Because it's beautiful."

Not only the oil-paper umbrella but also the sword light suddenly appearing was beautiful.

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"You've chosen a good place."

Li Ye said to the Junior Priestess, stopping at a wilderness clearing.

The ground was level under his feet, and the wild gra.s.s was knee-high all around him. But at the other end of the clearing, more than a hundred steps away from him, there was a forest at the foot of the hill. The Junior Priestess stood on the treetop and looked at him, without saying a word.

Even if they were quite far apart, Li Ye seemed to see her clear eyes clearly, her eyes like the first snowflakes falling on the vast land.

Li Ye didn't have to worry about the attack because of the more than 100 meters of empty s.p.a.ce around him, but there was no doubt that the Junior Priestess who was 100 steps away from him would be a greater threat than it.

Penglai Taoist sect had existed for thousands of years with thousands of cultivators and made arrangement for the chaotic world beforehand, but very few cultivators had achieved Level 9 of Qi-refining. As far as Li Ye knew, apart from the headmaster of Penglai who had reached the Spiritual Master Realm, only the current chief disciple of Penglai had achieved Level 9 of Qi-refining before the Senior and Junior Priestesses appeared.

The Junior Priestess stood on the treetop quietly and didn't hurry to fight perhaps because she was waiting for Li Ye to move first.

Li Ye wasn't in any rush either.

Although he had come so far from the courier station, he could not help worrying about it. However, he knew better even if the Senior Priestess wasn't here, the opponent in the front was able to kill him.

The distance of 100 steps was neither too long nor too short, so Li Ye could rush there in two steps, but it was also the best distance for the Junior Priestess to launch "Flying Leaves and Flowers". Her fighting style was dominated by the ranged attack, but she was agile and her speed was unpredictable. Li Ye knew that even if he rushed forward at the fastest speed, he wasn't sure that he could touch her clothes.

This was a formidable enemy.

Facing a formidable enemy, he had to fight.

Li Ye's look became serious. A wisp of Spiritual Qi was injected into the Luke sword, lighting up the dense runes on the sword. Cyan light was flas.h.i.+ng on the sword. In an instant, the long sword itself was invisible, and only the cyan light was s.h.i.+ning indistinctly.

He dashed out.

And at this time, with a calm look, the Junior Priestess had already raised her delicate arm to outline a pattern of Yin and Yang in front of her which seemed unreal, taking the pulsating Spiritual Qi on her index finger as the pen.

She timed it perfectly. If the enemy didn't move, she wouldn't move, but if the enemy wanted to move, she would move first.

Li Ye, who had stepped forward, had been staring at the Junior Priestess. When he saw her move, he was alarmed by the great threat, which forced him to retreat and do a backward somersault in the air. "D*mn it, this strike again!"

The quiet wilderness changed suddenly, and the ground shook. Countless wild gra.s.s turned into pieces and shot up from the ground. Under the wild gra.s.s, a huge pattern of Yin and Yang appeared suddenly, the cyan light on the pattern like auroras.

Wielding his sword down in the air, Li Ye smashed the flying flowers and gra.s.s under his feet. Sword Qi fell on the ground fiercely and plowed a huge gap on the pattern of Yin and Yang, dust flying everywhere.

After she finished the pattern of Yin and Yang, behind the veil, a gleam of shrewdness flashed in the Junior Priestess' eyes which were brighter than gems. All of a sudden, her momentum rose sharply, her clothes and purple hair fluttering backward. Once the murderous atmosphere appeared, it filled the air!

Several clear and deep sounds exploded around Li Ye. In the air, four huge patterns of Yin and Yang emerged on all four sides of him, which seemed to block the s.p.a.ce!

When Li Ye looked at the Junior Priestess in surprise, her fingers were changing rapidly and her movement of making seals was too fast to see clearly. Ony waves of Spiritual Qi jumped up and down like the flexible notes on the movement!

Li Ye's eyes were wide open, and the ground beneath his feet was exploding rapidly, making noises one after another. Chains of leaves broke through the earth and swept towards him in all directions!

All directions were cut off by the patterns of Yin and Yang and there were chains of leaves in all directions, so Li Ye would be attacked no matter how much he dodged. Moreover, as long as he paused slightly, he would be killed by the countless chains of leaves!

Li Ye cursed a dirty word and said to the Junior Priestess resentfully, "Chains of Flying Leaves Formation! D*mn it! You use your ultimate skill at the very beginning!"

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"Can the Junior Priestess kill that guy? I've heard that he has fought a few strikes against you two at Jimo Villa."

Outside the courier station, in the face of the approaching cultivators, the middle-aged Taoist leisurely took down the long sword on his back and took time to chat with the Senior Priestess.

The Senior Priestess twitched her mouth and sneered. "No matter how powerful he is, how can a guy in Level 7 of Qi-refining resist the Junior Priestess' attacks? He was able to fight a few strikes against us just because his fighting ability was obviously higher than his cultivation realm and we underestimated him."

The middle-aged Taoist responded, "Really?"

The Senior Priestess' face darkened. "You should know the Junior Priestess' temperament. Although she is quiet and indifferent and seemingly aloof in daily life when has she ever admitted defeat? Last time, she was very unhappy. This time, she asked to fight the guy alone and to keep the battlefield away from here so that neither of us could get involved in it. She was trying to regain the dignity that she had lost that day."

The middle-aged Taoist held his sword in front of him and his two fingers wiped the sword to light up the dense runes one by one outlining the pattern of a group of cranes soaring in the clouds. Facing the seven or eight cultivators who were rus.h.i.+ng towards him, he wielded his sword calmly. "As long as the Junior Priestess tries her best, I can rest a.s.sured. When she is serious, I dare not to confront her Chains of Flying Leaves Formation"

The middle-aged Taoist was Zhang Yunhe, the current chief disciple of Penglai.

He chopped down his sword so that no more rain fell within 60 meters in front of him.

There was no more rain around.

Only a flapping white crane appeared out of nowhere, craning its neck to chirp, as if it wanted to fly up to the sky!

The seven or eight cultivators were rus.h.i.+ng towards them. Some of them were about to jump out; some of them were about to wield the swords; some of them were making incantation gestures with their hands, but now all of them froze at the place!

Suddenly, the white crane flew up to the sky and the heavy rain fell. The sound of wind and rain sounded again.

When the first drop of rain fell on their shoulders, the seven or eight cultivators fell on the mud one after another, without so much as moving their fingers.

The Senior Priestess glanced at Zhang Yunhe, speechless. "Is this group of insects worth fighting with your 'Crane Qi Incantation' and making such a big movement?"

Zhang Yunhe retrieved his long sword and walked towards the courier station with his hands clasped behind his back. "It is to frighten them."

The Senior Priestess sneered, but she still followed him up.

After the launch of "Crane Qi Incantation", Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang appeared at the door of the courier station in succession. They saw the white crane soar up to the sky and the seven or eight cultivators fall one after another. They were the cultivators of the Black Office whom they had never seen or known. However, both of them became serious as they saw Zhang Yunhe walking towards them calmly.

Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang had seen the Senior Priestess at the Jimo Villa, who was holding an oil-paper umbrella. Now, she and Zhang Yunhe appeared together, so Su Emei and Wei Xiaozhuang knew they came for making trouble.

However, they were unable to deal with the Senior Priestess in Level 9 of Qi-refining, not to mention the addition of Zhang Yunhe who was able to kill seven or eight cultivators with one sword.