A meteor flew across the distant horizon, dragging a long tail like a brilliant, sharp blade that cut open the night sky and broke the dawn.

From far away, Chen Ji’s face was gradually illuminated by the meteor’s light until the sky was as bright as day.

Tian Ma’s arrow had forcefully pierced through the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array!

Tian Ma.

Chen Ji had finally waited for it.

After piercing through the talisman array, the meteor arrow seemed to have eyes, subtly changing its trajectory and shooting straight towards Mr. Feng’s face.

Mr. Feng stood with his hands behind his back, looking up, unmoved by the approaching arrow.

“Ginger Flame!”

Ginger Flame took several cinnabar talisman papers from his sleeve and threw them towards the sky. After briefly hovering in the air, the talismans seemed to gain sentience and flew straight towards the arrow.

Six sheets of talisman paper flew out continuously before the meteor arrow finally collided with a handful of stars in the night sky.

“Truly beautiful…”

Mr. Feng sighed in admiration.

Chen Ji carefully examined the other side.

Mr. Feng sat for a long time in his blue robe without a single wrinkle.

He was calm and composed, his expression unchanged, and he did not seem to take Tian Ma’s arrival to heart.

As if Tian Ma’s coming or not coming would not change anything.

Calm!

This Mr. Feng was overly calm.

At this moment, Mr. Feng looked towards Chen Ji and asked with a smile, “Young man, I calculated the time. Tian Ma must have set out the moment you were first attacked. Only then could he arrive at this time. The Secret Spy Office is far away in Luo City. How could they know about the events in this place, and how could they be so timely?”

Chen Ji also looked towards Mr. Feng and answered honestly, “It must be a traitor in the Liu family who leaked your ambush plan to the Secret Spy Office. Mr. Feng, you must carefully investigate this traitor. If they are not eliminated, I fear they will become a big problem.”

Mr. Feng had an expression of sudden realization. “So that’s it. But you seem to know Tian Ma would come, which is why you tried so hard to delay the time.”

Chen Ji’s heart tightened. “I didn’t know he would come, I just tried to live one moment longer.”

Mr. Feng smiled. “Then I still have one doubt. The identities of the upper three zodiacs are noble. They can mobilize the inner court’s twelve bureaus and twenty-four yamen, and act first and report later. Why would such a person come back to save you?”

Chen Ji remained silent.

Mr. Feng laughed. “Young man, the time I spent waiting for Tian Ma with you earlier counted as some respect for the last bit of chivalry left in the world. But Tian Ma ran so far to save you. This shows you are a very important person, and I must kill you.”

The next moment, Chen Ji turned his body and ran madly in the direction the meteor arrow had come from.

Tian Ma was still far away, and he had to survive until Tian Ma arrived.

Ginger Flame saw him escape and suddenly threw out nine sheets of cinnabar talisman paper.

The cinnabar talisman papers hung in the air for a breath. Then, like red and yellow interspersed birds, they sped towards him.

The mountain wind howled, and the talismans shrieked.

In the nick of time, Chen Ji concentrated his spirit and turned his body to meet the attack with one knife, two knives, three knives, six knives.

The snow-bright knife edge drew out winding white lines in the air, cutting open the cinnabar talisman papers one by one.

The instant the knife edge cut open the talisman paper, the paper lightly floated down onto the rotten leaves like a deflated ball.

But Chen Ji only managed to strike out six knives, and the remaining three had already sped in front of him.

He twisted his body on the spot, exerting effort to avoid vital points.

The seventh sheet of talisman paper cut across his shoulder, and the eighth sheet cut across his waist, both leaving behind a streak of blood.

The ninth sheet of talisman paper flew past Chen Ji’s ear, merely cutting off a lock of his hair.

However, before he could even relax, he saw that the talisman paper had actually changed direction and flew back towards the back of his head.

The talisman drawn on this ninth sheet of talisman paper was different from the others.

The first eight sheets of cinnabar talisman paper were all foreshadowing; the ninth sheet was the ending.

Chen Ji turned his head to look, wanting to raise his knife to block, but he could only watch with wide eyes as the talisman paper came face-to-face, close at hand.

A meteor arrow flew from the side, bringing a wild wind and rolling dry leaves. It pierced through the talisman paper right in front of Chen Ji’s nose, nailing the talisman paper onto a nearby tree trunk, where it turned into a handful of stars.

Chen Ji’s face and cheeks were painfully scraped by the wild wind, and the strands of hair scattered from his temples shook incessantly.

He heard the sound of footsteps beside him and turned his head to see Golden Pig panting heavily, blocking his front, staring at Mr. Feng as if facing a great enemy.

Chen Ji leaned on his knife, standing, and suddenly let out a long breath.

This was the first time he felt a sense of relief when he saw Golden Pig.

He had finally waited for reinforcements.

Golden Pig did not look at him, but looked at Mr. Feng with a half-smile and said, “Good evening, Mr. Feng. So late and not sleeping at home, running out to kill people?”

Mr. Feng smiled and replied, “Good evening.”

The sound of footsteps stepping on dry leaves was transmitted through the mountain forest. Chen Ji looked, and in the shadows of the trees, Tian Ma, dressed in white, slowly walked out, stepping on dry leaves, blocking in front of him and Golden Pig, and looked at Mr. Feng expressionlessly.

Golden Pig also let out a breath.

Only then did Tian Ma make several hand gestures to Mr. Feng, then coldly gestured a cut across his neck with his palm.

Mr. Feng, however, laughed heartily, “I can’t understand, I can’t understand.”

Golden Pig translated, “Tian Ma says, how about he invites everyone to eat a bowl of beef noodles, and this matter is settled just like that?”

Tian Ma turned his head and glanced at Golden Pig.

Mr. Feng laughed and cried, “Although I can’t understand hand gestures, I also know that Tian Ma is not saying he wants to invite me to eat beef noodles. At least eating beef noodles doesn’t require cutting necks.”

Golden Pig chuckled, “Just kidding, just kidding. Mr. Feng, our Secret Spy Office is the inner court’s personal army. To be our enemy is a serious crime of rebellion. If we fight to the death tonight, this world, no matter how big, will not be able to accommodate you.”

Mr. Feng casually waved his hand, “Don’t use this to scare me. I only need to leave the three of you in this mountain. Who will know what I did? Young man, the person you waited for has come. The person I waited for has also come.”

As his words fell, the sound of dense iron hooves and noise was transmitted from below the mountain.

The crowd looked from afar and saw over a thousand people with torches rushing towards the mountain.

Not only were there people in Dragon King Valley below the mountain, but there were also over a thousand soldiers holding torches above the mountain, rushing towards the mountain waist.

Chen Ji frowned.

It seemed this Mr. Feng had planned from the beginning to use himself to lure Tian Ma and Golden Pig?

That’s not right, that’s not right. How could the other side possibly know he could use the Covering Cloud Gate Path to summon Golden Pig?

At this time, Golden Pig said to Tian Ma, “Leave quickly, with over a thousand people in a military array, we cannot charge.”

Tian Ma seemed deaf, staring at Mr. Feng without moving.

Golden Pig was anxious.

He pulled Tian Ma’s clothes and said in a low voice, “Are you crazy? The whole mountain is filled with their people. Quickly running away is important, don’t linger in battle.”

But Tian Ma ignored him, directly drew his bow to full tension, and shot one arrow towards Mr. Feng and another towards Ginger Flame.

Golden Pig was completely dumbfounded.

Taking advantage of the chaos, he turned his body and pulled Chen Ji, just running.

Chen Ji turned his head and looked. Beside the green stone, Mr. Feng tilted his head to avoid one arrow, then looked at him with a half-smile.

There was no pursuit, no anger, only a difficult-to-understand smile.

He couldn’t guess what the other side was thinking!

As the two fled, Golden Pig turned his head and asked Chen Ji, “Did you break through in the battle just now?”

Chen Ji suddenly realized that not only the Covering Cloud Gate Path, but the Mountain Lord Gate Path would also provide Golden Pig with cultivation feedback.

He hummed, “I broke through. I just don’t know what realm I am now!”

Golden Pig’s eyes lit up, completely forgetting the pain of being tortured for three hours earlier. “Acquired realm. You’re almost at the threshold of Innate. You’re something, kid. You didn’t cultivate before, but once you do, it’s astonishing.”

Chen Ji ran while casually asking, “How did you know I broke through in battle?”

Golden Pig was startled and hurriedly made up, “Mr. Feng even came. If you didn’t break through in battle, you definitely wouldn’t have survived until now.”

As he spoke, he examined the whale knife in Chen Ji’s hand, then turned his head to look at the talisman papers that had been divided in two on the ground.

Golden Pig’s eyes flashed with several points of doubt, but after hesitating for a moment, he finally didn’t ask anything.

Chen Ji asked, “Sir, are we not going to care about Tian Ma anymore?”

Golden Pig gnashed his teeth and said, “He’s determined to court death, why should I care about him? In front of a military array, even a master of the God Path realm has to retreat three times. What kind of ability does he think he’s showing? Just let him die here. Let’s run.”

Chen Ji discovered that Golden Pig was somewhat absent-minded while escaping, and from time to time, he would look towards Tian Ma’s battlefield.

But they could only see the light of the meteor flashing, and couldn’t clearly see exactly what was happening!

The two ran down the mountain, colliding head-on with a large group of soldiers who had come to capture them.

Golden Pig pulled Chen Ji, turned around, covered his head, and scurried away.

The two continuously changed directions several times, all to no avail.

The whole mountain seemed to be filled with enemies.

Golden Pig complained, “Damn it, how did the Liu family arrange so many private soldiers here? Wait, what’s that sound?”

They heard a noisy sound coming from below the mountain, and some soldiers and horses were knocked over by a sudden attack.

Chen Ji looked through the gaps in the trees and saw a huge black shadow in the moonlight knocking down soldiers holding torches to the ground one by one, rushing straight towards the mountain waist.

Torches fell on dry leaves, igniting a huge mountain fire, which immediately spread up the mountain with the wind.

Golden Pig was surprised and uncertain. “What’s going on?”

Before Chen Ji could answer, continuous shouting was heard from within the firelight: “Chen Ji!”

Golden Pig suddenly looked towards Chen Ji. “Is that the County Princess’s voice?”

The voices of the World Son and Zhang Xia also came together: “Chen Ji! Where are you, Chen Ji?”

Chen Ji rushed into the firelight, but was pulled back by Golden Pig. “You’re crazy, damn it. This mountain fire runs faster than people. Where are you going?”

With a bang, a tall war horse leaped, like a flying boat crossing a sea of fire, and landed in front of Chen Ji.

Chen Ji looked up blankly. The World Son, the County Princess, and Zhang Xia sat on the horse, their faces black and covered in dust, with the raging fire blazing behind them.

White Carp was surprised. “Ah. Chen Ji, we finally found you. Quick, quick, mount the horse, we’ve come to pick you up.”

Chen Ji asked blankly, “Didn’t I tell you to escape immediately? How did you all rush here?”

The World Son laughed heartily, “How can you be a Jianghu child if you abandon your friends?”

As he spoke, he bent down and stretched out his hand, “Quick, mount the horse.”

Chen Ji turned his head towards Golden Pig, “Sir.”

Golden Pig took a deep breath and slowly retreated backwards. “You kid, follow them and go. You must survive and get out. Otherwise, this old man will lose big.”

He said.

He turned around and ran in the direction Tian Ma was fighting.

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