Chapter 202 A Game of Wits

When I first brought Zhao Ci into Liangjie Tang, I still had the thought of "better than nothing."

It was the battle in Long Province that truly made me see Zhao Ci's terrifying abilities in intelligence gathering. Not only did he collect a large amount of information for me in just a few days, but he also gave me the most reliable analysis results. Otherwise, I would not have been able to lock onto the Four秀 of Long Province.

According to the information Zhao Ci gave me, the Fang family, who were good at refining corpses, always used the corpses of their own family members to refine and control them.

In order to maintain the best state of the Yushi (controlled corpses), the Fang family stipulated that except for a few high-level members and those who passed the Fang family's test who could die a natural death, anyone who reached the age of forty-five would be killed by the family and refined into Yushi.

Even the patriarch's own son was no exception.

The internal competition in the Fang family was extremely cruel, and only elites remained in the family.

There were those who opposed the family rules, but the result of their resistance was that they became corpses that could only fight for the family.

Fang Xuan had privately opposed the Fang family's rules countless times, but he couldn't change anything.

Fang Xuan gritted his teeth and said, "Can you really do it?"

"You certainly won't believe me if I say I can," I replied indifferently. "What I can tell you is that life is nothing more than one gamble after another. It just depends on whether you dare to gamble."

Fang Xuan hesitated and said, "I need some guarantee."

"The fact that you can still talk to me is the biggest guarantee." As I spoke, I dragged Fang Xuan into the snow. The snow on the ground had already passed our waists. Da Feng Novel

I also felt something缠住ing my feet in the snow.

Fang Xuan said anxiously, "Brother Li, this is a trap I set for you. Get out quickly, if we sink any further, we'll both be dead."

I smiled and said, "I told you, you have two choices. It seems you want to choose the first one."

"No..." Fang Xuan exclaimed, "Let me think about it."

With a sneer, I suddenly used the Qian Jin Zhui (thousand-pound drop), pulling Fang Xuan and sinking into the snow. In an instant, the snow covered our chests.

Fang Xuan's face turned pale with fright: "I agree, don't sink any further."

Seeing that I had stopped moving, Fang Xuan gasped and said, "Brother Li, I'm convinced. Please get us out of here!"

"Your trick of 'Ji Ming Yin Lu' (rooster's crowing leads the way) is really brilliant. With just one move, you left all my men below, afraid to move..."

I was slightly stunned and said, "That chicken wasn't arranged by you?"

Fang Xuan's face also changed: "Brother Li, can you feel something grabbing your feet under the snow? Is it a rope, or a hand?"

The rope Fang Xuan mentioned was a common term in the術道 (arts). It didn't refer to a real rope, but something like a rope, such as a poisonous snake or tree root.

I calmly said, "I can't feel it."

Fang Xuan's face turned pale: "Brother Li, it's come to this, don't joke around. How can you not feel it?"

"We're done for!" Fang Xuan exclaimed, "We've encountered a snow窩子(hollow). Someone is crawling on me, crawling to my waist!"

As soon as Fang Xuan finished speaking, I saw a head with black hair covering its face emerge from the snow behind Fang Xuan. As the other party slowly turned half of its face from behind Fang Xuan's head, the slightly raised right hand also pressed down on the top of Fang Xuan's head.

Fang Xuan could only close his eyes as if resigning himself to fate. The only thing he could do now was wait for the other party to press him into the snow.

"Kai (Open)!"

As the other party pressed down on Fang Xuan, I suddenly erupted with true qi, and the snow on my body burst into the air. I grabbed Fang Xuan and leaped out of the snow, slashing four times into the snow with my backhand.

As the four Dao Qi (blade energies) slashed into the snow in different directions, I grabbed Fang Xuan in mid-air and stepped several times towards the outer edge of the snowfield.

While my men were still in the air, I saw Ye Yang standing on the treetop.

Ye Yang turned his wrist and彈(dan, flicked)游魂絲(You Hun Si, wandering soul silk) towards me, and my 追魂索(Zhui Hun Suo, soul-chasing rope) also shot towards the other party at the same time.

A strand of silk and a rope were entangled in mid-air. Ye Yang exerted force with his wrist and threw me and Fang Xuan into the distance, while his own long sword struck into the snow.

Me and Fang Xuan rolled a few times after landing before standing up.

Fang Xuan's first reaction was not to look at the scene in the snow, but to stare at me in stunned silence and say, "Brother Li, are you above the先天(Xiantian, Acquired Stage)? Even the Supreme Elders of our family don't have your cultivation. Have you脱凡(Tuo Fan, shed mortality) yet?"

"And is Brother Ye a剑仙(Jian Xian, sword immortal)? Is he from the宗门(Zongmen, Sect)?"

"What exactly are your identities?"

I ignored Fang Xuan's surprise and walked quickly to the edge of the tree circle. The area of snow where I and Fang Xuan had sunk had been blown open by Ye Yang's sword.

Under the snow, a coffin was revealed!

Ye Yang squinted his eyes and said, "This is something from the Coffin Sect. Either the other party underestimated us, or they set up the formation in a hurry. Otherwise, what he would have attracted wouldn't be just a big ghost."

I turned to look at Fang Xuan and said, "What did you do to the real Niu Bao? You didn't kill him, did you?"

Fang Xuan said, "The real Niu Bao was caught three years ago. The one who caught him was the Meng family."

"The Fang family also participated when the Meng family caught Niu Bao. Otherwise, how would my grandfather know the secret of the Niu family!"