Being knocked down by the Heavenly Dao while ascending

Pei Mingyan restrained his smile, his eyes sharp, "Then may I ask, which prohibition of the academy did I accidentally violate?"
"No."
"So I was lazy at work?"
"No." Tang Gu said in a light tone.
Pei Mingyan nodded, "Then there's something wrong with the ice cream. Do you want to confirm that I have bad intentions?"
"nor."

"Nothing." Pei Mingyan sneered, his willow-leaf eyes fixed on Tang Gu, "Since I am innocent, why do you want to take my life?"

The strong sense of oppression made Tang Gu feel that the person in front of her was not simple. She did not avoid or give way, and met his gaze. "In the past, I didn't care whether you had secrets or not, and the academy would have taken you in. But now, the academy can't tolerate any changes. Your identity is unknown, you are hiding too deeply, and your words are false. I can't believe you."

Pei Mingyan was stunned. Changes?
Could this variable be that all the people who were tracking Fang Qing were dead?
He pretended that he didn't understand, and his open shoulders relaxed a little, his momentum dropped sharply, and the question he was supposed to ask became an ordinary rhetorical question, "Do you want to kill someone by mistake rather than let him go?"

Tang Gu frowned, took a few steps back, and a log like a chopstick appeared in her hand. "Show me your cards, or tell me the truth."

"What do you want to ask?" Pei Mingyan lost all his momentum, as if he was the ordinary little disciple of the Mei family again. He looked depressed, "I told you everything you asked. But you didn't believe me, and you still asked me questions. What else can I say?! I'm not a newly raised goose that can waddle and quack after learning to walk. I can't hide anything. I've only been in the academy for a few days and in the Mei family for more than 20 years. I can't tell you everything that happened to me, can I? Or, give me a time, what year and day do you want to ask, and I'll tell you everything if you ask."

"You are just making up a story." Tang Gu snorted coldly, flicked her sleeves, and turned her back to him. "In that case, the academy will not keep you."

Pei Mingyan understood the meaning of these words, which meant to send him to heaven.
He shouted exaggeratedly, "Tang Gu! Tang Gu! You can't be so unreasonable. I want to see the dean! I want him to do justice!"

Tang Gu seemed to be amused, and her laughter was full of contempt.
"The academy does not tolerate traitors. Since you have chosen the path of death, don't complain."

Pei Mingyan wiped his eyes with his sleeve, "What kind of dead end or life is this? I didn't make a choice at all!"

Tang Gu turned around and stared at him. The inquiry in her eyes seemed to be able to penetrate Pei Mingyan's disguise and reach his soul. "I told you at the beginning that once you join Yongshan Academy, you will be a member of the academy for the rest of your life. Leaving alive? There is no such option."

Pei Mingyan shouted, "I'm not leaving at all!!"

"Acting crazy and stupid!" Tang Gu flew into the air and made a strange gesture with both hands.

"..." You are still stubborn! I just want to hide here and take shelter, how can you see that I want to cause trouble! !
However, the other party didn't seem to want to hit him, so he didn't defend himself and just watched Tang Gu's "performance".
In the air, with the afterimage of Tang Gu's fingers pinching the magic formula, a huge red drum appeared and disappeared.

She stood in front of the giant drum, holding the small log that was everywhere in her hand, and looked at the people fighting in the field.

Pei Mingyan suddenly realized.
Those are not chopsticks at all, but a mallet, oh no, a drumstick.

I saw Tang Gu put something on one end of the stick, and the round wood suddenly became bigger and became a matching drumstick for the huge red-skinned drum.

Tang Gu, who is usually quite dignified, picked up the drumsticks and became a different person. She moved vigorously, just like a qualified drummer. It seemed that she was in a certain state and had forgotten everything.

The expected drumbeat did not sound.
What reached my ears was... the sound of a bell.
No matter what happens, the bell will ring even when you are having a meal.

The sound of the bell was not to call for someone to come and beat him, but instead to notify Xinglinyuan to come and treat his injuries.

Ok.
It seems that Tang Gu will not kill him openly, but wants him to disappear silently.

He yawned and continued to explore the mystery of the red drum. It turned out that it was the misty halo surrounding the drum that was causing the problem.

Haloes create hallucinations and come with certain mental hints, making people believe that what you see is real.
This is an interesting little formation. Once this little formation is stacked up, blended and transformed, you will not know when you entered the illusion, and you will no longer be able to distinguish between the real and the fake.

Therefore, the shaman-like movements of Tang Gu just now were all his illusion. She did not do anything rough at all. She just flew into the air and knocked the ancient bell that he could play with with the log in his hand.

The sound of the bell gradually faded away, and soon, like dumplings, several figures appeared beside the ring one after another, helping the injured who had collapsed on the ground to stand up, some helping them to fix their bones, some giving them medicine. The scene was as chaotic as if a war had just ended.

Seeing that he had nothing to do, Pei Mingyan took advantage of the chaos and slipped away.
If he doesn't give himself the amulet quickly, he will never see the sun tomorrow.

However, except Uncle Yu and Xiaokong, no one else has a good impression of him. Where can he find the amulet?
It's not like they really want to find a villain boss. They have just escaped from the tiger's mouth and entered the wolf's den. It's so difficult to fool a manager, so how smart must the boss be?

Pei Mingyan went straight to the foot of the mountain, where Uncle Yu's jurisdiction was. Last time he came out of the hut, he happened to help Uncle Yu a little. Uncle Yu was kind to him, probably because of this relationship. The fish fry he raised in the tourist lake now came from Uncle Yu.

Judging from the situation just now, Uncle Yu has a high status in Zhulixing, so asking Uncle Yu for help is a good idea.
However, he searched all over the bamboo grove but could not find Uncle Yu or Xiao Kong.

With no one to turn to for help, he had to make other plans and returned to his own courtyard alone.

The courtyard was near the top of the mountain. He walked slowly along the way, not seeming to be in a hurry, as if he was giving someone some time.

When we arrived at the courtyard, something unexpected happened again.
The vibrant lake surface was as calm as a pool of dead water. The ducks and geese that should have been playing on the lake lay motionless on the ground, as if dead.
The bamboo forest that usually rustles in the wind is silent.

coming.
This is to test his cards.
A small insect suddenly flew into the yard and turned into powder in mid-air.

Pei Mingyan kept walking, as if he didn't notice anything, and walked slowly into the courtyard.
The moment he landed, the formation that should have crushed him into pieces was taken away as he expected.

He glanced at the woods in the other direction imperceptibly, walked to the steps by the lake and sat down, looked up at the sky, and began his performance. He muttered to the empty lake, "Little ancestors, your owner got into a big trouble today, and there will be no one to serve you tomorrow."
He grabbed a handful of fish food and sprinkled it into the lake.
The fish fry jumped out of the water with joy, then floated on the surface and gobbled the food. After eating and drinking their fill, they flicked their tails and dived back into the water.

Pei Mingyan couldn't help laughing and scolded, "They are all a bunch of stupid fish!"

The four people in the woods stared at him without blinking, trying to get clues from his performance.

Pei Mingyan seemed unaware. He stood up, brushed off the fish food residue on his hands, yawned, and walked towards the direction of "chickens, ducks and geese".
He walked casually, not even bothering to look at the ground.

The four people in the woods couldn't help but hold their breath.
Pei Mingyan's cultivation level was low and he couldn't see, but they could see clearly that Pei Mingyan was not walking on flat ground at all, but on a hanging candle.
He walked on the silk thread step by step. If he accidentally stepped on empty air, he would fall down.
The ground is no longer the ground, but a "sea of ​​fire and purgatory". Once you fall in, there will be nothing left.

Pei Mingyan seemed to be completely unaware of how dangerous he was. He walked over to the flock of ducks and pointed at them, as if he was counting whether there were enough ducks.

The four people in the woods had another dispute.
"He can't even see through the most basic illusion array. If Qingyun hadn't acted quickly just now, he would have been crushed to pieces. Isn't array formation a must-learn for Mei family disciples? How is it possible?!" The man in white shouted in a low voice, "He must not be a disciple of the Mei family!"
The green-clothed woman, Yi and Qingyun, were filled with sadness. "Maybe his cultivation is too low and he can't see through it."
The man in blue said, "Let's wait and see. Maybe he'll see through it and put on a show for us."
"Oh." Qingyun sighed.

And in the illusion.
Pei Mingyan began to perform without props, and explained his innocence to the "duck" and the "goose". "Quack, quack, quack, quack. You only know how to quack. When I received the news that I would be on a mission, I felt a little sad. I was wondering if I would miss you little things if I left. But what happened? For some unknown reason, I don't have to go."

Pei Mingyan seemed to be getting more and more puzzled as he sat down on the ground. "This is really strange. I just can't bear to leave you guys, but before I even said anything, Aunt Tang knew I wasn't going. Do you think people with high cultivation can know what others are thinking?"

"Alas. People who are ugly are pitiful. They can't find anyone to talk to about their true feelings, so they can only complain to you. I'm just a little ugly, why do you all hate me so much and don't even give me a chance to explain. Well, even if I had a chance to explain, Aunt Tang has said that, and they won't believe anything I say. Only you idiots will believe me."
Pei Mingyan sighed, got up from the ground, grabbed a handful of corn kernels and scattered them to the little yellow kids in front of him.
He glanced at the four people in the woods. He was so straightforward! It was time to know that he was innocent!
The four of them were obviously silent, as if they were thinking.

Seeing that no one reacted, he continued walking, but this time he was not walking with a hanging candle, but a "wooden stake".

As he walked, he went higher and higher, stepping on the top of each tree.

This is an interesting illusion. If you are an ordinary person with no cultivation, this illusion will hardly have any effect on you because you cannot see all the illusions.
But once you are a half-witted person and see this world of illusion and reality, it is easy for you to make mistakes. If you step on empty air, you will either fall into the fire and burn to death, or fall into the abyss and become a part of nature again.
If you are proficient in array formations and have deep cultivation, this is a test of your character. Every step you take, you cannot use magic. Every step is a door to life and death. This kind of torture that requires high-intensity concentration is enough to kill people with unstable character in the illusion array.

He stopped beside the vegetable patch, raised his hands and began to cast a spell tremblingly. The lake water was pulled by the spell, swaying, twisting and turning, and slowly falling into the "bucket" beside him.
He was sweating profusely while performing a spell and he made seven or eight mistakes. The fish in the lake experienced artificial oxygen several times and they jumped around happily.

The four people who were peeking through the woods were speechless for a moment.
After a long while, the man in blue said, "Look at the fingers he's using to form the spell. He can't even tell the index finger from the middle finger, and he's using five fingers to make it look like there are more than a dozen fingers... I tend to believe that his cultivation is indeed very low."
"But Tang Gu said that he fell from the top of the mountain and was clearly injured, but he recovered the next day." The man in white disagreed.
Qingyun couldn't bear to look at him. "He is a member of the Mei family after all. It's not surprising that he has some quick healing pills. Besides, as a member of the academy, it's normal for him to meet some people with amazing recovery abilities, isn't that a normal thing?"
The man in white gave her a strange look and said, "Qingyun, I think you are weird. Why do you always speak in favor of this boy?"
Qingyun said, "Tang Gu has become more and more extreme in recent years. The safety of the dean is important, but the dean's reputation is equally important. If the dean knew that a few managers were pretending to obey but secretly disobeying, I don't know how angry he would be. This time, Tang Gu was indeed not honest. The boy also said that he had the idea of ​​not wanting to go, but he never said that he would not go. Tang Gu is using us as pawns."
The man in white didn't say that. "His arrival has broken the peace of the academy. Pang Yuan is a weird person. If the dean didn't trust him, many people in the academy wouldn't believe him. But now Pang Yuan has named this little disciple of the Mei family. His identity must be extraordinary."
"Is he really from the Mei family?" Another person who had been silent said, "Most of the Mei family's disciples have the surname Mei, or have changed their surnames to Mei. This person said that he has been a disciple of the Mei family since he was a child, but Pei Mingyan is his real name."
Qingyun asked: "How do you say that?"
"There are people in the academy who are good at puppetry. I asked them about it. Whether they are puppets or real people, they are all very sensitive to their own names. When Pei Mingyan was mentioned about the Mei family, his reaction was not even as obvious as when he was called by his full name. This shows that this name has been with him for a long time, perhaps even longer than the Mei family."
The man in blue said, "Maybe he is just pretending."
The man was silent for a while, "It's not impossible. If this is true..."
The four of them exchanged glances and had already made a decision in their hearts.

Pei Mingyan, who was secretly listening to all the conversations, said: “…” No way, no way, they are almost cleared of suspicion, why would they suddenly take action?
You are so suspicious, you need treatment!
At this time, he was holding a "ladle" to water the "flowers".
His disguise had not yet been exposed, so he could only hold the scoop tightly with his right hand and bend a few knuckles of his left hand, preparing for the opponent's attack.

Suddenly, the illusion seemed to be torn apart.
A mist suddenly appeared and dissipated in an instant, and the world seemed to be washed by spring rain, becoming clearer and brighter.

The other party has withdrawn the illusion array and is about to take direct action!
Pei Mingyan was going to struggle again. The fingers of his left hand were naturally bent. He lowered his head cooperatively and performed a "pupil earthquake" on the spot!
He was surprised that he was standing on the tip of a tree branch, and suddenly realized that what he was holding in his hand was not a ladle, but an axe.
It looked like he was watering the trees, but actually he had been chopping at the branch on which he was standing. If he poured two more buckets of water, the branch would break and he would fall into the bottomless abyss under the tree.

Pei Mingyan shuddered, his face full of fear, his hands shaking as if he had epilepsy, and he even dropped the axe.

However, the four opponents didn't care about his performance at all. They ran towards him from four directions with cold expressions. The look in their eyes was so resolute that it was frightening, as if they were looking at a corpse.
The four men wielded different weapons, but simultaneously released sword energy towards him. The four energies were so fierce that he had to dodge.

"..." Am I playing a fool?! No wonder you are villains! You are stubborn and stubborn, and you even give up your own persistence for a dean who you don't even know what he looks like! ! Your dean is a bad guy, so you are also bad people!
Pei Mingyan had a thousand "Mm-Mm" words he wanted to say in his mind, but in the end he could only move on his tiptoes and was about to take a defensive posture.

Just then, he heard someone rushing towards him quickly, and he let go of his left hand.

At the same time, four rays of light exploded at the top of the tree.
The moment the light touched the tree, Pei Mingyan seemed to have lost his balance and fell off the tree, just avoiding the sword light.

The abyss on the ground was not vegetarian either. The moment he fell, the abyss expanded more than ten times. There was no vacant space in the entire courtyard. All living things were swallowed up, leaving only a bare patch of ground.

Wind gushed out from the bottomless cave where the abyss was located, and the powerful suction wrapped around the falling Pei Mingyan and swept him towards the abyss.

His head was wrapped in chaos.

At this moment, a figure dropped from the sky and rushed into the battle circle. The blue light was like a vast ocean, and it hit everyone present like a passing wave.
The cultivation of several people was not as good as that of the newcomers, and they were firmly nailed to the spot.

The bottomless hole of the abyss was filled up by the sea.
Pei Mingyan was released, the sea water lifted him up, and he fell to the ground.

Qingyun and the other three exchanged glances and used their internal energy to break free from their restraints.

Pang Yuan didn't want to embarrass them. The blue light was only created to block the battle circle. Now that it had accomplished its mission, it retired. The courtyard returned to its original appearance, except for -

Pei Mingyan slowly woke up, and the first thing he said when he opened his eyes was: "My goose! You died so tragically!"

This guy seems to have lost his mind.

(End of this chapter)