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"grown ups!"

Erhu lowered his voice and shouted.

"Sir! That ship is about to leave!"

Da Niu pointed his finger to the dock by the river.

"We passed by Shenmu Bay! The water was shallower there, and the boats moved more slowly."

"We can intercept them by taking a shortcut!"

Li Ping glanced at them.

"Go to the river and get the iron hook and the thick rope."

"Take what you need and get out of here. Don't get in the way."

"I understand perfectly well!"

Da Niu grabbed Er Hu and they immediately started running.

Li Ping has arrived at the edge of the battle.

Su Wan used her longsword to cleave through the black ropes rushing towards her, and frost-white spiritual energy on the blade suppressed the ropes.

Pei Xing remained kneeling on the ground, his right arm so tightly bound that he had lost all feeling in it.

The broad, longsword was stuck in front of his body, barely keeping him from falling.

"Li Ping"

He said in a low voice

"Go there immediately and intercept the ships! I won't die!"

"The boat can't escape Sunken Log Bay"

Li Pingdao

"Senior brother, spare your life!"

"You'll have to take the blame later."

After he finished speaking, he pulled the nail used to break the formation out of the ground.

When the copper nail was revealed, the array patterns around it suddenly began to glow.

It was as if something underground recognized it.

Du Cheng was in the midst of his confrontation with the steward of the North Courtyard when he noticed the presence of the copper nail out of the corner of his eye.

His expression changed drastically in an instant.

"Stop him!"

Two cultivators from the medicine shop broke free from the chaos of battle and pounced on Li Ping's location.

Su Wan deflected the light from the longsword in her hand.

A man, blood splattered on his shoulder, staggered and crashed into a wall.

Just as the other person raised their hand to form a hand seal, Pei Xing had already swung the broad sword high into the air.

And he struck his knee hard with the spine of his broadsword.

click

The person who was struck let out an extremely miserable scream, and at the same time, both knees fell to the ground.

As Pei Xing made this movement, the black rope contracted inward by another half inch.

His face turned pale, but he still yelled at Li Ping.

"Get moving! I can't hold on any longer!"

Li Ping did not nail it to the black stone.

He forcefully pressed the nail used to break the formation into the formation pattern beneath Pei Xing's feet, where it emitted the strongest light.

It emitted a sharp hissing sound!

Copper nails embedded in the stone slab

The black light that originally existed within the array's patterns instantly reversed along the nail's body.

Li Ping's palms felt as if they had been branded with a hot iron, and the spiritual energy within his body surged out uncontrollably.

But the energy that should have been swallowed by the black rope was intercepted by the array-breaking nail.

Rushing towards the black stone along the array patterns

The black rope suddenly taut.

It has stopped whipping Pei Xing.

It began to twitch.

A series of very faint cracking sounds emanated from beneath the black stone.

Du Cheng's eyes turned red.

"If you dare touch that nail, I'll make sure you die with no remains, not even a complete skeleton!"

He shook off the steward of the North Courtyard, and charged towards them with a long sword in his hand.

A broadsword arrived first

Taking advantage of the instant the black rope loosened, Pei Xing slammed his body and longsword together in that direction.

Du Cheng hastily drew his sword

The longsword and the long saber clashed together.

The force of the impact forced Du Cheng to retreat three steps, and the web between his thumb and forefinger split open.

He tried to retreat further, but his foot struck a section of wood that had been burned by the talisman fire.

The other end of the wooden beam was pressing down on a wooden barrel filled with oil.

Li Ping saw it early.

He lifted his foot and kicked hard.

The wooden barrels filled with oil overturned, spilling black oil across the stone floor.

It flowed right up to Du Cheng's feet.

Du Cheng slipped, his body tilting slightly to the side.

Pei Xing's longsword was now pressing down on his shoulder.

"Kneel down"

Du Cheng gritted his teeth and began to circulate the spiritual energy within his body.

But just as he began to circulate his spiritual energy, the black light from the core of the formation surged outwards along the remaining patterns.

And they wrapped his ankles tightly.

This time, the person whose spiritual energy was drained

It was him who changed.

Du Cheng's facial expression immediately became extremely distorted.

"Attack! Do you all want to die together?!"

He shouted hoarsely at the people in the pharmacy.

The guards inside the pharmacy looked at each other, unsure of what to do.

No one dared to step forward.

Su Wan swung her longsword, striking and severing the black rope on Pei Xing's wrist.

The remaining three, having lost the support of the array's core, collapsed one after another.

Turned into black ash and scattered on the ground

Pei Xing staggered to the side, only managing to regain his balance by using his longsword for support.

He glanced down at the bleeding wound on his wrist, then looked at Li Ping.

"Are you crazy? You dare to fill this kind of formation with your meager cultivation level?"

"As long as they don't die, that's enough. Why waste so much time on nonsense?"

Li Ping's face was paler than the night.

"When you turn back, senior brother, you must remember to return this."

Pei Xing's lips twitched slightly at this moment.

I didn't laugh.

He turned around and used the hilt of his sword to knock Du Cheng unconscious, then turned his gaze to the salt warehouse, which had become a complete mess.

"I am here"

"Go chase after the ship."

"Remember this."

His voice was deep.

"It's not a big deal if the ledger is lost, but the person must be brought back alive."

Li Ping nodded.

Da Niu and Er Hu were carrying a thick roll of rope in their arms, running back from the direction of the riverbank.

"Go in this direction!"

Erhu was out of breath from running.

"I know a shortcut through the woods, which will save us half an incense stick's time!"

The three ran wildly along the riverbank.

Behind them, the shouts of battle from the salt warehouse continued unabated.

Pei Xing led the guards of the prefectural governor's mansion to guard the warehouse gate, while Su Wan stood beside the array's core, holding a long sword in her hand.

The cultivators from the Northern Academy under Shangguan Zhao's command, along with the guards from the medicine shop, were now completely bloodthirsty, and none of them were willing to put down their weapons first.