I created the Bureau of Anomaly Control

Yu Weijie was all too familiar with the meaning in that gaze. His wavering thoughts immediately settled down. Although the speed of plunder was a bit slower than he had anticipated, it was enough.

Furthermore, he could feel Ma En invading his divine soul. As the most well-rounded of the disciples, he had some ways to resist this kind of attack targeting the soul, but he was already at a complete disadvantage, and it would probably be difficult to escape.

And Ma En, who could search his soul, would definitely kill him and Guan Yi after learning of the master's arrangements.

"If you're going to ask me that," Yu Weijie said to Ma En while stalling for time, "I think..."

He made up his mind without much hesitation. Although he didn't think the remaining him would be stronger than the two of them combined, Ma En wasn't at his peak either. He had injuries left by his senior sister and Yan Yun's magic.

Moreover, he had gradually understood the sword strike that his senior sister had just made. Zhong Ruixue's swordplay was the least reliant on the user's own killing techniques among them, after all, she regarded swordsmanship as a way to use "external objects".

As long as he obtained a good sword and Zhong Ruixue's understanding of swordsmanship, he could display combat power close to hers. This gave him some confidence for the upcoming battle. If he had obtained his own kind of magic, there might still be room for consideration.

After all, many of the spells he had mastered required time to "cultivate" before they could be fully utilized. It wasn't like having spiritual energy and understanding would allow him to cast them directly. This type only accounted for about 30% of the spells he had mastered.

A heaven-sent opportunity.

Buzz.

The first change occurred within his golden core. The spiritual power in his golden core was rapidly circulating and vibrating.

Although it seemed that he had been completely suppressed by Ma En, subduing the golden core wasn't that much of a threat to him. Strictly speaking, he should be the least afraid of this kind of move among the disciples.

Theoretically, a sword cultivator like Zhong Ruixue could refine the golden core into a sword pellet, but she didn't make that choice. This didn't align with Zhong Ruixue's understanding of swordsmanship. She was more willing to focus her energy on practicing swordsmanship. It was just a pity that she was still a bit short when facing Ma En.

But he was different from them. As someone who wanted to learn a little of everything, he naturally hadn't missed the methods to protect the golden core. This kind of technique wasn't easy to master and cultivate, and it was often not worth the effort, so normal cultivators wouldn't be happy to cultivate it.

Fortunately, he had plenty of time, and now it really came in handy.

"...met Du Jin," Yu Weijie only said the second sentence when two sharp sword intents suddenly burst out from his eyes.

Ma En could feel these two strong sword intents passing through his mental defense as if they didn't exist, and landing on his mental plane, directly piercing into his outermost mental defense, rushing towards the depths of his soul.

Ma En could sense that if he really didn't dodge, these two sword intents were likely to cause serious damage to his soul.

He instinctively took two steps back and avoided eye contact with Yu Weijie. The stinging sensation immediately lessened, as if these almost mental attacks could be dodged simply by avoiding them.

The moment Yu Weijie attacked, he also grabbed the golden core in his hand, but the golden core also burst out with a strong force, taking advantage of Ma En's distraction to shake off his palm. The ethereal mist instantly surrounded the golden core again, transforming into Yu Weijie.

The long sword that had just pierced Ma En's chest also fell into his palm as quickly as lightning.

Being shaken back, Ma En raised his head with some doubt, and then asked truthfully:

"Do you really think you still have a chance to kill me?"

The timidity and fear in Yu Weijie's eyes had disappeared at some point. At this moment, only dazzling sword energy and resolute fighting spirit echoed in those cold eyes, as if the guy who was begging for mercy just now wasn't him at all.

"How would I know if I don't try?" he said indifferently.

For some reason, Ma En felt a bit of unfamiliarity from Yu Weijie at this moment. Although they hadn't known each other for long, the current him was indeed completely different from the guy who was begging for mercy just now. If he had to say...

The figure of Yu Weijie holding the long sword was gradually overlapping with Zhong Ruixue just now.

Although he had suddenly broken free from his control, he seemed to be getting closer to the truth instead.

Ma En looked into his eyes and said:

"So you're not afraid to die now?"

Yu Weijie twitched the corner of his mouth:

"Only those who are afraid to die will die, and you better not be so arrogant.

"The victory is not yet decided."

In these short few sentences, Yu Weijie was not only slowly preparing for the next sword strike, but also distracting himself to cast defensive spells to ensure that he could suppress Ma En in front of him.

And although Ma En didn't prepare anything, he verified his idea.

The tone of the previous few sentences really didn't sound like Yu Weijie, but it was unusually similar to Zhong Ruixue.

Clap!

Yu Weijie didn't wait any longer and decisively took half a step forward, and then the sword in his hand began to rapidly close in on Ma En. The distance of more than ten meters that he had just deliberately created was pulled back within this half step.

The sword's edge gently landed in front of Ma En's throat.

At the same time, six faint golden spiritual lights also faintly appeared around Ma En, and began to accelerate towards Ma En at the same time. Within a short half meter, they were already so fast that they were almost invisible, which also made Ma En feel that the guy opposite was still Yu Weijie.

These six spirit beads controlled by Yu Weijie were his second strongest magic weapon, the "Vajra Subduing Demon Beads", which were powerful weapons specially designed for powerful body cultivators like Ma En.

He had just watched the confrontation between Ma En and Zhong Ruixue, so he could roughly sense how much advantage Ma En had in that exchange. According to his estimation, these six spirit beads should be able to help his sword strike fight Ma En to a draw, as for what happens next...

Then it's up to him.

Just before the six spirit beads hit Ma En one after another, six more flying swords rushed towards them. Seeing this scene, the corner of Yu Weijie's mouth also twitched slightly - this was the final killing move he was waiting for.

But the next moment his expression froze, because these six flying swords were crashing into his magic weapon spirit beads.

"Be careful!" Along with this warning, Guan Yi controlled the six flying swords belonging to her senior sister to directly knock the spirit beads off their original trajectory, and two of the flying swords that collided with them showed cracks, and the other flying swords were also knocked into pieces, and could not be used in a short time.

Although the price paid this time was not small, Ma En no longer had to worry about these spirit beads.

These changes all happened in an instant, without giving Yu Weijie a chance to adjust his tactics. His eyes looking at Guan Yi were also full of incomprehension and surprise. The reason why he shot just now was because he received a hint from her. Could it be that Junior Sister has already learned to calculate him like this?

Moreover, the reason why he would believe Guan Yi was that this was indeed her best choice. As long as she understood that only one of them could live, then if she wanted to live, she would have to join hands with him to kill Ma En. He had not wavered under the temptation deliberately arranged by the master. The seemingly simple Junior Sister actually had a greedy face that he didn't know.

In surprise, he had even forgotten that he was at a life-and-death moment with Ma En, and did not pay attention to his sword strike and Ma En's response, but the long sword in his hand was like a living being, and still stabbed towards Ma En's wound just now.

The understanding of swordsmanship had penetrated into the bone marrow of Senior Sister, and now all of this belonged to him.

Ma En still used the fearless posture of a body cultivator, directly facing the wound and hitting towards the position of his golden core, but this time the difference was that his speed slowed down a little bit, but the degree of reduction did not affect the outcome of the duel.

What really made the situation different was the magic mastered by Yu Weijie. When Ma En's fierce fist came over, most of his body turned into mist and wrapped around the glowing golden core and retreated, and Ma En's fist only lightly brushed against his dodging golden core.

If this was someone else's golden core, it might have been broken, but Yu Weijie's golden core just burst out with a powerful thrust again, and directly flew backwards with the reaction force. At the same time, his half-mist and half-flesh arm also took the opportunity to pull out the long sword.

Sure enough, this sword had completely proved Ma En's guess. He didn't know if Yu Weijie could shoot out something that could directly attack the soul with his eyes just now, but he could be sure that this was the move that Zhong Ruixue used on him just now.

Exactly the same.

It seems it can be ended.

Ma En squatted down slightly towards him, his eyes steadily locked on him like an aiming system. Seeing Ma En's eyes, Yu Weijie also felt a bit of danger, immediately restored his body and began to use the magical power of shrinking the ground into an inch.

Bang!

Ma En's body pounced towards him like a leaping tiger. Seeing this, Yu Weijie immediately began to dodge left and right, but Ma En's body didn't even have any obvious changes, and his body readjusted its direction in the air.

Although Yu Weijie was constantly flashing with the shrinking ground into an inch, his spatial movement also seemed slow in front of Ma En's speed. It seemed that Ma En could tear him apart in less than half a second.

Yu Weijie widened his eyes, and tried his best to use the defensive magic to stop Ma En, but Ma En's outstretched palm easily shattered the silver flu that had just condensed, and the palm wind directly scraped his golden core out of his "body".

Just when Ma En wanted to subdue him again, suddenly six well-hidden flying swords hit Yu Weijie's flying golden core one after another, and unlike Ma En's attack just now, they all accurately landed on the key point of his core protection magic.

Crack.

The core is broken.

He looked at the figure standing behind Ma En in disbelief, and then looked again at Ma En who was approaching him, the emotions in his eyes constantly changing between calmness and horror, and then showed a miserable smile:

"Wrong, all wrong."

The moment Ma En landed, he turned around and looked at Guan Yi standing behind him. She was breathing nervously, and seemed to have not recovered from killing her senior brother just now.

Ma En didn't move, and stood there and asked her:

"You shouldn't have killed him just now, I still want to interrogate him."

Guan Yi glanced at Ma En with a complicated expression:

"Sorry, the changes in the battle situation just now were too fast, but I think I might already know what's going on."

Ma En then said seemingly curiously:

"What exactly is going on?"

Her expression looked a little dazed, but she didn't hesitate at all when she spoke:

"This is my master's arrangement, but he is not targeting you or anyone. When you killed Du Jin, he could only collect the remaining seven spirits of senior brother. The so-called seven spirits are not the soul as you understand it.

"To be precise, they are the main parts that make up consciousness besides the soul, including the memories you understand, but not equal to these things. In fact, it is difficult for me to let you understand what the seven spirits are before you build the foundation.

"I can only say that it also includes Du Jin's understanding of cultivation, which is why I was able to break through just now, and they actually have the confidence to come to you because they just relied on Du Jin's remaining seven spirits to break through to the golden core."

Ma En said:

"So that's why Yu Weijie was able to use Zhong Ruixue's swordsmanship just now."

Guan Yi said:

"Master once taught Du Jin a secret technique that allowed him to plunder the seven spirits of other Xiaoyao Gong cultivators, and the few of us were originally his nutrients for breaking through to the Nascent Soul, but you killed Du Jin, causing Master to temporarily change his mind.

"It is precisely because of this secret technique that he can be devoured by us, and the few of us who absorbed Du Jin's seven spirits also mastered the corresponding secret technique, but only at this moment did I know that the secret techniques mastered by the three of us are somewhat different.

"And if any of us masters three secret techniques, then even you will be affected by this secret technique. In any case, in the end, there will definitely be a cultivator other than you who masters these secret techniques.

"No wonder my secret technique can't make you the last one standing, it turns out it's here..."

Ma En then guided:

"Then what is your master's purpose in doing this, does he want to eat us all?"

The girl shook her head:

"No, eating us is not worth the time and resources to cultivate for him. I think Master wants to get a Nascent Soul disciple. If I plunder your body, I will definitely be able to advance to the Nascent Soul in a short time.

"And if you get our experience, it may take a little time to cultivate, but breaking through to the Nascent Soul is just around the corner."

Ma En looked at her and asked:

"Then what are you going to do?"

The girl said sincerely:

"My master is a bad person, and I don't want to do it according to his arrangement. If you are willing, we can share..."

Whoosh!

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