My enemies became my companions

Chapter 599: The Inner Demon Appears (Three-in-One Update)

Like a meteor,
An arrow flew through the air, and the entire mountain path was torn apart by the strong wind. Layers of white stone steps and the grass and trees along the way collapsed, and a huge hole was pierced through the rain curtain with a radius of dozens of feet!
Such a magnificent spirit is but just the tip of the iceberg of the first-grade realm.

In an instant, the arrow flew straight in front of Chen Yi, and the sword energy that blocked his way exploded one after another, brilliantly and extremely. Chen Yi, who had not retreated a single step before, had to fall backwards, and the people who were going down the mountain were forced to go up the mountain instead.

Blind Arrow listened to the sound of the wind and drew the bow again. The rain curtain behind the hole that the previous arrow had passed through seemed to condense into a tornado due to the residual power, and chaotic raindrops splashed out.

The power of the arrow is so great that simple words cannot describe it. Chen Yi was forced to use his sword and knife together. While retreating from the top of the mountain, he did not dare to take the arrow head-on. Instead, he chopped and stabbed at the area within a few feet of the arrow, urging the sword energy and knife aura. For a moment, there were thousands of swords and sword shadows, and Chen Yi was still retreating. However, the arrow was getting closer and closer, squeezing the sword lights and sword shadows to gradually bend, and it seemed that they would break a little bit. Chen Yi quickly retracted the sword and changed from slashing to striking. He struck the arrow head horizontally one by one like hitting a cow from a distance. For a moment, it was like the sound of chimes, and finally the arrow head was exhausted. Chen Yi stopped and leaned forward, held the arrow head with the sword and knife, swung it in a circle with both hands, and smashed it hard at the blinding arrow.

Suddenly I heard the sound of the wind change.

The tornado in front of Blind Arrow was smashed in half, and the air waves that exploded in all directions destroyed the forests.

He did not step back, but turned his body to the side, allowing the arrow to pass through and smash the eaves of the Great Shangqing Palace on Mount Longhu. Smoke and dust billowed, tearing his already tattered clothes even further into disarray.

"Good boy."

Blind Arrow couldn't help but express his admiration.

He defused arrows one by one, but the No. 10 in the world did not get angry at all. Instead, he became more appreciative.

Unlike Chen Yi, a rude younger generation who doesn't like to follow the rules of the martial arts world, Blind Jian is a senior who is very rule-abiding. The older he gets, the more mysterious the rules of the martial arts world he finds.

Without rules, there will be no order.

When he was young, he begged on the street and accidentally entered the Beggars' Gang, which is the most unruly place in the world, but also the most rule-abiding place in the world. His eyes were blinded by the elders because he violated the rules of the gang. For decades, even after he left the Beggars' Gang, he never complained.

Rules are rules. They can be used and fooled, but if you don’t believe in the rules, the rules will teach you how to do things.

Because there are rules not just in one place in the world, but everywhere.

For example, the sound of the wind. Even if it seems chaotic, it is precisely the subtle details covered by the chaos that allow you to hear where the enemy is.

Rules are his martial arts.

Blind Arrow stuck his long bow into the ground, gathered his energy and strength, and started pulling the bowstring.

Click, click, click...

It was like the friction sound of a steel cable being stretched to its limit.

Under his tattered clothes, his skinny arms were bulging with thick blue veins, his flesh was about to be torn apart, and the longbow had been pulled to the extreme.

Blind Arrow listened to the wind and learned that when seniors and juniors fight, courtesy is the most important thing.

So in this case,
"I'll give you one arrow back."

It will be released when it reaches its limit.

At this moment, there was a loud thunder in the sky. After the thunder and lightning, there was a sudden silence.

The rain drops down obliquely and the wind blows gently.

puff!
Chen Yi's shoulders seemed to be suddenly drained of strength, and he lost consciousness in an instant. Then his feet were several inches off the ground, and he fell backwards to the ground.

He turned his head stiffly and saw a bowl-sized hole in his left shoulder. Bright red flesh was trembling and the blurry white bones were dripping with blood.

The sudden change caught him off guard. He was about to use his sword and saber to block the arrow, but...

Where are the arrows?

From just now until now, the trajectory of the arrow cannot be captured at all.

Even with the Shangqing Heart Method and even with the clairvoyance, the arrow was too fast. It was so fast that the brain didn't have time to notice it as it passed through the field of vision.

Chen Yi's pupils constricted. Even if he could master all the sword moves he had learned and turn them into magic, the Blind Arrow could still defeat all the other skills with his strength.

This is truly the tenth in the world.

Chen Yi gritted his teeth and propped himself up. Since leaving Beijing, he had almost never been so embarrassed. Most of the time he just crushed his opponents and thought he had reached the threshold of a fight between gods. This was good, but it was just the threshold.

The gap between the third rank and the first rank is as vast as heaven and earth.

Facing the heavy drizzle, Blind Jian heard a sound in the distance and couldn't help but exclaimed "Huh".

The arrow was aimed at his left chest, aiming for his life.

However, in the end, the arrow still deviated. He had been a first-class rank for so many years and had never made a mistake. Even when facing the true celestial being Xu Qi, the arrow did not deviate, it just missed.

Could it be... that it was due to his weird sword intent?
When the arrow entered Chen Yi's sword realm, although its power remained the same, it still deviated an inch to the extreme. And this short inch only hit the left shoulder at the last moment, but did not penetrate the chest.

Realizing this, Blind Arrow said in amazement: "Weird, weird, even weirder than Xu Qi. If you are given a few decades, maybe he will be the third in the world... No, the second in the world, and the first under Xu Qi."

After sighing, he closed his eyes slightly.

Unfortunately... there is no such opportunity.

He stuck the longbow on the ground and drew the bow and put the arrow on it again. The clicking sounds like the pulling of steel cables rang out again.

The blind arrow was aimed at the middle door, and it missed by an inch before. How many inches can you miss this time?

In an instant, his hand released the bowstring and the arrow flew out of the bow.

There was no need to look, no need to listen, and no need to draw the bow again. Blind Arrow climbed up the stairs directly, as if he was in an empty space. Just as he raised his foot, suddenly...

boom!
The sound of metal and stone was like a dragon's roar, resounding through the heavens and earth, and the arrows exploded and turned into powder.

Chen Yi, who was trying his best to support himself, slowly raised his head.
Amid the drizzling rain, a one-armed woman with a sword in her hand stood in front of him.

...............

There was a flash of lightning, the clouds shook, and the sky and earth turned white at that moment, illuminating Zhou Yitang's face. Although the blind arrow could not see, he could hear the sound of the wind.

The wind was speaking, describing the woman's origins, describing that the woman had only one arm, and describing the woman's restrained and sharp aura.

Perhaps it was because he hadn't seen anyone ranked behind him on the martial arts list for too long, Blind Arrow had never regarded her as a martial arts junior. The top ten in the world were not in the same arena as most people in the world. Here, no matter whether they were men or women, young or old, they all stood at the top. No one could be underestimated, and no one was not worthy of awe.

Only the true celestial being Xu Qi can underestimate the remaining nine people.

Blind Arrow was not surprised to meet Zhou Yitang on this trip. This was expected. What really surprised him was the ninth-best sword armor in the world...

Not worthy of its name.

Blind Arrow narrowed his eyes which had only cloudy whites. He didn't know whether Jian Jia was hiding his strength, or whether he was never worthy of his reputation, or became unworthy of his reputation later. But judging from his aura, he was only at the peak of the second grade.

He was not in a hurry to do too much, but nodded first. He felt that the two people wanted to talk, maybe about what happened after their death, so he waited. Having lived for seventy or eighty years, he still had some patience.

Chen Yi supported himself and struggled to get up, saying in a hoarse voice: "Master, you..."

His gaze stayed on the Ruoque sword in Zhou Yitang's hand. The sword was red all over, and raindrops dripped on it, causing billowing white smoke, as if it had been smelted but had not yet been quenched.

"Ruque Sword is not yet complete," she said, looking at the wound on Chen Yi's shoulder, "We can't wait any longer."

Chen Yi was silent for a while, and then he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. After a while, he smiled bitterly and said, "I'm not good enough..."

"No need to talk nonsense." she said.

Zhou Yitong pointed her sword at the ground, and the rain under her feet flowed away, leaving a clear space. She drew talismans with the tip of the sword, and golden light rose up, floating like a flame. She took out a point of golden light with the tip of the sword and stabbed it into her forehead.

"Come."

With just one short word, there was no need for further reply. Chen Yi sheathed his sword, took a deep breath, and then his whole body shrank rapidly, disappearing into the space between her eyebrows in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, it headed towards the heart lake.

Blind Jian, who noticed that Chen Yi suddenly disappeared, frowned, and the rain slid down his long eyebrows. He was about to speak.

The one-armed woman came at him with a sword!
Damn, these master and disciple are the same!

There are no rules of the underworld!

…………

Entering the lake of the heart again, the scene I saw was frozen in decline.

Chen Yi took a deep breath, and before he could rest,

front,

A black mass of obsessions rose from the ground and surrounded and attacked with terrifying momentum.

Just out of the dragon's den, into the tiger's den.

Chen Yi raised the corner of his mouth.

Before facing Blind Arrow, Chen Yi and Zhou Yitang had made a plan. He would first delay Blind Arrow's steps, while Zhou Yitang would wait for the sword to be recast. She would fight with Blind Arrow, while he would enter Zhou Yitang's heart and constantly help her get rid of distracting thoughts in the process.

Only in this way can the chance of winning be maximized. In fact, at the beginning, Chen Yi's plan was for the two of them to join forces, but Zhou Yitang told him bluntly that the fight between the top ten in the world was not something that a third-rank person could get involved in. Even if Chen Yi could not be a drag, the help he could provide was just a drop in the bucket. Instead of doing that, it would be better to send it to the heart lake.

Although getting rid of distracting thoughts may not be a timely help, it can at least add icing on the cake.

In that case, there's no need to waste time.

He pressed acupoints to stop the blood flowing from his left shoulder, faced the huge crowd, and instantly raised his sword.

The sword power of heaven and earth appeared in an instant, covering an area of ​​several feet in radius.

At this moment, he broke into it as fast as thunder.

He turned his body a few times and then charged into the obsession, tearing open a path of sword energy. He then turned his sword back in time, went back and forth, circling around the dense obsession.

This time, Chen Yi's state of mind was different from the previous one that made him want to curse. Instead, he seemed much more at ease.

The raging sword energy crisscrossed like crossbow arrows shot from all directions. The terrifying penetrating power stirred up the sky and earth here and filled it with yellow sand. The desolate Cangwu Peak was divided by the sword energy.

Chen Yi was like threading a needle. He was extremely precise, quick, and reckless, almost dancing on the tip of a knife. If he was a small boat in the wind and waves before, now he was a flying fish shuttling through the sea.

But even so, the obsession did not weaken because of Chen Yi's seven ins and outs. On the contrary, as Chen Yi fought, the obsession became more and more powerful.

The wind was howling, and when the sword pierced through the seventh obsession, Chen Yi's circling tactics began to fail. The obsessions suddenly put their swords across their chests, and the front two rows of knees sank. Under the guidance of the collective sword will, three hundred sword energies formed an iron net and pressed down.

Chen Yi had no time to be surprised by this change. He used his sword to block the sword, and the sword energy was fighting back and forth. He found an opportunity to step on the broken rocks and soar into the sky. The sword energy exploded instantly where he was standing.

He suddenly twisted his waist while falling, and the sword move that was supposed to be a straight chop turned into a horizontal chop, and two gray heads were blown away by the sword energy. But this time there was no room to retreat, and three sword auras pierced his left thigh at the same time.

A drop of blood splashed onto the cheek of the nearest obsession. Chen Yi used the brute force stimulated by the severe pain to spin around, and the sword whirled around, cutting the obsession into thin air.

A new encirclement was taking shape, and Chen Yi was still unable to escape after breaking through. He suddenly changed the way he held the sword, raised the hilt of the sword upside down and stabbed through the chest of the attacker behind him. He then pulled his hand towards the raging sword energy and took away the sword energy.

At the moment when the swords crossed, he grasped the sword energy and smashed it in all directions, finally blasting a way out among the flying sand and rocks.

But the obsessions reacted faster.

When Chen Yi tried to lure a gap, the obsession in front of him suddenly gave up defense and allowed him to pierce his throat, just so that the sword of his companion in the back row could penetrate his right rib.

Chen Yi twisted his body to avoid the attack, and after he cut through the human wall with all his might, he suddenly discovered that the edge of the sword world was shrinking, and the obsessions seemed to be using their bodies as chains, tightening his range of movement one circle after another.

These obsessions...are much more difficult to deal with than before...Chen Yi only now had time to realize this.

Over the past three days, Chen Yi had been constantly going in to help her remove her obsessions. He was already very familiar with the situation. The obsessions all fought on their own without any cooperation. They had never worked together like they did today.

Was it because Zhou Yitang's fight with Blind Arrow triggered the obsession in his heart?
Chen Yi narrowed his eyes, took a deep breath, and murmured hoarsely: "...You deserve it..."

"You scolded me again?"

The voice came again. Chen Yi turned around suddenly, but he couldn't find the owner of the voice, nor could he tell the direction. It was like an unconscious auditory hallucination.

Inner demons...

The inner demon that Zhou Yitang avoids talking about.

Over the past three days, this inner demon has spoken to his ears like before, but after Zhou Yitong's warning, Chen Yi tried not to respond. Even though she did not show any hostility, he did not dare to risk contact with her.

After all, the inner demon is related to the great Dao, and one should not act rashly. Even if Chen Yi wants to get rid of it for her, now is not the time. No trouble can be created at this critical moment.

Chen Yi exhaled slowly, ignored it, and broke into the formation again.

Sword moves and sword energy intertwined back and forth, making loud bangs, and the killing was so crazy. Facing the fierce sword energy, Chen Yi still fought hard, with blood flowing from his shoulder.

He was already a little exhausted, but he still gritted his teeth and persevered.

The siege by the obsessions became tighter and tighter, and more and more urgent. Zhou Yitang seemed to have lost control over the obsessions, and the sword energy that came across was crisscrossed.

Chen Yi's sword was half a beat slower.

The spinning slash that was able to crush three or four obsessions before could only cut off two gray figures at this moment.

The bloody hole in his thigh that was pierced by the sword energy began to feel hot, and every time he kicked the ground it felt like stepping into boiling oil. When he blocked the sword for the seventh time, he heard the sound of his hand bones cracking.

The obsessions are still coming up.

Still he would not let him go, but would tear him to pieces.

"enough!"

Hearing the familiar voice and familiar words again, Chen Yi suddenly became a little hesitant.

However, the huge crowd of people did not take the opportunity to draw their swords. Instead, they all stopped and then slowly retreated like the tide, as if in welcome.

A familiar figure walked out from the obsession. Unlike those obsessions without facial features, she had her own face.
Master?

No... Chen Yi shook his head vigorously. Although it was exactly the same, this was definitely not the master...

She has two hands.

...............

The raindrops passed by diagonally, and at this time the rain was long and dense, drawing dense parallel lines between the sky and the earth, and the rain curtain covered the two top ten people in the world.

One has always lived up to his reputation, the other no longer lives up to his reputation.

The former with arrows, the latter with swords.

The rain curtain was torn into pieces in an instant.

This instantaneous change was like a bolt from the blue, but it was still too slow, because before the rain curtain tore through, the string of the blind arrow had been released and the arrow tip had already flown towards his face.

The famous sword armor raised his hand, and the raindrops that hit Ruoque's sword were like dripping on a piece of red-hot iron, making a hissing sound and turning into white smoke. The arrow tip collided with the sword body and was also easily resolved like a hot knife cutting ice.

The power that Chen Yi had just managed to dissolve by using his sword and saber was now in Zhou Yitang's hands in a flash.

Such a momentum should make the blind arrows who appreciate the younger generation even more amazed.

But on the contrary, he sighed deeply and said:

"This arrow should have been neutralized by your sword energy before it reached thirty or four feet.

I am ranked tenth, and for a long time I have never thought about getting a higher ranking, but after seeing you today, it is hard not to wonder if the people ahead of me are just seeking fame and reputation."

He was amazed at Chen Yi but disappointed with Zhou Yitang. The reason was simple: their expectations were different. The former appreciated his talent but the latter was disappointed.

The one-armed woman did not respond, but simply slashed with her sword.

The sword energy gathered like a whirlwind and rain, a green rainbow appeared out of nowhere, and it destroyed everything in its path.

Cut straight away.

Blind Arrow drew his bow as if he had expected it. Even though he was disappointed, he was only one man away from being at the peak of the second rank. If he was not careful, he would fall into the trap. He frowned tightly, bent the bowstring like a full moon, and then loosened it.

The arrow that was shot with all the strength possible still made no sound and no visible shape, but the green rainbow was shattered by the arrow. How magnificent it was before, how spectacular it was now that it collapsed like an earth-shattering earth.

The air wave first contracted inward, and then exploded with a loud bang. The aftermath caused the rocks to crack and the wood to break. Zhou Yitong's hair fluttered. She saw the almost imperceptible changes in the air waves. She narrowed her eyes and threw another sword into the air.

Another wave of air exploded, carrying with it the dissipated sword energy, and a hidden arrow was crushed into powder.

The mother-and-child arrows were discovered, and Blind Arrow was finally surprised at this moment. He raised his old eyebrows and shook off the rain. This sword armor was not as unworthy of its reputation as he had imagined.

At the same time, Zhou Yitang's scattered sword energy mixed with rainwater and condensed into green beads of different sizes. They rose up against the raindrops, like sword balls condensed to perfection, with restrained aura. When they shot out like thousands of flying swords, Blind Arrow finally realized how tricky it was to reach the peak of the second level of Taoism and martial arts.

Thousands of sword energy green beads connected together to form a sword energy rain curtain, which undoubtedly has the magnificent atmosphere of the first-grade realm.

This is much more dazzling than Chen Yi's sword intent.

Blind Arrow drew his bow again, this time not one arrow, but three arrows were on the string. The bowstring, which was fully stretched, was stretched to its limit and flew out with a bang, creating a magnificent sonic boom. The loud noise could be heard throughout the entire Longhu Mountain. Compared with before, the three arrows flew extremely slowly, but they moved forward in unison, without a single error, pulling up an invisible barrier around them. The sword energy rain curtain collided with it like a raging fire meeting solid ice, and there was a sizzling sound in the air. Blind Arrow put the arrow on the string again at this time, and suddenly he heard a little bit of unclear abnormality beside his ear. The one-armed woman walked towards him slowly, but the distance between them seemed to be shortened at a rapid speed, shrinking to an inch.

She was a person who was extremely proud of her swordsmanship. At this moment, she did not use sword energy, but cut with the sword within three feet.

Zhou Yitang made a casual slash, and the Blind Arrow, who had been a little unpredictable before, quickly grabbed the entire longbow and smashed forward. The one-armed woman changed the slash into a stab, and when she held the longbow, she suddenly felt a huge force pulling her back. Blind Arrow pulled with both hands, holding the arrow between his fingers, waiting for the enemy to lose strength and crash into him. Zhou Yitang stood still, twisted his hand casually, and the sword tip went around the longbow. Then the sword energy exploded with a cold light, and when it was about to break the throat, Blind Arrow reached out and caught the sword energy. Before blood could bloom, the sword energy was broken.

The one-armed woman drew back her sword in time and dodged backwards.

The area within ten feet of where the two men had fought was already covered in devastation.

Blind Arrow exhaled, his Qi circulated, and he shook the longbow in his hand.
The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and the wind is getting more restless.
Blind Arrow looked up at the sky, and raindrops as big as beans hit his face. He seemed to hear something.

Amid the rolling thunder and rain, there was only a sound that he could hear, like a whisper, and Blind Arrow's face became more and more serious.
"That's right, my mother is setting rules for the world. If you don't break them, you won't build them. So why should we act according to the outdated rules of the world?

I won’t drag it out with you any longer. When the Red Yang calamity is over, the White Yang will rise and Maitreya will be born immediately.”

As soon as the words fell, something strange happened.

(End of this chapter)