Heaven's Formula

"Don't use alchemy! Infuse Qi into the wooden sword, and keep your eyes on the target before you strike!" Luo Weiqing reminded loudly while chopping down a Mei who rushed forward.

Her current situation can be described as extremely dangerous. The place where the city wall collapsed was the darkest place, and she was in a hurry just to deal with Mei. At the same time, she had to beware of the Demon that crawled into the gap again, as if it wanted to further expand the scope of the collapse.

"Why haven't the substitutes come up—" Luo Tang couldn't help but look back at the small square, but froze in place.

Xia Fan followed her gaze, and his heart sank suddenly.

There is no shadow of the reserve team on the west side of the square. The moment the city wall collapsed, the reserve candidates in charge of the west wall had already fled without a fight.

Chapter 31 Stand Up

"Let's retreat too..." Zhang Yan retreated slowly.

The place that was crushed was only twenty steps away from Luo Tang's team. If another torch fell, they would be the first to be attacked by Mei.

But Luo Tang didn't respond, his eyes blankly moved back and forth to Luo Qingnian who was not far away, obviously at a loss.

Before Zhang Yan took two steps back, she found something hard was holding her back of her neck.

He turned around and found that Xia Fan had put the wooden sword in his throat.

"You, what do you mean?"

"Stay where you are and don't go anywhere, or I'll chop you off the city wall." Xia Fan said in a deep voice.

"Brother Yan!" Zhang Shi shouted, picked up a hoe and wanted to pounce, Xia Fan did not retreat an inch, raised his sword and was about to swing down, forcing Zhang Shi to take back his forward steps.

"Xia Fan...?" Only then did Luo Tang react. She looked at the three people who were in a stalemate, feeling a little confused for a moment.

"Don't forget what you are here for!" Xia Fan suddenly raised his voice and shouted at her.

Luo Tang was shocked violently, and finally came back to his senses.

"I...we must guard our own torches." She clenched her fists and said to the Zhang brothers, "If we run away, who will receive those companions who have retreated? You two don't want the darkness behind you Right? Take a step back and say, where can everyone run away? This is a wild night!"

"But you've also seen it... the substitute team has already fled, and the magic will continue to pour into the city wall!" Zhang Yan argued.

"I'll make up for the missing torch—"

"No, your responsibility is to stay here," Xia Fan interrupted her, "Let me go."

"You?" Luo Tang asked in surprise, "Don't you know long-distance alchemy?"

In the defense just now, Xia Fan didn't make a move, but acted as the job of guarding the torch, because he didn't have the means to attack Mei through the city wall.

Of course, all these problems were attributed to his cheap master. Among the seven or eight techniques taught to him, very few were able to attack, and they were basically used to run away.

"The problem is that you can't either!" Xia Fan gave Luo Chang an angry look.

The latter was suddenly at a loss for words. She tried to attack Xie Chong with the life endowment she was good at before, but the effect was minimal.

"Anyway, do as I say! I can't do it at a long distance, but it doesn't mean I can't do it at a close distance." He retracted his wooden sword and said coldly to Zhang Yan, "Don't forget that the proctor is probably paying attention to this last test. Fighting, leaving everyone behind and fleeing first, guess what kind of evaluation you will get? If it is recorded, let alone three years, I am afraid that you will miss the Privy Council for 30 years."

"Uh..." Zhang Yan gritted her teeth, "I don't want to walk!"

"At least don't walk in front of everyone." Xia Fan turned to Luo Tang, "Get me a spare torch, hurry up!"

Luo Tang took a deep look at him, then took out a paper crane and said, "The art of dryness is back to you, and the life is endowed with life!"

The paper crane soared into the sky, headed towards the small square, grabbed the wooden torch dropped by the substitute group in its claws, and tried its best to return to the owner.

After throwing down the torch, Luo Tang's body couldn't help shaking—it was obvious that flying with heavy objects consumes a lot of air, and it's hard for her to do it again in a short time.

"Be sure...be careful." She gasped.

"You don't need to tell me, I will."

Xia Fan picked up the torch and lit it, held it on his shoulder, and ran towards the break in the city wall.

He knew it was risky, but it would only be more dangerous to stand by and do nothing.Transforming the small town to fight Sha Ye can certainly gather the strength of all the candidates, but it also binds everyone to the same boat.If there were flaws in the whole plan, it was that he had overestimated the candidates' will and ability.

Xia Fan originally thought that he had only dealt with Xiaoxiong with his master, but he was really incapable of fighting in actual combat, but he didn't expect that most people were worse than him.From Luo Tang's words, it can be heard that even among the disciples of the aristocratic family, only the top ones are qualified for actual combat training.Lack of experience and mental immaturity made it possible for candidates to fight against Mei from a long distance at the top of the city, but once it became a contact battle, the situation was completely reversed.

As soon as the western wall collapsed, the backup team in charge of the western wall fled. This shows that the defense circle of Qingshan Town may collapse at any time.At present, it can still persist, all due to the inconvenience of communication and poor vision at night.Although the defenders on the other three walls can see what is happening on the west wall, they are less affected by themselves, and there is no pressure to face the devil at close range. There will not be too many problems for the time being, but if the torches on the west wall If they go out one by one, no matter how stupid they are, they will realize that something is wrong.Once they fell into adversity, Xia Fan had no idea how much courage they would have to stick to it.

In other words, unless immediate action is taken to rekindle the torches and drive the demons out of the breach area, the situation at the Western Wall will only get worse.At this time, if someone escapes first, it may cause a collapse immediately.Without the city wall as a support, personal power will become extremely limited. At that time, whoever lives and who dies will be completely resigned to fate.

This trend must be contained before the collapse occurs!

Just when Xia Fan rushed to the edge of the collapse, Mo stood up halfway again.

Worse!

Just as this idea popped up in his mind, the opponent's huge body was already pressed against the city wall——

"Boom!"

With a loud noise, he felt the wooden plank under his feet disintegrate in the tremor, and many bricks and stones in front of him were even blown away!

The only thing Xia Fan can do is to grab the torch and jump up as hard as possible, keeping the burning end of the wooden pole upward.

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Oops--

At the moment when the devil jumped down, Luo Qingqing's heart sank to the bottom.

She was entangled by the two charms, unable to stop the other's actions at all, and could only watch helplessly as the wall under her feet was torn apart.She herself has lost her footing and is about to fall off the walls.

Through the demon that was close at hand, Luo slightly saw a fire approaching at the other end of the fracture from the corner of his eye. Perhaps the substitute team finally arrived, but unfortunately the situation took a turn for the worse. It was difficult to illuminate the enlarged gap with this torch alone. .

If only she could hold on a little longer...

At this moment, a cyan ripple suddenly spread out, covering most of the collapsed place!

"The trick is the end, the flower in the water!"

Her falling speed slowed down instantly, not only that, even the scene of those falling stones became clearly recognizable, as if all the objects around her were wrapped in invisible water, and the speed of their movement was greatly slowed down.

The only thing that remains unchanged is the caster - Fang Xiandao.

She was surprised to see that Fang Xiandao shuttled among the falling rocks and debris with smooth steps, and at the same time shot a talisman at her.When the piece of talisman hit her forehead, the influence of the blue ripples on her also disappeared suddenly.

Luo Qingnian knew it all at once. She swung her sword and picked at the blue brick closest to her, adjusted her posture with the help of the force of the collision, and followed Fang Xiandao's appearance, jumping back and forth between the floating stones, finally as follows Stairs generally land smoothly.

"I didn't expect you to help me."

"Hmph, there are priorities, and only a fool will forget the big plan because of the small details." Fang Xiandao snapped open the folding fan, half covering his face, "Since the ground defense is a foregone conclusion, I don't need to go against the trend. What divination is best at is that no matter how the form changes, I can find an optimal solution for myself."

"You... recalculated?" Luo Qingqing couldn't help asking curiously.

"That's right, and the hexagram is extremely clear. This time, the Great Desolate Night is entirely dependent on our leadership. As long as we can persist until dawn, our Fang family will definitely rank first among the three families!" He slightly raised the corners of his mouth, "Look, the current situation It's being fulfilled, isn't it?"

As soon as he closed his fan, the ripples disappeared, and the falling objects returned to their normal speed, hitting them in front of them one after another.

"Are you all right?" Fei Nian, who had been blocking Mei under the city wall before, also rushed over, "The effect of this technique is really eye-opening!"

"The Fang family is not only good at fortune-telling." Fang Xiandao pointed directly at the demon lying on the fracture, "Now that the three families have gathered, it's time to kill this monster in one go! Let's go!"

The two of them remained motionless, looking at Fang Xiandao in unison.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"That technique just now... don't you want to use it again?" Luo asked in surprise.

"That's right," Fei Nian nodded in agreement, "If we can stop the demon, we will definitely win."

"This..." Fang Xiandao was stunned, "Do you think this technique can be used casually? The materials it requires are all rare treasures, and even I only brought one copy!"

"Then you now..."

"I can help you fight the battle." Fang Xiandao said confidently.

"Be careful!" Fei Nian suddenly warned.

Unfortunately it was too late.A black shadow descended from the sky, and landed on Fang Xiandao with a plop!

Since Mei couldn't fly, and the three of them were not within the scope of the collapse, few people paid attention to the situation in the sky.This fall was impossible to guard against, Fang Xiandao was knocked unconscious on the ground before he could react in time.

Luo Weiwei was surprised to find that the figure of this uninvited guest was quite familiar.

"Xia...Fan?"

Xia Fan coughed twice, and managed to stand up holding the torch—the fall just now was not light, if it wasn't for the person who induced the air, falling from a height of seven or eight meters would at least break a leg.If it were a white-haired master, it would be normal for him to fall to his death.

Fortunately, the torch was not extinguished after all.

"I brought torches to support, I hope it's not too late."

Luo Weiwei couldn't help but startled, it turned out that the flame she saw before was Xia Fan.

When the city wall was broken and the nearby groups were fleeing to places where there was still light, he walked against the flow of people, trying to fill in the missing light.

She has fought against him, and because of this, she knows that the other party is not the kind of person who is good at skills.

Even so, he came.

Luo Qingqing couldn't help feeling a complicated feeling in her heart.

"Why...is it you?"

"The substitute team is too busy, so I'll do it for the time being." Xia Fan pretended to be relaxed, "With this torch alone, can we still make up the gap now?"

"I'm afraid it won't work." Fei Nian shook his head, "It's difficult for the light below to reach the city wall, but if you want to put a torch on it, you have to face the attacks of demons and charms."

"Well, I guess so..."

"All in all, if we don't defeat the devil, we won't be able to stop the breach." Fei Nian paused, "But this torch has already given us great help—at least it won't let the devil get close to us easily. Next Leave the matter to me and Luo Qingqing."

"Just the two of you?" Xia Fan frowned.

"There's another one under you."

Xia Fan hurriedly jumped away, only then did he realize that there was still a man from the Fang family lying on the ground, "Uh, I didn't notice—"

"I know, it's just an accident." Luo gently interrupted, "There are a little fewer people, but the number here is of no use. As long as you stay here, we will have a safe retreat. Even if we fail, You can also retreat completely."

Chapter 32 I'll Cover You

Xia Fan didn't answer, but looked at the break of the city wall for a while, "I have a better idea."

"Oh? What is it?" Fei Nian asked.

"See those exposed roof beams and floor slabs? Just light them, and the whole gap will be a huge torch."

"The technique I prepared can't precisely control and ignite a certain area." Luo lightly vetoed, "Once it is cast, the entire city wall will burn, let alone everyone is still resisting on it, if it is a last resort now, the fire time It won’t last until dawn tomorrow.”

"It's not for you to order, but for me."

"You?" Fei Nian questioned, "This is not something that can be done by ordinary alchemy! The roof beam is not a torch, and there is no hemp rope or kerosene wrapped on it, even if you use the flying flower flame, it will not burn it at all. "

Luo Qingqing did not immediately deny it, but asked instead, "How sure are you?"

"Luo Qingqing?" Fei Nian looked at her in surprise.

"If it's just lighting the wood, I'm [-]% sure." Xia Fan replied calmly, "But considering that we have to deal with demons, we have to reduce it by [-]% as appropriate, and add [-]% to be modest, so it's [-]%."

"It's taller than mine." Luo nodded lightly, "Is there anything we need to do?"

"Cover me to get close to the demon. This technique...is not good at distance."

"I see." She took the torch, then threw it to Fei Nian, "You guard the retreat, I will try it with him."

Xia Fan smiled, and rushed towards the fracture first.

"Are you serious? He's just an outsider!" Fei Nian said in disbelief. This trial is definitely not the kind of trial that was so close to danger in the past. Ordinary candidates don't even have the qualifications to stand here, and only those from aristocratic families Only top disciples dare to make such a move—and because of this, the stronger and more secure their teammates are naturally.He didn't expect that Luo Weiqing would choose an ordinary Sanmen to take risks, instead of a genius like him who could be as famous as him.

"As far as I know, he's not the kind of person who just knows how to be brave." Luo Qingqing chased after him without looking back, "I'll leave this to you."

"It's...crazy." In desperation, Fei Nian had no choice but to raise the torch to illuminate the road ahead for the two of them, "Forget it, let me escort you for another ride!"

Several flying flames shot up into the sky, rushing towards Mei who was approaching Xia Fan like flowing fire, and wiped them out one by one at the edge of the flames.

Taking advantage of this time, the two had crossed the flat area and climbed up the collapsed city wall.

This section of the road was immediately difficult to walk, Xia Fan had to slow down, and with the help of the faint firelight, he carefully chose every foothold.Luo Qingqing came later and easily surpassed him.

Is this really something alchemists can do?

Xia Fan couldn't help but secretly speechless.The ruins at the collapse formed a small hill, with irregular bricks and stones, scattered wooden beams, and fragile tiles that easily hurt feet. You have to be careful when climbing even in broad daylight.But she seemed to be weightless, and she was able to cross obstacles one after another with a light tap of her legs, and her nimble figure was like an elf.

This reminded him of the legendary qinggong.

Not only that, Luo Weiwei also blocked several Mei that came for him - this place is close to the twilight zone, Mei's figure is almost difficult to lock with the naked eye, but she can still use slow to beat fast, every time she comes out The sword must have a harvest, as if those charms deliberately bumped into her wooden sword.

Xia Fan once again felt the gap compared to his appearance of bending over and climbing on the ruins with both hands and feet.

"Has your master never taught you any agility?"