Chapter 574
The Church of the Flowery Words
Chapter 574 The Church of the Cross (Thirty-Seven)
The wind of the night rushed in through the cracks in the stained glass window, and under the clear moonlight, the "hanging church," which originally relied on the optical illusion created by sunlight and stained glass windows, now actually floated above the ruins of the ancient castle.
A faint meow came from the depths of the side corridor, the sound so light and airy that it made Ning Yao's ears itch again, and he couldn't help but scratch them.
"I've said everything I can say. If you ask again, I can only ask Zisha. So what are you planning to do next? Throw me out or strangle me? If you haven't decided, I'll be leaving now." Li Xin patted the dust off his trousers and, without waiting for Ning Yao to speak, immediately turned and walked towards the direction where the church door had originally been.
"Hey, hey, hey, how dare you say you're running away so confidently?" Ning Yao rushed forward and grabbed the person back, giving him a disdainful look. "Although you're useless, I'm not going to let you go and let you rejoin your teammates to continue chasing my brother. Sorry, I've decided to let you leave the field temporarily and be injured."
Ning Yao lifted the person up and pinned them against the edge of the broken window.
"Oh, perfect. Originally, it was only two stories high, so throwing it out would be a piece of cake. But after the illusion of the Hanging Church came true, at least four more stories were added here. Falling out of here would be enough to render it incapable of fighting."
Li Xin said helplessly, "Hey, people can fall to their deaths from the sixth floor."
Ning Yao asked in surprise, "Can't you adjust your landing posture in mid-air?"
Li Xin: "...Don't talk about this kind of super difficult physical skill as if it were a common cabbage on the street, you bastard."
Ning Yao shrugged: "Well, there's nothing we can do about it. If Newton's word still counts, you'll have about two seconds to pray before you land."
Then, he chuckled and pushed the person out.
In an instant, the light outside the window intensified, and the kaleidoscope effect reappeared. The floor in the direction of the main altar suddenly twisted into a vortex, and then stabilized into a mirrored corridor that looked exactly like the side corridor behind it after a dizzying spin.
Ning Yao seemed to realize something and quickly looked out the window. Sure enough, the long corridor that originally led to the exit door had been folded to the other side of the suspended church.
Li Xin, who had been thrown out of the window, fell back into the corridor at the same angle.
The shaking continued, and the overhead beam snapped with a loud crash.
"That guy surnamed Du has spelled the map wrong again!" Ning Yao cursed and pulled the person back.
The entire side corridor tilted towards the abyss. Things happened so fast that Ning Yao couldn't grab any foothold for a moment, and the two of them were forced to slide into the depths of the suspended church.
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The group steadied themselves, and the ten guards maintained their semi-circular formation. Upon realizing they had lost their leader, their steps became disordered, and the scene entered a brief standoff.
After a moment's hesitation, one person finally threw out the steel wire, and the others blindly followed suit, but this round of attacks was as disorganized as scattered sand.
Following the opponent's attack, Chunyu Kong retreated and spun around, leaving half a body space. Then, the golden light of the talisman between his knees flashed slightly as he gathered his strength. With just one sudden thrust, he dislocated everyone's joints and dissipated the force, causing them all to fall to the ground groaning incessantly.
He glanced, slightly taken aback, at the ash from the talisman that had just dissipated on his knees, then at the crooked guards on the ground, and thought to himself:
They've only been away from the team leader for a few seconds, how come they're all so incompetent? What kind of training do they do? Has the guard team, which has always prided itself on its overwhelming combat strength, degenerated to be weaker than the substitutes in the field operations team? Who's the leader of the guard team? Is anyone in charge of the guard team's assessments? Do they test listening and speaking skills? Or is the guard team really this weak, and I've been overestimating them? Is the field operations team facing more complex situations outside, which is why they're the association's combat power? Have they been a bunch of weaklings protecting the association's core leadership all these years? Who recruited this bunch of weaklings? I really want to have a long chat with the guard team's commander-in-chief throughout the entire evening study session...
So many words welled up in his mouth, but in the end he only managed to utter one sentence: "Tsk, what a waste of a talisman."
The guards groaning on the ground: Wow, they're such a show-off.
Chunyu Kong straightened up, looked around, and confirmed that he was the only one still standing in this corridor.
Although he had sensed Ning Yao's disappearance long before the strange earthquake, this method of completely severing both aura and divine sense was indeed troubling him. Du Jingxiu had separated himself from Ning Yao in this way more than once; the method was old but very effective. Even now, the two of them still didn't have any particularly effective countermeasures, which made Chunyu Kong feel somewhat anxious.
"Hey."
Chunyu Kong scanned the crowd on the ground: "Among you, who is skilled in tracking spells?"
The guards exchanged bewildered glances. One of the guards, whose arm was dislocated, replied, "I...I know the Circular Light Spell!"
Circular Light Technique?
Chunyu Kong frowned: "No, the ordinary Yuan Guang Technique probably won't find what I'm looking for. Don't you have any more special techniques? With so many of you, don't you have any family secrets or anything? You're all so useless..."
The man quickly said, "Wait! My Mirror of Light technique has been improved! It can illuminate Yin and Yang, connecting the two realms. Finding people, pets, objects, chasing ghosts, and apprehending criminals are all a piece of cake! I can make a Mirror of Light right now. Brother, if you find it useful, could you please spare our lives? We promise we won't make things difficult for you anymore!"
Chunyu Kong sneered: "Even if you want to make things difficult for me, you probably don't have the ability."
"Brother, I misspoke. You are a magnanimous man, please spare my life. Whether you need this 'Circle Light Technique' or not, please do me the honor of taking a look." The man was very pragmatic and quickly corrected himself. If his arm hadn't been dislocated, he would have already gotten up and kowtowed.
The speed of his sliding kneeling and his words made Chunyu Kong almost hallucinate that this person was Ning Yao.
"……Row."
Chunyu Kong stepped forward and, to the man's horrified gaze, snapped his arm back together.
The team member dared not say a word, enduring the excruciating pain as he staggered to his feet, picking out the more intact shards of glass from the shattered stained glass on the ground. He broke off the sharp edges with his bare hands, making it as round as possible, then tore off a piece of the guard's standard sleeve, tied it tightly, and wrapped it around the back, leaving only the glass side exposed at the cuff.
Looking around, he borrowed his companion's nosebleed and quickly wrote incantations on the cloth.
After finishing writing, he suddenly looked extremely tired and gasped, "If you have abilities like 'spiritual perception', you can directly observe the image... If not, you can use the reflected light spots from the sunlight to point to the location."
Chunyu Kong took the simple round mirror and waved it in the sunlight. He saw that the light spot projected by the mirror did not reflect back to the wall in a straight line, but was projected onto the ground on the other side at an angle that defied physics.
“Interesting.” Chunyu Kong put away the round mirror and turned to look at the guards.
"You've passed. Take your teammates and leave the church immediately. I will forgive the previous attack, but if I see you inside the church again, kill them without mercy."
"Okay, okay, thank you, boss!" The man helped up a teammate with a broken ankle from the ground, bowed and said goodbye, took two steps, then suddenly turned back as if he remembered something.
“Um… Boss,” he swallowed hard, staring into Chunyu Kong’s cold eyes, and forced himself to say, “If you run into our Captain Li later, could you give him one of my ‘get-out-of-jail-free cards’ as well?”
Chunyu Kong: "Get lost."
"Get out now, get out now!"
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