Chapter 444: How to Win with Less
The death of the Yuan Shen detachment caused a great impact on Qin Ran.
Every death of a bilocation was real, and every death of a Yuan Shen bilocation meant that Qin Ran had truly died once.
When the last detachment within the Zhi Ginseng Valley feathered into a point of light, he was setting up a formation outside of the Daosword Sect’s mountain gate, and the irresistible pain and weakness caused him to plant himself directly out of the air.
He fell in the mud and swamp, struggled for a long time, got up in a heap, and sat sickly on the muddy ground.
The Yuan Shen of the Yuan Shen detachment was separated from the Yuan Shen of the main body, and the complete disappearance of this part of the Yuan Shen was the same as the complete departure of the hands and feet from the physical body.
Figuratively a little, the body’s Yuan Shen is directly empty of a piece.
Qin Ran sat in the mud, and for a moment he couldn’t raise his strength or heart, he didn’t bother to struggle, he just sat there.
At this moment, he was as good as falling into the state of a sage, and began to think about the universe and life.
Why, he thought, had he come to this world? What had gotten into him? What was his purpose in coming to this world? What was the significance?
How big is this world? What are the limits of cultivation?
He thought to himself, what was he trying so desperately to help the Dao Jian Sect for?
Going out to the Boundless Sword Sect and disassociating the Chi Shen Valley were both things that jeopardized his little life, but he was surprisingly unafraid to die and went to both. Like the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, he only lobbied the lords of the Zonghuangji, and used his body to fight against the country.
He was almost sacrificing his life to help the Dao Sword Sect, desperately seeking that ray of hope for the Dao Sword Sect.
Why?
That’s not in his nature!
“I should have just RUN!”
He lifted his head and looked into the mid-air, where he had fallen, where in the mid-air, the formation pattern he had written down was shining brightly.
Mid-air?
“When did I stop being afraid of heights?”
The thought suddenly came back to him.
He didn’t know, it was as if flying around so much that heights didn’t disgust him so much;
It was also as if, the Otherworld wasn’t the Otherworld anymore, he had a home in this world, he wasn’t a visitor from the Otherworld anymore. The world no longer revolted, disgusted, or repulsed him.
He thought back to the high-altitude vortex that had sucked him into this world, and it didn’t seem to frighten him so much.
Daojianmen, Danfeng, Li Shiyin, Li Shiyin ……
Li Shiyin, when he thought of Li Shiyin, his heart wandered inside warmth and sweetness.
He was covered in mud and a mess, but he looked at the sky and smiled.
The smile is warm and bright from the heart.
Daojianmen, Danfeng, Li Shiyin, Chasing the Wind, Long Qiqi, Tian Wenjin, Lu Junxing, Dong Zhongyuan ……
He wanted to understand a little.
His home, his loved ones, his friends are here …… so he guards it, so why does he need a why?
He was afraid to die, but if he lost them, what difference would it make if he died once?
“Master?!”
His foolish disciple had suddenly flown out from inside the sect to find him.
Li Shiyin was originally practicing her sword with a group of Heaven’s Pride disciples teaching the ordinary disciples within the sect, but she thought of her master for some reason. When she thought of it, she came out to look for him.
She shouted and searched for a while before finding Qin Ran in the mud on the ground.
“Master!” She flew down here in nervousness and fear, “What’s wrong with you?”
She dropped to the ground and crouched next to him, looking him up and down, scrutinizing him.
Qin Ran grabbed her hand that had nowhere to rest and held it in his arms, looked at her, smiled and shook his head, saying, “I’m fine, I’m just a little tired.”
“Master~” sniffed Li Shiyin and hugged him heartily.
At this moment, she hated herself immensely, for she realized that she seemed to know nothing but how to fight, and could do nothing to help Master.
“Master, I’m sorry Master, I’m too stupid.” She cried.
Qin Ran backhandedly hugged her, his hand patting her back gently, and laughed, “No, you’re not stupid. You are the Dao Sword Sect’s heavenly pride, Li Shiyin, and you are the Dan Peak Absolute Female Sword Immortal.”
“Not ……,” Li Shiyin shook her head back and forth, “I’m not.”
“You are.” Qin Ran’s dirty face was buried in Li Shiyin’s hair, and he sighed as he smelled her hair, “What I can do, I’ve already done. It’s time for your performance next, my female sword fairy.”
Li Shiyin raised her head and asked, “Master, is it already over over at Chi Shen Valley?”
“Uh-huh!” Qin Ran nodded, showing off quite a bit, “Zhi Ginseng Valley was messed up by Master, the battle power was cut by more than half, and it is no longer as prosperous as it used to be. Is your master awesome?”
The tone of his question was exactly the same as when Lee Shiyin stunk.
Li Shiyin realized at the first moment that Qin Ran was learning from her, she smiled and nodded her head repeatedly, “Awesome, of course my master is awesome! Master is the most powerful.”
She hugged Qin Ran as her body gently shook.
“But Zhi Shen Gu is still coming, so there is still a war.” Qin Ran leaned on Li Shiyin’s shoulder and followed her as she gently rocked, and he asked, “You will protect Master, right?”
“Of course! I am Master’s sword!” Li Shiyin smiled with her eyebrows, “When Master is here, I am here! If Chi Shen Valley dares to come, watch me kill them one by one with my sword.”
“Nah! That’s my female sword fairy!” Qin Ran lay in Li Shiyin’s fragrant and soft embrace and said softly, “Don’t call me master, it’s time to call me husband.”
Li Shiyin’s face pressed against Qin Ran’s hair and softly called out, “Husband!”
“Wife~”
“Husband?”
“Ma’am!”
The two of them were cuddling on the ground for a while before Qin Ran remembered the business and asked Li Shiyin to help herself up.
“Go find Yan Yi and ask him to arrange for a few disciples who know how to set up formations to come and help me.” He said with Li Shiyin, “I can’t raise my qi for now. But this formation is critical and time is running out.”
Seeing Qin Ran’s weak appearance, Li Shiyin was heartbroken and hesitated, “Husband, why don’t we not put up this formation? People are very powerful, and they can still guard the Dao Jian Gate without the formation.”
“You’re powerful my ass!” Qin Ran said without a trace of anger, “There are still more than five hundred Jindan cultivators in the Zhi Ginseng Valley, together with the Boundless Sword Sect, how many of them can you fight if you can? Not to mention there are YuanYing cultivators and God Transformation cultivators. You have an iron head, take your head and hit it, okay?”
Li Shiyin said weakly, “It’s not impossible.”
“We will lay down three barriers at the Dao Sword Sect. This formation, is the first barrier, the Mountain Protection Formation is the second barrier, and Lu Junxing’s Mountain River Sword will be the third.” Qin Ran carefully explained the importance of this formation with his own foolish lady, “Chi Shen Valley’s paper strength is still stronger than ours, how are we going to fight with weakness?”
“This I know, it’s the aura and mentality.” Li Shiyin returned, “And then we are protecting our clan, with the clan, our mentality is definitely better than Chi Shen Valley.”
“No!” Qin Ran vetoed Li Shiyin’s answer, “This is war, not a personal battle.
“Within war, there is no such thing as winning with the few or winning with the weak; there is only bullying the weak with the strong and bullying the few with the many. Winning with less is also bullying with more.”
Li Shiyin shook her head in disbelief as she listened.
“When the enemy outnumbers us, we have to find a way to spread them out and break them individually.
“For example, if the enemy has twelve men and we only have five, then find a way to divide the enemy into three teams of four men each, so we can have five men to bully the enemy’s four, instead of bullying the few with the many.”
Qin Ran and Li Shiyin said, “Comparing the personal combat you are good at is when the enemy is stronger than you, you have to find a way to find the enemy’s weaknesses and use your strengths to attack the enemy’s weaknesses.
“The reasoning is the same, avoid the enemy’s strengths and use your strengths to overcome the enemy’s weaknesses.”
Li Shiyin listened in a plausible way.
“This formation I’m going to set up is called the God and Ghost Eight Trigrams Formation, a main defense formation. But I will leave out eight entrances as a life gate …… the reasoning of three out of three in a circle you should understand.”
Qin Ran said, “These eight entrances will disperse the enemy into eight parts. Once they enter the formation, we can focus on attacking one of the parts, achieving the effect of bullying the few with the many.
“Space for time, space for power.”
“Ugh!” Li Shiyin gave up as she reached out to cover Qin Ran’s mouth and said, “Stop saying that, I’m going to get you someone to set up the formation.
“Just tell me directly what to do back there, Husband.”
Qin Ran glared at her and said, “Forget about being stupid!”
Li Shiyin was not straight and strong, and said back, “What’s wrong with me being stupid? But my husband is smart! Do you have a problem with that?”
“That’s all you’ve got.” Qin Ran said helplessly.
“Hmph!” Li Shiyin had a smug little look on her face.
“Can you stand still?” She asked Qin Ran again, “I’m going to go find someone for you.”
“Go go go!” Qin Ran also slowed down, the period of inappropriateness had passed and he could walk, jump and fly.
“You’re not going to fall again, are you?”
“No way!”
“Really?” Li Shiyin carefully let go of her hand, with a look of fear that Qin Ran would fall.
Qin Ran glared at her and stopped answering.
Li Shiyin smiled cheekily and jumped gently into the air.
Before she entered the clan, Qin Ran remembered something and hurriedly shouted, “Remember to call that guy Chasing Wind for me as well!”
“Yes, husband!”