Chapter 243: Chapter 243

But obviously, the current Xiaoyao couldn't satisfy this wish of theirs, because Xiaoyao showed no regret or fear, but rather calmness and composure. This might be because he wouldn't be afraid or retreat even when facing a desperate situation, or perhaps because he didn't need to regret or fear at all, because he wasn't in a desperate situation.

Regarding this, Feng Hai and the others naturally chose the former. They certainly thought Xiaoyao was putting on a calm front rather than having a chance to escape.

Feng Hai and his people had already arranged their personnel well. No matter which direction Xiaoyao tried to escape, there would be people to stop him. They were very confident about this.

But this was only their own thinking. They believed that Xiaoyao, a person at the early Scholar Level, even if he knew some skills, in this kind of face-to-face confrontation, Xiaoyao couldn't possibly have a chance to win and would definitely be captured.

However, if Xiaoyao had a chance to escape even under the Eldest Princess, such an unparalleled expert, although these people were numerous, all of them together wouldn't match one hand of the Eldest Princess, and these people were scattered. In one direction, they might only match one finger of the Eldest Princess.

Therefore, Xiaoyao had an absolute chance to escape this encirclement, but he didn't do so. It wasn't that he was waiting for an opportunity, the chance for breaking through was better the earlier it came. Once people formed an encirclement, the opportunity would only get smaller.

Xiaoyao hadn't escaped before, which meant he wanted to stay. As for his purpose in staying, there would soon be an answer.

"Kid, keep running. Let's see where you can run to now."

"I don't want to run anymore. I'll rest here for a while, I need to travel later," Xiaoyao put away his bow, which made Feng Hai and his people feel even more at ease. Without his bow and arrows, Xiaoyao's danger level was much lower, at least for them.

"Travel? Yes, you indeed need to travel, on the road to the Yellow Springs." Feng Hai said with a cold smile.

"The road to Yellow Springs, I can't take that road yet. According to fate, I'm quite a long-lived person. Perhaps I'll only set foot on that road after two or three hundred years. But I can send you all there," Xiaoyao said with a smile.

"You, long-lived? Even if fate is correct, I can rewrite it. This day next year will be your death anniversary." Feng Hai said with a cold smile.

"Follow the will of heaven, fate can't be rewritten casually. If you insist on rewriting it, you'll have to pay a price." Xiaoyao smiled, as if talking about mystical arts, but it seemed he was saying that if you want to kill me, you'll have to pay a price.

"Then I want to see what price I'll pay." Feng Hai sneered coldly. At this time, they had already tightened the encirclement. Now it would be even harder for Xiaoyao to escape, which made them feel Xiaoyao was already a turtle in a jar.

"Didn't I just tell you? I'll send you all on the road to the Yellow Springs," Xiaoyao replied.

"You're really seeking death." Feng Hai and the others roared angrily, Xiaoyao's words were too provocative.

"Didn't I also just say that I'm long-lived and won't seek death? Please use your ears, not respecting people is improper." Xiaoyao said very seriously.

This sentence was no weaker than the others and was equally provocative.

The entire scene erupted in anger.

"Killing is definitely necessary, but I want to clarify one thing, who exactly are you?" Feng Hai still cared about this question. If he didn't ask clearly, he absolutely wouldn't die with closed eyes. Yes, this was definitely not an exaggeration.

"My name is Xiaoyao, a servant." Xiaoyao replied.

"Go die. Who believes your nonsense." someone immediately roared angrily.

"If you don't believe it, there's nothing I can do. Sometimes the truth is just not believed," Xiaoyao waved his hand, speaking very nonchalantly.

"You're already facing death, what's the point of still lying? If you're a servant, how could you use such sophisticated poison, how could you know mechanisms and traps, how could you have such archery skills?" Feng Hai snorted coldly, completely disbelieving Xiaoyao's words.

"How could I? Of course, I learned them." Xiaoyao said casually.

"You, a servant, why would you learn these things? This obviously doesn't make sense." Feng Hai said coldly.

"Strange, why can't a servant learn these things? Which law stipulates that? The competition among us servants is very intense. If we don't learn more things, we'll easily be fired. Look, I learned so many things and was still kicked out by my master, so I need to learn even more." Xiaoyao said.

"..." Everyone fell silent. Xiaoyao's explanation seemed to match the facts, but they had never heard of or thought that servants needed to be .

"Later I thought that just learning might not be enough, I also need to practice more, go out and experience the martial world. Others say 'read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand li'." Xiaoyao continued with a smile. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ Nov3lFɪre.ɴet

"Are you going to keep playing dumb with me?" Feng Hai would never believe Xiaoyao's explanation, but now he felt Xiaoyao was sticking to this story and wouldn't change it, making him think Xiaoyao would persist to the end.

"You're a strange person. Why do you think I'm playing dumb? Actually, I really am dumb..." Xiaoyao smiled. "Because I'm playing games with a bunch of fools."

"Kid, who are you calling fools." came a chorus of angry roars.

"You, of course." Xiaoyao said with a smile, his expression enough to anger everyone nearby to half-death.

"Damn it, you're facing death but still stubborn. Now you're surrounded by us, who's the fool?"

"Really? Is it really like that?" Xiaoyao smiled, his expression very playful, making Feng Hai and some others feel a trace of unease.

"First point." Xiaoyao raised his hand, holding up one finger. "I'm not the one facing death, you are. Also, it's not that you've surrounded me, but that I've led you here."

Xiaoyao's smile and these words left Feng Hai and the others momentarily confused. What did he mean by leading them here? Could it be that his escape route wasn't due to their forcing him, but because he wanted to deliberately lead them here?

If that was the case, then what he did was truly too skillful. None of them had discovered his intention, they completely didn't realize he was deliberately luring them here, because many times, they were the ones doing the forcing.

This was the puzzling part. Obviously, they were the ones forcing him to come here, how could it be being led here? Their thoughts were active, not passive.

Actually, whether active or passive, sometimes people themselves can't figure it out clearly. Xiaoyao just used some skillful inducements to make the opponents think how they should be active. This kind of inducement wasn't very obvious, no one would discover it, and no one would feel they were being somewhat passive.

This was how Xiaoyao lured people here, without even they themselves realizing that everything was actually under Xiaoyao's control.

If this was the case, didn't it mean there were traps here?

"Go. Retreat quickly."

Feng Hai's eyes flashed, and he immediately abandoned his horse and flew backward.

Since Xiaoyao had led everyone here, he had naturally designed everything. He had a trap right in this place that could eliminate almost all these people. When he was talking, he was actually buying time. Since the opponent took the initiative to talk, he naturally had to cooperate.

"It's already too late. Let me show you what's called a heaven and earth net." Xiaoyao smiled, his voice reaching everyone nearby. He just spoke without making any movements, because he didn't need to.

This trap had already been activated long ago. He didn't need to do anything now, the trap would completely eliminate all the people in this area. He believed this was an inevitable result.

What came before was just temporary, but this was something he had carefully prepared, spending considerable time and effort.

As Xiaoyao's voice spread, screams began one after another, because the entire ground had traps. These traps might use different methods or face different directions, but they were all deadly.

Moreover, these traps looked like they might be independent, but they seemed connected. Some traps might be inducements on one side but attacks on the other, while some were attacks that then became encirclements.

All the traps in this area had been precisely calculated and arranged, complementing each other to form a terrifying heaven and earth net that trapped everyone in the middle. Not one person could escape, not a single one.

This kind of trap could no longer simply be called a trap, this was completely a terrifying killing formation.

If someone saw the current situation, they absolutely wouldn't believe this was a trap that one person could set up. Even if the most skilled mechanism and trap experts came, they would only be able to sigh that the ingenuity of these mechanisms and traps had reached a level they couldn't touch.

Not to mention one person, even with many more people, they couldn't set up such traps.

And if this was accomplished in just one night, it would be even more impossible. They wouldn't believe it even if beaten to death. Even if they saw the entire process, they would still not believe it.

At the same time, they would also believe that none of the people here would escape this killing formation, because this was simply impossible. Not to mention these people were at most at the early King Level, even if Emperor Level late stage or even peak experts came, they might still be killed in this trap.

After the mechanisms and traps were completed, the area was in complete chaos, trap remnants and corpses everywhere. This was also normal, because Xiaoyao didn't yet have the ability to make these things organize themselves.