Chapter 37 Don't Move or Make a Sound

Xie Chengjin walked into the palace,

As soon as I stepped over the threshold, I sensed that the resentful ghost had not yet started eating.

The vengeful ghosts are very vigilant.

Even though he realized that Xie Yanyu had come to him, he did not immediately let down his guard against her. He treated her as food and devoured her with his spiritual power.

So at this time, its spiritual power did not fall on Xie Yanyu at all, nor did it directly hurt her. Its spiritual power just flowed around her, sensing her breath, and testing whether there was any problem with her.

After confirming that she is okay,

It would touch her with its spiritual power, wrap around her with its spiritual power, and devour her.

But even so,

Xie Yanyu still looked half dead.

She knelt on the mat, her hands folded on her knees, her head drooping weakly, her eyes closed, and there was no life in her body.

Looking at it this way, it looks a bit like a puppet, or a dead person who has been stiff for a long time.

Xie Chengjin stopped at the entrance of the palace and looked down at her.

The monk's five senses were relatively sharp. Even though he was still more than ten steps away from her, he could still sense a faint aura lingering on her body.

She is not dead yet.

He probably just fainted.

But it looks like he's not far from death.

Foundation-building cultivators are more vulnerable in all aspects. If the resentful ghost attacks and devours them with spiritual power, most of them will not last more than a quarter of an hour. However, Xie Yanyu just knelt in the treasure hall for a while and was blown by the surrounding cold wind, and she became like this. The resentful ghost hasn't even attacked her yet.

If the vengeful ghost really attacked her and used its spiritual power to devour her, she probably wouldn't be able to survive for even a moment.

It is rare to find someone this fragile. What kind of disaster can they cause in the future?

Is it really possible to join the demon clan as in my dream and help the demon clan turn the immortal sect upside down?

Xie Chengjin thought indifferently.

For a moment he couldn't understand why he came in, but he soon had an answer. He just wanted to get closer and see whether she was dead or alive.

Seeing that she was still alive, but not far from death, he had seen what he needed to see. He should have left and continued to set up the formation.

After all, he doesn't need to care about her life or death.

He originally wanted to kill her and watched her death coldly. She volunteered to be the bait to catch the vengeful ghost, so her death was worthwhile.

However, he stood there, looked at her coldly for a while, and finally walked over to her.

He raised his hand and gathered a little spiritual power in his palm.

This spiritual power is used to keep people alive.

Perhaps it was because she was too fragile. If she couldn't even last a moment under the clutches of the vengeful ghost and couldn't delay for too long, her plan would probably fail.

Xie Chengjin paused, then bent down and placed his hand on the side of her neck, preparing to inject spiritual power into her body.

However, as soon as his palm touched her neck, he frowned slightly——

The skin beneath my palm felt cold and stiff.

Something is wrong.

It doesn't look like human skin, but rather like...

Xie Chengjin lowered his eyelashes, and for a moment he felt that the touch was like a doll, but before he could think about it carefully,

Immediately afterwards, he felt the spiritual power in his palm being snatched away, and his dantian began to ache slightly.

He quickly withdrew his hand and withdrew his spiritual power.

He counterattacked and knocked down the puppet, preventing it from stealing spiritual power.

That's when

He felt a dull pain in his dantian, and spat out a mouthful of blood. He stumbled for a moment.

The next second, he and the doll fell to the ground together.

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The other side.

Because the puppet went to the ghost's dantian on Xie Yanyu's behalf, Xie Yanyu went straight back to his room.

On the way back to the room, the stranger sent her another message saying that he would be gone for a while.

Xie Yanyu read the message but didn't ask him why he disappeared.

She could guess—

He has a very high level of cultivation.

But placing an object as big as a doll behind her through the air would take a lot of energy, no matter how high her cultivation level was, even if a real god came.

He said he would disappear for a while, probably because he had consumed too much of his cultivation and his body could no longer support it, so he needed to heal his wounds.

But this guy is really weird.

After saying he was going to disappear for a while, he sent her several more messages in a row:

【Baby, I can help you, I'm more useful than those bad men. 】

You won't need them.

Stay away from them.

Please, baby, seeing you so close to them is really going to drive me crazy.

Xie Yanyu had nothing to say and simply didn't reply to him.

She put the communication talisman back into her sleeve, returned to the room, and leaned back in the chair, feeling a little drowsy.

She had been running around these past few days and had hardly slept a wink. Her mind and body were stretched to the limit. Now she almost fell asleep while leaning here. However, even though she no longer needed to be bait, she still had to pay attention to the movements of the puppet and wait for the right opportunity to get the inner elixir of the resentful ghost.

She dropped a drop of blood on the doll and could sense the general situation on the doll's side.

But it's just perception.

She couldn't see the scene on the puppet's side, and could only have a general sense of the puppet's condition, such as sensing that the puppet had reached the resentful ghost's dantian, that the puppet was now very quiet, and so on.

at the moment,

She closed her eyes, ready to rest, but not long after, she suddenly sensed movement from the doll.

But it only lasted for a moment, and the noise disappeared again.

Since I couldn't see the scene over there, I could only roughly guess what was happening over there based on the state of the doll.

Xie Yanyu sensed the puppet's condition and felt that it seemed like it had just fought with someone.

This puppet has magic on it.

As long as spiritual power falls on the puppet, the spell will be triggered, and the puppet will begin to seize the opponent's spiritual power and the inner elixir of the owner of the spiritual power. If the opponent resists, the puppet will fight with the opponent.

Xie Yanyu thought about it,

I feel like the movement I just sensed is quite similar to this.

It should be that the vengeful ghost was trying to eat and was about to use its spiritual power to devour the puppet, but the puppet grabbed the vengeful ghost's spiritual power and started fighting with it.

Xie Yanyu was quite certain that it was the vengeful ghost and the puppet fighting just now—

After all, according to the plan,

Although Xie Chengjin will also be at the dantian of the resentful ghost, the dantian of the resentful ghost is now a treasure palace, and there is a courtyard outside the treasure palace. Xie Chengjin only needs to set up the formation outside the courtyard. According to the plan, he does not need to enter the treasure palace. Only she has to stay in the treasure palace as bait.

Now the doll replaced her and stayed in the palace.

Xie Chengjin is a law-abiding person and would never do anything unplanned, so it is impossible for him to enter the treasure hall, let alone get close to the puppet.

Then the only one who can touch the doll with spiritual power is the vengeful ghost.

But even if you believe this,

Xie Yanyu still felt a little strange.

Because the movement just now was too fast, and then there was no movement from the puppet, the fight must be over.

The vengeful ghost is very powerful. Can he finish the fight with the puppet so quickly?

after all,

According to the plan, if the puppet and the resentful ghost fight, the fight will last for a while. When the formation set up by Xie Chengjin outside takes effect and destroys the resentful ghost's dantian, the resentful ghost will automatically fall into a disadvantage and have its inner elixir taken away by the puppet.

But if the ghost's Dantian has been destroyed, the entire house should also disappear quickly.

The surrounding environment is still fine now, and the house is still there, which means that the resentful ghost's dantian has not been destroyed.

Xie Yanyu always felt something was wrong.

But if I were to say specifically, I couldn't tell what was wrong.

She sat there and waited for a while, sensing the movements of the puppet, but she didn't feel any movement from the puppet. It was not destroyed, nor was it fighting with the vengeful ghost anymore. It was quiet, as if the fight was over completely.

Logically speaking, if the puppet has finished fighting with the vengeful ghost and has not been destroyed by the ghost, it should mean that it has obtained the ghost's inner elixir.

Otherwise, if it could not defeat the resentful ghost, it would have been destroyed by the resentful ghost first.

Xie Yanyu used logic to speculate all the possibilities, but in the end he couldn't find what was wrong. Instead, it was more likely that the puppet had obtained the inner elixir.

She thought silently for a moment, but couldn't figure it out.

Another half a while later,

She felt that waiting here quietly was a waste of time.

So she closed her eyes.

As long as she thinks about it, she will immediately appear at the original location of the doll.

As soon as she appears, the puppet will disappear immediately. If the puppet really gets the inner elixir, the resentful ghost's inner elixir in its hand will fall directly into her hands.

Xie Yanyu still felt something was not right, but she did not like to just wait here passively. Instead of that, it would be better for her to take the initiative and change her position. If something really happened, there would always be a way to deal with it.

She really didn't want to take any risks, otherwise she wouldn't have accepted the stranger's help and let the doll take her place.

But she's not afraid of taking risks.

So she made up her mind decisively.

Then she felt dizzy and her vision went black.

Then,

She was teleported into the palace and could faintly smell the scent of incense and candles.

But for some reason, her first feeling was that she was lying on the ground, with cold and hard tiles beneath her, which hurt her back.

I don't know what posture this doll was in before.

Was he knocked down while fighting with the vengeful ghost, so he fell to the ground?

Xie Yanyu also felt heavy, as if something was pressing down on her legs and her waist. It was a strange feeling, like someone had fallen beside her, holding down half of her body, with their arms around her waist.

She felt something was wrong.

Her eyelids were heavy, she relaxed for a moment, then struggled to open them.

Then,

Then I saw that there was really someone lying next to me.

The man was wearing black clothes and had black hair. He had his eyes closed, and his eyebrows and eyes were handsome and cold. His lips should have been pale in color, but now they were stained with blood, which looked a bit weird at first glance.

But even so, his temperament was still cold, and he was like a piece of ice that could not be chiseled.

It’s Xie Chengjin.

When Xie Yanyu saw this, his mind went blank for a moment.

Why is Xie Chengjin here?

She thought there might be some changes, but she didn't expect him to be here. According to the plan, he shouldn't have entered the palace at all!

But at this moment, he not only entered the palace, but was almost pressing on her. The distance was very close, his chest was pressed against her shoulder, and she seemed to feel his strong and slow heartbeat through the clothes.

Xie Yanyu felt a little uncomfortable and wanted to move.

That is when

He seemed to notice her movement, so he slowly opened his eyes and looked at her. His eyes were dark and cold, without any emotion, but there was a strong sense of oppression.

Xie Yanyu met his gaze, and felt a chill down her spine, feeling a bit uncomfortable.

So she quickly stepped back, prepared to stand up and say something.

But before she could get up,

He turned sideways again, and came over to press her down, half-kneeling with his legs and pressing his hands on her shoulders.

He looked her up and down, and said in a flat voice, "From a puppet back to a puppet."

Xie Yanyu's scalp was tingling, and he had no idea what was going on.

So it was Xie Chengjin who was fighting the puppet just now? So the vengeful ghost hadn't started yet? But she arrived too early, so now she had to face the vengeful ghost here with Xie Chengjin?

She moved her mouth, wanting to speak.

But the next second,

He raised his other hand and covered her mouth with it. He used some force, and the scar on his palm rubbed against her lips, causing a strange feeling, both painful and itchy.

I don't know if it's an illusion,

Xie Yanyu felt that his palms were not so cold anymore, and had some warmth.

But his voice was still cold, and she heard him whisper in her ear:

"Don't let the ghost notice you, don't move, don't make any noise.

"I'll settle the score with you later."