Chapter 218 The Real Target

"Be careful, my lord!"

Nan Zheng noticed something unusual and immediately reminded him, at the same time wanting to rush over to stand in front of Xiao Changheng.

But it was too late.

The face of the soul was hideous, and Dou Cheng's appearance could no longer be seen. A sharp laugh with a determination to win came from its mouth.

At the critical moment, a sharp shout suddenly came from beside Xiao Changheng.

"Set up the formation!"

A circle of light suddenly rose up with Yun Qingqing as the center and spread outwards, instantly covering an area of ten feet in radius.

Dou Cheng's soul was frozen in place only three feet away from Xiao Changheng, with a look of shock on his face.

"How could this happen... Who are you!" He glared at Yun Qingqing with bloodshot eyes, while trying to struggle to escape.

"You are not Dou Cheng." Yun Qingqing ignored his question and said coldly.

"What!" Nan Zheng was dumbfounded. "Then what he just said..."

"It's fake, just to confuse people. It should be to divert your attention so that we can hit you with one strike."

As soon as Yun Qingqing finished speaking, "Dou Cheng" stopped struggling and started laughing sinisterly.

"I pretended so well, how did you find out?"

"Like? Ha." Yun Qingqing sneered, "Dou Cheng just died. My soul-summoning talisman can only summon the two souls of heaven and earth, but you have all three souls. And you insist on pretending to be stupid. How can I tell?"

After she summoned the soul, she saw through the disguise of the evil spirit at a glance.

It seems that when Dou Cheng died, the dark hand had already set this trap, waiting for Xiao Changheng to fall into it.

As the few people were asking and answering each other, a formation had already been secretly set up in order to capture a "live person" for interrogation.

She changed her hand gestures, and the evil spirit in the formation was immediately entangled by several golden threads of light, with a look of pain on his face.

"If you don't want to be torn to pieces, answer honestly, who is your real master!" Yun Qingqing said sternly.

Yun Qingqing knew clearly that the idiot Xiao Zirui might really intend to force the emperor to abdicate, but he was more likely being used as a tool.

The mastermind who has the ability to raise such ferocious ghost slaves is definitely not a simple person.

“Hehehe…” The evil ghost smiled distortedly while feeling pain, “If you want to know, come closer. I will only tell you, hehe…”

Yun Qingqing raised her hand slightly, and the golden thread suddenly tightened. The evil ghost let out a shrill roar, which was extremely creepy in the night.

She said coldly:

"Stop playing tricks in front of me and speak!"

"I, I'll tell you... Please forgive me, I'll tell you everything!" The evil ghost was scared and begged for mercy in a sad voice.

Yun Qingqing then let go of her hand, the golden thread loosened slightly, and the evil ghost's painful screams stopped.

"My master... is..." The evil ghost looked at Yun Qingqing, and suddenly showed that weird smile on his face again, "Go to hell and guess!"

As he spoke, his face suddenly twisted, and his entire body began to swell, then turned into strange shapes under the restraint of the golden thread.

Yun Qingqing's face froze, and she stepped in front of Xiao Changheng. She bit her finger and threw a drop of blood into the air, then she made seals with her hands and recited the incantation quickly.

The blood bead burst into golden light and instantly dispersed into millions of light points that drifted and reorganized. A circular formation was completed in an instant and pressed towards the evil ghost!

Almost at the same time as the circle pressed down on the evil ghost, it suddenly exploded with a piercing scream!

Xiao Changheng only felt that the air around him was like an icy hell and like a burning flame. At the same time, the countless negative emotions rising in his heart almost caused him to have a mental breakdown.

The feeling lasted only a moment before fading away. He calmed his mind and looked carefully, only to see that the formation in the air was firmly suppressing the purple-black yet inexplicably dazzling dark light, while Nan Zheng next to him was kneeling on one knee, gasping for breath, his face showing the fear of surviving a calamity.

"Ten thousand ghosts hiding - destroy!"

Following Yun Qingqing's cold shout, the formation glowed brightly and suddenly shrank into a sphere only one foot in size. It exploded along with the evil light inside and dissipated between heaven and earth.

Everything is calm again.

Yun Qingqing's eyes were shining with light. She frowned as she watched the glimmer of light escaping towards the horizon. She raised her hand and took off the green hairpin. The hairpin turned into a sword emitting green light in her hand.

"Qingqing..." Xiao Changheng looked at her pale face, his heart tightened, and he grabbed her wrist, "Are you okay?"

Yun Qingqing exhaled slowly, looked back at him, and said calmly:

"No problem."

"Take me inside and wait for me. Don't leave this yard until I come back."

Xiao Changheng was stunned. Just as he was wondering what her seemingly contradictory words meant, he saw her make a hand gesture, close her eyes, and fall down.

"Qingqing!" Xiao Changheng hurriedly took her into his arms and reached out to feel her pulse.

Only after he confirmed that her breathing was steady did he feel relieved and instantly understood the meaning of her words.

The moment she fell, he faintly saw a white light flying out from between her eyebrows and going away into the distance, which was exactly the direction she had just been staring at.

Xiao Changheng slowly exhaled and held Yun Qingqing horizontally in his arms.

Nan Zheng had recovered his strength. Without being told, he walked forward and pushed him into Yun Qingqing's yard.

The two followed her instructions and began their long wait.

…

In a deep mountain hundreds of miles away.

In the middle of the clearing in the forest sat a man wearing a black cloak and a hood.

The hood was pulled down low, revealing half of his pale face, which was quite creepy in the night.

A flash of white light flew rapidly from the horizon, and suddenly appeared and disappeared under the hood.

The man in black robe slowly raised his head and stood up, and the face under the hood was finally fully revealed.

It was actually a white mask without any undulations, with only the eyes, nostrils and mouth dug out. The eyes were slightly curved downward, and the corners of the mouth were strangely raised, forming a creepy smile that glowed coldly under the moonlight.

The man in black stretched his neck twice, let out a suppressed laugh, turned and walked into a cave not far away.

The walls and the ground of the cave are very flat, and it is obvious that they have been artificially repaired.

The man in black robe walked to the center of the cave and chuckled again. Under his feet was a circle composed of dark red runes. Those runes were twisted and tangled, and one could feel the ominous aura they were emitting just by looking at them.

This formation is missing a piece and is not yet complete.

The man in black robe picked up a thin bone stick from the corner of the wall, dipped it in a bowl of black and red liquid with a fishy smell, and began to complete the last part of the formation.

As the formation gradually became complete, the temperature in the cave became lower and lower, and even gusts of cold wind began to blow, and the moonlight shining in from the cave entrance gradually retreated as if being driven away.

Just when he was about to draw the last strange rune, he suddenly paused, quickly dodged, and barely avoided a ray of golden light.

"Who!" the man in black robe looked towards the cave entrance and asked sternly.

A white light flashed, and Yun Qingqing appeared, looking at him coldly.

"Gathering Yin Evil Formation, is that old Taoist Cang Ming under your orders?"

The man in black robe stared at her for a moment and chuckled under his mask.

"Yes, so what?"

"That rubbish, after receiving so many benefits from me, still failed. He is only worthy of being refined into a ghost slave by me!"

Yun Qingqing's expression became even colder, with a hint of murderous intent in her eyes:

"You knew about me from Cang Ming, so you deliberately killed Dou Cheng and replaced his soul with your own Yang Shen. You were waiting for me to summon his soul so that you could assassinate the Regent!"

Although ordinary people are not proficient in magic, as long as there are people living in a house, there will be a protective barrier. Unless the owner personally invites them in, it is difficult for evil spirits to break in.

The Regent's Palace is very popular. Almost all the guards have served in the army and have a murderous aura. Together with Xiao Changheng, the head of the family who has great luck, the barrier of the palace is almost like an iron barrel. If evil demons want to force their way in, they will have to pay a huge price.

So the moment Yun Qingqing realized that the soul in Dou Cheng's body was no longer his own, she knew that she was being used.

She couldn't help but feel angry.

The black-robed man's laughter became increasingly harsh:

"Kill him? No, no, no... He is very useful, how can we just kill him? That would be such a waste!"

"It's a pity that your plan has to end here!" Yun Qingqing's eyes were cold, she raised her hand and made a gesture, her fingertips shining with golden light.

The man in black robes calmly drew the last stroke on the ground formation, and said proudly:

"Do you think that you have the upper hand because your Yang Shen has left your body and is secretly following me?"

"How do you know? I have been waiting for you here for a long time!"

Yun Qingqing paused:

"What do you mean!"

“Hahahaha…” the man in black robe finally laughed out loud, “Your expression is so pleasing!”

"What I mean is, of course, that everything that happened today was just to lure you into a trap! Hahahahahaha..."

"You are my real target!"

As the black-robed man's laughter echoed in the cave, countless twisted runes suddenly lit up on the ground, walls, and ceiling of the cave.

Yun Qingqing turned around suddenly, only to find that the entrance to the cave behind her had been completely blocked by runes emitting dark purple light!