Chapter 046

He thought the incident was over, but now you reveal a mastermind?

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Cheng Hui really felt that his brain was not enough.

He thought the incident was over, but now you reveal a mastermind?

He racked his brains but couldn't figure out who was hiding behind the Xie family?

Could it be their servant?

"Ah... I can't figure it out..." Cheng Hui gave up. If he couldn't figure it out, then so be it. He still had help. "Who else could control those three people from the Xie family?"

"I didn't say that the person behind the scenes drove the three people from the Xie family." Aqiu said that he never said that.

"Ah? Didn't you say there was someone behind this?"

"I said the person behind the scenes, not the mastermind."

Cheng Hui: ...

"So you mean there's someone hidden in this incident? Who is it?"

"Whose memory was it back then?" Qiu suggested.

Cheng Hui was stunned. He almost forgot that they had discussed who owned that memory.

"Ahem...Aren't you coming out yet? I've already spotted you." Cheng Hui said in a deep voice.

"I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to be absent, it's just... not very convenient." A gentle voice said.

Cheng Hui turned around suddenly and saw an elegant man in a white robe standing behind him.

His pupils shrank slightly. This person was so close to him, but he didn't even notice how the other person appeared.

The man in white robe smiled at Cheng Hui: "Long time no see."

Cheng Hui was stunned, and then a light bulb went off in his head: "Li Ying?!"

"It's me." The man in the white robe smiled bitterly. "I'm sorry for hiding so much from you, but I really couldn't help it."

Cheng Hui looked the man up and down and felt that he seemed not to be a physical entity, but more like a soul or something.

"Ghost?" he asked tentatively.

The man in the white robe was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "As expected of you, you always have some strange ideas in your head. I'm not a human, nor am I a ghost. If you must count, I should be considered a spirit."

"Yes, he should be the house spirit here."

"House spirit? What is that?" Cheng Hui asked without understanding.

"Let me explain it to you." Li Ying took the initiative to explain to Cheng Hui.

As the saying goes, all things have spirits, and the so-called house spirit is the spirit that is born from the house itself.

Generally speaking, it is difficult for inanimate objects to give birth to spirits, but in the vast universe, there are always some lucky inanimate objects that can give birth to spirits by chance.

Li Ying was born under such circumstances.

Just now, Aqiu said that the three wells in this house and the three big trees formed a three-yin soul gathering formation, which is very beneficial for nourishing the soul.

The birth of the house spirit was not unrelated to the Three Yin Soul Gathering Formation. Cheng Hui's understanding was that Li Ying was born with good luck. Not only was he born with spirituality, but he was also fed nutritional supplements from birth. As a result, Li Ying grew stronger as he was nurtured.

What to do after becoming stronger?

It's time to go out...

No, someone was targeting me.

That’s right, he was targeted by Miss Xie.

Miss Xie was a true genius, so how could she possibly be targeted? Even a seasoned man like Meng Lang had been tricked, so how could someone like Li Ying, who stayed home all year, not be fooled?

So, later on, Li Ying was suppressed by Miss Xie. Fortunately, Miss Xie did not kill him directly, but used him as the eye of the formation, using the Three Yin Soul Nourishing Formation to give birth to a large number of evil creatures.

This is how the monsters and ghosts they had eliminated in the cave before came about. Their original forms were snake uncles and ghosts that had strayed into this place, were attracted by the Three Yin Soul Nourishing Formation, and were then transformed by Xie Wan, eventually becoming that strange appearance.

Li Ying was controlled by Xie Wan from the beginning. All he could do over the years was to secretly create a soul fragment and send it outside. Later, he was discovered by Xie Wan, who used his soul fragment to lure Cheng Hui to the manor.

Li Ying always felt sorry about this, so after Cheng Hui and the others entered the manor, he began to struggle desperately. Xie Wan also spent a lot of effort to suppress him. In the middle, he even took the time to release a piece of memory, leaving a clue to Cheng Hui and the others.

While talking to Li Ying, Cheng Hui turned on the screen. The line of words "looking for friends" on the screen also went out. Obviously, the person in front of him was Li Ying himself, and his mission was completely completed.

After talking with Cheng Hui for a while, Li Ying looked very tired. He had spent a lot of energy fighting against Xie Wan, and he would have to continue recuperating here.

Fortunately, creatures like house spirits are difficult to truly die. Even if the damage is great, they can recover slowly through recuperation.

Cheng Hui had completely completed the task and left the manor happily.

Looking back, it was just an ordinary manor, but who knows how many innocent lives it had swallowed up. The three members of the Xie family were not good people, and it was the slaves who were bought into it who suffered. They were so innocent.

"What happened here in the original timeline?" Cheng Hui asked Xiao Tong.

Xiao Tong gestured for a long time but couldn't explain himself clearly, so he simply cut out a video and stuffed it into Cheng Hui's mind.

Cheng Hui felt his head swelling, and then he felt his sight suddenly rise, and he quickly watched the development of the whole thing from a high vantage point.

He saw the novice demon hunter he replaced, and also saw them searching in the manor. However, due to several consecutive mistakes, they did not succeed in finding any clues. Instead, because they brought Shisinian and the novice himself, they seemed to be a burden to Ye Qi and Master Xuan Tan.

After a lot of intrigue, Ye Qi and Master Xuan Tan were finally defeated by Xie Wan's trap. The four of them were completely sacrificed, and Xie Wan also took this opportunity to be officially promoted to the evil god.

The evil god was born, and the land was scorched to the ground. Xie Wan single-handedly destroyed human civilization on this land.

The one who contributed the most was one of her generals. This general was said to have been a former Eldar, blessed with royal talent. Unfortunately, he was captured and transformed into a puppet by the evil god early on. Later, the evil god used this Eldar puppet's talent to transform the entire Eldar race into his own soldiers, enabling him to gain the upper hand on the battlefield.

Cheng Hui: ...

Oh my god, I didn’t expect that my main mission here was to save Li Ying?

He recalled the young man in white robe who spoke so gently just now. He could never imagine that this man was actually a king. It was... quite unexpected.

Now that the evil god has not only lost his generals, but also the evil god himself is dead, this world should be able to develop normally, right?

"Xiao Tong, can we go now?"

Xiao Tong was holding a phone and communicating with the person on the other end. Hearing what was said, he waved at him to indicate that he should be patient.

Cheng Hui was bored, so he just strolled back to the town.

After he traveled through time, he died and came back to life again, and was then taken to the Corpse Puppet Sect. To be honest, he had never visited this ancient town.

Apart from those monsters, everything else in this world was normal. He had some change in his hands, so he simply browsed through the shops in the town.

"Xiao Tong, can I take the things I bought here back?" Cheng Hui asked.

Xiao Tong nodded impatiently, babbling as if he was arguing with the person on the other end of the phone.

Seeing this, Cheng Hui decisively turned off the screen. Xiao Tong looked a little irritable, so it was better not to provoke him.

Before I knew it, the whole night had passed. The sun was at its zenith and the town was bustling with activity, as if today was the day of the big market.

Cheng Hui wandered around with great interest and suddenly felt hungry. Calculating the time, he realized he hadn't eaten for almost a day since yesterday afternoon, so he looked around and saw a noodle shop with many people eating, so he walked in.

"Sir, what kind of noodles would you like to order?" The proprietress came forward enthusiastically.

"This is my first time here. Does the boss lady have any recommendations?" Cheng Hui smiled.

"Hey, every kind of noodles in our noodle shop is delicious. It depends on your taste. And our braised beef is a specialty. It tastes absolutely amazing. Would you like a plate?"

Cheng Hui looked around and happened to see the big brother at the next table eating a bowl of noodles with red oil, wiping his sweat while eating. It looked delicious.

"Give me a bowl like the one the boss had. And a plate of the braised beef that you recommended, Madam."

"Okay, wait a moment, I'll be there soon." The proprietress walked away with a smile on her face.

Cheng Hui waited for a while and then received a big bowl of red meat noodles.

The chewy noodles were neatly placed in the bowl, topped with a few slices of beef that exuded a mellow flavor. A spoonful of bright red, boiling hot oil was poured on top, and the aroma of chili spread like an explosion. Cheng Hui sneezed violently, but felt that the smell rushed to his mouth, and his saliva was about to flow down.

"Here, sir, your noodles and braised beef."

"Wow, what a strong aroma, Madam Boss! I can tell your noodles are delicious even without trying them." Cheng Hui gave a thumbs up and praised.

"Haha, I don't deserve your compliment, sir." The proprietress smiled so hard that her teeth were showing. Everyone likes to hear such nice words, right?

He took a bite of the noodles, which were so firm and chewy that they bounced back and forth in his mouth when he bit them. As Cheng Hui ate the spicy noodles and the wonderfully braised beef, he felt the fatigue of the entire night melt away. He even felt a burning sensation in his chest, as if his cultivation had improved a little bit.

Cheng Hui: ...

Holy crap!!!

No, this was not an illusion at all. His cultivation had really improved. Even though the improvement was not much, it was still an improvement.

He didn't care about anything else and ate the whole bowl of noodles first. Then he checked it carefully and found that his increased cultivation level was almost equivalent to the result of a day of hard practice.

Cheng Hui:!!!!

How could this be? If eating could increase his cultivation, he would be willing to eat until he became a fat man.

"Boss, one more bowl... No, three more bowls. In addition to the red oil noodles just now, give me the other two kinds." Cheng Hui said.

"Okay!" The proprietress had seen big eaters before, so she agreed quickly. After a while, 30,000 noodles with different flavors were served on the table.

Cheng Hui tried them one by one and found that only the red oil noodles he had eaten could increase his cultivation level. The other two kinds of noodles did not have a similar effect.

Cheng Hui immediately took out a silver ingot and slapped it on the table: "Boss lady, can you please excuse me for a moment?"

"Sir, please tell me." The proprietress wiped the water stains on her hands with her apron and looked at him in confusion.

Cheng Hui thought for a moment and said, "Boss, your red oil noodles are better than other noodles. Do you have any special secret recipe?"

"This..." The proprietress hesitated.

Cheng Hui also knew that secret recipes must be the foundation of someone's store, so how could they be revealed so easily?

Fortunately, he had a trick up his sleeve. He pulled out a fifty-liang silver note and said with a smile, "Boss, I think your noodles are really delicious, but I'm not from here and I'm leaving soon, so I want to buy your secret recipe for the red oil noodles. I don't run a shop, I just eat it myself, so you don't have to worry about me stealing your business."

The proprietress was moved by what she heard. In fact, even without the last sentence, she would still be willing to accept the fifty-liang silver note.

Thus, Cheng Hui successfully obtained the secret recipe of red oil noodles from the proprietress, and also found the thing that could increase his cultivation.

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