Chapter 082

His mission is to preside over this huge inheritance illusion array and cultivate the descendants of the original owner.

However

According to regulations, Changling should not appear.

His mission is to preside over this huge inheritance illusion array and cultivate the descendants of the original owner.

However... as an array spirit, Changling gradually developed spiritual intelligence over a long period of time, and he felt lonely.

Once upon a time, a long time ago, there were people who would occasionally appear here. He observed those people and learned from them, but later on, for some reason, fewer and fewer people came here, and finally, there was no one at all.

Cheng Hui is the only person who has successfully entered here in thousands of years, which makes Changling extremely curious about him.

Not to mention the weird things in his mind, which simply shocked Changling, a country bumpkin.

It's only been a few thousand years, has the world outside become like this?

Changling felt like he had something growing in his heart, and he really wanted to go out and take a look.

When his master set up this illusion array, what was left behind was a broken spirit that could only mechanically complete the tasks left by the master.

Changling was born later. He was curious about everything. After being trapped here for so many years, he yearned for the outside world.

Originally, he shouldn't have appeared, but he had waited for too long, and finally such a person appeared, and he couldn't help but want to communicate with him.

"Well... actually..." Chang Ling hesitated, feeling embarrassed to say that he just wanted to play with Cheng Hui, so he deliberately used such a difficult illusion array, but was seen through by others.

Cheng Hui looked at him calmly.

Chang Ling felt even more uneasy as he watched him. He rubbed his nose and said, "Really? Breaking the formation isn't that difficult. I'll take you there."

Cheng Hui: ???

No, how can this open a back door?

Cheng Hui is not a pedantic person. If Changling offers to help, he will not refuse.

But he was worried whether Changling would be harmful to him. After all, as a formation spirit, he should maintain the normal operation of this place. If he helped him cheat... would it be dangerous?

"No, don't worry. No one has been here for years, and it's only been running thanks to me patching things up, robbing Peter to pay Paul. Without me, this junky thing would have been ruined long ago." Chang Ling waved his hand nonchalantly. "You're the only living person in these thousands of years. If you hadn't shown up, I estimate this place would have been completely ruined in another hundred or eighty years."

Cheng Hui was stunned for a moment: "You are a formation spirit, what will happen to you if the formation is destroyed?"

"Just play along." Changling said nonchalantly.

Cheng Hui said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "Hey, don't talk about dying so casually."

Chang Ling looked at him and suddenly said, "Actually, for me, staying here forever is no different from being dead. It's both so boring."

Cheng Hui sighed: "It's better to live than to die. It's better to live if you can, right? Is there anything I can help you with?"

Chang Ling blinked and asked in confusion, "Why are you helping me? I remember when you were learning about formations, you almost hated those teachers. I was with them, don't you hate me?"

"That's different." Cheng Hui scratched his head. "It's just... although it hurt when I was beaten, it's over. I learned a lot from them. If I have to say it, it's a mixture of love and hate."

Cheng Hui also has complicated feelings towards those old perverts.

If we have to say something good about them, their character is absolutely impeccable when it comes to teaching knowledge. As long as it is knowledge about formations, no matter when Cheng Hui asks or how many times he asks, they will answer carefully.

But if I talk about hatred... failing the exam and getting whipped on the butt really hurts, the kind of pain that's heart-wrenching.

How to say it, it's very contradictory.

Chang Ling looked at him strangely: "You are such a strange person. You actually thanked them."

Cheng Hui shrugged. "They've done their best to teach, educate, and resolve doubts. Their ethics as teachers are definitely sound. At most, they're a bit violent."

"Oh, by the way, I've always wanted to know where those who failed the assessment went? It's true..." Cheng Hui showed some confusion when he mentioned those people.

"Oh, they're all fine." Chang Ling waved his hand. "My master wanted to leave behind a legacy, not kill everyone. He only said he wanted to scare you."

Cheng Hui breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. So where are they now?"

Chang Ling glanced at him and said, "They never existed in the first place. They are simply the influences left by past students. I mixed those images into the illusion array to create those classmates."

Cheng Hui was shocked. It turned out that I was the only living person in the world.

Tsk tsk, it feels a bit like a horror movie.

"We're here." Chang Ling led him to a private residence and walked to the vegetable garden in the backyard. He pointed at the small green vegetables in the field and said, "The formation is hidden here. If you can break it, you'll pass."

Cheng Hui looked at the formation that he had painstakingly searched for clues to before, and now Chang Ling had brought it to him. He was suddenly at a loss whether to laugh or cry: "Is this considered cheating?"

Chang Ling rolled his eyes at him. "I'm the formation spirit, and I have the final say. I taught you all your skills, so those difficulties ahead won't be a problem for you at all. I call this saving time."

"Okay, thank you so much." Cheng Hui had no choice but to walk forward and start to break the magic circle.

This is an extremely well-hidden magic circle. If Chang Ling hadn't led the way, it would have taken him a lot of time to discover it.

The setting of this magic array is very tricky. It is a combination of several difficult magic arrays, but what they use in combination is a very simple Three Talents Array.

The most significant feature of a simple magic circle is probably its stability and balance. Three unstable but powerful magic circles are connected by a simple yet stable magic circle. If one is not careful when cracking it, once this balance is destroyed, the power of the three difficult magic circles exploding will be enough to raze this small fishing village to the ground.

Cheng Hui took out a compass and carefully analyzed the nodes of these magic arrays, slowly looking for a way to crack them. At the same time, Chang Ling was bored and dazed.

Cheng Hui accidentally saw him and thought to himself: "I will leave after I break this magic circle, so what will happen to you?"

Chang Ling blinked. "What can I do? I'll just keep waiting. If I'm lucky, someone might come. If I'm unlucky, it will probably be destroyed in a hundred years."

Looking at the scarred face of the black-haired young man, Cheng Hui was silent for a while.

He stayed in one place and waited silently for ten thousand years. He didn't know what kind of life the formation spirit was, but if he encountered such a thing, he might have gone crazy long ago.

"Can you get out of here?" he asked.

Chang Ling thought for a moment and said, "I don't know."

"If you could leave, would you be willing to leave?"

Chang Ling was a bit dazed, muttering, "I... I was born here, and my destiny is to guard the master's inherited illusion array."

"But didn't you say the illusion array was about to be destroyed? If it were, your mission would be complete, right? Isn't there a way to separate you from the illusion array?"

Changling was silent.

Cheng Hui felt that there was a way and continued to persuade: "Look, your mission is to guard this place, but this place is about to be destroyed, and your mission should be over. Then why don't you leave here and try somewhere else? You can see my memory, so you should know that there is a place called a company where we live. I work for the company and the company pays me a salary. If the company goes bankrupt, I may be very sad, but I won't starve to death because of the company's bankruptcy. The worst that can happen is to find another job somewhere else. You see, your relationship with this illusion is similar. You have worked so hard for so long, it shouldn't be too much to give yourself a break, right? This place is going to go bankrupt, why do you want to be buried with it? It's another good thing to go to another place."

Changling was suddenly tempted.

He had been alone for so long and yearned for the outside world. However, he had to abide by his master's orders and could not leave. But after being persuaded by Cheng Hui, he felt that there was no need for him to perish along with the illusion array.

"Do you think I should leave?" Chang Ling was still a little hesitant.

"Of course, it would be foolish to stay here and wait for death. A good death is worse than a miserable life. The world outside is so big, don't you want to go out and walk around?"

Of course I do!

Changling said silently in his heart.

"Then...are you willing to take me out?" Chang Ling asked.

"I take you out? Sure? As long as I have the ability. But...how are you going to get out? What do you need me to do?" Cheng Hui stopped what he was doing.

Since Changling wanted to go out, he didn't mind helping.

In fact, he felt that even if the formation spirit was not a real person, it was too much to trap it in such a broken place for tens of thousands of years.

"Okay, then take me with you." Chang Ling finally made up his mind. "From now on, I'll live with you. Don't worry, I won't eat for free. I'm very capable."

Cheng Hui smiled and said, "I'm not worried. Besides, I'm a cultivator after all, so I don't need a bite of your food."

Chang Ling: ...Hehe, I hope you will say the same thing in the future.

"Uh, how am I supposed to get you out of here?"

"Come with me." Chang Ling waved his hand, and the surrounding scene changed instantly. The two came to the belly of a mountain.

The belly of the mountain was hollowed out, and a huge magic circle was drawn on the floor of the central hall.

Various expensive materials are placed on all the nodes of the magic circle.

How expensive is it?

Cheng Hui almost suffocated after just one look.

Holy crap! Holy crap!

The true dragon's reverse scale!

Blue phoenix tail feathers!

Ten thousand year old mirage pearl!

Ahhhhhhh! That's the innate Geng gold, rarely seen in a thousand years! ! ! A piece the size of a fingernail could buy over ten small worlds! ! !

Cheng Hui stared at those things with shining eyes. If the things here were sold, the resources returned would be enough for Lin Qingyang to take drugs all the way to the God Transformation Stage.

Or the kind that leaves no sequelae!

Unfortunately... As he watched, he realized something was wrong.

Everything was dim, obviously having run out of energy and would soon be reduced to ashes.

Cheng Hui: ...

He knew that such a good thing would never happen..._(:з」∠)_

"Don't look at it. The spirituality of these things has disappeared long ago. Now they are relying on the last bit of energy to survive. This magic circle will be destroyed in a hundred years or so." Changling led him through the magic circle.

With the formation spirit leading the way, Cheng Hui was like using a cheat device and didn't have to worry about any danger at all.

Chang Ling brought him to the center of the magic circle and pointed to a box on the gilded ground. He said, "This is the core of the magic circle. I will hide my spiritual consciousness inside. You must take me away quickly."

He looked at Cheng Hui and said seriously, "You must leave here within one stick of incense, otherwise, once the formation is activated, you will definitely not be able to leave. If you need the materials in the formation nodes, take them. Although the energy is low, they may be useful to you."

Cheng Hui looked him in the eyes seriously and promised: "Okay, I promise to take you away."

Chang Ling smiled easily, "Thank you. I really hope to see the wonderful world in your mind when I wake up."

Cheng Hui: ...

Ahem, that might be a little difficult..._(:з」∠)_

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