Chapter 255: Keeping the Duo

Lian Chengyue said: "Immortal Lord, I am not..."

He heard Ning Mingmei sigh so faintly.

The tone was very, very light. At that moment, he suddenly felt that Ning Mingmei was very lonely, even a little pitiful.

It's like cold smoke blowing against your face.

"If pleasing me won't get you into graduate school, will you still do it?"

"Yes." Lian Chengyue said, "I will."

He repeated "yes" twice, as if this would blow away the cold smoke, and Ning Mingmei would still be cold and powerful.

"If I tell you that staying here is a wrong decision," Ning Mingmei said, "will you die for me?"

“…”

A wise man will not die for something that does no good.

But Lian Chengyue said, "Yes. I will... There is no point in returning to Qingji Sect without you."

It was as if these words were not spoken by Lian Chengyue himself, but by another soul that also belonged to him, speaking through his mouth: "There is no point in returning to this world and starting over again."

"..." Ning Mingmei said, "Lian Chengyue."

"Um?"

Ning Mingmei: "After you graduate from college, apply for a direct doctorate."

Lian Chengyue's eyes lit up: "Master, you..."

This is a quick change of tune.

"Don't call me Master. I haven't agreed to accept you as my disciple yet." Ning Mingmei said, "Someone is coming."

Lian Chengyue then focused and faced the enemy directly. Shi Ruzhuo's voice came to his ears: "...Lian Chengyue."

It was rare to hear Shi Ruzhuo call him by his full name instead of calling him "brat". Lian Chengyue asked: "Old senior?"

"This time, there is big trouble coming."

In the distance, there was red and black air in the sky. The air mass attacked like a pack of lions, and landing in front of Ning Mingmei was a man in a red and black robe.

"Oh?" The man raised his eyebrows in surprise when he saw Ning Mingmei. "I was wondering why his eyelids kept twitching before he went out today. It turns out he's my nephew!"

"nephew!"

Shi Ruzhuo was shocked. Lian Chengyue didn't know the identity of the visitor, but he could tell that this person was no ordinary person.

Moreover, the sense of oppression brought by this person was so strong that Lian Chengyue had never seen it before... No, maybe there would be another time.

The scene under the moon kept flashing in Lian Chengyue's mind, but it could never be connected into a complete memory. He frowned, but heard the attendant beside the visitor was also horrified: "Nephew..."

"I forgot that I have a subordinate here." The visitor said lightly, "The immortal in front of you is the child of my sister and a bald donkey. Tell me, does he look more like my sister or the bald donkey?"

"This..." The man's forehead was covered with sweat.

"Jiang Duo, you didn't appear here by chance, did you?" Ning Mingmei interrupted Jiang Duo coldly, "What a brilliant game, who is the person you are working with?"

"Why don't I understand what you said?" Jiang Duo asked in confusion. He even clapped his fist and said, "This reminds me... Ever since I came here, I wanted to thank someone properly."

"who?"

"Some time ago, several members of the Demon Fox Clan repeatedly opposed our Demon Realm. They claimed to be neutral, but because of some goods and entertainment from the Fairy Realm, they developed a favorable impression of the Fairy Realm and the Human Realm, and voluntarily obstructed our demons. Among them was a fox demon named You Sutuo. So, I had long planned to come here to intimidate them and let them mind their own business." Jiang Duo said slowly, "We had made all the preparations. Who knew that when the time came, the Demon Fox Clan's gates were wide open, and everyone was drowsy! Isn't this easier?"

Ning Mingmei had a blank expression on his face, but Duo still saw an ugly look in his eyes. So he smiled from the bottom of his heart: "All this is thanks to my good nephew... Tell me, should I thank my nephew properly? It seems that we have reached a consensus on the matter that the demon world should remain neutral."

"You helped me to leave the seal, and now you have helped me to defeat the demon tribe. It is said that uncles and nephews are like family, and now it seems that it is true." Jiang Duo said, opening his arms, "Tell me, good nephew, what kind of reward do you want?"

Although Shi Ruzhuo had already fallen into evil ways, he was still amazed at Ning Mingmei's life experience. But when he heard Jiang Duo's arrogant words, he still couldn't help frowning - it was difficult for people who came from that era, even if they had been magic cultivators, to like Jiang Duo. If he were in Ning Mingmei's position, he would have immediately said "get out".

But Ning Mingmei said, "You are changing the subject. I came here to use the altar, and you came here to 'annihilate' the demon tribe on the same day. There is no such coincidence in the world. Unless - someone leaked my whereabouts to you."

Ning Mingmei's logic is always so firm and clear, and he will never be led astray by the trash talk from the outside world. Even though what he saw before him was a heartbreaking sea of ​​corpses and blood.

"Who is that person? This matter is secret. Apart from the few people who traveled with us, only a handful of people know the details of this matter." Ning Mingmei stared at Jiang Duo, "And that person has the opportunity to leave Qingji Sect and report my whereabouts to you. And that person is also capable of tracking our whereabouts at all times..."

Jiang Duo said: "Perhaps one of your fellow disciples revealed this to his colleagues?"

Ning Mingmei said: "Even if our whereabouts were revealed, it would be impossible to control the time so accurately. That person must..."

"Nephew..." Jiang Duo suddenly laughed, "You are talking about everything here, but have you ever thought about the people who are traveling with you?"

"who?"

"Gui Ruoxue, Wu Yi, Ye Xuefei, Bai Bugui...even Lian Chengyue who is beside you. Perhaps you were betrayed by these people you trusted the most." Jiang Duo looked at Lian Chengyue, obviously trying to sow discord.

Lian Chengyue just smiled at him and said, "The Demon Lord knows the personnel situation of our team very well!"

“Bang!”

In just a moment, Ning Mingmei's sword collided with Jiang Duo's knife. The place where the sword and the blade intersected was in front of Lian Chengyue's neck. Jiang Duo said: "I'm telling you, what I hate most is irrelevant people interrupting me when I'm talking to my nephew..."

"It's been a few years since we last met, but your cultivation has improved a lot, nephew! You're in the Void Refining Stage, right?" Jiang Duo's pupils suddenly dilated, and he laughed excitedly, "But how can you, who's in the Void Refining Stage, compare with me, who's in the late Fusion Stage?"

Ning Mingmei's arm was hurt by the shock. He could feel part of his muscle breaking and blood dripping down the cracks.

But he laughed mockingly: "Fusion stage? I haven't seen you for decades, and now you have fallen down a level. Let me guess, you reached the Mahayana stage before the seal, and after hundreds of years of sealing, you have already declined to the fusion stage, right? Did you earn the dignity of the late fusion stage by running around in the past few years?"

Ning Mingmei knew very well that his words were enough to anger Jiang Duo. Sure enough, Jiang Duo was enraged.

He raised his bloodshot eyes and looked at Ning Mingmei with a fresh look he had never seen before: "With long hair, you look more and more like your mother... Jiang Heng, ah Jiang Heng..."

He whispered, "Even if you die, you can leave something interesting behind."

Ning Mingmei was murderous and heartbreaking: "It's a pity that she won't leave anything for you."

Ning Mingmei and Jiang Duo fought together, causing a huge shock wave. He did not tell Lian Chengyue to "stand still". After all, a Jindan stage cultivator was blown away on the battlefield between the Lianxu stage and the Heti stage. So what? He turned his eyes and saw Lian Chengyue supporting himself with a sword, still half-kneeling on the spot.

Ning Mingmei looked carefully and found that Lian Chengyue was actually relying on three swords to fix himself in place - one in his left hand, one in his right hand, and one in his armpit.

This reminded him of an old friend. Ning Mingmei was suddenly startled, and the two faces in his mind slowly overlapped.

Slowly...overlap?

"Nephew, why are you fighting with your uncle and not paying attention?"

After Jiang Duo said this, his eyes actually followed Ning Mingmei's gaze. After seeing Lian Chengyue pinning himself to the ground, he said with a "tsk", "This young man is..."

He narrowed his eyes: "It's quite interesting."

Just now, Jiang Duo did not restrain his strength. The strong wind that blew from his palm would, even if it didn't kill a Jindan cultivator on the spot, at least cause the watching Jindan cultivators to lose some skin. But Lian Chengyue was surprisingly intact, and he had fixed himself to the ground, and even the skin exposed to the air did not have a single scratch.

This is definitely not something an ordinary Jindan cultivator can do! Even for a cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Stage, it would be difficult not to get hurt when watching the all-out fight between him and Ning Mingmei!

Moreover, Ning Mingmei today is very different from the one he was twenty years ago. This difference in strength is not the difference in strength between the Spirit Transformation Stage and the Void Refining Stage. Ning Mingmei's growth is much more than this.

Compared with cultivators in the fusion stage, cultivators who have just entered the void refining stage have limited Qi sea. But Ning Mingmei can always cast every spell in the most efficient way by utilizing his Qi Hai. In addition, he seemed to have a wonderful trick of using small moves to achieve big results. If he could use moves with lower consumption, he would not use moves with higher consumption. If one move could hit the vital point, he would never use another move. Each move was linked to each other to form a combo. Even the control techniques that were never favored by sword cultivators were used in various ways in the hands of Ning Mingmei. Even someone as powerful as Jiang Duo could hardly dodge them and was almost hit by several combos!

This forced Jiang Duo to take Ning Mingmei seriously. He suddenly thought of a rumor in the army.

For a long time, the strength of demon cultivators of the same level has been far higher than that of ordinary cultivators of the same level. "Being possessed by a demon is eight points stronger" is not just a rumor meant to make people laugh. Killing and blood can help demon cultivators grow, and a battlefield full of blood and energy is the best nourishment for demon cultivators. On the contrary, ordinary cultivators will witness too much killing and be immersed in too much blood and energy, which will cause their Taoism faith to waver and even lead to demonic possession.

This also led to the situation where the former demon cultivators could cut ordinary cultivators like cutting melons. Therefore, when the number of people in the Demon Realm was the smallest, they were able to declare war on both the Immortal Realm and the Human Realm at the same time, defeating both realms. Even in ancient times, the only world that could be compared with the demon world was the world of gods, not the "lower" world of humans and immortals.

But now, it seems that something has quietly changed. The demon cultivators said that among the teams in the fairy world, there was one team that aroused the most vigilance. They wore robes with purple edges, and they drew their swords quickly and fiercely, without any slow motion. Moreover, they also have a special logistics force. This force will use a spell to drain the blood and energy on the battlefield for them, greatly weakening the magic cultivator's self-recovery ability.

Even Jiang Duo had heard the names of some of them while drinking. One of them was even an ugly woman - this made Jiang Duo feel novel and interesting.

However, he still regarded this as an excuse for the demons not working hard to improve.

But now, the fight with Ning Mingmei shattered his idea. Jiang Duo looked at Ning Mingmei and thought that maybe he would have to put in a little more effort.

"Originally, I was going to beat you up and then let you go. But now it seems that you have something more valuable." Jiang Duo said, "Taking you back and digging out more information from you can be regarded as a kind of proof that you are in cahoots with the demon world!"

After all, who can prove something they haven't done? Ning Mingmei, who was taken back to the demon world, would never be able to prove his innocence.

Jiang Duo's entire temperament changed. In an instant, Ning Mingmei broke out in a cold sweat on his back. A strong sense of crisis told him that Jiang Duo was serious.

Ning Mingmei no longer hesitated. He took out the lotus lantern from his Qiankun bag and said coldly, "I'm afraid it won't be as you wish!"

Water vapor swept over the sky. The thick fog blurred the vision. The two people in the middle of the battlefield were perhaps too focused, or perhaps too powerful, and they didn't notice a figure.

A shadowy, crawling figure.

The water was hazy and was cut by the black air. The vines were tangled and burned by the flames. The rock walls rose up and trembled under the blows of the swords. As Jiang Duo chopped the pieces, he laughed and said, "My good nephew, you really got a great thing. It would be a pity to keep it in your hands. Why don't you give it to your uncle?"

Ning Mingmei asked, "Uncle, you are such a bad person. How dare you covet your nephew's property?"

An artifact is an artifact after all. With the three kinds of spiritual energy flowing, Jiang Duo could no longer get close.

However, he turned to his adjutant and said, "Come here."

The adjutant stepped forward, not knowing why. In just a moment, he reached his hand into the adjutant's chest and pulled his heart out!

"Damn, how can there be such an evil method!"

What does it mean to cheat when you can't win? This means to cheat when you can't win, and directly inherit all the equipment and attribute points of your duo teammates, right? With the life sacrifice of the adjutant in the Spirit Transformation Stage, the light in Jiang Duo's palm suddenly became powerful and eerie. He smashed the rock wall again and again, creating cracks!

Ning Mingmei concentrated his energy and tried his best to resist. At this moment, the long-lost voice of the system rang in his ears: "You can leave the lotus lantern here. Its spiritual power can still flow for a moment. Run!"

"If I leave the lotus lantern here, is there any chance that I can get it back?" Ning Mingmei sneered, "Stop giving me bad advice."

He left the lotus lantern here, and was later caught up by Jiang Duo. Wasn't it just bad luck that he had no power to fight back? However, at this moment, Ning Mingmei stared at the lotus lantern and actually had an idea.

What is flowing in the lotus lamp now is water, earth and wood. Ning Mingmei has just obtained the reverse scale, so it is impossible for him to directly transform it into a golden wick... His eyes darkened, and he suddenly drew his sword and cut his wrist!

Ning Mingmei's blood flowed into the lamp. But after the blood flowed into the lamp, it was not red, but gradually began to glow golden.

"Golden mutant thunder spirit root... who doesn't have a golden natural spirit root?"

At that moment, countless spells appeared in Ning Mingmei's mind - accompanied by tremendous golden power. Ning Mingmei suddenly transformed into a sacrificial mage. He held the lotus lantern in his bloody hands and chanted a mantra!

A golden arrow appeared on the rock wall and suddenly stabbed towards Jiang Duo. Jiang Duo didn't check it out at the moment and was stabbed and bleeding profusely.

"Is this my blood? I haven't seen my blood for a long time..." Jiang Duo pulled an arrow out of his body and whispered, "Interesting, interesting!"

"Ning Mingmei, you are so interesting!"

Under the bloodletting therapy, Ning Mingmei fought back and forth with Jiang Duo, who was at a higher level than him. However, Ning Mingmei's blood is limited, while Jiang Duo's blood pack is unlimited. He brought up the demons one by one, extracted power from their bodies, and threw down the empty shells.

"Damn it, the desperate one can't beat the shameless one!"

A person who doesn't want to die can only give up his own life, but a shameless person can exchange it for the lives of others!

The corners of Ning Mingmei's lips gradually turned pale, and the hand holding the lotus lantern began to shake. Somewhere in the dark, it was as if a voice was telling him: "Ning Mingmei, you have tried very hard."

You’ve worked hard to get to this point. You have already tied with Jiang Duo, who is nearly two realms higher than you - this is something that no other cultivator with the same level of cultivation as you can do. You already have such brilliant achievements, what else are you pursuing?

Go to sleep, give up, and let him take you back. Or... you can make a wish.

Or... you can detonate the lotus lantern and die with him.

"...No." Ning Mingmei heard himself whispering, "I can't finish here, I haven't..."

What don't I have yet?

What else do I want to do?

Even if we both perish... No, that's too bad. We can't perish together. The things I want to do are obviously more important than this...

Can you kill so many people just for the sake of blood lust? Can you kill me for the joy of killing? Are you going to let me die with you for this fight?

...I am not willing to accept this! I am not willing to accept this!

Yes, I can still...

The wound on his wrist gradually turned white, and the attack in his hand gradually weakened. Finally, Ning Mingmei saw the cracks in the rock wall.

The moment the rock wall breaks, the two will face off again. Ning Mingmei gritted his teeth and tried to wake himself up.

finally! The rock wall is broken!

At the moment the rock wall shattered, Ning Mingmei saw Jiang Duo's knife, Jiang Duo's ecstatic face, and the hill of dead subordinates beside him.

What to say? Perhaps Jiang Duo's sacrificial fighting style finally reduced the number of demon soldiers killing the fox tribe? Perhaps this can be considered as indirectly saving these monsters?

But at that moment. Ning Mingmei also saw someone!

Someone who made him open his eyes wide.

Liancheng Moon!

Lian Chengyue jumped out from his hiding place in the mountain of corpses, his body wrapped in black air, as if he had been waiting for the perfect opportunity for Jiang Duo to let down his guard. Jiang Duo finally and slowly became aware of his presence. Just as he was about to resist...

"What……"

Jiang Duo was stunned. The black energy on Lian Chengyue's body seemed to have a penetrating power, and he was unable to stop him from approaching!

Lian Chengyue inserted the long sword and silver needles in his hand into Jiang Duo's body one after another - this was a trauma to Jiang Duo, but not fatal. Just as Jiang Duo tried to laugh at him, Lian Chengyue suddenly looked straight at him and injected his attacks into Jiang Duo's body along all the acupoints.

What he uttered was actually a spell from the Yinbing Pavilion.

"Distributed Denial of Service Attack!"

At that moment, all the knowledge was conveyed... countless knowledge instantly poured into Jiang Duo's mind!

It's all kinds of junk information!

Too much knowledge, too much knowledge, too much knowledge!

"It's a pleasure to work with you, senior." Lian Chengyue whispered.

At the moment when Jiang Duo's computer crashed, Lian Chengyue pounced on Ning Mingmei. Ning Mingmei looked at him and uttered two words: "Bleeding..."

He swung his sword and slashed at Lian Chengyue's arm. Lian Chengyue was stunned and did not dodge.

“Wow!”

Lian Chengyue's blood gushed out in large quantities, but it was all collected by Ning Mingmei into the lotus lantern. That is the blood of the heavenly spiritual root that contains the vigorous power of the fire-mutated wind spiritual root. It intertwined with the light golden mutated thunder spirit root blood, and finally merged into water, earth, and wood, turning into a dazzling wick.

Even if it's only temporary. But at that moment, the colorful light broke through the clouds and went straight up!

It was at that moment that a person far away in Qingji Sect stood up!

"...Is it coming after all?"

The man said softly.

In addition to the spell, a memory also flooded into Ning Mingmei's mind... However, this was not the time to be lost in memories.

Ning Mingmei loudly chanted an attack spell: "...Break!"

"boom!"

Jiang Duo was rushed out in an instant. He subconsciously stretched out his right hand to block it, but it was in vain.

"Bang!"

The entire battlefield seemed to have been bombed into ruins. Lian Chengyue stretched out his intact left hand and hugged Ning Mingmei who was falling from the sky. His right hand, which had been cut by Ning Mingmei, was still bleeding, but now he had no time to care about it.

Ning Mingmei fell into his arms. The aloof Immortal Venerable's face was pale at this moment, and even his lips were dark: "Let's go..."

"Where are you going?"

"In the mountains... or in Yaochuan City..." Ning Mingmei said, "Run..."

Suddenly, he said, "Your fire-mutated wind spiritual root...why didn't I think of it before..."

What didn't you expect? Lian Chengyue was stunned.

As he spoke, Ning Mingmei had already fainted. Lian Chengyue turned around and looked viciously in the direction where Jiang Duo was thrown out - Jiang Duo was thrown too far and he could no longer see him at all.

"He must be killed..."

He lowered his head again and gently picked up Ning Mingmei... Then he saw that Ning Mingmei's right hand was holding the lotus lantern and sword, and his left hand was tightly holding...

...Why is his left hand holding Jiangduo's right hand that was blown away by the explosion shock wave just now! !

Wait, it seems that there are indeed two storage rings on the right hand. Could it be because of this?

Lian Chengyue put away the lotus lamp, sword and right hand. He held Ning Mingmei in his arms and ran towards the mountains without hesitation - even at this moment, he was covered in blood.

Let’s go, let’s go, we must cure Immortal Ning.

besides.

“I knew that Immortal Ning wouldn’t kill me.” Lian Chengyue whispered, “Haha, haha, Immortal Ning’s blood and mine can blend together…”

Wait, fusion?

Lian Chengyue: ...

"There must be something strange about the lamp," he thought.

At the same time, among the distant mountains, Song Mingke opened his eyes.

"here it is……"

He looked up and saw that he was in a cave.