Calm and undisturbed
When the opponent attacked from the side with a sword, Mo Zuili instinctively dodged.
As wisps of white smoke dissipated, the sharp clang of clashing metal abruptly froze.
Mo Zuili gripped the Phoenix Flame Spear, its tip pressed against the other's Adam's apple, the spear surrounded by crimson fire elemental power.
With just a slight thought from Mo Zuili, the spear could pierce the opponent's throat.
But Mo Zuili did not move, because the other party's long sword was pressed diagonally against the side of her neck.
Before Mo Zuili could even think of a solution to the stalemate, the white smoke completely dissipated.
"Senior brother!"
Mo Zuili screamed.
"Junior sister! What are you doing here!"
Shen Ling also cried out in surprise.
After screaming, Mo Zuili suppressed her surging shock and still gripped the Phoenix Flame Spear tightly, asking, "Senior brother, what are planted in the three medicine cauldrons surrounding the square platform in the mountain?"
Shen Ling glanced at Mo Zuili twice, then silently put down her longsword.
"A pile of dirt, nothing planted."
Seeing that Mo Zuili was still wary, Shen Ling cleared her throat and said, "Junior Sister, you almost drained your spiritual power by using magic tools to draw talismans..."
Mo Zuili put down his spear and hurriedly interrupted, "Don't say that! I believe you really are my senior brother!"
Back then, in the Medicine King Mountain, Mo Zuili poured spiritual power into the Spirit Refining Brush in order to draw a powerful thunder talisman.
As a result, he didn't control the intensity well, and the pen almost sucked him dry.
Seeing Mo Zuili communicating with the demon, Mo Yongning asked in confusion, "Young Master, who is he?"
Mo Zuili coughed awkwardly, momentarily unsure how to reveal Shen Ling's identity.
"He... this matter is complicated. He is not a demon... not a pure demon."
After saying that, even Mo Zuili herself felt it was outrageous.
Let's go all the way and have Mo Yongning and Huang Yu keep an eye on the other demon who was captured.
Just as she was about to reach out and grab Chen Ling, Mo Zuili remembered that there was also the Water Mirror.
He quickly withdrew his hand and switched to telepathy.
"Senior brother, there's a water mirror outside the ruins that shows what's inside. Let's use telepathy first. How did you get here? Didn't you go to the Demon Realm?"
Upon hearing about the water mirror, Shen Ling's brow twitched.
Feeling somewhat guilty, he took out a mask from his Sumeru Ring and covered his face, saying, "I don't know either. I was in the Demon Clan's inheritance. There was a path inside, and the demonic energy along the way gradually weakened. I felt something was wrong, so I followed this path all the way here."
The demonic energy along the way fluctuated in strength, and then a powerful surge of magic suddenly appeared behind them, seemingly activating the power of space.
Then I was teleported here.
Upon hearing this, Mo Zuili's brow twitched as well.
"The legacy of the Demon Realm?"
Shen Ling patiently explained, "It's similar to the trials of the demon race, used to select the next Demon Lord."
Something's not right!
Mo Zuili frowned and communicated with Shen Ling telepathically, going over the "accounts" for half an hour.
Finally, Mo Zuili rubbed his head and said, "Does the Demon Clan want to use the Demon Clan's trials to gain more power for the new Demon Lord?"
Shen Ling nodded; this was the most likely guess.
That's not right either!
In the novel, when Shen Ling went to the Demon Realm, the Demon Clan's inheritance had not yet been activated.
As Shen Ling gradually masters the Ghostly Bloodline, he grows stronger step by step and returns to his peak.
With the Demon Clan's inheritance just beginning, Shen Ling undoubtedly gained power and became the Demon Lord.
The current direction has absolutely nothing to do with the novel's plot!
Mo Zuili took a deep breath, just about to ask who the woman who came with Shen Ling was, when she heard Huang Yu shout, "Princess! There's someone in the tree!"
They exchanged a glance, one holding a sword and the other a gun.
Mo Zuili touched the ground with her toes and threw out a fire talisman before looking up, causing it to explode.
Behind Mo Zuili, Shen Ling used the explosion to unleash her sword like a dragon, heading straight for the dark figure in the tree.
"Hey, you've got a really bad temper."
The woman in red palace attire on the tree held a sword in her hand, her fingertips pressing against Chen Ling's blade. Looking down at Mo Zuili, she smiled and said, "Whether you are the young master of the Mo family or the holy maiden of the Phoenix Clan, you shouldn't be fighting against me, a living demon, alongside the demons, right?"
Mo Zuili stared at the woman with icy eyes for a long time, then suddenly smiled and said, "Indeed."
The woman in red looked at Shen Ling and smiled.
"You're about to become a dead demon."
After Mo Zuili finished speaking, the smile on her lips faded.
I don't know when this person arrived, but no matter how many I see, he's a potential threat.
Now that demonic energy has seeped into the Phoenix Ruins, it's likely that other demons besides Shen Ling have also entered.
If the news of my acquaintance with Shen Ling were to be spread by someone with ulterior motives, embellishing the story, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Moreover, this woman is a member of the Phoenix Clan.
Could it be another demonic conspiracy that Shen Ling would run into me?
In the shadows of the oak grove, Zhu Hehong, dressed in red, resembled a leaping flame, struggling to defend herself against the combined attacks of Mo Zuili and Shen Ling.
Finally, with the addition of Huang Yumo Yongning, they were completely bound by the Spirit Binding Lock.
Even though she was tied up, the woman still had a smiling face, completely unaware that Mo Zuili would do anything to her.
"Okay, I was just joking, I won't tell anyone..."
The woman's words came to an abrupt halt.
Mo Zuili didn't even glance at her, took out a Soul Fiend Pill from his Sumeru Ring, and stepped forward to pinch the woman's mouth shut.
"Wait! Wait..."
Seeing the blank expression in Mo Zuili's eyes, the woman truly panicked.
"I know the details of the cooperation between the Phoenix Clan and the Demon Clan! Let go!"
The woman's mouth was still being held by Mo Zuili, so she could only bite her lip tightly and turn her head away in a sorry state.
Mo Zuili hesitated for a moment, then used force to turn the woman's head back, while simultaneously pressing the Soul-Slaying Pill close to the woman's lips.
"The Phoenix Clan has set up an array in the ruins. I'll tell you where the array's core is! If the core isn't destroyed, the Demon Clan will continue to drain the ruins' power!"
Seeing that Mo Zuili had finally stopped, the woman hadn't even had a chance to breathe a sigh of relief when she heard Mo Zuili say calmly, "Is that so? I don't believe it."
The woman gritted her teeth and said, "Then what do you want?"
Mo Zuili stepped back half a step, without retracting the Soul Fiend Pill, crossed his arms and looked at the woman, saying, "You can tell me what you know, and I'll believe you depending on the situation."
The woman was amused by Mo Zuili's words, but when she saw the Soul-Slaying Pill in Mo Zuili's hand, she had no choice but to swallow her resentment.
"My name is Zhu Hehong. I have been expelled from the Phoenix Clan. You can consider me a rogue cultivator..."
Zhu Hehong slowly explained the whole story of how the Phoenix Clan and the Demon Clan cooperated to set up a magic array in the Phoenix Ruins and draw in demonic energy.
It was almost identical to Mo Zuili's own guess, except that Zhu Hehong explained the Phoenix Clan's methods more clearly.
What Mo Zuili cares about is Zhu Hehong.
Mo Zuili looked at Zhu Hehong again. Her slender figure was wrapped in a bright red palace dress, and the pendant on her red-gold hairpin trembled with her movements. There was a blush at the corner of her eyes.
When he spoke of the Phoenix Clan helping the Demon Clan set up a magic array, his dark pupils flashed with a mad light, and the smile on his lips was so manic that it was almost distorted.
Zhu Hehong is a popular supporting character in the novel.
As Shen Ling gradually gained power in the Demon Realm, she encountered Zhu Hehong, who had fled from the Demon Clan to the Demon Realm and was extremely arrogant and domineering.
The two became friends after a fight. After Zhu Hehong was injured in a fight with Shen Ling, she said that her original strength was limited by the pills, which was why she was no match for Shen Ling.
As Chu Qing's disciple, Shen Ling was naturally skilled in alchemy, so she made a deal with Zhu Hehong.
He helped her lift the restrictions, and as her strength gradually recovered, she became his bodyguard.
Zhu Hehong stayed by Shen Ling's side and helped her a lot during that time. Moreover, she was a crazy and yandere type, and many readers hoped that she would become the female lead or that the male lead would directly build a harem and take her all in.
After Zhu Hehong finished speaking, seeing that Mo Zuili still had an expressionless face, she became somewhat anxious: "I didn't lie to you. If you don't destroy the magic array soon, your Demon King power will become the power of the new Demon Lord."
Mo Yongning and the others looked at Mo Zuili, who calmly replied, "The power of the Demon King? No rush. Tell me why you're telling me this? Why aren't you like other Phoenix Clan members, who immediately use secret techniques to die after being captured?"
Zhu Hehong opened her mouth and said, "They won't use any secret techniques. If they are exposed, the Phoenix Clan will make them wish they were dead. But those methods of the Phoenix Clan are useless against me. Besides, I am not a member of the Phoenix Clan anymore, so why should I help them?"
As for telling you... didn't you tie me up and force me to say it?
Mo Zuili stared at Zhu Hehong, a calculation forming in her mind. In the novel, Zhu Hehong was eccentric and unpredictable.
But he is indeed reliable in doing things.
Moreover, after his strength is fully restored, he possesses the cultivation of a peak Nascent Soul cultivator, just one step away from becoming a Divine Transformation cultivator.
"Sigh." Mo Zuili sighed and directly transmitted her voice to Zhu Hehong.
"To be honest, you saw me talking to the demons, and it happened at the crucial moment when demonic energy appeared in the Phoenix Ruins. To avoid being framed by the Phoenix Clan, I can't let you leave so easily."
"Your cultivation is currently sealed by the Phoenix Clan using medicine. My master happens to be a ninth-level alchemist. I'll help you break the seal and restore your strength. In return, you swear on your soul that you'll keep everything you shouldn't say to yourself, and before you leave the ruins, help me beat up a few more people. How about that?"
Zhu Hehong's pupils suddenly contracted.
How did she see the seal on my body?
Mo Zuili smiled calmly, noticing Zhu Hehong's surprise, and continued to transmit her voice, "My master is Chu Qing, you should have heard of him."
In the novel, Zhu Hehong is considered a semi-old monster. Although Chu Qing has been out of the public eye for a long time, most sects and families still know his reputation as a ninth-level alchemist.
After a long while, Zhu Hehong nodded.
Amidst the puzzled gazes of the crowd, Mo Zuili released Zhu Hehong and stared at Zhu Hehong as she completed the soul oath.
After dealing with Zhu Hehong's matter, Mo Zuili looked at another demon and gestured to Shen Ling with her eyes.
Shen Ling coughed and explained, "Shen Qingxing, you may have seen her when you were in the Shen family. She's the girl who followed behind my cousin."
Mo Zuili carefully examined Shen Qingxing and found him to be familiar.
He glanced at Shen Ling again and transmitted his voice, "She...a pure-blooded demon?"
Shen Ling scratched his head awkwardly and said, "It should be, anyway, it wasn't a mutation that happened midway. She seems to have made some kind of contract with my cousin, so she won't easily lose consciousness and hurt people."
Mo Zuili gave Shen Ling a thumbs up, saying, "Your Shen family is full of talented people. Other families may have existed for many years, but they might not be able to get involved with a demon who is inherently cruel and cold-blooded."
In a short period of time, the Shen family produced two demons who could disguise themselves and control their own minds.
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