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Jiang Huali stood up abruptly and took a few steps back.
She first went back to Xuanqing's side and nudged his shoulder.
Xuan Qing's aura faltered for a moment, then subsided.
He opened his eyes and looked up at her.
Jiang Huali lowered her head and looked at him.
She gestured to him with her eyes.
Xuanqing naturally noticed the demonic aura emanating from the room.
As soon as he entered, he noticed two small demons in the corner, but their demonic power was weak and they were not to be feared.
Therefore, that area was skipped when the spell was cast.
Now it seems I've only created more trouble for myself.
Xuanqing slightly raised his fingers, casting a spell to bind the two spider demons, and was about to tighten his palm.
The two spider demons seemed to realize that they were in imminent danger, and suddenly cried out.
"You can't kill us! If you kill us, you'll never leave this village again!"
Xuan Qing remained indifferent, his hands continuing their work.
Just as the two spider demons were about to turn to ashes, a hand gently stopped their movements.
"etc."
Jiang Huali quickly grabbed Xuanqing's hand as he cast the spell, stopping him.
"They look like they have something to say."
She offered a tactful reminder.
Xuanqing didn't think the two spider demons could play any role, and he didn't care about what they were saying.
But he still put his hand down.
There was no other reason than that Xuan Qing suddenly remembered that he was still an ordinary cultivator who was seriously injured and had lost his memory.
The two spider demons escaped death and fell to the ground with a thud, transforming into children.
These two spider demons cultivated into human form, appearing as a boy and a girl, with messy spider silk wrapped around their heads, their hair black with a greenish sheen, and totems painted on their cheeks.
Jiang Huali's gaze involuntarily fell on their heads.
It looks like candied sweet potato.
The system suddenly spoke with a sigh.
Jiang Huali: ...It seems she said what she wanted to say.
Jiang Huali looked at the two spider demons and asked, "What did you mean by what you just said?"
After she finished speaking, she asked, "How shall we address you both?"
The spider demon, who looked like a little boy, said, "My name is Big Spider, and this is my sister, Little Spider."
Little Spider blinked and said, "You don't know, do you? This village has long been protected by a magic array, so you can only enter and not leave. Now that you're in, you can't get out."
The giant spider added, "And they'll die here!"
Jiang Huali touched her nose: "But you just said you could help us get out."
The giant spider looked a little guilty: "Who...who said I could send you out?"
He stiffened his neck and said, "But if we hadn't told you, you and this pretty boy definitely wouldn't have realized you'd entered the formation. I'm doing you a favor, so don't go back on your word!"
pretty boy?
Jiang Huali clicked her tongue. This spider demon was really bold. She was almost strangled to death, and now she was calling him a pretty boy.
However, Xuanqing was indeed fair-skinned.
Upon hearing this, Xuan Qing coldly looked at the giant spider.
Jiang Huali pressed down on Xuan Qing's shoulder and smiled slightly: "When did I say I was going to let you go?"
Big Spider: "!"
Suddenly, the little spider beside him was bound by its hands and hung up.
The giant spider, who was waiting for his sister to use magic to escape, suddenly narrowed his eyes. The next second, he was also hoisted up.
Xuanqing closed his eyes again.
Jiang Huali shook her head: "Don't try anything funny. Just tell me honestly, what's going on with the formation in the village?"
“A month ago, a cultivator came to the village. Little Spider and I ran out to play and saw him setting up some strange formations around the village. He also captured a lot of villagers and threw them into those formations!”
The giant spider was somewhat sullen.
“My sister and I are just two little spider spirits. You human cultivators are the most cunning and hateful! We were almost discovered by that human cultivator and thrown into that formation together. Fortunately, I used my supernatural powers to hide here with my sister.”
"Later, many people died in the village. A group of righteous cultivators came, killed that person, and left. But—"
The giant spider paused, its face somewhat pale: "My sister and I planned to leave this place and find a peaceful place to cultivate quietly, but we discovered that we can't leave this village at all!"
"A peaceful place?" Jiang Huali crossed her arms. "That evil cultivator is dead, so won't this place become peaceful again?"
The giant spider looked even more frightened. "No, you'll find out after tonight."
...
It was a dark and windy night, and Jiang Huali was a little sleepy. She asked Xuanqing to use magic to tie the two spider demons to a corner, and after a quick wash, she went to bed to rest.
Jiang Huali was lying in bed chatting with the system.
[Perhaps that evil cultivator did something else that the original owner and the others didn't discover. Let's see how things go tomorrow.]
[That works, Yu Tian is not in immediate danger.]
Jiang Huali closed her eyes, recalling what Chen Jing had said before she entered this world.
carrier...
What exactly is it?
Jiang Huali's eyelids suddenly felt heavy, and she drifted into a deep sleep.
A gust of cold wind blew by, and a figure appeared out of nowhere in the dark room.
The newcomer had horns on his head, wore a black cloak and armor, and bowed to Xuanqing, who was meditating on the ground.
"Your Excellency."
Xuan Qing looked coldly at his subordinate and asked, "How's the progress?"
Chi Hua bowed his head and replied respectfully, "Xuan Ce and the others thought that you, Lord, were seriously injured and missing. Yesterday, they exposed most of their forces, intending to seize your position."
"Where is the traitor?"
Chi Hua presented the list: "The traitors have all been identified. As long as Your Majesty gives the order, we can take action immediately."
Xuan Qing glanced at the spider demon eavesdropping in the corner and chuckled softly, "Let them live a few more days. We'll close the net in three days and take back the Crimson Purgatory as well."
The chilling tone in his words was impossible to ignore.
"Yes." Chihua lowered his eyes. "When does Your Excellency plan to return to the Demon Palace?"
"I have other things to do."
Chihua understood, bowed and prepared to leave, but when he looked up, he caught a glimpse of a woman on the bed behind the lord.
Is the Lord's refusal to return to the Demon Palace due to this woman?
He dared not look any longer, and then another gust of wind blew past, and he disappeared from the spot.
Silence returned to the room. Xuanqing glanced at the unconscious spider demon, then looked through the heavy bed curtains at the sleeping person.
A faint fragrance floated in the air, like a captivating flower, quite different from usual.
Xuanqing circulated his spiritual energy and entered a meditative state once more.
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The next morning.
When Jiang Huali woke up, Xuanqing's presence was gone from the room, leaving only two spider demons in the corner, bound like dumplings by their own spider silk.
As Jiang Huali stepped out of the room, she looked around at the normal surroundings and tidied her slightly disheveled hair.
Upon arriving in this mission world, Jiang Huali's hair was much longer than before. Not knowing how to style it in a complicated way, she simply tied it all up with a hairband.
Where has everyone gone?
Jiang Huali frowned, walked around the yard, and finally found Grandma Li in the woodshed.
"Grandma, what are you doing here?"
Grandma Li turned around shakily and said, "I've come to get some firewood to make breakfast."
"Let me help you carry it."
After moving the firewood to the kitchen, Jiang Huali found Xuanqing at the entrance of the courtyard.
Where did you go?
Xuan Qing held a golden leaf in his hand, his head bowed and his expression unreadable.
Upon hearing the voice of the person who approached, he instinctively looked up.
Their eyes met, and Jiang Huali was stunned for a moment.
Xuanqing's eyes turned into golden vertical pupils again.
Seemingly realizing that something was wrong with him, Xuan Qing raised his hand to cover his eyes, and after a while he lowered his hand, and his eyes returned to their usual black color.
Ignoring the intermittent stinging in his eyes, Xuan Qing answered Jiang Huali's question: "I went to the village entrance to take a look."
"Did you find anything?"
Since Xuan Qing didn't bring it up, Jiang Huali didn't feel comfortable asking him what was wrong with his eyes.
“There is indeed a formation blocking our way, so we can’t get out.” Xuan Qing paused. “The village is even more deserted now.”
At first, Jiang Huali didn't understand what Xuan Qing meant by the second half of his sentence.
It wasn't until breakfast that Jiang Huali noticed Xiao Liu hadn't appeared.
She put down her chopsticks and offered, "Is Xiao Liu still not up? I'll go wake her up."
She had just stood up when she heard a sentence that made her freeze.
"Miss Jiang, isn't Xiao Liu sitting right across from you?"
The dining table was square. Jiang Huali and Xuan Qing sat next to each other, with Grandma Li sitting to her right. Opposite them... there was only an empty bowl and chopsticks.
A chill ran down Jiang Huali's spine, making her hair stand on end. She looked at Grandma Li and asked, "What did you just say?"
Grandma Li was puzzled: "Miss Jiang, I mean, Xiao Liu is sitting right across from you eating breakfast."
After saying that, she picked up some green vegetables with her chopsticks, put them in the empty bowl, and smiled kindly, "Xiao Liu, you must eat more green vegetables and not be picky about food."
Something's not right.
There was clearly no one on the other side.
Jiang Huali turned her gaze to Xuan Qing and leaned closer to him, whispering, "What's going on?"
Xuanqing: "Eat breakfast first."
"Miss Jiang, why aren't you eating? Is it not to your liking?" Grandma Li asked from the side.
Jiang Huali gave a stiff smile: "No."
After finishing her meal without tasting it, Jiang Huali returned to her room and immediately grabbed Xuanqing to ask him questions.
"Why don't we ask them?" Xuan Qing pointed to the two siblings, Big Spider and Little Spider, in the corner.
The big and small spiders had just woken up from their coma and couldn't remember what had happened last night. Hearing this, they realized that the two people in front of them had already noticed that something was wrong in the village.
"As you can see, during this period, every night, villagers would disappear into thin air."
"But those villagers who disappeared still exist in the eyes of others."
The giant spider curled its lip: "Now you should know why I said this village is no longer peaceful."
"It won't be long before the whole village becomes a deserted village!"
Jiang Huali asked, puzzled, "Then why are we unharmed?"
"This... I don't know, my sister and I are fine!" The giant spider shook its head.
"The day the formation was set up, a curse was placed on the villagers of Jinye Village. Every night, someone would disappear, presumably sacrificed to the formation. When we entered the formation, it was already complete, and we were not cursed, so naturally we were unharmed," Xuanqing replied.
"What kind of formation is this?"
Xuan Qing glanced at Jiang Huali indifferently, "Nine Nether Soul Refining Array."
"By gathering the souls of a thousand people and using rare and precious materials, a Blood Soul Pill can be refined to help people rebuild their meridians and inner core."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Huali felt a chill run down her spine.
“But the evil cultivator who slaughtered the villagers died a month ago. Could it be that… someone else set up this magic array?” Jiang Huali pondered.
Logically speaking, if the person who set up the formation dies, the formation will break without being attacked.
She still had some doubts: "But Lingxiao Sect should have sent disciples to patrol later, and no one noticed anything amiss. Besides, there are only about a hundred villagers here, so why would they set up an array here?"
The fog is getting thicker. If someone else set up the formation, why choose Golden Leaf Village? What about that evil cultivator who committed suicide? And what about the demons who kidnapped Yu Tian? Are they related to this?
"The reason why no one noticed the formation was set up here is naturally because there is something here that can conceal the aura of the formation."
Xuanqing placed a golden leaf on the table.
Jiang Huali's gaze fell on it, and something flashed through her mind.
It's those cactus trees!
Is there something wrong with these trees?
but--
Jiang Huali narrowed her eyes slightly: "You seem to know a lot about this formation?"
Xuan Qing calmly met her gaze, "This formation is a demonic formation. I saw it elsewhere many years ago."
"Oh?" Jiang Huali curled her lips and said slowly, "But didn't you lose your memory?"
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