After leaving the government office and crossing the main street of the market, neither of them spoke a word.

Shi Liuli was heavy-hearted. Thinking about the fighting power of Kunlun Qiongying and Shushan Jiangxiao, and also thinking that once this matter was exposed, he would not be a match for those two people at all, he felt more and more anxious and irritated.

Of course, Su Wen Qiongying is arrogant and Jiang Xiao is upright. If they knew the truth, they might not immediately think of competing with each other for the husband. They might just get angry and chase after the bastard.

But is this... good or bad?

Once upon a time, Shi Liuli had always wanted to find that bastard husband and ask him why.

However, the current situation was much more troublesome than the worst outcome she had originally anticipated - God knew how this bastard managed to play three roles at the same time, wandering among the Three Pure Ones of the orthodox religion, and even provoking three female fairies at the same time.

If the fortune-telling results had not shown this, Shi Liuli would not even have believed it... Well, actually now she is still a little skeptical.

How does he allocate his time when traveling between the Three Pure Ones at the same time? Each sect can only appear for one-third of the time, not to mention the travel. How did he do it? Chang Geng, Qing Heng, and Jing Yun are all well-known new talents of the Orthodox Church, but they are played by the same person. Why has no one discovered the flaw?

Shi Liuli was full of worries, but Chen Guanshui was calm and composed.

Or to be more precise, since the situation can't get any worse, they can't help but start to play badly.

At the end of the long street, which is right in the center of the market, a deep purple light gate is floating steadily.

If you think about it carefully, it is indeed strange: on the one hand, the shadow monks said they were afraid that the Nibeluo would invade and kill them, but on the other hand, they opened this light gate in the middle of the market.

Although the explanation is that Nibalo will not pass through the light gate, it still seems a bit wrong when you think about it carefully.

"You wait outside." Chen Guanshui suddenly said, "I'll go in."

"No." Shi Liuli refused firmly, "I want to go in too."

"It's up to you." Chen Guanshui said indifferently.

Although I don't want her to take risks, there is nothing I can do if my wife disobeys me.

As the two of them passed through the light gate, An Zhisu suddenly stopped at the other end of the long street.

"Junior brother..." she murmured, quickly recalling the previous glimpse in her mind.

Although she only caught the moment when the other person stepped into the light gate, she could not mistake that figure so much that she could not take her eyes away immediately.

"What?" Xu Yinglian didn't hear clearly, but when she saw An Zhisu suddenly stop, she followed her gaze and saw the light gate in the middle of the street.

"What the hell is that..." Before she could ask any questions, An Zhisu had already silently rushed towards the light gate with his sword as one.

However, the other party seemed to have sensed her approach. When An Zhisu was about to arrive, the light gate suddenly folded towards the center and soon disappeared.

"The Feather Ring Formation." Xu Yinglian also followed her to the vicinity, and heard Feng Lan in the sea of ​​consciousness suddenly say, "It's been hundreds of thousands of years, I didn't expect to see it here again."

"What is the Feather Ring Formation?" Xu Yinglian asked curiously.

"It's just a teleportation array." Feng Lan replied, "Do you think the teleportation array should be designed to be laid flat on the ground or stand in the air?"

Xu Yinglian thought for a moment and replied:

"If it's laid flat on the ground, you need to stand inside it and activate the formation to teleport; but if it's one standing in the air, you can just fly in with your sword, which seems to be more convenient."

"That's right." Feng Lan said, "The Feather Ring Array refers to this kind of vertical teleportation array. It is always open, so you only need to fly in to teleport directly without starting it... Of course, the life limit and spiritual power consumption are also higher than the flat-type array."

"The magic circle seems to be closed now." Xu Yinglian's spiritual sense swept across the open space and said, "Senior, is there any way to reopen this teleportation magic circle?"

An Zhisu, who was beside him, fiddled with the empty space in vain for a while, then stood beside him with a sullen face, holding a sword, as if to say, "I won't leave until he comes out."

"If it is an old formation, it is impossible to open it from the outside." Feng Lan replied, "But I see that this formation seems to have not been maintained for a long time... We Phoenix Clan do have a spell that is specifically for this kind of unmaintained teleportation ban. You can try it."

Chen Guanshui and Shi Liuli stepped into the light gate and came to a dark and dim small world. They found that the leader of the shadow people had left the dark hut and was now bringing other human-shaped shadows to surround the two of them.

"Fellow Daoists," the shadow leader asked hoarsely, "Excuse me, have you found the remains of our predecessor?"

He looked unusually tall, and his shadow was more solid and darker than the surrounding figures.

"No." Chen Guanshui lied calmly, "We eliminated the enemy in the government office, and then searched every corner of it carefully, but did not find any remains."

Shi Liuli, who was standing next to him, tried very hard to suppress the strange emotion on his face.

How come I didn't realize before that this bastard is so good at lying? He can actually talk nonsense without changing his expression!

"Really? That's a pity." said the shadow leader.

"Please accept my condolences." Chen Guanshui said hypocritically, "After all, so many years have passed. Maybe someone has already taken it away."

"Well, when I said it was a pity, I meant you." The shadow leader said lightly, "Do you really think you can fool all of us by lying like this?"

Shi Liuli held her breath slightly, and heard Chen Guanshui beside her ask in surprise:

"What's the meaning?"

Pretending to be real! Shi Liuli sneered again.

"It means that we, the Heavenly Demon cultivators, can sense each other's aura." Although the shadow leader's voice was steady, for some reason, it gave people a sense of cunning and sinisterness. "In addition to the large amount of Nibeluo aura on your body, there is also a unique aura mixed in."

"...I think it's the aura of that senior."

Chen Guanshui fell silent after hearing this: You're not pretending anymore?

His eyes swept over the surroundings which were beginning to become strange, and he thought that if A Jing was here, he would definitely be able to scan out something, such as "Oh no, Guanshui, this space is blocked" or something like that.

Unfortunately, however, apart from the increasingly dark surroundings, nothing else can be seen - one can only guess what the other party may have done.

"I want to make a deal with you," said the shadow leader. "Although the many secret techniques left by our predecessors are rare and precious, they can be shared with outsiders."

"Give us these secrets, and we will allow you to leave with this knowledge. How about that?"

Chen Guanshui almost laughed out loud when he heard this. It turned out that the other party had not broken off relations with us yet. He was just worried that I did not take away the storage bag left by the remains, but only relied on my memory to remember all the secret techniques in it, right?

In this case, even if they use force to kill us, they won’t get anything and will have to go back to the government office to look for the secret… If they could go there by themselves, they wouldn’t have deliberately deceived and instigated us.

Thinking of this, Chen Guanshui laughed and said:

"That's a good suggestion, but... I have memorized all the secret techniques left by that senior. How are you going to tell the real from the fake?"

"In the brain?" The shadow leader asked slowly, "Isn't there any scriptures, jade slips or other carriers?"

"Yes." Chen Guanshui said frankly, "After I saw it, I destroyed it all."

This bland tone almost made the Shadow Leader so angry that he had a cerebral hemorrhage, but he was a demon after all, and controlling his emotions was his body's instinct. He finally suppressed the anger in his heart and asked:

"Destroy it...why should we destroy it? After all, this is a precious book of secret arts!"

"Indeed." Chen Guanshui laughed, "If I were born in a big sect, I might treasure it and bring it back to the sect in exchange for a reward."

"Unfortunately, I am just an independent cultivator. What use do I have for these books? I am innocent, but I am guilty of possessing a treasure. It is better to write them down carefully and then destroy them to avoid being coveted by others."

The shadow leader was speechless, but in his heart he was trying to judge the truthfulness of the other party's words.

Judging from a rational point of view, what the other party said is impossible, but the question is, is there any evidence to prove that the other party really destroyed those things?

Moreover, other secret books of Yuting Sect are fine, but the Purple Palace Thunder is specifically designed to defeat physical cultivation, and is an excellent weapon to deal with the Niweiluo lineage.

They must get it in their hands no matter what the cost!

After a moment of silence, the shadow leader suddenly laughed and said:

"This cave, as I told you before, was opened up specifically for us by a great senior."

"Not only can it block out light and avoid the sun, it can also drive boundless shadows to swallow up the sky and the earth... If you really wrote down our many secret techniques and then destroyed them, then I can only ask you to explain these secret techniques to me in detail."

Along with his threatening words, the shadows around them seemed to be wriggling with ill intentions, slowly surging towards the two of them like a tide.

Shi Liuli's face turned pale, and he unconsciously moved closer to Chen Guanshui. He only heard him sneer and say:

"Please ask me to explain myself? If you don't tell me, it's fine. If I tell you, I'm afraid I'll die immediately, right?"

Seeing that he was not fooled, the shadow leader did not hide anything and just said indifferently:

"If I don't tell you, and you are bound and tortured by the shadows and then forced to confess after suffering extreme pain, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave peacefully. Why bother?"

"If you explain the secret technique to us as soon as possible, we can still give you a quick death and let your souls be reincarnated... To put it bluntly, you helped us solve the problem of the Nibeluo outside. If our secret technique really cannot be leaked to outsiders, we would not repay you with evil and plot against you."

"We've already fallen out, are you still going to pretend to be innocent?" Chen Guanshui laughed, "Well, it seems like we still have to fight."

He pinched his hands together and released the Universal Clear Sound Small Light Technique. Then he suddenly gathered his true essence and injected it into the technique, causing the original small ball of light to suddenly expand to a diameter of thirty or forty feet, and the light was as bright as the sun.

This was the fighting method he had learned when he was in the Qibao Xuanyuan Secret Realm, dealing with the massive number of demons: stimulating the true essence at all costs, in exchange for an exaggerated effect three or four times that of the original spell, which just fits the advantage of his strong true essence.

When the "Great Light Technique" was used, not only were the surging shadows around them forced back, but even the shadow monks who were close to them kept retreating with screams and wails.

Only the shadow leader, because he was far away from the beginning and was protected by layers of darkness, did not suffer much damage. He just said indifferently:

"Why do you have to struggle so hard, fellow Daoist? The power of shadow here comes from the restriction of the cave, which is truly infinite, but fellow Daoist's true energy is limited. If you can survive the first day, can you survive until the fifteenth?"

"What an endless one!" Chen Guanshui said coldly, "Isn't this the way the demons deal with ascended monks?"

"Although you attribute the destruction of Yuting Sect to your wrongful decision to transform into a demon, I think your evil intentions are no different from those of the demons!"

"There's nothing we can do about it." The shadow leader said calmly, "If we were given a choice, we would certainly hope to get rid of our current state of being neither human nor ghost."

"But now that the matter has been settled, what can we do? As for this demonic method, although it is despicable and shameless, it can be used at the end..."

Seeing how frank he was, Chen Guanshui knew that the other party's mind could not be shaken by words, and he began to mutter to himself.

Although these shadows seemed to have him in their grasp, they were actually just looking at the world from the bottom of a well, unaware of how big the world was... Apart from anything else, just leaving this cave would be easy with my Tianji Divine Shuttle, and I could even take Shi Liuli with me to escape.

The only problem is…

Just as he was secretly considering it, he suddenly saw a flame rising from the bottom of the light ball.

The flame looked so familiar that Chen Guanshui extinguished the ball of light in panic without even thinking.

Isn't this... Isn't this Junior Sister Xu's Flame Shuttle Technique? How did it appear here?

Could it be that she has also done something to me so that she can teleport to my side no matter how far away I am?

Just when Chen Guanshui was suddenly frightened and even a little scared, he saw the figures of Xu Yinglian and An Zhisu flash out from the flames.

"Why is it so dark?" An Zhisu came in with his back to Chen Guanshui and Shi Liuli, so he just looked at the sea of ​​shadows in front of him and asked subconsciously.

"Indeed." Xu Yinglian made a hand gesture with one hand and also performed the Universal Clear Sound Small Light Technique.

A ball of light bloomed from her fingertips and slowly floated up into the air.

Shi Liuli was watching from behind and couldn't help but turn to look at Chen Guanshui, with a playful expression as if saying "How come you two know the same magic?"

Chen Guanshui had no time to pay attention to her. He just reached out to touch the Tianji Divine Shuttle in a hurry.

He completely forgot about "trying to hold Shi Liuli back" - God knows why the other two wives would find their way here!

If you don't run now, when will you run?!

The small light spell emitted a brilliant light, but was blocked by the creeping shadows around it, and could only illuminate an area of ​​three or four feet, which was constantly shrinking.

"This shadow is a bit weird." An Zhisu frowned and said, he put his right hand together as if making a sword finger, and the Taoist magic on the Feiyan Sword was released. The fire line began to spread around, burning the shadows and making them retreat continuously.

"Fellow Daoist, be careful. These shadows seem strange." Xu Yinglian also pinched the Taoist spells and spit out a bright fire, instantly illuminating the surroundings as bright as day.

The shadows in the distance retreated in a hurry and had no time to care about Chen Guanshui and others.