Chapter 101 Cat causing trouble
Bai Qingchen lay on his side on the bed, feeling increasingly sleepy. Just as he was about to fall asleep, an extremely faint breath came in from the open window.
It was demonic energy! Mixed with a faint smell of blood.
Bai Qingchen suddenly opened his eyes, and his sleepiness disappeared instantly.
The breath came from outside the window and disappeared in a flash. He immediately turned over and got out of bed.
Almost at the same time, there was a very slight sound coming from the door of the next room.
Bai Qingchen opened the door of his room and saw Mo Li also leaning out. The two looked at each other and saw vigilance in each other's eyes.
"You felt it too?" Bai Qingchen asked in a low voice.
Mo Li nodded, frowning slightly: "It's a very disgusting smell, and the smell of blood."
"You stay in the inn and watch over Lan Yu so he doesn't run around. I'll go out and take a look." Bai Qingchen ordered quickly.
He was not sure what the situation was outside, and it was too dangerous to let Mo Li go.
Mo Li took a step forward, grabbed his sleeve, and said with concern: "Brother, there may be danger outside. The aura feels very bad."
"Don't worry, I'm just going to investigate. I won't act rashly. I'll come back after figuring out the situation."
Bai Qingchen patted the back of his hand and slowed down his tone.
"Protect yourself and Lan Yu, and wait for me."
After saying this, without waiting for Mo Li to dissuade him, he jumped out of the window nimbly and landed lightly in the shadow of the back alley of the inn. He quickly identified the general direction from which the demonic energy had just come and chased after it.
Mo Li pursed his lips as he watched his disappearing figure, a hint of anxiety flashing in his eyes.
He turned around and hurried back to his room. Looking at the white-haired fox Lan Yu, who was curled up on the bed and sleeping soundly, even snoring softly, he walked up to it and picked it up without any hesitation.
"Hmm... hm?"
Lan Yu was awakened and opened his eyes in a daze, not yet figuring out what was going on.
Mo Li pulled him into his arms and whispered, "Don't make a sound."
Before he finished speaking, he jumped out of the window and quickly followed the direction Bai Qingchen left and the lingering scent in the air.
Tonight is the Lantern Festival. Although it is late at night, the streets in the city are still bustling. Bai Qingchen quickly shuttles through the crowd, scanning his surroundings with sharp eyes.
The evil spirit moved very fast and was extremely cunning. It seemed to have sensed the pursuit from behind, and deliberately went to crowded and busy places, trying to cover up its whereabouts with the help of the chaotic popularity and lights.
Bai Qingchen chased after it relentlessly. Seeing that the aura turned into a sparsely populated and remote street corner, he immediately followed, but found that the aura suddenly disappeared here.
He stopped, frowned, and carefully sensed his surroundings.
As his eyes scanned the dim corner of the street, he noticed something seemed off about the ground.
He squatted down and touched the ground with his fingers. There were some barely noticeable lines drawn with red paint, forming traces of a small formation. They were now slowly dissipating, and it was obvious that they had just been used.
"elder brother!"
At this time, Mo Li also arrived, holding Lan Yu, who was curiously sticking his head out, in his arms.
"Are you okay? Did you catch up?"
Bai Qingchen shook his head and stood up: "We lost him. He was very alert and seemed to be using some kind of formation."
He pointed to the almost disappearing marks on the ground.
Lan Yu sniffed and muttered, "What a terrible smell..."
Bai Qingchen's expression was solemn: "There is more than one formation."
He looked at Mo Li and said, "When we were walking down the street before, we vaguely sensed similar formation fluctuations in several places. At the time, we just thought they were some kind of decoration or blessing runes in the city and didn't pay much attention to them. Now I think it might not be that simple."
He looked towards the corner where the formation had just disappeared: "The aura of the demon cultivator disappeared here. We need to find these points and destroy them."
Mo Li nodded immediately: "Okay, I'll help my brother."
Bai Qingchen was a little hesitant: "The enemy is in the dark. If we openly sabotage them, we might alert them and even attract the people guarding the formation."
He thought for a moment, took out a drawn concealment talisman from his storage bag and handed it to Mo Li.
"Let's split up. Take this. It can conceal your presence and figure. Unless someone with a much higher cultivation level than you deliberately searches for you, it will be difficult for them to find you."
"Once you discover a similar formation node, immediately record its location and destroy its core pattern. You don't need to completely eliminate it, just render it ineffective. Remember, safety first."
"If you encounter any danger or are discovered, do not hesitate to escape immediately and return to the inn to meet up. Do you understand?"
He reminded again and again with a serious look on his face.
Mo Li took the talisman and nodded seriously: "I understand, brother, you should be careful too."
The two of them immediately separated at the street corner, each choosing a direction and quickly blending into the night and lights.
Bai Qingchen avoided the busy main streets and specifically chose quiet street corners and inconspicuous walls for careful investigation.
As he expected, he found similar formation nodes in many hidden corners.
These nodes seemed insignificant at first glance, but when he marked the locations he had discovered and connected them together in his mind, the outline of a huge formation gradually emerged.
As more and more points were discovered, the outline became clearer and clearer. It was a terrifying formation with a very wide coverage.
He has only discovered about half of it now, but from this half he can roughly know what kind of formation it is. The more Bai Qingchen looks at it, the more frightened he becomes.
This is clearly an extremely vicious sacrificial formation that uses the blood, energy and souls of living beings as sacrifices. Someone actually wants to use all the living beings in the city as sacrifices.
His heart was shaken, and he dared not delay any longer, so he immediately turned around and returned to the inn.
When he returned to the inn room, Mo Li had already returned and was sitting at the table waiting for him, his expression equally serious.
"Brother, you're back." Mo Li stood up.
"I found some, scattered across the west and north districts of the city."
Bai Qingchen nodded and quickly took out a city layout map he had bought on the way back from his storage bag and spread it on the table.
Based on their memory, the two marked the locations of the formation nodes they discovered on the map one by one.
When all the points were connected into lines and then formed into surfaces, a huge, complex and evil formation pattern covering the entire city suddenly appeared on the map.
The two looked at the map, and the air in the room seemed to freeze.
Only Lan Yu jumped onto the table, tilted his head and looked at the marked dots on the map, as if he didn't quite understand what they meant. However, he could feel the heavy atmosphere emanating from Bai Qingchen and Mo Li, and there was rarely any noise.
"Sacrificial formation..."
Bai Qingchen's voice was a little dry, "What a cruel method."
Mo Li's eyes also turned cold: "The people who set up the formation will definitely check these nodes regularly. We have damaged some of them, and they will find out sooner or later."
"Yes, time is of the essence."
Bai Qingchen forced himself to calm down, his eyes fixed on the map.
He had studied the formation deeply, and based on the semi-formed formation structure and the trend of energy flow, he quickly deduced the most likely location of the formation core.
His finger moved on the map and finally pointed to a place southeast outside the city.
"The terrain here is relatively high, overlooking the entire city. If I were the one setting up the formation, I would probably place the main formation center nearby, or at least there would be an important hub node there. We must go there first to check it out."
Mo Li had no objection: "Okay, I'll listen to you, brother."
Without further ado, the two decided to set off immediately.
The night had not yet faded, and the number of tourists celebrating all night in the city had decreased a lot, but there were still sporadic lights and laughter.
No one noticed that two figures quietly left the inn, went out of the city gate, and rushed towards the southeast.
The closer you get to the area Bai Qingchen pointed to, the more desolate the surroundings become.
Far away from the lights of the city, only the dim moonlight illuminates the rugged path.
Suddenly, Bai Qingchen and Mo Li stopped almost at the same time and quickly hid behind the bushes on the side of the road.
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