Chapter 105 The Cat Knows
"Brother Zhu!" The two rescued disciples of Hanhai Pavilion shouted in worry when they saw their fellow disciple injured.
Lin Feng and Yan Shen looked solemn, looked at each other and nodded at the same time.
“Help!”
The two men's figures turned into streams of light, one on the left and one on the right, rushing towards Chen Tao in the air like arrows.
The dagger just scratched the skin and blood oozed out, but it did not hurt the vital parts. Chen Tao was about to increase the force, but Lin Feng and Yan Shen's attacks had already arrived, and he had to let go to block.
The injured disciple of Hanhai Pavilion fell from the air and was caught steadily by Lin Feng.
Bai Qingchen immediately stepped forward, sealed the blood channel around the wound on his neck, and quickly took out some medicine and sprinkled it on his neck to stop the bleeding.
"Fortunately, the wound is not deep and his life is not in danger." He said in a deep voice.
Chen Tao was forced to exchange several moves with Lin Feng and Yan Shen in the air before being forced to fall back to the ground.
He looked at the blood-red formation that lit up under his feet, an intoxicated and expectant smile on his face, and opened his arms as if to embrace the coming power.
However, time passed little by little.
The expected surge of power did not occur. Although the small formation under his feet was lit, it was like a rootless duckweed and could not absorb any power at all. The imagined scene of world destruction did not happen.
The smile on his face gradually froze, turning into astonishment and confusion.
"Impossible! How could this happen?! I clearly..."
He suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction of Jinxi City. He seemed to realize something and his face instantly became extremely ugly.
At this time, Lin Feng had appeared behind him, with the tip of his sword pointing at his back.
Bai Qingchen's voice sounded calmly, breaking the dead silence: "If you mean those array points set up throughout Jinxi City... I'm sorry, we destroyed them all before we got here."
Upon hearing this, Chen Tao's body shook violently. He turned his head abruptly and stared at Bai Qingchen with red eyes, filled with shock and anger.
"It's you! You ruined my plan! I want you dead!"
The anger of his plan failing made him lose his mind in an instant. He ignored Lin Feng behind him, and the demonic energy around him surged, and he rushed towards Bai Qingchen regardless of anything.
"Be careful!" Lin Feng shouted urgently, and his sword became faster.
However, there was a figure that was faster than Lin Feng's sword.
Mo Li, who had been standing quietly by the side, had a slightly cold look in his eyes at the moment when the evil energy erupted.
Everyone only felt a flash before their eyes, as if there was an extremely dim sword shadow that was so fast that it was beyond the visual capture.
There was a soft puffing sound.
Chen Tao, who was rushing forward, suddenly froze. The evil energy swirling around him dissipated instantly like a popped bubble.
The ferocious expression on his face froze, and the strength in his body was rapidly draining away.
His legs went weak and he fell to his knees with a thud, then fell forward and completely lost his fighting ability.
Lin Feng's sword just barely touched the position where Chen Tao was originally, but missed.
He put away his sword and stood, looking at Mo Li who seemed to have done nothing, with a hint of surprise and admiration in his eyes.
"Brother Bai, your brother has great skills and a swift sword!"
Lin Feng sighed sincerely, "When we go back this time, are we going to take him to become a disciple of our Lingxiao Sect?"
Bai Qingchen looked at Mo Li with a complicated expression and replied vaguely, "I guess so."
At this moment, as Chen Tao fell to the ground, the black-robed men who had been attacking madly and relentlessly suddenly stopped moving. The scarlet light in their eyes went out, and they fell to the ground like puppets whose strings had been pulled.
Then their bodies began to turn into wisps of black smoke and dissipated, and finally only empty black robes were left scattered on the ground.
The crisis was temporarily resolved.
Chen Tao on the ground had not yet completely lost consciousness. Black blood continued to flow from his mouth as he muttered to himself, "Impossible... I won't fail... The master clearly said... I won't fail..."
Bai Qingchen walked over to him, squatted down, and asked in a deep voice, "Who ordered you to do this? Where is the master who gave you the formation and taught you how to cultivate magic?"
Chen Tao raised his head with difficulty, glared at Bai Qingchen fiercely, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva. Although it didn't hit Bai Qingchen, it was full of hostility.
Bai Qingchen frowned slightly and continued, "Do you know that if the sacrificial formation you tried to activate succeeds, the entire Jinxi City, including your parents and relatives, will be destroyed."
"The souls of all living beings will be drained away, no one will be spared. Your so-called adults have been deceiving you from the very beginning."
"You're talking nonsense!"
Chen Tao retorted with a hissing sound, his eyes flickering. "My Lord clearly said... this was just to absorb a tiny bit of my energy... to help me cultivate... it wouldn't hurt my foundation... You lied to me! You lied to me!"
His voice grew louder, as if trying to convince himself, but the hesitation in his tone became more and more obvious.
Bai Qingchen's tone was calm but cruel: "If it really won't hurt anyone, then what happened to those civilians you captured earlier? Are they still alive?"
Chen Tao choked suddenly, his face instantly turning pale as paper.
Of course he knew what happened to those people. They were all used to test the formation, or had their blood sucked out, or died in pain. He just deliberately didn't want to think about it.
"I... I just want to become strong... What's wrong with that!" Chen Tao's emotions suddenly collapsed and he roared.
"Why? Why is it that the guard Chang Qi, who has followed me since childhood, was spotted by a passing immortal master and taken away, embarking on the path to immortality, just because he has spiritual roots, while I, the son of the city lord, can only be a mortal and live a mediocre life! I won't accept this! I won't accept this!"
"The Master gave me strength and hope. He is not wrong. It is you who are wrong!"
He roared, more and more black blood gushed out of his mouth, his face withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, and his vitality was rapidly draining away.
Bai Qingchen looked at him and said one last thing: "Forcibly practicing this evil skill has overdrawn your life essence. You have already been devoured by the evil energy and have run out of energy."
The shadow of death completely loomed.
At this moment, the crazy desire for power receded like a tide, and fear and regret finally appeared in Chen Tao's eyes.
He looked at his withered hands and seemed to finally understand something.
Trembling, he pulled out a jet-black jade pendant from his bosom and handed it to Bai Qingchen with difficulty, his breath trembling: "...He...he gave me...the contact...mark..."
There is a strange pattern carved on the jade pendant, which looks like a twisted pupil.
One of the Hanhai Pavilion disciples who had barely regained some strength saw the jade pendant and exclaimed in surprise, "This is the totem of the Xi family, the immortal cultivation family that suddenly rose to prominence in southern Xinjiang in the past century!"
Bai Qingchen took the jade pendant and was shocked.
He had seen this pattern before. There was a similar mark on the map that Gu Xuan carried with him.
The sudden rise of the Xi family is not simple at all, and it is very likely that they have close ties with the evil cultivators.
Chen Tao uttered the last word, his arms fell limply, and the last bit of light in his eyes completely extinguished.
At this point, the truth is revealed.
Chen Tao is the mastermind and also a pawn, and the manipulator behind the scenes points to the Xi family in southern Xinjiang.
Lin Feng and Yan Shen collected Chen Tao's body and prepared to take it back to Jinxi City, and then return to Lingxiao Sect to report.
Before leaving, Lin Feng once again invited Bai Qingchen to return to Lingxiao Sect with him, but Bai Qingchen still declined, saying that he still had things to do and could not return to the sect for the time being.
The three Hanhai Pavilion disciples took a breath and recovered some strength.
The leading disciple named Zhu Jingxing, along with his junior sister Jiang Tao and junior brother Lu Yanzhi, solemnly thanked Lin Feng and Bai Qingchen.
"Thank you, fellow Taoists from the Lingxiao Sect. We were careless this time and were captured and nearly died. I am truly ashamed. If you need any help in the future, please let me know."
They sent out a distress signal from the sect, and soon their fellow brothers and sisters came to support them. After a brief handover, everyone from Hanhai Pavilion said goodbye and left.
After everyone left, the only ones left in front of the ruins of the mansion were Bai Qingchen, Mo Li, and the little fox Lan Yu in his arms, who had curled up into a ball and pretended to sleep.
Mo Li stood behind Bai Qingchen, opened his mouth slightly several times, as if he wanted to say something, but looking at Bai Qingchen's back, he finally said nothing, but silently put the ordinary long sword in his hand back into the scabbard.
Bai Qingchen looked at the outline of Jinxi City in the distance at the foot of the mountain, stood quietly for a moment, then turned around, straightened his collar and cuffs which were a little messy from the fight, and his expression had returned to calm.
He looked at Mo Li and spoke in a normal tone, as if the earth-shattering sword strike had never happened: "What are you still standing there for? Let's go."
Mo Li raised his head and met Bai Qingchen's gaze. He saw that there was no questioning in his eyes, only the same gentleness as always.
The subtle tension on the boy's face dissipated, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously rose. He quickly followed and walked side by side with him.
The two men and the fox walked silently along the way they came.
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