Chapter 104 The Cat and his companions act together
They have been honest for half their lives and are loved by the people in the city, but in the end they made a big mistake because of their selfishness and are now tormented by it.
Bai Qingchen continued to ask, "There's a heavily guarded mansion deep in the woods outside the city. What's going on?"
The city lord suddenly looked up, a look of fear on his face. "That... that's my son... the villa under my son's name. It's usually vacant, but those black-robed men... used it as a base..."
Yan Shen's face turned blue with anger, and he snorted coldly, "Humph! We came here with good intentions to help, but you secretly poisoned us! If we hadn't been so cautious, we would have been killed long ago. Forget this mission!"
Hearing that the immortals were going to abandon the matter, the city lord's wife panicked and rushed forward to hug Lin Feng's legs and begged, "Immortals, please save my son, save the people of Jinxi City, we know we were wrong, we really know we were wrong."
Lin Feng shook off her hand and said coldly: "If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have done it in the first place!"
Bai Qingchen was silent for a moment. He didn't expect that before them, a disciple of Hanhai Pavilion had been killed. No matter what, the person had to be saved.
He looked at Lin Feng and said, "Junior Brother Lin, there is no time to lose. Let's go to the suburban house to rescue people first."
Lin Feng nodded, and after asking the city lord about the general layout and route of the house, the four of them set off immediately.
Under Bai Qingchen's guidance, they quickly found the house hidden deep in the dense forest.
The house under the night sky is like a giant beast lurking in the darkness, silent but exuding an unsettling atmosphere.
Yan took a deep breath and whispered, "The demonic energy here is so strong."
The air was filled with a sticky, sickening smell.
Bai Qingchen warned: "Be careful, the situation inside is unclear, and we don't know how many enemies there are."
He felt something was wrong; it was too quiet outside.
The four of them put on concealing talismans and sneaked into the house quietly.
The courtyard was heavily guarded, with figures in black robes patrolling from time to time.
Relying on concealment talismans and agile movements, they avoided patrol teams and, following the layout provided by the city lord, moved towards the backyard where people might be imprisoned.
However, the further we went in, the weirder the atmosphere became.
There were still patrols outside, but there were almost no people in the inner courtyard. It was eerily quiet, as if it was an empty house.
"Something's not right." Lin Feng frowned and tightened his grip on the sword.
They found a stone house in the corner that looked like a storage room, but the door was extremely heavy and locked. Lin Feng split the lock with a sword and pushed open the stone door.
A smell mixed with blood and mold hit me in the face.
In the corner of the dim secret room, four people were lying crookedly.
Three of them were wearing the characteristic aqua blue disciple uniforms of Hanhai Pavilion, but they were already tattered and stained with filth.
Their faces were pale, their lips were cracked, their breathing was weak, and they seemed to be in a semi-comatose state.
The other person was a young man in brocade clothes, who was also in a miserable state. He was also curled up on the side and groaned in pain.
Yan Shen carefully looked at the young man in brocade clothes and whispered, "That man should be the city lord's son, Chen Tao."
Seeing someone coming in, the one with the less serious injuries among the three Hanhai Pavilion disciples raised his eyelids with difficulty. When he saw Bai Qingchen and others, a glimmer of hope flashed in his eyes, and then turned into anxiety.
He used all his strength and uttered an extremely hoarse and weak voice: "Don't... don't come over... be careful..."
Everyone's forward steps suddenly stopped.
Bai Qingchen's sharp eyes swept across the entire floor and walls of the secret room, and he said in a deep voice: "There are formation traps, don't go in rashly."
At this moment, Chen Tao's groaning in the corner suddenly became louder. He seemed to be in great pain and it seemed that he would die at any time.
"Help... Help me... It hurts..." He stretched out his hand towards Yan Shen, who was closest to him, his eyes dazed.
Yan Shen couldn't bear it and subconsciously wanted to go forward to check, but Lin Feng beside him grabbed his arm.
"Don't move!" Lin Feng shouted in a low voice, his eyes alert.
Seeing that the four people were reluctant to come in, Chen Tao, who was originally dying, slowly stood up from the ground. The pain and weakness on his face disappeared in an instant, replaced by a sinister and twisted grin.
"What a pity! You guys didn't fall for it." Chen Tao's voice became sharp and harsh.
"But it doesn't matter. From the moment you stepped into this room, you've fallen into my trap. How can you escape from this trapped place?"
"Oh no, I've fallen into a trap!" Lin Feng's face changed and he immediately wanted to retreat.
However, just as they were about to think about it, several dark red lines suddenly lit up on the ground beneath their feet.
A powerful suction force came from the ground, instantly entangled their feet, making it difficult for them to move.
"Hahahaha!" Chen Tao laughed triumphantly and clapped his hands.
In an instant, more than a dozen men in black robes emerged silently from the shadows around the secret room. With scarlet light flashing in their eyes, they rushed towards the four trapped people like lifeless puppets.
Although Lin Feng and Yan Shen's feet were trapped and they could not move flexibly, their spiritual energy was still able to flow. They immediately pinched the sword formula, and the flying swords were unsheathed and turned into cold lights, fighting with the black-robed man who pounced on them.
The sword light flashed and the spiritual power collided, causing bursts of muffled sounds in the small secret room.
Bai Qingchen stood calmly in place, his eyes quickly scanning the glowing formation patterns on the ground, looking for the center of the formation.
A man in black robe ignored the flying swords of Lin Feng and the other man, and rushed straight towards Bai Qingchen, piercing his heart with the long sword in his hand.
Just as the long sword was about to approach, Mo Li, who had been following Bai Qingchen silently, moved.
No one could see his movements clearly. He seemed not to have moved, but his figure had already cut in between Bai Qingchen and the man in black robe. He stretched out his arms and put them around Bai Qingchen's waist.
The tip of her toes lightly tapped the ground, like a feather, carrying Bai Qingchen back quickly, and landed lightly outside the door of the secret room, just out of the range of the formation.
The man in black robe thrust his sword into the air and stood still.
Bai Qingchen was put down by Mo Li. After he stood firm, he looked at Mo Li with a hint of inquiry in his eyes, but the situation was critical at the moment and he couldn't ask any further questions.
He immediately shouted to Lin Feng who was fighting fiercely in the room, "Junior Brother Lin, attack the position where Chen Tao was standing just now. That is the center of the formation!"
Upon hearing this, Lin Feng suddenly turned around and looked at Chen Tao.
Sure enough, Chen Tao had been standing still since he activated the formation, without moving an inch, and he hadn't noticed it before.
"good!"
Lin Feng shouted loudly, and the spiritual power in his body burst out, shaking away several black-robed men around him. He controlled the flying sword to transform it into a bright lightning, shooting towards the ground under Chen Tao's feet.
Chen Tao's face changed. He obviously didn't expect the other party to find the center of the formation so quickly.
He dodged to the side in a panic, and at the same time grabbed the Hanhai Pavilion disciple on the ground who had just warned him, wanting to use him as a hostage to block him.
The sword light brushed past the corner of Chen Tao's clothes and slashed fiercely where he was originally standing.
boom!
The dark red lines on the ground flashed violently a few times, making a sound of being unable to bear the weight, and instantly dimmed and shattered, and the powerful suction force instantly disappeared without a trace.
The formation was broken, and Lin Feng and Yan Shen felt their feet loosen and immediately regained their freedom.
The two men rushed forward without hesitation, each of them picked up the other two dying disciples of Hanhai Pavilion on the ground, and quickly left this strange secret room.
The fierce fighting and the impact of the broken formation caused this already old stone chamber to shake violently, with bricks and stones falling down and it was about to collapse.
Everyone quickly retreated to the courtyard, and the men in black robes followed them out like leeches, tirelessly and fearlessly attacking them.
Chen Tao was suspended in mid-air, with demonic energy surging around him. His originally handsome face was now covered with black lines, making him look hideous and terrifying.
He looked at the chaotic battle below and laughed crazily: "Hahaha! So what if you find it?"
"Today, you will become witnesses of my cultivation of the Great Dao!" He suddenly pulled out a dagger and slashed it fiercely at the neck of the Hanhai Pavilion disciple he was holding hostage.
Blood gushed out instantly, and at the same time, a miniature version of a complex blood-colored pattern that originated from the formations in the city suddenly lit up under Chen Tao's feet.
"Using blood as a guide, all souls return to their roots! From today on, I, Chen Tao, will be above all living beings!"
He had a fanatical and twisted smile on his face, as if he had already seen a future in which he would control his power.
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