Chapter 140
The next morning, Jitang opened his eyes to a huge vibration.
She slept soundly that time. She turned her head sleepily and saw that Su Jinzhou had sat up.
"Brother, what's that sound?"
Su Jinzhou retracted his outward consciousness and said, "Our people are fighting with the people from Xuan Gua Palace."
Ji Tang frowned, performed the Body Cleansing Technique, and went to the place where the earthquake occurred with Su Jinzhou.
In the spacious square of Xuan Gua Palace, the two sides were on the verge of a standoff, having already had a large-scale fight before the confrontation.
Xuan Gua Palace showed no sign of defeat in front of Su Xuanzong. It seemed that they did not suffer much loss in the first round of fighting.
Ying Daolin clasped his fists towards Tao Jin and said, "Elder Tao, please calm down!"
Tao Jin snorted coldly, "Calm down? Palace Master Ying, you have a good plan! You actually concealed the great formation beneath Yongquan Town, putting my disciples of Suxuan Sect in danger! You still have the nerve to say calm down? Just a simple word of calming down means we won't pursue the matter?!"
Ying Daolin said, "Xuan Gua Palace is indeed wrong, but this is also a helpless move! I hope Elder Tao and the other elders will stop for the time being and listen to what I have to say."
Elder Zou Chu was known for his violent temper in the Suxuan Sect. He unleashed his spiritual energy and roared, "Listen to you? Sure, wait until we've beaten you all down, and then we'll have plenty of time to listen!"
As the head of a palace, Ying Daolin felt angry after being suppressed for so long. "Are all the elders of Suxuan Sect unreasonable?!"
Zou Chu: "There's no point in talking to a villain like you!"
Just as the two groups were about to attack again, dark purple nightmare energy suddenly appeared between them, blocking the two sides.
The attacks that everyone was about to launch suddenly froze, and then they bowed in the same direction, saying in unison: "Greetings to the Nightmare Lord and the Immortal Lord."
Ji Tang and Su Jinzhou flew between the two groups and landed in front of Su Xuanzong's team.
Ji Tang looked at Ying Daolin with a smile, "What's wrong? Did Palace Master Ying bully my Su Xuan Sect's people?"
Ying Daolin broke out in a cold sweat immediately.
He bowed respectfully and said, "Master Nightmare, please listen to me!"
Upon hearing this, Zou Chu was about to step forward, but Ji Tang raised his hand to stop him.
Ji Tang said nonchalantly, "Then I'll listen to you."
Ying Daolin swallowed hard, his throat tightening. While Nightmare Lord's smile might seem good-tempered, he was actually putting a lot of pressure on Ying Daolin. Compared to her anger, the anger of the Suxuan Sect elders was nothing more than a minor incident.
He didn't dare to hide it. "Yanzun, it is true that my Xuan Gua Palace was at fault first, but I have my reasons. I didn't mean to deceive your clan."
Ji Tang: "I just heard Tao Jin say that you put the disciples of Su Xuan Sect in danger?" She asked behind her, "Are any of our disciples injured?"
Tao Jin immediately replied: "Yes, but don't worry, Master Yan, the injured disciples are already receiving treatment."
Ji Tang nodded: "Palace Master Ying, I, the Su Xuan Sect, have always respected you as much as I respect you. However, if you deliberately concealed the truth and put our sect in trouble, you must give me an explanation."
Ying Daolin shuddered suddenly, feeling cold all over. "I, I understand."
He said hurriedly, "It's true that Yongquan Town is the base of the Black Clothes Force, but we have concealed one thing: there is also a large formation in the base - the Soul-Fixing and Soul-Sacrificing Formation."
The Soul-Fixing and Soul-Sacrificing Formation requires a large number of living souls to serve as energy to activate the formation.
After the formation is activated, thousands of miles of living souls will be extracted from their bodies and gathered in the formation. When the formation obtains more living souls, it will start the second level of extraction, and the next extraction will be of living souls from tens of thousands of miles away.
Ying Daolin's eyes were bloodshot. "Everyone in my Xuan Gua Palace is a sacrificial soul when the Soul-Fixing and Soul-Sacrificing Formation is first activated. If we don't destroy this formation, everyone in the Xuan Gua Palace will surely die!"
Ji Tang immediately understood: "So you led me, a disciple of Su Xuan Sect, into the Black Clothes stronghold and turned me into a sacrificial soul for the Soul-Fixing and Soul-Sacrificing Formation. This way, my senior brother and I would definitely take action to destroy this formation."
As she finished speaking, a terrifying and heart-shaking pressure spread out in an instant, forcing Ying Daolin and his group to lower their bodies and shake continuously.
This terrifying pressure came from the Immortal Lord.
Ying Daolin did not regret his choice. The more he was shaken by the aura of the Immortal Lord, the less he regretted it.
All his knowledge of the Immortal Lord and the Nightmare Lord came from the world of cultivation.
People have called Nightmare Lord a demon for thousands of years. No matter what the truth is, he dare not gamble.
The Immortal Lord was even willing to confront the sects and palaces for the Nightmare Lord. Even though the Immortal Lord was always powerful and highly respected in the past, his actions have become more and more unpredictable since the Nightmare Lord returned. Ying Daolin really didn't dare to take the risk.
Not to mention that Xuan Gua Palace also produced elders and disciples who attacked Jiu Mingyuan four hundred years ago. Considering the vengeful personality of Yanzun and the extremely protective temper of Xianzun, he could only take risky moves.
Only by tying Su Xuanzong and Xuan Gua Palace together can Xuan Gua Palace survive this disaster.
Ying Daolin had considered all possibilities before making this decision.
He bowed deeply to the two lords, "Please both of you break the Soul-Fixing and Soul-Sacrificing Formation. Xuan Gua Palace will repay your kindness with all we have! If Nightmare Lord is angry, I am willing to do whatever you want. Even if it means my life, I will offer it with both hands!"
Ji Tang placed his spiritual power on Su Jinzhou, "Brother, if I heard correctly, this person is playing tricks on me in front of everyone, right? Isn't this clearly saying that I'm petty and hold a grudge?"
If the situation wasn't so wrong at the moment, Su Jinzhou would have a smile on his face.
Jitang maintained a cool appearance, but actually kept complaining to him. It seemed that the villain named "Jitang" inside was already furious.
Su Jinzhou was almost overwhelmed by her cuteness. He took a deep breath and then whispered, "Don't worry about him. He's just afraid of you."
Ying Daolin didn't know what the two were talking about. He was anxiously waiting for the response from the two masters. He was waiting for the future of Xuan Gua Palace and also for a judgment that would concern his life.
Ji Tang exhaled, "What do I want your life for? To make an elixir? To make a puppet? Or just to play with it?"
Every time Jitang said something, Ying Daolin's heart trembled violently.
Ji Tang turned his head and said to Zou Chu, "You two should fight, I won't stop you."
Zou Chu clenched his fist and hit his palm hard. With what Yanzun said, he must make Ying Daolin pay the price!
Ying Daolin's face turned ashen.
What does Nightmare Lord mean by this?
He was about to fight again when he saw Nightmare Lord flying away from Xuan Gua Palace on his sword. As soon as she left, Immortal Lord followed her.
Ying Daolin stood with his hands in front of him: "Fellow Daoist Zou! Fellow Daoist Zou! Are the Nightmare Lord and the Immortal Lord going to the Black Clothes stronghold? If you want to fight, I'll accompany you! But before that, please allow us to go with the two Lords. The Black Clothes forces are large in number, and we can help a lot if we go!"
Zou Chu snorted coldly, "What nonsense are you talking about? Just a black-clad stronghold, are you looking down on our ancestors? Take my palm first!"
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Ji Tang and Su Jinzhou flew to Yongquan Town. When they arrived at the entrance of the black-clothed stronghold, they saw a group of people in white clothes walking towards the stronghold.
They lined up in two rows, with the four people in the middle carrying a sedan chair decorated with white lanterns. The tunes they played sounded both sad and happy, which was very strange.
When Jitang saw this scene, he knew that this was a "happy event".
Instead of a wedding ceremony, they carried the sedan chair directly to the joint burial site. The bride's family members, walking on both sides of the procession, covered their faces and wept, their voices muffled and weak, blending with the rising and falling melody.
Ji Tang and Su Jinzhou disappeared and went straight to the entrance of the black-clad stronghold.
As she flew past, she saw a sedan chair land on the ground and a man was lifting the curtain and carrying out the remains of the woman inside.
She stopped and went to pull Su Jinzhou.
When Jitang stopped, Su Jinzhou also stopped. When she pulled him, he also held her hand.
Ji Tang sent him a message, "Although this woman is dead, it doesn't look like her life span has ended. It seems that her soul has been extracted."
Su Jinzhou nodded, "Look at the others."
Ji Tang swept his eyes across the team. "They are filled with a thick layer of death energy, and their souls are sometimes solid and sometimes ethereal. It seems they are almost reaching their limit."
Not knowing whether they were about to die, they simplified the ghost marriage process. The woman's remains were not placed in a coffin, but were directly taken to the burial site in a sedan chair. The couple's bones were quickly combined, and the people traveling with them began to burn paper money and perform the marriage ceremony.
Jitang retracted his gaze and said, "Let's go in."
Just as Lang Yu had said before, the route to the Black Stronghold was very complicated and the area was very large.
It is understandable that the disciples of Xuan Gua Palace failed to detect the number of the black-clothed forces. Their cultivation is limited, and it is difficult for them to figure out the place with the power of their souls.
But for Jitang and Su Jinzhou, these are not problems.
They hid their figures, but they had no intention of keeping a low profile. Wherever they passed, the people of the black-clad forces fell along the way, and neither of them held back.
They soon arrived at the Soul-Fixing and Spirit-Sacrificing Formation.
The Soul-Fixing and Spirit-Sacrificing Formation was covered with a thick layer of black gas. The black gas continued to rise, and when it reached a certain height, it would be pulled back by the formation.
Every ball of black air is a living soul.
Unable to escape the constraints of the formation, they were trapped within it. The black energy was filled with painful roars and desperate cries, and the formation, nourished by this black energy, alternated between light and dark, accumulating death energy.
Su Jinzhou: "This is a sign that the formation is about to be activated."
Ji Tang had not yet broken the Soul-Fixing and Spirit-Sacrificing Formation, but after exploring with the power of his soul, he quickly discovered all the key points of the formation.
Su Jinzhou said, "Wait a moment."
When Jitang saw him take action, he stepped back.
Su Jinzhou had previously destroyed the Soul-Fixing and Soul-Sacrificing Formation within the Suxuan Sect's territory, and was familiar with the layout of this formation.
In a short while, this terrifying formation was completely destroyed by Su Jinzhou.
Once the formation was broken, all the living souls that supported it were released.
Su Jinzhou raised his sleeves, and the black air got rid of its ink-black color under the cleansing of spiritual power and turned into a slightly transparent white again.
At this time, Jitang also used nightmare energy to seal off the Black Clothes stronghold, preventing the people inside from leaving.
There were panicked noises and angry curses coming from afar. She snorted coldly, and the evil spirit suddenly rushed in all directions.
After that, all that could be heard was the hurried and heavy sound of fleeing footsteps.
Within a few breaths, there was no more movement in the black stronghold.
The two left the base, and along with them were many rescued souls.
Several living souls flew past them, returned to the ground, and quickly merged into the bodies of the people who were performing ghost marriages.
Their bodies swayed, and they felt much clearer and their breathing became smoother.
"My daughter!!!"
One of them suddenly burst into a heart-wrenching cry, and then the crying became louder and louder. The relatives of both sides all burst into tears and were heartbroken.
Jitang looked at this scene with an even colder look in his eyes.
"The Black Lord has cruelly harmed the people. There will come a day when he will pay the price!"
Su Jinzhou turned her around, no longer looking at the scene behind her, and spoke in a cold voice, "That day won't be long."
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