56 Why bother counting
The vast black forest finally broke through the illusion, and outside the black forest, a huge abyss filled with deathly energy could be seen, and rising and falling demonic energy dissipated in the air.
It seems that the illusion has brought them to the deepest part of the Ghost Abyss.
The wedding dress took off, Hua Lang touched his face, and the mask seemed to have fallen off. The turmoil behind him suddenly disappeared, and Hua Lang turned around again, only to see that the Qianyuan Gu had disappeared.
But at the moment, this ownerless poisonous insect is not important. She must leave here quickly. Regardless of the danger level in the depths of the Ghost Abyss, the injuries on Xie Hanjing's body alone are not enough to delay.
As soon as he took a step, the roars of beasts came from the bottom of the abyss behind him. It sounded like a demonic tide was about to come!
Xie Hanjing's breathing became quieter and quieter. Hua Lang steadied him and immediately rushed into the woods.
In the forest ahead, the bushes were scattered in different heights, with shades of varying sizes, and were crowded with magical beasts of various shapes. When they saw Hua Lang running towards them, they all avoided him. Even the strange-looking grass on the ground pulled out its roots and moved aside.
Hua Lang Wuxia was concerned about the eerie atmosphere in the forest. After walking for a while, she still didn't see anyone, and her heart sank.
Although a sword in the chest of a cultivator is not enough to kill him, the demon core of the demon clan is located in the chest. It is a miracle that the male protagonist can hold on until this time.
"Master...I know everything."
Suddenly, Xie Han cried out in surprise.
Hua Lang was delighted when she found that he was still awake, but soon she realized something... Amidst the intermittent roars of beasts, she heard the thumping of her own heartbeat.
She tried to reply in a normal tone, "Why do you say that? What did you know?"
Xie Han was shocked and said intermittently, "Master, you are also a demon, right... I saw it all."
Xie Hanjing's hair flew onto Hua Lang's face. She turned her face away and didn't try to hide it. "Yes, I am also a demon."
"Then Master, you shouldn't hate monsters anymore now, right?"
When Hua Lang heard this, he was a little at a loss and silently quickened his pace.
Xie Hanjing continued, "So, what you said nine years ago, Master, should no longer count."
Hua Lang hadn't expected that after all this preparation, he was actually going to say this. She looked at the dark and depressing scene ahead, gave an inappropriate laugh, and said, "You said it doesn't count, so it doesn't count?"
Xie Hanjing seemed to be thinking. After a moment, he responded with only a short word, "Hmm."
"What if it doesn't count? What if it does count?"
Xie Hanjing was surprisingly perceptive. "...Master will avoid me and not see me because of this incident. I don't want Master to have any grudge against me because of this incident."
Hua Lang was once again speechless at his words. After a while, she said, "No way."
Xie Hanjing and Xianyi nodded. When he moved, more hair flew onto Hua Lang's face. "I was just overthinking it."
The two were silent for a moment. Hua Lang was worried that he would fall asleep, so he took the opportunity to ask, "You've had enough energy in Cang Luan over the past nine years. Why don't you fight for a top position?"
Xie Han was shocked and didn't answer. Instead, he asked, "... Where's Master? Why haven't you heard from him in these nine years?"
Hua Lang calmed down and thought about how to answer this question. He must not tell anyone about the existence of the system, but if he lied, Xie Hanjing would probably see through it at a glance.
Without waiting for a reply, Xie Hanjing muttered to himself, "If Master doesn't want to say it, it's fine. Disciple knows that Master doesn't really want to see Disciple. I came to Guiyuan for... Yan Rong, but why..."
The voice gradually became lower, and the weight of Xie Han on Hua Lang suddenly became much heavier.
Yan Rong is also in the Ghost Abyss? But how did Xie Hanjing know this?
Although Yan Rong was mentioned, Hua Lang couldn't even spare the attention to guard against the monsters on both sides, let alone worry about Yan Rong who was nowhere to be found.
She repeatedly called out to Xie Hanjing, but received only silence. Hua Lang was in a panic and seemed to have lost her way. She could only continue to call out to him while pulling him forward. "Xie Hanjing?"
"Don't you want to know what happened in these nine years?"
"You guessed everything wrong!"
"Wake up, listen to me, I'm telling you..."
The huge demonic forest seemed endless. A sharp wind blew in Hua Lang's face. Hua Lang, who was distracted by taking care of Xie Hanjing, relaxed for a moment and did not have time to react to the danger!
“Bang!”
My vision suddenly went dark!
Catching Xie Hanjing as he slid down, Hua Lang felt the familiar softness. She said with a mixture of surprise and joy, "Coal?!"
Hua Lang quickly scraped the coal off his face.
This black ball, which had obviously grown much bigger, was holding half a piece of white cloth in its mouth. Unlike Hua Lang's surprised expression when he saw it again, the fur on the coal block exploded and its two small eyes stared at Hua Lang with great hostility.
Hua Lang was stunned for a moment, and only reacted after a moment. She followed the coal block's line of sight and glanced at her shoulder.
A curled-up, finger-sized caterpillar was hanging on her clothes.
Coal is afraid of insects?
"But where did this bug come from?" Hua Lang now had an indescribable disgust towards bugs, which made her subconsciously stretch out her hand to brush the bug off her body.
But as soon as his fingertips touched the insect, the green skin of the insect suddenly squirmed. Then, right under Hua Lang's eyes, the green insect seemed to be petrified, its body stiff and gray.
What's going on?
Hua Lang took the green worm off and applied a little force, and the worm's body broke apart, and a brown round bead rolled into the palm of her hand.
It looked extremely ordinary, but the more Hua Lang looked at it, the more familiar it felt.
"cough."
Xie Hanjing suddenly moved. Hua Lang came back to his senses and hurriedly put the beads away. He said to Meikuai, "Meikuai, go find someone nearby. The sooner the better!"
Coal put down the rag and went back into the shadows as he was told.
Hua Lang first felt Xie Hanjing's pulse, then she picked up the piece of cloth dropped by the coal block and observed it. It was a piece of fine material, and she didn't know where it came from. When she unfolded it, she saw a few small teeth marks on it.
After turning it over and over, he couldn't figure out anything mysterious. Since it was useless in the current situation, Hua Lang threw the thing away and picked up Xie Hanjing and walked forward again.
Soon, a faint smell of burning came. After seeing the scene in front clearly, Hua Lang's eyes lit up instantly, "There is someone in front!"
It was a man wearing Cangluan school uniform and hunching over!
The appearance of this person is like sending charcoal to a fire!
His back was to Hua Lang, so Hua Lang could only rush over while hurriedly shouting, "Senior!"
There was no response from the other side. Hua Lang was afraid that this person would run away, so he didn't care about anything else for the moment. He grabbed Xie Hanjing tightly and staggered over. Today, even if he had to tie this person up, he had to make him "voluntarily" give up his spiritual energy.
Hua Lang just raised his hand, and the "person" seemed to have finally heard the movement and turned around quickly -
The first thing I saw was the blood-stained front of the clothes on the opposite side, with strips of meat hanging on it, and a bloody smell hit me in the face.
The second time Hua Lang raised his head, he saw a human face that was constantly moving and had some facial features.
After growing ears, it controlled itself to grow a "mouth", a crack appeared between its lips, and it asked tremblingly, "Sir?"
It’s a demon cultivator!
Moreover, he was a demon cultivator who had just devoured the flesh and blood of a cultivator and had survived the advanced thunder tribulation!
Hua Lang clenched the broken sword in an instant. She was carrying Xie Hanjing with her and her strength was already exhausted. It was definitely too late to escape. She might as well take the initiative and kill the evil cultivator before he made a move.
But just as he was about to make a move, the demon cultivator continued in a flattering tone, "Sir, why are you here? Please give me a little more time and I promise to bring the person to you!"
"I don't know which blind monster dared to intercept the person you wanted halfway. The remnants of Qinglai hiding in Yunfu Sect are just a few people. Why bother with you to take action yourself..."
Hua Lang paused, his strange behavior finally explained. Truly, something was amiss within the Yunfu Sect; someone was tipping off the demons, forcing them deeper into the Ghost Abyss!
Hua Lang quietly raised her sword. If the demon cultivator sensed something unusual, she would plunge the sword directly into his body. "Where are the other immortal cultivators you met along the way?"
As if his newly grown ears weren't working properly, the demon cultivator didn't notice anything unusual. He quickly pointed in one direction with his five ungrown fingers and replied, "Sir, they're all running this way. Should we arrest those people as well?"
After getting the necessary information, Hua Lang did not want to delay any longer and directly stabbed the broken sword into the demon cultivator's dantian.
Although demon cultivators belong to the same group as demons, they do not practice with demon pills. In fact, spirits and demons have the same origin. If you want to kill a demon cultivator, you have to pierce its dantian.
The demon cultivator opened his painstakingly grown eyes, and just as he saw the person in front of him clearly, his dantian was pierced. He opened his bloody mouth and said in disbelief, "You, you betrayed me!"
Hua Lang was afraid that it still had enough energy to attack, so she decisively swirled the sword inside its body. She didn't draw out the sword until the demon cultivator was completely dead, and then she rushed in the direction he said.
*
I don’t know if it was cleared out by the group of Cangluan disciples or for some other reason, but there are fewer monsters on this road. Going further, I can actually hear the sound of a gurgling stream.
Hua Lang followed the sound of water, pushed aside the dense leaves, and indeed saw a stream that was more than ten feet wide.
She couldn't help but feel a little happy in her heart. Maybe they had already walked out of the Ghost Abyss!
Hua Lang bent down and reached his hand into the bottom of the stream. After confirming that the water was fine, he tore off the hem of his clothes, soaked it in water, and placed it on Xie Hanjing's forehead. Although it was a drop in the bucket, it was better than doing nothing.
Listening to the sound of the stream, Hua Lang kept moving his hands while keeping his eyes fixed on Xie Hanjing's chest.
The thin Cangluan school uniform had been cut open by the broken sword.
Come to think of it, Xie Hanjing, why haven’t you died yet?
She had many answers to this question in her mind, for example, because he was the male protagonist and because he had the Sand City, but Hua Lang always felt that something was wrong.
After going through so much, Hua Lang decided to trust her sixth sense. She reached out and touched Xie Hanjing's chest. She needed to confirm again -
“Who is it?!”
She turned her head sharply and looked towards the other side. Amid the gurgling sound of water, the sound of barely audible footsteps stopped.
The bushes rustled, and a chubby face popped out. Two big, harmless eyes blinked. Shan Yue said, "Hey, you're faster than me?"
Hua Lang was stunned. This child is not dead?
She searched her memory, and soon she found something she had never noticed before. Among those corpses, Dan Yue was the only one missing!
Shan Yue's eyes rolled, and he shook the mask off his hand and said, "But don't even think about stealing the credit from me. If I hadn't brought you along, you'd probably still be wandering around in circles in the woods. You didn't contribute anything to this mission, it was all me who lured the monsters... Alright, stop sitting next to Gui Yuan holding that dead man like an idiot. If you get in the way of the city lord, you'll be in trouble."
"What ghost abyss?"
Shan Yue pursed her lips, pointed at the stream behind Hua Lang, and said innocently, "You don't know that that's the real Ghost Abyss, do you?"
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