Gu Qingxi frowned when she heard these words. Didn't the city lord go to inspect the collapsed houses in the morning? Why is he giving alms at this time? Although the city lord used to give alms, the time was very fixed, twice a year, during the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Spring Festival. And he never gave so much.
In the past, he usually gave 300 coins and two liters of rice to a family. Today, he gave too much, and it was not distributed to families, but to everyone, even the fetus in the belly of a pregnant woman.
This matter is not right no matter how you look at it.
Ye Wuchen suddenly looked up at the sky with a cold face: "It's too late."
Gu Qingxi also looked up and his face changed.
The Soul Devouring Sacrifice Array was activated!
"Sit down, no, stand up!" After Gu Qingxi hurriedly said this, before Ye Wuchen came to his senses, he flew forward on his sword.
Ye Wuchen only felt that his whole body flashed back suddenly, and then subconsciously reached out and put his hand on Gu Qingxi's shoulder. The wind whistled in his ears, and the surrounding scenery quickly retreated.
Ye Wuchen: "..."
When they arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, the large square in front of the City Lord's Mansion was already crowded with many people. There were guards maintaining order and letting the people line up. The people were all beaming with joy and lined up obediently.
In front of the City Lord's Mansion, the City Lord's eldest son and second daughter were presiding over the alms. The City Lord's wife and the young master's pig heads had disappeared. Come to think of it, the City Lord was a Jindan cultivator after all, and it was easy to get some elixirs to heal their wounds. When the two saw Gu Qingxi appear, they trembled all over and lowered their heads, not daring to look at Gu Qingxi.
"They were scared of you, hahaha. Look at the way they shrank, like quails." The ancestor of Wanling laughed like a goose.
Gu Qingxi once again suspected that the ancestor of Wanling was beaten to death because of his bad mouth.
"Where is the City Lord?" As soon as Gu Qingxi landed, he walked up to the eldest young master and asked.
The eldest young master glared at Gu Qingxi and was about to scold her, but when he met Gu Qingxi's cold eyes, he immediately said weakly: "That's your father, how can you be so disrespectful?"
"Can't answer questions? Want to be beaten?" Gu Qingxi said impatiently.
"Father is inside and will be out soon." The eldest young master immediately answered honestly.
Gu Qingxi ignored him and went straight into the gate to look for someone.
The eldest young master muttered in a low voice: "Who is this person? He comes back to show off his power. He doesn't help with work, but beats people."
"Shut up." The eldest lady said with a cold face, "You haven't realized that this little sister is extraordinary."
"Is father going to give the position of city lord to her in the future? How can that be possible?!" The eldest young master jumped up as if his tail was stepped on. He had long regarded the position of city lord as something in his pocket, how could it be taken away by a wild girl who appeared in the middle of the road?
"If she really wants this position, you can't snatch it from her. But she doesn't seem to want to be the city lord." The eldest lady said lightly.
"You are not her, how do you know she doesn't want to?" The eldest young master was not convinced, his eyes were full of anger.
The eldest young lady turned to look at the City Lord's Mansion, and did not answer the eldest young master's question, but said in a deep voice: "Don't you think your father has been a little strange recently?"
"What's strange?" The eldest young master asked casually without taking it seriously.
"In the past, my father would urge us to practice. My younger brother has the best qualifications, and he values me the most. Every time you and my younger brother have a conflict, you are the one who gets scolded. But when my younger sister came back, she not only beat my younger brother, but also beat my wife. My father didn't blame her, but treated my younger sister better." The eldest young lady frowned.
"That means her qualifications are better, and my father values her more." After the eldest young master muttered this, his face changed again, "No! My father values her, so the position of the city lord in the future must belong to her?"
After hearing these words, the eldest young lady didn't want to talk to him. So stupid, still want to be the city lord?
The eldest young lady turned to look at the City Lord's Mansion, always feeling that something was wrong. My father's attitude towards them has become increasingly cold during this period. I used to eat with them, but how long has it been since we had a meal at the same table? Most of the time, he just ignored them.
After Gu Qingxi and Ye Wuchen entered the City Lord's Mansion, Gu Qingxi's face darkened: "The core of the formation is in this City Lord's Mansion. I don't believe that all this has nothing to do with the City Lord."
"Possession?" Ye Wuchen guessed.
"You'll know when you see him." The "he" in Gu Qingxi's mouth naturally refers to the City Lord.
When Gu Qingxi saw the City Lord, the City Lord was standing on the highest attic of the City Lord's Mansion, overlooking the entire city. Hearing the sound behind him, he did not turn around. Instead, he said lightly: "You are here."
"The Soul Devouring Sacrifice Formation, it was indeed you who set it up." Seeing the City Lord's calm attitude, Gu Qingxi confirmed his guess.
"You are very smart." The City Lord slowly turned around and looked at Gu Qingxi.
Gu Qingxi frowned at the City Lord's current appearance. The
City Lord's eyes were already pitch black, and there was no trace of white in his eyes. There was also a deep red magic pattern between his eyebrows.
The City Lord has fallen into the devil.
"You want to cultivate magic?" Although Gu Qingxi was surprised, she asked calmly.
"I have been in the Jindan stage for a long time, and my life is about to end." The city lord said slowly, "I am going to die."
"But you are not willing to die just like that. You want to fall into the devil, and want to try another way of cultivation to see if you can break through?" Although Gu Qingxi looked calm on the surface, her heart was already alarmed, ready to take action at any time.
"Hahaha, fall into the devil?" The city lord laughed when he heard this, "I am a magic cultivator myself, how can I fall into the devil?"
So the demonic energy that appeared in the city was not the demon cultivators sneaking in. But the city lord himself was a demon cultivator.
"What exactly do you want to do? Sacrifice the people of the entire city to the Demon Emperor? In order to grant you a new breakthrough?" Gu Qingxi suddenly had several talismans in his hand, and his face became colder.
"You want to stop me? Once the Soul Devouring Sacrifice Array is activated, it cannot be interrupted. And you, who are just building a foundation, want to be my enemy?" The city lord looked at Gu Qingxi with disdain, as if looking at an ant.
"You are the core of this Soul Devouring Sacrifice Formation. If I kill you, the formation will be broken." Gu Qingxi said calmly. When
these words came out, not only the city lord was shocked, but also Ye Wuchen, who had been silent all the time, was shocked.
"You can actually see it. Yes, you are worthy of my bloodline." The city lord smiled complacently after being surprised.
Ye Wuchen was shocked. How did Gu Qingxi know that the city lord himself was the core of the formation? Even he couldn't see it. He knew that the core of the formation was in the city lord's mansion, but he never thought that a person could also be the core of the formation.
“But, you want to kill me? Hahahaha, I have been raised in an isolated farm for so many years, and I have indeed become extremely naive.” The city lord raised his head and laughed, as if he was listening to the funniest joke in the world.
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