Chapter 98: Guixu 3 "Nine-layer fire, burn!"
Ji Lingche's pupils suddenly shrank, and the firelight illuminated her eyes——
The woman who showed them the way was burning all over.
The strange fire crackled and the flames dyed the surroundings red.
Under the cover of firelight, the woman's expression was distorted, her face was deformed, and she was in extreme pain, but she could not make a sound and could only gasp for breath.
The flames enveloped her and she became hunched over.
The fire spread all over her body, but she did not struggle or move. She just stood there silently, as if she was used to it.
The woman raised her eyes and looked silently at Ji Lingche and the other two, a hint of despair spreading across her eyes...
But she still slowly raised her finger, pointed at the road again, opened her mouth wide, as if she wanted to say something——
It's about asking them to leave immediately.
Ji Lingche stared blankly at the flames crackling on her fingertips. Suddenly, she felt a phantom pain and her breathing became heavy.
What's going on...
So weird.
Ji Lingche was filled with doubt and doubt. He no longer hesitated and immediately retreated, whispering, "Hurry up!"
She quickly retreated, stretched out her hand, and wanted to grab Qu Wuji's wrist, but she stopped abruptly -
Her hand grabbed nothing.
She was stunned for a moment, staring blankly at the empty side of her body.
Qu Wu Ji is missing.
Suddenly, the blazing flames disappeared, the light dimmed, and the surroundings were engulfed in darkness again.
Ji Lingche turned his head inch by inch and looked at the place where the woman had just stood.
As far as the eye can see, there is no one.
She didn't know what happened, but in an instant, she was the only one left here.
Gusts of cold wind blew, but Ji Lingche didn't move.
She stood there, her chest heaving violently.
The surroundings were extremely quiet, with no sound of life but her own breathing.
She couldn't help but feel dazed and began to suspect that she was possessed.
At this moment, time seemed to be stretched infinitely. She stood there alone, and her consciousness could not sense a single living soul. The people around her seemed to have evaporated, without any trace at all.
Ji Lingche swung his sleeves violently, and violent spiritual pressure surged up and struck forward—
She wanted to break this nightmare.
But there was only a loud bang, and her spiritual power did not hit anything. It just spread out, echoing in the empty abyss, making the air buzz.
It was pitch black.
Only then did Ji Lingche realize that he seemed to be in a boundless wilderness.
There was nothing but darkness in front, behind, left and right, and I couldn't even tell the direction I came from.
She clenched her palms and was about to release the white butterfly, but suddenly stopped and looked at her wrist.
Under the flow of spiritual power, the pattern on her wrist was emitting a bright light.
If the two of them use their spiritual power at the same time, the pattern will emit a golden light.
So Qu Wu Ji must be nearby.
Ji Lingche couldn't help but be a little dazed. She still didn't know how this contract pattern appeared.
At that time, she had a head injury and temporarily lost her memory. That guy relied on the seal of the contract, calling her "Dao Companion" and "Contract Lord" one by one, as if it were true...
She thought of what happened before and raised the corners of her mouth slightly.
As her fingertips brushed across the indenture pattern, the crescent-shaped mark became brighter.
Suddenly, there was a sound of hurried footsteps, and someone was coming from a distance.
The sound of footsteps echoed through the empty space, and the man said urgently, "Alan!!"
She looked up and saw the person gently waved his sleeves, and a ball of white light appeared in his palm, shining brightly and illuminating the surroundings.
White light hit him. He was dressed in white, as bright as the moon, running towards this side.
Ji Lingche lowered his eyes and saw that the golden pattern on his wrist slowly dimmed until it was no longer shiny and disappeared on his wrist.
The man had already run up to her, holding her shoulders tightly and looking at her with concern.
A thin layer of sweat formed on his forehead, his chest rose and fell slightly, and he only said, "Alan, are you okay?"
Ji Lingche's eyes were a little cold.
She laughed, hooked her finger at him, and said, "Shang Zheng, come here, I have something to tell you."
Upon hearing this, Qu Wu Ji lowered his head and moved closer to listen to her.
His snow-white neck was exposed in front of her, and even the blue veins were visible.
Ji Lingche stared at his neck and curled the corners of his mouth for a long time.
She slowly raised her hand, stroked his neck, and chuckled softly, "You haven't made any progress either—"
"You stabbed me last time."
"Do you think I'm someone who doesn't learn from my mistakes?"
Before he finished speaking, blood splattered everywhere!
She put her fingers together and cut the blue blood vessels on his neck.
Warm blood splashed on her face and slid down her cheek.
She had an expressionless face as she watched the person in front of her cover his neck with his hands and gasp for breath.
Then, the features on his face gradually blurred, and finally his entire face turned into a blank slate, and then quickly turned black, rotted, and lost its human form. Finally, he turned into a black shadow and disappeared everywhere, finally dispersing in the air with a wail.
Inner demon.
This thing again!
Ji Lingche's chest heaved, and she finally knew where she was.
She is in the demon lord's nightmare realm.
She had been here before—
Before the Demon-Suppressing Tower collapsed.
At that time, she was tricked by Yin Su into going to the Abyss of Endless Ashes to draw her sword, and then she was sucked into this ghost place by the Demon Lord.
She was caught off guard and was stabbed by the inner demon, and she still remembers it to this day.
Her heart pounding, she slowly clenched her hands.
Ji Lingche looked at her wrist again, only to see that the golden light of the contract pattern was still there. She slowly sighed.
Her heart ached inexplicably, and a suffocating anxiety rose up.
Nothing will happen to him, right?
She knew that Qu Wu Ji was a man with a delicate and complex mind and too many thoughts.
If he were left alone in the Nightmare Realm, he would surely be disturbed by his inner demons and be in great danger.
The last time he was trapped in this nightmare realm, he was tortured beyond recognition and was almost driven mad.
If she had come a moment later, the consequences would have been disastrous.
As her thoughts wavered, the surroundings changed slightly, and several streams of black smoke passed over her head.
In the Nightmare Realm, the most important thing is to have a calm mind and forget about everything else.
Ji Lingche calmed his mind and looked at the seal on his wrist again.
Just now, when the inner demon approached her, the seal of the contract knew that the person coming was not the master of the contract, so it immediately dimmed.
Ji Lingche was already alert and noticed something unusual, which prevented him from falling into the trap of his inner demon.
She let out a long sigh, shook her head violently, and pulled her thoughts out of her mind, starting to think about the crazy woman who had just given her directions.
Only now did she understand why the woman had stopped them.
It turned out that the two of them had already fallen into the nightmare realm, but they were unaware of it.
The woman stopped them to prevent them from getting deeper into trouble.
The direction she pointed to should be the way to escape from the Nightmare Realm.
But why would this woman who was burned by fire appear in the Nightmare Realm?
It seems that she is trapped here.
What's with the fire on her body...
Ji Lingche seemed to have thought of something, a chill rising up in her heart, she murmured: "Talk..."
She thought for a long time, but before she could remember her name——
At this moment, flames shot up into the sky!
Tongues of flames rolled up and waves of heat rushed towards her, as if a fire python opened its mouth and came towards her.
Ji Lingche raised her sleeves to block and quickly retreated. She waved her sleeves and countless light butterflies flew out and swooped down towards the tongues of fire.
In an instant, a white light curtain unfolded, stopping the strange fire.
But the fire did not stop, and the white light curtain began to shake, obviously showing signs of counterattack.
Ji Lingche's head was buzzing. At this moment, she suddenly felt a chill beside her. She turned her head in horror and saw that the woman appeared beside her again.
The fire on her body had faded, and her face became even paler. The pain of being burned by the fire seemed to have not dissipated. She couldn't help but tremble and curled up slightly.
Ji Lingche stared blankly at her bloodless face. Suddenly, something occurred to him and he murmured, "...Tan Mingyi?"
The crazy woman was suddenly stunned, her dilated pupils suddenly shrank, and for a moment she showed some signs of life.
She panted and opened her mouth to say something, but no sound came out, only her dark mouth was exposed.
Ji Lingche looked at the woman in astonishment and said, "You..."
"You're not dead?"
Ji Lingche suddenly understood what was going on.
The crazy woman in front of me is the female head of the Tan family.
Tan Mingyi, the youngest patriarch of the Zeyuan Tan family, was extremely talented and full of vigor and ambition back then.
This man once single-handedly subdued a great demon that brought disaster to the world, and then burned the disaster with fire.
The Nine-Layered True Fire burned day and night for three months, burning the monster into a cripple.
But who knew that the big monster pretended to be dead and escaped by luck.
After the big demon escaped, he used some unknown method to open the demon's nest that had been sealed for hundreds of years. He also swallowed countless small demons in the abyss and refined them into demon pills. His power increased greatly, and he suddenly became the demon lord, causing disasters from then on.
Since then, the female head of the family has been pushed to the forefront of public opinion. Not only was she accused by the Immortal Alliance, but she was also retaliated by the Demon Lord and was brutally killed, leaving no trace of her body.
Everyone blamed the demonic destruction on the female head of the family, and even slaughtered the descendants of the Tan family in an attempt to protect themselves.
The name Tan Mingyi also became a taboo. Everyone felt it was unlucky and no one mentioned it anymore.
But even Ji Lingche didn't expect that this person was not dead.
It turned out that Tan Mingyi's soul was trapped in the Nightmare Realm, where it was burned by fire over and over again and could never escape.
And this place is not an ordinary nightmare domain, this is——
The demon lord’s own inner demon.
The first ball of fire that Ji Lingche and the others saw just now was burning the great demon from many years ago.
The Demon Lord cannot suppress his inner demons. In the Nightmare Realm, he will transform into his former self and suffer the burning again and again, and his hatred will become stronger and stronger.
He had no choice but to drag in the culprit of that year, trap her soul in it, recreate the scene of that year, and let her burn together to relieve the hatred in his heart.
In this nightmare realm, fire is burning all the time.
Burning the big monster and Tan Mingyi, no one can escape.
But now, there are finally variables here——
Ji Lingche stared at the woman, speechless with shock.
Tan Mingyi has been tortured in the Nightmare Realm for so many years, but he is still conscious and has not collapsed and gone crazy. This shows that this person's mind is tough to a certain extent.
There was a loud bang, and the white light curtain cracked in the flames. Ji Lingche knew that the fire would continue to chase Tan Mingyi. After a moment's hesitation, she grabbed her hand, pulled it hard, and said, "Let's go!"
The next moment, the light curtain shattered, a heat wave rushed towards them, and tongues of fire shot up into the sky, suddenly pressing down from a high place, heading towards the two of them.
Ji Lingche waved his sleeves suddenly, and the flames stopped instantly.
She pulled the woman backwards, but suddenly stopped—
The cold was biting. Tan Mingyi held her wrist, shook his head at her, pointed at himself and waved his hand.
The emotions in her eyes were very complicated, mixed with despair.
She knew clearly that she couldn't get out.
Ji Lingche said slowly: "What are you afraid of when I'm here?"
"I can take you out—"
Before she finished speaking, she suddenly felt a chill from her wrist, making her shiver.
Ji Lingche only felt a stream of spiritual power coming along his wrist, which was so cold that it was unbearable. At the same time, Tan Mingyi's vitality faded away bit by bit, and he became visibly thinner, as if all his blood had been sucked out.
Ji Lingche knew that this person wanted to transfer all his spiritual power to him at the cost of his own death.
She tightly grasped Tan Mingyi's wrist, trying to pry her hand open, and angrily said, "Are you crazy?"
As soon as Ji Lingche was distracted, the tongue of fire broke through the shackles and pounced on the two of them again!
But before the fire came over, a relieved smile suddenly appeared on Tan Mingyi's pale face.
Her figure began to disappear rapidly, and in an instant she turned into white smoke and drifted into the air.
At the moment when Tan Mingyi's soul dissipated, the surrounding light suddenly dimmed and the violent sound of fire suddenly disappeared.
The scorching heat still echoed, but the fire that had been chasing her was gone.
Ji Lingche stared at it in a daze, unable to recover for a while.
She was alone again, and what had just happened seemed like an illusion.
But the high temperature brought by the strange fire still burned her, and it was obvious that everything that had just happened was real.
She lowered her eyes and looked at her hands.
She saw a layer of frost on her arms, and the cold was biting, making her hands tremble slightly.
She slowly clenched her palms, infusing them with spiritual energy, and the frost on her arms instantly melted away. She felt something strange surge in her spiritual veins.
It seemed like there was an extra cold spiritual power.
Just now she saw clearly that Tan Mingyi's soul had dissipated.
It didn't disappear suddenly like before, it completely dissipated.
Tan Mingyi had been wandering in the Nightmare Realm for so long that her physical body had long been destroyed. What was just seen was just her soul.
Now she has no soul left, she is completely dead...
Why did Tan Mingyi do this...
Are you seeking liberation?
This person is trapped in the Nightmare Realm. Although he knows the way to leave, he cannot escape. He must have been restricted.
Due to the restrictions, she could not commit suicide and could only suffer endless torment here.
And when she transfers all her spiritual power to Ji Lingche, the living soul will naturally wither and dissipate, and she will be able to break free from the restrictions and be liberated.
But there must be other reasons why Tan Mingyi chose to do this.
She knew that as long as she was alive, the fire would never go out.
Ji Lingche and she were in the same nightmare domain and would definitely be implicated, so she chose—
Sacrifice yourself to save others.
Ji Lingche frowned and felt uncomfortable all over.
She only felt her cheeks getting hot, and the strange spiritual power flowing through her spiritual veins was extremely cold, making her shiver all over, but her body temperature was rising.
She felt dizzy and could hardly stand, and she became even more worried about Qu Wuji.
She thought to herself that Qu Wu Ji's disappearance for no reason was probably because the demon lord's inner demon emerged, affecting the stability of the Nightmare Realm, and thus sucking the two of them into different realms.
Tan Mingyi happened to be in the same state as her, so she was burned by the fire.
What is there in Qu Wuji's realm?
Ji Lingche felt more and more dizzy and could not help but half-kneel on the ground.
She noticed that the environment in the Nightmare Realm was subtly changing. As soon as her mind became less alert, the Nightmare Demon began to wreak havoc.
If she cannot suppress this new spiritual power, nothing may be born in the Nightmare Realm.
What's more, the realm she is in is the demon lord's own inner demon, which is even more dangerous and unpredictable.
At this moment, the distance suddenly became brightly lit, with twinkling stars, as if something was flying towards them.
She raised her head, squinted her eyes and looked forward, and saw that the large light was getting closer and closer.
When she saw what it was, her eyes widened instantly——
I saw a large group of red light butterflies flying over.
They came in such numbers, overwhelming the sky. Their wings fluttered, stirring the heavy air with a humming sound. The rubbing noises of their massive mouthparts opening and closing were truly terrifying.
Flame Hell Butterfly.
Her own Flame Hell Butterfly.
Why would something like this appear in the Nightmare Realm...
The strange spiritual power flowed through her spiritual veins, blocking her spiritual veins and making her unable to use it to attract the spirit for a while.
She watched the butterflies fly towards her.
The huge flock of butterflies reflected in her eyes, dyeing the bottom of her eyes red.
Ji Lingche was well aware of the power of this butterfly. If she let it fly over her, she would immediately turn into a pile of bones.
She only felt her body temperature rising higher and higher, and the coldness in her spiritual veins was gradually replaced by heat, as if the blood in her body was boiling.
She seemed to suddenly sense something, and raised her hand as if possessed by some mysterious force, watching as the flock of butterflies approached.
She only said: "Nine-fold fire, burn!"
Before she finished speaking, a wall of fire suddenly ignited in front of her!
A huge curtain of fire unfolded, sparks splashed onto the wings of the butterflies and spread across their bodies.
The red butterfly struggled and flew with sparks, dragging a long flame in front of her eyes, and finally turned into ashes in the fire.
Countless black powders fell before her eyes, and the butterflies turned into ashes before her eyes.
After just a few breaths, the flames gradually died out, leaving only black ashes on the ground, which swirled continuously in the cold wind.
Ji Lingche looked at his palm in astonishment.
Suddenly, a red mark appeared on the palm of his hand, flashed a few times, and then dimmed.
Only then did she realize that what Tan Mingyi had passed on to her was the Nine-Layered Fire.
It is the nine-fold fire that can seriously injure the demon lord.
After using this spell just now, the strange spiritual power has settled down and merged into her spiritual veins.
Her body temperature slowly dropped back to normal. She tried to mobilize her spiritual power and was able to do so smoothly.
Ji Lingche couldn't help feeling a little weak. She sat on the ground and suddenly understood everything Tan Mingyi had just done.
She must have known what Ji Lingche came to the Abyss for, so she integrated this Fire Art directly into her bloodline so that she could mobilize it at any time.
Tan Mingyi knew that this man came to kill the beast.
If it could increase the possibility of killing that thing, she would not hesitate even if it meant being reduced to ashes.
Ji Lingche closed his eyes and sighed deeply, clenching his palms tightly and feeling the burning heat in them.
At this moment, she felt a sudden pain in her chest, as if something had suddenly burned her, and she couldn't help but let out a "tsk".
As she leaned over, something rolled out of her body and landed on the ground with a crisp sound.
I saw a small ball emitting golden light, rolling twice on the ground and then stopped.
It was exactly what Gu Chaoyin gave her.
Ji Lingche frowned and looked at it, wondering why it suddenly glowed and became hot.
But then, there was a crisp sound, the small ball moved, and something inside was wriggling, just like a bird breaking out of its shell.
The small ball made another crisp sound, and the outer shell cracked little by little, and then shattered completely. Only a small thing rolled out from it, staggering a few steps on the ground before it could barely stand firm.
Ji Lingche looked at it in surprise and saw that the thing in the ball was a small golden bird.
Although it had just hatched, the bird looked like an adult, with golden feathers that were indescribably beautiful. At this moment, it tilted its head and looked at Ji Lingche, making an intimate cooing sound.
She thought to herself, could it be that my body temperature was high just now and it actually hatched this thing?
If so, isn't this too weird?
But she couldn't care less.
Isn't it said that birds will be loyal to the first person they see after hatching?
Ji Lingche spread his palm towards the golden bird and said, "Hey, come here."
The little bird pecked her hand.
Then it flapped its wings and flew up, landing on her shoulder, cooing affectionately and rubbing its little head against her neck.
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The author has something to say: Background:
The Tan Family's Female Patriarch, Guiding the Way Chapter 15
Nightmare plot, Guiding the Way Chapter 60 [Lop-eared Rabbit Head]
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