Chapter 46: Zhuoyao Wulanruo's Fright
The man was standing far away and could not be seen clearly. In the dim morning light, he looked like a wisp of blue smoke floating.
Ji Lingche faced the person from a distance, feeling a little uneasy. She raised her palm and was about to blow a breath towards the petals in her palm -
But she heard a burst of hurried footsteps. She looked up and saw a man running up the long steps quickly, heading straight for the clean room.
Ji Lingche saw who was coming and frowned slightly, but saw the person in the woods in the distance step back and disappear among the peach blossoms.
She slowly clenched her fist and held the petal in her hand.
The visitor knocked on the door of the purification room, his voice a little impatient. Ji Lingche didn't say anything, his eyes still following the woman in blue who had hidden in the woods. At this time, the door creaked open, and a young man in a golden robe poked his head out slightly, and happened to look into the eyes of Ji Lingche who was leaning against the window.
Ji Lingche raised an eyebrow slightly. She hadn't responded when the man knocked on the door. The young man thought she had left, but he didn't realize she was inside. He was startled and couldn't help but stutter, "Master... Junior Sister—"
But he sounded a little guilty when he called her "Junior Sister", as if he was very afraid of her.
Ji Lingche looked up at him and asked coldly, "What's the matter?"
Shu Shangjin felt a chill run down his spine as she stared at him. He had already guessed who this person was, but standing before this world-famous demon, he was speechless for a moment. He let out a breath, then bowed and said, "Senior..."
"Master asked me to come find you."
Ji Lingche leaned against the window, playing with a porcelain cup in his hand. He couldn't help but pause and looked up and said, "Where is your master? What do you want from me?"
Shu Shangjin gritted his teeth and finally said, "Master... took the Immortal Alliance to the Abyss of Eternal Abyss to deal with the demons—"
With a clang, the cup fell to the ground and broke into two pieces.
Ji Lingche stood up. Shu Shangjin was startled and took a few steps back, saying, "Senior..."
Ji Lingche sneered and said, "What do you mean?"
"Something happened to the seal of the Abyss of Ember?"
Shu Shangjin felt the man's immense pressure, his heart pounding. He lowered his head and said, "Master said the Demon Suppressing Pagoda was breached, and the sacred artifact hanging atop it was stolen—"
The so-called Demon-Suppressing Tower is a pagoda located above the entrance to the Abyss of Eternal Ashes. It was built by National Master Ping'an. As the largest centerpiece of the Ping'an Observation Formation, this tower suppresses thousands of demons and has kept the demon lord trapped for nearly a hundred years.
Originally, the forbidden weapon of the five tribes was placed on the top of the tower to suppress the demon, but after it was stolen by Yan Jinchen, what was placed there became Qu Wuji's golden elixir.
However, the people in the Immortal Alliance did not know what the artifact was. They only thought it was a divine object given by the gods to save the world.
But now, the thing that stabilized the tower was lost.
The Demon-Suppressing Tower has lost the magical artifact that serves as the core of the formation, and is like a ruined tower. When the spiritual power stored in the tower is completely dissipated, it will be broken through by demons.
Although the demon lord had the crow feather sword stuck in his body and his body was sealed, if the tower was really destroyed, even if he separated a few wisps of soul, it would be a disaster for all living things.
Thinking of this, Ji Lingche suddenly became anxious. Thinking of how Qu Wuji had actually gone to the Abyss of Eternal Abyss without telling her, she was even more furious. For a moment, she almost went crazy. She tried her best to restrain herself and said, "Now, has your master returned?"
Shu Shangjin shook his head: "Master and his group have been gone for three days, and there is no news at all——"
Ji Lingche was shocked: "Three days?!"
She thought she had just fallen asleep for a night, but...
wrong.
With her spiritual awareness, even if she was seriously injured, she would not be unconscious for so long.
It must be that Qu Wu Ji cast a curse on her before he left.
Ji Lingche felt a surge of anger in his heart. It turned out that he did it on purpose, deliberately trying to keep her out of this matter.
He left suddenly that day, it must have been because of this incident. When he came back in the evening, he had already made plans to go to the Abyss of Eternal Abyss.
I turned back just to see her again and cast another sleeping spell on her before leaving.
Ji Lingche was furious, but he didn't show it on his face. He just looked at Shu Shangjin coldly: "So, why did your master ask you to come to me?"
Shu Shangjin only said, "Master only said that three days after he left, he asked me to come to Guangyao Peak to find you and tell you the truth. He didn't say anything else."
Ji Lingche sneered in his heart: It turns out that this bastard had calculated the time long ago. He didn't want her to get involved, but was also afraid that she would be kept in the dark, so he was trying to hinder her. He really put a lot of effort into it.
She was unhappy. The storm was coming and danger was lurking on every side. All kinds of troubles came one after another, which was really a headache.
Ji Lingche walked past Shu Shangjin and was about to push the door open to leave. Shu Shangjin was stunned for a moment, but followed closely behind him, seeming to want to say something but stopping himself. Ji Lingche said without even turning his head, "Don't worry, your master is fine now."
The half of the jade pendant on his chest is connected to Qu Wuji's soul, and now there is nothing unusual about the jade.
But when she thought about what had happened in the past few days, she still felt a dull pain in her heart.
Shu Shangjinzhu fell behind her, seemingly wanting Ji Lingche to take him with her. Just as she was about to say something, Ji Lingche said coldly, "Don't follow me."
"As the chief disciple of Taihua Yuxu, you're still waiting for orders. Don't you even know what you're supposed to do?"
Shu Shangjin was suddenly speechless and stopped.
Now the entire Immortal Alliance is leaderless, and even Taihua Yuxu is at a loss. One can imagine how chaotic the situation is outside.
Ji Lingche turned around and looked at him, and suddenly asked, "Who entered the Abyss of Eternal Abyss with Qu Wuji?"
It turned out that less than 10% of the leaders and elders of the major sects and the heads of the big families went there, and most of them stayed outside to prevent any changes.
But the news spread like wildfire and was exaggerated. For a time, everyone was in danger and panicked. They each acted independently and it was difficult to unite. Now the Immortal Alliance was almost a pile of loose sand.
Ji Lingche looked at him, thinking that even the people of Taihua Yuxu were so cowardly, which made him even more angry. He sneered and said, "Look at how cowardly you are."
He didn't even see the shadow of the demon, but he was already thinking of retreating. He was so scared that he almost died before he shed a drop of blood.
It's really useless.
She slowed down her tone and said patiently, "Even if you're scared, you shouldn't show it. If you lose your courage, won't you be weakened before the battle even begins?"
"Besides, you are the master's disciple. Your peers are all watching your performance. If you panic, won't others panic even more?"
She looked at the young man and simply said, "Never let anyone see through your fear."
She didn't say anything more and turned to walk towards the peach forest.
After walking for a while, Ji Lingche arrived at the place where he had just seen the blue shadow, but found that there were only peach blossoms everywhere and not even a single person.
Ji Lingche was filled with doubt. This person was too far away from her just now, so she couldn't see him clearly. But she vaguely felt that he was...
But why did she leave like this?
Ji Lingche was thinking as she walked towards the mountain gate. She originally wanted to go back to Shangjing to find her disappointing disciple, but then she thought about the Demon Suppressing Tower and felt that she should go to the Abyss of Eternal Ashes first.
In any case, she didn't want anything to happen to Qu Wu Ji.
The jade pendant hanging on her chest was warm, and now it felt as if it weighed a thousand pounds, hanging around her neck.
Ji Lingche had never been so anxiously thinking about someone as he was at this moment. For a moment, he was in a state of confusion, with a lot of thoughts in his mind and was very irritable.
Before she walked out of the peach forest, she looked up and heard a sound in the distance, as if someone was moaning softly.
She was startled and quickly followed the sound.
When I got closer, I saw a man in a black robe and a mask on his face rolling on the ground.
The sleeve was turned up in the struggle, revealing a part of the arm, but the veins on the arm were bulging due to pain, and the skin was covered with a layer of white frost.
Ji Lingche frowned and muttered, "Cold poison..."
She knew who did it, and looked around, but didn't see the person who poisoned her.
So he walked up to the tumbling man and saw the mask on his face. He was stunned and suddenly his hair stood on end.
The mask was made of iron, with a cold sheen, and looked exactly like the monster whose white light pierced through her head that day!
However, the thing on this person's face can be seen at a glance as a mask. Although it cannot be said to be shoddy, it is still different from the appearance of the monster. It is as if... it was imitated according to the appearance of the iron-faced monster.
Ji Lingche looked at him coldly, and with a flick of his finger, a spell struck the mask right in the middle of his face, instantly knocking it away and revealing the man's face. Ji Lingche frowned and said, "Is it you?"
"Are you here to kill me? Who told you to come?"
The man's face was covered with white frost, as if he was extremely cold. His lips kept trembling and he was in pain and couldn't speak.
She recognized this man. He was from the Guangling Mu family. Although she didn't know his name, he was always by Mu Guisheng's side. She thought he was a retainer who was very favored by Mu Guisheng.
Ji Lingche looked at the man's face, thought of something, and suddenly shouted: "Yin Lanxin!!"
"Yin Lanxin, what on earth are you hiding from me?!"
It was quiet all around, with only the sound of the wind passing through my ears. No one answered for a long time.
It seemed like that person had left a long time ago.
Ji Lingche frowned and was about to say something else when she suddenly felt a chill on her back and the fragrance of orchid suddenly came. She turned her head sharply and a long sword came from behind her, piercing her cheek. Then it swept across her neck and cut her with blood immediately!
Ji Lingche stood still, her eyes moved slightly, looking at the blue sword across her neck.
It was a slender sword, emitting a faint blue glow, as if covered with a layer of frost.
Divine sword, Huashuang.
She laughed and said, "Master Yin, you really are here after much anticipation—"
She pressed her fingertips against the cold sword and said, "If you don't really want to kill me, just put the sword away. If you really hurt me, won't you feel bad?"
Before he finished speaking, the sword moved suddenly. Ji Lingche lowered her head, and the sword brushed past the back of her head, cutting off a few strands of her hair.
Ji Lingche turned around and looked into the man's eyes.
I saw peach blossoms everywhere, and a person in green standing under the flowers, so elegant and beautiful that Lan Ruo was shocked. She seemed like a phantom and a faint breeze, so clear and ethereal.
The only drawback is that she looks pale and sickly, and it is a pity that she is so beautiful but has such a tragic life.
Yin Lanxin said coldly: "Feeling sorry for you?"
"I often wonder how I can cultivate to be as thick-skinned as you. Tsk tsk, it's truly something I can only dream of, and it's truly astonishing."
Ji Lingche: Wow, so weird and familiar.
She was too lazy to argue, so she pointed at the man who was poisoned by the cold and said, "What's wrong with this man, Lan Xin? Don't you have anything to say?"
Yin Lanxin smiled faintly and said, "If you want to know anything, go ask him yourself."
"But what a pity." Yin Lanxin gently brushed the frost off the sword -
"He's going to die soon. You can't ask him anything."
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