Chapter 53 Judge Fourteen Besieges Bamboo House
Nan Huai, who had been silent all this time, clenched his hands and raised his head with a complicated expression.
Amidst everyone's surprised gazes, Lan Qingsi's smile widened and he greeted him enthusiastically.
"Ah," he said with feigned regret, "or should I call you 'Nan Huai'? How have you been doing in Changfeng Temple these past few years? Do you still remember your parents and family far away in the south?"
"I..." Nan Huai avoided the gaze and spoke weakly from between his teeth.
Fang Ya's eyes widened, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. He suppressed his anger and asked, "What's going on? Nan Huai, what exactly happened?"
"I didn't say he did anything," Lan Qingsi said with a smug laugh. "We're both from the Lan clan. We've been apart for a long time, so we're just catching up here."
Wang Fengxu followed Lan Qingsi's gaze and stopped the sullen Fang Ya. "Go back to the temple first. I've already reported this to the Abnormal Control Bureau. We'll deal with this later."
Wang Tianfu hesitated and looked at Nan Huai on the side. He saw that the other party was standing dejectedly with half of his body in the shadow. He looked very pitiful and wanted to say something.
"Let's go!" Wang Fengxu grabbed Wang Tianfu by the back of his collar and glanced at the little Taoist boy calmly: "He's not in any danger for now."
As they spoke, Fang Ya carried the unconscious Xiaohui, Wang Fengxu pulled Wang Tianfu, and they quickly turned around and went back up the mountain.
Lan Qingsi raised his eyelids mockingly and said to Nan Huai, "I haven't seen you for a few years. You look quite different than I remembered."
Nan Huai said numbly: "What are you planning to do?"
"When you told us the layout of the formation in the temple, didn't you guess something?" Lan Qingsi said with a sharp tone, "Face the reality. You are a member of the Lan family. Don't really think of Changfeng Temple as your home."
Nan Huai opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything even though he was always quick-witted. There seemed to be fire in his eyes.
"You don't want to go back, do you?" Lan Qingsi feigned surprise, then raised his eyebrows and taunted, "Something happened to someone close to Bai Heye, and you're inextricably linked to us. Do you think he'll let you go?"
"Something happened? Who?" Nan Huai suddenly raised his head and stared at him: "Didn't we agree not to kill anyone?"
Lan Qingsi was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing: "Have you lost your mind? That's the Taiyin Immortal Law!"
His voice suddenly turned cold: "You think something you can get without risking your life is like cabbage in the field?"
Nan Huai just stared at him: "Who did you say was injured?"
"Who knew, a little kid who was building the road..."
Before Lan Qingsi could finish his mocking words, the other party's expression suddenly changed drastically, and he turned around and went up the mountain.
Lan Qingsi stared at him blankly, then snorted, "Madman."
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A dull bell rang from the bell tower of Changfeng Temple, shaking the brackets and beams so that a layer of dust fell.
The disciples were all doing their jobs, and when they heard the sound, they froze in their places. The abbot's uncle fixed his gaze and gave a decisive instruction: "It might be an earthquake. First, get the tourists to a safe place! Don't go near the bamboo house!"
The patterns of the Soul Moving Array moved and meandered like a living thing, and in an instant covered the entire mountain where the bamboo studio was located.
"Hey, the battle is finally underway," the red-haired man said excitedly, "Now these bull-noses are like toothless snakes—"
Old Man Hu cautiously told her to shut up: "Be careful, Bai might be hiding something."
He lay in the woods and looked down. The white figure had become alert after hearing the bell, and asked the wooden Taoist boy to push him back towards the bamboo house.
The wheelchair came to an abrupt stop at the center of the formation. Bai He lowered his eyes to glance at the light patterns spreading across the ground, muttering, "Soul-transferring formation? What a grand scheme."
Old Man Hu hid behind the red-haired puppet, his cloudy eyes fixed on the young man in white. "He's in the center of the formation, but he can still detect clues. He's really tough."
The Soul Moving Formation is a formation that requires strict configuration methods and a huge amount of spiritual power. It can restrain the spiritual power of those within the formation, just like a cage specially prepared for cultivators.
It took them half a month of preparation to activate this formation for a quarter of an hour. The opportunity could not be missed. Even though there were difficulties and obstacles, the arrow was on the string and had to be shot.
Bai He also raised his finger and brushed the bamboo leaf stained on his cuff. The leaf instantly became coated with a layer of metallic luster and turned into a sharp blade that whizzed out.
With a crisp "ding" sound, the man with the red crew cut hurriedly manipulated the puppet to block, and his iron arm was cut off in half on the spot.
"Damn!" The red-haired man was horrified: "The Soul Moving Formation is useless against him!"
"Calm down!" Old Man Hu glared, gritted his teeth and warned sternly: "Look carefully, his spiritual power is decreasing!"
They spent half a year secretly burying talismans to activate the formation in Lubo Mountain, and also took the trouble to destroy the "surveillance network" of Changfeng Temple one by one. It is definitely impossible to say that this cannot affect Bai He.
However, Bai He was indeed more terrifying than they had expected. Even though he was in the center of the magic circle, he was still able to move.
"Alright, let's hide for half a minute," Old Man Hu said with a sinister smile, "Throw your puppet over there, and wait until his remaining spiritual power is depleted before we move out."
"You just know how to order me around," the red-haired man complained, "Why don't you let your grandson go?"
Old Man Hu had long been annoyed by her nitpicking. He held his breath and said angrily, "My grandson has already lost some of his vitality when the talisman was removed from the earth veins. You have a puppet, so of course you can use it if you can."
"Do you know how much this part costs?" The red-haired man said unhappily, "You didn't pay for it, so of course you don't feel bad about it."
"You!" Old man Hu's face turned pale and blue. He felt that he couldn't explain it clearly to this woman, so he turned his head and said no more.
As soon as the two finished speaking, two bony fish broke out of the ground.
The ferocious demon servant from the past now looked illusory, and even the two black chains looked dim - it seemed that the formation had weakened most of Bai He's spiritual power after all.
"I've been annoyed by these two fish for a long time. Let's take advantage of their weakness to kill them!" The red-haired man's eyes sparkled, and he urged the puppets forward with an evil smile. Old man Hu was reluctant to give up this opportunity to attack, so he fed a piece of dried meat to the hooded man. The latter's eyes turned green, and he roared, and surrounded the fish together with the two puppets.
The bone fish roared miserably under siege. Their spirit masters were running out of power and they were weaker than usual. They could only hold out for two minutes before their scales began to break apart. Finally, the hooded man grabbed their fins, turned over, and rode on them, tearing them apart with one claw.
Bai He also frowned and made hand gestures, taking the demon back before it was torn to pieces.
Yusheng's head and limbs were separated by the red-haired puppet and thrown randomly in the grass. A white long-tailed tit suddenly flew from the treetop, flapped its wings angrily, and pecked the puppet's nose fiercely.
The puppet was stunned for a moment, then nonchalantly picked up the white bird, moved his fingers, and when he opened his hands again, a few pieces of felt scraps fell off and were blown away by the wind, landing on the lonely wooden head in the grass.
Old man Ding's expression was dull and silly, with a hint of loneliness.
"Master!" A little boy stumbled over to the bamboo forest path ahead.
He was covered in blood, his face and nose were bruised, and as soon as he opened his mouth to speak, dark brown blood gushed out: "Hurry up! There are three of them!"
"Fang Xu!" Bai He also opened his eyes slightly, and subconsciously leaned over to help the other person up. However, his feet were about to move when they froze on the wheelchair pedals.
He anxiously grasped the handrail: "I'm fine, how are you injured? Give me your hand."
Fang Xu ran all the way here, seemingly exhausted. He stood there, clutching the crimson blood stain on his chest. Seeing that the temple master was fine, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, a smile on his young face: "Luckily, I made it back in time to ring the bell..."
Once the taut string loosened, the whole person was once again infected by endless pain. He blinked in a daze and wanted to say something, but he was too weak and staggered forward.
Bai He's pupils also shrank, and he immediately put his fingers together coldly, pulling out a weak trace of spiritual power from his body and floating it onto the other person's body.
In the shadows above the bamboo forest, the red-haired man wrinkled his nose in annoyance: "What a shame! That kid is not dead and even ran back to report the news."
"Who was it that swore so confidently that the person had been dealt with?" Old Man Hu said sarcastically.
A sinister look flashed across the red-haired man's face: "It doesn't matter, we'll all die anyway."
This blatant robbery will sooner or later be known to the Alien Management Bureau. Although, except for Lan Qingsi, all of them have been wanted by the Zhu Alliance for a long time, they can delay it for a while and cover it up as much as possible. After the Taiyin Immortal Law is stolen, those who know about it will not be able to escape death.
"The Lan family is too cunning. They hide themselves and let us do the dirty work." Old man Hu complained meaningfully.
"Alright," the red-haired man saw through the other party's tricks and teased nonchalantly, "He gave the information, he got the formation, and the pills that increase spiritual power are also from his family. Without his help, we wouldn't be able to get a share of this."
When Old Man Hu failed to instigate him, he gave up with a smile and took out a green pill from his sleeve: "Then let's get started."
The red-haired man also bit the pill between his teeth and laughed crazily, "Let's do it."
After saying this, the two of them suddenly felt a powerful spiritual power exploding from within their bodies, their blood and energy surging throughout their bodies, and they became increasingly manic.
There were only a few minutes left in the formation, so they had to race against time. The two of them went all the way down, and the white crane that was guarding in front of the bamboo house also went straight up.
"Master Bai, how are you?"
Bai He also frowned, the whites of his eyes tended to turn black, and the lines on his feet, as if dipped in ink, also meandered upwards. I don’t know if it was an illusion, but even the surrounding veins and mountains seemed to twist and move for a moment.
A series of fierce and fierce moves were launched, and the two people's body movements improved rapidly. In addition, with the bonus of the Soul Moving Formation, they easily avoided several attacks.
At the critical moment, Bai He also used hand gestures to summon the monster. Thinking that Bone Fish was seriously injured, he might not be able to summon it, so he threw out a few incense towers from his sleeves as an encouragement.
"Xuanming returns to the true self, and all ghosts obey orders——"
Seeing this, Old Man Hu sarcastically said, "Master Bai, have you forgotten that my grandson has broken the tendons and bones of your two fish? They might have been reduced to ashes long ago."
The red-haired man was very excited: "With Master Bai's cultivation level, he can recruit many demons and ghosts as servants, right? Besides those two demons, are there any others?"
"What a shame!" Old Man Hu laughed heartily. "In this soul-moving formation, I'm afraid you won't be able to call out even a single ghost!"
Just as he finished speaking, the thrown incense tower was caught in the mouth of a black shadow that suddenly appeared!
"——Tao follows nature, and commands you to serve!"
Old man Hu was stunned and squinted his eyes to see that it was the woman of unknown origin from last time!
This person was agile and quick as lightning. With a folding mop in his hand, he slowly landed on the ground, bent his knees and stood up.
She looked at the two people in front of her indifferently, chewing the incense in her mouth with a crunching sound, and a slight smile appeared on her lips.
“…Understood.”
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