Dreaming
There should really be no one left in the Soul-Devouring Hall. As soon as Xiao Ze came out of seclusion, the right protector couldn't wait to give him a "big" task, pointing the finger at all the righteous sects.
When Xiao Ze returned to the cave and was packing his bags, he saw the system jumping around. He couldn't help but ask the system: "How is Su Qingjun's injury? Can you help me check it out?"
This was the first time Xiao Ze spoke to the system in this tone. Usually he was either impatient or called it a stupid system.
"Okay, after all, I'm a kind-hearted system!" After saying that, the system disappeared on the spot.
Xiao Ze also set out from the Soul-Devouring Hall and headed for Shucheng to begin arranging the tasks assigned to him by the Right Protector.
Act separately from the other people from the Soul Devouring Hall.
Xiao Ze came to Wutongju, which was located in the center of Wangcheng.
He rented a house next to Wutongju and sneaked in every night when no one was around to set up the soul-devouring formation given to him by the right protector.
Once the soul-devouring formation is activated, everyone in the city will fall into a dream. They will first be overjoyed, and then extremely sad. Their vitality will be drained away amidst the ups and downs of emotions. As a result, everyone in the city will die in their dream.
It is indeed difficult to stop it, but Xiao Ze will never let the Soul-Devouring Hall succeed.
Not long after arriving in Shucheng, the system came back.
"How is it? How is his injury?" Xiao Ze was a little anxious, but he actually understood that as the first disciple of Tianxuan Sect, Su Qingjun must have obtained the best medicines.
Although Su Qingjun's last injury was serious, he should be mostly recovered in more than a month.
"He's almost recovered. I think he's improving quite well." The system said, hiding its guilty conscience very well.
In fact, Su Qingjun looked in very bad condition.
The first time the system saw him, he looked haggard, thinner, and listless. The system thought it had recognized the wrong person.
But after thinking about it, the system still felt that it could not tell Xiao Ze about this.
In the original novel, it was the protagonist who had a relationship with Su Qingjun, but after Xiao Ze came, his feelings for Su Qingjun became increasingly deep, which is seriously inconsistent with the original novel!
Fortunately, Xiao Ze had already arrived at the Soul Devouring Hall, and the two of them had little interaction. But if he knew that Su Qingjun was becoming increasingly haggard, he would definitely go back, and then the situation would be even more difficult.
So his actions were also for Xiao Ze's own good. Once Xiao Ze was willing to give up or use the chance of resurrection, he could escape from this world. Wouldn't Xiao Ze also be able to get what he wanted?
The system is convinced that its approach is correct.
Xiao Ze got the answer he wanted, and his heart finally settled down. He "concentrated" on the task assigned by the right protector, and the first thing he did was to get rid of the system.
"Well done. Haven't you always wanted to go out and play on your own after transforming?"
"Do you agree?" The system was very excited. It didn't expect that doing such a simple thing would have such great benefits.
As Xiao Ze's system, he couldn't leave without Xiao Ze's consent, let alone transform into a human form. But he was bored to death staying in the small space every day, so he wanted to go out and play.
Xiao Ze had always disagreed before, but I didn’t expect that he would agree now!
"Yeah. Go and have fun. You must come back in a month." Xiao Ze remained calm.
"Good!" The system left happily.
He must wait until the last second of the one-month deadline to come back, which will make Xiao Ze angry to death!
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Half a month later, the Soul Devouring Hall's plan unfolded as planned.
The Great Buddha Temple captured an undercover agent from the Soul Devouring Hall who had been planted there for many years. However, under the guidance of the senior monks and the influence of the undercover agent's years in the Great Buddha Temple, he "rebelled".
He also revealed the Soul Devouring Hall's base: Shucheng.
As soon as this news came out, almost all the elites of various sects came out, wanting to take the credit for destroying the Soul Devouring Hall for themselves and their own sect.
Xiao Ze had been spending the last few days in his own courtyard, leisurely basking in the sun. He had already tampered with the Soul Devouring Formation. As long as a clever individual from the righteous sect emerged, they could easily break the Soul Devouring Hall's half-month-long formation.
Xiao Ze sighed that he really did his best for this world, but he did not ask for money or fame. He would be satisfied as long as he encountered fewer bad people and bad things when he traveled around the world in the future.
In just two or three days, people from all sects came in large numbers, not trying to hide their presence from the public.
The people of Wangcheng believed that a troublesome monster had appeared in the city. Those who could escape ran away, and those who could not escape bought supplies and closed their homes.
People from various sects began a carpet search and arrested anyone they found who was suspected to be from the Soul Devouring Hall.
Fortunately, they still had some sense and did not kill anyone they saw who looked suspicious. Instead, they locked them up.
Xiao Ze gradually realized that something was wrong. When facing the threat of the Soul Devouring Hall, the various sects should have helped each other and worked together to eliminate this threat.
However, over the past few days, the most conflicts in the city were not the searches for members of the Soul Devouring Hall, but the competition for merit and friction among disciples of various sects.
Five days later, the talents from Tianxuan Sect finally arrived.
Xiao Ze hid in the house he rented and watched the people from Tianxuan Sect passing by. The leader was Su Qingjun.
Why did Tianxuan Sect come so late?
Also, didn’t the system say that Su Qingjun’s injuries were almost healed and that he looked very good?
Xiao Ze thought that this man's injury was only half healed at most, so he was forcing himself to come here.
Doesn't he know how dangerous this place is?
Suddenly, the communication talisman in his arms moved. Xiao Ze took it out and found that it was a message sent by the team leader: all the sects have arrived, activate the formation immediately.
Xiao Ze originally thought that within two or three days, the young talents who came to the sect first would definitely be able to discover the flaws he left behind. Unexpectedly, they were only thinking about competing for credit and had no time to carefully look to see if there was any ambush in the city.
Should I activate the Soul Devouring Formation?
The communication talisman vibrated again: Xiao Ze, activate the formation.
It seems that he is the only one left.
Since the Right Protector dared to send only a few of them, he must have some leverage that he is not afraid of being discovered by the righteous sects. If he rebelled now, who knows what would happen.
Furthermore, if this mission concerned the continued existence of the Soul Devouring Hall, the Right Protector should have come personally. If he hadn't, there must have been a back-up plan. He couldn't reveal his identity now.
Since Jiang Xi is also in the Tianxuan Sect's team, it seems that this is just a normal plot development and should not cause too many casualties.
After thinking it through, Xiao Ze returned to Wutongju and activated the formation.
The formations interacted with each other, and those with lower cultivation levels would fall asleep faster. However, the Right Guardian had given them a magical tool to prevent them from falling asleep before they set out, so the Soul Devouring Hall's members wouldn't be affected.
This is truly a one-sided massacre.
After leaving Wutong Residence, he could see scattered monks lying on the ground not far away. It seemed that the power of this formation was even greater than he had imagined.
Su Qingjun is still seriously injured...
Xiao Ze didn't dare to stay any longer and began to move stealthily through the city, trying to find Su Qingjun as early as possible.
Xiao Ze only began to hate it now. Why is Shucheng so big?
Most of the people from various sects seen along the way were extremely panicked. They didn't know how their companions had been tricked and suddenly fainted, but all their vital signs were still normal.
An hour later, Xiao Ze finally met Su Qingjun.
There were also disciples of Tianxuan Sect lying around him.
Jiang Xi also fainted beside him. Judging from his posture, he must have been trying to run towards Su Qingjun in the last second before he fainted.
Su Qingjun's figure also began to sway slightly, and he couldn't hold on for much longer.
Xiao Ze quickly ran over and helped the man steady himself: "Senior Brother."
Su Qingjun looked up, and the moment she saw Xiao Ze, her eyes turned red: "Xiao Ze? Is it really you?"
"It's me." Xiao Ze answered while pulling Su Qingjun to Wutongju.
As a result, Su Qingjun fainted in the middle of the journey. Xiao Ze could only accept his fate and pick her up and return to his residence next to Wutongju.
Looking at Su Qingjun who was already deeply immersed in a dream, Xiao Ze felt a headache. Su Qingjun should be in a dream now. If he forcibly pulled him out of the dream, it would cause great damage to his soul.
Thinking about the group of upright disciples outside who could not be relied upon at all, Xiao Ze came up with a bold idea.
This is the only way.
He first set up a barrier around the house where he lived to prevent anyone from coming in, and then set up a teleportation formation at the door. If someone could really break the barrier and come in, they would be teleported away the moment they stepped through the door.
Then he and Su Qingjun lay together, and he cast a levitation spell on the magic weapon in his hand to prevent himself from entering dreams, and hung it above his body, with a timer of two hours.
After two hours, the magic weapon would fall on him and he would be sucked out of his dream. He hoped that he could find a suitable way to make Su Qingjun realize that he was dreaming within two hours.
After holding Su Qingjun's hand tightly to ensure that they would enter the same dream, Xiao Ze closed his eyes and slowly fell asleep.
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Xiao Ze suddenly opened his eyes.
The roof style that came into view was familiar. Xiao Ze slowed down and gradually remembered that he came to wake Su Qingjun from his dream.
Judging from the appearance of the surroundings, he should be in the Tianxuan Sect. The most urgent thing was to find Su Qingjun.
Just as I was about to get up, I heard a series of steady breathing sounds.
Xiao Ze's heart seemed to stop for a moment, and he turned his head suddenly: Who?
Su Qingjun's sleeping face was clearly reflected in his eyes.
The heart started beating again, and more and more violently.
Why did Su Qingjun sleep in the same bed with him? He hadn't noticed it just now, but now that his mind was gradually clearing up, Xiao Ze realized how ambiguous his and Su Qingjun's current postures were.
Su Qingjun was sleeping soundly, with her head resting on Xiao Ze's shoulder, and their hands were still tightly held.
Could it be that because I held Su Qingjun's hand in reality in order to enter his dream, I would always hold his hand in the dream?
My heartbeat kept pounding and couldn't slow down.
Xiao Ze loosened his hand and tried to withdraw it from Su Qingjun's hand, but this slight movement woke Su Qingjun up.
"You're awake. Did you sleep well last night?" Su Qingjun's tone was gentle, and the coldness that Shu Cheng saw was gone.
"Fine," Xiao Ze replied, his heart in a state of panic. Last night? What happened last night? Why was he sleeping with Su Qingjun? And in his own room on Qiufeng Mountain?
What kind of dream was Su Qingjun having?
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