The courtyard is very large. Judging from the broken walls and ruins, it looks a bit like a Taoist temple or Buddhist temple, but it is quite different from Taoist temples and Buddhist temples.
He felt a chill in the air and was hesitant to go further in. Just as he was turning back to look for another way out, he saw the female corpse being blown by the wind and drifting towards him, her face expressionless.
Chang Feng was so frightened that he almost spat out his heart. He didn't care about anything else and turned around to run into the courtyard. As a result, he saw many rotting corpses and his nose was filled with the stench of rotting corpses.
Green flames flickered, some near, some far...
Chang Fenglin was so frightened that he almost lost his mind. He slipped and fell flat on his back. He got up and ran back.
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Inside the small inn, Jiang Yuxuan was manipulating a chessboard, while her master, Dai Xi, was working hard to set up a special magic array on the board.
Chen Baiying paced anxiously nearby, asking, "Is this really okay? Won't it hurt Feng Lin?"
Dai Xi said, "Miss Chen, even if we don't use this method now, do you think Luo Nian will let Mr. Chang go?"
Jiang Yuxuan saw a chess piece flashing blue light enter the chess game set up by her master and exclaimed with delight, "It's in! She really did follow Chang Fenglin into the old territory of the Witch Corpse Sect."
They are now using the "Taoist Chess," a treasure passed down from their ancestors in Maoshan, to perform a secret Taoist technique, intending to use this method to destroy the female corpse Luo Nian.
They assumed Luo Nian had gone to the Witch Corpse Sect after following Chang Feng, but little did they know that at this very moment, in Chu Nian's private dressing room at the New Jue Nightclub, she was using another chessboard—a "well" shaped board she had drawn herself—and moving pieces on it with a pen, either X or O...
One hour ago.
Chu Nian, who had just finished singing her song, was resting in the dressing room when she suddenly felt dizzy. This dizziness was definitely not a normal illness; in her experience, it meant that someone was casting some kind of special spell on her, intending to control her.
Her soul and mental strength were very powerful; it would be strange if she were controlled. So she only felt dizzy for a moment before immediately regaining her senses.
Without even asking, she knew it was those Taoist priests causing trouble. Using her spiritual power to investigate the small inn, she found several Taoist priests gathered together, casting a spell over a chessboard.
Chu Nian wasn't very proficient in spells that specifically countered Taoist magic, as she hadn't specifically studied them. However, she knew who was proficient, so she went to find Lou Qianzong: she hadn't forgotten that when she first met Lou Qianzong, he had said that he was the ancestor of the Celestial Masters.
The two zombies sat down and talked quietly for a while. Finally, Chu Nian traded three English songs from later generations for the paper and pen she was currently using from Lou Qianzong. Lou Qianzong told her that this set of paper and pen was a magical tool specifically designed to counter the Taoist chess set used by the Maoshan Taoists.
Although Chu Nian felt that with Lou Qianzong's abilities, there was no need for him to lie to her, she was initially a little skeptical about the "special restraint." But now it seems she was really overthinking it. This set of paper and pen really works quite well with that set of chess pieces.
She joined the other sheet of paper to the first one, which was already filled with drawings, and started a new game of chess...
Inside the small inn, Dai Xi and Jiang Yuxuan were focused on the chessboard, ready to cast spells and make moves as needed, unaware that Chen Baiying, who had been pacing anxiously in their room, had left, seemingly lost in thought.
She went back to the Chen mansion, called the family driver, and he drove her to the outskirts.
The driver wondered what his young lady was doing driving to this desolate place in the middle of the night, but Chen Baiying seemed to have been here before. After getting out of the car, she stepped onto a stone staircase leading into the depths of the mountains.
Fearing for the young lady's safety, the driver locked the car doors and quickly followed. Unexpectedly, he soon saw his son-in-law, who was covered in dirt and seemed to be pacing around in circles, looking completely out of sorts.
"Feng Lin..." Chen Baiying was also surprised to see him and called out.
She had come to her senses by then and was wondering how she ended up in this place. But when she saw Chang Fenglin, she was surprised but relieved: her husband was here, and she felt somewhat secure.
Upon seeing her, Chang Fenglin lunged at her like a drowning man grasping at a straw, grabbing Chen Baiying and pulling her forward forcefully, shouting, "Luo Nian, look, Chen Baiying is here! I've brought her here! Didn't you say you'd let me go if I offered her up? Let me go now! Let me go now!"
Chen Baiying looked at him in shock and asked, "Feng Lin, what are you saying? What's wrong with you?"
She clearly remembered that Jiang Yuxuan and Daoist Dai said that by using Chang Fenglin to lure Luo Nian into the old site of the Witch Corpse Sect, they could use the remaining corpse energy in this place to form a corpse-killing array with Daoist chess pieces to kill Luo Nian.
She found herself inexplicably here, and seeing Chang Fenglin, she guessed that this was the old site of the Witch Corpse Sect that the Taoist priests had mentioned. She thought that the Taoist priests had successfully wiped them out and that she had come to take Chang Fenglin home.
But looking at Chang Fenglin like this, he seems to have gone terribly insane.
Chang Feng roared madly in the dark void: "Luo Nian, you said you hated me for falling in love with Chen Baiying; you also said that as long as I offered Chen Baiying to you and you could do whatever you wanted with her, you would let me go. You won't go back on your word, will you? Let me go! Let me go!"
“I didn’t mean to kill you. Chen Boteng forced me to do it. He forced me to handle this quietly. I had no other choice but to kill you. If you want revenge, go find Chen Boteng. Go find him and stop bothering me.”
"I've already handed Chen Baiying over to you, why won't you let me go?"
“Everything I said is true. I only pursued Chen Baiying because her family is rich and powerful, and I thought I could have a good life if I married her. The person I truly love is you!”
"Help...help me..."
Chen Baiying stared at Chang Fenglin, her eyes widening, unable to believe that what Chang Fenglin said was true.
Perhaps he was just terrified to say that; but perhaps, what he was saying at that moment was what he truly felt.
Chen Baiying couldn't help but cry, saying, "Feng Lin, so you've been lying to me all along!"
“Miss, it’s the middle of the night, and this place is eerie. Let’s go home first!” the driver advised, glancing at Chang Fenglin. “The young master is probably scared out of his wits, that’s why he’s saying such things. Let’s take him back and have a doctor take a look.”
Chen Baiying: "No, no, no, we can't take him back yet." The Taoist priests are casting a spell to lure Luo Nian away, intending to kill him here.
But where is Luo Nian? She remembered that the Taoist priests had clearly said that Luo Nian had been lured here by Chang Fenglin.
She shook Chang Fenglin stubbornly and demanded, "Fenglin, tell me honestly, why did you pursue me in the first place? Why?"
Chang Fenglin shoved her away, causing her to fall to the ground. The driver quickly stepped forward to help her up.
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