Chapter 9 Nine Infants Li Youyang frowned. This aura was Nine…
Li Youyang frowned. This aura was that of Jiuying.
The puppet raised its sickle and slashed towards Li Youyang. Li Youyang quickly drew his sword finger and formed a protective array to block it. At the same time, he pointed his sword finger directly at the center of the puppet's eyebrows and injected a magic array into it. The puppet immediately stopped moving.
Li Youyang moved his sword again, and a picture appeared in the void, but in just an instant the puppet and the picture shattered together. At the same time, Nangong Liuchu brought Bei Liyuan in through the door. Seeing that Li Youyang was fine, Nangong Liuchu silently breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Youyang raised his eyes: "You also encountered puppets?"
Just as Nangong Liuchu was about to nod, Li Youyang suddenly cast a formation to protect him, and the cold blade that attacked Nangong Liuchu disappeared in an instant.
Then hundreds of puppets attacked.
Nangong Liuchu summoned the immortal sword: "Master, Junior Brother, please don't come out."
After saying that, he disappeared, and at the same time, a formation protected the room.
A quarter of an hour later, all the puppets were eliminated. Just as Nangong Liuchu was about to turn back, hundreds of puppets appeared in the void... This cycle continued until midnight, when the puppets completely disappeared.
Nangong Liuchu waited for another quarter of an hour to make sure there were no more puppets before removing the protective formation and returning to the room.
"Master, the puppet they sent out today wasn't very powerful. It was probably just a test. I'm afraid it won't be so easy next time. I have a house in Yunshan. For safety's sake, Master and Junior Brother should go there together to take shelter for a few days while I deal with the person behind the scenes..."
Li Youyang interrupted: "No need."
Nangong Liuchu was about to persuade him again, but Li Youyang said, "This puppet is not a weapon but a sacrifice."
Nangong Liuchu was stunned for a moment, thinking back to the fight scene. Puppets were indeed not good at fighting, but as for sacrifices… He had only heard of sacrifices of living beings, or at worst, blood. This was the first time he had heard of a puppet being used as a sacrifice. “Master, what is this puppet being sacrificed for?”
Li Youyang said coldly, "The puppet is used as a sacrifice, and the demon blood is used as a guide. The other party is very likely trying to revive the great demon."
"Resurrect the great demon?"
Li Youyang frowned. Using the blood of the ancient great demon Jiuying as a guide, no matter what the other party wanted to resurrect, it would be a disaster for Jiuzhou and could not be ignored: "Nangong Liuchu, set up a teleportation array and head to Yingzhou in the East China Sea."
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Yingzhou in the East China Sea should have been a vast expanse of fertile land, teeming with life, but what was now before it was endless desolation, devastation, and a dead atmosphere.
Li Youyang frowned, wondering how this place could become like this.
Seeing Li Youyang's strange expression, Nangong Liuchu asked, "Master, what's wrong?"
The moment he finished speaking, Li Youyang stopped and looked around vigilantly. At the same time, rustling sounds came from all directions, and then snakes, scorpions, and centipedes rushed towards the three of them like a torrent.
Nangong Liuchu felt his stomach churn as he watched the dense, swirling mass of darkness approach. This was too disgusting. His sword fingers moved swiftly, and just as he was about to form a seal, Li Youyang was already one step ahead of him. The Tai Chi seal suddenly appeared beneath the three of them, and the poison gradually vanished into nothingness as the seal array continued to expand.
"Who dares to be so presumptuous!" A huge black monster walked towards them from a distance with a roar.
When the monster came closer, the three of them could see its full appearance. They saw that the monster was a hundred feet tall, shaped like a gray wolf, with black barbs all over its body. Only its tail was covered with soft black hair, curled up like a giant python with long gray hair.
The monster glanced at the four people, and finally its eyes fell on Nangong Liuchu.
Li Youyang's eyes were cold. No wonder this place had become like this. Greedy Wolf was the most unpopular monster in the monster world. Wherever he went, all living things were destroyed and spiritual energy was exhausted. How could the Nine Infants' realm allow Greedy Wolf to survive? It seemed that something had really happened to the Nine Infants. Who was the person behind the scenes who could defeat the Nine Infants?
Tan Lang said in a deep voice: "Leave my territory immediately, and I will spare your lives."
Li Youyang said coldly: "Kill him."
Nangong Liuchu summoned the magic sword and slashed at Tanlang. Within three rounds, Tanlang was killed. However, before being killed, he released a talisman into the air.
Nangong Liuchu was slightly startled: "This is a fairy gate talisman. How can the demon race have a fairy gate talisman?"
As soon as he finished speaking, five cultivators came flying on their swords and sent out a killing formation towards the three people without any explanation. Fortunately, the five people had not yet ascended, so Nangong Liuchu easily dissolved the killing formation.
Seeing this, the five people fled immediately.
Nangong Liuchu curled his lips, his sword fingers moved quickly, and five sword prints chased straight over. With screams, the five people fell down seriously injured.
The three of them walked up to the five people. Just as Nangong Liuchu was about to ask questions, Li Youyang's sword finger had already landed on the eyebrows of one of them. A phantom appeared in the void. In the bloody dark room, Jiuying was locked in a cage, and a black-robed monk was holding a cup and constantly taking blood.
Li Youyang's eyes were cold and he cast a tracking formation.
A quarter of an hour later, the three of them arrived outside the dark room. Nangong Liuchu said solemnly, "Master, we still don't know the level of the cultivators inside. You and your junior brother will stay outside for a while while I go in to investigate."
“No need.”
Li Youyang drew his sword lightly, and a formation enveloped the three people, hiding their voices.
In the secret room, the black-robed monk was still moving the blood of the Nine Infants. Li Youyang and the other two followed the person who was taking the blood outside the cage. The Nine Infants was lying on the ground, dying.
Nangong Liuchu subconsciously took a wrong step back. He was most afraid of snakes.
Li Youyang lowered his body and quietly transferred some spiritual power to Jiuying. Jiuying's tightly closed eyes moved slightly, but he could not open them.
Li Youyang frowned. He was injured so badly that he might not be able to do it even when he was at his best. Who did it?
Nangong Liuchu whispered, "Master, should we save him?"
Li Youyang nodded: "Do you have any healing elixirs?"
Nangong Liuchu shook his head: "I came in a hurry and didn't bring it with me."
Bei Liyuan took out a porcelain bottle and said, "Master, I brought it with me, but the healing elixir I could get was relatively low-level, so I don't know if it would be useful."
Li Youyang took it, refined the entire bottle of elixir, and then quietly passed it to Jiuying with his spiritual breath. This time, Jiuying was able to open his eyes.
Li Youyang asked coldly, "Can you transform? If you can, blink once. If not, blink twice."
Jiuying tried briefly and blinked.
Li Youyang looked at Nangong Liuchu and said, "Cut off the Nine Infants' restraints."
Nangong Liuchu was slightly stunned. Is it so direct?
Although he had doubts, he still did as he was told. However, the cage was stronger than he had imagined, and it was not damaged at all by the sword.
The black-robed monk also noticed something unusual about this and sounded the alarm.
Li Youyang frowned: "Why are you chopping the cage? Just destroy the formation."
Nangong Liuchu: ...
Then he poured his spiritual energy into the formation, and the demon-binding formation was destroyed in an instant.
Without the demon-binding formation, Jiuying instantly transformed into a human form, and then with a loud bang, the cage shattered. The black-clothed monk just stood there in a daze. Jiuying glanced at him coldly, and the black-clothed monk came to his senses and fled in a hurry, but was eventually killed instantly by Jiuying.
After dealing with the black-robed monk, Jiuying said coldly, "Who saved me just now?"
Li Youyang removed the formation.
Jiuying looked at Li Youyang in surprise: "Li Youyang, it's you! I can't believe it. To be honest, I really want to beat you up to vent my anger!"
Nangong Liuchu frowned, "You are such an unreasonable demon! My master Fangfang saved you, and it would be fine if you didn't repay me, but you actually hit my master."
Jiuying sneered, "You did save me, but my current situation is inextricably linked to you, Li Youyang."
Li Youyang said coldly, "The evil spirit is too strong here. Are you sure you want to settle your grudges here?"
Jiuying groaned and slipped out of the secret room, followed closely by Li Youyang and the other two.
Then the three of them saw Jiuying looking into the distance with a gloomy face and cold eyes.
Li Youyang: "Who hurt you like this?"
Jiuying turned around and looked at Li Youyang coldly: "You really don't know?"
Li Youyang's eyes turned a little colder.
Jiuying was slightly startled: "How did you become like this?"
Li Youyang was silent.
Jiuying continued, "Ten years ago, Nan Liujing came to the island to snatch the Nine-Star Begonia. We fought fiercely, and that guy was desperate. In the end, I was seriously injured and fell into a coma. When I woke up, I was imprisoned by a human cultivator."
Nan Liujing, Li Youyang's eyes darkened. Could it be that he hadn't given up on opening the seal of the Ten Thousand Demons Cave? "Nangong Liuchu, take Li Yuan away."
After the two left, Jiuying touched his chin and said, "Looking at you, I really don't know about this matter. You said that based on our previous friendship, it's just a Nine-Star Begonia. He asked you to pass a letter to me and it would be resolved. Why did you come to rob me and make me suffer for ten years? What's your situation?"
Li Youyang: "A hundred years ago, I sacrificed my soul in blood to seal the Ten Thousand Demons Cave, and then I was inexplicably reborn in this body."
Jiuying understood: "Then I know why Nan Liujing came to steal the Nine Star Begonia. Your rebirth is not inexplicable. It is mostly his doing. It is not in vain that I accepted you as my disciple."
Li Youyang was silent.
Jiuying looked at the corpse on the ground again: "I know this group of people. They have troubled me many times over the past few hundred years, but I have always been too lazy to pay attention to them. This time, even if you plead for them, it will be useless."
Li Youyang said coldly, "With my current status, I'm powerless to do many things. Before coming to Yingzhou, I was attacked by a puppet, but that puppet was most likely a sacrifice. Before you take action, find out their intentions first."
Jiuying's eyes darkened: "Sacrifice, using my blood?"
"Um."
"Then this group's purpose is incredible. After finding out, where should I go to find you?"
"Yunshan Sect."
The two chatted for a few more sentences before Li Youyang took Beiliyuan and Nangong Liuchu away.
On the way back to Yunshan Sect, Li Youyang looked at the two of them and asked, "Nothing you want to ask?"
Nangong Liuchu said respectfully, "Master will tell us if he wants to."
Li Youyang was originally still thinking about how to make up a story to deceive these two people, but now he is much less worried.
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After returning to Yunshan Sect, Li Youyang's life returned to normal, admiring flowers, drinking tea, and occasionally daydreaming.
That day, Li Youyang had just finished making tea when Jiuying suddenly appeared, snatched the teacup from Li Youyang's hand, and drank it all in one gulp. "Guess what I found out?"
Li Youyang frowned slightly as he looked at his empty hands and asked indifferently, "What did you find out?"
Jiuying handed over the teacup: "Another cup."
Li Youyang refilled his glass.
Jiuying then said, "Behind that group is the Zhuo family, the sixth-ranked aristocratic family of your human race. And the Zhuo family is actually trying to revive the ancient demon, Tian Tun."
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