Chapter 162
In the secret realm, Liang Yiliu's heartbeat suddenly accelerated. She sat high in the sky, with countless black shadows beneath her. The shadows flashed back and forth like swimming fish, forming a killing formation.
Something happened to Zhou Li.
Liang Yiliu seemed to have sensed something, so she no longer held back and went all out, directly breaking the killing formation that trapped her.
Liang Yiliu stood up and shouted to the sky, "I want to withdraw from this trial!"
"You are the one with the best chance of obtaining the things left behind by Master Donghua. Are you sure you want to withdraw from the trial?" asked the phantom.
"I confirm!" Liang Yiliu felt uneasy and frowned.
The phantom fell silent for a while, then emerged again and said coldly, "Sorry, you can't withdraw from the trial. There are only two ways to withdraw from the trial: win or die!"
Liang Yiliu understood. She narrowed her eyes slightly, lowered her hands, and a green light appeared in her hands.
Zhou Li's dantian was attacked, and the sword moves made by her hands were no longer stable. She fell straight from the sky. Her dantian was like a leaking air valve, and blood spurted out. Zhou Li trembled with pain. She wanted to stabilize her body as soon as possible, otherwise she would be half-dead if she fell from such a high place.
Suddenly, a red belt flew from the sky, tied Zhou Li's waist, and the two landed safely.
Li Huanhuan pulled out the magic weapon with one hand, and the red belt instantly wrapped around her wrist and turned into a red line. She looked at Zhou Li, who was still struggling to survive, with a look of pity.
"Give me the Jin He Jade, and I can leave you with an intact body."
Zhou Li covered the wound on his stomach with his hands and said with difficulty: "What do you want the Jin He Yu for? Can you please let me die with a clear conscience?"
Li Huanhuan thought for a moment and said, "It's okay to tell you. I've already wasted two hundred years in the Foundation Establishment Stage. My time is almost up. With the Golden He Jade, I will definitely be able to break through to the Golden Core Stage!"
Zhou Li's eyes seemed to be blurring out. She asked in confusion, "You look so young..."
People who are nearing death will not be able to maintain their appearance and will look like an old man, but Li Huanhuan does not look much older than her.
Li Huanhuan looked up at the sky and smiled, "There are many ways to stay young in this world. I just took a pill." She touched her face and said worriedly, "Although I don't look old, my body is no longer able to do so. I must get the Jin He Jade!"
At this point, her expression turned fierce. She stared at Zhou Li like a hungry wolf, grinning fiercely, "I never thought I would succeed so easily. Blame it on yourself for underestimating your enemy! In the world of immortal cultivation, there are no eternal friends! This is the price you pay for looking down on the weak!"
Zhou Li opened his lips slightly: "Okay, I've learned my lesson."
"Hand over the Golden Jade!" Li Huanhuan pointed her palm at Zhou Li. The energy in Zhou Li's dantian was almost dissipated, but she smiled at Li Huanhuan and used her last bit of strength to crush the jade pendant. The jade pendant's teleportation formation was activated, but Liang Yiliu did not appear beside Zhou Li. It was her mistake. She didn't expect to be trapped in the secret realm.
"What are you doing?" Li Huanhuan noticed Zhou Li's movements and the broken jade pendant beside her, and immediately became alert. After a long while, she didn't notice any movement. She frowned and asked, "What's this trick?"
Zhou Li lay on the cold ground, but tears of smile appeared in the corners of his eyes.
The stinky devil had even said it was something life-saving, speaking so mysteriously. She'd crushed it, so where was it? Zhou Li's heart sank. Watching Li Huanhuan's red cloth drift toward her, her consciousness nearly shattered. Suddenly, a figure leaped out of the bracelet on her left hand, howling and lunging at the red cloth, tearing it to shreds.
It turned out that the spirit beast given to Zhou Li by Hua Shuwen sensed the weak breath of its master, and jumped out of the spirit beast space regardless of the counterattack of the contract.
Zhou Li's momentum gradually weakened. Her eyes flashed back to the various experiences she had in the world of cultivation. Finally, she cursed in her heart: "Damn, where's the vacation we agreed on?"
The spirit beast whimpered twice and licked Zhou Li's cheek.
"Dead?" Li Huanhuan looked at him in confusion. Just as she was about to take a step forward, the spirit wolf bared its teeth at her, scaring Li Huanhuan so much that she dared not move forward. But this was not a solution. She could feel Zhou Li's vitality fading, and she was worried that there were pursuers behind. Li Huanhuan herself was not strong enough, and she was able to cultivate to the current level of foundation building by taking drugs.
She looked at the wolf anxiously and cursed, "You're about to die, and you're still not at peace." Her ugly face was completely exposed.
The spirit wolf bared its teeth at her. She was so scared that she took a few steps back, frowned and thought hard, and finally took out a bottle of poison from her storage pocket with heartache.
This was her last killer move, but she didn't expect to use it on an animal.
She smashed the medicine bottle down, and purple smoke filled the air. The spirit wolf bared its fangs, lowered its center of gravity, and was about to pounce on her. Suddenly, the smoke floated over, and the spirit wolf whimpered twice, then fell to the ground with its head heavy and its feet dizzy.
Li Huanhuan waited for a while, and when she found that Linglang and Zhou Li were completely motionless, she breathed a sigh of relief and went forward to take off Zhou Li's storage bracelet and the magic weapon on his body.
It was obvious that Zhou Li was a disciple from a family of immortal cultivators or a large sect. She was envious of the things on his body. If she hadn't launched a sneak attack, she might not have been able to kill Zhou Li.
Li Huanhuan reached out to Zhou Li's chest. Zhou Li, who had his eyes closed as if asleep, was surrounded by tiny particles. Li Huanhuan didn't notice and was still engaged in the act of killing and digging out the body.
Zhou Li suddenly opened his eyes, which were blood red, as if they were possessed by someone!
Li Huanhuan was still searching for treasures on Zhou Li's body when she turned around and was suddenly met with a pair of bright red eyes.
"Ah!!! There's a ghost!!!" She was really scared!
Li Huanhuan slapped out with his backhand!
But Zhou Li raised his hand and put his palm against hers. Li Huanhuan couldn't pull her palm away and made a sound in fear.
"I was wrong! Benefactor! Please forgive me!"
Zhou Li's blood-red eyes emitted an inorganic luster. There was a hole in her abdomen and the blood had long been drained. The strong suction from her hand instantly drained Li Huanhuan dry, and then she let go of her hand. Li Huanhuan had turned into a piece of paper.
Zhou Li's face was as pale as the ash at the bottom of a pot. She was completely unconscious. The only thing in her mind was hunger and the desire to fill her stomach. She identified the direction and headed for the place with the most concentrated spiritual energy.
"The demon has awakened!" Someone in the distance exclaimed as he looked at the aura on the magic disk!
"Hurry up!" The rustling sound was like a bird flapping its wings, the treetops of the dense forest shook, and a large number of people rushed in the direction of Zhou Li!
"Ah! There's a monster!" someone screamed.
"Run! Monsters are coming!!!"
The disheveled monster approached instantly and grabbed the person who had just shouted the loudest. Its hand seemed to have suction power, instantly sucking away all the spiritual energy from the person and filling the emptiness in its dantian.
Zhou Li went berserk.
She was completely unconsciously controlled by the desires in her body and did something that was irreparable.
The demons are different from humans. They grew up in the abyss and were born in flesh and blood. For them, as long as the soul is immortal, the demise of the body is meaningless to them. But humans are different. Except for the powerful ones who have cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage, the rest of the people are dead once they die.
"Monster! Monster!" Everyone was terrified.
Zhou Li was in a completely unconscious state, like a beast. She opened her mouth and roared, filled with incomprehensible anger towards those who dared to resist her. There was no human consciousness in her head at all, and she only wanted to use these things to fill the emptiness in her heart.
When the people from the Demon Sect arrived, they saw the scene of slaughter and trembled with excitement.
"It's the Demon Child! The Demon Child is finally awakening!"
"Go! Bring the demon back to the sect!"
"Wait!" Someone stopped him, "Let Mozi play for a while longer."
The people from the Demon Sect stood by and watched. Zhou Li drove the crowd like a shepherd herding sheep. Everyone scattered like birds and beasts, but they still could not escape Zhou Li's clutches. Even if someone ran away, there were still people from the Demon Sect guarding all around and they would kill them with one knife. This trip to the secret realm turned out to be their landfill.
"Almost done." The Demon Sect leader stroked his chin and said, "Take Mozi with you!"
When Zhou Li saw someone approaching her, she subconsciously bared her teeth to intimidate him, but the other person was not afraid of her at all. She pinched her fingers together and the devilish energy tied Zhou Li up like a rope.
Then the leader of the Demon Sect produced a black talisman in his hand and stuck it directly on Zhou Li's head. Zhou Li then became obedient, like a piece of wood being lifted up by someone.
A magic weapon appeared in the hand of the Demon Sect leader. He raised the magic weapon and casually drew it in front of him. A space fluctuation appeared. Everyone followed the leader and went directly out of the Donghua Secret Realm, taking Zhou Li away by the way.
Hua Shuwen, who was in the middle of the trial, felt a pang of fear. She turned her head to Dongxu, who was battling an enemy, and said, "The little black one I gave to Zhou Li is injured!"
Dongxu frowned and said, "Then Zhou Li..."
Hua Shuwen was silent for a moment before saying, "It's probably not good."
Both of them frowned and were silent for a while. They tried hard to break the formation. They couldn't be trapped here anymore. They had to at least get out and find out what was happening outside.
Liang Yiliu's face was solemn. She used all her strength and finally reached the last level. The last level was a fight with the shadow of Emperor Donghua.
Liang Yiliu looked grim. It turned out that the phantom that had been appearing was none other than the shadow left by Emperor Donghua. Before Emperor Donghua ascended to heaven, he left a message that only the person who looked most like her could gain control of the cave. The shadow had been looking for its master over the years, and this time it finally found someone similar to the previous owner.
Liang Yiliu tightly grasped the Qingyun Sword, her uneasiness growing stronger and stronger, as if foreshadowing something. She held the sword and said, "I have no interest in the Donghua Secret Realm. Can you please let me out?"
"No," Shadow refused. "Once the trial begins, it cannot be stopped."
"Then I give up."
"No." Shadow still refused.
Liang Yiliu took a deep breath and said, "I understand."
Her brows furrowed, her mind worried about her little disciple, but the sword in her hand was steady.
Seeing Liang Yiliu finally take action, Shadow also took a stance.
Both of them attacked instantly, sword energy overflowing. Liang Yiliu's sword intent moved forward, and a sword energy seemed to split the sky in half, and the clouds took a long time to gather again.
The two men fought from the ground to the sky, and from the sky to the ground, flattening the ground and poking the sky bare, but still could not determine the winner.
Liang Yiliu gripped the sword even tighter. The knot on her brow was almost impossible to untie. She was anxious and the sword in her hand moved faster and faster. The mixed spiritual energy turned into a vortex. She turned around and stabbed out with a sword. The sword looked ordinary, but it was extremely dangerous inside.
A sword stabbed the shadow, and the powerful spiritual energy inside directly dispersed her, and it took a long time to recover.
Liang Yiliu took advantage of the victory and pursued the enemy, not wanting to waste any more time.
She didn't want the Donghua Secret Realm at all, Liang Yiliu was completely anxious!
She could feel her little disciple calling her, but she was trapped here and couldn't get out!
Another sword flashed with green light, and the green light was like the rising sun, emitting an extremely dazzling light, lighting up the entire sky. Countless clouds expanded rapidly, and then exploded with a bang. The transparent shock wave spread directly into the distance. The sound of the explosion could be heard for a long time. The power can be imagined.
Liang Yiliu looked indifferent and asked, "Can I leave now?"
The shadow struggled to gather in the air, but failed several times. When it finally took shape, it revealed a sentence, "Now the entire Donghua Secret Realm is yours. Of course."
The locked space was unlocked. Liang Yiliu paused and found the teleportation coordinates where Zhou Li crushed the jade pendant. She rushed there without hesitation. When she arrived at the place, she only found a corpse as thin as paper and a broken jade pendant on the ground. A large amount of blood was oozing from the jade pendant, and the blood had turned dark red. Zhou Li's storage bracelet and some magic weapons on his body were empty and were placed on the corpse's hands.
Liang Yiliu stood quietly for a while, his spiritual sense swept around, but he did not detect any trace of Zhou Li.
She clenched her fists, unable to imagine how desperate Zhou Li must have felt when he crushed the jade pendant...
She clenched her fists until they crackled. The shadow from before floated over again, standing behind Liang Yiliu and saying quietly, "She was taken away by a group of people."
"Do you know where she is?!" Liang Yiliu asked in a deep voice.
"I am the spirit of the secret realm. Everything in the secret realm is under my control." The spirit of the secret realm said proudly.
"Then where is my disciple?" Liang Yiliu asked.
The spirit of the secret realm whispered, "She's not in the secret realm. The other party has a space artifact and directly cut through the secret realm and teleported away."
"Then what's the use of you?!" Liang Yiliu couldn't help but vent his anger, "Is my disciple dead or alive?"
The spirit of the secret realm said aggrievedly: "Your apprentice's state seems to be possessed by a demon, so he should still be alive. Besides, I am not useless. I can locate the coordinates where they left. I can feel it."
"Then let's go!" Liang Yiliu said anxiously.
Judging from the previous situations, Zhou Li was probably in the hands of the Demon Sect again, and she was probably in great danger. The other party wanted to rely on her to open the door to the Demon Realm. No matter what the situation was, it was something Liang Yiliu didn't want to see!
"You haven't taken the token from Emperor Donghua yet, so you can't completely control me." The spirit of the secret realm whispered.
"Where is the token? I'll go get it." Liang Yiliu didn't want to listen to its nonsense.
"It's the level of the trial you just passed."
Liang Yiliu teleported over to get it.
The token of trust was a golden token with two large characters "Donghua" inscribed on it.
Liang Yiliu took a drop of blood from his heart and put it into the token. The spirit of the secret realm was instantly thrown into the token. Amidst the earth-shaking and mountain-shaking, a solemn voice spread throughout the entire secret realm.
【The Lord of the Secret Realm has been born.】
Hua Shuwen and Dongxu were ejected from the secret realm halfway through their trial. The two were in a terrible state due to the trial and tried to find Liang Yiliu and Zhou Li, the master and apprentice, in the crowd, but they didn't see either of them.
"Eh? Who did you say took this Donghua Secret Realm?"
"It must be some powerful being, right? So many powerful beings have come to the Donghua Secret Realm this time, more than I have ever seen in my entire life."
"Yeah, right. Did you hear about that? They say a monster came into the Donghua Secret Realm and many people died miserably, sucked dry by the monster!"
"I heard about it, then..."
Hua Shuwen was startled. Could it be that Liang Yiliu's apprentice had also encountered that monster? Where was Liang Yiliu himself?
She was in a bad mood and couldn't help but pull the corner of Dongxu's clothes.
"Brother, you said nothing will happen to them, right?"
Dongxu comforted his junior sister, "Don't think too much, it will be fine."
"Yeah." Hua Shuwen could only try her best to think positively.
The two waited outside the secret realm for a long time, but did not see Liang Yiliu and Zhou Li. Hua Shuwen released the paper crane to communicate but could not find anyone, so it flew back. The two had no choice but to leave, but they were still very worried before leaving, and decided to go to Wuji Sect after the training was over.
Liang Yiliu got the Donghua Order and took it into her body without refining it. The powerful spiritual pressure left by Emperor Donghua in the secret realm made Liang Yiliu spit out blood several times. She didn't feel sorry for herself. After accepting the secret realm, she immediately said, "Take me to find my apprentice."
The spirit of the secret realm did not contradict himself and said, "I have the coordinates."
It showed the coordinates it had recorded. Liang Yiliu sensed it and found that it was 5,000 kilometers away. At her fastest speed, it would take her five days to get there.
Liang Yiliu stared at the coordinates and found that the location was actually inside the ghost town. She immediately set off for the big island, paid the high teleportation fee, used the teleportation array to teleport to the city closest to the ghost town, and then flew over.
The ghost town is where some strange cultivators stay.
In addition to those who cultivate immortals and demons, there are also strange cultivators in the Tianyuan Continent. Strange cultivators are a general term for other people who practice Taoism. Because these people are very mysterious and rarely appear in public, and there are very few cultivators coming here, it is called a ghost town by outsiders.
Liang Yiliu stood in front of the dark city wall and frowned, looking at the wall that looked like it had been burned by fire, carefully feeling the faint breath.
When she came here, she could finally feel Zhou Li's breath, but the breath was always intermittent, as if it was disturbed by something.
Liang Yiliu lowered her head, the wide hood covering her tightly. The guard at the gate said lazily and nonchalantly, "Five spirit stones."
Liang Yiliu looked at the toll paid by the people in front of her to enter the city. She threw five low-grade spirit stones into the bamboo basket and was let into the ghost town without even needing any identification.
The first thing Liang Yiliu felt when he entered the ghost town was desolation.
The houses and streets here are all made of blue bricks. Blue bricks have yin properties and emit a cold air when stepped on. If a living person stays here for a long time, he will probably be taken away by the yin energy and become half human, half ghost. Moreover, the spiritual energy here is very thin, which is extremely unsuitable for people to practice.
Liang Yiliu had no intention of exploring the secrets of the ghost town. She looked up to identify the direction and walked west. It was here that she felt the presence of Zhou Li.
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