The dim light from the sky fell on the dense forests of Ailao Mountain, which was surrounded by a gloomy aura, towering ancient trees, and complete silence.
Su Yao stood quietly in the center of the invisible formation, with Qingcheng and Bai Ze standing behind him calmly.
People surrounded her, and the air was filled with tension and anxiety.
"You said... Zhou Qilin was possessed by something from the Nine Netherworld?" Murong Yin frowned, her tone full of doubt and a hint of disbelief.
As one of the nine elders in charge of the 79th Bureau, he has always been cautious in his actions and would never trust what others say.
Before Su Yao could even speak, Leng Zhiruo, the female disciple beside her, stepped forward and spoke sharply, "Su Yao, just because you say 'possessed', we're supposed to believe you? Every time we enter or leave the 79th Bureau, we have to pass through that ancient detection array set up by the nine elders! Even a trace of Yin Sha can't escape it. How has Zhou Qilin ever behaved abnormally?"
Leng Zhiruo's eyes were filled with contempt, and her pretty face was tinged with sneer. "Who do you think you are? Even if you have the Yin-Yang Eyes, you can't see through all evil spirits."
Her purple eyes turned slightly, and a hint of coldness crossed her lips. "Although the formation is powerful, the person who set it up may not have a thorough understanding of everything. You are impulsive and impetuous, your cultivation is shallow, yet you still presume to be arrogant."
Her tone was cold: "Why can't you break through the bottleneck? Let me explain it to you. You are too obsessed. Whenever a woman more beautiful or powerful than you approaches Zhou Lingyu, you become restless and regard her as a rival in love. The funny thing is, Zhou Lingyu is so focused on cultivation that he has never cared about love."
After he finished speaking, the whole audience fell silent.
Zhou Lingyu suddenly looked at Su Yao, his eyes filled with shock.
He thought he was being patient and resolute, but Su Yao saw through him with just one word.
But he was open-minded by nature and never refuted. He just nodded silently with a little more respect in his eyes.
Leng Zhiruo's face was ashen, her lips moving as if she were about to argue: "No matter how much you say, why not produce solid evidence?"
Su Yao was too lazy to pay attention to her anymore.
Bai Ze said coldly, "You are a mentally retarded person, not worthy of my master's words."
Qingcheng took a half step forward and said calmly, "It all depends on your feet."
Everyone lowered their heads, and suddenly a complex magic circle with brilliant golden light emerged from the invisible earth, which should have been hidden in the invisible earth. Thousands of threads were woven like golden threads, with winding patterns on it and faintly leaping blazing flames.
"This is... the Thousand Souls Town of Samadhi True Fire!" Murong Yin took a breath of cold air. She had once had the honor of seeing it in her master's tattered ancient books.
The magic circle was running suddenly, and the core of the circle was surging with heat. Samadhi True Fire gushed out at every trigger point. The scorching air rushed towards the face, almost burning the soul.
"You..." Zhou Qilin's voice was low, and a sinister smile appeared on his handsome face: "Su Yao, as expected of you... You are still so cunning and insidious."
The corners of his mouth curled up in an evil arc, his dark eyes dark, "The Samadhi True Fire Thousand Souls Suppression was actually laid in advance."
Su Yao was unmoved: "Lord of the Netherworld, you will forever fall into the underworld and will never be allowed to set foot in the human world."
Murong Yin's face changed when she heard the voice: "Lord of the Netherworld..."
Leng Zhiruo and Zhou Lingyu were completely out of the picture.
The next second, Zhou Qilin tilted his head and let out a sudden, sharp roar. A ball of evil black energy as dark as ink shot out from between his eyebrows, carrying the power to destroy the world, and rushed straight towards Su Yao.
The black energy was like a ghost's howl, hideous and weird. The air shook violently wherever it passed, as if it wanted to take Su Yao's soul and possess his body.
But she didn't move.
Buzz!!
Golden array patterns bloomed around her body, and thousands of rays of light turned into a barrier. The evil black energy hit the cliff like a collision, causing sparks to fly, but it could not move forward.
“Ahhhhhhh…”
The black energy let out a shrill roar, as if it sensed the impending disaster and wanted to escape from Zhou Qilin's body and take a detour.
But Qianhun Town had already sealed it off with a net of heaven and earth. No matter how it twisted and turned, it would touch the center of the formation, and the Samadhi True Fire would burst out and surround it.
"Su...Yao..."
Leng Zhiruo stepped back in fear, while Murong Yin clenched her fingers, her face solemn.
Zhou Lingyu murmured softly, "She really... wasn't wrong."
I saw the black gas wailing and tumbling in the flames, twisting and struggling, and finally being burned to ashes and disappearing without a trace.
"Qilin..." Zhou Lingyu looked worried, but he didn't dare to help his cousin.
Zhou Qilin shuddered all over and fell to his knees, looking weak, as if everything that had just happened was just a nightmare.
He slowly raised his head and looked at Su Yao in a daze. He could not remember anything he had done after being possessed. He only felt soreness and burning sensation all over his body. The last bit of evil black energy in his eyes dissipated in an instant.
"Where am I..." he said hoarsely.
Those purple eyes were still cold and indifferent: "Zhou Qilin, if you want to avoid being possessed, you must first correct your heart."
He subconsciously lowered his eyes, thinking of the scene on the clifftop of Tianmu Mountain...
He was controlled by a strange black energy.
The mercenaries from Bureau 79 hadn't recovered from their shock when Zhou Lingyu suddenly asked, "Has that black energy... been completely destroyed?"
His tone was unusually hurried, and there was still residual shock in his eyes.
Su Yao, however, was as calm as the ripples of a clear spring: "No, he is not completely destroyed. As long as there is still desire in his heart, the spirit of the Phantom Emperor can breed and reside in him, and anyone can become a vessel for his control."
Everyone was shocked. Murong Yin asked in a lost voice, "Are you saying... that black energy is the Phantom Emperor?"
Su Yao lowered his eyes, his voice indifferent and solemn, "That was just one of his remnants. The true Nether Emperor has been suppressed in the Nine Netherworld for thousands of years. Unfortunately, the seal has loosened, and he has begun to seek out those with unstable minds to inhabit. Zhou Qilin was bewitched by him."
She had already thought that the revival of divine power was also one of the reasons for the seal's mutation.
Murong Yin's expression changed instantly, and she murmured, "My master once said that beneath the Nine Netherworlds lies a most evil being: called the Nether Emperor... But this is supposed to be just an ancient legend..."
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