Chapter 12

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Merciless Plains.

The Demon Lord and the human race's saint Xie Tingyun jumped into the Merciless Ghost Rift together, and the Bodhi formation here was of no use.

The wind howled across the plains, bringing with it a faint wailing sound.

A bunch of demons were lying on the ground in all directions. They were lucky enough to save their lives thanks to Agui's treatment. However, their demon cores had been eroded and shattered by the powerful and overbearing demon aura of Demon Lord Tianxiao. Their foundations were completely destroyed, and it would be impossible for them to return to their current level of cultivation in this lifetime.

Aqui was wearing a fine battle armor, with a pair of brand new battle axes on his waist, looking down at the demons crawling on the ground.

He was in the middle stage of Yuanying. When His Majesty ordered him not to follow, Agui followed his orders and went to the largest black market in the demon world and quickly sold the black stone in his hand.

After getting a considerable amount of magic coins, Agui quickly changed his appearance and left immediately to prevent anyone from intercepting him.

The black stone has already flowed into the black market, and what will happen next has nothing to do with Agui. After he settled his family, he wanted to secretly follow the Master, and come out to help the Master when he needs it, but he witnessed the scene where the Master and Xie Tingyun jumped into the Merciless Ghost Rift together.

Until a group of demons were killed, most of the demons lay on the ground. The remaining two demons in the Void Realm who decisively severed the connection with the Bodhi Formation were better off. Although their foundations were not completely destroyed, they were not in a much better condition either. They struggled to strangle the demonic breath of Tianxiao that had invaded their bodies. However, due to the disparity in their realms, they failed to do so after trying for a long time. They could only temporarily stop the demonic breath of Tianxiao from devouring the demon core and heart. They no longer had the energy to do anything else.

The demons who had just managed to save their lives saw Agui passing by and couldn't help but say, "Thanks to Agui, my good brother! If it weren't for you, we would all have died here."

"Hehe, Agui, your acting skills are really good. You can even get his reward in front of the Demon Lord."

"You didn't expect that he would turn around and stab him!"

Agui had a blank expression at first, but faced with this situation, he felt it would be wrong for him not to react.

So he nodded hurriedly, smiled sheepishly, and then walked indifferently to the side of the two Void Stage demons. When the two demons saw him coming, they looked arrogant and contemptuous like high-level demons, and said from their noses: "You are a wallflower."

They relied on themselves to cut off the link with the Bodhi Formation in time, so they didn't think that Agui was anything special. He was just a fence-sitter who knelt at the feet of the Demon Lord yesterday and could save the person who killed the Demon Lord today.

Hey, people like this, if the Demon Lord really comes out alive in the future, it goes without saying that he will turn around and stab them.

Agui is an honest man, not good at talking and doesn't know how to argue with others.

He just smiled shyly at the two cold-faced Kongming period demons, and then his dark palm like an iron clamp pierced through the chest of one of the demons with a "puff".

The demon in the Void Realm never thought that he, a great demon, would be pierced through the heart by a lowly low-level demon. However, when he wanted to resist, Agui had already crushed his heart peacefully and took out the magic core inside his heart.

“…”

Everyone present was stunned into silence by this unexpected turn of events, with only the dull sound of flesh piercing echoing in the ears of all the demons present.

Agui still had that shy smile on his face. He pulled his hand out, carefully wiped the blood off the demon core of the Kongming period great demon, and then put it into his storage bag.

The pupils of the great demon whose magic core was cut out were dilated. The magic aura of Demon Lord Tianxiao was still flowing in his meridians, preventing him from mobilizing the magic aura. Before the vitality of his body faded, it silently eroded everything.

Agui was oblivious to the shocked looks from others, and then extended his hand to another surviving demon in the Kongming period.

These two demons in the Void Realm were both trapped by Ning Chen's demonic aura. It took them all their strength just to resist Ning Chen's invading demonic aura, and they had no extra strength to resist the outside world. Otherwise, they would not have been able to be picked up by Agui.

The crushing of realms is the most unsolvable. Under normal circumstances, Agui, a demon in the middle Yuanying stage, would not be able to stand up to them in the Kongming stage.

It’s a pity that they are still not good enough in front of Demon Lord Tianxiao.

Agui easily blocked the powerless resistance of the Kongming period demon at the moment of death. He followed the same method to take out the last magic core of the Kongming period demon, wiped it clean, and carefully put it into his storage bag. Then he stood up with satisfaction.

Agui wiped the blood off his body and smiled at the demons around him, his voice still carrying the shyness of an honest man: "I still have to go find my master, I'll leave first, you must survive."

Otherwise how can their Lord find someone to vent his anger on?

It would be better to live a life worse than death than to let them die so easily. They hurriedly looked for a safe place before Tianxiao came out, and lived in fear under the shadow that Tianxiao might come out alive. No matter how vicious the curses were, it was useless, and they were finally found one by one by Tianxiao.

Agui was not actually very familiar with the Demon Lord, but his vengeful character was well known to everyone.

It's a pity for the two demons in the Kongming period. Their magic cores are valuable. If the seriously injured Kongming demons are let go, they will be divided up within a day. By then, Your Majesty will not only be unable to vent his anger, but will also lose his magic cores.

That won't work.

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Ning Chen was motionless.

The pair of dark red eyes looked down at Xie Tingyun, rarely with any mockery, disdain or any other emotions, just silently falling on the man in white clothes stained with blood, no one knew what he was thinking.

After an unknown amount of time, Ning Chen suddenly came to his senses and realized: No, he is treating me as someone else's substitute, right? ? !

Tsk.

Ning Chen came back to his senses, thought about it, and finally did not pull his hand out.

The male protagonist and the Demon Lord have been fighting each other for so many years, how could he possibly do something so intimate to him?

It's good enough that he wasn't knocked away with just one sword.

As expected, Xie Tingyun was hallucinating because he was on the verge of death.

Ning Shen was thoughtful.

The flesh and bone pill took effect quickly. Ning Chen used his stiff right hand to awkwardly light a fire. When he saw that Xie Tingyun's clothes were not soaked by blood and turned a darker color, he put out the fire.

The frequency and strength of the pulse under his palm gradually recovered a little. Ning was silent for a moment, and couldn't help but use a little force to lift Xie Tingyun's chin.

...Strange. It doesn't look like that now that I look at it this close.

Ning Chen plucked a piece of grass with a little annoyance, held it between his fingertips and crushed it unconsciously.

Xie Tingyun is calm and strong, like a silent ghost hunter, facing everything calmly and patiently.

If he hadn't been in a state of injury when they first met, Ning Chen would not have been able to see this rare side of him.

Vulnerable and vulnerable, intimate touch, calm and desperate whispers.

Xie Tingyun's facial features are very straight, and when he opens his eyes, his gaze is deep and cold. His aura of keeping people at a distance is very obvious, especially when facing Ning Shen.

When she closed her eyes, it was as if all the edges and corners were taken back. There were no harsh words or calm sarcasm in her voice. She was so calm that she would not refuse anyone who wanted to touch her cheeks.

“…”

Ning Shen froze when he realized what he had done.

Xie Tingyun doesn’t know. Xie Tingyun doesn’t know. Xie Tingyun doesn’t know.

Yes, Xie Tingyun didn’t know, which meant he did nothing.

That's it.

Ning Shen, who had successfully convinced himself, calmed down for a while and then let go of his hand as if nothing had happened.

“…”

Ning Chen plucked another piece of grass and crushed it in his hand, and couldn't help but look at Xie Tingyun again.

He looked at it carefully for a long time this time, but the face, whose cold features could not be concealed even with the blood stain, looked more and more unfamiliar the more he looked at it.

It was pretty, but it was further and further away from the child in his memory.

The child was quiet and would just quietly stay by Ning Chen's side, following him wherever he went. If Ning Chen reached out to pull him away, the little guy would quietly stick back to him.

Okay. Ning Shen admitted that it didn't look very similar.

Ning Chen originally thought that the pill should be able to alleviate Xie Tingyun's injuries, but not long after, Xie Tingyun suddenly coughed up blood. For some reason, the spiritual energy in his body became chaotic and rushed through his meridians, even bleeding on his exposed skin.

Ning Chen hissed. He really didn't know how to deal with this situation. His body was full of demonic energy and he couldn't help to sort it out. He was stuck there for a while.

Xie Tingyun closed his eyes tightly, and when he couldn't help coughing, he subconsciously turned his head away, not wanting the blood to flow onto the back of Ning Chen's hand. The next moment, that hand pried it over and fed him a pill.

Ning Chen only had 3 points left, which could only be exchanged for inferior pills. Ning Chen had no choice but to try his luck and exchanged a pill for a pill used to comb the meridians and acupoints of the body based on its name and efficacy. However, after Xie Tingyun took the pill, it seemed to have little effect, and the disorder of his spiritual energy did not get much better.

Now the two of them were trapped in the Cruel Ghost Rift, and no one could help them. Xie Tingyun was seriously injured and unconscious, so the situation was very tricky.

Ning Chen has no points left, and he doesn't know to what extent he has to complete the damn mission points. No points are being credited, and there is no medical practitioner here. If he lets Xie Tingyun go on like this, the consequences will be disastrous.

At this moment, there was a sudden rustling sound behind Ning Shen, accompanied by rapid and panicked breathing.

Judging from the sound, the source was right behind them, and was getting closer as time went on. If Ning Chen didn't dodge, they would collide with it soon.

The voice was obviously human, but how could there be living people in a place like the Merciless Ghost Rift?

Of course, except for these two big grudges that fell down.

Ning Shen frowned, reached out and picked up Xie Tingyun and moved to the side to avoid him.

However, the next moment, Ning Chen suddenly remembered that he was a great demon in the realm of Silence.

If he remembered correctly, except for some old immortal cultivators with lives longer than those of heaven, this level of cultivation should be enough to make one walk freely in the world of cultivation, right?

After releasing his spiritual consciousness, he did not find any existence more arrogant than himself, so it should not be an opponent too powerful that he cannot deal with.

Generally speaking, when encountering an unknown situation, the best strategy is to hide and wait and see what happens. Who knows if the person on the other side is some old monster? It is risky to confront him head-on.

Then why are you hiding?

Ning Chen has never been the kind of person who avoids the sharp edge. He is the kind of person who will deliberately rush into it when he encounters the sharp edge.

He bet there was no old monster here!

Ning Chen figured this out and immediately released the demonic aura that he had been suppressing.

The rapid panting sound was getting closer and closer, and at the moment when I felt the peaceful breath, a low roar of unwillingness came from behind.

Ning Chen hid in the shadows of the dense forest with the person in his arms, and finally had the chance to look back.

The existence behind was getting closer and closer to Ning Chen's position. Even though there was no light source here, Ning Chen could clearly see what was happening with his eyesight at this time.

A child carrying a medicine basket on his back stumbled forward, and behind him was a huge beast that was almost three or four times taller than the child. The sharp fangs on its mouth were estimated to be more than one meter long and were covered in blood.

He was obviously extremely panicked, but he clenched his teeth tightly and dared not make a sound. Only the rapid breathing that escaped from his lips could reveal how scared his master was.

The fangs and giant paws were just about to touch him.

When it sensed the warning and threatening aura of the great demon ahead, the beast that looked like a tiger but was not a tiger roared unwillingly, and wanted to take the opportunity to pierce the child carrying the medicine basket with its fangs. However, the heavy pressure came down on its head, and it was almost instantly filled with murderous intent.

Its movements were suppressed and stopped, and in the blink of an eye the child was out of the beast's attack range. If the beast wanted to kill him again, it could only enter the big demon's territory.

The pursuing beast must know which is more important, his own life or the elixir of nature.

It looked hatefully at the child who had snatched its spiritual herb and ran away, and had no choice but to turn around and leave unwillingly.

Ning Chen secretly watched the child carrying the medicine basket. The child breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he was finally out of danger.

The child didn't dare to stay here too long. He got up from the ground, picked up the herbs that had fallen out when he fell and put them back into the basket. Then he quickly carried them back with his hands and feet and was about to leave.

The child's face and clothes were clean, but the mud on his trousers and sleeves was obviously from when he fell while escaping. He looked like someone who lived nearby.

The person in his arms had a pale face. Xie Tingyun closed his eyes and leaned against Ning Chen's chest, grabbing his sleeves with his powerless hands. Even if he didn't want to, the blood from his lips gradually soaked Ning Chen's black clothes.

Ning Chen raised his eyes and saw the child's medicine basket, and his eyes darkened.

He also disdained to steal a child's things, but the current situation was indeed more urgent, and Xie Tingyun's injuries could not be delayed.

So Ning Chen simply showed up and said in a deep voice: "Hey, kid..."

The child carrying the medicine basket was startled. He turned around abruptly and looked at Ning Chen warily. The short knife he had been holding was trembling in front of him. He asked tremblingly, "What are you going to do?"

Ning Chen's gaze lingered for a while on the dagger that he had taken out at an unknown time, and he silently released the aura of the Great Demon of the Realm of Silence.

The aura did not have any aggressive meaning. It seemed to be just released for a stroll and was not directed at anyone, so the child did not feel any oppression.

In fact, when he was being chased by the beast just now, the powerful aura that scared the beast away but did not hurt him was exactly the one in front of him!

The child was stunned for a moment, realizing that Ning Chen had no intention of hurting him, but he still didn't dare to let his guard down.

In such a remote place with no one around, people are more terrifying than any other existence.

However, when the child saw that Ning Chen was only emitting breath for him to identify, and the person in his arms was still dead or alive and the breath was weak, he seemed to understand something.

Ning Chen lowered his eyes and said, "You know how to pick herbs. Do you know any herbs that can save him? In exchange, I will agree to one condition of yours."