Chapter 4

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Ning Chen rubbed his brows and said, "Okay, get up."

The originally planned sparring session was inexplicably interrupted, and seeing Agui's look, Ning Chen couldn't continue.

Ning Chen didn't know how much effect the so-called demonic breath could have before, but now he knows. If he faces a low-level demon, the crushing effect of the demonic breath is no joke.

Not to mention that Ning Chen is still unable to accurately control the magic energy. If he captures them to practice with him now, he will probably be taking their lives.

When I thought of this, Ning Chen felt a little dull.

No, we have already entered the world of immortals and heroes, what’s the point if we don’t fight!

Ning Chen finally understood why some people would be happy when they met a worthy opponent.

It's so funny. If Ning Chen could find someone with a cultivation level similar to the original owner, he would be happy.

But the most important thing is that he can't find it now. He can't even find it in the demon world, where else can he find someone to fight and spar with?

The silver spear in the hand of the man in gilded black clothes turned into a stream of light and disappeared according to the owner's wishes. Ning Chen put away the silver spear, turned around and left.

A Kui looked up and saw the slender figure with broad shoulders and narrow waist leaving without looking back. He quickly got up from the ground, stuffed the black stone into his arms, and chased after him: "Your Excellency! Wait, A Kui, where are you going?"

Ning Chen said without even turning his head: "Don't follow me... This Lord."

Agui selectively chased after him without hearing anything.

It is clearly a burly figure, with dark brown scars all over the face and body, making him look very fierce. His dark and strong muscles are bulging, covered with a layer of dark iron armor. There are many old scratches and damage on the armor, but it is very clean. It can be seen that the owner usually takes good care of it.

Such a fierce image could scare off many young demons who were inexperienced in the demon world. However, following behind the man with an indifferent expression and big strides, he inexplicably seemed to be inferior in momentum.

But A Kui didn't care. Instead, he was eager to try: "A Kui knows that His Majesty has always disliked the human race's Saint Xie Tingyun. Do you still want to kill him now?"

Ning Chen paused.

Xie Tingyun?

A Kui was oblivious and continued, "You don't need to act as bait yourself. Just leave it to A Kui. You have already deployed everything in the ghost realm. Just wait for Xie Tingyun to come in. I guarantee that he will never come back. To be honest, A Kui thinks that now is the most appropriate time to kill Xie Tingyun. Your Majesty is now at the peak of his power, and he..."

Ning Chen tilted his head to look at him and said, "Who asked you to kill him?"

Agui was stunned.

Ning Shen's mood inexplicably improved.

Yes, why didn't he think of that? In the original novel, the Demon Lord often found all kinds of trivial reasons to pick on the male protagonist Long Aotian, and they would fight over a disagreement. He would take advantage of every opportunity to kill Xie Tingyun, and it was unknown how deep the grudge was.

However, this situation is surprisingly suitable for Ning Chen.

An equally matched opponent, and a personality that can pick on others at any time without reason, doesn't that mean he has a perfect sparring partner who is always online!

The sharp and handsome man's eyebrows relaxed slightly, his expression slightly happy.

Ning Chen turned around and saw A Kui who didn't understand why but still insisted on following him. He clicked his tongue and said impatiently, "I'll say this for the last time. I don't like people following me. Also, I'm the only one who can touch Xie Tingyun. Don't think of targeting him."

After all, Xie Tingyun is the protagonist of this world, so he should not be able to die. Ning Chen finally caught a perfect sparring partner, and he hasn't even made a move yet, so how could he tolerate others making a move?

If someone gets hurt, Ning Chen will have to wait until the person recovers before looking for trouble.

That won't work.

A Kui was startled, his body suddenly straightened up, and he said without thinking: "...Yes!"

Ning Chen then left with satisfaction.

When he went back to read the original book just now, that person's figure flashed through his mind countless times.

The rising star of the human race, the proud son of heaven, Xie Tingyun.

It is said that Xie Tingyun is the most promising descendant of the human race in recent times. He was born with a natural spiritual root and is extremely diligent. He practices day and night without stopping, and his upgrade speed is terrifying, even not inferior to that of the Demon Lord Tianxiao.

What's more coincidental is that the Demon Lord was actually born only a few decades earlier than Xie Tingyun. The two were evenly matched all the way and met each other during an accidental assassination. After that, the Demon Lord Tianxiao discovered that there was someone in this world that he could not kill, and from then on he started to fight with Xie Tingyun.

It can be said that the male protagonist in this world has a standard Long Aotian cannon fodder starting counterattack script. He is born in a humble family, but he is extremely talented and diligent. Along the way, he repeatedly cultivates, is looked down upon and provoked, gets slapped in the face, collects resources, and builds a harem, and finally saves the world and becomes a god and ascends to heaven.

Xie Tingyun is the illegitimate son of the Xie family. He has not been favored by his family since he was a child. His mother, who is of low status, used all her love to give Xie Tingyun a relatively warm childhood.

However, the good times did not last long. Because of her postpartum weakness and the lack of timely care, and because of overworking to make a living, Xie's mother soon became seriously ill. At that time, Xie Tingyun was only a few years old and was completely unable to get his mother medical treatment.

The Xie family had never liked the mother and son in the first place, and seeing that Xie's mother was seriously ill, they were lucky not to add insult to injury, so naturally there was no chance of them offering any help.

At first, the head of the Xie family ignored everyone's opposition and insisted on marrying Xie Wan, who was born in a brothel. Therefore, Xie Wan was not liked by the Xie family for many years. After the head of the Xie family fell in love with someone else, no one cared about this mother and son anymore.

The mother and son, who depended on each other for survival, were treated no differently from the servants in the Xie family.

Xie Wan was seriously ill and bedridden for half a month, and she relied on the young Xie Tingyun to run errands and do odd jobs for others every day in the cold wind, rain and snow to keep her going.

It was not until Xie Tingyun caused a stir in heaven and earth because he awakened a rare heavenly spiritual root that he was noticed by the leader of Liuyun Sect and was accepted as a disciple.

At this point, the mother and son finally got rid of their poor life.

However, under the continuous blows and heavy burdens, Xie Wan's body was already exhausted. Her illness was difficult to cure, and she was bedridden for a long time. Even if the people from the Immortal Sect took action, it was still too late.

Xie Wan's illness was already beyond recovery, and all the doctors of Liuyun Sect could do was to relieve her pain and try their best to prolong her remaining life.

Fortunately, Xie Wan did not feel too much pain in her last days. When she passed away, she still had a smile on her face. Her skinny and rough fingers gently covered Xie Tingyun's face, as if she still wanted to use her remaining strength to protect him from the storm.

According to the full plot, the protagonist's character is written as Long Aotian, read as Mei Qiang Mian, who has spent his life either being envied, ridiculed and looked down upon, or being slapped in the face and practicing. It is hard to say how much jealousy and covetousness there is under the sincerity of his vassal brothers and fellow disciples, and the amount of warmth he has felt can be counted on one hand. He has a mother who depends on him for life, a senior brother who secretly helped him out when he was bullied by his fellow disciples as a child, and a master who took him in as a disciple when he was in trouble so that he could settle his seriously ill mother.

However, the master initially accepted the male protagonist as his apprentice only because he himself had been unable to break through the bottleneck for many years, and his cultivation had stagnated and was unable to ascend. He wanted to train the male protagonist when the deadline was approaching, and use the male protagonist to break through the Heavenly Gate and break the threshold of ascension.

The senior brother who helped him out when he was young was actually just an empty-shell puppet that was placed into Liuyun Sect by the Demon Lord Tianxiao with full of malicious intent. He pretended to care about the male protagonist in the early stage, and then stabbed him in the back when the male protagonist completely trusted him. His purpose was to kill him and make the male protagonist taste the feeling of being betrayed.

However, Ning Chen seemed to have come a little early. The plot of this world had some deviations. The original owner broke through the defense too quickly and killed himself. The vest had only gained the trust of the male protagonist and had not had the chance to backstab him before the original owner was already dead.

But these have little to do with tranquility.

Anyway, Ning Chen doesn't need to put in much effort. He holds the script and knows the plot. He just needs to ensure that the male protagonist can use the original body's evil heart to refine the sword in the end. After this identity dies, Ning Chen will immediately change his identity and escape, doing whatever he wants.

At the very least, he didn't have to do this mission. If it was too difficult, or Ningshen had had enough fun and was bored and didn't want to do it anymore, he could run away at any time.

No one can force Ning Chen to do something he doesn't want to do.

Although running away is equivalent to dying again, Ning Chen has already died once, so it is no big deal, and he should have died a long time ago.

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Liuyun Sect.

"Be careful...go slower, don't touch Tingyun's wound."

“Stop the bleeding!”

"Be gentle! Can't you see that my face has turned pale?"

"What do you think I want? If you go any easier, I won't be able to stop you! If you can do it, do it!"

“Push harder… Ok!”

A group of older medical practitioners surrounded Xie Tingyun and had successfully cut off the claw hook on his back. The next step was to find a way to control the evil spirit inside the pipa hook and remove the remaining claw hook fragments from Xie Tingyun's body.

The vicious pipa hook pierced through Xie Tingyun's chest and then came back from his back, almost piercing him through.

Even so, Xie Tingyun didn't say a word the whole time, but his face was a little pale, and it was unknown whether it was due to blood loss or some other reason.

Xie Tingyun pursed his lips and turned his head slightly, looking indifferently at the claw hook sticking out of his left chest. His cold expression fell into a shadow, making it difficult to see clearly.

In his mind, his System 001 said, "The Space-Time Administration will not make mistakes. So he was sent in by the Administration?"

Xie Tingyun said nothing.

001's mechanical voice finally changed. "That's fine. I can't get in touch with 014 during my mission, so what can you do?"

Xie Tingyun whispered, "I don't know. I want to leave now."

But it doesn't work.

Whether or not you can terminate the main quest midway and leave the plane world depends on the circumstances.

Coincidentally, Xie Tingyun couldn't do that this time. His main mission in this plane was to complete the main storyline as the protagonist. If he left, the entire plane world would collapse directly.

The Space Administration will not allow this to happen, so the deduction mission can never be terminated midway.

Xie Tingyun took a deep breath.

It was the first time he felt that things were out of control, and it was a very unpleasant feeling.

Xie Tingyun had no idea which dimension of the world that person was thrown into.

What if that person finds it troublesome and frustrating and is unwilling to do it, and just gives up?

Given that person's personality, this kind of thing is very likely to happen.

What if that person is thrown into a plane world with a high risk factor, and something goes wrong and he dies accidentally in that plane world?

If an ordinary person who travels through a book mission gives up or dies accidentally, then he will really die again.

If Xie Tingyun had system privileges now, there would be no way he could allow this to happen.

But the accident happened at this time.

Xie Tingyun couldn't help rubbing his eyebrows.

"Big Brother!"

Xie Tingyun paused, looked up and saw a fellow apprentice poking his head in from outside the door. He looked at him and whispered, "Big Brother, someone outside the sect is looking for you."

Xie Tingyun's voice was slightly hoarse: "What do you want from me?"

The junior fellow said, "He said...he said he had heard of my name for a long time, and he came here to ask for advice. He hoped you would do him a favor and give him some face."

Xie Tingyun raised his hand and pressed it on his left shoulder. His spiritual power turned into frost and slowly climbed onto the black iron claw hook, freezing all the demonic breath inside.

He said coldly: "Maybe another day."

Xie Tingyun had just fought a fierce battle with that lunatic from the demon world for several days and nights not long ago. He came here to ask for advice at this critical moment. Isn't this just taking advantage of someone's misfortune?

Anyway, Master will be coming out of retreat soon, and he has been in charge of the sect these days. Even if he is injured and can't manage the sect, Master is still here.

Junior: "Oh, I'll go tell him later."

"But," the junior fellow hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't think he has any bad intentions. He even secretly touched the stone lion at our door."

The junior fellow student gestured and said, "Two of them, both were willing to let him touch them, and no one was bitten!"

Xie Tingyun: "..."

The stone lions at the gate of their sect are spiritual and serve as auspicious symbols on both sides of the gate. They will respond to some simple auspicious or ominous signs.

And they have their own preferences. When there are guests from outside the sect, the stone lions will show a good face to them, which usually means they are friendly friends. The stone lions will not show a good face to them, which usually means they are here to cause trouble.

...No, who the hell is so idle that he can secretly touch the mascot stone lions at the gate of the sect, and touch two of them at once? ?

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Ning Chen: That can’t possibly be me

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In the previous article, the system of Ningchen contact was changed from number 002 to number 014