Chapter 50
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Ning Chen walked towards the exit while thinking about where to go next.
When we first came to the Nuwa Secret Realm, we asked A Kui to lead the way. A Kui was a good subordinate and he did not ask any questions and brought Ning Chen here without hesitation.
Now Ning Chen wants to go back to the demon world, so he probably has to call A Kui to take him back.
As they walked, Ning Shen's expression changed slightly, and he suddenly paused.
Xie Tingyun walked behind him with his fellow disciples. Seeing this, other righteous monks also stood up and walked towards the exit. After all, the fire just now was just a temporary measure to temporarily dispel the coldness that had seeped into their bodies so that they could have some spiritual power to protect themselves.
Ning Chen, who was walking in the front, suddenly stopped, and the people behind him naturally stopped as well. Xie Tingyun asked, "What happened?"
“…”
There was a sharp pain like a needle stabbing in the heart. Ning slowed down his breathing and said in a hoarse voice after a while: "It's okay."
Xie Tingyun frowned slightly and said, "Are you really okay?"
After the sudden severe pain subsided, Ning Shen let out a long sigh. Cold sweat was faintly visible on his temples, but because of the angle, no one saw it.
Ning Chen took another step forward and said lazily, "It's okay. I can't tell you even if there is something wrong."
Everyone: “…”
That’s right.
Ning Chen looked calm and composed on the surface, but he was actually reading the original novel frantically. Ning Chen was a forgetful person, so even if he had been taught the original novel's plot, he would still easily forget it after a long time.
System 014 whispered nervously in his ear: "Host...Host, please don't worry, let me see what's going on."
Ning Chen said, "What's the point of waiting for you, a system that can't even remember the plot?"
System 014 said aggrievedly: "You can't remember it either!"
"Can we be the same?" Ning Chen said confidently as he reviewed the plot in his mind, "I'm just a new host. It's only natural that I can't remember. You, a system that travels through so many worlds, actually need to flip through the plot. You're really unskilled in your job."
System 014: “…”
Ning Shen went over the plot again and finally understood it.
It turns out that the original body needs to return to the demon world regularly to soak in the blood pool and absorb enough demonic energy to sharpen the demon heart of the original body.
Ning Chen asked in confusion, "Are we going to soak all those big demons with evil hearts? If they run into each other, won't they start a fight?"
What’s more important is that Ning Chen has never been to the blood pool since he arrived. This thing actually has a built-in urging function?
System 014 said, "No. Not all demons can bathe in the blood pool. The blood pool was built in the palace of the Demon Lord. It is made of the rich blood of the ancient great demon. It has always belonged to the successive Demon Lords. Generally, no demon would dare to snatch it from you."
"In addition, the Demon Heart is a spiritual object as strong as a rock. If you want to hone it to be more indestructible, you will naturally need to pay more price and time. And once you start, you cannot stop until the entire cycle of honing the Demon Heart is completed."
It's really troublesome.
"But, but, the good news is, you only have two more times to complete the cycle!"
All right. Ning Shen accepted it reluctantly.
Tempering the devil's heart can make the demons possess stronger vitality and recovery ability. In the original work, the devil's heart tempered by the blood pool is even tougher and stronger, which happens to be the best material for refining the Heavenly Sword.
After all, it is prepared for the male protagonist.
Ning Chen shrugged nonchalantly and stepped out of the exit of the secret realm. However, the moment Ning Chen stepped out of the exit of the secret realm, the formation that was ready on the ground suddenly rose up, and the sharp spiritual power chains suddenly entangled Ning Chen's body.
Ning Chen's arm veins bulged, and he reacted quickly to break the spiritual power chains used to bind the enemy, but he didn't expect that the huge formation below had already started to operate silently the moment he stepped out, and in an instant, it completely enveloped Ning Chen.
Ning Chen's expression suddenly turned gloomy.
Xie Tingyun was walking behind, preparing to take off his ink-colored gilded robe. However, when he stepped out of the exit of the Nuwa Secret Realm and saw Ning Chen trapped in the center by the formation, his face suddenly changed.
Outside the entire Nuwa Secret Realm, there are densely packed righteous monks who are on guard duty. The ground and the sky are filled with forbidden formations, just waiting for the Demon Lord Tianxiao to come out and take him down in one fell swoop.
The other cultivators in the secret realm came out in a good mood, but suddenly saw Ning Chen trapped in the formation, and all of their own sects were blocking the door and waiting for him. They were shocked: "Sect, Sect Master?"
"...Master, why are you here?!"
"Brother? What are you guys doing?"
When Xie Tingyun saw his master with a serious face leading the elders of Liuyun Sect to set up a formation and wait, his heart sank.
After Ning Shen was trapped by the imprisonment formation they had set up, the leaders of each sect came over and took their disciples away, saying thankfully: "You guys are still fine under Tian Xiao's hands, are you guys safe?"
The monks: "??? No, what are you talking about! The Demon Lord, he, he didn't..."
However, with a powerful enemy in front of them, the various sects had no time to listen to them finish. Ning Chen had already begun to sneer and use his silver spear to smash the confinement formation again and again. The spiritual power chains around the formation that were supposed to lock up the Demon Lord could not get close to him at all. Once they got even a little bit close, they would be torn apart by the violent demonic aura around Ning Chen.
Taoist Master Dao Ling saw that all the Liuyun Sect disciples, including Xie Tingyun, came out safely, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He said to Ning Chen coldly, "Demon Lord Tianxiao, although the human race is in decline, you can't just kill them and play with them as you wish."
Ning Chen tilted his head but smiled: "Old man, you were the one who took the lead in setting up this formation, right?"
Xie Tingyun walked quickly to the side of Taoist Master Daoling and said very quickly: "Master, Tianxiao had no intention of harming us. Instead, he saved us. Tingyun hereby requests you to withdraw the formation. It will be too late if you are any later!"
"Tingyun, are you worried about the Demon Lord?" Taoist Ling looked at the long robe on Xie Tingyun's shoulders that clearly belonged to Ning Chen, and pulled the robe off in a fit of anger, but Xie Tingyun quickly reached out and snatched it back.
Taoist Master: “…”
Taoist Master Daoling was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "The disciples who withdrew from the Nuwa Secret Realm repeated all the threats made by the Demon Lord at that time. He can force all the teams that want to enter the secret realm to withdraw by threatening their lives, but he won't allow us to fight back for the safety of our own disciples?"
"Master, please trust Tingyun for once and withdraw the formation first," Xie Tingyun glanced at Ning Chen's face. If there was time, Xie Tingyun could refute him one by one, but Ning Chen was about to lose his temper. Xie Tingyun didn't have time to say so much, so he could only pick out the key points and say briefly: "... Tingyun is not worried about him, but about you and the other seniors. You know Tian Xiao's strength. It will not end well if you anger him."
Taoist Priest: “???”
Are you kidding me, his little apprentice?
However, before Taoist Master Daoling could react, the formation that trapped Ning Chen was torn into pieces by the fierce attack of the spear, and the cracks gradually expanded to the entire formation barrier as Ning Chen continued to move.
However, the formation that imprisoned Ning Shen suddenly shattered in such a short period of time!
Taoist Master Daoling suddenly covered his chest with his hands. The backlash from the formation being forcibly broken plus the old wounds on his body that had not healed for many years combined made Taoist Master Daoling spit out a large mouthful of blood.
Xie Tingyun: "Master!"
Taoist Master Dao Ling snorted coldly, raised his hand and pushed Xie Tingyun away, quickly formed a seal with his hands, and shouted in a deep voice: "Since it has come to this, we can't miss this opportunity. Everyone, follow me and seal the demon completely!"
The words that Ning Shen entered the Nuwa Secret Realm to intimidate the righteous monks were spread by the monks who evacuated. Now, except for the monks who had truly passed through the Heavenly Secret Realm, everyone thought that Demon Lord Tian Xiao was unreasonable. He actually tried to use a far-fetched reason to drive out all the people who explored the secret realm and monopolize the entire Nuwa Secret Realm. However, because the entrance to the secret realm was suddenly closed, the Demon Lord's conspiracy did not completely succeed.
But some of their own disciples were involved in the incident and their lives were in danger. The cultivation world was naturally furious, and almost every sect involved contributed their efforts to set up a demon-hunting formation in an attempt to take it down in one blow.
They were ready for the Demon Lord to come out of the secret realm, and at the same time they were trying to break the Nuwa secret realm from the outside and rescue their own disciples. However, before they could do it, the Demon Lord Tian Xiao and his own disciples came out from inside.
Fortunately, the various sects in the cultivation world have not only prepared this one formation.
Led by Taoist Master Daoling and followed by the leaders of other righteous sects, everyone worked together, and many formations that had been prepared long ago suddenly rose from under the ground, carrying a heavy spiritual power and pressure, and pressed down on Ning Chen.
There was still a lingering biting chill in Ning Chen's body, and his demonic energy had only recovered about 30% to 40%. He had already used a lot of it to break the formation violently just now. Now, facing the continuous formations, he could not help but lower his brows.
That was a formation that was pressed down by all the powerful beings in the entire cultivation world, including many great masters and Mahayana practitioners working together. Even though Ning Chen's realm was much higher than theirs, he couldn't help but groan when the heavy spiritual power pressure fell on his head.
The cultivators who came out of the Nuwa Secret Realm were as anxious as ants on a hot pot, including the junior brothers and sisters from the Liuyun Sect. They were all anxiously trying to clarify and explain the situation to the people in their own sect, explaining what happened to them in the secret realm and the help given by the Demon Lord, but the elders simply ignored them.
Seeing this scene, Xie Tingyun suddenly realized something.
The world of cultivation... doesn't care whether Ning Chen is speaking one word or the other. No one in the secret realm will be spared from speaking outrageously.
They just happened to seize the opportunity when Demon Lord Tian Xiao threatened to kill the young disciples of various sects, and used this as an excuse to set up an array to kill the Demon Lord.
Ever since seeing Xie Tingyun's performance these days, and the fact that his beloved disciple even came out wearing the cloak of the Demon Lord, Taoist Master Daoling knew that he couldn't go on like this.
Taoist Master Dao Ling said in a deep voice: "Tingyun, there are some things you don't want to do, that's fine, but someone has to do it, and you can't stop others from doing it."
"Besides, how do you know that Tian Xiao didn't pretend to save you, but actually deceived you into trusting him, and then looked for opportunities to kill more people who foolishly believed in him?"
Taoist Ling has been the sect leader for so many years after all. It is impossible for him to gamble the safety of everyone on the kindness of the Demon Lord just because of such an incident.
Regarding the demon race, the attitude of the cultivation world has always been to assume the greatest malice.
Ning Chen sneered.
He was oppressed by the successive confinement formations, and the pressure on him was obviously becoming more and more aggressive. Ning Shen had been forced to recognize the sound of internal organs and bones being constantly squeezed.
The fishy-sweet taste rose up his throat and was swallowed by Ning Chen with an expressionless face.
If Ning Chen cannot get out of here this time, I'm afraid the final plot of having his heart taken away by the devil will happen directly.
However, once the Demon Heart is taken out, it will quickly weaken and must be used to refine the sword as soon as possible. Otherwise, within half an hour, the Demon Heart will be completely inactive and reduced to a useless piece of meat.
However, Xie Tingyun had only collected one piece of Tianji Silk as the material for refining the sword, and he still hadn't obtained the Ghost Tears and the Azure Dragon Horn. It would be a complete waste to take Ning Chen's Demon Heart now.
Even if Ning Chen was willing to break out and hand himself over to Xie Tingyun to take out his Demon Heart, it would be impossible for this bunch of old villains to successfully set up an array to kill him!
Ning Chen sneered, and the spear spun in his palm. At a certain moment, the owner suddenly thrust it into the ground, and the spear head was deeply embedded in the pattern of the formation. The devil's breath quickly poured into the pattern of the formation at a terrifying speed, and found the center of the formation along the pattern——
After all the demonic energy devoured the spiritual flow on the pattern, it then flowed back toward the center of the formation, and actually changed the core pattern of the formation into the reverse direction!
Ning Chen didn't know much about the formation, nor could he learn and use it immediately, so he used the last bit of magic energy that he had squeezed out to make some changes. The spiritual power pressure on Ning Chen suddenly exploded, and like a roaring dragon, it brought surging magic energy and counterattacked towards Taoist Ling and the others who set up the formation!
Ning Shen calmly spat out a mouthful of blood, however Taoist Ling and the other people who set up the formation were in a worse situation than him. They had to endure all the spiritual power impact and demonic attacks of the formation. The double backlash instantly smashed their spiritual power into chaos, and the blood they spat out almost dyed the entire front of their clothes red.
Looking in the direction of the original formation, Ning Chen's figure had already disappeared from the spot.
Xie Tingyun's face suddenly changed. He just wanted to chase Ning Chen, but Daoling Zhenren coughed up blood and shouted: "Tingyun! Are you going to save him even if it means violating the sect rules?"
Xie Tingyun first stuffed various emergency elixirs into Daoling Zhenren's mouth, making him speechless. Then he sighed, "Master, Tingyun has already advised you, but you didn't listen."
Taoist Master: “…”
Who could have thought that the Demon Lord could actually change his formation and even escape from their encirclement?
Is it true that Demon Lord Tian Xiao is the only one who is so cool in this world of cultivation? !
Xie Tingyun calmly stroked his master's hair and said, "Master, Tianxiao is seriously injured and can't escape too far. Tingyun is leading people to encircle and suppress him now. This is not against the sect's rules, right?"
He disappeared after saying this, leaving Daoling Zhenren alone, jumping up and down in anger: "What are you doing here? You're lucky you didn't save him, come back to me!"
Xie Tingyun has selective hearing loss.
Tianxiao is a person with poor direction. There is a long-abandoned village and jungle near the Nuwa Secret Realm. Even if Tianxiao escapes, he may be caught by righteous monks because of getting lost.
Tian Xiao helped him find the ring that Xie Wan left for him, and Xie Tingyun owed him a big favor.
In summary, there was no problem at all for Xie Tingyun to find the lost idiot and then secretly let him run away.
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