Chapter 74 [Buy with caution, this chapter is a secondary CP plot]

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Xie Tingyun entered too quickly, and Ning Chen was one step behind him, almost unable to catch up.

Ning Chen's eyes blurred and the scene around him changed instantly.

Without the wooden cross and the countless living and dead souls, Ning Chen saw Xie Tingyun's slender white figure standing in front of him, seemingly dazed.

Yuqing seemed a little surprised that after she came in, she did not encounter any fatal attack, but only a vast space.

Kong Ling calmly brushed off the evil spirit that was on his body to prevent himself from being taken advantage of by it.

People walked out of the halo behind him one after another. They were all Mahayana practitioners who had followed in from outside. Ning Chen took a quick look and was surprised to find that they had all come in.

No one fled from the battlefield.

The surroundings were empty black. Everyone gathered in the same space. In front of them were eight square doors. No one knew what was behind the doors.

Ning Chen walked forward. He was silent for a while, then raised his hand to hold Xie Tingyun's shoulder and whispered, "Xie Tingyun."

Even though Ning Chen knew that he was not the culprit, judging from the current situation, it didn't make much difference whether he was the culprit or not.

The person inside this shell and with this identity is Ning Shen, and he has no way of making excuses.

Xie Tingyun seemed to have been standing here for a long time. He stared at the eight identical doors in front of him. After a while, he said hoarsely, "It's okay."

"...I haven't asked yet." Ning Chen said.

Xie Tingyun chuckled.

He shook his head, changed the subject, and asked softly, "Are you lucky? Choose one."

Ning Chen said: "I always choose a dead end at the fork in the road, what do you think?"

Xie Tingyun: "..."

Ning Chen said: "How can anyone count on a fool?"

Yu Qing frowned and asked, "The eight gates of Qimen Dunjia?"

"Probably." Xie Tingyun nodded and said, "Which fellow practitioner has good luck? Choose one. After all, the first door won't be a dead door."

Ning Chen raised his eyes and took a look, then added: "If you let me come, then it's quite possible."

Xie Tingyun: "..."

Just now, the evil spirit hesitated for a moment towards Ning Chen. It is hard to say how lucky Ning Chen, as the one who set up this formation, can be.

Maybe you will get a big surprise right away.

Xie Tingyun rarely saw Ning Chen have so much to say to interrupt, but he had to admit that with his interruption, the atmosphere did relax a little.

Daoming was the youngest among the three elders of Liuyun Sect. He stood up and said, "Tingyun, why don't you let me give it a try?"

Ning Chen raised his eyes and looked over, and couldn't help but sigh.

Isn't this the same gossipy person who was gossiping about him crazily in the inn?

Daoming coughed lightly and said, "When I usually draw team-up tasks for my disciples, I always help them draw teammates with stronger cultivation and strength."

Ning Chen turned around and said to Xie Tingyun: "You elders can actually help with this?"

Xie Tingyun said politely, "Elder, please."

Afterwards, Xie Tingyun whispered to Ning Chen, "Elder Daoming is a well-known thousand-year-old brocade carp in the sect, and his luck is pretty good. If his disciples need to rely on luck for anything, they can ask him for help.

The effect is pretty good.

Ning Chen asked, "Have you looked for it?"

Xie Tingyun glanced at him, paused for some reason, and then answered, "No."

Ning Chen was surprised: "Why?"

Daoming walked in front of the eight light gates, heard the words and laughed awkwardly, and said: "Because the disciples asked me to help them form a team, it was Tingyun."

Ning Chen: “…”

No wonder he said the effect is good.

Xie Tingyun didn't know what to say for a moment, so he could only respond with a polite smile.

Daoming looked at the eight gates in front of him and suddenly said, "The eight gates are the first, life and death are determined, everything you experience is real, everything you see is happening, don't see the past, don't look at the future."

He whispered, "Ancient evil formation, nightmare spirit."

Daoming thought of the gilded figure who had beaten someone for Xie Tingyun, and sighed softly, "How deep must his hatred be to have set up such a formation to lure us in."

Daoming had never personally experienced the power of the Nightmare Evil Array, and the record in the book was incomplete. He only knew that the Nightmare Evil Array was extremely dangerous. Having a high level of cultivation here would not mean anything, but having a low level of cultivation here would only mean death.

Yu Qing said in a deep voice: "It is said that Demon Lord Tian Xiao has always had a strange temperament, but as a genius that is rare in the demon world for a thousand years, it is not surprising that he knows some evil magic. However, I heard that he is against Daoist Xie because his beloved is infatuated with Daoist Xie. But according to my observation, in the inn, Demon Lord is even very protective of Daoist Xie. This is not quite the same as the rumors."

Xie Tingyun lowered his eyes and was silent for a while. Before he could speak, Ning Chen looked at him sharply and said, "What do you want to say?"

Yu Qing was stunned for a moment. He did not expect that this young Jindan friend had such an inexplicably strong offensive ability, so he said, "I just can't figure out why the difference between this person before and after is so obvious."

Could it be that the Demon Lord is really a genius at disguise, and that he dared to endure disguise for so long in order to avenge his love?

Daoming said, "My fellow Taoists, you may not know that the person that the Demon Lord loves is called Qin Shu. He was born in a family of immortal cultivators, and he is very talented and diligent in his cultivation. He once came to Liuyun Sect to exchange ideas for a while. That was when the Demon Lord first showed his brilliance and came to Liuyun Sect to make a big fuss, claiming that he wanted to compete with Tingyun to see who was the more talented genius."

Yuqing thought about it for a while, and felt that she understood a little: "So it was at that time..."

Ning Chen was annoyed to hear them rehashing the past at this juncture, so he interrupted them and said, "I'm petty, let me tell you first. I judge others by my own standards, but I've never seen anyone who doesn't chase after someone they like, and instead goes crazy and kills their rival."

Daoming: “?!”

Xie Ting looked at Ning Chen with a frown. He seemed a little surprised and said, "You have been in seclusion for many years, how do you know?"

Ning Chen said calmly, "Retreat does not mean not receiving any news from the outside world. My dear brother, you are being targeted like this, why are you still so foolish as to think that it is because others like you?"

Xie Tingyun held his forehead and said, "I didn't pay so much attention..."

Xie Tingyun said softly, "The Qin family cherished Qin Shu, their only daughter, and therefore sent her to Liuyun Sect for further study. At that time, the master personally brought her up. She had her own pursuits. With her Yuanying cultivation, she dared to enter the Earth-level secret realm. Later, she advanced to a higher level and after leaving Liuyun Sect, she entered a Heaven-level secret realm."

"It's uncertain when the secret realm will reopen after it closes. A hundred years have passed since she entered. Although I don't know what happened, the soul lamp of Qin Shu in Liuyun Sect is still on. I think she must have gotten what she wanted."

Dao Ming said: "So this is just a gimmick?"

Ning Chen didn't say anything. He just said, "Do you still want to save your disciples? As long as this evil formation is not solved, your disciples will not be able to return to their bodies. Don't you want to think of a solution? Why are you still talking about the past?"

After all, he is not the original owner, so it is not good to speculate too much.

Maybe there was heartbeat, maybe there was jealousy, maybe in the end it was no match for the competitiveness of young people and the ineradicable hatred and prejudice between races.

Of course, Ning Shen Ning Yuan was just narrow-minded and would assume the most malicious things of others. After all, judging from the plot, the original Demon Lord wanted to kill Xie Tingyun many times more than he took the initiative to attack and chase him.

What kind of love is it to just talk about it?

Ning Chen urged, "Choose quickly, don't waste time. If you don't choose, I'll choose for you and open a dead door directly, and then no one will have to play."

Xie Tingyun: "..."

He reached out and held Ning Chen down.

Daoming squinted his eyes and looked for a while. He took a deep breath and finally chose the fourth door.

The light from the fourth door gradually grew brighter, while the other light doors gradually faded and dimmed, leaving only this door in front of everyone.

A huge word "Open" slowly appeared on the last light gate, and then everyone felt dizzy in their minds, and everyone disappeared from the spot in an instant.

The moment he saw the door open, the only thought in Ning Shen's mind was:

This is really a thousand-year-old koi.

The three auspicious gates are Kai, Xiu and Sheng; the three inauspicious gates are Si, Jing and Shang; Dumen and Jingmen are neutral.

In the original novel, the first door the male protagonist opened was the Dumen.

This time, we let Elder Jinli open the door. The first door is the opening door among the three auspicious gates. This door should not be that difficult.

Ning Chen's eyes blurred and the scene before him turned into a paradise.

People who enter the Gate of Life can see each other, and their figures are all translucent.

There was the fragrance of flowers and the sound of birds in front of him. A young human monk leaned down and carefully approached the seriously injured white wolf that was caught in a trap.

The human monk had a clean and gentle face. He raised his hands to indicate that he had no ill intentions and said, "Little fox, I'll help you open the trap. Please don't bite me, okay?"

White Wolf: “…”

Seeing that he didn't move, the human monk approached him lightly, still muttering, "Alas, I don't know if you can understand me, but I really have no bad intentions. There are many hunters who set traps in the mountains, so you should be careful next time."

The white wolf was covered in wounds, its fur was turned inside out, it was covered in blood, and its tail was even half broken off.

If the wolf hadn't been so predatory, how could he have been trapped by a small trap?

Now that the human was calling him a fox, the white wolf was annoyed and confused, so he spoke in human language and said coldly: "Don't come over. Are all humans so blind?"

The human cultivator sighed and said in astonishment, "You can actually speak, have you become a spirit?"

Then he said rather disapprovingly: "Stereotypes and range attacks are not allowed."

The human cultivator was only at the Jindan stage. He had no experience and this was his first time out of the sect.

He had never seen a snow wolf before, and the white wolf was so thin that it was almost just bones. Although its fur was stained with blood, it looked very good, so he naturally misunderstood it.

The white wolf kept baring its teeth and breathing heavily at the human cultivator. The human cultivator felt a little distressed. After thinking for a while, he put on a defensive magic weapon before daring to approach the white wolf.

As expected, the white wolf didn't trust the monks at all, and bit the human monk's arm as soon as it came up.

Ning Chen suddenly felt a sharp pain in his left arm, as if a ferocious beast with extremely strong bite force had bitten his arm.

"......!" Ning Shen cursed silently and raised his hand to hold his left arm, but unexpectedly, his body had no wounds and was still intact.

Ning Chen looked over and saw that everyone had a changed look on their faces, and they all raised their hands to cover their arms.

The pain from the bite on his left arm was still sharp. Ning Shen cursed and said, "Be careful. This affects your soul."

Xie Tingyun stared at the intact arm of the human cultivator and whispered, "He is not injured."

Fortunately, the magic weapon was powerful and blocked the attack, and the eerie white fangs did not penetrate the arm of the human monk.

It was at this opportunity that the human monk quickly found the buckle of the beast trap and successfully released it.

The human cultivator immediately distanced himself from the wolf to prevent it from biting him. He said cautiously, "I am just a junior disciple at the Jindan stage. You must be very powerful since you can become a spirit. Don't eat me. It's useless even if you eat me."

The trap had bitten a deep bloody hole in the snow wolf's front leg, and the bone of its front paw was almost broken.

The Snow Wolf went through many fierce battles and finally got rid of the pursuers and escaped to this deep forest, but he didn't expect to be ambushed by humans in such a despicable way.

The human monk nervously climbed onto his sword and made it float in the air to prevent the snow wolf from running over and biting him.

But unexpectedly, the snow wolf also limped back vigilantly.

The snow wolf supported itself and hid deep in the forest. When the human monk disappeared from its sight, it finally couldn't hold on and fainted.

Human monk: “!”

The human monk hid on a big tree and secretly saw the snow wolf fainting in a hidden corner. After hesitating for a while, he walked over quietly and carried the snow wolf back home.

Anyway, the human cultivators still have magical weapons that can save their lives, so they are not afraid of the snow wolves waking up and biting them.

The people of Ningchen followed the human cultivators to a cave.

The movement of their directions was not under their control. It seemed that the scene they encountered after opening the door was closely related to the young monk in the Jindan stage before them.

Yu Qing rubbed his aching arm and said, "This is the first time I know that the Nightmare Evil Array is like this. It is really hard to defend against. No wonder it is called the Ancient Evil Array."

They will suffer the same injuries as human monks, but these injuries do not affect the body, but directly affect the soul. The damage caused to the soul is not so easy to recover.

This is just opening the door. If they enter some dangerous door and the young human cultivator dies instantly, wouldn't their souls also suffer a devastating blow?

Ning Chen frowned and asked, "Don't you have any way to deal with the soul attack?"

It’s fine if he doesn’t have it, but this group of Mahayana practitioners must have it, right?

Ning Chen even looked through the system mall, but at most there were only elixirs that could increase the resilience of the soul, and he didn't find anything useful.

Xie Tingyun was silent for a while, shook his head, and said: "It is difficult to defend against a soul attack. If you are attacked, you can only resist it."

Monks all have spiritual power to protect their bodies, and the sea of ​​consciousness is also used to protect the soul. It is not so easy for ordinary people to break through the heavy defenses and directly attack the opponent's soul. However, the strength of the Nightmare Formation is beyond their imagination. Even if it is just an opening, it can directly ignore all the defenses of their soul.

Ning Chen pinched his eyebrows.

Ning Chen and Xie Tingyun said almost in unison: "We have to find the center of the formation."

However, their movement range was limited to the human monks and they could not leave at all. Even if they went out, there were only a few glowing doors. How could they find the eye of the formation?

Unless they are extremely lucky and can directly reach the gate of life, they can directly walk out of the evil formation of nightmare spirits.

However, this evil formation will obviously not let everyone off so easily.

The original eye of the formation was inside the Death Gate, but the Death Gate was the most dangerous and you could be lost inside at any moment, so you had to race against time to find the eye of the formation.

But now it is uncertain whether it will be peaceful or not.

In the original novel, Xie Tingyun finally chose the Gate of Life, obtained the Tears of Vengeful Ghosts and returned seriously injured. However, they still have a bunch of living disciples in the Vengeful Ghost Realm, and there is probably a demon lord behind them who controls the Nightmare Evil Array.

The difficulty can be imagined.

Ning Chen couldn't even tell whether the eye of the array was in the death gate.

Ning Chen thought about it for a while, but couldn't help asking, "Can the center of a formation be changed by someone?"

This time, Xie Tingyun said firmly, "No."

"The center of the formation is the core of the entire formation. For a formation, everything can change," Xie Tingyun said, "but the center of the formation cannot change."

Ning Chen: “…”

I don’t know whether it is good news or bad news.

In the picture, the snow wolf was carefully cared for by human monks for three days and finally woke up.

This time the snow wolf didn't bite anyone right away.

He looked at the wounds on his body that were almost healed, and at the human cultivators beside him who were so nervous that they were using their hands and feet to put magic weapons on themselves, fearing that he would pounce on them and bite them. He was rarely silent for a while.

Then, the snow wolf lay down, resting its chin on its uninjured front paw, and suddenly said, "Blind human, what are you calling?"

The human cultivator shuddered, opened his eyes, and found that the snow wolf was lying down in a slightly relaxed posture, so he said, "Tiannan."

"Your home?"

Tiannan nodded vigorously: "Yes."

After hearing this, the Snow Wolf said nothing, but rested his front paws and closed his eyes.

It’s not even as big as a side room in the Demon Realm Palace.

After a while, Snow Wolf asked again: "Is there anything you want?"

Tiannan's eyes lit up instantly. He understood what the little fox meant, so he asked with some anticipation, "Anything is fine?"

Snow Wolf snorted coldly: "Within my ability, I will not respond to your request."

Tiannan then grabbed the magic weapon and came closer. While guarding against the snow wolf's sudden attack, he whispered, "Can you let me touch it? I have never touched a fox before."

Snow Wolf: “…………”

The picture ends here.

Ning Chen just felt that the person who claimed to be him was very familiar to him, but before he could figure it out, they were forced to leave the picture.

Unfortunately, the pain in my left arm did not go away just by leaving and opening the door.

They returned to the empty space they had come from, with only seven glowing doors in front of them.

"...Tiannan, call me," Xie Tingyun said in a low voice, "I am the Demon Lord Mingzhu."

Ning uttered a deep voice.

Old acquaintance.

Ning Chen is the one who least understands the Eight Gates here: "Then why are the pictures in the open door theirs?"

Just because his ancient evil formation was changed by the Demon Lord?

What a bad taste the demon lord has, analyzing his own and others' past in front of others.

In the original novel, there are only flashes of swords and sabers against Xie Tingyun, each one more sinister than the other. There is no story between them to see.

Unlike the situation now, seemingly gentle and caring, but actually smiling with a dagger hidden, the danger is always there.

Xie Tingyun guessed: "It's possible that he didn't do this voluntarily."

As far as he knew, the Demon Lord had been trying to protect and repair the soul of his dead lover, but he had never succeeded.

At the point when Xie Tingyun and Tianxiao accidentally fell into Pingjing Village, if the Demon Lord had shown up, he would have had a chance to kill Tianxiao.

But the Demon Lord did not do that. He just commanded the beast tide to flatten an inconspicuous village, and was even bitten by Tian Xiao from a distance.

Since the Demon Lord did not show up at that time, it means that something must have happened to Tiannan's soul at that point, so that not long after, when the relationship between humans and demons was tense, the Demon Lord began to take action and attacked the disciples of various sects in the world of cultivation.

According to the scenes they saw when they first entered the realm of resentful ghosts, the figures on the wooden crosses were most likely the work of the Demon Lord.

The disciples' souls were squeezed out of their bodies, and they could only watch as their injured living bodies were fought over by a bunch of faceless ghosts around them, which shows that they were most likely separated in this cruel way.

The Demon Lord already has so many lives in his hands, and the entire realm of resentful ghosts has become a gloomy place with ghostly aura. If he wanted to find a body for his lover, shouldn't he have succeeded long ago?

But now there is nothing, which means that something unexpected happened, causing the Demon Lord to take other measures.

But...what does this have to do with the Nightmare Evil Array? The Nightmare Evil Array was set up by Tian Xiao!

Xie Tingyun's pupils shrank.

He then realized one thing:

In this world, there is no other body that is more suitable for a person to possess and nurture his soul than a demon body that has reached the state of nirvana and possesses a strong demon heart.

No wonder the Demon Lord said in Pingjing Village that he would not let other big demons attack Demon Heart. Xie Tingyun thought at that time that the Demon Lord also wanted Tianxiao's Demon Heart, but now it seems that he wants more than just Demon Heart.

What the Demon Lord wanted was to leave behind a complete body after wiping out Tian Xiao's soul.

There was too much information pouring in, and Xie Tingyun felt something was wrong. He pressed his throbbing forehead and whispered, "...It shouldn't be like this. Tian Xiao has no reason to do this."

Daoming also realized: "But the Nightmare Spirit Formation was set up by the Demon Lord, but now it is used by the Demon Lord. No wonder the Demon Lord didn't come in? Do they want to unite first to catch us all in one fell swoop, and then they will kill each other?"

Ning Chen didn't know that Xie Tingyun had thought so much, but he was the person who understood it most clearly in the room.

Unfortunately, as a person with the clairvoyance, he could not share the information, so Ning Chen decided not to go through so much trouble.

Ning Chen firmly held Xie Tingyun's shoulders, forcing him to raise his head, and said in a deep voice: "Brother, don't think about it. It's useless to think so much. We just need to take the surviving disciples out, and then get the Demon Heart before the Demon Lord takes action."

Xie Tingyun clenched his knuckles suddenly.