Chapter 82

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The figure of Ning Chen appeared in the pupils of the Demon Lord. He raised his whip and swung it, forcing away the people around him, and then flew towards Ning Chen.

The Chengfeng Sword flew out and stood in front of the Demon Lord. Xie Tingyun said coldly, "Demon Lord, if you stop now, stop killing people, and let those who are still alive go, I will do my best to protect Tiannan."

"I can't stop." Ming Cang looked at Xie Tingyun deeply and asked, "How can I be sure that you will keep your promise? Since you have made up your mind to destroy the formation, how can you show mercy to Tiannan's men?"

Ning said in a deep and sharp voice: "That's because there are living people in that weird formation of yours! Living people! Do you understand what I mean?"

Xie Tingyun took a deep breath and said, "You have someone you want to save, and so do we. A broken soul is not completely hopeless!"

The dragon bone whip quickly swept towards Ning Chen's neck. Ning Chen cursed softly and raised his sword to barely block it, but was caught off guard and was violently whipped down by the vines behind him.

Ming Cang said coldly: "It was you who killed him, and now it is you who are saying you want to save them. How can I believe it?"

Xie Tingyun's face darkened. Chengfeng's attack became more fierce. Mingzhu was forced to defend himself and block Xie Tingyun. The vine that was stabbing at Ning Chen's vital point couldn't help but deviate for a moment.

Ning Chen was pulled off the sword by the vines. He rolled on the ground several times in a dusty state, avoiding the next attack from the vines.

Fortunately, the long sword was still in his hand. Kong Ling rushed over here while shouting from above: "Are you okay?!"

All the vines rushed towards Ning Chen. His body was only at the Jindan stage now, so it was a bit stretched. He couldn't help but have several wounds on his body.

Ning Chen was extremely annoyed. If his real self was here, Ning Chen would not say a word and would just go up and kill the demon wolf.

But now is not the right time. This vest must be held on until the formation's center is found.

Ning Chen nimbly dodged the siege of vines, threw the long sword in his hand, and was about to let the sword fly out, but he didn't expect that a pale and thin hand suddenly stretched out from the building next to him and suddenly pulled Ning Chen over.

Ning Chen was already in a state of high mental tension. Suddenly seeing this, he thought someone was going to attack him. He was startled and was about to thrust out with his sword, but he heard the man say in a low voice, "Don't, don't do it. I don't mean any harm."

The long sword suddenly paused, and then was instantly knocked away by the vines. Ning Chen could see who was coming, and his pupils shrank: "...Tiannan?"

Tiannan was so pale that he was almost transparent, and the vines around him were curling towards Ning Chen like crazy. He just wanted to reach out and pull Tiannan away, but Ning Chen's outstretched hand passed through Tiannan's body unhindered.

Ning Chen was shocked and asked, "Tiannan?!"

Tiannan smiled bitterly and said, "My spiritual power...is not enough."

His soul left the body, passed through the restriction, found this place, and used the remaining spiritual power to help Ning Chen dodge an attack and attract his attention. These alone almost consumed most of Tiannan's spiritual power.

Tiannan raised his eyes and looked towards Mingzhang, and happened to meet his beastly eyes which were faintly scarlet.

“…”

Tiannan's throat rolled, and he uttered the word "apology" harshly and silently.

Ming Cang was furious: "Tiannan!!"

Ever since Tiannan appeared, Mingzhu was in a state of frenzy. He swung the dragon bone whip until only a trace of it remained. Xie Tingyun was forced to retreat step by step.

Xie Tingyun used Chengfeng to wrap his dragon bone whip and said, "Look carefully, no one here intends to hurt Tiannan."

However, Mingzhu was no longer listening.

Tiannan hardened his heart, turned his head away and stopped looking at the candle, and said to Ning Chen apologetically: "I apologize to you on his behalf, but the situation is urgent, please come with me."

Not sure if it was an illusion, but Ning Chen could even see tears in Tiannan's eyes.

However, the surrounding vines had already surged over, almost blocking the way in front of the two people, leaving no time for Ning Chen to hesitate.

The physical vines could not trap Tiannan in his spiritual form. He lowered his eyes and reluctantly reached out to touch the candle's vines.

The thorny vines trembled and tried again and again to trap Tiannan inside, but to no avail.

Tiannan is now in a trance state, and Mingzhu can't touch him at all.

Tiannan murmured "I'm sorry" and then walked through the vines without hesitation.

Kong Ling also came to help. While he was helping Ning Chen block the vines in front of him so that Ning Chen could follow, he shouted, "Don't move until you find the center of the formation. I'll do it."

Ning Chen said "OK" perfunctorily, then escaped from the vines at a tricky angle and caught up with Tiannan.

Mingzhu was blocked by the Mahayana monks. Seeing that Tiannan had disappeared from his sight, Mingzhu froze for a moment.

Afterwards, with the candle as the center, a burst of fierce pressure suddenly burst out, instantly knocking everyone out, and they couldn't help but spit out blood.

Blood was also flowing from the corner of Ming Cang's lips, but he didn't care about that. In a few breaths, he quickly approached Ning Chen, and there was less than two inches between them.

Xie Tingyun was choked by the blood foam gushing out of his throat. He raised his hand and crushed the jade talisman. The next moment, he appeared in front of Mingzhu, with a bright light shining brightly, and stabbed Mingzhu's heart fiercely.

Ning Shen thought to himself that Xie Tingyun was truly a good senior brother. Good senior brother, just hold on a little longer, he will be there soon.

Tiannan was obviously at a loss. He almost cried as he took Ning back to the palace he had just escaped from. He choked up and said, "...I can't open the forbidden area."

Tiannan hardly dared to look back at Mingzhang.

Tiannan recalled how he had unskillfully separated his spirit from his body and escaped from the palace, and heard everything Mingzhang had said.

The demon blood would drip until it dried up, and the demon pill and soul would be shattered and fed to him without a care.

The candle was cornered like an angry trapped beast.

It’s not that Tiannan doesn’t want to live, and it’s not that he hasn’t blamed Mingdeng.

However, if the price of living is to sacrifice the lives of other innocent compatriots, Tiannan cannot accept it either.

Tiannan never thought that they would end up like this.

A dying person tries to lift another dying person out of the sea, but Tiannan just wants to sink back to the bottom of the sea.

Tiannan watched Ning Chen violently kick open the restraints while choking with tears and saying, "Little fox... I was the only one who had to die, why did you insist on giving yourself an ending where you would be punished by God and unable to rest in peace even after death?"

It was obvious that the majestic snow wolf was once so arrogant that he had to coax it into changing into wolf form and letting him hug it.

Ning Chen violently broke the restriction, quickly entered the house, closed the door and added three more layers of restrictions.

Kong Ling, who was about to rush in from outside, was stunned by this ruthless door. He dodged the vines, shouted, and said, "I'm still outside?!"

Ning Chen shouted outside: "Hold on for a while, if you can't, get out of the way!"

Kong Ling was dumbfounded: "Where is the center of the formation? What are you doing rushing to the front at the Jindan stage?"

There was a strange body lying limply beside the bed in the room. Tiannan's soul would not be able to hold on for too long, so he returned to the body first, and still said apologetically, "I'm sorry, please stay with me for a while."

Ning Chen probably understood it.

The vines were madly smashing the entire palace. To Ning Shen's surprise, after entering the palace, there were no more vines popping out from any corner.

Tiannan quickly led Ningchen to the dark room. The door of the dark room was not locked. This might be the most fortunate and sad thing for Tiannan at this moment.

Perhaps he knew that Tiannan could not destroy the original body in the dark room with his own strength.

As soon as the door of the dark room was opened, a gust of extremely cold air hit me in the face.

The cold had an irresistible effect on Tiannan. Tiannan began to shiver after taking a few steps.

Ning Chen raised his hand and placed it on Tiannan's shoulder, using his spiritual power to drive away the coldness for him.

There was no fire in the dark room, it was pitch black, and the long, dark corridor exuded an omnipresent chill. The restrictions outside had been broken by the vines. The two had only taken a few steps when the dark room corridor behind them began to collapse.

Tiannan bit his lip and said, "Let's go."

Ning Chen naturally didn't need him to say more.

The two of them passed through many crossroads, and finally the view in front of them suddenly became empty.

What I saw was an upright ice coffin. The person trapped inside had his eyes closed quietly. His face was intact and peaceful, and the fine, soft hairs on his skin were clearly visible.

The dark room was dark all around, except for an ice coffin in the middle that was icy blue and translucent. It was beautiful and dreamy, as if the person inside had never experienced pain.

There are hidden patterns carved on the ground under the ice coffin, which cannot be seen unless you look carefully. The patterns above continuously transport nutrients into it, maintaining the vitality of this body.

The quiet figure paused for a moment unconsciously.

It is obvious that Tiannan's original body is the center of the two evil formations.

...In other words, if you want to destroy the center of the formation, you must destroy the ice coffin.

Tiannan stared at the familiar yet unfamiliar face inside. He raised his hand to touch the ice coffin, but unfortunately with this body whose spiritual power was sealed, Tiannan was unable to break the ice coffin.

Tiannan looked back at the vines that were about to surge up, then turned around and looked at Ningchen pleadingly, saying, "I am already dead. What's the point of leaving this evil body in the world to suck people's blood? It can't be saved."

Outside the hall was Xie Tingyun, whose abdomen was pierced by the dragon bone whip. Almost all the Mahayana monks were injured. Some had half an arm covered in blood, and some were almost half broken. Kong Ling, who was locked outside the door by Ning Chen, held up nearly half of the vines by himself, preventing them from rushing into the hall.

“…Please.”

Ning Chen's palms clenched suddenly, then loosened after a moment.

There is no time for hesitation.

Ning Chen said in a low voice: "I owe you a favor. I will do my best to save your soul."

"Don't bother yourself. No matter what, I am inseparable from all this." Tiannan shook his head. He looked at the candle reluctantly and said, "I should pay it back together with him."

The palace door had been shattered into pieces by the vines that had rushed in, and Kong Ling had to retreat some distance to protect himself.

Ming Cang looked at Ning Chen's figure standing in front of the ice coffin, and the school term flashed in his scarlet beast eyes.

The vines no longer tried to chase the two people. Ming Cang simply turned his body to let Cheng Feng pass by his heart and pierce his chest.

He lowered his eyes, staring indifferently at Xie Tingyun who was coughing up blood, and whispered: "It turns out that the lives of many human beings are more important. Xie Tingyun, since you have made your choice, don't regret it."

Ming Cang's face was stained with blood from someone unknown. He said, "You forced me to do this."

"Don't...don't."

All visible vines in the field of vision disappeared instantly, but Ming Candle just stood there, allowing several long swords to pierce his body.

Xie Tingyun had an extremely uneasy premonition in his heart. He suddenly turned his head and shouted at Ning Chen who was about to raise his hand to touch the ice coffin: "Ning Chen, don't touch it!!"

Ming Cang closed his eyes and said in a low voice: "...It's too late."

Ning Chen also realized something was wrong at that moment, but the spiritual power in his hands had already begun to be continuously injected into the ice coffin.

The moment the spiritual power began to melt the ice coffin and corrode the array patterns, countless surging dark green vines suddenly grew on the ice coffin, the surrounding walls and the ground at the same time.

Countless vines suddenly pierced through Ning Chen's palms that were pressed on the ice coffin and other parts of his body. His internal organs and heart were pierced and shattered in an instant. The countless vines easily turned Ning Chen into a sieve in just an instant.

Tiannan suddenly widened his eyes and subconsciously reached out to protect Ning Chen, but his hand passed through the vines and Ning Chen's body.

Kong Ling, who was struggling to resist the vines outside the palace, stood there in disbelief. The other Mahayana monks who were holding the candles suddenly shouted, "Little friend Jindan?!!!"

Xie Tingyun's pupils were filled with the image of Ning Chen being pierced by countless vines, and his mind exploded.