Chapter 97

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Xie Tingyun reacted very quickly. Almost the moment he landed, he realized that Ning Chen had not followed him. He held his forehead helplessly.

He even forgot for a moment that the sect's formation was designed to prevent outsiders from being transported. He originally wanted to take the opportunity to bring Ning Chen back and raise him, but ended up leaving him outside.

How could this be?

Xie Tingyun immediately raised his hand and sent out a spiritual message, saying briefly: "Don't leave, wait for me to come over."

If there is no accident in the sect, the forbidden sword will fly. Fortunately, Yunfeng Pavilion is backed by the mountain, so we can directly climb out of the forbidden area in the back mountain and then use the forbidden sword, so it is not a big problem.

"..." The tranquility and sleepiness disappeared in an instant. The gatekeepers stared at each other awkwardly with wide eyes. They coughed lightly and replied, "It seems... we have no choice but to leave."

After the gatekeepers reacted, they looked around cautiously, then waved at Ning Chen and mouthed silently, "...Come here, we'll let you in secretly."

Ning Chen: “???”

There was no need to look, the Demon Lord was definitely here to look for the eldest senior brother, but he appeared outside the door for no apparent reason, so he must have been blocked by the sect protection formation.

The eldest senior brother has never skipped the sect dinner during the Lantern Festival, but he was absent-minded when he attended the dinner yesterday. He ate a few bites just to give Dao Ling some face and then slipped away without telling him. It is easy to imagine who he was going to find.

Now that the Demon Lord has come to look for Senior Brother, how can they allow lovers to be separated?

Ning Chen was so shocked that he was dumbfounded, "No... How can you do this?!"

Are you really not going to be scolded to death by that old bastard Dao Ling?

Before, they were worried that this demon staying in Yunfeng Pavilion would pose a life-threatening threat to the people in their sect. How come they had become close enough to let him in secretly after just not seeing him for a few days?

This is outrageous!

Xie Tingyun came very quickly. Before Ning Chen was put in, Xie Tingyun was already in front of him.

Xie Tingyun immediately saw the stunned gatekeeper disciple at the door, and finally realized what Ning Chen meant by "you have to leave".

He cleared his throat and said nonchalantly: "...You didn't see anything."

The four gatekeepers patted their chests and said, "That's right, we saw nothing, nothing happened."

Xie Tingyun nodded with satisfaction and said, "Thank you very much."

After saying that, he dragged Ning Chen away.

Ning Chen: “…”

ah?!

Ning Chen was so shocked that he didn't know what to say: "No...Xie Tingyun, you...I..."

Xie Tingyun said calmly, "They have no prejudice against you. They even told me that they want to find an opportunity to thank you in person. They won't complain to my master, don't worry."

Ning Chen no longer understands this world.

He was confused as Xie Tingyun pulled him onto the Chengfeng Sword, and then flew around Liuyun Sect for most of the way until he arrived at the back mountain.

Xie Tingyun suddenly came over. Ning calmed down and before he could ask him what he was doing, Xie Tingyun raised his hand and gently touched the silver flying bird tassel ornament on his chest, silently injecting a spiritual consciousness into it.

Xie Tingyun did not feel any guilt or pressure for bringing the demons back to the sect. Ning Chen, the Demon Lord, was like a bodhisattva. If he did not know very well that Ning Chen's character would not allow him to kill innocent people, he would not have been so confident in bringing him into the Liuyun Sect.

After doing all this, Xie Tingyun pushed Ning Chen's back and urged him to walk towards the back mountain.

There was a clear dividing line between the two of them drawn by the restrictions of the sect protection formation, and the scope of the restriction was visible to the naked eye. Ning Chen was pushed by Xie Tingyun and miraculously was not stopped by the sect protection formation, and he passed through it easily.

Ning Chen: “!”

Ning Chen lowered his head and pinched the silver flying bird ornament, and asked in surprise: "This works too?"

"Well," Xie Tingyun got on Chengfeng again, reached out to Ning Chen, pulled him up, and said, "Let's go."

“…”

Ning Chen said with a sigh, "If your master knew that you were so skilled at bringing demons back to the sect, he would be so angry that he would die."

Xie Tingyun said skillfully: "According to what you said, he would be pissed off to death many times. But my master is blessed with a long life, he won't die, don't worry."

Ning Chen really laughed when he heard it.

"However," Xie Tingyun suddenly thought of something and asked doubtfully, "How did your puppet clone get out when I locked it up in the sect?"

He still hasn't figured it out.

Xie Tingyun knew a thing or two about puppetry. Common puppetry techniques all had the functions of teleportation and replacement, but the Liuyun Sect's protective formation had been passed down since the sect was founded. Xie Tingyun still had great faith in the prohibition function of the protective formation.

Since Ning Chen’s puppet replacement and teleportation cannot be used in there, how did Ning Chen get out?

Ning Shen became excited when he spoke of this. He lowered his voice and said, "I'll tell them that your senior brother is injured. I'll send him some medicine."

"Then they let me out." Ning Chen added.

Xie Tingyun: "..."

Xie Tingyun couldn't believe it: "They really let you go like this? How can you believe this? This is too much, are you hiding something?"

As expected, he couldn't hide it from Xie Tingyun.

Ning Chen coughed lightly and said, "Then you must promise not to scold me first."

"..." Xie Tingyun was still suspicious: "What on earth did you do behind my back?"

It couldn't be that something terrible had happened to make Ning Chen act like this.

As long as it wasn't something like beating up his master and running away, Xie Tingyun could usually handle it.

But if the situation is too serious, Xie Tingyun is not sure whether he can protect Ning Chen.

Xie Tingyun's nerves tensed up.

Then he heard Ning Chen say, "I caught one of your fireflies, and they believed it as soon as they saw it."

Xie Tingyun: "..."

It was a false alarm.

For a moment, I didn't know whether I should sigh that it was just a firefly and why he was so scared and afraid of being scolded, or I should sigh that these gatekeepers were so easy to deceive.

Ning Chen lowered his voice and said, "How could your sect protection formation be so deceptive? You let me in with just a spiritual consciousness. Your sect's gatekeeper disciples are also so deceptive. They can release me by disguising themselves and catching a firefly. What will I do if the demons really invade?"

Xie Tingyun looked at him helplessly.

Xie Tingyun knew what Ning Chen meant, but it was indeed a bit too much to worry about.

Not everyone's spiritual consciousness can deceive the sect protection formation. Xie Tingyun has participated in the maintenance of the formation's restrictions and is familiar with the operation of some core formations. His spiritual consciousness can penetrate the formation's core silently through the forbidden formation patterns.

In other words, Xie Tingyun could open a backdoor for Ning Chen. But ordinary disciples would not be able to understand it, so there was no need to worry about the sect protection formation being destroyed by analysis.

Under the premise that it is difficult for the demons to infiltrate Liuyun Sect, the gatekeeper disciples' control over exiting the sect is naturally not as strong as that over entering the sect.

Xie Tingyun asked, "After I came out of the ghost realm, the person before I passed out was you?"

"Yeah." Ning Chen thought about the direction of the conversation and didn't want to continue. So he put his chin on Xie Tingyun's shoulder and said, "Let's go back to Yunfeng Pavilion quickly. I'm tired."

Xie Tingyun lowered his eyes and looked at Ning Chen's handsome face, but he didn't know why he slowed down his sword. He said slowly, "Then how did you get in?"

In other words, how did he manage to send Ning Chen to the Demon Palace using the teleporting jade talisman, and yet still be able to arrive at Yunfeng Pavilion in time to pick him up?

Ning Chen played dumb: "Daoming let me in."

This reason is indeed a bit far-fetched.

Xie Tingyun thought about it for a while and decided to tell the truth: "I don't believe it."

Ning Chen: “…”

Ning Chen said angrily, "If you don't believe it, forget it."

Xie Tingyun smiled silently and said, "Did you get in the old way?"

The old method involves using your real face and disguising yourself as a disciple of Liuyun Sect, and then going back in the same way you came out.

The main point is to have a beginning and an end.

Ning Chen snorted and said, "I told you not to send me back, but you insisted on watching me leave. What's wrong with you?"

Xie Tingyun didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did, and asked, "So did they change the destination or send it over with a new jade talisman?"

"..." Ning Chen said awkwardly: "Changed it."

The jade talisman used by Xie Tingyun at that time was changed, but it was still taken down.

Since Xie Tingyun's own spiritual power control had reached its limit and the transmission jade talisman had undergone a second modification, Ning Chen was not teleported to Yunfeng Pavilion at that time, but landed directly outside Liuyun Sect.

Ning Chen also remembered the large formation outside Liuyun Sect that prohibited teleportation, so he simply disguised himself on the spot as the little Jindan-stage disciple before the accident, and sneaked in with Xie Tingyun's firefly. After passing the sect protection formation, he used his points to exchange for the teleportation jade talisman and teleported to Yunfeng Pavilion.

It turned out that Xie Tingyun was not even in Yunfeng Pavilion at that time. Ning Chen released his spiritual sense and searched around before he found him.

Ning Chen felt unhappy when he thought of this. He snorted coldly and said, "You are really patient, Master Brother."

Xie Tingyun suppressed his laughter and did not refute him.

Ning Chen had never been so embarrassed before. Xie Tingyun guessed that he must want to break the ban now.

But when he thought about what happened in the ghost realm, Xie Tingyun's smile slowly faded.

At that time, he had lost too much blood due to his serious injuries, and Ning Chen was determined to sacrifice himself. With so many factors added up, Xie Tingyun had no time to consider anything else for a while.

Until the Land of Resentful Ghosts was submerged and silenced by the endless cold water, they seemed to have successfully survived and escaped, but in fact there were still many problems that had not been solved.

For example... what is it like in the realm of resentful ghosts submerged in the endless abyss at this moment?

For example... Ningchen.

He was not a fool. If Ning Chen was in the state he was in at that time, it would be impossible for him to get out of the Abyss with his full strength. It would be useless even if he tied up his system mall.

Xie Tingyun has accumulated countless points for his arrival, but Xie Tingyun still clearly knows that some things cannot be solved by things in the mall.

According to the current level of development of the cultivation world, there is no direct and effective medicine or method that can completely eliminate the resentful spirits in the body.

And within a plane world, unless you have a body given by the system at the beginning, there is no chance of a second resurrection.

The purpose of a living body that can be used to import data is to meet the needs of the mission, not to constantly replace and prolong the life of the tasker.

It's not like there haven't been cases where taskers have repeatedly died and resurrected, disrupting the normal operation of the world. Long before Xie Tingyun came, the points required to exchange for life and body had already been raised to a sky-high price.

It has come to this point, Xie Tingyun has already guessed Ning Chen's purpose of coming here and the causes and consequences.

In other words, in order to prevent the resentment in the ghost realm from affecting more innocent people, Ning Chen has used up the only way of survival after digging out the devil's heart.

If one follows the normal route, one must sacrifice Ning Chen's demon heart to complete the refining of the Heavenly Sword.

A body that has sunk into the Abyss is probably beyond salvation. It is filled with resentful ghosts and is under the pressure of the Abyss. It is impossible for it to survive.

Even if they could survive, with their current technology, it would be extremely difficult to sink into the Abyss and come out alive.

No one has ever done it before.

Then... only Ning Chen's last body is left.

Ning Chen was very sensitive and noticed the change in Xie Tingyun's mood. However, he didn't think that Xie Tingyun, the male protagonist of the original world, Long Aotian, could know too many things beyond the rules of the world, so he didn't think about it. He just frowned and said, "What's wrong?"

"..." Xie Tingyun was silent for a long while, his voice was a little hoarse for some reason. He hesitated for a moment, which was rare, and asked in a low voice: "Do you... have anything that you can't let go of, people... or other things, anything will do."

Those who are dragged in by the Time and Space Administration have one thing in common, that is, they have lingering obsessions or a strong desire to live.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Xie Tingyun immediately gave up this idea.

He couldn't risk his peaceful thoughts.

What if there were indeed some unresolved obsessions in Ning Shen at that time?

After offering the devil's heart, Ning Chen's mission was considered completed. But he could not stay in this world no matter what. If Ning Chen still wanted something, he might choose to go to other worlds to continue to complete missions in exchange for contribution points to achieve his desired goal.

As long as Ning Chen did not choose to reincarnate on the spot, Xie Tingyun would be able to protect his soul.

But what if? What if there was peace but now it is gone?

Just based on the fact that Ning Chen didn't seem to be afraid of life or death at all during these times, he doesn't look like someone with a strong desire to survive, or someone who is still obsessed.

Ning Chen almost had the words "hurry up and dig out my heart" written on his face.

Xie Tingyun fell silent when he thought of this.

But... fortunately, he has not yet reached the end of his rope.

There is still hope.

The Chengfeng Sword fell into the Yunfeng Pavilion. Xie Tingyun raised his chin, which was pressed on his shoulder. The residual warmth on his shoulder gradually disappeared, as if he was someone who could not be kept back no matter how hard he tried.

Ning Chen jumped down from the sword. When he heard this, his first reaction was to deny it: "Of course not."

Afterwards, he saw Xie Tingyun's eyes dimming slightly, and for some reason his heart sank as well.

“…”

"...Okay," Ning Chen pressed the tip of his tongue against the roof of his mouth and said, "Actually, there is."

Ning Chen prides himself on being heartless. Apart from that child from the past, only Xie Tingyun can slightly affect his emotions.

But he would never tell Xie Tingyun.

That's so shameful.