Chapter 218 The Real Goal
"Prince, be careful!"
Nan Zheng noticed something unusual and immediately reminded him, while at the same time wanting to rush over to stand in front of Xiao Changheng.
But it was already too late.
The face of the soul was ferocious, and Dou Cheng's appearance was no longer recognizable. A sharp laugh came from its mouth, which showed that it was determined to win.
At the critical moment, a sharp shout suddenly rang out beside Xiao Changheng.
"Formation!"
A circle of light suddenly rose with Yun Qingqing as its center and spread outward, instantly enveloping an area of ten feet in radius.
Dou Cheng's soul was frozen in place only three feet away from Xiao Changheng, his face showing shock.
"How could this happen... Who are you!" He stared at Yun Qingqing with bloodshot eyes, trying to struggle to escape.
"You are not Dou Cheng." Yun Qingqing ignored his question and said coldly.
"What!" Nan Zheng was dumbfounded. "Then what he just said..."
"It's fake, just to confuse you. It's probably to divert your attention so that we can hit you with one strike."
As soon as Yun Qingqing finished speaking, "Dou Cheng" stopped struggling and began to laugh sinisterly.
"I pretended so well, how did you find out?"
"Like? Ha." Yun Qingqing sneered. "Dou Cheng just died. My soul-summoning talisman can only summon the souls of heaven and earth, but you have all three souls. And you insist on pretending to be stupid. How can I tell?"
After she summoned the soul, she saw through the disguise of the evil spirit at a glance.
I think when Dou Cheng died, the dark hand had already set this trap, waiting for Xiao Changheng to fall into it.
During the questioning and answering between the few people, a formation had been secretly set up in order to capture a "live person" for interrogation.
She changed her hand gestures, and the evil spirit in the formation was immediately entangled by several golden threads of light, with a look of pain on his face.
"If you don't want to be torn to pieces, answer honestly, who is your real master!" Yun Qingqing said sternly.
Yun Qingqing knew in her heart that the idiot Xiao Zirui might really be planning to force the emperor to abdicate, but he was more likely being used as a pawn.
The mastermind behind raising such a ferocious ghost slave is definitely not a simple person.
“Hehehe…” The evil ghost smiled distortedly while feeling pain, “If you want to know, come closer. I’ll only tell you, hehehe…”
Yun Qingqing raised her hand slightly, and the golden thread suddenly tightened. The evil ghost let out a shrill roar, which was extremely creepy in the night.
She said coldly:
"Stop playing tricks in front of me and speak!"
"I, I'll tell you... Please forgive me, I'll tell you everything!" The evil ghost was scared and begged for mercy in a sad voice.
Yun Qingqing then let go of her hand, the golden thread loosened slightly, and the evil ghost's painful screams finally stopped.
"My master... is..." The evil spirit looked at Yun Qingqing, and suddenly that strange smile appeared on his face again. "Go to hell and guess!"
As he spoke, his face suddenly twisted, and his entire body began to swell, then turned into a strange shape under the restraint of the golden thread.
Yun Qingqing's face darkened, and she stepped forward to block Xiao Changheng. She bit her finger and threw a drop of blood into the air, then made hand seals and recited the incantation quickly.
The blood bead burst into golden light and instantly dispersed into millions of light points that drifted and reorganized. A circular formation was completed in an instant and pressed towards the evil ghost!
Almost at the same time as the circle pressed down on the evil ghost, the evil ghost suddenly exploded with a piercing scream!
Xiao Changheng only felt that the air around him was like an icy hell, and also like a burning flame. At the same time, the countless negative emotions rising in his heart almost made him mentally collapse.
This feeling lasted only a moment before it faded. He calmed his mind and looked carefully, only to see that the formation in the air was firmly suppressing the purple-black yet inexplicably dazzling dark light. Nan Zheng next to him was kneeling on one knee, gasping for breath, his face showing the fear of surviving a disaster.
"Ten Thousand Ghosts Hidden Away—Destroy!"
Following Yun Qingqing's cold shout, the formation shone brightly and suddenly shrank into a sphere only one foot in size. It exploded along with the evil light inside and dissipated between heaven and earth.
Everything is calm again.
Yun Qingqing's eyes flickered with a clear light. She frowned tightly as she watched the faint light escaping towards the horizon. She raised her hand and took off the green hairpin. The hairpin turned into a sword with green light in her hand.
"Qingqing..." Xiao Changheng looked at her pale face, his heart tightened, and he grabbed her wrist, "Are you okay?"
Yun Qingqing slowly exhaled, looked back at him, and said calmly:
"No problem."
"Take me inside and wait for me. Don't leave this yard until I come back."
Xiao Changheng was stunned. Just as he was wondering what her seemingly contradictory words meant, he saw her make a hand gesture, close her eyes and fall down.
"Qingqing!" Xiao Changheng hurriedly took her into his arms and reached out to feel her pulse.
Only after he confirmed that her breathing was steady did he feel relieved and instantly understood the meaning of her words.
The moment she fell, he faintly saw a white light flying out from between her eyebrows and heading into the distance, exactly in the direction she had just been staring at.
Xiao Changheng slowly exhaled and held Yun Qingqing in his arms.
Nan Zheng had recovered his strength. Without being told, he walked forward and pushed him into Yun Qingqing's yard.
The two followed her instructions and began their long wait.
…
In a deep mountain hundreds of miles away.
In the middle of the clearing in the forest sat a man wearing a black cloak and a hood.
The hood was pulled down low, revealing half of his pale face, which was quite creepy in the night.
A flash of white light flew rapidly from the horizon, and suddenly disappeared under the hood.
The man in black robe slowly raised his head and stood up, and the face under the hood was finally fully revealed.
It turned out to be a white mask without any wrinkles, with only the eyes, nostrils and mouth dug out. The eyes were slightly curved, and the corners of the mouth were strangely raised, forming a creepy smile, which glowed coldly under the moonlight.
The man in black stretched his neck twice, let out a suppressed laugh, turned and walked into a cave not far away.
The walls and the ground of the cave are very flat, and it is obvious that they have been artificially repaired.
The man in black robe walked to the center of the cave and chuckled again. Under his feet was a circle composed of dark red runes. The runes were twisted and tangled, and one could feel the ominous aura they were emitting just by looking at them.
This formation is missing a piece and is not yet complete.
The man in black robe picked up a thin bone stick from the corner of the wall, dipped it in a bowl of black and red liquid with a fishy smell, and began to complete the last part of the formation.
As the formation gradually became complete, the temperature in the cave became lower and lower, and even gusts of cold wind began to blow, and the moonlight shining in from the cave entrance gradually retreated as if being expelled.
Just as he was about to draw the last strange rune, he suddenly stopped and quickly dodged, barely avoiding a ray of golden light.
"Who!" the man in black robe looked towards the cave entrance and asked sternly.
A white light flashed, and Yun Qingqing appeared, looking at him coldly.
"The Gathering Evil Formation, is that old Taoist Cang Ming under your orders?"
The man in black robe stared at her for a moment, and chuckled softly under his mask.
"Yes, so what?"
"That loser, after receiving so many benefits from me, still managed to fail. He deserves to be refined into a ghost slave by me!"
Yun Qingqing's expression grew even colder, with a hint of murderous intent in her eyes:
"You learned about me from Cang Ming, so you deliberately killed Dou Cheng and replaced his soul with your own Yang Shen. You were waiting for me to summon his soul so that you could assassinate the Regent!"
Although ordinary people do not understand magic, as long as it is a house where people live, there will be a protective barrier. Unless the owner personally invites them in, it is difficult for evil spirits to break in.
The Regent's Palace is very popular, and almost all the guards have served in the army and have a murderous aura. Coupled with Xiao Changheng, the head of the family who has great luck, the barrier of the palace is almost like an iron barrel. If evil demons want to force their way in, they will have to pay a huge price.
So the moment Yun Qingqing realized that the soul in Dou Cheng's body was no longer his own, she knew that she was being used.
She couldn't help but feel angry.
The black-robed man's laughter became increasingly shrill:
"Kill him? No, no, no... He's very useful, how can we just kill him? That would be such a waste!"
"It's a pity that your plan has to end here!" Yun Qingqing's eyes were cold, she raised her hand and made a gesture, her fingertips shining with golden light.
The black-robed man calmly drew the final stroke on the ground formation, his tone proud:
"Do you think that by following me secretly with your Yang Shen out of your body, you have gained the upper hand?"
"How do you know? I have been waiting for you here for a long time!"
Yun Qingqing paused:
"What do you mean!"
“Hahahaha…” The black-robed man finally laughed out loud, “Your expression is truly delightful!”
"Of course what I mean is that everything today was just to lure you into a trap! Hahahahahaha..."
"You are my real target!"
As the black-robed man's laughter echoed in the cave, countless twisted runes suddenly lit up on the ground, walls, and ceiling of the cave.
Yun Qingqing turned around suddenly, only to find that the cave entrance behind her had been completely sealed off by runes emitting a dark black and purple glow!
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