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Chapter 80
"Nightmare demon, you have used evil magic to commit many evil things. Today is the day you die!" Ling Jiayan pointed his long sword horizontally, the sword light was dazzling.
Yingji turned her head and looked at him with some surprise. "Brother, our plan seems to be..."
"Ahem," Ling Jiayan coughed lightly and spoke righteously, "It's my duty to eliminate harm for the people."
He rushed over after receiving Yingji's letter, initially just wanting to help Yingji, but when he learned that Yingji wanted to take something from the Nightmare Demon, he changed his mind.
Since we have to deal with the Nightmare Demon, why not eliminate violence and protect the good? Such evil demons should not exist in the world long ago.
Ying Ji frowned, a wave of hesitation building within her. The Nightmare Demon was incredibly powerful. She'd barely set foot on Wangu Mountain before, even before a direct confrontation, and she'd already nearly fallen for her spell. Even though Ling Jiayan had refined the Awakening Talisman this time, and she'd prepared a special awakening decoction for several people to take beforehand, she still had to be extremely vigilant and not allow for any mistakes. Originally, they'd just been trying to lure the tiger away from the mountain to steal the poisonous fruit, but now... they were going to slay the Nightmare Demon?
Ling Jiayan turned his head and met Yingji's gaze. He smiled, his brows etched with the natural pride and frivolity of a favored child. His tone remained gentle and refined, "Aying, don't you dare?"
Basho grasped Yingji's sleeve, his face full of fighting spirit, and said excitedly, "Fight! Fight well!"
Yingji looked at Basho's reckless behavior and felt a little disapproving.
——She cherishes her life.
"I was just joking." Ling Jiayan smiled more amiably. "The Nightmare Formation will activate soon. We'll try to stall for time until Jianfeng succeeds. Then, you can use the Shifting Orb to quickly leave as planned."
Ying Ji's frown deepened. "Brother, you're so funny. Without any prior discussion, you're telling us you want to enforce justice when we get to the Nightmare Demon's lair. And you want us to go first? Are you going to make us bear the stigma of being treacherous and disloyal?"
Ling Jiayan immediately shook his head and said sternly, "Aying, I absolutely have no intention of forcing you to stay and help. I'm telling you to leave first. You don't have to worry about me. Master has planted a talisman on me to protect my life in desperate situations. The reason I didn't tell you in advance was, firstly, I was busy refining the awakening talisman last night, and secondly, I needed to get a reply from Master asking about the life-saving talisman. I only just now became convinced that the talisman Master planted is indeed useful."
Ying Ji sneered and said, "Even the thing that can save your life is still in the process of being confirmed, how can you possibly kill the Nightmare Demon?"
Ling Jiayan was stunned, a blush of embarrassment appearing on his handsome face. It was rare for a distinguished member of the royal family to be confronted so shamelessly.
Bajiao squeezed Yingji's sleeve again, raised his little face and asked, "Do you want to..."
Basho suddenly shut his mouth, frowned and looked ahead.
Yingji and Ling Jiayan also turned their heads at the same time.
A lazy yawn sounded, and the hoarse voice was filled with a hint of coldness.
"Where did you come from, little guy, to disturb my good sleep?"
The black fog spread silently, and a damp and fishy smell was also gradually spreading.
"Oh," the Nightmare's voice piqued interest, "You are still awake."
When Ying Ji and the others appeared, the Nightmare Demon had already quietly activated her nightmare technique as usual, but she didn't expect that they had been whispering for a long time and still hadn't entered her nightmare technique.
The nightmare demon slowly emerged from the black fog.
Yingji raised her eyebrows in surprise.
The voice of the Nightmare Demon clearly indicated that it was a voluptuous female demon. However, the real body that emerged from the black fog was a tall, thin man.
The Nightmare Demon raised her bony hands and removed her blue hood, revealing a face unlike any other. The left side of her face was different from the right. The left side had the appearance of a beautiful female demon, while the right side had the appearance of a handsome male ghost.
Yingji couldn't tell the gender of the nightmare monster for a moment.
As if aware of Yingji's confusion, Ling Jiayan explained in a low voice: "She is androgynous, and can transform into a male or female body. She prefers to be half male and half female."
Yingji remained silent, thinking that she had previously put so much effort into investigating the Nightmare Demon, but hadn't found anything about this matter. It seemed that she still didn't know as much as the royal family did.
Ying Ji glared at the strange-looking Nightmare Demon and said, "I was very upset when I planted your Nightmare Technique on Wangu Mountain last time."
The Nightmare Demon laughed delicately: "So you came to kill me?" Her voice suddenly changed again, becoming a dull male voice: "Just you guys?"
She glanced at the three people in front of her with disdain. In her eyes, these three people really did not pose any threat - the man had some skills but not much, a tiger cub that had not yet grown up, and a mortal?
That's ridiculous.
But why didn't they fall into her nightmare spell?
While looking at Ying Ji and the others, the Nightmare Demon quietly turned the red crystal bead in his hand and activated the Nightmare Technique again.
"Basho, go grab the bead from her hand."
As soon as Yingji finished speaking, Basho had transformed into his original form and rushed towards the nightmare monster like the wind.
The Nightmare Demon didn't even move. She smiled and waited, leisurely playing with the red crystal bead in her hand. To activate the Nightmare spell, a magical weapon was needed, and this red crystal bead was exactly that.
However, a powerful demon like her no longer needed to rely on demonic tools. This bead was just something she casually refined to facilitate the use of nightmare magic, so it didn't matter if she didn't have it.
When Bajiao rushed to him, the nightmare demon opened and closed its red lips, which were half thin and half thick, and said something softly. Bajiao's angry figure suddenly stopped in mid-air.
"Die!" Ling Jiayan rushed out from the other side, pointing his sword straight ahead. When the sword light approached the nightmare monster, it instantly turned into runes all over the sky. In an instant, countless sword rains stabbed towards the nightmare monster.
At the same time, Basho also broke free from the restraints and rushed towards the nightmare monster again with brute force.
The Nightmare Demon had just avoided Ling Jiayan's rune sword rain when Bajiao hit him hard on the back.
Basho's brute force couldn't hurt her, but it did infuriate her! She turned back and glared at Basho, her eyes previously filled with amusement, now filled with irritation. She immediately raised her hand toward Basho, the red crystal sphere swirling in her palm.
"Basho, close your eyes!" Yingji reminded.
Basho immediately closed his eyes tightly. At the same time, the huge tiger body rolled in the air and escaped from the front of the nightmare monster to the side.
"Cast the talisman!" Ling Jiayan pointed at the sword again.
Yingji stood in the distance and reminded: "Use sword wind."
Ling Jiayan's gesture of drawing the talisman suddenly changed, and he began to cast the talisman. In an instant, the rain of tens of millions of swords hanging between him and the nightmare demon trembled, making a sharp and piercing sound of the wind.
"That's terrible." The Nightmare Demon was displeased. She set her sights on Ying Ji in the distance.
From the very beginning, she had looked down upon the abilities of these three people, especially Ying Ji, a mortal. However, this mortal woman was actually giving orders from behind?
Why does she have the right?
The Nightmare Demon walked towards Ying Ji with a sneer.
Ling Jiayan and Bajiao attacked her again, but she easily waved her hands to defend. She was in a good mood today and was willing to play a game of cat and mouse. She'd start with this ignorant mortal. She wanted to break her neck with one hand and see what the other two's expressions would be.
Seeing the Nightmare Demon approaching, Ying Ji's face changed and she quickly turned and fled. She waved a wind-stepping talisman, allowing herself to run as fast as the wind.
"Oh? So you can draw talismans too." The Nightmare Demon found it even more interesting and slowly chased Ying Ji. Seeing Ying Ji panting with exhaustion and sweat soaking her clothes, the Nightmare Demon was in a very good mood!
Bajiao roared like a tiger and chased after him.
Ling Jiayan also followed all the way.
The Nightmare Demon easily dodged the attacks that barely hurt Bajiao and Ling Jiayan. She continued to chase Yingji, watching with amusement as the mortal woman used one Wind Talisman after another.
Yingji was finally exhausted and could not run anymore, gasping for breath.
The nightmare demon came closer step by step.
Yingji raised her face, her charming face was soaked with sweat, and under the scorching sun, she was as beautiful as a lotus emerging from water.
The Nightmare Demon was stunned for a moment. She smiled, and her hoarse female voice returned: "This face is really beautiful. Come to my side and be a maid, and I will spare your life."
Yingji rested for a while and regained some strength, at least she could speak.
She wiped the sweat that was about to flow into her eyes with the back of her hand, then she looked at the nightmare demon and a smile gradually appeared on her face.
Watching her beautiful face change from expressionless to smiling, it was as if I saw a gorgeous flower blooming.
"I hate your nightmare magic." Yingji's voice was still breathless. She smiled and brushed her hair, her smile was fascinating. She said, "So I want you to have a taste of nightmare magic too."
"What?" The Nightmare Demon was stunned. She suddenly had a bad feeling. Not wanting to continue this cat-and-mouse game, she suddenly teleported, appearing in front of Ying Ji and reaching out to snap her neck.
There was a sound of bones breaking, and Yingji's head tilted weakly to one side.
That beautiful face was broken in the hands of the nightmare demon.
But why is this face still smiling?
But why is my neck so cold in my palm?
A look of astonishment crossed both halves of the Nightmare Demon's face. When she came to her senses, Ying Ji had vanished. And in her palm, she was holding a red spider lily.
The nightmare demon turned around suddenly.
Behind him was not the Wangu Mountain.
How is this possible? She hadn't been pursuing Yingji for long, so there was no way she could have left Wangu Mountain!
The Nightmare Demon immediately raised her hand, and the red crystal bead spun rapidly in her palm. Before the spell was finished, the Nightmare Demon heard a strange sound.
Is that crying?
She turned around involuntarily and was shocked to see a group of skeletons walking towards her. Some were long dead, just a pile of bones, while others were only recently dead, with bloody flesh hanging from their bones.
The Nightmare Demon finally recognized that these... were the people who died at her hands.
The nightmare demon lowered its head, and a mountain of bones lay beneath its feet.
One by one, the skeletons began to rise, arms stretched out, and they came towards her, demanding her life. The Nightmare Demon's ears were filled with the strange cries of these skeletons.
"Pay your life...pay your life..."
The Nightmare Demon herself was blind and unaware that she was still in the Ten Thousand Bone Mountain. She was simply surrounded by a sticky white mist. At the outer edge of this mist were forty-nine suspended talismans.
Nightmare talisman.
Ying Ji stood outside the Nightmare Formation, with Ling Jiayan and Bajiao standing on her left and right.
She deliberately lured the Nightmare Demon to chase her and lured the Nightmare Demon into the formation.
Ever since she was struck by the Nightmare Vine's spell last time, Ying Ji has both hated and coveted the Nightmare spell. She consulted many talisman books and finally created this Nightmare Talisman Formation.
Yingji holds a grudge. The nightmare demon uses nightmare magic to harm people, and now she wants to let her taste the feeling of being trapped in a nightmare.
"Aying, how do you know that the Nightmare Demon's power will weaken when it leaves its lair?" Ling Jiayan asked in surprise.
"Guessed." Yingji curled the corners of her lips.
For hundreds of years, the Nightmare Demon never left Wangu Mountain, and even rarely went to the outer edge of Wangu Mountain. So Ying Ji guessed that her demonic power was affected by the Poison Fruit, and the Poison Fruit could not be carried around, so her strength would be greatly reduced if she left her nest.
Suddenly, Jian Feng's voice came over: "Aying, we got it!"
Yingji was overjoyed.
"This nightmare formation can only trap the nightmare demon for a while, you guys should leave quickly." Ling Jiayan said.
Ying Ji frowned, "Brother, in the fight just now, the Nightmare Demon didn't even use 10% of its power. Now it's trapped in the talisman formation. It's because she underestimated the enemy."
"I'll try." Ling Jiayan insisted.
Yingji wordlessly pulled Bajiao away. After running for a while, they suddenly felt the ground beneath their feet tremble.
"The nightmare talisman is about to be broken by her."
Bajiao raised his head and asked, "Are we really going to ignore Ling Jiayan?"
Yingji turned back hesitantly, watching the white mist gradually dissipate. Yingji gritted her teeth and returned with Bajiao.
However, if she could have predicted it, Yingji would definitely not have taken Bajiao back.
When Kong Fan rushed to Wangu Mountain, he heard Yingji's sad cries from afar.
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