Mirage
Ruan Zhaozhao took down the painting and returned to her residence, where she found the mirage demon lying on her bed, drooling and sleeping with his arms and legs spread out.
She put the scroll into her crow bag and was about to leave, but suddenly changed her mind and picked up the mirage demon and put it on her head.
The mirage demon woke up in shock: "?!"
Ruan Zhaozhao patted its butt and said, "Come out with me."
After that, he went to Cui Fuer and Yuan Huaer's residence and said, "Cui Da and Yuan Er, you two should come with me this time."
After saying that, he asked them to one carry the backpack and the other to hold the mirage monster.
Yu Xiaoye saw the two of them following Ruan Zhaozhao, and it looked like they were going out again, "Zhaozhao, I'll go with you."
Ruan Zhaozhao: "Brother Xiaoye, you stay in the Jueqing Sect."
Yu Xiaoye felt a little disappointed. This was the first time he was rejected by Ruan Zhaozhao.
But Ruan Zhaozhao's next words swept away his frustration, "I think there might be some unexpected events this time. You stay in the Jueqing Sect to provide support."
Yu Xiaoye believed Ruan Zhaozhao, "Okay, be careful."
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A teleportation array suddenly appeared in the wilderness.
Several people appeared and disappeared.
The next moment, the spiritual power surrounding the teleportation array dissipated away, and the human figure solidified, and it was the group of people from Canghai Sect.
Xiao Yichen looked around and saw a wasteland. He was surprised and asked, "Master, shouldn't the Hehuan Sect be on a mountain?"
"Lu Zhi" said calmly, "Back then, in order to slay the demons, my master destroyed half of the Hehuan Sect with a single sword strike. That evildoer hid the remaining half in the mirage, so this place is only a wasteland."
Does that mean half of the mountain was also hidden?
Xiao Yichen was surprised and said, "The person who hid is very powerful."
"Amazing?" The Jiang family member behind him laughed, "Junior Brother Xiao, how can you praise the demon for being so powerful? If you want to praise someone, you should praise Uncle Lu for being so powerful."
Xiao Yichen didn't know what to say, so he had to change the subject, "Master, what kind of sect is the Hehuan Sect, and what crimes have they committed?"
"The disciples of the Hehuan Sect are all women. They practice the method of dual cultivation and specialize in consuming the essence and energy of men. They have killed countless secular men and our righteous cultivators."
"Lu Zhi" is righteous and his words are powerful.
The other disciples echoed, "That's right, the witches of the Hehuan Sect are extremely evil, each one more evil than the last!"
"Thinking back when our Canghai Sect disciples were slaying demons, many of them were deceived by the witches of the Hehuan Sect and were almost sucked dry by them!"
In a few words, everyone described the female cultivator of the Hehuan Sect as an unforgivable female demon.
Xiao Yichen didn't say anything.
Just because he heard everyone say this, he felt something was wrong.
We are all cultivators, how could we be so easily deceived by a female cultivator? If there really was such a powerful technique, the Hehuan Sect would have replaced the Canghai Sect long ago. How could it be destroyed by the Canghai Sect?
At this time, "Lu Zhi" conjured up a bead from his sleeve, "Follow me into the gate of the mirage."
This is the prop given by the headquarters to 9527.
But it's a replacement after all, unlike the Mirage. It can only be used twice, once in and once out.
A crack appeared in front of them, 9527 walked in, and Xiao Yichen followed closely behind.
But when he passed through the rift and came to another world, he found that the rift was closed.
Xiao Yichen was stunned and hurriedly called out "Master".
9527 turned around and saw that only Xiao Yichen was there. "Where are the others?"
Xiao Yichen: "After I came in, the door was closed."
9527 frowned. The substitute given by the headquarters was really unreliable!
At this time, outside the gate of the mirage, several disciples of the Canghai Sect were looking at the empty field in shock.
Someone took out his badge and tried to summon "Lu Zhi", but received no response.
Did Uncle Lu abandon them and go in with Junior Brother Xiao?
Then why ask them to do that?
At this moment, several people suddenly smelled a refreshing floral fragrance, their eyes became dazed, and the dizziness came over them like waves.
Immediately they fell face down to the ground.
A big black cat jumped out of the grass, walked leisurely to the open space, and opened the door to the mirage.
Ruan Zhaozhao appeared, followed by Cui Fuer and Yuan Huaer.
"How long will they be unconscious?"
Yuan Huaer raised her hand and cast another illusion, "Three days."
"That's enough." Ruan Zhaozhao put the mirage monster on his head and said, "Let's go."
The three of them stepped into the mirage gate together.
The moment their bodies sank into the mirage gate, the three of them felt the world twisting and turning, and they unknowingly saw a sect "growing" above their heads.
The sect was on half of the mountain, and only half of it remained.
Even so, it is still majestic and magnificent, not inferior to the Canghai Sect.
But why is it upside down?
As soon as the thought came to mind, the three of them felt their feet loosen and their bodies fell downwards.
It danced several times in the air and then fell to the ground.
Ruan Zhaozhao raised his hand and accurately caught the falling mirage.
The mirage demon was so panicked that he started talking nonsense.
It was scared to death!
Cui Fuer poked it and asked, "Can mirage monsters be afraid too?"
Ruan Zhaozhao remembered that he could understand animal language, and the mirage monster was also an animal, "Ask it where this place is."
Cui Fuer listened to the mirage demon Aba for a while and then explained, "This is a complete mirage, different from the illusions it created. It was created by a cultivator with great cultivation. Well, it said this was done by... Junior Sister."
Cui Fuer looked at Yuan Huaer.
Yuan Huaer pointed at herself: "Ah? Me?"
Cui Fuer: "It should be talking about the original body."
The two of them adapted so quickly that they almost forgot they had changed their bodies.
Ruan Zhaozhao was not surprised. "So it seems that the leader of the Hehuan Sect can tame beasts, and the elders of the Hehuan Sect can perform illusions."
Cui Fuer and Yuan Huaer were stunned.
Cui Fuer: "Wait, what is the leader of the Hehuan Sect?"
Yuan Huaer: "Wait, I'm the elder of the Hehuan Sect?"
Good job!
The two finally understood why they were able to pick up two holy demon cultivation bodies for free.
I picked up the leader and elder of the Demon Sect at once. What incredible luck.
But why was the head elder of the Hehuan Sect buried in the mass grave in the back mountain of the Jueqing Sect?
Ruan Zhaozhao: "Haven't you been the old demon's gatekeeper for five hundred years? How do you know about the Hehuan Sect?"
Cui Fuer explained, "The Hehuan Sect is a great sect with a thousand-year history. The Xueyi Sect is barely comparable to a finger of theirs. Unexpectedly, five hundred years later, the entire sect was wiped out. Who did it? They're so powerful."
Ruan Zhaozhao: "Canghai Sect."
The two had heard of it in Fengle Town and knew that it was a major and upright sect today.
"They actually destroyed the Hehuan Sect..." Cui Fu'er felt complicated. "The Hehuan Sect only accepts women, and most of its disciples practice dual cultivation. Could it be that the Canghai Sect destroyed the Hehuan Sect because of this?"
Yuan Huaer quickly nudged her with her elbow and said, "Don't say these things in front of the young master."
She is just a child!
Ruan Zhaozhao really didn’t know what “dual cultivation” was. She only knew that there was a group of villains in the City That Never Sleeps who also practiced “dual cultivation”.
When his father introduced the group, he said they liked to get together and bite each other's lips. Ruan Zhaozhao thought, what's so fun about that? It's even more boring than a shaman dance.
Ruan Zhaozhao pointed at half of the sect gate and said, "Let's go in and take a look."
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9527 entered the Hehuan Sect with Xiao Yichen.
Xiao Yichen thought that this place had experienced a great war and there must be bones everywhere, but he didn't expect that the Hehuan Sect was very clean, and the roofs and buildings looked as if they were in the past, as if time had stopped here.
He couldn't help but ask, "Master, why is there no one here?"
9527 stopped.
He still remembered that the place was littered with corpses of Hehuan Sect disciples.
The war destroyed the dome rainbow bridge of the Hehuan Sect, leaving it in ruins everywhere.
Something definitely doesn't look right here.
At this time, the task details popped up in the system panel on the right side of 9527's field of view.
Mission Objective: Destroy Ning Guanyin's plan to resurrect the leader and elders of the Hehuan Sect
Mission Indicator: Prevent Ning Guanyin from collecting three souls (this mission is special, there is no detailed mission progress, everything is based on the number of three souls Ning Guanyin holds before the mission is completed); Ning Guanyin's "Cause and Effect Killing Value" reaches 100 (current progress: 60/100)
Mission Reward: Updating...
Dear 9527! Since you have failed the mission three times, we are giving you a special auxiliary prop to improve your completion efficiency. Would you like to use it?
The "Black Bureau" is so stingy, and this is the first time he is generous, so of course he has to use it!
9527 clicked confirm immediately.
"Master!" Xiao Yichen pointed ahead, "There's someone there!"
At the end of the corridor, several graceful and gorgeous female cultivators came over with trays in their hands, their sleeves billowing like waves of silver.
Xiao Yichen subconsciously wanted to leave, but 9527 held his shoulders.
His gaze fell on the face of the female cultivator at the end of the team.
Ning Guanyin?
Just by looking at her eyes, 9527 knew that this was the current Ning Guanyin. After all, the former Ning Guanyin didn't have such an indifferent look.
A group of people walked past them as if they couldn't see them.
Xiao Yichen noticed, "Master, they can't see us?"
A dialog box popped up on the system panel, indicating that the two people were in invisible mode and could be released at any time.
9527 looked at Ning Guanyin's back and said, "Let's go. She wants to resurrect the leader and elders of the Hehuan Sect. We can't let her succeed."
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Ning Guanyin has been waiting for this day.
Four years.
Back then, the Canghai Sect surrounded and attacked the Hehuan Sect, and all of her fellow disciples died at the hands of the Canghai Sect disciples. Only she, protected by the Sect Master and the elders, escaped.
The elder used up all his skills and at the cost of his own soul, hid half of the Hehuan Sect into the mirage at the moment when Lu Zhijian cut through the Tianmen.
At that time, the leader was about to die, and he sacrificed his secret technique to seal the elders and his own residual soul in the Hehuan Sect.
Ning Guanyin came back because the time had come. As long as she could find the three residual souls of the leader and the elders in this infinitely rotating mirage, she could resurrect them.
Thinking of this, she looked at the phantoms of her senior and junior sisters in front of her, feeling a little dazed.
They died long ago.
At that time, she was unwilling to give up, so she carried the corpses of her fellow disciples to the depths of the dense forest and hid them.
Among them were also the corpses of the sect leader and elders.
Later, she met the leader of the Jueqing Sect.
It was her master who took her in and helped her move the corpses of the Hehuan Sect's disciples to the mass grave.
She solemnly collected the bodies of the Sect Leader and the elders and set up a formation, all for the purpose of bringing them back to the human world one day to collect debts from the Canghai Sect.
"Junior Sister Ning, Junior Sister."
Ning Guanyin came back to her senses and looked at the smiling woman in front of her. She made a mental calculation and said, "Senior Sister Wen."
Wen Xue smiled faintly, "Why are you still in a daze? Today is the sect celebration that only happens once every ten years. Whatever is on your mind, put it aside for now. What matters is happiness."
Ning Guanyin remained silent.
Today is the day when the Canghai Sect destroys the Hehuan Sect’s mountain protection formation.
And all this is because of Lu Wulang.
Seeing that the female cultivators of the Hehuan Sect were enjoying themselves, and didn't look like they were practicing magic, Xiao Yichen asked, "Master, isn't it said that the female cultivators of the Hehuan Sect practice magic to harm men?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a male cultivator fell from the sky and landed heavily on the ground.
9527 raised his hand to send Xiao Yichen away.
Ning Guanyin raised her head and looked around, as if looking for something.
"The witch of the Hehuan Sect!" The male cultivator cursed, unable to move. "The disciples of Qingcheng Temple are strong-willed and will never succumb to a woman's skirt. Don't waste your time!"
His words made the female cultivators of the Hehuan Sect laugh.
A female cultivator followed closely, stepped on the male cultivator's back, and said to everyone with a smile: "Excuse me, Senior and Junior Sisters, for making fun of you. This boy relied on his own cultivation to trick girls from nearby villages into giving themselves to him. He has now harmed more than a dozen people. It's my fault that the dosage of the drug I gave him was too low, so he managed to escape."
A female cultivator from the Hehuan Sect said with a smile, "That's fine, it's fine. I haven't seen such a confident man in a while. Qingcheng Temple, you can go and have a look when you have time."
The male cultivator blushed and said, "Witch, please stop harming my fellow disciples!"
"Are male cultivators nowadays so confident? Boring." Another female cultivator from the Hehuan Sect stepped forward and crushed his face with her foot. "You dare to deceive ordinary women with your appearance? Why don't you come and deceive us from the Hehuan Sect?"
The male cultivator was furious: "Everyone knows that the witches of the Hehuan Sect practice dual cultivation, just to suck out the essence of men!"
"Dual cultivation? Do you understand what cultivation is, idiot?" the Hehuan Sect female cultivator said coldly, "We in the Hehuan Sect have never spread the word that you practice evil methods. Yet you're saying everywhere that the Hehuan Sect uses dual cultivation to absorb men's essence. You're saying it as if men's essence is such a good thing!"
"That's right. The techniques you men cultivate are either swords, spears, swords, or rituals, music, poetry, and books. Why do we female cultivators have to practice dual cultivation? However, you are not entirely wrong. The Hehuan Sect does have a dual cultivation method—"
The male cultivator was elated: "Haha, witch!"
"—Because this dual cultivation method can be learned by even ordinary women, no spiritual roots are needed, and any woman can learn it." The female cultivator of the Hehuan Sect narrowed her eyes. "If the woman you tricked learned it, and took away all your cultivation, wouldn't that be wonderful?"
The male cultivator's expression suddenly turned ugly.
The female cultivator from the Hehuan Sect who had captured him suddenly realized what was happening and clapped her hands in approval, "Senior Sister is right. His cultivation shouldn't go to waste! I'll go around and ask if anyone is willing to let him 'drain' it dry!"
"No, it's dirty." The female cultivator waved her hand. "It's not difficult to capture his cultivation. Go find your Senior Sister Lin. Later, call a few other senior sisters and junior sisters to go to the villages near Qingcheng Temple to check. If there are any promising candidates, ask them if they are willing to come. If not, come with the mortal woman and teach them the skills just in case."
"Okay." The female cultivator said, grabbed the frightened male cultivator and left.
Xiao Yichen was stunned when he heard this. "Master, so this is what the Hehuan Sect is like. They haven't done anything harmful to the world, so how can they be called a demonic sect..."
9527 interrupted him, "Love between men and women is natural, so how can it not be considered as violating the will of heaven and earth when they harm male cultivators?"
9527 has no gender, and he says whatever "Lu Zhi" thinks in the plot.
After hearing this, Xiao Yichen didn't say anything.
9527 has begun to get used to the protagonist's strange personality, who either doesn't speak or becomes mute after speaking a word.
There were more important things at the moment, so his eyes never left Ning Guanyin.
Ning Guanyin quietly looked at the female cultivators present, and suddenly, her eyes fell on the four-cornered palace lanterns made of stone on both sides of the path.
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