"Given Senior Brother Zhuge's deep affection for Senior Sister Shangguan, once he makes this vow, I'm afraid he will have difficulty making any further progress in his cultivation. What a pity."
Huo Chunyan sighed, and finally looked away unable to bear it.
On the stage, Zhuge Yun closed his eyes, "I, Zhuge Yun, swear by my heart of Taoism that from today on, I will give up... Shangguan Xue."
As soon as he finished speaking, he vomited large mouthfuls of blood. His face was gray and listless. He just held on to his breath and didn't faint.
"Haha, it should have been done long ago."
Zhuge Yun's miserable state actually pleased Xie Changyuan. He looked at Xu Chunniang and the other three in a good mood and said, "Take him away and don't dirty my City Lord's Mansion."
The four of them were forced to come to the City Lord's Mansion and were forced to watch Zhuge Yun being beaten, so naturally their mood was not very good.
However, Zhuge Yun had voluntarily accepted the duel, and now that he was in this situation, they had nothing to say.
Zhang Yu and Zhao Xingsan went up to the stage, carefully helped Zhuge Yun up, and then they walked out of the City Lord's Mansion in silence.
Shangguan Xue had just taken two steps when a lazy voice sounded behind her.
"Sister Xue'er, please don't forget that your senior brother just swore a Dao Heart Oath. Are you following him now because you think he is too old?"
Shangguan Xue's expression changed several times, and finally she stopped.
As she was about to step out of the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, Xu Chunniang suddenly felt a chill and felt a strong sense of crisis.
She didn't show it on her face, but alarm bells were ringing in her heart.
The spiritual consciousness spread silently from three layers inside and three layers outside the body and entered a state of high alert.
Just then, she felt a cold wind wrapped in black mist coming towards her at an extremely fast speed.
There was a slight hesitation when approaching her, and then he entered her soul without any delay.
Xu Chunniang paused slightly, a trace of black mist flashed in her eyes, and then she walked out of the City Lord's Mansion as usual.
Just as she walked out of the City Lord's Mansion, in a secret room underground in the City Lord's Mansion, a Jindan cultivator covered in a black robe opened his eyes.
"How was it? Was it successful?"
Another person who was waiting nearby noticed the commotion and quickly asked.
The black-robed monk nodded slightly, then shook his head.
"The demon soul has been successfully planted, but it will take a while for it to take effect. Although I only vaguely sensed it for a moment, the soul of the female cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building seems to be quite strong."
"Since the devil soul has been planted, it is only a matter of time before it takes effect. Even cultivators in the late stage of foundation building cannot escape the erosion of the devil soul. How long can a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building resist?"
Hearing that the operation went smoothly, the man next to him was very proud, and then he said with regret, "It's a pity that the conditions for inducing the birth of this demon soul are too harsh. Otherwise, if we inducing more births, we will have a better chance."
The black-robed monk did not say anything else. He just glanced indifferently at the person next to him, and his intention to send him away was very obvious.
Realizing the black-robed man's intention, the man tactfully withdrew quietly and soon disappeared into the stone chamber.
Everything that happened in the underground secret room of the City Lord's Mansion was completely hidden as the stone door was closed.
But some things are quietly changing.
Xu Chunniang and her group of four took Zhuge Yun out of the City Lord's Mansion. Zhuge Yun's strong breath suddenly relaxed and he passed out.
"What should we do? Senior Brother Zhuge has fainted again. His injuries seem to have worsened."
A trace of anxiety flashed across Huo Chunyan's face. Although Zhuge Yun's injuries were his own fault, to be fair, he had also barely fulfilled his responsibilities as a senior brother.
She naturally couldn't bear to watch his injuries worsen.
Zhang Yu suggested, "Why don't we go to the clinic first and find a way to stop the injury for Senior Brother."
Zhao Xingsan's expression was equally solemn. As an alchemy practitioner, he had already checked Zhuge Yun's injuries while supporting him along the way.
It’s just that he was unconscious because of his severe injuries and the damage to his spiritual heart.
Although Senior Brother Zhuge’s injuries were serious, his life was not in danger.
Compared with the damage to the body and soul, the damage to the heart of Tao is the most serious.
After weighing the pros and cons, Zhao Xingsan said, "Let's go back to Xiangyun Inn. The clinic is messy and not as quiet as the inn. With me watching over it, nothing will go wrong."
The three of them discussed and decided to take Zhuge Yun back to the inn to recuperate first.
Huo Chunyan raised her leg to leave, but suddenly she looked at Xu Chunniang, who was following behind the few people without saying a word, and a strange feeling flashed through her heart.
When the three of them were discussing just now, she didn't say a word and seemed indifferent to Brother Zhuge's injury.
Could it be that Chunniang is still holding a grudge against Senior Brother Zhuge for causing trouble for her, and that's why she doesn't want to bother with him
But after knowing each other for many years, Huo Chunyan knew that Xu Chunniang was not the kind of person who would gloat over other people's misfortunes.
After thinking about it for a while and still not figuring it out, she simply gave up thinking about it.
Anyway, Senior Brother Zhuge has Zhao Xingsan to take care of him, so he just needs to rest for a while and heal his injuries.
However, the originally scheduled time to enter Fengku Mountain may have to be postponed again.
Xu Chunniang had been following behind several people, seemingly normal, but in fact her body had already turned into a battlefield.
As early as when she was about to leave the City Lord's Mansion, she had a hunch that she seemed to be being targeted by something.
What happened next confirmed her guess.
After the strange wind blew past, a cloud of black mist inexplicably appeared in her body.
The black mist entered her body and swept over her soul without any mercy, trying to devour it.
However, Xu Chunniang's reaction was equally quick. After realizing something was wrong, she immediately communicated with Xiao Hetao and released a large amount of heavenly fire.
The black fog was burned by the heavenly fire, as if it had met its natural nemesis. The places burned by the heavenly fire experienced a silent collapse.
It suddenly shrank into a small ball, revealing a strong sense of fear, as if it wanted to run away.
But there was fire all around it and it had nowhere to escape.
Feeling his body shrunk by half, the demon soul trembled violently and was filled with despair.
"Help, help..."
It originally had no hope and thought it could not escape death.
But unexpectedly, the scorching flames around it really stopped after it finished speaking.
The demon soul was a little confused and blinked in disbelief. It took him a long time to accept this fact.
Although it doesn't know why it was saved, it will try its best to survive as long as there is a glimmer of hope!
In fact, Xu Chunniang suddenly stopped not only because of the black fog's cry for help, but mainly because she suddenly thought of something.
Logically speaking, she had no grudges against the City Lord's Mansion in recent times or in the past, so no one should attack her, let alone use such a sinister trick.
But something that shouldn't have happened was discovered. There must be a reason for its existence.
Xu Chunniang's thoughts raced through her mind, but her expression did not change at all. She followed Huo Chunyan and the others as usual and returned to Xiangyun Inn.