Yan Qing was stunned. His mind was shaken by Xie Shiyi's previous words about nightmares, and his fingers were curled up nervously. Then, he was stunned by the last sentence, and he didn't react for a moment - what was Xie Shiyi talking about
But the current situation doesn't give us the time to worry about these things.
Not far away, Qin Changxi coughed violently and stood up from the ground. His eyes were bloodshot, and his expression was distorted by hatred and fear. He said in a trembling voice: "Huai Mingzi, kill them. Kill them at all costs today."
Now, every step I take feels like dancing on the edge of a knife, with waves of pain stimulating my brain.
But Huai Mingzi's condition is getting crazier and crazier. It is estimated that the people over in Zijinzhou have already given him orders. It is feared that this place will be reduced to ruins soon.
Qin Changxi didn't want to be implicated, and looked at Xie Shiyi and Yan Qing with the most resentful look. He got up from the ground, rolled up his black robe, and walked out of Shura Road, holding on to the wall.
The situation was critical, and Yan Qing didn't have time to ask Xie Shiyi what he meant. His face became serious again and he looked at Huai Mingzi.
Huai Mingzi's emerald green eyes were filled with struggle and pain, as if he was being controlled by an unknown force.
The fourth whistle of Zijinzhou spread throughout the White Bone Hall. Huai Mingzi suddenly let out a loud cry, hugged his head with his arms, and knelt on the ground. His ten fingers were inserted into his hair, and one of his hands was as old as a dead tree, while the other was a teenager, which was weird and bizarre.
A layer of light red appeared around Huai Mingzi, his lips trembled, he gasped, his eyes were filled with hatred, he gritted his teeth and said, "Qin family, Qin family, Qin family..."
All kinds of hatred and anger seemed to burst out from these repeated words!
Finally, under Huai Mingzi's feet, at the center of the formation, a red symbol appeared. The five elements of spiritual power around him dispersed, and the mighty force penetrated him directly, striking a dazzling light under his feet.
The scorching fire and mysterious Yin formation.
The formation is activated by the soul of the God Transformation Stage at a high price.
Yan Qing's face was as gloomy as water, and he said, "We can't let you set up the formation."
Xie Shiyi's eyes looked at her from a distance.
In the center of the White Bone Hall, faint red flames rose from the ground one by one, wrapping around Huai Mingzi, as if they were going to set the entire world on fire.
This fire once burned as far as the Red Lotus Pavilion, lingering day and night for ten or a hundred years.
Xie Shiyi said softly: "I know."
He lowered his eyes, hiding all the ups and downs of emotions just now, his blood-colored robe swept across the black water on the ground, and he walked forward silently, sword in hand.
Wherever the No Regrets Sword pointed, a layer of blue frost condensed in the air.
In the blink of an eye, the frost spread out with a vast and unstoppable force - freezing the water surface, freezing the palace walls, freezing the iron chains, freezing the heaven and earth.
Bai Xiaoxiao's tears froze on her cheeks in this cold weather, forming sparkling icicles.
He looked up at her shudderingly.
The eerie and evil hall of bones suddenly turned into a snowy wilderness.
Huai Mingzi was in the center, and only a small area within him was not affected by the ice and snow. The fire started from the ends of his hair, burning his clothes. Huai Mingzi gasped in the fire. If it really came to this, his eyes would be filled with hatred that would last until his death, and the pleasure of revenge.
"I'm going to die..." Huai Mingzi's voice was low and broken: "But if I die, Xie Ying, Yan Qing, don't even think about living - you will be buried with me!"
Xie Shiyi held the No Regrets Sword, approached me, and said softly: "Is this how you killed me in your last life?"
Huai Mingzi's green eyes were full of mockery, and he smiled strangely: "Why, are you heartbroken? It's good to be heartbroken! Now I will give you a chance to avoid the pain of being torn apart like you have ever suffered! Let you two become a pair of desperate mandarin ducks!"
Xie Shiyi didn't say anything.
The next second, the No Regrets Sword broke through the wind, snow and red fire, carrying the sword intent of the ancient gods, and pierced through Huai Mingzi's chest as fast as lightning.
When the divine sword entered his body, Huai Mingzi uttered a muffled groan, his emerald green eyes were quenched by the fire and went crazy. He opened his mouth and bled, and said vaguely and crazily: "Xie Ying, it's useless, you can't stop me..."
Xie Shiyi said calmly: "Huai Mingzi, do you know? I have been studying the Blazing Fire Mysterious Yin Formation for a hundred years."
Huai Mingzi was stunned and looked up in disbelief.
I have only met Xie Ying a few times, and in my impression, this person is always as cold as ice, as if all the worldly love and hate are nothing but snow and clouds. This is the first time that I have seen the murderous intent that chills to the bone in the depths of Xie Ying's eyes.
Xie Shiyi thrust the No Regrets Sword into Huai Mingzi's body, and with a flick of his wrist, the No Regrets Sword shattered into starlight. Xie Shiyi slowly leaned down, his black hair and red clothes fluttering, and the icy blue light in the depths of his eyes was more awe-inspiring than the wind and snow in the hall. He smiled lightly, but the smile did not reach his eyes at all.
"I have tried ten thousand ways to break the formation. Do you think I have succeeded?"
Huai Mingzi's pupils shrank, "No! Xie Ying! What do you want to do!"
Xie Shiyi said nothing, standing at the boundary where the raging fire and ice and snow met - a ray of ice-blue light flowed in from his fingertips, with a trace of scarlet blood condensed in the light.
Huai Mingzi had reached the peak of the Spiritualization Stage, so he was naturally not an ordinary person. He could tell what it was at a glance. "Glass Blood?" Huai Mingzi's green eyes were full of disbelief, and he shouted with a pale face: "Xie Ying, are you crazy?!"
Xie Shiyi didn't say anything, and the sword intent of no regrets surrounded him layer by layer. He was wearing a red dress, which made his face look white. The red dress covered the blood that slowly seeped out from his heart. The wind rolled up his wide sleeves, like a flying cloud.
Bang!
As soon as the Blazing Black Yin Formation was activated, a huge fire exploded in the hall with a loud bang.
There was a blazing flame that made everyone present spit out blood.
The fire melted the black glacier under Xie Shiyi's feet, and licked the walls, stone pillars, iron chains, and stone statues like a long tongue.
Everything was destroyed in the smoke and dust. Yan Qing was too familiar with such blazing white light and great momentum. It was as if he had returned to the main hall of Shifang City a hundred years ago. Watching the beams fall and the palace collapse, he was alone against the devil and heading towards a destined death.
But this time it's a little different.
"Xie Shiyi..." Yan Qing murmured softly.
The mad fire is about to burn everything in the world.
Suddenly, a cold light appeared from the center of the flame—
The cold light is like the snow on the mountain top, the moon in the sky, like a sword blade, like colored glass, and like the eternal frost in the palace of God.
The entire sky was as bright as day.
Boom! Two unprecedentedly powerful forces collided in a small battlefield in the Bone Hall!
Huai Mingzi destroyed his own soul and was on the verge of death. He gnashed his teeth, his green eyes full of venom, a small crack appeared between his eyebrows, and a trace of black viscous liquid slowly flowed out.
Nightmare. Or rather, this is Huai Mingzi's true nature.
Black liquid flowed down his eyelashes, down his nose, and down his cheeks. The nightmare flowed out of his body, and the emerald green light in Yin Wuwang's eyes slowly faded. From the purest emerald green to grayish green, and finally to a dull black.
The thick black liquid gathered in the air and finally formed a winding poisonous snake. Every drop of it was boiling and trembling, carrying the deepest and most poisonous malice and hatred. It made a hissing sound and attacked Xie Shiyi who had worked so hard to break the formation!
Yan Qing's face was cold, and the soul threads between his fingers instantly moved out, transforming into thousands of phantoms and attacking "Huai Mingzi". At the same time, Yan Qing shouted in a low voice: "Buzhi, come out."
At the same time, outside the secret realm of Tinglan.
"Xie Ying's ruthless path has been broken. In a hundred years, it is impossible for him to return to the peak. Now he is definitely not a match for Huai Mingzi. This plan is foolproof, and he will definitely die."
On the other side of the water mirror was an elder of the Qin family, with ambitious eyes and an anxious and excited tone.
"When you die, we will immediately send people to Nanzezhou, and then ask Master Jingmen to help elect our master as the next leader of the Immortal Alliance. By then, you and I will own the Xiaoyu Palace, not only controlling the exits from the Demon Realm to the Upper Heaven, but also restoring the 480 temples in Zijinzhou - a hundred years of planning will be accomplished in one fell swoop."
Jing Ruyu stood in the center of the Xuanji Palace formation and smiled at the first elder of the Qin family: "Elder Qin, are we being too hasty?"
The elder of the Qin family was stunned: "What does Master Jing mean by this?"
Jing Ruyu said calmly, "The capable person should take the position of the Lord of Xiaoyu Palace. The Qin family never leaves Zijinzhou. If they rashly interfere in the affairs of Nanzezhou, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the people."
The elder of the Qin family was in a stalemate. He looked at the woman opposite him and asked in a trembling voice, "What do you mean?"
Jing Ruyu did not answer her words, but said calmly: "Besides, are you really sure that it is foolproof?"
The Qin family elders completely lost their smile.
Jing Ruyu said: "Xie Ying and Huai Mingzi, at most, ended up with both sides suffering losses. It's not enough to kill Xie Ying."
Outside the Xuanji Palace, the light from the sky and the shadows of the clouds fell on her eyebrows. There was a very small mole on the tip of her nose, and her smile dispersed some of the danger she carried.
"I can help you take the last step, but unfortunately your young master may not be able to come out."
The elder of the Qin family was horrified: "Jing Ruyu, what are you going to do?!"
Jing Ruyu suddenly sneered, tearing off all the false masks to the elder of Zijinzhou: "Why don't you ask Qin Ziang for me first, what exactly are you going to do? The Qingyun Conference is held in my Fuhua Sect, and the Tinglan Secret Realm is a new rule I added - Xie Ying died in it. In the end, the Wangqing Sect will question me, and the nine major sects will suspect me!" Jing Ruyu's almond eyes were full of sarcasm: "Qin Ziang, do you think I'm a fool?"
Qin Ziang is indeed the name of the current head of the Qin family in Zijinzhou.
The elder of the Qin family was somewhat afraid of her, but was still very unwilling to do so. He suppressed his anger and said, "Master Jing, it is impossible to kill Xie Ying without paying a high price. The master has been refining Huai Mingzi for a hundred years, consuming countless efforts. Now you haven't even entered the secret realm, and you are just suffering from rumors! Who paid the highest price!"
Jing Ruyu said: "But these rumors are enough to keep me from entering Xiaoyu Palace."
The Qin family elder suddenly raised his head, his pupils widened.
Jing Ruyu smiled: "Besides, as long as I want, I can pay any price."
"Qin Ziang probably expected all this. Don't worry, if you tell me exactly what I said, I won't be surprised. But you all like to speculate on my intentions without authorization."
"The cooperation between Fuhua Sect and the Qin family should have vanished with the death of Xie Ying."
She and Qin Ziang will be very happy.
The words "vanish into thin air" came softly from Jing Ruyu's red lips, and with a wave of her sleeve, the water mirror was completely shattered.
She turned around, her aqua blue dress swept across the smooth and bright hall, and she walked towards the entrance of Tinglan Secret Realm.
The order of Feiyu spread throughout the mountains, and now everyone gathered in front of the secret realm. Not only the nine elders, but also all the disciples who participated in this Qingyun Conference.
Jing Ruyu arrived late, and the crowd immediately made way for her.
Tianshu and Hengbai were stunned, not only them, but everyone was stunned where they were - there was a lotus lantern hanging at the entrance of Tinglan Secret Realm, constantly emitting black mist.
Starry sky lotus.
The Fuhua Sect has hidden in a forbidden area a Earth-level artifact used to detect nightmares, the Xingtianlian.
"Master, what's going on?"
Elder Cangqing of the Fuhua Sect, who was in charge of this Qingyun Conference, looked panicked and spoke with a trembling voice.
Long before Jing Ruyu ordered him to take out the Starry Sky Lotus and gather the strength of all the Dongxu monks in the sect to activate it in front of the Tinglan Secret Realm, he already felt a heavy stone in his heart.
Now the Star Lotus was shrouded in black mist, and the truth was revealed. The stone smashed the person so hard that he became bloody and dizzy.
The appearance of black fog on the Star Lotus indicates the presence of nightmare.
The number of Starry Sky Lotus petals that were dyed black showed how powerful Nightmare was—now, the entire Starry Sky Lotus had turned black.
The nightmare in the Tinglan Secret Realm is at least in the Void Stage! A Void Stage demon in the Secret Realm? ? ? How is it possible? ?
Jing Ruyu also had a serious expression as she looked towards the entrance to the Tinglan Secret Realm.
“Master Jing, what’s going on…” Elder Huaou of the Shangyang Sect frowned, his eyes full of worry.
Jing Ruyu said in a deep voice: "There are demon seeds in the Tinglan Secret Realm."
Hua Ou was anxious: "How is this possible? The disciples who entered are only at the Nascent Soul stage. Even if a demon appeared, it is impossible to completely dye the Star Sky Lotus black."
Jing Ruyu pursed her lips, her face frosted, and suddenly lowered her head, her sharp eyes piercing through the disciples of the Nine Sects. The cold scrutiny inside forced everyone to panic. They knelt down under the powerful pressure of the Spiritual Transformation Stage, unable to say a word.
Jing Ruyu bit Bing Suiyu and said, "Then I have to ask you how you discipline your disciples!"
Hua Ou was stunned: "What?"
Jing Ruyu closed her eyes and opened them again, her eyes frosty: "When we first sent Elder Feiyu to investigate the South City incident, she should have noticed something was wrong. But then the Immortal Alliance intervened, and I thought everything had been resolved. In the end... I didn't expect the people in the Demon Realm to be so vicious!"
Hua Ou's eyes widened suddenly. Not only him, but also the other nine elders were quite shocked: "Demon Realm?"
Jing Ruyu said, "Yes. Someone from the Demon Realm fled to the Upper Heaven, was captured by the Qin family, and then escaped. The Third Young Master Qin came here because of this incident."
"A hundred years ago, Xie Ying entered the Demon Realm, burned down Shifang City, and killed Huai Mingzi. The Demon Realm was leaderless, and they wanted to resurrect Huai Mingzi, and even set their sights on the Upper Heaven."
"I just recently learned that someone from the Demon Realm is selling a kind of elixir in the South City that can make people's cultivation greatly improved in a short period of time." Jing Ruyu sneered: "Ridiculous."
"This elixir is Huai Mingzi's nightmare. After taking it, I will become the vessel to revive it!"
A hint of red appeared in Jing Ruyu's eyes, a look of regret and determination: "Those who can compete in the second round are the best among the younger generation, but how many of these best are opportunists? This is all my fault for not checking it out in the first place."
Hua Ou's face turned pale, and he quickly said, "Where is Du Wei? He is the leader of the Immortal Alliance. Maybe we should ask him about the matter of killing the demon..."
Jing Ruyu raised her eyes and said, "Elder Huaou, why do you want me to gather so many people and take out the Starry Sky Lotus from the forbidden area?"
Hua Ou was stunned.
Jing Ruyu raised her chin slightly and said coldly, "Du Wei went in first when he realized something was wrong. I was left guarding outside. Judging from the situation today, I don't think things are optimistic about what happened in the secret realm."
"Du Wei was seriously injured when he entered the Demon Realm a hundred years ago. He has been recovering after a hundred years of seclusion. Now he has met Huai Mingzi again. It is very dangerous. Huai Mingzi has not come out of the Tinglan Secret Realm yet..." Jing Ruyu murmured: "It should be Du Wei. Let's buy some time now."
Elder Fucheng of Liuguang Sect was stunned, "Master Jing, what should we do now?"
Liuguang Sect and Fuhua Sect were close, so they knew the truth to some extent and knew that Jing Ruyu's words could not be trusted. But it was true that Xingtian Lotus turned black—Huai Mingzi, he was a demon in the God Transformation Stage! If he showed up, I'm afraid all living things would be wiped out.
Jing Ruyu pursed her lips, her blue dress fluttering, and her eyes were filled with deep worry and hesitation.
"Master Jing!" Tianshu was anxious. When he thought of Du Wei and Yan Qing inside, his hands were shaking with panic: "Master Jing, the disciples inside are innocent."
Jing Ruyu looked at Tianshu coldly and said, "Elder Tianshu, the disciples in the Tinglan Secret Realm are innocent, but aren't all the living beings in my Upper Heaven innocent? Xie Ying is a demon species that he cannot deal with. Do you think it will be useful for you and me to enter her?"
Tianshu's lips trembled and his face turned pale.
Jing Ruyu said: "Going in would just mean you're going to die. The most important thing now is to prevent the demons inside from coming out."
"And the situation is urgent," Jing Ruyu made a move, and the Star Lotus instantly fell into her hand. She lowered her eyes and fiddled with the lotus petals with her slender white hands, saying softly, "If the core of the Star Lotus is stained black, a demon seed may be born. We don't have time to send a message to the other sect masters of the nine sects. If we delay for a while, these tens of thousands of young disciples may die at the hands of the demon first."
The demons of the Spiritualization Stage could turn the world upside down with a wave of their hands. They could protect themselves, but the hundreds of disciples of the Fuhua Sect could not protect themselves, and the disciples of the Qingyun Conference who were kneeling on the ground could not protect themselves either.
"Master, what are you going to do..."
Jing Ruyu raised her chin and looked at the densely packed Fuxi stones in the Tinglan Secret Realm. She couldn't help but sneer in her heart, Xie Ying, have you ever thought that this circle of Fuxi stones that others can't untie is the coffin you set for yourself? She said calmly: "At this point, we must destroy the Tinglan Secret Realm."
"Nightmare is the curse of the demon god, and it needs to be destroyed by a divine weapon. I don't have a divine weapon... but the Red Spirit Sky Fire of my Fuhua Sect may be able to do this."
Elder Cang Qing suddenly raised his head: "Red Spirit Sky Fire?!"
Jing Ruyu nodded, expressionless: "Yes, Scarlet Spirit Sky Fire."
Seeing Tianshu's frightened eyes, she comforted him softly, "Don't worry, Elder Tianshu. The Scarlet Spirit Sky Fire is only effective against nightmares. Du Wei is now a cultivator in the Spiritualization Stage and will not be affected."
She laughed at herself and said, "I am only a cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage. How could I walk out of it? Du Wei's luck must be greater than mine."
Tianshu was stunned when he heard her last words. The black mist of Xingtian Lotus became heavier. He looked at the shocked faces of the other Wangqing Sect disciples, shook his head and sighed.
Jing Ruyu smiled and comforted him again: "Besides, hasn't the philosophy of the Immortal Alliance always been to rather kill the wrong person than let him go? I believe Du Wei is in there, and he will agree with what I do."
She looked towards the Tinglan Secret Realm with heavy eyes, her back to the crowd, her red lips raised in a strange arc.
The Red Spirit Sky Fire is an ancient mysterious fire, but it not only restrains nightmares, it also restrains humans.
Unable to use magic, unable to use spiritual power - how can Xie Ying get out of the Tinglan Secret Realm? !
In normal circumstances, the Red Spirit Sky Fire is not enough to kill either Xie Ying or Huai Mingzi.
But now both of us are hurt, this fire will burn everything cleanly, that's good.