MJWCATFPITWOC Chapter 86

After Li Juemu cast healing spells on them, the three of them scurried away.

Shen Yucheng’s side was still engaged in an intense battle, and no one noticed three disheveled figures stumbling over from the side. Fu Junxuan stopped in the distance, pausing in his steps. He wasn’t in a hurry to approach, but stared blankly at the youth before him, who looked slightly different, watching him use those incomparably familiar moves, one after another.

Li Yuan’s gaze was fixed on that person, his body stiff. After a long while, he whispered, “Yichen… it’s you.”

As soon as this name was uttered, Fu Junxuan’s mind flashed back to when Mo Yifeng had returned to the Lingfeng Sect from the Dingxu Sect some time ago, bringing someone with him. At the time, he had assumed it was just another caged person and hadn’t paid much attention. Looking back now, if only he had taken a look back then…

Lingyi’s voice trembled when she saw the golden threads between Shen Yucheng’s palms, “There’s no mistaking it, Shen Yucheng.”

The three of them were engrossed in watching when suddenly, a figure abruptly blocked their path. They were taken aback, and when they looked up, they met Mo Yifeng’s condescending gaze, “Have you seen enough?”

His appearance had initially been expected to make the three of them instantly retract their burning gazes. Unexpectedly, the situation took a turn. Fu Junxuan suddenly stepped forward, grabbed Mo Yifeng’s collar, and gritted his teeth, “Mo Yifeng, you’re really something! You’ve been hiding it from me all this time. If I hadn’t come here, were you planning to keep him hidden forever?”

Li Yuan’s expression darkened, and the talismans in his hand fluttered, “No wonder Yichen disappeared without a trace after you left the Dingxu Sect… You must have been involved!”

Lingyi’s fingers formed a seal, her face as dark as could be, “Why don’t you guys tell me anything!”

Mo Yifeng glanced at them disdainfully and turned his head away, “He’s mine, why would I tell irrelevant people?”

As soon as he said this, the three of them instantly blew up. Just as they were about to attack, a villager’s corpse landed on Mo Yifeng’s back faster than any attack, followed by Shen Yucheng’s angry voice, “Mo Yifeng! Where did you disappear to! Can’t you see there’s still so much to do here!”

Upon hearing this, Mo Yifeng immediately broke free from Fu Junxuan’s grasp and rushed happily towards Shen Yucheng. The two of them fought side by side, wreaking havoc.

The three of them were stunned on the spot, as if they had seen a ghost.

Lingyi’s mouth twitched, “Fu Junxuan… didn’t you say in your letter that Mo Yifeng was depressed? Looking at him now, I’m reserving judgment on your assessment.”

Li Yuan nodded, “You also said he had turned into a little lamb… but when have I ever seen such a capable little lamb?”

Fu Junxuan supported his forehead. He wasn’t like this before.

Lingyi scratched her head, helpless, “Forget it, as long as he’s okay, that’s good. Let’s talk about everything after the battle is over.”

She was referring to Shen Yucheng’s matter. Back then, Shen Yucheng had taken Bai Guchen away without a word and handled it alone, leaving them, the seniors, unable to intervene at all. Over the years, every time they thought about it, they felt a pang of heart pain. Now, they finally had the opportunity to make up for that past.

The three of them were about to join the battle when suddenly, an anxious voice came from behind them.

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“Where’s Mo Yifeng!”

Bai Guchen was frantically trying to find him, his eyes searching everywhere, his movements out of control, his attacks chaotic and disorganized, simply attacking and slashing wildly at everything he saw. Shen Yucheng calmly watched his trajectory, easily dodging him.

Looking at Bai Guchen’s state, Shen Yucheng felt that this was a good opportunity to gather information. He organized his thoughts slightly and said, “You want to revive Baili… but why come to me?”

Since the first time he had seen Bai Guchen, the other party had repeatedly said things like “go with him.” And each attack had never truly been deadly. Otherwise, he would never have survived until now.

At least, in the duel at the Immortal Sect Competition, if Bai Guchen had really wanted to kill him, he would never have held back. Just like now, Bai Guchen was using thousands of troops to kill Mo Yifeng, leaving no survivors.

Hearing this question, Bai Guchen’s movements faltered for a moment, and he slowly said, “Baili… reviving him could have been done long ago. Soul-Calling Pills, Spirit-Suppressing Locks, Soul-Summoning Array, I’ve prepared all of this, spending a full thousand years… only the last step is missing.”

Shen Yucheng hadn’t expected that reviving a person would require so much preparation. He knew that the pills were refined by Liu Mingzhen, and the lock…

He suddenly thought that in Bai Guchen’s plan, the only person who had to die first was the young master of the Liu family, who was suffering from a serious illness. The Spirit-Suppressing Lock was probably possessed by the Liu family, a magical artifact that could firmly lock the soul within the body.

Then, the Soul-Summoning Array…

Bai Guchen spoke to himself, and the content was almost identical to Shen Yucheng’s speculation.

His hands continued to condense stone statues, “As for the Soul-Summoning Array… I still have to thank you. After all, Mo Yifeng is the most perfect spirit, his Nascent Soul Stage of pure cultivation is much stronger than ordinary cultivators.”

Only then did Shen Yucheng realize that the blood array in the black cave!

Mo Yifeng said he found it from the Liu family. But all of this was a trap set by Bai Guchen!

He angrily raised his eyes, and the other party chuckled, “Hey, hey, hey, don’t look at me like that. I didn’t force him to do this. I accidentally lost the array, and he just picked it up and helped me activate it.”

Looking at Shen Yucheng’s furious appearance, Bai Guchen suddenly felt much more comfortable, “If you have to blame someone, blame him for loving you too much. A dignified Sword Master, just finding a way to see you, went to do it without regard for anything… isn’t that a good thing?”

Shen Yucheng used golden threads to counterattack, but Bai Guchen flashed away, deftly dodging, “However, those are just appetizers. The most important thing is you, Shen Yucheng. From the first time I saw you, I knew that the person I had been searching for for many years had finally appeared… You are intelligent, yet astonishingly foolish, which is exactly the same as him. Most importantly, it’s your Puppet Dao. You are a rare genius, one in a hundred… no, a thousand years. If you weren’t constantly clamoring to hide the Forbidden Dao, you would have become the Nascent Soul cultivator in the cultivation world in the shortest amount of time.”

“So, you are my last step, Shen Yucheng. I want Baili to be resurrected in you.”

He had already had a bad premonition when he heard half of it, but now, he truly understood Bai Guchen’s motives over the years.

Bai Guchen’s voice echoed throughout the space. After hearing this, Mo Yifeng disregarded the dozens of stone statues in front of him and suddenly turned his head, as if he couldn’t believe what he had heard.

He was about to fly over, but the next moment, he saw this scene.

Shen Yucheng’s golden threads tightened and extended rapidly, piercing Bai Guchen’s right hand that was condensing a stone statue, his tone icy cold, “Looks like you’re planning to throw away this hand too? What are you being arrogant about?”

Bai Guchen lowered his head to look at his palm, where a hole with blood gushing out appeared. However, he seemed to feel no pain, not even furrowing his brow, and gently pulled out the golden threads, saying indifferently, “Looks like we have nothing to talk about anymore. I thought you could understand me and willingly stand on my side… In the end, I still have to force you!”

As soon as he finished speaking, he instantly rose into the air, his hands forming seals, the gestures intricate and difficult to understand, so fast that it was dazzling. Shen Yucheng couldn’t tell what kind of magic this was for a moment, but it certainly wasn’t anything good.

Sure enough, the earth began to shake violently.

This time, the vibration wasn’t coming from underground, but…

Shen Yucheng suddenly raised his head and looked towards the distant forest.

Something was coming out of there.

Bai Guchen looked down at him and smiled coldly, “Shen Yucheng, I gave you a stable path, but you didn’t take it, insisting on choosing this path of death. Since that’s the case, then enjoy the last moment of your life.”

As soon as he finished speaking, roars resounded in the forest, and countless demon beasts rushed out of the forest, from small to large, from weak to strong, numbering in the millions, sweeping towards them!

Shen Yucheng’s back turned cold, not expecting that Bai Guchen had hidden such a trump card.

Bai Guchen: “Kill them all you want! Anyway, the Crimson Puppet can control dead things. This battlefield is an undead legion that I specially prepared for you.”

Shen Yucheng’s heart sank.

Faced with this group of huge monsters, he was also at a loss. The other party was right. If these demon beasts were killed, Bai Guchen could still revive them and continue to fight. But they were made of flesh and blood. No matter how strong their spiritual power was, there would eventually be a moment of exhaustion.

This protracted war was almost a dead end for them.

Just then, a loud shout came from behind him: “Shen Yucheng! Leave these to us!”

Shen Yucheng turned his head to look, and what he saw was more than a hundred sect disciples standing there fully armed, led by Lingyi. She was wearing armor, like an invincible female general, her eyes firm and incomparably determined. Fu Junxuan was standing behind her, performing guarding techniques, while Li Yuan was activating protective talismans at the edge of the village.

“This… how…?”

In the crowd, Shi Zhong raised his long sword high and said loudly: “Senior Yi! Not just the three major sects, but other sects have also rushed to support us after receiving the news! Leave these monsters to us to deal with!”

The crowd was like a flood bursting a dam, rushing towards the demon beast army, their shouts shaking the heavens!

Mo Yifeng walked closer to Shen Yucheng, “Why are you stunned?”

Shen Yucheng hadn’t recovered yet, and his tone was somewhat dazed, “Just now… when I turned around, I saw them… so many people… standing behind me…”

He was a bit incoherent, unable to express his current mood. But he had never experienced such emotions before, and his heart was filled with mixed feelings that were difficult to describe.

Seeing this, Mo Yifeng smiled, “Do you dislike it?”

Shen Yucheng shook his head.

Mo Yifeng reached out and ruffled his hair, his tone gentle, “Then leave it to them. We’ll deal with this.”

The two of them looked at each other, and then together, they leaped into the air.

Bai Guchen’s gaze became ferocious, “Shen Yucheng, why are you so lucky?! Why?! With the same background, he never received such treatment!”

His eyes were bloodshot, his hands forming seals rapidly. Shen Yucheng wasn’t familiar with this, but Mo Yifeng noticed something strange at a glance, “It’s a forbidden technique.”

“That’s right!” Bai Guchen roared, his eyes like copper bells, “From now on, I’m going to take your lives!”

In an instant, dozens of huge red arrays floated in the air, trapping Shen Yucheng and Mo Yifeng firmly. Shen Yucheng’s heart tightened, “What kind of forbidden technique is this?”

Mo Yifeng gripped his crimson sword tightly and said in a deep voice, “I don’t know.”

“What?” Shen Yucheng was stunned.

Mo Yifeng answered truthfully, “Most forbidden techniques are products left over from ancient times. I can only tell from the gestures that it’s a forbidden technique, but I have no way of knowing what it is specifically.”

The surface of the red arrays suddenly became uneven. The next moment, countless black, dry giant hands stretched out from within the arrays, pouncing straight at the two of them!

Mo Yifeng used his sword to eliminate them all in an instant, and the ghost hands turned to ashes and disappeared on the spot.

But the next moment, the red arrays seemed to be reactivated and began to rotate, and infinite ghost hands spread out again. Shen Yucheng’s brow furrowed, “Is this infinite generation?”

“That’s right. This forbidden technique was created thousands of years ago, specifically to deal with criminals with extremely high cultivation. Once activated, the ghost hands will be reshaped after each destruction, becoming stronger and more resilient, and the toughness of this technique can be passed down from generation to generation to subsequent practitioners.”

Just as he said, Mo Yifeng gradually felt these ghost hands becoming more solid. He didn’t know how many times he had slashed, but he still couldn’t completely destroy them. In the end, the moment a ghost hand touched him, his body immediately stiffened, completely unable to move, and he could only widen his eyes, trapped tightly.

Shen Yucheng’s situation was no exception. After the two of them were completely restrained, the red arrays instantly dissipated, leaving only the ghost hands floating in the air.

Bai Guchen walked closer to the two of them with a smile, reaching out to gently caress Shen Yucheng’s cheek, “This face is indeed not bad, but unfortunately it’s not the type I like. But it doesn’t matter, I’ll change it later. Eat this first.”

He held a pill in his hand, trying to stuff it into Shen Yucheng’s mouth. However, even though Shen Yucheng couldn’t move, he could control his expression. He kept his mouth tightly shut, unwilling to swallow this pill of unknown origin. Who knew what would happen if he ate it?

Bai Guchen’s gaze darkened as he stared at him blankly, “Open your mouth.”

…

Bai Guchen’s fingers exerted force, fiercely pinching Shen Yucheng’s jaw, forcing him to open his mouth, preparing to shove the pill in.

Suddenly, his waist was struck with pain, and his body was impacted by a powerful force, throwing him away!

Mo Yifeng didn’t know where the strength came from, but he forcibly broke free from the confinement of the ghost hands. His body was covered in wounds due to overexertion, and blood constantly seeped out from the gaps between the ghost hands. This scene shook Shen Yucheng’s heart.

Mo Yifeng smiled at him, downplaying it, “It’s just a superficial wound.”

However, the next second, a black shadow flashed, and Bai Guchen suddenly delivered a knee strike, fiercely hitting Mo Yifeng’s abdomen. Mo Yifeng grunted, and white foam seeped from the corner of his mouth. Bai Guchen grabbed his hair, forcing him to look at him, his tone icy cold, “Superficial wound? I’ll let you know what isn’t just a superficial wound.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly exerted force, smashing Mo Yifeng heavily into the ground, causing him to roll down with the ghost hands.

Bai Guchen looked at him coldly, his tone sinister, “Originally, I was planning to kill you directly, but now I’ve changed my mind. I want you to watch Shen Yucheng turn into another person, someone who belongs only to me.”

After saying that, he forcibly shoved the pill into Shen Yucheng’s mouth.

Shen Yucheng desperately tried to spit it out, but found that the pill immediately dissolved upon entering his mouth, completely integrating into his body, leaving no residue.

But he didn’t feel anything unusual in his body.

The corners of Bai Guchen’s mouth turned up slightly, “You’ll know in a while.”

A crimson light flashed, and the ghost hands on Shen Yucheng’s body instantly disappeared.

After Mo Yifeng was heavily struck to the ground, Fu Junxuan and the others immediately rushed over, helping him break free from the ghost hands, and then rescued Shen Yucheng.

Back in the air, Mo Yifeng immediately flew to Shen Yucheng’s side, “Are you okay? Did he do anything to you?”

A trace of unnaturalness flashed across Shen Yucheng’s expression, but he quickly collected himself, frowning as he replied, “Yeah.”

Seeing that the two of them had regained their freedom, Bai Guchen didn’t seem annoyed, but instead seemed to have achieved his goal, appearing calm and indifferent. He glanced at the battlefield below, sneering, “This is really like the Immortal-Demon War of a thousand years ago. So many years have passed, and cultivators are still so weak.”

Upon hearing this, Shen Yucheng immediately looked towards the battlefield. Sure enough, the situation was extremely unfavorable for the cultivators.

Among the cultivators, apart from a very few who had reached the Golden Core stage, most were disciples who lacked practical experience, and they were retreating steadily in a short period of time. On the other hand, the demon beast army was stronger overall and even had the ability to revive. Even if they were killed, they could still return to the battlefield.

The only way was to capture and seal these demon beasts alive to stop them.

As soon as Bai Guchen finished speaking, Shen Yucheng’s figure suddenly disappeared.

Watching the disciples fight hard, Shen Yucheng clenched his fists. He had an idea, but the risk was extremely high, and he wasn’t sure if he should try it.

“You want to control these tens of millions of disciples at the same time?”

Mo Yifeng came to his side, his tone grave.

Shen Yucheng turned to look at him, “What do you think?”

Mo Yifeng met his gaze, without the slightest hesitation, “To be honest, the risk is too great.

First of all, the spiritual power consumed by controlling so many cultivators is no joke. You know how much spiritual power you have.

Secondly, the cultivation of these demon beasts is generally higher than that of the cultivators. The chances of winning are slim if you fight them head-on.

Finally… if you do this, it’s equivalent to exposing your Forbidden Dao identity in front of everyone. It’s unknown whether the entire cultivation world can accept your existence.”

Shen Yucheng had already considered everything that Mo Yifeng said. It’s just that right now, he couldn’t think of a better way.