MOF Chapter 76
by Volare“Lu Jinnian, will you ever be done!” He turned his head and cursed, “It’s true what they say about you lacking brains, you need to consider the situation when fighting! Do you even know how dangerous and difficult to subdue this evil energy is?!”
Lu Jinnian smiled mockingly and said slowly, “Junior brother, haven’t you descended the mountain to exorcise evil many times? What level of evil spirits haven’t you encountered? Why are you so nervous?”
Xie Yiling was too lazy to waste any more words with him, using a spirit talisman to try and immobilize him, not wanting him to ruin things further. Naturally, Lu Jinnian wouldn’t let him get his way so easily, and the two started fighting again.
Xie Yiling’s heart was divided in two, one half paying attention to the gap in the demon-sealing spirit chains, and the other half meeting Lu Jinnian’s attacks.
Fortunately, because of his divided attention, he quickly noticed a wisp of black energy trying to squeeze out of the gap.
“Stop fighting! Lu Jinnian, stop fighting!” Xie Yiling panicked, wanting to end the fight, but Lu Jinnian was determined to settle the score with him.
“Just consider me the loser, alright?” Xie Yiling retreated repeatedly, “If you keep this up, you won’t be able to escape responsibility either!”
A cold, yin-like aura came from behind, forcing Xie Yiling to stop fighting. Lu Jinnian took advantage of his stillness, thrusting his sword from his collarbone straight down to his chest, laughing, “I won!”
“Winning against me while losing your life, save that for your coffin!” Xie Yiling didn’t care about the blood gushing from his wound. He turned around to see a small ball of black energy already gathered in mid-air.
It’s never too late to mend the fold, he used his spiritual power to temporarily block the gap, the blood on his body flowing even faster with the effort.
The bloody scent stimulated the evil energy’s violent, bloodthirsty nature. It should have fled, but instead, it turned back halfway andEntangled Xie Yiling.
This ball of evil energy that escaped was only about a third of the original size, and Xie Yiling didn’t think he couldn’t subdue it.
If Lu Jinnian wasn’t hindering him from the side.
Xie Yiling warned him, “If the evil energy escapes, you and I will both be held responsible, and neither of us can escape unscathed. Besides, this matter started because you came to the bottomless abyss for no reason. If something really happens, like you all said, I still have Immortal Lord Fufeng to vouch for me, what about you?”
Lu Jinnian’s hand holding the sword stiffened. The pros and cons in Xie Yiling’s words were obvious, and anyone would know how to choose after weighing them. Although he was unwilling, he understood the reasoning.
Xie Yiling breathed a temporary sigh of relief. Knowing Lu Jinnian, this person would definitely not join forces with him to subdue the evil energy. He didn’t hold any expectations, and he could still do it alone.
Xie Yiling flew out on his sword, saying, “Ten Thousand Swords Pierce the Void!”
With the heavenly net above and the earthly net below, and countless spirit swords attacking from the middle, the evil energy had no way out but still struggled to its death.
In a flash of lightning, it transformed into a sharp arrow shrouded in black smoke, using its speed to pierce through the wind and break through the air, shooting towards Xie Yiling’s heart.
The distance was too close and the speed was too fast, Xie Yiling couldn’t dodge at all. He even only managed to materialize half of his spirit shield. In his dark pupils, a black arrow hit the center of his pupil.
However, what arrived before the sharp arrow was a faint, cold fragrance. A person arrived with the fragrance, and Xie Yiling’s heartbeat stopped at that moment.
He wasBump away by an uncontrolled force brought by Nangong Ci. His vision blurred, and he staggered backwards. After the dizziness, his vision cleared. He opened his eyes and witnessed the black arrow pierce through Nangong Ci’s face.
Nangong Ci tilted his head and closed his eyes at the fastest speed. The arrow passed by, and he was stunned for a second, then frowned slightly, and two lines of bloody tears slowly fell from his snow-white face.
Xie Yiling’s heart suffocated, as if an invisible giant hand was tightly gripping his heart. The pain felt like a blood blade, scraping across his entire body. The scene in front of him blurred inocean, and he rushed over, shouting with all his might, “Nangong Ci!!”
His throat cracked with pain, he clearly used his greatest strength to transmit his voice, but it sounded like an insignificant murmur in his own ears.
Only then did Lu Jinnian’s rationality return, realizing what he had done today. He was shocked and stood not far away, holding his breath and trying not to make any noise to attract attention.
“Nangong Ci, how… how are you?” That scene had too great an impact on Xie Yiling. He approached Nangong Ci, his whole body’s blood congealing into ice. His hands trembled, and for a moment, even the courage to wipe away the blood tears on his face disappeared with his body temperature.
Pain, regret, guilt, and anger mixed together, his emotions had never been so intense. So intense that it seemed to bring him back to the day his mother died and his elder sister was scattered.
“I… I, I didn’t.” Xie Yiling grabbed Nangong Ci’s hand with all his strength, stammeringly feeling his pulse toExplore. But his hands were shaking so badly that Nangong Ci had to grab his hand instead.
“Xie Ci, don’t worry. I just suffered a little injury above my eyes, it’s not a big deal. Where is the evil energy now? Let’s cooperate to deal with it.”
Nangong Ci’s tone was as calm and steady as usual, but it also seemed too calm.
When he spoke, his lips opened and closed, involving the facial muscles, and immediate, almost crushing pain was transmitted from his eyes.
Enduring this pain, Nangong Ci slowly opened his eyes little by little, only seeing dense, or shallow, blood spots floating on his retina. In a scarlet haze, he recognized Xie Yiling’s vaguely outlined face.
The sentence “Where is the evil energy” made Xie Yiling’s heart fall into an ice cave. He restrained himself from asking about Nangong Ci’s injuries now.
Remembering the evil energy, Xie Yiling turned his head and saw it constantlyCrash against the invisible barrier in the sky. Immediately, he turned his wrist, waved his sword into the sky, and fought with the evil energy.
Nangong Ci closed his eyes, identified the position by sound, and summoned a demon-sealing spirit chain again, flying towards the sky above the bottomless abyss.
At that gap, there was still evil energyBe ready to move. Feeling the pressure of the spirit chain, they retreated one after another. After a moment, the gap was completely repaired.
Nangong Ci tilted his head, hearing the sound of fighting coming from the upper left. He pinched a spirit incantation to explore the path.
Xie Yiling noticed and immediately reminded him, “Daoist Master, leave this to me!”
Perhaps influenced by its sword master, the “No gift” red light was even more intense than before. To avoid theRoasted of the red light, the evil energy dodged east and west, and was finally forced into a corner.
Xie Yiling used his spiritual power to transform into iron chains. He couldn’t summon the demon-sealing spirit chains yet, so he simply imitated one.
The spirit chains lashed the evil energy hundreds of times without mercy, almost breaking it apart.
At this moment, Xie Yiling remembered the contents of the Record of Strange Contracts.
Controlling corpses and Evil control is an entry-level technique for the ghost path. He had just read it yesterday, so naturally he wouldn’t forget.
Nangong Ci couldn’t see now, and that idiot Lu Jinnian didn’t understand, as long as he was careful, he shouldn’t be discovered.
When the evil energy was beaten and whimpering, it sensed a similar aura. What made it even more at a loss was that this aura was trying to control it.
It was the remaining evil of the ancient fierce beast SerpentJiao, and there wouldn’t be anything more evil than it in the world except forHostal.
Just as it wanted to fight back, it discovered that this aura also contained spiritual power. The evil energy shivered all over, and just as it was about to escape, a spirit cage blocked its retreat,Covered it.
Finally, the sudden fierceYin wind caused by the evil energy stopped, and the dust settled. The black energy at the peak dissipated, and there was no smell of evil around.
Xie Yiling was sweating alternately hot and cold on his back. He carefully resealed the evil energy into the bottomless abyss, and only after he couldn’t see the evil energy at all did he exhale a long breath.
Nangong Ci felt the changes around him, relaxed in his heart, and said, “Fortunately, we recovered the evil energy in time, and didn’t cause a catastrophe. If…”
Before he could finish speaking, he heard the crisp sound of a spirit sword landing on the ground. As soon as the fierce battle with the evil energy ended, Xie Yiling threw downNo gift and rushed towards Lu Jinnian, who had been watching from the sidelines. Before he arrived, his fist was already raised high.
With one punch, Lu Jinnian immediately tasted blood in his mouth. He touched his teeth with the tip of his tongue and found that they were actually a little loose.
Xie Yiling frantically grabbed his neck, regardless, and pulled him over, then rammed his knees hard twice into his abdomen, and then applied force to his hands, forcing him tolie on the ground.
Lu Jinnian’s head was pressed heavily against the ground by Xie Yiling, and he immediately broke his head and bled. By the time the blood flowed into his mouth, he realized that he was now being pressed to the ground and beaten by Xie Yiling.
“Lu Jinnian, you are truly disgusting to the extreme! You’re still standing by and watching now, what right do you have to cultivate immortality?!”
Fists landed one after another on his face, ribs, and abdomen, until Xie Yiling finished the entire sentence, Lu Jinnian’s body began to feel pain.
His mind waschaos likeClay, having taken a dozen punches in a row, completelyStick together. Fresh red bloodoverflow from his mouth and nose, flowing over half of his face.
In the moment that Xie Yiling stopped, he suddenlyRisky and broke free of the shackles.Reverse pressure Xie Yiling, swinging his fist down.
“A beggar who used to beg along the streets actually thinks he can cultivate the Dao and become an immortal,Rebirth!” Lu Jinnian’s face was bruised and swollen, retaliating fiercely at Xie Yiling’s face, which he hated so much.
Hearing the sound, Nangong Ci clenched his fists and said, “Lu Jinnian, shut up!”
However, Lu Jinnian couldn’t hear him at all now. As he spoke, his strength did not decrease: “Why doesA stinky beggar compete with me everywhere? IfYoung Master Yue hadn’t picked you up, you don’t know which street you’d be kneeling on right now! Once a beggar, always a beggar!”
“With an origin like yours, no wonder you have suchDirty thoughts, always trying toclimb upwards.”
Because he was too excited, his ribsA strait hurt so badly that he had to stop his movements to stabilize his breathing, but he was suddenly awakened by what he said.
His gaze turned back and forth between Nangong Ci and Xie Yiling, and a ridiculous thought popped into his head.
Xie Yiling took the opportunity to raise his knee and kick him away, stood up, andGrinned the broken corner of his mouth, said, “Then you’re just aWaste who isPressure by a beggar everywhere. Lu Jinnian, you are useless!”
After saying that, he stepped on Lu Jinnian and started fighting again.
The “Break the ice” on the side moved, wanting to fly over to save its master. Xie Yiling used his spiritual power toFlying it without turning his head.
“Xie Ci, what are you doing?” Nangong Ci stood in place and asked.
Xie Yiling replied as he beat him, “Punishing the wicked and eliminating evil! Eliminating harm for the people!”
After a while, Nangong Ci heard Lu Jinnian’s painful screams. He sighed and said, “Xie Ci, stop.”
Just as he finished speaking, he noticed someone entering Endless Peak.