northernbook Chapter 211 Escape
Chapter 211 Escape
The situation was urgent. Guishu didn't think much about it when he saw Wusheng coming over at such a critical moment.
The troupe members were very united, and everyone was almost united in life and death. Seeing Wusheng's shaky figure, Guishu couldn't help but ask with concern: "It's very dangerous here. You are only at the Ghost Sect level. Can you really make it?"
Wusheng immediately expressed his feelings: "Everything is for the master. I don't mind even if I turn to ashes."
At this point, Gui Shu was inevitably touched. He said affirmatively: "I will help you get in. The old man is like a leaf in the wind, and he wants to die. He will not do anything to you. But he is a Spirit King after all, so you have to be careful."
Xueyi also noticed the intentions of Guishu and Wusheng, and despite his wounds, he madly attacked Liu Yunhuan, leaving Liu Yunhuan unable to free her hands.
Seeing that "Wu Sheng" responded solemnly, Gui Shu helped him bear the remaining power of the battle and sent Wu Sheng in before the crack in the barrier was completely repaired.
After seeing Wusheng go in, Guishu breathed a sigh of relief and began to work wholeheartedly with Xueyi to deal with Liu Yunhuan.
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Chu Yu, who was nearly two meters tall, walked for so long under the pressure of the Spirit Emperor and the Ghost Emperor that his body was almost broken.
Phew, luckily the scene was too chaotic so I got away with it. It seems that no matter what tricks I want to do in the future, I have to take advantage of the chaos.
The reason why she chose to risk her life and sneak into the center of the storm was because she wanted to open the gate.
She couldn't ask the magician. She couldn't defeat the Ghost Emperor, and she had offended the Ghost King. She had to ask a living person.
But the leader of Qingliu Sect didn't seem to be in a good state to talk to, so she had no choice but to take a gamble and place her hopes on the two ghost cultivators in the cauldron.
She was hiding in the distance just now but saw clearly that the ghosts of Liu Qin and his wife were constantly gnawing at the body of the leader of Qingliu Sect in the furnace. The boundary stone was stored in the Liu family, and Liu Qin might really know something.
Master He could no longer shout at this moment. He was breathing weakly and his body was covered in smelly black blood. If it weren't for the heaving of his chest, it would be impossible to tell that he was a living person.
Outside, the fight between Liu Yunhuan and the two Ghost Kings was getting more and more intense. Here, Chu Yu, with his tall figure as a martial artist, walked in front of the cauldron and blocked Master He's sight.
When Sect Leader He saw the tall ghost cultivator approaching him, his chest heaved more violently and his eyes widened.
Chu Yu kicked over the cauldron, and Sect Leader He dragged his frail body and struggled to roll out, crying out "Yiyi Ya", expressing his dissatisfaction with Chu Yu.
Some parts of his body had been bitten to the point of being exposed, and Liu Qin and his wife also rolled out with him.
After Liu Qin and his wife came out, they continued to greedily devour Master He's body.
But what was very strange was that this was clearly a body of a Spirit Emperor, but the ghost cultivator who had just gathered his soul was able to bite his flesh and blood. Moreover, after Liu Qin and his wife ate his flesh and blood, it seemed that they did not receive the nourishment of the Spirit Emperor, and the aura around them did not increase. Liu Qin's body still felt like it would fall apart at the slightest touch. Mrs. Liu was better than Liu Qin, but only better.
"I'm afraid this is a fake Spirit Emperor." Chu Yu complained secretly. This scene was really weird.
Sect Leader He is like a piece of rotten meat that can release mysterious energy. No one knows why he became like this.
While Guishu and Xueyi worked together to encircle and suppress Liu Yunhuan, they also did not forget to pay attention to the situation in Qingyuan Palace.
I saw the martial artist guarding the half-dead Master He, with two little ghosts who had just gathered their souls following behind him. Master He was lying quietly on the ground, and the two little ghosts were not making any trouble. The martial artist stayed by their side, which made people feel at ease. As long as Master He was still alive, it was fine.
Liu Yunhuan didn't care what happened in Qingyuan Palace. Anyway, Sect Master He couldn't help her if he was alive. She was overwhelmed by herself at the moment and could only try her best to deal with the two Ghost Kings who attacked her without reservation.
On the other side, unknown to the public, Chu Yu brought Sect Leader He and Liu Qin and his wife to the depths of the hall. Sect Leader He was dying, while Liu Qin and his wife were trembling with fear at the warrior holding a big knife in front of them.
After Chu Yu set up a small barrier around him, he didn't waste any more words with them. He pointed his sword at Liu Qin and his wife and threatened them, "Tell me the truth about how to open the gate back to Jiuzhou Continent, and I will spare your lives, otherwise your souls will be torn apart."
Madam Liu was confused and frightened, and kept shaking her head in fear. Liu Qin dragged his staggering body, his eyes glancing around uncontrollably, as if he was thinking about something.
Looking at this situation, Chu Yu felt that Liu Qin must know something, so he said in a firm voice:
"Speak!" Chu Yu threatened again, and the voice frightened the two of them.
Madam Liu couldn't stand it anymore. She lightly scolded Liu Qin: "Husband, tell me..."
"What do you know!" Liu Qin's aura was not as good as Madam Liu's. His eyes were full of fear. Such a big middle-aged man hugged him and said tremblingly:
"I'm already dead, stop talking, stop talking..."
"It's better to die, it's better to die..." Sect Leader He, who was originally unconscious, suddenly came back to life after hearing the word "death" and said something crazy.
Liu Qin knew the method, but he looked very scared, as if he had seen something more terrifying than a magician.
He would rather die here than open the gate again.
Seeing that it was useless, Chu Yu had no choice but to use his trump card:
"I've seen your daughter. Is her name Liu Yan'er?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Mr. and Mrs. Liu Qin both raised their heads.
Mrs. Liu looked on anxiously, while Liu Qin felt a little guilty.
"She is still alive, but the magician has brought her to the den of ghosts. If the gate is not opened, she can't go back."
This is not nonsense. She is carrying Liu Yan'er with her. If the magician ties her up and takes her to the ghost den, isn't that equivalent to bringing Liu Yan'er into the ghost den as well?
Chu Yu spoke slowly, observing the couple's reactions.
"Sir, sir, please take me to see my daughter. I heard that Wan Yu is dead, so my daughter should be free. How is she doing recently?"
Hearing that her daughter was also in the ghost den, Madam Liu asked eagerly and almost walked over on her knees. When she heard the news about her daughter, she even forgot her fear.
"Use the method of opening the boundary gate to exchange."
Chu Yu paused, and it was unclear what emotions were on his face. He just replied with this sentence.
Seeing this, Madam Liu rushed towards Liu Qin like crazy: "Tell me, what did you do that night, and how did you open the gate?"
Liu Qin's figure became transparent after being beaten by his wife. He seemed to have been struggling for a long time but still couldn't make up his mind, because he felt that these questions were not what the troupe members should ask, and he was very suspicious of the martial artist.
Finally, he chose to ask Chu Yu tentatively: "Sir, how do you open the gate? Why don't you just ask your master directly? Why..."
Before Chu Yu could do anything, Madam Liu bit Liu Qin!
"Ah!" Liu Qin cried out in pain, and then quickly replied: "The magician usually only dares to borrow a little power from the boundary stone to shuttle back and forth between Jiuzhou and Guidan. I don't know what method he uses, but I only know that he is very cautious every time he comes to the shrine, as if he is afraid of disturbing something. Every time he achieves his goal, he leaves without looking back..."
"But I knew nothing that day. They led me to an unopened boundary gate and forced me to take down the stone behind the shrine and put it into the groove at the top of the boundary gate..."
"I didn't know anything after that. When I woke up again, I was just a remnant soul... I only know one thing, the one in the shrine killed everyone in my Liu family..."
Chu Yu listened carefully, analyzing the situation in his mind.
The magician didn't dare to use the shrine. He could only use some shady methods to borrow a little bit of the shrine's power.
Chu Yu guessed that he was using the power of the shrine to bring himself to this damn place.
But teleporting a city is different from teleporting a person. A city is so huge that a gate must be opened to teleport it.
They didn't dare to do it themselves, so they let Liu Qin, the unlucky guy who knew nothing, do it, which incidentally led to the Liu family being wiped out by the ghost baby's curse.
"What do you want to do with the whole city?"
Chu Yu couldn't help but ask the question she had always wanted to ask: Why did they need a city of living people? Was it simply to raise little ghosts?
If it were before, Chu Yu would think that using living people to raise little ghosts was in line with the logic of ghost cultivation, but if she had known earlier that the price to open this gate was so huge, she would not think so. Offending the ghost baby in order to raise a little ghost would definitely not be worth it.
As soon as she finished asking, Liu Qin looked at Sect Leader He cautiously:
"He wanted a living person, so the magician took the risk to give him a living person. I don't know why..."
Before he could finish his words, Sect Leader He held his head with his bare hands and began to wail:
"Ah ah ah ah..."
"Stop reading..."
"Please let me go when I die, please let me go..."
He uttered a few unclear words, then began to dry heave, spitting out some unknown liquid.
Chu Yu felt a chill and she just wanted to leave here quickly.
Each boundary gate is fixed after it is built, and different types of boundary stones have different powers. This reminds Chu Yu of the boundary gate outside Qingliu Sect.
If she replaced one of the boundary stones, could she open the gate between the two worlds?
With this idea in mind, Chu Yu immediately decided to give it a try.
At this moment, Sect Leader He suddenly stood up, and with strength from nowhere, he grabbed a piece of armor on Chu Yu's body and was about to bite it:
“Ahhhh, I’m a ghost, please leave me, let me go, let me die, let me die…”
Chu Yu pushed him away in disgust, but the moment his hands touched Master He, a strange force, accompanied by black air, began to spread along Chu Yu's meridians.
This force impacted Chu Yu's consciousness, which felt very strange. Chu Yu seemed to be out of control for a moment.
She tried her best to practice the mysterious method, but strangely, Chu Yu felt a demonic energy entering her dantian, and the demonic energy was accompanied by another kind of power. That power seemed to disappear as soon as it entered Chu Yu's body, and the mysterious method had no effect on it.
Unlike the curse of the ghost baby, the ghost baby was simply much stronger than Chu Yu, which resulted in Chu Yu being unable to purify all the curses. However, the strange power in Master He's body could not be identified by Xuan Fa.
Sect Leader He felt the strength in his body draining away. He was completely unable to break free and could only scream in despair.
Chu Yu was also in a bad condition. She had to deal with the curse while purifying the evil spirit. What made her even more anxious was the strange power that entered her body along with the evil spirit.
Fortunately, the power was not much, just a little bit. It was after the power completely disappeared that Chu Yu finally broke free.
Sect Leader He was lying on the ground like a skeleton, completely lifeless.
After what happened just now, Chu Yu failed to maintain the illusion of the Illusion Mirror and her true face was revealed. She held a dark, transparent crystal stone full of demonic energy in her palm and crushed it into powder with a slight force.
Liu Qin and his wife screamed when they saw Chu Yu, especially Liu Qin, who was almost shocked and scared. His transparent figure was looming and he stammered, "Chu...Chu Yu, you...you are from Xuanxia Mountain..."
Liu Qin remembered Chu Yu until his death, and he remembered every word Chu Yu said.
When Mrs. Liu saw that it was Chu Yu, her face was instantly filled with despair. They and Chu Yu could be said to be enemies, and she could not expect Chu Yu to take her to see her daughter.
Chu Yu stood up with her hands covering her head. Except for a large amount of curse floating in her sea of consciousness, she did not feel any discomfort at all.
The evil spirit in Master He's body was purified by her, and the strange power also disappeared inexplicably.
Chu Yu didn't understand what had just happened. She thought of the scene at the sect meeting when Feng Changyi went astray and the evil spirit actively penetrated into her body.
Maybe the overbearing power of demonic energy likes to infect people like her who have pure power.
But there is no time to lose. Master He is already dead. She can't stay here any longer. She will be exposed sooner or later.
"Come with me out of here, and I'll take you to see my daughter."
Chu Yu took out a wooden comb from his waist and motioned Liu Qin and his wife to possess the comb.
Mrs. Liu was originally disheartened, but at this moment her eyes were moved, as if she did not expect Chu Yu to say that. Thinking that she was going to die anyway, she gritted her teeth and leaned directly on the wooden comb.
Liu Qin's pupils were shocked, but in order to survive he had no time to think and followed suit.
Mrs. Liu's only thought before her death was her daughter. Her obsession was stronger than Liu Qin's, so after becoming a ghost cultivator, her body shape was more stable than Liu Qin's.
Liu Qin sold out his two daughters for profit. He didn't care much about his daughters to begin with. His only dream of becoming a county magistrate was shattered because he had seen people who were stronger than him. After arriving in the ghost den, he was tortured beyond recognition and lost all his ambition.
Chu Yu drew a teleportation talisman and held it in her hand. She stared at the barrier outside the Qingyuan Palace, waiting for another crack to appear in the barrier, and then she used the teleportation talisman to disappear in an instant.
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The battle between Liu Yunhuan and the two Ghost Kings has entered a white-hot stage. The two Ghost Kings are fighting with all their might, and Liu Yunhuan is gradually falling into a disadvantage.
Just as the strange book wrote another curse, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
Outside, there is a battle between the Spirit Emperor and the Ghost Emperor. Although the warriors below are separated from them by a barrier, they should still show fear.
Why did he just stand there quietly?
And those two little ghosts, although they looked very scared, why did they maintain the same posture for so long?
Master He coughed up blood almost every once in a while, as if coughing up blood regularly was a task.
This is so weird.
At this time, Xueyi took advantage of Liu Yunhuan's fatigue in defense, found her weakness and attacked her with all his strength, causing Liu Yunhuan to feel a sweetness in her throat and spit out a mouthful of blood.
At this moment, the strange book completely broke the barrier, and Wusheng and Sect Leader He and his men instantly disappeared with the residual power of the broken barrier, just like a mirage.
In the Qingyuan Hall, apart from an overturned cauldron, there was only the shriveled corpse of Master He in the hall.
The three of them noticed this and stopped at the same time.
"What is this, a magic trick?" Guishu was a little bit unbelievable.
Liu Yunhuan looked at this scene and felt that the technique was very familiar. Some past events overlapped in her mind, causing her to unconsciously wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth. She didn't know whether she was mocking the two Ghost Kings or herself, but she began to laugh:
"Heh...hehehe..."
"This is Tianchen Fantasy, you two idiots."
"This is Tianchen Fantasy Land!"
"I should have thought of it earlier, I should have realized it earlier!"
"Chu Yu, ah Chu Yu, you hid well enough, but I still found you..."
The Lotus Sword Formation flew back, rearranged itself, and followed behind Liu Yunhuan. She looked sharply in a certain direction in the distance, and began to raise conditions with the two Ghost Kings:
"I can lead your entire troupe to escape. I promise that with the blessing of my power, even the ghosts and fairies won't be able to detect where you have gone. Before the magician recovers from his injuries, I promise that the whereabouts of the entire troupe will not leave any traces."
The magician wanted the Spirit Emperor to heal his wounds in order to take the entire troupe away. Upon hearing this, Xueyi was skeptical about Liu Yunhuan, but Guishu was somewhat moved after hearing it.
"I have only one condition. Chu Yu must be handed over to me alive. I don't need her dead now. She will be more useful alive."
"Because I have determined her biggest secret."