Chapter 292: Don’t Be Afraid, I Have A Way!
You can’t obtain the Nine-Orifice Lotus, and everyone around you will suffer disasters because of you.
Feng He is dead. She died in the Demon Realm protecting you…
Hahaha, do you still remember Ming Zhaoxue… He died under the Heavenly Thunder while making a divine tool for you.
Stop struggling, give up.
Darkness enveloped the surroundings, not a glimmer of light was seen.
Ming Zhaoshuang stood amidst it all, completely unaware of where heaven and earth lay. She only knew that all around her were tempting voices, seemingly guiding her to do something.
She unconsciously walked towards the source of those sounds.
Yes… come here… I will help you become a better you…
As long as you follow me, I will give you everything…
What is loyalty and righteousness worth? Come with me to Rim of Dusk Mountain Range, to the place where your soul resides.
Ming Zhaoshuang seemed to have discovered something, and her steps quickened.
Even though her eyes were still filled with darkness, she looked towards the source of the voice, getting closer and closer.
Her eyes hid confusion, and also joy.
She walked on like this, walking and walking, as if she were about to reach the end.
“Little Eleventh, have we arrived?”
A voice came through the thick mist, breaking through the darkness before Ming Zhaoshuang’s eyes. She looked at the still urgent voice, hesitating, as if contemplating.
Come here, you first…
Everything can be left behind you, isn’t it?
“Stop sleeping, stop sleeping! We’ve reached the mountain peak!”
Her arm hurt, as if someone had patted it a couple of times, not lightly or heavily.
“Little Eleventh isn’t being haunted, is she? She’s been sleeping all night.”
“That’s impossible. Her emotions didn’t even waver when she heard my flute sound. The vengeful energy of Youdu Mountain is even less likely to affect her.”
“Then… why isn’t she waking up?”
“Don’t worry, don’t worry, watch this!”
Ming Zhaoshuang felt as if her eyelids weighed a thousand pounds, unable to open them no matter how hard she tried, as if something was forcefully closing them. This continued until a low, sobbing flute sound came, entering her eardrums and vibrating her soul.
At the same time, she felt a warmth at her fingertips.
Ming Zhaoshuang opened her eyes and saw Tan Zhu looking at her with concern, holding her hand.
Shen Yuyin, meanwhile, was still playing her soundless flute, staring at her and Tan Zhu’s clasped hands, seemingly displeased.
Ming Zhaoshuang: “…”
This guy wouldn’t have actually fallen for her, would she?
She got up and firmly tapped Shen Yuyin’s head: “Stop playing, it’s not good if others hear it.”
Shen Yuyin pouted: “It’s because you wouldn’t wake up.”
“Besides, my flute only targets you. Others can’t hear it. Do you look down on my control over the Way of Music!”
Ming Zhaoshuang stopped speaking. Indeed, she saw a barrier and a formation standing at the summit of Youdu Mountain not far away.
Cultivators at the Void Refinement Stage were patrolling the surroundings. Obviously, they had been disturbed by Shen Yuyin and the others, making the area exceptionally strict. If not for the poisonous creatures of Youdu Mountain still assaulting their five senses, they would have likely discovered them.
Ming Zhaoshuang lowered her eyes and saw that among the patrolling cultivators, there were indeed humans and ghosts, clearly confirming what Shen Yuyin and the others had said: this was evidence of collusion between humans and ghosts.
Perhaps a few cultivators at the Void Refinement Stage were not very powerful, but if there were Mahayana Stage cultivators, it would be enough to prove that extraordinary high-level individuals were colluding. The conspiracy involved might be something they could not bear.
“Let’s go up and take a look.”
Shen Yuyin hesitated: “It’s not that I don’t want to, but I’m afraid of being discovered. We were chased by these people just two days ago. Who knows what we’ll encounter if we go up now.”
What she said made sense.
At a time like this, the last thing one wants to do is alert the enemy, especially a frightened one.
Ming Zhaoshuang pondered, looking at the formation, and finally summoned Sang Biao: “Mimi, go and see what the surroundings are like. Don’t let anyone discover you, and bring back what you see.”
Sang Biao’s excited howl was interrupted by Ming Zhaoshuang: “Alright, now is not the time for loud noises. Lord Sang Biao wouldn’t cause trouble for his dear master, right?”
Sang Biao: “How could Lord Sang Biao cause trouble for Master o(╥﹏╥)o…”
Ming Zhaoshuang chuckled, stroked his fur, and signaled him to leave quickly.
Sang Biao let out a couple of soft grunts and then immediately flapped the wings on his back, rapidly flying towards the formation to observe it.
Within this formation, Sang Biao’s cultivation could recover to Mid-stage Mahayana. No one could possibly discover Sang Biao, so Ming Zhaoshuang was very relieved.
“I’ve thought about it. Although we have the Divine Beast Sang Biao, according to what you said, many among them are Masters at the Void Refinement and Body Integration Stages. It’s absolutely impossible for us to force our way through. Therefore, we can only resort to strategy—the highest cultivation among them is only Mid-stage Mahayana, and the suppression effect of Youdu Mountain’s Five Poisons Futu Formation also happens to be at the Mid-stage Mahayana.”
“So, we can choose to break the formation first, and then use the Five Poisons Futu Formation’s cultivation suppression effect to confront these people.”
“However,” Ming Zhaoshuang looked up and continued, “I still want to know how many cultivators with cultivation are inside. Otherwise, we’ll be short on people. Fourth Senior Sister and Tenth Senior Sister are not Sword Cultivators, so it might be difficult.”
Shen Yuyin said: “I don’t know the exact number, but there are definitely no less than ten Sword Cultivators.”
Xingyun Liushui also rubbed his head and said:
“And there are Pill Cultivators and Artifact Cultivators inside, which is also very troublesome.”
Their group, three Sword Cultivators, one Pill Cultivator, one Music Cultivator, and a Divine Beast, along with two Heaven Rank Spiritual Beasts, though already very strong, were still no match for this group.
This was indeed incredibly difficult to deal with.
Give up, the people inside are not someone you can control…
What are you still thinking about… ants are just ants…
You are merely a small Nascent Soul… even if you practice Talisman and Sword Dual Cultivation, so what…
Talisman and Sword Dual Cultivation, yes, she practices Talisman and Sword Dual Cultivation.
It’s just a Mahayana, after all. Although she can’t control him, as long as he is within Wei Shuo’s Five Poisons Futu Formation, his cultivation will have to obediently drop to Late Nascent Soul Stage for her!
Since his cultivation has dropped to the Late Nascent Soul Stage, and since these Masters at the Body Integration and Void Refinement Stages have also dropped to the Late Nascent Soul Stage, she, who is at least at the Early Nascent Soul Stage and whose Soul Power Cultivation has reached Early Deity Transformation Stage, why can’t she draw a formation to deal with them.
Even if she can’t defeat them, she must have enough strength to trap them!
Ming Zhaoshuang thought, her eyes lit up, and she said to the few people:
“Don’t worry, I have a way now!”
