A beautiful lady dressed as a devil

Jiang Shuo entered the secret realm as the elder of Jiuhua Dharma Protector. When he opened his eyes, he found that there were hundreds of people in Xuanjimen Square, but now there were only a dozen or so left beside him.

The young man not far away frowned, turned his head a little irritably to find a familiar figure, and only when he saw Jiang Shuo nearby, Yin Sui breathed a sigh of relief.

It's troublesome if you're not around.Both of them thought so.

In addition, there are more than a dozen disciples from other sects scattered not far away. They didn't bother to identify each other, they hurriedly looked around, and some anxious ones said: "What the hell is this place?"

There are sparse weeds growing on the yellow land, the sky is dark and windy, and only a few crows can be heard occasionally, which can be described as extremely desolate.

"Bah," a disciple said angrily, "I'm so unlucky that I was sent to the wilderness... Last time I was sent to the brothel, I slept with two courtesans in a leisurely manner before I set off."

The surrounding disciples burst into laughter, teasing one after another: "Can you sleep comfortably in the illusion?"

"Can you handle the girl who has condensed spells?"

The man said triumphantly: "You don't understand now, not only do you have that feeling, but it doesn't hurt your body..."

Jiang Shuo walked around this person without looking sideways, and said to the other disciples blocking the way, "Please let me go."

"Hey..." The few disciples who were listening enthusiastically were dissatisfied: "Why are you leaving in such a hurry, the secret realm for three days and three nights, and you are not in a hurry for this moment, and you still want to fight for No. 1... Hey, are you -"

Jiang Shuo's face is so recognizable that anyone who has met him by chance has left a deep impression on him.

A few people asked aloud uncertainly: "Are you Jiang from Jiuhua...?"

Jiang Shuo nodded politely, not wanting to involve these people too much, and said in a cold tone, "Jiuhua Jiang Shuo."

Disciples who were discussing how to drink and sleep with oirans in the secret realm heard the word "Jiuhua" and immediately choked their throats.He glanced at Jiang Shuo's white and indifferent side face again, and stopped talking in embarrassment.

"It was just a joke haha..." The man said awkwardly, "Everyone, don't take it to heart."

He originally wanted to get a good ranking in this year's trial, and join Jiuhua's sect next year...

Yin Sui didn't care, he heard a lot of such ravings, especially after falling into a demon in his previous life, the demon cultivators he met were all...

But Jiang Shuo didn't seem to like it.

So Yin Sui looked coldly at those disciples who talked a lot of nonsense, and said with disgust: "It's immoral."

Disciples: "..."

"Yun'er," Jiang Shuo stopped, turned his face slightly and said, "There is no need to waste time."

A group of disciples looked at the back of Jiang Shuo and the two leaving, they were all silent for a moment, and then someone said: "Let's go too, didn't Xuanjimen say that the rules have changed this time, and treasures can still be found in the secret realm? You can’t be preempted by them.”

"Yes! There are still treasures to take, hurry up..."

"People from Jiuhua are here, can we still grab something from them..."

A tall and thin disciple glanced at the speaker, lowered his voice and said, "The one surnamed Jiang is beautiful, but his cultivation level is not very good. As for the young man next to him, he should be Jiuhua's little disciple. There is nothing to be afraid of if you look over your face."

"But after all..."

"What are you afraid of!" The thin and tall disciple patted the man's shoulder, with a gloomy smile: "We small sects can't compete with Jiuhua alone, but can we be afraid of him if we join hands?"

Jiang Shuo looked at this secret realm carefully.

After only delaying for a while, the sky had already become darker and darker, and groups of dark clouds seemed to be hanging above the head, making it even hard to tell what time it is.

But judging by the increasingly blurred light, it should be getting dark soon.

In the wilderness, there is only one small path that can barely be called a "road" extending forward. Because of the poor vision, Jiang Shuo didn't know where he was going for a while.

He was about to test whether he could use the short-distance teleportation method in the secret realm, but when he turned his head to look, he found that the little apprentice looked up at the sky slightly, as if in a trance.

Jiang Shuo was puzzled: "Yun'er?"

Yin Sui snapped back to his senses, and before he had time to restrain the expression on his face, seeing Jiang Shuo noticed it, he said in a low voice, "I... think this scene seems familiar."

Jiang Shuo was startled, and relieved: "Although the weather is bad, it may not be uncommon."

Yin Sui pursed his lips tightly and did not speak any more.

It wasn't that he was sensitive and suspicious, nor was it that the scene in front of him was so special, but since entering the secret realm, Yin Sui felt extremely faint anxiety and longing in his heart.

However, even Yin Sui himself didn't know where this feeling came from, and how to relieve it...he just felt uncomfortable.

Jiang Shuo interpreted the little apprentice's silence as nervousness, so he said softly, "If you feel unwell, we will find a place to rest later."

"No need," Yin Sui shook his head slowly, hiding the restlessness between his brows, and said, "Let's go now."

It's better to take Jiang Shuo to break through the situation as soon as possible and go out.

As for whether the people in the secret realm are dead or alive, what conspiracy does Xuanjimen have, and what does it have to do with Yin Sui?

The short-distance teleportation spell can be used in the secret realm. After three teleportations, Jiang Shuo could no longer see the figures of the group of disciples behind him, but a vague shadow of a small village appeared in front of him.

When the two approached, they found that this village was a deserted village.

There are only about [-] families in the whole village. Under the dark sky, the doors and windows of every household are closed tightly, and there is no vitality at all. The village presents a palpitating silence.

Yin Sui walked into it, keenly smelling the remaining wisps of demon energy in the village.

——It seems that this place has been swept away by demon cultivators, and the people inside may be in danger.

Jiang Shuo knocked on the family's window, and a thick layer of dust fell from the dilapidated window, but there was no response from inside.

"...all dead," Yin Sui said suddenly, "no one is alive."

He walked to the door of this family, stretched out his hand and pushed gently, and the wooden door piled up with black ash slammed in, stirring up a layer of dust that hit people's faces.

Jiang Shuo involuntarily took a few steps back, feeling that the dust was a bit too much, did it mean that no one lived in it for a few years?

The room was also very dark. Jiang Shuo pinched a fire formula with his fingertips to barely illuminate a small area.As far as the eye can see, there are simple wooden tables and stools, and there is a small bathtub against the wall.

Jiang Shuo went to the table again, stretched out his hand to lightly touch the objects on the table, and easily pushed one of the disc-shaped objects away.

"They are eating." Jiang Shuo thought for a moment, then said.

Before the family disappeared, they were still eating at the table, and even the outline of wooden chopsticks could be found on the black and ash-covered table.

What about... people?

Jiang Shuo searched the small house, but found no bones of anyone, not even a messy trace of a fight——

"Master," Yin Sui said suddenly, "let's leave here first."

Jiang Shuo looked back: "What's wrong?"

Before Yin Sui could answer, the two heard strange noises from outside the house.It sounded like the gnawing sound of a rat, and it was sharp and piercing.

Jiang Shuo turned around, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a black shadow the size of a roe deer leaping outside the door.

The black shadow moved extremely fast, and arrived in front of the two of them like lightning, pointed straight at Yin Sui's face, and was about to greet Yin Sui with a paw.

Yin Sui groaned lightly, didn't even bother to pull out his saber, and directly shook it away with spiritual power.

The black shadow fell to the ground, Jiang Shuo took a step forward, fixed it with spells, and took a closer look, it turned out to be a corpse-devouring monster whose mind hadn't yet opened.

This kind of monster likes to live in places with a lot of dead bodies, but the village is empty. Judging by the thick layer of dust, no one has lived there for at least several years, and there are no human bones. Why can't it stay there?

Jiang Shuo could only temporarily attribute it to the fact that the secret realm created by the Xuanji Gate was not rigorous enough.

After Yin Sui beheaded the Corpse Devourer casually, a elixir with faint white light fell out from its body, which is a rare healing medicine of Xuanjimen.

He put the elixir into his sleeve, and this action happened to be seen by a group of disciples who had just rushed over not far away, and they were also the group of people who were at the teleportation point before.

"It turns out that the treasure in the trial is hidden in the demon body!"

They saw Yin Sui beheading the monster and picking up something, but they couldn't help but feel envious and annoyed before they could see what it was, "It's just a step too late, and you, little brother Yu, took the lead."

Yin Sui didn't want to talk to them at all, and said in a disgusted tone, "Who is brother to you."

Other disciples: "..."

This little disciple from Jiuhua looks sensible and well-behaved, why does he always speak rudely?Are all the young people in Jiuhua so arrogant?

Seeing that the situation was about to reach a stalemate, Jiang Shuo said calmly, "There should be monsters in the village."

After being reminded by him, the rest of the disciples suddenly came to their senses, scattered in a hurry, and started going door to door looking for any monsters that haunted them.

They were not as patient and cautious as Jiang Shuo, they kicked open the doors of each house and rummaged through boxes and cabinets in a brutal manner. Jiang Shuo looked at it for a long time, then simply turned his eyes to look at the sky.

But after a while, the surrounding area was almost completely dark.Yin Sui rummaged around in the room, and even found a paper lantern for him, lit a candle in it with spiritual power, wiped it casually with his sleeve, and handed it to Jiang Shuo.

"Master," Yin Sui said a little anxiously, "don't worry about them, let's go first."

This is the second time the little apprentice said the same thing, Jiang Shuo came back to his senses, gently grabbed the boy's wrist, and found that his hand was cold.

"Where is it uncomfortable?" Jiang Shuo asked, while leading Yin Sui to avoid the disciples of other sects, and prepared to go back to the path outside the village.

Yin Sui felt his breathing was sluggish, and his mind was oppressed by the evil spirit lingering in the village all the time. The warmth in his body seemed to be pulled away quietly, making him unconsciously get closer to Jiang Shuo.

Yin Sui paused, and said in a low voice, "That black ash is—"

"Bah, bah, bah!" A disciple suddenly ran out from the next room, spit on the ground, and said with a disgusted face, "Just now I accidentally ate ashes, why are you so... vomit—"

He bent forward and spat out a large mass of black and red filth with a painful expression.

"what's the situation?"

"……what happened?"

A few nearby disciples who heard the movement subconsciously ran over and supported the vomiting person, surprised and nervous: "Why did you vomit so much?"

"...It's the bone powder left by people after being sucked up by monsters." Yin Sui looked at the disciples who were in a hurry, and finished the second half of the sentence.

Under the night, the seemingly dead village slowly became strange, faint and floating phosphorescent white spots rose from every corner, floating in mid-air, and there were real and fake low cries, cries for help, and cries in my ears... The confluence of many noisy sounds made the eardrums prickly and painful.

The disciples of several sects looked at the scene in front of them, feeling cold all over their bodies.

Where is this deserted village that has been abandoned for many years... The people in this village may have been alive yesterday!

That thick layer of "black ash" floating on the surface of the house is, is... human flesh, human bones, human sebum and hair turned into powder!

The unlucky disciple who inhaled the "black ash" already fell to the ground convulsively, and at the end of the spat, the dirty black-red blood on the ground was even mixed with internal organs.

The vengeful spirits with unrepentant death had the most powerful mana. In comparison, the ghouls haunting the village were not enough at all.

Seeing the struggle of the twitching people on the ground getting weaker and weaker, Jiang Shuo frowned, took out the sound transmission jade tablet issued by Xuanji Gate, pressed his fingertips on the engraved charm, and said: "Jiuhua Jiang Shuo has sound transmission, there is a This disciple is in poor health, please send him out of the secret realm."

There was no movement in the jade tablet.

The rest of the disciples looked over one after another, widening their eyes in horror: "The jade token is invalid?"

They took out their sound transmission jade tokens, and similarly transmitted sound transmissions to the Xuanji Gate outside the secret place, but in the end they did not receive any response.

Yin Sui didn't even bother to take out the jade tablet, and pressed his gloomy brows, and said to a group of people like headless chickens: "Stop screaming, didn't you see that the teleportation talisman is on?"

The rest of the disciples: "...what do you mean?"

Jiang Shuo put the jade token back into his sleeve, remained silent for a moment, and said, "It's not that sending the jade token is invalid, it's just that the person on the other side doesn't want to respond."

"Then..." Someone said tremblingly: "The Xuanji Gate left us in the secret realm, regardless of life or death?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the unlucky disciple, who was rolling and struggling on the ground, gradually stopped his movements. Under the gaze of everyone, he was face down and could not move.

A person with a little knowledge of medicine stepped forward, poked around the man's neck, and said helplessly, "I fell into a severe coma, and I guess it will be completely gone in half an hour."

A younger disciple murmured, "In the secret realm...will people die?"

"Not only will he die," Yin Sui glanced at him, and said with a half-smile, "If the body is not carried out, it will disappear with the collapse of the secret realm."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's face was ashamed.

Not only are they afraid of death, but they are even more afraid of dying without a place to die.

I don't know who started it, but before Jiang Shuo could react, he saw a group of disciples gathered in front of him scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing towards the direction they came with pale faces.

Get out of this damn place!

The person lying on the ground was motionless, Jiang Shuo looked at it, and said softly to Yin Sui: "How about giving him the healing elixir you just got?"

The young man lowered his head slightly, as if he was staring at the half-dead disciple on the ground, and also seemed to be wandering in the sky, his side face was astonishingly white, and even his tightly pressed lips lost their color.

It took a long time for Jiang Shuo to say this before Yin Sui responded dully: "...OK."

Jiang Shuo took the elixir, leaned over to take it for the unconscious man, and looked up at the little apprentice worriedly.

The boy's condition also looked very bad, his face was as white as if he had been soaked in ice, and the hands hanging by his side were shaking slightly.

Jiang Shuo used spells to move the disciple lying on the ground to a slightly flatter and cleaner place. He didn't care about the disciples of other people's family anymore. He held Yin Sui's hand and said, "Let's go now..."

"I can't get out." Yin Sui suddenly grasped Jiang Shuo's wrist forcefully, and didn't pay attention to the slender white jade wrist until it turned red, his voice was cold and trembling slightly.

He stared straight ahead, in the thick dark night, sporadic fires were getting closer and closer, and several disciples who ran back half a quarter of an hour ago appeared in front of Jiang Shuo and the others again.

"..."

The two people looked at each other for a while, and when they saw the familiar stains on the ground, a disciple wailed, with a bit of panic and fear in his tone.

The whole village is full of resentful spirits, how can it be so easy to get out by walking.

There are many difficulties in the secret realm, and now the first hurdle is finally ushered in.

"How can we break through this ghost hitting the wall?" A disciple barely suppressed the tension in his heart, recalling what he had learned: "The village is full of resentful spirits, how did they die like this? Do you want to solve the problem?" Only because of their resentment will they let us out?"

That's the reason, Jiang Shuo listened carefully to the screams of the wraiths for a while, and said, "Set up the formation, draw the souls into the formation, and ask who killed them."

Soul-inducing is the most basic formation. Although some people are not convinced, more disciples are still clear-headed and quickly set up the formation.

Jiang Shuo entered the formation, sat upright in it, and drew out his saber "Chaoyi" in one hand, as the eye of the formation to communicate with the resentful spirits.

After the sword was inserted into the ground, after the trembling sound, Jiang Shuo's hand holding the sword hilt suddenly felt a burst of extreme cold and climbed up, and the cry of the wraith in his ears was much louder.

"There...something is calling." Several disciples with higher cultivation levels heard the voices of the innocent souls, and immediately concentrated their minds, trying to communicate with them.

"Jiang Shuo in Lower Jiuhua," Jiang Shuo said to the resentful spirits around him indifferently, "Who is being cited?"

The resentful spirit began to cry, and after a while, whispered in Jiang Shuo's ear, "Wang Cuicui from the east of the village is sixteen this year."

Jiang Shuo was unmoved, and continued to ask, "What happened in the village?"

Wang Cuicui cried again, sobbing and saying: "A few demon cultivators came and ate us all."

Jiang Shuo had a thought, Moxiu?

Is this trial in the secret realm related to the magic cultivator?

"The one who killed you was a demon cultivator?" Jiang Shuo asked again, "Who is your last name and what does it look like?"

If the goal of the secret realm trial is to wipe out the chaotic demon cultivators, then it is necessary to know what these demon cultivators look like.

Unexpectedly, when Jiang Shuo asked this question, Wang Cuicui stopped answering.

The noisy voice of the wraith suddenly fell silent in an instant, and it was so strangely quiet, like the rising tide of the sea suddenly receding, everyone looked at each other, feeling uneasy.

"It's him..." Wang Cuicui's shrill voice sounded in everyone's ears like a sigh.

And Yin Sui, who was standing a little outside the formation, staggered, with blue veins bulging faintly on the side of his white forehead.

After being quiet for a moment, the resentful spirits suddenly rushed towards him. Yin Sui's ears were filled with the sharp cries of the resentful spirits, and his eardrums hurt, so he couldn't hear Jiang Shuo's startled words at all.

"It's you……"

"It's you."

"It's you!"

They crowded in front of Yin Sui bitterly, and the ear-piercing howls that could break people's minds drilled into Yin Sui's mind one by one, and each resentful spirit repeated the same sentence: "The one who killed us—— you!!"

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Yin Sui: I have a feeling that my little vest will soon be unwearable

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