Chapter 94 This plot is a bit familiar
After convincing the two bosses, Ruan Xing prepared to go back to find Xie Huai. When Xie Huai finished recuperating and left the secret realm, when she came back, the bosses' cave would have captured enough people.
She had not forgotten the small gift she had said she would give to the Demon Lord. She gave all the elixirs, magic tools, and talismans she had looted from the corpses in the Xiantai Tree Passage to the Demon Lord. His nose twitched, and he swallowed a bunch of things into his stomach. He burped at the end and said with some dissatisfaction, "Although I can devour everything, this kind of rubbish can't be called a gift. If I wasn't trapped here, I wouldn't even look at this kind of thing when I was alive."
"Oh, yes, yes, you are right."
Ruan Xing flattered him and sent him away, but she was secretly complaining in her heart that in the eyes of this Demon Lord, there was probably only one kind of delicious food that he would like... but she really didn't have the conditions to give him a gift.
She spent most of the day swearing an oath in blood to the two bosses as usual. She used up the third earth escape talisman. At the end of the fourth day, Ruan Xing arrived at the Xiantai tree.
"You're back so soon?" Xie Huai raised his eyes. The Jintai Secret Realm was so big, and Ruan Xing had only been there for one day. He didn't know what he did there. However, he confirmed that the interference in the transmission channel was still there, so it didn't matter. It was just murder and robbery, which had nothing to do with him.
Ruan Xing heaved a sigh of relief, "Aren't you afraid that you'll die while I'm away? I'll come back quickly to protect you."
Tomorrow night or the day after tomorrow morning, two cultivators will come and try to enter the Xiantai tree passage. If she flies to the cave and then flies back, she will definitely miss the opportunity. However, she must go early to make a puppet body for the boss because she wants to save people and is greedy for the property of her fellow disciples.
"Are you touched? How about reimbursing me for the earth escape talisman I used for my journey?" Ruan Xing found a clean place to sit down and said casually.
"Reimburse..." Xie Huai repeated the word, and suddenly took out his storage bag, took out a few bottles of healing pills and a few magic tools, and poured the rest on the ground, "These are all for you."
Ruan Xing was surprised and said, "So generous? Then I won't be polite."
Xie Huai nodded, and she happily went to collect them. A rough count showed that there were several hundred low-grade spirit stones, some good pills and talismans, including the Thunder and Fire Talisman that he had used in the Black Water Lake. She didn't know if he had never used it or if it was a new addition.
There were two more array plates. She fiddled with them for a while but couldn't figure out the trick. She looked at Xie Huai and said, "Can you teach me how to use them?"
Xie Huai said calmly, "The one on your left hand is a trap array. You can use spiritual power or spiritual stones to set it up. It will automatically fly to the correct direction. You just need to prevent the array from being interrupted within thirty breaths. After the arrangement is completed, the area within thirty feet will be like a copper wall and iron wall. It will be difficult for people with lower cultivation than you to get out, while people outside can attack without any hindrance. The one on your right hand is a protective array. The two have similar effects. Similarly, people with lower cultivation than you cannot break the protection and hurt you within thirty feet, and it will take a certain amount of time for people with higher cultivation than you to break the array."
Oh, I see. An external magic circle with a casting time of 30 seconds.
Ruan Xing nodded in confusion, and took out the mask magic weapon he had found from Xu Sixi, "How about this? How do I use it?"
Xie Huai knew this magic weapon after he saw Xu Sixi's body at the door. It is almost impossible to get back the things that have entered Ruan Xing's pocket.
He opened his mouth and taught Ruan Xing a formula for using the magic weapon, and introduced: "This magic weapon does not need to recognize a master, just use the formula to use it. It will turn you into another person from head to toe, and it can also conceal your cultivation level. Even a True Lord with a cultivation level several realms higher than yours cannot see your true cultivation level. The two functions are separate. You can use one alone or both together. The only flaw is that this magic weapon will be fixed when it is used for the first time to change the appearance. No matter how many masters it changes in the future, it will only have the same appearance."
When he was in the outer sect, he relied on this magic weapon to deceive the world and hide himself as an outer sect disciple who had completed Qi training. After the Golden Stage Discussion began, he signed up with this thing. What was displayed on the water curtain was his concealed cultivation level. After the magic weapon was given to Xu Sixi, he could only rely on ordinary concealing methods to hide his cultivation level.
However, those who participated in the discussion were all disciples of the same realm. In addition, he was either having a bye, playing a fake match, or using an array disk, so it was easy for him to conceal the truth.
For the elders who were sitting in the sky watching the competition, did it matter whether a disciple they didn't recognize was in the early or late stages of foundation building? He couldn't even match his name.
Upon hearing this, Ruan Xing tried it and then summoned out a water mirror as tall as a person.
Looking left and right in the mirror, hey, I have become "Wang Zhi".
Although this face is a bit too ordinary, her illusion can only last for more than an hour now, and there is no telling when the face of "Wang Zhi" can be used again.
"Not bad, good review." Ruan Xing withdrew his cover and put away his magic weapon, urging: "Okay, it's okay, you should heal your wounds quickly."
Although the sun and the moon cannot be seen in the secret realm, there is alternation of light and changes in brightness and darkness.
Another day passed, and Xie Huai's pale face obviously had some color.
The two bosses must have captured quite a few people during this day, and if the two monks had not been captured, they would probably have reached the Xiantai Tree soon.
Ruan Xing suddenly thought about it and woke up Xie Huai: "Wake up, Xie Huai, someone will come later and I can't beat them, you think of a way."
Forced to wake up from his meditation, Xie Huai's breathing became a little unstable. Fortunately, he was healing instead of practicing, otherwise Ruan Xing would have caused disorder in his meridians.
For some reason, despite his usually suspicious nature, he was able to calmly and peacefully remain beside Ruan Xing.
After hearing Ruan Xing's words, Xie Huai didn't have time to get angry. After thinking for a few seconds, he took out Fu Yu's jade token and sent a message to the group, "Can you confirm whether the cultivator who came is from Zhongzhou or Nanzhou?"
"He is a cultivator from Zhongzhou." Ruan Xing replied.
Xie Huai had no doubts. Although he didn't know how Ruan Xing found out, he still breathed a sigh of relief. "The monks in Zhongzhou have unconditional faith in their leader Fu Yu. After receiving the message, they probably won't come again."
Ruan Xing nodded, "When are you leaving?"
"Let's wait two more days." Xie Huai said after hesitating for a moment.
"In fact, I have wanted to ask you for a long time. You look very extraordinary. You have reached the late stage of foundation building before you are 20 years old. You are extremely talented and have so many magic tools to use. What is your identity in the Demon Sect? Why were you sent here as an undercover agent?"
After they parted, she was afraid she would never have the chance to see Xie Huai again, so she asked this question that had been curious for a long time.
Xie Huai was silent for a while before saying, "...I don't know."
"I have never been to the Demon Realm. I was born in Nanzhou. I don't know who my parents are. I grew up with an old liar. The old liar was so bad at deceiving people that he was beaten to death when I was six. After I lived alone for a year, a man found me. He took me in and taught me. When I was twelve, he led me into the Demon Realm. I called him Master, but he wouldn't let me. He said that if I wanted to find my relatives and return to the Demon Realm, I had to let him see whether I had the ambition and potential to become a demon leader."
After a pause, Xie Huai continued:
"He was very good to me and gave me many magical instruments. I saw many secret books and jade slips from him. Later, when I just established my foundation, he left me. All the plans I made to sneak into the Xuanbing Sect this time were all planned by me. When I asked him about it, he only replied with one word, "Yes". He said that my relatives and my home are all in the Demon Realm, but my birth was a mistake, so if I can't do what he said, I can't go back to the Demon Realm."
He smiled bitterly, tears in his eyes: "But he never gave me a choice... He asked me to cultivate magic, but he didn't allow me to return to the magic realm. I had to live cautiously in Nanzhou all day long. I either stopped cultivating and became a low-level cultivator for the rest of my life, or one day my magic power would be exposed and I would die here. I had no choice but to do something great and then return to the magic realm."
It was such a torturous thought to let a genius stop practicing, how could he be willing to accept that?
Ruan Xing's CPU was about to burn out. "Wait a minute, I seem to have seen this plot somewhere before, Xiaoyuer and Hua Wuque? No, Meng Xinghun? Bai Feifei? It doesn't seem to be either..." Xie Huai didn't understand what Ruan Xing said, and just thought that she didn't believe him. He said in a low voice: "If you don't believe it, you can just listen to it as a storybook."
"That's not the case... But are you telling me this to make me feel bad?" Ruan Xing asked curiously, "But I think you can do more observation and investigation after returning to the North. What your master said... may not necessarily be the truth."
With her twenty years of experience in reading novels and following TV dramas, there must be something fishy!
I didn't expect this bastard to have such a miserable life. But this is not a reason to forgive him. After all, this guy has hurt her so many times in the simulation. Saving him this time was just an act of helplessness. After all, she couldn't return to the sect if he didn't withdraw his interference.
But if she has the chance to meet him in the future, she will not show mercy.
"Okay, I will, thank you."
Xie Huai seemed a little disapproving, but it was true. He had worked hard for several years for this goal, and there was no way he would change his mind just because of a few words from her.
If he had not wasted these two years in Xuanbing Sect, he might have achieved Golden Core already.
Seventh day.
Ruan Xing felt like she was getting a little moldy from staying in the tree hole, and she couldn't wait to go back and see her spoils.
There are also several corpses here, and it is quite uncomfortable to be in the same room with them.
Xie Huai finally recovered from his injuries and returned to his former self. Ruan Xing urged him to leave, "It's enough to be able to move. You're going home soon, can't you just go home and recuperate?"
"Do you understand why people get homesick?" Xie Huai took a deep breath. "Besides, I don't know what the Demon Realm is like. I need to recover at least 50% of my strength to be able to deal with it before I can go out."
"Isn't your master waiting for you at the door?"
A look of surprise flashed across Xie Huai's eyes, "You know this too?"
Ruan Xing rolled her eyes and said, "Okay, let's go."
After Xie Huai left, Ruan Xing took the second soul-nourishing wood in the cave and used the fourth earth-escaping talisman. After that, she had no more stock.
The third-grade talisman... She wasted something she could use to escape. These are all spirit stones!
But she had no choice but to use it now. She had never stayed in the secret realm for more than eight days before, and she didn't know what would happen on the ninth day. This was reality, not a simulation, and she couldn't take any risks.
A few minutes later, she arrived at the entrance of the cave.
The fairy was standing alone at the door, but it looked like she was not there to greet her. She must have had another argument with the Demon Lord... She couldn't argue or beat the Demon Lord, so she came out angrily.
In the past, she couldn’t leave the cave and could only sulk by herself, but now, out of sight, out of mind.
Although she still hated the evil ghost cultivators, she had begun to feel somewhat satisfied with this puppet body.
"What's wrong, fairy?" Ruan Xing asked, "Are any of the captured people awake?"
The fairy said coldly: "No, go in and see for yourself."
Ruan Xing hesitated and said, "Fairy, why do you seem a little angry? Did the Demon King eat you behind your back?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she felt something was wrong. The word "cheating" had more than one meaning, but it was too late to take back her words.
As expected, the fairy blushed and said after a long while, "Don't talk nonsense."
"Nonsense, even if I eat it, I will eat it in front of her to make her mad. Why should I eat it behind her back?" The lazy voice of the Demon Lord came from the cave.
"No, did you really eat it?" Ruan Xing hurried into the cave to see if the fellow disciples he had reserved were short of food.
In the empty cave, there were a few more monks lying in all directions since the last time she saw them, about a dozen of them, with bruised faces and noses, looking miserable.
The demon king was speechless and said, "I didn't eat it. I promised you that I wouldn't eat it."
"Hehe, I didn't expect that the Demon Lord is so good at keeping his promises." Ruan Xing said with a smile.
"Yes, before I knocked them out, I asked them to throw everything in their storage bags there. You can go and take a look. But I'm not sure if they have hidden anything." The Demon Lord pointed to the corner and removed the illusion. Ruan Xing happily went over there.
She picked up three thousand low-grade spirit stones from the ground and recharged the rest into the simulator. Seeing her points suddenly increase to five digits, Ruan Xing narrowed her eyes and smiled.
He also took out some valuable elixirs, talismans, and materials, and then signaled to the Demon Lord that he could eat the rest.
"That's all you took? Then why did you let me keep it and wait for you to come back?" said the Demon Lord unhappily.
"It's not that I don't want to take more, but there is only so much space in my storage bag, and I have to carry three puppet bodies, so I really can't fit in any extra things." Ruan Xing touched his nose and said helplessly.
These fellow disciples are indeed elite disciples with strong strength. They have collected a lot of good things in just three or four days since entering the secret realm. It is estimated that they also hunted monsters together. There is a lot of animal blood and animal skins, which are excellent materials for drawing talismans. Unfortunately, she can't fit them all.
She didn't dare to use the storage bags of Fu Yu and the others. They were all high-end storage bags with much more space than hers. She was afraid that there would be some marks on them that would be seen by others.
When she goes out this time, she will spend a huge amount of money to buy a good storage bag. This storage bag was bought at Wanbao Tower when she just started practicing Qi. It is indeed not enough. Anyway, the spirit stones she looted this time plus those in the Xiantai Tree Passage and those given by Xie Huai, there are almost four thousand spirit stones, which are enough for her to spend.
Thanks to high school girl Zhou Yingting for the monthly ticket~
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(End of this chapter)
