The Night Watchman of Siheyuan

Chapter 43: Exploring the Secret Passage and the Shadow Conspiracy

Yang Jian accurately shot the golden light from his Sky Eye onto the tiny node connecting the barrier and the passage. The moment the light touched the node, a slight tremor spread from the node, and dense cracks began to appear on the dark barrier. As Yang Jian continued to inject mana, with a "boom", the dark barrier shattered. Yang Jian flashed and quickly rushed into the passage.

The passage was dark and damp, filled with a pungent stench of decay. A strange light flickered on the wall, as if countless eyes were hiding and watching him. Yang Jian held the three-pointed double-edged sword tightly and walked slowly forward. Not long after he walked, he heard the footsteps of a shadow in front of him, mixed with some strange whispers, as if chanting some evil spell.

At the same time, the people in the hall achieved remarkable results in attacking the runes under the feet of the dark shadow. The power of the dark shadow was greatly weakened, and its movements became slow. The Immortal of Purification saw the right opportunity, formed seals with both hands, and a huge golden light column descended from the sky, covering the dark shadow. The dark shadow struggled desperately in the light column, emitting bursts of shrill screams, and the dark aura on his body was constantly purified by the light column.

Ao Bing, Bajie, Fengyao and Xifeng also used their strongest spells to coordinate with the attack of the Purifying Immortal. Ao Bing summoned several water dragons, which circled and rushed towards the dark shadow in the light column; Bajie's nine-toothed rake flashed with brilliant golden light, and each blow hit the vital part of the dark shadow; Fengyao activated the Holy Spirit Pearl, releasing a gentle but powerful purifying force to assist the Purifying Immortal's purifying light column; Xifeng lowered the temperature around him to an extremely low level, trying to completely seal the dark shadow with solid ice.

Under the joint attack of everyone, the figure of the dark shadow gradually became illusory, and finally dissipated in the air with a "bang", leaving only a faint dark mist, which also quickly disappeared under the light of the Pure World Immortal.

After dealing with the dark shadow, everyone did not relax their vigilance. They were worried that Yang Jian would be in danger in the passage, so they decided to follow him. The passage was winding and the dark atmosphere became thicker as they walked deeper. Suddenly, the Pure World Immortal who was walking in the front stopped. He noticed that a powerful dark force was gathering in front of him, and it seemed that a bigger conspiracy was brewing.

At this time, Yang Jian was gradually approaching Youying. He found Youying standing in front of a huge black altar, which was engraved with various strange runes and exuded a creepy atmosphere. Youying held a stone emitting a dark red light in his hand and muttered something. As he chanted, the runes on the altar glowed brightly, and the surrounding dark aura surged towards the altar like a tide.

Yang Jian shouted: "Youying, what tricks are you playing again!" Then, he rushed forward waving his three-pointed double-edged sword. Youying turned around and smiled sinisterly: "Yang Jian, you came just in time. I will let you witness the first step of my great plan." Youying inserted the dark red stone in his hand into the groove of the altar. In an instant, a black light curtain rose around the altar, separating Yang Jian and Youying.

Inside the light curtain, the shadow continued to chant the spell, and a black vortex slowly rose on the altar. Eerie roars came from the vortex, as if countless evil souls were struggling in it. Yang Jian attacked the light curtain with all his strength, but the light curtain was extremely strong, and his attack could only splash some sparks on it.

Not long after, everyone arrived here. Seeing Yang Jian trapped by the light curtain and the shadow performing an evil ritual, everyone was anxious. Feng Yao carefully observed the light curtain, trying to find a way to crack it. She found that the runes on the light curtain had some subtle connection with the runes under the feet of the dark shadow before, which seemed to be different manifestations of the same dark power system.

Feng Yao told everyone about her discovery. After a moment of contemplation, the Immortal of Purification said, "Perhaps we can try to use the method we used to attack the Dark Shadow Rune to crack this light curtain." So everyone immediately took action. Ao Bing controlled the water element to try to find the energy weakness of the light curtain rune; Bajie used the Nine-toothed Rake to continuously hit the light curtain to disrupt the energy flow of the rune; Xifeng stood aside, ready to use ice spells to assist at any time.

The Immortal of Purification formed seals with his hands and chanted something. Rays of golden light flew out from his hands and hit the positions where the runes were flashing on the light curtain accurately. As the light continued to attack, the light curtain began to show some subtle changes, and the light of the runes became unstable.

Just as everyone was trying to break through the light curtain, the black vortex on the side of the shadow became larger and larger. Suddenly, a huge black claw stretched out from the vortex, and then a huge monster with a strong dark aura slowly crawled out of the vortex. This monster looked like a werewolf, but it had six arms, each with sharp claws, and its eyes flashed bloodshot.