The female lead thought she had a "proud and arrogant" character script.

Don't forget that he's a fool.

If Luo Qingcheng really had something going on, given his previous attitude, how could he still be so calm and bargaining with me now?

Ling Yuchen carefully protected his secret stash of money.

No matter how anxious the senior disciples were, he made up his mind not to ask any more questions.

Anyway, he saw that Luo Qingcheng was also quite confused. In the end, wouldn't Mo Wangqing, as his master, still have to answer his disciple's questions?

We'll find out what happened sooner or later.

Instead of arguing with Mo Wangqing, he should check on how his junior sister Wan is doing.

Wan clearly did not find anything unusual after entering the Path of Gods and Demons.

She didn't know whether Luo Qingcheng had lied to her or if Mu Zien, who had come in early, had done something.

To be on the safe side, Wanqing directly crushed a pill that could block the meridians of the person who inhaled it.

This was given to her by the Sun Immortal.

I hadn't used it before.

Just right now.

Having seen nothing along the way, Wanqing even began to doubt whether she was overthinking things.

That Mu Zi'en really just wanted to escape.

She was also worried that Mu Zi'en might do something during the time she had wasted.

Wanqing made a tough decision and simply increased her speed.

Not long after, she heard a series of soft "thumping" sounds.

close!

Wan clearly raised her voice.

The sound is getting closer.

Wanqing quietly tiptoed, for there was a corner just ahead.

She reached the corner and peeked out slightly.

Then you see Mu Zi'en, pale-faced with dark red blood occasionally spilling from the corner of his mouth, holding an array plate.

His left hand was covered in blood, and he was squeezing the wound so that the blood dripped onto the stones.

He then threw the blood-stained needles onto the ground, onto the large formation that was almost complete.

Even before the formation was completed, it exuded an indescribable eerie aura, with surging demonic energy. It was terrifyingly powerful even before it was finished!

Seeing the surging demonic energy firmly bound by an invisible barrier within the formation, Wanqing understood in an instant.

Junior Sister Luo may not have been lying.

However, that demonic aura had already been captured by Mu Zi'en!

She was anxious and subconsciously felt that she couldn't let the formation be completed.

In her haste, she didn't notice that behind her, a pair of eyes were silently staring at her neck.

Wanqing calmed down.

She took out the talisman her senior brother had prepared for her from her storage ring.

Before becoming the acting sect leader, Ling Yuchen was the chief disciple of Changxiang Peak.

The Seeking Immortals Sect is a comprehensive sect, with each path having its corresponding Dao Peak.

While the Changxiang Peak lineage, as the main peak, cannot compare to the Tianji Pavilion, which specializes in divination, it is still capable of judging fortune and misfortune by physiognomy.

Before Wan Qingchu set off, Ling Yuchen performed a divination for her.

Then, with a solemn expression, he handed her a talisman that he had somehow obtained, containing the full power of a sword master from the Sword Inquiry Sect at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage.

Now, Wanqing is about to use this talisman to completely thwart Mu Zien's conspiracy!

She held the talisman between two fingers, made a hand seal with her left hand, and prepared to activate the talisman.

In an instant!

A thin, dark shadow emerged from the shadows!

The Shadow Serpent, renowned for its speed and elusiveness, even dared to challenge a Golden Core cultivator, and it launched a surprise attack when Wan Qing was completely unprepared.

Wanqing hadn't realized what was happening yet.

The talisman in his hand was snatched away by the shadow snake!

The Shadow Serpents are a race that loves to be proud and show off. Just like before, when the Shadow Serpents successfully ambushed Luo Qingcheng, they regretted dancing around Luo Qingcheng's unconscious body.

The same was true of the shadow snake that Wan had killed, which was half a body smaller.

It triumphantly tore the talisman to shreds in one bite.

Her body twisted and turned in mid-air, facing Wanqing.

Wan clenched her fists.

She could see that those eyes were not those of a beast that lived on instinct; the cold and bloodthirsty snake eyes were so familiar.

It was Mu Zi'en's gaze!

Mu Zi'en already knew she was coming!

Wan was clearly annoyed.

If only she had been more careful!

Having lost the talisman, Wanqing had no choice but to prepare for the worst.

She is an alchemist and not skilled in combat.

But we must fight!

Wanqing crushed all the remaining green pills.

Through the shadow snake, she could see that Mu Zi'en's movements indeed paused.

As long as it still works!

As for Shadow Serpent?

It doesn't matter. I already knew from the experiment with the antidote pill on Junior Sister Luo that the Shadow Serpent's poison was useless against her!

To prevent any accidents, Wanqing took another antidote pill.

She used her movement technique, her whole body fluttering like a butterfly, heading straight towards Mu Zi'en.

The shadow snake raised its head high, a glint of light flashing in its eyes. With a flick of its tail, it instantly flew towards Wan Qingchu.

In the blink of an eye, it bit Wanqing's defenseless, delicate white ankle.

At the same time, the special neurovenom stored in the fangs of the Shadow Serpent was unceremoniously injected into Wan Qingchu's ankle.

Wan groaned in pain, but her momentum didn't diminish. With a backhand motion, she transformed a flame into a flaming blade and severed the head of the shadow snake that was biting her tightly.

The flames then followed the broken section, burning both sections of the snake's body to ashes.

With no obstacles in sight, Wan quickly rushed to Mu Zi'en's side.

She didn't know anything else, so she summoned Dong Lieyan, which transformed into a giant fireball and hurled it at Mu Zi'en.

however--

Mu Zi'en smiled at Wan Qing without any resistance.

He said, "It's too late."

Under Wanqing's clear gaze, the last array stone fell into its rightful place.

The black and red light flowed like water, passing through the mysterious array patterns on the complex array layer by layer from the outside in. In the blink of an eye, all the array patterns were lit up.

The magic circle is complete!

Wan knew she hadn't given up yet.

The Eastern Blazing Flame split in two, with one half burning towards the array stones on the ground!

The intense energy of the extreme Yang fire blew a gap in the demonic breath!

Wan was pleasantly surprised; was it useful?

But the next second, the magic circle's own defenses deflected the attack back.

Wan knew she had been hit squarely by her own anger.

Flames instantly engulfed Wanqing's entire body!

Because she had not yet fully subdued Dong Lieyan, after barely managing to retract it, half of her body was burned by the fire.

Ignoring her injuries, she got up and looked up to see surging demonic energy sweeping upwards along the formation.

The strong winds that followed made Wan Qingchu lose her balance.

She barely managed to open her eyes.

Then you can see that the stone wall of the passage above your head has been pierced.

The entire passage shook violently as if an earthquake had struck, with pieces of rubble and gravel constantly falling down.

The pebbles fell on her, stinging her skin.

In the blink of an eye, Mu Zi'en, who had no chance to escape, was buried underground.

Wan knew she had no choice but to drag her injured body around and hide.

A heavy feeling settled over her.

Since they failed to stop it, the question now is whether to find the traitor or what to do next in this competition.

……

Luo Qingcheng has not yet found the exit.

If it weren't for the fact that the mark she made on the stone wall never reappeared.

She almost felt like she had been going in circles.

Just as she was wondering if she was under an illusion.

My feet started to sway.

At first, it was just a slight shaking, like the tremors caused by a magnitude 3 or 4 earthquake, but the next second, accompanied by a loud "boom", a huge crack suddenly appeared in the ground paved with blue bricks!

The rocks overhead began to loosen and fall one after another, as if driven by some invisible force, crashing into the abyss below.

Through the cracks in the stone wall, Luo Qingcheng saw a world filled with black and red mist.

The fog was so thick it was suffocating, like it was gushing out from the depths of hell, churning and twisting.

An atmosphere of fear and despair permeated the air, and the black and red mist continued to expand.

next second.

The passageway has completely collapsed!