A devil's self-redemption

Luo Lai gasped. He had never encountered such a strange situation. What kind of strange means could silently pollute the life soul into such a ghostly state?

He opened his eyes and immediately told what he saw. After hearing his description, everyone's expressions changed drastically, including Ding Xiaojia, who was always calm.

Wen Ruyu put Lan Xin down on his back and said, "Senior Brother Luo, do you know what that thing is, or is it a magical power?"

Luo Lai shook his head to express his ignorance, then turned to look at Ding Xiaojia.

Ding Xiaojia smiled bitterly and said: "Don't look at me, I have never encountered such a weird scene."

"Senior Brother Luo, can you solve it?" Wen Ruyu asked seriously.

Luo Lai frowned and thought for a long time before saying, "I'll give it a try! But the effect depends on luck!"

Then everyone saw Luo Lai sitting cross-legged on the ground, with a strange-colored formation talisman emerging from his hand. This formation talisman was completely black and white, with white within black and black within white. Anyone who is familiar with Chinese culture can tell at a glance that this is a Taoist yin-yang fish pattern.

This array talisman is Luo Lai's method of suppressing the bottom of the box. The specific function is not yet clear, but the effect of exorcising evil spirits and suppressing evil spirits is very good.

He stared at his luck, activated the formation talisman in his hand, and a burst of alternating black and white light flashed through.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred. The crazy disciple was just swept by the white light, and he let out a shrill scream. There were bursts of red smoke floating in the air above his head.

The formation talisman in Luo Lai's hand did not touch the disciple, but he was already suppressed miserably. His screams turned from shrill to weak, and finally his head dropped and he was completely silent.

The whole process happened very quickly, and a living being died here in three breaths of time.

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what expression to make. Luo Lai was also in a daze. He originally thought that the Yin-Yang Fish Formation Talisman in his hand would purify the abnormality in this person's soul, but he didn't expect to kill him directly.

After pondering for a moment, Luo Lai closed his eyes again and began to concentrate his consciousness to search for this person's soul.

After searching for a while, he opened his eyes again. Just as he thought, this person's life soul had dissipated and he was completely dead.

This was completely beyond his expectation, but it had already happened, and there was no use thinking about it anymore.

After hastily burying the two dead people, everyone started on their way again. The atmosphere became very solemn during the rest of the journey. Luo Lai monitored the surrounding situation throughout the entire journey, for fear that a similar situation would happen again.

Sure enough, just an hour after they marched, the towering trees in the dense jungle had blocked the sky, and the surrounding environment became extremely dark.

A black smoke as thick as a hair clings to the ground and rushes towards Dan Ling, who is advancing vigilantly at an extremely fast speed. But Shan Ling didn't seem to notice at all and still walked forward.

Luo Lai shouted loudly, and the formation talisman in his hand immediately emitted a strong light, shrouding the black smoke.

However, something unexpected happened to Luo Lai. As if the smoke had intelligence, it turned around and shot away in the direction it came from, three minutes faster than when it came.

Looking at the direction of the black smoke going away, Luo Lai did not pursue him, for fear of falling into the trap of diverting the tiger away from the mountain.

The others had already set up a defensive formation after seeing Luo Lai take action, and they also breathed a sigh of relief after seeing Luo Lai put away the formation talisman.

Luo's background was a little big, and the smoke was obviously controlled by someone to be so spiritual, which meant that someone was hunting them with tricks, and he didn't think that the disciples of other sects who came in with him had such tricks. If they really had such a method, they would have already used it during the competition in the ring.

In other words, there are creatures in the secret realm targeting them at this moment, and perhaps there are also disciples from other sects involved.

Just as Luo Lai was thinking, a group of people suddenly appeared in his perception in panic. After he tried his best to understand who these people were, his expression became uncertain.

"Be alert! Someone is coming!" Luo Lai issued a warning. Wen Ruyu and his group looked solemn and assumed a defensive posture again.

When Wen Ruyu saw the face of the visitor clearly, the expression on his face was also very strange.

"Fellow Daoist Luo, what a coincidence, you are here too!" Lian Xinnu tried her best to suppress the helpless expression on her face to make herself look less embarrassed.

Luo Lai said angrily: "Fellow Daoist Lian, what happened to you? You don't seem to be in a good condition."

In fact, Luo Lai had already saved face for them. Their current condition was not only bad, it was simply terrible. Everyone had some scars on their bodies, and one person even had his arm broken off at the elbow. There are only seven people left in the human team, and it is obvious that they have encountered a big crisis.

Lian Xinnu and Yu Cai'e looked at each other, smiled bitterly and said, "Fellow Daoist Luo is aware of everything. We did encounter some troubles..." and immediately told them exactly what they had encountered.

It turned out that after meeting up with Song Hongzhuang, they headed into the forest in the direction Luo Lai had left. It was calm at first, but they didn't expect that an accident would happen just half an hour later. A disciple of the Fuyao Sect who was walking on the outermost edge turned out to be inexplicable. Going crazy, he directly killed the person next to him with a sword, and injured the other disciple before anyone could react.

Song Hongzhuang, who was walking at the back of the team, reacted the fastest and neatly captured the Fuyao Sect disciple who was still frantically attacking his companions. What frightened them was that the Fuyao Sect disciple's hands and feet had been bound. There was still an intrusive roar coming from his mouth, and he opened his mouth to bite anyone who was close to him. In the end, I couldn't find a way to control him, so I had to kill him.

After entering the forest, such things happened one after another. Three people in a row went crazy inexplicably. Fortunately, after what happened just now, everyone stayed vigilant, so no tragedy happened. However, the three crazy people were still killed by them.

The few survivors felt chills in their hearts and had no idea how to deal with it.

Lian Xinnu proposed to catch up with the people from the Lichen Sect in front and discuss countermeasures together, and won the support of most people. Only Song Hongzhuang remained silent, but when everyone accelerated their speed, she followed them.

After listening to Lian Xinnu's story, Luo Lai knew that they had also encountered a strange incident that happened to their team. He also told what happened to his team just now. When he heard that Luo Lai could actually see and resolve that kind of terrifying method, The faces of Lian Xinnu and others couldn't help but be inexplicably happy. Although this period of time was short, they were really frightened by that strange method, which could drive people crazy silently. Who would not be frightened when they encountered it?

Only Song Hongzhuang's face turned extremely ugly after listening to Luo Lai's description. She hesitated and said repeatedly: "Well... I seem to have heard of this method."

Everyone looked at Song Hongzhuang, waiting for her to explain further.

Song Hongzhuang took a deep breath and spoke again: "I also accidentally saw it in an ancient book. I don't know if it's right. In ancient times, there was a special sect called the Soul Pool Sect. The technique they majored in was called The Soul Pond Sutra is mainly about cultivating a soul training pond in the sea of ​​​​consciousness. The pond is filled with souls extracted from the enemies they killed. They use special means to erase the spiritual intelligence of these souls, and then use the power of the three souls and seven souls to Weakly train it into one of the three souls and seven souls, and then you can control it to occupy the enemy's soul when killing the enemy to achieve the purpose of control. Because this method is extremely destructive, the person who is trained has no possibility of reincarnation. , can only be released when they are dispersed, so it is a taboo. Therefore, the righteous people at that time gathered more than a hundred great monks to forcefully break through the mountain gate of the Soul Pond Sect and kill most of the evil people of the Soul Pond Sect. Almost exhausted. According to Fellow Daoist Luo’s description, the method used to attack us should be the soul control method of the Soul Pool Sect.”

The Lotus Heart Girl of the Soul Refining Sect turned strange after hearing Song Hongzhuang's story. It's just that the other sects were concentrating on digesting Song Hongzhuang's words and didn't notice.

After listening to Song Hongzhuang's story, Luo Lai asked: "Fellow Daoist Song, is there any method to crack the soul control method recorded in that ancient book?"

This is the issue that everyone is most concerned about at the moment. They looked at Song Hongzhuang again, with hope in their eyes.

Song Hongzhuang shook her head and said: "The method of controlling souls is elusive and difficult to detect. It only manifests itself when you are attacked. Moreover, this method of controlling souls can remain dormant for a long time, and the person being controlled cannot detect it at all."

The hope in everyone's eyes disappeared and turned into disappointment, but they heard Song Hongzhuang say: "Since Fellow Daoist Luo just saw and repelled the manipulated soul, I think that guy will not take action easily again, but we have to stay in the secret realm. We have stayed for five days, and now is the first day. It is really not an option to have such evil people watching us all the time."

Luo Lai took a deep look at Song Hongzhuang and did not comment on her words. He turned to everyone in the Lichen Sect and said, "Don't worry, everyone. Since I can see what is attacking us, I can crack it. We should hurry up and find the spirit." Come on, we don't have much time."

Wen Ruyu said, "Senior Brother Luo, how did the person who attacked us enter this secret realm?"

Luo Lai was stunned for a moment and then realized, yes, this is clearly the secret cultivation realm of the Fuyao Sect. Why did such a powerful person with such strange methods suddenly come in?

Everyone else also looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.

Think for a moment. Luo Lai said: "It's impossible for him to sneak in under the eyes of a strong person in the Heaven Realm. The only explanation is that this guy should have been here before the secret realm was established. He has been sleeping before and now he wakes up. No matter what, we Let’s look for the spiritual spring first, but we must remain highly vigilant.”

After saying that, he was about to start, but was blocked by Lotus Heart Girl. She said: "It's true that you can detect the thing that attacks you, but others can't see it. When you enter the spiritual spring to practice, that thing will attack you." what to do."

Luo Lai chuckled and did not refute, but asked: "Then what good idea do you have."

"I just didn't know the means to attack us just now, but now I know, and our Soul Refining Sect is extremely good at soul-related means, so we should be able to deal with such attacks." Lian Xinnu has such confidence.

Luo Lai asked back: "Then just take action. Why did you stop us?"

Lotus Heart Girl said a few words sincerely: "There is strength in numbers!"

This sentence touched Luo Lai, "What do you want to do?"

Lian Xinnu and Yu Cai'e looked at each other and said: "Work together, you can help me find a higher level spiritual spring, and we will help you protect the law while you practice!"

"make a deal!"

The two of them decided to act together in a few words. Ding Xiaojia was silent the whole time, with his head slightly lowered and not knowing what he was thinking.

The subsequent trip went smoothly. The attacker seemed to be scared off by Luo Lai's methods and never appeared to attack anyone again.

While running quickly, Luo Lai asked: "Have you discovered the existence of the spiritual spring?"

Lotus Heart Girl returned: "It's strange to say that since entering the secret realm, I haven't seen a spiritual spring. This was almost impossible in the past."

After hearing her reply, Luo Lai knew that they had also noticed the abnormality in the secret realm, so he said nothing more.

However, they did not encounter the spiritual spring until dark, and everyone was exhausted, so they stopped to set up camp and repair.

Luo Lai asked softly: "There is obviously no sun and moon in the secret realm, so why is there still darkness and dawn?"

Ding Xiaojia, who was sitting aside, once again regained his usual detachment and answered hurriedly: "Senior Brother Luo doesn't know something. Most of the secret realms in this world are established based on the speed of time in the outside world. When it gets dark outside, the secret realms will also enter the night. . Some secret realms are special and will produce seasonal changes, but these secret realms are of a relatively high level and generally will not appear in the world. "

After receiving Ding Xiaojia's knowledge, Luo Lai used his mental power again and began to be vigilant.

Yu Cai'e and others had already gathered with Luo Lai and Wen Ruyu, and began to discuss the next trip.

Wen Ruyu was the first to speak: "I have been on the road today, but I only found a low-level spiritual spring. Now we all know that there has been a change in the secret realm. Various guardian monsters have begun to attack each other, and there are also Extremely dangerous individuals are always ready to attack us."

Yu Cai'e, who has always been very low-key, whispered: "The key is that even if we find the spiritual spring, cultivation will take time. We can't send people to protect one person's cultivation. In this case, how can others practice? What's more serious is that only Senior Brother Luo can See the attack launched by that person. So most people’s entry into the secret realm will be in vain?”

In fact, what she said is not quite accurate. It should be that disciples from other sects like them have basically come in, and there is a high probability that half of the Lichen Sect disciples will have no time to practice. The premise is that the spiritual spring can be found as soon as possible.

Although Luo Lai did not participate in their discussion, a part of his remaining spiritual consciousness still listened to their conversation, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly.

He said: "The formation talisman in my hand can effectively resist the attacker, but the range of the formation talisman is limited. It can only be effective within a radius of five meters. The condition is to continuously input spiritual power into the formation talisman."