【Xue Xiao】Desolate City Crossing

When the full moon was rising, the ghosts in the ice lake were suppressed by the monks forcefully, none of them broke out of the barrier, and retreated to the bottom of the lake with half of their combat power lost.

Silence returned to the ice lake, and the ice surface glowed with a cold silver light under the moonlight.The monks began to check and repair the broken runes on the ice, and the ghost formation method still had to be executed.

Xiao Xingchen was disheartened, and was sent back to the tent by Song Zichen and Wei Wuxian. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a person coming over the mountain and coming down the hillside. The soles of his feet didn't sink into the snow, but he was obviously careless in his technique, and he stumbled all the way. When he found him in the crowd, he immediately rushed to him with eyes full of anxiety. This person was Liu Cuoxin.

"Daoist Xiao Xingchen, I heard that Big Brother Xue..." Liu Cuoxin was out of breath, using a man's voice produced by the phantom sound technique, tears fell down before he could finish speaking.She was well-informed in the fairy gate, and had occasional correspondence with Xiao Xingchen and Xue Yang.Ever since he heard that Xue Yang disappeared in Suiyun Snow Mountain, probably captured by his old enemy Shi Wusheng, he got up and rushed to Suiyun Snow Mountain for days.

Liu Cuoxin's cultivation base is superficial and he doesn't know what he can do to help, but he has been thinking about his savior, Big Brother Xue for many years, and has a deep feeling for him. , and when they heard that Xianmen wanted to disregard Xiao Xingchen's objection and encircle and wipe out Xue Yang's soul together with Shi Wusheng and his minions, they rushed here day and night without sleep.Seeing Xiao Xingchen's distraught look now, obviously verified the news he had heard along the way, he was about to speak and burst into tears.

Xiao Xingchen bowed his head in front of her, not knowing how to comfort her.Song Zichen was puzzled, wondering why other than Xiao Xingchen, other than Xiao Xingchen, really missed the evil spirit Xue Yang so much. Wei Wuxian knew the reason, and pulled Song Zichen to explain carefully.

A round of bright moon rose higher and higher, and there was only one hour left before the calculated time to subdue ghosts.Xiao Xingchen lit a stick of incense and silently recited the incantation without any hope:

"The old dream is three thousand miles away, and the dust is gone to find the way back. My whole life is an illusion, and the bright moon sends the soul back."

Now the bright moon is in the sky, and the light is still bright, but he can never send back the soul of the dead he cares about.

Lan Wangji came out of the real person's tent for the last time, and Wei Wuxian and Xiao Xingchen, who were facing each other in front of the tent, shook their heads, and the last hope in Xiao Xingchen's eyes was completely shattered.

There are more and more monks standing by the lake, sitting in a circle around the ice lake, recharging their energy, and preparing to start building the ghost formation.

Song Zichen came to persuade: "Xingchen, for the peace of the world, to eliminate Shi Wusheng, it is imperative to subdue ghosts, if you are soft-hearted, don't watch it."

Xiao Xingchen acted as if he hadn't heard it, his brows were bleak, he raised his clear eyes and stared at the moon in a daze, after a while, he looked away and said calmly and sincerely to his former friend, "Zichen, I'm sorry, I'm not worthy to be your friend." Eyelashes Hanging half down, he turned to comfort Liu Cuoxin: "Miss Liu, don't look at it either, please follow me to the tent, Xue Yang has something to tell me to tell you."

The sudden apology made Song Zichen and Wei Wuxian look at each other. They were secretly worried, and they all followed the tent close to Xiao Xingchen until they could faintly hear the two talking inside, but they couldn't tell what they were talking about, so it was hard to get close to eavesdrop .

Liu Cuoxin glanced behind him one last time before entering the account. The twilight was hazy, the ice and snow reflected the moon, and the figures of the monks formed small triangles, forming a circle around the lake.

She was flustered: "Master Daoist, the Ghost Fury Formation is about to begin!"

On the contrary, Xiao Xingchen was terribly calm, and sat down in the tent, carefully wiped the disaster with a piece of white cloth, and said indifferently: "It's only natural for everyone to kill demons."

"But Brother Xue..."

"Xue Yang, naturally I will save him."

Xiao Xingchen motioned her to come closer, his eyes staring at her were bottomless, his voice was soft like a whisper, but Liu Cuoxin was shocked like a thunderbolt.

She thought that Xiao Xingchen really gave up because of her inability to recover, but she was pleasantly surprised and puzzled when she heard this—now the Daoist You Ming who is taking the lead avoids Xiao Xingchen, and hundreds of monks work together to encircle and suppress Shi Wusheng. Yang completely belongs to the camp of evil spirits, and there is no way to distinguish, and Song Zichen, a friend of the Taoist chief, is blocking him.Even if Daoist Xiao Xingchen could overcome all these obstacles, Xue Yang was still trapped under the frozen lake, and he couldn't get down at all. How could he be rescued?

Liu Cuo waited for an explanation, and saw a string of small light blue flames burning against Jiang disaster, and the blade disappeared where the flames had been burned. When the flames were completely extinguished, the dark evil sword disappeared from her sight.

Xiao Xingchen extinguished the underworld fire, and shook out a small porcelain bottle from his sleeve, which he took back from his and Xue Yang's cave residence five days ago.

Wei Wuxian watched Xiao Xingchen enter the tent, and thought to himself, "With the character of the little uncle, since Xue Yang is his heart now, once Xue Yang is gone, there is a possibility that the little uncle won't want to live alone."

Remembering that the Ghost Fury Formation hadn't been activated yet, and Xue Yang was still at the bottom of the lake, he asked Song Zichen to watch over the surroundings of Xiao Xingchen's tent carefully, and returned to the tent shared with Lan Wangji, asking, "Is it still impossible to convince Master You Ming?"

Lan Wangji shook his head: "Reverend Youming said that the ghost formation can only be performed when the moon is full. If you miss tonight, you will have to wait another month."

Wei Wuxian frowned, unable to think of a solution.It is a righteous act for all the monks to work together to wipe out Shi Wusheng, who may become a demon and bring disaster to the world in the future; He was treated inhumanly when he was a child, and his distorted mind was not born. After becoming a ghost, he replenished Xiao Xingchen's soul, and was of great help in tracking down Shi Wusheng and crossing the soul. It is repentance.

All the reasons were mixed together, making it difficult for him to make a choice, neither could forcefully stop the monks from killing the demons, nor could he let Xue Yang be implicated with peace of mind.He walked back and forth in the tent with his head bowed, and when he was anxious, he found a figure in white clothes inside the tent. He thought it was Lan Wangji, but when he took a closer look, it was Xiao Xingchen. Lan Wangji stood in the same place from beginning to end.

Xiao Xingchen was standing in the tent, Wei Wuxian didn't even notice when he came in.

He was surprised: "Little Master?"

Xiao Xingchen nodded slightly: "Master Wei, I have one last way to save Xue Yang, please help me."

When Wei Wuxian heard this, he was about to agree immediately. Lan Wangji came from behind and pulled his clothes, asking, "Who are you talking to?"

Wei Wuxian was puzzled, pointed at Xiao Xingchen and said, "Talk to my little uncle."

Lan Wangji looked at the direction of his finger, shook his head with a weird expression, "I can't see it."

"how come……"

Wei Wuxian suddenly realized half of what he said, he can see it but Lan Wangji can't, it can only mean...

He suddenly raised his voice: "Little uncle! You are so confused!"

Around the frozen lake, a hundred monks were sitting around ready to go, checking and sorting out the auxiliary immortal weapons for the last time.In the middle of the icy lake, there is a real man in green robe and long beard.

Due to the wide range of the lake, the distance between monks and monks is more than two feet, and the person on the other side of the lake is even a small figure.Among them were twelve monks who were disciples of the Lan family. They were sitting next to each other, each with a guqin in front of them, and they were carefully tuning the strings.

When Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian brought Xiao Xingchen to the middlemost disciple of the Lan family, they saluted respectfully from both sides. As ghost-hunting monks, they immediately saw Xiao Xingchen's strangeness. publicity.

Lan Wangji sat by the lake instead of the disciple of the Lan family in the middle, and quietly opened an inconspicuous small gap in the barrier covering the icy lake. Xiao Xingchen disappeared from the icy lake in white clothes and dived into the water.

The bottom of the lake was gloomy.

Shi Wusheng knew that he had reached the end.

At the beginning, he asked his subordinates to try to break the protective spell left by the paper figurine on Xue Yang, but after three days of hard work, there was no progress. At the same time, he felt that the barrier covering the icy lake was getting stronger and stronger. There are more and more people, and they work together with their subordinates to find the weak points of the enchantment, trying to open an escape exit.

Some of those ghost subordinates were loose cultivators and some were disciples of immortal sects. Their cultivation levels were uneven. Although they worked together to escape, they were not as pure and deep as the spiritual power of the monks on the ground. Over the past few days, the barrier surrounding them has become stronger and stronger .

On the night of the full moon, the last attempt to break out of the siege failed. A group of evil spirits were wounded and fled back to the bottom of the lake.

The master of Eagle Hall, Shi Wusheng, was wandering by the stone pillar that bound Xue Yang, holding two trained blood-red human pills.

Every human pill represents the tragic loss of hundreds of soul children.

The Hall Master Diao next to him, the deputy leader who has worked with him for many years, said: "Master Ying, we have no way out, why don't you give it a try!"

Shi Wusheng remained silent.

try?To put it lightly, when he practiced the first human pill back then, he just wanted to try it, so he went mad and exploded to death.After becoming an undead, he consulted ancient books on sorcery many times, only to realize that the three human pills had to be taken together within half an hour, otherwise not only would he not be able to obtain power beyond the limit of the spirit body, but he would be unable to bear the huge energy of the human pills. And died suddenly.

Now, he has become an undead, and if he fails again, his soul will probably be scattered.

The sound of hundreds of monks chanting incantations above the ice layer sounded, and the surface of the lake became brighter and brighter. The light shone through the lake water into the dark lake bottom, which meant that the formation of subduing ghosts had begun to be constructed.

Xue Yang looked up at the water surface with complicated eyes.

Shi Wusheng glared at him with unbearable resentment.Clearly victory is in sight, as long as Xue Yang gathers the three spirits again, the goal he has pursued for decades will be achieved, but Xue Yang doesn't say anything, but Xiao Xingchen appears, trying his best to protect Xue Yang. He could not decipher the protective spell left on Xue Yang's body.

After hesitating again and again, he snorted coldly: "Xue Yang, no matter what, you won't be able to escape. Let's make a bet to see who will be the first to die."

After all, he swallowed the two human pills together, and then swallowed the three hearts in the box next to him.

In an instant, the spiritual body was filled with a powerful spiritual surge, and Shi Wusheng's eyes flickered with crazy light, as if he had seen the scene that he could rush out and kill all directions, and make everyone kneel down.

The last step is to dig out Xue Yang's golden pill and eat it!Although there is a slight flaw in the way the three human pills are put together, there is no other way at this time, but to give it a go. Xiao Xingchen, everything is not worth mentioning.

Shi Wusheng poured spiritual power into his right hand, and suddenly grabbed Xue Yang's chest with his five fingers. With the help of the first two human pills, he easily broke the protective spell on Xue Yang's body. After digging out the heart inside, suddenly there was a sharp and sharp sword energy striking down from the top of his head, if he didn't withdraw his hand immediately, when he touched Xue Yang's heart, his wrist would be cut off!

"stop--!"

A loud shout resounded through the bottom of the lake, and the figure in white landed like a shooting star.

In order to stop his wrist, Shi Wusheng withdrew his hand and backed away in horror.

Xiao Xingchen stood in front of Xue Yang, and swept away the disaster. It spread like a rainbow in all directions. Some evil spirits came forward and had no time to hide.

Qingfeng Mingyue scolded angrily, with shocking strength: "Shi Wusheng, you are the one who can't escape!"

"Xiao Xingchen?" Shi Wusheng was shocked, he never expected that someone would rush into the bottom of the lake, he saw Xiao Xingchen's state clearly, and then joked with his tone: "It's so wonderful, this is Hell without a Gate, you just went to it! Aren't you going to protect Xue Yang? I will tell you to perish with him today!"

Xiao Xingchen only had time to break the chains that bound Xue Yang, and handed Xue Yang a thick stack of talismans, and Shi Wusheng's sword pierced swiftly.

Xue Yang took the talisman and looked at it. The twisted and familiar lines on it were Wei Wuxian's handwriting.

"Mr. Wei said you can use it." Xiao Xingchen swung his sword against Shi Wusheng and said, "The formation of subduing ghosts outside has started, quickly control other evil spirits and come out with me!"

All the ghosts pinned all their hopes on Shi Wusheng. Seeing that Shi Wusheng was blocked, Xue Yang escaped and rushed forward to attack with all his strength. Xue Yang silently recited the mantra, and threw out twenty talismans. Once the talisman was close to the body, it could no longer move, only the eyeballs spun around, and the rest who were not stuck retreated in panic, and the talisman that Xue Yang threw out seemed to have eyes, and flew towards the ghost pawns, instantly restraining twenty evil ghosts , and the rest were cautious and did not dare to step forward.

Xue Yang guarded Xiao Xingchen's back, and asked without looking back, "Why did you come down? Could it be..." Qi Qi Ai Ai didn't dare to continue.

Xiao Xingchen pursed his lips guiltily, not wanting him to be distracted at this moment, and said, "It's Master Wei who taught me the soul separation technique, this state is only temporary, I'll talk to you when I go up."

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