Why did you mess up the copy again?

The night passed and nothing happened.

When Li Rui woke up from his rest, Yuan Qing had already prepared the mountain beast, and the four of them continued moving forward together.

"Mr. Yuan, do you often come to the mountains on weekdays?" Li Rui asked from the back of his mount.

"I don't come here often. I go there every two to three months to reduce the number of evil spirits on the mountain and check if there are any abnormalities."

"Why not get rid of them all?"

Yuan Qing said, "It's not that I can't do it, but I really can't. If you follow me into the mountain, you will soon see that there are too many evil spirits in front of you, and they are inexhaustible. It is impossible to get rid of them all no matter what."

Li Rui thought to himself that Jingyang Academy only had a low presence, not a lack of strength. They were still a relatively large force in the secret world. If even they couldn't get rid of the evil spirits on Guiweiling Ridge, it would indeed be a bit difficult. .

Yuan Qing added: "Back then, the teachers who first founded the Academy really wanted to ward off the evil spirits, but over the years, they failed. There was even an evil intrusion in the past, which caused the lives of all the people under the mountain to be devastated."

What he was talking about was the time point before Li Rui and the others were dragged into the illusion by Cen Lanjing. The impact of the evil influx from Guiweiling Ridge was too great, so the academy decided to build the Demon-Conquering Tower.

Thinking of what happened in the illusion, Li Rui asked nonchalantly: "Mr. Yuan, do you know Zuo Qiutian?"

"How many people in the world don't you know?" Yuan Qing replied.

Li Rui smiled: "That's true, but what I mean is, do you have any understanding of him that is different from others?"

Yuan Qing turned to look at him again: "To be honest with Li Xiandi, Zuo Qiutian's real name is Zuo Liang. He was once a disciple of the academy and his master's junior brother. However, he did not mention this past, and rarely did he mention it. Someone knows, how do you know?”

Li Rui pondered for a few seconds and replied, "Zuo Qoutian and I are old acquaintances."

He did not mention Cen Lanjing, because the old man specifically said at that time that there was no need to mention himself.

Yuan Qing nodded: "Brother Li Xian is really a young hero."

Li Rui said a few words of humility, and then the group began to walk in silence.

The speed of the mountain beasts was very fast. They even met a few academy disciples patrolling the mountain on the way. Those people seemed a little surprised to see Yuan Qing personally leading a few strangers up the mountain.

"Senior brother, there has been a surge of evil energy in Guiweiling Ridge recently, so be careful." Someone reminded.

However, it was impossible for Li Rui and others to give up just like that, so Yuan Qing did not stop them and continued to lead the way.

As expected, the further you go, the more demons you see, and the eerie feeling becomes stronger and stronger.

Even though it was daytime and the sky was bright above, it was already dark even a few steps away on Guiweiling Ridge.

Finally, when we reached a peak, the evil spirit in the darkness could no longer hold back.

"Ouch——"

With a roar, a large group of black shadows rushed out and surrounded him from different directions.

"Woo——"

The mountain beast felt threatened and tried to make a sound to scare away the enemy.

Although they are usually trained by the academy, they still show obvious uneasiness. After all, they are just animals.

Li Rui calmly observed the threat that rushed out, and did not make any move for a long time, because he felt that the thing rushing out of the darkness looked familiar.

These demons that filled Guiweiling Ridge were all black, their bodies were mutilated, and there was a sense of distortion permeating their entire bodies.

Just like the name of the classmate palace, the reason why they are called evil spirits is because it is really impossible to determine whether these things are evil souls, monster beasts, or spirits.

They don't seem to belong to any race except Guiwailing.

"Hey, what are you doing standing still? Take action quickly."

Cheng Mingyue's cry woke up Li Rui, but the one who struck before him was Yuan Qing. The current academy priest used a sword, and his strike was a sword light, which was a bit like Wei Xun's method.

However, the governor of the Demon Suppression Department was unrestrained and bold, while Yuan Qing's sword intention was more carefree and free, as if what he held in his hand was not a weapon but a pen.

When Li Rui saw him taking action, he stopped moving because he could see that these swords alone were enough to deal with the threat in front of him.

Although there were a lot of demons, nearly a hundred of them appeared in a short time, but their strength was not particularly strong, they were just ordinary monsters around level 60, and Yuan Qing was also a world-level NPC, so they were all eliminated in an instant. .

Those demons were pierced by the sword light, turned into black smoke and dissipated, returning to the darkness, and the surrounding area returned to calm.

"Mr. Yuan is very clever."

Li Rui complimented.

Yuan Qing smiled slightly: "Go forward quickly. If you stop here, they will come back soon."

So a few people set off again.

Li Rui asked: "Mr. Yuan, are all the evil spirits on this mountain similar to the ones that just appeared?"

"It shouldn't be much different."

"Are they ghosts?"

Li Rui asked again, "I didn't feel any evil spirit."

Yuan Qing said: "Of course it's not a dead soul. I don't know what it is. I can only confirm that its origin is related to landmines."

“It’s about landmines?!”

Cheng Mingyue asked, "Isn't it possible? Isn't that a spell from the upper world? You see, the thunder snakes are all shiny, how can the mines be so gloomy?"

Li Rui said: "No, if it is reversed, wouldn't it have a similar effect?"

His reversal of yin and yang can make other mines have the opposite attributes. If the mines are reversed, it is understandable that such a situation will occur.

Yuan Qing couldn't help but glance at him, seeming a little curious, but didn't ask any questions.

Li Rui just frowned. He kept wondering what those mutilated monsters rushing out of the darkness were.

"Brother Gui, can you try using your skills in the dark?" he asked.

Of course, Guan Gui would not refuse. He immediately used Little Ghost to ask for directions, causing the summoned creature with evil energy to run into the darkness on Guiweiling Ridge.

But not long after, he said: "It's interrupted."

Apparently, the connection between him and those brats was broken.

That is something more "dead" than evil spirit.

Li Rui thought so.

On the way forward, more demons appeared, but it was not a problem for the four of them. It was just that the further they went deeper into Guiweiling Ridge, the more demons appeared, which would waste a lot of time.

When the skylight above our heads dimmed again, the scene ahead finally changed. It no longer moved upward slowly, but began to descend at a gentle slope.

Here, new evil spirits appeared again, but this time, because of the subtle changes in their forms, Li Rui finally remembered why he felt familiar.

They seem to be very similar to the unknown monsters encountered in the Ascension Hall when changing jobs and advancing. (End of chapter)