Desperate Night.

Chapter 361 If
Zihe Palace.

Dark clouds rolled in and thunder rumbled.

Arcs of electricity occasionally streaked across the clouds, illuminating the earth below for a moment.

The Zihe Palace, which was originally located in the mountains, was now completely shrouded in a thick gray fog.

The gray fog completely surrounded the Taoist palaces, lurking in the mountains like a living thing. It did not disperse with the wind, but instead squirmed slightly, as if it was devouring and digesting something.

laugh.

Suddenly, a purple light broke through the gray fog, like a purple sharp blade, flying towards the distant sky.

The purple light did not stop all the way. In a blink of an eye, it flew over dozens of miles and gently landed in a villa in the mountains outside a city.

puff.

The purple light fell into a small black stone barrel in the courtyard of the villa, trembled a few times and then stopped moving.

At this time, the purple light revealed its full appearance, which was actually a purple metal talisman with two wings.

Purple light shone on the talisman, and countless dense runes shone. There were also two fan-like thrusters at the tail.

Not long after, a Taoist in a gray robe and wearing black-framed glasses walked out of the villa. He took the talisman out of the stone bucket and took a look at it.

"It's the emergency drone from Zihe Palace." He turned around and shouted into the villa.

"Zihe Palace, report it immediately!" A young female sorceress walked out of the villa and her face changed when she heard the words.

The two men quickly took off a small box from the bottom of the drone and turned into the villa.

Soon, an invisible electromagnetic wave traveled across a vast distance and reached Yunshu Mountain, the ancestral home of Taoism.

Zuting Taoist Temple, inside the Yunguang main hall.

Fang Xiu, the Taoist boy of Zuo Tianshi, yawned, took the emergency notification document that had just been delivered to him, turned around and walked into the hall.

Not long after, he quickly walked out with a reply document and handed it to the Taoist who was waiting outside the hall.

"The Heavenly Master has ordered us to reply immediately."

"I understand!" The Taoist nodded respectfully.

Turning around, he quickly walked down the stairs with the documents in his hand. After a few steps, he was stopped by a female cultivator on the right.

"Chengkong, how does the Heavenly Master respond?"

The female cultivator's name was Zi Ling. She was a Taoist from the Tianshi Mansion who had always been on good terms with the Zihe Palace. When she heard that the Zihe Palace was in trouble, she came decisively to inquire.

"The Heavenly Master has already begun to summon experts to provide support, but it just takes time." The Taoist replied. The reply file was not encrypted and had very few words, so it could be read at a glance.

He said, handing the document over for the other party to take a look.

The female cultivator glanced over and nodded.

"This is the reply message afterwards. The mobilization action should have already begun. What on earth happened that even the Zihe Palace would ask the ancestral court for help. There are so many masters of Taoism who can break the limit in the palace, and there is also the Dingtian Pan." She looked incredible as she spoke.

"Perhaps the Seven Evils Alliance destroyed the Dingtian Plate, causing cracks to appear on it and making it unusable." The Taoist also looked solemn. "Anyway, we will know the truth once the reinforcements arrive."

"Where is Ku Chan? Even Ku Chan is besieged. The situation is probably not good." The female cultivator asked again.

"The Taoist Ku Chan is not here. He should still be carrying out the suppression mission in Lijiaso. But now that we have received the news, he should be rushing back." The Taoist sighed.

"Okay, I won't keep you any longer. Reply quickly. Don't keep the fellow Taoists from Zihe Palace waiting for too long." The female cultivator reminded.

"Yes." The Taoist took the documents and left quickly.

The information was quickly transmitted back to the villa near Zihe Palace via electromagnetic waves.

Then the purple talisman drone carried it up into the sky and returned to the blocked Zihe Palace area.

In the vast gray fog.

The drone pierced through the clouds and soon flew into the sky above a group of ruined Taoist temples that had collapsed mostly.

Most of the beautiful houses, solemn palaces, gorgeous fence decorations, etc. that originally belonged to the Zihe Palace have now been knocked down and crushed by some huge creatures.

The bodies of Taoist priests were scattered all over the ruins.

Their limbs were twisted and their eyes were wide open, as if they had experienced extreme anger and fear in their lifetime.

The drone flew over a small lake with broken wood chips floating on it and soon arrived in front of the only intact palace in the center.

The palace is in the shape of an ox horn, with two purple horns carved with countless runes on the top.

It is these two horns that fight against the huge gray fog enemy that appears and disappears from the outside world.

A large group of Taoists gathered in the palace, forming a circle and agitating the Taoist energy in their bodies, continuously injecting it into the underground rune patterns to provide power for the corners of the palace.

laugh!
The purple talisman drone suddenly flew out from the Taoist crowd and landed steadily in front of the innermost Palace Master Yuqin.

Yuqin's face turned pale. She reached out to grab the drone and took off the box underneath it.

Open it and pull out a small rolled-up tube of documents.

After taking a few glances, his expression relaxed.

"Everyone hold on! The ancestral temple has mobilized people to come to support us! Zuo Tianshi has already known our predicament and will be here soon. And my son Kuchan is also on his way back!"

A bunch of Taoists from Zihe Palace breathed a sigh of relief.

"As long as the news can be spread, we will be safe. In two hours at most, experts from the ancestral temple will come to support us!" An elder of Zihe Palace wiped the blood from his mouth and said excitedly.

"Master, has my junior brother replied?" A beautiful young female cultivator couldn't help but ask.

"Well, Kuchan said he is on his way back at full speed, don't worry!" Yuqin saw what the other party was thinking. "That's good, that's good." The female cultivator's face relaxed and she gently pressed her lower abdomen.

This action made Yuqin's expression change. Then he pinched a seal with one hand, and a breath of Taoism turned into magic, which attracted some kind of power from the surroundings, surrounded the female cultivator and examined her carefully.

After a few breaths, his face was shocked.

"Wait, Ying'er, are you pregnant?!"

These words were spoken in no low voice, and everyone who was still resisting around could hear them.

Everyone's originally heavy mood was inexplicably lifted after hearing these words.

"Well, that should be it. I didn't have my period this month." Ying Er lowered her head and answered in a low voice.

Yuqin and his wife looked at each other and saw surprise and a hint of joy in each other's eyes.

"If Jin Zhi knew about this, he would definitely be very happy. It's just a pity that many disciples will never see such a happy event again."

Bang!
An elder punched the stone pillar hard.

"Before the Seven Evils Alliance, I thought we were all from the same Dao lineage, so I had no intention of hunting us down. But now, after I survive this disaster, I will immediately join the encirclement and suppression team and make them face the dilemma of life and death!"

"Count me in!" a red-haired female cultivator, one of the four swordsmen, said angrily.

"I'm going too! My poor disciple has just established his foundation and he is..."

"Damn the Seven Evil Alliance! If we can escape this disaster, we will do our best to kill this villain!!"

After hearing that support was coming, the morale of the entire Zihe Palace was greatly boosted.

After cursing for a while, everyone continued to stabilize the Taoist Palace formation and waited for support.

Meng Chengshuang, the master of Feixia Sword, was also among them. She did not say anything, but silently outputted her Taoist energy and injected it into the formation.

At this moment, she somehow thought of the situation in Taizhou.

I thought of the young talented judo master from Qingchen Temple.

For some reason, she always felt that if Zhengrou was here, there might be a way to break out.

The young Taoist priest, who was always calm and confident in the face of any situation, left an extremely deep impression on her.

"What's wrong? Shuangshuang?"

Her best friend Xiao Ling asked softly, noticing that she was distracted.

"Nothing, I just thought of someone." Meng Chengshuang shook her head. She was still recovering from her injuries, otherwise, as one of the Four Swords, she would not be standing in this corner at this time.

The Four Swords were the main fighting force pillars of the Zihe Palace. At this time, the other three were in the center of the formation. Only she was injured and was taken care of, and was placed in a position on the inside where the burden was less.

"What? Is it your sweetheart?" Xiao Ling wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and joked with pain.

"I'm thinking too much. I just suddenly thought of his original remarks." Feixia Sword sighed, "A long time ago, he was preaching that spiritual disasters would become a big problem in the future, but no one believed him. Everyone thought that he had suffered from persecution delusion because of the stimulation and hardship. But now I suddenly feel that what he said seems to have some truth."

At this moment, she couldn't help but turn her eyes to look outside.

Outside the Taoist Palace.

In the gray clouds, the outlines of huge dragon-headed people appeared and disappeared from time to time.

Sometimes they turned into gray clouds, and sometimes they condensed into entities, overlooking the bright purple light emanating from the Taoist Palace with cold eyes.

If someone could see them, they would hear the waves of scolding and kneeling.

If one's mental strength is stronger, one can suffer an extremely strong mental shock in an instant, and in the blink of an eye, one will collapse mentally, be crushed physically, and fall to the ground and die.

The initial collapse of Zihe Palace was caused by this.

At this time, dragon-headed people surrounded the Taoist Palace, kept approaching, and slowly stretched out their hands.

"Where are the heavenly soldiers?"

The deep shouts resounded in the gray clouds.

soon.

Below them, those Taoist disciples who had died long ago were now squirming their bodies and slowly crawling up.

Gray lines as fine as tree roots slowly appeared on their skin.

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Inside the sanatorium, underground.

"Xiao Henzi, isn't visiting time over yet? Why did you come early this time?"

Quan He's voice was gentle and peaceful, like a gust of wind. It clearly rang directly in Yu Hong's mind, but he did not feel the slightest bit of hostility or vigilance.

It was as if she was speaking in my ear, but her voice seemed to fill the entire underground hall, omnipresent, like a resonance.

"I miss you, don't I?" The white-bearded Taoist Yu Hen actually showed an obvious shyness and admiration at this moment, which made Yu Hong who was standing beside him feel a chill.

"You are so thoughtful. There were so many children, and there were hundreds of people in the whole class back then, but you are the only ones who remember to come and see me every once in a while." The female voice even carried a hint of tenderness in her complaint.

"But it seems that you didn't come here just to see me. Who is this child next to you?" Quan He asked softly.

"This is Zhengrou, the most outstanding and talented disciple in the history of my Qingchen Temple. Xiao Henzi brought him here, in fact, for some selfish reasons. Zhengrou is extremely talented. He has reached the level of breaking limits at a young age, and has only been practicing Taoism for a year. And this is not the key point. The key point is that he once accidentally obtained a secret technique called the Lingguang Secret Technique. This secret technique can have an extremely miraculous effect on the recovery of body functions and old injuries." Yu Hen explained respectfully.

"Spiritual light." Quan He murmured.

At this moment, in the entire underground hall, waves of originally invisible and powerful spiritual power slowly gathered together and condensed on Yu Hong, as if looking at him.

(End of this chapter)