Mortal's Purple Sky Cave Heaven

Chapter 359 Revealing the secret
No matter whether the sword light cuts the evil ghosts in half like a piece of paper, or strangles the evil ghosts to pieces, as long as the other evil ghosts spray out the Yin Qi from their mouths at the same time, the killed evil ghosts will immediately recover as before, and rush forward again with full energy, each of them like an immortal body.

"These evil ghosts have been nourished by the Yin energy here for countless tens of thousands of years. Apparently, they have cultivated to the state of Yin soul condensation. Ordinary means are simply unable to kill them." Yin Yue explained to Nie Zhaonan in a soft voice.

"It seems that although you, Yin Yue, have profound knowledge, your realm is still a little low now." With a blue light flashing in his eyes, Nie Zhaonan said calmly as he glanced around the hall inadvertently.

Hearing Nie Zhaonan's somewhat joking tone, Yin Yue's eyes turned slightly and asked curiously: "What did the master find out?"

"These evil ghosts have not only cultivated into Yin soul condensed forms, but they are actually clones of the same ghost king. If the ghost king's true body is not found, these evil ghosts will be difficult to completely kill." Nie Zhaonan looked calm, and with a casual pointing of his finger, golden sword light burst out, piercing through another evil ghost.

"That's true. Otherwise, even if an evil ghost has cultivated into the form of a Yin soul, after being killed and recovering, it will definitely lose some vitality. But they don't look tired at all, and their aura is not weak at all." Yin Yue said in a sudden tone.

"I found him." Suddenly Nie Zhaonan's gaze stopped at a corner, and then he suddenly opened his mouth, and a golden light flashed and disappeared.

And the next moment, in a corner of the hall, a ball of golden light suddenly burst out, and a low roar was heard.

Then a gray blurry ghost appeared there, with a thumb-sized gray round bead spurting out of its mouth. It was resisting a three-foot golden sword, and was forced to retreat step by step, making a strange roaring sound from its mouth.

"A ghost king at the peak of the late Nascent Soul stage, not bad."

Upon seeing the ghost, Nie Zhaonan showed a faint smile on his face. He shook his sleeves and a black light shot out. After circling for a while, it fell to the ground without any brilliance, revealing the figure of a small black monkey, which was the Soul-Crying Beast.

Nie Zhaonan didn't need to give any further instructions. As soon as the Crying Soul Beast appeared, its big eyes were filled with excitement. Then, with a cheerful hum, a gray light spurted out from the Crying Soul's big nose and quickly swept towards the evil spirits around it.

Not to mention that the weeping soul was restrained by the ghosts and spirits, even the level of the weeping soul was not something that these ghost king's clones and evil ghosts could resist. All the evil ghosts were involuntarily swept up in the strange gray mist, and then they screamed one after another, and their bodies broke into pieces one by one in the mist, turning into balls of thick yin energy.

Finally, after being rolled up by the gray light, the evil spirits were swallowed into the belly of the crying soul without any resistance.

Almost at the same time as releasing the Crying Soul, Nie Zhaonan moved his mind, and urged the magic formula in his hand. The golden sword suddenly burst into golden light, and countless golden arcs suddenly shot out, rushing straight towards the Ghost King. In the process, they condensed into a golden electric net, covering the Ghost King as fast as lightning.

Although this is a rare ghost king of the late Nascent Soul stage in the world, and is three times more difficult to deal with than an ordinary late Nascent Soul cultivator, he can't cause any trouble in front of Nie Zhaonan.

Unsurprisingly, the Ghost King was tightly covered by the electric net condensed by the Gengjin Divine Thunder. He struggled desperately and roared like a ghost.

Seeing the black little monkey that had just devoured eight evil spirits and whose aura had become stronger without further refining, Yin Yue couldn't help but exclaim in amazement:

"Master, this Soul-Crying Beast is really peculiar. It can grow just by devouring ghosts and spirits. It doesn't seem to have any bottlenecks at all. It's really bizarre."

"The Crying Soul is indeed somewhat special. As long as it is provided with enough ghosts and spirits to devour, it will not be difficult for it to achieve a breakthrough in cultivation." Nie Zhaonan nodded in agreement. "After devouring this ghost king, the Crying Soul's realm should be able to be raised to the late Nascent Soul stage."

"I really envy it." Yin Yue said softly, her voice as clear and sweet as a silver bell.

"Envy?" Nie Zhaonan could not deny it and shook his head slightly. "The Crying Soul was refined by the Qingyang Sect of Chaos Star Sea using an unknown secret technique, combining tens of thousands of living souls. It is unimaginable how painful and difficult the refining process was."

"So that's how it is. No wonder I felt that the crying soul was a little strange." Yin Yue said, and then fell silent.

If you want to get something, you will always have to pay a corresponding price. The Soul-Crying Beast's talent is not obtained out of thin air.

The Soul-Crying Beast was now standing in front of the Ghost King who was trapped in the electric net. Its eyes were full of greed, and it couldn't help licking its thick lips.

Seeing this, Nie Zhaonan just smiled slightly, flicked his sleeves, and put the weeping soul and the ghost king into the Zixiao Cave Heaven.

It would take a lot of time for the Soul-Crying Beast to devour the Ghost King. Nie Zhaonan naturally did not have time to wait here for the Soul-Crying Beast to slowly devour it. It would be a good idea to put it all into the cave.

After dealing with the Ghost King, Nie Zhaonan glanced at the exit at the other end of the hall and said:
"Yin Yue, we are almost at the eighth floor. That should be where your soul fragment is."

As he spoke, Nie Zhaonan's body was filled with spiritual light and he turned into a stunning rainbow and flew towards the passage.

"Well, I won't show mercy later." Yin Yue's tone was a little complicated.

Upon hearing this, Nie Zhaonan nodded slightly.

Although he did not fly at full speed, he still flew dozens of feet in a breath, and suddenly entered the exit and disappeared.

After entering the exit, Nie Zhaonan changed direction and flew towards a slanted downward passage.

According to his previous experience, as long as he went down a few dozen feet, he would naturally enter the eighth floor.

Soon, Nie Zhaonan's eyes lit up, and a small square stone chamber appeared in front of him. Except for two small teleportation arrays, one black and one white, the walls were empty and there seemed to be nothing inside.

Nie Zhaonan raised his eyebrows, and his figure flashed without any hesitation. When he reappeared, he was already standing on the white teleportation array. Then he flicked his fingers, and a spell hit the array. After a burst of white light, Nie Zhaonan's figure disappeared in the light.

But the next moment, after a dizzying spin, Nie Zhaonan appeared in a place that looked like a fairyland.

There were blue sky and white clouds above, and magical flowers and rare herbs all around. A strong aura of spiritual energy came to one's face when one sniffed it. The spiritual energy here was more than times stronger than that of the outskirts of Kunwu Mountain, but Nie Zhaonan was slightly surprised and then looked normal.

Although this place is the place with the most abundant spiritual energy he has ever seen, it is only in the human world. Compared with the spiritual energy in the Zixiao Cave, the spiritual energy here is very ordinary.

Without paying much attention to the spiritual energy of the surrounding plants and trees, Nie Zhaonan looked forward.

Not far away from there, there was a small and magnificent palace. This palace was located on a huge magic circle and was surrounded by many altars. On each altar, there was a huge stone man holding a huge golden blade, standing silently facing the palace.

Regardless of the altar or the stone man, their rough appearance reveals an indescribable barbaric atmosphere.

Seeing this, Nie Zhaonan's expression changed slightly, and he stretched out his hand in front of him without hesitation.

Silently, without any movement, Xin Ruyi appeared in front of Nie Zhaonan holding the jade slip in her hand. "My husband, why did you ask me to come out? I'm still comprehending the 'Ten Thousand Trees Formation'" Xin Ruyin said resentfully as soon as she appeared, without even looking at Nie Zhaonan in front of her.

"Of course I asked you out because of something important." Looking at Xin Ruyin who was still focusing her eyes on the jade slip, Nie Zhaonan was speechless.

"What's the matter?" Xin Ruyin raised her head.

At this moment, a little fox jumped out from Nie Zhaonan's chest, landed aside, and turned into a human form after a flash of white light.

"Sister Yinyue." Xin Ruyin greeted softly.

"Sister Ruyin." Yin Yue also nodded slightly, "The master asked you to come out because he wanted to show you the Nine Needles Demon Subduing Formation."

"Nine Needles Demon Subduing Formation?" Xin Ruyin had obviously heard of the name of this formation. She opened her mouth slightly, revealing her white teeth.

"Right behind you." Seeing Xin Ruyin so cute, Nie Zhaonan felt a little better.

Hearing this, Xin Ruyin turned around without any reluctance. Seeing the formation and altar in front of her, her eyes were filled with joy.

"Is there any way to enter the palace without triggering the Nine Needles Demon Subduing Array? If not, I can only spend some time to completely destroy the array here." Nie Zhaonan glanced at the numerous altars and said in a light tone.

"I can't destroy it. I have longed for this Nine Needles Demon Subduing Formation for a long time. I haven't even studied it thoroughly, so how can I destroy it?" Xin Ruyin put away the jade slip in her hand and shook her head quickly.

Before Nie Zhaonan and Yin Yue could speak again, Xin Ruyin explained without even turning her head:

"But don't worry, my husband. This Nine Needles Demon Subduing Formation is just a sealing formation. Its power is also internal. It is not difficult to enter the formation. Give me some time. I can take you and Sister Yinyue into the palace."

"Okay, then hurry up." Nie Zhaonan agreed and was about to urge her to hurry up, but before he could finish his words, Xin Ruyin walked towards the large formation in front with light lotus steps.

Seeing this scene, Yin Yue covered her mouth and laughed:
"Sister Ruyin's attainments in formations are so amazing that the master doesn't need to urge her any more."

"Let's go." Nie Zhaonan put his arm around Yin Yue's slender waist, holding her warm and soft body in his arms, and followed Xin Ruyin in big strides.

Most of Yin Yue's delicate body was leaning on the man beside her, with her lotus-like arms wrapped around his chest.

There was no conversation along the way. Led by Xin Ruyin, the three of them either stepped directly onto the altar, or followed the formation pattern around to the side of the palace, or went straight ahead for dozens of feet.
After a series of left turns and eight detours, the three people's footprints covered almost the entire formation, and finally arrived at the gate of the palace.

"Ruyin, didn't you say that it would take some time? Why did you bring us here without even thinking about it?" Nie Zhaonan looked back at the still silent Nine Needles Demon Subduing Array and said with a slight breath.

"Didn't it take me three quarters of an hour? It wasn't to break the formation. I was just trying to avoid triggering the restrictions of the Nine Needles Demon Subduing Formation. It's quite a long time to spend this much time." Xin Ruyin said calmly, disapprovingly.

Nie Zhaonan stared at Xin Ruyin deeply, and Xin Ruyin carefully looked into Nie Zhaonan's eyes. For a moment, their eyes met, and Xin Ruyin quickly looked away.

"Ruyin, Ruyin, is what your husband said true? Does it really take you more than a hundred years to comprehend the Ten Thousand Trees Array? This Nine Needles Subduing Demon Array is, at the very least, a formation that can trap a Divine Transformation cultivator. Yet you got a general idea of ​​it in such a short time just by taking a few glances at it?" Nie Zhaonan's words were malicious and he reached out to pinch her face.

He now had some suspicions that Xin Ruyin had falsely reported the time required to comprehend the 'Ten Thousand Trees Array' just because she didn't want to practice.

"How could I, a loving concubine, deceive my husband?" Although her face didn't hurt at all, Xin Ruyin was still about to cry, with tears in her eyes.

Nie Zhaonan felt a little sorry for what he saw and couldn't bear to continue asking questions.

"Sister Yinyue." Seeing this, Xin Ruyin was delighted and looked at Yinyue pitifully.

"Yin Yue also knew that Xin Ruyin was exposed because of the Nine Needles Demon Subduing Formation in front of her, but this was also to help her, so Yin Yue had to accept it and persuaded her:

Husband, forget it."

As she spoke, Yin Yue hugged Nie Zhaonan's other arm and hid it deep in her chest.

Feeling the amazing touch on his arm, Nie Zhaonan, who had always been very tolerant of his fellow Taoists, could no longer be strong and coughed lightly, saying:

"Even if this matter is over, you still have to tell me whether you have lied to your husband."

"No." Xin Ruyin answered without even thinking.

Nie Zhaonan's eyes were full of seriousness as he looked at her quietly.

Unable to bear Nie Zhaonan's burning gaze, Xin Ruyin's face fell and she said in a low voice:
"I really didn't lie to my husband. It really took me more than a hundred years to comprehend the Ten Thousand Trees Formation."

"However, that is when my attainments in formation remain unchanged."

"As I gain more insights into formations, or as I comprehend the 'Ten Thousand Trees Formation' more deeply, my attainments in formations will naturally improve."

Nie Zhaonan finally understood that it would take less than a hundred years for Xin Ruyin to comprehend the 'Ten Thousand Trees Array'. The reason why it took so long was simply to avoid practicing.

"Okay, I'll let you go this time. Originally, I gave the Peiying Pill to Nie Ying and the others, and I feel a little guilty for not giving it to you. Now it seems that I was overthinking it." Nie Zhaonan said with no joy in his tone.

"Baby-nourishing Pill?" Xin Ruyin was startled for a moment, then she became happy:

"My husband is right. There is no need to prepare elixirs like Peiying Pills specifically for me. I can break through to the late Nascent Soul stage by practicing slowly."

(End of this chapter)