Tianyuan Xuanxian

Chapter 117: The Soul Devouring Cult Strikes Back

Chen Xuan turned his head to look at the door, only to see Gu Jinxue, wearing a snow-white long dress, pushing the door open and entering.

Even though he had seen her many times, every time Chen Xuan saw Gu Jinxue, he would be amazed by her appearance and temperament.

Gu Jinxue didn't think there was anything wrong with Chen Xuan's reaction. From childhood to adulthood, she had been accustomed to being stared at like this by others. Compared to other people, Chen Xuan would often only show a little shock at first glance, and then return to normal.

This kind of shock is a kind of human instinctive appreciation for beautiful things.

This made Gu Jinxue feel a little favorable towards Chen Xuan, or rather, she did not feel any aversion towards him.

After Chen Xuan came to his senses, he immediately got out of bed and tidied his clothes.

"What happened to you that day?"

Seeing that Chen Xuan was fine, Gu Jinxue asked.

Chen Xuan had originally planned to go to Gu Jinxue to inquire about this matter. Seeing Gu Jinxue bring it up, he immediately took up the topic and asked:
"I wonder if the Ancient City Lord knows anything about the family I was with at that time?"

Hearing this, Gu Jinxue frowned, thought about it carefully, and finally shook her head and said:
"You must have remembered it wrongly. There are no houses there. It's just an empty lot from the beginning to the end."

Hearing this, Chen Xuan frowned and murmured:
"Impossible. I clearly saw a family there. Even if there was an illusion array, Zhu Yin would have been able to detect it with his attainments in array formations."

Hearing this, Gu Jinxue turned to look at Ling'er and asked:
"I asked you to investigate the place where Fellow Daoist Chen fell unconscious. Did you find anything?"

Hearing this, Chen Xuan immediately turned around and cast an excited look at Ling'er.

Unexpectedly, Ling'er also shook her head, indicating that she had not found anything and had never seen the house.

As for the two pools of blood on the ground, perhaps they were the remains of someone who had just escaped there and was wiped out by the blood sacrifice formation. In short, it was impossible as Chen Xuan said.

Seeing that both of them looked extremely determined and had no intention of deceiving each other, Chen Xuan finally sighed, with some vague guesses in his mind.

Maybe it was my own hallucination, but it didn't make sense. How could I have hallucinations for no reason? And the feeling was so familiar.

But if it is not an illusion, there is only one possibility.

Thinking of this, Chen Xuan looked deeply at Gu Jinxue and Ling'er. Facing their puzzled looks, Chen Xuan asked:

"Do you feel any confusion in your memory? For example, there's a sudden feeling that something is missing."

Hearing Chen Xuan say this, the two women frowned, and Gu Jinxue immediately closed her eyes and immersed her mind in the sea of ​​consciousness to explore.

After a long time, she opened her eyes again, her expression a little ugly, her willow-like eyebrows furrowed into a knot.

"There's a gap in my memory..."

After a while, she spoke with a serious expression.

"Sure enough!"

After hearing this, Chen Xuan was finally convinced that what he saw that day was indeed a real scene.

But if that's the case, how can I stay with my childhood self for a moment? My grandfather has passed away, so why is he still alive in Qianzhou City?

All this was beyond Chen Xuan's understanding, and his worldview completely collapsed at this moment.

He silently raised his head, his eyes looking towards the sky as if through the City Lord's Mansion. He could feel that the big hand behind all this had gradually revealed its clues as his cultivation level improved and time passed.

"Grandpa, is that you?"

Chen Xuan murmured, as if talking to himself, or as if asking some unknown existence.

When Gu Jinxue and Ling'er saw this scene, they looked at each other and said nothing. Chen Xuan had too many secrets, as if layers of fog shrouded him, and no one could see through them.

A ray of sunlight shone in from the window and fell on Chen Xuan's face, making the boy's face look even more handsome, but it could not dispel the confusion deep in his eyes.

Gu Jinxue couldn't help but be moved. Ever since she learned of Chen Xuan's identity, she had never given him a good look.

The reason why she saved Chen Xuan was because she sensed Chen Xuan's good deed of erasing the painful memories of mortals, and because she herself had good intentions, she did it.

After all, Chen Xuan is "notorious" in the entire Xuanwu Dynasty. As the lord of a city, she has also heard about his deeds from the monks in the past.

"He colluded with foreign demon tribes and the devil. He has a violent and murderous temperament. There are even rumors that he is an evil cultivator. Even the inheritance site he entered was named the Burial Immortal Inheritance."

Almost everyone described Chen Xuan in this way, so in Gu Jinxue's cognition, Chen Xuan was a complete devil.

If he was unable to break the blood sacrifice formation, he would not choose to cooperate with such a person.

But after spending these days together, she could clearly feel that Chen Xuan was by no means as the rumors said. Although Chen Xuan himself claimed to be a cultivator of the magic path, some of the kindness in his bones could not be hidden.

He would never take the initiative to kill people in order to improve his cultivation. Although his words were cold when talking to others, he was also polite and never overstepped the line.

Looking at Chen Xuan at this moment, Gu Jinxue felt her heart seemed to beat wildly. She couldn't help but reach out and cover her chest tightly, trying to suppress this feeling.

Because she knew that this was a relationship that was destined to have no result.

Chen Xuan is definitely not an ordinary person. To him, Qianzhou City is just a temporary resting place, and he will leave again soon.

Just like Chen Xuan was only a passing stranger to Gu Jinxue, Qianzhou City was just a temporary stopover for Chen Xuan, but it was her life's entire existence. It was the foundation her father had fought so hard to build. Now that her father was gone, it was her responsibility to protect this legacy.

Ling'er, who was standing by, kept looking back and forth between the two of them. She could see through her young lady's thoughts at a glance, but she didn't say it out loud. Instead, she showed a teasing look.

She had never seen her young lady look like this towards a man.

Just as the three of them were thinking different things, Zhu Yin's voice sounded in Chen Xuan's ears.

"Be careful, there is the aura of a formation around."

Hearing this, Chen Xuan's expression suddenly became serious, his mind moved, and Zhu Yin appeared immediately.

Gu Jinxue and Ling'er, who were standing by, also changed their expressions when they saw Chen Xuan's appearance, and looked around nervously.

"Om~"

Pitch-black formation patterns appeared from the ground under the City Lord's Mansion, covering the entire Mansion.

Suddenly, gusts of cold wind blew through the entire City Lord's Mansion, accompanied by a creepy humming sound.

Ghostly shadows emerged from the ground of the City Lord's Mansion along with the gloomy wind, like evil spirits crawling out of hell. As soon as they appeared, they pounced towards where there were living people.

There were screams in the City Lord's Mansion, and figures fell in a pool of blood under the attack of the ghost.

Chen Xuan suddenly jumped up, broke through the roof and appeared in mid-air.

Immediately, several black shadows rushed towards Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan's eyes narrowed. It was obvious that these black shadows were similar to the evil ghosts in the Netherworld that Mo Yan cast. They were a means of controlling souls with the Netherworld Qi.

Chen Xuan was very interested in this technique. Although his Soul Refining Flag also had such a method, every time he took out the Soul Refining Flag to fight the enemy, the action was too obvious and it would easily make people guard against it.

Moreover, the Soul Refining Flag is too eye-catching and will definitely attract the covetousness of others.

"If I can learn these soul-controlling methods, I will definitely avoid a lot of trouble in the future."

As Chen Xuan thought this, endless dark energy surged out of his body, covering the area within dozens of feet around him.

After those dark shadows entered the range of Chen Xuan's dark energy, their movements suddenly froze.

He protected his body with mysterious energy, and a layer of white light appeared around his body. For a moment, the souls that approached him were all frightened and did not dare to move forward.

Chen Xuan stepped forward, put his hand on the top of a black shadow's head, and poured his spiritual consciousness into it from the top of its head, sweeping over every inch of its body, trying to find the source of the dark energy.

However, just as Chen Xuan's spiritual consciousness approached its heart, the black shadow suddenly let out a shrill scream and disappeared into nothingness in the blink of an eye.

Chen Xuan's expression remained unchanged. He had expected this and immediately turned around and flew towards the next black shadow.

In another direction, white light flickered around Gu Jinxue. Wherever she went, several black shadows would immediately dissipate. The hazy light emanating from her body seemed to have a natural restraint on the black fog.

However, even though they were not afraid of these dark shadows, they were still extremely vigilant in their hearts, because they knew that the real enemy was hiding in the dark and could launch a fatal attack at any time.

Just as Chen Xuan was chasing the next black shadow, suddenly a cold light flashed, and a treasure cone emitting faint light shot out from the black shadow and instantly pierced Chen Xuan's heart.

The man was mixed in the shadows. He saw the right opportunity and immediately activated his life-saving magic weapon, the Soul-Destroying Cone, to launch a thundering attack.

"Chen Xuan!"

Not far away, Gu Jinxue saw Chen Xuan being pierced by a faint light. The next moment, the light in his eyes slowly dissipated and became empty. He instantly lost his life and slowly fell from the sky.

Her eyes immediately turned bloodshot, and a silver-white spear suddenly appeared in her hand, which she threw towards the black shadow.

The spear turned into a silver light and moved at an incredible speed. Before the man could react, it had already reached his face.

"boom!"

There was a loud bang, and the man's head was instantly pierced, and then the residual power of the spear turned it into a bloody mist.

Gu Jinxue quickly stepped forward, reached out to catch Chen Xuan's slowly falling body, her eyes red.

However, at this moment, a voice sounded in her ears. Gu Jinxue was startled at first, then a cold light flashed in her eyes, and she held Chen Xuan's "corpse" and rushed straight towards a black shadow not far away.

Chen Xuan was naturally not dead. The Chen Xuan in Gu Jinxue's arms was just his clone. The moment he approached the black shadow, Chen Xuan used the Nine Shadows of Lan Cang, while his real body was hidden in the dark.

Chen Xuan himself has a very keen sense of the dark energy, so those cultivators hidden in the shadows are not at all hidden from Chen Xuan. He can see through them with just one glance.

Chen Xuan hid in the dark and kept messaging Gu Jinxue, pointing out the locations of each cultivator.

The highest level of those cultivators was only at the late Golden Core stage. Once their positions were exposed, they could not even hold out for a moment in Gu Jinxue's hands and were killed instantly.

And wherever Gu Jinxue passed, a black shadow would reach out to the waists of the dead monks from time to time and take off all the storage bags.

Just as Gu Jinxue rushed towards a cultivator disguised as a black shadow again under Chen Xuan's secret "guidance", the cultivator in front suddenly burst out with a terrifying energy wave.

(End of this chapter)