After Becoming a High-Risk Master, I Flipped the Script Chapter 229

Black wind and sand swept past, and the huge red thread ball by the roadside was extremely eye-catching.

When Li Xiuran and Ji Chuling, disguised as demons, approached, they saw it at a glance. They knew there were people inside, but couldn’t be sure whether they were their own people or demons.

After cautiously observing for a while, they discovered demons holding weapons were about to attack the red thread ball, and only then did they make a move.

They first dealt with the demons, then watched as the red threads scattered, and a familiar-looking woman fell down.

At the instant she opened her eyes and saw Li Xiuran and Ji Chuling, she actually forgot to react for a moment.

And Li Xiuran instantly subdued Le Xi.

The two of them found a way to restrain Le Xi and used her to bring them into the Sacred Hall.

They had important matters to take care of.

With the Love Demon’s help, Gu Baiqing and Mo Xuanli had naturally already smoothly mixed into the Sacred Hall long ago.

The Saintess soon sent people to summon the Love Demon. At this time, the Love Demon was still immersed in the illusion and unwilling to come out, which also made things convenient for them to operate, so the reason given through controlling the Love Demon was that she had been attacked in the outside world and was seriously injured, thus needing to recuperate in bed, and would be summoned again only after the other Demon Lords arrived.

Fortunately, the Saintess did not forcibly demand to see the Love Demon for the time being, she had probably already heard about the conflict between the Love Demon and the Gu Demon outside, so for the moment she took a step back and gave face.

After that, they had Three Bean strengthen the illusion to prevent the Love Demon from waking up midway, and then the two people and two beasts left together, splitting up to act. Three Bean went with Ao Heng, and Gu Baiqing went with Mo Xuanli. After all, what they needed to infiltrate was a Sacred Hall as large as a small mountain. Because they could only sense a general range, Mo Xuanli only knew that the fragment was here and couldn’t sense the exact location, let alone any people who might be imprisoned here. They had to search space by space; if they acted together, it would be far too time-consuming.

Moreover, their speed had to be fast. This place… could only be said to truly deserve being the Sacred Hall of the demon realm, extremely dangerous.

Towering structures, black rock blocks, an inherent baleful deterrent, and dense demonic aura all imposed restrictions on cultivators’ spiritual power. Gu Baiqing felt as if restraints had been added to his body.

Most important of all were the protective formations here, half-concealed like blood vessels hidden within the rock walls, as if they could come alive at any moment.

None of them had seen this before, but it had been recorded in books. The demon realm’s Sacred Hall itself was constructed from the body of a kind of demon.

That demon represented humanity’s fear of death given form. Once it emerged, it was already dead, like a formation. Only the Demon Venerable could awaken this dead demon formation, and once awakened, the harm would be something the entire cultivation world feared. Even if Gu Baiqing encountered it, he would only have the option to flee, and might not even be able to escape.

Fortunately, this formation was limited to the Sacred Hall’s range; it couldn’t be moved or borrowed, so it posed no threat to the cultivation world, serving only for defense within the Sacred Hall’s domain.

While traveling, Mo Xuanli researched and reached a conclusion. Although the Demon Venerable was no longer present, this defensive formation could definitely still be activated by the Saintess. It had nothing to do with spiritual power but with bloodline, and there must be a powerful source of demonic energy supporting this place; otherwise, even if someone could activate it, it would be very difficult to operate.

This demonic energy source should be similar to the outside world’s top-grade spiritual veins.

Gu Baiqing thought of what his task mentioned and said, “Demon God Crystal.”

Mo Xuanli asked, “Is it something like a spiritual vein?”

Gu Baiqing said, “I’m not very sure either, probably.”

Gu Baiqing actually didn’t know the origin of the Demon God Crystal, but it had been mentioned once in a fanfiction. People from the cultivation world wanted to join forces with the original Master from inside and outside to destroy the Demon God Crystal, which would restrict Mo Xuanli from continuing to grow stronger and also weaken the overall strength of the demon race, benefiting the cultivation world’s counterattack.

If going by the task, destroying the Demon God Crystal would be a great merit for the cultivation world.

But how could that thing be so easy to destroy? In the fanfiction, many experts joined forces and still failed, including the original Master.

There must be some conditions required, and since it specifically designated Mo Xuanli to do it, it must be something only Mo Xuanli could accomplish.

There was too little information about this kind of task. It felt difficult, so they could only take it one step at a time.

The master and disciple quickly passed by rooms they could see, while Three Bean led Ao Heng running from another direction.

At this moment, one room was filled with barriers, imprisoning two people.

“I say, why aren’t you worried at all? Aren’t you afraid they’ll do something to us? And what’s going on with that Nan Zhi from Zixiao Sect, wasn’t she supposed to come rescue us and escape together? Where is she? Could it be that she ran away on her own or got caught? Say something, will you? Ah, my heavens! Why do I have to be locked up with you, this mute monk, I’m going crazy.” He Zixiao chattered endlessly.

And to the side, Qian Yue sat in meditation, his eyes never opening from start to finish.

He Zixiao immediately deflated.

When he was taken out alone from among the hostages, He Zixiao truly thought he was done for. He hadn’t expected to merely be imprisoned separately. When he was almost going mad from being locked up, Qian Yue was brought in. He had thought he’d finally have someone to keep him company, but it turned out to be a mute who, after asking about the situation when he first came in, never opened his mouth again.

Until not long ago, Nan Zhi from Zixiao Sect suddenly appeared. He had thought they were about to be rescued, but Nan Zhi instead said that there was still one person who hadn’t been found and they needed to rescue everyone together to avoid alerting the enemy.

But He Zixiao hadn’t seen anyone else get captured together with him at all.

And now here they were again, waiting in vain, rescue seemed hopelessly distant.

Just as he was thinking this, suddenly Qian Yue beside him opened his eyes, and they heard two heavy objects fall outside. There were two high-level demonic beasts guarding their door; previously, Nan Zhi had gone to great lengths to infiltrate quietly and hadn’t dared to alert the beasts.

And now… He Zixiao hurried to the door, and heard from not far away the sound of meowing, along with a faint dragon’s breath that made all demonic beasts tremble.

At the same time, three demons were leaving the main hall, when the Beast Demon Yu Qi’s figure suddenly stiffened.

“What’s wrong?” The Man Eating Demon Yu Xin swept Yu Qi a glance. “Why does your face look more and more gloomy?” Someone whose wife died really does have a coffin face.

Yu Qi didn’t say a single word, turned around, and left.

“He must have discovered something.” The Kill Demon said viciously.

Yu Xin raised an eyebrow. “Didn’t you say earlier that the Shadow Demon already went to look for that little mouse?”

“What use is that piece of trash? Just a coward who hides and skulks.” The Kill Demon said. “It’d be best if whoever comes is powerful.”

“What, are the hands you just grew itchy?” Yu Xin laughed.

The Kill Demon’s face instantly became extremely ugly. “You should go guard the fragment.”

“I can’t be bothered. I’m hungry. I’m going to eat. How about you go in my place? Anyway, if someone comes, the powerful ones definitely won’t let the fragment go.”

When the Kill Demon heard that, it seemed to make sense, and he immediately excitedly took on the job.

After fooling someone into working for them, Yu Xin happily left.

The Kill Demon was originally on patrol duty; at this moment, he directly led his subordinates to specifically patrol the area around the fragment.

Originally still without clues, Mo Xuanli and Gu Baiqing saw that in one particular spot there were especially many demons gathered, and they were especially strong. The location was not the central hall, so it definitely wasn’t where the Saintess was. Therefore, it had to be another important location.

The most likely was where the fragment was.

So they directly rushed toward that area.

Very quickly, they saw the familiar Kill Demon.

Judging by their defenses, it was basically impossible to get close to the space they were surrounding.

So they could only gamble once.

Mo Xuanli picked the spot and directly took Gu Baiqing into the Void Spirit Space.

But they couldn’t be sure whether there were still people inside, whether the invisibility talisman would work, everything was unknown, so it really was just a gamble.

The two exchanged a glance, made their decision, prepared for everything, and Mo Xuanli hugged Gu Baiqing and disappeared from the spot.

The instant they opened their eyes again, they vaguely saw human figures. The two had already prepared themselves mentally to attack whoever they saw. So in that split second, Morning Snow and God Nine Transformations struck out.

And the other party’s sharp sword also flashed forth, a familiar aura rushing toward them.

At the critical moment, all attacks stopped.

Because they recognized each other.

“Big Brother Gu, Xuanli?” Ji Chuling said in surprise.

“You… how are you here?” Gu Baiqing looked at the two people and one demon opposite him, also shocked.

And at this moment, Li Xiuran’s sword was already adorned with the third fragment of the God-Slaying Sword.

After confirming that this place was safe, everyone immediately let out a sigh of relief.

Only then did Gu Baiqing and Mo Xuanli learn the reason Li Xiuran and the others had suddenly come here.

They hadn’t received Mo Xuanli’s letter, but had sent a message to Mo Xuanli. However, neither side had managed to receive it before both arrived here at the same time.

In fact, after Li Xiuran successfully advanced and came out of seclusion, he ran into Half-Step Mad, and in a muddle was guided into the demon realm.

“He let you come in here?” Gu Baiqing said in surprise. That must have been Half-Step Mad’s task? “What was it for?”

Mo Xuanli also looked at them in surprise.

“Senior Half-Step Mad told us to come in and find the fragment that has always been stored by the demon race, and also told us to destroy the Demon God Crystal.” Li Xiuran explained the process of how they came here.

It could really be said that he lived up to having the protagonist’s halo. Even though they arrived later, he actually managed to get here smoothly before the Kill Demon strengthened the defenses, and even took a Gu Demon hostage for their use. And what was used to control Le Xi was the Hidden Gods Clan’s secret art.

Gu Baiqing immediately let out a breath of relief. Fortunately, the tasks were consistent. With the protagonist and Half-Step Mad helping, this task finally didn’t make Gu Baiqing so anxious anymore.

“Master also mentioned the Demon God Crystal. What exactly is it?” Mo Xuanli asked in confusion.

“It’s actually equivalent to a spiritual vein. The demon race advances in realms faster than cultivators and is also more powerful precisely because of the existence of this Demon God Crystal. They also rely on it to easily use teleportation arrays to travel back and forth between the two realms, creating trouble for us. And it’s said that stripped crystals can help demons conceal their identities, so that even if people from the cultivation world have very high cultivation, they still can’t discern their original identities. In short, that thing is extremely important to the demon race.” Li Xiuran said.

Ji Chuling added, “According to the records of our Hidden Gods Clan, the Demon God Crystal is actually something similar to an origin bone left behind when the Primordial Demon was destroyed.”

Mo Xuanli was startled, his eyes full of shock.

Li Xiuran said, “Senior Half-Step Mad told us to come, saying the timing was ripe. At first we didn’t understand, but now we do. It turns out that the fragment was stolen and the plan to rescue the hostages was advanced. He probably wanted us to take advantage of the chaos to deal with the Demon God Crystal, to avoid the demon race using this thing in the future to create even greater trouble and cause us to lose in conflicts. I also think this thing shouldn’t be left behind, so I came.” Li Xiuran looked seriously at Mo Xuanli, and Mo Xuanli instantly understood; this thing probably also had a great impact on mixed-bloods, so Li Xiuran decided to come deal with it.

“The Demon God Crystal isn’t that easy to destroy.” Gu Baiqing said.

“If using ordinary methods, even the entire cultivation world wouldn’t be able to destroy it.” Ji Chuling said with a smile. “But now that Xiuran is here, anything is possible.”

“The power of the God-Slaying Sword?” Gu Baiqing reacted immediately.

Ji Chuling nodded proudly.

That was why Li Xiuran had sent a message to Mo Xuanli, he wanted Mo Xuanli, who also possessed fragments, to come help destroy the Demon God Crystal together.

Once this thing was destroyed, there would be nothing but benefits.

Gu Baiqing also understood. The system letting Mo Xuanli go was also because Mo Xuanli possessed fragments.

This was a necessary condition.

Now, the fragments in the two of their hands together totaled seven pieces. Adding the God-Slaying Sword intent on Li Xiuran, it was almost approaching a complete God-Slaying Sword. Presumably, it would definitely be possible to accomplish it.

And Mo Xuanli was also excited; he looked at the three pieces on Li Xiuran’s sword and understood that he was only one step away from his dream.

Suddenly Mo Xuanli paused, “This isn’t the one from Tianyuan Sect.”

Li Xiuran said, “If we include Tianyuan Sect, there should still be two pieces here, but I only sense this one.”

“It should be the one originally owned by the demon race.” Mo Xuanli frowned tightly. “The one from Tianyuan Sect is the largest I’ve seen; it should also be the core power of the God-Slaying Sword.”

Li Xiuran frowned and said, “Since it’s not here, we can’t worry about that for now. Let’s destroy the Demon God Crystal and rescue the hostages first.”

Mo Xuanli also nodded in agreement. “Most of the hostages are in the Water Curtain Prison; the cultivation world alliance has gone to rescue them. They’ve obtained the required Demon Lord Token, so success is just a matter of time, should be soon. Three Bean and Ao Heng are checking whether there are other hostages here. As for the Demon God Crystal, we can’t sense where it is?”

“I know that.” Ji Chuling said. “The power of that thing is innately in conflict with our clan; I can find it.”

Suddenly Gu Baiqing paused slightly and said, “Three Bean and Ao Heng should have found the hostages. They’re heading in our direction.”

Mo Xuanli and Li Xiuran exchanged a glance and spoke at the same time, “Get out.”

Their thinking was still to avoid alerting the demon race as much as possible, so Mo Xuanli went out alone and then made some noise to draw away the guards at the entrance, giving the others a chance to come out. Even if suspicion was aroused, it wouldn’t cause a major disturbance.

And as expected, Kill Demon was a brute, good at fighting but not at schemes, and quickly fell for the trick of luring the tiger away from the mountain.

By the time Mo Xuanli returned to Gu Baiqing’s side, they were already on the way to the Demon God Crystal.

They ran halfway and ran into Three Bean bringing Qian Yue and He Zixiao over.

Seeing Qian Yue wasn’t surprising, but seeing He Zixiao was completely unexpected, could it be because of his status as the sect master’s son?

Finally seeing someone familiar, He Zixiao almost wanted to immediately hug Li Xiuran and cry his heart out.

Mo Xuanli hadn’t even had time to tell Qian Yue about the incubus when he heard Qian Yue talk about Nan Zhi being here.

Mo Xuanli and Gu Baiqing instantly understood, Yun Yue might not be among the hostages, and Nan Zhi couldn’t find her, so she came here.

Mo Xuanli looked at Gu Baiqing with a tense expression; he also wanted to go look for Senior Sister Yun Yue.

And right at this moment, the shadows cast along the surrounding corridors by the candlelight trembled strangely.

By the time everyone became alert, it was already too late.

With so many people, a flaw was inevitably exposed. Encountering the Shadow Demon for the first time, and not yet knowing how to capture it, they let the other party escape.

The Sacred Hall was alerted.

In an instant, a powerful force pressed down.

Only Gu Baiqing was still standing. Li Xiuran and Mo Xuanli barely supported themselves with their swords and were forced into a half-crouch; everyone else was directly pressed flat to the ground.

The Death God formation activated.

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