After Becoming a High-Risk Master, I Flipped the Script Chapter 243

Within the village shrouded by dense fog, inside a small courtyard that seemed forgotten by time, a mass of black, viscous substance stood upright in the center of the yard like a small pillar, half a person tall. Atop it dragged the final fragment of the God-Slaying Sword. The light on the fragment was continuously being siphoned away by the black viscous mass below, then extended down into the ground.

The ground of the entire small courtyard looked as though black pulses were beating beneath it, an utterly terrifying sight.

In one corner of the courtyard, a flower-trellis swing swayed gently. A woman in a red dress sat upon it, with a male and a female demon standing beside her. Suddenly, not far away, dense swarms of gu insects appeared on the ground, transforming into an exotic-looking young girl who approached the swing accompanied by the tinkling of small bells.

“Older Sister, they’ve arrived and are now splitting up to search for the formation eyes. The original guards definitely won’t be enough. Do we really not need to send powerful demons to stop them?” Le Xi frowned and said.

“Little girl, are you thinking of going to see your little lover?” Yu Xin asked with a grin.

Le Xi’s expression changed instantly. “What nonsense are you talking about?”

Yu Xin immediately made a gesture of zipping their mouth. The shadow demon beside them didn’t like listening to the women chattering and transformed back into a shadow on the ground, shrinking into the darkness.

“No need to bother with them. Anyway… they’re already useless. The demon-summoning formation is about to open. Just treat it as the final spiritual power gift to help my younger brother advance. The higher the cultivation, the easier the transformation. Don’t end up unable to hold on until the final step.” Xuanyue said slowly, with a smile.

“Saintess, with Gu Baiqing and the others around, Mo Xuanli may not act according to your wishes.” Yu Xin said leisurely.

“They also have times when they can’t act together.” Xuanyue said lightly. In her hand appeared a crystal shard, still stained with blood. It was exactly the one used back then in the Sacred Hall to stab Mo Xuanli.

Under the shroud of Xuanyue’s demonic aura, the blood on it turned into blood-colored runes that crawled over the entire crystal shard. She then tossed the shard into the shadow to one side. The shadow demon hurriedly appeared to catch it.

“Take it to the dream demon.” Xuanyue instructed.

The shadow demon immediately headed out the door.

“The dream demon? Isn’t it working on some kind of reincarnation formation?” Yu Xin was very curious. “Could it be that you want to use this method to let Mo Xuanli evolve into a Primordial Demon? In the end, how exactly can a hybrid evolve into a Primordial Demon?”

Xuanyue said slowly, “Naturally, when he no longer wants to be Mo Xuanli.”

“Huh?” Yu Xin looked confused. “That kid now has his Master by his side. How could he possibly not want to be Mo Xuanli? No matter how great the difficulty, he wouldn’t be able to let go of this current identity.”

Yu Xin had seen it themselves. At the moment she exposed Mo Xuanli’s identity, Gu Baiqing had accepted him without reservation. Under such circumstances, Yu Xin didn’t think there was anything that could still strike Mo Xuanli down.

But seeing Xuanyue smile without speaking, Yu Xin’s curiosity couldn’t be suppressed, and she wanted to ask more.

The Saintess instead asked about the other Demon Lords. Yu Xin said, “At a critical moment like this, of course they won’t oppose you anymore. They’ve already gathered outside the barrier, joined up with the Kill Demon and the Beast Demon, and are fighting the people of the cultivation world. They’ll buy time for everything here.”

The Saintess nodded.

Suddenly, Yu Xin spoke again. “Saintess, back when the former Demon Venerable was doing this, I was already very curious. The Primordial Demon, we’ve never seen one. Can he really lead us to rule the Three Realms?”

The Saintess’s gaze sank as she turned to look at Yu Xin and said, “This, why didn’t you ask the Demon Venerable back then, and now you’re asking me?”

“The Saintess is beautiful and easy to talk to.” Yu Xin said with a bewitching smile.

The Saintess said, “I am a hybrid. Everything I do is fulfilling your wishes. Awakening the Primordial Demon, hasn’t that always been the obsession and faith of the demon race?”

Yu Xin rarely showed a hesitant expression, but in the end said nothing.

On the other side, Gu Baiqing had already followed the clues to find the location of the formation eye. As expected, there were demon race demonic creatures guarding it, but when facing Gu Baiqing, they all met the fate of being killed in a single move. After easily clearing away the obstacles, he saw Nan Zhi wrapped in a halo of light atop the formation eye.

Nan Zhi sat cross-legged, as if completely unaware of everything outside, but she was still alive. The only wound on her body was at her wrist, where blood was slowly flowing, merging into the light of the formation. No wonder the Six Elements Formation was all blood-red.

If this continued, she would probably die of blood loss.

After confirming there were no problems around, Gu Baiqing waited for the signal. Beside him flew the small nails transformed from God Nine Transformations. Because it was close to Gu Baiqing, it directly landed on his head, but there was also Morning Snow on Gu Baiqing’s head, and the two would still tussle.

After waiting for quite a while, God Nine Transformations finally flew up. According to their agreement, this meant everyone was already prepared.

Gu Baiqing reached out and grabbed Nan Zhi’s arm. At the instant the nails stood upright, he wrapped her with his magic power and directly pulled her out of the halo.

In an instant, a violent gale rose, spiritual power mixed with demonic qi forming wind blades that slammed into the two of them.

Gu Baiqing protected the faintly awakening Nan Zhi with spells, continuously using lightning to break open the attacks, but the rebounding spiritual power kept drilling into both of their bodies.

Nan Zhi’s face instantly turned pale with discomfort, blood pouring from her mouth. Gu Baiqing glanced at her without worry, although it was difficult, it was beneficial to her.

It was equivalent to however much had been siphoned away before, now being returned twofold or threefold. With good luck, she could directly advance in cultivation. Just as Mo Xuanli and Li Xiuran had both been assigned advancement tasks by the system during this action, the others should be the same, it all depended on their luck.

“Martial Uncle….” Nan Zhi said with difficulty.

“Enter meditation!” Gu Baiqing said.

Nan Zhi immediately obeyed.

As for this spiritual power entering Gu Baiqing’s body, there was no reaction at all.

No one knew how long passed before the entire floating Six Elements Formation lost its light and gradually descended. Accompanied by a burst of red light, it shattered like glass, and the formation was completely destroyed.

Gu Baiqing steadied his mind, but the moment he lowered his head, he felt something strange, because he sensed that there seemed to be something else beneath the ground. He stomped down with one foot, and the earth split open with a crack, but there was nothing inside, only a faint sense that there was still some kind of formation.

Was it something originally belonging to Xianzao Village, or something else? Gu Baiqing couldn’t tell and could only leave for now.

Gu Baiqing picked up the newly awakened Nan Zhi and went to look for Mo Xuanli. Along the way, the number of demonic creatures and demon race members they encountered gradually increased.

During this process, within the dense fog, a powerful wave of spiritual power suddenly surged. That spiritual power was pure and filled with righteous qi, it was clearly Li Xiuran’s.

It seemed Half-Step Mad’s task had gone very smoothly. How was Mo Xuanli doing?

Suddenly, a shout rang out. Gu Baiqing immediately quickened his pace and rushed in the direction of the sound.

Not far away, he saw Mo Xuanli sitting cross-legged, his expression ugly, in meditation. Beside him, He Zixiao was wielding a sword, trying to drive back the demon race closing in.

Although He Zixiao’s spiritual root talent was decent, his cultivation combat strength was truly that of a standard wastrel young master. However, after several interactions, this person wasn’t as annoying as his father.

A bolt of lightning struck down, instantly eliminating the enemies.

When He Zixiao saw Gu Baiqing arrive with Nan Zhi, he was so excited it was like seeing a god descend from the heavens. He lunged forward, wanting to hug his thigh and call him big brother, but Gu Baiqing directly avoided him.

Gu Baiqing set Nan Zhi down and let her rest properly, then stepped forward to check on Mo Xuanli’s condition. He immediately frowned and said, “Why is it this bad?”

Mo Xuanli’s aura was extremely unstable; he couldn’t even balance the surrounding spiritual and demonic qi. Gu Baiqing could only cast spells to help him stabilize it.

He Zixiao hurriedly stepped forward and stuck close to them, afraid of being captured again.

“Well… when he saved me just now, the rebounding spiritual power, I… I couldn’t hold on, so he took it all for me.” He Zixiao said with an awkward expression.

When he was dragged out of the halo, before he had even figured out what was going on, he felt the spiritual power about to burst his body. Although Mo Xuanli told him to properly enter meditation, he couldn’t endure the suffering and cried and begged Mo Xuanli for help. As a result, Mo Xuanli could only draw all the spiritual power onto himself. Because of this, Mo Xuanli was much slower than the others, and by the time the demon race arrived, He Zixiao could only hold off their attacks himself.

“He’ll be fine, right?” He Zixiao asked, a little guilty.

Gu Baiqing looked at He Zixiao and felt it was very strange. He said, “You were captured at Tianyuan Sect. Everyone else pointed to Mo Xuanli as the one who captured you. How is it that you seem to know nothing about it?”

He Zixiao froze, then exclaimed in shock, “Huh? They said Mo Xuanli captured me? That person looked very similar to Mo Xuanli, but you could tell at a glance from the figure that it was a woman. Besides, Mo Xuanli was the one who rescued us in the first place, why would he capture us? Is he sick in the head?”

Gu Baiqing couldn’t help but feel like giving a bitter smile. Such a little wastrel actually saw things more clearly than his father.

Gu Baiqing simply said directly, “Your father doesn’t believe it. He’s pointing at Mo Xuanli demanding an explanation. Later, someone exposed Mo Xuanli’s hybrid identity. Now we’re all targets of pursuit by the cultivation world.”

When Gu Baiqing said this, the others also gradually returned here following the guidance of the nails.

Qian Yue was carrying the incubus on his back. Because the incubus was not a cultivator, they had been severely attacked by the formation and had fallen directly into a coma. Qian Yue had also suffered serious injuries from the backlash and hadn’t absorbed it well. After arriving, he sat down on the ground, looking like a high monk who had entered meditation to chant scriptures. However, the incubus wasn’t placed on the ground; instead, Qian Yue rested them on his lap and let them lie there. This was an obvious protective posture, but the entire scene was truly strange yet harmonious. Everyone who returned and saw this scene couldn’t help but be startled.

After that came Xie Qingrong and Jingzhan. The two supported each other back. Upon returning, they were so exhausted they sat down immediately. Jingzhan took out a hemostatic pill and tossed it to Xie Qingrong, after all, the wound on his wrist hadn’t been treated yet. Xie Qingrong, meanwhile, cast spells to stabilize the state of mind for both of them.

Si Chun was brought back by Ao Heng and Three Bean. Because Ao Heng was present, the backlash of spiritual power could not harm them in the slightest, so Si Chun was in the best condition. As soon as she returned, she couldn’t help but step forward to check on Mo Xuanli’s condition.

Lou Zixiao, whose cultivation was the lowest, was brought back by Half-Step Mad on the Ascending-Cloud Stork.

As for Li Xiuran, he was the only one here who had advanced and broken through, so he fell directly into a coma and was carried back by Ji Chuling. When Half-Step Mad saw Li Xiuran, his face was full of gratification, clearly indicating that the task had been completed very smoothly.

However, Ji Chuling must have heard something before Li Xiuran fell unconscious, so when she returned, she looked at Mo Xuanli with an extremely complicated expression.

More or less, they had all heard from the people who rescued them about what happened afterward. When they returned here, they heard Gu Baiqing lightly talking about this matter with He Zixiao.

Ji Chuling was the first to redden her eyes. She recalled all the things she had said in front of Mo Xuanli before, angrily pounding Li Xiuran, who was being supported at her side, blaming him for not telling her earlier.

Although her previous attitude toward hybrids had not been good, a friend was different.

Whatever standards there were would definitely have to change when it came to a friend.

How could she possibly not want to help Mo Xuanli?

And Si Chun, looking at Mo Xuanli who was still in meditation in front of her, was full of heartache. She couldn’t imagine what Mo Xuanli had gone through, but seeing Gu Baiqing sitting beside him, seeing the two of them possessing a natural tacit understanding even without contact, she felt only relief, relief that the boy she liked had a good person by his side.

As for He Zixiao, he was completely shocked by what he heard and couldn’t recover for a long while, never expecting that so many things had happened afterward.

Jingzhan also spoke without reservation about what had happened to his own family and the current situation.

Anyway, they would all find out after going out, so it was better to explain it first.

“They all know? How did they find out? Wasn’t it hidden very well?” He Zixiao said in confusion. “That little girl Zhenzhen is also a hybrid, and she was exposed too?”

Gu Baiqing swept his gaze over the people who had safely returned and was just about to ask everyone about their situation, but upon hearing He Zixiao say this, he immediately felt something was off. “You… you know?” Didn’t the meaning of He Zixiao’s first sentence imply that he had already known something was wrong with Mo Xuanli’s identity?

He Zixiao immediately became embarrassed and said, “I… when I was over at the Demon God Crystal… I… woke up before.”

He had discovered it by accident.

This shocked not only Gu Baiqing, but everyone else as well.

“You knew, and you didn’t tell your father?” Jingzhan said in astonishment. He had thought that given He Zixiao’s personality, he would definitely make a big deal out of it. After all, He Zixiao had always disliked them.

He Zixiao coughed lightly and said, “What’s there to say?”

So what if they’re hybrids?

His life had been saved by Mo Xuanli and the others.

And now… they had saved him again.

He might dislike this group of people, but he could still tell right from wrong. He wasn’t an idiot.

Gu Baiqing looked at He Zixiao’s straightforward gaze and suddenly laughed. That laughter contained many emotions. He turned his head to look at Mo Xuanli. Perhaps it was precisely because people like He Zixiao still existed, people who, even if they didn’t like them, could still distinguish right from wrong, that this world could never make them completely despair.

Perhaps this was also the reason why Song Xingkui and the original body had exhausted everything yet still didn’t want to give up on this world.

In Gu Baiqing’s smile, everyone felt only helpless bitterness. After all, the ones who had suffered the most here were Mo Xuanli and Gu Baiqing.

“What do we do now? Do you have any countermeasures? Big Brother Gu, although I will definitely help, if the Hidden Gods Clan finds out, they definitely will…” Ji Chuling said worriedly. When it came to dealing with hybrids or the Primordial Demon, the most fanatical were the Hidden Gods Clan, they regarded it as their own mission.

“Don’t worry, there will be a way,” Gu Baiqing said.

Qian Yue suddenly opened his eyes and said, “The fragments of the God-Slaying Sword?”

Gu Baiqing said directly, “There’s still one missing.” At this point, Gu Baiqing suddenly froze.

Jingzhan immediately said, “That’s not right. Didn’t we say before that the fragments were the energy supporting this formation? None of you saw it?”

Everyone shook their heads.

“The fragment is still in the Saintess’s hands?” Ji Chuling said.

As they were speaking, Ao Heng suddenly stood up. With a wave of his hand, a burst of golden light flashed, seeming to collide head-on with a faint fluctuation. Although it didn’t cause anything, everyone could feel that this faint fluctuation came from outside.

“The God Clan…” Ao Heng frowned slightly.

Ji Chuling’s expression suddenly changed drastically. “Oh no, it’s the secret art of the Hidden Gods Clan. They must be probing the formation here. They really have come as well.”

Gu Baiqing’s expression changed slightly. He looked at Half-Step Mad. What he saw in fanfiction couldn’t be taken as accurate, but Half-Step Mad definitely knew something.

Sure enough, Half-Step Mad’s expression changed slightly, and he said, “Chuling girl, why don’t you go out and block them for a bit. Buy everyone some time?” As he spoke, he looked toward Mo Xuanli, who had not yet broken through.

At the very least, it couldn’t be when Mo Xuanli was unable to move and others were allowed to attack freely.

Suddenly, a voice sounded.

“Split into two groups.”

Everyone turned their heads and saw that Li Xiuran had awakened.

Li Xiuran said, “One group goes out. We originally came to rescue people. Since we’ve succeeded, we must go out and let them see. Even if we can’t stop their actions, at least we can delay time. I can sense that the fragment is here. Later, when Mo Xuanli wakes up, we’ll go look for the fragment together.”

Everyone felt this was feasible.

The decision was quickly made. Jingzhan, Qian Yue, the incubus, and Li Xiuran stayed behind. Ji Chuling, Xie Qingrong, Si Chun, Lou Zixiao, Nan Zhi, and He Zixiao went out.

Because they were all juniors and some were injured, Gu Baiqing had to escort them out. After all, it was best for Ao Heng to guard Mo Xuanli, and at this final critical moment, Half-Step Mad would certainly follow Li Xiuran closely, under the pretext of staying behind to protect them.

And Gu Baiqing could locate Mo Xuanli through their contract, so he was the most suitable for going in and out. Thus, everyone split up once more.

On the way out, there were more and more demonic creatures and demon race members, as if they were trying to stop them from delaying time, but in the end, they still couldn’t withstand Gu Baiqing’s sheer combat power.

Arriving at the edge of the dense fog, a sudden powerful spiritual force impact shook the surrounding thick mist. Only then did everyone realize that, at some unknown time, a barrier had appeared around this dense fog.

And the just-now impact, Ji Chuling recognized it as a secret art of the Hidden Gods Clan. Just like that, the barrier binding the dense fog was directly destroyed by the Hidden Gods Clan’s secret art. The dense fog began to slowly dissipate.

At this moment, everyone also clearly saw the situation outside.

The world outside was already in complete chaos. Everywhere, humans and demons were fighting. The people of the Hidden Gods Clan paid no attention to the demon clan, only desperately breaking through the barriers, wanting to rush inside.

With such a grand scene, it was very difficult for everyone to notice that someone had come out.

Gu Baiqing directly unleashed a bolt of thunder, instantly drawing everyone’s attention to this place.

The people behind Gu Baiqing all flew up, revealing their identities. Immediately, people from the various sects rushed over to identify them.

Gu Baiqing nodded to the juniors and immediately turned around to rush back.

And just at this moment, Gu Baiqing heard the signal that the task had been completed. Before he had time to rejoice, a new task arrived one after another.

【Fifth Quest, Task 3: Destroy the Summoning Demon Array, successfully advance to late-stage Immortalization. Key reminder: The Summoning Demon Array is extremely dangerous and has a great impact on the task target; be sure to help in time to get through it.】

Wait, the Six Elements Formation had already been destroyed, where did this Summoning Demon Array come from?!

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