Chapter 119

Chapter 116

"You're unwilling?"

Jad Void Sub clearly didn't expect his request would be refused, especially before he even stated the request.

Li Zhuiyuan replied very straightforwardly again: "Yes, I am unwilling."

Jade Void Sub showed a look of confusion and asked: "Why? For young friends like yourselves, it's just a simple task. Perhaps, young friend, you could at least listen to me finish speaking first."

Li Zhuiyuan pointed at the six university students and asked: "Daoist, did they listen to you finish speaking at first?"

Jade Void Sub shook his head slightly, a smile appearing on his face: "Haha, young friend, it seems you've misunderstood."

"Hmm?"

"The current array formation is in place, but young friend, you don't know what kind of dangerous and complex situation this village was in before the array formation was put up.

I can tell you very directly that this head demon was rampaging and causing harm here at first, killing many villagers. The resentment of the villagers accumulated here, causing ghost cries and wolf howls daily.

These six young people entered here without authorization. If I hadn't taken action to protect them, they would have died long ago.

Look,

All six of them are still alive now."

Jade Void Sub clapped his hands.

"Ugh!"

"Ugh!"

The six university students all knelt down and started vomiting. Mouthfuls of foul-smelling black liquid mixed with small fish were spat out from their mouths.

At this moment, although they were still dazed and their consciousness was unclear, they showed more vitality than before.

Li Zhuiyuan asked: "Since that's the case, why didn't you see them safely out, Daoist? Since you protected them, why not send them away?"

"Because they can't leave," Jade Void Sub sighed. "In fact, young friends, you all can't leave either."

"Oh?"

Li Zhuiyuan showed a surprised expression.

"Perhaps young friend doesn't know, but this array formation allows entry but not exit."

"Daoist, what are you joking about? How is this possible?" Li Zhuiyuan forced a look of composure.

Tan Wenbin shouted at the top of his lungs: "Yeah, how is that possible?"

Yin Meng: "Heh, fear-mongering!"

Runsheng: "Hmph!"

Normally, except for necessary social interactions, Li Zhuiyuan rarely displayed his emotions, especially when spending time privately with his companions. He deliberately wouldn't perform.

From the perspective of Tan Wenbin and the other two, sometimes this was an advantage. That is, when their brother Xiao Yuan suddenly performed and became emotional, they could immediately detect it and start coordinating.

Their performance was a bit exaggerated, but there were no flaws.

Because the performance was to cover up certain truths, but they didn't know what the truth was, they simply performed.

Jade Void Sub stretched out his hands and pressed them down: "Please calm down, friends. As the saying goes, hearing is virtual, seeing is real. Isn't it fine for you to go and see for yourselves whether I am deceiving you?"

Li Zhuiyuan nodded: "Good."

Jade Void Sub: "Please."

Li Zhuiyuan turned around and left. Runsheng, Tan Wenbin, and Yin Meng followed closely behind. But they hadn't gone far when Jade Void Sub's voice came from behind again:

"Friends, aren't you going to take those people with you?"

The four turned their heads back and saw Jade Void Sub pointing at the university students prostrate on the ground.

Li Zhuiyuan retorted: "Daoist, didn't you say we can't leave? Then why ask if we are taking them away?"

Jade Void Sub retorted in the same way: "Young friend, are you sure you can leave? Then why not take those six young people with you conveniently? It saves having to come back for them, isn't it less trouble?"

"Since we can leave, then coming back in is just a bit of extra walking, it's not called trouble."

Jade Void Sub lightly patted his forehead: "That was my misunderstanding. I still thought, young friends, that you all came specifically to rescue them."

This was indeed a good excuse, perfect for getting out of the situation.

But this was actually a trap.

Li Zhuiyuan knew very early on that the fish outside weren't completely controlled by this village. Their memories and perspectives also weren't the same.

Because the fish from Yin Meng's group were actually still eating mice to satisfy their appetite and desire. When all the nearby mice were eaten, they would make a move on Yin Meng and Zheng Jiayi.

The fish from Binbin's group were even more ridiculous. Even when they revealed their true intentions and attacked, it had a chance to kill Zeng Yinyin first, but it was afraid of the ghost husband getting angry and completely siding with Binbin. It actually missed its chance just like that. That fish... it actually wanted to stand on its own.

But now, Li Zhuiyuan added a new understanding, which is that the monster could extract information from the fish's bodies.

Li Zhuiyuan's gaze quickly swept over the small fish that were still tumbling on the ground after being vomited from the university students' mouths.

His brain quickly sorted through all the dialogues between himself and his companions since entering the village and getting close to these university students.

"Daoist, you indeed misunderstood. We didn't come for them."

"Understood, yes." Jade Void Sub made a 'please' gesture towards the end of the village. "Young friend, please, I will wait here for you all to return."

After Li Zhuiyuan and the four others left, Jade Void Sub walked in front of the six university students, bent down, picked up a small fish from the ground, and then opened his mouth and put the fish inside.

While chewing, strands of sound emanated from his oral cavity.

If at this moment one could lean close to the old man's ear, one could hear snippets of conversation.

Jade Void Sub seemed to nod thoughtfully, turned his head to look at the large fish floating in the river, and laughed:

"Indeed, they didn't come for them, nor purely for righteousness, but to seek excitement."

After a pause, Jade Void Sub opened his mouth, revealing two rows of sharp teeth hidden deep within his lips:

"It seems that the world outside is indeed prosperous and peaceful now, otherwise so many young people with full bellies wouldn't have emerged."

Jade Void Sub also picked up the remaining small fish on the ground one by one. But this time, he was too lazy to chew them carefully one by one again. After throwing them into his mouth, he swallowed them directly. Soon, he finished eating.

He stretched out his tongue and licked his lips, still wanting more. Jade Void Sub walked back to the riverbank, scooped up river water, and started washing his face.

After washing, he lifted his head and looked at himself reflected in the river's surface. His face had already returned to normal.

"There are four people, yet only the youngest one takes the lead. That youth is definitely not ordinary. He should be hiding his clumsiness. I'm afraid he's not easy to fool."

...

Runsheng walked in front, Yin Meng walked in the back, and Tan Wenbin walked beside Li Zhuiyuan.

The youth walked and thought at the same time.

He had rushed in with a perfect score, but after coming in, he discovered, alas, there were unexpectedly additional questions.

The additional questions greatly increased the difficulty, but at the same time, they provided more known conditions.

Those doubts that had always lingered in his heart were all resolved with these known conditions.

When a difficult problem is stripped of its "mysterious veil," it also loses its charm, because next, you only need to follow the steps one by one.

As long as the steps can be followed steadily, then he will be able to obtain all the scores with the smallest price.

This was a card game. He sat on this side, the monster sat on that side.

The cards in his hand might not be as good as the monster's, but he had already seen through the monster's true bottom card in advance.

Come on, let's play slowly.

The four passed through the village, then through the Yi Zhuang (义庄), and finally arrived at the end of the village, which was the same position they had entered earlier.

What Jade Void Sub said was actually not wrong. Under normal circumstances, this array formation did indeed allow entry but not exit.

But since Li Zhuiyuan dared to bring his companions in, it meant he had a way to bring them out again.

Earlier, when observing this array formation from the outside, he had already commented in his heart that it was crude and imperfect.

Leaving wasn't difficult. He just needed to set up a targeted small deceptive array formation. Unless the array formation was specifically targeting a person or thing, everything else could be smuggled out this way.

Of course, this wasn't difficult, it was just Li Zhuiyuan saying it.

Li Zhuiyuan opened his mouth and said: "Everyone try once and see if you can leave."

The youth gave the command, then sat down, took out some array flags from his backpack, took out a piece of paper, and started sketching.

Runsheng, Yin Meng, and Tan Wenbin looked at each other. In the past, no matter what they encountered, brother Xiao Yuan would always give a plan, and everyone would follow the plan.

When did he ever sit there and let everyone play freely?

Just as the three received the new script, they started trying to leave here.

They used many methods, but all failed. They could clearly see the stone table and stone tablet in front, yet no matter what, they couldn't walk there.

They started to become more and more "anxious," their expressions also gradually becoming "grave." They even quarreled several times.

Finally, Li Zhuiyuan finished arranging the array formation, signaled everyone to pass through the array formation, but it still failed.

Li Zhuiyuan silently packed up the array flags and drawing paper, put them back in his backpack, and immediately turned around and walked back.

The three followed him back themselves. During the return, instigated by Tan Wenbin, the three even mocked and argued with each other.

Even though there was no camera on the surface, everyone was still seriously acting. After all, who knew if they were being secretly filmed?

They returned the way they came, and arrived at the riverbank at the head of the village again.

The six university students lay side by side under the distant old locust tree, still in a coma.

Jade Void Sub stood on the stone slab. Even though half of his body was covered in fish scales, looking at his back from a distance still had a certain artistic conception.

The large fish was hidden and couldn't be seen, but sturdy ripples occasionally rippled up in the center of the river's surface, proving it was still swimming below.

Seemingly hearing the sound of footsteps, Jade Void Sub turned his head, looked at Li Zhuiyuan and the four others, with a kind smile on his face.

Li Zhuiyuan opened his mouth and said: "Daoist, I was abrupt earlier."

Jade Void Sub: "Young friend, don't say that. When traveling the Jianghu, one should be careful and cautious. Young friend, you were able to help my three disciples' descendants outside continue the array formation, and you dared to take the initiative to walk in here. This courage and sense of responsibility are already rare and valuable."

"Please teach me the way to leave, Daoist."

Jade Void Sub reached his hand under the river's surface and took out a stone slab. Complex patterns were carved on the stone slab.

"Does young friend know array formations?"

"I understand a little."

Upon hearing this, Jade Void Sub's face lit up with joy and he immediately asked again: "Does young friend know how to walk Yin (阴)?"

"Barely proficient."

Jade Void Sub gently clapped his hands and sighed: "Heaven's will, truly heaven's will."

This line of work among fishermen is a mixed bag, with extremely exaggerated upper and lower limits. Some have the means to travel the Jianghu, while others, like my grandmaster, simply become folk culture.

"Daoist, what is this will?"

"Heaven's will allows young friend to escape from the trap, and heaven's will allows this demon to turn to ashes!"

"Please elaborate, Daoist."

"Look at this thing." Jade Void Sub threw the stone block towards Li Zhuiyuan. Runsheng stepped forward first, caught the stone slab, and handed it to the youth.

Li Zhuiyuan glanced at it. The carvings on it were similar to the incantations of the array formation he had designed earlier for Tan Wenbin and Yin Meng.

You just needed to memorize it by heart, add a bit of basic knowledge about array formations, and you could walk through the array formation in a fool-like manner and perform some control.

"How does young friend feel?"

"It's a bit difficult, but it can be overcome."

"No harm, you just need to hold it and look at it as you walk."

"Then?"

Jade Void Sub lifted his arm and lightly waved it. A stream rushed out from the center of the river and extended all the way along the village road towards the end of the village.

Li Zhuiyuan pursed his lips. He had indeed not been able to detect the existence of this stream in advance because it wasn't in reality.

It was more like a lead line drawn with special pigment. It would only appear when a light shone on it. Normally, there was no trace to follow at all.

Following this line, Li Zhuiyuan began to observe the ground nearby. The village road was a dirt road, relatively soft. Following this line, Li Zhuiyuan quickly found several places with fish tail marks.

It should be that some fish, following the "small stream," which was actually following the guidance of this line, flopped their way out onto the ground.

Thinking back, the fish that Xue, Zheng, and Zeng families in Min'an Town faced were sent out from here in this way.

Although the monster's body was in Zhengmen Village, it could find a way to influence Min'an Town.

"Young friend, walk along the guidance of this stream of water all the way to the end of the village, and you can enter the fog. Then continue to walk Yin (阴), find a stone table in the fog, press the method on the stone slab onto the stone table, and you can greatly open the fog, leave this place, and obtain freedom."

The fox's tail wasn't exposed, but it continued to extend.

Li Zhuiyuan saw at a glance that he actually only needed to follow the guidance of this "small stream" to walk out of this array formation.

As for the fog behind and how to do things in the fog, they were all extensions, purely Jade Void Sub's personal additions.

Actually, you were already out of the town, yet he could still confuse you and make you mistakenly think you weren't out, then continue to operate according to his requirements.

The stone table in the fog, wasn't it the offering table outside?

He wanted him to help smash that offering table to destroy the array formation.

But if it was that simple, why didn't he arrange for the fish he sent out to do these things?

Those fish not only could kill people, but also could control people as puppets. According to reason, they should be able to complete this task.

Unless, there was some reason that made those fish unable to do these things.

Li Zhuiyuan's hand holding the stone slab exerted a little force. The stone slab was very hard and couldn't be marked by pinching.

Why must something that can be written on paper or even a wooden board be carved on a block of stone?

Li Zhuiyuan looked at Tan Wenbin and said: "Brother Binbin, your array formation skills are the deepest. You take a look at this stone slab."

Saying that, Li Zhuiyuan held the stone slab with both hands and threw it towards Tan Wenbin.

Tan Wenbin: My array formation skills are the deepest?

Of course, my array formation skills are the deepest.

Tan Wenbin received the stone slab with both hands, carefully examined it up and down, and commented:

"Hmm, concise and clear, popular and easy to understand, simplifies the complex, not bad, not bad."

"Then let me see again." Li Zhuiyuan spread open his hands and beckoned.

Originally intending to walk over and hand it back, Tan Wenbin imitated Li Zhuiyuan's earlier appearance and threw the stone slab back.

After receiving it with both hands, Li Zhuiyuan pressed his palms and arms close to the stone slab and felt carefully. He did detect a subtle layered shaking sensation.

There was something hidden inside this stone slab!

"Daoist, you've only talked about the way for us to leave just now. Do you remember you said earlier that you would let us help you completely extinguish this head demon?"

"Actually, this was originally a matter of convenience." Jade Void Sub took out a lamp from his bosom. The lamp's flame was pure white and faintly emitted a sound similar to a heartbeat. "Young friend, do you know what this is?"

This was a soul lamp.

"Daoist, what is this thing?"

"This is my soul lamp.

That year, I used my physical body as the base of the array, my soul as the eye of the array, and the descendants of my three disciples who settled in this place generation after generation as the continuation of the array.

With a cavity of hot blood, I exterminated demons and guarded the path.

But this demon is really fierce.

You all also see, these fish scales on my body.

For so many years, I've been suppressing it, and it has also been suppressing me. We are already entangled.

Inside this array formation, a pattern has already formed on its own. My soul and it have been soaking together for a long time, indistinguishable from each other. Now it is already weak and dying, its vitality exhausted.

I just ask young friend to take away my soul lamp when you leave. This lamp won't extinguish here. After bringing it out, please extinguish it.

I will take it with me and completely perish in this world together."

"Daoist's thought of sacrificing his body for the path is admirable."

"Actually, there is also a bit of my selfishness here." Jade Void Sub reached out and scratched the fish scales on his body. "I, too, want to be liberated early."

Immediately, Jade Void Sub bowed to Li Zhuiyuan:

"Please, young friend, fulfill my wish!"

Li Zhuiyuan returned the bow and said: "I will do my best."

Their gazes met, and they both laughed.

Jade Void Sub picked up a lantern from the ground and pointed at the small stream in front: "Since that's the case, I will personally lead the way for everyone."

"Thank you very much, Daoist."

"Roar!"

In the center of the river, the large fish opened its bloody mouth and started roaring angrily, its tail desperately slapping the river's surface.

Jade Void Sub laughed: "Evil creature, do you know fear now?"

The large fish was still roaring and twisting, its fish eyes bloodshot.

"Evil creature, don't rush, you will cease to exist immediately."

Jade Void Sub held the lamp and went forward. Li Zhuiyuan and the four followed behind him, stepping on the "small stream."

They hadn't walked far when Jade Void Sub stopped and turned back to point at the six university students in a coma under the tree, reminding them:

"Young friend seems to have forgotten them."

Li Zhuiyuan turned back and glanced, then said: "Then just forget it. When I walk Yin later, my companions will hold me and enter the fog. They can't move now and naturally can't follow. Carrying them back forcibly is one, a hassle, and two, possibly a bad thing."

Jade Void Sub sighed and said: "But heaven has the virtue of loving life."

Li Zhuiyuan continued: "Exterminating demons and guarding the path originally should have sacrifices."

Jade Void Sub's face showed intolerance, but finally nodded: "In the end, everyone has their own fate, which cannot be forced."

After sighing, Jade Void Sub continued to go forward.

When passing the closed-door house that Li Zhuiyuan had entered earlier, Jade Void Sub asked: "Did young friend go in and look earlier?"

"Didn't you arrange for them to bring us in to pay our respects, Daoist?"

"The Daoist in the yellow robe inside is my senior brother. I also heard that my senior brother brought his many disciples here to exterminate demons and guard the path, so I rushed over, but when I came here, I found that everything was too late.

For so many years, I have often thought about whether the situation would have been different if my senior brother had waited for me to set out together, and my senior brother and I had joined hands."

"In the end, everyone has their own fate, which cannot be forced."

"Good."

The five people continued to go forward.

Jade Void Sub opened his mouth again and said: "Has young friend ever heard of the Dragon King's residence on the Jiang (River)?"

"I've heard some from my family elders."

"Then does young friend know the Dragon King Willow?"

"The Dragon King Willow seems to have already declined."

"Oh?" Jade Void Sub showed surprise. "How many years has it been? How did it decline so quickly?"

"Specifically, I don't know either, but the Dragon King Willow hasn't sent people to walk the Jiang for several decades."

"Oh..." Jade Void Sub exhaled a long breath, seemingly having shed some burden.

"Daoist?"

"I just feel a sigh. I didn't expect that a powerful family like the Dragon King's residence could also decline. Young friend, do you know that this demon was originally suppressed by a Dragon King of the Liu family that year?"

"Is that woman in the green robe in the painting a Dragon King of the Liu family?"

"Exactly."

"But, since that Dragon King of the Liu family severely damaged this demon, why didn't she completely deal with it?"

"Young friend, you don't know that some demons and evil spirits are originally very difficult to completely exterminate. They can only be suppressed and worn down. That Dragon King of the Liu family should have come here to search, but seeing that I had already set up an array to suppress it, she thought the matter was proper and could leave."

"Daoist, you certainly did the right thing."

"Pity, my senior brother extremely admired the Liu family that year, but he couldn't see that Dragon King's face until his death. This is probably a big regret for my senior brother."

"Is it that exaggerated?"

"Not exaggerated at all."

"But Daoist, you are a person of the Daoist sect."

"But people like the Dragon King don't live on boats every day.

Even if everyone's methods are different, their sects are different, and their understanding of the heavenly path is different, in the end, they all live in this Jianghu together. When you look up, you can still see people's figures."

"Look, it's not just your senior brother, even you, Daoist, admire that Dragon King of the Liu family."

"That's natural."

"Although it's said to be illusory, and a person's death is like a lamp extinguishing, I truly hope Daoist, you can get your wish."

Jade Void Sub's body, covered in fish scales, trembled slightly upon hearing these words.

It was barely noticeable, but it was captured by Li Zhuiyuan.

After hearing that sentence from him, the opponent's mind trembled for a moment. Although he suppressed it extremely well, a trace still leaked out.

Admiration is admiration, but now, he truly doesn't want to see that Dragon King, and even thinks... he doesn't dare to think.

The small stream passed through the village road and extended to the Yi Zhuang (义庄).

Li Zhuiyuan pointed at the six coffins on the dam of the Yi Zhuang and asked: "Daoist, when I came in earlier, I checked these coffins. Did those six people live here before?"

"Yes, when they first came in, they were scared by the ghosts and evil thoughts everywhere, so they chose to hide in the coffins for a while. I don't know what they were thinking.

Later, seeing that they were truly tormented not lightly, I took action and protected them, leaving a layer of vitality and thought, for better or worse."

Li Zhuiyuan said shamefully: "Junior ultimately disappointed Daoist."

Jade Void Sub waved his hand: "No one is perfect. As long as your heart is clear, young friend, your action to help me suppress and kill this demon is a great merit."

The five people walked to the end of the village.

The "small stream" continued to wind its way, extending further.

Jade Void Sub stopped, looked at the lamp in his hand, reached out, and lightly stroked the white flame above it. His eyes flowed with remembrance and attachment.

Finally, he handed the lamp to Li Zhuiyuan: "It's hard work, young friend. Take it out and extinguish it."

Li Zhuiyuan held the stone slab with both hands and looked at Tan Wenbin.

Tan Wenbin reached out to receive it. The moment his hand touched it, he felt as if he was holding another person's still beating heart.

Jade Void Sub again bowed solemnly to the four: "It's hard work, everyone. Righteousness is not lonely!"

Li Zhuiyuan nodded to Jade Void Sub as a sign, and Tan Wenbin, Runsheng, and Yin Meng also cupped their fists and returned the bow.

Immediately, Jade Void Sub stood in his original place.

The four then continued to walk forward along the "small stream." When they had walked a distance and were about to enter the boundary of the array formation, Li Zhuiyuan said:

"Follow me."

Tan Wenbin held the lamp in his right hand and grabbed Li Zhuiyuan's shoulder with his left hand.

Yin Meng and Runsheng behind them also grabbed the shoulders of the people in front of them.

The four walked forward step by step. When they were about to walk into the boundary of the array formation, a voice shouted from behind:

"Stop!"

Li Zhuiyuan stopped and looked back.

Jade Void Sub's face showed pain. He was prostrate on the ground, his eyes full of struggle, his arm reaching out towards them:

"It's deceiving you! Stop! Don't be deceived!"

Li Zhuiyuan immediately walked back, followed closely by Runsheng and the other three.

Seeing them return, Jade Void Sub's face showed a look of relief, but the next moment, black fog rose from his body.

"Ah ah ah!"

Jade Void Sub let out a miserable scream, as if an invisible chain was already around his neck, pulling him back violently.

"That lamp fire is not mine, it's that demon's! That demon is controlling me to deceive you all! Don't fall for that demon's trick!"

After shouting again, in addition to the black fog, flames also rose from Jade Void Sub's body, looking extremely terrifying.

And on Jade Void Sub's own face, it was sometimes kind, sometimes hateful, switching back and forth incessantly.

"Throw down that lamp! You all hurry and leave! I will continue to suppress it! This is my mission! Hurry and leave! Hurry and leave!"

Tan Wenbin glanced at the lamp he was holding and then looked at Li Zhuiyuan: "Brother Xiao Yuan, this thing..."

"Throw it."

"Oh, good." Tan Wenbin threw the lamp in his hand. The lamp landed with a "clatter" and rolled continuously on the ground, but the flame still didn't extinguish.

Li Zhuiyuan then said to Runsheng and Yin Meng: "Help Daoist. Fight the evil spirits."

Runsheng and Yin Meng immediately rushed over.

Jade Void Sub shouted: "Don't worry about me! You all hurry and leave!"

After this shout, Jade Void Sub's expression changed to hateful again.

Runsheng held the Yellow River Shovel and directly chopped down at Jade Void Sub.

The hateful-faced Jade Void Sub lifted the hand covered in fish scales and grabbed the Yellow River Shovel.

"Clang!"

Runsheng's heart was shocked. With the strength he was using to hold the shovel, even a rock could be smashed into cracks, but this Daoist in front of him managed to grab it with just one hand?

Yin Meng held the exorcism whip and slid to the side. The leather whip whipped out and wrapped around Jade Void Sub's right leg.

That leg was originally in a semi-transparent state, but when the leather whip touched it, the position that originally had no fish scales transferred over.

Immediately, he flung his right leg, and Yin Meng lost her balance, having to slide along while grabbing the leather whip on tiptoes.

It wasn't clear when they weren't fighting, but upon actual contact, they just realized how terrifyingly strong the hateful-faced Jade Void Sub was.

Runsheng pulled out the Yellow River Shovel. His clothes bulged up, and he swung it down again.

Jade Void Sub clenched his fist and smashed it towards the Yellow River Shovel.

"Bang!"

Jade Void Sub stood in place, unmoving. Instead, Runsheng was shaken back several steps, but after Runsheng stopped, he gathered his strength again, swung up the Yellow River Shovel, and rushed over.

Yin Meng took this opportunity to receive the leather whip with one hand, used the force to pull herself towards Jade Void Sub, and after the distance was sufficient, took out a handful of dust from her pocket with the other hand and sprinkled it forward.

A cloud of gray fog spread open.

This was originally a setup she did in advance for Runsheng's next attack, intended to disturb the opponent's perception.

Who knew that Jade Void Sub opened his mouth and fiercely sucked. The gray fog was unexpectedly all sucked into his mouth.

The next moment, Jade Void Sub's fish-scaled arm was horizontal in front of his body, blocking Runsheng's strike. His body quickly leaned forward, his shoulder pressing up.

"Bang!"

Runsheng was shaken back again. A hole was burned in his chest, and blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

Tan Wenbin's eyes were wide: "Is this still a person?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "He was never a person to begin with."

The youth's tone was calm, seemingly not surprised at all.

"Then I'll go help too!"

Tan Wenbin held the Seven Star Hook in his left hand and the Luo Sheng Umbrella in his right hand, shouting as he ran.

One was to support the scene, and two was to remind his two teammates that he was coming, so they should be careful and not be accidentally injured or disturbed by him.

Seeing that the Daoist could actually repel Runsheng, Tan Wenbin didn't run closer for melee combat, but after a certain distance, he flung his left hand. The Seven Star Hook lengthened and stabbed towards Jade Void Sub.

"Puff..."

The tip of the Seven Star Hook stabbed into Jade Void Sub's chest.

"What the hell!"

Tan Wenbin shouted in disbelief. He hadn't even thought he could be so awesome!

Runsheng and Yin Meng were also a bit confused.

From behind, Li Zhuiyuan's voice reminded: "He changed his face."

Only then did everyone discover that Jade Void Sub's original hateful face had changed to a kind one.

At this time, a question was placed in front of the three: he changed his face, should we still hit him?

Soon, this question was no longer a question, because brother Xiao Yuan didn't say not to hit him from behind. That meant... continue hitting!

Tan Wenbin buckled the mechanism at the handle of the Seven Star Hook with his left hand. The tip section opened up two sickle-like blades, surrounding Jade Void Sub's chest.

Runsheng's clothes bulged three times and plastered to his body three times. After wiping away the fresh blood from the corner of his mouth, he lifted the shovel again and rushed over.

This strike directly hit Jade Void Sub's chest, directly sending him flying.

"I'll go..." Tan Wenbin had originally restrained Jade Void Sub, but Runsheng's strength was too great. After hitting him flying, the Seven Star Hook also flew out with him, causing Tan Wenbin to lose his balance and fall to the ground.

Runsheng didn't stop and continued to follow up.

Just as that Jade Void Sub landed, Runsheng came again and struck him again with the shovel.

"Bang!"

Jade Void Sub was fiercely struck and sent flying again.

Runsheng was still chasing closely.

But this time, Jade Void Sub landed first. Just as he was about to stand up, Runsheng's shovel came.

Jade Void Sub's hateful face changed back to kind again. He reached out to grab the shovel, and the flame on his body also burned towards the shovel along his arm.

Yin Meng's leather whip came, exploding with a sound in front of Jade Void Sub's body. A green crystal shook off where the leather whip touched. When it touched the flame on Jade Void Sub's body, it bloomed like fireworks and emitted a "sizzle" crisp sound.

Jade Void Sub's action was forced to slow down. Runsheng lifted his foot and kicked Jade Void Sub in the chest.

"Bang!"

This kick landed solidly, but Jade Void Sub held on firmly and was not kicked open.

Tan Wenbin had already climbed up by this time. After rushing over, he grabbed one end of the Seven Star Hook, then took out four demon-breaking talismans from his pocket with his left hand, hung them on the small hook at the end of the Seven Star Hook, and then pushed the hook forcibly.

The four demon-breaking talismans moved along the long handle of the Seven Star Hook to the tip, hitting just right on Jade Void Sub's chest.

"Pop! Pop!"

Four continuous explosions transmitted out. The fish scales on Jade Void Sub's body were exploded and splattered everywhere.

And at this time, the hateful look on Jade Void Sub's face transformed into kindness again.

Runsheng only felt that the immense force that had contended with his Yellow River Shovel earlier had disappeared. He immediately exerted force and lifted. Jade Void Sub was lifted up entirely. Runsheng took the opportunity to smash down again. Jade Void Sub was brutally smashed onto the ground.

The kind-faced Jade Void Sub issued a sound: "Thank... thank you for... liberating me..."

Runsheng lifted his shovel and continued to smash down at Jade Void Sub.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Yin Meng leaned over. She didn't participate in the attack but prepared to sprinkle dust, waiting for Jade Void Sub to change his face again so she could assist Runsheng.

Tan Wenbin, instead, was busy continuously pushing various talismans from his body along the Seven Star Hook. Every time he pushed one round, an explosion would be transmitted from Jade Void Sub's body.

But he was pushing too enthusiastically. Soon, Tan Wenbin's supply of talismans was empty.

He wanted to open his mouth and borrow some talismans from his companions, but seeing Yin Meng fully focused on guarding and Runsheng swinging his shovel vigorously, it was really awkward to speak up.

Turning back, he looked at Li Zhuiyuan and discovered that the youth hadn't participated in the battle plan from beginning to end.

Tan Wenbin's heart had a feeling. He straightened his body and patted the dust off himself: I still need to learn from my brother Yuan ah, steady.

Now, every time Runsheng smashed down with the shovel, a piece of fish scale would fly out from Jade Void Sub's body.

The more he smashed, the more fish scales flew out. Soon, there were fish scales all around, piled up in a thick layer.

These fish scales would continuously grow out from Jade Void Sub's body and then automatically go to cover the injured positions.

The kind-faced Jade Void Sub had a serene expression, his fists clenched tightly, seemingly struggling with the one inside him. As long as the hateful face didn't come out, there was no danger, and Runsheng could smash freely.

Finally, the fish scales didn't grow as fast. The fish scales that could originally cover a full half of his body area started to shrink in area.

After continuing to smash, the fish scales on Jade Void Sub's body gradually only remained palm-sized.

Runsheng grabbed the shovel with both hands and smashed down again with force!

"Bang!"

The last bit of fish scales all collapsed and scattered. Jade Void Sub's body became clean.

"Crack!"

And the Yellow River Shovel in Runsheng's hand also finally couldn't bear the heavy burden and broke into two sections.

Runsheng staggered back, many of his muscles cramping all over.

For the first time, he hit someone and hit himself to the point of almost wanting to collapse from exhaustion.

Even though he had sixteen Qi Seas throughout his body to store energy for himself, he still hit to the point where his strength didn't come from his heart.

Look at the original text!

Underfoot was a thick layer of fish scales. The soles of his shoes were surprisingly slippery on them.

Runsheng found it difficult to imagine how difficult it would be to smash out so many fish scales from Jade Void Sub's body if he always had a hateful face... one could even say it would be almost impossible.

Because the hateful-faced Jade Void Sub would resist.

Unless, little Yuan also took action to help him.

Runsheng turned back and glanced, discovering that little Yuan was just walking over slowly at this time.

When Li Zhuiyuan walked over, his shoes continuously kicked up fish scales, like kicking snow on a winter day.

The kind-faced Jade Void Sub lay on the ground and weakly lifted his hands, saying: "I didn't think I could still have such a clean day."

Li Zhuiyuan walked in front of Jade Void Sub, squatted down, supported Jade Void Sub's shoulders with both hands, and said: "Daoist, you've worked hard."

Jade Void Sub looked at Li Zhuiyuan and said: "It's good, no major disaster was brewed. It was just controlling me just now."

"Understood, thank you for your timely reminder, Daoist."

"Roar!"

From the direction of the village head, a big fish's angry roar transmitted, with dense unwillingness. And this sound was getting closer and closer, seemingly rushing over from that side.

After Jade Void Sub turned his head to look in that direction, a relieved smile appeared on his face:

"This is my mission, and even more, my fate. You all go. I will continue to stay here and suppress it. I will absolutely not let it have the opportunity to harm the human world again.

The way it taught you to leave is correct. Follow that 'small stream' and follow the markings on the stone slab to leave here. But, you cannot bring that lamp."

"Daoist..."

"Hurry and leave. If you don't leave again, it might just come. You all cut off its hope of borrowing the opportunity to leave here. It's angry. I'll help you all and block it."

This scene was incomparably tragic and moving.

Runsheng, Yin Meng, and Tan Wenbin were all touched in their hearts.

It could be said that any normal person at this time would find it difficult not to be moved.

However, at this time, they would all habitually look at little Yuan again.

Until they saw a slightly playful smile on little Yuan's face.

A voice rose in the hearts of the three at the same time: Damn, I was moved too early!

"Daoist, I have memorized everything on the stone slab. Can I not bring the stone slab?"

"Still bring it. This way it's more stable and you won't make a mistake."

"But Daoist, it's too heavy. I don't want to bring it."

"Dong dong dong!"

The shaking in the village was getting closer and closer. That big fish would appear soon.

The muscles on Jade Void Sub's face also trembled with the shaking.

His gaze gradually sank, and his expression gradually darkened step by step.

Not hateful, but no longer kind.

"Young friend, what exactly are you saying?"

"I'm saying..."

Li Zhuiyuan's hand position, his line of sight, began to distort extremely.

If observed with the method of walking Yin, one could see that at the youth's hands, two groups of dense Karma Fire were rising.

And the youth's hands had always been on Jade Void Sub's shoulders.

The Karma Fire began to drill into Jade Void Sub's entire body from the youth's hands.

"Ah!!!"

Jade Void Sub let out a miserable scream.

The previous person who enjoyed this kind of Karma Fire burning treatment was Grandma Yu.

Now, Daoist Jade Void Sub also enjoyed the same treatment.

The difference was that Grandma Yu was still not fully recovered at that time, but her bones and flesh were still very hard, which made Li Zhuiyuan lie on her back and burn her for a long time.

But Daoist Jade Void Sub had just had all his fish scales removed, which was equivalent to actively turning into a peeled egg and sending it to his front.

The Karma Fire could burn and boil in his body without hindrance.

Jade Void Sub asked in pain: "Why, why, why!"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Should I thank you for your praise and recognition? You unexpectedly added a layer of drama. What, you guessed that I wouldn't just walk in so obediently?"

"Of course not, you just came in to seek excitement. Your heart has no reverence for the heavenly path, and you are still naturally suspicious. These are all things you performed yourself.

So I know, earlier, you wouldn't have obediently entered according to what I said, because you were doubting me. From the beginning, you didn't truly believe me."

"Daoist, is there a possibility that what you saw me perform was also something I deliberately showed you?"

Jade Void Sub's face was extremely ferocious under the burning Karma Fire: "Why? It's already here! How can you still not believe? How can you still not run?"

In the first round of performance, Jade Void Sub felt it was unstable. He thought Li Zhuiyuan wouldn't believe him.

So, he added another round for himself.

In the second round, he performed an "awakened" Daoist, engaged in a deadly struggle with the demon's consciousness.

For this, he didn't hesitate to actively sacrifice so many fish scales on his body, in exchange for his vitality being greatly injured now, only to regain trust for himself in the second round.

But whether he gained trust or not was secondary. The main thing was the appearance of the big fish's anger, bringing a sense of real and serious pressure.

He thought the youth, even with doubts, should panic and then choose to believe and leave quickly.

He thought his design was very ingenious, but the youth was completely unmoved, as if he had already seen through his steps.

"Why, why is it like this!"

Compared to the scorching of the Karma Fire, what was more painful was the extremely dense lack of understanding in his heart.

He believed that there might be truly intelligent people in this world who could see through all disguises, but the youth's performance seemed to be telling him that the opponent hadn't seen through it.

No matter how well he performed, no matter how exquisite his design, even if it was truly seamless, in the youth's eyes, it was still ridiculous and laughable, like a naked body dancing with hands and feet exposed.

This was the most difficult thing for him to understand. Why, on what basis!

Li Zhuiyuan didn't answer him, just continued to release Karma Fire.

Groups of white fog rose, full of dense anger and lack of understanding. Jade Void Sub began to become increasingly transparent until he completely dissipated.

Li Zhuiyuan clapped his hands, stood up, closed his eyes, and felt a little dizzy.

Tan Wenbin immediately took out a bottle of Jianlibao from his bag, opened it with a "pop," and handed it over.

Li Zhuiyuan took it and drank it all in one gulp.

Runsheng then picked up the half of the Yellow River Shovel and smashed it onto that stone brick.

"Bang!"

The stone brick cracked open. There was also a lamp inside, and the lamp flame was black.

Yin Meng said: "If we had brought that stone slab out, we would have truly left, but didn't the fish that appeared in the three families in Min'an Town come from here?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "They came from here. The array formation here only targets it."

Yin Meng: "Then why didn't it let those fish transport this lamp out?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Perhaps because those fish couldn't resist the temptation of this soul lamp. Those fish all had their own thoughts and ambitions and were not completely controlled, especially in front of this thing."

That might be a group of fish with ideals and aspirations.

Runsheng: "So, it was really pretending not to resist just now, letting me hit it freely?"

Tan Wenbin interjected: "That's right, no mistake there. Cherish such an opponent. It's hard to meet a second one in this life."

"Dong! Dong! Dong!"

The shaking sound was getting closer and closer.

That big fish came ashore from the river, passed through the village, and now its figure could already be seen.

It wasn't flopping up. It was swimming over. Although it was off the water's surface, everywhere it passed under its body was muddy swamp.

The "dong dong dong" sound was its tail swinging and shaking.

Such a big fish, when it was in the water, actually didn't feel that exaggerated, but when it completely came ashore and came in front of you, that kind of strong deterrence and pressure was so dense that it could almost wring out water.

Tan Wenbin threw the Yellow River Shovel he was holding to Runsheng.

Immediately, Runsheng held the shovel and stood in front of Li Zhuiyuan.

"Brother Runsheng?"

"Xiao Yuan, I can still fully open my Qi Seas."

Although he was very tired now, he still had a hidden move.

"Brother Binbin, I have a drawing already in my backpack. You draw according to the drawing and go back to insert the array flags."

"Good!"

Tan Wenbin immediately ran back with the bag.

Inserting array flags according to a drawing was something he had done many times before. With familiar hands, it was as easy as wiping dust.

Li Zhuiyuan letting Tan Wenbin arrange the array formation was to leave the array formation.

The method Jade Void Sub mentioned earlier could also lead them out, but he needed to lead the way himself, because Yin Meng and Runsheng couldn't walk Yin.

So, from the perspective of efficiency, it was really not as good as letting Tan Wenbin arrange an array that could be easily passed.

This way, he could both stay and choose to execute and kill this demon and quickly leave with the team when the situation wasn't good.

More extremely, he could fight a round on his side and then leave immediately, go outside the array formation, recover, and then come in to fight it again. Anyway, it couldn't leave the array formation, and he could continuously wear it down back and forth, and he could also consume it to death.

Yin Meng took out a can of yellow peaches from her backpack.

However, there were no yellow peaches or sweet water in the can, but a dense, multi-colored object.

Runsheng glanced at it and asked: "What is this?"

Yin Meng: "I personally fried vegetables. There's still a little left from last time."

Saying that, Yin Meng smeared the remaining vegetables in the can onto the exorcism whip and reminded him:

"It's corrosive. Be careful when you hit it later."

Last time, the fish that loved to eat mice exploded in front of her, and the liquid that exploded corroded the entire room into pits.

At first, Yin Meng thought this type of fish was corrosive by itself.

Later, after learning about the performance of the fish from Tan Wenbin and Runsheng's side when they died, she realized that it wasn't the fish that was corrosive, but the vegetables she made.

"Dong! Dong! Dong!"

The big fish came and stopped about several dozen meters away from everyone.

Its condition was actually very bad. It could be slightly covered when it was in the water, but now that it was completely present, large areas of decay around its body could be seen. In some places, fish bones were also exposed.

Among them, there was a place under the membrane where dark red particles, shaped like a honeycomb, could be vaguely seen.

Yin Meng pointed at that side and asked: "Are those fish eggs?"

Runsheng responded: "Should be."

Those small fish, as well as the larger fish, all hatched from there.

Yin Meng said: "After killing the fish, I want to get some fish eggs to make vegetables."

Runsheng: "Don't use the pot in the store."

"Roar!"

The big fish issued another angry roar, blowing a gust of fishy wind.

It seemed to be expressing a kind of dissatisfaction. It had already come, yet they were unexpectedly still chatting and laughing.

Runsheng and Yin Meng also indeed contained their smiles. They knew they had to buy enough time for Binbin behind them.

However, when it came to buying time, Li Zhuiyuan had his own method.

The youth opened his mouth and said: "Didn't you ask me why just now? I can answer you now. Anyway, we have enough time now."

The big fish's gaze fell on Li Zhuiyuan's body. Its fish lips flipped, emitting a "gurgle gurgle" muffled sound.

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "I don't understand what you're saying."

The big fish's fish gills lifted. He didn't know exactly what method it used, but a speaking voice was transmitted through the muffled sound:

"Speak, how did you discover this seat's disguise?"

Li Zhuiyuan laughed.

Tan Wenbin was arranging the array formation in the back. The opponent wasn't unaware.

He was deliberately buying time on his side. Why wasn't the opponent also deliberately cooperating and delaying?

What, did he want to try to utilize the array formation he arranged to borrow the opportunity to leave here?

He felt that the opponent had looked down on him very much earlier, but after what just happened, the opponent now looked up to him infinitely.

He arranged the array formation, and he could leave, but you are specifically targeted by this array formation. How could you possibly get out?

To commit such a stupid mistake and have this kind of daydream explained that the opponent was truly anxious and panicked, already having lost all composure.

Seeing Li Zhuiyuan still not speaking, the big fish's fish gills quickly opened and closed: "Speak to this seat!"

Li Zhuiyuan opened his mouth and said: "What's with 'this seat' and 'that seat'? Don't you feel awkward? Or just continue to call yourself 'this humble Daoist,' my Daoist Jade Void Sub."

Inside the big fish's eyes, unease and doubt flowed, but soon, they were filled with anger again:

"What are you saying to this seat?"

"I'm saying, Daoist Jade Void Sub, how long are you going to perform?"

The big fish's body stopped, and its fish gills completely closed.

Li Zhuiyuan continued: "You're always performing, aren't you tired? Or is it that you rarely see outsiders here, so once you start performing, you can't stop?"

The big fish's mouth opened again. This time, the opening was very large. A human figure appeared inside, exactly Jade Void Sub.

However, many parts of Jade Void Sub's body were connected to the fish's body. They were originally one body. More accurately, it should be that Jade Void Sub grew out of the fish's body.

This could also be considered a corpse demon who died in...

But unlike traditional corpse demons, he was a human corpse, in the outside world. Second, he wasn't using his human body as the main body, but the fish body.

Jade Void Sub in the fish's mouth was no longer immortal-like. His whole body was covered in sticky liquid, looking like a just-hatched animal.

Jade Void Sub opened his mouth and asked: "How did you discover it?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Discover what? Discover that the true controller here is not that head fish demon, but our Daoist Jade Void Sub, who considers eliminating demons and guarding the path his duty and left inscriptions praising himself outside?"

"How did you... discover it!"

"I discovered it after coming in. When I walked to the riverbank and saw you, the eye of the array, appear in front of me, I discovered it.

To be honest, when I was observing this array formation from the outside earlier, I just felt that this array formation was very crude.

Although it did play a role, it lacked an extremely key link: it only suppressed, but didn't wear down.

Purely relying on time to virtually consume it, how long would it take to suppress an evil spirit to death?

I was still thinking at that time that I not only wanted to help you repair the array formation a bit, but also wanted to add some modifications based on the original foundation. At least, I would make up for the array formation's wearing-down effect.

But when I saw you appear, I knew I was thinking wrong.

A person who can arrange an array formation with Yin-Yang eyes must have extremely profound array formation skills. How could they make such a low-level mistake when arranging an array formation to suppress evil spirits?

Unless, you did it deliberately.

You deliberately only suppressed and didn't wear down this demon here, because you had your own purpose."

Li Zhuiyuan lifted his head and looked at the sky, which was dark because he was in the array formation.

"Daoist Jade Void Sub, if I'm not mistaken, the array formation you arranged is used to deceive the heavenly path?"

Jade Void Sub was silent.

"You have your own ideas about this demon. You want to fuse with this demon, but you are afraid of suffering heavenly punishment, so you deliberately set up this scheme to give the heavenly path an explanation.

This way, you can accumulate merit and also achieve your desired purpose without delaying anything.

To be honest, I've seen several people who fooled the heavenly path, but this is the first time I've seen someone willing to pay such a high price.

But what I can't understand is, this fish's vitality is almost exhausted here, yet you're fusing so slowly? You unexpectedly spent so much time?

Just like this time, the Jiazi (甲子) cycle is about to end, and you dispatched those fish, attempting to extinguish the descendants of your three disciples who remained in the area, to prevent them from coming to offer blood bowls.

But Zhengmen Village has been destroyed for almost three hundred years. Even if you completed the fusion at the earliest fifty-nine years ago, you still spent over two hundred years.

Really, does it take that long?"

Jade Void Sub said: "After sealing myself in here, I only spent forty years to master this demon in the process of fusion, making my consciousness override its consciousness."

"It only took forty years to succeed? Then according to reason, after the first Jiazi cycle, you could break the seal and come out. At that time, you couldn't transmit messages to the outside, your three initial disciples should still be alive, or even if they died, their second-generation descendants should also remember you, their master's grandfather."

This array formation takes sixty years as a cycle. As long as those three disciples and their descendants don't do the next round of blood bowl offerings, this array formation will terminate its operation and will no longer target this demon with the town and suppress movements.

That is, Jade Void Sub had twenty years to communicate with the outside, and even if he couldn't transmit directly, he could also dispatch those small fish.

Jade Void Sub: "Forty years later, those three rebellious disciples were all still alive and living nearby, but when I transmitted messages to them, they thought it was the demon pretending and confusing them."

"You didn't tell those three disciples your true purpose? Oh, that's right, since you want to do this kind of improper thing to deceive the heavenly path, the fewer people who know, the better.

Then, since they treated you, their master, as a demon, you, as a master, shouldn't have shown mercy, right?

That kind of fish certainly wasn't sent out for the first time."

"Those three rebellious disciples still have some ability. After those fish went out, they dealt with them themselves."

Li Zhuiyuan thought of the three mountains at this time, as well as the specialties of the Xue, Zheng, and Zeng families, each located in a different part of Min'an Town.

"Look, they not only dealt with the fish you sent out to harm them, but also used this as a warning and arranged more means for their descendants to continue inheriting this array formation that cycles every sixty years.

Let me guess. Didn't you have a long period of time during which you couldn't find where the people from those three families were at all?

They seemed to no longer live here and had migrated away early, but precisely when the sixty-year cycle arrived, their descendants would appear with blood bowls and re-continue your imprisonment?"

Jade Void Sub was silent.

Li Zhuiyuan knew he had guessed correctly.

"Daoist, this is where you are wrong. You both only wanted to perform for the heavenly path to see, and also thought you would come out later. Why did you arrange such excellent three disciples to undertake this task?"

Jade Void Sub replied: "When I came here, I specifically brought my three disciples with the most ordinary aptitude."

This time, it was Li Zhuiyuan's turn to be silent.

Jade Void Sub laughed.

In his smile, there was sorrow, helplessness, anger, unwillingness, and also a bit of pride that came with being a master.

He looked at his eyes and saw that he had clearly brought his three most stupid disciples, thinking that he could easily break free and leave here at that time.

But he didn't expect that his three most stupid disciples would unexpectedly accumulate knowledge over time and blossom late.

The dream arrangements that the three ancestral graves gave their descendants were novel even to Li Zhuiyuan.

And the idea of dividing a Min'an Town into three, with the three families located in different parts of Min'an Town, was something Li Zhuiyuan wanted to sigh about and even felt convinced by.

That was truly a kind of pity. What was more pitiful was that they also couldn't escape the historical cycle of decline, and this kind of sealed and hidden family rule style would even accelerate this decline.

Just like Xue Liangliang, he didn't even know that his family's ancestors were also people of the Xuanmen.

If not, when he went to the bottom of the river earlier and met the Bai family lady, he might have been able to establish seniority.

The decline of family inheritance is one aspect, and the new social life mode is also a big driving factor.

In the past, except for natural disasters and man-made calamities, the population flow rate was very low, and ancestors truly lived in one place generation after generation. But now, among the three surname families, every family has people who left here to develop and settle in big cities.

No matter how good the rules set by the old ancestors were, they couldn't block the flood of era development.

This just gave Jade Void Sub another opportunity to break free from the cage, and he was really almost successful.

Li Zhuiyuan sighed: "Actually, those three are really your good disciples."

"They are rebellious disciples," Jade Void Sub corrected. "At that time, when they exterminated the three fish I sent out, I didn't believe it. They just didn't doubt whether it was really me, their master, sending messages."

"Probably it didn't matter, because in their eyes, their master is a great hero who sacrificed himself to suppress the demon. Their master died heroically and greatly long ago.

And you, what do you count for?"

At this time, Tan Wenbin had finished inserting the last array flag.

Before Tan Wenbin even sent a signal to remind them, the big fish's body suddenly shot up, wanting to leap over the people blocking the road and rush towards the newly arranged array formation.

Runsheng's Qi Seas instantly opened fully. He held the Yellow River Shovel and chopped down at the big fish's abdomen fiercely.

"Puff..."

The big fish's belly was cut open, and fish eggs scattered everywhere.

Yin Meng flung out the leather whip in her hand. The leather whip entered the fish's abdomen along the newly cut wound. At the wound, a large amount of pus immediately flowed out.

But this kind of extremely lethal offensive was completely ignored by Jade Void Sub. It would rather be injured than come to the new array formation as quickly as possible.

Seeing the situation, Tan Wenbin was about to act like a mantis trying to stop a cart.

"Get out of the way, let it go!"

Tan Wenbin immediately went with the flow, rolling and dodging to the side.

The big fish fell into the array formation.

Jade Void Sub in the fish's mouth began to urge the array formation to run.

Runsheng was about to stop it, but was stopped by Li Zhuiyuan first: "No need."

The array formation opened, the boundary in front of his body appeared distorted, and the big fish began to desperately drill outwards, seemingly about to succeed.

But just at this time, the stone offering table outside suddenly cracked open, and a skeleton wearing a yellow robe stood up from inside.

This was Jade Void Sub's own corpse.

He saw it walk to the boundary, lift his fist, and smash down at this big fish that was about to drill out, and at the "self" in the big fish's mouth, with one punch!

"Boom!"

The entire big array was roaring.

The Yin eye of the Yin-Yang array was inside, and the Yang eye was outside.

With one punch, the boundary was restored, and the big fish fell dejectedly.

The last ray of hope was broken, meaning he would have to wait another sixty years, but the problem was, this demon no longer had the vitality for a Jiazi cycle.

And that skeleton in the yellow robe, after maintaining the array formation, returned to the stone offering table, sat down again, and the stone offering table closed, sealing it, leaving only that little bit of skull exposed on the table surface like an upside-down bowl.

Li Zhuiyuan's gaze fell towards that "small stream" again.

Look, the "small stream" didn't lead you to the doorstep, but helped you lead to that river. The fish of the past could also only be sent there. If they were sent directly out of this door or approached the stone table, the fish that Jade Void Sub sent out himself would be killed by Jade Void Sub himself.

This Jade Void Sub is indeed a great talent in array formations. He really made something out of nothing, setting up a Dao field in a snail's shell.

Li Zhuiyuan opened his mouth and asked: "Daoist Jade Void Sub, you've been sealed in here for so long. Haven't you been bored and written any books?"

Jade Void Sub in the big fish's mouth lifted his head and looked at Li Zhuiyuan, not speaking.

Li Zhuiyuan explained: "I usually like to read books."

The opponent's array formation skills might not be the highest, but he lived a long time, meaning he had too much time to settle down.

Jade Void Sub said in a deep voice: "I have carved many stone tablets in that river, but none are complete."

"It doesn't matter, partial volumes are also fine. Reading and completing them while reading can deepen understanding."

That "evil book" in his bedroom could just be used here.

Jade Void Sub said: "I'll help you complete those stone tablets and give them to you to look at. You stay and accompany me for a Jiazi cycle and entertain me."

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head: "My reading speed is very fast, it doesn't take that long. Besides, do you think you still have a Jiazi cycle to live?"

Jade Void Sub: "Indeed, I don't have a Jiazi cycle to live. Maybe there are only thirty or forty years of scenery left."

Before today, he originally had seventy or eighty years of vitality, but his soul body was first struck, then burned, losing thirty years.

Just now, the punch from his own skeleton outside took another ten years.

Now, only thirty or forty years remain.

"No, no, no, thirty or forty years is too long. I think you shouldn't live past today."

Jade Void Sub: "This was originally what I was supposed to say to you after you refused my request, wasn't it? Haha..."

The next moment, the two spoke at the same time and both laughed disdainfully:

Li Zhuiyuan: "Heh, where do you get your confidence?"

Jade Void Sub: "Heh, where do you get your confidence?"

The big fish's body tilted up, and its mouth opened again. At this time, the big fish's body began to accelerate its decay, and Jade Void Sub's body gradually grew fish scales.

Li Zhuiyuan reminded: "You're already very weak."

Anger flowed in Jade Void Sub's eyes.

The youth's sentence was poking his sore spot.

He was like a clown on a stage, performing a play on his own, then stabbing himself three times, and asking the audience below again: Are you afraid?

"But it's enough to bury you all with me!"

Li Zhuiyuan stepped forward and began to bow in the Liu family's style, saying seriously at the same time:

"The person sent by the Dragon Kings of the Qin and Liu families - Li Zhuiyuan.

I have specially come today,

To see you off."

Jade Void Sub's eyes immediately widened. His body began to tremble. The fear deeply sealed in his memory was awakening.

He and the senior brother he personally killed,

Both were admirers of the Liu family.

And admiration has a word close in meaning, which is fear.

He said that although the array formation he arranged had regrets and lacked a "wear" component, in other aspects, it was absolutely flawless and could be said to be incomparably solid.

Even when Li Zhuiyuan observed this array formation from the outside earlier, he only felt it had regrets and didn't see what big problem this sealed great array had.

Why would Jade Void Sub build his own "cage" so solid and durable?

This was not only for the heavenly path to see, but also for the Liu family Dragon King who might come later to see.

This big fish was severely damaged by the Liu family Dragon King. According to the Liu family's style, she would pursue things to have a beginning and an end, so she would probably trace the big fish's escape route.

Why did his senior brother want to come and deal with this big fish? It was also to take this opportunity to pay respects to the Dragon King.

Therefore, the first task of the array formation that Jade Void Sub built was that he absolutely could not let that Dragon King see any flaws.

"No, how is it possible? How is it possible? Didn't you say that the Liu family hasn't walked the Jiang for several decades?"

Li Zhuiyuan nodded: "Indeed, there haven't been any Liu family people walking the Jiang for several decades before me."

Uncle Qin, although he failed, at least attempted to walk the Jiang.

But Aunt Liu hasn't walked the Jiang. Perhaps Uncle Qin's failure left a psychological shadow on Liu Yumei, making her reluctant to let Aunt Liu go out and take risks on the Jiang.

"No, this is not true. Dragon Kings of the Qin and Liu families? Hahahaha, how is this possible? How can you be so boastful and deceive people? It's simply ridiculous and absurd! Don't you know that between the Dragon Kings' residences on the Jiang, they are sworn enemies?"

"Of course I know."

Li Zhuiyuan was too lazy to explain the earth-shattering and unusual love between Grandma Liu and Grandpa Qin that year.

Especially to someone who was about to completely perish, wasn't it a waste of breath to say these things?

"Speak! Why don't you speak? Speak! Continue fabricating! Why aren't you fabricating anymore!"

Jade Void Sub gradually became hysterical. His body began to walk out of the fish's mouth. The big fish behind him gradually withered in breath.

Li Zhuiyuan: "I'm too lazy to say these things to you."

"Too lazy to say? Hahaha, what a huge joke from heaven! Since you're too lazy to say these things, why did you just now announce your name in front of me and perform the Liu family bow?"

"Because the words just now were not for you, and the bow was not for you either."

"Not for me, then for whom?"

Li Zhuiyuan asked: "You've already fused with this demon, haven't you?"

"That is of course."

"Completely?"

"Naturally, with me as the main body!"

"But your soul was completely destroyed earlier, and just now you were also hit by your own fist from outside."

"What then? I told you, even now, it's more than enough to bury you all together!"

The madness in Jade Void Sub's eyes gradually receded. He detected a hint of crisis. He vigilantly swept his gaze over the youth and the three people beside the youth one by one.

Li Zhuiyuan reached out and lightly patted his forehead: "I've already reminded you so clearly, why haven't you thought of it?"

However, it wasn't his fault either.

He said that he opened the array formation for forty years and only then fused with this big fish. That is to say, for the past two hundred years, he has existed in this state. In his cognition, he is the demon, and the demon is him, indistinguishable from each other.

"Daoist, aren't you curious why we came so timely, and just happened to destroy your plan that had been waiting for two hundred years before it succeeded?

You really were just a little short of being able to sever the bloodline of your three families of disciples.

It's not that your luck wasn't good,

But because,

Someone tipped me off."

Li Zhuiyuan moved his hand away, first pointing at Jade Void Sub, then slowly lifting it higher and pointing at the big fish behind Jade Void Sub.

In his brain, the scene that floated up was the game of cat and mouse that the big fish and Jade Void Sub performed just now when he first came to the riverbank at the head of the village.

The big fish that failed to catch Jade Void Sub seemed to be venting its anger, leaping high into the river's surface with a vertical leap, drawing an arc, and then ruthlessly falling back into the water's surface.

This scene was identical to the one in Ah Li's dream when he was holding the lantern fish.

Earlier, when Jade Void Sub asked how he could see through him, he only answered about the array formation problem.

Actually,

There was a more direct problem that he didn't mention.

That is,

He had clearly "met face to face," but Jade Void Sub didn't recognize him.

Because the one who truly recognized him and knew his identity,

Has always been the big fish lurking in that river, silently observing with only its fish eyes exposed.

"Are you unwilling to be someone's slave, to be controlled by someone, to be someone else's wedding dress?

Since you are willing to take the bait yourself,

Then I will give you an opportunity for revenge.

Now,

What are you waiting for!"

The big fish behind Jade Void Sub, which had originally withered, suddenly glowed red in its eyes. Flames burned around its body. This was an instant self-immolation.

It opened its bloody mouth wide, revealing sharp fangs, and swallowed Jade Void Sub in front of it,

In one gulp!

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