"Given Senior Brother Zhuge's deep love for Senior Sister Shangguan, once he takes this oath, it will be difficult for him to make any progress in his cultivation. It's a pity."
Huo Chunyan sighed and finally couldn't bear to look away.
On the stage, Zhuge Yun closed his eyes, "I, Zhuge Yun, swear with my Taoist heart that from today on, I will give up... Shangguan Xue."
As soon as he finished speaking, he spat out a large mouthful of blood, his expression was gloomy and sluggish, and he could only hold on for a breath without fainting.
"Haha, it should have been like this a long time ago."
Zhuge Yun's tragic situation actually pleased Xie Changyuan. He glanced at Xu Chunniang and the others in a good mood, "Take the people away and don't dirty my city lord's palace."
The four of them were forced to come to the city lord's palace, and were forced to watch Zhuge Yun being beaten. Naturally, their moods were not much better.
However, Zhuge Yun volunteered to accept this duel, and now that they were in this situation, they had nothing to say.
Zhang Yu and Zhao Xingsan stepped onto the ring, carefully helped Zhuge Yun up, and then the group walked silently outside the city lord's mansion.
Shangguan Xue had just taken two steps when a lazy voice sounded behind him.
"Sister Xue'er, please don't forget that your senior brother just swore the oath of Taoism. Are you following him now because you think his life is too long?"
Shangguan Xue's expression changed several times and finally stopped.
Seeing that she was about to step out of the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, Xu Chunniang's hair suddenly stood on end and she felt a strong sense of crisis.
She didn't show it on her face, but her heart was ringing with alarm.
The spiritual consciousness spread out three layers inside and outside the body quietly, entering a state of high alert.
At this moment, she felt a cold wind wrapped in black mist, flying towards her at an extremely fast speed.
When he approached her, he hesitated slightly, and then entered the soul without any hesitation.
Xu Chunniang paused slightly, a trace of black mist flashed in her eyes, and then walked out of the city lord's mansion with a normal expression.
The moment she walked out of the City Lord's Mansion, in a secret room underground in the City Lord's Mansion, a golden elixir monk, covered in black robes, opened his eyes.
"How was it? Was it successful?"
Another person waiting nearby noticed the movement and asked quickly.
The black-robed monk nodded slightly, then shook his head again.
"The demon soul has been successfully planted, but it is not effective yet. Although it was only vaguely sensed for a moment, the spirit of the female cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building does not seem to be weak."
"Now that the demon soul has been planted, it is only a matter of time before it takes effect. Even the monks in the late stage of foundation building cannot avoid the erosion of the demon soul. How long can they resist in the middle stage of foundation building?"
Hearing that the operation went smoothly, the man next to him looked proud, and then said with regret, "It's a pity that the conditions for the birth of this demon soul are too harsh. Otherwise, if we had more births, we would have more control."
The black-robed monk said nothing, and only glanced at the people around him indifferently. His intention to see off the guests was very obvious.
Realizing the meaning of the black robe, the man understood the meaning and quietly retreated, quickly disappearing into the stone room.
Everything that happened in the underground secret room of the City Lord's Mansion was completely hidden as the stone door was tightly closed.
But some things are quietly changing.
Xu Chunniang and her four others led Zhuge Yun out of the city lord's mansion. Zhuge Yun's strong breath relaxed and he passed out.
"What should I do? Senior Brother Zhuge passed out again. His injuries seem to have worsened."
A trace of anxiety flashed across Huo Chunyan's face. Although Zhuge Yun's injury was caused by himself, to be fair, he had barely fulfilled his responsibilities as a senior brother.
Naturally, she couldn't do it to watch his injury worsen like this.
Zhang Yu suggested, "Why don't we go to the medical center first? We have to find a way to stop my senior brother's injuries."
Zhao Xingsan's expression was equally solemn. As an alchemy cultivator, he had already checked Zhuge Yun's injuries while supporting Zhuge Yun.
It's just that he was unconscious because of his excessive injuries and damage to his Taoist heart.
Although Senior Brother Zhuge was seriously injured, his life was not in danger.
Compared with the damage to the body and soul, the damage to the Taoist heart is the most serious.
After weighing it, Zhao Xingsan said, "It's better to go back to Xiangyun Inn. The medical center is messy, but it's not as clean as the inn. With me taking care of you, nothing will go wrong."
The three of them discussed and decided to take Zhuge Yun back to the inn to recuperate.
Huo Chunyan lifted her legs to leave, but suddenly looked at Xu Chunniang, who was following a few people without saying a word, and a strange feeling flashed through her heart.
When the three of them were discussing just now, she didn't say a single word, and she seemed indifferent to Senior Brother Zhuge's injury.
Could it be that Chun Niang still holds a grudge that Senior Brother Zhuge once caused trouble for her, so she doesn't want to talk to him?
But after many years of acquaintance, Huo Chunyan knew that Xu Chunniang was not the kind of person who took pleasure in others' misfortune.
After thinking about it for a while, she couldn't figure it out, so she simply didn't want to think about it anymore.
Anyway, Senior Brother Zhuge is taken care of by Zhao Xingsan, so he only needs to rest for a while and recover from his injuries.
It's just that the originally scheduled time to enter Fengwei Mountain may be postponed again.
Xu Chunniang has been following a few people, seemingly normal, but in fact, her body has long been transformed into a battlefield.
As early as when she was about to leave the City Lord's Mansion, she had an intuition that she seemed to be targeted by something.
What happened next confirmed her suspicion.
After that strange wind blew, a black mist appeared inexplicably in her body.
This black mist entered her body and swept through her soul unceremoniously, trying to devour it.
However, Xu Chunniang's reaction was equally quick. After sensing something was wrong, she immediately communicated with Xiao Walnut and released a large amount of sky fire.
The black mist was ignited by the sky fire, as if it had encountered a natural nemesis. The place where it was ignited by the sky fire burst into silent collapse.
It suddenly shrank into a small ball, showing strong fear and seeming to run away.
But it was surrounded by skyfire, and it couldn't escape anywhere.
Feeling that his body had shrunk by more than half, the demon soul trembled violently and was filled with despair.
"Help, help..."
It originally didn't hold out any hope and thought it would be a dead end.
Unexpectedly, the scorching flames around him actually stopped after he finished speaking.
The demon soul was a little confused and blinked in disbelief. It took him a long time to accept this fact.
Although it doesn't know why it saved a life, as long as there is a chance of survival, it will work hard to survive!
In fact, Xu Chunniang suddenly stopped, not only because of the black mist asking for help, but mainly because she suddenly thought of something.
It stands to reason that since she and the City Lord's Mansion have no grudges in recent times and have no grudges in the past, no one should attack her, and they still use such underhanded tactics.
But something that shouldn't have happened was discovered, and there must be a reason for its existence.
Xu Chunniang's thoughts changed rapidly, but her expression did not change at all. She followed Huo Chunyan and others back to Xiangyun Inn as usual.