Chapter 261

Li Zhuiyuan recalled the details of the silver dollar on the little yellow dog's neck.

Being mischievous and active is a dog's nature, so the texture of that silver dollar was heavily worn, but what could be certain was that it was not a silver coin from foreign influx, nor was it a "Qianlong Treasure" or a silver cake from the Daoguang era. Judging from its outline and specifications, it should have been a "Guangxu Yuanbao" officially minted by the Qing court, also known as a Dragon Ocean.

This detail pinpointed the specific time of the Divine Sense Map.

Combined with the fact that the Long Wang Yu family had sealed their gates for sixty years and only lifted the seal in recent years, there were occasional rumors in the jianghu of Yu family members walking about.

The entire timeline could more or less be reconciled.

The incident that occurred here back then led to the Long Wang Yu family suffering a shock, even directly causing it to undergo a "qualitative" change.

Zhao Yi: "A dog, returning home in the identity of the Long Wang, could overturn the nature of the entire family's inheritance..."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Does your Jiujiang Zhao family have anyone lying in a coffin, sleeping as a contingency plan?"

Zhao Yi: "Why do you ask?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Just asking."

Zhao Yi: "That's a bit presumptuous to ask."

Li Zhuiyuan: "So, that means there is."

Zhao Yi: "Whose family isn't like that?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "A proper Long Wang family wouldn't be like that."

Zhao Yi: "..."

Li Zhuiyuan: "In a family that frequently produces Long Wangs, how could there be an old immortal lying in a coffin to extend their life? Is this waiting for the Long Wang to uphold justice by exterminating their own kin?"

Zhao Yi: "So, your meaning is, the Long Wang receives very few constraints in the Long Wang family, or perhaps even no constraints at all."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Mm, whatever he wants to do, the difficulty will be very low, even if it's something rebellious or inconceivable."

Zhao Yi's gaze began to patrol the surroundings, and he asked suspiciously: "Since the seal is no longer there, where did the thing that was suppressed back then run off to now?"

Immediately, Zhao Yi's gaze landed on the huge wolfdog below:

"It wouldn't be... right inside this dog's body, would it?"

Seemingly responding to Zhao Yi's question, the wolfdog's tightly closed eyes slowly opened at this moment.

Following this came a pressure surging madly outward from the depths of the pool bottom.

Zhao Yi: "It really is like that."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Its original body has already been shattered by Yu Tiannan."

Zhao Yi: "So, the deal back then was to transplant the dog's memory into Yu Tiannan's body, and the evil spirit then transplanted its own memory into the dog's body."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Without doing that, the evil spirit couldn't survive within the formation; it needed a body to sustain itself."

The wolfdog stood up, its fur stretching out, revealing the rot within.

It opened its mouth and let out a howl; the sound spread, forming a continuous echo within the four-sided holes.

Runsheng put away the unfinished compressed biscuits, rubbed his hands, and raised the Yellow Jiang Shui Shovel, while Yin Meng beside him drew two Exorcism Whips and stepped back.

Tan Wenbin slid off Lin Shu's back and sat on the ground, while Lin Shu drew his twin maces and rubbed them together in the air using repulsion force.

The Liang sisters walked forward, taking the initiative to stand behind Zhao Yi.

Everyone was prepared for battle.

Li Zhuiyuan's attention, however, was placed more on the pitch-black, viscous stream above.

Even when the wolfdog jumped out from the bottom of the pool, Li Zhuiyuan did not give it too much attention.

Li Zhuiyuan took out the invitation and tossed it onto the ground very casually.

Zhao Yi took out his invitation while asking: "Why do you think it deliberately created the spectacle of the 'Demon-Sealing Assembly'?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "It could foresee the tribulation itself, and knowing it couldn't avoid it, it was better to actively control and overcome the tribulation, keeping the initiative in its own hands."

Zhao Yi: "Is this evil spirit at such a high level?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "If it weren't high, it wouldn't be worth the Long Wang making a move. I suspect it made the worst-case plan long ago; even if it suffers a massive loss of strength after losing its powerful physical vessel, as long as it can survive the tribulation, even if it starts over from an ordinary person's body, it still has a chance to make a comeback.

Only by letting go can one pick up; its original intention was to turn this 'letting go' into a public performance.

In other words, what we are about to fight next is an exhibition match."

This was also the reason why Li Zhuiyuan was not too concerned about the wolfdog before him; a life-and-death struggle that didn't involve life and death meant there was no need to be too nervous, no matter how lively or intense the fight was.

Zhao Yi: "Actually, you didn't need to explain it in such detail."

Pretend not to know, solve the problem at hand, and as for whether it's handled cleanly or what happens afterward, just don't worry about it.

In this way, this wave is considered over, and most of the merit can be obtained.

Li Zhuiyuan: "This is the reason why I don't agree with your approach."

Zhao Yi: "Everyone has a method that suits them. I feel that if I solve the problem at hand, I've fulfilled my responsibility. Anyway, there are people lighting lamps and walking the jianghu generation after generation; future matters can just be left to future people."

Young Master Zhao could complete three waves in the time it took others to walk one, precisely because he was good at grasping the key points and solving them. As for omissions and new problems that might evolve later, Zhao Yi chose to believe in the wisdom of those who came after.

Li Zhuiyuan: "I don't like that."

The youth thought of those ugly figures in A Li's dreams; he didn't want similar things to play out again in the future, so every evil spirit he encountered while walking the river, he tried his best to thoroughly annihilate, leaving no future trouble.

Zhao Yi: "However, things you have the ability to do, I... at least the current me, might not."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Ability is just an excuse; perfunctoriness in attitude can be felt."

Zhao Yi: "You're still standing there talking without back pain; you've actually dragged it to attitude."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Attitude isn't for me to see. Guess who will see it?"

Zhao Yi's eyes widened immediately; he understood the youth's meaning.

Some truths, it's not that one doesn't understand, but that one thinks one understands while actually seeing them superficially. Only after being pointed out by others can one grasp the deep meaning within.

Li Zhuiyuan: "The Heavenly Dao is easy to fool. People in the jianghu, even before doing bad things, like to fabricate a famous teacher and represent the righteous path; this is almost a default atmosphere.

But this involves punishment, that is, the so-called tribulation and heavenly punishment.

In this regard, the reason the Heavenly Dao makes people feel easy to fool might be because it is itself subject to some kind of shackles, or perhaps it feels that being able to form this tacit understanding of 'deceiving oneself and others' is a situation it can accept.

But we light lamps and walk the river, is it to avoid the punishment of the Heavenly Dao?

Even if you are so mercenary as to treat it as a business deal, you have to consider that your client has always been the only one.

Your perfunctory attitude, one accident can be understood, but repeated multiple times, do you think the client won't know?

In terms of punishment, the Heavenly Dao has its own shackles and considerations, but in terms of rewards, the Heavenly Dao clearly has more autonomy and can actively tilt based on intent.

The effect of me walking one wave is worth three of yours; inside, there is this reason.

Additionally, you have to consider one thing: if you do sloppy work too often, the river water will keep assigning you rotten work."

Zhao Yi looked at Li Zhuiyuan seriously:

"What exactly do you take the Heavenly Dao as?"

Don't look at how the youth's words just now were all standing from the Heavenly Dao's standpoint to consider for it; in reality, this kind of research and control is essentially a contempt for the Heavenly Dao.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't answer.

The wolfdog before them was beginning to approach step by step, its cold eyes constantly sizing up everyone present.

Perhaps feeling that the degree of this tense and oppressive atmosphere was not enough, it howled again.

Unfortunately, the effect still didn't meet the standard; it wasn't what it wanted.

Because the two "bosses" were still chatting there, clearly talking about things other than what was in front of them; this kind of relaxed disregard made it very difficult for the people below to feel nervous.

Zhao Yi: "These words, you couldn't bear to share with me before. Today, saying so much all at once, what should I use to pay this fee?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "You know, I want to thoroughly cut off the possibility of it making a comeback."

Zhao Yi: "Then it will fight for its life."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Therefore, you also have to fight."

Zhao Yi: "Then the difficulty of this wave has gone up. Didn't you say that this wave of yours would be relatively simple? Just because it's simple, you're actively adding difficulty to yourself?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "This wave is actually very difficult. The reason it became simple is because the river water pushed you to my side."

Zhao Yi's mouth twitched several times; he knew the youth was deliberately giving him emotional value, knew the youth hoped he could help fight for his life, knew this was a kind of utilization.

But there was no way; precisely because he knew what kind of person the Li-surnamed one was, when he was willing to say such words, he really couldn't hold back.

Therefore, despite enduring, enduring, and enduring again, Zhao Yi finally broke his composure and laughed.

"Damn it, this wave is walked together. Even if you want to go crazy, can I not cooperate?"

Li Zhuiyuan took a few steps back, and the red thread was released from his right hand, completing the connection with his partners.

Immediately, Li Zhuiyuan's voice rang out in the hearts of all four people:

"Help me set up the formation."

Next, a scene with a strong sense of incongruity appeared.

The wolfdog was still there continuing to build up its momentum, but Runsheng, Yin Meng, and Lin Shu on the opposite side took out formation flags and began to focus on setting up the formation.

Even Tan Wenbin, who was sitting on the ground, was directing the two children to help move the formation materials.

Although using formations in battle is not rare, either it's secretly set up in advance before the war starts, or companions go into a fierce battle to create time for you. It's very rare to see someone setting it up openly in front of the other party before the fight even begins; this is really not taking the dog as a wolf at all.

Liang Yan: "What's the meaning of this? We'll block."

Liang Li: "Seems so."

Liang Yan: "A Li, you have research on formations. What kind of formation is he setting up?"

Liang Li: "Although it's very special, looking at the underlying logic, it looks like a Spirit Gathering Formation."

Liang Yan: "Spirit Gathering Formation, isn't this generally used for doing that thing?"

Liang Li: "Mm, it's used to..."

Zhao Yi's gaze glared over, and Liang Li closed her mouth.

A Spirit Gathering Formation is generally used to summon wandering spirits to assist in their transcendence.

The Li-surnamed one setting up this formation here was thinking of circling and binding that evil spirit, leaving it with no retreat to escape.

Zhao Yi didn't know if this wolfdog could understand the formation. If it couldn't understand, then it could continue to act out a scene, and he could also cooperate in the performance as a favor.

If it could understand, then it would fight for its life at the first moment.

Whose life would it fight for? Wouldn't it be his, Zhao Yi's!

Fortunately, as of now, the wolfdog was only in a stage of confusion.

Its hind legs scratched backward twice, it raised its head, its body didn't move, but the wind had already been stirred up.

Zhao Yi didn't wait for it to really charge, and shouted directly: "Go!"

Liang Yan and Liang Li immediately separated, each rushing toward one side of the wolfdog.

Zhao Yi wasn't idle, and also launched an attack on the wolfdog. However, although he walked the front, he deliberately kept his figure flickering, just waiting for the sisters to make the first move before he decided how to proceed with the next step of cooperation.

However, a flash of blood appeared in the wolfdog's eyes.

Its aura erupted instantly, and a powerful killing intent locked directly onto Li Zhuiyuan, who was setting up the formation in the back. The fur on its body stood up collectively, stimulating this long-sealed and already rotten body to the maximum extent.

It moved, ignoring the Liang sisters, and even ignoring Zhao Yi who was right in front of it. With a leap, carrying a fierce, fishy wind, it pounced straight at Li Zhuiyuan.

Zhao Yi realized: It understands, it understands the formation, it knows what the Li-surnamed one wants to do.

From the very beginning, this was an open hand.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't intend to deceive it, because he knew it was impossible to deceive.

How could an evil spirit that could actively issue "Demon-Sealing Assembly" invitations to put on a show not see through his purpose?

The reason Zhao Yi still held onto a fluke was because he was on the front line of resistance and always had to hope for something good.

"Stop it!"

Zhao Yi gave the order.

And the sisters, who were already on both sides, had no way to turn back to the front and could only launch attacks from the sides.

The wolfdog's tail lashed fiercely at Liang Yan. As the tail swept past, Liang Yan wasn't sent flying, but rather drilled out from its fur and borrowed the momentum to jump.

On the other side, the wolfdog shook its head, wanting to knock Liang Li away, but Liang Li lowered her figure in time. After barely dodging this head sweep, she even borrowed force from thin air to approach its main trunk.

The fishy wind stagnated all around, and the sisters' figures fell into obstruction. Not only could they not advance further, but because their own momentum had dissipated, they began to be bounced away.

However, this kind of difficulty really couldn't stop them. Zhao Yi had touted them several times in front of Li Zhuiyuan; now, they were proving themselves with strength for their one-half man.

Liang Yan pinched a seal with both hands, tilted her head back forcefully, and pulled out a bronze mirror hanging on her neck. The light refracted by the bronze mirror hit the top, and accompanied by Liang Yan's incantation, the white circle of light kept getting bigger.

Liang Li cut both thumbs with a dagger, swung her arms upward, and daggers were thrown from her sleeves, with each one leaving a mark from the blood on her index finger before leaving.

These daggers all submerged into that ball of white light, followed by a rapid vertical drop.

Blood and white light intertwined, forming a flame where red and white coexisted. They penetrated the fishy wind outside the wolfdog's body and pierced into the wolfdog's body.

A low groan came from the wolfdog's throat; clearly, this attack had already injured it.

Zhao Yi spread his ten fingers, and the jade ring on his left ring finger cracked, turning into crystal threads that wrapped around his palm. His figure leaped up, arriving below the wolfdog.

With arms propped up and fingertips shaking at a high frequency, crystal threads, both long and sharp, shot into the fishy wind from bottom to top, cutting toward the wolfdog's lower abdomen.

The wolfdog was very fast, and Zhao Yi was still a bit slow here; the cutting action couldn't last too long, and the two sides were about to miss each other. But Zhao Yi deliberately clenched his ten fingers before the miss, and all those crystal threads gathered toward a spot below the wolfdog's abdomen.

"Puchi..."

The flesh on Zhao Yi's ten fingers all burst open, and white bone was even visible on the two index fingers.

He gasped, yet still forced himself to clench his fist.

"Pada!"

Two large things fell not far in front of Zhao Yi. Although these things had already rotted and deteriorated and looked very disgusting, one could still recognize what they were.

Just now, Zhao Yi risked his ten fingers almost being crippled to perform a sterilization on this wolfdog.

It was unknown whether it was the pain of the daggers inserted in its back or the pain of those two things being cut off; in short, the wolfdog, which had been full of momentum, had its force leaked halfway and fell down.

Although it was already very close to Li Zhuiyuan's side, it failed to disturb the setting up of the formation.

Zhao Yi retreated in time and blocked in front of Li Zhuiyuan and the others again. With his fists clenched, his ten fingers were wrapped in crystal, looking like he was wearing a pair of gloves.

The Liang sisters also arrived at Zhao Yi's side.

Lin Shu's gaze fell on Zhao Yi's hands, feeling moved that this Three-Eyed one could always find opportunities to get good things.

Being able to be distracted to look at other things proved that he had finished his work here. However, the voice of Brother Xiaoyuan rang out in his heart again, signaling him to continue pretending to insert formation flags while keeping an eye on Chen Jing standing on the side.

Lin Shu subconsciously wanted to turn his head to look at Chen Jing, his eyes bulging suddenly.

Tongzi: "Do you know what it means to keep an eye on? You're still looking directly at him?"

Lin Shu bent down and continued to insert formation flags.

Tan Wenbin had been sitting there all along; he was using child labor.

However, his peripheral vision covered Chen Jing from beginning to end.

Brother Xiaoyuan had reminded him earliest, and he also knew what it meant.

If that wolfdog wanted to find a breakthrough, then Chen Jing, who possessed the same bloodline, was undoubtedly the best choice to utilize.

Logically speaking, after utilizing Chen Jing to lead the way, for the sake of safety, one should control him first, either binding or sealing him, or at the very least making him faint and lose consciousness.

But Brother Xiaoyuan didn't do that, and even now, he still left him free; this had a bit of the meaning of deliberately inviting the guest into the urn.

Runsheng and Yin Meng were still busy, inserting flags and adjusting according to Li Zhuiyuan's requirements; Li Zhuiyuan didn't give them any extra work.

Chen Jing was now a bit awkward and constrained. He wanted to go up to help Brother Yi fight the wolfdog, but was worried that his strength wasn't enough and he would add to the chaos. He wanted to help Brother Binbin set up the formation, but he didn't understand this way.

Therefore, he could only stand in place, clenching and loosening his fists over and over again.

The wolfdog howled again, but this time the howl sounded a bit sharp.

It started its charge again. Zhao Yi used the same old routine, waving his hand to signal the twins to go first.

Lin Shu squatted on the ground, twisting a useless formation flag meaninglessly, and snorted in his heart:

"Three-Eyed brat is really shameless, always letting women rush in front of him."

Tongzi: "This is also a skill; you should learn more."

Lin Shu: "I'd rather learn from Brother Bin."

Tongzi let out a sigh: "Then you can only wait until he is no longer there to guard and take care of her. If you did this while he was alive, you would cut yourself off from the entire team."

Lin Shu: "Tongzi, what on earth are you talking about?"

Tongzi: "Hm?"

Lin Shu: "I didn't, don't listen to that Three-Eyed one's nonsense!"

At the very beginning, during the college student social activity, Lin Shu was indeed attracted to Zhou Yunyun; Zhou Yunyun was the type he liked, both in appearance and temperament.

If Runsheng hadn't blocked him at the store counter back then, he would have intended to write a love letter to her.

But after learning that Zhou Yunyun was Brother Bin's object, even though the two weren't dating at the time, Lin Shu immediately sobered up and didn't dare to have such thoughts again.

Saying he wanted to learn from Brother Bin earlier was because he felt that protecting his object by putting her in a safe place without implicating her fit his traditional concepts very well.

In Lin Shu's subconscious, the fact that he had once developed a good impression of Zhou Yunyun made him feel ashamed in his heart; this was a common problem for those with high moral standards. It just so happened that this "shame" was discovered and teased out by that Three-Eyed one, who always liked to use it as a threat.

Now it was good; things felt like they were getting darker the more they were described, and even Tongzi, who had recently started living with him, began to think in that direction.

Tongzi: "You should have started dating a new object earlier. Don't worry, when I shouldn't exist, I can self-seal and won't affect you doing things."

Lin Shu: "Tongzi, how did you become like my Master and Grandfather and the others?"

Tongzi was silent.

Lin Shu continued in his heart: "Becoming nagging and long-winded, liking to urge marriage."

Tongzi erupted, roaring in his heart:

"Have you forgotten that we are no longer Guan Jiang Shou but Guarding Zhenjun? If you don't have children to leave behind a bloodline, how can anyone be able to perform the spirit-descending ritual for me in the future!"

"Sorry..."

"Boom!"

The wolfdog's second charge was blocked by the Liang sisters. They joined forces, quickly setting up multiple spells, forming a combined force.

But the impact they received was also immense; their chests heaved, and blood spilled from the corners of their mouths.

If Xu Ming were here, this work wouldn't be their turn to do at all.

Zhao Yi rushed forward, arriving in front of the wolfdog, and smashed his fists down continuously, hitting the wolfdog on the nose and forcing it back.

After landing, Zhao Yi felt no joy in his heart; he could feel that the wolfdog had held back its strength during the second round.

This meant that Chen Jing...

But Young Master Zhao was Young Master Zhao after all. Not only did he not turn his head to look at Chen Jing, but he deliberately acted very smug and shouted loudly:

"Li-surnamed one, you just focus on setting up your formation. With me here, this wolfdog can't get past at all!"

The Liang sisters looked at each other, a bit dissatisfied, but didn't say anything at this time, just silently accumulating strength, preparing for the next round of combined attacks.

The wolfdog raised its head, lifted its neck, and complex changes in color appeared in its throat.

"Attention, it's going to spray something." Zhao Yi squatted down, pierced his fingertips into his own chest, drew out heart blood and let it fall to the ground, then drew a line to the left and right, letting the blood on the ground flow to both sides.

Liang Yan and Liang Li didn't hesitate to directly use this precious blood to start setting up a barrier to block the upcoming spray.

Other people's heart blood has a fixed quantity, but Zhao Yi is a bit special. Ever since he successfully transplanted the Life-and-Death Gate seam onto his heart, his heart blood became more precious, and the quantity also became larger.

But watching the two sisters using his heart blood to set up the barrier almost without restraint, Zhao Yi gritted his teeth and said:

"That's enough, don't waste it like this."

The movements in the sisters' hands paused; they didn't understand, since they had to block the other party head-on, how could they not set up the defense solidly?

It was mainly because Zhao Yi knew that the wolfdog's upcoming spray should be to create an opportunity for utilizing Chen Jing; the real damage shouldn't be much, it was mainly for concealment.

At this time, Li Zhuiyuan, who was standing in the center of the formation, also noticed the wolfdog's movements. The position he was standing in now was the formation eye position; this was a position he had deliberately left, waiting for the formation eye to deliver itself to the door.

By then, this evil spirit possessing special abilities would no longer have the possibility of escaping.

Honestly, this one indeed had pursuits and a grand vision. It could clearly escape now, even if it abandoned this wolfdog physical body, it could just transplant its memory into any worker or other contingency plan Li Zhuiyuan hadn't discovered, and it could escape.

But it just wanted to overcome this tribulation, because it knew that even if it could deceive and avoid him and Zhao Yi, the eyes of the Heavenly Dao would still be watching it. By then, perhaps there would be a lower-strength lamp-lighter pushed over by the river water to solve its new carrier.

Sometimes, looking at the Heavenly Dao from the perspective of an evil spirit can also harvest a lot of information, making the logic of the Heavenly Dao more comprehensive and three-dimensional for oneself.

The wolfdog's mouth opened, and black flames were sprayed out; at the same time, a large amount of black smoke was also sprayed out.

The Liang sisters slapped their hands on the ground and then pulled upward; a blood-colored triangular barrier stood up, not only protecting the three of them within it but also splitting the flames so they wouldn't invade the formation behind.

But the black smoke was not in this category and began to spread rapidly, madly swallowing all sight.

Deep in the wolfdog's eyes, it was as if something was burning.

Chen Jing, standing in the corner, raised his head blankly. After his body stiffened several times, green flames appeared all over his body, and then he rushed toward the formation position!

In the black fog, Bai He Guarding Zhenjun's vertical pupils had long been opened.

When Chen Jing passed by his side, Bai He Guarding Zhenjun's hand immediately reached out, wanting to intercept him.

But Chen Jing's speed had reached an inconceivable degree at this moment. The moment he made a move, Bai He Guarding Zhenjun realized he couldn't stop him, so he immediately opened his palm, condensed his spell, and a translucent capture net appeared, covering Chen Jing's front.

"Buzz!"

Chen Jing couldn't break through the capture net at the first moment, but the flames on his body were burning the net ropes.

Two children appeared on his left and right, clapping their palms together forcefully. Chen Jing's face showed a bit of pain, and the flames on his body began to sway.

Li Zhuiyuan walked over, flicked his right hand, and the Copper Coin Sword appeared, pointing at Chen Jing's forehead.

"Pa!"

The flames on Chen Jing's body retracted instantly, and struggle appeared in his confused eyes.

Li Zhuiyuan flicked the Copper Coin Sword three times with his left hand; Chen Jing's eyelids followed the twitching, and his toes even stood up accordingly. Accompanied by Li Zhuiyuan's movement of the Copper Coin Sword, Chen Jing also began to follow.

After leading him to the formation eye position, Li Zhuiyuan withdrew the Copper Coin Sword from Chen Jing's forehead and then took the opportunity to strike his inner knee; Chen Jing sat down.

Li Zhuiyuan snapped his fingers, and the Spirit Gathering Formation opened.

Chen Jing first trembled violently, and then his whole body relaxed. Except for his hands and feet still trembling slightly, his mind returned to clarity.

He began to breathe heavily, then looked at the surrounding environment, and finally looked at Li Zhuiyuan standing in front of him.

"I..."

"Don't move. Now I need you to act as the formation eye to completely extract the evil spirit."

"Okay!"

Chen Jing sat cross-legged obediently, closed his eyes, and prepared to meditate.

"Open your eyes."

"Yes!"

Chen Jing opened his eyes.

Whether the eyes are open or not doesn't actually affect the operation of the formation, but Li Zhuiyuan can judge his state through his eyes. If there are any unexpected changes, he can also deal with them in time.

The black fog dissipated rapidly, and the wolfdog stood there, astonishment revealed in its eyes.

It manipulated Chen Jing to destroy that formation, but the other party had been prepared long ago, not only directly taking Chen Jing down but also placing him in the formation.

Now, that formation was using Chen Jing as a medium to absorb its consciousness.

A howl came from the wolfdog's mouth, wanting to tear the connection between itself and Chen Jing apart.

After Li Zhuiyuan pressed his fingertips into the red clay, he quickly drew patterns on Chen Jing's face and arms. Chen Jing only felt that he was becoming more and more energetic, and the trembling of his hands and feet was more intense than before.

The wolfdog howled again, changing the interruption method, and Li Zhuiyuan adjusted the formation to maintain the connection between Chen Jing and the wolfdog.

Liang Yan: "How did he do it?"

Liang Li: "Without destroying the formation eye."

This kind of game, the two of them could actually do it too, but Chen Jing absolutely couldn't be safe and sound; the best result would be to lose his life and become an idiot.

But the youth could protect Chen Jing while trading moves with that wolfdog.

Zhao Yi: "Besides rushing to the front to fight, there seems to be nothing he can't do."

After finishing, Zhao Yi stood up, slapped his right palm onto his chest to stop the wound from bleeding, and then crossed his ten fingers; the "gloves" became sharper.

The Liang sisters understood and also stood up, setting up their stance.

At the moment, it was indeed the best time to make a move on this wolfdog.

However, the wolfdog didn't give them this opportunity. The original pulling stopped, and balls of black energy detached rapidly from the wolfdog's body, not even needing to pass through Chen Jing, directly surging madly into the formation presided over by Li Zhuiyuan.

The wolfdog's huge body, as if having lost control, fell down.

The area where the formation was located was like being covered with a black eggshell.

Li Zhuiyuan patted Chen Jing's butt with the Copper Coin Sword, and Chen Jing stood up.

"Get out!"

"I..."

Chen Jing felt a strong sense of danger. His first reaction in his mind was that he couldn't abandon his companions to face the danger alone.

It could only be said that his character was good, but having not been tempered, he was inevitably a bit dragging in critical moments, not even as good as being afraid of death.

Li Zhuiyuan didn't talk nonsense with Chen Jing and kicked Chen Jing. Both were youths, so kicking him was still easy. Before the black eggshell was completely closed, Chen Jing was kicked out of the formation range.

The Copper Coin Sword stabbed downward, piercing into the formation eye position.

The formation, which was about to collapse due to excessive load, was forcibly stabilized by Li Zhuiyuan.

The good news was that the evil spirit had completely entered here; the bad news was that Li Zhuiyuan himself was also trapped in this formation.

A distorted and ferocious human face emerged from the thick darkness.

In the Divine Sense Map, Li Zhuiyuan had seen this face from afar. That should have been its prime period; now it was much smaller and weaker than back then.

Even if he couldn't achieve complete suppression and killing, Yu Tiannan had indeed destroyed its foundation back then.

"Why do you have to do this? We could have been decent to each other, but you, you just had to not give me a way to live!"

Li Zhuiyuan: "It's not that I'm not giving you a way to live."

"Could it be that you're saying it's the Heavenly Dao? I have already actively responded to the tribulation to give the Heavenly Dao an account; even the Heavenly Dao will be lenient toward me!"

Li Zhuiyuan: "It's not the Heavenly Dao; it's your problem. It's you who let me see the opportunity to not give you a way to live."

The human face stopped speaking, just constantly adjusting its orientation, staring fixedly at the youth in front of it.

Li Zhuiyuan continued: "As long as there is this opportunity, I will not let go of the fish that slipped through the net in front of me."

Human face: "You are a madman, a madman who has nothing else in his mind but the banner of the righteous path!"

Li Zhuiyuan originally wanted to explain that he wasn't such a person; his style of doing things was just not liking to leave hidden dangers, accustomed to wiping all stains clean. But thinking carefully, there was no need to explain. After all, no matter what he thought in his heart, his behavior had always been worthy of being called absolutely "righteous." He dared to utilize the Great Emperor of Fengdu, and he dared to brush off the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. How many truly righteous people dared to do things he had done?

"Mm."

Human face: "But this game hasn't ended yet."

The darkness all around began to surge madly, constantly impacting.

Li Zhuiyuan spread his right palm, and a formation flag condensed in the blood mist. He grabbed it and waved it constantly.

No matter how fiercely the formation was torn and impacted, it was still maintained in the youth's hands.

Li Zhuiyuan: "If you only have this much ability, you won't be able to break free."

"Then what about you? I am merely changing myself to a new place to exist, and you yourself are also here, because you know that once you are not inside the formation, you cannot continue to retain this formation.

When you and I are both in this formation, how will you destroy me?

Destroying me is also destroying yourself.

Young man, you think you are smart and can handle me, but you don't know how many storms I have seen in the past."

Li Zhuiyuan continued to grab the red formation flag with his right hand, opened the zipper of his backpack with his left hand, took out other formation flags, and then squatted down, beginning to set up the formation.

Human face: "Setting up a formation inside a formation, are you crazy?"

Li Zhuiyuan: "Today you will be able to see it."

After a brief silence, the human face watched the youth still setting up the formation step by step. For some reason, it began to believe; it believed this youth could set up a formation within a formation.

"You still have to die with me, if you want to refine me here!"

"Come bit by bit, eat mouthful by mouthful, first weaken you a part. After you can no longer pose a threat to this formation outside, I can leave here and go outside."

"Then do you know the other reason I chose to enter actively?"

The movements in Li Zhuiyuan's hands paused for a moment, and he nodded: "I know."

"You know?"

"Mm."

"What do you know?"

"That dog didn't die. The transplantation of memory is not borrowing a corpse to return the soul. You moved all the memories belonging to you out, which doesn't mean it died."

"Actually, I have always had a problem, which is that I cannot control and exert its strength well. That dog back then was very fierce; after all, it was able to follow that person.

My existence, on the contrary, suppressed its power. When I am not there, its instinct will reappear!"

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head and said indifferently:

"It's just a mad dog whose body has long rotted and whose memory is completely gone."

"It seems you really have confidence in your subordinates."

"Mm, because I am the one who can fight the least in my team."

Li Zhuiyuan selectively told the truth. In fact, his command ability was incomparably important to the team.

But here, it wasn't a big problem; after all, the extra-departmental captain was here.

Human face: "Perhaps we can reach some new tacit understanding."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Sorry, what gave you this illusion?"

Human face: "There is something on you that is calling me."

Li Zhuiyuan pondered for a while, took out the Wordless Book, and flipped to the first page. Mm, currently, the Wordless Book only had content on this first page.

It was still the cage scene, but the "Evil Book" today wasn't a skeleton, but had turned into a charming woman wearing a long dress, leaning against the side of the bed, deliberately exposing her lotus-root arms and thighs from the skirt, blowing air at the outside of the painting with her vermilion lips, her fingers hooking seductively.

On both sides of the cage, there were two couplets hanging, written:

"The flower path has never been swept for guests; the reed door opens for you today."

The "Evil Book" was fully exerting its subjective initiative, actively helping Li Zhuiyuan solicit guests.

Of course, it definitely wasn't lonely and wanted to find a neighbor to find a companion; it should be hungry.

The monkey originally locked in the cage on the second page had long been swallowed clean by it; now the second page was a piece of empty, smooth, and clean white.

What was interesting was that this human face was also unusual, actually being able to perceive the Wordless Book, and even producing a response with the prisoner locked inside.

Given that you are so jumpy, and so energetic...

Li Zhuiyuan placed his finger on the book page, and the expression of the woman in the painting changed, a look of disbelief and being greatly hurt in love.

It was as if she was silently crying, I have helped you like this, how can you still treat me like this?

It was mainly that the "Evil Book" ignored one thing, or perhaps it couldn't form resonance at its level, which was that while walking the river, Li Zhuiyuan, due to his special identity now, had room for maneuver for some dirty things before, but now it was absolutely impossible to do them.

He absolutely couldn't have the slightest collusion with this evil spirit on the river waves, and there was no need to destroy his current tacit understanding with the Heavenly Dao for this thing.

Under rapid absorption, Li Zhuiyuan's formation-setting speed accelerated a lot, and the beautiful woman in the book also gradually turned back into a red-powder skeleton.

The color tone of the entire page of the cage became dim, and dew condensed and dripped on the walls, like aggrieved crying.

Seeing this scene, Li Zhuiyuan, who originally intended to move his finger away, continued to keep his finger on it.

It seems that not sucking for a few days made it a bit too energetic now; it had to be thoroughly squeezed dry.

Human face: "I have seen many madmen who only have the banner of the righteous path in their hearts; without exception, their endings are very tragic."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Is it tragic or heroic?"

"What's the difference?"

"The former can also be a kind of enjoyment. Additionally, if you want to chat, you can chat with me about Yu Tiannan; I am more interested in that."

"His dog has always been very loyal to him."

"Oh?"

"But only loyal to him, not loyal to the Yu family."

"So when he fell, that dog became free?"

"Correct. Do you know? The Yu family has always had a tradition, which is that after a Yu family member dies, his attendant monster must be buried with him.

Because the Yu family knows very well that loyalty to the master is not equivalent to loyalty to the family.

Yu Tiannan respected this tradition but didn't carry it out.

Or rather, he was a dying man after all, and unwilling to extend his life, so he walked before that dog.

That dog, in the beginning, was extremely disdainful of me, helping Yu Tiannan suppress and kill me at all costs. But after Yu Tiannan died, I keenly sensed that it had changed.

If Yu Tiannan had died a little later, the one who should have been thoroughly extinguished would have been me, and he would have been able to be buried here with his dog.

Unfortunately, in this world, there are no ifs.

I am really curious whether the current Yu family has undergone some interesting changes."

Li Zhuiyuan didn't answer it.

Human face: "It seems the changes are great. It's truly an honor; I actually managed to guide a huge wave that could shake the Long Wang's courtyard."

Li Zhuiyuan still kept his head down, seriously setting up the formation.

Human face: "Do you know what the Long Wang's courtyard implies?"

Li Zhuiyuan took another look at the Wordless Book; the "Evil Book" on the first page had been thoroughly squeezed dry, and the extra furnishings in the cell had all disappeared.

Putting away the Wordless Book, Li Zhuiyuan said while continuing to take out formation flags: "You can ask me my identity directly; no need to probe. I am willing to tell you."

The human face immediately flew in front of Li Zhuiyuan and asked in a low voice:

"Your age is not faked; you are really at this age, and you are so proficient in the way of formations, which carries a foundation. Then, are you also from the Long Wang family?"

"Mm."

"Which Long Wang family?"

"Qin."

The human face's expression became grave: "As expected of..."

"And Liu."

The human face was horrified.

Outside, Runsheng and the others looked at this pitch-black big eggshell, not knowing what to do.

Runsheng looked at Tan Wenbin; Tan Wenbin had been by Xiaoyuan's side and had also been learning formations.

Tan Wenbin: "I can't even understand this color..."

Immediately, Tan Wenbin looked at Bai He Guarding Zhenjun.

Bai He Guarding Zhenjun hugged his arms, the mark on his brow squeezed into a "chuan" character, and said very seriously and earnestly:

"This Lord thinks it's best not to move rashly."

Runsheng: "Nonsense."

Then, everyone collectively looked at Zhao Yi in the distance.

Zhao Yi walked over with a smile and stretched: "Come, let me see. It should be that the formation pressure is too great; the Li-surnamed one has to maintain the formation inside and doesn't dare to go out. The solution is also simple, which is to set up a larger formation outside to cover it."

Tan Wenbin asked: "How long will it take?"

Zhao Yi: "If the Li-surnamed one sets it up, it should be much faster. I will be slower than him..."

Speaking of this, Zhao Yi's voice paused. He suddenly thought of one thing, which was that after that evil spirit was sucked in by the Li-surnamed one, did the wolfdog really die?

Zhao Yi turned around immediately and shouted to the Liang sisters: "Quick, smash it into ten thousand pieces!"

Just as this was shouted out, the Liang sisters didn't even have time to make any reaction before the wolfdog on the ground began to overflow with a large amount of white fog, carrying a terrifying temperature.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Yi felt a sense of relief in his heart. Admittedly, a very bad situation was about to happen, but on the other hand, it also showed that he hadn't caused a crisis because he didn't smash it into ten thousand pieces in time; this guy had been awake all along!

After the white fog dissipated, a figure walked out from inside.

He was naked, not wearing any clothes. Besides yellow fur on his body, there were dense tattoos. Looking closely, one could find that every tattoo was a trace of rot on his body, which also made his body permeate with thick death energy.

In his eyes, there was a bit of confusion, but more was vigilance.

His original memory had been erased, and the evil spirit had left this body. Now he was the little yellow dog that had truly "revived."

Out of a vigilance toward the unknown world environment, he had been carefully observing just now, until a man released killing intent toward his "corpse."

Following natural instinct, he stood up to face the source of his threat.

Then, as if sensing something, he lowered his head and looked at his lower body.

After looking for a long time, when he raised his head again, his expression was angry, and his gaze was like fire.

Strong killing intent vented from his body, targeting everyone present.

Tan Wenbin said: "Young Master Zhao, do you think that if you push yourself, the veterinarian, out, it can calm his anger?"

Bai He Guarding Zhenjun nodded.

Runsheng checked the connection of the Yellow Jiang Shui Shovel, confirmed it was correct, picked it up, and waved it.

Yin Meng picked up the two Exorcism Whips again and stepped back a few steps, but after looking at Zhao Yi, she stepped back forward.

Liang Yan and Liang Li looked at Tan Wenbin with vigilant eyes, their faces filled with indignation.

The betrayal of an ally is harder to accept than a fierce enemy.

What's more, Zhao Yi had a verbal marriage contract with their family, so theoretically, Zhao Yi was their future husband. Even if it was only a one-half probability, if Zhao Yi died, according to the tradition of both families for the sake of face, it meant that they had a one-half probability of being a widow.

Zhao Yi, the person involved, wasn't nervous at all. Not only did he not state the pros and cons, saying that if this thing were released and started a massacre or massive destruction, no one would be able to escape the causal connection, but he took the initiative to laugh out loud and nodded to Tan Wenbin:

"Hahaha, good, I'll go ask him."

Young Master Zhao really went to ask. He first pointed to himself below and said: "I have."

Then, he pointed to the other party below and said: "Yours, don't have."

The fur on the other party's body all stood up, the skin presented a deep red color that was hot, and along with the tattoos on his body, large areas of festering pus began to appear.

Opening his mouth, revealing incomplete fangs, a low growl came from his throat:

"Die, die, die!"

Liang Yan and Liang Li looked at Zhao Yi in confusion. They didn't understand why, even at this point, Zhao Yi still had to actively provoke the other party. Was he really planning to continue to take the anger and carry it himself?

Tan Wenbin clapped his hands and shouted: "Alright, everyone to your positions."

Runsheng held the Yellow Jiang Shui Shovel and stood in front of Zhao Yi.

Yin Meng took out the poison jar and stood diagonally behind Zhao Yi.

Tan Wenbin, supported by the two children, sat in the position behind Zhao Yi.

Even Lin Shu, who looked down on Zhao Yi the most, was holding his twin maces at this moment, taking the initiative to stand behind Runsheng, which was diagonally in front of Zhao Yi.

After a round of positioning, it was the Liang sisters who didn't know where to stand, feeling like they were outsiders.

Tan Wenbin shouted:

"Young Master Zhao, now, you command!"

Zhao Yi's mouth corners, this time, really couldn't be pressed down no matter what, and they went straight up.

He had always coveted the team configuration of the Li-surnamed one, and even his own team building was a bit modeled after this place. Moreover, the Li-surnamed one was sometimes really decent, and after improving the team's strength, he could still give himself the opportunity to command.

Toys in other people's hands often look more fun, and plus, they were indeed much better than what he had in his own hands. Otherwise, the one lying in the hospital shouldn't have been Xu Ming but Lin Shu.

Zhao Yi: "Liang Yan, Liang Li stay back, listen to my orders to provide support."

The sisters took a deep breath, feeling depressed, but still stood aside obediently.

Immediately after, Zhao Yi looked at Yin Meng: "You can summon bugs now, right?"

Yin Meng: "How do you know?"

Zhao Yi pointed to the Liang sisters: "They secretly told me."

Yin Meng: "The previously reserved flesh and blood are used up. To summon bugs, I need flesh and blood sacrifices."

Zhao Yi: "Come, Mengmeng, look there..."

Yin Meng looked in the direction of Zhao Yi's finger and saw the two huge meat balls on the ground.

Previously, they had detached from the wolfdog's body, so when it vaporized into a human form, they were still kept in place.

Zhao Yi: "Mengmeng, do you think those two can be sacrificed?"

Yin Meng swallowed hard. Even though she didn't have any feelings for her ancestors, this kind of thing was still a bit beyond the scope of what she could accept.

Tan Wenbin, sitting in the back, only felt that Young Master Zhao was worthy of being Young Master Zhao, because ordinary people couldn't think of this kind of operation at all.

Sacrificing two dog balls to the Great Emperor of Fengdu?

Yin Meng: "I..."

Zhao Yi: "Can try, right? Look at that guy covered in festering pus. If we can summon bugs to deal with it, the effect will definitely be very good."

Yin Meng: "But..."

Tan Wenbin said: "Mengmeng, listen to Young Master Zhao, just do as Young Master Zhao means."

Since even Tan Wenbin had spoken, Yin Meng had to nod: "Alright, I'll try."

At the same time, Yin Meng also heard Tan Wenbin's subtext.

That was, every time she finished summoning bugs after sacrificing, she would add another table of offerings to apologize to her ancestors. When burning paper at that time, she would directly tell the ancestors:

This was all Jiujiang Zhao Yi's idea!

Tan Wenbin planned it this way. Young Master Zhao only knew from the Liang sisters that Yin Meng needed flesh and blood as a sacrifice to summon bugs, and didn't know that this was directly sacrificing to the Great Emperor of Fengdu.

You have to know, even if Brother Xiaoyuan utilized the Great Emperor, at least on the surface, he would maintain the proper etiquette. After Young Master Zhao pulled this move this time...

Tan Wenbin felt that later, when they couldn't delay and had to go to Fengdu, they would definitely be able to meet Zhao Yi in the Ghost City.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Continuous vibrations came from outside, the movement seeping into the black eggshell.

The fight had started, but it was still continuing.

The human face was very anxious.

This meant that the mad dog without memory and with a rotten body might really not have the ability to break through the interception of the youth's subordinates.

Then it would have to continue to stay here, waiting for the youth to set up the formation and solve it bit by bit.

This was an ending it couldn't accept, the most aggrieved ending.

Human face: "Finally, give you one last chance."

Li Zhuiyuan: "No need."

Human face: "I can modify your memory."

Li Zhuiyuan: "Since entering the formation, you have tried many times on me. Is it because my will is firm enough that you can't make a move?"

That dog back then should have actively let it transplant the memory and didn't resist.

Human face: "I can die together with you and destroy you."

The darkness all around began to boil.

Li Zhuiyuan sensed consciousness like ocean waves beginning to madly invade his brain; the ferocity of the incoming force was simply impossible to block.

The youth stopped the action of setting up the formation and arrived in his own consciousness.

Very absurd and bizarre, Li Zhuiyuan stood in a familiar field, with black heavy rain constantly falling from the sky.

The rainwater formed puddles around him, and in the puddles, segments of his past memory images were presented.

They were being madly modified.

Soon, the youth's cognition appeared a bit blurred, and this kind of blur would continue to expand.

Human face: "This is what you forced me to do."

Li Zhuiyuan didn't shout, didn't curse, and didn't even show much anger.

The youth turned around and walked toward home.

He left the field, walked onto the dam, walked into the house, and arrived on the second floor.

Brain fog was forming, and the constant blurring of self-cognition gave him a dizzy feeling like being drunk.

Li Zhuiyuan reached out and knocked on the door of his room.

An impatient voice came from inside:

"What?"

"Open the door, hiding from the rain."

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It's a new month. I'm asking everyone for the guaranteed monthly tickets that have been refreshed. Hugging everyone tight!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 262 =====