Chapter 24 Filthy air

 Chapter 24 Filthy air

By Jiulu Feixiang,

Translated, Edited and Arranged by Angel Chua 10/11/2024

According to Xingzhi, one of the remaining two seals was under the training platform in the camp, which was a stone statue of the earth-suppressing beast. She asked all the soldiers in the camp to retreat three miles outside the camp. When she was about to leave, Xingzhi waved her hand and asked her to stay: "It takes a little time to bless this seal, and it cannot be interrupted. You stay by my side to protect me, and don't let anyone disturb me."

The soldiers had all retreated three miles away, who would dare to disturb you... Shen Li opened her mouth, but the words were choked in her stomach. She stood aside in silence, quietly watching Xingzhi put his hand on the head of the earth-suppressing beast. Just like the previous two seals, the light suddenly appeared, and the ground under his feet trembled. But this time Shen Li did not pay attention to the changes around her, but only stared at Xingzhi's profile, and she didn't know what emotions were deposited in her dark eyes.

The dry sandy land gradually became moist, and grass slowly grew from the corners of each tent. Gradually, the air around gradually became clean. However, unlike the previous two times, Shen Li did not feel much lighter in her heart. Instead, she felt that she was about to be drained of strength by this pure air.

However, this feeling only appeared for a moment, and Shen Li did not care. After Xingzhi finished the spell, she withdrew her gaze indifferently, turned around and walked forward: "Go to Xutianyuan. After the affairs here are completed, I should also return to the court to confess my crime."

Xingzhi looked at her indifferent back, his eyes slightly fixed.

Shen Li had not really been to Xutianyuan, and the place where she killed the scorpion-tailed fox last time was still some distance away from Xutianyuan. Therefore, when Shen Li looked up and saw the huge black gap extending to the sky, she could not help but be stunned. Thick black miasma continued to pour out from the gap, but the three-way seal had been reawakened, suppressing the speed of the miasma overflow, making it disappear very quickly after pouring out. But even so, the miasma here still makes people who approach it feel depressed. It is conceivable how bad the situation here was before the seal was awakened.

Xutianyuan is different from the Snow Sacrifice Temple, which was forged according to natural forces. Xutianyuan is another space torn out from this world. It is a huge cage torn out by the person next to her. It imprisoned monsters that are several times or even hundreds of times stronger than the scorpion-tailed fox.

Shen Li's eyes sank slightly, and she turned slightly, and saw the person next to her step forward. The wind from the miasma disturbed his robe and hair, but it could not disturb the firmness and indifference between his eyebrows.

It really is... exactly the same.

Shen Li was distracted for a moment, but saw Xingzhi frowning slightly on his face as he looked up at the sky. Shen Li asked sensitively, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, it's just that this place is a little worse than I expected." Xingzhi took two steps forward, stretched out his right hand, and slowly tightened his five fingers, "But it doesn't matter." As soon as he finished speaking, there was a "swish" sound, and a ray of light jumped out of the ground and suddenly drilled into Xingzhi's palm.

Shen Li looked closely and found that it was a rusty iron chain. One end of the chain was held by Xingzhi, and the other end was still connected to the ground. Xingzhi chanted a spell and moved his wrist slightly. The rust on the iron chain faded away, and the chain was tight. Shen Li heard a rumbling sound coming from deep underground. There were chains on both sides of the huge black gap, and the miasma was blocked from flowing out. Without the miasma blocking the sight, Shen Li saw that the gap was actually only two feet wide, and it was slowly narrowing under the pull of the iron chain.

Suddenly, a very piercing roar came from the Xutianyuan. Shen Li's heart tightened, and she reached out her hand. The red tassel spear instantly appeared in her palm. She was on guard, but she heard Xingzhi calmly say, "Don't worry, they can't get out."

Before he finished speaking, there were screams coming from inside, accompanied by a huge crash, shaking the cracks in the Xutian Abyss, causing the earth to tremble continuously. Shen Li almost felt the surging murderous aura leaking out, mixed with the hatred of being imprisoned for a thousand years, wanting to rush out and kill Xingzhi as soon as possible. Shen Li frowned, and her hand holding the red tassel spear was so hard that it turned white. Suddenly, the iron chain in Xingzhi's hand shook, and the roar of the monster seemed to be mixed with a human voice. At first, it was very small and vague, making it difficult to hear clearly. When Xingzhi chanted the spell, the iron chain shone with a very dazzling white light, and the trembling from the Xutian Abyss became more and more intense.

Shen Li's heartbeat followed the trembling involuntarily, and the voice rushed out like a seal, screaming in her ear: "I will kill God! I will kill God!"

The voice was shrill and disturbing, like a devil's voice, drilling into Shen Li's ears, constantly echoing in her mind, making her headache splitting. Even if Shen Li was trying to be strong, she couldn't help but hold her forehead with one hand. She closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, her pupils turned bloody. It seemed that someone had stirred up a surging murderous aura in her heart, and she wanted to find a battlefield to fight happily, and she longed for blood to wash away the turmoil in her heart...

Xingzhi's white clothes fluttered, and he didn't even look behind him. He just chanted the last spell without changing his expression, loosened the iron chain, and the iron chain with a blazing white light was pulled into the ground. Then the light on the iron chains on both sides of the gap surged, and the roar of the monster inside was almost screaming, but it stopped abruptly at the most noisy moment!

At the same time, a clear and bright air suddenly broke into Shen Li's body. Its force was brutal. Unlike the previous seals that made people feel like spring breeze, it sank directly on Shen Li's chest, smashing the bloodthirsty intention that had just surged inexplicably. It forced Shen Li to spit out a mouthful of black blood. The blood fell to the ground, and a white mist rose like boiling water, and disappeared.

After the breeze passed, everything was quiet.

The huge gap also closed a distance of only two fingers wide. The sky was clear. If you didn't pay attention, you wouldn't find that this was the Xutianyuan that sealed thousands of monsters.

Shen Li was stunned: "This is..."

Xingzhi took out a white towel from his sleeve and handed it to Shen Li: "Filthy air."

Shen Li took the white towel in a daze, held it in his hand, looked at it for a long time before putting it to his lips and wiping the blood stains from the corners of his mouth. She looked up at Xingzhi, but saw that he had already walked to the front of the Xutian Abyss. He reached out and gently stroked the two chains beside the gap: "You fought with the scorpion-tailed fox before, and was swallowed by it. Your body was infected with miasma. Because you are a member of the Immortal Realm clan, you are very easy to be corroded by miasma. When I reshape the seal, I can also remove the miasma in your body."

Shen Li suddenly realized: "So, do you have to let me lead the way?" She looked at Xingzhi steadily, her eyes sank, "Just for this?"

"Yes, just for this."

Shen Li was silent. Xingzhi turned his head and looked at Shen Li, and said lightly: "The seal of fire is in the Xutian Abyss. The miasma in the prince's body has been removed. You don't need to follow me in. You can go back to the camp to reorganize the army. After the matter here is finished, I will return to the heaven. From now on, there is no need to trouble the prince anymore."

The wind passed between the two of them and blew away the white towel in Shen Li's hand. She stared at Xingzhi, clasped her fists, and said indifferently, "Thank you, Lord God, for helping the Immortal Realm world this time." After that, her hair swung in a beautiful arc in the air, and she turned and left without hesitation.

Because she didn't look back, she didn't know how far Xingzhi had quietly turned his head and watched her go.

That night, the moon was bright. Shen Li tidied up in the tent and was about to lie down. Suddenly, she saw someone pacing back and forth outside the curtain. She called out, "Come in." The figure outside froze, and finally lifted the curtain to enter the tent. Shang Bei saw Shen Li, and thought about being tactful, but the words still came out: "Little Prince, you just let Lord Xingzhi go like this!"

Shen Li glanced at him calmly: "If the Lord God wants to leave, how can I stop him?"

"Oh!" Shang Bei stomped his feet in regret, "If I had known this, I should have talked to the Lord God earlier!"

"What?" Shen Li sneered, "It's only been a few days, and you have fallen in love with the Lord God of Xingzhi?" As soon as the words came out, Shen Li was shocked by himself, and Shang Bei was also shocked, and then scratched his head and said, "The little prince's words are getting more and more surprising. How dare Shang Bei have such thoughts. I just think that the capital is also troubled by miasma now. If we can invite the Lord God to go to the capital, even if we don't cast a spell to remove the miasma, it can make the capital clean for a while." He shook his head and sighed, "I wanted to take my wife to look at the moon."

Shen Li was silent.

After Shang Bei left, Shen Li suddenly lost all sleepiness. She walked out of the tent alone and walked around the military camp for a few rounds. Tomorrow, the soldiers from the capital will return to the court. Everyone is reluctant to leave the breeze and bright moon. Most of them sit outside the tent, chatting or drinking, imagining how nice it would be if there were such scenery everywhere in the Immortal Realm world. Shen Li just walked past them quietly, thinking that Xingzhi should have left the Immortal Realm world. After leaving the military camp, she looked up at the bright moon. I don't know what I was thinking, but an impulse in my heart drove straight to the Xutianyuan.

The air here is much cleaner. If it weren't for the two rows of chains emitting a faint light in the dark, Shen Li would almost not be able to see the narrow gap. Xingzhi

must have left. Reaching out and touching the two chains, Shen Li felt that she was probably sick. Knowing that there was no one, she still ran over. She laughed at herself and just wanted to pull her hand away, but the wind from the gap shook her hair.

Shen Li was startled and smelled a strange smell at the tip of her nose. She frowned and looked up at the darkness in the gap. Another gust of wind blew from inside.

This breath... is very familiar.

Shen Li was concentrating on recalling, and suddenly, an eye suddenly appeared in the gap. Shen Li was startled and wanted to retreat, but her ankle seemed to be caught, and she couldn't escape no matter how she struggled. The eye showed extremely strong emotions, like happiness and madness.

Shen Li had a lot of combat experience. Except for the initial surprise, she immediately stabilized her mind. The palm of her hand was shining, and the silver spear turned in the moonlight in her hand, and she stabbed the eye in the gap without hesitation. But unexpectedly, Shen Li's spear didn't land on the ground, but seemed to pierce into the swamp. When she was about to pull out the tip of the spear, she felt a strong force inside holding the silver spear tightly.

Shen Li gritted her teeth and was about to use her magic power, but the dragging force under her feet suddenly increased, and before Shen Li could call out, she was dragged in.

A breeze blew by, leaving nothing behind outside the cracks in Xutianyuan.

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