Double world undercurrent

Chapter 52 Chapter 52
The sky in another world is like a layer of gray cloth, and the low pressure covers the vast territory.About [-] kilometers away from the Demon Palace on the Sea, there is a city adjacent to the capital—Fengcheng, which is one of the economic cities in the other world.

The whole city is naturally divided into three conical floating islands of different heights, suspended above the billowing magma.

The Weeping Prison was built at the bottom of the lowest floating island, so it got its name from the sound of howling ghosts and wolves that often came from inside.All the prisoners here are serious criminals, and it is one of the few prisons where torture is kept after the new devil Ming Shuo took office.

At this time, an interrogator with deep mountain roots and eagle eyes stood up unhurriedly, stared numbly at the black humanoid ashes on the floor of the torture room, and ordered the prison guards beside him to clean it up.

He has seen too many people who couldn't bear the torture, and died just after spit out a useful piece of information.The instant spontaneous combustion into ashes like this is the result of violating the oath of the secrecy spell.

The person who gave him the Immediate Secrecy Curse should have sensed that the information has been leaked... I hope that information is still useful.

When the ashes of the rebellious party disappeared from his eyes, the interrogator couldn't help thinking.

This is the No.2 prisoner he tortured today. The previous prisoner was named Ye Guizong. Like the woman named Lan Youzi last night, she was a tough nut to crack. No useful information at all.

However, even so, the two opposing parties still have value.

When the other world supported the witches to deal with the dark energy ghouls, the demon king proposed an exchange condition to the old wizard. In addition to requiring all the connection channels between the present world and the other world to be guarded by the other world, he also asked the witches to take the seven leftover The weapon of war was handed over to another world for "keeping".

The Wu Clan people are full of tricks, so the higher-ups asked that some death row prisoners be selected to test the authenticity of the Wu Clan's magical artifacts.

An hour ago, the envoys of the Wu clan came to another world to fulfill their promises, and were received by officials from the Foreign Office.The two rebels who had lost their interrogation value were arranged to be escorted to the capital in advance together with other death row prisoners.

The torture officer fluttered his blue robe, turned back to the table, and was about to interrogate the next rebel. At this time, bad news spread from the prison:

The two rebels who were escorted to test the magic weapon together escaped after being teleported to the city! !

The interrogator was taken aback.

Before they were released from the prison, they were diagnosed by the prison doctor as insane and insane. They were covered in bruises and their limbs were broken. How could they escape? !

"They are all wearing spiritual power handcuffs. It is said that they can't use their spiritual power along the way..."

"When the escorts were counting the prisoners in the backyard of the Foreign Office, they found that the two rebels had fled, leaving only two puppets that were exactly like the real one in place..."

"This is the puppet's trick..."

The wardens speculate...

At this moment, outside the main entrance of the Diplomatic Mansion decorated with black crystal stone carvings in the urban area of ​​the capital, tens of kilometers away, diplomat Xi Yuan is standing in a slim purple robe, with short hair combed back meticulously, and round cheekbones. towering.

He bent his eyes and smiled, and politely watched the Wu clan's envoys leave on their way back. In the procession of seeing the envoys, the two envoys walking at the back patted the back of their robes at the same time, as if something had suddenly penetrated into them. When he seemed to be inside his clothes, the smile in his eyes froze for a moment.

He successfully attached the spy seal to the two envoys.This curse seal will not leave traces on the body surface, and can last for a month. If the possessed person finds something is wrong, it will be automatically released without leaving traces of the spell.

He did this at the will of the Demon Lord.The secret bases of the Wu Clan, the hidden places of magic tools and magic books, have all set up strict exorcism formations, and recently strengthened the precautionary measures, making it difficult for spies to lurk in.

And once his spy seal is attached to a person, it will not be recognized by the exorcism formation, and it can also be like an invisible pinhole camera, transmitting what the possessed sees and hears to the caster, and at the same time Shared with designated agents.

"Has your Highness returned to the Demon Palace yet?"

After the mission of the Wu clan disappeared from sight, Xi Yuan turned his head and asked the attendants beside him.

"Not yet, my lord."

Xi Yuan frowned slightly, his eyes darkened, and when he turned to enter the door, he ordered:
"Those magic tools of the witch family are genuine... You should first transport them to the arsenal and store them carefully..."

"Yes, my lord..."

After the heavy gate of the Diplomatic Palace was closed, two blue moths fluttered away from the carved pillar in front of the steps.

"If you were more proficient at that time, we wouldn't fly so slowly now."

"In that case, it is not easy for me to quietly transfer the bone fracture and insanity to the puppet."

These two phantom moths communicated silently in mid-air, moving up and down cautiously to avoid the transparent grid-shaped manifesting magic spell not far from the steps.

"The password of a sigil agency has been leaked...why can't I get in touch with Zhuyan?"

"Maybe a blocking barrier has been opened in the dark cave... Don't be so anxious, Lan Youzi, right now...their people are probably more anxious than us..."

They carefully flew past the Appearance Charm...

At the same time, in the southern part of the capital city, hidden in the deep underground dark cave at the southern foot of Chilian Mountain, on the edge of the still calm dark lake, the spell symbols around the lake were rearranged along the shoreline of the lake.

The invisible formation is like a huge net, covering the entire dark cave, and a tense spell mist flows in the air, wafting out from behind the rocks at the corner of the dark cave.

"Bringing her to the altar is not the only way to break His Highness's seal... Right now we have to make two preparations..."

After Zhu Yan checked the stability of the formation, he lay in ambush behind the piled rocks, turned his head and said to Wu Ye and other subordinates beside him.

"But the activation conditions for this formation are too limited. What if the demon king's guards break in before that time?"

Wu Ye raised his hand to straighten the black slanted eyepatch, and murmured.The exposed right eye stared piercingly at the lake.

"Look at the situation... If it's appropriate, we'll go up and 'sprinkle oil'..."

There was a dark smile on Zhu Yan's dark thick eyebrows and square face.

The Mirror Shadow Demon hadn't appeared yet, so he probably wanted to wait for them to attack first, so that one side would weaken the other first, or the two sides would weaken each other, Zhu Yan thought to himself.

That monster has fallen into isolation since the moment it betrayed the water.Although his primary target is the Demon King, he does not want Leng Yi to break the seal now, because he understands that as a traitor, Leng Yi will not let him go.

Now, for the Mirror Shadow Demon, taking away the soul of the Demon King and replacing him is the most important thing.Only in that way can he truly belong to this world, without having to be afraid of his own projection.In the process, as long as Gu Xiaoxing doesn't fall into the hands of Leng Yi and his gang, it doesn't matter whether he lives or dies in the end.

But for Zhuyan, as long as Gu Xiaoxing is guaranteed to be alive and not disabled, it is enough to break Leng Yi's seal. As for who will live and who will die in the end between the devil king and the mirror image, it is not as important as helping Leng Yi return to the world.

Candle Flame's eyes quickly moved from the invisible formation that overlapped with the blocking barrier on the top of the wall, visible only to the caster, to the abnormally calm lake:

"Remember our purpose... don't love to fight... let alone expose the location of the core base..."

he said warily.

The empty dark cave is extremely quiet, and a fog-like one-way barrier screen has risen at the surrounding passage openings, turning this place into a closed loop where you can only enter but not exit, and you can only go out unless you know the password.

On the dark and rugged rock wall, the phantom flames flickered quietly...

Suddenly, the calm surface of the lake was rippling with waves, and then, the water in the whole lake became agitated, surging waves like sea water!

Those rising waves converged to form countless huge palms, which turned from transparent to turbid, flowing with black miasma, protruding out of the lake, waving and beating in all directions unstoppably, where the rocks cracked, covered by candle flames. The barrier in front of the group was smashed to pieces instantly!
"boom!"

They summoned their shields to dodge, set up their stances, and ignited aura light spells of different colors all over their bodies. The seals changed into several energy waves, crisscrossed in the air, drew sharp star tails, and rushed towards the giant palm of the shocking wave in the lake. , trying to "break" its roots.

"Bang!" "Bang!"

The powerful impact caused waves to splash in all directions, and the waving giant palms continued to fill with thick miasma, and then turned to slap the energy waves formed by the physical body.Candle flames fiercely defeated the bases of several giant palms, and when they nimbly dodged and shuttled among the dense "wave hands", they saw four companions being caught by different giant palms, unable to escape.

"Pfft!"

They were actually crushed alive by the giant water wave palm!

Zhu Yan's heart was shocked: How much energy has been recovered by the Demon King!
He glanced at the formation above his head, it hadn't reached the activation condition, and then turned to look to the other side, hitting into the "Wave Hand", he swept up a tail of dark purple energy Wu Ye, and rushed towards him at high speed Say:

"You cover, I'm going to heat up the lake..."

"it is good."

For a brief moment, Zhu Yan turned his direction, and under the cover of the dense criss-crossing behind him, he broke through the chaos and rushed towards the lake-circling symbol on the other side of the dark lake.

He cast a spell on one of the sigils remotely, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Gu Xiaoxing's figure covered with a shield. Under the cover of his giant palm, he quickly moved through the sigils of the spell, as if he was looking for something.

Like a flaming flint, the candle flame obliquely slammed into the blind spot of Gu Xiaoxing's vision!
"Whoosh!"

Half of her shield was burned, and her whole body was knocked against the rock wall. Suspended in pain, Zhu Yan turned around to control her elbow, and her palm was empty!

Her empty eyes startled him, no, this is just her false image!

Just as he realized that he had hit the timing, Jinglang's giant palm slammed down from behind him, hitting his upper back with a painful blow, knocking him into the water, and the fire shield went out.

At this time, the water in the lake heated up rapidly under the effect of the seal mechanism. Zhu Yan had a huge pain in the back of his head, and he vomited blood from his wounds and stained the lake water. He didn't care about so much. superior.

At the same time, at the opposite side of the dark lake, the real Gu Xiaoxing found the sigil that had sent her here before.When she was underwater, Ming Shuo created a false image for her, which was used to confuse the public, and to cover her looking for the sigil that could be sent back to the stalactite dark cave.

The splashing water soaked the shield, and she felt the temperature of the water becoming hot.

The water temperature rose rapidly, and Ming Shuo also escaped from the water surface. Under the cover of the water waves, he hung and leaped in front of Gu Xiaoxing, dodging several sweeping curses.

"I found it, Ming Shuo, it's this teleportation sigil!"

Gu Xiaoxing asked him to stand on Lan Youyou's seal together, and the two spells brushed against her shield, clanging.

"let's go……"

Ming Shuo used the memory he found from the mirror image to cast a spell to activate the teleportation sigil, intending to leave here quickly.

The chaotic sound suddenly disappeared with the movement of their feet, and everything around them was plunged into darkness. They felt that they were going up, and soon, a ray of light jumped in front of them, and a dark cave full of stalactites came into view.

"Your Highness!"

A group of guards in armor seemed to have just stepped out of the Lost Barrier, and happened to be standing at the entrance of the opposite passage.When they saw the devil and the princess suddenly appear from behind the stalactites, they were pleasantly surprised!
Gu Xiaoxing seemed to see hope, feeling that they were about to escape from this dark underground hole, but before she had time to react, she didn't even step on her feet, suddenly, the shield burst inexplicably, and a strong force pulled her back, she was surprised He looked at Ming Shuo beside him.

"Xin'er!"

Ming Shuo quickly took her hand, but everything around him began to spin away again, and he was plunged into the darkness together, and his feet began to sink uncontrollably.

The familiar scene came into view again, and they bounced back to the edge of the dark lake for no reason, as if they were tied with elastic ropes! ! !
"how so?!"

Gu Xiaoxing swayed lightly on the soles of his feet, and his soaring little emotions suddenly fell to the bottom, and he even blamed himself strongly in his heart: If Mingshuo hadn't let Mingshuo hold her, he wouldn't have been brought back with her inexplicably.

Several spells swept across from all directions, she gritted her teeth to hold back the pain from the unhealed wound, and jumped up, but she was still slow, seeing two sharp light spells piercing straight!

At the time of danger, Ming Shuo's majestic and heroic posture turned to block her in front of her, and Ying Liao caught her with a spell to control her, fluttering her phantom robe, and swung it out fiercely.

"They should have set up a formation..."

Mingshuo is glad that he returned with her instead of leaving her to face all this alone.

"Is it unexpected, princess? Even the devil can't take you away from here!"

Wu Ye's provocative voice came to his ears from the left side, and the flying spells rushed from all sides again!

In a very short moment, Gu Xiaoxing saw Mingshuo swiftly swipe around for a circle, and a phantom clone appeared in the place he passed.

"Boom!"

The aura of Cloud Piercer and Cracking Stone exploded along with the phantom, swallowing the curse and blasting it back.Leng Yi's subordinates who surrounded them were all thrown into the air, or hit heavily on the rock wall, or fell into the already calm dark lake water.

"Ouch……"

The sound of eating pain came and went.

Mingshuo's chest was filled with anger, he raised his hand and grabbed Wu Ye from the air, grabbed his collar tightly, his eyes were cold and he said aggressively:
"Let her out, otherwise, I will let you all be wiped out."

Wu Ye didn't dare to act rashly for a while, his eyes could not help but glance over the top of the wall.His previous provocation was not a quick talk, but something else.Now being pinched by the Demon King at close range, although his hands and feet are not restrained, he is still suppressed by his aura and dare not move.

"Let...let her out...not so..."

The invisible formation has not yet been activated. He can only force someone to come out by provoking death, testing himself, and speeding up the fight. It devours, if that is the case, I don't know how much energy he will recover...

"...it's not that... easy..."

The hateful figure who was looking forward to appearing finally cut into sight, and swung a fan-shaped wave of curses from behind the Demon King!
Ming Shuo caught the glimpse in Wu Ye's eyes, noticed something strange behind him, and heard Gu Xiaoxing's reminder sound coming from behind, accompanied by the crack of the shield!
He immediately turned around, only to see the shattered shield still blocking him, the charming and heroic figure who was about to be hit by the curse wave hugged him by the waist with one hand, and threw Wu Ye, who was trying to attack, in time with the other hand.

"boom!"

Wu Ye suffered this almost fatal blow, his skin was torn apart and his back was broken.If he hadn't converted the attack spell into armor at that moment, he would be dead now.

Ming Shuo also had lingering fears about that moment just now, and really wanted to wantonly "teach" Gu Xiaoxing in his arms.

"Devil Lord, I have lost patience with you..."

The Mirror Image Shadow Demon bypassed the fallen Wu Ye, rolling up a burst of piercing aura and attacking him head-on.

"Shadow Demon, I will make you pay for your arrogance!"

Ming Shuo responded coldly, separated from Gu Xiaoxing tacitly, turned around to dodge and quickly received the move.After going back and forth for several rounds, he intentionally lured the Shadow Demon to the edge of the dark lake.

Gu Xiaoxing found the right opportunity to cast spells on the lake, and wondered why Leng Yi's subordinates didn't come over to "take advantage of the fire". They seemed to be watching the fire from the other side...

The water of the lake began to rise...

At the same time, on the edge of the dark lake, the jet-black spells of the Mirror Shadow Demon split the air, and countless black strands were as sharp as blades, all twisting towards this side, and Ming Shuo's figure flashed out Into a piece of quiet fire, all the strands were burned to ashes.

The mirror shadow demon took advantage of the chaos to display its demon power, and the painful feeling of stripping the soul exploded into Ming Shuo's body...

"Ming Shuo!"

Gu Xiaoxing summoned the entire pool of water to form a smooth giant water curtain, set off by the dark rock wall and guided by the dim light, which happened to be able to reflect the blurred projection of the mirror image.

"Ah..."

The shadow demon's body began to twist in pain, he stopped extracting Mingshuo's soul, and threw a curse at Gu Xiaoxing in an attempt to prevent her from continuing to cast spells.

Gu Xiaoxing turned sideways to dodge the curse, but the water curtain in the lake did not fall back.

She turned around and saw that Ming Shuo had controlled the water curtain in the lake, turned it into a smooth mirror and stretched it out, built a circle around the mirror image like a wall and sealed the top, trapping him completely in this huge mirror In the bell jar.

"Uh ah..."

The wailing sound of the Mirror Image Shadow Demon reverberated inside, it was hard to imagine how twisted and twitched he would be at this time, Gu Xiaoxing was both disgusted and sympathetic.

Just as the voice inside gradually weakened, suddenly, the Mirror Shadow Demon was severely elongated and deformed, as if a coke-like figure had escaped from the mirror bell jar, and stood tremblingly in front of them.

"Why... I can't..."

The terrifying body with nowhere to hide was projected on the surface of the mirror bell jar, and it began to shatter into pieces, but he still refused to give up, and slowly stretched out his deformed scorched hand, trying to extract Ming Shuo's soul, a hoarse voice of resentment sounded :

"...you can't...stay in this world..."

This is his last voice.

He died, reduced to ashes.

There was silence in the dark cave.

Before he had time to breathe and sigh, suddenly, a dark red curse light was projected, accompanied by the sudden pain of peeling off, Gu Xiaoxing suffocated instantly!

She looked up and saw a huge rectangular formation attached to the top of the wall, as if there was a huge gravitational force pulling her toes off the ground, and she felt her body floating uncontrollably towards the top of the wall...

"Xin'er! Wake up!!"

Ming Shuo's voice came from below, she looked down and exclaimed, but he couldn't hear her voice, he just hugged her delicate body tightly, anxiously trying to wake her up from a sudden coma! !

She's out of her body! ! !

"Ha! The formation is finally activated! The rest... depends on His Royal Highness!!"

The sound of Zhuyan's plot succeeding came from the other side of the dark cave.Suddenly, as if an invisible force blasted into his brain, Gu Xiaoxing couldn't withstand the attack of the formation, and felt his eyes go dark, and his consciousness and body began to drift...

"withdraw!"

In the dark cave, Zhu Yan gave orders to the rest of his subordinates, wanting to leave here before the demon king erupts.The invisible formation on the top of the wall has been activated, so it appeared.The devil will understand what's going on at a glance.

This is a situation Leng Yi explained in advance and asked them to set up.From the very beginning, Leng Yi didn't fully trust the Mirror Image Shadow Demon, and asked them to set up this formation just in case.

The activation condition of the formation is to sacrifice the soul of a strong man, and the mirror image shadow demon has the same powerful mana as Ming Shuo, between them, no matter who lives or dies, they can meet the activation conditions.

Once the formation is activated, even if Gu Xiaoxing is not taken to the altar, they still have a chance to use her to break Leng Yi's seal.The rest is up to His Highness...

Leng Yi's subordinates all decided to follow the candle flames to leave here. At this time, the teleportation sigil on the edge of the dark lake lit up with a faint blue curse light, and in the interlacing of light and shadow, Mu Feng teleported here with a guard army!
"Your Highness! Your subordinates are too late to save you—"

"—Catch me!!!"

Ming Shuo's eyes were fierce and murderous, and he gritted his teeth, wanting to chew every root into pieces.The anxiety and worry in my heart are like nymphs and ants gnawing on my muscles and bones.

He hugged Gu Xiaoxing's bruised and soft body in his arms, stared at her pale face that was as sweet as sleeping, and added in a deep voice:

"Every corner here, including the bottom of the water, must not be missed..."

"As ordered, Your Highness..."

In the distance, the boundless darkness is surrounded by biting cold, drifting around, like a dream or waking up.

"Xin'er..."

A familiar and ethereal voice called softly ahead.

"Xin'er."

The sporadic light spots are like eyes suddenly opened in the darkness, flickering and flickering slightly lighting up the darkness.Kindness and alienation, strangeness and familiarity made her have mixed feelings, and she felt that the tall and evil figure, which sank in her heart, appeared in front of her from the virtual to the real.

There was a hazy soft light all over him:
"Xin'er, we met again...seeing me...are you happy?"

There was a careless chuckle on the charming lips...

This is the person Gu Xiaoxing doesn't want to face the last time, she really doesn't know how to face him now.After brewing for a long time, the name came out of her mouth with difficulty:

"elder brother……"

(End of this chapter)