Walking slowly in the dark and narrow secret passage, neither Lu Sheng nor He Xiangzi spoke.
The secret passage was very long. It went from the cave under the Prime Devil Sect's stone pillar all the way deep underground. No one knew when it was dug, but the walls were covered in faint green moss.
After a long silence, He Xiangzi suddenly said, "Teacher seems a little strange."
"…" Lu Sheng glanced at He Xiangzi and thought, 'You just noticed?'
Anyone with a bit of sensitivity would be able to tell that something was wrong with the Great Elder. This He Xiangzi seemed to be really slow.
"Recently, only the two of us are left in the sect. Teacher also taught us a lot of things. Junior Apprentice Brother, your aptitude is better than mine, so Teacher must have taught you more. " He Xiangzi paused and continued walking in front without looking back. "But I also know that if I were you, I wouldn't be able to memorize so much in such a short time. So I'm not jealous of the treatment Teacher gave you. "
"…"
Lu Sheng didn't know what to say.
"Alright." He Xiangzi quickly walked to an old black door. "This is the exit to the outside world." She pointed at the door and said in a low voice, "Junior Apprentice Brother, open the door and go straight along the path inside. Walk for half an hour and you'll reach the surface. I have a mission too, so I won't say anymore. Take care, Junior Apprentice Brother. "
"Mm. Thank you, Senior Apprentice Sister." Lu Sheng nodded.
He Xiangzi stood in front of the door and looked at it seriously. She seemed to be in a daze for a moment, but it only lasted for a short time. Soon, she turned around and went back the way she came, her figure gradually disappearing into the shadows.
Lu Sheng stood still and took a deep breath.
He actually knew that Grand Elder deliberately sent him away and found an excuse to send him into the secret passage. His purpose was to preserve the Prime Devil Secret Art in him.
Now that he was in such a hurry to leave through the secret passage, he must have discovered something abnormal.
'Something that can make a sect master like Grand Elder feel troubled, it must be at least at the Snake realm. Unfortunately, I'm preparing to leave … '
Yes, he was indeed preparing to leave before the meeting.
The life and death of the Prime Devil Sect had nothing to do with him. There was no need for him to expose his strength for a sect he had only joined for a few months.
Everyone could clearly tell the difference between the Three-Vein level and the Snake level. This was not a gap that could be overcome in just a few months.
He, Lu Sheng, had only joined the sect for a few months, yet he had already displayed the strength of a Snake realm expert and turned the tide. The consequences of that were hard to imagine.
Therefore, even though he knew that the Great Elder might be in trouble, Lu Sheng did not intend to intervene.
'It's not necessarily a bad thing to let the Prime Devil Sect, which should've been washed away by history, disappear completely.' He sighed softly, walked to the door, and pushed lightly.
Crack crack …
The heavy door was slowly pushed open a gap. Lu Sheng looked behind him, then turned around and strode through the gap.
…
Ding!
The heavy chains were cut in half.
The door of the Secret Arts Palace was knocked open, and three black shadows slowly walked into the Courtyard of Punishment. He looked at Grand Elder Liu Shanzi, who stood in the middle.
"Who are you!?" Grand Elder shouted in a low voice. "Don't you know this is the Prime Devil Sect's headquarters in the Land Domain?"
The two black shadows were silent. They looked at the last person following them.
"Liu Shanzi, don't blame me. If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being too stubborn." A familiar voice rang out.
Grand Elder's eyes widened.
"It's you!?"
"Cut the crap, do it!!" The man in black was short. He took a step back, not making a move himself.
The other two men in black leaped forward with exactly the same movement. They waved their palms in the air, and a black Qi shot out. A halberd shot out from each of the black Qi and landed in their hands.
"Secret Arts — New Moon!"
The two of them swung their halberds at lightning speed. Black Qi swirled, and the tips of the halberds shone with an ominous blood-red light. They stabbed at Grand Elder at high speed.
Grand Elder's expression did not change. He grabbed with one hand, and a huge, ferocious black snake slithered out from behind him, pouncing at the two halberds.
The black snake was as thick as a man's waist. There were sharp black spikes on its head like a lion's mane. As soon as it appeared, it roared at the two men in black and crashed into them.
"This is the Prime Devil Secret Art? It's just a small Dao, nothing more! What a waste of such a huge Devil's Blessed Land! "The short man in black laughed coldly. "Isn't it just nurturing one's own Yin Thoughts?"
Grand Elder did not say a word. He urged the giant snake to fight the two men.
As he expected, the Prime Devil Secret Art was firmly held back by the two men. The other party was right. The Prime Devil Secret Art of his lineage, the Phantom Listening Skill, did indeed nurture one's own Yin Thoughts as its main combat strength.
Previously, visualizing Yin Fire and separating distracting thoughts were all used to purify one's mind, using order to control disorder, and purity to control chaos.
Although there were also ways to strengthen and train the body, they were much, much less than other sects.
The Phantom Listening Skill nurtured Yin Devils with their own distracting thoughts. Because of the difference in personality and temperament, the Yin Devils nurtured were also different. The strength of the ability depended on the person.
Because this secret art did not involve bloodlines, it was extremely universal. All bloodline disciples could cultivate it.
Although in the end, when the Yin Devil and oneself became one, one could cultivate the Supreme Path of the Prime Devil. The body would be greatly strengthened. But in the early stages, when the Prime Devil Secret Art had not reached its peak, the cultivator would be much weaker than other sects.
The two men in black swung their halberds, the red light from their blades twisting and turning in the air. Each strike contained extremely terrifying cutting power.
After fighting for a short while, the black snake was covered in wounds and in imminent danger.
Its scales, which could not be broken even by a Seven-Vein Level cultivator standing up, cracked and shattered under the ferocious attacks of the two men, revealing the black, translucent flesh and bones underneath.
If used in a large-scale battle, the power of the Yin Devils would be enough to make any non-Snake existence despair. But facing the combined attacks of the two men in black, the Yin Devil Black Snake could not even hold out for the time it took to burn a stick of incense.
"I know you have more than one Yin Devil." The short man in black laughed coldly. "Don't hide it anymore. Take it all out. Let me see what kind of tricks you have up your sleeves with this so-called combination to become the strongest secret art of the Prime Devil Sect. "
Grand Elder was silent. He waved his hand again, and another lion with a black flame burning in its mane slowly walked out from behind him.
"Roar!"
The lion roared and got into an attacking stance.
But Grand Elder stretched out his hand and pointed at it.
The black flame lion suddenly twisted and turned into a ball of black smoke, quickly disappearing into his chest.
"Whoosh!" Grand Elder's body suddenly burned with the same black flame as the lion. His muscles slowly expanded, and his face gradually regained its youthful smoothness. It was as if he had become several decades younger in an instant.
"Come on. If you want to take my life, let's see what you've got!"
…
He Xiangzi followed another small path in the cave and quickly walked out.
This was a secret path that very few people used to cultivate. In the past, when there were many people in the Prime Devil Sect, many people would come here to practice footwork secret arts similar to Qinggong. But now that there were no disciples, this secret path was no longer popular.
'Master asked me to send a letter to the Grand Commandant of Songshi City, and also asked Junior Apprentice Brother to go to Dancing Phoenix City. The sect didn't have many people to begin with, and now he's the only one left. I don't know what he's thinking. 'He Xiangzi had always known that she was stupid, and her reactions were slow. So she didn't understand many things that everyone else understood.
In fact, she couldn't understand many things that were very obvious.
But even though she was stupid, she knew one thing. And that was that she would be good to whoever was good to her.
"Pa, pa, pa …"
The sound of footsteps echoed on the small path.
Suddenly, He Xiangzi stopped and raised her head to look ahead.
A black figure wrapped in black cloth was slowly walking in the opposite direction from her. Looking at where he was going, it was the main place of the Prime Devil Sect, the cave wall where they lived.
"Found you." The black figure saw He Xiangzi and stopped as well. "I can't believe I met you on my path."
He Xiangzi was stunned. Then she reacted, and her face darkened.
"You …"
"You still have a Junior Apprentice Brother, right? Looks like you were used as a sacrificial pawn and bait, "the black figure said flatly. "Do you hate him? Liu Shanzi actually sold you out just like that for a disciple who just entered the sect a few months ago. He sacrificed you to cover that person's escape. "
When He Xiangzi heard this, she finally understood why her teacher wanted her to walk on this open path alone.
At this moment, she thought of many things. She wanted to ask Master why he did this. But when she thought of Grand Elder's strange actions at the end, and Junior Apprentice Brother's strange expression … She suddenly understood something.
"Why should I hate him?" He Xiangzi's expression calmed down. "I'm not smart, and people always say I'm slow and stupid. But ever since I was young, only Master has been good to me. If this is what he wants me to achieve, then I'm willing. "
The black figure was silent for a while.
"Liu Shanzi has a good disciple." He suddenly sighed with a hint of envy.
"Forget it. You guys deal with it. I won't get involved." He turned around, leaped into the distance, and suddenly disappeared in mid-air.
In the darkness, a few more figures slowly surrounded He Xiangzi and looked at her.
…
"Splash."
A drop of water fell from above and hit the back of Lu Sheng's hand. Then, it was knocked away by the huge speed, turning into small splashes and shooting around.
In the dark secret path, Lu Sheng quickly passed by a large patch of rugged wetlands.
In less than the time it took for a stick of incense to burn, he had already reached the end of the secret passage with only half of it, or even less.
There was no light in the secret path, not even glowing moss. There were only wet and hard walls. Above him were clusters of hanging stalagmites. The water droplets fell from above.
Lu Sheng ran. With a tap of his toes, he flew a long distance like an arrow released from a bow. If it weren't for the twists and turns in the secret path, his speed would be even faster.
After a while, an old black metal door appeared in front of him.
There were no patterns or decorations on the metal door. It was as if someone had moved a metal plate here and used it as a door to block the way.
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