Bu Wei

Blood dripped down Ning Xiu’s mouth. He instinctively wanted to lick it, but he heard Ning Buwei’s heavy breathing.

His eyes were covered in darkness, but he didn’t feel scared because he could sense his father’s presence. He reached out his little hand and tightly grabbed Ning Buwei’s pinky finger. “Ah~”

Father~

Ning Xiu sensed that Ning Buwei was in danger and instinctively wanted to seek help from Bai Bai. (TL: White white=Chu Jun, since he was wearing white robes)

Bai Bai was so powerful and warm. Every time he felt uncomfortable, he would go to Bai Bai, and he would feel better after being held by him for a while.

He wanted to take his father to Bai Bai for a hug. If Bai Bai hugged his father, he would feel better.

But for some reason, he couldn’t get out, and Ning Xiu was so anxious that he was about to cry.

Bai Bai! Save Father!

Their spiritual consciousness was trapped in the illusion array, and they couldn’t get out at all. Ning Buwei was able to leave before because of his understanding of Yan Lanpei’s illusion array and his fearless courage. Ning Xiu, a child, couldn’t leave here with his spiritual consciousness.

“Ah~” Ning Xiu’s voice, still with a crying tone, reached his ears.

Ning Buwei, who was in pain and consciousness blurred, suddenly woke up.

Dulu said triumphantly, “What can you do by setting up that soul-devouring array in Yan Lanpei’s illusion array? Now we are in my Heart Confusion Array, I wonder if that demon vine is willing to leave that living Ning Xingyuan!”

Dulu thought that Ning Buwei was exhausted and no longer feared him. He suddenly pulled out his long sword. Ning Buwei spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground, but he still reached out to hold Ning Xiu in his arms.

Ning Xiu looked at his father with teary eyes. His father’s mouth was full of blood, but he still had the strength to smile at him, “Father is okay.”

“Wuwu…” Ning Xiu whimpered, his little face wrinkled as if he was exerting force.

Ning Buwei covered his mouth that kept bleeding, coughed several times, and still insisted on teasing him, “Your spiritual consciousness…can’t poop.”

Ning Xiu, didn’t know whether he was angry or constipated, his little face turned red.

“Heh, it’s just a little monster formed from a piece of bone, and you really treat him as a son.” Dulu sneered.

Ning Buwei lifted his eyelids and gave him a cold look, “You…know nothing.”

Dulu’s face slightly darkened, and he was about to finish him off with a sword, but the blood talisman hidden in Ning Buwei’s sleeve flickered slightly.

Who knew that at this moment, the wall formed by the peach blossoms was broken from the inside out, and Yan Lanpei rushed out with a pale face, vomiting a mouthful of dirty blood.

Seeing him come out, Dulu was not afraid of Ning Buwei who was half-dead, so he turned his attention to Yan Lanpei and sneered, “You are still willing to come out?”

“Using the dead, Dulu, this is your ability.” Yan Lanpei staggered to his feet, looked behind him at Ning Buwei, saw his body covered in blood and his face changed, raised his hand to send Ning Buwei out of the illusion, but was stopped by Dulu.

Countless peach blossoms condensed into whips and entwined with green vines exploded loudly, the wall cracked several mouths, and one could vaguely see Feng Zizhang and others who were trapped inside with bewildered expressions.

Yan Lanpei broke through the countless peach blossoms blocking his eyes and went straight to Dulu’s face.

Yan Lanpei broke his own Heart Confusion Array and consumed too much, while Dulu had already absorbed the spiritual power of other cultivators in the illusion, and easily blocked this blow.

The stamens of the peach blossoms instantly elongated and turned into countless sharp blades piercing Yan Lanpei’s limbs. Yan Lanpei cried out in pain, knelt down weakly, and his body’s blood and spiritual power quickly drained along the semi-transparent stamens.

The illusion array controlled by Yan Lanpei gradually dissipated due to the decline of the master’s strength, but instead let the Heart Confusion Array take the lead.

Yan Lanpei angrily said, “This flower-growing technique is taught by Ning Xingyuan for you to save your life, but you turned it into a Heart Confusion Evil Array!”

“This shows that what Ning Xingyuan taught me is not a good thing!” Dulu’s face twisted for a moment, and then he said proudly, “But I changed it better, look, whether it’s a person who cultivates the ruthless way or you, an unconcerned demon, isn’t it because of a dead person that you lost to me?”

“If it’s a one-on-one fight, I can’t beat you, but Ning Xingyuan…he stands on my side.” Dulu seemed to want to vent all the anger of these hundreds of years, raised his arm and laughed loudly, “Look! He’s dead and still affects your Dao heart, he’s dead and is still used by me! Hahaha!”

Yan Lanpei stared at him firmly, “You were originally a nameless beggar in Shen State. If it weren’t for Ning Xingyuan to take you in, you would have frozen to death in the severe winter and heavy snow! The Ning family gave you food and clothing, Ning Xingyuan raised you, you wanting to cultivate, accepted you as a disciple and teach you personally—”

“You speak nicely! He’s just a hypocrite who’s good at acting!” Dulu was so angry that his eyes were red, “He has one set in front of people and another set behind people. He said he accepted me as a disciple, but in fact, he still treated me as a servant! I, a direct disciple, is not only inferior to Ning Chengfeng, a side branch Tiansha Lone Star, but even inferior to you, a demon vine!”

Dulu’s voice was full of resentment, “He has never treated me as a disciple, and his kindness to me is just hypocrisy! If so, why did he save me in the first place!?”

“He saved you out of kindness! He raised you! When he went down from Chenyue Mountain, he even said he would pass on the Rejuvenation Array to you!”

“But you colluded with outsiders to trap Ning Xingyuan in injustice!” Yan Lanpei actually tore off those stamens and stood up from the ground, bathed in blood, and his voice was full of hatred, “You…ungrateful beast!”

Dulu was stunned for a moment, and then angrily said, “Impossible! How could he pass the Rejuvenation Array to me!? Impossible! You’re lying to me!”

“He only has you as a direct disciple, what else do you want him to do!?” Yan Lanpei’s eyes were full of hatred, “I saw you kill Ning Xingyuan with my own eyes!”

Ning Buwei, who had been quietly adjusting his breath, suddenly opened his eyes when he heard this, staring at Yan Lanpei, “Who did you say killed Ning Xingyuan?”

“It’s him! Dulu!” Yan Lanpei pointed at the person in front, “That day I came down from Chenyue Mountain, I saw it with my own eyes!”

“It’s not me!” Dulu was immediately furious, “You stop slandering me! How could I kill him? I just—”

“I saw it with my own eyes, could it be false!” Yan Lanpei stared at him, a strong light burst out all over his body, “You will undoubtedly die today!”

Yan Lanpei was obviously at the end of his strength, but he was not afraid to fight. In the Heart Confusion Array, countless peach blossoms suddenly surged, and the soft petals turned into sharp giant blade whips, carrying a huge spiritual power to attack Yan Lanpei, causing a violent fluctuation.

Ning Buwei, regardless of the severe pain in his heart, held Ning Xiu and leaped around in the constantly protruding and changing Heart Confusion Array and flower knives. He also slapped a talisman under his feet, and the blood soaked through the swaddling clothes that wrapped Ning Xiu.

“Ning Xingyuan repeatedly said that he regarded me as a direct disciple, but he turned his head and wanted to sacrifice me!” Dulu’s angry accusation echoed throughout the illusion, “I just want to survive! How come it becomes an ungrateful villain in your mouths!”

“Lies!” Yan Lanpei said hatefully.

However, people in anger wouldn’t think so much. The entire Heart Confusion Array was already full of holes, and countless sharp blades swept towards Yan Lanpei in the middle like a tide.

Yan Lanpei was already exhausted, and countless vines dimmed and showed signs of withering, obviously unable to resist.

At the critical moment, endless runes unfolded in front of him, and those runes emitted a pure and vigorous scarlet spiritual power, as bright as stars, forming an unbreakable barrier to block that blow for him, and then collapsed suddenly due to exhaustion.

Ning Buwei, who was standing in the corner, was shocked, and the arm holding Ning Xiu was trembling slightly.

One of the still intact pieces of the Suzaku broken sword had already shown cracks on the surface, and the remaining spiritual power inside leaked out little by little, but it did not disperse, and refused to leave him and Ning Xiu.

It even spontaneously gathered towards the wound in his heart to heal him.

Ning Buwei was stunned for a moment.

Only one’s own spiritual power would automatically heal wounds so intimately. This spiritual power was clearly stolen from that old thing’s sea of consciousness, but it took the initiative to heal him.

Could it be that after accidentally having Shenjiao once, that old thing…Thinking of this, Ning Buwei suddenly felt a chill, and even looked at the scarlet spiritual power unpleasantly.

However, he didn’t have time to think about it. Dulu had already approached him and said incredulously, “You are still alive?”

Although Ning Buwei was stabbed in the heart by him, it was a spiritual consciousness in the illusion. Although it was painful, it would not be killed by a single blow. Hearing this, he snorted and laughed, “My son flourishes me.”

“Heh, this child is naturally born with a golden core, but it is clearly born against the heaven, and there is still the breath of Linglong bone on his body—” Dulu determined that he couldn’t make any waves, and the tip of the sword was against Ning Buwei’s chin, “After you die, I will refine him and see if I can refine the Linglong bone!”

Ning Buwei sneered, as if he was too lazy to talk to him.

Even if he was about to die in his hands, the other party was still arrogant.

“What are you laughing at!?” Dulu grabbed his collar and pulled him up, his face was grim, “You are going to die and you are still laughing! Ning Xingyuan is like this, and you are like this too!? Is it just that you surnamed Ning are so brave?”

“Yes, we surnamed Ning…are all so brave.” Ning Buwei tugged at the corner of his mouth and showed a fierce smile.

As soon as the words fell, he stretched out a hand with five fingers spread out, and the originally about to wither vines seemed to suddenly have vitality. Under the urging of Ning Buwei’s spiritual power, they pierced the walls and sharp blades formed by the surrounding peach blossoms.

Dulu’s face changed drastically, and he said incredulously, “Impossible! You clearly have no spiritual power left! How can you control Yan Lanpei’s vines! But I can’t!”

Yan Lanpei, who was lying on the ground and dying, laughed happily, “Because…I recognize the Ning family as the master! Not you beast!”

Ning Buwei gave Dulu a cold look, and opened another hand, on which was a blood talisman that had been drawn long ago.

Before Dulu could see the pattern of the blood talisman, Ning Buwei slapped it on the ground, and countless black mists rose into the sky in the Heart Confusion Array, forming a Soul Devouring Array with clear strands, and every key point of the array was where Ning Buwei had just landed while holding the child to avoid jumping.

He was not just running around in a panic, but also arranging the array with blood talismans at the same time!

Dulu suddenly felt like he had fallen into an ice cellar, and he remembered what the man had said to him:

Ning Chengfeng is very evil.

However, it was obviously too late at this time.

The Soul Devouring Array that was laid down in the Heart Confusion Array broke out, and the Soul Devouring Array that Ning Buwei initially laid down in the illusion array combined into one. Countless green vines were used by him, firmly guarding every array foot, like a large net of intricately intertwined, trapping Dulu in it.

Dulu had nowhere to escape!

“Ning Chengfeng!” Dulu’s face was panicked, and he couldn’t help but shout, “You can’t do this! If I don’t die, the lives of nearly a million people in Linjiang City can still be saved! If you kill me, they can’t all be saved! They will become vengeful ghosts like those in the Xun Prefecture, Shen Shang Two States, and they will never be reborn!”

Yan Lanpei struggled to raise his head, “Chengfeng…”

Ning Buwei’s eyes were blood red, he tilted his neck, and a fierce smile appeared on his face, “Isn’t that just right? Otherwise, why do you think the scum of the Chongzheng Alliance has been shouting and killing me every day for the past five hundred years?”

At that moment, Dulu felt cold all over, and Ning Buwei in front of him was like a terrifying ghost crawling back from hell.

He doesn’t care about the lives of others at all!

“You have exhausted your meridians and can’t control so many arrays!” Yan Lanpei struggled to get up and wanted to regain control of the vines, but he couldn’t get involved at all.

Ning Xiu in Ning Buwei’s arms cried out, grabbed his clothes and pulled hard, but Ning Buwei seemed to have not heard it and was indifferent.

In the illusion array condensed by Yan Lanpei, two Soul Devouring Arrays combined into one, devouring Dulu’s Heart Confusion Array, and then broke open Yan Lanpei’s illusion array, causing the illusion array to suddenly collapse. The surviving cultivators’ spiritual consciousness had nowhere to escape, either being crushed under the ruins or being devoured by the Soul Devouring Array.

“You want spiritual power? I’ll give it all to you.” Ning Buwei hooked the corner of his mouth, and the surging spiritual power in the illusion array suddenly rushed towards Du Lu in the Soul Devouring Array.

“No! No——ah ah ah!” Dulu let out a heart-wrenching scream, countless spiritual powers condensed with ghost energy rushed into his sea of consciousness and dantian, as long as a moment later, the end waiting for him would be to explode and die.

Countless blood-colored runes shone like brilliant stars, engulfing him, tormenting his spiritual flesh, which was far more intense than the pain of □□. (TL: literally just blocks, don’t know what the word is)

Dulu finally realized that Ning Buwei and Ning Xingyuan were different. He stared at several people fiercely, his eyes full of ferocious madness, “Then let’s die together!!”

In Linjiang City, a large array suddenly lit up at the bottom of the Endless River, pulling Ning Buwei’s Soul Devouring Array in the city and the huge vine in the center of the city, and countless unconscious cultivators were sucked in.

Sensing resistance, Ning Buwei’s face was fierce, and he injected all the spiritual power in the Suzaku broken sword into the large array he controlled.

At this moment, there could be no retreat, and those who retreated only had a dead end.

“Ning Chengfeng! Stop it! You will die of spiritual exhaustion!” Yan Lanpei shouted loudly, “Think about your son!”

Ning Buwei paused for a moment, and then the Suzaku broken sword rose into the sky, bringing Ning Xiu, Yan Lanpei, and several people’s spiritual consciousness such as Feng Zizhang into the Peaceful Array he had set up before beating Dulu.

Yan Lanpei looked at this small but solid Peaceful Array, a powerful invisible barrier firmly protected them inside, the outside was falling apart and the illusion was annihilated, but the inside was safe and sound.

Ning Xiu was held in the arms of a stranger, reaching out to Ning Buwei in the air, crying heartbreakingly, his lips turning blue.

Outside the illusion, the Soul Devouring Array centered on Chengyun Building connected the Soul Devouring Array in the inn, the sky-covering vines rustled, the entire Linjiang City shook, the Endless River in the city suddenly surged, and the sky above Linjiang City was thunderous and black clouds rolled.

The cultivators surrounding Linjiang City outside were panicked. They had noticed the abnormality of Linjiang City a long time ago. They had been trying to find a way to enter but could not find a way. The people trapped inside could not be contacted. At this time, there was a change in the city, and it was obvious that the barrier was loosening. This was a good time to break the city.

The four disciples of Yunzhong Sect with elder Wen Heshen were all trapped in Linjiang City. He was anxious at this time. Seeing this, he urged his own Xianfeng Sword and said to the disciples behind him, “Yunzhong disciples follow me to break the city!”

One of the ten elders of the Chongzheng Alliance, Chu Bai, also wielded his sword and went out, “Chongzheng Alliance people listen to the order, prepare to break the city!”

There were also sects such as the Jiting Sect and Hehuan Sect who came to rescue people, ready to break into the city at any time when the timing was right.

The city was windy, and the surviving cultivators regained their spiritual consciousness. However, before they could rejoice, they were either rolled into the bottom of the Endless River, or they were bound by the black fog and white bones filled in the city, and their souls were gradually disappearing, screaming in horror.

Blood kept overflowing from the corners of Ning Buwei’s mouth, and Dulu was still struggling desperately, bound to drag Ning Buwei to accompany him in death.

Ning Buwei was exhausted, like a kite with a broken string, falling from the sky and falling into the Endless River.

The cold river water soaked into his mouth and nose, Ning Buwei opened his eyes in the water and searched around. The sound of breaking water came from behind his ears, and he dodged to the side abruptly, and a deep wound appeared on his face. The blood flowed out along the wound and spread in the water.

He turned around in the water, but he didn’t see Dulu’s figure. He was about to swim up to breathe, but his ankle was tightly entangled by the cold water grass.

The air in his chest gradually thinned, and blood and water mixed in his trachea. Ning Buwei began to cough up blood non-stop. At this moment, he suddenly noticed an abnormal light source in his peripheral vision.

After a while, Ning Buwei gritted his teeth and controlled countless green vines, forming a giant palm and grabbing Dulu’s real body from the bottom of the Endless River.

The real body was caught, Dulu’s face was pale with defeat, and blood kept overflowing from his mouth. He glared at Ning Buwei hatefully, “You…what can you do if you kill me? Ning, Ning Xingyuan is already dead… All surnamed Ning are already extinct… Nearly ten million people in Xun Prefecture Shen Shang Two States…all because of your Ning family’s misfortune…Ning Xingyuan died to protect you… but you have become a demon, everyone in the seventeen states shouted to kill…just like, just like a dog that has lost its home! Hahaha!”

“Ning Chengfeng! You are a Tiansha Lone Star! No one around you can live!” His drooping hand moved the array, and the positions of the two people reversed instantly. The array at the bottom of the river pressed towards Ning Buwei with the force of a thousand jun, and a poisonous smile appeared on his face, but the smile froze halfway. “Ugh–”

Ning Buwei supported the array with one hand and urged his spiritual power with the other. The giant palm formed by the green vine directly squeezed Dulu into a pool of blood water, which fell into the surging Endless River.

The cracks on the surface of the Suzaku broken sword gradually increased, and the terrifying and cold black fog enveloped the entire Linjiang City. The black fog gathered between his left fingers, entwined and pierced straight into his wrist blood. The other hand controlled countless green vines.

His originally scarlet pupils flashed with thousands of strands of green light, as if they were fighting each other.

Ning Buwei had obviously lost his mind, and blood kept flowing down from the penetrating wound in his chest, and his left hand had turned into a bony claw.

He finally couldn’t hold on, and the large array left by Dulu crushed his arm and fell heavily.

“Chengfeng!” Yan Lanpei’s eyes were cracked, and he urged his spiritual power to fly up.

Ning Xiu, who was protected in the vines, cried loudly, reaching out to Ning Buwei who was falling, and a brilliant golden light burst out of his body.

At the same time, outside the city, the thunder was raging, and many cultivators who were trying to save people flew up with their swords. Countless spiritual powers condensed into a giant long sword, attracted thunder and fell, and with the force of a thousand jun, they slammed into the vines that covered the sky and the sun!