LZX Chapter 67.2

Kunwu and Ling Nianwu had already arrived. As everyone was discussing among themselves, they looked up to see a weak person with a haggard face sitting in the main seat, while Mo Qianqiu stood beside it, holding the Qianqiu sword in one hand and the Zhongxiao sword in the other.

An immediate commotion erupted inside the main hall.

Lu Xiaochan sat on the side watching the scene unfold, cracking nuts and drinking tea with a “crack crack” sound.

“This… isn’t this Xiyuan Sword Master Haofu?” Kunwu shifted his gaze to the side and saw Lu Xiaochan. He immediately reached out his sleeve to pinch his ear, “You little thing! How did you end up here!”

However, before his hand could touch Lu Xiaochan, Shu Wuxi held it back.

“To save your life, Senior Brother!” Lu Xiaochan said with a serious face.

Ling Nianwu raised the sword in his hand, and the bell on the sword tassel trembled slightly, producing a resounding sound that immediately silenced everyone.

Currently in the main hall, Ling Nianwu and Kunwu held the highest authority.

Ling Nianwu stepped forward, carefully looked at Haofu, then gave a bow. “So the Xiyuan Sword Master has emerged from seclusion.”

This single statement stirred up another wave of discussion.

“What, is that really the Xiyuan Sword Master?”

“He’s out of seclusion? Has his injury healed?”

Lu Xiaochan quickly reminded Kunwu. “Senior Brother, instead of wasting time pinching my ear to vent your anger, you should hurry to check on Haofu! He’s barely hanging on to life!”

Kunwu’s brow tightened immediately. He rushed to Haofu’s side and used his spiritual energy to probe his internal state, only to discover that his elixir core was empty, as if his spiritual energy had been drained by an evil spirit.

A suspicion entered his mind, making his whole body shudder.

“Could it be… Sword Master, you…”

Haofu revealed an unsightly smile and frankly said, “Your guess is not wrong–I was possessed by a Demon Lord.”

At that moment, the entire main hall fell silent, so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.

Whether they were disciples of Xiyuan or from other sects, everyone was stunned.

How serious was it for a Sword Master to be possessed by a Demon Lord?

Years ago, when the Dongxu Sword Master was controlled by the Evil God Chaos, it nearly caused chaos throughout the world!

“Fortunately, Pavilion Master Qianqiu intervened and saved me, purifying the Demon Lord Luli from within my body.”

Haofu looked toward Mo Qianqiu and nodded in gratitude.

The Xiyuan disciples hadn’t recovered from their shock. For over a thousand years, all they had heard was that Mo Qianqiu had dishonored Lord Chunning, destroyed Xiyuan’s magical artifacts, and was someone of evil character. Yet today they were told that Mo Qianqiu had saved Sword Master Haofu from possession?

For a moment, they didn’t know how to react.

Mo Qianqiu announced loudly, “Right now, the most crucial matter is that beneath Xiyuan, the Demon Capital has formed a Soul Refining Formation with evil energy. The entire Chongluan Palace is a Soul Refining Cauldron! Everyone must leave Chongluan Palace immediately!”

Upon hearing this, everyone was shocked!

Ling Nianwu immediately gathered spiritual energy at his fingertip and pressed it to his brow to open his wisdom eye.

Previously, the evil energy had been tens of thousands of miles below, undetectable, but now it was stirring restlessly, like flames about to ignite in an elixir furnace!

“Not good–we must leave Chongluan Palace quickly!”

As soon as Ling Nianwu spoke these words, disciples from various sects began flying away on their swords.

Kunwu supported Haofu, but suddenly realized something. “Why don’t we see Lord Miaochen Yuan!”

Lu Xiaochan, who had been eating nuts, also froze, “Yeah, where did Lord Miaochen Yuan go?”

Shu Wuxi answered, “Earlier, I had an encounter with Miaochen.”

When Lu Xiaochan heard this, he knew it was serious. No matter how powerful Miaochen was, she was still Shu Wuxi’s junior.

“You… you didn’t hurt her, did you?”

“I didn’t have my sword with me, so I couldn’t have hurt her.”

“That’s strange then… where did she go?”

With such a commotion from the Evil-Dispelling Bell, there was no way she couldn’t have heard it!

In an instant, most people had evacuated from Chongluan Palace.

Ling Nianwu turned to Lu Xiaochan, his bright eyes fixed on him.

With his memories restored, Lu Xiaochan felt a mix of emotions seeing him again.

“You should leave quickly. You and Shu Wuxi absolutely cannot remain here,” Ling Nianwu said.

Lu Xiaochan naturally understood what he meant.

His elixir core contained the Chaos Karma Fire, while Shu Wuxi’s elixir core was connected to the Wuyi Sword Sea. If either of them were to be refined by the Soul Refining Formation, it would bring disaster to all living beings.

“What about you?”

“I’ll go look for Lord Miaochen Yuan. I suspect she is the main target of this Soul Refining Formation. She might be trapped somewhere in Chongluan Palace by a Demon Lord. I’ll go help her escape.”

“Miaochen might not be here,” Shu Wuxi said.

“Whether she’s here or not, we need to confirm.”

Ling Nianwu rose on his sword, and Lu Xiaochan couldn’t help but call out to him.

“Nianwu! If you can’t find Lord Miaochen Yuan…”

“If I can’t find her, I’ll naturally leave before the evil spirits devour Chongluan Palace!”

Ling Nianwu went against the flow of fleeing people.

“Shu Wuxi! This time you must protect him completely!”

Lu Xiaochan let out a breath and tugged at Shu Wuxi’s sleeve. “Brother Wuxi, let’s go!”

They had to leave this Soul Refining Formation quickly. Only by protecting themselves could they find a way to contain this massive evil energy!

Lord Miaochen Yuan was flying through Chongluan Palace on her sword. Earlier, she had been trapped in the void and had mistakenly entered the deepest part of Chongluan Palace. Just as she was about to leave, she heard an infant’s cry.

She had to stop and carefully discern the sound, which came from a side hall.

Lord Miaochen Yuan quickly rushed over and saw a female disciple leaning against the wall, eyes closed and face down, already lifeless.

In her arms was a wailing infant.

Lord Miaochen Yuan came to her side and took the child from her arms.

The child was crying heartbreakingly, with tears still hanging on its eyelashes. The moment it opened its eyes, Lord Miaochen Yuan suddenly used spiritual energy to blast the infant away.

Unfortunately, the infant moved extremely quickly. Evil energy gathered in its hands, broke through Lord Miaochen Yuan’s protective spiritual energy, and suddenly penetrated her inner palace!

Miaochen grabbed the infant firmly. The infant’s eyes were full of evil energy as it looked at her with a vicious smile.

“Lord Miaochen Yuan, you can’t leave Chongluan Palace!”

Lord Miaochen Yuan frowned deeply and decisively moved to break the demon infant’s hand, but hadn’t expected that the infant’s entire body and blood had been nourished by evil energy. Even with its hand broken, the evil energy couldn’t be cut off.

“I’ll take your elixir core,” the demon infant giggled.

Miaochen, who had been keeping her head down, raised her eyes and looked at the infant with a mocking smile.

This smile carried mockery and a candid indifference to life and death.

The demon infant’s expression tightened as he suddenly realized something, “You’re not Lord Miaochen Yuan!”

“That’s right, I’m not.”

That unrestrained, romantic appearance was actually Miaochen’s twin brother, Lianyue!

“Damn you! Lianyue! You dare impersonate Miaochen to trick me!”

Just as the demon infant was about to withdraw its hand, it suddenly realized that a sword formation roared out from Lianyue’s inner palace. A phoenix bathing in fire blazed forth with the momentum of a scorching sun, burning along the demon infant’s arm and into its body!

This was the Nirvana Phoenix Sword Formation, triggered by a sword intent that Miaochen had left in Lianyue’s body!

It was also this sword intent that had prevented the demon infant from identifying Lianyue for a moment.

“Ah–ah–let me go! You bastard! Let me go! I’ll make you turn to dust!”

The demon infant let out shrieks, sharp and frenzied.

Lianyue smiled and moved closer to him, looking directly into the demon infant’s unfathomable evil eyes. “It’s my honor to turn to dust along with the most evil physical form that the Demon Capital nurtured for Chaos.”

The demon infant’s neck was twisted into a distorted shape, burned by the nirvana fire to the point of almost breaking.

“It was you… it was you who used Chongluan Palace’s void to prevent Liche from falling into the Demon Capital!”

Lianyue smiled without answering.

“And it was you who had Yang Cang take Ye Linshuang away… thereby luring the real Lord Miaochen Yuan out of Chongluan Palace! Then you took her place!”

Lianyue was still smiling, but he frowned as cold sweat fell from his temple.

“Hahaha… have you forgotten that your heart is still in the Demon Capital’s hell! I’ve changed my mind, I don’t want you to die! I want you to suffer endless agony every moment! Hahaha! Hahaha!”

“That’s fine too, since you’ll be suffering with me anyway.”

At this moment, the evil energy from the ground fissures had already enveloped Chongluan Palace, with only the Evil-Dispelling Bell at the top of Chongluan Palace not yet corroded.

Everything was collapsing and falling, as if being sucked into an endless abyss. Huge cracks spread upward from the bottom of Chongluan Palace.

Below was darkness, and Lianyue was about to fall when Ling Nianwu called out, “Lord Lianyue Yuan!”

A spiritual howling sword formation charged forth, attempting to separate Lianyue from the demon infant.

The demon infant was severely injured, its evil energy scattering everywhere.

Ling Nianwu reached out to grab Lianyue, but Lianyue shook his head.

“Villa Master Ling, since you’ve recognized that I’m not Miaochen, why do you still want to save me?”

Ling Nianwu continued pursuing the falling Lianyue. “I never listen to how others judge!”

“Then I especially can’t let you get deeply involved.” Lianyue’s expression turned severe as he used the sword formation to push Ling Nianwu upward.

Ling Nianwu watched helplessly as Lianyue was swallowed by the thick evil energy, and suddenly understood. “What’s on his body is…”

At this time, Lu Xiaochan was extremely worried, watching as Chongluan Palace gradually collapsed and disintegrated.

“Why hasn’t Ling Nianwu come out yet?”

Seeing that the Evil-Dispelling Bell was about to fall as well, numerous disciples from Xiyuan and various sect masters jointly used their spiritual energy to support it, slowly moving it to the cliff of Xiyuan.

At that moment, Chongluan Palace completely fell.

From the darkness, a thick stream of spiritual energy swept away the evil energy and burst forth – it was Ling Nianwu.

Lu Xiaochan let out a sigh of relief.

Kunwu quickly went to meet him. “Villa Master Ling, did you see Lord Miaochen Yuan!”

“No need to look anymore, Lord Miaochen Yuan wasn’t inside,” Ling Nianwu looked at Shu Wuxi and said meaningfully.