Chapter 84: Left Foot Tripped Over Right Foot

As soon as the words fell, Xue Chen and Ning Xuan attacked Shen Qinghe.

Shen Qinghe knew his advantage didn’t lie in direct confrontation, so he gathered spiritual power and darted to the other side of the high platform.

He took out a bone whistle and blew it.

The piercing, unpleasant sound of the whistle spread. The people under the platform who had been infected with Gu worms suffered unspeakably.

Ning Shengsheng cupped her hands around her mouth and shouted loudly, “Xue Wuyin! You can save them now.”

“Okay.”

Xue Chen twirled a sword flower with his left hand. He raised his right hand, brought two fingers together, and brushed over the red mole between his eyebrows. The seal was lifted, and dark red demonic power poured out.

Every wisp of demonic power consciously drilled into the back of everyone’s necks. The disciples, whose expressions had been numb, gradually regained clarity in their eyes.

Seeing the situation turn against him, Shen Qinghe immediately tried to sow discord: “What? The dignified Emperor of Great Ning has to rely on a hybrid bastard of human and demon to save his beloved?”

He had heard long ago that this Emperor of Great Ning was obstinate, with a wild and irritable temper. He didn’t believe the Emperor would remain indifferent to his words.

Ning Shengsheng cursed “despicable” in a low voice.

In the novel, Ning Xuan’s character setting was exactly as Shen Qinghe thought; that guy was deliberately provoking trouble. And her brother couldn’t stand goading.

“Older Brother, don’t listen…”

Before Ning Shengsheng could finish, Ning Xuan on the high platform snorted coldly, raised his long spear, and charged forward.

He looked at Shen Qinghe with eyes full of disdain.

“Shen Qinghe, do you take Zhen for a three-year-old child?”

The long spear, wrapped in spiritual power, hacked towards Shen Qinghe’s forehead.

How could this be? Why was Ning Xuan different from the tyrant in the rumors?

He didn’t have time to think too much. He circulated his spiritual power to dodge the fatal blow. “Huaiyue, don’t you want the Valley Master to live?”

Yun Huaiyue, having just been cured of the Heart-Eroding Gu, asked anxiously upon hearing this, “Where exactly have you trapped my mother?”

She had tried every method to investigate last night. But she hadn’t been able to find out.

“Hahahaha, if I die, you will never know where the Valley Master is. Wait for her lamp to run out of oil!”

Ning Xuan and Xue Chen forcefully restrained Shen Qinghe.

Yun Huaiyue looked up. “Ah Xuan, what should we do?”

The beauty was tearful, very pitiable.

But… Ning Xuan couldn’t think of any other way. “Tell us where the Valley Master is, and we’ll let you go.”

Right now, they could only humor this guy.

Ning Shengsheng flew up to the high platform. “Wait.”

The smile on Shen Qinghe’s face froze.

“I have the Mirror Demon. Let the Mirror Demon pull him into an illusion, and we’ll naturally be able to see the dirty deeds he’s done.”

“Junior Sister Ning is so amazing!”

Yun Huaiyue’s eyelashes trembled lightly as she looked at Ning Shengsheng with admiration.

Ning Xuan’s lips moved, his heart feeling terribly sour. Why didn’t he have An’an’s ability?

“Mirror Demon, appear!”

Ning Shengsheng formed a seal, and the youth appeared on the spot.

He was holding two chicken legs in his hands, his mouth oily.

“What are you doing?!”

The Mirror Demon shyly hid the chicken legs.

Xue Chen glanced at him, his eyes containing a hidden warning.

The Mirror Demon shuddered all over and asked in a friendly manner, “May I ask what Master summoned me for?”

“Put him into an illusion and find Valley Master Yun’s whereabouts.”

“Okay, my Master~”

The Mirror Demon wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and rolled Shen Qinghe into the illusion. During this interval, Yun Huaiyue treated the disciples whose Gu poison hadn’t been eliminated yet. Green spiritual power covered her palms, nourishing the patients’ meridians. Senior Sister Yun was a pure healer!

Xue Chen was still waiting for someone to question him. Unexpectedly, no one asked about his demonic power just now.

Ning Shengsheng leaned over, stood on tiptoe, and whispered in his ear, “Thank you, you were a big help this time!”

Xue Chen came back to his senses in a daze. “Your Highness, I used demonic arts just now. Why did you all…”

“So what if it’s demonic arts? You did a good deed.”

She didn’t mind at all. “Before spiritual energy withered, there were spiritual cultivators, demonic cultivators, and ghost cultivators.”

“I don’t want to preach any big principles. Anyway, this princess said I would protect you, so I will protect you.”

“Never mind using demonic arts, even if the sky falls, I’ll protect you!”

She proudly puffed out her chest and patted it.

Xue Chen was amused by her silly appearance. He relaxed completely and said in a low voice.

“Your Highness might as well recruit me as a prince consort.”

“Wouldn’t it be more convenient to protect?”

“!”

“Wha, what?” Ning Shengsheng froze on the spot.

Her ears weren’t broken, right?

The villain wanted her to marry him and take him home!!

“Nothing.” Xue Chen turned his face away, acting serious. “The Princess heard wrong.”

After speaking, he turned and walked towards Ning Xuan.

The result. His left foot tripped over his right foot, and he almost fell.

The young man flipped the ponytail that had swung to his front back behind him, pretending nothing had happened as he continued walking forward.

“Pfft—”

Ning Shengsheng couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

Xue Chen’s back paused, and he jumped off the high platform as if fleeing.

Hahahahahaha!

“Xue Wuyin, you are so cute!”

The system in her mind sighed. Look, what has the domineering villain been turned into?

If it hadn’t seen Xue Chen’s file, it would have thought he was originally a pure and innocent manipulative puppy.

The system glanced at the mission progress.

The mission was indeed completing weirdly fast, but it was completely different from the level of brutality it had imagined!

Ning Shengsheng didn’t know the system had so many petty thoughts.

She smiled as she looked at the young man’s back.

This Xue Wuyin is very good. Carefree, happy, and at ease. And so likeable.

She was scared by the thought that followed.

Ning Shengsheng’s heart wavered slightly. She looked around guiltily; no one was paying attention to her side.

Blushing, she let out a breath.

“Strange, why am I acting like a thief with a guilty conscience?”

The disciples who had been poisoned by Gu were settled in.

Yun Huaiyue treated patients all afternoon. She sat in the pavilion to rest, and Ning Xuan poured her a cup of tea.

Ning Shengsheng and Xue Chen sat together.

But she didn’t dare to look at him.

“Why isn’t the Mirror Demon done yet?”

In her boredom, Ning Shengsheng muttered to herself.

Just as she finished speaking. A cloud of black mist appeared in mid-air.

Shen Qinghe was thrown out by the Mirror Demon.

“The Valley Master is locked in the last room of the alchemy lab. There are mechanisms and secret passages inside.”

The Mirror Demon let out a breath, blowing up the bangs on his forehead.

“This kid looks like a human but acts like a dog. He’s a pure bad seed. It took me forever to trick his heart demon out.”

As a demon, the Mirror Demon had seen many bad people. But he had really seen few like Shen Qinghe, who had a face full of benevolence but would turn around and stab you hundreds of times.

“Thank you for your hard work, Little Mirror.”

Ning Shengsheng and the group rushed to the alchemy lab.

No wonder Shen Qinghe repeatedly stopped them from coming to the alchemy lab. It turned out he wasn’t afraid of them finding the Gu worms. He was afraid they would find Valley Master Yun.

The last alchemy room was inscribed with countless formations.

Ning Xuan: “Stand back, I’ll break the formation.”

The three of them took a half step back.

Ning Xuan blasted open the iron door with a palm strike.

Yun Huaiyue ran in with red eyes. She turned the candlestick, and a secret room appeared on the wall to the right.

Just as she wanted to rush in, she was stopped by Ning Xuan.

“It’s too dangerous, let me.”

Ning Xuan picked up Yun Huaiyue in a princess carry and strode into the secret room.

“Hehehe, the ship is sailing, the ship is sailing!”

Ning Shengsheng’s eyes shone with excitement.

Xue Chen looked up at the front, then lowered his eyes to look at the girl’s legs trembling with excitement.

Mm? She likes this?

Xue Chen silently noted it down. He prepared to find an opportunity to implement it.