Returning from the abyss

Chapter 1395 The Named King
Ning Ke hesitated. She had never hesitated about whether she could kill someone, but she also knew that saving people was a more difficult task, especially when facing the legacy of tyrants, it was even more difficult to make the right decision.

Just as she was thinking, she suddenly noticed that Wen Rong's eyes moved slightly.

This means that the "keyhole" has adapted to the isolation effect brought by the silent hall, and it is about to open it and re-establish communication with Wen Rong.

No more hesitation!
Ning Ke slashed down with a sword quickly. Her movements were already the fastest, but the lock eye interfered with the time stop with its ability, and the impact on Wen Rong still made her move slightly, causing a moment of interference. The blue light representing the "Boundless Library" rekindled in Wen Rong's eyes, and then Ning Ke felt a resistance coming from under the sword, and a dim copper light flashed by, causing Ning Ke's sword to deviate and hit the Soul Reflection Mirror. Afterwards, the time stop was also quickly lifted by Ning Ke. She was not prepared to let the other party take away the right to use it again.

The moment the time stop ended, Wen Rong's eyes returned to their previous alertness. She reached out and grabbed the keyhole on the table, ready to fight back immediately.

At this moment, a pair of large hands like palm-leaf fans pressed directly on the arms of the two men. The force was as hard as iron and stone. Wen Rong and Ning Ke wanted to move, but they couldn't move at all.

Master Qin personally stopped the fight between the two.

"Whatever the dispute is, please stop here."

The steady voice even shook the two people's minds a little. This sentence probably also contained a bit of "a wake-up call". Ning Ke was the first to let go of the sword in his hand. Wen Rong saw this and also put the key into his sleeve. After Master Qin let go of the two, Wen Rong first bowed to him and said, "I'm sorry for offending you just now. Master, please don't take it as an offense."

After Master Qin examined Wen Rong for a moment, he just nodded and said to the seven demon kings who had dispersed, "You all have come from afar. According to the etiquette signed between Wei and Qingyun Temple, you should have been entertained. Unfortunately, the military affairs in the northern part of the border are urgent, and it is not good for a demon to appear in Guanyuan."

Tianshu, the calmest of the seven demon kings, reached out and knocked on the Soul Mirror: "We can just stay here. The girl can block our aura. If she doesn't release it intentionally, no one can detect it. Grand Master, didn't you notice us just now?"

"That's great." Grand Tutor Qin nodded, then looked at Ning Ke, "Ning Ke, it's not appropriate for you to be here at this time, so go first. There should be no fighting in the silent hall."

"Here." Ning Ke picked up the copper coin sword, looked at Wen Rong with some regret, then turned and walked out.

When she left the Silent Hall, all the memories in it disappeared, including the struggle and judgment of that moment - when Ning Ke stepped out of the door, he turned his head slightly and glanced at Wen Rong who was sealing the Demon King back into the mirror.

It was a close call.

Then, after walking out the door, Ning Ke regained his alertness.

"...Grandmaster asked me to come out? What happened in there... No, that's not right."

Ning Ke didn't see too many traces of fighting on her body. She felt vaguely that someone had grabbed her arm, but it was only vague. When she walked out of the silent hall, she was afraid that even some text information would be left in it. Soon, Ning Ke felt that her memory became more blurred, as if she had just stood outside the silent hall from the beginning, waiting for the final result to be discussed inside.

Then, without waiting, Ning Ke took out the report he had been preparing to submit from his arms, and went to Xuntianque Pavilion as he had originally planned to do.

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The sun turned and the day passed. In the evening, the door of the silent hall finally opened, and everyone walked out of the hall. After a trance, Wen Rong thanked Qin Taishi, while the other three generals stood silently beside him. Qin Taishi patted the scroll in his hand and bowed to Wen Rong: "Thank you for handing over this item. The people of Wei will all thank you for your righteousness."

"Oh, nothing... Wait, Grand Tutor, I forgot everything that happened inside. Did I ask you for any reward or something?" Wen Rong was about to say something polite when he suddenly slapped his forehead and remembered a key thing.

Grand Tutor Qin shook his head: "No one will remember what happened in the silent hall. Even if there is any reward, it will be decided at this moment. We are just sure that what you provide is indeed effective. Of course, this does not prevent me from providing you with a reward at this moment. I wonder what you want?"

"Give me something to save my life. I found that the life-saving things on me were probably consumed in there." Wen Rong took off a broken bell-shaped nameplate from his waist and carefully put it in his arms.

She didn't expect Master Qin to give her an equivalent good thing. This was a one-time prop in the distribution center, which could block one attack below the god level measured in the scene. The advantage was that it could block all attacks regardless of the type of attack. The disadvantage was that it could only block once. If it was multiple stages of damage, there was nothing it could do.

Now that it was broken, she could only guess what had happened in the Hall of Silence. Unfortunately, she didn't remember it. She hadn't even used the keyhole to lock her memory to see what the Hall of Silence looked like.

"Zu Ming, take two Nine Revolutions Resurrection Pills."

Master Qin gave an order, and Zu Ming took out a small gourd from his waist and poured out a pill from it.

“Although this elixir does not have the power to bring life or death to flesh and bones, it is only slightly inferior. No matter how serious the injury is, as long as you are not dead, take one pill and you will be full of energy immediately. Take two pills at the same time, and you will return to your peak immediately. This medicine is a secret recipe of immortals, and it is not made from the elixir recipe passed down by the world.” Zu Ming introduced.

"Okay, I originally wanted a defensive device, but defense is not that reliable..." Wen Rong also took out a porcelain bottle to put the pills in, "I'll ask for another favor from you. I had some conflicts with that official before, so please help me arrange a safe place to spend the night. I will leave Guanyuan tomorrow to avoid causing trouble to you all."

"Grand Tutor, I will take care of this matter." Zu Ming bowed to Grand Tutor Qin, and after receiving the other party's nod of permission, he took Wen Rong to the backyard.

Master Qin glanced at the two people standing next to him.

The man stretched out his hand and drew a circle in the air. Suddenly, cold mist appeared and an ice mirror emerged in the air. Ye Cong's face was reflected in the mirror.

"Greetings, Grand Tutor." Ye Cong bowed to Grand Tutor Qin.

"Your health is getting worse. As a general, you should not be so disrespectful to yourself." said Grand Tutor Qin.

"Grandmaster, you also know that this is not an ordinary disease, it is the power of the ultimate formation."

"If necessary, select a few more commanders to share your pressure. You don't need to be too strict when selecting. There is no one who is afraid of death and stays in the northern border." Qin Tai Shi replied.

Ye Cong smiled bitterly. He knew that the "no" in Grand Master Qin's mouth had another meaning. "But I have found a suitable person who can pass on the position of the head of the ice array. Grand Master, she has pure Yin internal energy and a pure technique. She is also young and in her prime, unlike me who has to go into battle at short notice. By the way, this contact is also to report the discovery of this commander."

As he spoke, symbols began to appear on the ice mirror. Ye Cong was also a Confucian general. Even if he couldn't interpret the rules, he could still write them by imitating others. Soon, the law of shedding that Lu Ning had urgently passed to him was written on the ice.

"She also found this item when she was destroying a Saibei Army stronghold. She even encountered a weapon and defeated it. Unfortunately, her soul was not left. She told me that this law has many errors and it looks like just a test item. I don't know how many more laws like this are. She used this as a reference and tried to fix the errors. But after all, she is not an expert in this field, so there may be things she has not considered."

Ye Cong didn't know that Lu Ning was just being modest, and she also deliberately didn't complete the repair. After all, it was still a demon's thing, and who knew what would happen if it was completely repaired.

The original writing was quickly erased from the ice mirror, and the revised style of Lu Ning appeared. Grand Master Qin nodded slightly, and the woman beside him also neatly engraved the two words on the ground under her feet.

"Yecong, you have found a talented young man."

"I am relieved that the Grand Master is satisfied. This person is the daughter of Lu Qingxu, the former censor and current governor of Fanzhou. She has a clean background and is not a spy planted by the demons." Ye Cong smiled and said, "I just ask the Grand Master to issue a military order to promote her to the first commander of the Ice Array. I have already talked to Marquis Anding, and he can also give up the position of the first commander."

"Yes. I will draft it tonight, and tomorrow the order will be delivered to the three of you through the ultimate formation."

"Thank you, Master."

"Take a rest. Even if there is a successor, your position of leadership will not be replaced for a while."

Although Grand Tutor Qin had made the decision, Lu Ningke on the other side was still unaware of it. She also didn't know how much credit she had made - this was actually nothing to her. It was just an advantage she naturally had after undergoing the "Skin Shedding Ceremony". Isn't this the advantage of tourists?
After encountering the Tong Gong, Lu Ning had to let the team rest on the spot. They were all injured to varying degrees. After all, Lu Ning would not be able to control his strength so finely in a hurry. Several people were frozen by the ice formation, and some people were slightly scratched when the arrows were shot before. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

Leading the team in battle was really too troublesome, but thanks to these people who held their positions, she was able to use the power of the ice formation to directly kill the body of the demon king. If it were only her, even if she could calculate the demon king's weaknesses, it would be a pipe dream to break through the defense and kill the opponent.

She reviewed the details of today's fight. There was no doubt that there were many things that could have been done better, but she was not so skilled when she first commanded the team to fight against such a powerful opponent. She was only thinking about strengthening her own strength to fight, and almost ignored the fact that each of her subordinates had some unique skills. This time, it was also thanks to the thief who secretly plotted against Tong Gong, otherwise who knows what the final result would have been.

"It's hard to get others to cooperate with my fighting style... In the end, they just become array launchers instead of coordinating attacks and defenses..."

Lu Ning scratched her head. She might have to ask Yuanzi how to lead a team if she had the chance. She was very good at overall planning and had also studied marching and formation. Just in the study, Lu Ning had seen several books with related contents.

After coming up with this idea, Lu Ning planned to take a break and heal the wounds left by the battle. Although the stand-in took on the last part of the damage, the injuries she had suffered before were real, so she needed to rest well.

Before lying down, Lu Ning took a look outside as usual and saw twenty-three auras surrounding the camp.

"Tsk."

She paused just as she was about to lie down. These days were really making people increasingly restless.

After opening the tent and coming out, Lu Ning looked around. She knew the positions of all the people belonging to her formation, so she knew exactly where the last person who did not belong to this camp was.

As the command flag was unfurled, the formation became active again, covering the entire camp.

"Wow... that's quite a big noise, but you're all tired today, right? It's not suitable to continue fighting."

An old man with a celestial appearance rose from the darkness, holding three swirling colored stones in his hands, with a kind face. No matter how you look at it, this is just a human, but Lu Ning could intuitively sense that something was wrong with the old man.

"Tonight... the moon is dark and the wind is strong." The old man reached out and took out a wine flask from his waist and took a sip. "This place is well chosen. You can detect me. If another youngster came over, you would have discovered him before he even got close."

"demon……"

"I still hope you can use the more orthodox title of the demon race. After all, we are just chatting, not fighting on the battlefield. Oh, according to human etiquette, I will introduce myself first - the uninvited guest, the titular demon king of the northern frontier, Xu Fu."

Lu Ning said nothing.

"Okay, you are still very vigilant, but it's meaningless... I know your name is Lu Ning. We are capable of looking up some widely known news. What's more, you have done a lot of big things from south to north. If you pay a little more attention, you can also detect some clues." Xu Fu sat down cross-legged, not afraid at all that Lu Ning would take the opportunity to make trouble.

But Lu Ning also knew that the named demon kings were always the most difficult to deal with. This was a rule in Saibei. She just had never heard of a demon king using this name.

"Don't believe me? I'm not here for revenge. Fights between juniors should be resolved by the juniors themselves. If the younger ones are beaten, the older ones will come. How many things in the world do I have to take care of? Sit down, don't be nervous. We will officially start the war at the beginning of summer. Now I just feel that someone has supplemented the product of Huang Kui's practice. I'm curious, so I came to take a look."

Xu Fu waved his hand quite leisurely, and a piece of bluestone, which was very clean, actually grew out at Lu Ning's feet.

Lu Ning felt that he really didn't have much energy to fight with an unknown demon king. If he wanted to fight, he would probably have to empty his family's savings. So he sat down and planned to wait and see what would happen.

"So, you are willing to speak up? Then you changed the law of shedding?"

"The problem was obvious, so I changed it. Why not?"

"Well, that's the truth. If there is a problem, it can be changed. You, the youngster, can understand the truth, but those bastards treat Huang Kui's things as some kind of sacred object. They don't understand. They look like humans on the outside, but they are still the demons who worship power on the inside. What's the point of changing their appearance?" Xu Fu slapped his thigh with an expression of approval. Lu Ning couldn't understand what the demon king wanted to do for a moment.