Grudge Breaker

Chapter 204 Hidden Illusion
"Weiwei! Don't!"

Mo Tingfeng flew over to grab her wrist, but missed.

He began to cast a spell to try to block Song Weichen's steps with the soul-binding barrier, but it was useless. He also used the sword to attack the magic circle to stop it, but it was all in vain. The two of them were clearly close to each other, but they were like lovers in the mirror, untouchable.

The two of them are not in the same dimension at all!
"Song Weichen" was getting closer and closer to the flaming tree. Her long hair and the fiery red gauze on her body were blown by the waves of fire, making her look like a part of the flaming tree.

"Let Weiwei go!!"

Behind Mo Tingfeng, the giant sword called "Non-Attack" was in full swing, with sword energy radiating everywhere! It wasn't because it couldn't touch Song Weichen that it collapsed, but because under the cover of his sword energy, any abnormality could not escape.

"The solution must be hidden in a strange place." This is one of the most important things Mo Tingfeng has learned after solving countless cases, and the most strange thing at the moment is the mystery of this plane.

Sure enough, a few steps away there was a "ray of light" that was tens of meters long and as thin as a spider silk. If the sword energy had not been partially absorbed when it spread there, it would not have been detectable with the naked eye even if one looked carefully.

Considering that Luanpo Huanghu has the ability to teleport, Mo Tingfeng suddenly realized!
That "light" as thin as a spider thread is the passage!

The moment this thought appeared in his mind, he disappeared in a flash.
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Huang Meiyun was about ten meters away from the blazing fire tree. The flames curled up enchantingly, like countless hands inviting her to dance with them.

She obviously saw Mo Tingfeng as well. Although she could not hear his voice or feel his fighting power due to the distance between them, Huang Meiyun could see clearly that the frozen snowfield was stirred up by Mo Tingfeng's sword energy and was covered with frost and snow.

There was no time to waste! Not only did she not stop, but she lifted up her skirt and ran, trying to rush into the sea of ​​fire and red trees as quickly as possible!

Suddenly, there were heavy snowflakes in the sky!

At the critical moment, Mo Tingfeng jumped out of thin air like a soul that could teleport, grabbed "Song Weichen"'s arm and pulled him behind him, and with his other hand he drew an arc and turned his palm. A terrifying energy mixed with countless ice and snow swept towards the fire tree, overturning it in an instant!

"Do not!!"

"Song Weichen" cried out in despair and miserably, trying his best to break free from Mo Tingfeng's grip and pounce towards the snow-covered area.

"Huang Meiyun, you are looking for death!"

Mo Tingfeng roared at her, his eyes bloodshot, wishing to chop Huang Meiyun into pieces! But she appeared in Song Weichen's guise, so how could he do that? He could only vent his anger on the tree and slapped it again. There was a loud bang under the snow pack, as if something had exploded inside.

Seeing this, "Song Weichen" could no longer stand up and sat down dejectedly, his fingers digging deeply into the snow, tears in his eyes quickly condensed, and beads of varying sizes fell to the ground.

"... just a little bit... just a little bit..." She couldn't form a complete sentence.

"You almost succeeded? Weiwei was so soft-hearted that she risked her life to help you, and you treated her like this! She tried her best to give you a chance to meet in the next life, but what about you? What are you doing?!"

Mo Ting laughed in anger, shook off "Song Weichen's" hand, then stretched out his arms and silently chanted a spell, the giant sword behind him was fully opened, emitting countless sword qi!
The entire illusion began to tremble slightly. The dome was originally filled with snow and fog, but now it was lit up with tiny cracks of silver light like flying stars - forget about the sentimentality and excusable circumstances!

It seemed as if he just wanted to tear the entire illusion apart without caring about anything else!
"Sir! No! Please have mercy on me!"

"Song Weichen" knelt down and took two steps to hug Mo Tingfeng's legs. "I never thought of hurting the little girl. I just wanted to see him for the last time. I beg you to help me..."

"To fulfill her wish? To let the sea of ​​fire devour her consciousness, but is this the kind of fulfillment you want?!"

"My lord! My lord, please! It's not like that. Please listen to my explanation! I will never hurt her. Please believe me!!"

Mo Tingfeng was furious, but he still took back his sword energy. He didn't really want to tear the illusion array apart. "You should know that I can destroy this place at any time if I want to! So stop playing tricks and don't try to escape!"

In fact, he was the one who was being held tightly, but he just couldn't admit it. Now Huang Meiyun was attached to Song Weichen's consciousness. If he forcibly tore the illusion array, it would most likely cause irreversible damage to Song Weichen's body and consciousness. He would never dare to do that.

The snow was cold. After all, Huang Meiyun was living in Song Weichen's consciousness. He couldn't bear to watch it. He helped her up and carefully brushed the remaining snow off her knees. He only regretted that he couldn't take off his black brocade robe and let her wear it.

"Weiwei and I are trying our best to help you, why are you running away?"

"My Lord, I did not run away."

"It was the fire last night that made me see everything you two have done for us, and that made me more determined to do this."

"Song Weichen" bowed deeply to Mo Tingfeng, "Sir, do you know how many objects that set up the Seven Evil Soul Locking Formation need to be destroyed in order to break it?"

"This is a three-layer illusion array. The first layer is the half-moon-shaped water channel near the Seven Caves where life and death are connected. The second layer is at the Tai Chi point inside the Seven Caves house. If the deduction is correct, your true form will appear from there after the array is broken. As for the third layer of illusion - it is not Huangjia Village, but the Mian Lake, which is where the water falls."

"Even an illusion array needs to [use the real to establish the virtual]. Although Huangjia Village no longer exists in reality, the Mian Lake is still there. Although you cannot leave the ghost market, you must have asked someone to place something in the lake to establish the array. I think it must be an eight-diagram mirror. However, because the second layer of the illusion array has been broken by me, there are still two layers of illusion array now."

"Song Weichen" looked at the fire tree covered by snow with tears in her eyes. There was a complex regret that was difficult to describe in her eyes. She looked at Mo Tingfeng again and bowed.

"I have nothing but respect and admiration for Lord Si Chen! Yes, Lord, you were able to find the item to break the second layer of illusion in a short time, and you were able to enter the third layer of illusion on your own without any array-inducing items. This is not something that ordinary people can do. I am really asking an expert."

"It's just that this illusion array... there is also a hidden fourth level of illusion."
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Huang Meiyun finally spoke about why she wanted to "escape" here alone - consistent with the previous inferences of Mo Tingfeng, Ding Heran and others: the Seven Evils Soul Locking Formation is fundamentally an evil formation that imprisons and traps the undead. In order to set up this formation, in addition to combining the life and death method of Qimen Dunjia to find the most suitable time and place, there are two most important things that are indispensable: lamp oil and wick.

Huang Meiyun, the person who set up the formation, is the "wick" of this formation, and the resentful power is the "lamp oil".

The person who sets up the formation must have boundless malice and hatred towards the trapped spirit in order to force out the trapped spirit's resentment - if the resentment is not exhausted, the lamp oil will never run out, and then this formation will be as solid as a rock during her lifetime.

But throughout her entire life, Huang Meiyun had only endless love and affection for Huang Hu, so how could she have the energy to grudge him?

Her first attempt to set up the formation ended in failure. At that time, Huang Meiyun had just arrived at the Ghost Market and everything was unfamiliar to her. Not to mention finding someone to discuss the matter with, there was no one to even have a normal chat with.

But by then, Huang Hu's soul had already formed. If he could not successfully set up the formation, the soul would dry up and dissipate, and no matter whether they were human or ghost, they would never meet again in this life.

Just when she was in despair, she dreamed of her "benefactor". In the dream, he taught her the solution in detail and asked her to demonstrate it in person several times. He made sure that there was no mistake before he left with satisfaction.

After waking up, Huang Meiyun thought it was miraculous. The dream was so real that when she pierced her fingertips to draw blood during the demonstration in the dream, there were many small unhealed wounds in reality. She didn't know when she had hurt herself.

In short, she followed the method taught by her benefactor in the dream and "grafted" a hidden illusion in the third layer of illusion - it was the place only a few dozen miles away from the Ghost Market...the place where Huang Hu Nanjing died in battle.

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The frozen earth is bleak, the bones of thousands of soldiers are withered, and their blood is flowing!

The corpses overlapped, their remains could not be separated at all, as if they had merged into one person. This person had hundreds of heads and thousands of arms, and all kinds of martial arts, and he only wanted to win one day, wash away all the makeup and return to his hometown, and embrace the woman of his dreams.

This is the collective telekinesis of those hundreds of dead souls! Its power is fierce and can reach a thousand miles! Even if the souls are scattered and the thoughts are broken, they will not be extinguished. If this telekinesis can be transformed into resentment power, it will be the oil of the lamp that will never run out!
Moreover, there was a ready-made item for setting up the formation, right in the body of her husband Huang Hu - that half of the jade pendant.

The benefactor told her in the dream that Huang Hu was brave and all the soldiers were proud of him! He was able to repel the enemy with several swords on his body, and killed dozens of enemy soldiers by himself, but unfortunately he was outnumbered.

The fatal wound on his body was an arrow shot into his heart. The force was so strong that it pierced his armor, his quilted clothes, and even shattered the half of the jade pendant that he kept protecting his heart at all times.

The benefactor was good at asking spirits. He told her that Huang Hu was very careful with the half of the jade pendant and only took it out to rub it when he was resting late at night, and kept it on his lips for a long time. In the end, the broken jade was mixed into his chest, blood and bones, and became a part of his body. Huang Hu, who was already a dead soul, would still subconsciously protect his chest, for fear of damaging or losing the only thing left between him and the most precious thing between them.

Huang Meiyun was already sobbing when she said this. Mo Tingfeng was already upset when he saw "Song Weichen" crying, but his reason told him not to "get attached to the appearance", she was not herself. He could only clench his fists and restrain his inappropriate behavior.

She gradually calmed down and continued her story, her eyes penetrating the snowy scene and returning to eighty years ago - she finally arrived at that haunted land in the southern border and stood in the same space with Huang Hu.

It was already summer by then, the ice field had turned into grassland, and the tragedy was no longer palpable, but she always had the illusion that there was still the smell of blood in the air and the sound of fighting in her ears.

Huang Meiyun took out the half of the jade pendant from her body, smeared her blood and tears on it, dug the soil and buried the jade pendant according to the place pointed out by her benefactor in the dream, and then lit seven soul-guiding incense sticks. When she took it out seven hours later, the jade pendant had turned dark red, as if it was soaked in blood.

After bringing the jade pendant back to the Seventh Cave, Huang Hu and the mental power of hundreds of dead souls all returned with her.

Huang Meiyun then followed the method taught by her benefactor and transmitted her mental power layer by layer into the third layer of the illusion array, and then injected it all into the acacia tree in the yard of her home in Huangjia Village, which she and Huang Hu had nurtured together. From then on, the tree became the key to the hidden illusion on the fourth layer!

The fourth level of illusion is exactly the southern battlefield eighty years ago, the protracted bloody battle on the ice field.

Hundreds of souls were trapped in it, fighting to the death, with endless longing for their loved ones, desperate but unable to escape. It was an unimaginable resentment and hatred.

Using the "emotion-inducing object" as the projection medium, the mental power is converted into resentful power to drive the soul-locking formation to operate.

At this point, the Seven Evils Soul-Locking Formation is completed!
The half jade pendant in Huang Meiyun's hand returned to its original color, and from that moment on, she became a part of the sky, earth and rocks of this ghost market until her death.
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Their story is coming to an end here.

Huang Meiyun looked at Mo Tingfeng and sighed, "I deliberately rushed back to light the tree just to put an end to all this. This "fire" is not scorching, but the mental power in the fourth level of illusion is burning. Only when this tree is burned out, the mental power of the hundreds of dead souls will disappear. Without the lamp oil, the Seven Evils Soul Locking Formation will naturally fail."

Huang Meiyun bowed deeply three times to Mo Tingfeng, expressing her sincere repentance.

"I really didn't expect that I would be so miserable in my old age. I am confused about the people and things in front of me, but I can remember everything about the people and things in my youth clearly. The lamp oil is still there, but the wick is wrong, allowing the chaotic soul imprisoned in the fourth layer of the hidden illusion to take the opportunity to commit a crime! I... sin, sin! When this matter is settled, please punish me severely, sentence me to death, and bring justice to the world."

Huang Meiyun said these words in the guise of "Song Weichen", which really made Mo Tingfeng's expression and mood as complicated. Seeing him staring at her like that, Huang Meiyun also reacted, and looked at "herself" with an even more guilty expression.

"This little girl has done so much for me. Now the uncontrolled conversion of my consciousness with hers is a very dangerous signal. It doesn't matter what happens to me, but I must not let this little girl get into trouble because of me. Especially last night, when I saw the village chief putting out the fire in an orderly manner, I thought it must be the credit of this little girl. Then I saw that the master had exhausted his magic power to suppress the fire. I felt really bad. I must not implicate innocent people for my own selfish desires and make the same mistake again and again!"

"Lord Si Chen, the one who tied the bell must be the one to untie it. I didn't mean to escape, but I really didn't know when my consciousness would be replaced again, so I rushed here to do all this - it's all my own fault, and I deserve to bear it alone."

"It's just...it's just...I seemed to see Brother Tiger smiling at me in that flaming tree just now. My lord, I haven't seen him for eighty years, so I...I just wanted to go over and hug him. I don't know if I will have the chance to see him smiling at me again in my next life, thousands of years, or eternity..."

Huang Meiyun was filled with grief, her body was staggering. Mo Tingfeng just reached out to help her, but suddenly he heard a sharp whistle from the snow pile that he had previously buried with his magic power, and then it exploded in all directions, and ice and snow particles flew towards the two of them like bullets and sharp blades!

Mo Tingfeng blocked the attack and subconsciously held "Song Weichen" in his arms.

The snow blades in the air were sharp and flew rapidly towards one place to form a tornado. In the center of the rapidly rotating frost and snow, a figure suddenly appeared!