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However, their intentions were clearly not there—the barbed wire and chains danced wildly, bypassing his position and reaching straight for the two girls who stood there dumbfounded.

The sharp thorns gleamed with an evil, cold light as they pierced the fair skin. The two felt as if a bucket of ice water had been poured over their heads, instantly clearing their muddled consciousness. They felt a cool, slippery, reptilian sensation coursing through their bodies and gradually seeping into their brains. They opened their mouths in utter horror, but could not utter a sound.

At this critical moment, Zhu Mingyao's mind raced. He stopped making a futile struggle, suddenly stretched out his body like a dragon emerging from the sea, and scooped up Madison and Zoe with his arms. He then turned and ran!

Learn to think in reverse: I can't hit you, but I can also make sure you can't hurt us!

Outside the room, countless strangely shaped building ruins floated in the chaotic void. Countless roads, corridors, and houses split and reassembled at varying speeds, like a stew cooked by a clumsy housewife. Zhu Mingyao shrank the ground and plunged into it.

While he was exchanging pleasantries, he secretly scouted the surroundings.

The space here was clearly hastily constructed by the enemy, its structure chaotic and disorganized, interspersed with some real buildings brought in from outside towns. Its complexity rivals that of the Xizhimen overpass in Beijing, and it bears no resemblance to any semblance of order or discipline. If one hides carefully within, even the creators would find it difficult to locate them in a short time.

Alessa's cold smile froze abruptly, her thoughts momentarily stuck. It wasn't until the other party was about to disappear from sight that she reacted with a mixture of shock and anger, and the hazy black feathers, along with the iron wire spikes, transformed into a wave and chased after them.

She had never left her hometown in her life, and had never dealt with such a slippery opponent before. Decades ago, the exorcist priests in the church all fought in a serious and methodical manner, and none of them had ever acted so disrespectfully!

“You cowardly wretch... your strength has reached the level of an archbishop. If you have any sense of honor left, fight like a man!”

Zhu Mingyao moved like the wind, weaving through the intricate chain array, each step perfectly avoiding the deadly sharp edges. Madison and Zoe, in his arms, though filled with fear, felt a slight sense of relief from the resolute and warm presence he exuded.

"Only a fool would stay and fight you head-on!" Despite the enemy's taunts and sarcastic remarks, he remained indifferent, even having the leisure to retort:

"Miss Alessa, you really are only educated in elementary school. The tactics you come up with are incredibly naive. You can only survive in this age group!"

"Don't even think about running!" Alessa's voice rang out from behind, tinged with anger and resentment. Her figure suddenly blurred, as if breaking through the limitations of space, appearing and closing in at an astonishing speed.

However, the next moment, Zhu Mingyao's figure swayed and suddenly transformed into more than a dozen identical shadows, scattering in all directions.

Even though Alessa reacted quickly, she only managed to capture a large portion of it. She could only watch helplessly as the remaining phantoms disappeared rapidly into the distance, merging with the chaotic wreckage space like fish entering the sea.

"This is a spatial rift created based on my mental world. You may escape for a while, but you can't escape forever!" The illusory wings slashed down fiercely, and the dark cracks howled and danced, pouring out the master's impotent rage.

The captured phantoms developed dark lines around their necks, their heads flying into the air one after another, before revealing their true paper-figure forms and exploding into ashes.

"That's not necessarily true. While I can't think of a way to deal with you right now, I can thwart your plans, but... that's a bit too much..."

The young man's voice drifted over, showing no sign of panic in the face of her threat; instead, his tone carried an indescribable strangeness.

Enraged, Alessa ignored the other's words. She spread her shadowy wings, unleashing wild waves that swept across the sky as she relentlessly pursued the other.

But if she had more social experience, she could probably tell that it was a complex emotion composed of three parts helplessness, three parts embarrassment, three parts difficulty, and one part worry.

……

……

Inside the wide, deep pit, which was dozens of meters in diameter, a thick layer of fine, grayish-white ash covered the area. The slightest movement caused dust and smoke to billow out. However, the few figures inside paid no attention to this trivial matter and busily displayed various supernatural abilities.

"Wide-area spatial skewness 76.2%, skewness trending towards chaos, time axis stretching 1:3.4, 26th deployment of the void probe..."

Her neatly trimmed willow-leaf eyebrows twitched anxiously as Fiona swallowed a mouthful of energy potion with a grim face.

The transparent crystal cone emitted a shimmering emerald light and disappeared into the void, while she and her assistant quickly recorded the feedback information.

Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of her seemingly relaxed companion, and her lips curled into a sneer.

"You old codger, aren't you even a little worried about your juniors who have fallen into enemy hands?"

"Don't rush, don't rush! I'm not idle."

Lai Hengli secretly took a sip of the medicinal wine to moisten his throat, while countless tiny symbols on the divination board in his hand evolved into myriad phenomena.

"At least for now, they are safe, and we should be able to locate them in about ten hours."

He changed his hand gestures, coordinating with his deductions: "Haven't we already confirmed that the fallen saint is extremely weak and may not be a match for the little guys?"

"You seem to have a lot of faith in them!" Fiona said, her lips pursed in annoyance.

"The time scale inside is stretched out; what takes a dozen hours outside is almost two days inside!"

"So what?" the refined, handsome older man asked calmly.

"When the storm comes, it will not be lenient with anyone. Those who cannot withstand the test will always be drowned in it. This is a fact that every extraordinary person must face today."

His gaze fell on the distant town entrance, where several distraught members of a small society were collecting the remains of their comrades. The heavy casualties among the core members of their organization meant that they could essentially be declared expelled from the supernatural world.

"We are old now, the future belongs to the young people."

A momentous era has arrived. If you lack the confidence and courage to go further, you might as well just go home and be an ordinary wealthy man, living out your life surrounded by material comforts.

"You only dare to say that because you figured they'd be alright, right? You hypocritical old man!" Having dealt with him many times, Fiona rolled her eyes and ruthlessly exposed his simplistic rhetoric.

"Haha, just kidding... Huh?"

A crisp sound, like gold and jade clashing, rang out, interrupting the conversation between the two. Lai Hengli stared at the hexagram formed by the combination, his expression suddenly becoming extremely strange, his facial muscles twitching and his beard trembling.

"What's going on? Has anything changed?" the old witch asked suspiciously.

He shook the compass with a clatter, like a startled toad, and shook his head like a rattle drum.

"No, no, it's normal!"

...The rabbits of the years of Yin, Wu, and Xu emerge from the east, while the horses of Si, You, and Chou gallop south.

Someone secretly wiped away non-existent cold sweat. It was just a calculation for peace, how did it turn into a love affair?

He smacked his lips, wondering to himself, "If this gets out, my career as a feng shui master will be over."

Chapter 431 Peach Blossoms 2

A few slender silver lights flashed by, and the rusty cast iron radiator instantly shattered into pieces, the loose, dry yellow scale hitting the ground and splashing specks of dust.

In the narrow, dark corridor, a group of strangely shaped figures looked around anxiously, holding sharp scalpels, as if they were searching for something unknown.

They were dressed in gray-white nurse uniforms and wore nurse caps. They had full and graceful figures, but their faces were extremely horrifying. Their features were hidden, leaving only large clumps of cracked flesh and blood, a shocking sight.

As the twisted, convulsing limbs flailed wildly, the dust floating in the air was suddenly disturbed slightly, as if something invisible had passed through. Before the sensitive monsters could detect anything amiss, a wisp of air had already vanished in an instant.

In an empty room resembling an office, several luminous talismans lit up, like clouds unfurling, quickly isolating the internal and external energies, and the three staggered figures appeared.

"We're safe for now, let's rest for a bit, but we must not let our guard down." Zhu Mingyao panted as he pulled out a Qi-replenishing pill, popped it into his mouth, and chewed it with a crunching sound.

"It seems that Alessa has an extremely strong control over this space. We must find a way to break her evil magic."

He looked rather disheveled. He had lost one of his shoes, and the sleeves of his sportswear, which had been enhanced by Taoist magic, had disappeared at the shoulder, leaving him in a vest. His smooth, lean muscles were covered with dark purple bloodstains, resembling centipedes crawling across them.

Time passed noticeably slower here than outside. Zhu Mingyao estimated, by his own senses, that at least two or three days had passed, yet the expected rescue had still not arrived. He was carrying two little girls while also fighting the pursuing enemy, inevitably making it difficult for him to attend to both tasks simultaneously.

Madison lay sprawled on the chair like a rag doll, trembling as she wiped her forehead with her hand. Her pale golden hair was soaked with sweat, wet and disheveled. She grimaced and inhaled sharply, trying to relieve the numbness that was slowly disappearing from her body.

"If only we could hold out for one more day, and once we regain our fighting strength, we could at least escape by working together."

Even with various potions and spells, they have only just broken free from control and are far from fully recovered.

The near-death experience of almost becoming material for someone else's possession and resurrection was truly terrifying. Even the usually calm Zoe was still somewhat shaken. She threw her usual ladylike demeanor to the winds and lazily lay down on her desk, lifting her skirt and rubbing her snow-white, round thighs.

Her long eyelashes fluttered incessantly, her golden-brown pearl-like eyes shimmered, and her mind raced with thoughts.

“McDy is right, the mentors must be trying to find us. Did you notice? That demon's aura is steadily weakening. She must have suffered extremely serious injuries in the earlier battles, and now…”

Before she could finish speaking, a voice filled with resentment and anger abruptly cut in, sharp as a steel needle, instantly piercing through the concealment created by the talisman.

"Trying to stall for time, you cunning little girl? They won't arrive for at least several hours, and you won't last that long!"

The immense evil intent crashed down like a heavy boulder, shattering the bricks and stones above, below, and to the sides, instantly filling the area with jagged cracks. The clear light emanating from the defensive talismans trembled helplessly in the storm, like withered leaves. A mercury-like, heavy aura tightly bound their chests, almost suffocating the three of them.

They hastily produced a bunch of scrolls and talismans, barely reinforcing the defenses. Zhu Mingyao then pulled out his peach wood staff and danced around in a blur, instantly drawing four diagrams at the four corners of the house.

"On the left is the Azure Dragon named Meng Zhang, on the right is the White Tiger named Jian Bing, in front is the Vermilion Bird named Ling Guang, and behind is the Black Tortoise named Zhi Ming. They hold banners on festival days, carry bells and drums on their backs, and stand before, behind, to the left, and to the right of me, surrounding and welcoming countless layers, protecting the altar. So be it!"

Verdant green and pure white, crimson red and deep black—the true forms of the Four Symbols Gods appeared, like golden beams and jade pillars, temporarily supporting the collapsing shelter.

The wide crack in the wall suddenly darkened, and a dark red light, like the embers of a campfire, flickered. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a huge eyeball, as big as a wheel.

Alessa's small body has now swelled to hundreds of times its original size, like a majestic Titan from mythology. She easily peels the house away from the surrounding buildings and holds it tightly in her palm.

"You will have nowhere to escape!" She grinned maliciously, and layers of black feathers quickly covered the area, pressing the Four Symbols Divine Diagram into a deformed and twisted shape like putty. Continuous light mist burst out at the intersection of the two spiritual energies.

"Hey!" Zhu Mingyao forcefully shoved the peachwood staff into the ground, and hundreds of cinnabar red lines, like blood vessels, extended out, maintaining the operation of the magic array.

"Stop fucking bragging! Your soul is about to disintegrate. If you can't take over a body soon, you'll become a lowly ghost!"

Alessa's face darkened, and her massive body rippled violently during the intense battle, appearing somewhat ethereal and unreal, clearly a sign of bluffing.

The other party guessed correctly; beneath her seemingly strong exterior, she was actually on the verge of destruction.

According to Alessa's original plan, she intended to spend several years or even more than a decade slowly eroding the two girls who had been marked with secret symbols, and then steal their place.

Unexpectedly, things didn't go as planned. Under the siege of many powerful figures, her main body, along with most of her power, was completely destroyed. This avatar was also severely damaged and could hardly hold on any longer, so she was forced to capture people in front of her to expose her abnormality.

Even if she were naive and ignorant, she would know that a large group of skilled people were searching for this place right now, and she had to finish everything as quickly as possible and then make a getaway.

"A self-righteous trick, thinking you can stop me?" Alessa felt her soul energy dissipating at an increasingly rapid pace and couldn't help but let out a thunderous laugh.

The increasingly indistinct body suddenly collapsed, revealing a strangely shaped lily.

The lily is pure white, like jade, but its six tongue-shaped petals are adorned with a ring of fine, downy black feathers. The interplay of light and darkness, good and evil, creates a unique beauty that blends the sacred and the decadent.

The flowers drifted down, like pure illusions, appearing before the three of them without any hindrance, splitting in two and entering the bodies of the two girls!

"what--!"

Like a kitten whose tail has been stepped on, Madison let out a high-pitched scream full of teenage girl vibes. She frantically grabbed Zhu Mingyao's collar and shook him wildly, her fluffy little head almost touching his face.

"Help... Wait! What did you say when you ran away? You said you had a way to ruin her plan? Tell me!"

No matter how much she pressed him for answers, Zhu Mingyao remained constipated, his face alternating between red and pale, unable to speak fluently.

Sensing the subtle energy creeping into her mind, Zoe's oval face turned deathly pale with fright, and she shook his hand, leaving a blur.

"Is it some kind of forbidden spell? Or will it cause permanent damage to your health? Don't worry about it at this time, we won't have any objections!"

"...Don't even think about it!" Aleza's joyful mental surged like a tide. Having finally gotten what she wanted after all this time, she had no more scruples.

“I chose both of you as targets for insurance purposes, to ensure that at least one of you succeeds. Even if he possesses some secret technique, it would be difficult for him to save both of you at the same time.”

"What are you doing? Tell me!" Madison's eyes were glistening with tears, and she wished she could bite this inexplicable guy to death.

"The solution is... to destroy the necessary elements of the possession ritual!" Backed to the edge, Zhu Mingyao decided to throw caution to the wind and shouted with his eyes closed.

Once the words were spoken, all around fell silent.

"What do you mean by destroying the necessary elements?" the two girls, who were on the verge of collapse, asked in unison, their expressions suddenly freezing.

“It’s just…” Zhu Mingyao’s eyes darted around like a thief, a faint redness appearing on the tip of his nose. He used all his strength to force an awkward laugh.