Slaying demons and eliminating evil, a martial saint among mortals.

Qin Lie fell heavily to the ground again, and with this fall, he felt that he had broken two more ribs.

However, Qin Lie couldn't care less about any of that at the moment, and forced himself to lift his head to look at Wugu Luo.

Uguro was still standing there, one hand covering his head, his face clearly contorted.

My trick really worked!

Qin Lie immediately turned to look at Xu Qinghe and gave him a wink.

Although Xu Qinghe was seriously injured, she immediately understood what Qin Lie meant when she saw his eyes.

The next moment, Qin Lie stood up, supporting himself against the snow.

"Pei Jinghan! All three thousand soldiers of the Duanfeng Camp have sacrificed their lives. Now is the time for the demon race to make a comeback. Are you going to be a deserter?"

Wugu Luo suddenly looked up at Qin Lie, his eyes filled with rage.

"Shut up! If you dare utter another word, I'll kill you right now!"

After hearing Wugu Luo's words, Qin Lie became even more convinced of his judgment.

That old man is completely unable to make a move now.

If he were capable of making a move, he would have killed me long ago; he wouldn't be standing here wasting time talking.

The angrier he appeared, the stronger Pei Jinghan's resistance was.

On the other side, Xu Qinghe also took out the Soul Sealing Book again.

The Soul Sealing Scroll floated in front of him, flipping rapidly, with red light surging from its pages.

Several red chains flew out from the Soul Sealing Book.

The chains swirled in mid-air like long red snakes, directly coiling towards Wugu Luo.

In the past, these chains wouldn't have been able to get close to Uguro at all.

But it's different now.

Pei Jinghan's remnant soul was rebelling inside his body. Wu Gu Luo had to suppress Pei Jinghan while resisting Xu Qinghe's magic, making it impossible for him to do so as easily as before.

The red chains quickly wrapped around Wugu Luo's body.

One lap, two laps, three laps...

It gets tighter and tighter!

The black energy around Wugu Luo surged violently, but he couldn't break free no matter what he did.

Seeing this, Qin Lie became even more excited. He couldn't stop yet; he only needed one last spark.

"Pei Jinghan, let me tell you, don't think that just because I haven't been in the Duanfeng Camp for a few days, I won't grow back to be a part of the Duanfeng Camp!"

"Even if I, Qin Lie, die in battle today, I will never be a deserter!"

At this point, Qin Lie's eyes were fixed on Wugu Luo.

"And you, Pei Jinghan, from this day forward, will be the first and last deserter of the Duanfeng Camp."

The moment the word "deserter" was uttered, Wugu Luo's body trembled violently.

The next moment, he clutched his head and roared to the sky.

"ah--!"

There was an intense, suppressed pain in that voice, and the entire Broken Wind Pass trembled with that long howl.

Xu Qinghe seized the opportunity and quickly made hand seals.

The red light on the Soul Sealing Book suddenly surged, and the red chains binding Wugu Luo tightened sharply at that moment.

click!

The chains broke through the invisible barrier around Pei Jinghan's body and then pierced into his skin.

Uguro's expression instantly turned ferocious.

He tried to struggle, but Pei Jinghan's remnant soul's resistance made his movements noticeably sluggish.

Xu Qinghe gritted her teeth and continued to activate the Soul Sealing Book with all her might, as red chains kept drilling into Pei Jinghan's body.

At this moment, Qin Lie had already arrived at Xu Qinghe's side with Suixue in his arms.

He said those things just to provoke Pei Jinghan, he didn't really want to die!

"How's the situation now?"

Xu Qinghe stared straight ahead, fine beads of sweat already forming on her forehead.

"I can now sense Pei Jinghan's remnant soul, and I can also sense Wugu Luo's divided soul."

"but……"

Before she could finish speaking, Xu Qinghe frowned.

The hand seals suddenly changed, and the red chains tightened once more.

A wisp of black energy was forcibly pulled out from Wugu Luo's body by the chains.

Not long after the wisp of black energy left his body, more black blood patterns surged out from Pei Jinghan's body, tightly binding the wisp of black energy and trying to drag him back.

"Look at the situation now, I can't get it out!"

"What can't be extracted?"

"We can't extract that old man's fragmented soul!"

Xu Qinghe uttered those words bitterly.

"This old man's divided soul has already merged with Pei Jinghan's soul; you could say he has become a part of Pei Jinghan."

"Pei Jinghan has already merged with Duanfeng Pass; until the Duanfeng Formation is dispelled, no one can kill him!"

Qin Lie's expression changed upon hearing this.

He originally thought that as long as he awakened Pei Jinghan's remnant soul and worked together from the inside, everything would be fine. He never expected things to develop to this extent.

The remnant souls of the human and the demon actually merged together and became one!

Forcibly extracting Wugu Luo's soul would tear Pei Jinghan's remnant soul to shreds as well.

Qin Lie looked at Xu Qinghe and asked in a low voice, "Is there any way?"

Xu Qinghe stared ahead, her red eyes losing some of their playfulness.

This time, she didn't tease Qin Lie on purpose; she simply shook her head.

"no way."

"At least for now, I am powerless to do anything about it."

Qin Lie's heart sank.

If even Xu Qinghe in this state says there's nothing she can do, then things are really troublesome.

Just then, Uguro suddenly laughed.

The laughter was grating, tinged with an indescribable smugness.

"You guys are pretty amazing."

"It actually managed to revive Pei Jinghan's remnant soul."

He was bound by red chains, but his face showed little panic.

Instead, it seemed as if they were admiring Qin Lie and Xu Qinghe's helplessness.

"But what's the use? We're one now."

"You have absolutely no way to deal with me."

At this point, Wugu Luo even took half a step forward, grinning and saying, "Come on, kill me if you dare."

Xu Qinghe was so angry upon hearing this that she gritted her teeth.

The red light in her eyes suddenly intensified, and her hand gestures quickened.

The red chains that had pierced Pei Jinghan's body tightened instantly.

The black energy was forcibly pulled outwards.

Uguro's smile faded slightly, and his body swayed.

But soon, the black blood-red patterns surged out again, pulling the black energy back tightly.

Qin Lie's expression changed, and he quickly said, "Don't get agitated. He's deliberately trying to provoke you."

Xu Qinghe certainly knew what Wugu Luo was doing.

Even if you know it, being provoked so intimately still makes you furious.

She gave Wugu Luo a cold look, and then loosened her grip slightly.

Qin Lie managed to persuade Xu Qinghe, but after doing so, he had no better solution of his own.

It seems that all they can do now is temporarily suppress Uguro.

Suppressing it doesn't mean solving it.

The longer it drags on, the worse it will be for them.

Just as Qin Lie's mind was racing, something suddenly changed on Wugu Luo's side.

Thick smoke began to billow from Pei Jinghan's body.

That smoke wasn't ordinary smoke.

It contained demonic energy, as well as the scorching smell of the array being forcibly activated.

Wugu Luo glanced down at his body, then gritted his teeth and sneered.

"You still want to compete with me? Well then, I'll let you compete to your heart's content."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wugu Luo suddenly formed a hand seal.

In an instant, the demonic aura emanating from his entire body turned chillingly cold.

The demonic energy surged outwards layer by layer, as if trying to drag the entire Broken Wind Pass into darkness.

The array patterns on the ground also began to light up.

Broken, blood-red lines stretched from the main hall entrance to the drum platform, and then from the drum platform to the entire Broken Wind Pass.

Qin Lie knew that this was the aura of the Broken Wind Formation.

Wugu Luo was actually using Pei Jinghan's body, the core of the formation, to forcibly activate the Wind-Severing Formation.

"If I can't have this body, neither can you."

Uguro's voice carried a hint of madness.

Qin Lie didn't understand at first; he only knew that the situation was terrible.

But he couldn't yet determine exactly how bad things were.

Xu Qinghe, however, saw through it.

"He is using Pei Jinghan's body to restart the Wind-Severing Array."

"What do you mean?"

Xu Qinghe stared at the illuminated array patterns.

"For some unknown reason, the ring that originally trapped Pei Jinghan has disappeared."

"Wugu Luo is now forcibly activating the great formation in order to fully unleash the power within Pei Jinghan's body."

"At that time, Pei Jinghan, who has fallen into a state of madness, may not still be trapped in Duanfeng Pass."

"They might just rush straight to Dongxuan City and slaughter everyone in sight."

Upon hearing this, Qin Lie's heart leaped into his throat.

"Then you should stop him!"

Xu Qinghe rolled her eyes at him.

"If I could stop it, I would have done it already."

Qin Lie was speechless after she said that.

indeed.

Xu Qinghe can't even break the fusion between Wu Gu Luo and Pei Jing Han's bodies, so how could she possibly stop the Broken Wind Formation from restarting?

Uguro burst into laughter upon hearing their conversation.

"Little girl, you do have some knowledge."

The array patterns grew brighter and brighter.

The demonic aura emanating from him grew stronger and stronger.

"Once the Wind-Severing Formation is activated this time, my strength will reach the Yao Guang Realm."

"At that time, the surrounding area will be filled with suffering and death."

Qin Lie gripped the broken snow tightly, feeling somewhat at a loss.

You can't stop them, and you can't beat them in a fight.

Lu Chen and Li Hu still don't know if they've spread the news.

Are they just supposed to watch helplessly as Wugu Luo activates the Wind-Severing Array?

Just then, a clear yet aged voice suddenly rang out from the sky.

"Your wicked scheme will not succeed."

Qin Lie suddenly looked up.

That sound...

So familiar.

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a figure that had appeared in mid-air at some point.

The man was dressed in white, his sleeves fluttering in the wind.

Qin Lie looked at the figure and felt that he had vaguely seen it somewhere before.

But I couldn't remember it for a moment.

The next moment, a fragment of a seal flew out from the man's sleeve and spun around in mid-air.

A bluish-white light shone down upon the remaining mark.

The crimson array patterns that were lighting up were abruptly suppressed for a moment.

Qin Lie's pupils contracted.

He finally remembered.

Zhenguan Seal.

The visitor was none other than the strategist Shen Shuyan!

Seeing Shen Shuyan appear, Qin Lie finally felt a little relieved.

After the sky collapsed, the tall people finally arrived.

Although the current situation is already extremely bad.

But Qin Lie knew that since Shen Shuyan had come, he must still have a way.

Even if Shen Shuyan can't solve it.

The big hand that took Shen Shuyan away from Duanfeng Pass back then should be able to solve the current problem, right?