Chapter 91

The small alley suddenly became quiet.

After all, the magic stone puppets were just magical artifacts; without receiving Huang Gui's command, they could only remain motionless.

Huang Gui was deeply prostrate on the ground, his whole body trembling violently. A powerful and icy fear swept over him, paralyzing him.

Who was this young man? Why did he give him such a feeling?

Under normal circumstances, he would have been shocked. But now, under this complete suppression and obedience, he didn't even have the awareness to think about it.

Jiang Feng slowly walked up to him and asked, "How long have you been here?"

Huang Gui's teeth chattered, and he managed to say, "Seven, seven years."

Jiang Feng asked again, "Oh? What for?"

Huang Gui's voice suddenly paused.

Jiang Feng stopped in front of him and lightly kicked him, "Speak."

Huang Gui's voice was intermittent, "The Great Wasteland, the environment is harsh, we, we need to enter the Nine Heavens Continent..."

"Who asked about the goals of the demon race? Tell me something I don't know."

"Lord, is researching the demon holes, we, we need to directly enter... the Nine Heavens..."

Huang Gui's body trembled even more violently, as if a will was forcefully suppressing him, preventing him from revealing the truth. But Jiang Feng's will was even more dominant, forcing the words out of him.

"You've been潜伏 here for seven years, just for this? How far has it progressed?"

Huang Gui trembled and said, "Basi... basically... basically completed!"

He suddenly let out a惨叫, and after four words, his chest exploded, a jet of blood mixed with fragments of the demon core shot in front of Jiang Feng!

Jiang Feng casually reached out and caught the blood jet.

Golden light flowed under his skin, quickly absorbing the blood jet.

The demon core exploded, and Huang Gui naturally couldn't survive. His eyes rolled back, and he fell to the ground with a thud.

His demon core had been tampered with beforehand; as soon as it involved secrets, it would self-destruct.

Jiang Feng frowned and said, "Basically completed?"

He thought for a moment, then turned to look at Hua Su behind him.

A golden light flowed through his pupils, and he could see clearly that the three remaining origin branches in Hua Su's body were all withered, and the seed of enlightenment was covered in cracks.

Jiang Feng had timely stopped his self-destruction, but the battle had already drained all of his enlightenment power. Now, Hua Su had become a cripple, and even if he could wake up, he would only be able to lie in bed for the rest of his life, unable to take care of himself.

Jiang Feng took a deep breath, walked up to Huang Gui, and reached out, plunging his hand into Huang Gui's chest.

Golden light gathered between Jiang Feng's fingers and palm, becoming denser and brighter.

The golden blood qi now floated on the surface of Jiang Feng's skin, greedily absorbing Huang Gui's flesh and blood, quickly turning the large demon into an empty shell.

The golden blood qi became denser and more vigorous.

In the area of Jiang Feng's heart, the Tian Ji Magic Cube began to operate at a frenzied speed.

The small squares on it kept changing, and a large amount of numbers rapidly flowed over its surface.

Such calculations naturally consumed a lot of enlightenment power.

The enlightenment power in Jiang Feng's origin branches was quickly depleted, followed by the enlightenment power in his blood.

Soon, the enlightenment power in his blood was also exhausted, and the Tian Ji Magic Cube began to absorb the power of the golden blood qi!

Strands of golden blood qi passed through the blood vessels below the Tian Xin Seed, entering the origin branches in reverse, and then into the Tian Ji Magic Cube.

Its energy was stronger than enlightenment power, and the Tian Ji Magic Cube's operation speed became even faster.

Jiang Feng continuously absorbed Huang Gui's flesh and blood, converting it into golden blood qi, which then supplied the Tian Ji Magic Cube.

Data chains appeared one by one, gathering around the Tian Ji Magic Cube, like chains of talismans.

Jiang Feng was fully focused, not sparing any effort.

After a long time, the last bit of Huang Gui's flesh and blood was absorbed, and the Tian Ji Magic Cube stopped running, producing a new data chain!

Jiang Feng threw away the dried-up remains of Huang Gui and quickly walked to Hua Su's side.

He extended his finger, and a drop of golden blood appeared at the tip, slowly coagulating and dripping into Hua Su's body.

The golden blood qi directly fused into Hua Su's seed of enlightenment, and the cracks on the seed's surface quickly began to heal. Then, Jiang Feng converted the input energy into enlightenment power.

He was fully focused, using all his strength to guide the origin branches in Hua Su's body, making them start to move.

Fortunately, his enlightenment power seemed to have a special power, and as soon as he gave a slight command, Hua Su's origin branches would obey.

After an unknown amount of time, the cracks on the seed of enlightenment completely disappeared, and it began to rise and fall slowly, automatically absorbing a small amount of enlightenment power from the air.

This enlightenment power became a source, and Jiang Feng guided it, making it enter through the origin branches, moving in a fixed direction, gradually forming a cycle.

This work was clearly not easy, and Jiang Feng's face became paler, and sweat poured from his forehead, soaking his clothes.

A new cycle gradually formed, and the enlightenment power began to flow automatically, becoming faster and more free.

The work was finally completed, and Jiang Feng breathed a sigh of relief. His vision went dark, and he fell onto Hua Su.

At the moment he fainted, a clear, light sound echoed in the air, as if something had broken.

Then, sunlight filtered in, and the alley began to brighten.

A girl of about five or six years old was peering into the alley, and for some reason, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't see anything before.

But now, the veil in front of her eyes was broken, and she finally saw the situation inside!

She screamed, "Brother! Uncle! Ah!"

She didn't run inside but turned around and shouted to the street, "Help! There's a ghost here!"

"What ghost?" a voice replied, and her fat mother poked her head out from the second floor, "Brat, where's the water you fetched?"

Amei shouted, "The well is broken, and someone is dead! Mom, come quick!"

Heavy footsteps came down from upstairs, and the fat woman scolded, "What nonsense, you little brat, stop making things up!"

She walked to the alley entrance, saw the situation inside, and immediately drew in a sharp breath.

At that moment, her lazy expression completely changed, her eyes sparkled, her back straightened, and she instantly became alert and fierce.

She took a deep breath, and her voice thundered through the street, "Everyone! Come quickly, there's a demon hole!"

In front of her, deep in the alley, at the well, a black vortex was slowly forming.

Thick black gas emerged from the vortex, becoming denser and denser. It expanded wildly, like countless arms, greedily reaching out in all directions.

Not far from the demon hole, two black puppets stood stiffly. After a moment, they absorbed the demon gas and came to life, intending to move forward.

In front of them was a broken demon corpse, and two more steps away were two humans!

At this moment, two middle-aged men who looked exactly alike rushed to the fat woman's side and asked urgently, "What's going on?"

Then, they saw the scene in front of them and simultaneously showed shocked expressions.

The fat woman decisively said, "No time for talk, save the people first!"

The middle-aged men responded in unison, and the three of them rushed into the alley.

The two magic stone puppets, seemingly receiving orders from somewhere, sank their bodies, assumed an attack stance, and stepped over Huang Gui's corpse, rushing toward the lying Hua Su and Jiang Feng.

Just as they were about to step on them, a shadow flashed, and the two people on the ground disappeared! Then, the magic stone puppets' bodies shook, and they were simultaneously knocked away.

At this critical moment, the fat woman picked up the two people on the ground with one hand each. The two middle-aged twins, one on each side, knocked away the two magic stone puppets.

They didn't linger in battle, retreated immediately, and quickly returned to the alley entrance.

By this time, dozens of people had gathered there, all dressed in tattered clothes, looking like poor residents. But their movements were swift, and their eyes sparkled, clearly showing that they were all high-level martial cultivators.

They asked in unison, "What's going on? Isn't this a killer's official business?"

The fat woman firmly said, "It's the demon race! They've opened a demon hole here!"

After a few hurried words, the two magic stone puppets rushed out together.

"What audacity, to set up a demon hole here!"

"You fools, you didn't even notice the demon hole right under your noses!"

"…No more talk, let's take care of these two first, then figure out a plan!"

Before the words were finished, over a dozen people attacked together, and the two magic stone puppets were instantly shattered.

The fat woman, carrying the two people effortlessly, frowned and gazed into the depths of the alley. She firmly said, "We can't handle this, report it to the state capital immediately!"

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When Jiang Feng woke up, there was only Ye Xiao by his side.

His eyes opened and then closed, carefully observing his internal condition.

Now, he was exactly the same as he was on the morning of the 26th, when he went to the Jiezi Pavilion.

One chain, two cavities, full origin branches and enlightenment power in his body, the golden bloodline dormant at the base of the origin branches, and a strand of blood qi flowing in his blood.

The only difference was that the Tian Ji Magic Cube was resting, having stopped running—before that, it had been slowly absorbing enlightenment power, calculating Hua Su's origin branch condition, trying to extend the time and reshape a new, correct enlightenment power cycle for him.

Now, this work was completed.

This proved that everything Jiang Feng had experienced before was real.

He asked, "How many days have passed?"

Ye Xiao, who had been by his pillow, replied, "Three days and three nights."

Jiang Feng tilted his head on the pillow, calculating the angle of the sunlight. If it had been three days, it was now around 9:00 AM on June 30th.

"What's happening outside?"

"There are twelve demon holes appearing inside and outside the city, causing chaos everywhere."

What?!

Jiang Feng was shocked and sat up from the bed, looking at Ye Xiao in disbelief.

Twelve demon holes?!!!