Hidden Corners

Not long after Li Chengyi left, a sword light flew down and fell steadily towards the Faceless Hall.

On the platform in front of the hall, the sword light dispersed, revealing Huo Qingkong's solemn face.

He looked up at the temple in front of him and strode into it.

"Teacher. I'm back."

In the main hall, Taoist Holy Spirit was still sitting cross-legged, motionless, with his eyes closed.

"Thank you Qingkong" he replied in a low voice. "This battle should be able to establish a new pattern for the future of the four factions including us. In the future, when I pass on to you, everything will be a foregone conclusion."

"When will the teacher pass the throne to me?" The cumbersome rules made Huo Qingkong feel like he was holding back a ball of fire.

The fusion is still going on. If he succeeds, everything will be fine. If he fails, then he doesn't have much time.

He couldn't waste a single minute of his time.

"." Holy Spirit Taoist was silent for a moment, as if he didn't expect him to ask this question.

According to the progress, Huo Qingkong should still be merging, but his strength may already have the initial characteristics of a true fire powerhouse.

The real fire expert ignited the seal ring, which brought about a huge qualitative change.

Normally, it is extremely difficult to use oneself as fuel, burn everything, transcend everything, and reach the top to become a dazzling flame.

But Huo Qingkong is different

"The calamity qi has become stronger and expanded this time. If you can destroy the new qi eye together with the previous three qi eyes, you can immediately succeed the master." Sheng Sheng said.

Huo Qingkong breathed a sigh of relief.

He could feel the growing evil aura from the outside world, and knew that time was running out. If he was still bound by these red tape rules, the next battle would be dangerous.

But now that the master has given him a test, as long as he completes it, he will be able to get rid of the shackles and jump into the sky.

"Teacher, please wait for my return!"

Without saying a word, he turned around and strode out.

The sword light reappeared, and Huo Qingkong disappeared from where he was, flying towards the location of the calamity energy inside.

Holy Spirit Taoist sat alone in front of the statue, raised his head and looked at the faceless god in front of him.

Suddenly he let out a long sigh.

"Ming Cong."

A Taoist boy with golden scales on his face quickly came in from the door and saluted respectfully.

"Invite the rest of the elders to gather here. Prepare to activate the Thousand-faced Floating Formation."

"Huh?? But... that large formation attacks all living creatures in the Cave of Calamity without distinction." Ming Cong looked shocked.

Thousand-faced floating formation, the highest killing formation of the Faceless Sword Sect, is a top-level formation that can only be activated when life and death are at stake. It is the last killing trick left to future generations by the ancestor of Chiyuan.

Each of the four sects has a set of such trump cards, which can gather everyone's power, change quantitatively and qualitatively in an instant, and thus step into the realm of supreme true fire.

And if the Holy Spirit Taoist himself is the leading core, then the power of the formation will be greatly improved.

"Go. Don't ask why." Holy Spirit Taoist exhaled tiredly.

"But Qingkong just went inside." Mingcong said hesitantly.

"It doesn't matter. I gave him a teleportation induction talisman. When the formation is turned on, he can automatically escape and teleport out. It's just that he may be teleported outside the station due to the influence of the formation." Holy Spirit said.

"Okay." Mingcong bowed slightly, turned and walked out the door.

Not long after, all the elders who received the notice came to the main hall one by one.

Except for Kui Ling who is still outside, everyone else is here.

"Where is Kui Ling? Where are you?" Holy Spirit glanced at the crowd and whispered.

"Feijian has sent the message, and Elder Kui Ling is on his way back." Elder Yun Ling replied.

"Then it's up to Qingkong to deal with the enhanced tribulation energy. After he is done with it, we will work together to launch a large formation to completely suppress the tribulation energy. I hope you can give me a helping hand," Holy Spirit said sincerely.

"I sincerely abide by the instructions of the Master." Everyone responded one after another.

The four tribulation qi eyes are still much stronger than before. Such strength is enough to weaken Huo Qingkong's strength in a short time, and then when he is exhausted, the demon emperor can judge whether to completely open the formation.

As for the teleportation talisman, Taoist Holy Spirit didn’t give you anything at all.

After confirming that the formation was activated, the elders left the hall, leaving Taoist Holy Spirit alone to stand up.

He looked at the faces hanging on the walls around him. They were all former teachers and seniors of the sect who had fallen.

"Please also ask all the ancestors to lend a helping hand to this disciple!"

He bowed respectfully in front of everyone.

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More than ten minutes later.

Wuqu Mountains.

A ray of sword light flew over, gently floating above the mountains, looking down.

The traces and devastation left by the previous battle between the four factions have been partially covered up by the snow and wind.

"Disappeared? Left or..." Li Chengyi frowned slightly.

The environment is getting colder and colder. If Huo Qingkong is not found in time, the whole world may end.

By then, he wouldn't have time to take Kui Ling and the others away together.

After all, there is only one known way to escape, and that is to kill the original body.

After confirming that no one was here, Li Chengyi took out the communication flying sword used for sect communication and lightly touched the blade of the small sword.

laugh!

The flying sword came out of his hand and immediately flew towards the snow-capped mountains in the distance.

Li Chengyi followed closely and followed Feijian to find the large team of the Faceless Sword Sect.

A large team dragged down by low-level disciples is not very fast. Within a few minutes, Li Chengyi caught up with him.

On the huge flying sword shrouded in a green halo, everyone from the Faceless Sword Sect was rushing towards the Gate of Time.

The leader was Elder Long from the Time Sect.

Sensing the flying sword from a distance, Elder Long turned around and looked back. I saw Li Chengyi approaching with sword light.

"Faceless Sword Sect White Deer?"

"Bai Lu has seen Elder Long. I wonder if he has seen senior brother Huo Qingkong of our sect? This junior wants to see him for something." Li Chengyi clasped his fists and asked from a distance.

"He has gone back, and Elder Kui Ling you sent has also returned." Elder Long replied.

"Thank you." Li Chengyi quickly turned his sword around and returned to the sect.

His current speed has been improved again after entering the Seventeenth Seal. This time it is not an increase in single speed, but an increase in overall speed due to the passive enhancement after the fusion of the Flower God Clothes.

After all, among the flower language abilities, there is also a type that increases the strength of the whole body.

At this time, the blessing air at full speed is like silk threads on both sides, and it disappears in an instant.

Twenty times the speed of sound, this is Li Chengyi's fastest speed under normal circumstances.

'Everything here should end.'

Feeling the increasing chill around him, the chill in Li Chengyi's eyes also deepened.

The other side.

The Faceless Sword sect is stationed in the area.

Kui Ling and the other five elders have stood in the open space in front of the main hall. Everyone formed a circle and sat cross-legged, with their own nourishing secret swords flat on their knees.

Streams of green sword light bloomed from their bodies, and then converged on the Holy Spirit Taoist in the center.

The blue light keeps getting thicker and thicker.

This is the same attribute skill gathered by the six seal ring masters. At this time, they are all integrated and injected into Holy Spirit Taoist, a true fire powerhouse.

The power of Holy Spirit Kung Fu is essentially a qualitative change of consciousness.

A large amount of consciousness almost turned into substance, wrapping around his body like running water.

The gathered consciousness was guided by it, and with a flick of his hand, it immediately turned into a blue beam of light and flew into the Faceless Hall.

Landed on the faceless statue.

Suddenly, layers of wave-like white light spread and exploded from the statue.

As if the energy was transmitted, the white light of the statue quickly covered the entire Sword Sect station in circles, enveloping all the disciples.

At this moment, half of the consciousness of the disciples was withdrawn and merged into the white light.

White light covered the Sword Sect sky, as if waiting for something, motionless, just washing away in circles like water waves.

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Inside the Tribulation Qi Cave.

Huo Qingkong's gaze pointed, and the calamity energy in the air was instantly defeated by the sword of wisdom.

Nothing can stand in his way.

Waves of calamity energy equivalent to the power of the seal ring hit his body surface, but had no effect like a breeze.

These weaker auras of calamity cannot even penetrate the silk web of love surrounding him.

Even if the density is occasionally too high, one or two fish slip through the net, but when it hits him, it seems to be invisible and weakened by something, and the remaining power is dissipated with a light blow from the body-protecting wisdom sword.

The first eye of calamity, the swirling dark red vortex quickly appeared in front of Huo Qingkong.

Sure enough, in the huge roar, the dark red eyes were much more powerful than what he saw last time.

Huo Qingkong frowned, waved his hand and concentrated his wisdom sword, and struck an instant prison, breaking out the Qi Eye.

Only then did he realize that the cyan sword light he always shot had now turned into black and red.

It was a color similar to the calamity energy. If you didn't identify it carefully, you wouldn't be able to recognize it at all.

But the thought only flashed through his mind.

After easily consuming part of his strength and defeating the first Qi Eye, he continued to penetrate deeper and came to the second Qi Eye.

The black and red sword light turned into a giant sword, and with one slash, it defeated the gray and black Qi Eye in mid-air.

But the giant sword itself also consumed most of it, and its size shrank a lot.

Huo Qingkong took back the sword of wisdom and integrated it into his body.

'I knew that the test given by the teacher was not that easy to pass, and it really started to become difficult.'

The intensity of this Qi Eye was more than ten times stronger than the previous one. Even for him, it was a bit difficult to defeat it.

Continuing to go deeper, the intensity of the third qi eye is even greater, and it has increased a lot.

Huo Qingkong struck with the Wisdom Sword more than ten times in a row, and cooperated with the Love Silk Web to suppress and weaken it. It took more than two minutes to defeat it.

The fourth qi eye is also the last qi eye.

The intensity has reached twice as much as the sum of all the previous air holes.

‘It must be as soon as possible! Time is running out. The cold and evil atmosphere outside is getting stronger and stronger.' The Demon Emperor spoke in his mind.

'I know! ’ Huo Qingkong said in a low voice.

The severe pain of the fusion continued, but with this fusion, his strength, speed, and physique were rapidly increasing.

And with the action of defeating the tribulation energy, it seemed to stimulate the acceleration of the fusion.

The fusion of good and evil becomes more and more intense.

At this time, deep in his consciousness, in the Yuan Shen Sword Palace, his black Yuan Shen and the surrounding blood-red beams had already merged by more than 90%.

The color of the blood light beam is almost too pale to be distinguishable.

And there seems to be a hint of deep dark red in the black spirit.

Huo Qingkong looked at the last fourth eye, took a deep breath, and raised his hand suddenly.

boom! !

All the swords of wisdom condensed on the secret sword, and at this moment, they suddenly shot out of his sword pouch.

‘Instant prison! ’

‘Thousand Blades! ’

At this moment, the secret sword that condensed the wisdom sword suddenly thrust forward towards the Qi Eye.

A thousand swords thrust out in one thousandth of a second!

The black and red sword light pierced back and forth on the last qi eye. The huge and solidified tribulation qi and the secret sword of wisdom were frantically rubbing, colliding, and consuming.

At the same time, the fusion of Huo Qingkong's whole body further accelerated and reached the end.

Boom!

A sword of wisdom was shattered by the collision of tribulation energy.

Then came the second one.

The third one.

He condensed nine of them in total, and three of them were destroyed in a short period of time.

And it was at this time that the fusion of good and evil finally came to an end.

The black soul and the dark red blood light merged into one, and the blood eyes on the wall of the Sword Palace disappeared automatically.

The entire body of the humanoid soul was black and red, and the evil that belonged to the faceless scholar and the good that belonged to Huo Qingkong were frantically competing for the dominance of the body and power.

At this time, the demon emperor lurking deep in his consciousness was nervously watching the changes in his soul.

Once the dark red color takes over the soul, it means they have failed, and the good side of Huo Qingkong they cultivated will be completely devoured and become the nourishment for the faceless scholar.

Once black gains the upper hand, it means they have successfully weakened the power of the faceless scholar.

At that time, they worked together to take the opportunity to kill him. This will only delay it for a longer period of time after it completely appears and then dissolves its power.

It also means that this method is feasible! There is also a glimmer of hope for the future.