After Deceiving Shizun into Dual Cultivating, I Ran Away With His Bun 73p1

Chapter 73 Part 1

The next day, the grand competition continued as usual. Helan Liyu directly skipped levels and defended the arena with Shouyang. He was also happy to be idle for a while and did not need to fight until the last day of the grand competition.
And on this day, Helan Xue and Lin Queli did not attend.
Helan Xue took Lin Queli to the divine altar of the Myriad Sword Sect. To be precise, it was an empty platform, which had been built for Helan Xue to practice in the past. It could isolate the spiritual energy inside and outside the platform and would not cause damage to the surroundings.
After all, the soul transfer spell was a forbidden art. If it was forcefully used on Lin Queli, this “stowaway,” there would definitely be heavenly thunder.
“Sigh.” Lin Queli sighed. “I’m also a regular customer of heavenly thunder.”
He had clearly not cultivated to a breakthrough, but he had encountered heavenly thunder during his first time doing it, he had encountered heavenly thunder when he sacrificed himself to the Demon Sword, and he had even been struck to death by heavenly thunder. Now he had to face heavenly thunder again.
Helan Xue chuckled and patted the top of Lin Queli’s head. “Sit properly.”
In the center of the platform, the two sat cross-legged, facing each other.
Helan Xue held the body of the Demon Lord Lin Queli in his arms and placed it in the center between the two.
The Demon Lord’s body had been maintained by Helan Xue’s spiritual energy and cold qi throughout the process. Now, after being moved out of the Ice Cave Abode, it was still unharmed.
Lin Queli glanced at the Demon Lord’s body. After this body had been used by him before, his features had tended towards his own from the original charm, adding a bit of foolishness… ah, ptooey, cuteness and delicacy. He didn’t know what he would become after he went back like this, and what would happen to his original body now? Would it also face “death” or dissipate?
But these were all unknown.
Lin Queli took a deep breath. It’s fine. He will know soon.
—The ceremony began.
Helan Xue raised his hand to set up a formation. In an instant, patterns with a dark light appeared on the stone platform, spreading from that body to the entire surface of the platform.
Lin Queli swallowed hard. The last time he had seen this scene was before he had sacrificed himself and died.
With the dark light flashing, the sky began to be covered with dark clouds, and lightning streaked through the clouds, looking menacing.
—The heavenly punishment is coming!
Lin Queli looked down and saw those dark patterns climb up from the stone platform, entangling his lower body.
He also felt some spiritual energy pouring into his body. It must be that Helan Xue had started to circulate his cultivation. This stone platform was the medium for transmitting spiritual energy.
Lin Queli’s consciousness began to blur, and he only felt his whole body alternating between hot and cold.
Helan Xue closed his eyes and said in a low voice, “A’Li, don’t be afraid. This spell will last for several hours. You may lose consciousness during this time.”
“With Shizun here, I’m not afraid.”
Now the only thing that could hinder them was a force from outside the world, such as the heavenly dao that had plot-killed him before.
But besides the Schrödinger’s cat-like powerful system, Helan Xue was already the strongest existence in these three realms. If even Helan Xue and he could not fight against this heavenly dao, then there was no other way.
Rumble—!
Before he could finish, a dark thunderbolt struck down at them!
A golden light shield deployed, steadily protecting the stone slab. The dark thunder struck the shield, and the entire forest shook with it.
Boom! Boom!
One after another, but the disciples of the Myriad Sword Sect were already used to it. In his early years, when Helan Xue was practicing, he was also powerful enough to move mountains, and the commotion was not small.
It was just that wherever the heavenly thunder passed, nothing was left intact. The heavens and earth were almost overturned. Even with the stone slab as a buffer, the surroundings had already turned into scorched earth. The aftershock of the heavenly thunder was enough to kill an ordinary cultivator, and there were no living things around.
Helan Xue concentrated and mobilized all his cultivation to resist this thunder formation that seemed to want to put them to death.
Inside the golden bell shield, it was safe and peaceful. Only outside, the wind was rolling up the clouds, and the heavens and earth were shaking.
Lin Queli forced himself to relax and trust Helan Xue.
An hour later, Lin Queli’s consciousness was hazy, and he only felt that the thunder that should have been deafening was gradually moving away.
His head was bowed, and his body was gradually softening. If it weren’t for the support of his spiritual energy, he would have probably fallen down long ago.
As Helan Xue’s spell deepened, he saw a golden light form a ribbon on Lin Queli’s and the Demon Lord’s bodies.
Helan Xue made a hand seal.
In another hour, the prototype would be visible.
He looked up and saw that the dark thunder in the sky was even more intense. He had to divide his attention to resist the thunder tribulation and protect the formation. Both were things that only Taxue Xianzun could do, almost impossible. Therefore, no matter how strong his spiritual energy was, he could not relax.
Swoosh—!
Just then, he saw a hidden weapon coated with poison being thrown at Lin Queli. Helan Xue’s gaze sharpened, and he reacted extremely quickly, melting the hidden weapon with wind and snow.
Who?!
The next moment, he saw a man stagger over, his whole body covered in wounds and scorched black marks. He looked like he had been hit by the heavenly thunder, but even so, he still walked towards the stone platform with a ferocious expression.
This move was really strange.
After Helan Xue saw clearly, his brows furrowed tightly.
It was Feng Jiancheng.
To be precise, it was Feng Jiancheng’s body, but his features had been twisted into the appearance of another person. His whole body was not only covered in wounds from the thunder, but also had strange corpse spots and tearing marks.
He looked as if his mind was a little unclear. He swayed as he came, his gaze fixed on Lin Queli with malice, and his posture was strange and twisted.
The ferocious expression and the uncoordinated, loose posture formed a strange and awkward contrast.
Helan Xue guessed the situation at a glance.
—Sacrifice, possession.
Feng Jiancheng’s body had been sacrificed to a ghost, and then possessed by the ghost.
And this ghost…
Helan Xue looked at the familiar face.
It was Lin Luo.
After Ming Zhen had died, Lin Luo had disappeared with his body. In these ten years, Helan Xue and the Changming Clan had also been searching for Ming Zhen’s body, so that his remains could be properly buried, but there had been no news.
But he didn’t expect Lin Luo to appear at this moment?
“Kill-kill everyone… kill you…”
Lin Luo dragged his broken body and roared as he rushed onto the stone slab.
Such a scene looked really strange.
When Lin Queli had possessed the Demon Lord, his appearance had not only merged with the Demon Lord’s and his own, but had also tended towards Lin Luo’s. Therefore, there were now three people with similar appearances inside and outside the stone slab.
One was the sunny Lin Queli himself.
One was the somewhat charming Demon Lord Lin Queli, who was now lying flat on the stone slab.
One, was Lin Luo, who had already become a ghoul.
Helan Xue’s heart tightened slightly.
He had already put all his attention on resisting the heavenly thunder and completing the spell. Now there was also a Lin Luo!
Lin Luo was not weak after he had the system. Now that he had transformed into a fierce ghost and was controlling Feng Jiancheng’s body, and he was not afraid of pain or death like an ordinary person, and he was rushing forward as if he wanted to perish together with them, it was indeed not easy to solve.
“Hiss—”
Lin Luo frantically attacked the golden bell shield, breaking a hole in the barrier.
【Host! Host!! Ah, ah, ah, ah!! How did Lin Luo come back!】
Lin Queli heard the System’s scream in his daze.
W-what’s wrong?
Lin Queli’s divine sense was ethereal, completely out of the situation. The System’s consciousness was affected by the host. Besides being forced to go offline for R-18 plots, generally, if Lin Queli was in a coma, the System couldn’t do anything, let alone browse the store to find a way.
【Sob, sob, sob, oh no… Immortal Venerable, you have to hold on!】
Just as Helan Xue was about to raise his hand, he saw another golden light break into the thunder formation and attack Lin Luo’s back.
“Daddy! I’ll protect the formation for you!” Helan Liyu came on his sword. After landing, he turned his hand and caught the sword, and began to fight with Lin Luo.
He had been defending the arena with Shouyang in the grand competition, but he saw that Feng Jiancheng had been taken away by Feng Kang. The two’s movements were suspicious and a little strange, so he followed them.
When Helan Liyu saw that they were about to approach the immortal platform, he decided to strike first and deal with them. But Feng Kang was a sect master after all, and his cultivation was naturally not low. Helan Liyu fought one against two. After dealing with Feng Kang, he saw that Feng Jiancheng was gone.
It turned out that Feng Jiancheng had come here to cause trouble!
Helan Xue frowned. “A’Xue, leave first. You can’t handle this thunder formation yet.”
Not just the thunder formation. Helan Xue was not worried about the previous Feng Jiancheng, but this “Feng Jiancheng” was hard to say.
But Helan Liyu glanced at the situation on the stone slab. He knew that if he didn’t act, even if Helan Xue was strong, it would be difficult for him to use his spiritual energy in three directions at once, and there would inevitably be omissions.
Whether it was his big daddy or his little daddy, he didn’t want anything to happen to them.
Helan Liyu didn’t care and blocked Lin Luo’s attack, swinging his sword fearlessly again.
He and Lin Luo indeed had a huge disparity in strength, especially since Lin Luo was a walking corpse who was not afraid of pain. He held two large sabers in his hands and attacked Helan Liyu with them alternately, like a broken bamboo, every slash deadly!
Helan Liyu retreated step by step. He gritted his teeth and took the slashes one by one, mobilizing all his spiritual energy.
“Clang!”
After the big saber and the longsword met, they held each other back. The sword body was trembling because of the excessive spiritual energy and strength, making a “ding” sound of friction.
Helan Liyu felt his feet sliding backwards. He almost bit his lower lip. “…A’He!”
But the Phantom Spirit Crane did not react.
Helan Xue reminded, “A’Xue, the Phantom Spirit Crane is a spirit beast you have just tamed. It will not obey your every word.”
In fact, under normal circumstances, this Phantom Spirit Crane might even hope that Helan Liyu would die, so that he would be free. Not to mention, now in this thunder formation, he might die if he came out.
Helan Xue’s tone was stern. “The other side’s cultivation is high. You have no confidence in this duel. Leave!”
Helan Liyu’s eyes were red. “It-it’s because his cultivation is high… that’s why I can’t leave!”
“I want to… face it with you!”
—They were a family. He cultivated to protect his family!
Rumble—!
Another earth-shattering thunder formation!
Although Lin Queli’s divine sense was already blurry, he vaguely sensed Helan Liyu’s presence.
His heart was sour, his eyes were red, and his consciousness had returned a little.
That’s right. They are a family.
Helan Xue also paused, then took a deep breath and said no more, just protected Helan Liyu and infused him with spiritual energy to help him resist the strong enemy.
Lin Queli tried his best to stay awake and said with difficulty in his mind, “Da Zhuang…”
【Sob, sob, sob, I know! I’m also trying to browse and find a way!】
【Ah, ah! I found it. The System recommends an item, soul… out of body?!】
Lin Queli: “What?”
【Ah, that is to say, there is an item here that can let you have a brief out-of-body experience. The time is not long, but this way you can help Helan Liyu fight the enemy. And because of the out-of-body experience, Helan Xue will not need so much spiritual energy to complete the soul transfer spell. It can be said to be helping him skip a step!】
Oh, oh, oh!