Chapter 2038: Speed ​​Race

"It's you!"

The man recognized him at a glance, looked him up and down, and said in surprise: "Tsk tsk, Judge Cui, you have been away from the Ghost Prison for hundreds of years, why did you suddenly come back at this time?"

After hearing this, Liang Yan smiled indifferently: "Qing Beiwang, I am the leader of the 'Upper Nine Layers', so I don't need to notify you of any action, right?"

"Things are different now."

Qing Beiwang shook his head: "Now the Soul Saint and the Demon Saint are in charge of the Ghost Prison, and it is stipulated that everything must be reported. Although you are the leader of the Upper Nine Layers, you have been away from the Ghost Prison for hundreds of years. Whether you are still qualified to manage the Upper Nine Layers must be approved by the Soul Saint."

"Humph!"

Liang Yan snorted coldly: "You don't know that the Southern Xuan Saint has already fought here, and the Soul Saint and the Demon Saint have gone out of the city to meet the enemy. I am here on the order of the Soul Saint to open the teleportation array so that the Du Saint and the Wu Saint of Tiangong City can come here."

"Teleportation array? Why don't I know there is a teleportation array?" Qing Beiwang frowned.

"It's normal that you don't know about the ninth floor. After all, only the judge can pass to the ninth floor." Liang Yan said calmly.

"Do you have any proof?"

"It happened suddenly, and I don't have any proof."

Liang Yan's face was calm, staring at Qing Beiwang's eyes, and slowly said: "What do you mean, brother, don't you trust me? Or, if you delay the military affairs, you will bear the anger of the saint?"

After hearing this, Qing Beiwang's face was instantly gloomy.

At this moment, the two looked at each other in the air, and neither of them spoke again. The atmosphere became a little depressing.

I don't know how long it took, Qing Beiwang suddenly laughed: "Brother Cui, you are joking. You are a judge, appointed by the King of Hell himself. How can I not believe you? I just don't know what the battle situation is outside the city? Which saint came to Nanxuan?"

"A zombie and a monk who cultivates magic." Liang Yan said lightly.

"Zombie? I heard that the president of the Wenxiang Chamber of Commerce is a zombie who has attained enlightenment. Could it be him? Well, two saints have come. The situation is indeed urgent and there is no time to delay."

Qing Beiwang said here, his face solemn: "There is no time to lose. I will open the barrier now and let the judge enter the next level."

After that, he took out a token from his sleeve and cast several spells in succession.

At the same time, hundreds of cultivators in the villa also controlled the formation under his command.

Swish!

With a flash of rosy clouds, layers of ripples appeared in the space outside the villa, and the invisible barrier was opened.

"Judge Cui, please!"

Qing Beiwang bowed very politely.

Liang Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, secretly released his spiritual sense, carefully checked the entire villa, confirmed that the barrier had been completely opened, and did not find any flaws.

"Did he really believe what I said? Am I suspicious?"

Although he did not find any flaws, Liang Yan still kept a watchful eye, hid his right hand in his sleeve, and quietly pinched a spell.

The Dingguang Sword Ball became invisible and quietly merged into the void behind him.

After making preparations, Liang Yan smiled slightly, took Zhao Xunzhen, and walked into the villa calmly.

This villa is very strange. Every attic and every rockery seems to be carefully designed. All the buildings are around the crater in the middle, which is in line with the secret technique of the ghost way.

"The entrance to the eighth floor is in the crater." Zhao Xunzhen whispered.

Liang Yan understood in his heart, but he remained calm on the surface. He bowed and smiled at Qing Beiwang who was walking towards him: "Qing Daoyou guards the seventh floor. He is not negligent in his duties and knows how to be flexible. It is a blessing for our Fengdu City. After this crisis, I will report to the King of Hell, and I will definitely reward him."

"Haha, thank you very much, Judge!"

Qing Beiwang seemed to be in a good mood. He returned a salute to Liang Yan, and then his eyes turned and fell on Zhao Xunzhen.

"Tsk tsk, how did nephew Zhao become a ghost cultivator? I remember that you have a very high talent. You have the strength to rival the old ancestor Huajie when you are at the peak of Tongxuan. Why did you abandon your physical body for no reason?"

"This is an agreement between her and me. Fellow Daoist Qing, you don't need to worry about it, right?" Liang Yan said indifferently.

"Haha, not bad, not bad, it was Qing who said too much."

Qing Beiwang laughed, and then said solemnly: "Time is tight, Judge Cui should go to the ninth floor quickly, don't waste time here."

"Okay."

Liang Yan didn't want to talk nonsense with him, and took Zhao Xunzhen to the crater.

But after walking a few miles, he realized something was wrong.

Qing Beiwang stopped where he was and didn't follow him, and all the cultivators holding ghost lanterns in their hands gathered around him, looking at him coldly at this time.

Liang Yan frowned slightly and stopped.

"Fellow Daoist Qing, what do you mean by this?"

"Haha, what can I mean? I just want to invite the judge to have a cup of tea in my villa to relieve my fatigue." Qing Beiwang said with a smile.

"Drink tea?"

Liang Yan's pupils shrank, and he suddenly urged the escape light, taking Zhao Xunzhen with him, and wanted to rush out of the villa.

But at this moment, hundreds of cultivators raised their lanterns at the same time, and groups of ghost fire flew out of the lanterns, instantly soaring into the air, condensing into a green barrier, covering him in it.

Qing Beiwang laughed, took out a piece of black talisman paper from his sleeve, threw it into the air, and it ignited in a moment. Only a puff of black smoke did not rise, but sank into the ground of the villa.

Boom!

A dull loud noise came from below, and then the ground cracked, and the pavilions and towers in the villa turned into ghost faces, and the green flames soared into the sky, like huge centipedes, hovering in the air!

"I see."

Liang Yan was trapped by the barrier, but his mind was spinning rapidly.

It turns out that there is a cave under the villa, and a giant killing array is actually hidden. The ghost lanterns held by the monks are the key to opening the magic array. Normally, they will not reveal the slightest breath at all. Only when all the ghost lanterns are extinguished, this killing array will appear. The array will be activated.

This is also impossible to guard against. No wonder Qing Beiwang took the initiative to open the barrier. It turns out that it is a hidden array within the array. Please enter the urn!

"Qing Beiwang, you and I are both former members of Fengdu City. Aren't you afraid of being punished by Lord Yan for treating me like this?" Liang Yan's eyes widened and he shouted sternly.

"Hey, it's already here, and you still want to pretend?"

Qing Beiwang sneered and shouted the same way: "You are not a judge at all! You must have used this identity to get through the previous six levels, right? It's a pity that you can deceive others, but you can't deceive me, Qing Beiwang!"

After hearing this, the anger on Liang Yan's face gradually disappeared. He was silent for a moment and asked, "How did you see through it?"

"Ha ha!"

Qing Beiwang laughed and said: "You have no idea that Judge Cui and I have made an agreement. I told him how to identify and find the peerless genius, and he promised to transfer Zhao Xunzhen's physical body and Yuan Yuan's body to him after the matter was completed. God refined the elixir and gave it to me. Now that Zhao Xunzhen has become a ghost cultivator and his body has been annihilated, but you haven’t given me an explanation, can you still be the real Judge Cui?”

Liang Yan didn't react much when he said these words, but Zhao Xunzhen was so angry that he gritted his teeth.

"What a ghost, what a Qingbeiwang, he started plotting against me from that moment on, and he had no intention of leaving me a way to survive!"

Qing Beiwang turned a blind eye to Zhao Xunzhen's gaze, and then smiled and said: "You dare to pretend to be Judge Cui, you should know his whereabouts. Although I have no friendship with Lao Cui, we have an appointment after all. As long as you take Judge Cui to Tell me your current situation, and I can leave a trace of your true spirit for reincarnation."

"No need!"

Liang Yan sneered and said, "If you have the ability, just kill me."

As soon as he finished speaking, Qing Bei Wang saw a flash of light in the sky behind him, a bright star appeared out of thin air, and the sword energy was fierce!

"Um?"

Qing Beiwang never expected that there would be an ambush behind him, so his expression changed drastically and he hurriedly made a spell.

I saw a cloud of ghostly mist appearing from behind, turning into a vicious centipede, biting towards the starlight.

The centipede's mouthparts are a hundred feet long, and it exudes a putrid smell, which is obviously highly poisonous. Ordinary magic weapons will be filthy if they touch it, and it is impossible to resist it.

But such a powerful secret technique of the ghost path, under the shining of starlight, was unable to withstand it, just like a piece of window paper, it was pierced in an instant!

The starlight fell, the sword energy dispersed, and the mouthparts that were a hundred feet long turned into powder in an instant.

At the same time, countless stars floated around, quickly dismembering the centipede and turning it into countless pieces of meat, which fell from the air.

"How can it be!"

Qing Beiwang was shocked. The secret technique he was good at was actually broken by his opponent in a snap of his fingers, and this was simply unbelievable under the premise that this person was trapped by the magic circle!

His pupils suddenly shrank: "That's not starlight, it's sword energy! When did he keep it as a backup? Was it before entering the villa?"

At this moment, Qing Bei Wang's thoughts were racing and he quickly confirmed one thing.

The man in front of me pretending to be a ghost hand is anything but simple!

His ability to pass the first six levels may not be entirely due to Guishou's identity. Regardless of his mind or magical means, he is not able to deal with it.

Qing Beiwang was always vigilant and never greedy for success. At this time, he made a decisive decision without any hesitation. He turned around and turned into an escaping light, galloping away into the distance!

He was so decisive that even Liang Yan was stunned for a moment.

After all, it was clear that he was now trapped in the formation and at a disadvantage. As a prison master, most people will try. If they can catch the invading enemy, they will definitely have done a great service to Tiangong City.

But Qing Beiwang didn't hesitate at all, turned around and ran away, not even his own cave and men.

"Don't leave!"

With a thought in Liang Yan's mind, the Dingguang Sword Pill spun in mid-air, turned into star sword light again, and slashed towards Qing Beiwang's escape direction.

Sensing the sword light approaching, Qing Beiwang's expression changed several times, and finally he gritted his teeth and took off his two arms.

The two arms fell in the air and immediately absorbed the surrounding will-o'-the-wisps. They grew in the wind and turned into two fire centipedes in an instant, biting hard on the sword light.

Although the star sword light was devastating, it was bitten by the two fire centipedes and still stopped in mid-air for a moment.

After a moment, the starlight was strong and the sword energy was flowing horizontally, cutting the two fire centipedes into pieces.

But just in this moment of delay, Qing Beiwang had already gone far. He seemed to have taken some secret medicine, and his flight speed was extremely fast. At this time, he was beyond the coverage of his spiritual consciousness.

"He is a determined person, and he is a ruthless person who wants to survive with his arms cut off!"

Liang Yan saw this scene from a distance, his eyes narrowed slightly, and a solemn look appeared on his face.

He didn't expect to be discovered by the prison lord on this level, and he also escaped. In this way, the situation was not good for him.

"After all, it's the law of the stars that he just comprehended. He hasn't had time to integrate it with the sword technique, so it's a bit unfamiliar to use. Otherwise, how could he escape?"

Liang Yan was also helpless. Among the five sword pills, only the Dingguang Sword was the best at concealment, but its disadvantage was that it did not have the power to perfectly integrate the law.

Although he felt a little regretful, he did not stop.

With the pinch of the sword formula in his hand, the starlight sword energy flew past the formation, killing the hundreds of monks holding ghost lanterns one by one, and also slaughtered all the monks hiding in the dark to control the formation.

The whole process took less than ten breaths.

Rivers of blood flowed inside the villa, the magic circle lost control, all the ghost lanterns were destroyed, and their power was instantly reduced by 70%.

"Break it for me!"

Liang Yan pointed with his hand, his sword energy surged, he broke through the killing formation from the inside, and walked out calmly.

"Qing Beiwang escaped!" Zhao Xunzhen frowned slightly: "This person will definitely gather all the monks to surround us. How about chasing him and silencing him before he gets far?"

Liang Yan shook his head: "It's too late now. This man has a secret medicine that can greatly increase the speed of light escape. Even if we can catch up, it will take a lot of time. And we are not familiar with the terrain here, but he is like a duck to water. When people fail to catch up, they sink deeper and deeper.”

"So what do we do now?"

"Keep going down!"

Liang Yan said decisively: "It will take time for Qingbeiwang to gather the manpower. We have to speed up. Time is our biggest enemy."

"I understand." Zhao Xunzhen nodded.

The two did not communicate anymore, each activated the escape light, and soon arrived at the crater.

Under the clusters of green will-o'-the-wisps, there is a small space node hidden, which is the entrance to the eighth floor!

"Walk!"

Liang Yan waved his sleeves, transformed into the ghost-hand scholar again, and jumped into the space node inside the volcano with Zhao Xunzhen.

Stars are moving around and the void is changing.

In just a moment, the two of them were squeezed out of the space node at the same time and landed on the ground.

As soon as he appeared, Liang Yan smelled a rotten stench.

Looking around, here is a dark forest, filled with carrion, all kinds of twisted worms and monsters moving in the forest, and the entire forest is filled with poisonous miasma.

"The eighth floor is the Ghost Poison Forest. Most of the monks here have practiced poison techniques." Zhao Xunzhen introduced.

"Poison skill?"

Liang Yan sneered. He had the "Holy Body of Shennong" and was invulnerable to all poisons. As long as he was not at the level of "Poison Saint", no poisonous power could hurt him.

"Speed ​​up and tell me directly where the prison lord is."

"Right in the middle of the Ghost Poison Forest."

"good!"

Liang Yan nodded, used the ghost mist to condense into escaping light, and led Zhao Xunzhen at lightning speed, and soon arrived in the middle of the forest.

Looking from a distance, I saw a huge pond with green pus flowing in it, and a fat woman was taking a bath.