Chapter 0841 A Little Hope
Xin Youtao slowly opened his eyes, feeling weak and powerless, as if all the bones in his body were broken. He took a deep breath and tried to sit up. His eyes turned around his hands, and his ten fingers moved slightly, still trying to make the gesture of offering a talisman.
He raised his head and found himself lying on a bed in a room. It was dark outside. It looked normal. There was no strange aura or trace of magic. He couldn't help laughing. The pain on his face immediately dispelled the weakness in his body. He couldn't help screaming again.
As soon as the laughter came out, several people ran in from the outer room, and the candles in the hands of the maids illuminated the room.
Xin Youtao gently stroked the strange thing on his face and asked in confusion, "What is this?"
Queen Xun walked to the bedside, her eyes full of pity, "This is a mask for healing you."
"Where's Xiao Qingtao? Where's Mu Xingqiu?" Xin Youtao's hand was still touching the cold mask, "There are also the demon soldiers and the self-sacrificing king..."
"We won." Queen Xun answered all the questions in one sentence, paused, and added, "Marshal Xiu is in the next room."
Xin Youtao got off the ground, and a maid immediately put on his shoes for him. Queen Xun wanted to persuade her brother to have a good rest, but she swallowed the words back. This was no longer the brother who needed her care and guidance all the time. He was the great contributor to saving Fuhai City.
Xin Youtao felt dizzy, his inner elixir was not turning, and his three fields and meridians were all empty, but the most obvious feeling was the pain in his face. He walked out, refusing the waiter's help, and felt better after walking a few steps.
In the outer room, he saw a mirror on the table by the window, so he walked over to look at himself in the mirror.
Several maids looked panicked, looked at each other, silently accusing each other of not putting away the mirror, but Queen Xun just watched. Some things will happen sooner or later, and there is no need to stop it.
Xin Youtao saw a copper mask, he took it off gently, and the pain on his face became more severe. He screamed a few times and saw his true appearance in the mirror.
It was a scarred face, one of the wounds was particularly serious, from the right eyebrow to the corner of the mouth, the skin was torn and the scars had not yet completely healed, looking ugly and ferocious.
Xin Youtao looked for a while, put down the mirror, and went out with the mask.
The maids were even more panicked, and Queen Xun still didn't speak.
The next room was also two rooms inside and outside. The four maids in the outer room were sitting around the table yawning, the candlelight was swaying, and the outer door was suddenly pushed open, which scared them. When they saw the person coming in, they almost stopped breathing.
Xin Youtao ignored them and walked straight into the inner room.
Xiao Qingtao was lying on the bed, wearing a copper mask on her face. This was actually a magic weapon that helped heal wounds.
Xin Youtao walked to the bedside, looked at the familiar figure and the unfamiliar mask, slowly picked up his mask and prepared to put it on, not wanting Xiao Qingtao to be frightened as soon as she opened her eyes.
Xiao Qingtao spoke, it turned out that she was awake, but she just hadn't sat up, "You look more majestic now."
Xin Youtao lowered his arms and sat on the edge of the bed, "It would be better if the wounds were symmetrical on both sides."
Xiao Qingtao smiled softly, pulling the wound, took a breath, and then she took off her mask.
The same scarred face, no particularly large wounds, but this was caused by magic, it is almost impossible to recover.
The two looked at each other, holding hands together, speechless for a long time, then smiled together, and let out a painful inhalation together.
"It's good to be alive." Xin Youtao said, holding his hands tighter, the two continued to stare, no other words.
Xiao Qingtao came back to reality first, "Do you remember what happened then?"
Xin Youtao shook his head and was about to speak when a voice came from behind him, "You have been together almost every day for these years, haven't you seen enough?"
Xiao Qingtao struggled to get up, Xin Youtao sat down in a different direction and let her lean on his shoulder.
"Your appearance has changed, of course I have to get to know you again." Xiao Qingtao said, wanting to laugh but unable to, her face still hurt too much.
Yang Qingyin curled her lips and walked in front of the two people, "I drove away everyone outside, you don't have to let others serve you, right?"
Yang Qingyin raised the black jade statue in her hand and placed it in the air, "Let him explain everything, you two are like this, it's all his fault."
Mu Xingqiu's voice came from the black jade statue, "I'm very sorry, I didn't protect you well."
Xin Youtao and Xiao Qingtao didn't care about this matter. Although they were prepared, they were still surprised and speechless at this time. After a while, Xin Youtao asked, "Are you really Mu Xingqiu?"
"It's my soul." Mu Xingqiu briefly told about being replaced out of Zhibubang.
The two people sitting on the bed were even more surprised. Next, Mu Xingqiu began to tell what happened in the demon body of the self-sacrificing king.
At the last moment, Mu Xingqiu did not cast the eighth level of practical illusion. The power of lightning was too strong and would affect everyone around him. He cast a combination of illusion and reality, merging himself with the demon body, and then urging the self-sacrificing king to expand continuously, so as to rise to the sky.
In the air, Mu Xingqiu and the Self-sacrifice King started a fierce battle. He used illusion to attack the Self-sacrifice King's memory, while the Self-sacrifice King tried to suck out Mu Xingqiu's soul through the half-demon Tuoxuan.
Those light blue balls of light were all illusions created by Mu Xingqiu to resist the soul-binding technique.
What protected Xin Youtao and Xiao Qingtao was also an illusion. Everything happened too fast at that time. Xiao Qingtao's restraint bought a very short period of time. Mu Xingqiu's spell could only protect the three fields of the two of them first, and then protect their bodies.
At the end of the battle, Mu Xingqiu was the winner. King Saishen's demon body exploded, and Tuoxuan, the living magic weapon, fled - his loyalty was maintained until the moment King Saishen was completely defeated.
Mu Xingqiu had already suffered internal injuries when his true illusory body was torn apart. After the victory, he could no longer return to the blue smoke state. He fell quickly and chose an item with the strongest spell aura on the battlefield to rest on. The ink jade statue on Queen Xun's chest.
Mu Xingqiu did not explain the fighting process in too much detail, but both Xin Youtao and Xiao Qingtao heard it thrillingly. Attacking memory and absorbing souls are both uncommon spells. The two sides of the battle are integrated with each other, and the distance is zero. Even if an idea goes wrong, , may lead to complete failure.
"In that case, I wish I had waited a little longer." Xin Youtao regretted a little. If he had known that Mu Xingqiu would really appear and be so powerful, he shouldn't have rushed over with the giants of the Fish-Dragon Formation too early, and there was no need. He wasted so many talismans and was even prepared to sacrifice his own life.
Mu Xingqiu's real illusory body was too weak to condense into form and could not move his head. "That's not the case. I have to thank you two for preventing me from dying in the hands of King Saishen."
During the battle for the Spirit Pill in Zhaoshan, the Taoist hermit was extremely surprised by Mu Xingqiu's strength. Tracing back to the source, he felt that the true illusion must come from Zuo Liuying, so he confirmed the true illusion's strength as the fifth level of mind concentration. Although the hermit The idea was wrong, but the result was basically correct, and was only slightly stronger than Mu Xingqiu's true strength.
There are a total of eleven Taoist hermits who have defected to the Kingdom of Sacrifice. Most of them are in the realm of Xingluo. Even if they join forces, they cannot defeat a powerful enemy with the fifth level of concentration. However, there are some powerful and self-injurious methods that they will never practice on their own. I don’t mind teaching it to the demon clan.
This is how the living magic weapon Tuoxuan was created. The soul-binding technique in his body was greatly strengthened to the point that it could only be used three times. When he accepted the spell cast by the King of Sacrifice, the power would be greatly enhanced.
Both being in the realm of concentration, the gap between King Saishen and Mu Xingqiu is not unreachable, and can be made up with the help of a powerful living magic weapon.
If Xin Youtao hadn't used a large number of talismans to severely injure the King of Sacrifice in advance, Mu Xingqiu might not have been able to win the battle.
Mu Xingqiu learned a lot of secrets from the memory of King Sheshen. Xin Youtao breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, "As long as it is useful, otherwise I will really regret it."
The ink jade statue was silent for a while, and Mu Xingqiu decided to tell all the truth, "Actually, I had a way to destroy Tuoxuan with one move, and then defeat the King of Sacrifice, but I didn't use it."
"Why?" Xin Youtao asked.
"Because this move cannot be leaked in advance, it must be used in Wangshan. I'm very sorry, although you two were in danger at the time, I can't use this move. Once Wangshan..."
Xin Youtao stood up suddenly, and Xiao Qingtao, who was leaning on his shoulder, almost fell down. Xin Youtao apologized hurriedly, and then stared at the black jade statue, his scarred face was full of excitement, and blood even oozed from several wounds. "You mean... you have a way to defeat the demons?"
The demons are the most fundamental threat to this world. No matter how much King Saishen claims to be a god, he is only a peripheral force. No matter how powerful it is, it is within the range that humans can see and resist.
A large part of the reason why Xin Youtao was able to attack the King of Sacrifice with a death wish was that he felt that there was no hope for the future.
Mu Xingqiu brought hope, even if it was just a little bit, it made Xin Youtao happier than Fuhai City's victory.
There is only a tiny bit of hope indeed.
"It's not about defeating the demons, but defeating the half-demon. They are similar to Tuoxuan. They are both living magic weapons and have common vulnerabilities. I thought of a move. As long as they are not prepared in advance, they should not be able to block my attack, and then... …”
Mu Xingqiu was thinking about how to express his thoughts accurately, but Yang Qingyin rushed to say: "The demons have not yet condensed, so they have to rely on the protection of the half-demon. After destroying the half-demon, we can find a way to destroy all the Nebula Trees. This is better than directly destroying the Nebula Tree." The odds of winning against the demons are higher."
"Even if we are killed ten times, don't reveal your secret trick... I'm sorry, I meant I died ten times." Xin Youtao corrected hastily.
Xiao Qingtao didn't dare to smile, and stretched out her hand to gently press Xin Youtao's shoulder, indicating that the two of them had exactly the same idea.
"The biggest difficulty now is how to reach Wangshan. I still need your help." There are not many people Mu Xingqiu can count on, Xin Youtao and Xiao Qingtao are two of them, so he is no longer polite.
"Even if you die again, I will send you all the way to Wangshan Mountain." Xin Youtao said.
"You are really not afraid of death. Xiao Qingtao has trained you well." Yang Qingyin couldn't believe that this was the prince of Xijie Kingdom that she had known before. "You don't need to escort us all the way. You just need to lure away some monsters and half-demon for us." Okay. But I won’t lie to you. The next battle will be more difficult than Floating Sea City. The Holy Talisman Dynasty must concentrate all its efforts to attack the Kingdom of Sacrifice and attract the demons and half-demon from the demon land.”