Chapter 444 - Xiao Ning

At this time, the monks in the distance finally arrived with torches. Zen Master Quechen yelled, “Do your best tonight; you must not let the Devil Repressed Tower open!”

The monks obeyed and immediately held their magic tool, formed a golden formation and sealed it to the Devil Repressed Tower. Gu Feng’s Raging Dragon Blade swayed, and dozens of monks were blown away by a gust of wind. Then he yelled at Xiao Chen and the others, “What are you waiting for!”

Xiao Chen could not care more. He immediately joined forces with the Levitating Dark Fragrance and struck a Mystic Power at the Devil Repressed Tower. Inside the Devil Repressed Tower was a mystic domain but it was much easier to open it from the outside.

Zen Master Quechen saw what was happening, he chanted the incantation rapidly and went at Xiao Chen like a flash of lightning to stop him. Gu Feng yelled and slashed at his back. Zen Master Quechen could only turn around to defend. As he defended, he shouted at Xuanji and the others, “Stop him!” At this moment, he was not as calm as before.

Gu Feng flipped his sleeve and immediately hit at Master Xuanji and the others forcefully. At this moment, Xuantong was not present. There was only Xuangui, Xuanji, and Xuanle. The three of them had to join forces before they managed to defend against this palm strength of Gu Feng.

Seeing that Xiao Chen was still breaking the tower, Master Xuanji shouted, “Xiao Chen, stop! There’ll be consequences!”

However, Xiao Chen ignored him and continued to open the tower. Suddenly, the ground trembled, and the Devil Repressed Tower shook again. But this time, there was no devil whistling come out from the tower All the devils that were repressed by the tower seemed to have quiet down, only a low voice deep in the ground was heard, and it said slowly, “Devil? Inner Demon? What is a Devil?”

Xiao Chen frowned. “Did Xiao Ning wake up? Why do I have a bad feeling about this?” But for now, he could not afford to think too much. If he failed tonight, he would never have the chance again to save Xiao Ning in the future. Thinking of this, he put in more strength, and the Devil Repressed Tower trembled more and more, and it had even begun to shake.

This frightened the monks and they were all pale and panicky. Master Xuanji gritted his teeth, transformed into a rapid light and flew over. Qingluan screamed, “Be careful, Lord!”

The twelve people immediately stepped forward to stop him but were knocked off by the power of Master Xuanji’s palm strength, and all flew out. As the palm was about to hit Xiao Chen’s back, Xiao Chen suddenly turned around sharply. His eyes were extraordinarily cold, and he seemed to have changed into a different person in an instant. He struck out a palm, and with a loud “bang” was heard, Master Xuanji was knocked back and flew out.

The monks were all horrified. Master Xuanji landed onto the ground and was also surprised. “When did he achieve such a high cultivation level?”

Xiao Chen turned his head and looked at Gu Feng coldly, saying, “Gu Feng, help me hold them back!”

As he spoke, everyone was stunned, so were the 12 people of Levitating Dark Fragrance. Because the voice clearly belonged to a woman.

Gu Feng was also stunned and said, “Who are you?”

It turned out that Su Xiaomei suddenly woke up at this moment and controlled Xiao Chen’s body. Xiao Chen could only laugh helplessly. However, with Su Xiaomei’s help, it would be easier to break open the tower.

With Su Xiaomei’s power, soon, a chaotic opening appeared on the tower. Xiao Chen, controlled by Su Xiaomei, jumped and got in. The Koo-chee beast called and followed after.

Upon entering the tower, Su Xiaomei immediately left Xiao Chen’s body. Xiao Chen saw her face was pale and ugly. He knew she consumed too much Soul power just now breaking open the tower. He held her up and said, “Are you alright?”

Su Xiaomei shook her hand and said, “I’m fine, hurry up and rescue Brother Ning!” Xiao Chen nodded and looked at the Koo-chee beast behind him, saying, “Brother Koo-chee, let’s go!”

The man, the soul, and the beast, quickly went to the bottom of the tower. The Koo-chee beast broke open the Barriers all the way, and soon they came to the ninth floor where Xiao Ning was repressed at. At this moment, Xiao Ning was still bound in the middle of the butsudan, his eyes were closed, and he was still unconscious.

Xiao Chen could not help but wonder. “If Xiao Ning didn’t wake up, then what’s with the voice from the ground just now?”

“Brother Ning!” Su Xiaomei cried, and immediately rushed in, Xiao Chen snapped back into reality and hurried pulled her back, saying, “Don’t worry! Let me do it!”

“Koo-chee, Koo-chee!” Koo-chee beast also ran over, shaking its head constantly, and motioned to her to sit down first.

Xiao Chen seated Su Xiaomei on the stone steps, immediately took out the corpse bag, and released that high chieftain Corpse Puppet. He had learned something when he sneaked into the Corpse Refinery Sect. Although he could not control the Corpse Puppet to fight, he knew the basics.

The Corpse Puppet moved under the control of his mystic arts. Xiao Chen said then, “Go through!” The Corpse Puppet obediently walked towards the Barrier at the entrance of the passage.

Su Xiaomei looked at the Corpse Puppet closely, and so was Xiao Chen. Both of them were tensed, for fear that this Corpse Puppet could not pass through the Barrier.

The Corpse Puppet came to the Barrier and was blocked for a second, but fortunately in the end, it passed through the Barrier unscathed. Both of them were relieved. Xiao Chen continued, “Tear away those seal talisman!”

After receiving the order, the Corpse Puppet immediately grabbed the seal talisman that supported the Barrier. As it grabbed those seal talisman, there was a sizzling sound immediately, as if it was grabbing on a soldering iron, but the Corpse Puppet could not feel the pain.

Moments later, all the seal talisman were torn off, and the Barrier finally dispersed. Su Xiaomei could not wait to rush inside, but Xiao Chen shouted, “Don’t touch anything!”

However, it was too late. When Su Xiaomei rushed to the butsudan, she was suddenly hit back by a golden light. Xiao Chen immediately stepped forward to lift her and said, “You wait first! Don’t worry!”

Xiao Ning was trapped in the middle of the butsudan, sealed with layers of mystic arts. There were eight ancient Buddha statues outside this butsudan. Each ancient Buddha statue had a Buddhist instrument suspended above it. To save Xiao Ning, these things had to be removed. Thinking of this, Xiao Chen immediately shouted at the Corpse Puppet, “Go and get rid of the Buddha statues and the magic tools!”

The Corpse Puppet received the order and immediately went to the first Buddha statue. The Corpse Puppet did not have a soul, so these Buddha statues and magic tool would not attack it. However, when the Corpse Puppet touched the Buddha statue and magic tool, it seemed to be touching a red-hot soldering iron, making constant sizzling noise, and white smokes were emitted.

Fortunately, the Corpse Puppet could not sense pain and had great strength. In the blink of an eye, four Buddha statues had been toppled. The Buddha statues fell, and the magic tools also seemed to lose their effect immediately and fell to the ground.

Su Xiaomei was sitting on the ground, her eyes were full of tears, and she sobbed, “Brother Ning…”

Suddenly, the ground trembled, and Xiao Ning seemed to finally wake up. “Xiao, Xiaomei?”

Su Xiaomei suddenly lifted her head and wanted to run over. Xiao Chen pulled her back tightly. Although the mystic arts did not cause any damage to the Corpse Puppet, they had fatal damage to soul bodies.

Xiao Ning finally opened his eyes and had never expected that the person in front of him would be his lover of thousands of years ago. At that moment, his voice was a little excited, “Xiaomei! It really is you! Don’t come over!”

Su Xiaomei’s face was already flooded with tears. For a thousand years, when they finally see each other, she was so close yet so far. Xiao Ning’s cultivation was high. He could tell at this moment that she was only a soul body, presumably, her body was already long gone. His eyes became teary. “Xiaomei, why did you want to make yourself suffer? I was…”

Su Xiaomei could not stop crying, and she choked as she said, “If I don’t see you, even in death, I wouldn’t enter reincarnation…” Actually, Su Xiaomei was already dead that year, but now her soul stayed, which was also known as ghost in this world.

At that time, the two were strongly opposed by the Su family and the Xiao family. Many things happened. At that time, Su Xiaomei was seriously injured and Xiao Ning had a mission from Ling Yin. He could only settle her down in a rundown palace so that no one could find her.

That day, Xiao Ning told her that he would go back to her after he had settled everything. But when Xiao Ning returned to Violet Manor, he was besieged by several major sects and cultivators of everywhere. He eventually broke his promise.

Su Xiaomei refused to leave the palace without seeing him, but her injuries were getting worse and worse. Eventually, the beauty of the generation deceased, and her soul remained in the Frigid Jade Pendant and was indestructible for a thousand years. For thousands of years, she refused to go into reincarnation and waited for Xiao Ning in that cold palace. If she was not discovered by Xiao Chen, she would still be waiting until her soul disappeared completely and she would not be able to enter reincarnation for eternal life.

Xiao Ning’s voice was also a little choked, “I’m sorry, Xiaomei; it’s me that hurt you…”

“No! Brother Ning, I have never regretted it. So what it is for a thousand years or even ten thousand years, I never regretted…”

Seeing the look on the two of them at the moment, Xiao Chen could not help but feel an ache in his heart. “So what if it a thousand years or even ten thousand years, some things, no matter how long time passes, it can’t be erased, even if everyone in the world opposes, that won’t stop it!”

Xiao Ning finally noticed him and asked, “Who are you?” Xiao Chen looked up and said, “I’m Xiao Chen…”

“Your surname is Xiao? Could you be…”

“This is hard to explain. After we go out, I’ll explain to you in detail.”

At this time, the Corpse Puppet had toppled all eight ancient Buddha statues. Xiao Chen immediately ordered it to crush the stone monument. Xiao Ning said, “No need, I can’t be trapped anymore without the eight ancient Buddha statues. Now, hurry up and get out of here!”

Su Xiaomei sobbed and said, “No, Brother Ning, I want to be with you…”

Xiao Ning shook his head and said, “When I break open the seal later, it will hurt you. Xiaomei, listen to me, and leave now…”

Before he finished speaking, the ground shook again. Many stones fell off, and Xiao Chen took back the Corpse Puppet and said, “Senior Su, let’s leave!” At this point, he had realized that Xiao Ning’s cultivation was definitely higher than Apotheosis Realm. If Gu Feng was already higher than Apotheosis Realm, how could he just be Apotheosis Realm?

Su Xiaomei sobbed again and was finally pulled out by Xiao Chen. As they got out of the tower, they saw the monks outside were in a state of panic. Gu Feng was still like a fighting machine, hounding onto Zen Master Quechen.

Suddenly, the Devil Repressed Tower shook again. This time, not only the tower was shaking, the entire Karmaless Mountain was shaking as well. Zen Master Quechen was in shock and exclaimed then, “This is bad!”

Suddenly, the entire tower shook violently. “WHOOSH!” A fierce force rushed out. Many monks in the vicinity were knocked off and flew out, and even Xiao Chen and his party almost flew off from the impact of this force as well.

Right after that, a loud boom was heard. The entrance of the first floor of the Devil Repressed Tower cracked open, and a figure rushed out. A powerful aura instantly filled the entire Zen Temple.

The wind was raging, that man’s clothes fluttered and his hair danced with the wind. His eyes were cold and made everyone was nervous.

“Brother Ning!” Su Xiaomei rushed over and wept bitterly on his shoulder. Xiao Ning held her in his arms, and his cold eyes swept over everyone like a sharp sword and finally stopped at Gu Feng’s face.

“Xiao Ning! You and I finally meet again!” Gu Feng was no longer hounding onto Zen Master Quechen, and his eyes were like two ice arrows, colliding with Xiao Ning’s eyes.

The monks were stunned. Xiao Ning was finally freed, but the Devil Repressed Tower and the entire Karmaless Mountain were still shaking, Zen Master Quechen’s face changed drastically, and he said hurriedly, “Seal the tower now!”

Just then, the terrifying voice from the ground appeared again, “Devil? Inner Demon? What is a Devil?”