Chapter 12: Life? Death? Second Update

  "Not good!"

  Seeing so many demonic spirits, Tang Lin was shocked in his heart. Although he had strong spiritual power, he couldn't withstand the attack of so many demonic spirits.

  He flashed his figure, hastily embracing the waist of the ninth princess beside him, slapping the prepared divine movement symbol on his body, and quickly withdrawing from the valley.

  Whoosh!

  Soon, Tang Lin retreated to a steep cliff face, the deceleration effect of the Divine Movement Symbol had no effect on these ghostly spirits that ignored physics, and large swaths of ghostly spirits caught up.

  "How could this be." The Ninth Princess said in disbelief.

  Tang Lin said in a low voice: "This demon is too strange, it's likely that it absorbed the damage from your flying sword array and didn't die, instead it transformed into something even stronger."

  "Are you saying that the deeper it's hurt, the stronger it will become?" Ninth Princess exclaimed in shock.

  "Hmm." Tang Lin's expression was solemn.

  The Ninth Princess was somewhat frightened, she had never encountered such a thing, if it were true, wouldn't this demon be invincible?

  At this time, Tang Lin didn't have time to say much. The demon flapped its wings and arrived above the heads of Tang Lin and the other person. Its mouth was curled up in a ferocious smile, and with a wave of its hand, it summoned countless demonic spirits to charge at Tang Lin and the other person.

  "It wants to turn us two into demon puppets!" Tang Lin's eyes flashed with understanding, immediately grasping the demon's intention.

  "What should I do?" The Ninth Princess looked at Tang Lin for help.

  At this critical moment, Tang Lin saw her pale face and suddenly a surge of hot blood rushed up in his chest, as if all the blood in his body was boiling and burning. Without thinking, he took a step forward, stood in front of her and said in a deep voice: "I'll take it for you, you swallow the demon pill first."

  As he spoke, he handed the demon pellet he had harvested earlier to Ninth Princess.

  "You're saying..."

  "You were born with a sacred body, and after swallowing the demon pellet, you can directly break through to become a saint. Only then do we have a chance of escaping." Tang Lin said quickly.

  The Ninth Princess held the warm elixir in her hand, gazing at Tang Lin's sturdy back, her lips biting lightly on her lower lip. She didn't say anything else and quickly sat down cross-legged, swallowing the elixir into her mouth.

  Tang Lin held the golden carved bow, standing in front of her like a fierce warrior. He looked up at the countless demonic souls in the sky and silently prayed in his heart, hoping that the Ninth Princess could refine the demon dan as soon as possible.

  At this time, the dark red winged demon waved its palm, and all the remaining demon souls gathered together, like a gray dragon, rushing towards Tang Lin.

  Tang Lin was shocked in his heart and hastily manipulated the seven emotionless swords to protect his mind, and also took out all the talismans on his body.

  " Demon-quelling talisman! Devil-expelling talisman!"

  "Ghost-capturing charm!"

  Tang Lin's palm frantically scratched. A string of six or seven talismans were opened, among which some talismans had the ability to harm souls and were used specifically to suppress evil spirits.

  Tang Lin took out such a talisman and stuck it on himself, forming an ability cloak around his body that protected both him and the Ninth Princess.

  "Ahh——"

  A gray giant dragon condensed from the remaining soul of a monster, roaring towards the energy shield and colliding with it repeatedly, causing ripples to appear on the surface of the energy shield.

  Tang Lin's forehead was covered in fine, cold sweat as he knew the energy shield wouldn't last much longer. He thought of the countless pieces of knowledge Xiao Hui had taught him, especially those about dealing with evil spirits like this one.

  "Binding Spirit Formation!" Tang Lin immediately thought of a special formation that could restrain evil spirits. He grabbed his palm, took out a piece of flesh and blood from the black-scaled dragon he had hunted earlier, squeezed out the thick fresh blood, and quickly drew it on the beast skin he carried with him.

  In a few breaths, a talisman to suppress evil spirits condensed and took shape. Tang Lin took out ten sheets of cinnabar paper and wrapped the talisman in them, placing it on his left side at the Qian position.

  "There's no peach wood or dog blood, only human blood can substitute. My pure yang true energy can drive out demons and evil spirits. There is pure yang power in my fresh blood." Tang Lin immediately bit his finger, letting the fresh blood drip into the soil in front of him.

  "Two pieces of flint and a lead bullet are missing." Tang Lin furrowed his brow, the most important thing in setting up this formation was the materials.

  Tang Lin's mind was racing, and suddenly an idea struck him. He quickly dug up two stones from the ground, dipped them in his own blood, and then rubbed the two stones against each other.

  With his speed, the friction was extremely fast, and sparks flew out from the stone, falling onto the talisman that suppressed evil spirits, setting the entire talisman ablaze.

  "Launch."

  Tang Lin bit his tongue, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood that splattered onto the talisman. The entire talisman immediately erupted into a raging inferno, illuminating Tang Lin's face with a fiery glow that turned his cheeks bright red. The countless vengeful spirits hovering above his head let out ear-piercing wails as they were roasted by the flames.

  Tang Lin quickly pulled out the beast skin and continued to draw the talismans that suppressed the evil spirits, igniting them one after another, so that the flames would not go out.

  For a moment, Tang Lin was shrouded in an energy shield, with flames burning on the talismans in his hands, and countless demonic spirits could not get close.

  The dark red winged monster in the sky seems to be very patient, waiting leisurely. It has been here for countless years, and what it lacks least is time.

  After stabilizing the situation, Tang Lin turned around and saw that the Ninth Princess's eyes were tightly closed, with beads of sweat dripping down her pale skin. On her forehead, a faint purple light was floating, appearing and disappearing.

  Tang Lin secretly prayed for her in his heart.

  Time flies.

  An hour later, the beast skin on Tang Lin was almost exhausted, and the flame of the talisman fire in his hand gradually weakened. Countless demonic souls whizzed over, colliding with Tang Lin's energy shield once again.

  Tang Lin gritted his teeth, "Not yet?"

  Tang Lin turned his head to look at the Ninth Princess, but saw that she was still in the same state as before, with a purple glow floating on her forehead, and her breath had not strengthened.

  At this moment, Tang Lin almost had the idea of turning around and running away alone. When facing life and death, the most primitive thoughts of human nature will emerge.

  But when Tang Lin saw the pale face of the Ninth Princess and the faint frown between her eyebrows, his thoughts were immediately dispelled.

  He gazed deeply at her for a moment, then slowly turned his head to look up at the dark red winged monster in the sky, with determination and firmness in his eyes.

  He grasped a golden bow in his hand, standing upright like a boulder before the Ninth Princess.

  Under the howling of the remaining evil spirits, his figure carried a hint of tragic grandeur, like a knight rushing to his death, with an aura of "one man holding the pass, ten thousand men unable to open it", guarding inch by inch.

  "Ahh——"

  Innumerable vengeful spirits coalesced into a gray giant dragon, which crashed into the energy shield. Soon, the energy shield gradually became unstable and appeared with crack after crack of fine lines, finally bursting with a loud noise.

  All the remaining yōkai spirits seemed to be excited and cheered, like Tang Lin rushing over with a loud whistle.

  Tang Lin gritted his teeth, as if he had already put life and death aside. His body ignited a scorching pure yang true energy, looking like a person standing in the midst of flames.

  The pure Yang true energy contained the utmost Yang and utmost firmness power, these demonic spirits' residual souls touched Tang Lin's body, and let out mournful cries.

  Tang Lin's hand dug into his palm, pulled out the last talisman to defend against evil spirits, and ignited it on the Ninth Princess. A nearly transparent energy shield enveloped the Ninth Princess' figure.

  Tang Lin stood outside the energy shield. He knew that if he were to stand inside, the range of the energy shield would expand and the damage it could withstand would increase. By standing outside, he would reduce the amount of damage the energy shield could withstand.

  Fierce gusts of wind blew against Tang Lin's clothes, his entire body wrapped in pure Yang true energy, guarding the Ninth Princess.

  Ahh!

  Innumerable demonic remnants repeatedly slammed into Tang Lin's body, and with each slam, innumerable demonic souls were burned to death.

  After a long time, the pure Yang True Qi in Tang Lin's body gradually decreased, and slowly, the True Qi in his body was almost gone.

  Tang Lin's heart sank.

  Countless malevolent spirits howled towards him from above, Tang Lin's heart turned icy cold, he concentrated all his spiritual energy, focusing it in his brain.

  Boom!

  All the remaining evil spirits rushed towards Tang Lin's sea of consciousness, and in an instant, his mind became a complete blank. Immediately afterwards, a sharp pain as if his brain was being torn apart made Tang Lin's consciousness directly go dark.

  ……

  In a sea of demonic spirits surrounding him, Tang Lin's body went soft and fell to the ground. Countless demonic spirits excitedly charged towards Tang Lin's body.

  Rumble...

  The sky suddenly changed color, and a purple lightning bolt flashed across the dark sky, each purple lightning bolt was like the wrath of the Thunder God!

  The Ninth Princess, who was originally sitting behind Tang Lin, slowly opened her eyes. Her clear and limpid eyes had a hint of mistiness, and she gazed deeply at Tang Lin's figure before standing up and staring at the dark red winged monster in the sky.

  A strong murderous intent appeared on her face.

  "Die!" She pointed her finger at him.

  Rumble!

  The entire sky suddenly burst forth with countless thunderbolts, billions of lightning bolts surged in from all directions in the sky, and in an instant, they filled the entire valley.

  That dark red winged monster was shocked, only a daze, its body was struck by countless lightning.

  Boom!

  In an instant, the body was destroyed, leaving nothing but dust.

  All the remaining evil spirits were destroyed in an instant under the thunderbolt.

  The ghost was most afraid of thunder. At this time, the ninth princess's shadow flashed and floated down beside Tang Lin, her hand swept across his body, embracing him, and her palm plucked a round, rolling demon pill from a bundle of lightning, which fell into her hand.

  She was surrounded by lightning, like the heavenly Thunder Mother. These lightning bolts joyfully encircled her as she lowered her head to glance at Tang Lin, with a flash of light in her eyes, and then her body floated away into the distance.

  ……

  In a tastefully decorated house.

  Tang Lin's consciousness gradually awakened, and the piercing white light made him unable to open his eyes. After a long time, Tang Lin finally saw the scene in the room clearly, and he was shocked in his heart. He suddenly thought of what happened in the valley and exclaimed with joy: "Could it be that I didn't die?"

  He looked up, but suddenly found that his body was floating in mid-air as if it had no weight at all. A gust of wind blew from outside the window, and Tang Lin immediately felt a chill run down his spine, and his body was blown against a cabinet.

  Tang Lin hastily stretched out his hand towards the cabinet, but his palm directly penetrated into the cabinet, like a soul.

  Tang Lin's face froze in surprise.

  ……

  The second update is complete. As of now, there are only eight monthly tickets. I'm ashamed. Brothers, if we can reach twenty monthly tickets by 10 pm tonight, I'll add a third update.

  If not, Lao Gu will take the opportunity to rest today and fight again tomorrow.