I Became the Devil Queen's Heart Demon

Chapter 819 - 307: Che Guevara Ji! The Daoist Venerable Who Steals Food!

The paperman crawled out from the crevice in the rock and tiptoed to the stone tablet.

Before Chen Mo lured the Demon Lord away, he had told her to take a look at the East Suburb Demon Suppression Bureau, fearing that someone might target the Array and the Array Map.

When Ji Lianxing arrived, she happened to witness Hui Neng in a duel with Ling Yishan. Realizing this monk was somewhat peculiar, she did not appear rashly but hid in the dark and followed them all the way here.

As a First-grade Sorcerer, as long as she wanted to conceal her presence, almost no one except the Ultimate Venerable could detect her.

Sure enough, Hui Neng hadn’t noticed anything unusual along the way.

"Speaking of which..."

"What exactly is this thing?"

The paperman tilted its head, staring at the conch shell that was continuously absorbing the purple radiance.

Though it couldn’t be certain what this was, being buried underground in the Capital City and suppressed by layers of arrays gave her a rough idea.

"Chen Mo has a similar aura on him. This thing should be quite useful to him..." Ji Lianxing pondered briefly and quickly made a decision, clapping her fist into her palm, "No matter, I’ll steal it first!"

As Hui Neng left, he protected the conch shell with a Buddha Bead.

But just one Buddha Bead couldn’t possibly stop Ji Lianxing.

However, taking action directly would certainly be discovered. It’s best to wait until he starts fighting with that three-eyed old man, then fish in troubled waters...

Thinking this, the paperman retreated into the shadows, quietly lying in wait.

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...

Qi Chengze hovered in mid-air, gazing grimly at the monk in front of him.

"Wuwan Temple?"

"So all of this was orchestrated by you?!"

Hui Neng stood with his hands behind his back, a brilliant halo shining behind him, and said calmly, "Actually, you already know the answer, so why ask this poor monk? I merely came this time to borrow something..."

Qi Chengze calmed down, filled with doubt and suspicion.

To cause such a large-scale disturbance in the Capital City is not something any single sect or power could achieve. Who exactly is pulling the strings behind the scenes? He dared not think deeply about it...

"Borrow something?" Qi Chengze glanced down, his pupils slightly contracting, "You forced your way into the Demon Suppression Department, so it’s really for the Dragon Qi!"

Hui Neng remained indifferent, neither affirming nor denying.

Qi Chengze didn’t rush to attack. His vertical pupils stared at Hui Neng, frowning: "But in such a short time, how did you locate the Dragon Vein?"

As the conch shell had not yet absorbed completely, Hui Neng was more than willing to bide his time. He answered, "Although the Dragon Vein has been shifting frequently in recent years, the Array Hub remains fixed, like nails piercing through the Dragon Vein..."

"Moreover, this array was constructed according to the rules of the Three Secrets and Four Noble Truths of the Buddhist Sect. Coupled with the Wordless Scripture left by Xuan Kong Nirvana, finding the Array Hub is not difficult for this poor monk."

"And the explosion also greatly assisted this poor monk, otherwise it would not have gone so smoothly."

Hearing this, Qi Chengze said in a deep voice, "You should be aware of the crime of usurping national destiny and causing disaster to the nation and the people. With such blatant actions, are you not afraid that the court will deploy troops to level Wuwan Temple?!"

Hui Neng shook his head and said, "Before the array is completely deciphered, the court absolutely won’t move against Wuwan Temple. Besides..."

He gestured to the devastated scene below and sneered, "Do you think that if this poor monk doesn’t take the Dragon Qi, things would be any better for the Great Yuan?"

Qi Chengze was momentarily speechless.

"This poor monk can tell you another secret."

Hui Neng’s eerie voice drifted into Qi Chengze’s ears, "You only know that the Eightfold Exorcism Array is nested with eight-layered arrays, but you don’t know that initially, Wuwan Temple only constructed seven sets of arrays. That last array, who set it up and what is its purpose, is quite intriguing."

?!

Qi Chengze’s brows furrowed, a sense of unease creeping in.

If what this monk said is true, this matter may be far from simple!

"You’ve been hesitating to make a move, always searching for this poor monk’s flaws. I assume you lack confidence?"

"After all, even Ling Yishan was defeated."

Hui Neng chuckled lightly and said, "Now, with the civil and military officials trapped in the ancestral temple and the Imperial Army guarding the Imperial City, there are very few top experts in the city... Unless the Ultimate Venerable personally comes, otherwise, it’s impossible to keep this poor monk here."

Seeing his confident demeanor, Qi Chengze’s gaze grew colder. His aura surged around him, and he spoke, "One last question, how were you able to know in advance that chaos would occur on the day of the Grand Festival? Who told you?"

With his hands clasped together, Hui Neng quietly said, "Amitabha Buddha, the Buddha said: it cannot be spoken."

"Very well, then I shall beat it out of you!"

Qi Chengze said no more. The vertical pupil in his forehead shone with a brilliant silver light, and a heavenly beam shot forth!

Hui Neng formed a seal with the Buddha Beads in his hand, and the halo behind him rotated as he leaped to meet it.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Buddha Power and silver light collided fiercely, the sea of clouds surging like boiling water!

In the scuffle between the two, Hui Neng was secretly alarmed. Though the elder was not the Ultimate Venerable, he was by no means an ordinary First Grade.

Especially that eye on his forehead, which seemed to pierce through his thoughts. Every time he intended to cast Buddhist Law, it would be preemptively interrupted!

Moreover, every ray of silver light shot towards him contained some kind of causality-like Law. Even with Buddha Light protecting his body, he dared not confront it directly!

For a moment, he was actually on the back foot!

But Hui Neng’s goal was to stall for time, waiting for the conch shell to completely absorb the Dragon Qi.

So he simply stopped counterattacking, relying on the power of the Buddha Bone to hold on.

Facing such "turtle-like" behavior, Qi Chengze had no choice but to fully mobilize the Heavenly Eye to suppress him.

Yet the sense of unease in his heart only grew stronger.

Logically, with such a major commotion, the court’s troops should have come long ago, but so far, no reinforcements had arrived.