Everyday the protagonist wants to capture me

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The group of demonic cultivators did not make any more moves as they silently hovered over the slowly expanding abyss that emitted a purplish shimmer. Their gazes were so fervent that the only thing left was for them to complete the picture would be if they were to prostrate themselves in worship.

The other cultivators, knowing that they had assisted to bring about a great catastrophe, hurriedly rode their swords in an escape when they saw that the demonic cultivators were deliberately ignoring them.

Even if these people stayed on, they would only end up being cannon fodders for Demon Lord Yan Heng when he finished awakening. Chu Yu coldly looked at them falling all over themselves in a bid to flee. He folded his arms as he looked at the wailing abyss. The gears in his head turned and he suddenly recalled what Wei Ciyin had said before.

Wei Ciyin once said, Dun Yue Sect had once used the Spirit Sealing Grass to awaken a terrifying thing.

......If that 'thing' that they were referring to was the remnant soul of Demon Lord Yan Heng, then, he could almost understand why the demonic cultivators had been so desperately busting their guts out these few years in the war. More than ten years ago, demonic cultivators had appeared outside the city of Fangye to loot the Spirit Devouring Bug, and that kind of Spirit Devouring Bug, once nurtured, was able to consume magical barriers.

The Spirit Sealing Grass only exists within the Mausoleum Ruins, and the Mausoleum Ruins were miles away from Yun Cuo. And so they used these Spirit Devouring Bug to gain entry into the Mausoleum Ruins.

The one who had received this mission at the time, Wei Ciyin, should have been in a predicament - after all, Demon Lord Yan Heng was notorious for not acknowledging his kin and he was also bloodthirsty by nature. He did not differentiate between the demonic or righteous path cultivators; he killed them all in a blink of an eye.

While still at Yun Cuo, Wei Yuanshan had previously said that his heart and soul had indeed been enthralled by the spell for a period of time. It was probable that Wei Ciyin had been coerced to lead a bunch of people to the Mausoleum Ruins back then. No wonder that one moment he insisted on not wasting time, and the next moment he would be dilly-dallying and wasting more time.

The demonic cultivators had been sustaining Demon Lord Yan Heng ever since they had roused his soul. From the start of the Great Righteous and Demonic Cultivator War, they had been dragging out the time as they battled, all the while waiting for when the time was ripe.

......It should have all began when the demonic cultivators suddenly retreated from Jin River. The moment the curtain fell on Great Righteous and Demonic Cultivator War, they had started to plan how to reach the demonic abyss. From Jin River all the way to Jiao Xia, it was naturally not possible for them to be driven right into the entrance of Tian Yuan Sect.

This was where the traitor Xu Keqing had come into play.

It was not known how the demonic cultivators had found out that there was a portal located in the main hall in front of the Chu family's forbidden area, but in any case, they set their sights on the Chu family, sent a few people to infiltrate the righteous path territory and spread unsavory rumors. After which, they sat back and wait for the masses to crusade against the Chu family before they fished in troubled waters and made use of the portal to teleport themselves to the demonic abyss.

Before the crusade against the Chu family, they spread the news that some cultivators had assembled to set off for the Chu family, which naturally drew away Lu Qingan and Xie Xi away. Otherwise, if Lu Qingan was here, he would have definitely discovered the abnormalities and rushed over the very moment the portal was activated. When face to face with the Yan Han sword, it would be hard to say whether or not they could complete the rest of the tasks smoothly.