The back mountain of Maoshan was silent, and the dead leaves that fell from the scorched branches turned into a handful of fly ash before they hit the ground. Gu Yaopan followed beside him and looked at him with some concern.

"Why is it so quiet, where have the other juniors gone?" Tao Mengchu muttered.

He turned his head abruptly and looked at the dormitory where the disciples lived at the other end, the doors of the long corridor were mostly open, but there was not a trace of human breath. Tao Mengchu had a very bad premonition in his heart. He ran to the door of a bedroom in three or two steps, pushed open the half-hidden door, and all the furnishings in the door had not been touched, and the bedding on the bed was neatly folded, and there was no trace of the master's panic.

Gu Yaopan called his name at the door of the other bedroom.

"Tao Mengchu, come over here and have a look. ”

Tao Mengchu ran over, there was a little mess in this bedroom, the bedding was dragged to the ground, and a shoe was thrown at the door, but such a messy appearance reassured Tao Mengchu.

"Looks like they're supposed to be gone. Gu Yaopan glanced at Tao Mengchu and couldn't bear to cut off his hope.

"Yes! it must be so!" Tao Mengchu's eyes flashed with hope.

Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he quickly took out his mobile phone, opened the number book and began to dial, only a moment later, a familiar ringtone sounded in the small courtyard not far away. When Tao Mengchu hurriedly ran back to look, he only saw his mother's mobile phone next to the pillow in the bedroom, and the screen was lit up and vibrating.

He dialed several numbers in a row, either turned off or out of the service area, until he dialed a number that he had not used for a long time, and then heard a heavenly ringtone.

"Hey, is it Meng Chu?"

When he heard this old and familiar voice, Tao Mengchu almost cried.

"Where are you? I'll come right now!" Tao Mengchu held his mobile phone as if he were holding the most precious treasure.

"Come on, we're in the nearest hospital at the foot of Maoshan Mountain, your mother... Your mother, I'm afraid it's not good. The voice on the other end was a little hesitant, but still said with a sigh.

Tao Mengchu's face changed greatly, Gu Yaopan also froze when she heard the voice on the phone, and she didn't have time to say anything, so she let Tao Mengchu pull her down the mountain.

In the hospital ward, Tao's mother, who was described as withered, was resting with her eyes half-closed, she felt very tired, she had never been tired, as if something had absorbed all the vitality in her body, leaving only the exhaustion in her bones left over from a lifetime of rushing in this world, like maggots attached to the bones, making her spirit worse and worse.

When Tao Mengchu rushed into the ward, what he saw was that his mother was drowsy, completely gone, and her cheeks were full and rosy as before, and she always looked like she was smiling. Instead, he was terrified by the sense of devastation that could collapse at any moment.

"Mom!"

Tao Mengchu knelt down in front of his mother and cried out cautiously.

Mother Tao struggled to open her eyes, looked at the young face in front of her in confusion, and only spoke after a long while: "Meng Chu, you are here!"

"Where's your dad?"

Tao Mengchu was slightly stunned, turned his head to look at the elder, the elder shook his head at him slightly, signaling him not to ask, Tao Mengchu's heart trembled, and he hurriedly reached out and grabbed his mother's hand.

"Dad went to buy you medicine, don't worry, he'll be back soon. ”

"Lie!" Tao's mother scolded lightly, her eyes, which were already not energetic, became more and more blurred, and her eyes looking at Tao Mengchu seemed to see her husband who was far away through him.

"Your dad is having a hard time right now, he's in a very dark place, and I know I'm going to be with him now. After Tao's mother finished saying this, she retracted her gaze and looked at her son in front of her, and said softly:

"Meng Chu, don't worry, your father and I will be fine. ”

Before Tao Mengchu could say a word, Tao's mother let go of his hand, her eyes slowly closed, and she stopped breathing in just a moment.

Caught off guard, Tao Mengchu was still stunned and didn't react, Gu Yaopan, who noticed that something was wrong, had already taken two steps forward, reached out and pointed at Tao's mother's chest, but withdrew his hand the moment it touched her chest.

"Tao Mengchu, your mother has already gone. Gu Yaopan's voice was very bitter.

She hadn't experienced such pain, and she didn't know how to comfort her, but she just looked at Tao Mengchu, who was still stunned, and felt a pain in her heart, which made her feel uneasy.

Tao Mengchu sat on the ground, the blood on his face faded completely, and his eyes looked at his mother who seemed to be asleep on the hospital bed in a daze, unable to say a word.

"Why? Why is there no soul?"

As if he had reacted suddenly, Tao Mengchu suddenly turned over and stood up, shouting at the elders on the side.

It stands to reason that Mother Tao's soul shouldn't have left her body for too long, but now that half a day has passed, she still hasn't seen any signs of half of her soul leaving her body, which is not normal.

A strange color also flashed in the elder's eyes, but after thinking about it for a while, he could only smile bitterly.

"About the time before, your mother used a special method when she was behind the mat in order for us to run out of the Five Elements Banner Formation smoothly, and we noticed that something was wrong with her as soon as we got off the mountain, and it was too late to send her here, the doctor said that her body function was like an old man who was about to die, and she couldn't be saved. Her soul ...... I don't know if it has something to do with the secret method she used......"

The elder's voice is very low, the Tao family is an old family with a long inheritance in Maoshan, although it is not like the Heavenly Master Dao of Longhu Mountain to occupy a mountain with the power of a surname, but it is also very important in the vein of Maoshan, and there are a lot of things in the family, he can only speculate.

"It shouldn't be a secret method. Gu Yaopan shook her head, her fingers touched Tao's mother's chest and then withdrew, her eyes met Tao Mengchu's blood-red eyes, and she sighed and said:

"She should have been impregnated by the demonic energy when she was casting the spell to the limit, so ...... Her soul must have entered the Demon Realm. ”

After Tao Mengchu said this, his face completely turned pale, the elder's face also changed, and all the Maoshan disciples who escaped outside the ward also changed color at the same time.

What a cruel punishment this is! A place that all cultivators will never want to enter for eternity!

"Rong Wengui!" Tao Mengchu stared straight at his mother's corpse and gritted his teeth.

The demon desire to eat the front legs of a monster that I don't know what it was was was suddenly stunned, the food in his hand fell to the ground with a "click", and the bloody hand pressed his heart, and a strange pain suddenly hit it, causing it to feel uncomfortable.

"Ahh

The demon playfully cast its gaze on the small cloud of sky above the Black Tower, and more and more black dots jumped in its eyes, like mischievous tadpoles.

"It's interesting! Do you still feel it? Elder Tao!"