The last one to return to the main hall was Ouyang Xiaoleng, and at this time, the royal city army in the palace had subdued the little demons under Qingyun with the assistance of Mochizuki and them. He pushed aside the crowd to look for Xia Qiu's trace, but the only person in the center of everyone was Ouyang Hongye, who was sitting on the ground and had not yet come back to his senses.

He only felt his heart sinking, and then everything in front of him was spinning, and sure enough, all his ominous premonitions were not groundless, Xia Qiu was still taken captive by Qingyun's men, and all they could do now was to stay in the main hall and wait for what kind of deal Qingyun would use Xia Qiu to do with them.

He guessed that she was safe for the time being, and Qingyun would soon send his men to negotiate with them, and sure enough, after a few of them gathered with the Four Elephant Stones, it only took a few moments for the Rakshasa Mother to suddenly fly out of the door in the inner side of the main hall.

She didn't even show up with her firearm, but held a paper fan triumphantly over her chest. Then he flew over their heads and snapped the fan shut and said, "Now that you have gathered the Four Elephant Stones, why don't you quickly put them into the Four Elephant Horcruxes, what are you waiting for?" ”

"Tell me where did you take Xia Qiu to? What's the conspiracy to do in exchange for her and us? Qianqi shouted at the Rakshasa Mother with the Jade Cicada Sword.

"The son of the dragon king doesn't need to be so angry, right? Lord Qingyun didn't want to harm her, but just asked her to come over and do a small favor. With her present, Lord Qingyun can have a good talk with your Demon King Fox. Mother Rakshasa opened her fan a few more times and said with a sly expression.

"Qianqi, let's listen to her return the Four Elephant Stones to the Four Elephant Horcruxes first!" Ouyang Xiaoleng, who had been silent for a long time, finally raised his head and said to a few people around him, his tone did not have the usual coldness, but became an extreme loneliness and helplessness.

So the few people who got the Four Elephant Stones obeyed Ouyang Xiaoleng's arrangement and placed the Four Elephant Stones in the notches on the side of the Four Elephant Horcruxes corresponding to the four directions of the side hall. The Four Elephant Horcruxes first emitted a sound similar to that of a giant furnace, and then the lid on it automatically turned to the side. It's just that there is no longer the shadow of the salamander salamander in it, and all that remains is a puddle of liquid and a crystal, the translucent crystal has the pattern and luster of flames, just the size that one hand can grasp.

"Hahahaha, the city lord salamander salamander has been refined into a real array material fire crystal by the Four Elephant Horcruxes, look at how beautiful it is! Now, it's up to you to take this fire crystal to the inner sanctum to exchange your human contractor! Mother Rakshasa said with a fan to cover her smiling mouth.

Ouyang Xiao Leng obeyed Mother Rakshasa calmly, first took out the fire crystals from the Four Elephant Horcruxes, and then followed the direction she pointed out towards the gate to the inner hall.

"Everyone else should be waiting here honestly, otherwise I can't guarantee that Lord Qingyun won't do anything terrible to that human girl!" Seeing that Lingyu and Qianqi were eager to enter the inner hall with Ouyang Xiaoleng, the Rakshasa Mother threatened, and then followed Ouyang Xiaoleng into the inner hall.

Behind the door, the demon Qingyun, whom Ouyang Xiaoleng had dreamed of killing, was standing in the distance. He finally saw him, dressed in a green robe and with a green tiger mask on his face, standing on a square platform in the middle of the circular inner sanctum, as if he had been waiting for him for a long time. There was a candlestick at each of the four corners of the platform, and next to Qingyun there was a shelf erected from the ground, and the top of the shelf opened like a lotus flower, and when pressed, it looked like a mechanism for placing something.

The enemy who had seriously injured his grandfather, killed his parents and subverted the entire demon world was right in front of him, but he didn't have time to look at him more at the moment, he just kept looking at the entire inner hall looking for Xia Qiu's figure.

"Welcome!" Qingyun said, his voice echoing under the vault of the inner sanctum, sounding much younger than expected.

"The fire crystals you want are here, now you can return Xia Qiu to me!" Ouyang Xiaoleng raised the fire crystal and shook it in his direction and said.

"Hehe, I haven't seen me for sixteen years, it's been a long time since I've seen me, don't you have anything to say to me? It seems that my guess is correct, your human contractor is so important to you, so important that you don't hesitate to put the entire demon world in danger! I think you have a lot more affection and righteousness than your grandfather and your father, or is it because of what spell this girl used to charm you? ”

Qingyun's tone couldn't hear his emotions, although he didn't have any feelings, but he was calm and terrifying. He silently pointed his hand upward, Ouyang Xiaoleng looked in the direction of his finger, he had just noticed the object covered in black cloth hanging under the vault, only to see that the object suddenly began to slowly descend, and finally fell to the ground. With a wave of Qingyun's big hand, the demonic cyclone lifted the black cloth, revealing a large golden cage inside, and the person lying in that cage was none other than Xia Qiu.

"Xia Qiu, can you hear me?" Ouyang Xiaoleng called out to Xia Qiu in the cage.

Xia Qiu suddenly sat up, held the cage with both hands and looked at him and responded loudly: "Don't worry, I'm fine!" Don't give him the fire crystal, he wants to use the array of strange columns to create the crown of the demon king and open the black fire purgatory! ”

In fact, she had already woken up before Ouyang Xiaoleng entered the inner hall, and she just pretended to be unconscious to listen to the conversation between Qingyun and Yasha, and sure enough, she heard the terrifying truth about the Qilie Array. It turned out that Qingyun wanted to use the Qilie Array to create not a monster but the crown of the demon king, because with it, he could open the Black Fire Purgatory and bring all the dark power inside under his command. And most importantly, he wants to rescue someone from inside who is extremely important to him.

Qingyun didn't expect this human girl to overhear his plan, he waved his hand a little angrily, Xia Qiu felt an invisible force choke her neck and lifted her up, her body slowly suspended in the air, and then she began to have difficulty breathing, and her feet kept kicking in the air.

"If you kill her, you'll never get a fire crystal!" Ouyang Xiaoleng raised the Divine Ice as he spoke, making a gesture of throwing the fire crystals to the ground and splitting them.

When Qingyun saw that she really let go of Xia Qiu, she fell to the ground again and gasped for breath, seeing Qingyun stretching out her hand to Ouyang Xiaoleng and calling him to herself, she continued to shout to Ouyang Xiaoleng: "Don't believe his words!" If he is allowed to open the Black Fire Purgatory, the Three Realms will face catastrophe! ”

Her voice couldn't make Ouyang Xiaoleng stop in any way, and at this moment, she couldn't hear anything in the inner hall except for the footsteps of him constantly walking towards Qingyun. She seemed to understand the meaning of the prophecy of the stone demon Yanming, the only thing that could prevent Ouyang Xiaoleng from handing over the fire crystals to Qingyun was her own death, as long as she was alive, Qingyun would use her as a threat to force Ouyang Xiaoleng to obey him.

Everything Qingyun had done before was to buy time, waiting for the moment when the fire crystals would be refined, and he would play all the people in the royal city around, so that even if they won the monsters he had created, they would still obediently hand over the array of material fire crystals they had worked so hard to obtain into his hands.

That's the cruelest part of him, it's like putting the beast in a cage and quietly watching how the battle of the trapped beast plays out according to his setting. Perhaps the thrill of being above everyone and trampling their dignity under his feet was what he was after, but she would never give him such a chance. Because she understood the hatred between Ouyang Xiaoleng and Qingyun, and even more understood his efforts to lead the entire demon world to fight against Qingyun one day, how could she let him betray his world for her own sake?

Plum Blade had been left behind since she had been knocked unconscious by Yaksha, and at this moment she could only summon it in her heart, praying that it would hear her voice and miraculously return to her hands.

"Mei Blade, do you hear me? I need your help! ”

"Yes, my master." Although Mei Blade was a little slower to respond than usual, she still waited for her answer quickly.

"Wherever you are, please come back to me right away."

Xia Qiu meditated over and over again, controlling her weapons with her mind, something she couldn't do before, because only a true demon could summon her own weapons across distances and spaces. But this time, the plum blossom hairpin appeared in her hand out of thin air, and quickly transformed into the pure black long knife.

Ouyang Xiaoleng was about to walk to Qingyun's side, and Qingyun couldn't wait to stretch out a hand to catch the fire crystal he had been waiting for for a long time, but the smell of blood suddenly came from the air, and he suddenly realized that he had ignored the girl in the cage on the side.

Xia Qiu had already stabbed the long knife into her abdomen and collapsed in a pool of blood, although she still had a faint breath left, she definitely didn't have long to live. In this way, she made Qingyun lose her weight, and the deal was automatically canceled.

Seeing that his plan was about to succeed, but was broken by this girl, Qingyun angrily rushed over to Ouyang Xiaoleng and shouted, "Give it to me!" ”

And the smell of blood from Xia Qiu made the blood of the flower demon in Ouyang Xiaoleng's body awaken again. He clenched the fire crystal with his left hand, and with his right hand, he quickly summoned the Night God Ice and swung it towards Qingyun's sword, and then ran to Xia Qiu's side.

He couldn't believe that she had left him like this, her body was slowly starting to get colder, and she couldn't even feel a trace of life, and he used the night ice to cut the cage that held her like crazy, but he couldn't destroy it. The pain and anger of the severed liver and intestines instantly brought the demonic blood in his body to the limit, and he turned to Qingyun, the murderer who caused the tragedy, and imprinted him in his blood-red pupils.

Qingyun felt the powerful demonic power and demonic nature from Ouyang Xiaoleng's body, since the place where he was injured by Ouyang Xueye sixteen years ago had not yet healed, it was not good for him to fight such a powerful opponent at this moment. Although his most important plan has been destroyed, he understands that he will not worry about running out of firewood to keep Qingshan, so he decides to retreat and think about countermeasures.

Cunning, he had already laid out an escape route in the inner sanctum, and when he whistled, the entire inner sanctum suddenly became full of smoke. Ouyang Xiaoleng frantically waved the Night God Ice in his hand and wanted to use his demonic power to disperse the dense fog in front of him, but the dense fog in the hall became heavier and heavier.

By the time the fog finally cleared a bit, there was nothing left in the inner sanctum except the already empty golden cage, and Qingyun had already escaped, even taking Xia Qiu's corpse with him. This was something he came up with temporarily, because doing so would definitely make Ouyang Xiaoleng completely collapse, so although the plan of the Qilie Array failed, he was not a complete loser.