Chapter 20 Entrance
Inside the cave entrance was a huge space that seemed extremely empty. There was only a huge puppet in front of Zhang Tie.

Zhang Tie exclaimed because he saw the puppet that was as big as a hill constantly chasing a short and thick figure. The short and thick figure was not moving very fast, and could even be said to be rolling and crawling to avoid the attack of the huge puppet.

“No wonder Qi Yunxiao could hold on for so long, it turns out it’s because this puppet is too slow.” Zhang Tie looked at the puppet’s exaggerated destructive power, but also its extremely slow speed, and suddenly realized.

"Senior Zhang, please think of a way to save Qi Yunxiao!" Xin Ruyin looked at the humanoid puppet waving its arms and punching towards where Qi Yunxiao was.

As the fist was about to make contact with the ground, a cloud of dust that covered the sky and the sun instantly spread in all directions, followed by a huge shock, which made Zhang Tie and Xin Ruyin, who were far away at the entrance, unable to stand.

Zhang Tie dusted himself off and pointed at Zhang Tie who had dodged the puppet's attack again and said, "Fellow Daoist Qi is safe. That puppet is incredibly powerful, but incredibly slow." Zhang Tie frowned when he said this, "But in this case, Qi Yunxiao shouldn't be able to escape, right?"

Xin Ruyin also reacted at this time. She was so concerned that she lost her composure, thinking only about Qi Yunxiao who was in crisis.

"Fellow Daoist Qi, why don't you run towards the exit?" Zhang Tie asked using his spiritual power.

After a long time, there was no response from Qi Yunxiao.

Zhang Tie originally thought that Qi Yunxiao might be too tired to respond and was about to step into the secret realm without replying.

"Senior, wait a minute!" Xin Ruyin suddenly grabbed Zhang Tie and said seriously.

Zhang Tie looked back at Xin Ruyin in confusion and motioned for him to continue.

"We seem to have entered an illusion array!" Xin Ruyin's voice was crisp, but these words made Zhang Tie instantly nervous.

"I didn't notice what was going on here just now, but since I came in, I always felt that something was amiss here," Xin Ruyin said, pointing at Qi Yunxiao in the distance, "I was in a hurry just now and ignored these strange things."

Following the direction Xin Ruyin pointed, Zhang Tie saw Qi Yunxiao desperately dodging the attack of the giant puppet, and everything seemed normal.

"No!" Zhang Tie suddenly noticed that Qi Yunxiao's actions were abnormal.

"Senior, have you noticed this too?" Xin Ruyin said, "Although Qi Yunxiao seems to be normal, if you look closely you will find that his movements are repetitive."

Zhang Tie nodded. After dodging the attack of the giant puppet, Qi Yunxiao ran towards the entrance. Then he fell to the ground by coincidence and was caught up by the giant puppet behind him. He then dodged it again narrowly.

After some twists and turns, Qi Yunxiao returned to the original place, then ran to the entrance and fell to the ground.

"Fellow Daoist Xin, do you have any way to break it?" Although Zhang Tie frowned, he did not feel any fatal danger. It seemed that this illusion array was just to trap them.

"Friend Xin?" Seeing that Xin Ruyin did not answer, Zhang Tie turned around and looked at her.

Xin Ruyin's lips opened and closed, but no sound came out. After a moment, a voice came out, "Don't worry, Senior Zhang. This illusion array is just to trap us. There is no danger. I will be able to break it after I find the node of the array."

Zhang Tie nodded, ready to wait for Xin Ruyin to attack the formation node, when suddenly there was another shaking. Zhang Tie was a little used to it. It was Qi Yunxiao who dodged the puppet again and ran towards the entrance.

"Wait!" Zhang Tie suddenly felt something was wrong. He turned his head to look at Xin Ruyin and said loudly, "Friend Xin, aren't you worried about Qi Yunxiao?" Xin Ruyin's mouth opened and closed, and after a moment, she said, "Of course I am worried, but now we should focus on breaking the formation. Senior Zhang, please wait." Then Xin Ruyin turned her head and continued to observe the surroundings.

Zhang Tie narrowed his eyes. Xin Ruyin spoke very awkwardly, just like... Zhang Tie frowned and carefully recalled Xin Ruyin's every move just now.

Suddenly he raised his eyebrows, and Zhang Tie thought of that word, delay!

There was a delay in Xin Ruyin's speech, just like the Internet in her previous life, and Zhang Tie also gradually felt that his thinking was slowing down, otherwise how could it take him so long to react!

"No, I can't wait any longer!" Zhang Tie felt dizzy, but he still knew that he couldn't wait any longer.

……

Outside the illusion, there was a strange insect with an extremely ugly appearance lying on the ground, sticking out its tongue with its ferocious giant mouth. The tongue was covered with pink liquid, which quickly turned into pink mist after landing and floated towards Zhang Tie in the distance.

Zhang Tie stood motionless in the pink mist with a strange expression on his face, frowning and relaxing.

The entire cave was not big, and the monster was lying not far from Zhang Tie.

The monster's vertical pupils were staring motionlessly at a slender figure, who was Xin Ruyin.

Xin Ruyin's face was pale at this moment. She felt something was wrong as soon as she entered the cave, but she had no time to remind Zhang Tie. She had to change direction in a hurry and walked to the edge of the fog.

Then she was attacked by this unknown monster, but fortunately Zhang Tie had arranged talismans for her in advance, so she was not killed by the monster, but the attack also left her seriously injured.

The monster originally wanted to continue attacking Xin Ruyin, but found that Zhang Tie was about to escape its control, so it had to stick out its tongue and continuously release mist to trap Zhang Tie.

"This, this monster is not strong!" Qi Yunxiao's hoarse voice suddenly came out.

Hearing this, Xin Ruyin quickly turned around and found Qi Yunxiao lying on the ground like a mummy.

"This monster should be a puppet. It has no consciousness and only some basic judgment abilities." Qi Yunxiao took a few breaths and continued tremblingly.

"When I came in that day, I was controlled by him just like Senior Zhang. However, this monster did not kill me. It just kept absorbing the spiritual energy in my body. After my spiritual energy was exhausted, it directly absorbed my blood essence."

Xin Ruyin looked at Qi Yunxiao with a distressed look on her face, "Yunxiao, stop talking. I recognize the formation on that monster. It's a spirit-sucking formation. It can absorb the spiritual energy of cultivators to supply itself."

"This puppet must have been buried underground for a long time, and its spiritual energy has been exhausted, which is why it has become so weak."

Although she understood the current situation, Xin Ruyin was helpless. She was seriously injured and Qi Yunxiao had turned into a mummy. The only way out was to wake up Zhang Tie!

"Oh, right!" Xin Ruyin suddenly thought of a talisman that Zhang Tie had given her before.

(End of this chapter)