Chapter 176 Ghost Face Rune
Zhan Taixuan took out a spirit stone, and the snow-white Black Water Snake's eyes suddenly became smart, and it gently opened its mouth and swallowed the spirit stone. After swallowing the spirit stone, the Black Water Snake coiled in Zhan Taixuan's palm, closed its eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

Zhang Qian was surprised and looked carefully for a while, and found that the black water snake was absorbing the spiritual energy in the spirit stone at an incredibly fast speed. That was not all, the small snake, which was only three inches long, grew very quickly to three and a half inches in size.

"Yes, at this growth rate, it won't be long before this Black Water Mystic Snake becomes a great demon."

Zhang Qian sat next to Zhan Taixuan. He reached out and gently touched the little snake. A bone-chilling chill came over him, which was several times stronger than before.

brush!
The pearl embryo above Zhan Taixuan's head moved, and a vast fairy light flashed, directly receiving the little snake into the pearl embryo.

"Xuan'er, you..."

Zhang Qian's face suddenly changed after he said three words. Without bothering to say anything, he sat cross-legged. The pitch-black Sky Demon Pagoda appeared above his head, shedding rays of protective magic light.

"you……?"

Zhan Taixuan stood up suddenly and immediately sensed an invisible and strange force descending from the sky and rushing straight towards Zhang Qian.

This power could not be seen or touched, it could only be slightly sensed. The power was filled with ominousness and murderous intent, and in just a short moment, the ominousness filled the entire room.

Squeak!

The door was suddenly pushed open and Li Qingque rushed in.

"not good!"

Sensing the ominous and murderous intent throughout the room, Li Qingque's face changed and he instantly appeared in front of Zhang Qian.

At this time, Zhang Qian closed his eyes tightly, and the power of the Heavenly Demon Pagoda burst out, buzzing and vibrating. An extremely strong and supreme demonic aura enveloped Zhang Qian's body, faintly resisting the ominous murderous intent that fell from the sky.

"This is a curse!"

Zhan Taixuan's pupils shrank. As the ominous and murderous intent that descended from the sky became more and more intense, a pale aura visible to the naked eye appeared.

Dense and strange runes emerged in the pale atmosphere. These runes were extremely complex, and each one looked like a grinning ghost face, which made people feel cold and their souls shaken at the sight of them.

Dong Dong Dong...!
Countless ghost face runes touched the protective magic light of the Heavenly Demon Pagoda, causing loud noises and causing the protective magic light to shake.

"Be bold!"

Li Qingque's eyes were filled with murderous intent, his fingers formed into a sword, and strands of silk sword energy gushed out, stabbing back and forth at these ghost face runes.

However, what surprised Li Qingque was that after her sword energy touched these ghost face runes, it went straight through them without having any effect, as if these ghost face runes were all illusory phantoms and had no effect at all.

"How is this going?"

Li Qingque hurriedly extended his spiritual sense and scanned these ghost face runes.

"Well……!"

The next moment, Li Qingque cried out in pain, but her spiritual consciousness was directly swallowed up by these ghost face runes. She hurriedly cut off her spiritual consciousness and her face became extremely solemn.

Zhan Taixuan manifested his orb, and the vast immortal light washed back and forth towards the ghost face runes, but it had no effect. The ghost face runes seemed to be non-existent and directly ignored Zhan Taixuan's vast immortal light. "What should I do?"

After trying several different killing methods but still unable to do anything to these ghost face runes, Zhan Taixuan frowned and asked Li Qingque.

Li Qingque clasped his hands together and instantly set up magic arrays, covering the room with the supreme demonic power emanating from Zhang Qian's Heavenly Demon Pagoda.

"It's Meng Lingsu! She has now mastered the Hundred Evils Golden Pill and can cast invisible curses. I didn't expect that she would actually dare to do it!"

A murderous look appeared on Li Qingque's face. She originally thought that Meng Lingsu, as a disciple of Jianhu Palace, would not dare to take action due to the sect rules. However, she never expected that Meng Lingsu would be so bold and directly cast an invisible curse on Zhang Qian.

Dong Dong Dong...!
At this moment, the protective magic light cast by the Heavenly Demon Pagoda was already crumbling, and cracks appeared, as if the protective magic light would collapse in the next moment, submerging Zhang Qian in the invisible curse.

Roar, roar, roar...!
At the critical moment, Demon Two and Demon Three, two Heavenly Demon Generals, suddenly flew out from the Heavenly Demon Pagoda. They roared and flew to the top of Zhang Qian's head. They opened their mouths wide and began to swallow the pale breath falling from the sky. They danced with their claws and claw shadows appeared all over the sky. Amid the sounds of metal clashing, they blocked the densely packed ghost face runes.

However, there were so many ghost face runes descending that they became countless in just a short moment. It was impossible for Demon Two and Demon Three to block all the runes. Many ghost face runes bypassed the two heavenly demons and instantly fell on Zhang Qian through the gaps in the protective magic light.

puff!
Zhang Qian suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and his face became listless.

Before he could make any move, the second ghost face rune arrived and fell on him, causing him to spit out blood again. The horrifying thing was that with just two ghost face runes, not only did Zhang Qian spit out two mouthfuls of blood, but a strand of pale white hair appeared on his head.

"This is!"

Li Qingque and Zhan Taixuan looked at each other. With their knowledge, they naturally realized that this ghost face rune curse was clearly a curse that made people age little by little. Just two ghost face runes fell on Zhang Qian and he had an extra strand of white hair. Looking at the countless ghost face runes on Zhang Qian's head, the two women changed color in horror.

If so many ghost face runes were to fall on Zhang Qian, he would instantly become old and lifeless!
"So this is the curse!"

At this moment, Zhang Qian, who was sitting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes. A cold light flashed in his eyes, and he muttered to himself. The Heavenly Demon Pagoda shook violently, emitting a protective magic light that was ten times thicker than before, blocking all the ghost face runes outside.

Turning around and seeing the two anxious women, Zhang Qian hurriedly comforted them, "I'm sorry to have worried you. I just wanted to test the power of this curse, so I restrained the protective magic light of the Heavenly Demon Pagoda. I didn't expect that I still underestimated the power of this curse. As expected, this invisible curse can only be broken by resisting it with luck. Even my Heavenly Demon Pagoda can only block these ghost face runes, but cannot destroy them."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Qian tried to activate the Zhuxian Sword Intent and the Luxian Sword Intent. The two supreme sword intents were trying to strangle the countless ghost face runes above his head, but to no avail. Although these runes were visible to the naked eye, they were invisible and could not be touched by the two sword intents at all.

"you……"

Li Qingque was speechless for a while. Looking at the strand of white hair on Zhang Qian's head, he felt a pain in his heart. He then felt murderous towards Meng Lingsu who was casting a curse in Jianhu Palace.

“What should we do now? These ghost face runes will increase in number as time goes by until they are too numerous to count.”

Zhan Taixuan walked around Zhang Qian and found that in just a short while, the ghost face rune on Zhang Qian's head had condensed into a rune cloud.

This pale cloud was filled with billions of ghost face runes. The terrifying thing was that billions of ghost face runes condensed together and turned into a huge ghost face that opened its mouth wide and looked at Zhang Qian, making a weird, shrill laugh.

Fortunately, he was covered by the protective magic light from the Heavenly Demon Pagoda, otherwise, Zhang Qian would have been swallowed by the ghost face made up of billions of ghost face runes.

Zhang Qian raised his head and looked at the cloud of runes that was growing bigger and bigger above his head. He immediately took back Demon Two and Demon Three to the Heavenly Demon Pagoda and said coldly, "It's okay. I have the Heavenly Demon Pagoda protecting me. I'm not in danger for now. But I have to find a way to interrupt Meng Lingsu's spellcasting. Otherwise, these ghost face runes will turn into a sea of ​​runes and completely submerge me. Besides, I can't show this Heavenly Demon Pagoda to anyone. I can't keep holding up the Heavenly Demon Pagoda."

(End of this chapter)