Chapter 172 A Close Call

The old monkey's emotions were caught in a state of extreme repression and excitement, with reminiscence, nostalgia, sighing, and joy. These were his most genuine psychological feelings, expressed in the most straightforward and unvarnished way.

However,

in the next moment,

his gaze suddenly swept towards the northwestern edge of the cold pond.

When you are immersed in your own emotions, and suddenly an outsider intrudes, a normal person would be very angry, as if the secrets of their heart had been peeked at.

The old monkey immediately let out a roar,

and the cold pond began to tremble!

It was unclear whether it was An lawyer and Geng Chen's good luck or bad luck, but they arrived just as the old monkey was communicating with Hou Liangliang and Zhou Ze across thousands of miles, and naturally lost control over the surrounding environment. After the possession ended, he fell into his own emotions, and didn't have time to take care of other things.

So it was only now that the old monkey discovered these two uninvited intruders.

The water in the cold pond was already very cold, constantly emitting white mist, but at this time, under the guidance of the old monkey's emotions, it gradually began to freeze!

The old monkey stepped onto the surface of the pond and began to walk towards them. At the same time, terrifying qi began to lock down the area.

He seemed to be walking very slowly,

but his net had already been spread out, forming an extremely terrifying killing intent, sealing off the surroundings.

An lawyer and Geng Chen exchanged a glance.

Both of them used to be inspectors,

so they had seen the world. They had weathered storms and rain, and while it might be an exaggeration to say they were phoenixes reborn from the ashes, they were at least old hands.

Since the other party clearly wanted to "hit someone,"

they couldn't just stand there and let him vent his anger, could they?

As for running away,

was that even possible?

This whole world had been sealed off by the other party, so where could they run?

An lawyer flipped his palm, and the talisman Geng Chen had given him reappeared. After all, it wasn't his own, so he had to go through a process every time he used it.

In the next moment,

An lawyer, with his surging aura, crossed his hands and formed a seal,

and whispered:

"The underworld has order, the law is merciless—seal, suppress, destroy!"

The black handprint, condensed with boundless baleful aura, blasted out directly, with an indomitable momentum.

At least,

from the perspective of special effects, it was indeed very cool!

However,

the old monkey just "hmph"-ed lightly,

and the handprint that An lawyer had unleashed shattered before it even reached the old monkey.

An lawyer's heart skipped a beat.

This was bad!

Geng Chen produced a handful of silk threads and pulled them,

"Whirr!"

A swarm of green, bee-like puppets rushed towards the old monkey, truly covering the sky and earth!

The old monkey ignored them, and his body directly crashed into them. The bees hit him, and there was a series of crackling sounds, but they couldn't stop him in the slightest.

Geng Chen pressed down his small hand,

and said in a deep voice:

"Rend!"

"Boom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Explosions rang out one after another, and the newly frozen surface of the cold pond was now covered with dense cracks. However, from the smoke and fire, the old monkey continued to walk out calmly.

This was… a complete碾压 (niǎn yā, crushing)!

"Can we analyze now who is more suitable to cover the retreat? Rock-paper-scissors?"

An lawyer said this in a joking tone,

but in reality,

if it were any other time, if the old monkey wasn't so abnormal, coming at them like a bulldozer, An lawyer would have abandoned his fellow daoist to save himself long ago.

But now he was also clear,

running,

was impossible.

Since he couldn't run,

then he shouldn't embarrass himself by showing his back to the other party and letting them play a game of catching pigs.

In Geng Chen's eyes, blue light began to flicker, and in his palm, two balls of blue fire began to condense, as if he was preparing something.

"Hold him back, hold him back for as long as you can!"

Geng Chen said.

An lawyer blinked.

Was there still a chance?

But An lawyer didn't hesitate. He placed his index fingers on his temples, closed his eyes first, then suddenly opened them, and released his boundless mental power.

However,

An lawyer only felt that he couldn't find any leverage point on the old monkey's body. The other party was like an insulator, completely shielding his mental power from any effect.

There were only two possibilities for this. One was that the other party's physical body was so abnormally strong that it completely isolated external forces from interfering with their soul, relying on the physical body as support.

This was similar to when his boss became a zombie. Of course, his boss was the least afraid of others playing this trick. Anyone who wanted to play with his mental power or try to seize his body, he would directly throw them to the terrifying existence in his body.

The other possibility was that the other party's soul had exceeded An lawyer's imagination in terms of level. An lawyer was now like a child tickling an adult, and they didn't feel anything at all.

Regardless of which possibility it was,

it showed that,

he really couldn't stop him!

The old monkey's figure had already appeared less than five meters away from An lawyer and Geng Chen.

His hand was already raised,

and for him,

An lawyer and Geng Chen were probably just two very annoying flies in his eyes.

All he had to do,

was just walk over,

and then slap them to death!

This wasn't posturing, it wasn't showing off, and it wasn't deliberate.

Would you be bored enough to prepare a special ritual to step on two ants?

The old monkey was coming,

his hand was about to fall,

An lawyer was already desperate,

but Geng Chen let out a roar at this moment,

and a blue talisman was struck on the cold pond beneath his feet.

"Buzz!"

The surrounding cherry blossoms suddenly fell, and then instantly shattered, turning into a light red haze.

All of this was completed in the blink of an eye, and then, all the haze began to shrink!

A hint of surprise finally appeared in the old monkey's eyes.

As the haze shrank,

the old monkey's figure began to retreat,

the same way he had walked here, he was now retreating,

like a DVD player being rewound.

An lawyer only felt a chill down his back, followed by a tingling sensation. This feeling of escaping death was really too stimulating. Immediately, he turned his head to look at Geng Chen standing behind him.

"Do you have the key to the restriction here?"

Geng Chen nodded, his face a little pale. "That Zi Dai Zi (purple sash) gave it to me before he died."

"Oh, is that Zi Dai Zi surnamed Duo?"

An lawyer put his hands on his hips,

but,

when he looked forward again,

his hands slowly lowered.

The old man in front of him, after retreating for a distance, actually started walking towards them again. The haze was constantly shrinking around him, but it seemed unable to affect him any further.

"I said, what's going on?"

An lawyer's voice began to tremble.

This was also human nature. The first time you faced despair, you could steel yourself and give it your all, but after escaping death, it was like a situation of diminishing courage. It was impossible not to panic.

"This can only mean…"

Geng Chen smiled a little desperately,

"This can only mean that this person is even more terrifying than that Zi Dai Zi judge who built this place."

An lawyer gritted his teeth,

and looked at the cracks on the ice under his feet.

"Hey, we're really done for."

"Yeah, pretty much. What a pity, I have to die with a scum like you."

"Heh heh."

An lawyer licked his lips,

and the demon core in his body began to operate.

Layers of white fur began to emerge from An lawyer's skin.

At this time,

he was exuding demonic energy,

like a demon transforming into human form.

This demon core was given to him by his boss back then, a white fox's demon core. An lawyer had never been willing to refine it and had been carrying it with him.

Geng Chen looked at An lawyer with some surprise and said:

"I didn't expect you to be so stubborn, not giving up even now. You, An Buqi, were able to climb to that position back then, you really aren't just a name."

It wasn't that Geng Chen hadn't seen An lawyer use this demon core before. He had shown off when they fought in Tong City, but the demon race relied on their physical bodies to fight. How could An lawyer use this half-baked demonization to fight the terrifying existence in front of him?

It was really no different from an egg hitting a rock, whether the egg was raw or cooked, the result would be the same.

"I have one advantage, and that is that no matter how difficult the moment is, I won't give up. We only live once, leaving behind a trace of our soul. If it just disappears inexplicably, I'll feel like I'm losing out."

"That's true."

Geng Chen straightened his body again,

his two small hands moving quickly, and clusters of dark red light were constantly condensing from his palms. This was karma fire.

Geng Chen glanced at An lawyer,

and said:

"You're already like this, I can't let you outshine me. Then I'll give it another shot. If I lose, then I'll die without regrets."

"That's how it should be! Isn't that the spirit we should have?

We can't give up at any time, we have to live, we have to think about living, we have to struggle to live!"

An lawyer nodded affirmatively.

"Heh, okay, I'll accompany you. Actually, I'm sorry to you this time. If I hadn't dragged you out with me, you wouldn't have encountered this kind of thing."

"Don't, 'sorry' is too light, it's not sincere. If you want to say sorry, it's best to offer something practical.

But, this is also where I wanted to come, so I kind of brought it on myself;

In my boss's words, I'm just chasing the stars."

"Isn't it licking the clouds?"

"Shut up!"

Finally,

going against the formation of this cold pond,

the old monkey once again walked to a very, very close position to An lawyer and Geng Chen.

Geng Chen's eyes narrowed slightly,

ready to strike!

An lawyer's breathing began to quicken, his face serious!

Then,

An lawyer "plop"ed and knelt down directly in front of the old monkey,

shouting:

"Ancestor, ancestor, it was this person who caught me and made me be driven and enslaved by him;

Ancestor,

this little one's admiration for you is higher than the sky and deeper than the sea,

I beg you to save me, I beg you to quickly destroy him and save me!"

"............" Geng Chen.