The old man looked at the painting for a long time, touching every scale of the black snake with his fingers, and finally came to the top of the green head, and gently stroked its sharp fangs with his wrinkled fingers.
This period of time is not long, but the old man's eyes seem to have transcended a long time.
He rolled up the painting, stuffed it into a box, and walked out with the wooden box on his back.
The citizens of Liantian Town have gradually calmed down in their panic, and the friendly monsters have returned to their posts, but subconsciously, they have stayed away from those weird calligraphy and paintings.
The water surface of the lotus pond is clear and round, and the wind and lotus are lifting each other. The midday sun and the wind blow up the silvery white ripples, and the scene is peaceful.
The old man bent down, untied the rope that tied the boat to the shore, stepped on the lotus boat, and sailed towards the depths of the lotus leaves.
The boat was soon far away from the shore.
Twelve Qiu stood on the boat, looking forward along the ripples of the water. Then, the fingers in his sleeve pressed the thin sword attached to the palm of his hand.
"Don't be nervous." Zhang Chengyu said calmly.
How could Twelve Qiu not be nervous? Even though he was watching Jiu Ying's huge corpse pieced together bit by bit, it was still a dead thing after all. Now that a living behemoth was slowly rising from the bottom of the water, the fear in his heart was almost It comes with instinct.
He stared at the huge shadow under the lotus boat. Compared with the other eight giant necks of Jiuying, they were nothing more than loaches and real snakes.
Zhang Chengyu took out his pen and waved it gently. A chill appeared on the water in front of him. Then, the previously sparkling pond quickly formed hard and thick ice, and the lotus leaves were frozen in the ice. Inside, it is as beautiful as carvings in crystal.
The giant python raised its green head and placed it on the ice, and then its entire body climbed up from the water to the ice.
The lotus boat also stopped at the edge of the ice.
Zhang Chengyu walked ashore, took out the dozen or so paintings of Jiu Ying, unfolded them in front of him, and then let go.
The space in front of me is like many invisible walls, and these scrolls are hung on the walls out of thin air.
In the center of the scroll, Jiuying's huge skeleton outlines its ferocious appearance.
When Twelve Qiu saw this scene, he was horrified. He could not imagine what kind of power this was. It could actually paint the real Jiuying skeleton into a painting with just a few paintings. At this moment, inside the gate of Zitiandao , the bones they had worked so hard to put together for so many years should have turned into a fake without anyone noticing.
What if...
Zhang Chengyu seemed to know what he was thinking, and said to dispel his doubts: "Don't worry, it is difficult to draw a real person. All the details and expressions must match. Bones are dead objects, so it is countless times easier."
While talking, the dozen or so paintings on the ice of the lotus spontaneously ignited in the cold wind and turned into ashes. After Jiuying's bones appeared, their extremely heavy bones made the thick ice sink slightly.
The docile big black snake also climbed up from the pond. Its cone-shaped head was swinging on the ice, looking at this huge and supernaturally beautiful skeleton, as if thinking about its origin.
Twelve Qiu suddenly turned around, glanced towards the south, frowned and said, "Why haven't they come back yet? How can a Tianzong without a sect leader expend so much energy?"
Zhang Chengyu didn't say anything. He opened the box and took out the paintings inside. The paintings were full of ferocious looks of monsters and beasts.
Twelve Autumn said to himself: "The Heavenly Soul Lamp is the most critical thing for Jiuying to stabilize his soul. It is indispensable..."
Zhang Chengyu still did not respond.
Twelve Qiu felt something strange. He frowned, looked at the old man, and said, "Old sir, why don't you seem to care about the resurrection of your old friend?"
Zhang Chengyu dug out a box full of paintings and said, "There's no point in hurrying. Don't we still have to wait for news from your sect leader?"
Twelve Qiu hummed, her eyes fell on his hands, her brows furrowed, and she asked: "What...are these?"
Zhang Chengyu’s words were concise and concise: “Painting is useful.”
Twelve Autumn did not ask further questions.
The giant python climbed up slowly. It didn't seem to like the cold, and its body squirmed slower and slower.
Twelve Qiu let out a sigh, and he suddenly discovered that a large area in the middle of the giant python looked like it had been turned over hundreds of times with a meat-mincing knife. The bones were broken and the flesh and blood were blurred. It was like using the vertebrae as a chain to connect the python. A huge soft stick made of two large pieces of flesh.
"How come it was so seriously injured?" Twelve Qiu asked. This was something Zitian Dao Sect didn't know before.
Zhang Chengyu said: "It doesn't matter if you get injured, as long as you live."
Twelve Autumn felt something was wrong.
The giant python finally climbed onto the ice, revealing its complete body. Its rear tail was also broken, and it seemed that it could fit nicely into Jiuying's neck.
The giant python stared at Jiu Ying's corpse, lifting its upper body little by little, and looking at it from all angles with a pair of snake eyes.
Zhang Chengyu picked up the drawing papers in his hand and was about to paste them one by one on the python's body.
"No..." Twelve Qiu said suddenly.
"Huh? What's wrong?" Zhang Chengyu asked.
Twelve Qiu asked: "It... why is it so big?"
After the giant python revealed its complete body, its body was almost longer than Jiuying's remaining bones.
Zhang Chengyu explained: "Although Jiuying is called Jiuying, in fact, it only has one real head, and the other eight... you can even understand that they are its hands and legs."
Twelve Qiu nodded dubiously, but he was still a little frightened when he looked at this innocent and innocent giant python.
The giant python wrapped around Jiuying's bones little by little.
Zhang Chengyu pasted these paintings on its body one by one. Those ferocious faces looked like many kind smiles against the backdrop of the Nine Infants and the Giant Python.
Twelve Qiu looked at the giant python nervously, and the old man's slow figure had an indescribable sense of age.
After a while, Twelve Qiu suddenly shouted angrily: "What is it doing?!"
The old man stopped answering. He raised the pen in his hand and the drawing paper attached to the giant python burned together.
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Inside the peach curtain, the four peaks were in a mess.
The broken mountain-protecting formation glowed with faint traces of spiritual power under the same broken skylight, like a broken glass lampshade still showing dark light.
The boy in black held his head, and his painful screams echoed throughout the four peaks.
Shi Wu's expression changed drastically. He didn't know what happened in Liantian Town, but he was sure that something had happened to Jiu Ying's body.
He had to get there.
But now he may not be able to get away.
Jing Yangxia has come with his sword, and the Bixiao Sword slashes through the sea of clouds with an unyielding momentum.
Shi Wu's expression was grim. On normal days, he would never take the Shouxiao Peak Master in his eyes. But at this moment, with the Four Peaks Peak Masters drawing swords together, he might really die here.
"What are you waiting for!" Shiwu suddenly shouted angrily at Sifeng.
When the Bixiao Sword arrived, he did not choose to face the sharp edge, but directly used the Tao of Escape to hide away.
Thirteen Yuchen also had no intention of fighting anymore. She picked up the boy in black who was screaming in pain and took him to escape quickly outside the peach curtain.
The other purple-robed men who came with them responded to the order and drew out their swords, forming an airtight net of swords to block their pursuers and open up a retreat for them.
And among the four peaks, there is a sudden change in the roar that has never been heard at any time.
Many black shadows emerged from the four peaks. They were like water-like ghosts, flowing across the ground. They pulled out their swords and stabbed at the rest of the people in the peaks.
Qiyi can sneak into the Hidden Peak of Tianku Peak, and of course other people also have the opportunity to sneak in.
It's just that they have been holding back their troops before, planning to completely control the four peaks with a single order after truly restraining the master of the four peaks.
It's just that the situation is out of control now, and we can't wait for that moment.
Shi Wu didn't need to create chaos and contain the pursuers, so he had no choice but to treat those who had sneaked into the peak as abandoned children... But he didn't feel the slightest sense of guilt in his heart. After all, they were not real people. .
Ning Jiujiu also recognized their identities: "Painting people."
These are Zhang Chengyu's paintings. He must have spent a lot of effort to sneak into the Four Peaks, and he should have appeared at the end of today's battle.
It's a pity that the trump cards are now abandoned. No matter how exquisite these painters are, after all, they are not people at the level of Qi Yi, and they cannot make big waves.
Lu Yuai did not follow Jing Yangxia to pursue Shi Wu. She did not need to do anything about the next thing. The remaining two peak masters could handle it more than enough. She only needed to stabilize the peace of the peak and prevent it from happening again. Just an accident.
She fell next to Ning Changjiu, and said with some regret in her words: "Uncle Master's last sword before his death should not be wasted on Shi Shiyi."
Ning Jiujiu smiled and said, "It doesn't matter who you kill."
Lu Marry did not refute, her eyes wandered between him and Ning Xiaoling for a while, and asked: "What is going on between you senior brothers and sisters?"
Ning Jiujiu was about to speak, but Ning Xiaoling answered first: "Master! This is a secret between me and my senior brother."
Ning smiled and nodded: "Yes, it's a secret."
Ning Xiaoling said: "So senior brother can never abandon me, Xiaoling has a secret."
Ning Jiujiu patted her head and said, "A hero can walk around the world without a sword, but he cannot do without a money bag."
Ning Xiaoling waved her fist proudly.
Looking at Ning Xiaoling's charming appearance, Lu Marian's heavy mood finally got better today. She suddenly looked at Ning Changjiu and whispered: "Come with me for a moment."
Ning Xiaoling, who finally had a brief peace with her senior brother, complained: "Master is robbing someone again..."
Lu Marry pretended not to hear, and Ning Jiujiu followed.
Lu Marry took him to one side, gathered her voices together, and said, "I have something to ask you."
"What's up?"
"Um...did you save me that day in the Imperial City?"
Ning Jiujiu frowned and said, "Which time?"
Yes, many times... Lu Marian subconsciously remembered the first time she collapsed in their yard. At that time, it was Ning Jiujiu who had obviously changed the clothes for him and bandaged the wounds. He actually thought that he was being petty and hid it. this matter.
Her ears were slightly red, knowing that she owed Ning Changjiu too much, but she still couldn't help feeling angry. She pursed her lips slightly, not embarrassed to continue talking.
Ning Jiujiu guessed something, but just smiled and said nothing.
Lu Marian suddenly said: "You don't need to call me master from now on... We can be friends and acquaintances of the same generation."
Ning Jiujiu pretended to be innocent and said, "Master, doesn't he want me anymore?"
This sentence was slightly teasing.
"It's up to you." Lu Marian didn't want to accept his pretending to be pitiful.
Ning Changjiu said: "Why is master so cruel in the daytime?"
Lu Marry had to pretend not to hear.
Ning Jiujiu also knew that now was not the time for flirting, so he immediately got to the point and said, "There is something hidden under Tianku Peak."
Lu Marry also straightened her expression and said: "I know, there are some artifacts brought from the Southern Wilderness hidden, and there are..."
"No!" Ning Jiujiu interrupted: "There are snake bones hidden in it, and... there are also people hidden in it! The person said that the snake bones are the bones of the Ba snake."
"Hiding people?!" Lu Marian felt a chill in her heart, and she immediately asked: "Did you see it after you came down from the peak? Why didn't you tell me before?"
Ning Jiujiu said: "The person at the bottom of the peak erased my memory. I only remembered this today."
"Erase memory..." Lu Marry whispered softly.
"Well, that day when you and I were in the room with Xiaoling, you once said that the spell to erase memories is a forbidden spell in the peak." Ning Jiujiu said.
"Yes! This is a spell that has been forbidden for many years. Why did that person do it? What generation is he from? What exactly does he want to do..." There were many doubts in her mind again, and Lu Marian frowned and was confused.
Ning Jiujiu continued to speculate: "The Tianhun Lamp may also be in his hands now."
Lu Yuejiao understood a little better and said, "He wants to resurrect Ba Snake?"
Ning Jiujiu said: "That's what I think."
Lu Marian said: "Then let's stop him immediately..."
Ning Jiujiu said: "But Jiu Ying is also resurrecting."
Lu Marry asked: "Who is more powerful, Jiu Ying or Ba Snake?"
Ning Jiujiu said without hesitation: "Nine Infants."
The two of them were silent at the same time, but their steps were surprisingly consistent.
"Then we should first... hmm? Where are you going?" Lu Marian stopped.
Ning Jiujiu said: "I won the sword fight earlier, so I went to get the things first."
Lu Marian walked to him and said coldly: "Are you ready to please your fiancée?"
Ning Jiujiu smiled: "I just don't want to owe her anything."
"What do you owe her?" Lu Marian was confused.
Ning didn't answer this question for a long time, and he suddenly said: "I also have something to give you."
Lu Marry said: "You should keep the Tianhe Si and the Heavy Fire Box for yourself. One can improve your cultivation, and the other can help you upgrade your weapon. They are both rare treasures."
Ning Jiujiu shook his head, took out a white mask from his arms and handed it to her: "It's for you."
Lu Marry looked at the jagged edges of the mask and said coldly: "This is mine."
That day in the imperial city, Lu Marry gave this to them, and when Ning Jiujiu fought with the demon fox, this mask also blocked a fatal attack for him.
Ning Jiujiu stuffed it into Lu Yuai's arms.
Lu Marion frowned, turned over the mask, and saw a crescent-like smile outlined with a pen on the lips of the white mask, so the cold white mask also seemed to be filled with soft emotions.
"Do you like it?" Ning smiled for a long time.
"Boring." Lu Marry quickly turned back her mask.
After the storm, the moment of tranquility is precious.
Not long after, Jing Yangxia returned with his sword.
A pair of siblings from Xuanri Peak and Huiyang Peak also calmed down the commotion on each peak.
The Zitian Dao Sect was defeated and the Heavenly Mandate Sword Scripture was re-sealed. This should have been a good ending, but everyone's faces were still full of solemnity.
"Who are you?" Xue Xunxue's first question was directed at Ning Changjiu.
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There was deathly silence in the hidden peak of Tianku Peak.
Water drops ticked down the stalactites, and the faint sound seemed extremely real in today's environment.
On the wall connecting Han Lao and Hidden Peak, a door like a painting with a brush was revealed.
An old prisoner walked out of the door. He peeled off the ugly skin as he walked. Ten steps later, he turned into a man wearing lavender clothes and a handsome face.
His name is Shizizi, and he is one of the four masters of Zitian Dao Sect and the youngest among them.
He is not good at fighting, but good at Tao formations, disguises, astronomical calendars and many other methods and knowledge of Qimen Dunjia, so he was arranged to sneak in here as the last pawn in the plan to recapture the Tianhun Lantern.
Sneaking into peaks and valleys alone is a last resort.
They know that there are extremely terrifying things hidden in the peaks and valleys, things that can drive any cultivator crazy...
The previous peak master of Tianku Peak was so crazy. This is a secret that many people in the peak don't know.
Shizi sighed longly and walked towards the center of Hidden Peak. Although he had unique skills, he did not have the confidence to escape unscathed. But Dao Sect has been planning for today for too long, and it doesn't allow him to have any more choices.
As he approached the center of Hidden Peak, he suddenly stopped.
"Who are you?" Shi Zi looked at the man who was half lying on the ground in front of him, with doubts and hostility.
The man was in his thirties, with rough skin. His clothes were slovenly, and his hair was combed back, leaving only a strand hanging in front of his forehead. He was spinning the wine gourd in his hand and placed a broad knife in front of him.
"My name is Lu Yuanbai. I have been waiting for you for a long time. Well... No, I must have been waiting for you for many years." Lu Yuanbai grinned. He patted the sword box on the ground, as if he was about to settle a matter that had been on his mind for many years. His face A relieved smile hung on his face.
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(I finally finished coding this chapter, it’s yesterday!)