At first glance, the man was still far away, but in the blink of an eye, he appeared in front of everyone, with Lian Lian and Cheng Huaian tied up behind him. There was a bit of confusion in their eyes, and it was obvious that they were full of inexplicable doubts about everything.
The tall and strong man with messy white hair walked to the high slope in an instant. He retracted the animal skin rope in his hand, released Cheng Huaian and Lian Lian, and moved his eyes to these people. Lu Jiu had no sect or school, but the three big words on Ye Su's body were recognized by everyone except illiterate people.
His voice was rough and hoarse, as if he had not spoken for a long time, and even his pronunciation was a little unclear: "Qianji Sect has not been abolished yet?"
Ye Su: "…Senior, your voice is not good, please don't make any sound."
The man with messy white hair snorted, and then looked at the people around him, finally landing on Xu Chengyu, "My sword sect disciple? You used your spiritual sense before, how come you can't even hide?"
Xu Chengyu glanced at Ye Su, then said, "You have just reached the Nascent Soul stage, so you are not very skilled in controlling your consciousness."
"Are you okay?" Ma Congqiu asked Cheng Huaian and the others.
"Nothing." Cheng Huaian looked at the man in front of him and said, "Thank you for your help, senior."
Fu Xiu was not as physically strong as Jian Xiu, and he and Lian Lian reacted the slowest at the time, so they fell behind. When they were almost reaching the high slope, a black sandstorm suddenly appeared from the slope and swept them away.
Cheng Huaian and Lian Lian set up the barrier, but they were already in the most dangerous area of the sandstorm, and the barrier could not last long. Once the barrier was broken, the two were swept unconscious.
When they woke up again, they were in an underground cave, tied up with animal skin ropes by the man with messy white hair. After the sandstorm dissipated, the man led them to the high slope.
The man's robe was already tattered, and nothing could be seen from it. Xu Chengyu hesitated for a moment, then bowed and asked, "We came here after accidentally entering the Endless Abyss. May I ask what sect you belong to, senior?"
To know that Qianji Sect was about to be abolished, he must have come in during the past few hundred years.
The man with messy gray hair said in a hoarse voice: "I am Tu Shi from the Wanfo Sect."
"Are you the Buddhist who disappeared in the secret realm of the deserted city?!" Zhou Yun said in shock.
Two hundred years ago, a Buddhist disciple of the Wanfo Sect fled to the vicinity of Guizong City and entered the secret realm of the deserted city. He has never appeared since then, and even his life lamp was extinguished.
Every 500 years, the Wanfo Sect would select a Buddha or Saintess from among its disciples to serve as the future leader. However, there had always been rumors that Tu Shi was not suitable to be a Buddha, because he looked too rough, very different from the previous Buddhas who were elegant and graceful. Even his name was contrary to the Buddha's intention of saving all living beings. He was also the Buddha with the shortest tenure in the Wanfo Sect, with only one year.
"After two hundred years, someone finally came in." Tu Shi glanced at Ye Su and the others, "They are quite capable, but now that you are here, don't even think about leaving. You can't get out of here."
Ye Su looked at Tu Shi's hair and thought that after being bald for 200 years, his hair was already waist-length, which showed that it was really difficult to get out.
"Senior Tu, where is this place?" Xu Chengyu asked.
"Who... is here?" Tu Shi was halfway through his words when he suddenly yelled at Gao Pohou.
Everyone looked back in the direction he was looking. The flat land behind the high slope suddenly changed its appearance. The wasteland gradually twisted and turned into a cluster of gray and withered monuments.
Some of those tall and towering steles were broken, and some were worn and blurred. In front of the middle stele stood a magic staff, but it had been pulled up by someone.
Ye Su frowned and looked at the person holding the staff in the middle, Junior Brother?
Tu Shi's face looked extremely ugly. He shortened the distance to an inch and rushed over in an instant, his hands raised into claws.
"Senior, please show mercy!" Ye Su immediately put on a speed talisman and caught up with Tu Shi, blocking You Fu Shi and holding up the Flying Mirror Armor. "It was just a misunderstanding."
The Flying Mirror Armor cannot deal with cultivators in the fusion stage, but it can delay time a little.
Tu Shi frowned and stopped, looking at You Fu Shi: "You can actually break my magic circle, who are you?"
You Fushi twirled his staff and didn't listen to Tu Shi at all. Instead, he poked Ye Su in front of him and said, "I'm hungry."
Ye Su: “…”
Tu Shi was shocked by Ye Su's speed. When he saw her pull out a talisman from behind, he understood why a Jindan stage person caught up with him.
"At first glance, that junior fellow from Qianji Sect looks more like a Buddhist than Tu Shi." Lian Lian watched from afar, feeling a little sorry, "It's just that he doesn't stand or sit properly."
Zhou Yun was quite proud when he heard this: "That's because you haven't seen the other junior brother of Qianji Sect. He is as tall and straight as a pine tree and as quiet as a lonely moon. Lu Chenhan is not as good-looking as him."
"Nonsense!" Lian Lian didn't believe it. Lu Chenhan's appearance, demeanor and cultivation made him one of the best among the young generation today.
"If you don't believe me, forget it." Zhou Yun said happily, "He is learning swordsmanship in our Wujian Sect. He will be my junior apprentice brother in the future."
Lian Lian hesitated: "Is she really better looking than Lu Chenhan?"
"On par with Master You." Zhou Yun said.
They usually addressed each other as fellow Taoist or by name, but for some reason the senior brother always called him Young Master You, so Zhou Yun and Ma Congqiu followed suit.
Tu Shi's eyes were filled with murderous intent, and he said in a hoarse voice: "Staff, come back."
Ye Su leaned sideways and took the staff from You Fushi's hand. As soon as he held it in his hand, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. The carving was very much like the style of the head master, but Zhang Fengfeng was only in his early 200s, and this Buddhist disciple had been here for 200 years.
"My junior brother just found the carving of this staff familiar, it seems to be the style of our master." Ye Su handed over the staff.
Tu Shi frowned: "Grandmaster? Who is the leader of Qianji Sect now?"
"Zhang Fengfeng." Ye Su said, "Do you know him, Buddhist?"
"Him? I remember that it only reached my knees back then." A trace of bewilderment flashed in Tu Shi's eyes, and his tone softened a little, "This staff was made for me by your master."
After his explanation, everyone knew that after being elected as a Buddhist child, they had to go to the pagoda to choose a four-sided lotus pedestal staff. At that time, there was no staff in the pagoda suitable for Tu Shi, and the Buddhist sect thought that he could not be a Buddhist child and wanted to take back the blessed Buddhist beads. It was not until Tu Shi found Qianjimen and Master Zhang Fengfeng helped him refine a staff that he was not deprived of the title of Buddhist child.
"It has been two hundred years. Does the Wanfo Sect have any Buddhist sons or saints now?" Tu Shi asked.
Ye Su didn't know about the affairs of these big sects. The others looked at each other, and finally Xu Chengyu stepped forward and said, "The Ten Thousand Buddha Sect had a saint girl elected more than a hundred years ago, but then... she died. Since then, no Buddha son or saint girl has been elected in the past twenty years."
Twenty years is not too long in the eyes of those who practice Taoism.
"Senior, when the Ten Thousand Buddha Sect saw that your life lamp was extinguished, they thought you had met with an accident, so they asked the Buddha's son and the Saint's daughter to take over." Zhou Yun said, "After you get out, you can continue to be a Buddha's son."
Tu Shi shook his head: "This world cannot be left. On the 29th day of every month, a black sandstorm will blow up. I have tried countless times in the past two hundred years, but I have never found any exit."
"If you don't find the passage to the world, you will starve to death or be eaten by monsters. If you find the passage, you can't get out after entering." Tu Shi sneered, "No matter which way you go, this is a dead end."
"What is this place?" Ye Su suddenly asked, pointing at the stone tablets.
"I don't know, probably the center of the world." Tu Shidao.
At that time, he realized that the endless abyss was connected to the world, so he used a magic circle to open a passage and fell in here. He happened to encounter a black sandstorm, and his golden elixir was broken, which also caused Tu Shi’s life lamp in the pagoda to go out.
Fortunately, Tu Shi escaped death and successfully formed a pill here. It took him two hundred years to reach the fusion stage.
"Every time a black sandstorm comes, the stone tablet will be damaged," Tu Shidao said. "I didn't care at first, but over the past hundred years, the stone tablet has been broken and the spiritual energy has gradually dried up for some reason. That's why I set up a formation here to barely retain a little spiritual energy."
Once there is no spiritual energy supporting the world, everything inside will disappear along with the world.
Everyone was silent. Nothing good had happened to them since they came in.
Cheng Huaian and Lian Lian walked towards the Forest of Steles, wanting to see the contents on the steles.
Seeing this, others also scattered and observed.
"These look like runes." Lian Lian said not far away.
Tu Shi walked over immediately, wanting to know what she had discovered.
Ye Su glanced at the surrounding stele forest and felt that it looked very familiar. Not only the stele forest, but even... the junior brother who had stood in front of the stele before looked very familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before.
She had only seen the Forest of Steles in the small secret realm she entered for the first time. As for Youfushi...
"Junior brother, turn around." Ye Su turned and said to You Fushi behind him.
You Fushi was holding the Bigu Pill in his hand. He looked up at the mortal opposite him, then lowered his eyes to count the Bigu Pills in his palm, pretending that he didn't hear it.
Seeing this, Ye Su put her hand on his shoulder and then turned him around with force.
… Changing into black clothes, isn’t that the back figure she saw in the secret realm?
She walked up to You Fushi and said, "Little Junior Brother, have you ever dumped me?"
Unable to hear, he lowered his head and counted the Bigu Pills while hiding.
"The half just now has passed." Ye Su glanced at his palm and said.
When swimming, pause with your fingers, then switch to the other half and continue counting.
"So you are the demon beast from that small secret realm?" Ye Su asked thoughtfully, "Did you also throw the Wuji Pill in?"
He threw something into her Qiankun bag, and it turned out to be a rare elixir. Currently, the only person who can do such a thing is his junior brother.
You Fushi finally said two words: "No."
"Okay, no." Ye Su raised her eyebrows, thinking that she believed it.
But since the Wuji Pill is in You Fushi’s hands, has Ning Qianyao seen him in the original novel?
Just as the two of them stood side by side in silence, the scene ahead became lively again.
"This should be a kind of rune." Cheng Huaian looked carefully at a broken stone tablet and confirmed, "There are similar runes in the ancient books of the Five Elements Sect and the Secret Sect."
"Do you know what this rune is?" Tu Shi's voice became a little clearer and not so hoarse.
Cheng Huaian shook his head: "That ancient book is a forbidden book of the Five Elements Sect. I have only seen the cover when I was wiping and cleaning the book outside."
Ye Su walked over. She looked at the pattern on the broken stele for a moment, then half-knelt down and stretched out her finger to draw a few strokes on the blurred part of the stele: "The upper part can be drawn like this."
Her fingers moved very quickly, and Xu Chengyu and others beside her didn't react after seeing it, but Cheng Huaian and Lian Lian remembered it almost immediately.
"How do you know?" Lian Lian asked in surprise. Although she didn't recognize the talisman that Ye Su had added just now, she knew it was definitely a complete rune.
"I have seen similar stone tablets in a small secret realm before, and the patterns there are quite complete." Ye Su stood up and looked at the other stone tablets, paused and said, "Maybe we can try to complete these inscriptions."