When Li Yan turned around, Gong Shanhe had already arrived.
"How are you..."
"Just give me some mana-replenishing pills. It's dangerous here, and I can still help you!"
Gong Shanhe didn't waste any words and asked for the elixir directly. He knew what Li Yan wanted to say, which was that he wanted to put himself into the spirit storage bag.
As he spoke, Gong Shanhe had already taken the lead in rushing upwards, and Li Yan quickly followed. At the same time, a light flashed in his hand, and a bottle of elixir was taken out...
Two days later, in a vast black swamp, two huge whirlpools suddenly appeared on the swamp surface which was originally as calm as a mirror.
Just as the vortex was formed, two figures soared into the sky, even making a sharp "whoosh whoosh whoosh" sound of breaking through the air!
High in the sky, Li Yan looked at the vortex below that was quickly closing, and withdrew his spiritual sense that was sweeping around. There was no danger nearby.
"Damn it, I finally escaped from this dangerous place!"
Gong Shanhe looked at the long-lost sunshine all around him, let out a long breath, and blurted out a swear word, but joy appeared in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.
He did not hide his dignity as a strong man at all and simply said the word "escape".
In the past few days, they have been fleeing all the way, not daring to stop for a moment. They encountered several wind columns on the way. They could see that those wind columns were controlled by someone.
Perhaps because the two of them were already far away from the bottom of the mountain, although this attack caused them trouble, it could no longer stop them from climbing up.
But even so, the overwhelming wind column made the two of them exhausted to deal with. Gong Shanhe kept swallowing pills like eating beans. Fortunately, Li Yan had obtained a lot of pills through killing and robbing over the years.
Seeing Gong Shanhe swallowing the pill like this, Li Yan was full of admiration for Gong Shanhe's physique. They had no time to refine it along the way, but he just kept forcibly catalyzing the power of the pill, as if he was not afraid of the pill poison at all.
Li Yan finally concluded that his father-in-law was also an extremely powerful man. If he reached the late Nascent Soul stage, he would probably be able to defeat Yan San and the like.
After Gong Shanhe said this, he immediately turned his gaze to Li Yan.
Li Yan smiled slightly, of course he understood what he meant. With a wave of his hand, two figures appeared in the air. They were the unknown nun and Gong Chenying.
Li Yan had previously put them into the "Earth Spot" and, under the communication of his consciousness, confined them to a small area between heaven and earth, making it look to outsiders like a spirit storage bag with sufficient space.
As soon as the two appeared, the unknown nun first looked around vigilantly, and when she was greeted by a dazzling sunlight, she couldn't help but close her eyes.
But her spiritual sense was still scanning the surroundings. When she saw Li Yan and Gong Shanhe in the sunlight, she felt a little relieved.
Then, she opened her eyes and immediately stared at the swamp below, her expression a little dazed. She looked around as if she was looking for something.
"A Ying!"
Gong Shanhe's first glance fell on Gong Chenying, and a hint of gentleness appeared on his face, which had always been as resolute as a mountain.
"Father!"
Gong Chenying did not fly over immediately, but remained standing still and just smiled at Gong Shanhe.
Li Yan also watched all this with a smile, but after a few breaths, his smile slowly faded, and his eyes fell on the red spear in the nun's hand.
At this moment, the nun was looking around and ignored them.
Gong Shanhe also immediately noticed something was wrong. A cold light flashed in his eyes, and then he looked at Li Yan.
They had long seen that this pretty nun existed only in the form of a soul, and Gong Chenying should have been controlled by her.
At this moment, the pressure emanating from the pretty nun was only at the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm. However, Li Yan clearly remembered that when they were in the swamp, her two attacks on the red-robed man with the Bleeding Champion had faintly reached the pressure of the late stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.
"My fellow Taoist, may I ask your name?"
After the two looked at each other, it was Gong Shanhe who spoke first.
The pretty nun who was looking around did not turn around immediately after hearing the words. Instead, she turned around slowly after a few breaths when Gong Shanhe's aura began to fluctuate.
At this moment, the expression in the eyes of the pretty nun was very complicated, with reminiscence, suspicion, sadness, suspicion, indifference... It was a complex emotion that was intertwined and inexplicable.
"Poor nun Hongyin, are you the leader of the Tianli tribe?"
The pretty nun was once the most powerful person in the world, and she has quickly recovered to normal.
"My name is Gong Shanhe. I wonder how Daoist Fellow Hongyin got here underground and ended up in this state?"
Gong Shanhe had a smile on his face. He did not ask about Gong Chenying right away, but asked about the other party's background. He was also an old and experienced man. If he knew the other party's background, he would be able to act according to the circumstances.
Although it is unknown why Gong Chenying was controlled by the other party, at least the nun Hongyin joined forces with her side underground to deal with those wind beasts, which means that she will not harm Gong Chenying for the time being.
"Me? Even if I tell you, you won't know. I have sealed your daughter. If you answer me a few questions, I will remove the seal on her, and then we will have nothing to do with each other!"
Hong Yin glanced at Gong Chenying and continued speaking to Gong Shanhe.
"Oh? How did my daughter offend this Taoist friend? What's your problem?"
"It's not an offense. It's just a deal. If I had any ill will towards her, she and the other 'Sixth Elder' you mentioned would have died long ago."
Hong Yin paused here and glanced at Gong Shanhe and the other man. He saw that they were indifferent after hearing what he said, and he couldn't help but feel a little relieved.
"A deal?"
Li Yan and Gong Shanhe were both confused. They didn't know what Hong Yin was referring to, but seeing that the other party didn't want to say it, neither of them said anything and waited to see what the other party wanted to do.
At the same time, the two also guessed that the Sixth Elder’s condition might not be good, and he should be in Gong Chenying’s spirit storage bag.
"The question I want to ask you is nothing to you. It's even very simple. It's just about the current situation of Fengshen Continent!"
After Hong Yin finished speaking, she glanced at Gong Chenying again. She had asked Gong Chenying the same question before, and the other party had roughly said something, but later because he sensed that someone was taking action, he did not finish.
Seeing that Gong Chenying still had an expression as calm as water, without even a ripple in his eyes, Hong Yin thought to herself.
"She has been unable to send a message to those two people. She is so calm. Does it seem that what she told me before was true?"
Hong Yin was both relieved and confused about her conjecture. She was relieved that she had made the right choice before, otherwise, if she didn't rely on their help, her soul might have disappeared under the swamp.
She had been silently calculating the time in the "Spirit Storage Bag". The final result surprised her. The time taken was not calculated by breath energy, but days!
Since Gong Chenying couldn't transmit sound and had been with him all the time, he certainly wouldn't communicate with these two people secretly.
Therefore, two days should be the time it takes for them to rush up from the bottom of the swamp.
But he clearly remembered that when he sealed the "Yinshan Beast", he suppressed it with magic weapons and himself. The magic weapon turned into the "Hongfu Temple" on it, and he could only go a hundred miles underground.
It took two days, and I don't know if the other party was constantly blocked or really sank very deep into the ground. In her current state, even if she kept her cultivation at the early stage of the Nascent Soul and kept consuming it, it was hard to say whether she could last for twelve hours.
The reason for her complicated feelings was that Gong Chenying should not have lied, which meant that the "Hongfu Temple" had really disappeared long ago. This made Hong Yin's last glimmer of hope become like a candle in the wind, almost disappearing completely.
Gong Shanhe nodded.
"Since you claim you have no ill intentions, I really hope that's the case. If it's just about some information about the Wind God Continent, there's certainly nothing wrong with what I know, and I'll tell you everything."
He didn't say what he would do if the other party had bad intentions. That was the way a fool would act. Besides alerting Hong Yin, it was more intimidating than taking direct action.
Seeing that Gong Shanhe agreed and Li Yan seemed to acquiesce, Hongyin spoke slowly.
"Do you two Taoist friends know about 'Hongfu Temple'?"
After asking, Hong Yin stared at the two people in front of her with burning eyes. Li Yan shook his head directly. How many sects did he know about Fengshen Continent
But after hearing this, Gong Shanhe frowned slightly, as if he was thinking, and muttered to himself at the same time.
"Hong... Fu... Hong... Fu Temple, Hong..."
He kept repeating himself, giving the impression that he had never heard of it.
"Has it really been that long?"
Disappointment slowly appeared in Hong Yin's eyes. After a few dozen breaths, Gong Shanhe's eyes suddenly focused again.
"I remember now. What you are talking about should be a temple, and it should be in the swamp below here..."
Hong Yin's gloomy eyes suddenly flashed with a gleam of light. Without waiting for Gong Shanhe to finish speaking, she immediately asked urgently.
"Do you really know? But I don't know how it sank into the swamp, or what other situation happened?"
"This... maybe... maybe it should have sunk into the swamp, or it may have already disappeared!"
Gong Shanhe was interrupted by the other party, and when he heard the other party's urgent questioning, he hesitated for a moment, but gave an ambiguous answer. Hong Yin frowned when she heard it.
"Fellow Daoist, what do you mean? If you know, why are you so unhappy?"
"Fellow Daoist Hongyin, I didn't finish what I was saying before. I just felt like I had heard the name 'Hongfu Temple' before.
After thinking about it carefully, I remembered that it was the chief priestess of the tribe who had mentioned it to me. At that time, when she was describing other things in the tribe, she only mentioned the "Hongfu Temple" briefly.
But in fact, the high priestess also heard this from the previous generation of high priestess, who mentioned it when he was telling the history of the tribe. She herself had never seen this temple either.
Our tribe did not first settle here. The original location was even more dangerous. Although it was not surrounded by the three tribes of wind beasts as it is now, it was a flat plain that was easy to attack but difficult to defend.
Moreover, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was not very good. Later, the first generation of high priests went out to find a place more suitable for the survival of the Tianli people.
After some searching, we actually found a place suitable for our tribe to survive, which is the area today. At that time, there were only two tribes of wind beasts here, occupying this area, but they had not yet become powerful.
Therefore, the high priest single-handedly drove them back into the "Sky Eye Pit" and seized the tribe's current place of survival.
As for why the name "Hongfu Temple" was mentioned later, it was because when the high priest first arrived here, there was indeed a temple here, but it was a dilapidated temple and there was no living creature in it.
The high priest thought that this was a place where people had been slaughtered by wind beasts, so he became more cautious, because under such circumstances, it could only mean that this place was not suitable for the tribe to reproduce and thrive.
However, after observing for nearly half a month, she did not find any wind beasts appearing frequently.
Moreover, this place was originally just a dilapidated temple with broken walls around it. Most of the walls and rooms were submerged in a swamp.
At that time, she also saw the name of the temple still left in the front hall, which was "Hongfu Temple"!
Later, because he was busy migrating his people and fighting against wind beasts for years after arriving here, the first generation of high priests forgot about this matter.
Finally, after who knows how many years, this place turned into a dark swamp. As for where those temples went, there is really no information left..."
Although Gong Shanhe was answering Hong Yin's questions, he was also secretly communicating with Li Yan.
"Fellow Daoist Li believes that this person is from the Hongfu Temple. The reason why a wisp of soul can appear under the swamp is because she is a strong person. Did something strange happen to her body after she died?"
"That's what I think. Otherwise, the fact that she appeared in the underground of the former 'Hongfu Temple' is worth pondering!!"
"And she happens to be a Buddhist, so I think that's the case."
“Hong Yin should not be the type to kill innocent people indiscriminately, otherwise Senior Sister Gong might be in a worse situation. The clan leader wants to rescue Senior Sister Gong, so we should try not to fight with her.
Moreover, since the clan leader knows that the 'Hongfu Temple' may have disappeared, can the clan leader... "
Although Li Yan was looking at Hong Yin with a smile on his face, he and Gong Shanhe were constantly guessing about the other party's origins to see if they had any weaknesses that could be exploited so as to successfully rescue Gong Chenying.
Given the other party's unique problems and special appearance, it was not difficult for Li Yan and the others to guess. Gong Shanhe had more experience than Li Yan, so of course he agreed with Li Yan's point of view.
After listening to Gong Shanhe's narration, Hong Yin fell into silence for a while. Gong Shanhe and the other person did not urge her and continued to communicate in secret.
However, at this moment, when Gong Shanhe occasionally glanced at Li Yan, there was already some flavor of confidant in him. Not only did Li Yan's cultivation level amazing, but he also liked his style of doing things and his meticulous mind.
What's more, what Li Yan said secretly just now made him feel that the other party was really scheming. However, he liked this kind of scheming!
Gong Chenying on the opposite side also heard the messages from Li Yan and Gong Shanhe in her mind, telling her not to act rashly and that they would handle everything.
Listening to the conversation between the old and the young, Gong Chenying looked at his father's eyes again and couldn't help thinking in his heart.
"Junior brother should...shouldn't have mentioned the matter of 'King Qing', right? Why does it sound like my father feels that he has met him too late and wants to become sworn brothers with him?"