I don't know whether those eyes were originally blood red, or everything changed color after being illuminated by the blood-red glass light.
Jianchou's entire mind was captured by this pair of eyes.
The eyes were emotionless, yet revealed a kind of old fatigue.
This feeling was no longer unfamiliar to her.
She stared at the hole without blinking.
The being inside the cave blinked.
The crimson blood light suddenly went out, and when it opened again, it turned into a dull dark red.
Without the bright and intense colors from before, her heart, which had been tightly gripped by them, finally slowly relaxed.
As the glass light became more and more transparent, the situation inside the cave finally became clearer and clearer.
It was a giant falcon that was much larger than an ordinary falcon, more than ten feet tall, and extremely skinny.
The hooked upper beak gives it a naturally ferocious look. The feathers on its back are blue-black, its belly is yellow, and the tip of its tail is white.
Perhaps because it had been in this cave for too long, all of its feathers, whether dark blue, yellow, or white, exuded a turbid dark light, as if they had not been washed clean, or as if they were covered with a layer of spots on an old man's face.
shocking.
Perhaps it was because there was a hint of unspeakable shock in her eyes that she saw this old giant falcon clearly. It actually flapped its wings slowly and moved its body in the space that seemed narrow even though it was three meters high.
"Outsider?"
Old, hoarse, and rough.
It sounded like a knife scratching on rock, making people's hearts palpitate to the extreme.
But he was not afraid at all when he saw sorrow.
She crossed her hands, bowed, and said politely: "I apologize for disturbing you, Senior Falcon. I came from the Central Region to explore the hidden world. Just now, I was looking at the maze array map, and with the guidance of the Bookworm Lord, I know that you know the way out of this maze of ten thousand beasts. I wonder if you can give me some advice?"
"Bookworms?"
His eyeballs turned slowly, and there seemed to be a sense of stagnation.
The giant falcon seemed to be searching in its distant memories. After a long while, it slowly uttered a sentence: "Is it okay?"
The little bookworm recommended the giant falcon to him, so he must be an old acquaintance of his.
It is normal for the giant falcon to ask this question.
Jianchou recalled the lively appearance of the little bookworm and couldn't help but smile. But then he changed his mind and didn't know how to answer this question: Is that a good thing or a bad thing
Seeing that Dejianchou was silent, the giant falcon suddenly laughed.
The skinny wings were pointed and narrow, like a solitary peak piercing abruptly into the horizon, carrying a kind of otherworldly coldness.
"It loves to show off how much it has read. It has been trapped in the cave for these years. I'm afraid no one has taught it to read, and there is no one to show off to. How can it get better?"
As the giant falcon sighed suddenly, there was a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
A shocking irony.
This falcon is different from the ones in the wall caves that Jianchou had encountered before.
In this teasing voice, there is clearly some suppressed resentment...
"Senior..."
"I am raised by my master and named Wu'e. Since you were sent to me by the bookworm, you can just call me Mr. Wu'e."
The giant falcon had some friendship with the bookworm. He sighed and seemed to be very easy-going.
"You come from the Central Region. Which sect are you from?"
"You are a disciple of Yashan."
Mr. No Evil, this name doesn't really fit the giant falcon's appearance.
But who knows what Master Buyu, the master of the hidden world of Qingfeng Temple, really thinks in his heart
Since the other party asked, Jianchou honestly introduced herself to her family. At the same time, she lowered her eyes and saw that the light on the bell was getting brighter and brighter.
Someone keeps approaching here.
His eyes flickered slightly, and when Jianchou raised his head, he met the giant falcon's evil gaze.
After taking a look at the bell hanging around Jianchou's waist, Mr. Wu'e didn't care much and continued, "When the Master was alive, he had contacts with many cultivators in the Central Region, but they were not very friendly. Logically, I shouldn't help you, but times have changed, and all the grudges of the past have now turned to dust..."
Master Bu Yu has committed many murders. In the Central Region, no matter whether Kunwu of Yashan is truly kind or hypocritical, no one will have much dealings with this person.
What Mr. Wu E said makes sense.
Jianchou knew that it had something else to say, so he did not respond.
"You came from the place of little bookworms, which means you came from the gate of life."
Mr. Wue's wings fluttered slightly, and then he said, "The Ten Thousand Beasts Labyrinth has three levels in total. To get from the outside to the core, you need to pass through four gates. Since you have entered the first level, you must have the secret seal of the formation in your hand."
Secret seal of the formation diagram
This should be the name of the four Dao seals that I obtained in the hidden world of Qingfeng Temple.
Jianchou understood and nodded as he listened.
"Where I am is east. The second major gate on the second floor is on the way you came. Go west 160 feet from here. You will see an old tree with a tree hole and an oriole in it. That is where the second major gate is."
When mentioning the oriole, Mr. Wu'e's voice paused slightly and became hoarse and unpleasant, as if he was remembering something.
only…
Jianchou's brows suddenly frowned.
The giant falcon in the cave, Mr. Wue, noticed it, shook his dilapidated body, and asked, "Is there anything wrong?"
"To be honest with you, Mr. Wu'e, I'm just coming from where I came from." Although Jianchou had been chasing Song Lin all the way, he could still clearly recall everything he saw along the way, "Where I came from, even if it's one hundred and sixty feet west of here, there's not a single ancient tree, let alone a tree hole or an oriole."
"What?"
There was a hint of shock hidden in the hoarse voice.
After that, there was a long silence.
Jianchou stared into the cave.
Mr. No Evil's huge body was hidden in the shadows, with only a portion of his pointed and narrow wings showing, and his dark red eyes narrowed.
Then, a sharp claw stepped on the thick dust in the cave and moved out.
It had a hunched body and an old appearance, covered with dull and turbid feathers, which were dense in some places and sparse in others.
A pair of sharp eyes that once overlooked the mountains and rivers were now covered with folds filled with dust.
"It's different..."
The giant falcon staggered a little.
Standing under the high wall, Jianchou looked so small even with the magic axe in his hand.
The giant falcon looked at everything outside without even looking down at her.
How many years have passed
Master Buyu ascended to heaven, leaving behind the hidden world of Qingfeng Temple.
Although no one knows why Master Buyu, who is so murderous and has no relatives or friends in this world, wants to leave this hidden world in the world.
But he did leave.
The Giant Falcon could no longer remember how many years ago the story took place, or what route was taken.
When Jianchou came to ask for directions, it seemed to be in a trance. It looked at everything around it for a long time before saying to Jianchou, "I don't know the way."
Then, without waiting for Jianchou to answer, it said, "Please help me break the last piece of carving on the left side of the cave."
Carving
Jianchou was startled and subconsciously looked to the left side of the cave: it was the last remaining carving that she saw when she first arrived here, with the heroic figure of a giant falcon standing on a human arm.
"You want to break it?"
"The Master has ascended for many years. This glazed light is our protection, but also our bondage. If you break this withering stone, the glazed light will break, and I will be able to come out and show you the way."
"The hidden world is a small world, and its rules are not the same as those of the outside world. The spiritual energy of the world is supplied by the formation. However, I can feel that the spiritual energy of the world has been exhausted in the cave in the past few years. If I leave this cave, I am afraid..."
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the cave is already the limit of what the formation can create.
At this time, even if the giant falcon didn't explain, Jianchou knew very well—
She was just outside the cave, so she naturally knew that the spiritual energy in the hidden world was much thinner than that in the outside world, and it was basically imperceptible.
Therefore, when they came to the Hidden Realm from the Central Region, they had already carried sufficient spirit stones with them.
only…
The giant falcon now looked not much different from the other spiritual beasts seen in the cave before.
They are all trapped in this hidden world, waiting for that person to pick them up...
Staying in the cave, there is still a glimmer of hope. If you come out...
"I don't care about it at all, so why do you care?"
A laugh.
The giant falcon seemed to be very open-minded.
"The Master has ascended to heaven for so many years, and he has not come back. Taking us to the upper realm is just the wishful thinking of many spirit beasts in this hidden world. Please break it. I want to see the outside."
The two wings folded at the sides of the body are motionless.
Jianchou's gaze lingered on it for a while, his eyes flickered slightly, and his fingers moved slightly. He seemed to be still a little hesitant, but finally nodded.
On the left side of the cave is where the carving is.
Years of weathering had made the edges of the carvings somewhat blurred, but the strength of the carvings was so strong that Jianchou knew without hesitation who had left them.
She walked to the withering stone and said softly, "Excuse me."
He raised his right hand, and the disk under his feet swirled, with bright starlight dazzling. In Tianyuan, there was a golden pill with a diameter of only a few inches, but there were golden streams of light passing by it, like guarding it.
The moment she raised her hand, a golden light suddenly emerged from Tianyuan and fell into her palm.
In an instant, a bright light burst out!
Jianchou's palm seemed to be covered with a layer of red gold. The original bright white color disappeared and was completely covered by the dazzling gold.
She held her breath and calmed herself down.
The carvings left by Master Buyu, even if they were just casually done, gave her great pressure at this moment.
After all, this was left by a powerful monk.
When looking at it, it seems nothing big, but when it is about to be destroyed, there is a fierce spirit that interweaves and slashes towards Jianchou like a mad sword.
In an instant, Jianchou only felt the flash of swords and the shadows of knives before his eyes, and an overwhelming murderous intent surged towards him.
She was almost suffocated by this aura, and she tried her best to open her eyes wide, trying to find a gap among the countless swords.
That ant hole that caused the dam to collapse!
Calm your mind!
Jianchou's eyes suddenly focused, and in the midst of the siege by millions of auras, he took an extremely tricky angle and slapped his hand!
“Wow!”
When she tapped the whole piece of stone lightly with her palm, it fell off and collapsed like an avalanche on the top of a mountain.
All the swords and knives that were flying towards him suddenly stopped in mid-air and were blown away by the wind.
Jianchou still maintained the posture of extending her palm, the broken pieces of stone were scattered all over the ground at her feet, the dust was flying up, staining the corners of her robe with gray.
"Lie—"
A high-pitched and sharp cry suddenly sounded from the cave beside Jianchou, and it instantly rose into the air, like a sharp thorn, ready to tear the sky apart!
Jianchou only felt a vibration in his ears, and there was only this roar full of violence.
She frowned and looked back.
The piece of glazed light shattered at the moment the stone was broken.
The giant falcon trapped in the cave was evil, and it took only one step to step out of the cave.
After leaving that narrow space, it was finally able to raise its head, straighten its body, spread its wings, and chirp loudly, as if it wanted to vent something that had been suppressed for many years!
The filthy feathers flew everywhere and were shattered into countless pieces by the terrifying cry!
The cries brought about waves of sound, sweeping out in all directions with the giant falcon as the center.
The towering walls were all impacted, and dust flew everywhere.
In this place, there are still caves one after another.
The one where the giant falcon is located is just one of them.
As it chirped, the glazed lights above the caves suddenly brightened as if they were attacked, startling the many spirit beasts living in them.
There are poisonous snakes with green patterns all over their bodies, thin cats with pure white fur, scorpions with black and gold tails, cicadas chirping on the cave walls, and giant turtles that look old and frail...
Too many.
When Jianchou took a quick look at the caves, he was much more shocked than when he had gone through the caves one by one.
Everywhere you look, there are caves, glass lights, and magical beasts!
But each of them was behind the glass light, some were surprised, some were puzzled, some had sadness in their eyes, and some were like old monks in meditation, not moving at all...
Various spiritual beasts, in thousands of postures.
only…
This kind of posture always gives people a sense of sadness and heaviness.
The diagram of the maze of ten thousand beasts
Isn't this it...
A strange bitterness surged from Jianchou's throat, choking her and making her speechless for a moment.
The little mink standing on Jianchou's shoulder had nearly fallen down before, but now he just blinked and looked around. Gu Yu's two eyes, one big and one small, were wide open in amazement.
The giant falcon's tall body cast a huge shadow behind it.
Its high-pitched and passionate chirping lasted for a long time before gradually turning into a low and slow sound and slowly becoming exhausted.
Jianchou's frown did not relax.
When she heard the chirping sound gradually fade away, she took a step back, leaning against the wall as if inadvertently to avoid the fallen carved fragments under her feet.
"Mr. No Evil..."
"How long has it been since Bu Yu ascended?"
The giant falcon suddenly asked this question calmly without waiting for Jianchou to finish his words.
At that moment, the hairs on Jianchou's back stood up!
No words!
Previously he was called "Master", but after he came out he immediately changed the name!
Before Jianchou could react, the giant falcon standing with its back to her folded its wings and turned around at that moment.
A pair of bright, red eyes!
Just like when Jianchou first saw her behind the glass light!
Then, the figure of the giant falcon suddenly flashed.
The pointed bird head shrank inward and turned into a human head. The clasped wings changed with the body and instantly became a human body and arms. Even the claws that fell on the ground turned into a pair of bare feet.
The black feathers transformed into a black robe.
The dark blue area on the back became a pattern embroidered on the back, the yellow on the abdomen became long rows of ancient cloud-thunder patterns on both sides of the chest, and the white feather on the tip of the tail turned into a few pieces of white feather embroidery, which were embellished on the back of the robe.
In the blink of an eye, the person standing in front of Jianchou was no longer the old giant falcon, but a young man with an evil look!
The scarlet eyes were filled with cold cruelty and bloodlust!
These were a pair of eyes that did not belong to human beings. There were two pupils embedded in the eyeballs, which were very close to each other. One had to look carefully to distinguish them, as they were both dark black.
He stared at Jianchou with a pair of cold and strange eyes, locking her in place, and smiled with an evil aura: "Let me ask you, how long has Buyu ascended?"
"Nearly a thousand years."
Something is wrong.
At this point, how could Jianchou not realize that he might have created trouble
Could it be that she really encountered ghosts because she walked too much at night, or was she mistaken
Or maybe the little bookworm himself didn't know that the giant falcon looked like this
Doubt and fear appeared in her eyes almost at the same time.
This young man, or the giant falcon Wu'e, naturally saw it clearly. He was tall, much taller than an ordinary person, a full head taller than Jianchou. The moment he heard her unusually cooperative answer, he smiled.
"Ah...it's been so long..."
Nearly a thousand years.
Trapped in that cave.
Whenever the sun shines down, it only reaches three inches to his feet, drying his cold toes...
One day at a time.
He has lost count of how many sunsets and sunrises he has seen, how many springs, summers, autumns and winters...
Nearly a thousand years of waiting!
Expectations turned into despair, and love turned into hatred!
He could no longer spread his wings and fly, and even practicing cultivation became extremely difficult.
No one knew when it started, but the rules of the small world could no longer function due to lack of support from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Even sunrise and sunset disappeared in the hidden world.
Thus, he began to live a life in which he no longer knew how time passed...
The wait is nearly a thousand years!
The Silent Master...
"Hahaha… "
What a wait!
What a false joy!
Wu E laughed loudly, with a hint of madness in his sorrow.
In countless caves, countless surviving spirit beasts were staring at him. In their eyes, there might be sadness, sympathy, or something else...
But it doesn’t matter anymore!
It doesn’t matter anymore!
When he had laughed enough, he looked at Jianchou who was standing in front of him.
A weak cultivator who claimed to be from the Central Region.
"It was you who broke the last piece of the carving and released me. I should thank you very much. Let me think about how to thank you..."
Jianchou stared at him without saying anything.
The little mink's soft body suddenly stiffened, its hair stood up, and it became extremely alert.
"How about..." The voice paused, the pupils shrank slightly, and Wu'e's smiling face suddenly became ferocious, revealing a terrifying murderous intent, "I will leave your body intact!"
The moment the words fell, a shadow suddenly pounced towards Jianchou!
Wu'e stood still, but suddenly raised his arm and grabbed Jianchou's neck!
"bite!"
In a flash, there was a crisp sound!
Just as his palm was about to pinch Jianchou's neck, several pieces of gravel on the ground moved quickly, and a curtain of light rose up, like hard diamond, blocking Wu'e's clawed palm.
Suddenly a flash of blood appeared.
Immediately afterwards, the light curtain collapsed.
The moment he broke the withering stone, Jianchou realized that something was wrong.
All the spiritual beasts living in the caves are suffering from the promise made by Master Buyu. No matter what the reason, Jianchou should not doubt the intentions of a victim.
But at that moment, she could hardly suppress the slight doubt in her heart.
Therefore, when the withered fragments fell, Jianchou used his hands and feet to form a simple protective formation around himself, and the moment he saw Wu'e coming out, he stepped into the formation.
Wu'e's sudden attack at this moment was certainly beyond Jianchou's expectations, but he had been prepared in advance. Although the power of the formation was too weak to stop the opponent, it also bought Jianchou a moment of breathing time!
It was a feeling of the dead.
It was like someone was holding a knife against his spine, ready to pierce it in the next moment.
Too fast!
As fast as thunder and as quick as lightning!
When spiritual beasts and demon beasts cultivate to the Jindan stage, they can transform into human form, but the form cannot be maintained for long. Once they cultivate to the Yuanying stage, they can maintain the human form for a long time, and the attack power in the human form is not much different from that in the normal state.
Jianchou couldn't see through the giant falcon's cultivation level, so he knew that even if he was not in the Nascent Soul stage, he was at least in the late Golden Core stage!
This is the consequence of the lack of spiritual energy in the hidden world and its long-term weakening.
I couldn't imagine what kind of opponent I would be facing right now if he were in his prime!
The five sharp fingers gathered together into a claw and attacked Jianchou.
At this moment, Jianchou had no time to think, let alone fight back.
She had only one choice -
Don't ring the bell!
"Ring, ring, ring..."
She raised her hand to her waist, and immediately pinched the bell between her fingers and crushed it hard!
“Bang!”
Just like popping a bubble, the moment the finger gesture fell, the seal on the bell was also instantly activated.
Only a "buzzing" sound was heard, which did not last long, and then a ball of copper-green light emerged from the bell.
"brush!"
The light turned and expanded, and it actually unfolded like a folding fan.
“Ka-ka-ka…”
The copper-green light continued to condense and turned into substance. One fan bone became a thick bronze shield. With the immovable bell in Jianchou's hand as the center, it suddenly formed a complete circle like a blooming flower!
Jianchou, holding the unmoving bell, was simply amazed by the sudden change.
She was like holding a huge round shield that was a meter high, completely covering herself behind the shield and being extremely safe.
"when!"
At the moment the circular shield was formed, the five claws of Wu'e also fell heavily on the shield.
Clearly one was the claw of a giant falcon, and the other was just a shield formed by light, but at the moment of collision, a crisp sound of metal collision was heard.
Wu'e's face changed drastically, as if he was shocked, and he quickly withdrew his hand from the shield.
A trail of blood was stretched out in mid-air.
When Wu'e withdrew his hand, blood was already oozing out from between his five broken fingers, and blood was dripping onto the ground.
His handsome face was suddenly covered with dark clouds, and there was a kind of anger that came from being plotted against.
He thought he had everything under control, but he never expected that this female cultivator was actually prepared!
"Heh, when you're saving someone, you're still thinking about scheming against them... Human nature is so evil..."
With a flick of his hand, blood beads flew everywhere and turned into five blood-red sharp knives, flying straight towards Jianchou!
Jianchou couldn't help but curse in his heart.
I'm afraid the information from the little bookworm is not accurate.
This giant falcon is no longer the one it knew in the past.
Is human nature really evil
If she had not suddenly become defensive at that moment, she would have died on the spot before she even had the chance to sound the bell!
evil
Who is more evil
If it were in the past, Jianchou would have argued with him several times.
But now...
Escape is the most important thing!
Now he is just a cultivator in the early Jindan stage. Even if he is about to enter the middle Jindan stage and can fight with Xie Buchen and Song Lin, it does not mean that he can fight with a demon cultivator in the late Jindan stage or even in the Yuanying stage!
She had just barely activated the immobilizing bell, and the shield retracted into the bell after one attack. Seeing the attack coming again, she tapped the ground without hesitation to gain leverage, leaped up, and instantly blended into the wind.
The five blood-red knives suddenly lost track of Jianchou and were spinning in the air.
"Huh?"
This movement is quite interesting.
Being able to comprehend nature at the mere Jindan stage, blending into the wind, and becoming one with the wind is truly a rare talent in the world.
Even for a demon cultivator like him, who naturally has the advantage of being close to nature, it is impossible for him to gain any insights when his cultivation is so low.
It seems...
Is the person who entered the hidden world this time really a genius
Wu'e sneered and looked around. He raised his hand and flicked out five blood-red knives, chasing after Jianchou's shadow again.
There is always a mountain higher than another one.
In just that instant, Jianchou felt that terrifying aura locking onto him again.
She gritted her teeth, and seeing a gap in the high wall in front of her, she rushed in without hesitation!
"Bang!"
Because she suddenly changed her route, two of the five blood blades slammed into the wall, turning into a scattered blood flower and smashing half of the wall.
The remaining three were not affected at all and continued to chase after Jianchou.
Jianchou rushed forward quickly, his speed had reached the extreme.
Seeing another gap in front of her, she did not hesitate to repeat her old trick, turning in a different direction in the maze like lightning and going along another high wall.
“Bang!”
Two sounds shattered behind me in succession.
Jianchou knew without looking back that there was only one blood-red blade following him.
But this last one is also a fatal one!
She could even clearly feel the sharp tip of the knife poking the back of her head. No matter if she was a little slower, stopped and turned around, or waved her hand to fight back, she would be a moment slower and would be pierced by the blood knife formed by this drop of blood!
Almost unavoidable...
what to do
At that moment, even though Jianchou could be considered a resourceful man, he was helpless and could only watch the bloody blade approaching.
The strong wind passed through the bell that Jianchou was holding tightly in his hand, but there was no sound at all.
There was only a dazzling light, surpassing any previous situation, shining brightly.
Light up...
After launching that defensive attack, the immovable bell had lost its defensive function and was now only used to indicate the direction of companions.
She had only seen this brightness when she was with other people!
That is to say, at this moment, there must be someone near her, almost right next to her!
My mind was filled with lightning and thunder.
Jianchou's gaze swept across the entire surrounding environment almost instantly.
She unintentionally ran back the way she had come, passing by places she had passed before.
At first glance, everything looks the same.
But if you look a little more carefully, you will find that there are tiny weeds on the ground, a few small stones vaguely buried on the ground, and there are also traces of potholes on the high walls...
It was a feeling that was both extremely familiar and extremely inexplicable.
At that moment, Jianchou remembered the seventy-two killing arrays he had left on the white jade path!
Who would follow me here after I passed by
Is there anyone who can trigger the motionless bell's sensitivity to people
Is there anyone who can set up the relevant formations to protect himself in such a short time
Let’s bet!
Jianchou gritted his teeth and decided to go all the way. He knew that the blood-red knife was behind his forehead, and he slapped it away with his palm at the moment it quickly passed through the formation!
"boom!"
Even with such a hasty palm strike, it carried a surging force that instantly knocked down half of the wall. However, the "stones" embedded in the wall were still floating in the air.
“Buzz!”
Almost at the moment when Jianchou passed by, countless lines were drawn out from countless spirit stones, connecting with each other to form a huge net.
The spiritual energy fluctuated, instantly creating ripples in the air.
After the ripples, a blood-stained green robe figure suddenly appeared.
At this moment, Jianchou had already quickly thrown himself into the formation, with the blood blade following closely behind him. But just when the blood blade was about to follow him, Jianchou had forcibly activated the formation and blocked the blood blade outside!
This series of changes happened in just a moment.
Xie Buchen was originally just watching from a distance, observing secretly. He was too seriously injured and his cultivation could not be restored for the time being, so he simply completed the formation and set up a series of formations with various functions here in case of "emergency need".
Who would have thought that Jianchou could easily see through his actions and even dared to take such a risk and break into his formation just to get rid of the bloody blade!
"Bang!"
The blood blade hit the light shield, and there was a loud bang.
Blood splattered everywhere!
Xie Buchen, as the person in charge of the formation, immediately suffered an unexpected disaster. His energy and blood were already weak, and after a shock, his face turned pale and his lips were stained with blood.
His brows were cold, he didn't even look at the splattered blood, he just turned his head back -
Jianchou lightly brushed off the dust on his robe, smiled slightly, and said politely: "Alas, human nature is so evil. My fellow Taoist is in trouble, thank you for drawing your sword to help, Jianchou thanks you here."