After Li Jiuchuan finished detoxifying and collected the black dragon's body, Zhao Fuyi walked towards the depths of the ruins without waiting for him to speak.
The ruins were underground and it was pitch black all around, but both of them had the ability to see in the dark, so there was no need to light a lamp.
Zhao Fuyi roughly judged from the surrounding ruins that this was a small city of the witch tribe in ancient times, and the witch tribe's words and totems could be seen on the stone pillars.
They were probably on a street in a small town.
Zhao Fuyi deduced that this place must have been swept into the void during the catastrophe that caused the sky to fall, and became a small lost secret realm.
There are many such lost secret realms in the earth's spiritual world, but there is no pattern to the timing of their appearance, so it all depends on luck.
Zhao Fuyi wanted to speed up his pace to explore other places, but suddenly he thought of Jiang Yuebai and couldn't help but put himself in Jiang Yuebai's shoes.
If it was that girl, a lot of questions would pop up at this time, such as...
"This is just an ordinary city. How come it can be preserved intact in this alien space?"
Zhao Fuyi murmured. Li Jiuchuan had been alert and paying attention to Zhao Fuyi. When he heard her question, he suddenly thought of his own apprentice.
"Because of the power of the law." Li Jiuchuan said softly. His disciple, who had a head full of questions, had just asked him this question in the Cang Yan Land.
Of course Zhao Fuyi knew that it was because of the power of laws, but before she began to come into contact with the power of laws, she had never thought deeply about the principles behind its operation.
When the earth's spiritual world was shattered, the laws of the entire world also shattered into shapes of varying sizes like a mirror, and the areas that these "mirrors" finally illuminated became the "secret realm in the mirror."
In the secret realm, time and space may be confused. The Land of Cang Yan is considered a large lost secret realm that is relatively intact in all aspects.
Zhao Fuyi said nothing, and continued to move forward while thinking. The secret realm was the size of a city. The two found some ancient artifacts of unknown use, but could not find any exit.
On the way, they encountered some underground ferocious beasts and evil spirits in the Jindan and Yuanying stages. Zhao Fuyi easily solved them without waiting for Li Jiuchuan to take action.
Li Jiuchuan followed silently behind. The more he looked, the more he felt that Wuming looked like Zhao Fuyi. Whether it was his walking posture, voice tone, temperament, or attack moves, he was exactly the same as Zhao Fuyi.
But no matter how hard Li Jiuchuan racked his brains, he couldn't equate Wuming with Zhao Fuyi.
The two fought their way to the center of the city, where they saw the remains of a square and four huge broken and fallen stone pillars. The stone pillars were covered with witchcraft characters and carved with four different strange figures.
Zhao Fuyi walked over to check and could feel some strange power remaining in the stone pillar.
Unfortunately, she had some knowledge of witch language but was not proficient in it, especially the witch language from ancient times, which was completely different from the witch language commonly used in the foreign country today.
She studied the art of formations, and her deepest research was on ancient cloud seals and tortoise shell script. She was always focused in her practice and work, unlike Jiang Yuebai, who dabbled in a little bit of everything.
"The senior is very similar to a friend of mine."
Li Jiuchuan couldn't help it, so he spoke out to test it.
Zhao Fuyi paused, then turned her head slightly to look at Li Jiuchuan, "Friend?"
Of course Zhao Fuyi knew that Li Jiuchuan was talking about her. She encountered Yuanying stage beasts several times on the road. She hesitated whether to hide to avoid being exposed, but she couldn't do such a thing, and there was no reason for her to sit by and watch Li Jiuchuan fight hard and get injured.
In the end, she simply exposed everything except her face, allowing Li Jiuchuan to guess whatever he wanted, as long as... she didn't admit it!
Zhao Fuyi curled the corners of her lips slightly. How could she become as shameless as Jiang Yuebai
Hearing Li Jiuchuan say this, Zhao Fuyi was a little surprised. Did Li Jiuchuan now regard her as a friend instead of just a fellow sister
You have to know that at this time, she and Li Jiuchuan had just reconciled frankly outside the Cang Yan land, and she still had some grudges in her heart because of the incident in the Nether Sea and the sect's small competition.
Or... is she the only one who has a grudge
Zhao Fuyi, who had always been calm, suddenly became curious about how Li Jiuchuan viewed her at this moment.
"What kind of person is your... friend?"
Li Jiuchuan thought for a moment and said, "He is a man of high moral character and great righteousness."
Zhao Fuyi was stunned. Thinking about herself at that time, she felt that she could not bear such praise from Li Jiuchuan. She couldn't help but feel a bit of sarcasm in her tone.
"Is there really such a person in the world? Could he be a hypocritical person?"
Li Jiuchuan looked at Zhao Fuyi's back deeply. "People have seven emotions and six desires, so they will naturally make mistakes. My friend is not a saint. I was angry and disappointed at that time, but looking back, I was narrow-minded. Putting aside those trivial matters, my friend is indeed worthy of the title of Beidou of Formation Dao."
Zhao Fuyi's heart sank. She had never thought that Li Jiuchuan would have such a high opinion of her. Zhao Fuyi also admired his frankness.
She has always felt guilty towards Li Jiuchuan, feeling guilty that she knew she was no match for him in Minghai, but she insisted on holding on, which caused Li Jiuchuan's life magic weapon to be broken and delayed his cultivation for more than 300 years.
If not for this, with Li Jiuchuan's momentum at that time, he might not necessarily become her junior apprentice, and it is very likely that he would surpass her and become a god first.
Unfortunately, there was no way to make up for this guilt, and it became a flaw in her Taoism.
"This secret realm is not big, and there is no other entrance or exit. The key to leaving the secret realm may be in these witch words. Let's take a look."
Zhao Fuyi changed the subject and pointed at the witch characters on the stone pillar.
In addition to testing, Li Jiuchuan was also checking these witch texts.
"This is a sacrificial text from a sacrificial ceremony. The witches here worship the witch gods representing the four seasons. This is the spring god Ju Mang, this is the summer god Zhu Rong, the one you are looking at is the autumn god Rushu, and over there is the winter god Xuan Ming."
"You understand ancient witch language?" Zhao Fuyi was very surprised.
The Tianwu tribe is almost extinct, and the Wu language used by the aliens nowadays is closer to the common writing of humans, so almost no one learns the ancient Wu language anymore.
Li Jiuchuan smiled, "To be honest, I accepted a disciple who was not easy to teach. She was full of strong desire to explore everything in the world. She also asked me to learn ancient witchcraft."
"I just muddled through it at the time, and only started to learn later. As a teacher, I can't be ignorant of everything and let a little girl laugh at me for nothing, right?"
Zhao Fuyi suddenly smiled. Jiang Yuebai, that girl, was indeed a headache.
She was stumped many times, but was unwilling to admit it for the sake of face, so she could only scold Jiang Yuebai for not understanding such a simple question, and then throw her out.
In fact, it is all for the sake of maintaining one's own face. Afterwards, one will cram up on that aspect of knowledge and then pretend to explain it to her next time.
She used to think that not accepting Jiang Yuebai as her disciple was one of the things she regretted most in her life, but now she thought that Li Jiuchuan was the only one in the world who was the most suitable master for that girl.
If it were her, she would not be willing to learn the useless ancient witch language just for Jiang Yuebai and waste her time for cultivation.
Even if Jiang Yuebai had become her disciple, he might not have achieved what he has today.
Fortunately, she was 'obstinate' at the time and did not delay the girl.
Zhao Fuyi felt relieved when his thoughts became clear.
"Senior, there is a record here that after the sacrificial ceremony, the power of the witch god can be summoned." Li Jiuchuan pointed to a section of ancient witch text on the stone pillar and said, "They believe that the witch god comes from outside the domain. If the power of the witch god can be summoned, perhaps it will be possible to break the power of the laws surrounding the secret realm."
Zhao Fuyi took over the conversation, "Once the power of the law is loosened, we will be able to find a way out of the secret realm."
"This sacrificial ceremony is not difficult..." Li Jiuchuan paused, "It just requires someone to offer the sacrifice."
(End of this chapter)