Dong Bao smiled and said, "If you have thought it through, then I will start the Mysterious Burial."
Sun Xiaomei said in a deep voice: "Stop talking nonsense and start the secret burial as soon as possible."
Dong Bao suddenly started to whistle, and without any movement of his body, he jumped out of the deep pool and floated in the air. Dong Bao's clothes flew up with an inexplicable airflow, and he stood in the middle of the pool like a ghost, stretched out his bony right arm and pointed at the cave in the distance, and then recited a strange witch language that was like a magic spell that swirled in the cave.
A short moment later, a straight crack appeared on the rock wall that Dongbao pointed to. The crack, which was about the width of a palm, rose three meters and then spread out to the left and right in an arc. In a short while, two doors opened opposite each other on the rock wall.
Dong Baoping held her hands and pushed the door in the air. As the door leaf more than ten meters away slowly opened inward with her hands, thick cold air like clouds and mist surged out of the door, and the temperature in the entire secret cave dropped again and again in an instant. Even though I have a stronger physique than ordinary people, I couldn't help shivering.
Dong Bao, who was flying in the air, slowly fell into the water, still half of his body was immersed in the water like before, and pointed at the gate and said: "That is the Xuanming Secret Realm. Who of you will go in first?"
Sun Xiaomei said in a deep voice: "Huo Jia, Ding Yi, you two go in and take a look."
The two sorcerers responded and walked towards the gate with weapons in hand. The others kept staring at their backs, not daring to relax at all, until the two were completely engulfed by the cold air coming out of the cave, they still held their breath and waited for the result.
I looked around quietly and gently touched Xiao Baitang, meaning that she should be ready to break out with me. Xiao Baitang just nodded, but I suddenly heard two loud noises of ice falling from the direction of Xuanming Secret Realm. When I turned around, the two warlocks who had been frozen into ice were thrown up from Xuanming Secret Realm by something and fell to the ground. Huojia's head fell into the pool like a rolling ball and then floated up gently, circling in the water.
I looked carefully for a long time but didn't see any blood seeping out from under the head, which showed that the body was frozen to the point that it would not melt easily after entering the water. How severe is the cold air in the Xuanming Secret Realm
Sun Xiaomei took a deep breath and said, "Wu Zhao, the two of you go in together! I don't want to plant a source of trouble around me. I don't think I need to say more about the rest, right?"
Although my action of looking for a retreat was covert, it did not escape Sun Xiaomei's eyes. If she repeatedly sent people to explore the Xuanming Secret Realm, sooner or later she would find an opportunity for me to break out. This is what she meant by "not wanting to sow the seeds of disaster."
Before Sun Xiaomei finished her words, the sorcerers from the Xuan Jing Division quickly moved their positions to form a battle formation, surrounding Xiao Baitang and me in the middle.
My Netherworld Energy needs time to accumulate power. Although Xiao Baitang is carrying poison, the fact that Sun Xiaomei and the others dared to openly break into the secret realm means that they also have a way to detoxify. Xiao Baitang's poison may not have much effect.
When I put my hand on the hilt without any disguise, Gu Piaoran said, "Madam Sun, aren't you afraid that Wu Zhao will get the Xuanming inheritance?"
Sun Xiaomei sneered and said, "If he has that kind of luck, then I'll just consider it a miscalculation."
My brows couldn't help but move slightly.
Gu Piaoran probably saw through my plan to break out by force, and he was deliberately reminding me that "there may be a glimmer of hope for survival if you venture into the secret realm, but you will definitely die if you break out by force."
I know very well in my heart that my chances of obtaining the inheritance are slim, but Gu Piaoran's words are like giving a drowning man a straw. Even though he knows that the straw cannot bear the weight of life, he still has to grab that straw to try that slim chance of survival.
Gu Piaoran's seemingly simple words were like a dose of poison that I had to drink.
I raised my eyes and looked at Sun Xiaomei: "If I don't die, I will kill you!"
Sun Xiaomei sneered: "If you have the ability, come on!"
I took a deep look at Gu Piaoran, who had his eyes slightly closed, and took Xiao Baitang with me, walking towards the Xuanming Secret Realm. When I stepped into the misty cold air, I gradually couldn't resist the coldness that was rolling in.
After I took only five steps, the palm holding the hilt lost feeling, and I didn't even know where my hand was. My legs moved forward mechanically, and I couldn't feel where I was stepping. At that time, even if someone put a nail under my foot, I might not feel that the nail pierced my foot.
Xiao Baitang beside me suddenly fell into my arms. I subconsciously hugged her, but I couldn't feel her body temperature at all, let alone whether she was alive or dead. If I had internal strength, I could push Xiao Baitang's palace to activate blood circulation; but my nether energy itself tends to be cold, and pushing it to Xiao Baitang, wouldn't that be like adding insult to injury
But I also heard that no matter what kind of true qi it is, it can promote blood circulation. If blood circulation is accelerated, will the results be better
"I'm so cold..." Xiao Baitang muttered three words and then suddenly stopped. I didn't bother to analyze the reason anymore. I just stood up straight and forced the Netherworld Qi into my body.
As the cold wind swirled up from under my feet, the cold air around me disappeared in an instant like mist blown away by the mountain wind. Not far from me, a black stone turtle the size of a car with bone spurs all over its body suddenly appeared.
"Xuan Ming!" I just screamed, and the stone turtle suddenly rushed towards me like a car that had started. I knew I would be smashed to pieces by it, but my legs were frozen by the cold and I couldn't even move. I could only watch the stone turtle rushing towards me.
The stone turtle rushed to within a foot of me before it suddenly stopped, opening its huge mouth towards my body and spewing out a stream of white air. After the rolling air wave blew over me, I actually felt as comfortable as a spring breeze all over my body, and my limbs that had been frozen for a long time gradually relaxed.
It was not until then that I noticed that on the back of the stone turtle sat a corpse wearing a Taoist robe, with its back facing the sky, as if in a trance.
The corpse's lips did not move, but a deep voice came from its abdomen: "Are you the descendant of Ning Nitian?"
"Yes!" According to Dou Po, I am indeed the successor of Ning Nitian.
The corpse asked again: "Where is your ghost eye money?"
I pulled out the Rakshasa and showed the three ghost coins on it. The corpse laughed and said, "Well, well, well... I've finally been waiting for this!"
The corpse said in a voice like a loud bell: "Xuan Ming has found a successor, the rest will be killed!"
As soon as the corpse's roar fell, the door to the secret realm behind me closed with a bang. Not long after, there was a loud noise of thunder and lightning outside. The Xuanjing Division should have formed a formation again, and this time it was a full-scale collision between them and Dongbao.
The corpse said calmly, "You probably have a lot of things you want to ask me, right? I haven't spoken to anyone for countless years. How about we chat?"
I turned to look at Xiao Baitang, and seeing that she was not in any danger, I asked, "Senior, are you also a descendant of the Half-Life Dao?"
The corpse nodded and said, "The dragon vein is passed down, and the dragon will rise again!"
I couldn't help but ask, "I only know that the Half-Life Dao is going against the will of heaven, but I don't know why it is necessary to go against the will of heaven and change one's fate. Can you help me solve this puzzle?"
Long Zaixing took a deep breath and said, "This matter has to start with the Half-Life Ancestor."
"It's a ridiculous thing to say. Although we are all descendants of the Half-Life Dao, we don't know the name of the founder of the Half-Life Dao, and we have never even paid homage to the founder. The only thing we know is that the founder is a legend at the pinnacle of destiny, a scholar of heaven and earth, and has pushed every secret method of destiny to the extreme."
"For unknown reasons, the Half-Life Patriarch searched the world and found nine descendants whose lives were filled with regrets. Each of these nine people had a regret that they would rather die than make up for. They will not rest in peace until they have made up for their regrets."
"After the Half-Life Patriarch accepted them into his sect, he taught each of them a secret method of destiny. They all practiced the secret method to perfection. These nine people are the Nine Veins Patriarchs."
"When the nine ancestors thought they were capable enough to change their fate, they simultaneously used their secret methods to reverse their fate and make up for their regrets. Unfortunately, all nine of them were defeated by the way of heaven. Not only did they die with lifelong regrets, but their descendants were also severely punished by heaven."
Long Zaixing said in a deep voice: "The punishment left by the Heaven is to make the regrets that they could not let go of back then continue to be repeated on their descendants, generation after generation, without end, until all the descendants of the Nine Veins are extinct."
When I heard this, I couldn't help but take a breath: "Then there is no way to change it?"
"Yes!" Long Zaixing said in a deep voice, "Unless one of the disciples succeeds in defying fate, this curse can be ended. We, the descendants of the Nine Sects, have struggled for countless years, but who has truly succeeded in defying fate?"
Long Zaixing said: "In my generation, there were two amazing masters among the Nine Veins, one is Ning Nitian of the Ghost Vein, and the other is Zhan Wuxiang of the Human Vein. They gave us all hope of defying fate, and we unanimously decided to do our best to help them defy fate, even if it means sacrificing all of our lives."
"Who would have thought that at the critical moment of defying fate, Zhan Wuxiang suddenly disappeared. The only remaining Ning Nitian was powerless to save the situation and ended in failure. He made several arrangements secretly before his death. Among them, the arrangement for me was to let me take the Xuanming Qi to the Miao area, establish a secret realm according to the secret line he laid, wait for the arrival of the heir of the ghost vein, and pass on the Xuanming Qi to his descendants. I have waited here for countless years, and finally you have come." (To be continued)