Zhaoting skid across the turbulent sea surface, and stopped above the returning soul vortex. Seen from a height, large and small whirlpools look like malicious eyes, and from time to time there is a compelling cold light piercing out of the "eyes", which is the sword energy that turned this sea area upside down.
Zhi Xiu's spiritual sense swept across the entire return vortex, and along the sunken ship and corpses, he searched all the way to the escort fleet that had withdrawn from the vortex area in embarrassment. Lu Chengyi's protruding corpse was absorbed into the bottom of the sea. Although the corpses of Nanshu spirit beasts and beast masters were incomplete, the aura was still there—the aura of the fallen monks in the early foundation establishment period lasted at least half a month.
And there is no Xi Ping alone here.
Zhi Xiu released Wentian to inform Pang Jian of the general situation in the East China Sea at this time, while frowning: His apprentice is a half-immortal with spirit bones after all, how could he live without seeing people or dead
At this time, his consciousness swept across a small living creature in the vast ocean.
Wei Chengxiang held a piece of driftwood and struggled to maintain his balance in the crevice of the vortex. With the spirit aperture opened, her physical strength is enough, as long as she is a little vigilant to avoid the sword energy in the vortex, she can float here for ten and a half months without any problem. She is not in danger for the time being, but she is very at a loss, not knowing where she can go.
Her heart is the same as her body, unable to distinguish things in the vicissitudes of life, and the person she thought would come to guide her way has disappeared.
Suddenly, Wei Chengxiang's eyebrows seemed to be pricked by something, she raised her head suddenly, and saw a man in an old gray gown coming down with a sword, falling in front of her like a cloud of smoke. The quaint long sword was full of old wounds recorded over the years. The man on the sword had his back lighted, and his facial features could not be seen clearly. Brushing the hem of his dangling clothes, he wrapped around the ancient sword obediently.
Wei Chengxiang opened his eyes slightly, this gray-clothed immortal was different from any monk she had ever seen. If it is true as she imagined when she was young, there are gods in the world who can fulfill all wishes of mortals, it must be like this.
However, Wei Chengxiang did not make a wish, she held onto the board tightly, arched her back, and stared at the gray-clothed fairy warily.
She usurped the power to slash enemies with her own hands, and grasped the rein of fate recklessly, so she was not qualified to make a wish to the immortal.
She is no longer a mortal, but an evil spirit.
Xianzun didn't seem to see what was wrong with her, but asked very kindly: "Little girl, can I ask you if I can do it?"
"Who?"
"The person who kept talking to you in the reincarnation tree, where is he now? Can you contact him?"
Wei Cheng was startled, and thought: How did he know, what is his identity
She involuntarily sank most of her body into the sea water, only showing above her nose, and said dryly: "Tai Sui has its own place to go."
"He's not Tai Sui." Gray Yi Xianzun said, sighing, "You can't contact him anymore? That's right, if he has a way, he won't throw you into the sea alone."
Hearing this, Wei Chengxiang's nose turned sore for no reason, and all the grievances in his heart welled up, but the gaze of the gray-clothed fairy immediately fell on her left face. Wei Cheng was taken aback, and instinctively wanted to cover her face—from the corner of her eye to her chin, there was a tear-like scar on the left side of her face, which was caused by the rapid opening of her spiritual orifice. If she hadn't been working hard day and night, never forgetting to sleep with the spirit stone, almost swallowing the bag of sapphire given by her senior, the injury would have been even worse.
"The body of a half-immortal is far stronger than ordinary people. As long as it is not fatal, ordinary sword wounds can be healed slowly, except for opening wounds. That will accompany you for life, unless you can build a foundation smoothly in the future." Hui Yi The Immortal Venerable said slowly, although he was hanging his sword in mid-air, for some reason, no one felt that he was condescending, "It's just that that step is more difficult than enlightening."
Wei Cheng slammed the jar and said in a rough voice, "That's right, I'm just an evil spirit, do you want to take me in?"
The gray-clothed Immortal Venerable looked very gentle, even with a bit of unspeakable sadness, and he asked: "Do you know what is 'Jie Tian Shi'?"
Wei Chengxiang didn't understand anything, and shook his head ignorantly and fearlessly.
"Then why should I take you in?" said the gray-clothed immortal, "Although autumn insects cannot survive winter, once they cry out in sorrow, there will be echoes, and there will be hundreds of responses to their calls; I'm left alone. Child, won't you regret it when you grow up?"
Wei Chengxiang is not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf: "I don't regret it, I killed all my enemies!"
The gray-clothed immortal seemed to smile: "Okay, it's fate to meet each other, and I'll give you something."
Wei Chengxiang didn't have time to react, the fairy snapped a finger and shot a beam of light, which sank into the center of her eyebrows. The girl leaned back, only to feel that there was a book between her eyebrows, and she could read the words clearly as soon as she closed her eyes, and she could turn the pages at will.
She opened it in surprise, and saw that the book talked about how to divide the cultivation level, how to use the aura, what are the three major systems of Fu Faming, etc... This is the common sense that the children of the aristocratic family knew when they were babbling, but Wei Chengxiang had never heard of it Things.
As if she had found a treasure, she involuntarily floated up from the water.
Huiyi Xianzun said: "No matter how deep it is, it will be the classics of the immortal sect. You have to explore it by yourself. I can't give it to you due to the restrictions of the sect's rules."
Wei Chengxiang went astray by accident, but he was still a child of a good family in essence. She saw that the other party had no malicious intentions, so she also became polite: "Thank you... Thank you, sir, you also recognize the uncle in Reincarnation Muli? Are you here to find him?" of?"
Huiyi Xianzun was stunned for a moment when he heard her address, with a strange helplessness on his face, and said vaguely: "This bastard... um, it has some origins."
Wei Chengxiang said: "He was always there, but he suddenly lost his voice. I am also very worried."
"When?"
"Just after the whirlpool in the sea."
Huiyi Xianzun thought for a while and asked her, "Can you do me a favor?"
Wei Chengxiang nodded first, and then said: "It must be something I can do."
"It's not difficult." The immortal said in a warm voice, "You can use the reincarnation wood to call him directly through the Lingtai. As long as he still has a trace of clarity, he can hear your voice. I will send you away from this place, and you help me call him more." How many times, okay?"
If he didn't ask, Wei Chengxiang would do the same, so naturally he didn't refuse. Immortal Venerable lightly touched the sea water, the sea water arched obediently like sand, and then froze, forming an ice boat out of thin air. Wei Chengxiang had never seen such supernatural powers before, and he was dumbfounded. Then, she floated up from the water as lightly as a feather, and landed on the ice boat.
"Go." The gray-clothed fairy waved his hand, and the ice boat made of sea water rushed through the soul-returning vortex, and the sword energy that had been scurrying in the water obediently helped her drag away all the vortexes that blocked the way. , the boat went faster and faster, ferrying her, galloping towards the boundless continent.
When Pang Jian received Zhi Xiu's inquiry, he didn't have time to take a closer look. He was tracking several rioters in the South Mine.
In the name of Tianji Pavilion, he controlled a group of suspicious people. When he searched and arrested people, he accidentally discovered a few sneaky and chaotic people poking their heads.
The people in the South Mine were used to treating the rabble-rousers as unintelligent beasts, so they didn't care much about them, but Pang Jian didn't say anything, and a few spells stuck behind the rabble-rousers without anyone noticing. Seeing them getting together, they walked south hand in hand. Passing through a dazzling maze forest, those few people came to a small hidden village.
The land of chaos was divided among the four countries, but most of the places were left alone. The most prosperous Dawan resident is only a town formed around the South Coal Mine and the Canal Wharf. It is only about a thousand acres, and the rest is wasteland.
There was a temple full of Nanhe characteristics at the entrance of the small village, and other rioters in the village surrounded the few people at the entrance of the temple, and chatted in Nanhe dialect mixed with Dawan official dialect.
Pang Jian grew up in the South Coal Mine, and he is quite familiar with this kind of hybrid Nanhe dialect. From a long distance, he could hear these people talking about the arrest of monks in the South Coal Mine. I respect them very much, and I can't help but be secretly surprised—these disorderly people are quite clean and decently dressed, and they have lived together in the village for a long time, and they seem to have their own division of labor... If it weren't for their deformed appearance, they would be no different from ordinary people.
One of the villagers, who looked like a village chief, said: "We have been taken care of by several elders for many years, and I am afraid that the future will be difficult. Sigh, this is a bad world, why are you targeting good people?"
Another rabble-rouser said: "What should we do now
The leader of the chaos was silent for a long time: "I have no choice but to pray to the gods."
Pang Jianxin said: Whom do I pray to? Before Nanhe destroyed the country, the person who visited seemed to be the Sword Saint of Lancang... The temple at the entrance of the village was the Sword Saint Temple
But immediately, he heard the villagers muttering vaguely begging for God's blessings. These villagers worshiped the "Tai Sui Xingjun"!
Pang Jian was taken aback: After Liang Chen became "Tai Sui", he has been secretly taking in hundreds of disorderly people, and asked his subordinates to take care of them
Before he wondered why Liang Chen was so kind, he saw a rather familiar figure strolling out from the small road in the village. When Pang Jian saw the person coming, a layer of goose bumps suddenly appeared on his back—that person was Lu Chengyi!
Wait, he seemed to see...
Pang Jian quickly reached out to Wentian to confirm it: General Zhi confirmed that Lu Chengyi had died in the vortex of returning souls, General Zhi could not be wrong, so who is this
On the soul-returning vortex, Zhixiu sent Wei Chengxiang away, looking down at the mess left by the traitor—it was his sword energy that stirred up the soul-returning vortex during the calm period. It will be calm, and the escort fleet can leave.
But for some reason, his inspiration was vaguely preventing him from withdrawing his sword energy, but nothing could be calculated.
When he was hesitating, Pang Jian's Wentian arrived, and it was a very long letter.
Zhi Xiu looked at the ten lines at a glance, and his eyelids jumped up.
Pang Jianxin said that he found a special kind of puppets in the South Coal Mine. Their breath, words, deeds, and appearance are not different from real people. If they were captured to search for their souls, even the deputy of Tianji Pavilion would not be able to see that they were not human. Besides being extremely realistic, these puppets have no other function. It seems that they are just acting as substitutes for the master when the master is not in the mine. Lu Chengyi has such a substitute, and many monks who have been involved with Liang Chen also have such a substitute, and he hides in a village where a lot of disorderly people live.
Pang Jian dismantled one of the stand-in puppets, found the core magic circle, and searched for similar things in the entire South Mine... In the end, he dug a grave: In the two hundred years since the establishment of the South Mine, many monks stationed in the mine have either naturally declined five times, or because of Injured and killed in the South Mine, the South Mine specially opened up a small area for these seniors to rest, called "Qianqiu Forest". There are countless traces of magic circles left in the Qianqiu Forest. Pang Jian directly inspected them, and found that nearly half of the corpses buried there were stand-in puppets!
That is to say, in the past two hundred years, nearly half of the monks in the South Mine either died or disappeared, leaving behind puppet substitutes to act for them in the South Mine for a while, and then find a suitable time to die.
Most of these missing monks are surnamed Zhou, and they are all descendants of the clan.
Zhi Xiu quickly glanced over the names of the Zhou clan's children that Pang Jian had extracted, but he still couldn't figure out anything, and when he tried to touch the fate of these people, the vortex of returning souls suddenly surged under his feet.
Zhou's...
There is only one place in the world where the sea of stars cannot shine, and it has a close relationship with the Zhou family.
According to ancient legends, Wuduhai was sealed somewhere.
Under the turbulent vortex, the blood exhaled by the monsters made people uncomfortable, Xi Ping's face turned pale, and the severe pain suppressed by the pill just now seemed to come back. He grabbed a handful of healing and pure heart elixir in his hand, and said to the heart demon: "If you want to be sincere, let them go away first, it makes me almost vomit."
The inner demon waved his hand, and the group of demons under the tree obediently retreated into the reincarnation forest, with only their dark eyes open, coveting flesh and blood.
Xi Ping continued to sell his teammates: "My third brother said that if you pollute the Lingtai, the best end for me in the future is to become a walking dead. I can't accept this."
The demon laughed and said: "He is too defensive, he will miss a lot of friends. I just want to use you to get out of this ghostly place, get rid of the seal, and go out into the colorful world, where hundreds of millions of people from five countries will be buried in seven emotions. As for those who have six desires, I don’t know how many things there are. Which one is better than you, a young man with a lack of human nature? Why should I refuse to taste all the delicacies in the world, and insist on drinking this bowl of porridge from you?”
Xi Ping rolled his eyes: "Even if you don't drink it all down, I can't bear to lick it."
At the same time, he quietly wrote in the mustard seed: Third brother, how did you escape last time, please give me some guidance.
Zhuang Wang's words stuck in his throat: "Don't call me, I can't afford it. I am a small mortal, I dare not let the demons step on the altar, I am not as bold as the immortals."
Xi Ping is far more familiar with dealing with him than dealing with inner demons: Then you don't care about me
King Zhuang: "..."
Come to this set, right? it is good.
Through the spirit bones in the mustard seeds, Xi Ping heard the person in the altar be silent for a while, and then his voice suddenly weakened: "I was stripped of my spirit bones before I was born, and I have been used to it for so many years. I can't afford to move out now, what's the use of it? If you leave you here today, how will you let me deal with my uncle and grandmother in the future?"
Unexpectedly, this reserved and self-retaining person suddenly digs his heart out, froze for a moment, and argues: I use the master's sword energy to lure back the soul vortex, my master should have been found by now, as long as...
King Zhuang interrupted him: "Are you sure that General Zhi will come in person?"
"I… "
"You can't. Even if Master Feiqiong comes here in person, he can't touch Wuduhai. For thousands of years, only the Zhou family has known the entrance of Wuduhai. Back then, I was able to escape because my real body was still in the world, and my heart The devil can only bite my inspiration. As long as my spiritual platform is clear and bright, he has nothing to do. In order to disturb my sanity, he suddenly attacked me when I left Wuduhai, trying to trap me with illusions... Someone guarded me with a high fever The non-retreating Zhen was next to me all night, and the sound of the piano rang all night to take me out, this matter... I have never mentioned this matter to anyone."
Xi Ping was short of breath.
"Xiaobao," Zhuang Wang called his baby name that he hadn't called for many years, "Do you know how I feel now? You... can't you pity your third brother? What do I want those rotten bones for? Take it out." Bury the whole body in one place!"
The younger brother cheating is hurting people's weakness, and the strong showing weakness is hurting people's heart.
Although the two of them fought silently, there was blood.
The heart demon observed Xi Ping with great interest, and saw that he was biting the Qingxin Pill until it "creaked", and asked with a smile, "Then what are you going to do?"
Zhuang Wang: "Leave my spirit bones, you must come back whole, and leave me a way to survive."
For a moment, Xi Ping seemed to be persecuted by two demons inside and outside, and was in a dilemma.
King Zhuang stabbed him across the face, and his tone eased a little, and he said: "Find a way to let him take you to the exit of the inscription, the demon is suspicious, you have to make him believe that you are racking your brains to guard against him, only if you are prepared." There is sincerity in cooperation."
Xi Ping filled his mouth with analgesic pills one by one, his lips became numb.
After a while, he finally seemed to have made up his mind, and said to the demon, "You have to take me safely to the exit inscription first, Senior Demon, you have great powers, you can command demons, and you can kill seven or eighty people in the blink of an eye. For me, I'm sure you won't worry about me running away under your nose, will you?"
The heart demon nodded with a smile and said: "It's reasonable, is there any more?"
According to what King Zhuang taught him, Xi Ping said: "Brother Bai beat you with the curse, so I will put the curse on the altar. He is a half-demon with the blood of the Zhou family. The restrictions are very small. I am different. I can only use spells when I go out. You don’t have to worry about me sneaking up on you. I only promise to take you out of Wuduhai. You are welcome."
The demon narrowed his eyes with a smile: "I really remember that thing, your brother is too wicked."
Xi Ping: "Do you agree?"
The demon pretended to be in trouble, and after dawdling for a while, he said, "For the sake of being likable."
King Zhuang said: "Yechang has many dreams, don't delay, let's go now—by the way, are you injured? Take some pain and let the wound bleed some blood, so that even if the demon is there, other monsters will follow in secret. When the time comes, you will be with me. There is a curse on my spirit bone, when I throw the bone out, the aura passing through my bone can activate the curse, the effect is limited, it can only stop him for a moment."
Xi Ping remained silent.
"Hurry up," Zhuang Wang urged, "I'll teach you how to draw Fu Mo Curse."
Xi Ping finally struggled and said: My master must be outside.
King Zhuang: "How else do you want me to beg you?"
The inner demon suddenly came up and pinched Xi Ping's chin: "Didn't I promise you already? Why do you still look so sad?"
King Zhuang: "Shiyong!"
"I have one more thing." Xi Ping's eye circles turned red suddenly, and he said incoherently, "After I go out, I will report this place to the immortal sect and tell the world. My third brother and senior brother Liang..."
"Ouch, shh... okay, don't get excited, calm down." The demon patted him on the back lightly, with a joyful light in his smiling eyes, like a monster that couldn't resist the temptation of eating blood, so did the demon. Unable to resist the resentment and despair of the people when they were desperate, he greedily took a breath on Xi Ping, and said in a low voice, "You have a long life, and there will be opportunities to see more nasty things in the future, as long as you take me out, this will be a good time for you." Damn place, I can't wait to see it ruined, let me help you."