Gu Fuyou: “…”
The bell lay on the ground motionless. Gu Fuyou walked over suspiciously, picked it up and looked at it carefully.
The bell began to ring wildly again, stinging Gu Fuyou's eardrums and causing all the anger in his internal organs to be aroused. He wanted to throw the bell to the ground.
"Is this a bell to cover your ears?"
Gu Fuyou looked back. Zhong Michu was standing behind her, taking Gengchen back. Her complexion had returned to normal, and the dragon horns on her forehead had disappeared. Apart from her tired look and slightly red eyes, there was nothing unusual about her.
"It should be." In this moment of carelessness, the bell escaped from her hand.
Gu Fuyou said angrily: "Hey!"
The ear-covering bell flew straight to Zhong Michu, circled around her, as if sizing her up, and finally shook twice in front of her. This time the sound was very gentle.
Gu Fuyou laughed and scolded: "It's still a magical tool that depends on the person he is dealing with."
Zhong Michu saw the blood on the ear-covering bell, and his eyes moved to Gu Fuyou: "Your hand..."
Upon hearing this, Gu Fuyou raised her palms in a daze. There was a deep scratch on her right palm that was visible to the bone, and blood was dripping down the back of her hand onto the ground. Her mind and body were previously focused on Zhong Michu, and she had completely forgotten that there was a wound on her hand.
"Put your hand out."
Gu Fuyou did as she was told. Zhong Michu held her hand, causing a small stream of water to wash away the blood, and injected spiritual power to stop the bleeding.
Gu Fuyou watched her do all this with a smile on his face, and he didn't feel any pain from his wound.
The ear-covering bell rang softly and landed on Zhong Michu's head.
Seeing Zhong Michu lowering his head slightly, with a bell on his head, he looked very amiable. Gu Fuyou couldn't help but burst out laughing: "It seems to like you very much."
Zhong Michu responded absentmindedly: "Yeah."
Gu Fuyou thought that this Ear-Covering Bell had not shown much aggressiveness from beginning to end. If it was true as the book said, the Ear-Covering Bell would be far more powerful when it exerted its full power.
She pondered, "Maybe we strayed into its territory instead of it attacking us."
They will be trapped in illusions and unable to extricate themselves, simply because the knot in their hearts has not been resolved.
Gu Fuyou thought that the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams Formation outside was to protect the ear-covering bell. It was possible that Uncle Si Shi had mistakenly entered this place and was injured by the ear-covering bell, which caused damage to his spiritual platform.
Her thoughts were drifting away when she felt a sudden pain in her hand.
Zhong Michu simply bandaged her with a handkerchief and tied the knot tightly.
Gu Fuyou looked at the knot on the back of her hand, which looked like a pair of white rabbit ears. She fiddled with it.
Zhong Michu said, "Don't do stupid things like grabbing the sword with your hands next time." His tone was full of helplessness.
It turned out that she remembered what happened when she was immersed in the illusion before.
Gu Fuyou was about to speak when the ground rumbled and shook the sky and the earth.
Gu Fuyou's expression changed: "Is it Gu Huaiyou and the others?!"
Zhong Michu said: "Let's go and take a look."
The two rushed to the direction where the noise came from. On the way, Zhong Michu grabbed the ear-covering bell on his head and handed it to Gu Fuyou, saying, "This ear-covering bell is ownerless. Try to control it and keep it for protection."
Gu Fuyou was holding the ear-covering bells, which were jingling, obviously in protest.
Gu Fuyou's mouth corners twitched downwards. This ear-covering bell was not obedient at all. Controlling it? Controlling Gengchen was easier than controlling it.
The two men walked out of the stone corridor and along a passage. When the view suddenly opened up, a towering palace appeared before them.
Two groups of people were fighting in front of the palace, one of them was Gu Huaiyou and Si Miao. Si Miao angrily yelled at one of them, "You bastard! You are despicable and shameless, no one in the world can be better than you!"
Gu Fuyou thought that although Si Miao was sometimes harsh in her words, she was still a lady from a wealthy family and seldom used foul language. Now that she was being insulted with foul language, she must be extremely angry.
The two people who fought with Gu Huaiyou and Si Miao were both very powerful, and their skills were evenly matched.
Three other people stood on the steps of the palace, watching from the sidelines. The man standing in the middle was wearing a snow-white brocade robe with gold edges, had a gaunt face, and looked down with a contemptuous smile. It was Zuo Tianyi.
Si Miao's words were meant to insult him.
Zuo Tianyi snorted disdainfully and said, "Those lowly people don't know what's good for them. They are courting death. Your father actually got upset with me for those two lowly lives. My Zuo family is the son of heaven, blessed by heaven. You messed with me? What happened? Your father fell into a hole in the ground and was in many dangers. He even asked me for punishment, and ended up like this. He has a problem with his brain. He asked for trouble. You can't blame me for blessing him."
Zuo Tianyi's two subordinates suddenly stared at the cave entrance where Gu Fuyou and the other man were, and said, "City Lord, someone is coming."
Gu Fuyou and Zhong Michu saw that they had been discovered, so they no longer hid and simply walked out.
There was a lot of information hidden in Zuo Tianyi's words. Gu Fuyou could guess a little bit from this, so he said in a very unfriendly tone: "Zuo Tianyi, why are you here?"
Gu Huaiyou heard the voices and took a look during the fight. Seeing that it was the two of them, he felt relieved and shouted, "Ah Man, the people who fell from Ningcheng are all in the palace. Senior Sister Zhong, please take them and Ah Man away quickly and don't get entangled with Zuo Tianyi."
Gu Fuyou saw that Gu Huaiyou and Si Miao were fighting with Zuo Tianyi's men and wanted Zhong Michu to help. At the same time, he wondered where Gan Fengzhong had gone.
Just as my thoughts were reaching this point, the earth shook again with a loud crash.
The roof tiles of the palace in front of them broke apart. Spiritual energy was agitated, and two figures flew out, one above and one below, fighting each other.
One had a cold sword, the other had a strong palm. When everyone looked, they could only see thousands of sword lights and tens of thousands of palm shadows.
It was Yanzhi, a subordinate of Gan Fengzhong and Zuo Tianyi.
If the two hadn't been so restrained in their fight and if there hadn't been a defensive formation here, this place would have been torn apart by them long ago.
While Yanzhi was fighting with Gan Fengzhong, he was still keeping an eye on Zuo Tianyi's safety. He caught a glimpse of Gu Fuyou and Zhong Michu from the corner of his eye, and suddenly glared at them. He shouted, "City Lord, the ear-covering bell is in Gu Fuyou's hand!"
The words were like thunder, exploding in the ears of several people.
Zuo Tianyi's attention had always been attracted by Zhong Michu, and he had not paid much attention to Gu Fuyou. Now, after being reminded by Yanzhi, he looked towards Gu Fuyou.
Gu Fuyou kept trying to put away the ear-covering bell, but the bell refused to cooperate and he was caught by Yanzhi and Zuo Tianyi.
This time, Zuo Tianyi had been secretly following Gu Fuyou and the others, and followed them into this place again. One reason was to silence the people of Ningcheng who were underground, and the other was to get the magic weapon, the ear-covering bell.
He had seen the Ear-Covering Bell here once before and felt it looked familiar. He went back to check and found out that it was the magic weapon, the Ear-Covering Bell.
Seeing such a treasure, one naturally feels itchy and wants to take it for himself.
Zuo Tianyi laughed loudly twice: "May God bless you, Yu Po, Yun Hun, take the ear-covering bells away."
Even if Zuo Tianyi had taken a liking to him, he at least pretended to do it. But now that he had fallen into the cave, he actually wanted to start robbing. Gu Fuyou couldn't help but say, "Shame on you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, two shadows flashed behind Zuo Tianyi and instantly appeared in front of Gu Fuyou.
Gu Fuyou broke out in a cold sweat. The two big hands pressed down on her, and she couldn't resist at all.
This moment seemed to be stretched infinitely.
Just as the hand was about to get close to her arm, she could already feel her hair slowly standing up. Suddenly, her waist tightened, her vision blurred, and when she could see clearly again, she found that she had bypassed everyone and was standing under the corridor of the palace.
There was a figure standing in front of her, her black hair moving slightly and her clothes fluttering. She was graceful and slender, yet as tall as a mountain and indestructible.
The two of them had just stopped, but in a moment, Yu Po and Yun Hun caught up with them.
Zhong Michu held Gengchen in his hand and stood in front of Gu Fuyou, stopping the two of them.
Si Miao shouted, "Big Sister, be careful, they are both cultivators in the middle stage of the Golden Core."
His cultivation level is equivalent to that of Zhong Michu.
Gu Fuyou was worried. Although Zhong Michu practiced both internal and external cultivation, it was hard for him to fight two people at once.
She wanted to help her, but it was difficult for her to intervene in this Jindan stage contest. If she only took a step closer, her legs would become weak due to the pressure from the spiritual energy of both sides.
Zhong Michu dodged the two men's attacks and fought against the two masters. She was still unhurried and said to Gu Fuyou, "Go in and don't come out for the time being."
"But you..."
"The people of Ningcheng are in the palace, and you have people who need help more."
Gu Fuyou was awakened by her words and thought, "My presence here will only make her feel constrained. The most urgent thing is to ensure the safety of the people of Ningcheng. This is the main purpose of our coming here."
She nodded and said, "Okay." Then she solemnly reminded him, "You have to be careful."
"The same to you."
Gu Fuyou still looked at her. He took two steps back before turning around and walking into the hall. When he passed the door, he inadvertently glanced at the plaque on the door.
Ruizhu Palace.
Gu Fuyou's pupils shrank slightly, he was stunned for a moment, and a strange feeling flashed through his mind.
Why is it Ruizhu Palace again
After entering the hall, the light inside was dim. There was nothing else except the layers of pillars. It was spacious and wide, and it seemed as if there was no end in sight.
"anyone there?"
"Sister Fuyou?"
The voice sounded familiar. Gu Fuyou looked in the direction where the voice came from and saw a girl of about fifteen or sixteen in plain clothes hiding behind a pillar in the palace.
"Amon?!"
Gu Fuyou walked over and saw from the light of the candle that she looked in a miserable state, with blood on her body, her eyes were red and swollen, and she looked miserable.
Amon hugged her and started crying.
Gu Fuyou was startled, softened his voice, stroked her head and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Why are you here? Where's Uncle Meng?"
The uncle Meng mentioned by Gu Fuyou was a subordinate of Sigong Hou, and Ameng was his daughter. When Gu Fuyou came to Ningcheng to play, Ameng always came to take care of her daily life, so she got to know her and treated her kindly.
Amon's sorrowful cry attracted the attention of the people in the hall. Two people came out from the depths of the hall and called out to Gu Fuyou when they saw her, "Third Miss."
Amon couldn't stop crying and couldn't ask anything.
Gu Fuyou asked the two people, "Is there anyone else here?"
"Miss San, please follow me."
The two of them took Gu Fuyou to the depths of the hall, where they saw a defensive formation on an open space. The spiritual light of the formation was very weak and was about to collapse.
There were five or six people sitting in the formation, all of them were citizens of Ningcheng, with sunken eyes and bloodshot pupils.
When Gu Fuyou asked about going down to the mine, the two people who led the way briefly explained the whole story.
—They went into the mountains to mine as usual and ran into people from Fire City who were stealing the mines.
One person said angrily, "They are going too far. We turned a blind eye to their mining of spiritual minerals on the border, but we didn't expect them to become more arrogant the more they tolerated us, and even blatantly dug into our mining area."
It was the place where the road collapsed when Gu Fuyou and others came.
"Old Meng was so angry that he went to argue with the people from Fire City. It was the people over there who started the fight first, so Old Meng gave them a lesson. But who knew that the bunch of beasts, relying on the power of the people, would gossip around Zuo Tianyi. Zuo Tianyi led his people down and beat Old Meng to death without saying a word. We couldn't beat them..."
The two of them burst into tears, feeling extremely aggrieved.
"Alas, this girl Ameng was coming down with her mother to bring us food. When Lao Meng died, her mother went crazy on the spot and wanted to fight with Zuo Tianyi. She was just a mortal, alas, alas... Poor Ameng, she witnessed the tragic death of her parents with her own eyes."
The two of them continued to curse and talk - later, Si Gonghou heard the news and rushed down, furious, demanding that Zuo Tianyi hand over the people who did it and give an explanation.
The two sides started fighting, and during the fight, a hole collapsed in the ground and everyone fell into it.
After hearing the two people's description, Gu Fuyou discovered that they fell here directly from the cave.
But once you come in, you can’t get out.
After going out from the hole on the top of the palace, the road is not the same as before.
Everyone was looking for a way out, and a dispute arose during the search. The cause was that Zuo Tianyi proposed to let these people with low cultivation levels explore the way, to test the mechanisms and reduce the risk of them falling into traps.
Si Gong Hou naturally refused, and the fight started again. Si Gong Hou formed a defensive formation and asked the few people with low cultivation to hide in the formation to avoid being affected.
One person said, "We were concerned about the battle situation, so we hid behind the palace door and watched. We saw Zuo Tianyi sending people to attack the city lord. When we were about to shout for the city lord to take precautions, they suddenly disappeared from our sight and never appeared again..."
Another person said, "We were worried at first, until Miss Simiao came over and we knew that the city lord had gone out."
"Although the city lord went out, he was still seriously injured. It must be that Zuo Tianyi did something to him."
Gu Fuyou looked at the ear-covering bell in his hand. The ear-covering bell shook and made two soft sounds.
Gu Fuyou thought that Si Gonghou and the others must have mistakenly entered the illusion during the fight, and Zuo Tianyi's sneak attack must have been successful, otherwise with Si Gonghou's cultivation level, he would not have been so badly injured in the illusion.
Gu Fuyou sighed. Although he had entered the illusion, he had also escaped from the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams Formation. He didn't know whether it was a blessing that led to a disaster, or a disaster that led to a blessing.
One person cursed: "Damn it, Zuo Tianyi is really a piece of shit."
A cold voice rang out from the hall: "You untouchable. Since you can't speak, I will pull out your tongue!"
Everyone looked and saw a tall and thin figure walking towards them from a distance. It was Zuo Tianyi.