The third realm.
Qiantian Continent, Hongshan.
The setting sun was as red as blood, shining on the bare mountain which was completely deep red, adding a bit of bloodiness to this world-famous mountain.
There are many caves on the surface of the mountain, and at first glance the whole mountain looks like a huge honeycomb.
From bottom to top, the spiritual energy in the cave becomes more and more dense, and the status of the residents becomes higher and higher.
At the foot of the mountain, there are many villages built based on Hongshan.
The people inside all serve Hongshan, either preparing meals for the elders or growing medicinal herbs in the surrounding mountains and forests.
In one of the villages.
Zhou Qingchen, Han Duping, and Jiang Li were sitting in the courtyard enjoying the cool air, gazing at the sky that looked like a rosy cloud, all in a daze.
After a while.
Seeing that the porcelain jar of wine in Zhou Qingchen's hand was empty, Jiang Li handed over a new one and said softly, "Don't think too much. Pang Jianji has his own destiny and will definitely return safely."
Zhou Qingchen has been neglecting his cultivation recently and has even stopped staying in his own cave. He often comes to Han Duping to drink to relieve his sorrow.
She would often accompany him, and seeing that Zhou Qingchen was depressed, she had advised him many times.
"I often see him pushing me into the mirror tunnel while he stayed by the pool."
Zhou Qingchen took the new wine can, took a big gulp, and said drunkenly: "I can't forget it. Every time I enter meditation and practice, I can't help but think of this scene."
"When I left, there were still Dong Tianze, Qi Qingsong, Lin Beiye, and two disciples from the Demon Heart Sect in the mansion."
"Pang Jian..."
Zhou Qingchen shook his head, his eyes were red and his voice became hoarse.
"People from the Galaxy Alliance went to check later and found that the entire Ceji Mountain Range is shrouded in strange fog. So far, no sect has dared to explore in the strange fog." Han Duping sighed and consoled, "Brother Pang is a hunter who was born and raised in the Ceji Mountain Range. He might..."
Han Duping couldn't say anything else.
When Zhou Qingchen came out and told him about the situation, while he admired Pang Jian for his loyalty and righteousness, he had already determined in his heart that Pang Jian was in great danger.
"Squeak."
The door was suddenly pushed open roughly.
A man in blue lazily walked in and said, "After asking around for a while, I found out that you are not on the mountain, but hiding here."
"Qi Qingsong!"
The three people in the yard changed color suddenly, and immediately took out their weapons, ready to fight to the death.
Jiang Li's face turned even paler. She never thought that this evil star would dare to break into the village under the Red Mountain!
Are the disciples from the upper realm really so unscrupulous that they don't take the people from the lower realm seriously
Jiang Li was panicking and was about to scream for help, asking the disciples from nearby Hongshan to come quickly.
"stop!"
Qi Qingsong quickly stopped him and yelled, "This is Red Mountain! I'm not crazy, and I don't have the time to come down from the upper realm to seek revenge on you three."
He shook his empty left sleeve and said sadly: "I cut off my entire left arm to compensate the girl for her broken arm. And..."
Qi Qingsong took out a bottle of ointment from his arms and handed it to Jiang Li, saying bitterly, "This is a bottle of Qiongyu bone-regenerating ointment, which can regenerate half of your arm. I spent a lot of money to get this bottle, and I'll give it to you first. As for the second bottle, I'm still raising money."
Jiang Li was stunned as a wooden chicken, looking at the bottle of "Qiong Yu Xu Gu Gao", she didn't even dare to reach out to take it.
Zhou Qingchen glared at Qi Qingsong: "What the hell are you doing?"
"I'm not kidding." Qi Qingsong said with a wry smile.
Looking at his lost arm, Zhou Qingchen took the bottle of "Qiong Yu Xu Gu Gao" suspiciously, and then asked, "What's going on?"
"The kid from the Tianbao Li family said he would supervise me. I was afraid that he would take this matter seriously."
Qi Qingsong first brought up Li Jie, hesitated for a moment, and then explained with a bitter face: "A lot of things happened after you left. Pang Jian disappeared into the darkness. God knows what he encountered. He killed the Demon Sect Lan Xi before he left the alley, and also smashed Yuan Lengshan to pieces, forcing me to cut off my arm to survive..."
Qi Qingsong told the story afterwards.
The three of them were stunned for a long time after hearing this.
After a long time, Zhou Qingchen asked excitedly: "Where is Pang Jian now?"
Qi Qingsong shook his head and said, "Before I left, the atmosphere in the mansion became weird. I don't know what happened between him and that kid Li Jie later."
"Also, Beiqi in the Fourth Realm is completely shrouded in strange fog. If he manages to come out alive and still appears in the Fourth Realm, he will probably be trapped in Beiqi."
The three people who were excited by Pang Jian's heroic feat were dumbfounded when they heard this.
…
The fourth realm, the destiny of shattered earth.
Outside Tianyun City, which has the same name as Shattered Land, there is a village called Yunze, which is next to Qianli Yunze.
Yunze covers an area of thousands of miles, and there is miasma and poisonous fog floating in the air all year round. There are many swamps in it, and all kinds of poisonous insects, ferocious beasts, and spiritual beasts roam around.
Yunze Town is located between Tianyun City and Qianli Yunze. There are several similar towns.
This day, in a mansion in Yunze Town.
"I am Meng Qiulan, and I will take over all the affairs of the Dark Ghosts inside and outside Tianyun City from today onwards."
An old woman with a crutch, wearing a loose gray robe, with two beautiful women standing behind her, appeared out of nowhere at the Dark Ghost Branch.
She stood in the dark hall, looking at a group of people with different cultivation levels, and said: "Hong Tai died in the Cenji Mountains in Beiqi. Xu Rui and Jin Yang who accompanied him all fell into trouble."
All the dark ghosts in the hall received the news to a greater or lesser extent, and none of them were surprised.
Seeing that no one said anything, Meng Qiulan took the initiative to say, "I'm new here, please tell me about all the recent events related to us Dark Ghosts."
Everyone was talking at once, talking about things in Tianyun City, what powerful beasts had appeared in Yunze, which independent cultivators had been outstanding recently, and asking her if she wanted to absorb the dark ghost.
"Master Meng, Hongtai's nephew came to visit half a month ago and said that Hongtai arranged for him to join the Dark Ghosts. He also brought Hongtai's token with him, so there is nothing wrong with his identity, but I don't know..."
Fan Liang, who had the highest status among the crowd, suddenly remembered something and immediately reported it to Meng Qiulan.
"Nephew Hongtai?"
Meng Qiulan was stunned.
"Well, that's indeed the case."
Fan Liang sighed and said, "Before Hong Tai was ordered to go to the Cenji Mountains, he informed us that he would arrange for a distant nephew to come to the Ambush. Unfortunately, his nephew Hong Jian came, but he died in the Cenji Mountains."
"Where is it arranged?"
Meng Qiulan asked.
Fan Liang said: "It was placed in a base in Yunze."
Meng Qiulan thought for a moment and said, "What is the level of this Hong Jian's cultivation?"
"It is said to be Tongmai Realm, it seems that he has reached the late stage, and his age is not that old."
Fan Liang answered carefully and seriously.
"Tongmai Realm..."
Meng Qiulan nodded slightly and looked back at the two apprentices who had followed her for many years.
The two women shrank their heads, seeming a little embarrassed.
"I have to meet him before I can decide whether to keep him. Because of the incident in Ceji Mountain Range, the seven major families are now surrounding our people. We must be careful with them."
Meng Qiulan said cautiously.
"Then I'll arrange for someone to bring him over?"
Fan Liang said hurriedly.
"No, I'm going to Yunze. I'll go to that base to meet him."
…
The role of Yunze.
An inconspicuous hill covered with vegetation, with a small stone cave hidden on the hillside covered with dense weeds.
In the center of the cave, there is a pool sunken in the rock, and the pool wall is made of rare blood jade.
now.
Into the pool made of blood jade, the blood of numerous ferocious beasts and spiritual beasts was injected.
Next to the blood pool, there are piles of shining spiritual jade, which keep the spiritual energy and blood of the entire blood pool full and harmonious.
A white jade porcelain bottle was floating in the blood water full of vitality, and inside the bottle there was a strange crystal snow lotus.
Sitting on the snow lotus was a beautiful figure.
Strands of refined blood and incomparably pure spiritual power flowed into the bottle through the mouth and were swallowed by the beautiful woman.
Poolside.
Pang Jian sat at the tightly closed entrance of the cave, occasionally opening his eyes to look at Luo Hongyan who was using the secret blood pool of Hongtai to rebuild her body.
They have been here for half a month.
Luo Hongyan drove the Tianling Tower, taking advantage of the darkness of the fourth realm to hide during the day and move out at night, and arrived safely at this broken land called Tianyun.
Shattered Earth and Destiny was under the jurisdiction of the Shangguan family, who also built a Tianyun City here.
In the Broken Land, there is a forbidden area called Qianli Yunze. The foul aura there is much higher than the spiritual energy, and it has bred many ferocious beasts and poisonous insects, attracting many wandering cultivators to come and explore.
A branch of the Dark Ghost was established here.
Half a month ago, as soon as Pang Jian arrived, he followed Luo Hongyan's instructions and went to Yunze Town to find Fan Liang to explain his identity.
After that, he never returned to the place where Fan Liang had placed him. Most of the time, he was purchasing the blood of ferocious beasts and spiritual beasts, and asked Luo Hongyan to use the blood pool to recast his flesh and blood.
He himself practiced day and night, immersed in the second stage of the Marrow Cleansing Realm, and strengthened his internal organs with the vital blood of beasts.
The two of them currently have plenty of spirit stones and spirit jades available, so he is not worried about his own cultivation at all.
"Pang Jian, you don't have to stay here. As you know, there is a spiritual evil spirit I condensed nearby."
In the white jade porcelain bottle, after shrinking the soul body, Luo Hongyan, who was sitting on the "Crystal Snow Lotus", smiled sweetly.
The cave, inlaid with many illuminating gems, seemed to become even brighter because of her smile.
“I don’t know where to go.”
Pang Jian said woodenly.
"You need to interact more with the Dark Ghost's people, as well as those independent cultivators gathered in the Dark Ghost's base, and even the Shangguan family's team searching for spirit beasts. I can't leave for the time being, so you should ask the new Dark Ghost leader if he has been assigned to come."
Luo Hongyan smiled at him and said, "Only the leader of the Dark Ghost Branch can get high-level beast blood. We are not short of spirit stones at the moment, but we are short of various precious auxiliary spirit materials."
Pang Jian frowned and said nothing.
"You, when you were in Linshan Town, did you rarely interact with people?"
Luo Hongyan said in surprise.
Pang Jian nodded.
“That won’t work.”
"Whether it's the Dark Ghost's people or the independent cultivators like Yunze who live alone, you shouldn't completely refuse to contact them. Only in this way can you stay informed."
Luo Hongyan persuaded him softly, telling him that as a practitioner, he must not practice asceticism blindly forever.
She currently has to concentrate on tempering her crystal bones. She is also surrounded by the "Spiritual Evil" she has condensed, and her own strength is sufficient. She is not too worried about her safety in Yunze.
Judging from the power Pang Jian displayed in Bagua City, as long as he was a little more cautious, his life would not be in danger.
Luo Hongyan could see that after leaving the Cenji Mountains, Pang Jian became more and more resistant to contact with people.
The path of spiritual practice is not like this. For Pang Jian's growth, she encouraged Pang Jian to go out more often.
"Oh well."
Upon hearing this, Pang Jian stood up, left the secret cave, and appeared under the gray sky of the fourth realm.
…
(End of this chapter)