A few days later.
In the cave where Pang Jian and Luo Hongyan practiced.
Next to the blood pool, there was a brand new cave that was dug out with a Jingzhen Spear. Pang Jian took out the materials for building the ghost altar one by one and arranged them according to the method taught by Zhao Ling.
"Be careful."
Luo Hongyan, who remained in the blood pool, reminded softly: "I only helped you adjust your appearance, but you have to pay attention to your voice and expression, and don't reveal any flaws."
"Um."
Pang Jian moved the rocks and completely sealed the cave.
In the small sealed cave, several luminous night pearls were embedded in the top to prevent the cave from being completely dark.
Only then did Pang Jian pick up the small banners and insert them into the grids on the edge of the ghost altar in order.
After everything was ready, he mobilized the green spiritual power and slowly transferred it to the ghost altar.
Now, with the help of Luo Hongyan, he has become a young man with a sallow complexion.
His eyebrows, eye corners, and cheekbones were all delicately adjusted, making him look like a completely different person.
When he was sitting, he deliberately hunched his back, which was very different from his previous upright posture.
He was well prepared, watching the green spiritual power originating from him flow through the Xuanyin Stone and Kongling Jade of the Ghost Altar, activating the hidden arrays one by one, causing the Ghost Altar to gradually produce spatial waves.
“Whoosh!”
A familiar figure, as if from another time and space, suddenly appeared in the center of the ghost altar!
He even shouted in a deliberately hoarse voice: "But Hong Jian?"
Pang Jian lowered his head subconsciously.
There was an uproar in his heart. He never expected that the person who appeared in the Ghost Altar would be Dong Tianze!
Because the banner with the word "Hidden" was taken away, Dong Tianze thought he couldn't see clearly, but Pang Jian recognized this difficult figure with whom he had fought several times in the dim cave!
Pang Jian lowered his head, his heart filled with turmoil, and did not answer immediately.
Dong Tianze, whose real body was in the third realm, looked at Pang Jian in the dark cave with cold eyes.
The light of the night pearl was limited, Dong Tianze was in another world at the moment, and Pang Jian had deliberately adjusted his appearance, so he could not recognize Pang Jian.
"I'm asking you a question!"
Dong Tianze continued to snort in a hoarse voice.
Pang Jian kept his head down. He also changed to a strange voice and said in a muffled voice: "It's me. I asked for those things. I wonder if Master Kui Shou..."
"I've been ready for a long time."
Dong Tianze looked impatient.
He placed the various materials on the list in the grid in front of him and said arrogantly: "According to the rules, you need to exchange them with something of equal value."
As soon as he finished speaking, Pang Jian placed the spiritual jades and spiritual stones that he had prepared long ago, as well as several tools that required the coordination of qi and blood, which he had looted from Fei Zheng, Ni Chen and Zhao Muye, in the grid grooves in front of him one by one.
"Master Kuishou, do you think this is enough?"
Pang Jian asked in a muffled voice.
When he was placing those things, he kept his head half lowered and did not look at Dong Tianze.
Dong Tianze, who was presiding over the Ghost Altar for the first time as the leader of the dark ghosts, thought that Pang Jian was in awe of him and did not take it too seriously.
"These things..."
Dong Tianze looked at a bracelet with blood-colored patterns and a bloody long sword and asked, "Why are they all Blood Moon artifacts?"
Pang Jian nodded: "Recently, we took the risk to attack the Blood Moon's hunting ship, and looted the tools that Blood Moon usually uses."
Dong Tianze knew about this, and immediately looked at those spiritual jades and dozens of spiritual stones, and made a secret judgment in his heart.
In order to collect the spiritual materials on the list, he not only went to the warehouse of the Yinling Temple to exchange them, but also quietly went to a cultivator market in the Xuanyou Continent, spending a lot of his spiritual jade and spiritual stones.
"It should be a sure win."
Dong Tianze quickly determined in his mind that the spiritual jade and stones presented by Pang Jian, as well as the artifacts from the Blood Moon, were worth far more than the spiritual materials he had purchased recently.
"Yes, it's worth it."
Dong Tianze expressed satisfaction.
In another world, he looked at the hunched-over Pang Jian from a distance and said coldly, "Unfortunately, the situation of the Fate of Destiny is not good. You can't hold on for too long."
What he meant was that there probably wouldn't be a second chance for a transaction using the Ghost Altar.
"That's it, then."
Dong Tianze turned a hub and activated the Kongling Jade's movement array, instantly transforming the objects in the groove in front of him and Pang Jian.
“Wow!”
The supplies presented by Dong Tianze and Pang Jian disappeared together.
In front of Pang Jian were the spiritual materials on Luo Hongyan's list, all of which were scarce in the lower world.
"Is that it?"
Looking at the place where Dong Tianze disappeared, Pang Jian was stunned for a while.
He reached out to touch the spiritual materials, and when he found that they were all the objects on his list, he looked a little dazed.
After a while, he took down the small banners one by one with a strange look on his face and dismantled the materials for building the ghost altar.
After removing the rocks that blocked the cave, Pang Jian walked out and placed the Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunders, the poisonous ghost miasma in porcelain jars, the blood-activating pills, the spirit liquid, the bone-casting paste and other spiritual materials next to the blood pool.
"Done?"
Luo Hongyan, who was sitting on top of the white jade porcelain bottle, suddenly showed joy on her beautiful face, and exclaimed softly: "The Nine Heavens Mysterious Thunder and the Poisonous Ghost Miasma are all cover-ups, just to make the leader of the dark ghosts mistakenly believe that we are going to have a big fight in the Tianyun Shattered Land."
"The blood-activating pills, the spirit-condensing liquid, the bone-casting paste, etc. at the back are the rare spiritual materials we really need."
She looked down at the "Crystal Snow Lotus" without a lotus leaf, her beautiful eyes gleaming with light, and said, "With these spiritual materials, next time you come, I will be able to rebuild my flesh and blood!"
According to the plan of the two, this transaction in the Ghost Altar was also a test, and there would be a second time if it succeeded.
"You look weird." Luo Hongyan looked at Pang Jian, who had a complicated expression, and asked in surprise: "What's wrong?"
"There's nothing wrong. The transaction went smoothly, but..."
Pang Jian shook his head and said, "It's just that the one who made the deal with me was not the leader of the Dark Ghosts, but Dong Tianze."
"Dong Tianze?!"
Luo Hongyan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly burst into a charming smile: "You two are really destined to be together!"
"You almost stabbed him to death at the bottom of the pit on the island in the middle of the lake. I remember when he flew out, your spear was still stuck in his butt! Haha, if it weren't for the protection of the kid from the Tianbao Li family in Bagua City, he would have been almost killed by you."
"It's fate that he has become your boss and is searching for all kinds of spiritual materials in the third world for you and me!"
"Pang Jian, did he not see your true identity?"
Luo Hongyan rose into the air from the white jade porcelain bottle and flew around in the cave with great joy, like a bloody elf.
"It seems not. He didn't care about me too much. He seemed to know the situation of Tianyun Shattered Land. He felt that this was the last deal and that I would die soon."
Pang Jian honestly expressed his feelings.
"Hehe, then we have to give him a surprise!"
The more Luo Hongyan thought about it, the more interesting it became. She said with a smile, "We need to make at least one more transaction with him. Pang Jian, remember not to reveal your identity. Once we get the spiritual materials we need, it doesn't matter whether he knows about it or not."
"Um."
Pang Jian said he understood.
After hesitating for a moment, he asked doubtfully, "You seem to know a lot about the Yinling Temple's evil-condensing methods and the many secret techniques of the Blood Moon. What was your previous identity?"
The smile on Luo Hongyan's face suddenly disappeared, and bitterness escaped from the corners of her lips, which were as crystal as red jade: "I have a few enemies, and they are all very powerful people now. I won't tell you their identities for now."
"As for your doubts, I can use the blood moon method to forge a body and understand the Yinling Temple's evil-condensing technique. That's because..."
After a pause, she explained, "A long time ago, there was a sect in the Second Realm called the Blood Spirit Sect. This sect was once as famous as the Demon Sect, the Sword Tower, and the Dragon Cave. The Blood Spirit Sect declined due to the civil war and lost the qualification to gain a foothold in the Second Realm."
"It was eventually eliminated from the Second Realm. But in the Third Realm, a sect called Blood Moon and a sect called Yinling Temple suddenly appeared."
Luo Hongyan revealed the inside story.
Pang Jian understood and said in surprise: "I didn't expect that the Blood Moon and the Yinling Temple have the same source."
"Well, something happened to me in that civil war. After the Blood Spirit Cult disappeared, my body was beaten to pieces and I was imprisoned in that paper fan." Luo Hongyan sighed softly as she spoke of her sad past.
"I see."
Pang Jian didn't ask any more questions.
Afterwards, the two continued their respective cultivation.
Two days later.
Luo Hongyan prepared a new list and asked Pang Jian to pass it through the ghost altar, and they agreed again to make the transaction seven days later.
Pang Jian sent the list over according to the law and prepared to reopen the ghost altar after seven days.
Three days passed.
Luo Hongyan got the news from Lingsha in the white jade porcelain bottle and said, "Pang Jian, the fire from the outside to the inside has been burning for a few days. In a few days, the mountain we are staying on and the underground cave will be covered by flames."
Pang Jian nodded and said, "Here, there is also that cave, which will not be affected by the flames."
Luo Hongyan hummed softly and smiled, "What I mean is... it won't be long before the filth from the lower world will invade us. By then, I can get into the white jade porcelain bottle and not die, and it will be no problem for you to accept the filthy power again."
“But those dark ghosts hiding in the cave will not be able to escape this disaster.”
Her eyes fell on Pang Jian's face.
Pang Jian was silent for a while, then said, "I've thought about this, but I can't save them."
In the current situation, those people must quickly escape on flying vehicles before the filth engulfs the Tianyun Broken Land in order to survive.
But currently there are fire cloud ships, golden chariots, and cloud sails hovering in the sky.
Perhaps, there are flying vehicles from other sects in the upper realm also lurking nearby.
If they activate the Tianling Tower at this time, they will only become the target of public criticism and be attacked by all parties.
His and Luo Hongyan's identities would be instantly exposed when the Tianling Tower appeared. Dong Tianze might also guess that it was him and Luo Hongyan in the tower, and the Yinling Temple might take action against them.
"Well, I'm glad that you're not as impulsive as before and have become much calmer."
Luo Hongyan's charming eyes revealed a satisfied smile, and she said, "For us, we should wait until everyone leaves the Tianyun Shattered Land and this storm is over. Then we can activate the Tianling Tower in the dead silence of the Tianyun Shattered Land, and no one will notice."
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(End of this chapter)