Ning Yao looked back frequently and kept an eye on Pang Jian's movements while flying over the ravines, fearing that he would do something unusual.
Pang Jian stood like a rock, not moving at all.
It was not until Ning Yao finally climbed the wooden ladder, reached the deck of the "Wuding Ferry", searched for a while and fell into the cabin that Pang Jian dismounted and moved to the thick phoenix bone.
The withered bones left behind by the Phoenix from the upper realm stood tall like thick and broad swords, piercing straight into the dark sky.
The so-called towering ancient trees nearby were nowhere near as tall as a single bone of Tianfeng. The majestic and sacred aura revealed by this bone amazed Pang Jian.
He paced around Tianfeng's remains.
Sometimes, he looked up at the end of the dry bones piercing the sky, and sometimes he looked at the part that was inserted into the earth, and a light of hope gradually appeared in his eyes.
Ning Yao was right. He was indeed not an honest boy. It was difficult for him to trust others and he would not share everything with others.
He even concealed something from Zhou Qingchen and did not reveal the follow-up of what he saw through the "Eye of Brand", let alone Ning Yao
Only he himself knew that as the bloodthirsty vines shrank into the cracks in the ground and the vibrations and roars slowly subsided, a cluster of mysterious glimmers once wandered inside the huge dry bones that had nothing unusual at all.
The mysterious glow lingers for a while before gradually fading away, and everything eventually returns to its original state.
—This is the follow-up that he concealed.
He was willing to take the risk of revisiting the old place, of course not out of kindness, nor was it to collect the relics of Luo Meng and others for Shangguan Qin.
The reason he came back was to see what that mysterious glow lingering in the phoenix bone was.
He proposed to go to the "Wuding Ferry" to investigate because he knew that Ning Yao did not trust him and became wary of him everywhere, and was determined to go against him.
—It turned out that he was right.
When he said he wanted to go to the "Wuding Ferry", Ning Yao really stopped him and insisted that he stay outside.
Ning Yao herself hurried forward to explore, trying to uncover the mystery inside the sailboat alone.
This was exactly what Pang Jian wanted.
"According to the time, it should appear soon."
Pang Jian stared at the tall and thick phoenix bone, while keeping a certain distance. He did not try to touch it with his hand like Zhou Qingchen did, but was just waiting for the mysterious glimmer to emerge.
After a while.
A cluster of hazy white light, like liquid amber, slowly rose up from the phoenix bone deep into the earth.
A mysterious, white glow, like a cluster of wandering living creatures, flew all the way up from the bottom of the huge dry bones.
Pang Jian stared at the mysterious glow without moving his eyes, afraid of missing any details.
In his mind, he suddenly remembered the scene of the divine bone as white as jade killing the divine bird Green Eagle. Then he looked at the faint light with a similar luster, and felt nervous and surprised.
Such a powerful Green Eagle died so cleanly when pierced by the Heavenly Phoenix Divine Bone. Does the faint light similar to the luster of the divine bone also contain divine power that can reach heaven and earth
I am so close, will I be affected and turned into ashes like those two guards
Pang Jian was anxious and held his breath, observing and feeling carefully, but he did not sense the terrible high temperature from the flickering light, nor did he see the scene of countless runes whistling like diamonds.
"No, this is definitely not a divine bone. Zhou Qingchen is right."
He gradually understood what was happening, and the hope and desire in his eyes gradually turned into deep disappointment.
This dry bone piercing into the earth was not the one he had seen before. It did not have the power that could penetrate the sky. It only retained a little bit of strangeness.
"Since it's not that..."
After confirming this, Pang Jian finally became a little bolder and dared to get very close to the dry bones.
“Hmm!”
Suddenly, Ning Yao's surprised cheers came from deep inside the cabin of the "Wuding Ferry".
She seemed to have discovered something, and shouted from inside: "Pang Jian, is everything normal outside? Zhou Qingchen and Shangguan Qin, they didn't come over, right?"
"No, everything is normal." Pang Jian responded loudly.
The mysterious glimmer wandering in the thick, pillar-like phoenix bones seemed to be attracted by his voice and quickly came to the area of dry bones in front of Pang Jian, as if silently observing him.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
The palm-sized white light suddenly seemed to have life and kept hitting the bone wall, trying to break out of the phoenix bone and enter Pang Jian's body.
Pang Jian's color suddenly changed, and he stepped back immediately, fearing that the cluster of light would succeed.
He had no idea what changes would happen to him after this cluster of white light entered his body.
However, he saw with his own eyes the fate of the divine bird Green Eagle and the two guards.
After returning from this adventure, he wanted to see if there were any mysteries in the faint light, and whether he could get opportunities that were visible to the naked eye.
It is definitely not about gambling with your life without knowing anything.
“Bang!”
The white light attacked several times in a row, and when Pang Jian retreated, it actually broke through the bone wall!
Pang Jian looked terrified and wanted to grab something to resist, but he found it was too late.
When Pang Jian's heart was trembling, the bronze door pendant on his chest, the bronze door that seemed to never open, opened a gap as thin as a hair.
“Whoosh!”
The liquid amber light that was supposed to penetrate into Pang Jian's heart and remain dormant and transform inside was instead sucked into the bronze door.
The glimmer of light disappeared, and the crack in the bronze door quickly closed, as if nothing had happened.
At this moment, an ancient vine tree buried deep in the crack in the ground that Pang Jian could not see suddenly changed.
The entire ancient vine tree had long been poked underground by the phoenix bone. There were countless vines swaying like strange trees, evil and weird.
After the cluster of amber light was absorbed by the bronze door in Pang Jian's chest which opened for a moment, all the wildly swaying bloodthirsty vines, as well as the ancient vine tree itself, withered and died in the blink of an eye, without any trace of magic left.
But Pang Jian was completely unaware of this.
He looked stunned and tried to block with both hands, but found that he was blocking air.
The mysterious amber light that shot out from the phoenix bone, as if it wanted to devour someone, disappeared out of thin air in front of his chest.
The bone walls showed no signs of cracks and were still as smooth as before.
But for some reason, when Pang Jian looked at the dry bone again, he felt that all the magic of the dry bone had disappeared and there was no mystery at all.
Looking left and right, Pang Jian only found an imperceptible gap in his clothes on his chest.
It seemed as if someone had just taken advantage of his distraction and tore open his robe with a thin sharp blade.
Pang Jian had a strange expression on his face. He looked at the inexplicable crack in his clothes and wondered if it had anything to do with the disappearing amber light.
"Pang Jian!"
He was lost in thought, wondering where that cluster of light had gone, when Ning Yao excitedly rushed out of the "Wuding Ferry".
There was a large cloth bag behind Ning Yao, which seemed to be filled with things, making her body look a little bloated.
"I knew that you saw the spiritual materials left behind by the Blood Moon cultivator in the Wuding Ferry!"
She patted the cloth bag behind her and said happily, "Spiritual stones are a necessary material for all practitioners!"
"In our Fourth Realm, almost all spirit stones, like the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, contain impurities that are difficult to remove. In the cabin of the Wuding Ferry, the spirit stones carried by the Blood Moon strongman are not of too high a grade, but they are impure!"
Ning Yao's face was filled with surprise. She waved her hand vigorously and shouted, "These are things we don't have in the Fourth Realm."
Carrying a huge cloth bag, she jumped over the cracks in the ground. Her speed was obviously much slower than before, but she could not hide the excitement on her face.
"Congratulations."
Pang Jian congratulated her in a lukewarm manner, and he did not expect that Ning Yao actually gained something from the "Wuding Ferry".
"Put it in the net bag under the horse's belly first. I'll be too conspicuous if I carry it on my back."
After Ning Yao came over, she directly threw away all the worthless items that belonged to Liu Qi in the net bag under the horse's belly, and then put the spiritual stone bag she picked out into it. Then she laughed coldly: "Are you still trying to be clever with me?"
Pang Jian was speechless: "I really didn't know there was a blood moon spirit stone in it."
"Don't give me that shit! You carry the bamboo basket just to hold those spirit stones, right?" Ning Yao asked with a pout.
Pang Jian shook his head and said nothing.
"Forget it, I'm too lazy to bother with you. Considering that you have been meritorious in keeping watch outside, I will give you a few pieces for you to use in your practice." Ning Yao thought about it, then took out a few pieces of jade that looked like broken bricks from the belly of the warhorse, and directly opened the bamboo basket behind Pang Jian and threw them in.
"What's this?"
She was suddenly stunned.
Inside the bamboo basket, the grayish-white stone emitting a faint "Xuan Yin Power" suddenly caught her eye.
At this time, after Pang Jian had absorbed the "Xuan Yin Power" from the strange stone repeatedly, the thin and weak filaments that dissipated from it were difficult to discern without being touched by the palm of the hand.
When Ning Yao was leaning against the bamboo basket, she just felt that it was a little cold and didn't think much about it.
Only after a closer look did he realize something was wrong, and frowned, "It turned out to be a stone with a strong Yin energy. This thing cannot be used by ordinary people, and only those with evil spiritual skills can absorb it. Pang Jian, where did you get it, and why do you carry it with you?"
"I picked it up from a pile of rocks. It was icy cold when I held it. I plan to go out and see if I can sell it later." Pang Jian replied.
"You know what, this thing is still of some value in the market." Ning Yao did not doubt him and said, "It's just that this kind of unpopular spiritual material has very few people who need it, so its value is often not high."
Ning Yao didn't care too much and threw a few spirit stones that she thought were "incredibly valuable" into the bamboo basket on Pang Jian's back, then urged him to mount his horse and go back.
"Remember this, don't say a word about the acquisition of these spirit stones." She warned with a cold face.
"oh."
Pang Jian agreed indifferently, and immediately rode his horse again, rushing towards where Zhou Qingchen and others were.
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(End of this chapter)