Pang Jian came here just for the fourth phoenix bone.
There is a phoenix bone in the Black Water Pond and another phoenix bone in the Worm Valley, so there should be a fallen phoenix bone on the island in the middle of the lake, which is also a restricted area.
He had personally experienced the magic of the phoenix marrow, and knowing that there might be more phoenix marrow on the island in the middle of the lake, he naturally wanted to come and try his luck.
"Who is in control of the Tianling Tower?"
Su Yuntian looked around but didn't see anyone show up, and he hesitated again.
He and He Rong were not quite aware of the secret hidden in the phoenix bones. They were afraid that the person who dispatched the "Tianling Tower" would take ruthless action when they arrived on the island.
"This place is very close to the northernmost boundary of the Cencei Mountains."
Pang Jian looked at the towering and continuous mountains behind Wulan Lake, his eyes trying to pass through those mountains and reach the strange world on the other side.
There is the northernmost part of this piece of land called Beiqi Broken Land.
The land in the far north is adjacent to the northern boundary wall of the fourth realm and is also the source of the "strange fog".
Under the sky.
Wulan Lake is still light blue, and the lake view looks breathtaking against the backdrop of the steep mountains behind it.
But looking at the white tower that was whistling incessantly above the lake island where flowers were in full bloom, everyone looked a little solemn.
According to legend, every "Tianling Pagoda" from the Yinling Temple is built with piles of white bones.
In the third realm above, the Yinling Temple has almost no interactions with other sects and forces, nor does it select talents from the seven major families to join the sect, and it has always remained mysterious.
Su Yuntian, He Rong and others didn't know much about this sect, so they were even more in awe of it.
After staring at the white tower on the island for a while, the two began to hesitate again, wondering whether they should land on the island.
Luo Hongyan saw through their thoughts and thought that she should make the best use of it, so she took the initiative to ask: "You two, please arrange your subordinates to weave a bamboo raft for us."
Su Yuntian thought about how she had refused to take any of the looted items along the way, and said with a guilty conscience, "Okay."
He then arranged for his subordinates who were loyal to the Su family to cut bamboo nearby and weave bamboo rafts using local materials.
"We should leave."
He Rong suddenly said.
Looking at the white tower wandering in the sky, he always felt that the island in the middle of the lake with blooming flowers exuded an indescribable weirdness.
The water of Ulan Lake was so cold that he felt very uncomfortable even when he stood by the lake.
"The fourth phoenix bone is on the island. Aren't you curious about what's inside?"
Luo Hongyan glanced at the two of them, and an idea suddenly occurred to her. She said softly, "If you don't want to go, you can arrange two of your subordinates to go and find out what's going on."
He Rong's eyes lit up slightly.
He immediately gave orders, asking the servants of the He family to cut bamboo and weave more bamboo rafts.
"The Tianling Pagoda is floating around. What is it doing?"
Su Meng wondered.
Su Yuntian and He Rong shook their heads. They knew that the "Tianling Tower" symbolized the Yinling Temple, but they didn't know the specific function of this tower.
"It's searching souls."
Luo Hongyan gave the answer softly. She stared at the floating white tower and said, "Within a certain range, any life with a soul will be sensed by it. Spirits, ghosts, spirits, and other beings that only have spirits but no flesh and blood will be absorbed and imprisoned by it."
When saying this, Luo Hongyan's tone was cold.
Pang Jian was secretly puzzled. Ever since he arrived at Wulan Lake, he felt that something was wrong with Luo Hongyan.
The girl's eyes as she looked at the floating white tower were filled with hidden hatred and a hint of deep fear.
It was as if she had suffered a lot in the White Tower.
"Could it be that the bodies of the Yinling Temple monks in the stone pile caused heavy casualties to the Ning family?"
Pang Jian couldn't help but think of the pile of rocks he encountered when he first entered the Cenji Mountains.
Many of the corpses inside were wearing Blood Moon costumes, which caused Han Duping to make a misjudgment, leading to the Zhou and Ning families being attacked by "spiritual evil spirits".
However, the more he thought about it, the more strange it seemed.
The "Tianling Tower" of the Yinling Temple now floats on the Wulan Lake in the north of the Cenji Mountains. However, those monks of the Yinling Temple who came here on the "Tianling Tower" died in the southernmost canyon wearing blood moon clothes.
The two places are hundreds of miles apart.
Pang Jian, who was puzzled, looked at the drifting white tower and was quietly on guard.
Not long after, the servants of the Su and He families wove several bamboo rafts. Under the instructions of Su Yuntian and He Rong, four people rode on a bamboo raft, two by two, and headed towards the island in the middle of the lake.
He Rong shouted: "If you find anything, please inform us immediately!"
The four people, filled with anxiety, nodded at the cold lake surface, looking at the island in the middle of the lake with fear. They also felt that the island with blooming flowers was full of terror.
The bamboo raft moves slowly in the lake.
Pang Jian narrowed his eyes slightly, withdrew his gaze from the island in the middle of the lake, and looked at the lake in front of him.
The light blue lake water is very clear, but there are no fish or shrimp in the lake, and no sounds of mosquitoes or flies by the lake.
In the past, it was never like this every time he came to Wulan Lake.
At this moment, everything in the lake and around the lake seemed to have disappeared, and the whole world was quiet and silent.
Pang Jian stopped talking, Su He and the other man remained silent, and Luo Hongyan also fell silent.
After a brief moment of silence.
The two bamboo rafts reached the island in the middle of the lake. Four Qi Refining Realm monks jumped off the rafts and started moving around in the woods on the island.
The "Tianling Tower" on the island continued to roar, and seemed to fly over the heads of the four of them without any pause.
After that, no one received any response.
Time passed quietly, half an hour, an hour passed, and the bamboo raft was still parked in the same place.
The four people who landed on the island seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
They did not show their figures, and no one shouted, as if no one had ever landed on the island.
"Brother Pang Jian, please show me the best way to leave the Cenji Mountains." Su Yuntian took a deep breath, his eyes showing a decisive look, and shouted: "I have decided to leave!"
"Dad, I want to go to the island!"
Su Meng begged in a low voice.
"Shut up!"
Su Yuntian had a cold face and did not obey her this time. He said in an unquestionable manner: "The Tianling Tower is active, and there are unknown guys on the island secretly controlling it. The people in the Yinling Temple are all aliens and never interact with other major sects. Let's not provoke them!"
He tacitly accepted that it was the Yinling Temple's overhaul, secretly controlled the "Tianling Pagoda", and killed his subordinates who were arranged by him and He Rong to land on the island.
"We're quitting too!"
Seeing that his subordinates had not returned for a long time, He Rong made the same decision. Both of them looked at Pang Jian, hoping that he could show them a way to leave as quickly as possible.
Pang Jian looked at Luo Hongyan.
Luo Hongyan stretched lazily, pulled the nearest bamboo raft over, and said, "Let them do whatever they want."
Pang Jian pondered for a moment, pointed to a location, and said, "Keep walking along that mountain, don't try to climb it. At your speed, if nothing unexpected happens, you can leave the Cenji Mountains in seven or eight days."
"Thank you!"
Su Yuntian clasped his hands, then ignored Su Meng's pleading face, pointed at the empty bamboo raft, and said to Luo Hongyan: "It can be seen that you two will definitely go to the island. I can only wish you all the best."
Luo Hongyan turned a deaf ear.
"Goodbye!"
Su Yuntian then, together with He Rong, led a dozen of their loyal subordinates and headed towards the location indicated by Pang Jian.
"The direction you pointed out won't kill them, right?"
After they left for a while, Luo Hongyan's expression eased a little and her tone became much more relaxed.
"The direction is definitely correct, but you also know that there are dangers everywhere in the Cenji Mountains. I used to walk that road often and never had any accidents. Now I don't know."
Pang Jian looked calm.
After he finished speaking, he saw that Luo Hongyan had no intention of leaving immediately, and asked curiously: "Aren't you going to the island yet?"
Luo Hongyan was paddling the lake water with a bamboo pole, and said without raising her head: "Let's observe for a while. Maybe the four guys who came to the island will suddenly show up and tell us some important news."
Pang Jian, who had obtained a lot of spirit stones on the way, said no more and let her watch by the lake. He found a secluded place and began to practice the "Hutian Yangqi Jue".
Like the Blood Moon monks, the spirit stones he obtained from the corpses of the Galaxy Alliance were also pure and flawless.
The spiritual power within this type of spirit stone does not need to be washed and purified, nor does it need to be condensed again. After falling into the vortex of his dantian, it will flow naturally into his spiritual sea.
His spiritual sea, which had been expanded to an unknown extent, had been gathering spiritual energy and felt becoming wider and wider.
Because he had a large amount of spirit stones at his disposal and his body had been tempered twice by the Phoenix marrow, his progress in the Qi Refining Realm was actually very fast.
He had experienced the feeling of spiritual energy overflowing the entire space above his dantian seven or eight times.
According to Luo Hongyan, a fullness of spiritual energy represents a new level of Qi Refining Realm, so he may have reached a very high level in his early accumulation.
After an unknown amount of hard training, Pang Jian suddenly heard messy footsteps coming from the direction he pointed.
He looked surprised.
After a while, Su Yuntian, He Rong and their subordinates returned the same way.
"What did you encounter? There will definitely be no problem with the direction I pointed you. If there is any accident... it has nothing to do with me!" Pang Jian was the first to distance himself from the matter.
"Spiritual demons, and they are of a high level! We were attacked by them. There are a lot of spiritual demons there, and they are not easy to deal with. We can only retreat." Su Yuntian said embarrassedly.
Pang Jian was stunned, and immediately thought of the "spiritual evil" in the pile of rocks that was controlled by the witch, and wondered if the witch was just in front of him.
"There are unknown dangers everywhere, so I might as well go to the island with you guys!" He Rong said gritting his teeth.
"You are welcome to rejoin us."
Luo Hongyan smiled softly and landed on a bamboo raft first. She then extended her white lotus-like jade hand to Pang Jian and invited him generously, "Come over. We will go ahead and clear the way for them in the lake."
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(End of this chapter)