The fourth realm.
Ulan Lake.
Pang Jian, who returned from the Bagua City in the fifth realm through the mirror tunnel in the pool, suddenly appeared on the icy lake surface.
A breathtakingly beautiful figure first caught his eye.
By the lake.
Luo Hongyan, dressed in a bright red dress, was hazy in the thin blood mist, but her stunning appearance that captivated everyone was clearly revealed.
Her absolutely beautiful image, without any flaws, instantly filled Pang Jian's entire vision and was deeply imprinted in Pang Jian's mind the moment she appeared.
Pang Jian stood there in a daze.
Such a breathtakingly beautiful woman was the only one he had ever seen in his life, and it was difficult for him to look away.
—He was so attracted by the other person's beauty that he forgot to examine the situation first to avoid any unexpected danger.
Luo Hongyan, floating in the air, looked at him quietly, her beautiful eyes gradually showing a light of extreme surprise, and she murmured: "Pang Jian..."
Pang Jian suddenly came to his senses and asked tentatively, "Luo Hongyan?"
A look of delight appeared on Luo Hongyan's beautiful face.
She nodded gently, a charming smile escaping from the corner of her mouth, and said: "In the darkness, do you still remember what I said, I am much more beautiful than Ning Yao."
"At that time, what I regretted most was that I hadn't shown you what I looked like, so..."
She stretched her limbs gracefully, swaying in the hazy blood mist, presenting her slender body and straight legs to Pang Jian from multiple angles.
Pang Jian looked at her quietly, with amazement in his eyes, as if he was appreciating a beautiful painting.
After a while, he said with deep agreement: "You are not talking nonsense."
The beauty of Luo Hongyan in front of me is much more than that of Ning Yao from the Ning family.
It's just one day at a time.
After seeing Luo Hongyan's true appearance, Pang Jian realized that she was not exaggerating at all. The difference between women like Shangguan Qin and Ning Yao and her was as huge as the gap between mortals and fairies.
Pang Jian, who was a little distracted by Luo Hongyan's beauty, straightened his mind and said, "You are finally willing to reveal your true identity."
"I can't help it. The infecting force in the darkness almost made my soul dissipate. How can Ning Yao hold on?"
Luo Hongyan casually mentioned the fact that Ning Yao's soul was destroyed, and sighed: "I originally wanted to spare her life and let her witness this moment, but unfortunately she couldn't hold on."
After Ning Yao's soul died, that body no longer had any meaning to her.
Under the circumstances at that time, she could hardly protect herself, so naturally she was unable to take over Ning Yao's body and completely occupy it.
"oh."
Pang Jian felt no ripple in his heart. He originally thought that Ning Yao had died a long time ago, so he didn't care at all.
What surprised him was that Luo Hongyan, who was shrunken in Ning Yao's body and lived with him in the image of Ning Yao, could be so beautiful.
It’s a pity that Luo Hongyan does not have real flesh and blood.
"call out!"
The huge ice crystal that supported him under his feet suddenly shot towards his chest and disappeared into the bronze door.
Pang Jian's color suddenly changed, and he quickly jumped to Luo Hongyan's side to avoid falling into the lake.
"The mirror tunnel is gone."
Luo Hongyan's beautiful eyes flashed with a strange color. She glanced at his chest but did not ask any more questions.
At this time, the extremely cold power that froze the Ulan Lake also quietly returned to the "strange fog".
The water in Wulan Lake has returned to its original state.
Pang Jian, who was down-to-earth, reached his hand inside his lapel and touched the bronze plate.
"A mirrored tunnel was also swallowed up..."
He began to wonder, feeling that the bronze door had undergone new changes, but because the door was not opened, he had no idea what was going on.
When he looked up, he saw that the "strange fog" was still covering the sky, like a huge curtain covering the area.
All around him, the "strange fog" that enveloped the entire Ulan Lake was rapidly disappearing.
He stared at all this in a daze. The "strange fog" in the sky was still there, and the surrounding scene gradually reappeared.
Luo Hongyan didn't say anything either. Like him, she observed the strange changes before her eyes.
After a while, Pang Jian suddenly asked, "You didn't see Dong Tianze?"
"No, it's just me."
Luo Hongyan shook her head, floating in the air with a smile, and said: "Since Li Jie from the Tianbao Li family has saved Dong Tianze and can decide the location of those who leave at will, he should have sent Dong Tianze to the third realm."
"What is the background of Tianbao Li family?"
Pang Jian was stunned.
"In the First Realm above us, there is a sect called Tianbao Sect, which is good at making all kinds of rare treasures and spiritual tools." Luo Hongyan explained with a smile: "Let's put it this way, most of the highest quality tools in the world come from Tianbao Sect. And then, the leaders of each generation of Tianbao Sect all have the surname Li, so you can regard this sect as the Li family."
"The first realm?!"
Pang Jian said in surprise.
"Well, I have figured it out. No matter what the reason for entering the Bagua City, they are just accompanying the kid from the Tianbao Li family to experience the calamity." Luo Hongyan sighed helplessly and said, "Let's not talk about this. The Tianbao Li family in the first realm is too far away from us."
"oh."
Pang Jian answered.
He took a deep breath and suddenly discovered that the island in the middle of the lake, which used to be filled with pure spiritual energy from heaven and earth, was now also filled with filthy strange forces.
However, the foul strange power within the island in the middle of the lake was completely different from what he felt in the darkness of the fifth realm.
The so-called dirty and strange power here is a mixture of the cold and gloomy aura like the Xuanyin force, the bloody power in the bodies of wild beasts, and the toxins from poisonous insects and snakes.
These forces, which are different from spiritual energy, can be easily cleansed and dissolved and can be removed with relative ease.
In the darkness of Bagua City, there is a terrifying force of destruction, corrosion, and destructiveness. Even Luo Hongyan's soul cannot withstand it. It can also erode Li Jie's Qilin Bell and cause the city lord Yuan Shishan to fall instantly.
The level of danger and violence is comparable to the filthy and strange forces in this place from afar.
“Huh!”
Suddenly, he saw that most of the flowers and plants growing on the island in the middle of the lake had died.
The changes in spiritual power and the increase in dirty and strange powers made this island in the middle of the lake no longer a spiritual place, causing the flowers and plants that could only grow in spiritual places to wither quickly.
"We will..."
Pang Jian frowned and thought.
"Pang Jian, if you want to survive in the Fourth Realm, it's best if you don't have the dirty alien powers from the Fifth Realm in your body." Luo Hongyan frowned slightly and said seriously, "You have to find a way to remove those dirty alien powers from your body first. Otherwise, the practitioners you meet later will treat you as an alien."
He immediately summoned the Jingzhen Gun from his storage bag, activated it with the filthy strange power in his body, and performed that kind of gun technique.
“Swoosh! Swoosh!”
The evil waterfall that once appeared in the Bagua City and killed Yuan Lengshan on the spot was successfully recreated by him using the Jingshi Gun.
Three terrifying waterfalls of evil power blasted forward.
The low mountain on the island became Pang Jian's target. The mountain exploded with a loud bang and burned with black and red flames. All the withered trees, flowers and plants were corroded by the waterfall and turned into ashes and dust in an instant.
The dirty strange power in Pang Jian's body dissipated rapidly.
Soon, in his dantian spiritual sea, and in his veins and muscles, there was no trace of the dirty power left.
Luo Hongyan stared absentmindedly at the hill that was almost completely destroyed, and didn't say anything for a long time.
Pang Jian sat down on the spot, took out a pure spirit stone and absorbed it. He immediately felt that spiritual power was slowly forming above his spiritual sea.
After the filthy spiritual power is exhausted and the spiritual sea is emptied, there will be no problem in re-injecting new spiritual power!
Pang Jian, feeling relieved, nodded with satisfaction and said, "I will accumulate spiritual power first."
"You're a monster."
Luo Hongyan finally came to her senses and glared at him in dissatisfaction, saying, "The Tianling Pagoda is still on the mountain, and we still have to rely on the White Pagoda. Now that you have destroyed the mountain, I must pry the White Pagoda from the inside. Forget it, I have always been the one doing the dirty work..."
Complaining, she flew towards the still shaking hill.
The two bracelets she got from Lan Xi and Yuan Lengshan flew out from the pile of rocks next to her and followed her on the left and right.
There were a large number of pure spirit stones available in the two bracelets, enough for her to fill the spirit formation under the white tower.
Pang Jian, who was used to this way of getting along, did not go up to help, but quickly filled his own spiritual sea with the spirit stones he obtained in Bagua City.
I don’t know how much time passed.
He was in the fourth realm, in the state of "Hutian Yangqi Jue". When he gathered all his thoughts and kept his mind clear, he felt that he had gained a new perspective...
It turned out to be the vision of the newly born dark anaconda!
With his mind clear, he consumed his energy, as if he was in an endlessly dark Bagua City!
“Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!”
Scenes flashed through his mind.
He saw familiar stone buildings, and he knew that the newly born dark anaconda was swimming rapidly in the deserted streets!
The stone buildings on both sides of the street and the empty blocks in front of him kept swaying and flashing in his mind.
Pang Jian's mind was greatly shocked, and he immediately came out of the state of "Hutian Yangqi Jue", and those images disappeared without a trace in an instant.
In just a moment, he felt a kind of mental fatigue, which seemed to have consumed a lot of his energy and made him feel like falling asleep.
"The fifth realm!"
But the huge shock made it impossible for him to sleep, and his breathing seemed a little rapid.
Luo Hongyan was not around. After he calmed down, he turned the bronze plate up and looked at it carefully.
The bronze door was not opened and he saw nothing.
Thinking about how this door had been opened a little in the darkness of the fifth realm, and the four strange objects floating in the "strange fog".
Pang Jian couldn't help but look up at the sky.
The "strange fog" still covered the sky, but the "strange fog" on all sides had disappeared and no longer filled the Ulan Lake.
He vaguely felt that the bronze plate in his hand had some connection with the "strange fog" that frightened all the monks.
But at present he can't figure out the mystery of the bronze door.
After a while, he decided to re-enter that state and take another look from the perspective of the dark anaconda.
So when he closed his eyes, he gained a new perspective.
The familiar stone buildings and wide, silent streets of Bagua City reappeared in his mind.
He felt that the giant dark anaconda was moving towards the other end of the street, towards the city gate where they had just arrived.
He didn't have to wait too long. Through the vision of the dark anaconda, he saw the familiar font.
—North Gate.
This was the place where they stood when they arrived at Bagua City, and it was also the place where Li Jie stepped foot later!
At that time, the north gate facing the City Lord's Mansion was brightly lit, and all the stone slabs and jade-like walls were emitting light.
Outside the north gate, it was pitch dark. As soon as he came into contact with it for a moment, he was infected by the thick and filthy alien force.
This time, with the vision of the dark giant anaconda, he could see everything clearly at the dark north gate.
The dark anaconda continued to move forward.
Soon we arrived at a place similar to a cliff. There were no more stone slabs in front of us, but endless space.
Through its vision, Pang Jian felt that he was standing very high in the air, on the edge of a flat stone ground.
When the Dark Anaconda turned its head, he could also see behind it.
Because it is quite far away, the majestic Bagua City behind you can be seen more completely.
Before Pang Jian could take a closer look, the dark anaconda suddenly turned around and stuck its head out to look down.
Pang Jian was able to see a huge pillar that was unimaginably thick and wide, standing on the desolate wasteland.
Countless strange corpses and huge skeletons are scattered in the vast wilderness.
The corpses were clearly different from the creatures of the fifth realm. The skeletons were as huge as an island in the middle of a lake, stretching as far as the eye could see and filling the entire wasteland in all directions!
The so-called Heaven-reaching Tribulation Pillar mentioned by Li Jie and Li Yuqing was now standing among countless corpses and bones.
Further away, there are towering mountains. Compared with the Sky-reaching Tribulation Pillar where the dark giant anaconda rests, those mountains seem very small.
He couldn't see what was in the mountains or what was beyond the mountains.
He just felt that countless powerful creatures from the fifth realm had traveled across mountains and rivers from all over the world and gathered at this huge pillar of calamity standing in the wilderness.
They seemed to want to ascend to heaven.
But, all died here.
An atmosphere of desolation, loneliness, sadness and despair permeated the entire wilderness, as if it had existed for tens of millions of years.
This scene of billions of living beings trying to step into the sky and all being strangled in the wilderness shocked and infected Pang Jian's soul.
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(End of this chapter)