In a thousand years, twenty-three gods, thirty-seven people, is not a small number by any means.
Moreover, the reasons for these people's disappearances were all very similar. In addition to those who, like Zi Lan, encountered accidents when they were breaking through the realm and experiencing tribulations, there were also several people who disappeared strangely while they were out on fairyland affairs. Most of the fairyland affairs they were carrying out were to investigate abnormal situations somewhere in the mortal world and the locations were all relatively remote.
Breaking through realms, experiencing tribulations, and performing immortal duties are all situations where accidents are more likely to occur to immortals in the Nine Heavens. But the problem is, over the past thousand years, so many star-holding divine beasts have gone missing in one go. The number is too large, and the pattern is too regular. Not only are they all concentrated in the star-holding divine beasts’ own clan, but there are also one or two people in each clan.
If we don't go to all the Star-Holding Wonderlands and ask, if we don't list all the people who have had accidents together, we will never discover such a serious situation.
Normally, the number of people involved in executing immortal tasks is not too large, and there won't be someone guarding outside the Golden Pagoda all the time.
Zi Lan's abnormal behavior this time would not have been so easy to be noticed, but Zi Lan had been suffering from cold since childhood, and his body was in a very unstable condition. The Wolf King and the Wolf Queen were worried about him no matter what, and not only did they light four magic fire furnaces for him, they also kept guarding outside the cloud platform. As a result, they saw with their own eyes that the magic fire furnaces that should not have been extinguished were extinguished one by one, and they also saw their son fall out from the edge of the cloud platform in a very abnormal posture!
How could they not suspect someone was playing tricks? !
The Wolf King and the Wolf Queen immediately ordered the Wolf Realm to send out all their might to search for Zi Lan in Heaven and Earth, and to visit other fairylands everywhere to seek help. They happened to hear that the Lousu Golden Dog Clan, with whom they had always had a good relationship, had also lost a young master in the same way, and no one had seen him alive or dead since then. The Wolf King and the Wolf Queen immediately became determined, and went to all the fairylands they could find in the Nine Heavens to inquire. Unexpectedly, they discovered such a horrifying event!
Other fairylands and fairy palaces, whether they are fairylands of humans and immortals or other mythical beasts, flowers, birds and plants, have not been completely free of accidents over the years, but they have never been so frequent, nor have they been very strange.
Only the star-holding beast!
Only the Star-Holding Divine Beast has been missing and dying over the years, and all in such an elusive way!
In addition to the Nine-tailed Fox Clan, which suffered the most severe extinction, twenty-four clans have been affected. Of the twenty-eight divine beast clans that hold the stars, only the Jiao Clan, the Shen Clan, the Wei Clan, and the Bi Clan are still intact. And according to these four clans, over the past thousand years some of their clansmen have encountered strange attacks when they went out, but usually the culprit could be found, so they didn't take it too seriously.
All these things put together make it clear to anyone that the situation is serious.
The Wolf Queen sat dejectedly on the chair, her face pale with regret and self-blame.
She covered her face with her hands, letting out a cry similar to that of a mother wolf losing her cub, and said sadly: "Why didn't I find out earlier that the situation was so serious... Zi Lan... My Lan'er..."
"this is not your fault."
The wolf king hugged her comfortingly.
"Before us, there were 23 tribes that had abnormalities, but none of them noticed the problem. The enemy was too cunning and covert. We didn't expect that there would be outsiders sneaking into the fairyland. In the future, we will have to be more careful while searching for Lan'er."
Wolves are loyal. Ordinary wolves in the mortal world prefer to have only one partner. Once they are determined, the couple will stay together for life. What's more, the Snow Wolf God Clan, who was born in the Ninth Heaven and controls the stars and protects the moon? Once they have determined their partner, they will not give up even if the seas dry up and the rocks crumble, and the earth cracks and the mountains collapse.
The wolf queen was a tough person who would not easily show her dismay. In the past six months, she had never once revealed her true feelings in front of the rest of the wolf pack. Seeing her rare vulnerable expression, the wolf king was immediately heartbroken.
But he paused for a moment, and then said, "But who on earth could break through the heavy guards and enter the Ninth Heaven? And he could attack the golden tower so accurately, and attack the immortals who were out to carry out the Immortal Mist. The other party must be very familiar with the Ninth Heaven and even the Immortal Realm, and his cultivation is unfathomable..."
It is not easy to enter and exit the Ninth Heaven. Not all the gods in the lower fairyland have the cultivation to go to the Ninth Heaven. Those who are not sufficiently cultivated must be picked up by the fairy carriage sent by the upper fairyland, and they have to pass through layers of barriers and guards in between. This is even more so for outsiders. To come and go silently and without being discovered for thousands of years, what kind of wisdom and cultivation does this require
When the Wolf King thought of this, his chest sank.
He couldn't help but adjust his thoughts, trying not to lose his composure.
He stroked the wolf's back and said, "The most urgent thing is to find out what happened so that we can find Lan'er. We also need to remind the other tribes to be prepared, especially the four tribes that have not encountered any accidents. No one knows if someone else will suffer misfortune."
The Wolf Queen nodded slowly.
It took her a long time to raise her head. Although her eyes were red, there were no traces of tears.
The Wolf Queen waved her sleeves and gave the order: "Call people! Immediately send messengers to the other twenty-six fairylands to meet with the realm masters. Tell all the star-controlling realms to be prepared and guard strictly! No more accidents can happen—"
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But at the same time, a black fog as big as a jade pillow was floating in the air. After leaving the small fairyland from the cracks in the fairyland, it drifted for thousands of miles in the mortal world, and finally gradually sank into a deep valley.
This black mist was the other half that was cut in the middle by Zilan and quickly dissipated away.
I saw it slowly drifting into the depths of the valley where few people had ever been, and gradually seeping into a mysterious and secluded realm.
The valley was dark and damp, and the sky seemed half darker than before. The sound of dripping water could be heard from somewhere.
There was a person standing alone in the dark place.
The black mist drifted towards him, climbing up the hem of his clothes, winding around his left sleeve and finally stopping at his left wrist. The man's left hand was empty, and the black mist entangled and dissipated, finally turning into his left hand.
His skin was pale, without a trace of blood. He was dressed in white clothes as clean as snow, with a jade flute on his waist. Such bright clothes were particularly eye-catching in the dark valley. He had a slender body, a straight posture, and a very handsome face. This appearance should have a cold and arrogant temperament, like the sun and the moon in the sky, a god descending to the world, aloof and not to be teased, but somehow, his black eyes were bottomless, with a kind of condescending emptiness and gloom, as if nothing in the world could touch him in the slightest.
At this moment, his dark eyes were staring at his left hand.
Two fingers were missing from the middle of his left hand, so it couldn't be fully formed, and black mist was seeping out from the empty knuckles.
Next to him was an object that looked like a hexagram plate. It looked like a hexagram plate, but there were twinkling spots of light on the surface of the plate.
At this time, seeing the man looking at his hands, the light on the hexagram plate flashed a few times, and he said in a gloating voice: "The hunter has been hunting geese all day, but now the little goose has caught his eyes."
The man didn't even look at it, but just stared indifferently at the two missing fingers on his hand.
This is a secret place that mortals cannot enter, but the secret place only has one room, like a cave without walls, with several stone platforms.
There were a lot of bamboo slips, books and other miscellaneous items randomly thrown on the stone platform. Upon closer inspection, they were all related to the star-controlling beast.
The hexagram plate didn't care about the silence, and continued to talk happily, "This is the first time I've seen you injured in the past thousand years. How old is that little goose? It seems to be a wolf cub, only seventeen or eighteen? Although it is a divine wolf, it is still the smallest wolf cub among the star-holding snow wolves. It can show its claws before its fur has even grown out. I heard that it is seriously ill. It can peck the eyes of a goose hunter like you, and it made you miss twice. It has a bright future."
The stern-faced man in white still did not respond to it, but just looked at his own black energy quietly.
After a long while, he finally said, "There is another star-holding beast in the fairyland."
“…!”
When the hexagram plate heard his words, it suddenly lit up, then quickly dimmed, as if it was frightened and held its breath and fell silent.
The man pinched the broken fingers in his palm and sighed vaguely: "... Heart of Nine-Tailed Fox."
"… "
There was an awful silence in the air; even the hexagram plate that had been speaking just now seemed to become even more silent.
It is true that after searching for a long time, I finally found it without any effort.
The man's eyes were as deep and calm as a deep pool where the water does not flow. He had neither emotion nor mood. Just by looking at his expression, it was difficult to discern his emotions and thoughts from his demeanor.
After an unknown amount of time, the man raised his right hand and started moving.
He answered as if he were answering a compass: "It's just two fingers. What's the use of cutting them off? It's useless."
After he finished speaking, he flicked his right sleeve! All the auras in this secret realm started to move as if stirred by a strong wind! The auras without entities were all vibrated and buzzed!
He just pinched with his bare hands and drew out a wisp of air casually from the air. The air, which had no form, turned black as soon as it entered his hand. He wiped it on his left hand, and his left hand immediately returned to its original state, intact without any scars.
He said: "Even if the immortals transcend the five elements and are blessed by the Great Dao, as long as they do not give up their immortal breath and divine bones, they will not be able to obtain true eternal life. The truth of the world is originally empty. Good thoughts, evil thoughts, human hearts and Dao hearts, if you dig deep into them, they are nothing but illusions."
Gua Plate: “…”
Gua Pan didn't dare to say a word.
However, the man seemed to have no intention of talking to it. After repairing his finger, he turned his eyes and looked away.
He said to himself, "It doesn't matter if you think too much. Now that I have found them, they will be here soon."
Gua Pan whispered tentatively: "It's been many years..."
The man replied: "Yes, for many years..."
After saying this, Gua Pan knew that the man must be making some preparations again. Neither of them spoke again, and there was silence in the secret realm.
However, when he turned his back and thought about the years he had spent here, the man couldn't help feeling dazed.
His eyes inadvertently fell on two fingers of his left hand.
What the hexagram said was right, no one had ever been able to hurt him, and he had never thought that he would be hurt by anyone.
Never in ten thousand years.
What’s more, it’s such a young wolf cub.
Seventeen years old, they may be considered young adults in their own eyes, but in the eyes of their elders, at this age they can only be said to have just grown into a wolf shape.
Although it was only two fingers, he was unable to exert his strength in that fairyland and was in a very weak state, but at this age of the snow wolf, he could already be called a peerless genius and unparalleled in the world.
At this age, he still has a cold. I vaguely heard that he is the young master. Could he be the child of the she-wolf who was accidentally let go more than ten years ago
The man was shocked to find that he had met so many people that he could no longer remember such details. Or maybe he could have remembered them but no longer cared about them.
…Yeah, it’s been so many years.
It's been so many years.
He looked at his two severed fingers in a daze, and vaguely thought that if such a child could be born in the fairy world ten thousand years ago, and was born from one of the twenty-eight star-controlling tribes, he would definitely be happier than anyone else. He might even happily say that he would accept the child as a disciple and visit him often.
His thoughts were hazy. After a long time, the man finally opened an exceptionally beautiful sandalwood box from the various items cluttering the stone platform.
Inside the sandalwood box is an extremely transparent jade pendant.
One side of the jade pendant is engraved with ancient fairy characters, and a long tassel hangs below the jade.
He held the beautiful jade between his fingertips to admire it, then stared at the jade pendant and was lost in thought for a long time.
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In this little fairyland, outside the window there is a peaceful and sunny day.
In the morning, Xue Li watched the Snow Wolf practice swordplay, and then practiced with him for a while. Then, she went back to bed and fell into a sound sleep. When she woke up, it was already 9:00 p.m., a full hour later than usual.
She crawled out from the thin quilt comfortably, yawned loudly, stretched, squinted her eyes, and kicked her ears with her hind paws as if to comb her hair and scratch her itch.
After finally feeling comfortable after shaking her fur, Xue Li opened her eyes and found that the big snow wolf had been squatting at the door looking at her.
The author has something to say: Did you see the words written on the new character’s face? !
Villain! It's a villain!!
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Fox Qiuqiu said that she wanted to perform a stunt for everyone today, which was turning into a rice cake.
Foxball: Awooo. Spread it flat.
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I'm sorry guys, this chapter was written too slowly and posted too late qaq.
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Thank you very much to Zhao Shiqi and Zi☆Yan for throwing a mine at me! Kiss, rub and lick my fur!!
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