The arsenal of Bingzhou City is an annex building of the official temple, and it is built next to the official temple of Bingzhou. It is precisely because of this that Baili Shu and the others can see the distress signal of Jiuxuanmen rising from the direction of the official temple. The arsenal is an important place in Bingzhou, and there are few houses within a certain distance around it. After a section of official road was vacated outside the arsenal, rammed earth was used to cast walls around it.
The ice wall glowing with a faint blue light lay across the official road, isolating the ever-spreading ghost world.
But at a slightly further distance, the ghost world has swallowed most of the arsenal and the five-foot-thick wall.
Within a certain distance behind the ice wall, the night ghosts were frozen into a forest of statues, but further away, in the dark ghost world area, there were more things that were about to move.
But the ice wall that appeared out of thin air was like the ancient emperor's law in the era of chaos. It stood there and drew an insurmountable boundary.
Liao Gan was helped up by a disciple of the Nine Profound Sect, he took out a bottle of elixir and stuffed one into his mouth with trembling hands after excessive force.
Originally restrained by the night ghost, the entry of Yin Qi into his body was enough for him. As a result, the Nine Profound Sect disciple who was wearing a black robe with a cold face and didn't look like a living person came over and patted him on the shoulder, and the Yin Qi that had entered his body disappeared completely.
Liao Gan glanced at the black-clothed disciple of Jiuxuan, only to think that Jiuxuanmen is really unpredictable, and it deserves to be the first sect of immortals.
"That's senior brother Li Xin."
The one who helped him up was a Limai disciple of the Nine Profound Sect, he said proudly.
Oh, Jiuxuanmen is notoriously insane.
Liao Gan withdrew his gaze and secretly looked at Bailishu. The thin young man in white robe stopped in front of the ice wall and was looking at the ghost world behind the ice wall. Liao Gan secretly clicked his tongue in his heart, wondering why so many girls in the world of cultivating immortals tried so hard to become a Taoist couple with this person. Among other things, this face alone is definitely worth it.
"Is this guy all right?"
The Jiuxuanmen young man who passed out had been helped up by someone. Although he was alive, Li Xin was always drawing out the Yin energy in his body. Liao Qian leaned over and asked a disciple next to him in a nervous whisper.
Just as he was asking, the young man was already coughing violently and woke up.
"You're awake!" Liao Gan was overjoyed, and slapped the young man on the shoulder, "You kid, do you know how much effort it took me to carry you out of there? The bones are still so hard that I almost hurt me. Fortunately, my flesh is still thick."
"I'll go to your restaurant later, and I'll tell the disciples of Jiuzhou Bank that it will be charged to your account." The young man replied without raising his eyes.
Liao Qian heaved a sigh of relief, it's okay, it's okay, he can still choke people, and it's still that little boy with a poisonous mouth, it seems that he's really all right.
"Forget it... I've almost lost all my wealth, and you still want to rob me..." Liao Qian muttered, the big stone on his chest fell to the ground, and instantly felt the chill emanating from the ice wall, and hurriedly rolled Climb the ground and retreat for a while, away from the ice wall.
"Limai Bingzhou guard tower disciples, Zhou Wen'an has met all senior brothers and sisters."
The young man stood up with the support of others. He obviously recognized Jun Wanbai and the others who had rushed over, and hurriedly saluted. Compared with the face of Liao Gan just now, Zhou Wen'an at this time obviously fits his name very well, with all the courtesy and undisguised joy on his face.
Liao Qian sneered slightly from the side.
What are you doing, there are very powerful brothers and sisters who can suddenly appear in a tens of thousands of emergencies and save people in dire straits, are they amazing
— Well, it's pretty amazing.
Liao Gan looked down at his distressed appearance, then at Zhou Wen'an surrounded by disciples of the Nine Profound Sect, and thought despondently.
"How about it?"
A somewhat indifferent voice sounded, and Baili Shu came back with a sword in hand. From his expression, it was impossible to guess what he saw from the situation behind the ice wall.
"Brother Bai, Baili..."
Seeing the young man in white walking over with a long sword, Zhou Wen'an, who had just woken up from a coma, showed a look of astonishment, and he couldn't believe who he saw.
Baili Shu nodded slightly, and said flatly, "Junior Brother."
Then, under Liao Ganer's stunned gaze, Zhou Wen'an stood up straight and saluted Baili Shu respectfully—wait a minute, boy, is your distinction too obvious? Even if your senior brother Baili is really good at martial arts and extremely reliable, you don't have to show your admiration clearly on your face, do you
When you met other senior brothers just now, you were normal and polite...
Liao Gan had countless words rushing up wildly for a while, and he couldn't vomit in his chest, but the ice wall was particularly conspicuous in the middle of the official road, so he wisely gave up his plan to speak. Looking around at other people's attitudes towards Zhou Wen'an's reaction, they found that almost everyone seemed to be familiar with it.
No, no, no, it's not like it's not surprising.
Instead, he took it for granted, acquiescing that Zhou Wen'an's reaction was normal.
Liao Qian withdrew his gaze and looked at the stone brick with a dull face—as expected, Jiuxuanmen is a place where abnormal cultivators abound.
"Where have all the people in Bingzhou City gone? What is the current situation in Bingzhou City?"
After confirming that Zhou Wen'an was fine, Qin Jiu asked. He frowned and looked at the ghost world that was forced by Baili Shu's sword, his expression was not very good.
As the entrance to the nether world, the ghost world often appears in places where filth is accumulated, and it only appears in the middle of the night, and it will disappear during the day. Moreover, even in the daytime, when the ghost world subsides, it will leave a very strong Yin Qi in place. However, after entering Bingzhou City, Qin Jiu and Chu Zhiyuan took people to check, but they found no trace of Yin Qi in the wine shop or in the inn.
Although the sky was gloomy at this time, it was daytime. Generally speaking, the ghost world should not appear, not to mention the size of the ghost world in front of them was beyond common sense.
However, in such a large ghost world, the Yin Qi was confined and did not spread out. If Baili Shu hadn't led them straight all the way, even with Zhou Wen'an's distress signal from the Nine Profound Sect disciples, it would have been difficult for him to find him directly.
At that time, it is hard to say whether Liao Qian and Zhou Wen'an will still be alive.
Qin Jiu frowned, and suddenly remembered that when he was in the southwestern area of Bingzhou City, Bailishu told them not to release their spiritual consciousness without authorization. Could this have something to do with the strange ghost world that appeared now
Zhou Wen'an raised his head and looked in the direction of Qingming Pagoda.
They were in the city right now, and the Qingming Tower could see it more clearly than outside the city.
Standing on the land of the Twelve Dynasties, the Qingming Pagoda was built extremely majesticly to provide orientation for countless flying boats. The pagoda has ninety-nine floors. It is a complete weekly astrology.
This ancient formation tower, which originated from the end of the Wanxian period, began to be built a long time ago, and for a long time since then, both the sect and the dynasty have paid great attention to the tower.
The ninety-nine-storey tower is dubbed "Qingming".
Qingming, it's the sky.
This kind of building named after the sky is used to reach the sky. It is a testimony that people have stolen the power of the heaven and earth astrology. It is the greatest miracle created by the human race so far, and it is also a sign of the withering of the ancient emperors. In the barbaric era, the sky has always belonged to the domain of gods, birds and beasts. All kinds of huge and terrifying wild beasts with wings hovered in the sky, and the human race curled up in the jungle like ants, trembling because of the shadows cast by the wild beasts. .
And in the era of chaos, the era when Kong Jia ended the rule of wild beasts, the powers of various races stepped onto the grand stage, they were regarded as emperors, and the sky was the domain of the ancient emperor, and the majesty of the ancient emperor shrouded the territory. In fact, provoking the sky is provoking the ancient emperor. Until the arrival of the Ten Thousand Immortals Era, the ancient emperors were lost one by one, the immortals and the great demons fought, and the immortal cultivators gradually spread across the land of the Twelve Dynasties like a flood, and all kinds of spirit weapon flying boats began to appear in the sky. figure.
When the Qingming Pagoda was built, the extraordinary status of the cultivators was established, and the flying boats began to shuttle freely among the clouds.
The Qingming Pagoda, which has carried so much history, was destined to be extremely majestic and magnificent from the moment it was born.
Each boulder on the tower body is black stone mined from the "soil" veins, polished by countless craftsmen to the same specification, square and straight. Every huge stone has to be engraved with ancient runes by top magicians, and then placed together tightly, and finally the surface of the tower is as smooth as a mirror.
The black tower body is like a vast sky. When the sun shines on it, the light will refract the shape of the runes at a very ingenious angle, just like the sky full of stars covering the tower body.
This is a thick, silent, majestic tower that connects heaven and earth.
Now, however, something has changed.
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There is no sign of abnormality in the Qingming Pagoda.
That day, Zhou Wen'an patrolled the bottom of Qingming Tower as usual. As a tower for orientation, the interior of the Qingming Tower is filled with the power of space as vast as the sea, and the power of stars. Even the disciples guarding the tower cannot easily touch the array symbols in the tower.
Zhou Wen'an walked up step by step along the stone steps that spiraled up the tower.
He is a disciple of Limai of the Nine Profound Sect, and it has been almost seven years since he was sent to Bingzhou City to guard the pagoda.
The disciples who knew him all said that he shouldn't be a disciple of Limai, Lizhuhuo, and Limai's disciples are always aggressive and aggressive, but Zhou Wen'an is like a weak secular poet, doing things more kindly of. Zhou Wen'an himself didn't know why the elders from Limai chose him.
After the master sect of the Nine Profound Sect practiced until he broke through to the Yuandan Realm, Zhou Wen'an came to Bingzhou City and began to guard the tower.
Guarding the Qingming Pagoda is actually a very lonely and dangerous thing. Every disciple who guards the tower has to carefully confirm whether each pattern is operating as usual every day, and replace those spirit stones that have exhausted their spiritual energy in time, and the chaotic space and astrological power hovering in the middle of the tower will follow the rotation of the stars , surging like a tide.
If there is an anomaly of the stars, the space in which they are running and the power of the stars are out of order, then even if the disciples guarding the tower are themselves caught in the turbulent flow of space, there will be no place for them to die. on the track.
Every piece of those black boulders mined from the veins of the five elements of heaven and earth was soaked with the blood of the disciples of the Nine Profound Sect. The Qingming Pagoda is nominally guarded by both the dynasty and the sect, but the most core and dangerous tasks have always been taken care of by the disciples of the Jiuxuanmen.
After a long time, I don't know how many young sect disciples died on the guard tower.
What outsiders don't know is that in Jiuxuanmen, on the top of every Qingming Pagoda, there is no powerful spiritual weapon, let alone some mysterious array. The topmost floor of the Qingming Pagoda is the place closest to the sky and the place with the most aura. Zhou Wen'an didn't know what happened to the Qingming Pagodas of other sects.
But on the Qingming Pagoda that Jiuxuanmen is in charge of, the topmost floor is not the place where the elders guarding the tower practice, nor is it the place where spiritual weapons are conceived.
There are countless spirit cards.
Zhou Wen'an went up once, and at the place closest to the sky, the dark black spiritual tablets were arranged in a row in a row according to time. The names of those sect disciples who died defending the pagoda are written on the spirit card with white spirit paint.
The brother who brought him up said that the world cannot remember their names, so we should remember them.
Put the spirit card here, the souls of these sacrificed Jiuxuanmen disciples will be bred by the aura of heaven and earth, and reincarnation will always be better than others. One or two spirit weapons are not important compared to the lives of these disciples.
"If we even forget, who would have known that the Qingming Pagoda was soaked in the blood of so many people?"
Brother said so.
However, a month later, there was a dark black spiritual tablet on the top floor of Qingming Pagoda.
It was also from that moment on that Zhou Wenan completely regarded himself as a member of the Nine Profound Sect.
When patrolling the tower late at night, Zhou Wen'an didn't feel lonely. When he raised his head, he always felt that there were many brothers and sisters accompanying him slowly up the stone steps one after another. It's like... just like a long time ago, when he stumbled and knelt down on the ladder to the sky, someone came to hold his hand and led him into the vast world of immortal cultivators.
This is the Nine Profound Gate.
It is their Nine Profound Gate.
The disciples guarding the pagoda usually change every ten years. Zhou Wen'an thought that he would either die suddenly in an unexpected star vision and stay on the top floor of the Qingming Pagoda like his senior brother, or he would die after ten years. Ask the elders to stay behind, be an ordinary tower guard disciple, and wipe the spirit card on the top floor every day.
But he didn't expect that one day, the spirit cards engraved with the names of the brothers and sisters would be destroyed.
Qingming Pagoda, something happened.