Pawn Crossing the River

Qi Xuansu had seen this scene in his dream. It was the "Xuan Jade of Death", which gave the dream a new change.

This time, Qi Xuansu knew very well that he was dreaming, so he began to try to explore the boundaries of dreams.

There are many palaces around, with a rough style and full of ancient and barbaric atmosphere. However, these halls were in dilapidated condition, and the various statues around them only had broken limbs.

There is a tragic battlefield below, which has completely turned into a world of ice and snow, covered with frost, and countless lifelike ice sculptures still maintain their appearance before death.

There are also many illusory figures standing expressionlessly on the mountain road. Except for the slightly unreal appearance, they are no different from living people. They are densely packed, at least hundreds of them.

These figures have lost all consciousness, like clay puppets. It seems that they have encountered some powerful spell. Their souls have been forcibly extracted, but their bodies have been annihilated.

Qi Xuansu tried to look at the surrounding palaces and within a small area. Whether it was the battlefield below or the tall palace hidden in the darkness, it was just an elusive background.

Although he couldn't get out, he could clearly see part of the mountain's true appearance through these invisible barriers and the surrounding darkness.

Lingshan is on the verge of disintegration. There are several huge tornadoes and thunder outside the mountain, which are constantly destroying the mountain. Part of the mountain has already cracked, but due to some strange force, this part of the mountain has not peeled off directly. Break away, but stay in the original approximate position, but there is a huge crack between the two. Maybe you can't even see the crack at a very far distance, but if you get close, you will find that these are very different at every turn. The crack of several feet has become an insurmountable chasm. Many large and small gravels remain in the state of cracking and sputtering and solidify in the air. They do not fall or move. They are frozen at this moment.

It was as if someone had used great supernatural power to freeze everything, keeping it at this moment when it was about to be broken but not broken. It's like a mirror that was broken into pieces and then forcibly put back together. It's hard to round the broken mirror and cover up the cracks on the mirror surface.

The tornadoes and thunder outside the mountains are alive and moving, but the mountains are dead and still.

Between movement and silence, an extremely strange picture was formed.

Then Qi Xuansu saw two people fighting fiercely.

They were not afraid of the tornado pillars that connected the sky and the earth. They walked between the lightning beams and cut off the wind pillars and lightning beams. Countless frozen gravels were shattered by the aftermath of their fight, and ripples visible to the naked eye spread, even breaking the stagnant state of part of the mountain, causing it to crash downwards.

The scene in front of him actually corresponded to the scene in Qi Xuansu's memory, but it did not completely correspond, because in the dream, the wind pillar and the thunder light coexisted, and it was very close to Deling Mountain. At this time, there was only the thunder light and no wind pillar. The key Lingshan is still quite far away.

What happened in between?

Why did the positions of these two men change?

Where did those huge wind pillars go? Are you still staying near Lingshan? Or has it disappeared?

Qi Xuansu raised his hand and pointed at the two figures and asked, "Who are they?"

Although these two figures are very powerful, they have no real power and are more similar to the projection of earth energy retrospection.

To Qi Xuansu's surprise, Qi Jiayao actually recognized it: "The figure controlling the soul fire should be Wu Zhen, and the figure using the sword energy should be Master Si Tianshi, the son of Zu Tianshi."

"It turned out to be them." Qi Xuansu felt that it was unexpected but also reasonable.

The Ancestral Heavenly Master is a Second Tribulation Immortal who has been alive for more than 200 years and less than 300 years. Such a long time allows him to give birth to an heir when his cultivation level is low and watch his son turn into white hair. elder. At this time, the Heavenly Master Si was no longer young, and his cultivation level was also very high. Even shortly after the Heavenly Master Ancestral Master ascended, the Heavenly Master Si's death was approaching and he ascended immediately, quickly transitioning to the third generation of Heavenly Masters. .

As the saying goes, father and son go into battle, so it makes sense.

Qi Jiayao asked: "You seem to have seen such a scene?"

Qi Xuansu nodded and said, "I have indeed seen it, but only in my dream."

"In a dream?" Qi Jiayao was a little surprised.

Qi Xuansu said vaguely: "I have been to Lingshan in a dream. I saw a fire on the top of the mountain and many ruined temples and remains. It is precisely because of these dreams that I came to Lingshan Cave to find out."

Qi Jiayao became more and more surprised: "Tianyuan, are you serious?"

"Otherwise?" Qi Xuansu asked.

Qi Jiaoyao said: "I thought you made up an excuse to fool me."

Qi Xuansu said: "How can I have such a leisurely mood?"

Without giving Qi Jiayao time to express his feelings, Qi Xuansu continued: "But in my dream, these two photos should be near Lingshan, and there are huge wind pillars around them."

Qi Jiayao said casually: "There is nothing strange about this. It is just that the collapse of Lingshan Cave Sky has further deepened, causing their positions and Fengzhu's position to shift."

Qi Xuansu thought for a while, and it really made sense. The "Heart of Immortality Stone" should be a product of Yao Zu's era. More than a hundred years have passed since Yao Zu's era, which is enough for Lingshan Cave Heaven to undergo many changes.

However, Qi Xuansu had another question: why were these two the only ones left with projections? what does that mean?

With the idea of ​​giving it a try, Qi Xuansu asked Qi Jiayao the questions in his heart.

Qi Jiayao may not be able to solve all of Qi Xuansu's doubts, but he can always get to the point: "This means that Wu Zhen's burial place may have moved from near Lingshan to a place not far from us, but we don't know It was caused by the changes in Lingshan Cave, or someone did it intentionally. "

Qi Xuansu once again visually observed the approximate distance between the projection and the two people, and roughly estimated that it should be about two days away.

Then Qi Xuansu said nothing more and continued to move forward.

Soon, the two left this ancient battlefield. There were more and more cracks in the surrounding space, dividing everything, like white clouds in the sky that had been cut off, the earth in pieces, the huge mountains that were broken and collapsed, and the river that was cut off, as if they had been erased. Only some of the foundations of the totem temple are left on the ground, forming a depressed and dilapidated scene, silently telling the tragedy of that war.

This made Qi Xuansu and Qi Jiayao move slower. Not only could they not fly or run wildly, they even had to slow down their walking speed to avoid or bypass some too tricky space cracks.

After walking like this for about a day, after the two of them avoided a blood moon in a temple ruins, a huge blood lake appeared in front of them. Although the lake had dried up, the mud at the bottom of the lake was exposed, and it was dark red. It's dark, but it can still be seen that it was once filled with blood.

How much blood will this require?

Qi Jiayao said: "This used to be the blood sacrifice place of the witch sect, which was filled with the blood of countless wild beasts. You should know that the great witch in our Taoist Gate is called the ancestral witch in the witch sect, and those under the ancestral witch are The great witches must pass the blood sacrifice ceremony and ascend to the Lingshan Cave Heaven. However, when the Tianshi Sect attacked the Lingshan Cave Heaven, the witch sect broke this rule and allowed a large number of witch clans who were not great witches to enter the place in order to improve the abilities of these witch clans. In order to increase their combat power, the higher-ups of the Witch Cult opened this blood lake here and carried out a large number of simplified blood sacrifice rituals. Countless witch clans entered the blood lake and soaked in it, allowing the blood of the wild beasts to soak into their bodies, acquiring some of the characteristics of the wild beasts, and fighting Greatly increased strength.”

Qi Xuan clearly understood, but the blood of so many desolate beasts gathered here, which also caused the place to become very strange. The ferocious thoughts of countless desolate beasts lingered, crazily eroding the souls of those who came here.

If a person with insufficient cultivation level just approaches, he will feel that his eyes are filled with blood, and the roars of thousands of beasts will be heard in his ears, and he will be pulled into a bloody ocean where countless blood-colored beast shadows are swimming, melting everything, dissolving everything, and finally going crazy. Abnormality, falling into it, becoming a part of this invisible bloody ocean.

However, Qi Xuan had the spirit and body of a martial artist, so he was not afraid of these residual thoughts directed at the soul. He took another special look at Qi Jiayao.

Qi Jiayao understood and tapped the bronze mask on his face to show that he was fine.

Qi Xuansu asked: "Are we going to cross this lake?"

Qi Jiaoyao said: "Otherwise? Since you are not afraid of the intrusion of residual thoughts here, why should we take a detour? This lake has the least space cracks."

Qi Xuansu asked again: "Will you be in danger?"

"You are right to ask, what is not dangerous when entering Lingshan Cave? Fight if you can, and run if you can't. If you want to be safe, don't come to Lingshan Cave." Qi Jiayao said.

Qi Xuansu couldn't refute and walked forward.

The blood lake is dry, and when you step on the mud, it looks a bit like a swamp, but also like some kind of flesh and blood viscera, which is sticky and soft, and seems to be able to squirm.

If you stand in one place for a long time, you will feel like you are sinking.

Suddenly, Qi Xuansu's eyes were in a trance, as if he had entered the state where he had just arrived in Lingshan Cave. Last time he saw the confrontation between the Tianshi Sect and the Ancient Witch Sect, but this time he saw another scene.

At this time, the blood lake has not dried up, but there is no Wu clan in it. There is only endless blood. The entire blood lake is like a big bowl. The blood in the bowl is shaking, and it seems that it will overflow the edge of the bowl at any time.

Then a man came to the top of the blood lake. His specific face could not be seen clearly, and he sowed a seed that seemed to be a catkin.

After the seeds fell into the lake, they immediately sank to the bottom and disappeared into the rolling blood.

Such a big blood lake, such a small seed, not to mention finding a needle in a haystack, is not much different.

But something surprising happened. The water level of the Blood Lake began to drop. This process may have lasted for several years, but the Blood Lake eventually dried up completely, exposing the silt at the bottom of the lake.

That is to say, in the mud, a bud breaks out of the soil, grows vigorously, and becomes a willow seedling.

Immediately afterwards, the figure sowing catkins appeared again, uprooting the seedlings with great supernatural powers. It was unknown where they went, leaving only the blood lake that had completely dried up.