The Path Toward Heaven

The deeper you go, the darker the passage becomes, and the cosmic front flies silently two feet above the ground, like a ghost.

After Qing'er left the nunnery, he thought of the word grave for the third time, and felt a little cold in his body, so he subconsciously leaned towards Jing Jiu and grabbed his collar.

On both sides of the passage are hard stone walls engraved with runes, and powerful prohibition formations are hidden inside the stone walls.

This is the legendary Castle Peak Sword Prison? Why did Jing Jiu come here?

Qing'er felt the chill emanating from the cliff, and figured out why.

There is a cold vein at the bottom of Shangde Peak. This is the coldest place in the Qingshan Mountains, and it is most suitable for Xue Ji to practice and live.

What she didn't know was that the sword prison would not be as peaceful as it is now, and the cells on both sides of the passage would exude a violent aura like mountains and seas.

Even a trace of those violent, dark, and filthy breaths can contaminate the Dao Tree of ordinary practitioners until they destroy their Dao Heart.

Those stone chambers imprisoned many demons and evil gods with terrifying realms and strengths, and they are all ominous creatures that can stop children from crying at night in the world.

But today, these prisoners didn't make any sound, they tried their best to hold back their breath, not daring to let it out.

Xue Ji sat at the front of the Universe Front.

She was covered with a quilt, didn't glance at the cells on both sides, didn't take the initiative to release the coercion, and even suppressed her breath with the Chengtian Sword Intent, but the prisoners still clearly felt her presence and felt infinite fear.

Those monsters had already knelt on the floor of the cell, touching the ground with their foreheads facing the outside of the stone gate, not daring to get up, to show their submission.

The crushing of low-level beings by high-level beings is fully demonstrated at this moment.

Jing Jiu looked at Xue Ji's back and remained silent, not knowing what he was thinking.

Xue Ji suddenly groaned.

Jing Jiu narrowed his eyes and pupils, then quickly returned to normal, and said, I will find a suitable opportunity to release your people and send them back to Snow Country.

Xue Ji didn't say anything more.

Cosmic Front flew silently, and soon came to the deepest part of the Sword Prison.

This is not the darkest place, there is a faint light coming from the front, illuminating the stone wall and the ground.

Suddenly footsteps sounded in a cell.

Jing Jiu knew that Uncle Tailu was locked in this cell.

The elder with the highest surviving generation in Qingshan was also shocked by Xue Ji's arrival and wanted to take a second look.

As one goes deeper into the Sword Prison, the air becomes drier and the passages become wider and wider, until it becomes a hall with bluestone slabs on the ground and bright lights hanging around it.

There is a passage on the right side of the hall, and the lights on both sides are connected into two lines, pointing directly to a lonely stone room in the very depths.

Cosmos Front flew over there without a sound, without encountering any obstacles, and there was no sign of restriction or formation on both sides of the passage.

The furnishings in that cell were simple but complete, except for the bed, the table and various utensils, all of which were beautiful.

On the stone wall, fine water falls like a spring, splashing pearls and jade, and the blue sky, white clouds, green mountains and green waters projected by the magic weapon are made more immortal by the mist.

Qing'er thought to herself that this could barely be regarded as the way of hospitality, those eerie cells in front could not be a place for people to live in, but... this stone cell is still a bit rough, I hope His Royal Highness Xue Ji will not have any objections.

There is a cold pulse here, which can guarantee your needs. You can rest here for a while, and then see how to deal with it.

After saying this, Jing Jiu took Qing'er out of the stone room and walked to the other side of the passage.

His expression was natural, his steps were steady, and the sound of the soles of his boots hitting the ground was neither soft nor heavy.

The door of the stone chamber slowly closed.

Jing Jiu continued to walk forward, silent and calm.

But for some reason, a tense and oppressive atmosphere gradually spread, covering the entire passage.

Suddenly, Xue Ji's chirping sound came from the stone room.

Jing Jiu acted as if he didn't hear it, and continued to take a step forward.

After this step, it is the thirteenth step.

Zheng! Zheng! Zheng! Zheng!

Suddenly, more than a dozen clear sword sounds resounded in the quiet passage.

Qing'er's face was pale, and she felt great fear. Looking back at the stone room, she saw thirteen sword lights appearing in the passage, and then converged into the stone wall, leaving only countless sharp and stern sword intents, which never faded like the lingering rhyme.

Those sword intents were extremely powerful, extremely terrifying, and extremely high-level, she would shudder just by looking at them.

Originally there was no unusual passage, but it was blocked by this forbidden sword array in an instant, and there seemed to be more than ten moats horizontally in the middle, which could not be passed through at all.

How is this going?

Qing'er looked at Jing Jiu in shock, and found that his face was also very pale, and he looked extremely tired, as if he had exhausted a lot of energy, but his expression seemed to relax a lot.

This restriction is called All Things Frozen, born out of Suo Qingqiu in Qingshan Sword Art, its power and level are countless times higher, it consists of thirteen sword arrays, and it contains countless sword intents.

Jing Jiu walked thirteen steps after leaving the stone room, and thirteen sword lights appeared in the passageway. It wasn't that he was forming an formation, but that he was closing the door.

I asked you to come to Qingshan to rest for a while, but how long this time will take is still unclear.

He didn't look back, looking at the brightly lit hall ahead, he said, Until I find a suitable method, I can only shut you down. This is the only solution.

The stone room was quiet for a long time, and then Xue Ji's humming sound came out again, it was a little weak, and it was unknown whether it was anger or sadness.

Before human beings can't control a powerful force, it's hard to trust this kind of power, and they would rather destroy this kind of power.

Jing Jiu continued: You should be very clear about this, so please agree with my actions, and please don't get angry.

After saying this, he didn't stop any longer and walked out.

Qing'er looked at him in shock and was speechless, wondering what the hell was going on?

Didn't you invite Xue Ji to come to Qingshan to be the guardian? Why did you suddenly lock her into the Sword Prison?

Could it be that what you said in the nunnery was all lies, and you just wanted to trick her into Qingshan?

Jing Jiu didn't speak, and continued to walk, his footsteps were still steady, and when he landed on the ground, the sound he made was neither soft nor heavy as before.

I don't know whether his mood at this time is heavy or relaxed, or if he is not affected at all.

Qing'er felt even colder, not because of the cold veins at the bottom of the sword prison, not because of the terrifying monsters in the cells on both sides of the passage.

She felt that Jing Jiu was so scary, she didn't dare to sit on his shoulder any more, and quietly went back to Qingtianjian.

Jing Jiu knew what she was thinking, he didn't say anything to explain it, and he didn't pay any attention to it, and walked up to the dead dog.

The sky light falls, illuminating the bottom of the well.

The corpse dog and him looked at each other, did not speak, but clearly felt the heaviness in each other's hearts.

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Yes.

Jing Jiu agreed with Tong Yan's approach, and took the sleeping Xueji away from Lengshan, without notifying Qingshan or Baicheng, including waiting for her to wake up in the nunnery, and saying those things to her...all were false.

This is not a conspiracy, not a trick, not cold-blooded, not greedy, not shameless, but the only solution.

Xue Ji is the descendant of the queen, if she cannot be controlled and comes to the world, it is very likely to bring disaster to the human race.

All practice sects, including Guocheng Temple, and even evil sects like Xuanyin Sect will demand to kill her.

This situation is no different from the real Taiping back then.

Leave Xue Ji in Qingshan as a guard? This is impossible, and it will definitely attract siege from all over the world, even if Qingshan is not afraid... But why?

For some reasons, not related to sympathy, Jing Jiu didn't want Xue Ji to die, so he had to find a way to lock her up, and it was really possible to lock him up.

Looking at Chaotian Continent, where can Xue Ji be imprisoned?

Even if Canglong is not dead, Xue Ji cannot be imprisoned, because it is a living thing, not to mention that Canglong is dead now.

There is only Qingshan Sword Prison, and it can only be that cell.

That cell used to imprison Daoist Taiping, and the powerful restriction of freezing everything was arranged in advance.

Back then Jing Jiu was able to bring Zhao Layue into that cell because he was the key to the restriction.

Today he took Xue Ji into that cell, and then walked out, the process was to close the doors again with the key.

Now his state is far inferior to that of the past, and he cannot re-establish the Frozen Formation of Everything, but the doors are still those of the past, and the key is still that key.

Even if Xue Ji grows up a little bit, she is still not as strong as Daoist Taiping's realm for the time being. If the cell can hold Daoist Taiping for three hundred years, it can also imprison her.

When he left the cell, Jing Jiu acted calm and natural, but he was extremely nervous.

It wasn't a psychological struggle caused by guilt or pity, he was just worried that Xue Ji would find out the problem and rushed out ahead of time.

These were the most difficult steps in his life.

Such a tense moment has only been experienced three times in his long life.

The first time was the civil strife in Qingshan more than 600 years ago, he had a hot pot meal with his senior brother, and walked towards Mo Chengfeng with a sword in hand.

The second time was more than three hundred years ago, he had a hot pot meal with Liu Ci and Yuan Qijing, and walked towards his senior brother with a sword in hand.

Another time is today.

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In the passage, the sword intent has been completely hidden in the stone wall, and there is no sense of sharpness.

But apart from the tiniest things in the world, such as the mosquitoes in the Devil's Prison, nothing alive can pass through here.

Wrapped in a quilt, Xue Ji sat quietly on the bed in the cell, looking a little pitiful.

Suddenly, she looked up somewhere.

There was a soft snap.

An extremely small ice crystal fell to the ground and was smashed into pieces. It was not clear what it was.

It was a mosquito from the Demon Prison.

Jing Jiu has done many things with these mosquitoes that no one can see, but it doesn't mean anything to her.

The next moment, a very strange thing happened.

A thin line suddenly appeared on Xue Ji's face, extending from left to right.

It's like there is an invisible pen, drawing there.

The line was very red, like blood, and then slowly parted.

Xue Ji grinned and laughed silently.

Seems happy with it all.

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(I took my niece to a hot spring the night before, and one of my New Year’s wishes came true. When I went to see the stars in the middle of the night, the leader shouted by the lake, do you want to lie down and watch, and my niece and I lay down obediently. The starry sky is indeed more moving, but it’s also very cold... After a while, I got up from the cold and went back to the lake. I found the leader smiling and very satisfied.)