Chapter 210
At the top of the high tower, the faceless person glanced at Yu Miaomiao, who stood motionless in front of the large bell.
He had been imprisoned in this high tower for years. Except for the tower bottom, which he hadn’t explored, he was very familiar with every detail of the twelve floors above. The murals on the first floor were even deeply etched in his mind.
However, it was only now that he truly understood the real meaning of that ascension diagram within the mural sequence.
In the painting, the fated person and the tower inhabitant’s figures overlapped as they struck the great bell, attracting the ascension phenomenon.
Here, the overlapping could be easily seen as two people facing the great bell, one standing in front and one behind. The painting’s perspective was from behind them, as if to emphasize that they were two people, and a human shadow was also drawn within the body shape of the tower inhabitant.
But in reality, it referred to the fated person being inside the tower inhabitant’s body.
Wasn’t this exactly the current Yu Miaomiao?
This phenomenon of one body with two souls, while rare, wasn’t unheard of. If generalized, Tan Wenbin still had one body with three souls right now.
But souls also differed. The kind carried or attached to a body had a very obvious primary and secondary distinction, and the fate and fortune had a clear primary-secondary dependency.
However, with Yu Miaomiao, the relationship was relatively equal.
The “Yu family girl” should have been the direct daughter of the Yu family in this generation. Her status in the family was almost like Qin family’s A Li at present. With the fate and fortune bestowed by the Dragon King’s lineage, even if she was suppressed by the cat, it couldn’t change her essence.
As for that cat, it wasn’t a traditional accessory of the Yu family, nor was it a tool for a cat demon soul attachment. It had always occupied the absolute dominant position in this body. “Yu Miaomiao’s” own foolish and arrogant side was basically all contributed by it.
A Yuan recognizes the miss, which is this cat. The main force truly navigating the world was also this cat. Coupled with the fact that after the Yu family incident, the Dragon King’s lineage had already changed color, its current identity was not that of a rebellious chaotic cat demon eating its master. Strictly speaking, it was the current, more orthodox Miss Cat of the Yu family.
The unique equal one body, two souls, both their fates blessed by the Dragon King’s lineage. This allowed them to add two strokes to the great bell with the power of one person.
“Hehe.”
The faceless person let out a light chuckle. He believed that youth must have understood the painting’s implication long ago.
Ridiculous himself, in the midst of it all, yet so muddled, always confused.
Fortunately, fortune and fate are already complete, the path to immortality is open, we shall ascend!
The faceless person raised his head, bathed in the rosy clouds, and opened his arms.
On his face, devoid of the five senses, two rows of clear tears still flowed out.
He had already guessed his own identity, but he didn’t care. If the meaning of his existence was to carry out the obsession of becoming immortal, then let the facts speak for themselves!
Whoever wins is right; whoever succeeds is the main body.
Wait until I become immortal,
You,
Are just my former shed skin and encumbrance!
…
The bottom of the tower.
The purple chains were madly clashing.
The black-robed person fell into a state of mad anger.
However, no matter how much he struggled, it was all useless at this moment. The cage he had personally designed for himself at the beginning would continue to trap him.
Gradually, he calmed down, his eyes fixed on the chess game that had already ended:
“Become immortal… so be it, become immortal!”
The obsession was drawn away, but obsession could still breed.
Sometimes, believing and not believing weren’t that important in the face of reality.
…
Although the tower door wasn’t closed, the rosy clouds descended and instantly covered it.
This was due to Li Zhuiyuan getting out of the tower in time, otherwise he would also have been included.
Above, the emerald dome gradually became dyed with seven colors, abnormally gorgeous, solemn and respectful.
Inside the high tower, the restless dead on each floor all quieted down, no longer walking or colliding with the tower walls, all returning to their original seats.
The originally surging corpse group first stopped in their tracks, then collectively knelt down.
They had maintained this posture in the corpse pit for unknown years.
Not only were they densely packed on the platform, but also the black shadows within all the emerald barriers within sight, at this moment, were all performing a kneeling worship ritual towards the high tower.
Looking around in all directions, this scene truly made people feel a shock in their hearts, like an immortal palace descending, like ascending to bliss.
Lin Shuyou turned around on the spot while staring with his mouth wide open. He had grown up in a temple since childhood, and the temple itself was not lacking in paintings, scrolls, and wall carvings depicting immortals and gods. But he really didn’t expect that one day, he could personally witness it.
Those things depicted in the original temple… weren’t actually fake?
Tan Wenbin took out a camera from his backpack. This was still the prize he got when he attended a fortune-telling and geomancy exchange meeting in Jinling on behalf of his younger brother, Xiao Yuan.
After untying the shock pad and waterproof cloth, Tan Wenbin raised the camera and started taking pictures.
“Click! Click! Click!”
The shutter clicked non-stop, and even after the film was used up, it still continued.
Yin Meng took deep breaths non-stop. While deeply shocked, she couldn’t help but wonder if the Fengdu Emperor’s dojo was also this magnificent.
Runsheng licked his lips: “Grandpa, immortals ah…”
In this situation, people’s deep-seated yearning for immortals seemed to be illuminated into reality.
Even if their belief would become firmer, they couldn’t help but start to waver, feeling that there really were immortals in this world, and indeed a path to immortality.
The seven-colored rosy clouds gradually covered every emerald barrier, presenting a dreamlike, illusory, and wondrous world. Above their heads, the dome brewed a graceful, extending, glazed deep color, as if a huge, wondrous figure was descending step by step, like a fairy about to descend and lead everyone to immortality.
Strands of light wind sounded like streams flowing into the sea, first gathering, then rippling, and finally surrounding.
Even if they originally only believed by one percent, at this moment it could be completely amplified. The strong yearning and desire made everyone involuntarily want to kneel down and worship together.
Since they were here, worship once… what if, they could really ascend to immortality together?
Mist began to condense, shining in the rosy clouds, layer upon layer, like the cloud sea of the immortal realm, and it was orderly, like a ladder to heaven.
The initial scene was already enough to shock people. Now, more and more new immortal scenes appeared, making people even drier in the mouth.
Tan Wenbin put down his camera and stood with Yin Meng, Lin Shuyou, and Runsheng facing that cloud sea immortal ladder.
Zhao Yi sometimes showed longing, sometimes made efforts to shake his head to regain sobriety. The seam of the door of life and death on his forehead wriggled quickly, and then he unconsciously looked at the youth standing beside him, finding that the youth was still calm, as if completely unaffected.
Clearing his throat, Zhao Yi prepared to express his gratitude again: “Zhuiyuan brother…”
Zhao Yi was clear that if Yu Miaomiao hadn’t been tricked in, the one who should have been sacrificed was him, Zhao Yi.
That mural, if it matched, was a magical prophecy; if it didn’t match, it was nothing, just a reasonable error.
Li Zhuiyuan: “Do you believe in becoming immortal?”
Zhao Yi: “I… don’t believe~”
The last two words were bitten out as they floated away.
He did believe a little, even if it was just a little.
But he could feel that the youth completely didn’t believe it.
Zhao Yi was really curious, facing this scene, how exactly did this person surnamed Li do it?
As if detecting what was in Zhao Yi’s mind, Li Zhuiyuan opened his mouth and said:
“So beautiful, so delicate, so real… The person who designed this place back then, as long as they had a little belief in becoming immortal, it would be impossible to create such an excellent scene.”
It was gorgeous, it was spectacular, it was divine, yet it lacked any personal emotion.
Li Zhuiyuan, when he first followed A Li to learn painting, would make such a mistake. His paintings could embody all kinds of skills, but they never revealed emotion.
Zhao Yi: “Then we…”
Li Zhuiyuan lowered his head, looked at his own palm, and said: “Since you don’t believe in becoming immortal, why aren’t you running fast?”
Five clear heart talismans were placed in the youth’s hand, and blood mist appeared on his palm.
“Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish! Swish!”
Li Zhuiyuan flew one clear heart talisman to each of their foreheads. Even Zhao Yi on the side wasn’t left out, and the seam of the door of life and death was covered.
This wasn’t an illusion, nor was it a hallucination effect. It was purely their inner desires being hooked out, causing their hearts to be self-confused, like ordinary people who suddenly see a table full of money will be stunned and dazed.
As the clear heart talismans took effect, everyone’s eyes showed sobriety, and they gasped for air.
Li Zhuiyuan: “Those who want to be immortals stay, those who want to be people follow me and run!”
Runsheng bent down and let the youth get on his back.
No one would choose to stay. They all followed along and ran.
They passed through the kneeling corpse group. This time, no one felt that these people kneeling here were ridiculous and absurd.
Because they themselves had been attracted and immersed earlier. Some temptations were truly not something rationality could resist.
They weren’t actually smarter than them, nor were they calmer than them.
If they swapped places, they would probably also become them.
Li Zhuiyuan, on Runsheng’s back, saw the reader standing in the distance.
The moment he left the high tower, the control relationship between him and the reader was lifted.
Looking at those two large pieces of body again, they were already motionless. Obviously, when the rosy clouds descended, the black-robed person at the bottom of the tower lost control of the outside.
After the great battle, the reader’s clothes were torn and his body was damaged, yet he still maintained a broken, clear, cold pride.
Some habits, truly, are unforgettable until death.
Just at this moment, the reader suddenly moved. He stepped out and walked towards the high tower.
Li Zhuiyuan immediately turned back and looked at the high tower behind him. He found that the rosy clouds on the high tower were already getting deeper and deeper, vaguely as if dyed with a layer of golden light.
The ascension had opened, and the original damaged rules were being repaired. As a resident within the tower, the reader was naturally drawn back inside by the high tower.
Li Zhuiyuan had suspected very early on that this reader himself wasn’t too interested in the matter of becoming immortal. The reason he came here and went up to the eleventh floor was possibly just because he had no ability to revive his lover, so he could only entrust his hopes to the idea of becoming immortal, which he fundamentally didn’t believe in, as a kind of escape.
The most ridiculous thing was that earlier, when the reader flipped the book and the large pieces, his muscle memory unexpectedly shouted, “Zi Bu Yu Strange Force Chaos God.”
The reader’s steps were very slow, but his speed was very fast. In just a few blinks, he returned to the front of the tower door.
Just as he lifted his leg to enter the door, he flung his hand backward. The blank book in his hand flew backward, precisely towards the direction Li Zhuiyuan and the others were escaping.
Li Zhuiyuan: “Mengmeng!”
Yin Meng understood and threw out her demon whip. She rolled up the blank book and returned it, delivering it to Li Zhuiyuan’s hand.
Meanwhile, the reader had already stepped into the tower door and disappeared from sight.
Zhao Yi looked at the blank book in the youth’s hand and couldn’t help but exclaim: “How many relatives do you have in this tower exactly!”
It really wasn’t Zhao Yi’s fault for being jealous, because this was truly too absurd.
This person is about to leave, he forgot to take his things, and the corpse can still actively throw the lost things back to you?
Li Zhuiyuan put the blank book into his own bag and said: “He doesn’t want to destroy this book.”
Hearing these words, Zhao Yi no longer cared about being jealous and immediately urged Lin Shuyou, who was supporting him, to add a little more force.
Just as the group ran out of the platform and onto the white imperial road, they heard a giant sound in the air behind them, followed by a dazzling flash of white light.
Everyone subconsciously turned back, only to see that “goddess’s extended hand” had already pierced the dome, and a pure white, bright palm was probing downwards.
If only this instant picture was intercepted, then it would truly be a goddess descending and leading beings without doubt.
But as long as they looked down a little longer, they would discover that the goddess’s hand began to deform, constantly lengthening, lengthening again and again, unexpectedly like white magma pouring down like a waterfall!
The emerald dome earlier reflecting and burning with rosy clouds, and that wonderful goddess figure, was just the accumulation and flow of this weird magma.
That array of immortal music was the sound of gas flow expanding and squeezing under the influence of high temperature. That cloud sea immortal ladder was then the rising mist after impurities were melted.
Huge white magma vertically fell towards the high tower.
At the top of the tower, the faceless person with open arms let out a miserable wail: “No, no, no!”
Not because he felt the terrifying despair of the high temperature, not because the ascension failed, but because he finally realized:
Originally, there was fundamentally no ascension!
The faceless person could accept the failure of ascension, and could understand falling short. Earlier, when he felt he had already failed, he not only taught Li Zhuiyuan a suitable method to scrape the bell for fortune, but also actively chose to suicide and dissipate slowly.
After all, becoming immortal, where could it be that easy? Failure was also normal.
But the scene before his eyes clearly told him that here, from the beginning, there was simply no such thing as becoming immortal!
There was fundamentally no effort, and it was never possible.
“Hahaha!!!”
The white magma first swallowed the top of the tower. As the faceless person was being burned, he let out a laugh:
“Ancestor, why did you deceive me, ancestor, why did you deceive me, you deceived all of us ah!”
The magma covered the top floor and entered the eleventh floor.
The reader had already returned here, and he was still lying on the bed.
Just this time, he seemed to know that the blank book wasn’t in his hand, so he propped his head with one hand, and the other hand no longer held a book empty-handed, but placed it on his own leg, in a leisurely posture.
The magma first overflowed from the cracks, and soon again rushed open path after path. The reader remained motionless even when his body was completely swallowed by the magma.
Tenth floor, ninth floor, eighth floor…
All the Xuanmen dead, all the rules and regulations, sat at their own desks.
In life, they were powerful and extraordinary, and after death, their bodies were also full of all sorts of weirdness.
But now, all of them were dissolved in this white magma.
Perhaps they should all have originally returned to dust and earth. This was just a delayed end.
The majestic and mysterious high tower constantly melted and collapsed under the impact of the magma.
The white magma was omnipresent and began to flow down along the purple chains.
The black-robed person raised his head. After seeing this scene, he fell into a mad struggle again.
What he was waiting for was for the fruits to be stolen by himself, the rules to dissipate, and the high tower to collapse, absolutely not this outcome before his eyes.
The white magma flowed to his body, and the remaining corpse qi in his body rapidly evaporated.
“Ah ah ah!!!”
He let out a painful wail.
As his corpse qi rapidly disappeared, the last black piece in front of the chessboard, condensed with corpse qi, also dissipated and disappeared.
Originally, in this game of chess, he had not won.
After the white magma melted the walls, it began to surge in on a large scale. The black-robed person looked at the two ear rooms inside, where the coffins of his family members, whom he had killed and buried, were also swallowed and burned to nothing by the magma.
The black-robed person no longer struggled.
He let the magma constantly penetrate his body, letting his zombie body slowly be obliterated here.
At this moment, he finally enlightened why the ancestor had set such a terrifying prohibition in his grave, and why the ancestor had buried that book with him.
The prohibition would invalidate itself at a certain time. At that time, later generations of the clan would receive the induction and could safely enter the grave, see that book, and find this place.
“Hehe, hehehe, hehehehe!”
The black-robed person’s throat constantly emitted laughter.
He did not believe that becoming immortal could succeed, but he really didn’t expect that the ancestor’s layout was fundamentally unrelated to the so-called becoming immortal.
From the beginning, this was a thorough deception.
Continuously attracting people in, continuously letting them kill each other. All the people who held the dream of becoming immortal were all like consumables actively throwing themselves into the bonfire, only waiting for that great bell to be filled, unable to bear it, leading to the final incineration!
He also finally understood why the ancestor did this.
His family, historically, had not produced a Dragon King, but talented people had never been cut off. The toughness of their family inheritance was not inferior to that kind of traditional Dragon King family.
Just him, initially, even lost to that green-shirted person, but he could be defeated once and defeated again, every time he was defeated yet every time he could luckily survive, pick himself up, and come again.
Because his family always had continuous merit supplementing them.
Those Dragon King families still needed family successors to constantly walk the rivers and lakes to maintain their lineage from falling.
His family, then, had an ancestor who had laid out here early, continuously attracting heretics who longed for immortality but were not favored by heaven to prune themselves here, thereby gaining merit.
After long-term accumulation, today was full, and a bigger wave was coming, reducing all their remaining hazards to nothing.
This was also the reason why the ancestor set the prohibition time, allowing the clan to find this place through that book. The ancestor was letting the clan come here to receive the last big merit.
As a result, he came early!
He personally killed the entire clan, brought the entire clan, and they all came early!
At this moment, the black-robed person felt that he was the biggest joke in this world.
In his mind, the sentence that the youth who had just played chess with him had said suddenly came to mind:
“You are truly pitiful.”
…
The white magma was still pouring down continuously from top to bottom. After completely melting the high tower, it spread further to the surroundings.
The kneeling corpses on the platform were all swallowed by this magma. After the magma covered them, it naturally flowed to the low places of this platform.
Here, the two largest low places were just those two corpse pits.
Inside the pits, there were still many corpses that hadn’t come out earlier. At this time, with the injection of magma, all traces of them were swallowed.
Originally, these two corpse pits were used for pouring.
On the imperial road, seeing this terrifying scene, Lin Shuyou swallowed his saliva hard.
This beautiful immortal palace actually turned into doomsday hell in an instant.
If his younger brother, Xiao Yuan, hadn’t shouted to wake them up earlier and told everyone to run quickly, now, he was probably already vaporized in there.
Zhao Yi breathed a long sigh of relief. He had guessed that such an outcome would happen, otherwise he wouldn’t have repeatedly said that he owed the person surnamed Li a life.
But when this scene really fell into his eyes, he still felt deep despair and fear.
Zhao Yi: “What is the meaning of the layout here, exactly?”
Li Zhuiyuan: “Someone very early on, here acted as a white glove for heaven.”
Zhao Yi: “Did he succeed?”
Li Zhuiyuan: “He was exterminated.”
At this time, Tan Wenbin suddenly shouted in fear: “Look quickly!”
Not only above the platform, but the high emerald barriers on both sides here also began to turn white.
This meant that all the emeralds inside this secret realm would soon turn into that terrifying white magma. This was going to completely swallow this place, leaving no trace!
The crowd dared not delay. Even though they were all tired, they still had to run desperately for their lives.
Magma constantly sprayed out from both sides. Each spray was like a white crystal hand scooping outwards.
In this terrifying scene, the crowd was like tiny ants running for their lives.
By the time the group ran out of the imperial road, not only had most of the imperial road behind them melted and collapsed, but magma had also spread in front of them.
Fortunately, this huge black water vortex could still block it for a while, but they couldn’t delay, otherwise even if they weren’t burned dry, they would be boiled first.
Li Zhuiyuan: “Yin Meng, use your leather whip to tie everyone to Runsheng’s body!”
Yin Meng did it immediately. One end of the demon whip wrapped around Runsheng’s waist, and the rest of the parts wrapped around everyone else’s wrists respectively.
Li Zhuiyuan: “Runsheng, open your qi gate fully, and rush out of the vortex!”
They had spent a lot of time crossing this black water vortex in batches when they came earlier. This time, it would obviously not be enough time.
Zhao Yi: “I didn’t expect that the special skill I always didn’t let Runsheng use as a last resort would actually be used for escaping with our lives in the end.”
Tan Wenbin: “Just say whether it’s worth it or not.”
“Plop!”
Everyone jumped into the black water. Immediately, Runsheng’s qi gate was fully opened, pulling everyone forward quickly.
Although Runsheng usually didn’t like to use his brain, he remembered clearly that every time Xiao Yuan arranged an array position for him, he was never wrong.
Therefore, even if it was completely black underwater and there was fundamentally no visibility, since they had walked here once, they would return along the original path this time.
After the group swam past the stone door, the place where they had cooked and eaten earlier, which opened up like a square in Shichahai, was now also filled with black water. The originally emerald school below it was also overflowing with white light at this moment.
Obviously, the black shadows of the “teachers and students” inside must have already been incinerated, and the magma would overflow soon.
The temperature in the water was constantly rising, bringing a scalding sensation.
The group had come out from the puppet classroom earlier. At this time, white light penetrating the black water had already appeared there. Obviously, the magma had overflowed from there first.
And the direction from which Yu Miaomiao and A Yuan came out of the beast control classroom also had white light appearing.
These two doors could not be entered.
Li Zhuiyuan caressed Runsheng’s neck with his palm, indicating for Runsheng to swim in another direction.
That was the direction of the third classroom, the array.
There was still no white light there.
Runsheng understood and quickly swam towards there.
After arriving there, everyone passed through that wriggling large door. This large door isolated the black water outside.
But the big guys didn’t have time to rest anymore, because all the emerald pillars here were changing color, and the magma would soon fill up here.
Runsheng “plopped” and knelt on the ground. He had endured until now. Now, the side effects of the fully opened qi gate could no longer be suppressed.
Li Zhuiyuan: “Lin Shuyou!”
Lin Shuyou: “Understood!”
A You immediately went up to the medium, and the child descended again, again, and again.
This time, Lin Shuyou felt that when the child descended, he was a little weak.
However, the child’s vertical pupil just swept the terrifying temperature brewing inside the emerald, and immediately knew that the last critical moment had arrived.
The child didn’t hesitate to reach into his backpack, take out a talisman needle, and insert it into his own body!
In an instant, like hitting a strong heart stimulant, the child’s momentum rose again.
He wanted to hug Li Zhuiyuan in the first step, but was directed to Runsheng on the ground by the youth’s finger.
The child immediately carried Runsheng on his back.
Zhao Yi went forward like a weak willow swaying in the wind. He had also consumed a lot and his body was also very weak.
The child’s vertical pupil glanced at Zhao Yi.
He didn’t know why, but there was a kind of impulse in his heart to blast this sick seedling with one punch.
But fortunately, he had very strong self-control. Without saying anything, he directly clamped Zhao Yi under his arm.
Seeing that the youth decided to walk by himself, the child no longer said anything. He just had one free hand to hold the trident and smash open the road by blocking the emerald pillars in front of him.
Inside the array classroom, there were dense pillars everywhere. The existence of these pillars seriously affected the progress of the crowd, but fortunately, the child quickly cleared the way, and Li Zhuiyuan, Yin Meng, and Tan Wenbin followed behind and ran very fast.
One coffin was placed in the center, the coffin lid was open, and Zhen Shaonan should have been lying here earlier.
The coffin was very high. Li Zhuiyuan didn’t even look and ran directly past.
When Tan Wenbin passed by, he didn’t hesitate, jumped up and glanced inside, saw several crystal board books inside, immediately reached in and took them out, and packed them into his own bag.
Just as he jumped down from the coffin, white magma had already erupted. Tan Wenbin shouted for his two dry sons to help him carry his backpack a little to reduce his burden, and then sprinted with all his full strength, starting to run madly.
Fortunately, he finally caught up with the main group.
Li Zhuiyuan turned back and glanced at Tan Wenbin, but didn’t say anything.
One was because it wasn’t the time to speak, and the other was that the youth knew that if he turned back and said he shouldn’t have risked taking things inside the coffin, Tan Wenbin would definitely respond: Sigh, these are the only things I can do for the team.
Bai He Zi both cleared the way and carried people. By the time they left the classroom and came to the tunnel, the time limit had just arrived.
He used the talisman needle this time, so the time was only this segment.
It wasn’t that he compressed his work time, but that he had already been squeezed dry here.
Using the last bit of strength, the child knelt on one knee, and put Runsheng and Zhao Yi down steadily.
Subsequently, he didn’t even have time to look at the youth more, and directly left the body and departed.
Without more words, Tan Wenbin immediately went forward to take over and activated the ghost control technique.
The two dry sons immediately became active, entering their own dry dad’s body. Tan Wenbin’s body swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye.
He first carried Runsheng on his back, then clamped Zhao Yi with his left arm and Lin Shuyou with his right arm, and continued to run.
They had already reached the tunnel area. Probably due to the influence of the white magma erupting inside, the ground in the tunnel here began to tilt downwards, and the emerald barriers on the left and right sides as well as above had already turned milky white, and impatient magma dropped down from time to time.
Running here, not only did they have to pay attention to their feet, but also watch out for drops from above.
Zhao Yi witnessed this entire escape process. He subconsciously opened his mouth and asked:
“Is this wave particularly dangerous, or is it always like this for you?”
This wave, he, Zhao Yi, originally didn’t need to participate. It was because he detected that his heart was almost not working to the point of death that he actively rolled in.
So, he was really curious now, was it because this wave was special, or did the person surnamed Li always experience this kind of difficulty?
Tan Wenbin: “Last time, all the members were overdrawn and in a coma, but fortunately, we met you.”
Zhao Yi: “What do you mean ‘fortunately’? I was also in great danger, okay!”
Tan Wenbin: “If you have the energy to argue, then come down and run by yourself!”
Zhao Yi immediately shut his mouth.
The tunnel ground tilted more and more, and the bottom was also constantly turning upwards.
But there was also good news because of this. That was that the white magma inside the emerald barriers first flowed downwards because of this, taking the lead to touch that huge stone door.
This white magma was indeed terrifying. Cracks soon appeared in the stone door under its erosion.
The place that originally needed an “invitation” mark to enter no longer needed door control later. However, there was also no longer any necessity to re-enter here.
After rushing over the stone door, the effect of Tan Wenbin’s ghost control technique just reached the critical point, but the white magma in the tunnel behind was erupting with an accumulating momentum, welcoming the most rapid eruption.
Along with this, the surrounding area also experienced earthquake-like shaking, and the snow on the peaks on both sides began to collapse.
In front was the upward time staircase.
Li Zhuiyuan: “Jump!”
Tan Wenbin used all his strength, bringing himself and the three people on his body to jump forward together. Yin Meng immediately threw out her demon whip and bound herself and everyone to ensure that they would not be scattered in the subsequent earthquake and avalanche.
And in the moment before the crowd fell, the youth waved his right hand downwards, and a smooth ceramic belt appeared on the original stairs, allowing everyone to borrow the falling momentum like sliding.
The terrifying scorching breath and snow and ice intertwined, and the whole world seemed to fall into a state of turning heaven and earth upside down.
Li Zhuiyuan exhausted his qi and blood to constantly urge the ceramic to help everyone turn. The youth persisted for a long time. After probably detecting that the crowd had slid to a safe area, Li Zhuiyuan closed his eyes.
He was too tired and needed to rest for a while, preferably to sleep for a while.
He didn’t know how long he had been sleeping, but Li Zhuiyuan just heard footsteps and immediately opened his eyes.
His line of sight was completely red, which should be blood flowing from his eyes.
After forcefully blinking his eyes, the blood color faded, but it was replaced by a white color.
This was snow. He was buried in the snow.
“Shua la shua la!”
The snow above was being dug away.
Li Zhuiyuan’s right hand gripped slightly, ready to make a move at any time.
He saw a pair of furry claws digging open the snow above him. Above, a weasel face was revealed.
The weasel straightened its body, and its face changed, gradually turning into a human face.
The weasel saw Li Zhuiyuan open his eyes, and then began to solemnly salute Li Zhuiyuan.
From afar, the surprised voice of Brother Fat Jin came:
“Thank you, Wood King Lord, I finally found them!”
…
Brother Fat Jin had rich experience in field survival, and because he had just organized a mountain search team not long ago, this time it could be said that he was familiar with calling people up to help again.
Li Zhuiyuan and the others were transported down by car.
Many people came to rescue this time. After going back, they all swore that they had seen the Wood King Lord this time, and the Wood King Lord had followed their search team and walked for several days.
He only appeared in the morning, noon, and evening, looking from a distance, but it was not wrong, absolutely the Wood King Lord.
At Li Zhuiyuan’s request, Brother Fat Jin did not send the big guys to the hospital, but settled them in his own homestay.
…
After this wave ended, the sunlight in Lijiang also became brighter.
Li Zhuiyuan sat on a chair in the corridor, basking in the sun.
His vision recovered somewhat, but he still had some headache.
Yin Meng sat blankly opposite in the courtyard, watching her gu insects flying back and forth in front of her.
Both of her arms were in casts. When they jumped and slid down earlier, she bore a lot of pressure in order to tightly tie everyone with the leather whip. When her left arm broke, she changed to her right arm and continued.
After landing, she still sent out her gu insects to fly and find people.
It was just unknown whether the gu insects found the Wood King Lord or whether the Wood King Lord detected them himself.
Anyway, when Yin Meng asked that gu insect, the gu insect’s two tentacles shook quickly, meaning that it had led the weasel, absolutely!
Yin Meng, who couldn’t use both arms temporarily, was a little bored.
In the morning, she still told Li Zhuiyuan that everyone else was in a coma, and since she was idle, she might as well start extracting poison. She always felt insecure if there was no poison beside her.
Li Zhuiyuan asked her how she would extract it if her hands couldn’t be used.
She said she could use her feet.
Li Zhuiyuan praised her spirit, and then refused her proposal.
When Yin Meng extracted poison at home in the past, accidents always happened. Now, extracting poison with her feet in someone else’s home was really too dangerous.
Zhao Yi, with a bandage wrapped around his forehead and supported by a crutch, staggered over. After seeing Yin Meng, he waved his hand at her and kindly greeted:
“Good morning, Broken Arm Venus.”
Yin Meng snorted at Zhao Yi.
Zhao Yi walked to Li Zhuiyuan’s side, helped the youth brew tea, and then sat down.
Inside the room on the other side, Sun Yan and Xu Ming were responsible for taking care of Runsheng and the others.
Even Zhao Yi felt that he and his subordinates were increasingly becoming the external medical team for the team surnamed Li.
He should have known early on that he should have put effort into researching their weaknesses instead of enduring heavy injuries one after another.
Li Zhuiyuan finished his flower tea and took a sip.
Zhao Yi lifted his own clothes, revealing his chest. The wound on it had already grown tender skin, and from the seam, one could see colorful stones embedded inside.
Brother Fat Jin said that when he found Zhao Yi, he thought Zhao Yi was already dead because there was no heartbeat.
Then the Wood King Lord found some stones, filled them in one by one, and then miraculously, Zhao Yi’s heartbeat appeared again.
Cats have their ways, rats have their ways, and weasels can stand up to pee.
Sometimes, the problem you seek solutions for everywhere might have an answer in the hands of an inadvertent little person or even a small animal.
Zhao Yi: “Don’t say, the positive seal I initially gave to that weasel before entering the stone door, it is also grateful.
If it wasn’t for it, even if we escaped from there, we wouldn’t necessarily be able to all descend the mountain intact.
At least, I should have died.”
Li Zhuiyuan: “You also gave it a positive seal.”
Zhao Yi: “Ah, yes, yes, yes, we were lucky.”
Li Zhuiyuan: “Not luck.”
Zhao Yi: “It’s cause and effect. But you, this guy is so cold to people, yet that day you were so good to that weasel.”
Li Zhuiyuan: “Because before entering the door, when I saw it, I had some premonition.”
Zhao Yi narrowed his eyes: “Tell me more specifically, I can feel that you, kid, play more tricks than I do.”
Li Zhuiyuan lowered his head again and drank tea.
Zhao Yi smiled: “Right, you said that black-robed person at the bottom of the tower, why didn’t he send out more corpse qi from the beginning, why was he so stingy? First thirty percent, then add ten percent. If he had added more, your controlled reader, I’m afraid, couldn’t stop him. Alas, in the end, he still calculated small accounts while doing big things.”
Li Zhuiyuan shook his head and put down his teacup: “His clone has drawbacks and strong independence. In fact, the forty percent he sent out in the end was already the limit. Any more… it would be hard to say who the main body is. He himself might just become a clone.”
Zhao Yi: “Oh, so that was the problem, no wonder. Alas, this wave was really dangerous. I don’t know how much merit I can get from the division.”
Li Zhuiyuan: “Your heart problem is solved, what else are you coveting?”
Zhao Yi: “No, aren’t you expecting it?”
Li Zhuiyuan: “This time, I have learned many things in this wave. After going back, I will slowly digest them.”
Zhao Yi understood. This was probably the reason why the youth could distribute a large amount of merit to his subordinates.
“Alas.” Young Master Zhao sighed, “Thinking about that black-robed person’s family, it’s really quite pitiful. The ancestor was so powerful, able to set up such a scheme in the secret realm. Originally, he should have been the main beneficiary of heaven’s imperial grain, but he actually caused his own clan’s extermination. In the end, he didn’t gain anything, wasting this huge merit.”
“You sit for a while first, I’ll go wash my face.”
“Go ahead, the sun is good today, suitable for me to sun my heart.”
Li Zhuiyuan stood up and walked into the room, turned on the faucet and caught water in the basin, then buried his whole face in the basin, and gently kneaded the sides of his face with both hands.
When the youth lifted his head, half a thin human face skin was peeled off by him.
Qingtan, March Forest.
This was the ancestral grave location the faceless person told him.
In fact, what Zhao Yi just said was not too accurate.
That family, it’s possible they didn’t gain nothing.
He must make time next to first find the current location of this place name, and then go to that ancestral grave to take a look.
According to reason, the corpse without face skin should still be lying inside that grave now.
It would be good if it was still there. If not, it just meant that ancestor who once laid out the ascension scheme… was the true and only beneficiary.
Since he could deceive and sacrifice others to exchange for merit with heaven, then why couldn’t he also sacrifice his own descendants and clan? The black-robed person said earlier that he was able to enter the ancestral grave in advance because he was “dead”. Was it really just because of luck?
Looking at the half face skin in his hand, a guess emerged in Li Zhuiyuan’s mind:
The one who truly wanted to fly up and become immortal, wouldn’t it be just him?
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