Tuk-tuk-tuk.
In the ruined temple, there was a sound of knocking wooden fish, the tone was extremely desolate, and it seemed particularly desolate in this wilderness.
Ye Chen approached the ruined temple and saw a man in monk's robes, a lonely figure, knocking on a wooden fish with his head lowered.
"Master, are you Xiahou Zhenglong?"
Ye Chen stepped into the temple and saw that the man in monk's robes had a bald head and six ordination scars on his forehead. He was indeed a monk, and his body had a calm cause and effect. He had obviously kept the precepts and meditated for many years.
When the monk heard Ye Chen's words, he stopped knocking on the wooden fish and turned around.
Ye Chen was shocked when he saw his front.
But I saw that this monk looked like a middle-aged man, but his eyes were particularly miserable and he seemed to have experienced tremendous torture and suffering. His face was dull and sluggish, and he said: "The poor monk's name is dead, worldly." I don’t remember the name anymore.”
Ye Chen said: "Master, if you don't remember the worldly name, do you still remember a person?"
The monk's body trembled and he remained silent.
Ye Chen continued: "That man's name is Jian Wuming. Master, you took him to the Hongjun Secret Realm back then. Master, do you still remember?"
According to the information Xue Tianyin gave Ye Chen, it was Xiahou Zhenglong who brought Jian Wuming with him into Hongjun's secret realm.
Now, Ye Chen doesn't know where Hongjun's secret realm is at all, so he can only ask Xiahou Zhenglong.
The monk was horrified when he heard Ye Chen's words.
He looked dull and sad just now, but this time, his mood was touched by Ye Chen, and his mood changed very drastically. His face was full of pain and helplessness, and even the calm aura of cause and effect on his body was affected and became extremely violent.
Ye Chen said: "Is the master really Xiahou Zhenglong?"
The monk was silent for a while, and finally sighed and said, "Donor, who are you, and who sent you here?"
Ye Chen said: "I am a guest of the Hongjun Sword Sect, Ye Chen, the Hongjun Sword Sect has had a big change, and Jian Wuming needs to go back to deal with it. I also ask the master to inform him of his whereabouts. I know that he is in the Hongjun Secret Realm, but I can't find him." Not to the location of Hongjun’s secret realm.”
The monk's face twitched, and his expression of pain was even worse.
He is obviously Xiahou Zhenglong, and there is a huge causal connection between him and Jian Wuming.
Seeing him in such pain, Ye Chen felt vaguely uncomfortable and said, "Master, did Jian Wuming have an accident?"
Xiahou Zhenglong hunched his back and lowered his head, as if he was lost in long-lasting memories, and said: "I don't know, he... he should be dead. He broke the hand holding the sword, so there is no way he could have survived. Donor, my sins are too serious. I can only stay with the Ancient Buddha of Qingdeng for the rest of my life to wash away my sins. Please leave, I will continue to think about my mistakes."
Ye Chen was shocked in his heart, but he remembered the words of the Shifang Sword Master and said: "No, Jian Wuming is still alive, he is not dead."
The Shifang Sword Master said that he could sense Jian Wuming's aura in the Hongjun Secret Realm, and he was still alive and well. However, in the past tens of thousands of years, the Dark Forbidden Sea's ground had changed too much. The entrance to the Hongjun Secret Realm had been changed many times, and he could no longer find it. It was time to step into the secret realm to find someone, so he asked Ye Chen to search for him.
Xiahou Zhenglong was shocked and said: "Jian Wuming, he... is he still alive? He broke the hand holding the sword, can he still survive?"
Ye Chen said: "His master, the Sword Master of the Ten Directions, can capture his vitality and there will be no falsehood. I want to know what happened back then. You said that the sword was nameless and the hand holding the sword was broken?"
When Xiahou Zhenglong heard that Jian Wuming was still alive, he was excited and happy, but when he heard Ye Chen's question, he felt ashamed and sad, and he hesitated for a moment without speaking.
Ye Chen said: "Master, the cause and effect of the past is of great importance. Please let me know."
Xiahou Zhenglong was silent for a while, and finally sighed and said: "Amitabha, I am ashamed to say that more than 10,000 years ago, I took the sword Wuming and stepped into the Hongjun secret realm. He wanted to find the ultimate sword, and I wanted to find that earth vein. crystallization."
Ye Chen said: "Earth vein crystal?"
Xiahou Zhenglong said: "Exactly, for millions of years, the treasures of Hongjun's secret realm have been evacuated. However, deep in the secret realm, there is still a piece of earth vein crystal hidden, which contains the monstrous spiritual energy of the entire secret realm. Once it is refined, Transformation can change fate against the will of heaven, and I only discovered the record of earth vein crystallization from ancient family books."
Ye Chen's heart moved. Hongjun's secret realm was the dojo of ancestor Hongjun in the past. The crystallization of the earth veins was extremely precious. It might even contain ancestor Hongjun's Taoism and fortune. Its value was not as great as that of Jiutian God. How bad is the skill?
"What happened next?" Ye Chen asked next.
Xiahou Zhenglong showed a hint of regret and pain, and said: "Later, Jian Wuming and I were searching for treasures in Hongjun's secret realm, but unexpectedly met the sword master of the Annihilation Sky Sword, Hong Tianjing."
"Hong Tianjing!?"
When Ye Chen heard this name, he was immediately shocked: "Did Hong Tianjing also go to Hongjun's Secret Realm back then?"
Xiahou Zhenglong said: "Exactly, back then Hong Tianjing, on the orders of the Wanxu Ancestor, went to the Celestial Realm to hunt down the Eternal Saint Emperor and prevent him from ascending."
"Before going to the Celestial Realm, he passed through the Dark Forbidden Sea and discovered the entrance to the Hongjun Secret Realm. He went in to hunt for treasures and accidentally met us."
Ye Chen said: "Did you have a dispute with him?"
Xiahou Zhenglong said: "It's not a dispute, it's a killing. That Hong Tianjing is simply a mad dog with a very vicious temper. He knew that Jian Wuming was the chief true successor of Hongjun Sword Sect, so he forced him to hand over the secret method of Hongjun Swordsmanship. Jian Wuming When he refused, the two sides started fighting."
After a pause, Xiahou Zhenglong's rickety body began to tremble, and he said: "That Hong Tianjing is a strong man at the level of Tianjun, and he holds the Annihilation Heaven Sword, and his martial arts magical powers are almost heaven-defying. I saw him take action, and the sword energy rays killed him. Traveling thousands of miles, it was earth-shattering, and I was very scared."
Ye Chen nodded slightly when he heard this.
Indeed, when Hong Tianjing first came, he had not yet been defeated and sealed by the goddess. At the peak of his cultivation, he was the supreme king, crushing all directions, so he was naturally extremely powerful.
Even Ye Chen is no match for Hong Tianjing at his peak. If he really fights, he will definitely die.
Xiahou Zhenglong continued: "I hid and didn't dare to fight. Jian Wuming was alone against Hong Tianjing. Compared with Hong Tianjing, his cultivation level was very different, but with his magical swordsmanship, he could actually be calm. Undefeated.”
"He knew that Hong Tianjing had a mission and couldn't stay long, so he wanted to defend and delay it, and asked me to come over to help in the battle. I... I was afraid of Hong Tianjing's power. I was scared to the point of weak legs, but I didn't dare to fight."
Having said this, Xiahou Zhenglong's face was full of shame and self-blame, and he felt ashamed.
Ye Chen had vaguely guessed something, and said, "Then, did Jian Wuming lose?"
Xiahou Zhenglong nodded and said: "The gap in realm was too great after all. He couldn't defend himself alone. After a long fierce battle, Hong Tianjing finally cut off his right arm, and the hand holding the sword was completely gone."
