The little sword slave was stunned for a moment and said, "What?"
Tang Zhao said: "Now, do you feel that heartbreaking pain?"
It's the kind of pain that the sword enters the body and emanates from the soul. There is no way to avoid or endure the pain.
The sword slave said: "Well...that's not the case?"
He had some reaction, lowered his head, and suddenly found that his feet were already off the ground.
Keeping your feet off the ground is a taboo that sword slaves must pay attention to when walking, because it will cause the pain that has been temporarily pinned in Wang Liang to resurge. However, he was unaware of the pain at this time. If Tang Zhao hadn't reminded him, he wouldn't have even realized that he had violated the taboo.
He was shocked and confused for a moment, as if he had realized something, but found it difficult to think about such a profound question.
Tang Zhao stopped asking him and looked at the sword slaves rushing to the sand dunes. He suddenly smiled.
Xingwu walked in front, still remembering Xingqi's initiative to come behind, so he didn't walk very fast. At this time, I turned around and saw Tang Zhao's smile. He was a little annoyed and said, "Why are you laughing? Come on, follow me. The water is coming up!"
Tang Zhao no longer hesitated and immediately followed him, shoulder to shoulder, and when he reached his side, he asked softly: "Lao Wu, do you still remember what the master promised you?"
Xingwu hesitated for a moment, seeing that no one was listening around him, and Xingqi was the master's confidant again, Fang whispered: "I remember, he said... he told me to break the cage, abandon the pain, and embrace the outside world."
Tang Zhao smiled at him and said: "Yes! The cage will definitely be broken, and a new world will definitely come!"
Xing Wu was confused and didn’t know why he suddenly said such a sentence.
Tang Zhao stopped talking, and the two of them ran towards the sand dune together.
When they arrived at the sand dune, they saw Xing Cang giving instructions halfway up the hill, with Xing Jiu following him like an attendant.
Just now at Sunset Manor, Xing Cang almost said nothing. In front of Tu Fei, Xing Cang seemed like a haggard old man, letting Tang Zhao, the deputy general manager of Xing Qi, take the lead in everything. He seemed weak, but at this critical moment, only the people from Changfa Manor were left. At this time, he didn't have to deliberately intimidate or show any momentum. When he stood there, he naturally showed the authority of "this is a notice, not a discussion."
All the people who came out of Changfa Manor spontaneously gathered around him. Even though the sand dune was actually very spacious and could accommodate more people, everyone still spontaneously centered around him and stopped on the lower level, looking up at him and automatically forming a formation. Just like the wild goose formation, Xing Cang is the leader of the wild goose flock.
Tang Zhao and Xingwu came to the sand dunes, just in time to catch up with the last group of sword slaves going up the mountain.
Although the little sword slaves were unexpectedly "pardoned" in this storm, walking on the sand was already difficult, climbing the dunes was even more difficult, and their bodies were far from strong. They had run all the way to this point. At the end of their strength, some people struggled to climb up in the sand dunes using their hands and feet, while others were trembling and unable to move, as if they could no longer move.
Xing Cang looked down and said: "Those who can't walk will follow the team and move forward. Don't stop! Those who are in the team will not die, and those who fall behind will definitely die. Xing Jiu."
Xing Jiu, who has been following Xing Cang, said: "Yes."
Xing Cang said: "If anyone falls behind and hesitates to move forward, just kick him down. Tell him to fall into the quiet water. The quiet water leads directly to the shadow abyss. Anyway, he will die, but it will be a happier death. Come back to the shadow as soon as possible. Yuan would have been born long ago."
Xingjiu agreed, and his voice was very loud as he asked and answered. The sword slaves on the sand dune were all awe-inspiring. Regardless of whether they could move or not, they gritted their teeth and climbed up. In a short time, everyone had climbed a long way up, at least to the middle of the mountain.
Tang Zhao also agreed with Xing Cang's approach. Now the Youshui has spread under the sand dunes and is about to come up the mountain. If anyone really falls behind, not to mention falling into the water, even if he gets a little bit of water, he may suffer unexpected consequences. It's a good thing to be able to force them to stir up their last breath.
At this time, Xing Cang saw Tang Zhao and Xing Wu, hooked his hands, and motioned for the two to come closer.
Tang Zhao stepped forward and followed him, automatically joining the "wild geese queue".
Xing Cang looked into the distance and said slowly: "Is this the first time you guys have seen You disaster?"
Tang Zhao said: "Yes. You Calamity is a legend to us. Have you seen it before?"
Just like when he was explaining Yinglang Bridge, Xing Cang showed a clear expression and said with emotion: "Have you lived for a long time? I have seen a little bit of everything. It's not surprising that you haven't seen it, not even the second level." How come you have seen the Underworld Disaster? The Underworld Disaster is passed down from top to bottom. Our third level may not happen once every hundred years, but the second level only happens once every few years. That level is said to happen every year."
I heard someone say: "It happens every year, that's the old almanac. Now it happens every month."
When Tang Zhao turned around, he saw a person climbing up from the other side of the dune.
It was actually Tu Fei.
Tang Zhao was very surprised: Didn't Tufei's spaceship crash on the other side? Is it still some distance from the sand dunes? Why are you here again?
Then he suddenly realized: This is the highest point of this sandy land. Where can we go if we don't come here to avoid the flood? Tufei definitely couldn't wait for the spacecraft to fall before climbing out. He must have left in mid-air.
Kongliang Mountain is closed to air, and only specially approved spacecraft can take off. After Tufei came down, he had to land on the ground to avoid the disaster, and then moved over again when he saw that this place was suitable.
It's just that he looked embarrassed at this time, and there was no one around him.
Could it be that...he was the only one left in the ship full of people?
It shouldn't be. There are swordsmen and attendants on his ship? Can't the swordsman escape?
What happened on the ship?
Tu Fei stared at the rapidly rising black water, frowned, and said, "You guys, have you brought some incense?"
At this time, Xing Cang had returned to his position as leader, so he naturally had to answer the question. He came up and said, "The master in long clothes is joking. Our third-level manor does not enshrine the Panying envoy, so how can we carry the incense?"
Tang Zhao listened and kept it in his mind silently. This section was a blind spot in his knowledge, so he really couldn't answer it.
However, from just these few conversations, he gained a lot of information and could roughly guess what they were talking about.
Panxiang...Panying, probably the snake of Panying, right?
At the foot of Anxi Mountain, he saw the giant gray snake. He thought it was an envoy of the Snake Abyss, similar to the raccoon dog he saw on Yinglang Bridge. The coiled incense should be the incense dedicated to the coiled snake. I don’t know whether it is the coiled incense as the name suggests or an ordinary string incense.
It is said that gods enjoy the fireworks of the human world. Do those beasts and beasts also eat incense?
You haven’t seen Yuanshi’s temple yet?
With so few people in Kongliang Mountain, so many Yuanshi can eat incense without starving to death?
Tufei sighed and said: "Although your third-level manor is generally not qualified to worship the Yuanshi, it is different today. Can't you work hard to please the last Yuanshi? With the support of the Yuanshi, it is easier to get favors. It’s not like we are inherently weaker than Sunset Manor. Today, there are more and more envoys than before, and some envoys are willing to condescend to accept offerings from third-level manors. Some manors have also done the same. You are lagging behind."
That's what he said, but the reason why he came so far to find the people in Changfa Manor was just to see if there was any chance of getting Panxiang. He called the Panyingyuan envoy here to use its power. to quell this disaster.
Although the disaster will eventually subside, if he waits here for a few days in vain and wastes time, his submerged spaceship will really be hopeless. The ship was also valuable to him. It was completely damaged by the water, and there was no way to repair it. His losses were considerable, and even ten trips to Changfa Manor could not make up for the damage.
But there is nothing we can do now. If we don’t have it, we don’t have it, and we can’t change it. We can only wait for the disaster to subside, or for a passing envoy to deal with it.
Xing Cang actually didn't like him here. The nominal first-order village leader's status was too high, which greatly squeezed his position. He asked: "Don't you have a sacrificial formation to contact Lord Pan Ying?"
Just like Tufei, he didn't want to waste time. What's the fun in gathering so many people on this sand dune for several days? Not to mention it would delay the important business he was about to deal with.
Even though he is calm and composed now, it is because in front of others, he wants to scold his mother when encountering this kind of thing. He only thinks in his mind: Did he provoke the bad guy recently? One accident after another, everything goes wrong? If there is any Yuan envoy who can remove bad luck, I can offer it to him.
Tufei said helplessly: "The You disaster is the most special disaster in Zongliang Mountain. Once it happens, all communication will be disabled. That's why the incense coil is special, and I can only pray. It can hear it, but it can't respond. Alas, the ghost disaster is the worst disaster. Lord Pan Ying has repeatedly told us to be careful. Now it happens more and more frequently. Let alone once a year, now it happens once a month at the first level, sometimes twice. . The two adults..."
He stopped abruptly.
Tang Zhao hoped that if he kept talking, he would hear more news, but Tu Fei also knew that trouble comes from his mouth. His tacit talk had already revealed a lot of inside information, and it was time to be alert, so he remained silent.
There was silence on the dune.
Time passes gradually.
Everyone watched helplessly as the Youshui flooded out of control and turned into a vast desert. The storms in the sky became more and more frequent, and black thunder snakes appeared and died one after another in the pale white dome. Their number was more than the stars in the sky. It seems that the sky will be torn apart by countless cracks in the next moment, the sky will completely collapse, and the world will be destroyed.
The sky is pale white, the water is jet black, and all the gray in between is covered, leaving only two distinct layers of heaven and earth. The people sitting on the sand dunes of the isolated island feel like they are a drop in the ocean, ready to be swallowed up by the world at any moment. Their hearts are filled with panic and despair.
Tang Zhao watched silently and thought of the myth "Pangu opened the world". When the egg-like world was split open by Pangu's giant axe, the clean air rose to become the sky and the turbid air descended to the earth. At that time, there was nothing in the world except heaven and earth. , this is probably the scene in front of you, right?
Or, in the great flood in the myth of the outer world, all living beings were destroyed and the world was restarted. At that time, the people who were lucky enough to escape sat on the raft and saw that the world looked like this?
I heard from Tufei that disasters are so frequent that they only happen once a month. Will it always happen like this in Zongliang Mountain?
No wonder the manor in Gangliang Mountain was built in the shadow of the sand dunes. There was nothing but sand dunes outside the shadow. The world would restart every now and then, and anything built would be destroyed. Everyone is hiding silently in the small world of shadows.
What a hopeless world this is?
Instead, it is the lower third level, which is said to be closer to the human world because of its safety.
But people on the third level are ready to climb up.
While Tang Zhao was lamenting the world of Gangliang Mountain, he was thinking rationally as a Fu Swordsman:
Where is the source of this catastrophic disaster?
Is it Youshui? Or an unexplained storm?
Or is it some kind of existence above the sky?
Can it be... actively triggered?
(End of chapter)
