Chapter Eighty-Eight, Past Events of Jiufeng Sect
The old voice who claimed to be the elder of Jiufeng Sect sounded again, and said with a little excitement: "This is an earth weapon array stick! Is this friend a fifth-level array master?"
Qingshi did not answer him, but said: "Now senior, can you tell us how to make us believe in you!"
"Alas!" the voice said with a sigh, "Of course I can tell you, but it's useless to say this now. Just wish yourself well. I hope you bring enough spiritual stones to last longer."
"Senior, how can you win our trust by saying this?" Qingshi said calmly.
"Okay, let me tell you," the voice said, "The stone tower to the west of you was originally connected to these stone towers, but later the connection formation was damaged and became an independent existence. If you had time to check it out just now, , you will understand naturally. With the formation based on that stone tower, there is absolutely no danger of triggering the magic circle trap. And with the formation based on it, you can use the power of the earth veins connected under the stone tower, so that you can There is an endless supply of energy to deal with the poisonous fog. It's a pity that there is no time, and now you can't verify it to see if what I said is true."
"Is this poisonous mist very corrosive?" Qingshi asked, "Why do we have to rely on the power of earth veins? We have a lot of spirit stones. I'm afraid we can resist this poisonous mist for many years."
"Hmph!" the voice said angrily, "So what if you can withstand it for twenty or thirty years? No matter how many spiritual stones you have, they will be used up."
"According to what you said, senior," Qingshi said calmly, "Even if we believe you and enter the range of the stone tower and rely on the stone tower to form an array, if we cannot solve the poisonous mist, we will only be trapped longer. But not Do you know how long Senior has been trapped?"
"Alas!" The voice sighed again, "It has been three hundred years, it has been more than three hundred years! However, your arrival gave me hope. If you could trust me just now and form an formation within the stone tower, then maybe we We can figure out a way out together."
"The basis of cooperation is mutual trust," Qingshi said. "As long as our seniors are sincerely willing to help us, it's not too late."
"Do you have a way to deal with the poisonous fog?" the voice asked in surprise, "Can you crack this maze?"
"I don't know," Qingshi replied, "but I will try. I believe that it will only be a matter of time before we can crack the maze. Senior, if you really want to help us, please tell us everything about the situation here. How could you do this? Trapped in a stone tower? What's going on with those hell bats? I believe it will help us break through the formation and get out of trouble, and then we will naturally help our seniors get out of trouble."
"You should first tell me who you are? How did you come here and what did you come here for?" The voice said, "My intuition tells me that you are good people, and you look strong enough. Maybe we really have a chance to be together. go out."
"That's fine," Qingshi sent a questioning look to Shen Feiyun, and continued after receiving a positive reply, "We are students of Tianlong Academy. We are here to capture the rebellious Zhu Ping of the Zhu family, and to protect the Zhu family and me, Tianlong." The college is cleaning up.”
"Zhu Ping!" the voice said urgently, "Be specific."
"Let me tell you!" Shen Feiyun said. Then he told the whole story.
The voice was silent for a long time before asking softly: "So, the Jiufeng Sect has been destroyed and no longer exists?"
"Yes," Shen Feiyun said, "but there are still four surviving Nine Peaks Sect disciples, and they are now under our protection."
"How can such a disciple be worthy of being a disciple of my Jiufeng Sect!" The voice lamented, "Jiufeng Sect, Jiufeng Sect is gone!"
"Senior, aren't you still here?" Shen Feiyun said, "Aren't you the great elder of Jiufeng Sect?"
"Me?" the voice said with a bitter smile, "I am already a dying person. Not to mention that I can only be trapped here waiting to die. Even if I go out, what is the point of being the only one left? For the sake of Jiufengmen, I am here I have been trapped for three hundred years, but I never thought that before I died, the Jiufeng Gate would be gone!"
"Senior, please tell me about your situation." Shen Feiyun said.
"The Zhu Ping you are talking about," the voice said, "came here a few months ago and came to the tower. He brought the leader's token, which is also the only general formation order of the Jiufeng Sect. Naturally, I thought he was the new The sect leader also admitted it. I asked him how he was not attacked by the hell bats, but he said that since he dared to come down, he had his own way."
"As the conversation deepened, I found that he was very unfamiliar with the affairs of my Jiufeng Sect. He wanted me to give him the inheritance and treasures of the Jiufeng Sect, but I asked him to use the formation order to take me out, but he refused."
"Seeing that I doubted his identity, he began to threaten and lure me. Finally, he became angry and said that the Jiufeng Sect had been destroyed by him. I knew it was probably true, otherwise the leader's token, the formation order, would not have fallen into his hands. .”
"But I always hope in my heart that he is talking nonsense. Now listening to what you said, the destruction of our Jiufeng Sect has finally been confirmed. In comparison, I naturally don't believe Zhu Ping but I trust you."
"Where is Zhu Ping now?" Shen Feiyun asked.
"I don't know?" the voice said, "He actually doesn't care about my inheritance and treasures. Of course I don't have any treasures. He has never come to me since then. You said he entered here again more than ten days ago ? But I didn’t see it, the area I can see in the tower is limited.”
"Senior," Shen Feiyun said thoughtfully, "Zhu Ping has made rapid progress in martial arts in recent months. I wonder if it has something to do with senior? Senior, please tell us about your situation in detail. Just now, Junior Brother Qingshi said that this will be helpful to us. It helps to break the formation to get out of trouble, and we will try our best to help our seniors get out of trouble. By the way, my name is Shen Feiyun, this formation master is Junior Brother Qingshi, and these three are Chen Tianye, Wu Qinghan and Duan Xiaoyu. May I ask your senior’s surname? "Shen Feiyun is willing to believe this person.
"Okay!" The old voice said slowly: "I know Tianlong College. Since you are the talented people of Tianlong College, you may really have a way to get out of danger. Since Jiufeng Sect no longer exists, I will no longer It is necessary to keep the secret. Zhu Ping's improvement in cultivation has nothing to do with me, but it is mostly related to the monsters. My name is Sarda, and I am the great elder of Jiufeng Sect..."
Zelda slowly talked about the past.
About fifteen or six hundred years ago, Jieyang, a barbarian, was gifted with extraordinary talent. Later, he got a great opportunity and broke through the Shenyuan realm in one fell swoop, becoming one of the top masters on the continent.
Later, Jieyang built the Jiufeng Gate. The reason why the Jiufeng Gate was built here was because of a top-level earth vein in this cave. It was also because of this earth vein that Jieyang was able to break through to the Divine Origin Realm.
Jieyang cultivated disciples at Jiufengmen, developed his power in Tianwu City and Chaoge, and wanted to dominate the world. He built a large number of buildings in this cave and set up various magic circles to serve as a training place for his disciples, including these thirteen trial towers, a beast-suppressing tower deep in the cave, and two animal training grounds.
Inside the trial tower is a trial puppet that Jieyang asked high-level formation masters and weapon refiners to build. Jieyang himself is also an formation master and weapon refiner.
The Beast Suppressing Tower is a magical weapon used to bind a seventh-level hell bat spirit beast. Jieyang plans to use the power of the earth's veins to evolve the hell bat and turn it into a demon for his own use.
In addition, Jieyang also built two animal training grounds around the trial tower to tame spirit beasts and then use these spirit beasts to train his children. He originally planned to use the earth veins to build a defensive array for the entire valley where the Nine Peaks Gate was located, but unfortunately he did not have time to complete it.
Jieyang's ambitions and various plans all came to nothing because of his fall. No one knows how he fell. His fall brought inevitable decline to the Jiufeng Sect, which was at its peak.
In the following hundreds of years, several of Jieyang's direct disciples also died one after another, and the Jiufeng Sect's strength weakened day by day.
After Jieyang's death, the Jiufeng Sect stopped adding spiritual beasts to the cave. As time went by, all the spiritual beasts used to train the disciples died. In the end, only the hell that was bound by the Beast Suppressing Tower was left. bat.
Since the death of Jieyang, no one has been able to control the hell bat, so it can only be left alone. Fortunately, it is bound by the beast suppression tower and cannot hurt anyone.
Later, the disciples had no spiritual beasts to kill and had to rely on entering the trial tower to practice. After that, there were no more outstanding talents in the Jiufeng Sect. The strength of the Jiufeng Sect continued to decline, and it finally withdrew from Chao Ge and Tianwu City.
More than three hundred years ago, Jiufeng Sect finally showed signs of revival. Disciple Yu Chenglong was extremely talented. After he achieved some success in his studies, he traveled out and met a group of like-minded and talented friends, including Sarda.
Later, Yu Chenglong returned to Jiufeng Sect to take over as the sect leader. These friends also followed him to Jiufeng Sect. Jiufeng Sect had such top-level connections but could not cultivate good talents.
This made Yu Chenglong feel unwilling.
They practiced hard and their strength improved quickly. Only fifty years after returning to Jiufengmen, Yu Chenglong and Sarda were already masters of the Golden Core Realm, and several other elders had also entered the Yuan Core Realm. , seeing the revival of the sect in sight, unexpectedly a disaster occurred, which ultimately led to the current ending.
The disaster came from the seventh-level spiritual beast Hell Bat. While the Jiufeng Sect was declining day by day, the Hell Bat used the earth veins to practice and became stronger and stronger. Finally, about fifty years after Jackie Chan took over the Jiufeng Sect , it upgraded again and broke through the seventh level of imprisonment of the spiritual beast, evolving into a monster beast.
Thanks to Jieyang binding it to the beast-suppressing tower connected to the earth veins, this hell bat can use the spiritual power of the earth veins to practice without restriction, and then evolve into a monster.
However, after evolving into a monster, it was still unable to break free from the rope created by Jieyang. Moreover, the rope also restricted it from continuing to improve its cultivation, making it difficult for it to use its earth veins to practice.
Therefore, if the hell bat wants to continue to improve his cultivation and finally break free from the rope, he can only achieve his goal by eating.
Just like human monks can eat the flesh, bones, blood pills, etc. of spiritual beasts to improve themselves, spiritual beasts can of course also eat monks to improve themselves. For this hell bat monster, eating the disciples of the Nine Peaks Sect is the only option.
Originally, under the restrictions of the rope, it could not catch people as long as people did not enter its range of activities. However, the hell bat that evolved into a monster also evolved new skills. One is poisonous mist, and the other is that it can No mating is required to produce young animals. With these two abilities, it becomes easy to capture the disciples of Jiufeng Sect.
Evolving into a monster, it has a human-like intelligence. This monster is very smart. It does not eat all the disciples who enter the cave at once, but is very patient and secretly catches one every few days to eat. .
At this time, the Jiufeng Sect was prosperous. There were thousands of disciples under the sect, and many disciples entered the cave to practice. There were often disciples staying in the trial tower for ten days and a half. Therefore, within a few years, this monster had eaten Dozens of disciples were not discovered.
However, things always come to light. Once, the demonic beast sent out several small beasts to capture a disciple who had just come out of the trial tower. As a result, the sneak attack failed and was discovered by the disciple.
This disciple shouted a warning, and all the disciples in the cave knew about it. There were fifty or sixty disciples in the cave at that time, including Yu Chenglong's three sons.
These disciples worked together to kill these few little beasts. The hell bat monster had no choice but to release all the hundreds of other little beasts, and used the spell of enchantment to influence the Nine Peaks Sect disciples, hoping to catch them all in one fell swoop.
In the end, most of the disciples died or were captured. Six disciples escaped into two trial towers and were trapped in them. Only one disciple escaped from the cave and returned to the surface, but he was also seriously injured and died after reporting the situation.
Yu Chenglong learned that hundreds of hell bats appeared in the cave. He knew that the hell bat that was tied to the beast suppression tower had turned into a demon, but he did not know that it would also emit poisonous mist (originally the ghost bat was just The teeth and claws are poisonous), and he didn't know that the hell bat had been restricted by the rope and could no longer use the earth veins to practice.
Of course Yu Chenglong knew the danger of the hell bat. His original intention was to wait until he and his disciples became stronger before finding a way to solve this hidden danger, but now he had to act in advance.
Yu Chenglong and the elders of Jiufeng Sect agreed that waiting any longer would only make the hell bats stronger and break free. Besides, he also hopes to rescue the surviving disciples, including his own son.
So Yu Chenglong summoned nine elders and sixteen outstanding disciples to enter the cave together in an attempt to kill the monster.
After a bloody battle, Yu Chenglong and the others discovered that this monster was so powerful that they couldn't deal with it at all, especially since it could emit large amounts of poisonous mist. Before that, it had not used poisonous mist to deal with those disciples, so Yu Chenglong and the others didn't know this.
After being surrounded by poisonous mist, the people of Jiufeng Sect suffered heavy casualties. In the end, the Great Elder and the Sixth Elder were poisoned and injured, and they fled into a trial tower respectively. Yu Chenglong escaped back to the ground, but was also poisoned and seriously injured. The other elders and all sixteen disciples were killed in the battle.
After escaping, Yu Chenglong activated the Shimen Array set up by Jieyang and ordered that the disciples be prohibited from entering the cave. He died of poison the next day (Qingshi and the others knew about this situation, but Salda didn't, but he also guessed it).
In the cave, the great elder Zelda finally did not die from the poisonous injuries, but his vitality was severely damaged and his cultivation level plummeted. He was trapped alone in the central trial tower.
The Sixth Elder was trapped in another trial tower. There were two disciples with him, two of the six disciples who first escaped into the trial tower. With their help, the Sixth Elder also survived, but his cultivation also plummeted.
In addition, there is a trial tower with four disciples who originally escaped, including Yu Chenglong's youngest son.
Yu Chenglong sealed the cave, and the hell bat demon could no longer eat people. It negotiated with the people in the three trial towers, letting them be its demon slaves, and then went out to the outside world to bring people back for it to eat. Zelda and others People would naturally rather die than surrender.
The Hell Bat Demon originally didn't expect them to agree. It became very smart after it gained spiritual intelligence, so it began to study the Demon Suppression Tower and the binding ropes laid by Jie Yang to bind itself. After decades, it actually mastered some controls. The method of breaking the formation through earth veins.
Therefore, it first destroyed the earth connection of a trial tower. The trial tower, which lost the protection of earth veins, was quickly breached. The four disciples in the tower, including Jackie Chan's youngest son, were all captured by the hell bat beast. Had dinner with the hell bat demon.
A few years later, the second stone tower was also destroyed. The three people in this trial tower, including the Sixth Elder, resisted for more than a month. Eventually, the resources were exhausted, the tower collapsed and they were captured due to exhaustion. They all went into the belly of the hell bat demon.
After all, Great Elder Zelda has rich experience and higher cultivation. When escaping, he did not choose the outer trial tower for convenience, but chose the central trial tower. The defense of this tower is naturally the strongest, so Can better resist the destruction of hell bat demon.
What's more important is that Zelda himself is a third-level formation mage, and he also participated in the construction of these trial towers, so he can rely on the stone tower to resist the hell bat monster for three hundred years on his own.
Over the years, the Hell Bat Demon's strength has not been able to improve, but its understanding of the Tao is slowly improving.
Salda is also constantly practicing martial arts and studying formations. However, because the toxins in his body cannot be eradicated, Salda can hardly make any progress in either martial arts or formations, and most of his lifespan has expired.
Not only is the Hell Bat Demon's ability to crack the Beast Suppressing Tower's magic circle improving, but its lifespan is as long as ten thousand years. Therefore, getting out of trouble is a matter of time.
Even if it doesn't figure out how to crack it, the long years will help it corrode and destroy the beast-suppressing tower, not to mention that its little beasts can also grow with the help of the earth's veins and help it destroy the beast-suppressing tower.
