"Now that you know Master Zhou's exact whereabouts, are you still worried that he can't be found?" Yi Hong was full of confidence and took the lead in looking for Zhou Rong in the crowd.
"That's right. There are at most a hundred people here. I'll look for them one by one, and I'll eventually find them." Mu Jingyu faced the opposite direction of Yi Hong and began to observe everyone's faces.
Fortunately, those who were near the formation could see their faces clearly through the setting sun, but those who were a little further away could barely see their faces except the clothes they were wearing.
I don't know how long it took, Mu Jingyu and Yi Hong walked around half a circle in the formation, but except for dozens of disciples of the Jiuhua Sect, they could not find Zhou Rong.
"Junior Brother Mu, you said that when the high priest took them here, Uncle Zhou was indeed imprisoned here. But later, was he imprisoned elsewhere?" After turning around in a full circle, Yi Hong was on the other side. Joining Mu Jingyu, he pointed at the people in the formation and said.
"It's not impossible." Mu Jingyu felt a little frustrated. It took a lot of effort to find Zhou Rong's whereabouts, but it was all in vain. If you want to give up, you will never be willing to give up.
"Senior Brother Yi, why don't you wait here first, and I'll go to the formation and take a look in person. We're far away and can't see clearly what's going on inside. Maybe Senior Uncle Zhou was blocked by someone." Mu Jingyu did as he said. , raise your legs to step into the formation.
"Hey, hey, don't be impatient." Yi Hong exclaimed in fright, and quickly stopped him: "There are still many Jiuli people in the formation, and the situation inside is complicated. If you are not careful, the restriction will be triggered. If we are surrounded and killed, we have only one way to escape."
Mu Jingyu retracted his legs and feet in time, looking at the spider web-like scarlet spiritual veins in the formation, and for a moment he didn't know whether he should go down or not. Yi Hong was right. None of them had been inside. If there really was any restriction and he accidentally triggered it, the consequences would be unbelievable. m.
"Then what should we do?" Mu Jingyu said: "We can't ignore them and go directly to the temple to get rid of Chi You's physical body. If another accident occurs and more than a thousand disciples of various sects are injured or killed, it will be too late for me to regret it. .”
Mu Jingyu was not only worried about their safety, but also thought that after breaking through the formation, he could help Chi You regain his spiritual consciousness and let these people help him resist the Jiuli tribe's counterattack.
"Apart from this, is there any other way?" Yi Hong said: "We have been staying here for a long time. If it arouses their suspicion, how can we go to the temple? According to my opinion, just ignore each other. We’ve sent disciples, let’s go to the temple and break the formation first.”
Just as the two of them were hesitating, considering whether to continue looking for Zhou Rong or go to the temple, three or five members of the Jiuli tribe walked into the formation from a short distance away to replace a few tribesmen who had exhausted their energy. leave.
I saw them walking close to the scarlet spirit vein, neither daring to step on it nor straying far away from the range of one foot. Presumably the path they were walking on was the key to entering and exiting the formation.
"Senior Brother Yi, I'd better go to the formation and have a look. I'm still not reconciled to not being able to search it myself." After Mu Jingyu finished speaking, before Yi Hong could agree, he followed the appearance of those Jiuli tribesmen. He stepped into the big formation.
As Mu Jingyu took seven or eight steps deeper, their hearts clenched together, fearing that something unexpected would happen.
"It seems that your guess is correct." Yi Hong relaxed and whispered: "Don't stay in there for too long. Once you find no trace of Master Zhou, return here immediately."
"Okay." Mu Jingyu tried to take a few more steps forward, then turned back and said, "I have to ask Senior Brother Yi to guard the place for me for a while."
After Mu Jingyu finished speaking, he began to look at the faces of the many disciples from various sects around him, looking for anyone he knew.
In fact, Mu Jingyu didn't expect to find Zhou Rong now. As long as he can meet familiar disciples of Jiuhua Sect or other sects, he can convey his plans.
As he checked the figures one by one, Mu Jingyu found that they were all in a coma. Except for the meridians around their bodies, which were under the pressure of the formation, they were constantly running to transmit the true energy to the formation at their feet. They could not hear anything from the outside world. Can't see it either. Including the Jiuli people among them, this is not the case.
This is also the reason why Mu Jingyu, a man wearing Shi family clothes, can wander around without attracting attention.
As Mu Jingyu gradually entered the formation, he checked the faces of dozens of disciples from various sects and found that there was no one he recognized.
There was no way around it. When he was in the Jiuhua Sect, he didn't come into contact with many people. Xiang Zhou Rong, Zhou Wenyi and other limited people must have been placed at the center of the formation because of their advanced cultivation.
As for the leader Tianyang Zhenren and the other leaders, they should be locked up in the stone statues in the temple as Yi Hong said. Therefore, it was not easy for Mu Jingyu to find someone he knew well in the formation.
After checking several righteous disciples nearby, Mu Jingyu looked up at the position that was about to reach the center of the formation, and whispered to himself: "If I go there and haven't found Master Zhou or anyone else, I can't go any further. We've stopped, and we have to go back to the temple with Senior Brother Yi Hong." Mu Jingyu made up his mind and walked towards the formation's eye.
As he got closer and closer to the formation eye, Mu Jingyu still didn't notice Zhou Rong's figure. When he felt discouraged and was about to return from the original route, he suddenly saw a very familiar figure surrounded by seven or eight Jiuli people.
Mu Jingyu stopped and looked with his eyes slightly closed. A chill instantly poured from the top of his head to his feet. He couldn't help but exclaimed: "Sister Zhou! How could she be trapped in the formation!"
But before the chill completely dissipated, Mu Jingyu shook his head and denied, "Senior Sister Zhou will definitely not be caught here if she stays with Yun'er, Miss Jin and others."
"It's just...from the back, she looks very similar to Senior Sister Zhou! Could it be...that something happened to Jin Yingzi while I was away?"
The more Mu Jingyu thought about it, the more scared he became. Combined with the high priest's strategy and his courage to fight against the righteous factions, he completely ignored the coalition of the fourteen tribes. He felt that his speculation was not entirely unfounded. Maybe the factions in Xihanyuanzhou led by Han Wenyuan had really defeated the army of the fourteenth Zhuli clan and captured them all here without his knowledge.
"Whether it's Senior Sister Zhou or not, I have to go and have a look." Mu Jingyu gathered his attention and walked quickly towards the back of Zhou Yan.
When the distance got closer, Mu Jingyu discovered that the man's back looked almost the same as Zhou Yan, but the aura around him was obviously much stronger, far from what Zhou Yan could compare with.
Mu Jingyu suddenly slapped his head and said, "Oh my god, I almost forgot that Uncle Zhou is Senior Sister Zhou's aunt! Judging from the backs of the two, of course they are very similar."
After figuring this out, Mu Jingyu felt relieved for the time being. Whether it was as he guessed, he still needed to confirm with his own eyes.
"Uncle Zhou, Uncle Zhou, is that you?" Mu Jingyu was worried that the louder voice would wake up the Jiuli people next to her, so she deliberately used her true energy to condense the voice into a thin line, so that it could only reach Zhou Rong's ears. .
However, Mu Jingyu called several times but received no response from her. After thinking of Zhao Yi, I was shocked and asked: "Could it be...could it be that Senior Uncle Zhou, like Senior Brother Zhao, died because of exhaustion of his true energy?"
But in an instant, Mu Jingyu rejected his guess. Zhou Rong's cultivation level is much better than Zhao Yi's. She has broken through to the innate realm and will definitely not die from exhaustion.
After looking at the people around him, Mu Jingyu understood that maybe Zhou Rong was like them, because she was trapped in the formation and her eyes and ears were blocked, so she couldn't hear her call.
After taking a deep breath, Mu Jingyu carefully jumped over the Jiuli people surrounding Zhou Rong and came to Zhou Rong's front. After careful inspection, she was indeed identified as Zhou Yan's aunt, Zhou Rong, the eldest disciple of Master Liyang, the leader of Broken Cloud Peak.
"Uncle Zhou, Uncle Zhou, can you hear me?" Mu Jingyu called a few more times. After confirming that Zhou Rong could not hear, he followed the method of waking up Zhao Yi and pressed his left hand to Zhou Rong's altar. A faint light rose from the Jiuyao Xuanguang Chain.
As the spiritual energy entered Zhou Rong's body, the latter's two blocked meridians were opened by Mu Jingyu with great force, and he slowly opened his eyes.
"Hmph! Go back and tell Han Wenyuan that I, Zhou Rong, will not agree to his betrayal of the sect. Please persuade him to give up and stop wasting all your efforts."
As soon as Zhou Rong opened her eyes and saw the man in Shi family clothes, she didn't show any curious expression. Instead, she pushed Mu Jingyu away and said coldly.
It seems that after the various factions were imprisoned here, Han Wenyuan must have sent people to persuade them to surrender. Otherwise, Zhou Rong wouldn't look like this.
However, Mu Jingyu still felt a little confused. Logically speaking, the reason why the high priest kidnapped them all here was to replace the son of the clan, to provide Chi You with a steady stream of spiritual energy, and to use them as hostages at critical moments to threaten the various factions. I will definitely not instruct Han Wenyuan to surrender.
Could it be that... Han Wenyuan did not follow the orders of the high priest, but acted on his own initiative? If this is really the case, what is his purpose in doing this?
Before he could think about the reason, Mu Jingyu whispered: "Uncle Zhou, I am Mu Jingyu, don't you remember?"
Zhou Rong sneered and said: "Huh, don't lie to me. Although Mu Jingyu and I have only met each other a few times, I can still recognize his face. Why, this time Han Wenyuan changed his strategy and found someone at random. Do you just want to deceive me?"
"Oops, I almost forgot, I still have a human skin cotton gear on my face!" Mu Jingyu said in annoyance, and quickly tore off the human skin cotton gear covering his face, revealing his true face.
I thought Zhou Rong would recognize her after seeing his true appearance. Unexpectedly, she still didn't believe it, and still said with a cold smile: "Okay, I said Han Wenyuan would not be so stupid and sent a completely different person to deceive. It turns out that you still have a trick up your sleeve, specifically when I don't believe it. When the time comes, tear off the outer disguise and reveal Mu Jingyu’s appearance.”
Seeing that Zhou Rong didn't believe anything, Mu Jingyu felt helpless and anxious. He stretched out his hand to hold Zhou Rong's palm, put it on his cheek and said: "Master Zhou, if you don't believe that I'm pretending, you can tear it and slap it hard." , see if there is another piece of dough underneath."
"Don't do this with me." Zhou Rong withdrew her arm forcefully and said, "Humph, since you dare to do this, you must be fully prepared. You don't have to worry about being discovered by me. If you have the skills, you'd better go back and tell me Han Wenyuan, let him find his way back as soon as possible and return to the right path, maybe he can be spared his life! If not, when the reinforcements arrive, he will die without a burial place!"
After Zhou Rong finished speaking, she stopped looking at Mu Jingyu and took advantage of the period of regaining her clarity to try to break through the formation to see if she could escape.
"Hey..." Mu Jingyu didn't expect that even if he showed his true colors, he still wouldn't gain Zhou Rong's trust.
"How do I prove myself? How do I prove myself?" He finally found Zhou Rong, but he had never expected that he would hit a snag at this step.
However, according to the current situation, it is not easy to gain Zhou Rong's trust.
Just as Mu Jingyu was anxiously running around and feeling around all over his body, trying to find something that could prove his identity and allow Zhou Rong to recognize him, he suddenly touched something that had been hanging around his neck. Before Mo Yunshen died, The Nine-Luo Xuanhuang Pendant given to him!
Although this thing is something Mo Yunshen wears personally, except for a limited number of people who are familiar with it, Zhou Rong may not recognize it. But other than that, there is nothing else to prove.
Regardless of whether Zhou Rong recognizes it or not, let’s take it out and give it a try first.
Some people died, but not completely...
