There are thousands of feet under the sea, and you can reach it in just a few breaths.
The water pressure here has reached an extremely alarming level, ordinary fish no longer exist, and there are more signs of monster activity.
Even ordinary iron tools would be crushed into a flat layer in such a deep sea and under such a level of water pressure.
However, Gu Qing, Mukui and other cultivators are all foundation-building cultivators, so these water pressures are naturally nothing to worry about. On the contrary, they are signs of more and more frequent monster activities, which deserve their attention.
"The activities of demon beasts here are already very frequent. Three or four thousand feet further down, there are those with advanced cultivation of the demon clan. The deep sea to the east of the retreat place cannot protect these active demon beasts, which are the strong ones of the demon clan below. See, in order to avoid any complications, please proceed with caution."
Mukui promoted the cultivators with a solemn expression.
The boy-like monk Wu Ju nodded when he heard the words: "Of course we will not ignore this matter. When the four of us came down to explore the road, we had been hiding our auras to protect the weak water monsters from noticing us. There are traces of this fellow Taoist Gu Qing, who is very high-profile."
Wu Ju said, glancing at Gu Qing behind him.
At this time, a group of seven of them had arrived around the deep sea, with Mukui as the center, and everything gathered together again.
Cheng Suwen heard Wu Ju's words and looked at Gu Qing coldly. She didn't say anything, but it was obvious that she was somewhat hostile.
Mu Kui coughed slightly and said, "Ahem! This fellow Daoist Gu should be quite good at practicing the secret art of body refining, but his cultivation is at the second level of foundation building after all, so he is far behind everyone else in the escape technique."
"Besides... before, Fellow Daoist Gu was like a boulder falling into the sea. I almost never noticed the aura in Fellow Daoist Gu. I admire this method of sealing the pores all over the body and condensing the aura."
Mukui's words not only took care of the face of the boy Wu Ju and Shuixiao Palace monk Cheng Su, but also gave Gu Qing a small compliment. It can be said that he took care of everything and easily resolved the conflicts in the team.
"Don't hold on to such a trivial matter." The monk Sun Han, who was full of blood-evil aura, restrained the blood-evil aura around him and now looked like a frail monk, he spoke at this time.
"Previously, fellow Taoist fellows Zhao Bei, Zhou Rong, and Wu Ju and I had already made a trip to the deep sea. We just wandered here for a long time and found no trace of the lost country."
When Sun Han spoke, Gu Qing looked around.
There is almost no light visible at the bottom of the ocean.
In order to avoid attracting the attention of the demon cultivators around them, the cultivators also hid their auras and extinguished the spiritual light around them. Therefore, the position they were in at this time was also filled with boundless deathly darkness.
Even if Gu Qing fully opened his hearing, he could not hear any other sounds except the sound of the internal organs running, the sound of the spiritual energy flowing around the body, and the sound of the ancient demon's power surging in the clone's body.
However, as a monk, he could see in the dark, so Gu Qing was not restricted by the darkness here. He glanced around a few times, focusing on the water on one side, where there was an invisible barrier blocking his vision, making him For the sea water more than ten feet away, it actually feels like it is thousands of miles away, which is very mysterious and weird.
'Is this the barrier that Zhao Bei mentioned before?
Gu Qing's eyes were fixed on the invisible barrier on one side. Although this barrier seemed invisible and insubstantial, he could discern its existence through perception. According to his perception, this barrier was not some kind of formation. What is condensed is more like the external manifestation of some extremely pure power.
According to what Zhao Bei said.
After coming into contact with this barrier, you will still fall into an illusion, but the illusion should not be very strong. Otherwise, how could Zhao Bei and the other four return safely with almost no consumption?
While Gu Qing looked around, Cheng Su did the same.
Cheng Su, who was born in Shuixiao Palace, has a broad vision. Naturally, she can think of more things than Gu Qing about the strange scene here. She thought of something almost as soon as she saw this barrier.
'The strange environment here seems to be caused by the leakage of space power! In this kind of environment, there are also naturally reproducing creatures. It is true that the fittest survive and life continues. Cheng Su looked at a strange monster
Such a flat fish, with a bit of strange color flashing in its eyes.
Sun Han, who looked like a frail monk, stared at Mukui and spoke slowly, his voice only ringing in the ears of Gu Qing and other monks.
His voice was clear: "The information that Fellow Daoist Mu knows is obviously more than the information contained in the previous shadow stone. With such insincerity, how can we believe what Fellow Daoist Mu said?"
"Don't be impatient." The smile on Mukui's sloppy old face remained unchanged, "The things in the secret realm must not be faked. As for the information I have hidden, I have no intention of harming all fellow Taoists."
"When three quarters of noon comes, changes will take place in this place. If any of you fellow Taoists want to leave, you can leave at this time. Once you are involved in the extremely dangerous changes, you will not be able to help yourself."
Mu Kui said.
The figures of the cultivators were floating in the sea, each standing in different postures. Their faces were expressionless, and they were all expressions of joy and anger. No one spoke for a long time, and Sun Han, who looked like a frail monk, also fell silent.
"What are they waiting for?"
Among the four figures following Mukui, Gu Qing and others, the male cultivator at the fourth level of Foundation Establishment with a slightly feminine tone spoke like this.
The silver-haired old woman at the fifth level of Foundation Establishment, with one hand holding the beautiful female cultivator who had perfected Qi Refining, and the other hand holding the spiritual weapon that concealed the auras of several people, responded after hearing this: "She should be... waiting for changes to occur here."
"At three quarters of noon, when the yang energy of the present world is at its strongest, the repulsive force in the space crack here reaches its strongest point. At that time, the lost kingdom can briefly overlap with the present world."
The person on the third level of foundation building was a female cultivator who looked somewhat similar to the silver-haired old woman. She continued: "Only then will this old man Mukui take action and enter the Lost World with the cannon fodder he found to pave the way. country, looking for that secret place.”
"You tell me, is it true or not?" After saying this, the female cultivator of the third level of Foundation Establishment looked at the beautiful female cultivator captured by the silver-haired old woman with a half-smile.
The beautiful female cultivator, who had perfected her weapon refining skills, bit her lower lip.
This female cultivator turned out to be Tang Yun, whom Gu Qing had met before!
Tang Yun didn't want to betray his uncle Mukui.
But compared to Uncle Mukui, whom he had only met a few times and was not very happy with, his own life was more important.
She glanced at the sea around her and knew that in this vast sea, if it weren't for the silver-haired old woman beside her, she wouldn't be able to do anything. Just resisting the huge water pressure would exhaust her energy.
The secret realm where the Red Blood Washing Spirit Fruit is located actually exists in such a deep sea, which is undoubtedly beyond her expectation.
So what she thought was easy to get turned out to be a joke - the last monk of the declining monk family was only in the Qi refining stage, so after she found out the location of the secret realm where the red blood-washing spirit fruit was, she immediately became overjoyed. Crazy, seems to have seen the dawn of foundation building.
After realizing that he could not obtain the Red Blood Spirit Washing Fruit on his own, and because he had this information, he was hunted down again and again by his former companions who were also pursuing the Red Blood Spirit Washing Fruit.
She simply revealed the news to Master Mukui inside the door. As a cultivator in the middle stage of foundation building, Master Mukui would naturally crush all those who were chasing her to death.
So far.
Tang Yun originally thought that this matter had nothing to do with her.
But who would have thought that the silver-haired old woman and others would know from somewhere that she was carrying the blood-washed spiritual fruit, and captured her.
So in order to survive, she had to betray Uncle Mukui.
At this time.
Tang Yun's mind flashed back to the last monk in Master Mukui's team that she had seen above the sea. That was the mysterious monk she had seen on Sifang Island.
Cultivation level is suspected to be in the middle stage of foundation building.
As a person who cherishes his life, Tang Yun did not reveal the news about this mysterious young monk in black robes to anyone, and he did not know how Uncle Mukui in the sect found this person...
Tang Yun's thoughts were only reflected in a little hesitation on her face. She nodded and said dryly: "Senior is right about what he said."
Seeing this, the female cultivator at the third level of Foundation Establishment withdrew the half-smiling look on her face, and responded to Tang Yun's response.
, seems not very satisfied.
The female nun was about to say something.
The expression of the silver-haired old woman changed slightly: "The time has come! Follow us quickly!"
The four of them were all tense, and under the cover of the fluctuations emitted by the spiritual weapon held by the silver-haired old woman, they turned into an almost invisible shadow, heading towards Mukui, Gu Qing and other cultivators not far away!
Thousands of feet below the sea surface, there is mostly deep darkness.
However, the deep sea area where Gu Qing, Mukui and the other seven people are located is not the only place where darkness can be seen with the naked eye.
Circles of invisible barriers swirled and spread around, collapsing toward the center. The closer to the center of the whirlpool barrier, the smaller the distance between each circle of invisible barriers.
The position where Gu Qing, Mukui and other cultivators were waiting for the arrival at three quarters of noon was in a corner on the outer edge of this invisible whirlpool barrier.
This invisible whirlpool barrier is flat as a whole, affecting the sea area of thousands of miles in radius. The nearby monsters and monks all know something about this place, but that's all.
After all, the spiritual energy around here is thin, and there is no smell of treasure. It is even difficult to find any ordinary spiritual objects here. Therefore, most human monks and demon monks, even if they know that this place is unusual and unprofitable, who can Will you care?
Actually.
If there is a powerful monk who is willing to spread his spiritual consciousness regardless of the loss of his soul power, covering thousands of miles in radius, he can gain a complete understanding of this whirlpool barrier.
You will find that this invisible whirlpool barrier becomes thinner as it gets closer to the center, and the barrier that blocks the seawater becomes stronger. It becomes thicker as it gets closer to the periphery, and the barrier that blocks the seawater becomes more fragile.
The core part of this invisible wall distributed in a whirlpool is actually a round dark sphere several feet high, or it looks like a sphere on the outside, but in fact it is filled with countless space hurricanes and is unstable. The space rift!
On this day in the middle of the month, the third quarter of noon arrives.
The blazing Yang Qi made the space where the entire vast sea became extremely stable. The round dark sphere several feet high suddenly shrank a little under this change, as if it was about to be forcibly flattened, and the space inside it The hurricane became extremely violent in an instant!
Buzz!
The entire vortex barrier did not become smaller due to the collapse of the space crack at the core. Instead, all the invisible barriers trembled almost at the same time, and then spread to the surroundings!
"Here we come! Fellow Taoists, please get ready!"
"Be aware that true and illusory thoughts must not be lost in them, otherwise, even we will..." Mukui's expression was solemn, as if he had just remembered something, but he had not finished speaking.
Gu Qing and other monks used their own methods to protect themselves, but like Mukui, invisible barriers suddenly spread across their bodies.
at the same time.
The collapsed circular space crack suddenly erupted with turbulent white light, covering thousands of miles in an instant. However, this white light seemed to exist in another world. The sea area covered by this whirlpool barrier remained the same. It’s just that all the living creatures here have disappeared without a trace.
The white light only appeared for a moment and then disappeared. The phantoms of mountains, rivers, ground, cities and people disappeared and emerged as the white light disappeared, but they only existed for a moment before disappearing like bubbles.
The invisible barriers that spread out seemed to not exist. They calmed down and the whirlpool barriers that existed here for thousands of miles emerged again around the spatial rift at the core.
It seems that the previous changes were just a mirage.
But here is the deep sea.
Gu Qing woke up from the chaotic darkness.
The various dreams were still vivid in his mind, but they had been forgotten by Gu Qing. He opened his eyes and looked at the huge star in the sky, his eyes were reflected in a light purple.
An unknown huge purple star hung above the sky, occupying twenty-three-tenths of the sky. The other stars surrounding this huge purple star looked extremely dim.
Just by taking a glance, Gu Qing realized that this was not the world he knew.
The space inside the stele was throbbing, and I felt the existence of the main body and the avatar. I calmed down a bit of the panic I felt when I was just born, and analyzed it calmly.
This is not the world he was in before. This is certain. Now there are only two possibilities, either he is in another world, or he is trapped in an illusion.
Gu Qing recalled the words Mu Kui left.
'True and illusory thoughts, don't get lost...
He moved his fingers, raised his hand and took a few glances in front of his eyes. The indescribable sense of reality did not seem to be fake. If he was experiencing some illusion, this illusion was really extremely real.
Gu Qing first had a thought in his mind, activated his skills, entered Gao Miao's state of mind, and then thought clearly with his heart, closed his eyes, blocked all five senses of his body, and then used his spiritual consciousness to capture himself. body, causing the body to rise towards the sky.
One foot...
Ten feet...
Baizhang...
After more than ten breaths, Gu Qing opened his eyes.
His eyes were filled with purple stars.
It was obvious that he was still in that world.
Gu Qing frowned slightly and tried to enter the state of Guanzi Jue. Unfortunately, he failed several times, so he had to give up and walked in the air, slowly landing on the ground and observing the surrounding situation.
This is a dense forest.
There were signs of human activity... If there were human beings in this world, a golden light shone in Gu Qing's eyes, and his consciousness spread out in all directions, covering the surrounding area for more than twenty miles.
The cool breeze blew through the silent hills.
The rice fields in the distance were dyed purple by the starlight.
From time to time, there was the sound of insects, and the sound of croaking came from the wild pond in the distance. Gu Qing saw earthworms squirming in the soil, cats with shiny fur, and tall trees five or six miles ahead of him. , entrenched on the thick trunk, sleeping.
This world is so full of life, just like a picture scroll. It is a pity that there is no aura here.
Just now, he was still in the deep sea, and suddenly he came to this world. Gu Qing was quite surprised and looked around for a long time.
"It's still not quite right..."
"With the ancient demon's power in his eyes, how could he only see this small distance?" Gu Qing looked back thoughtfully.
He touched the storage ring with his fingertips, and a golden treasure wheel as big as the belly of his finger flew out from his storage ring and hung three feet above Gu Qing's head. Under the aura of this golden treasure wheel, Under the illumination, a large number of overlapping phantoms appeared in front of Gu Qing's eyes.
The uppermost phantom was the world he saw, and then picturesque light and shadows were stacked underneath the phantom.
"It's really an illusion."
Through the spiritual light of the golden treasure wheel, Gu Qing gently grabbed it forward. The quiet world in front of him was like a torn picture scroll, fragmented and disappeared before his eyes.
So Gu Qing stretched out his hand and tore up the lifelike paintings one after another, and the golden wheel slowly started to rotate.
The five colors of spiritual power continued to flow towards the golden wheel, until Gu Qing tore into pieces what seemed to be fifty-seven overlapping layers.
Bang!
Gu Qing seemed to fall from mid-air and hit the ruins. The earth and rocks beneath his feet were shattered. A ruined village appeared in front of him. The dust raised by the ground could not be dispersed for a long time. The golden light in his eyes became even brighter, and he looked far away. After a few glances, my heart moved.
"This place should no longer be an illusion..."
"Even if this place is also an illusion, I can't break it for the time being." Gu Qing said to himself, looking at the aura of the golden wheel. Through the aura, he could clearly see the world without any overlapping phantoms. , covering it, or being pressed under it.
Gu Qing stepped forward.
He walked through the dilapidated village that seemed to have been forgotten by time. He saw blackened skeletons scattered in various locations in the dilapidated village. Some were near the almost rotten threshold, and some were in groups of three or two. , piled together on the roadside.
The smell of decay filled the entire village.
Or……
Filling this whole world.
Gu Qing's mind moved and his consciousness dispersed.
His consciousness covered the surrounding area for more than twenty miles, but he could not see any living beings. Even trees, flowers and plants could only be seen with some dry and black remnants, which made people feel uncomfortable just looking at them.
There is no wind here, but there are clouds in the sky. The purple stars are just like the fifty-seven phantoms he saw before.
Gu Qing sensed the remaining spiritual power in his body.
Because he previously activated the golden treasure wheel to illuminate the layers of illusions, and used the power of the golden treasure wheel to destroy the layers of illusions, at this time, only about 40% of the spiritual power remained in his body.
Gu Qing jumped into the air.
He circled around in mid-air to find the highest mountain nearby, and then the five-color spiritual light flowed around him and flew away.
call out!
The sound of Gu Qing's breaking was scattered in all directions, and the air flow generated by his flight was blown around, blowing the long-decayed trees, flowers, and black skeletons into fly ash and annihilating them invisible.
The mountain peak was not far from the village where Gu Qing appeared, that is, five to six hundred miles away. After Gu Qing let go of his escape speed, he arrived in just a few breaths.
He landed on the top of the mountain, stepping on the lifeless peak. Looking at the black jagged rocks, his consciousness once again spread for more than twenty miles in all directions, but he still didn't see any living beings.
Here, the silence is a bit scary.
Gu Qing was expressionless, sitting cross-legged on the top of the mountain.
He took out a medium-grade spiritual stone, held it in his hand, and started practicing it quietly. The golden treasure wheel rotated above his head, spreading a weightless luster.
For now, he had to wait.
Time passes slowly.
Two hours were spent in Gu Qing's practice.
There is also thin spiritual energy in this world.
However, this spiritual energy seemed to be tainted with a lifeless connotation, and it was not smooth enough to spit out. Therefore, Gu Qing simply did not absorb the spiritual energy here, and just used the spiritual energy of the middle-grade spiritual stone in his hand to practice the Great Five Elements Condensation Technique. .
Two hours of training restored his original spiritual power of only 40% to about 80%, and the middle-grade spiritual stone also became dim.
Gu Qing turned his hand and put it away, along with the golden treasure wheel in front of him, and then took out the beast-taming bell.
He dug out the treasures stored in the two Qiu family monks he had killed before. He did not check them. He just scanned them briefly with his spiritual consciousness and found a few bottles of animal feeding pills. The monk put away his treasures and sacrificed the beast-taming bell.
Gu Qing fired his spell at the beast control bell and released the hungry red-tailed demon bee, which was only the size of an adult man's head.
As soon as it was released, the red-tailed demon bee flew staggeringly towards Gu Qing, expressing its closeness and grievance with its ignorant consciousness.
"Okay, okay." Gu Qing conveyed his comforting thoughts, fed the little guy two beast-feeding pills, put them back into the beast-taming bell, and locked his eyes on the direction he came from.
A figure was flying towards Gu Qing's direction. Not long after, Mu Kui, who looked slightly gloomy, and Wu Ju, who looked expressionless and boyish, appeared in Gu Qing's sight one after another.
"Fellow Daoist Gu!"
Mukui looked surprised, spoke from a distance, and pressed down the escape light on the top of the mountain.
"I never thought that fellow Taoist Gu would be the first to break through the illusion among us! I admire you." Mu Kui quickly calmed down his gloomy expression and spoke to Gu Qing with a smile as if meeting an old friend.
The boy-like Wu Ju also caught up at this moment, and was a little surprised that Gu Qing took the lead in breaking through the multi-layered illusion.
After all, the reality of the multi-layered illusion is really rare. It takes more than a little time to crack it layer by layer. If he didn't have an illusion-breaking weapon, it would be difficult to get out of it so quickly. ! Hmm... Is it possible that this person also has a magical weapon that can break illusions?
Wu Ju looked at Gu Qing, a strange color flashed across his eyes.
"Fellow Daoist Gu." He nodded towards Gu Qing.
"Fellow Daoist Wu."
Gu Qing immediately
He nodded back.
Upon noticing the arrival of Mu Kui and Wu Ju, Gu Qing was actually relieved. The arrival of these two people had reduced the chance of this world becoming an illusion to an extremely low level.
