Hong Zhengli woke up leisurely.
I raised my eyelids and saw a crescent moon hanging high in the night sky, surrounded by white snow. The woods covered with rime, huge boulders, howling mountain wind, and a concerned face...
With a groan, the scene before coma slowly returned to his memory. He was stunned and asked:
"What time is it?"
"When it's ugly."
"It's time to be ugly..." Hong Zhengli had a strange feeling. It seemed that he had only been unconscious for a while. How come an hour had passed?
I touched the back of my head, and there was no pain at all, as if I was having a dream.
"What happened...just now?"
"There are bad guys lurking in the snow," Yang Zhen said seriously, "Maybe they thought they were discovered, so they got into trouble and attacked our senior brother."
"Um."
"I pushed him back and when I was about to capture him, the secret vault suddenly opened and someone rushed out and rescued the man. I then chased after him and the two people escaped from the secret vault."
"Escaped from the secret vault?"
"Indeed," Yang Zhen said seriously, "Senior brother, please come with me."
…
The two walked one behind the other, with Yang Zhen holding a luminous pearl to lead the way. Falling stones can be seen from time to time along the way, the cave walls have been smashed into holes, and the ground is cracked. There are traces of battle everywhere.
"What are the cultivation levels of these two people?" Hong Zhengli asked.
"The one outside looking out is the Golden Core, um, in the middle stage of the Golden Core. The one inside is the Nascent Soul, probably in the early... stage."
"One is in the early stage of Nascent Soul, and the other is in the middle stage of Golden Core. The two of them joined forces, and they were actually chased away by their junior brother?" Hong Zhengli's face was full of disbelief.
"This... is really a fluke. I think these two people have a guilty conscience and don't dare to quarrel with their junior brother." Yang Zhen said modestly.
"Junior brother is really talented. I'm ashamed of myself." Hong Zhengli sighed sincerely.
While talking, the two came to the stone house, where the traces of the fight were even more obvious. Many places where treasures are placed have suffered disasters. Fortunately, most of them are protected by restrictions, and not many are actually damaged.
There are some overturned elixir bottles and scattered talismans on the ground. The grade of any of them is not lower than the fourth level. In the outside world, they are often rare objects that start with 100,000 spiritual stones.
Hong Zhengli leaned over and picked up an empty bottle, sniffed it at the tip of his nose, sighed, and threw it to Yang Zhen.
"There was originally a Zhengyuan Dan in this bottle, which was refined by Junior Sister Dai in the second half of last year. This elixir is of great benefit to monks in the middle stage of Golden Dan. After you, Senior Sister Mingzhen, were promoted to the middle stage of Golden Dan, this medicine was originally It was left to her to consolidate her realm, but unexpectedly, Junior Sister Tan died in a battle with the Kraken last year, so the elixir became ownerless and was stored here..."
"I came to the secret treasury two months ago and saw this elixir. At that time, I missed the people I saw. I also thought about the many disasters my Yunxiao Sect had suffered in the past few years. I felt really sad..."
"Unexpectedly, this elixir was actually stolen by thieves today! Hey, if I had known this, it would be better to leave it for Junior Sister Chenghong to take. It will come in handy at least some of it!"
Hong Zhengli sighed. He himself is also in the middle stage of Jindan cultivation, and he is also very keen on this Zhengyuan Dan. Now that it has been lost in vain, it is naturally extremely regrettable.
Yang Zhen was secretly surprised. Hong Zhengli thought that the elixir had been stolen by the golden elixir mid-stage, but he knew full well that it was a character he had fabricated. Moreover, when fighting the woman, the bottle was damaged and fell to the ground. Although I didn't notice it at the time, looking back now, it seems that it was already empty.
I don’t know who took it away.
At this time, Hong Zhengli also saw the big hole burned by the fire needle, and his face was full of doubts.
"This was accidentally broken during the battle. The opponent escaped from here," Yang Zhen asked strangely: "Doesn't the head master know that there is a formation here?"
"I don't know," Hong Zhengli shook his head: "I have been to this secret warehouse several times, but I never knew there was a cave in this place. But I don't know where this cave leads to?"
…
Yang Zhen was still in front. After ducking through the hole, Hong Zhengli followed in.
Two quarters of an hour ago, when the woman escaped into the cave, Yang Zhen had entered this cave.
Because he was worried about an ambush, after taking Qing Xiaoling and Qixia into the space, he carefully entered with the Purple Emperor Bell, but it took some time. When they arrived at the cave, the opponent had already laid a trap, so they spent a lot of effort to break it.
"When I arrived here," the two of them had reached the end of the cave. Yang Zhen pointed to a pile of stone pillars and said, "Almost a quarter of an hour had passed. The two thieves should have escaped through this teleportation array. "
"There is actually a teleportation array here!" Hong Zhengli looked surprised and stepped forward to look at it carefully.
I saw that this formation was made of white jade, and there was no spiritual power coming out of it. It should be made of ordinary jade, and some places were starting to turn white, making it look very ancient.
Different from the general circular high platform of the teleportation array, this high platform is hexagonal in shape with a ring standing in the middle, which is more in line with the ancients' meaning of a round sky and a square place. It is very different in style from the teleportation arrays commonly seen in the Zhenyu world today.
Also, the pillars were made of stone instead of jade, which was different from now.
"This is an ancient teleportation array. It has a history of tens of thousands of years at least. Maybe it existed when the Yunxiao Sect was established." Hong Zhengli stroked the dark stone pillar and praised:
"It's still the best spiritual stone used. The transmission distance is thousands of miles at least."
Yang Zhen nodded: "This teleportation array is of a very high level. I heard that the coalition used a spiritual plant called the Void-Eating Grass, which can interfere with the space around my Yunxiao Sect and prevent teleportation, but this array is not affected. .”
"This formation has always been on, otherwise the two thieves would not have left so quickly." He continued.
A quarter of an hour is usually not enough for the teleportation array to go from shutting down to restarting, especially the farther away the teleportation array is, the more so.
The two of them looked at the center of the ring, which was as tall as one person. A pure white spirit stone was emitting faint fluorescence.
"This is a one-way teleportation array. It can only send people out and cannot return." Yang Zhen said quietly: "Judging from the traces on it, this teleportation array was used by someone about a month ago. Because the people who used this array The person hasn’t come back yet, so the teleportation array hasn’t been closed yet.”
"So, every time our ancestor left the mountain, he used this formation, so we didn't notice it." Hong Zhengli said with emotion.
"Brother, head master," Yang Zhen said solemnly, "I want to go over and have a look."
Hong Zhengli was silent and asked after a while:
"Junior Brother Yang, where is Junior Sister Zhao now?"
"In a certain valley outside the sect's mountain-protecting formation." Yang Zhen replied.
"Junior Brother Yang is going alone, aren't you afraid of someone ambushing you?"
"I will take precautions, senior brother, there is no need to worry."
He naturally has his own confidence in saying this. At that time, I had no time to pay attention during the fight in the stone chamber. Now that I think about it carefully, the woman seemed to have suppressed the damage of the fire needle and poisonous moss at the same time. In fact, she should have suppressed it with magic power. Otherwise, she would not have repeatedly fought in close combat in the subsequent fights. , rather than using magic to defeat the enemy.
In other words, the other party's real combat power is not as high as he imagined. With the Purple Emperor Bell's protection, even if you lose, you don't have to worry about being attacked.
…
"That's great!" Hong Zhengli suddenly said with a pleased expression:
"Junior Brother Yang, take some people and let's go together!"
