One night passed, Ning Fan's figure flashed outside the Bamboo Palace, slowly walked into the palace, and walked directly towards the main hall.
Today, 11 sixth-level alchemists and 16 fifth-level alchemists, including him, will enter the Xiaoqian Forbidden Area where Zu Zhu is located to diagnose Zu Zhu's illness.
There were 4 level 6 alchemists and 3 level 5 alchemists standing under the steps. Ning Fan was the eighth alchemist to arrive.
Shortly after Ning Fan arrived, other alchemists arrived one after another.
When all 27 alchemists arrived, a few wisps of faint green light suddenly flashed in the main hall.
The blue light dissipated, and the figure of the Bamboo Emperor emerged. Behind him, on the left and right sides, stood the Sixth Elder and the Eighth Elder respectively.
The Sixth Elder's Taoist name is Ling Zhuzi. He is an old-fashioned Xuanmen monk. He has a cultivation level of Shattering the Void, cultivating the way of the tree god. He hates murderous demon cultivators the most in his life, and he once disliked Ning Fan because of this.
The eighth elder is King Baili, and his cultivation has reached the invincible state of Guiyuan.
Today's King Baili's expression is not as lifeless as before, and his eyes are full of domineering and arrogant looks.
He only glanced at Ning Fan since he appeared, and never glanced at Ning Fan again.
Ning Fan glanced sideways at King Baili and frowned slightly.
He met King Baili once in person, and secretly spied on King Baili several times.
Every time he peeked at King Baili, his eyes were empty and numb, but today, King Baili's eyes looked like a normal person, nothing strange...
King Baili in this state can actually give Ning Fan a faint sense of danger...
"All the masters have traveled thousands of miles to help me cure Zu Zhu, and I am grateful! Today, I promise that as long as you can cure Zu Zhu's disease, I will definitely give you a generous reward!"
"The Ancestral Bamboo was sealed in the Bamboo Realm by this emperor. It is a small world that exists forever above Jishui City. You all will go with me to the Bamboo Realm to see the Ancestral Bamboo with your own eyes and see if you can cure the Ancestral Bamboo." Bamboo syndrome!”
After the Bamboo Emperor finished speaking, his sleeves and robe were rolled up. Green light appears.
The green light swept up everyone present and turned into a stream of light that took off and flew towards the sky above Jishui City.
The Bamboo Emperor's escape speed is extremely fast, far beyond Ning Fan's comparison.
Dun Guang was galloping all the way towards the sky. The higher he flew, the more wind there was in the air, and the greater the wind resistance he encountered.
Millions of feet above the sky, the sky wind is like a knife, which can easily kill Jindan and Nascent Soul cultivators.
Such a height is simply not something ordinary monks can fly up to.
The Bamboo Emperor's escaping light travels through the sky wind layer. It flew upwards for tens of millions of feet. Enter the Gangfeng layer above the sky.
The power of Gangfeng is very terrifying. It is enough to easily tear apart the body of the cultivator.
At this height, some fifth-level alchemists who only have the cultivation of god transformation can no longer withstand the wind pressure here.
If it weren't for the green light protection laid down by the Bamboo Emperor, these god-transforming alchemy masters would surely perish in the strong wind.
The Bamboo Emperor flew all the way towards the top of the sky, flying for a full hour.
The strong wind here has completely disappeared. Transformed into a black void wind...Void Wind!
The power of the virtual wind is enough to easily tear apart the body of an ordinary monk.
If the Xu Feng forms a storm of sufficient scale, even the Chongxu and Taixu monks may not be able to survive the storm.
The six-level alchemy masters present were all Xu Feng cultivators. They were not afraid of heavenly wind or Gang Feng, but they had to be wary of Xu Feng.
Even the sixth-level senior alchemists such as Canghai Tree Master and Zhu Hong, who had seen the big scene, all looked solemnly.
But Sun Yu's face was particularly calm, no, it's better to say calm than calm. Sun Yu's expression today was a little numb, without a smile or fear.
Ning Fan glanced sideways at Sun Yu, feeling a little strange.
During the palace banquet last night, Sun Yu had a very pleasant chat with him. Very close.
But after meeting today, Sun Yu didn't even say hello to him, and her attitude was very cold.
Only one night had passed, and it was really strange that Sun Yu's attitude towards him had changed so drastically...
Ning Fan was still thinking when the Bamboo Emperor's voice reached everyone's ears.
"The gate leading to the Bamboo Realm is at the top of the sky above Jishui, in the 'eye of the void'!" the Bamboo Emperor said lightly.
"What! Void Wind Eye!"
When they heard that the gate leading to the Bamboo Realm was actually located in the eye of the void wind, all the alchemy masters except Ning Fan, Sun Yu and the two elders of the Bamboo Palace changed their expressions.
The Void Wind Eye is a whirlpool of wind naturally formed where the Void Wind is strongest. The scale of the Void Wind in the eye of the Void Wind is far beyond ordinary people's imagination. Even ordinary Void-breaking monks would not dare to enter the wind and smoke easily!
The Bamboo Palace hides the ancestral bamboo in the Bamboo Realm, and the gate leading to the Bamboo Realm is hidden in the eye of the void wind at the top of the sky.
If ordinary people want to sneak into the bamboo world, they face two problems.
First, you must have the confidence to cross the eye of the void; second, you must have the token to open the gate to the world.
Only with these two prerequisites can outsiders enter the bamboo world.
After the Bamboo Realm, there is still the Ancestral Bamboo, and within the Ancestral Bamboo there are tree spirits who have cultivated to the third level of Heaven.
Even if ordinary people sneak into the bamboo world, they will not be able to take advantage of Zu Bamboo due to the existence of tree spirits.
The Bamboo Palace hides the ancestral bamboo here, making it very safe.
The Tree King escapes light all the way up to the sky, flying all the way to the top of the sky!
This place is the highest place that monks from the lower realm can fly to. No matter how high the sky is, it will be blocked by countless realm-breaking lights.
If you break through this layer of boundary-breaking light, you can leave the tree world and ascend into the higher plane of the four-day fairy world.
Unfortunately, the power of the boundary-breaking light is extremely terrifying, and even the well-prepared Sanxian can't pass through the boundary-breaking light.
Ning Fan's Finger of Wind and Smoke is certainly powerful, but because his understanding of reincarnation has stalled, and his cultivation is far from reaching Sanxian, even if he uses his Finger of Wind and Smoke, it is difficult to break through the light that breaks the world... .
Ning Fan withdrew his gaze and no longer looked at the boundary-breaking light. This light was too dazzling. If he looked at it for a long time, it would even cause severe pain in Ning Fan's consciousness.
He lowered his head and looked at the huge black eye of the ocean at his feet.
The black wind stirred in the eye of the wind, and a giant void-refining bird growing in the sky was sucked in by the eye of the wind from a very far distance and sucked into the eye of the wind.
The giant bird was an unknown monster. Its aura was as powerful as that of a Chongxu monk. With its wings spread out, it was six thousand feet huge.
But as soon as it was caught in the eye of the wind, it immediately screamed, and its extremely powerful demon body was torn into countless pieces by the virtual wind...
"Even a ferocious beast with a Chongxu level that enters the eye of the wind will inevitably die..." All the alchemists couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
"Masters, follow me carefully and don't move away even an inch! I am protecting you with my magical power. You will not be in any danger when entering the eye of the void! If anyone leaves my side without permission, they will die in the eye of the void. , even if I want to save you, I’m afraid I won’t be able to save you..."
After the Bamboo Emperor finished speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and robe again, rolled up countless green lights, and carried everyone flying into the eye of the wind in the void.
A lengthy tunnel was formed within the eye of the wind, leading directly to the other end of the void.
At the end of the void tunnel, there stood a huge void light door. This light door was actually made of boundary-breaking light. If there is no token. It is impossible to enter the light gate.
The Bamboo Emperor took out a green bamboo tablet. Move towards the giant door, and the giant door trembles, and the brilliance appears.
Countless rays of light shot out and rolled towards everyone present. The next moment, everyone entered the world within the light gate.
This is a world of endless bamboo sea. In the center of the world, stands a huge ancestral bamboo that is as tall as the sky.
Countless seals have been placed on the ancestral bamboo. Even so, it is said that there is still a very heavy evil spirit in the ancestral bamboo.
The sky is scattered with bamboo leaves as green as emerald, and even the flowing clouds are green with the fragrance of bamboo.
Ning Fan's spiritual thoughts dispersed, and the spiritual energy of this world wood was extremely strong. It is the best place to practice wood attribute skills.
After entering this world, he felt a sense of comfort in his body and blood.
The reason why the body feels comfortable is because an ancestral bamboo grows here!
Ning Fan has a small Five Elements physique. After the last time he swallowed the Barbarian Dragon Tree, his Wood Elements physique has improved a lot.
The ancestral bamboo that grows here. The wood spiritual energy contained in it is countless times that of the Barbarian Dragon Tree.
If the Bamboo Emperor hadn't been watching here, Ning Fan would have almost wanted to take away the ancestral bamboo and devour it, causing the small five-element body's wood-element physique to be greatly improved.
At the same time, it can also elevate the rain to an extremely terrifying level. Yipin, not difficult...
"Are you going to take away the ancestral bamboo..." Ning Fan had the thought of snatching it away, but at the next moment, he gave up the thought.
There is a Bamboo Emperor watching here, and there is also a crazy tree spirit from the Third Heaven of Shattering Void in Zu Bamboo. If Ning Fan wants to snatch the ancestral bamboo, he must first fight with the Bamboo Emperor and the tree spirit. The chance of winning is slim...
Moreover, Ning Fan had received favors from Youhuang, and Youhuang was the ancestral Bamboo Emperor.
With this relationship, Ning Fan couldn't do anything to seize the treasure from the Bamboo Palace.
The reason why the bloodline is comfortable is because Ning Fan carries the blood of Fuli Demon.
As far as Ning Fan knew, this ancestral bamboo was planted by the Bamboo Emperor of a certain generation, and the ferocious beast Nili was suppressed under it.
Nili was once Fuli, but he was no longer Fuli. He had lost all of Fuli's bloodline.
The Nieli clan is Fuli's slaves from life to life. Unless the mark of Nie is broken, their status as slaves will never disappear!
Ning Fan stood in the bamboo world, as if he could hear the suppressed Nie Li calling him under this land...
"This place is the Bamboo Realm, and that towering giant tree is the Ancestral Bamboo. The Ancestral Bamboo has been set up with countless seals by the emperor. The tree spirits cannot escape and will not harm the masters. The masters can approach the Ancestral Bamboo. Bamboo, use spiritual thoughts and medicinal souls to carefully diagnose diseases for the ancestral bamboo... huh?"
Bamboo Emperor was mid-sentence when he suddenly paused.
His words were all interrupted by the urgent sound of the sound transmission sound in the storage bag.
The Bamboo Emperor took out Yin Gui, and when he heard the sound transmission from it, his expression remained silent, but there was a hint of shock in his eyes.
He turned his head and gave a few instructions to the Sixth Elder and King Baili, and then apologized to all the alchemists including Ning Fan,
"I'm sorry, something happened in Jishui City. The elders of the palace don't know how to deal with it, so I ordered my emperor to return to deal with it."
"The Emperor will leave the Bamboo Realm for the time being. There are two elders left here who will be responsible for protecting the masters. After the Emperor has finished handling the secular affairs in the city, he will return here to pick up the masters and return to the Bamboo Palace. During this time, please invite the masters Let's work together to diagnose and treat the cause of Zu Zhu's illness, and come up with a way to treat Zu Zhu's illness..."
After the Bamboo Emperor finished speaking, he didn't say anything to the crowd. He just flashed away and returned to the original route, disappearing instantly.
He was not worried that these alchemists were plotting against Zu Zhu, nor was he worried that Zu Zhu would harm these alchemists.
The countless seals he planted with his own hands are enough to seal the ancestral bamboo tree spirit and prevent the tree spirit from harming the alchemist here.
He left the Sixth Elder and King Baili to monitor the alchemists. Although there were other people from Shuhai among these alchemists, they were all Void Refining and God Transformation cultivators and could not cause trouble under the eyes of the two elders.
The Bamboo Emperor...left!
The moment the Bamboo Emperor left, the uneasiness that had been lingering in Ning Fan's heart reached its peak at this moment!
At this moment, an unprecedented strange commotion was occurring in Jishui City.
At this moment, in the bamboo world. The same huge change occurred!
"die!"
King Baili's eyes suddenly turned blood red. He raised his right palm and turned it into a bloody tiger's claw. He attacked with one claw and pressed it against the Sixth Elder's vest!
The power of this claw is comparable to a Shattering Void blow!
During the sneak attack, the Sixth Elder Ling Zhuzi was unprepared and was seriously injured by King Baili's claw. He fell into the sky like a kite with its string broken.
Ling Zhuzi finally managed to steady his body and swallowed the sweet blood in his throat. He glared at King Baili in great shock and fury.
"Eighth Elder. What do you mean?"
The Bamboo Emperor had just left. King Baili then took action and severely wounded the Sixth Elder. His attack seemed to have been well prepared, as if he had already known that the Bamboo Emperor would leave for some reason, leaving him the opportunity to sneak attack on the Sixth Elder...
Ning Fan's eyes were startled. All along, he had always thought that King Baili only had designs on him alone, and that was why he did all kinds of weird things.
The moment the Bamboo Emperor left, he was wary of King Baili, fearing that King Baili would join forces with the six elders to attack him.
But Ning Fan never expected that the first person to be attacked by King Baili was not him, but Ling Zhuzi, who was also an elder!
Not only was Ning Fan unable to figure out King Baili's motives, but Ling Zhuzi, who was attacked by surprise, was shocked and stunned.
Ling Zhuzi couldn't figure out why King Baili would take action against him. He has no grudges with King Baili!
Moreover, if King Baili takes action against Ning Fan, it will only be regarded as a personal vendetta. Even if he kills Ning Fan, the Bamboo Emperor will only scold Baili for a few words, but will not punish King Baili for his sins.
But if King Baili takes action against him as the eighth elder, the nature will be different.
He hurt his colleagues in Zhudian. No matter what, the Bamboo Emperor will not spare King Baili lightly!
"Why did you sneak attack on me? Give me a reason!" Ling Zhuzi asked angrily.
Taking advantage of the opportunity to speak, Ling Zhuzi delayed for time and secretly swallowed the healing elixir to recover the injuries in his body and be wary of King Baili's next move.
"What's the reason... I have been ordered by my master to kill all the cultivators in this world, unlock the spirit of the ancestral bamboo, release the evil beast of evil, overthrow the Eastern Bamboo, and destroy the Bamboo Palace! This is the reason why I take action. , you can die!"
King Baili's eyes were full of murderous intent, and he kept sneering, like a ruthless killer.
But in the deepest part of his eyes, there was a hint of struggle and pain... He didn't want to hurt anyone in Zhudian, he didn't want to betray Zhudian, he didn't want to embarrass Baili, but he couldn't control his body!
His body obeyed its master's command to kill everyone here, but his heart couldn't resist!
He is manipulated like a puppet, and all his words and deeds are under the surveillance of his master...
His situation is even worse than that of the puppet...the puppet has no memory and cannot grieve.
He has memory and consciousness!
He was once manipulated as a puppet and killed all his people, turning all his people into living puppets. At that moment, he was in pain!
Following his master's orders, he sent people to assassinate Ning Fan.
However, he still had some consciousness and did not fully implement his master's orders. None of the killers sent had the strength to kill Ning Fan.
The killers he sent were just people sent to die.
Those killers are all living puppets, all members of his clan, and are being manipulated by others just like him!
He sent his tribesmen to die with only one motive... to let the tribesmen who had been reduced to living puppets be freed after death!
King Baili looked at Ning Fan again, with a hint of begging in his eyes.
He wanted to beg Ning Fan to kill him and free him, but these words were against his will and could not be uttered.
He has sent out war invitations several times, implying that Ning Fan would kill his clan members and himself...
At this moment, what King Baili wanted in his heart was to die at the hands of Ning Fan and escape from this fate of being a puppet.
But his body refused to obey and rushed towards Ling Zhuzi. He raised his hand and offered a huge millstone magic weapon, vowing to kill Ling Zhuzi here!
"Looking for death! Bai Li! Although you have the invincible cultivation level of Guiyuan, it is just wishful thinking to kill Void-shattering monks like me!"
Ling Zhuzi laughed angrily, raised his hand and held up a golden whisk, preparing to fight back against King Baili.
Each alchemist did not dare to show his anger, and retreated thousands of miles in the sky, for fear of being affected by the fight between the two.
Ning Fan felt more and more uneasy in his heart.
The moment Ling Zhuzi held up the golden whisk, Sun Yu, who had been quiet and motionless, suddenly rushed behind Ling Zhuzi.
He held a silver jade slip in his hand and smashed it suddenly.
The next moment, the illusory figure of a silver-haired old man flew out of the silver jade slip.
The moment the silver-haired old man appeared. The warning sign in Ning Fan's heart reached its peak!
The silver-haired old man didn't even look at Ning Fan. Perhaps in his opinion, the person who needed to be killed most immediately was not Ning Fan, but Ling Zhuzi.
"The art of mourning creates puppets!"
The silver-haired old man pointed at Ling Zhuzi's vest. His appearance was beyond Ling Zhuzi's expectation!
The silver-haired old man's finger turned into countless thin silver threads, piercing into the flesh and blood of Ling Zhuzi's vest!
The moment they penetrated Ling Zhuzi's vest, all those thin threads seemed to turn into blood-sucking leeches, sucking fiercely into Ling Zhuzi's body. Absorb half of his spiritual power!
Ling Zhuzi was seriously injured. Suddenly lost half of his soul power. His breath immediately became weak.
He painfully activated the whisk magic weapon to repel King Baili's millstone, turned around, and glared at the silver-haired old man!
"Wan Changkong...it's you...who's here today. I don't know which of your twelve fens it is..."
"You don't need to know!"
The silver-haired old man suddenly pulled the silver thread, completely absorbing the power of Ling Zhuzi's soul.
The next moment, Ling Zhuzi's eyes became hollow, and he turned into a zombie-like creature, and he knelt down to the silver-haired old man in the sky.
Ling Zhuzi was unwilling to give in. Deep in his soul, there was a strong unwillingness to bow down to Wan Changkong!
But his will cannot reach his body. The moment he became a living puppet, he had become Wan Changkong's puppet, with no possibility of resistance anymore...
"He...he is Wan Changkong! He is Wan Changkong, the 'Puppet Emperor' of Xi Shuhai! He possesses twelve Shattering Void Distracting Gods!" The Cangsheng Tree Master was shocked.
"Puppet Emperor...it's such a long-standing title, I didn't expect anyone in the tree world would remember it."
The silver-haired old man smiled coldly and moved countless thin and invisible threads between his fingers.
At his side. There are three living puppets: King Baili, Sun Yu, and Ling Zhuzi!
Zhu Hong, who was standing with many alchemists, laughed loudly and flew behind the silver-haired old man.
"Elder Wan, in the future you will need to use the power of my medicine soul to unseal the evil beast Nili. Now you need to protect me. I don't need to take action to kill the alchemist here, right?" Zhu Hongxiao asked road.
"You don't need to take action, there is an old man sitting here who is in pieces and distracted, enough to sweep away!"
The silver-haired old man suddenly glanced at Ning Fan and sneered,
"You are Lu Bei? Is it you who captured Teng Xianrou? I am very curious, with your cultivation in the realm of refining the void, how could you capture Teng Xianrou in the realm of breaking the void? Your strength should not be weak... .hehe..."
laugh! laugh! laugh!
The moment Wan Changkong sneered, countless thin silver threads suddenly appeared at the feet of all the alchemists.
Each of the fifth-level and sixth-level alchemists had no chance to resist, and were all stabbed into their bodies by thin threads.
In just one moment, all the alchemists except Ning Fan were wiped out by Wan Changkong, and their souls and demon souls were reduced to immortal beings!
Ning Fan was the only one who seemed to be aware of the thin line the moment it appeared, and suddenly pulled away and flew back.
At the same time, black magic fire wrapped around his body, burning all the thin threads around his body into ashes, avoiding the possibility of being transformed into a puppet by Wan Changkong.
Although he escaped the blow, Ning Fan was definitely not lightly shocked.
If he had retreated just half a minute slower, he would have been transformed into a puppet by Wan Changkong in an instant like other alchemists!
He stared at the silver-haired old man coldly, with an unprecedented seriousness in his eyes.
This person is Wan Changkong, the mad demon who massacred the Mingluo clan thousands of years ago...
From the previous words of the Canghai Tree Master, Ning Fan learned that Wan Changkong possesses twelve Void-breaking Gods, and the one in front of him is one of the twelve Gods...
The magical power of Wan Changkong is so terrifying. What kind of magical power is this!
"Oh? You actually blocked my blow? It's interesting. But I wonder if you can block its blow..."
Wan Changkong sneered, moved the thin thread between his fingers, and took out a purifying bottle magic weapon and held it in the air.
The next moment, a ferocious and bloodthirsty roar suddenly came from the distant ancestral bamboo.
The magic bottle contains a drop of fiery red liquid.
As the pure bottle tilted, the fiery red liquid dripped on the huge ancestral bamboo, and the seal on the entire ancestral bamboo suddenly burned, and then all was burned!
At this moment, the crazy tree spirit sealed in the ancestral bamboo... escaped!
On the entire ancestral bamboo, countless branches turned into magic hands, and countless bamboo leaves grew magic eyes.
Ancestral Bamboo rises from the ground and turns into a huge tree demon, possessing the cultivation level of the Third Heaven of Shattering Void!
At the moment when he was transformed into a demon, he suddenly knelt down in the direction of Wan Changkong!
He is also the puppet of Wan Changkong!
Thousands of years ago, the ancestral bamboo tree spirit went crazy. That was not madness, it was just the process of being puppetized by Wan Changkong!
"Zhu Hong, Ling Zhuzi, Bai Li, Sun Yu, you are going to unblock the four ferocious beasts Nili from the underground seal of the Bamboo Realm! I want to take this three-level tree demon with me to make it easier than the little friend from Lu Bei. Move! Kill him slowly!"
...
At this moment, Jishui City was in chaos!
Countless monks killed each other and blood flowed into rivers!
11 identical silver-haired old men were hiding in various parts of Makino Country, watching this show of cannibalism with cold eyes.
