Zhao Ning stood on the top of the yellow sand and looked at the desert here. The desert is in the westernmost part of Jiuzhou, with a radius of nearly a thousand miles. There is no green at all in the vast yellow sand. Occasionally, some small creatures such as sand scorpions can be seen growing from the sparse yellow grass. Get out of the pile.
"Ding dong."
But I heard a camel bell.
Zhao Ning turned her eyes and saw a common man walking from a distance leading a camel.
The ordinary man was wearing somewhat tattered clothes, with two blushes on his face. He was carrying two large sacks of food bought from countries outside the desert on his camel's back. He seemed to be in a good mood, humming songs as he walked.
After walking a few steps forward, the mortal noticed Zhao Ning and shouted, "Hey, girl, you got lost in the desert? Come down quickly and follow me out."
Zhao Ning paused for a moment, walked down from the high hill, and saluted the ordinary people with folded hands. The ordinary people returned the salute and said with a smile, "Little girl, you didn't bring anything with you. Are you a god from the west?"
He was referring to the cultivators in the outer towns of the Western Demonic Wasteland.
Zhao Ning smiled and shook her head, "I came here to find my relatives, but I didn't want to lose any clues."
"Oh, if we are looking for relatives, then you can follow me to Huanglin City, which is the only oasis in the desert. Basically, everyone lives there."
"Then I'll bother you, old man."
"It's a small thing." The mortal waved his hand, "I often travel to the desert and meet many lost people like you. I just want to help."
Zhao Ning nodded, "I don't know what I call my little girl Zhao Ning."
"Liu Si, just shout whatever you want."
"Uncle Liu." Zhao Ning said, "Have you ever heard some anecdotes about the desert when you travel to the desert? You just said that I am a god from the west. Could it be that you can meet a god here?"
"Oh~ little girl, I see, you are also looking for immortals, right?" Liu Si smiled and pulled the camel forward, "Of course, this is the place closest to immortals. Thirty or forty years ago, there was a The headless general is causing trouble again, or is it the gods who lead the heavenly soldiers and heavenly forces to suppress it here?"
"Then the suppression was successful?"
"Of course, they are gods. How could the gods let those demons and monsters escape when they came to earth?" Liu Si smiled, "Oh, by the way, those gods lived in our Huanglin Town for a while. Since the little girl is looking for immortals, Old man, I will take you to see where the immortal lived at that time."
"Thank you, Uncle Liu."
The old man waved his hand, "It's a small matter."
Huanglin City is very different from ordinary cities in the outside world. Almost all the buildings here are made of yellow sand mixed with bricks.
Yellow sand is flying in the city, but this does not affect the mood of the people in the city. Far away from the secular country and across the world of cultivation, there seems to be no worries here. The people eat well with the food they exchanged and drink the only food in the city. Bending the oasis spring water one by one is satisfying, and the rest of the time is spent singing and dancing, so happy.
As soon as Liu Si led Zhao Ning into the city, many people greeted him, and some people smiled and asked Zhao Ning if he needed help, but Zhao Ning declined with a smile.
When he reached a dome-like yellow mud building in front of the oasis spring, Liu Si said, "This is where the immortals temporarily live." He took Zhao Ning in and shouted, "Old Li, come out, someone is here to pay you respects." The abode of immortals.”
Apparently this isn't the first time.
But he saw an old man who was half a hundred years old running out and greeted Zhao Ning with a smile, "Girl, are you here to look for the immortal too? But the immortal has been away for decades. Although all the furnishings and furnishings from back then have been retained, the ones left by the immortal I’m afraid I can’t feel the immortal energy anymore.”
He doesn't hide it at all.
Zhao Ning smiled and crossed her arms in salute, "It's okay, Uncle Li just takes me to take a look."
"okay."
Liu Si and Shopkeeper Li took Zhao Ning to the largest room in the inn. There was still a spirit gathering array in the room. The spirit stones in the spirit gathering array had been completely consumed. No wonder Shopkeeper Li said that the immortal energy was gone.
Zhao Ning asked, "Has anyone else been here during this period?"
"Of course, this is an immortal. Everyone in the city has come to visit it, and in the past forty years, there have been about three or four waves of people coming and going."
Zhao Ning knew that such questioning would not yield any clues, so she asked shopkeeper Li if she could stay here. This room was not allowed, but the other rooms were free. Zhao Ning thanked them and took advantage of the situation. Stayed.
At night, Zhao Ning appeared in this room again.
The Qingxiao Sect identity token flashed, and the aura was thrown into the spirit gathering array, but there was no reaction at all.
Zhao Ning paused for a moment before replacing his identity token with an ancient dragon-patterned jade pendant.
There was a flash of light, and sure enough, Ji Xiu's shadow appeared in the spirit gathering array.
But unexpectedly, Ji Xiu's shout came out.
"Little Fairy Zhao Ning! Little Zhao Ning! You are finally here!!! Hurry, come and save us!!! This human demon can split the void and connect to the unknown secret realm. We can't get out!!!"
Zhao Ning:......
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Chapter 220
"cough."
Ji Xiu, who was in the light and shadow, gave a fake cough to cover up the gaffe just now.
"Zhao Ning, when you see this message, it means that we are still trapped in that secret realm, or we may have died."
Ji Xiu's expression became solemn.
"A few years ago, we were looking for the human demon here. We spent a lot of effort to trap it, but we didn't expect it to split a space and escape into it. Several junior brothers had no choice but to follow the human demon into that place. They were gone for a long time. come out."
"We suspect that they are all trapped in the secret realm and cannot come out. Several disciples and I have searched all over the desert, but we have not found a way to crack the secret realm. The entrance to this secret realm can only be entered but not Come out. The way to crack it is probably internal. They are the only hope of Qingxiao Sect, they are the fire. I cannot let them fend for themselves in the secret realm, I must go in to find them."
"I don't know exactly what is going on in this secret realm, but the junior brothers who entered are all the best in the Qingxiao Sect's foundation-building realm, yet they are still trapped in that secret realm. I'm afraid it's extremely dangerous."
"I know that Little Fairy Zhao Ning is the most kind-hearted and will not leave us alone. I have left two disciples to guard outside. They will take care of you."
Ji Xiu said a few words solemnly, and then suddenly stepped forward and bowed solemnly.
"Zhao Ning, I leave it to you."
As he spoke, Ji Xiu's light and shadow gradually dispersed and turned into a soul light.
Zhao Ning waved, took the oil lamp from the table, and removed the wick inside. The soul light fell into the oil lamp. The brilliance of the soul fire was already very dim, but at least it showed that Ji Xiu was still alive.
After putting away the oil lamp, Zhao Ning thought that the two disciples left behind by Ji Xiu were not here.
According to Bi Lingyan, one person went to Qingxiao Sect to report the news a few years ago, but what about the other person?
Zhao Ning paused for a moment and walked out of the room. She looked up at the sky. The moon in the sky was very far away, and layers of yellow mist shrouded the sky.
She walked outside Liu Si's room.
A flicker of spiritual light from his fingertips shone on the door and window, shrouding Liu Si through the door and window. In an instant, Liu Si's nightmare gradually became calmer.
This was Liu Si's dream, but Liu Si didn't feel anything now.
He was walking on the streets of Huanglin City in his dream, greeting others happily, chatting from his home to his home. At this moment, he suddenly felt that everyone around him had settled down, and the girl he met during the day appeared. Opposite him.
Liu Si seemed to feel normal and said with a smile, "Girl, are you here to drink tea too?"
Zhao Ning said calmly, "Uncle Liu, I'm here to ask you a question."
Liu Si said, "If you have any questions, girl, just ask. I will answer everything I know."
Zhao Ning did not hide anything. In Liu Si's dream, everything he said was true, and he would not answer words he did not know.
"Uncle Liu must have lived here for a long time. I wonder if there are immortals still left in Huanglin City."
Liu Si shook his head, "Girl, I told you during the day, the immortal left long ago, quietly. But a long time ago, there were two strange outsiders in the city. We don't know if they are, but they are They left one after another. They used to live in a dilapidated courtyard in the east corner of the city. Girls can go and have a look."
Zhao Ning nodded.
"I'm bothering Uncle Liu."
"It doesn't matter. Girl, those two strangers are good people. At least I know one of them has killed many desert monsters for us. Don't hurt him."
Zhao Ning paused and said thank you.
Liu Si smiled and wanted to say something. Suddenly, he saw a spiritual light flash across Zhao Ning's fingertips, and the entire dream changed, becoming as peaceful and peaceful as Liu Si imagined.
He looked at Zhao Ning in surprise, only to see that the light on Zhao Ning's fingertips had not dissipated, and he wrote a word in the air out of thin air.
"blessing."
This word was slowly engraved into Liu Si's heart, as if something had really been planted in Liu Si's heart, as if something had been changed somewhere.
Zhao Ning left Liu Si's dream, opened her eyes, and withdrew her hands. The faint aura that shrouded the room dissipated.
Liu Si turned over in his sleep, and the coming and going of Zhao Ning would gradually dissipate as he woke up from the dream.
Zhao Ning came to the southeastern corner of Huanglin City. It was overgrown with weeds and filled with cobwebs. The furniture and furnishings inside were either damaged or scattered all over the place.
She bent down and picked up a bamboo slip. Most of the bamboo slip was damaged, and there were still faint writings on it. It should be one of the bamboo scrolls.
The spiritual light penetrated into it, only to see the brilliance above dizzy, and then a spiritual light flew out from it, and then flew in a certain direction.
Zhao Ning followed calmly, and saw the aura leaving Huanglin City, wandering around in the desert, and fell into a deserted village in the yellow sand. This village only had about a dozen households, and it was not popular. , all the houses in the village collapsed, leaving only ruins.
There were piles of things piled up in the center of the village, and the yellow sand covered them, making it difficult to see what they were.
But the spiritual light entered it without any deviation.
The penetration of spiritual light seemed to create a crack in the yellow sand, but the yellow sand rolled down, and then a broken bone emerged from the yellow sand.
The ominous premonition was confirmed.
Zhao Ning moved her fingertips lightly, and a gust of wind immediately blew away. The wind blew away all the yellow sand, and piles of bones appeared instead. Some of the bones had been burned, leaving only broken arms and limbs.
These stumps were all mottled black, and Zhao Ning knew that these stumps were not normal human corpses.
The residual limbs flew up layer by layer, and the person Zhao Ning was looking for finally appeared in the mountain of residual limbs.
Not surprisingly, he had turned into a skeleton.
Everyone's bones were dim or mottled, but his bones were as jade-like.
In forty years, even his physical body rotted away.
This is just a disciple in the Qi refining stage.
Zhao Ning stretched out his hand, and his palm was filled with spiritual light. Then the corpse was illuminated with light, and a ball of light and shadow traced back from the corpse.
The Golden Core Realm's Round Light Retrospective Technique seems to be able to reveal all the memories engraved in their bones.
Zhao Ning even had some impressions of this disciple in the Qi refining stage. He had always been with Ji Xiu. Ji Xiu seemed to be laughing and joking, but he had a serious face, showing two different behaviors from Ji Xiu. .
This disciple’s name is Ge Wei.
Ge Wei's most impressive memory is probably that after entering the Qingxiao Sect, he happened to be Ji Xiu's attendant, and with Ji Xiu's help, he reached the perfection of Qi training step by step.
