Apparently, the Heavenly Lord of the Moon had already arrived before anyone came. Hearing what Heavenly Lord Haokong said, he said with a smile, "Then let's wait for the envoy Ying Ming. However, before the envoy returns, I have something to explore in the shrine."
Everyone was a little surprised, Haokong Tianzun even raised his eyebrows, "Moon Tianzun, please tell me."
The Heavenly Lord of the Moon said calmly, "Millions of years ago, when the cycle of the universe was changing, I observed the stars in the sky and drew a map of the moon and the star wheel."
Tianzun Haokong didn't know why he mentioned this, but he just echoed, "I heard that back then, the power of reversing the universe contained in the Moon and Star Wheel Diagram instantly changed the color of the heaven and earth, and reversed day and night, which really caused Suizhou to suffer a lot back then. "
"Hey, don't mention this matter again. It was my mistake, so I added a cause and effect, which has not been cut off yet." Yue Zhi Tianzun said that he didn't want to talk anymore, but he still smiled when he spoke, "Back then, I wanted to draw this picture Destroyed, but my disciple had some understanding of this, so I asked him to make a rubbing to realize it for himself, and the original picture was destroyed. However, this disciple of me was incarnated in the heart-burning catastrophe of sky fire a hundred thousand years ago, so the rubbing of this picture was Then disappear."
After Yue Tianzun said so much, Haokong Tianzun had already realized what he said, "Could it be that the Moon and Star Wheel Diagram has appeared again?"
"I don't know whether it appears or not, but I can sense that this picture has been activated." The voice of the Moon Goddess was very calm, "Although it is not the original picture and does not have the power of the past, it will still affect the laws of heaven and earth to some extent. My Lord That’s why I’m asking, have you all seen it before?”
The last sentence suddenly brought with it a sense of coercion, and Tianzun's eyes flashed across it as if it were something real. Everyone was confused, and they all said, "I have never seen this picture before."
"Since it was created by the Heavenly Lord of the Moon, I think the Heavenly Lord would also know its location." Venerable Haokong asked, "But if the Heavenly Lord of the Moon said this, could it be that this thing is in the time ruins."
The Moon Goddess smiled and said nothing.
"Mo Chenyi!" Haokong Tianzun shouted angrily, and Mo Chenyi's figure was revealed seven thousand miles in the sky, "Haokong Tianzun, this thing was not known to Yu Yujing back then."
Tianzun Haokong seemed to be thinking, and murmured, "Is it possible that the entire army of thirty-six people was wiped out because of the Moon and Star Wheel Diagram?"
At this moment, a voice suddenly approached from outside the palace. He walked step by step to the center of the hall through the fairy mist. Seeing his appearance, Haokong Tianzun said, "Ying Ming, it's just the right time for you to leave seclusion."
Ying Ming stood still in the center of the hall, bowed and saluted high in the sky, and said softly, "Tianzun's guess is not wrong. The Moon and Star Wheel Diagram is indeed in the Ruins of Time, and it is also in the Heavenly Demon's Nest."
This answer immediately caused an uproar in the hall. Everyone knew what the Dark Moon Star Wheel Diagram meant in the Demon's Nest. It was a hole connecting the outside world. Once something went wrong and Shixu was in danger, it meant that Jiuzhou …
"What about the thirty-six people?" Jian Minghe was only concerned about this matter.
Ying Ming said calmly, "I haven't seen the thirty-six people, but I can be sure that the Divine Wind Immortal Boat is in the Demon's Nest."
This hint seems to indicate that the deaths of the thirty-six people may be related to the demon.
"Envoy Ying Ming, are you really so sure?" Someone questioned, "Could it be that the people from the ruined continent, after all, didn't you encounter the variable that broke into Jiuzhou?"
"I don't know about this. However, I can tell you that the variable was also thrown into the Demon's Nest by me. I think it has become a part of the Demon's Nest at this moment." His cold voice was like the eternal winter. .
Everyone immediately fell silent.
Haokong Tianzun said to Moon Tianzun, "I heard that once the Dark Moon Star Wheel Chart is opened, it cannot be stopped, let alone taken back. Now five of the seven pieces of the Zhongzhou Demon Slaying Order have been destroyed, and two more have been banned. A hundred years later It was just unblocked. What do you think of the Moon Goddess, do we need to ask a few more Gods to work together to unblock the two tokens and enter the time ruins again?"
Yue Tianzun did not speak, but his eyes fell on Ying Ming, and then moved away as if nothing had happened, "The Moon and Star Wheel Chart is useless to me. Since it has been opened, it should be the time of the Ruins at this moment. I’m afraid it’s not appropriate to go at this time.”
The Tianzun realm cannot enter the time ruins. Their intrusion will cause the time ruins to collapse. At that time, the sky will be empty again, and there will be no way to recover.
The words of Yuezhi Tianzun were obviously spoken for Yu Yujing Yuan Shen.
"In that case, I would like to ask all the envoys of the Yu Yu Realm to go to each continent and find out who brought the Moon and Star Wheel Diagram into the ruins of time." Haokong Tianzun said without any emotion in his voice. Let’s see what you want to do with all this time spent!”
The clouds are seven thousand miles away, and all the envoys are responding. Ying Ming is still standing in the center of the hall, following him.
Tianzun Haokong disappeared into the palace without saying anything, and Tianzun Yue also disappeared with him. Everyone in the palace stopped staying. Ying Ming turned around and walked out of the hall until he reached the door, where his steps suddenly stopped.
He turned around slowly. There were nine layers of clouds. There was no one in the sky nine thousand miles away, but Ying Ming could feel the eyes focused on him.
His eyes moved upwards until they landed on where the Heavenly Lord of the Moon was sitting.
There were misty clouds in the sky, and the figure of the Moon Goddess appeared again. He sat cross-legged in the sky, looking down with a smile.
"Ying Ming... envoy?"
Ying Ming straightened his body and bowed calmly to the sky, "I wonder what the Heavenly Lord of the Moon has ordered."
Yuezhi Tianzun smiled and said, "I didn't have any instructions. I just noticed the envoy across time and space and retreated before I could say hello. Now I just want to make a small talk."
Ying Ming didn't seem to be surprised by the implications of these words. He just lowered his eyes and responded calmly, "Looking at Tianzun, it's a junior's suddenness."
"Hahaha, it doesn't matter." Yue Tianzun smiled and said, "Speaking of which, my fate is still brokered by my superior."
Ying Ming slowly raised his head, his eyes like the night sky without any starlight.
Moon Heavenly Lord didn't seem to pay attention. He half-supported his chin and murmured while thinking, "So, who is the real 'variable'."
*
A few days later, there were still three months left before the Ansui Island Competition, and the Liang family was already preparing to leave.
In the small courtyard of Liang Ji's family, everyone was saying goodbye reluctantly. Within a few days, Liang Ji's figure had become rickety, his appearance had become older, his hair was gray, his cultivation was completely ruined, and he did not have much longevity left.
Liang Ji grabbed Liang Xuandi's hand and bent his body so that his forehead easily rested on the back of Liang Xuandi's raised hand.
"Dier, it's because of my incompetence as a father. I wanted to fight tooth and nail to break through the golden elixir bottleneck and change the current situation, but I didn't want it to end like this."
Liang Ji never recovered from this situation and looked extremely disgusted. However, Liang Xuandi was his biological son after all. He could beat and scold Liang Xuandi before, but now he himself has become a burden. In the end, he could only say: , "If this trip doesn't work, forget it. Our lineage is probably exhausted."
When he said this, he glanced at Zhao Ning again, and Zhao Ning looked back calmly. He no longer said the same words as in previous years, "Don't forget us after becoming a disciple." This was probably repeated over the past ten years. Having exhausted all his expectations, he finally said "Hey". Before Liang Xuandi could even speak, he turned around and walked back into the house.
Mrs. Liang Ji looked at her son with distress. The child she held in her hands was held in the palm of her hand by everyone and regarded as a genius in the first ten years. However, he suffered too much ridicule and setbacks in the next ten years. "Son, your Why is your life so miserable? It's my mother's fault. It's my mother who made you born with damaged pubic area."
"Mom! Don't say that, it has nothing to do with you." Liang Xuandi said to Mrs. Liang Ji, "Don't worry, you can stay here with peace of mind. In half a year, I will send a fairy boat to pick you up." Osawa."
If he could send an immortal boat to pick him up, he must be a disciple of the sect. Mrs. Liang Ji only thought that her son was comforting her. She patted Liang Xuandi's hand and said with a wry smile, "Son, no matter what, I can accept it as my mother." of."
Liang Xuandi probably knew that nothing he said could win their approval, so he stopped talking, but his eyes remained firm.
Mrs. Liang Ji walked to Zhao Ning. This was the only time in many years that she was so close to Zhao Ning. Zhao Ning looked calm and bowed slightly. Mrs. Liang Ji pulled back her hair at the temples and said, "You are a good child. It’s just that living in such a family, there are many things that can’t be helped—”
Zhao Ning stared at her, his clear eyes were particularly clear, as if he had guessed the hint in her words.
She asked calmly, "Does the master want me to exchange anything?"
"I don't know." But Mrs. Liang Ji shook her head, "I just heard them gossiping and talking about your marriage more than once. Zhao Ning, at this age, in such a family, if you can't practice, you can only Become a 'resource' for exchange of resources."
"No!" Liang Xuandi suddenly stepped in between the two of them and said to his mother, "As long as I, Liang Xuandi, are here, Liang Yi will never succeed! I will take Zhao Ning with me. , let me see if he dares to take Zhao Ning away in front of me!"
Mrs. Liang Ji looked at her son and then at Zhao Ning. A trace of pity flashed in her eyes. She comforted Liang Xuandi softly, "Dier, don't try your best."
"I, Liang Xuandi, never try to show off. I said that he, Liang Yi, would be stepped on by me for the rest of his life and only deserve to look at me and smile. I do what I say!" Liang Xuandi always has an extraordinary self-confidence. Then he shouted to Zhao Ning, "Let's go! Let's go to Ansui Island!"
After saying that, he stepped forward and left. Zhao Ning bowed to Liang Ji and his wife and said goodbye, then turned to follow. Liang Ji and his wife looked at their backs until they sighed at the end.
More than 20 people who were on this trip have gathered in the main courtyard. There are two people in the Golden elixir realm, five people in the Foundation building realm, and fifteen people in the Qi refining realm. However, most of them are escorts and have truly met the conditions to participate in Ansui. In the island competition, there were only three foundation builders and ten Qi refiners.
The Liang family does not have a Nascent Soul, but if there is a Nascent Soul, they can rent an island in Daze.
Four golden elixirs from the clan came out to escort the group out of the mountain and onto the ship heading to Ansui Island.
As soon as Liang Xuandi and Zhao Ning boarded the ship and were about to go to the room inside the ship, they were stopped by Liang Xuanhai. Of course, it was only Liang Xuandi who was stopped.
Liang Xuanhai crossed his arms and mocked, "Where are you going, Cousin Di? If you want to go to the room, that won't work. Cousin doesn't want to trample my father under his feet, so why not try to stay in the bottom warehouse first?" ”
"You!" Liang Xuandi suddenly realized that his words in the yard were listened to.
"The bottom warehouse is dark and damp..." Before he could finish his words, a strange expression suddenly flashed across his face, and the next moment he changed his words, "Just go!"
Saying that, he threw up his sleeves and walked away.
Seeing him leaving, Zhao Ning wanted to follow him, but Liang Xuanhai said, "Fourth sister, this matter has nothing to do with you. You can just stay in your room."
Zhao Ning turned to look at him and saw that Liang Xuanhai was smiling, but his eyes were full of satisfaction when looking at the items.
She lowered her eyes and suddenly said politely, "Cousin Hai, have you ever heard of the theory of cause and effect?"
Liang Xuanhai's smile disappeared, his eyes were cold, and his words were still sarcastic, "Fourth sister, don't you want to discuss the meaning of cause and effect with me?!"
Zhao Ning smiled lightly and shook his head, "Cousin Hai is joking. Zhao Ning has no cultivation and has never entered the Tao. How can he talk about the Tao? I just think about the words of my elder brother, 'Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and the way of heaven is reincarnation.' However, Zhao Ning I think this sentence is not good, so I might as well change it and give it to my cousin. Everything happens because of cause and effect, and the road will eventually pay off."
She said no more and turned to go to the cabin on the ship.
Zhao Ning was quiet in the room for a moment, not bothered by the incident on the ship. She sat on a chair by the window, flipping through a miscellaneous book. The book talked about the most powerful figures in Xianzhou for thousands of years. There were two cups on the table. Tea, a piece of new tea floats on the water, swaying slightly with the movement of the boat.
Around evening, someone knocked on Zhao Ning's door and brought dinner, but it was Fang Ji who came.
Zhao Ning closed the book with a calm expression and clear eyes, reflecting Fang Jiao's hesitation and superficial smile.
"Zhao Ning, let's eat. This journey will take several months. We can't take the Bigu Pill every day."
Zhao Ning put down the miscellaneous books, approached Fang Jiao, smiled and said, "Thank you, Aunt Jiao."
She didn't say anything more, picked up the bowl, and ate quietly and meekly.
"Good boy." Fang Wei looked at her for a long time and sighed again, "If you can practice, you will definitely be able to go further than Xuan Lang."
Zhao Ning paused, turned to look at her, and Fang Ji said again, "You have also seen the situation of your parents and brother. If your family is depressed, the family will no longer support you. People like you who are unable to practice Most women would be given to disciples of the sect or the rising star of the family. But Auntie had watched you grow up, and she really couldn't bear to let you waste the rest of your life like this, so she discussed it with the family. Auntie's family has a rising star, who was born last year. I joined the Neiguang Sect, and I didn’t have any maids around me. I just have a weird temper, and act... act a little recklessly, but Erli is in the late stage of foundation building. I have outstanding talent and handsome appearance, so it should be a suitable place for you."
Zhao Ning put down the bowl and chopsticks and asked calmly, "Auntie, are you asking for Zhao Ning's opinion this time, or... are you just informing Zhao Ning?"
Fang Jiao stopped talking, and the answer was self-evident.
She stood up and only said, "When you leave the Futai River area and enter Pingyang Daze, you will meet the Niguang Sect's big boat. He will look at you."
After saying that, she turned around and was about to walk out when Zhao Ning suddenly said, "Auntie."
Fang Wei frowned slightly, thinking that Zhao Ning was still going to argue about this matter, but turned around and saw the little girl's expression was as usual, her eyebrows were calm, and she only asked, "What's his name?"
Fang Wei thought Zhao Ning had compromised, so he smiled and told Zhao Ning, "His name is Fang Huan."
After Fang Wei left, Zhao Ning still finished her meal leisurely, drank a cup of tea, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and paused when she stood up. She looked at the other cup of tea. The tea leaves floating on the water had sunk. She stretched out her hand, I saw the cup of tea was drunk again.
She sat back on the chair by the window and continued to read the unfinished books until night fell, the crescent moon dimmed and the stars became sparse.
There were no candles or luminous stones in the room. In the dim light, the writing in the miscellaneous book could no longer be seen clearly. She put down the miscellaneous book and looked out the window. The crescent moon retreated to the other side, and there were only stars in the night sky.
She reached out as if she wanted to receive a handful of stars.
The night was dripping, the windows were closed, and Zhao Ning lay on the bed with her eyes closed, but maybe she drank too much tea, and she turned around and couldn't sleep.
So, he simply sat up, and after thinking for a moment, he pointed at the red leaf between his eyebrows. The veins of the red leaf flashed with subtle light, and a hidden ancient thunder talisman appeared in Zhao Ning's hand.
This was an accidental discovery when she was young. The red leaves between her eyebrows can accommodate all things. Even if she has no cultivation, she can still move her thoughts at will. There are many things in the red leaves, and any one of them can be worth the Liang family's hundred-year worth. These are worth 100 yuan every year. The blessings sprinkled from the red maple trees on the festival day were the blessings given to her by the gods guarding in the dark.
The ancient thunder talisman is attached to the body, and the faint light travels along the dark pattern of the thunder talisman, then spreads to the whole body, and then gradually disappears.
She picked up a lamp from the table, lit the candle in the shade, opened the door, and walked quietly to the basement.
Under the ancient thunder talisman, even Master Yuanying's spiritual consciousness would not be able to detect her at all, let alone these low-grade golden elixirs from the Liang family.
Walking down the stairs of the bottom warehouse step by step, Zhao Ning couldn't help but cover his nose due to the smell of decay inside. The bottom warehouse contained the corpses of monster beasts caught from wetlands, rivers and swamps, some of which had their contents already removed. Dan, some of them were skinned and deboned, and some of their internal organs were left on the floor.
Zhao Ning was unable to move down the stairs for a moment. After hesitating for a moment, she whispered, "Brother?"
But no response was heard. The bottom warehouse was not big, but there were too many corpses and debris piled up, and there was no other light except the lamp in Zhao Ning's hand.
Zhao Ning thought that Liang Xuandi couldn't stand the smell of the bottom warehouse, so he sneaked out and was about to turn back to the ship building.
