As the sun sets, the fiery red sun shines in the sky, forming a splendid cloud like a flame, shrouding the entire Yunxia Island in a fiery dream. The maple leaves on the island also seem to be dyed with flames, as red as the scorching sun, and complement each other with the burning clouds in the sky, which is intoxicatingly beautiful.
The scenery of Yunxia Island is picturesque, especially in the evening, when the burning clouds and the fiery red maple leaves complement each other, creating a breathtaking scenery. This island is full of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and has three pyromanganese mines, making this place even more magical.
Pyromanganite is a precious material for refining magic weapons and has fire properties. If high-quality pyromanganese is integrated into a weapon, the weapon will have fire attributes. When combined with fire-attribute crystals, it can form an amazingly powerful weapon.
The Gu family is famous for their swordsmanship. Most of their martial arts are related to swords. All the masters of the Gu family are superb in swordsmanship. The Wanjian Peak of the Gu family is filled with various swords, some of which even have spirituality, breathing and beating as if they have life.
Many masters of the Gu family are good at refining swords, and sword refining requires the use of various rare materials. Pyromanganese stone is in short supply for refining fire attribute swords. After the Gu family discovered that there was pyromanganite on Yunxia Island, after a lot of hard work, they defeated the other warrior forces on the island and took the island into their possession.
However, a year ago, Shura King Mo Duanhun led thirty Shura Blood Guards to Yunxia Island. In just half a day, all the Gu family's defense measures on the island were destroyed. The Gu family were killed one after another by the Shura Blood Guards, and the forces related to the Gu family were also uprooted.
One year has passed, and although Yunxia Island has returned to the hands of the Gu family, the island's defenses have still not been rebuilt.
Fortunately, due to the changes in the Fourth Demon Realm, the Yang family, which had been attacking the Gu family and the Dongfang family in various places recently, also quietly withdrew to the Jialuo Sea. Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Gu family proposed peace talks. Since the Yang family was busy dealing with the demons in the fourth demon realm, they agreed and prepared to come to Yunxia Island to sign the details.
On Yunxia Island, at the foot of the largest pyromanganese mine, there are stone buildings and stone walls. Surrounded by dense maple trees, the fiery red maple leaves are like a warm skirt, tightly embracing this building complex and turning it into a sea of fiery red maple leaves.
In the midst of this picturesque scenery, there is a huge stone tower peaking fifty meters high. Gu Jianfeng and Gu Lie stood in the tower, side by side, looking into the distance, as if they were discerning the secrets of the world.
The sun sets in the west, and the glow is like the blush of the sky. A stream of red light beams, like flying immortals, shot from the sky and fell into the tower. On the ground in the tower, the light stretched into red lines, like a dreamlike scroll.
At this moment, the sun is slowly sinking into the sea, forming a beautiful sunset seaside picture. In the distance, a letter eagle came through the wind like an arrow, its speed was amazing.
The Xinying found the target accurately and flew straight to the stone window in front of Gu Lie. It flapped its wings slightly twice and then stopped steadily on the windowsill.
Gu Lie reached out and took off the letter from Xin Ying. He frowned and read the contents on the letter, his face getting increasingly ugly.
Gu Lie has the cultivation level of the second heaven of soul, and has an extraordinary status in the Gu family. This time the battle between the Gu family and the Yang family started due to the ancient sword, so Gu Lie was responsible for handling it.
The Yang family repeatedly provoked and killed the masters on many islands of the Gu family. Because of the family's losses, the head of the Gu family was quite angry and blamed Gu Jianfeng. He was also very dissatisfied with Gu Lie. This made the head of the Gu family very angry. Gu Lie was very depressed. He had always been very careful in handling matters with the Yang family, for fear of causing problems again.
"Dad, what happened?" Gu Jianfeng keenly felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere, and walked forward quickly, focusing on the letter.
Gu Lie's face was gloomy, and he threw the letter to Gu Jianfeng angrily, and said angrily: "The Yang family is really greedy. They actually asked us to hand over five islands before they agreed to quell this turmoil."
"Five islands?" Gu Jianfeng's face suddenly changed. He quickly opened the letter and glanced at the lines of words. He exclaimed: "Yunxia Island, Xuanke Island, Tielang Island, Huludao, and Disha Island! These islands either have The rich mineral deposits or the production of precious elixirs, every one of them was obtained by our ancient family after hard work. The Yang family is so open-minded, asking for five islands at once!"
Gu Lie frowned and said seriously: "The family will never agree. These five islands are too important to us and cannot be ceded to the Yang family. But if we cannot reach an agreement with them, the superiors will think that I am not doing my job well. This matter is really difficult..."
"Dad, the last time we were in the Soul Gathering Pond, that demon seemed to...seem to have evil intentions." Gu Jianfeng's face darkened, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Since the Yang family has gone too far, why don't we take this opportunity and agree to The devil’s conditions make it impossible for anyone who comes to Yunxia Island to come back.”
"Demon..." Gu Lie's eyes flickered, but he couldn't make a decision in his heart, "Although we have always been at odds with the Yang family, if the Demon is involved, once the matter is leaked, we will definitely suffer public outrage. Other families will also look down upon us. We might even be accused of being mean-spirited."
"As long as the Yang family is wiped out, who will know that it was us?" Gu Jianfeng thought deeply for a moment and comforted: "Dad, in this era, for the sake of family interests, why can't we dance with the devil? As far as I know You know, people in the endless sea have already secretly colluded with the underworld people in the seventh underworld. As long as the purpose can be achieved, there is nothing wrong with occasionally making changes."
"But do you know that Mo Duanhun may be coming?" Gu Lie frowned, "As the head of the three Shura Kings, Mo Duanhun's strength is astonishing. Unless there is a devil at the level of the heaven to help, there is no way. People can keep him. Once he escapes and learns that we are colluding with the devil, our status in the Gu family may not be guaranteed."
"If we fail this time, my father's status in the family will also decline severely. The family will definitely not agree to us ceding the five islands, and the Yang family's arrogance is well known to everyone. We cannot deal with both parties at the same time. If we don't decide If the soul is killed by the demon, we can completely shirk the responsibility. When the Yang family is in chaos, there will naturally be no time for him to take care of it. Dad, you should think about it carefully."
"Let's go to the Soul Gathering Pond."
"Um."
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In the far south of Yunxia Island, there is an extremely hidden valley. If you are not familiar with this place, it will be difficult to find its traces. In the center of the valley, there is a famous pool. This pool of water is unfathomable and is surrounded by an eerie aura.
Above the pool, the miasma filled the air, as dark and suffocating as thick ink. There are soul-calling flags hung on the surrounding treetops, swaying in the wind, surrounding the entire pool. These soul-calling flags seem to be strange guides, attracting endless ghosts and ghosts here.
Under the water, the ghost-faced ghost looms, like a nightmare apparition. This pool is like a mirror, reflecting endless terror and darkness. It seems that countless wandering ghosts are sealed away, and their screams and wails echo in the valley, making people shudder.
Legend has it that a long time ago, Yunxia Island suffered an unprecedented disaster. The residents of the island were brutally massacred, and they were completely heartless. The souls of those who had died were attracted by a mysterious force and did not dissipate immediately. Instead, they gathered here and poured into the pool.
Endless ghosts float on the water and poke their heads out from time to time, giving people an uneasy premonition. It was as if they had been looking for opportunities to escape from the confinement of darkness and vent their hatred and curse on the world.
In the long history, there used to be an evil warrior sect on Yunxia Island, which regarded this pool as a holy place to practice evil martial arts. They do whatever they want in this bloody storm, and there is no humanity at all.
In order to fight for control of Yunxia Island, the Gu family sent out their masters to uproot this evil sect. The warriors in the sect died one after another, and their souls fell into this terrifying soul gathering pool, forever unable to be reincarnated.
The Gu family has conducted in-depth research on the Soul Gathering Pond on Yunxia Island. From the classics left behind by the annihilated cult, they learned that the Soul Gathering Pond has a unique mysterious power that can connect the seventh underworld and the fourth demonic realm. However, this is very different from the role of Tianmen. Tianmen allows humans to enter the seventh underworld and the fourth demon realm, but the Soul Gathering Pond does not have this function.
The only function of the Soul Gathering Pond is to allow certain masters from the Seventh Underworld and the Fourth Demon Realm to appear on the surface of the Soul Gathering Pond through the penetration of their souls.
Once upon a time, the Gu family tried to destroy this mysterious soul gathering pool. However, just as the action was about to begin, a demon soul emerged from the Soul Gathering Pond. He appeared on the surface of the pond and requested cooperation from the Gu family, hoping that the Gu family could inject various ancient souls into the Soul Gathering Pond according to their secret methods, in an attempt to directly transfer souls from the seventh underworld and the fourth demon realm through the Soul Gathering Pond. The wish to descend into the endless sea.
However, the conflict between the Seventh Underworld and the Three Gods Religion has been around for a long time. The Three Gods Sect entered the seventh underworld through the Tianmen many times and obtained abundant resources, but also created conflicts. The Gu family has an ally relationship with the Three Gods Religion, so naturally they will not assist the underworld people in the seventh underworld to fight against the Three Gods Religion.
As a result, the Gu family did not agree to cooperate with the Hades and Demons, but instead implemented a strict restriction on the Soul Gathering Pond. They used all kinds of power to cover the place where the Soul Gathering Pond is located, and strictly guarded all the secrets about the Soul Gathering Pond.
There was a fierce debate within the Gu family on whether to destroy the Soul Gathering Pond. In the end, the Gu family chose to keep the Soul Gathering Pond, whether out of preparation for possible future conflicts with the Three Gods Religion or for other reasons. In short, the Soul Gathering Pond has been preserved to this day.
However, the Gu family has already tightly controlled the secrets of Soul Gathering Pond.
The periphery of the Soul Gathering Pond is covered with restrictions set by the top masters of the Gu family. Unless a formation master from the fifteen major forces happens to arrive, it will be difficult to uncover the many mysteries here.
The last time Mo Duanhun bloodbathed Yunxia Island, he rode a green-blooded magic bat and wandered around the island, releasing his spiritual consciousness to search for martial masters and precious spiritual objects on the island, but even so, he still failed to find the Soul Gathering Pond. traces.
It can be seen from this that the degree of secrecy of Soul Gathering Pond is amazing.
Gu Lie and Gu Jianfeng, father and son, quietly left the tower, avoiding some of the guards of the Gu family, and arrived at the Soul Gathering Pond.
They came to this strange soul-gathering pool. Gu Lie used a secret method to unlock the restrictions, came to the pool, and fired a stream of spiritual consciousness towards a black ball of light in the center.
The black ball of light was made up of the intertwined souls of countless living beings. The souls of these people were intertwined together, causing terrifying ghost faces to appear on the surface of the black ball of light.
A ray of Gu Lie's consciousness flew into the black ball of light, and a moment later, the black ball of light dived into the Soul Gathering Pond.
In the next ten minutes, the water in Juhuntan pool rolled and stirred up turbulent waves. The dirty black water kept churning, and gradually formed a monster as black as ink, with six sharp horns on its head, three meters high, and a vague face. human image.
"In one month, Mo Duanhun, the leader of the three Shura Kings of the Yang Family in Endless Sea, will come here. At that time, I will temporarily open the Soul Gathering Pond. Can you seize the opportunity to bring Mo Duanhun and his Shura Blood Guards to this place? Stay?" Gu Lie spoke concisely and directly stated his intention.
"Mo Duanhun?" The demon suddenly opened its teeth and claws, and the body formed by the pool shook violently. Jie Jie smiled strangely: "Just in time! Just in time!"
