A bright moon hung high in the sky, shining brightly all over the place. A shadow quickly emerged from nowhere. His state was very strange. His body was half-light and half-dark, invisible in the moonlight. To the naked eye, Hard to see.
Stumbling towards the foot of the World Tree, the black shadow stretched by the moonlight was swallowed by darkness. He looked around, very cautiously, and finally tapped lightly on the World Tree with his fingers. The sword intention bloomed and sword energy poured in.
Slowly, the World Tree opened from the middle, and mist rolled in.
"I didn't expect that there is really another cave in the World Tree!" Xu Zhong looked at the door opened in the World Tree and was very surprised.
The spiritual energy pouring out from it made him feel as if he were in his mother's womb, giving him the feeling of abandoning his acquired body and embracing his innate body.
The Yuanyang sword transformed into a blue dragon.
Cang Long stood on his shoulder and looked inside. He felt a kind of exhaustion: "The innate Qi here seems to be much thinner than it was fifteen thousand years ago. Maybe in the near future, these innate Qi will It will be completely assimilated into acquired Qi.”
After Xu Zhong knew that all the innate energy flowing here was, he even used a lot of effort to breathe.
They walked towards the World Tree, and the mist swallowed him up, sucking him into the Nine Heavens.
In the World Tree, there is indeed a different world.
The streets are criss-crossed. At the beginning of each street, there is a drum tower. Long corridors rise across the sky, pedestrians are everywhere, there are many cornices, wind chimes jingle, towering painting pavilions, there are mechanical giants walking among them, and there are also some half-humans and half-monsters. The monsters spoke human words and communicated.
A water demon made purely of water stood in front of Xu Zhong, seeming to be waiting for him.
"Are you Xu Zhong?"
Xu Zhong nodded.
"Come with me!"
Xu Zhong followed the water demon and walked forward.
The layout of the streets in Jiuchongtian does not seem to be much different from the outside world.
He discovered that next to the Drum Tower was the watchtower. In the watchtower, the eyes of the machine man holding a crossbow were embedded in night pearls, glowing with dark blue light. The crossbow swept across the entire street. In the watchtowers, there were countless watchtowers. The machinemen cooperate with each other, and their crossbows can be easily fired at any place in the city. There is no so-called blind spot.
He followed the water demon to a drum tower.
The official in charge of telling the time in the Drum Tower turned to look at the water demon, and then stood up hurriedly.
"Please come out, Mr. Ling."
The official nodded, and after a while, an old man with stooped eyes appeared in Xu Zhong's sight.
"Send him to the third heaven. Old Mother Huhe wants to see him." The water demon said.
"Mother Huhe hasn't seen a visitor for a long time. The roulette wheel she placed here is almost rusty."
Ling Lao took out a golden roulette wheel and turned it gently. Then the wall in front of Xu Zhong changed, and a lifting platform appeared out of thin air. The jade platform faintly glowed, exuding rays of space power.
There are two yellow scarf warriors guarding the platform, one on the left and one on the right.
"Please take the immortal jar and don't lose it." Lao Ling carved the immortal jar and handed it to Xu Zhong.
Xu Zhong nodded dully.
He stood on the platform.
The platform begins to shrink upwards.
After a while, it had risen three thousand feet, and he had a panoramic view of the first-level sky.
In the blink of an eye, it has passed through the first layer of heaven.
The second heaven appeared in front of me.
But the second layer of heaven soon disappeared from sight.
After a while, the platform reached the third heaven,
The third sky is a vast ocean, and the city buildings are built on suspended corridors.
The place is bustling with people and monsters are constantly coming and going.
All kinds of monsters.
Various water monsters.
Humans have almost none.
As soon as he left the platform, someone came to greet him.
The water monsters on the suspended corridor looked at Xu Zhong curiously.
Fortunately, it didn't take long to reach the destination.
"Mother Huhe, are you okay?" Canglong stood behind Xu Zhong and said to the person standing in front of him.
That was a woman, a very beautiful woman.
"Yuanyang, long time no see." The two seemed to be old acquaintances. Mother Huhe looked at Xu Zhong: "Are you the descendant of Zhou Jing?"
Her eyes were very heavy. When they fell on his shoulders, a burst of magic power poured into Xu Zhong's body, and was then suppressed and swallowed by the five elements of thunder in Xu Zhong's body.
"You do have a sword similar to his in your body." Mother Huhe turned and left.
At this time, Xu Zhong found that he could not move and was restrained by the movements of Old Mother Huhe. He followed her step by step. Canglong didn't say a word the whole time, and he didn't know what he had in mind.
When the water monsters around the corridor saw Old Mother Huhe, they subconsciously moved their steps and crawled on both sides, waiting for her to pass.
"Then you are of some use." These words were full of murderous intent.
Mother Huhe stopped at the highest point of the third heaven.
One, thatched house.
Next to the thatched house, Xu Zhong saw the ghost mother.
She sat at the end of the stone table and chairs in front of the thatched house, indicating that Xu Zhong could sit opposite her.
The ghost mother was like a maid at this time, bringing a cup of tea and pouring two cups.
The first time you smell the tea, a fragrant aroma hits your nose and mouth. Then you feel it slightly, and the spiritual energy in your body is slowly moving around on its own, driven by the tea aroma.
"This is the Snow Mountain Spiritual Tea. It is of great benefit to the Qi Refiner's practice. It can increase the innate Qi in the human body. Although you are only in the Five Luminaries realm, you can still refine this sip of tea."
Xu Zhong did not doubt that he was there. He picked up the tea cup and drank it all in one gulp. The water in the tea went into his belly and turned into a dense aura, swirling mightily among the five stars, driving the secret secrets of the wooden stars. The majestic vitality is integrated into every aspect of the body.
This cup of tea saved Xu Zhong months or even years of work.
"Mother Huhe, what do you want?" Xu Zhong put down his teacup and asked, "If you want my swordsmanship, just take it. If you want my life, just take it!"
In the face of absolute strength suppression, any behavior is a kind of powerless struggle, so you might as well just do it.
Mother Huhe shook the tea cup, and the tea sloshed in the cup. She didn't drink it, she just looked at Xu Zhong like this.
The two looked at each other for a long time, and then the old woman Huhe put down her teacup and said, "It's very simple, I want your body."
"????" Xu Zhongman had an incredible look on his face.
"Of course it's not what you think." She stood up and said, "I mean, take your body." "
To seize means to take someone's body, and to give up means to give up one's own body.
This is seizing one's body.
"I don't understand!" Xu Zhong really couldn't understand why Mrs. Huhe had such an idea.
No matter which way you think about it, this is impossible.
"Maybe you don't understand!" Mother Huhe put down the tea cup in her hand: "I am old, death has knocked on my door, and I am trapped in this body, and I can't even breathe."
She stood up, patted Xu Zhong on the shoulder, and looked into the distance.
"You have clearly completed the exterior scenes, and death is no longer a threat to you." Xu Zhong was puzzled.
"It is not death that threatens me, but falsehood!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Zhong felt the sword intent coming from Canglong.
This sentence seems to throw it into a kind of confusion.
So much so that he showed his sword to Old Mother Huhe at this moment.
Mother Huhe stretched out her hand to suppress it.
"Even though I have a long lifespan and great strength, I can't turn falsehood into truth and create something out of nothing." Old Mother Huhe withdrew her gaze: "Death, in the face of nothingness, is not worth mentioning."
Xu Zhong did not have such a mentality.
What he was curious about was why Canglong lost control.
Is it just because of the word "false"?
False, can be easily explained.
No matter how prosperous and powerful the World Tree is, it is always just a cave, not the real world.
She is used to seeing the falseness of the world, so she longs for the real world.
This is not difficult to understand.
"Then why is it me and not someone else?" Xu Zhong asked: "Or, why don't you get out of here by yourself?"
"Maybe you didn't understand what I meant." Mother Huhe said calmly, "However, this is also a normal thing."
Xu Zhong felt confused.
"Do you know why Emperor Longdu brought the entire Ancient Yue Kingdom through the tribulation?" Old Mother Huhe asked.
Jiang Xuanyi had told him the answer to this question before.
"For immortality?" But at this moment, Xu Zhong was a little hesitant about the answer.
"Puch, for the sake of immortality!" Mother Huhe sneered: "What a stupid answer!"
"You believe this answer because you don't know the ancient Yue Kingdom." Mother Huhe patted Xu Zhong on the shoulder.
A ray of mana entered his pupils.
In front of my eyes, a scene was mapped out.
Ancient Yue Kingdom!
This is an era of human rule.
Gods are enshrined by human emperors.
The original mission of all gods is to protect humans.
Mountain gods sit in temples and restrain monsters.
The river god lives in the great rivers and spreads clouds and rain.
The earth god nourishes the land and ensures a good harvest.
That was the best era. In this era, everyone was like a dragon and everyone could practice.
There is no clear boundary between Qi practitioners and people, but the two transform into each other.
"In the ancient Yue Kingdom, everyone enjoys the right to immortality, because everyone can obtain immortality by relying on their own practice."
Ghost Mother, Zhou Jing, they were all people of that era.
Xu Zhong looked at the ghost mother.
The ghost mother nodded.
"So you said, why would Emperor Longdu do something to help the people of Guyue, who could have obtained the chance of immortality through their own efforts, to help the entire country overcome the tribulation and ascend to the throne?"
Xu Zhong shook his head dully.
Maybe he is arrogant enough?
"He is not arrogant, he is more awake than everyone." Mother Huhe raised her head and looked at this false world: "He is the first one among us to wake up."
"He did it because he discovered a secret, a secret that forced him to do this."
Xu Zhong sat upright and listened.
"He discovered that the whole world is fake!"
The sound was deafening and Xu Zhong's ears were buzzing.
He didn't seem to hear any more sounds, except for that sentence.
"Which world?" he asked.
"The world you came from!" Old Mother Huhe said: "Just like this Longdu Cave Sky, it's all fake. It's a qi-refining exterior world."
"Because Emperor Longdu discovered this secret, he wanted to lift the entire country and ascend to the real world by overcoming the tribulation."
"But, he failed!" Xu Zhong said blankly.
"No, he succeeded!" Mother Huhe retorted.
Xu Zhong's pupils shrank suddenly, and he didn't know why, but he knew that Mrs. Huhe would continue talking.
"He succeeded, but at that moment, a sword flew from the sky and crucified him here together with the entire inner world."
