Shenxu, Qianlou Valley.
The strange and unpredictable land of Shenxu has many dangerous places, which are extremely dangerous even for the great powers of Dao Dao and Tian Yuan. Legend has it that this is because this land, which is wider than Kyushu, was cut down from the sky by Li Sheng, so it has a terrifying spirituality that does not belong to this world.
But dangers also come with opportunities. Many of the artifacts and magic weapons at the forefront of the Wanbaolu were picked up from the ruins of the gods. Many rare spiritual plants in the world were also picked from here. For those ambitious and strong people, this place is also a paradise. treasure.
As the human race has explored the land of Shenxu for thousands of years, some locations on the edge have been divided into safe zones, and some less dangerous places have also been recorded in atlases, just like the map filled with fog being dispersed bit by bit. There are many places where treasures are hidden, like the Sword Domain Heavenly Palace, which have been secretly circulated.
Qianlou Valley is also one of them.
Hundreds of years ago, the first person to discover Qianlou Valley was an unconventional cultivator. He and several elders of the masters explored the Shenxu according to the map. However, they had to go astray due to a sudden thunderstorm and unexpectedly saw A land that shocked them.
Here, the celestial buildings and jade chambers are filled with fairy spirit, with dancing goddesses and auspicious spiritual birds. It is clearly a dreamed-for fairyland. Those elders are also practitioners with strong cultivation, and they can feel that every trace of spiritual energy in them is more pure and attractive than that in the human world. It is clearly immortal energy! They immediately forgot everything and rushed into this fairyland with all their heart, shouting incessantly: "I have become a god! I have become a god!"
The surviving cultivator flew slightly slower thanks to his lower cultivation level. After all the elders entered, the fairy land suddenly changed. In a blink of an eye, it lost the light and shadow in the sky, and turned into a dark and vast valley. In the valley, thousands of continuous pavilions and palaces fell, all of which were broken and decayed. It's a ghostland.
And those elders who rushed in suddenly let out endless screams.
The practitioner stopped immediately.
There are two choices before him now. One is to rush in and rescue the elders. Although there is a high probability that he will be buried with them, he can give it a try for the upbringing of the elders; the other is to turn around and run away and call someone to rescue everyone. Although you may have a guilty conscience, this is the sensible thing to do.
After a moment of thinking, he made his choice.
After an arduous journey, he escaped from the Shen Ruins. Then he drew the places where his elders died on the layer, and auctioned them off for a high price.
Between conscience and reason, he chose money.
There were not many forces capable of exploring new maps in the Divine Ruins. In the end, Nine Heavens and Ten Lands decided to jointly explore this area and each sent their strong men.
The team that time was led by two powerful people from the eighth realm, followed by a dozen strong men from the seventh realm. It could be described as powerful. But in the end, after an adventure, only one eighth-level master escaped with severe injuries, and this made the horror of Thousand Towers Valley known to the world.
According to him, there seems to be an immortal who has turned into a ghost in Qianlou Valley!
Not even the powerful powers of the eighth realm were able to open it up, so this map was abandoned by the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. It would be possible to attack this place if a divine weapon were produced, but that would involve too much risk, and no one would be willing to try it when the benefits are unknown.
It is also worth mentioning that one of the six demon-slaying treasures of Shushan, the demon-tying rope, was lost in that operation.
The last time Azu plundered Penglai, when he was looking for Chu Liang to sell the stolen goods, it turned out that the demon-slaying knife in the hands of Taoist Chi Niu was also among them, and Chu Liang kept it for himself.
In addition to the demon-slaying sword, demon-subduing pestle, and demon-killing hammer already in Shushan... Now four of the six demon-slaying treasures have been recovered, leaving only the demon-suppressing tower and the demon-tying rope.
If the demon-suppressing tower and the demon-binding rope can be found at the same time this time, the six demon-slaying treasures will be reunited.
The six treasures are integrated into one, with unparalleled power.
This is why Bai Ze was so excited when he saw this place. After giving up on Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, no one present knew much about Qianlou Valley. She is the only one who knows what happened back then.
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"It seems that this trip is still necessary."
After listening to Bai Ze talk about the history of Qianlou Valley, everyone reached this opinion together. Whether it's to find Yan Renjie, to tie up the demon rope, or to suppress the demon tower, this trip is a must.
Although Qianlou Valley is said to be dangerous, today's Shushan has magical weapons and great power. It requires money and people, so it should have the ability to open up a dangerous place. The reason why we gave up on the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths in the past was nothing more than a cost-effectiveness issue with huge risks and unknown benefits. Now that it is necessary, we will leave anyway.
But none of the elders expected that Chu Liang would also accompany him. At present, it is tentatively decided that a few eighth level experts will go together. Chu Liang is the great treasure of Shu Mountain, and no one is willing to let him get involved in danger easily. Even if he goes there in a clone, it is not necessary with his seventh level cultivation.
Only Chu Liang himself insisted.
His real reason cannot be stated aloud, because as the owner of the White Tower, he wants to witness the process of finding the Demon Suppressing Tower with his own eyes. If he finally finds any clues implicating himself, he will be very passive. No one knew what had changed in the process. He hoped that he could be the first to find out where the White Tower came from.
The final candidates for exploration were Caiyi, Yan Daoren, Master Qinglong, and Chu Liang.
Needless to say, the fox demon Caiyi relies on her connection with the fox tail hair to find Yan Renjie; Yan Daoren is the sharpest sword in Shushan. If necessary, she can summon the Shushan Shenzhou to come; there is only one strong person accompanying her. , originally wanted to let Bai Ze go, but if Bai Ze and Yan Daoren took the risk together, if something went wrong, the loss to Shushan would be too great.
After hesitation, Chu Liang proposed the candidate of Lord Qinglong. Although he did not obey Shushan's orders, he recognized Chu Liang. In particular, Lao Qinglong has a tough physique and is considered the most invincible in Kyushu. He is really the best candidate to explore dangerous places.
The last person accompanying him was naturally Chu Liang.
After making proper preparations, this three-band-one combination immediately set off for Shenxu.
This is not the first time Chu Liang has come to Shenxu, but when he sees the barrier between heaven and earth, and the wind and thunder rushing behind him, he will still be inexplicably shocked by the power of creation.
It is not that the higher the cultivation level, the better the practitioner understands the world. On the contrary, the higher the cultivation level, the more aware of one's own ignorance. The awe of this world will only increase as he becomes stronger.
Bang——
Although the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths gave up on the Thousand Towers Valley back then, they each still kept this blueprint, and the Shushan Dharma Protector Hall had it in stock. Taoist Yan held a jade slip in his hand and walked along the map recorded in it.
After all, Caiyi and Master Qinglong are outsiders. Chu Liang's cultivation and qualifications are not enough. Taoist Yan is the actual leader of this operation. She was flying alone with her sword in front of her, and she had an air of independence from the rest of the world.
Although even the main road between the gods was full of dangers, it was nothing to their team. In just half a day, they found the hidden place in the map.
Looking from a distance, there is only a dark cloud ahead. As we get closer, we can faintly hear the sound of fairy music and dance. Moving forward, I saw fairy waves curling up in my eyes and spiritual energy rising into the sky. It was clearly an out-of-this-world magical place.
It is indeed Qianlou Valley!
But when I glanced at the vast buildings that reached the sky, there were divine lights scattered and colorful clouds flying, and there was a faint alluring brilliance. It gives people the illusion of becoming a god, and they just want to plunge into the fairyland immediately.
"Steady." Caiyi looked straight ahead with bright eyes.
As the Master of Wanxiang Taoism, she is the most proficient in illusions and the person least likely to fall into illusions. She knows better than anyone else whether everything in front of her is true or false.
Of course, she didn't need to remind them, the other three people also guarded the Qingming Festival on the Lingtai. Although this illusion is powerful, not everyone will fall into it.
But the group of people still flew into it.
In the midst of the roar, it was submerged in the glow.
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call out--
The four of them escaped into this fairyland, only to feel a terrifying pressure above their heads, which seemed to be the might of heaven. It was so overwhelming that people did not dare to rise into the air, and they only dared to walk on the ground.
They were not in a hurry, and landed directly on the edge of the fairyland, facing the first attic, and stopped for a while.
Before he could make any move, he saw a boy coming out of the building. This boy was seven or eight years old, with delicate features and handsome eyes. He was wearing a small Taoist robe and looked quite like an outsider.
He came out gently and deftly, and said loudly: "Congratulations to all the immortals for ascending to our Xuanle Tianzong. The road ahead is long and difficult, so why not go into our Tianzong to have a look and consider whether you want to stay here to practice? "
"Xuanle Tianzong?" Taoist Yan looked into the distance, "Every building here is a sect?"
"That's not the case." The boy smiled and said: "Some sects have many disciples and may occupy dozens of lofts; some sects have few disciples and only have one loft. Like our Xuanle Tian Sect, it has always been passed down from generation to generation in a single line. At most three or five people, it is most suitable for the most talented immortals to practice here."
"Shangxian..." Chu Liang repeated his title and asked, "Aren't you an immortal?"
"Of course I'm not, I'm just a waiter of the Xuanle Tianzong." The boy smiled again and said, "I'm slow and dull. I haven't attained enlightenment in more than two hundred years. I have no chance of reaching the fairyland in this life."
"More than a hundred years?" Everyone was surprised.
They were all discerning people, but they had never noticed anything wrong with this boy's words, deeds, and manners. He was actually an old practitioner with more than two hundred years of practice?
"I'm just a little kid in the fairy world. Please enter the conversation slowly." The boy used his right hand as a guide to guide everyone into the building.
Taoist Yan glanced left and right, expressionless, and stepped into the small building.
Nothing seems to have changed?
The four of them stepped into the attic one after another, and saw that the palace was clear and elegant, and the decorations were all jade, flowers and trees, without any vulgar things. As soon as he turned his head, the boy had already sat next to a piano table and chuckled: "Then let me play a song for the four immortals?"
He put his hand on the strings of the piano and was about to flick it when Caiyi suddenly stretched out her hand and pressed the body of the piano.
"There's no need to play the piano." Caiyi looked directly into the boy's eyes and said coldly: "I only want to ask you one thing."
"What does the Immortal want to ask?" The boy turned his head and asked, as if he was a little confused.
Caiyi suddenly shouted: "Are you alive or dead?!"
"I..." The boy was about to answer, but suddenly stopped, and his whole body froze in place.
Kara la——
Although he didn't move, there was an explosion sound like a lightning strike around him. In the violent noise, the entire pavilion began to lose its color and fairy spirit, and in an instant it turned into a decaying and collapsed building!
And the boy was even more horrifying. He instantly turned into a withered skeleton sitting cross-legged. The dim black-gold color could be seen vaguely on the bones, which showed that he was once a powerful person, but even the powerful bones had decayed to this point. It is conceivable that I don’t know how many years have passed.
"Is this solved?" Chu Liang raised his eyebrows.
"Because he is not consciously maintaining the illusion." Caiyi said: "There should be something in this valley that is stimulating the spirituality of these ancient things themselves. They don't know that they are dead, they are just repeating everything before their death. "
Listening to it, Chu Liang felt that it looked a bit like the previous Jiuli Bronze City. It's just that Bronze City is replaying its own memory, and this time there are really many ancient artifacts involved.
"If we let him play this song, it is likely to inspire more murderous intentions in the illusion. And as long as we let him realize that he is dead, the illusion will be broken and the crisis will be resolved." Caiyi continued.
"That's it." Lord Qinglong nodded.
Even a veteran like him doesn't know much about the details of these illusions.
"Let's continue moving forward." Yan Daoren took the lead and set off. "Flying is not allowed here. We still have to walk a long way. I don't know what dangers there will be."
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Not long after they left this place, two figures flashed out from the edge behind them, both dressed in cyan robes, with the same sinister eyes.
If Venerable Qinglong is here, he should be able to recognize that these two people are the two Penglai Taoists, Cang Yun and Cang Qiu, who were driven away by him and Lushan Weng.
"Qinglong, the old guy who betrayed the sect, is here too?" Cangyun said solemnly: "He also knows about the secrets of the Immortal Tower?"
"No, he probably doesn't know." Cang Qiu shook his head and said, "Many of these secret affairs of the sect will not be informed to him, and he is not involved anyway."
"Then how did he and the people from Shushan come here by such a coincidence?" Cangyun looked worriedly at the direction they left: "How about we go?"
"If we leave at this time, don't we give up the secrets of the Immortal Tower?" Cang Qiu said.
It turned out that after the two of them were expelled, they once wanted to recruit troops to set up their own business and restore the previous treatment in Penglai. By then, those Penglai people who have lost their welfare and are working in Shushan will naturally know who to follow.
However, resources are not so easy to obtain. Even if you are a powerful person in the eighth realm, it is extremely laborious to collect spiritual plants and treasures bit by bit. I have only heard of people recruiting subordinates to seek resources for themselves, but I have never heard of people who are capable of running around to support their subordinates, so naturally this will not work.
The two of them had sensitive identities and did not dare to steal or rob. They were unwilling to find a place to work like other Penglai disciples.
Finally, Cang Qiu remembered something. Back then, there was a secret that was circulated in Penglai.
It turns out that the one who escaped from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths exploration group was Penglai's great master. What he said about the Immortal Sect was that the risks were extremely high, the benefits were unknown, and he didn’t see anything worth exploring.
But in fact he kept it secret.
This powerful man obtained three pieces of ancient green sand and a small bottle of spiritual fluid from a broken building. It was these three pieces of green sand that allowed him to kill an eighth-level powerful man whose realm was still above his own. And that small bottle of spiritual liquid extended his life by nearly two hundred years.
This has always been a very high-level secret in Penglai, and it is called the Secret of the Immortal Tower.
There are rare treasures from the upper world hidden in the broken buildings of Qianlou Valley. Even inconspicuous things have powerful power. The headmasters of the Penglai Sect of the past generations have passed down this matter, but no one has set out to dig it out.
Because Penglai is not lacking.
For Penglai, who has occupied the blessed land of Cave Heaven, there is really no need to risk huge risks and the danger of being discovered by Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to dig for treasures here. Even if this treasure is not opened, they are still the number one immortal sect in the world.
I just didn't expect that Penglai would collapse so quickly and lose its former status in the blink of an eye. And now in Penglai, Cang Qiu should be the only one who has heard Taoist Cang Sheng mention this matter.
Therefore, after being exiled, the two wanted to come here to search for exotic treasures and go back to deal with Yang Shenlong and Shushan.
Who would have thought that they would be stopped at the first level.
At first they didn't let the boy play the piano, but they couldn't stop him at all. The boy was extremely skilled, and even with the combined efforts of the two of them, they couldn't make him stop playing. Once the boy's piano music is played, the spiritual birds and beasts in the fairyland will riot collectively and bite all living creatures, making it impossible to get close.
They were stuck here for a long time, and they hid after realizing that someone else was coming.
Unexpectedly, he was from Shushan.
"Then what should I do?" Cangyun Taoist asked.
"If you ask me, we will follow them and let them clear the way for us!" Taoist Cangqiu waved his hands downwards, "Whenever they show any flaws, we will immediately take action to kill the Shushan people and seize the secret of the Immortal Tower. Tibetan!"
"Okay!" Taoist Cangyun also nodded.
The two of them walked forward again, and when they stepped into Qianlou Valley, they saw the haze rising again, and everything returned to the fairyland in a trance. The boy playing the piano slowly walked out again and said with a smile: "Welcome the two ascended immortals. Since you have come to our Xuanle Tianzong, why not come in and have a seat?"
"Don't play the piano in a hurry, let me ask you..." Taoist Master Cangyun smiled mysteriously and asked, "Are you alive or dead?"
"I..." The boy was suddenly stopped by the question, and he trembled. His eyes suddenly became empty, but he did not return to his original appearance, but suddenly raised his head, "I am a dead person!"
Kara la——
All the colors around him faded away again, leaving only the skeleton of a black and gold boy standing in front of him. However, he did not fall down. Instead, he roared and pointed at the two of them!
"I am a dead person! You are not allowed to live!" The boy shouted like an old man, full of vicissitudes and resentment.
Boom!
Taoist Cangyun was caught off guard and was pushed back hundreds of feet by the finger, leaving a bloody hole in his chest.
Cangqiu Taoist Zidian raised his hand in the air and pressed his palm on the boy's head, seeming to restrain him. But the boy's empty and withered eyes were raised, aimed at Taoist Cangqiu, and suddenly he opened his mouth and spit out a cloud of black smoke.
laugh--
"Ah!" Taoist Cangqiu wailed, rolled and fell.
Taoist Cangyun shouted: "Why is it different?"
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When leaving the first attic, Chu Liang also asked: "Since Qingqiu Demon King knew that the boy was in an illusion, why didn't he expose him earlier and give him a warning just before he played the piano?"
"Because we want him to return to his place." Caiyi explained: "This kind of phantom body transformed by the residual thoughts of the soul is especially likely to die unexpectedly. If you wake him up without letting him return to his place, it is likely to arouse his ferocity. A violent attitude will only cause trouble."
She raised her head and looked at the building in front of her, frowning and saying: "This should be the most prosperous area on the Divine Land when Li Shengzhan fell. I wonder how many souls there were that had no time to escape at that time, and whether there would be... real ones." Immortal?"
good evening.
Some brothers may already know it. It was announced at a meeting today. I was lucky enough to sign a small new contract, hehe.
I got up early and went to work. I had a lot of things to do. It was very late after I finished the update. Sorry.
(End of chapter)
