Xue Zhongjing stood behind Ji Ning without saying a word.
In the dim and dilapidated underground palace, the latter's body exuded a slight sense of gloom.
Ji Ning turned his back and had no idea what was about to happen. He was still talking to Qi Lan with a smile on his face, but Qi Lan noticed this abnormality and his pupils shrank suddenly.
Finally, this moment has arrived.
After all obstacles were cleared, Xue Zhongjing was about to attack them. But now that both of them were seriously injured and the Canggu Bell was damaged, there was no way they could be Xue Zhongjing's opponents!
"that……"
"careful!"
The moment Xue Zhongjing was about to put his hand on Ji Ning's shoulder, he hesitated to speak.
Qi Lan suddenly rose up, pulled out the golden knife hidden in his waist, and slashed at him fiercely.
However, when he was halfway through the flight, he saw Xue Zhongjing's calm and stunned face in the darkness. Ji Ning also had a look of astonishment on his face, and both of them subconsciously avoided it.
Qi Lan gritted his teeth, hurriedly stopped his movements, and staggered to a stop.
"Where... there is no enemy!"
Ji Ning looked around with a solemn expression, but found nothing unusual.
Xue Zhongjing also looked solemn, glanced at Qi Lan without leaving any trace, took a deep breath and said:
"I don't know, I didn't feel any breath fluctuations. Did Qi Lan feel it?"
Facing the two people's questions, Qi Lan stood there and was silent for a long time.
Xue Zhongjing actually didn't attack Ji Ning. There was no spiritual energy fluctuation in his body just now, so he stopped the knife halfway.
Could it be that he misunderstood?
"No, maybe I was dazzled."
"Sorry, the injury was a bit serious."
Qi Lan said, sitting on the ground in a daze, his voice hoarse, making it difficult to see his expression.
"oh."
Ji Ning scratched his head and didn't say much, but he kept an eye on it and pretended to glance at Xue Zhongjing behind him casually.
The latter showed no leakage, with a look of concern on his face. He took out many kinds of healing elixirs from his body and wanted to feed them to Qi Lan, but he refused because he had already taken them and was afraid of conflicting effects.
"That key of yours is the one that opens this door."
Xue Zhongjing pointed to the stone door in front of him and asked knowingly. There was a huge keyhole on it, just like the key that exuded immortal energy that Ji Ning had dug out before.
Ji Ning nodded, without explaining anything, picked up the key and inserted it.
At this time, Zhen Xixi finally woke up, but she was in a daze. She only knew that she was leaning against Qi Lan and couldn't push him away. I wonder if she was just pretending.
"Rumble!!"
As Ji Ning inserted the key into the stone door, a large amount of dust began to fall from both sides of the door, and then the mountain seemed to be separated from the middle from the two sides, and it suddenly opened automatically. A wide road.
"Let's go."
Ji Ning helped Qi Lan up, Zhen Xixi held Qi Lan's hand and followed beside him, Xue Zhongjing stood on the other side, and everyone entered the dim passage together.
Walking forward, I don't know how far away, the passage has disappeared, replaced by a small space, or a tomb.
In this tomb, there are many boxes of various sizes placed, which seem to contain countless wealth. Bottles and jars are also placed on the shelves. I don’t know what kind of panacea they contain.
"Get rich!"
Zhen Xixi, who had been confused and leaning on Qi Lan, saw this scene and immediately jumped up happily and hurriedly ran over.
A hint of greed flashed across Xue Zhongjing's face, but in order to maintain his character and not be caught out, he still restrained the urge to rush over and always followed Ji Ning.
However, what he may not have noticed is that his pace has unknowingly accelerated a lot.
Ji Ning noticed this, but didn't think much about it. Who wouldn't like treasures? Xue Zhongjing traveled around the world and fought to death just for the sake of glory and wealth.
It's just that... Qi Lan kept pinching his arm secretly as he walked, as if to remind him of something.
The space here is small, and even sound transmission through space will be heard.
Qi Lan seemed to be reminding him of something in this way.
Ji Ning felt a little solemn in his heart, but he didn't show it on the surface.
"Ah, everything is broken!"
At this time, Zhen Xixi at the front opened many treasure boxes one after another, and then showed a disappointed expression.
Xue Zhongjing also hurriedly followed and opened it. It was filled with many spiritual stones, and they were not small in size.
However, those spiritual stones, perhaps due to poor storage, could not withstand the wear and tear of time. The spiritual energy in them had long since escaped and turned into ordinary stones, which could even be crushed easily in the hand.
"This space is all covered by a large formation, and the reason why that formation has been able to last for so long is because it is absorbing the spiritual energy from the space and the earth's veins all the time. These spiritual stones are piled up here and mixed with other places. The spiritual stones bred naturally are different, and I’m afraid they have all been sucked dry by the great formation here.”
Ji Ning said calmly, looking at the boxes of discarded stones, not too surprised.
After all, so much time has passed. Master Shen Yu's time was already an unknown number of years ago. Unless something like a spirit stone is buried in the earth's veins, it will be difficult to preserve it.
"Are these bottles filled with elixirs? They have lost their spirituality."
Qi Lan came to a shelf and carefully observed the bottles, jars and wooden boxes on it, only to find that the elixir contained inside had already turned into dust and debris.
But the moment you open the box, you can still smell a strong medicinal fragrance.
Presumably these elixirs must have been of extremely extraordinary quality when they were refined.
"pity."
Ji Ning also sighed softly. Based on Futian Sect's handiwork back then, even a single elixir that was handed down would probably cost more than tens of thousands of top-quality spiritual stones if sold. It would be impossible for a normal monk to make a profit by working hard for three lives. So much money.
But now, these treasures have all turned into dust over time.
Fortunately, there are magic weapons.
Ji Ning came to a stone wall, looked up and down, and then punched a hole with force.
Boom!
With one punch, the entire hard wall collapsed. In the smoke and dust, a new tomb appeared in front of everyone. It was very narrow, and there were many different magical instruments of various sizes hanging on the wall.
Seeing this, Zhen Xixi's eyes suddenly lit up again, but before she could step forward excitedly, Ji Ning from behind poured cold water on her again:
"These magical instruments may not all be in perfect condition."
Ji Ning carefully looked at all the magical instruments hanging on the wall from left to right, and then sighed with regret and said:
"These things are of different grades. They may have possessed spiritual magic weapons in the past, but their spirituality has been annihilated in the face of time. The once brave and sharp knives are now rusty, but fortunately, they are just worn out no matter what. can be used."
Zhen Xixi and others stepped forward and observed carefully.
Qi Lan took a fancy to a rusty knife. He didn't know what material it was made of. When other utensils were more or less rusty and dusty, this knife was placed in a very high position, but There is no sign of rust at all, but it is as bright and clean as new.
Click!
With a gentle pull, there was a crisp sound, and a shocking cold light flowed out from the scabbard in an instant, causing everyone in the room to shiver inexplicably.
"nice one."
On the side, Xue Zhongjing, who was playing with two utensils, glanced at Qi Lan in surprise, and then couldn't take his eyes away from the knife.
In the blink of an eye, he had already handled seven or eight magic weapons, none of which were of particularly high quality in general. Most of them were at the fifth or sixth level, but the degree of wear and tear was almost 90%.
It was too difficult to repair, and even if it was done, it might not be as good as his tiger-headed banner and mysterious jade bell.
But the knife in Qi Lan's hand clearly didn't seem to have weakened at all.
He speculated that the grade of this sword must be at least a six-stage magic weapon, and it was almost without wear and tear!
In an instant, his eyes became hot.
It was agreed before they came in that everything among them would be distributed fairly. Even if Qi Lan found the knife first, it might not be Qi Lan who got it. After all, he also used a knife and contributed a lot in this battle.
"show me?"
Xue Zhongjing smiled lightly and stretched out his hand to Qi Lan.
Qi Lan was silent for three seconds and looked at Xue Zhongjing, who always had a smile on his face and did not take his hand back.
"Um."
In these three seconds, Qi Lan didn't know what he was thinking, and threw the knife to Xue Zhongjing. After the latter took it, he carefully took the knife out of its sheath, and then praised with greed without concealing his expression:
"Good thing. I haven't seen a knife in such good condition in I don't know how many years."
"Look at the color of the back of the knife. It's simple and elegant, thick and smooth. It almost looks like it's made of wood. But in fact, the material used is all meteorite. I really don't know what kind of master of weaponry can make a knife. Polished to this state.”
While praising, Xue Zhongjing put the knife back into its sheath, then held the handle of the knife with one hand, avoiding Qi Lan's eyes, and continued to look at other magic weapons as if nothing had happened.
Seeing this scene, Qi Lan fell silent again.
When Ji Ning saw this, his eyes narrowed and he smiled and said:
"Qi Lan, your upper left corner."
Hearing this, Qi Lan looked up and saw an ordinary painting of mountains and rivers covered with dust hanging on the wall.
When Xue Zhongjing heard Ji Ning speak, he quickly turned his head, for fear of missing something.
Qi Lan squinted his eyes and took down the picture with one hand. However, at this moment, all the characters and scenery on the mountain and river picture seemed to come alive. With a buzzing sound, they actually emitted a dazzling light. Then a wisp of green smoke rose up, slowly condensing into a human shape in the space.
"Item Spirit!"
