"Sorry everyone, I kept you waiting for so long."
After Ji Ning completed his breakthrough and stabilized his breath, he steadily walked down from the top with a faint smile on his face.
Xue Zhongjing nodded in agreement without saying anything, but kept his eyes on Ji Ning, seemingly exploring whether there were any changes in him.
"are you OK?"
"It's okay, it's just a minor injury."
Ji Ning pretended not to know that Xue Zhongjing was sizing him up, walked straight to Qi Lan who was sitting cross-legged on the spot, sighed and asked with some concern.
Throughout this journey, the two of them had sustained injuries. Basically, they would suffer new serious injuries as soon as they barely recovered. It was really not easy. If it had been anyone else, they would have died long ago.
Qi Lan finished adjusting his breath, put the map of mountains and rivers on his knees into the space, turned his head and glanced at everyone, and said with a pale and calm expression:
"Although I don't know how much time has passed, but after so much, I think the closing date of Xantian Mansion must have arrived."
"Yeah, I should have arrived a long time ago. I really miss the life outside and being able to see the sun every day."
Ji Ning stretched his waist with emotion. There is a widely circulated saying in the cultivation world, which is called one day in the sky and one year on the earth. Great practitioners with high realms not only have the ability to move mountains and rivers, but also have longevity. Several times that of ordinary people.
Those old monsters who practice in the holy land are just doing an ordinary retreat, and I am afraid that it will take a hundred years.
Therefore, in the world of spiritual practice, young geniuses are always springing up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Every other day, a stunningly talented genius may become famous. Each and every brilliant name shines like a shooting star and then is overshadowed.
The world of spiritual practice seems to be changing very fast, but if you can see through its appearance, it is not difficult to find that no matter how the country changes, how many geniuses emerge and then fall, the rulers of all parts of the world will still remain the same after all. They will always be the same. A group of people.
The world of life, separation and death, ups and downs, is just a simple retreat for some practitioners.
He feels that way now.
Ji Ning silently clenched his fists, and the smile on his face gradually faded away.
Three months had passed since he walked down the mountain to the gambling house, but he felt like three years had passed.
Days are like years.
In such a dangerous environment, people around him died every day. Although he had the opportunity, he also experienced countless life and death.
In the past, three months might not have been enough for him to loosen a single acupuncture point, but now he is already a practitioner, and he is a fairly strong one.
Now, everything is basically settled.
After leaving this underground palace, he will go to Longtan Peak.
Compared with the inheritance of the Futian Sect in this underground palace, the inheritance of the Sword Immortal is obviously more attractive. I am afraid that half of the giants in the cultivation world of Great Xia will arrive.
Although it was a competition in the clouds, it did not mean that young monks like them did not have a chance to get a share of the pie, so Ji Ning believed that not only himself and Qi Lan, but also people in the Taoist temple would definitely go.
Will Li Hu come?
Ji Ning shook his head, lowered his eyes, looked at the wide and dark passage ahead, and said lightly:
"Further forward, there is the last tomb chamber in this underground palace. There should be some things in it, and then there is the exit."
"We're finally at the exit, it's suffocating me to death!"
Zhen Xixi stuck out her tongue and said complainingly.
Xue Zhongjing smiled slightly. He knew that the greatest inheritance in this underground palace was thaumaturgy, and the last room Ji Ning mentioned was probably where the thaumaturgy room was stored.
However, just when he was about to say something, he found that Ji Ning had already walked into the passage ahead without looking back.
The pace of his steps was neither fast nor slow, but he vaguely felt that Ji Ning was deliberately trying to get rid of them.
As a result, Xue Zhongjing narrowed his eyes. He didn't know about Ji Ning's inner activities in the Taoist temple. He just vaguely thought that the other party was trying to monopolize thaumaturgy, so he followed behind silently. The same was true for Qi Lan.
Along the way, except for the big-hearted and brainless Zhen Xixi, the remaining three Ji Nings all had their own agendas.
Even the weapon spirit of the Mountain and River Sheji Map was secretly instructing Qi Lan, asking him to go to a secret passage and slip away while no one was paying attention.
As a weapon spirit, of course he knew about the existence of thaumaturgy, but he didn't know where Master Shen Yu left the thaumaturgy inheritance back then. What's more, he didn't want Qi Lan to participate in the competition for that level of inheritance.
If you are not careful, you will die.
After all, Qi Lan is injured now and is too weak to play his role in the Shanhe Sheji Tu.
He himself has been sleeping for so many years and has long lost his fighting power. If something happens, he will not be able to help at all.
But Qi Ling's proposal was rejected by Qi Lan without even thinking about it.
Although Ji Ning didn't tell him, based on previous contacts, he could guess that his friend might be hiding a bigger secret and opportunity than he was, and this matter should have been discovered by Xue Zhongjing.
Along the way, Xue Zhongjing's eyes did not stay on him too many times. Instead, he secretly glanced at Ji Ning more than once.
"If I escape by myself, he won't be able to deal with it alone."
This is the reason Qi Lan gave to the old man Qi Ling.
In this small space, any sound transmission will be discovered, with the exception of special ones like spiritual bodies.
In other words, there was no way for him to avoid Xue Zhongjing and run away with Ji Ning, so in order to ensure the latter's safety, he had no choice but to stay.
Xue Zhongjing didn't know that Qi Lan had already targeted him and even believed that he would have some other motives.
As he followed Ji Ning, countless distracting thoughts emerged in his mind, causing Xue Zhongjing to frown subconsciously.
He began to get entangled. If Ji Ning really wanted to monopolize magic arts, how should he regard himself? Should he fall out on the spot?
There was no time for him to think, because Ji Ning's footsteps in front of him had suddenly stopped.
In front of the young man, the passage disappeared and was replaced by a gray and misty light curtain. Behind the light curtain, there seemed to be a brown wasteland with a very high terrain that reached to the ceiling.
Looking at the illusive and uncertain scene in front of them, everyone was shocked and confused. Only Ji Ning was silent for a moment, said nothing, and walked in.
"Follow up!"
Xue Zhongjing gritted his teeth and was the first to follow. Although he gained a lot of benefits from this trip to the underground palace, the most important opportunities were missed. He did not allow any more mistakes in this miraculous technique and had to earn it. In the bag!
Everyone filed in, and Ji Ning, who was the first to walk through the light curtain, had already walked more than ten meters on the wasteland.
This is truly a wasteland.
The earth and sky are without any color, like a dead and ruined jungle after being burned by fire. Low but untouchable dark clouds gather into groups and roll continuously in the sky. There are thunderballs flashing inside, which seem to come from time to time. There will be divine punishment.
"This...this is..."
Xue Zhongjing looked at the surrounding environment and couldn't help but be startled.
I saw that at the end of their wasteland, it became steeper and narrower as they went up, until finally it seemed that there was a cliff there, and on top of the cliff, there was a faint suspension bridge paved with chains, hidden in the clouds and mist. Where does the end lead.
What really moved him was that the further up he went, the clearer his surrounding vision became. Only then did he see clearly that there were many sights hidden in the surrounding clouds and mist, such as looking at the location a thousand meters away. Surprisingly, there is another deserted wasteland exactly like theirs.
Above the wasteland, thunderstorms shimmered all over the sky, and a giant beast hundreds of feet tall and unknown was running above it, grabbing the creatures on the ground with one hand, tearing them into pieces and throwing them into its mouth for chewing.
Those creatures were clearly humans.
That wasteland is the Wild Spirit Vein!
Xue Zhongjing's eyes suddenly widened, and his heart felt as if it had fallen into an ice cellar.
After this period of understanding, it is no longer a secret that this underground palace is shrouded in a large formation, and the spatial laws are strange. Previously, Jiang Hailiu and others could see their every move in the Huangling Vein, and their voices could still be transmitted. , he was already mentally prepared that one day, maybe all of them would get together again.
But he didn't expect that this day would come today. When he was about to obtain the Tongtian inherited miraculous technique, he actually saw the scene of the wild spirit vein.
What happened over there?
Those hundred-foot-tall giant beasts were so powerful that even those cultivators who had entered the wilderness spiritual veins could only flee in panic. If he hadn't listened to Ji Ning before, wouldn't he have died by that giant beast long ago? Underfoot?
Xue Zhongjing couldn't help but swallowed.
But at this time, he looked forward and found that Ji Ning walked straight towards the suspension bridge.
He is ready to go.
Although Ji Ning didn't say anything, he could vaguely feel that he and others were getting closer and closer to the exit.
Xue Zhongjing suddenly came to his senses. He had ignored that maybe the thaumaturgy inheritance had already been taken away by Ji Ning!
If you don't take action here, you won't have a chance to get out!
Xue Zhongjing roared in his heart. With his strength, it would have been easy to take down Ji Ning and Qi Lan, but now he discovered that these two people had huge secrets and opportunities, which had to make him start again. Compare combat power.
Although he is definitely better than the two, the problem is that he seems to have no ability to swallow these two opportunities. One is the Mountain and River Society Map, and the weapon spirit has long said that he has no talent in this area. Will not be controlled by him.
The other Ji Ning is suspected to have inherited the inheritance of a ghost cultivator. Although he wants to become stronger, he doesn't want to become a ghost cultivator yet. That is something that everyone can punish him for.
But he was not willing to just let these two buildings run away. Although Ji Ning and Qi Lan might not be as strong as him, their escape methods were certainly not much different. Once they got out of the underground palace, he would not be able to rob or kill them. It’s difficult!
