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Time comes back to the present.

There were dark clouds floating in the sky, blocking the original clear moonlight, and the thick clouds were like a piece of dead black iron, oppressing the heaven and earth, even in this empty wilderness, you can hardly feel the flow of air.

There were a few dull tremors from the edge of the sky, and then a bright electric light split through the sky, and the raindrops of beans poured down, hitting people's bodies, wetting clothes, and the soaking of the rain made people feel that their bodies were getting heavier and heavier, and their brains were also chaotic, and they gradually couldn't distinguish what was real and what was illusion.

The round belly copper tripod in Yun Mengyao's hand was constantly rising with colorful smoke, mixed with the thin layer of mist formed after the rain fell to the ground, the smoke was like a silk luo, enveloping her whole person, looming, and it was also impossible to tell whether she was real, or was she part of the illusion?

I don't know if it was because of the chill caused by the rain hitting my body, or because I was frightened after knowing the truth of the matter, Yuxizi's hand holding the long sword couldn't help but tremble. Raindrops fell on the blade, slowly sliding down the blood groove on the blade, converging to the tip of the sword, forming a pearl-like raindrop that jumped out of the edge. He looked at Yun Mengyao in the smoke and asked in a cold voice, "Then how do I know if what you tell me now is part of the illusion?!"

Yun Mengyao covered her mouth and let out a burst of laughter like a silver bell: "When you talk to me, you subconsciously think that you are communicating with people in the illusion, which shows that the most real illusion has already bypassed the external obstacles and planted in your heart. When a person has a nightmare in his heart, his eyes will naturally be blurred, and even if this is the case, there is no need for me to use illusions to deal with you anymore. ”

Attack the heart for the top, attack the people for the bottom!

Penglai is a famous Taoist house, this kind of truth and falsehood, fiction and reality is actually the same as "Zhuang Zhou Mengdie", which is still the most familiar field of knowledge, but now it is so "taught" by the younger generation, Yuxizi wiped the sweat on his forehead, and couldn't help but secretly feel ashamed in his heart.

"Where is Lin Xiao?" No longer entangled in the matter of the illusion, Yuxizi simply asked straight to the point.

Yun Mengyao smiled indifferently and said, "Where the sword idiot is, he is there." The Sect Master of Ethereal City had spent so much effort, and he had only found him after risking the disapproval of the Quadruple Building, how could he casually leave him here alone and let Er and the others do whatever they wanted!"

Yuxizi asked again: "Where is Ye Wuxin?"

"Don't ask, do you think I really have to answer all my questions?" Yun Mengyao sneered, "And even if you ask, you can only stay here and want to leave?

Yuxizi's long sword shook, the sword on the blade was swallowed, and a little rain reflected on the blade, reflecting a dazzling light. "Do you want to stay in this seat? Then we have to see if Your Excellency has this ability!" As soon as the words fell, the long sword in his hand was lifted to the ground, Yuxizi flew up, and the sword was a move "Cangsong welcomes guests", the sword flower was pulled continuously, and the tip of the sword trembled and pointed directly at Yun Mengyao, and in an instant, the sword shadow had covered the seven acupuncture points on his body.

Yun Mengyao's hands were still holding the small copper tripod of refining mirage steadily, and in the face of the long sword stabbed by Yuxizi, he didn't fight back, but kicked his luck under his feet, and the whole person slipped out backwards and retreated straight to Zhang Xu Kai. The tip of Yuxizi's sword trembled, and a little cold light pointed at Yun Mengyao's chest, but a few inches away, it could pierce her skin and go straight into her body. But the other party's body is like a ghost, this vertical step after sliding as if the soles of the feet are smeared with oil, all the way out of the road and never stopped, although Yuxizi out of the sword is fast, but can only maintain a certain distance, can never go further.

Yuxizi frowned, the sword flower gently pulled, withdrew the long sword with his backhand, and jumped up and swept over. The body of Penglai Realm itself is also known for its lightness and elegance, if you don't add the moves in your hands, simply talk about the kung fu on your feet, you may not lose to the body of the Soul Chasing Pavilion. After Yuxizi collected the sword, he swept through the air like this, and directly surpassed Yun Mengyao by about a position, and came to her back in a blink of an eye.

Yun Mengyao's right foot took a step back, and with a slight flick of it, she steadily fixed her figure, which made Yuxizi behind her look impressed. It turns out that most of the light body kung fu in this world has the same characteristic, that is, the lighter the body shown in this kung fu, the more difficult it is to stop, in other words, in today's physics, "the faster the speed, the greater the inertia". Just like when Yuxizi exerts their unique body method in Penglai Realm, if they want to stop, they also need to use their hands to exert gravity on themselves, and then cooperate with some body methods similar to "jack pendant" to stabilize their body.

Seeing Yun Mengyao's figure coming and going like a ghost, people couldn't find her trace for a long time, but if they wanted to stop, they only needed to take a step back, which was enough to stabilize their figure. Yu Xizi was secretly surprised in his heart, thinking that it was no wonder that the Soul Chasing Pavilion had been able to sit firmly in the position of "the No. 1 assassination organization in the world" for so many years, and the "shadows and steps" in this pavilion were really extraordinary.

Yun Mengyao had just stopped walking, and Yu Xizi had already slapped a palm from behind him, and the palm wind was awe-inspiring. Yun Mengyao couldn't take a breath of relief, and with a slight tap of her toes, the whole person swept forward again, and in the blink of an eye, she was no longer in the original position. Yu Xizi's palm naturally slapped into the air, and his move jumped up from behind and hit the Tianling Gai, and after Yun Mengyao dodged away, this palm was pressed to the ground.

Yu Xizi's trick came to naught, but there was no look of chagrin on his face, but he looked a little strangely calm. He pressed his palm down to the ground, and with a direct shock, he pushed his body backwards to the left front with a combo, and came to Yun Mengyao's left side, and before he could stand firmly, he struck from the flank and hit the opponent's ribs.

Yun Mengyao slapped him with his backhand, but instead of confronting him head-on, he stretched out his hand, and the edge of his palm was lightly cut on the opponent's palm, and then he turned his hand to clasp his wrist. Yu Xizi reacted with great speed, holding the long sword in her left hand against her palm, and just as she was waiting for luck, Yun Mengyao had already used her strength to slide out to the right side, and the two of them distanced themselves again.

The strange thing is that as soon as Yun Mengyao took a step, Yu Xizi fell with another palm and smashed to the ground again. Yun Mengyao's brows furrowed slightly, knowing that there should be some changes in things, but where the change is, but it is unclear and unclear, seeing that there is neither an enchantment nor a magic circle under the palm of this Yuxizi, it is purely a scene where the move fails, and I can't see what is wrong here.

Yu Xizi hit the air again with one move, and there was still no change in emotion, he straightened up, stepped forward again, and slapped Yun Mengyao head-on. Before the palm wind came to her, Yun Mengyao had already noticed that this palm was different from the previous two palms, and the palm momentum suddenly became much more powerful, she didn't dare to be careless, and hurriedly waved her hand to cast a spell to hide the copper tripod in her hand, and each hand dismantled a palm style, and punched it out.

I only heard a "bang", and the palms of the two had already collided together. As the current head of Penglai Realm, Yu Xizi's cultivation is much higher than Yun Mengyao's, and this palm directly shocked her to a few steps back. Yun Mengyao hurriedly shook her arms, unloaded the remaining strength of the opponent's palm move, and was about to use the "shadow with the shape" to wrestle with Yuxizi again, but when she was about to step forward, she found that her feet seemed to be nailed to the ground, and she couldn't move for half a minute.

Yun Mengyao's face changed suddenly, and she looked down at her feet, but saw that her two feet were entangled in a faint blue light at some point;

Yun Mengyao's pupils shrank slightly, looked up at Yu Xizi, who was constantly sneering, and said in a cold voice: "It turns out that you didn't really fail in your move, but used this pretext to lay a 'corset' on the ground." ”

"It's worthy of God's mistake, and it's really smart. Yuxizi clapped his hands and said, "Actually, I originally planned to play four runes in a row to tie your hands and feet together, but after I hit the second rune, I observed your eyes and knew that you were already suspicious in your heart, so I had to force you into the trap in advance." ”

Yun Mengyao also sneered: "Sure enough, it is the head of Penglai, and he is a good means." It's a pity that you could have spent a little more time commenting on me without much effort, but now you have to put a little more effort into it. ”

"As the head of Penglai, this bit of strength is still there!" Yu Xizi said coldly, as soon as the words fell, he jumped up, and the sword on the long sword was slashed, and a sword stabbed into Yun Mengyao's chest.

Who knew that as soon as he stabbed out with a sword, he felt that his arm sank, and a heavy force was like a thousand pounds of weights, directly pressing on his arm. Yuxizi was caught off guard, and the hand holding the sword was pressed down by this force, and the long sword also touched the ground.

"I'm sorry. The smile on Yun Mengyao's face became more and more gloomy, "You're not the only one who has set up the formation—have you forgotten where you are now?!"

Yu Xizi couldn't help but be shocked when she heard this, only to see Yun Mengyao smile and wave her hand at him, as if saying goodbye, and then her whole person turned into a wisp of colorful smoke, which was exactly the same as the mirage after refining, and then turned into the rain and disappeared. The rain falling from the sky became heavier and heavier, as if someone had poured the water of the great river from the sky, and it could no longer be described as "pouring" or "pouring". As the rain gradually increased, the oppressive force also increased, and Yuxizi finally sensed the problem and hurriedly shouted: "Formation!"

The disciples of Penglai roared in unison, drew their long swords one after another, and came to Yuxizi's side, forming a queue horizontally or vertically, forming a sword formation. As soon as the formation was completed, the true qi on everyone's bodies naturally condensed together, and the oppressive force brought by the rain was pushed back.

"Sure enough...... It's still an illusion!" Yu Xizi said through gritted teeth.

A few zhang away, Yun Mengyao appeared again, and said with a smile: "The intuition of the head of Penglai is good, but it's a pity that the judgment is only made now, and it's too late." ”

As soon as the words fell, a very dull voice suddenly came from mid-air, which sounded a little old: "To tell the truth, it's not too late at all!"

This voice came into everyone's ears, and all the disciples of Penglai were all happy, Yuxizi looked up at the sky and shouted, "Master!" Yun Mengyao couldn't hear who that voice belonged to, but she faintly thought of a possibility in her heart, and her face couldn't help but change fiercely.

I saw a dazzling electric light flash in the sky, and then the sound of tearing the wind sounded, and something fell from the sky, cutting through the layers of rain and falling to the ground. When he landed, an extremely strong coercion was released from this object, as if it had shattered something, and there was a crisp explosion. In an instant, the rain and the oppression of the rain disappeared, and the ground in the wilderness became dry again.

The second coercion swept away, Yun Mengyao's figure disappeared, and then several more Yun Mengyao appeared around here, all of them turned into wisps of colorful smoke under the effect of this coercion, and finally only one remained, his face was pale, his head was covered with cold sweat, and he looked at the thing that had just fallen from the sky in shock-

That's an ancient sword!

"Who the hell is this?" Yun Mengyao bent over, reached out and grabbed the clothes on her chest, gasping for breath, and the coercion just now made her almost lose her breath. "It only took one blow to disintegrate the entire 'Sea Market Great Array'?!"

Thinking of this, he felt that the ancient sword on the ground trembled violently, and then rose from the ground, hovering in mid-air for a while, as if echoing someone's call, and then fell into the hands of an old Taoist priest with a fairy wind - this old Taoist priest suddenly appeared, standing in front of everyone in Penglai at this moment, holding the dust in one hand and the scabbard in the other, after the ancient sword flew towards him, it was directly inserted into the scabbard.

The disciples of Penglai, including the head of the sect Yuxizi, knelt down together, saluted the old Taoist priest, and said in unison: "Welcome to the holy elder!"

These four words confirmed Yun Mengyao's thoughts, she no longer had the calmness when facing Yuxizi, but pointed to the old way, and said in a tone full of horror: "You...... You're the old 'dustless'?!"

The old Taoist priest touched his long beard under his chin and said with a smile: "There is no need to be polite to the gods, the poor Taoist law is exactly 'dustless'." ”

Yun Mengyao's heartfelt fear at the moment was not unreasonable. In the cultivation realm, cultivation is divided into ten realms, that is, "one heavy heaven" to "ten heavy heavens", and each large level is divided into ten small sections, such as "one heavy layer" and "one heavy second layer...... Since ancient times, the path of cultivation has been that the higher you go, the more difficult it is to make progress, and the bottleneck of cultivation is there, and when you reach that state, if you can't find a way to break through, even if you can live for a hundred years, it won't help.

Therefore, there are very few people who can reach the Nine Heavens in the cultivation world, even if they are the head of the Purple Sun Divine Sect "Ziyang Zhenren" Cloud Cliff, the sect leader of the Ethereal City "Sword God" Xia Yang and the Ten Thousand Saints Ming Sect Lord "Tiansha" Ye Invincible, they are only the height between the eight and nine heavens; among them, Cloud Cliff has been alive for a longer time than the other two, so when it breaks through to the "Nine Layers and One Layer", there is no further benefit.

It wasn't until after the catastrophe of heaven and earth that it was divided into seven floors, and the time of the four floors stood still, and many people could live for thousands of years, so that some people found a breakthrough in the long years, but there were still only a few people who reached the height of the nine heavens. And after reaching the Nine Heavens, each upper layer is to wander in front of the Ghost Gate, and if you succeed, your cultivation will improve, and you will be proud of the others, and if you fail, your skills will be wasted, and you may even endanger your life; until the leap from the Nine Heavens to the Ten Heavens, you need to survive a period of Heavenly Tribulation, and those who can successfully survive the Heavenly Tribulation are the cultivators who have truly reached the supreme realm.

Today, there are only a handful of people who have reached the Ten Heavens, and the total number of people in the entire Seven-Story Building is less than ten. Among them, the most famous are Ling Ying, the "Lingyun Immortal Head" of the Ziyang Divine Sect, and Ye Wuxin, the "Sword Idiot" of the Ethereal City, both of whom have broken through to the cultivation of the "Ten Layers and Five Layers", and may fly to become a real god at any time; These cultivators who have attained the Ten Heavens are called the "most mysterious people" in the cultivation realm, also known as the "unknowables".

And the "dustless" Dao Master in front of him, who can compete with Ye Wuxin on the Quadruple Building Wasteland, is one of them!

【To be continued】