Chapter 11: Fate hangs in the balance

"Have you come to see my little junior brother, who is holding a bronze sword", Zhou Zhongchen asked when he saw Qi Ming.

"I didn't see it, let's go back to the waterhole first to discuss," Qi Ming shook his head and said.

As soon as the group arrived at the waterhole, a circular white light appeared on the surface of the waterhole.

"The exit passage is open, let's go," said one of the disciples of the Flame Sect.

"No, I haven't found my junior brother yet," Zhou Zhongchen said sternly.

"You have been injured, I think it is better to go back first, and then let your sect master or elder come in to search, otherwise I don't know how long this passage can last, and besides, I think your little junior brother is also quite clever, it should be fine", Qi Ming persuaded.

Zhou Zhongchen looked at the four junior disciples behind him, thought about it or went out first, before asking the door master or elder to come in to find Lin Fan, it must be easier to find Lin Fan with their cultivation than himself, nodded towards Qi Ming, everyone took turns to jump towards the white light, Zhou Zhongchen glanced back at the nameless land, gritted his teeth and jumped into the passage, and returned to the world of Purple Star.

"There are no others," Wang Tang shouted.

"Zhongchen, what about the other disciples?"

Zhang Chenfeng, who was transporting spiritual power to maintain the opening of the channel, saw that Zhou Zhongchen only came out of the nameless land with four disciples, waited for a while, and did not find the figure of the other disciples, and suddenly had a bad premonition.

"The disciples are incompetent, except for the five of us, the other juniors and disciples are...", Zhou Zhongchen lowered his head and didn't dare to look directly at Zhang Chenfeng.

"It's over"

Although Zhou Zhongchen didn't point it out, Zhang Chenfeng understood that those disciples might have fallen namelessly.

"What about Lin Fan?"

Zhang Chenfeng suddenly remembered Lin Fan, the only apprentice of his third junior brother Lin Shi, if something happened to him, then Lin Shi would have to fall out with him.

"I was about to tell you Master, Lin Fan was thrown away by a turtle as big as a mountain in an unknown place, and we didn't find Lin Fan, so I implore Master and I to enter the Nameless Land to find Senior Brother Lin", Zhou Zhongchen said anxiously.

"You go to the mountain gate to find your Uncle Lin, I and the other four can't get out at all while maintaining the passage, what are you doing in a daze, why don't you go quickly", Zhang Chenfeng shouted.

After a cup of tea, a ray of light rushed straight into the entrance of the nameless land, it was Lin Shi and Zhou Zhongchen, you can imagine how anxious Lin Shi was at this time.

"Which direction is Lin Fan in, let me tell you, if something happens to him, I will never let you go, even if Zhang Chenfeng is your master", Lin Shi grabbed Zhou Zhongchen's collar with both hands and shouted.

"Senior Uncle, let's go find Senior Brother Lin first", Zhou Zhongchen pointed to the east with his right hand.

"Go"

After Lin Shi heard this, he didn't care about settling accounts with Zhou Zhongchen, and now it was most important to find his apprentice first.

"Lin ~~Fan ~~"

Lin Shi searched to the east for a while, and at this time the two of them had already arrived in a small forest, and found no trace of Lin Fan, so they shouted anxiously.

"Uncle Shi, look at your feet", Zhou Zhongchen exclaimed.

"Under my feet?"

Lin Shi looked at his feet in wonder, and his left foot was stepping on a severed finger.

"It's like a human tongue that has been cut off with a sharp weapon."

Zhou Zhongchen took a few steps, picked up a tongue from the ground, and examined it carefully.

"Huh~~"

A wolf howl came from the bottom of the slope more than thirty meters away from the two of them.

Striding away with the wolf's howl, the scene seen from standing on the slope may be integrated into their minds and made them unforgettable for the rest of their lives.

A few meters below the slope, there is a person lying on the ground facing the sky, a branch with an arm thick and one zhang long, is inserted in the person's mouth, the left arm below was cut off by a sharp weapon, the kneecaps of both legs are sunken, I am afraid it has been broken, two half-wolf and half-leopard animals, are biting and eating this person's stomach, and a lot of intestines flow out, Lin Shi squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the face of the person lying on the slope, this look almost fainted on the spot, that person was Lin Shi and Zhou Zhongchen were looking for Lin Fan.

"Who did this?"

Lin Shi stumbled to Lin Fan's side, and roared with tears in his eyes, the two half-wolf-half-leopard animals had already run towards the depths of the woods when Lin Shi approached.

"It's... This...... This ......"

Zhou Zhongchen saw Lin Fan's appearance, and he was speechless with his mouth open.

Lin Shi gently pulled out the branch that was stuck in Lin Fan's mouth and threw it aside, knelt on the ground and picked up Lin Fan's penetrated head with both hands, leaned on his thigh, looking at Lin Fan's miserable condition like a fish in his throat, he couldn't help but cry, Lin Fan was his first apprentice, don't look at Lin Shi usually doesn't treat Lin Fan very well, that's just Lin Shi pretending to be out, for Lin Shi, Lin Fan is not just his apprentice, but more like his grandson, who would have thought that he would be like this after only ten days of not seeing him.

"Uncle Shi...... I ......"

Zhou Zhongchen looked at Lin Shi who was crying silently, didn't know how to comfort him, picked up Lin Fan's tongue and left hand, and was about to persuade Lin Shi to return with Lin Fan, but saw that Lin Fan's chest and heart had a wound pierced by a sharp weapon, as if it was an illusion, Zhou Zhongchen saw Lin Fan's chest move weakly.

Zhou Zhongchen rubbed his eyes and looked, yes, Lin Fan's chest moved again, if he didn't look closely, he wouldn't be able to find this subtle movement, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Uncle Shi, Lin Fan is not dead yet, you see that his chest is still moving"

After Lin Shi heard this, his gloomy and dull eyes regained a little brilliance, and he looked at Lin Fan's chest, and sure enough, it trembled slightly as Zhou Zhongchen said.

"Save people, save people, go back quickly"

Lin Shi picked up Lin Fan incoherently and ran towards the exit passage of the waterhole.

With a "whoosh", Wang Tang only felt a vague figure rushing out of the entrance of the nameless land, and rushed straight towards the ethereal door.

"It seems to be your junior brother, still holding someone", Han Gongyi said as he looked at the departing figure.

"Zhongchen, what are you holding in your hand, why do you still have a broken hand?

Not long after Lin Shi rushed out of the nameless land, Zhou Zhongchen also appeared outside the nameless land, and when the four of them withdrew the spiritual power to maintain the passage, Zhang Chenfeng saw Zhou Zhongchen holding a thick branch left and right, and grasping a broken hand and a soft object with flesh in his right hand, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously.

"Master, that's the case..."

Zhou Zhongchen whispered in Zhang Chenfeng's ear about Lin Fan, of course, the death of the fifty-year-old Ming disciple was only briefly said.

"What do you say, go, hurry back"

Zhang Chenfeng was stunned and then rushed towards the Ethereal Gate, Zhou Zhongchen looked at Wang Tang, Jian Mingchen and Han Gongyi, and also galloped towards the Ethereal Gate.

"What the hell is going on," Wang Tang wondered.

"Just go and see, besides, our disciples have already gone to the Ethereal Gate to rest," Han Gongyi said.

After the disciples of the Lihuo Sect, the Ten Thousand Sword Sect and the Zhenglei Sect left the Nameless Land, Zhang Chenfeng had already ordered Zhao Mojian to lead Zheng Mingcheng and Meng Jianshan to take the disciples of the three major sects to the Ethereal Gate for a short rest, and after Wang Tang, Jian Mingchen and Han Gongyi glanced at each other, they also rushed towards the Ethereal Gate.

"Don't be afraid, it's okay, it's okay, the master is here, you hold on, I'll go to the medicine garden to get the medicine"

Lin Shi carried Lin Fan back to the third hall, gently placed him on his bed, and looked at Lin Fan, who was covered in blood and dying, and suddenly had tears on his face.

"Senior brother, what's going on?"

Zhang Chenfeng, who rushed to the third hall, was shocked when he saw the appearance of Lin Fan on the bed.

"Not long after I entered the nameless land, I found that Lin Fan was already like this, his tongue and left hand were cut, and both legs were broken, I will go to the medicine garden first and bring all the medicine", after speaking, Lin Shi didn't care about Zhang Chenfeng, and hurried towards the medicine garden.

"Wait, junior brother, look," Zhang Chenfeng said, pointing to the small hole in Lin Fan's chest.

The small hole wound on Lin Fan's chest was slowly recovering, two drops of bright red blood emitted bursts of red light, bursting out of the wound on his chest, a drop of blood went towards Lin Fan's forehead, and a drop went towards his heart, Lin Fan's pierced back of his head was full of red light, and it was recovering at the speed of the naked eye, and the wound on his chest was gradually healing, and the exposed intestines were slowly retracted into his stomach.

"The essence blood of Xuanwu and Qingjiao", Zhang Chenfeng and Lin Shi exclaimed in unison.

Lin Fan didn't know the preciousness of these two drops of essence blood, but Zhang Chenfeng and Lin Shi knew that with the current cultivation of the two divine beasts of Xuanwu and Qingjiao, at most, each divine beast did not exceed three drops of essence blood, this essence blood was not the ordinary blood on its body, it was the essence blood in the heart, unless the cultivation exceeded the two divine beasts, it could save Lin Fan's life and have the effect of resurrecting the dead, which is why under the same cultivation, the divine beast can often outperform humans.

"You see, the back of the head is a fatal wound, and the chest is also a fatal wound, it seems that Lin Fan, this child, must have a deep relationship with the two divine beasts, and two drops of essence blood can save this life", Zhang Chenfeng said slowly.

"You put these down, immediately notify you Uncle Zhao to come here to find me, and after the notice, you can go to the medicine garden and dig up the thousand-year-old ginseng."

At this time, Zhou Zhongchen also rushed to the third hall with Lin Fan's tongue and severed hand, as well as the murder weapon branch, and as soon as he arrived at the third hall, Zhang Chenfeng said to Zhou Zhongchen.

At the same time that Zhao Mojian rushed to the third hall, Zhou Zhongchen also went to the medicine garden, uprooted a thousand-year-old ginseng in the center of the medicine garden, and rushed to the third hall in a hurry.

"Senior brother, you see, this tongue and arm were cut off with sharp weapons, especially this branch, which was cut off in several places, and it was only after the end of this branch was sharpened that it pierced Lin Fan's mouth, if I remember correctly, Lin Fan's left hand is wearing a bronze ring, the bronze ring is no longer in his left hand, I think it was a certain disciple of the three sects who coveted the bronze ring, so he made this poisonous hand."

Zhang Chenfeng, as the head of the house, is much higher than Lin Shi in terms of insights and experience, and he picked up the severed hand and tongue and looked at it to know the clues.

"Who is it that made such a hot move, find out that I want him to never be born", Lin Shi said through gritted teeth.

"I soon learned that if I dared to attack my Ethereal Sect disciple, I decided that I would not let him go"

Nearly fifty disciples died namelessly before they had time to ask Zhou Zhongchen carefully, but Zhou Zhongchen had already told him a rough idea just now, after all, he was killed by a monster in a nameless place, but Lin Fan was different, it was caused by man-made, how could Zhang Chenfeng not breathe this evil breath.

"Senior brother, what are you looking for me", Zhao Mojian, who rushed to the third hall, asked Zhang Chenfeng.

"You immediately go to Chen Li, lead all the disciples of the Transformation Stage except for the rotation stage, and fence off the room where the Lihuo Sect, the Ten Thousand Sword Sect and the Zhenglei Sect are resting, and no one is allowed to leave the Ethereal Gate for me, whoever dares to leave forcibly will be killed on the spot, I will go to the reservoir now and ask the two divine beasts to take action", Zhang Chenfeng was extremely serious at this time.

"What's going on, senior brother, you have to think twice", Zhao Mojian was shocked.

"There's nothing to say, go quickly", Zhang Chenfeng shouted sternly.

"Yes"

Zhao Mojian had already seen that Zhang Chenfeng was really moving, looking at his senior brother holding a severed hand in his hand, although he didn't know what was going on, he still obeyed Zhang Chenfeng's orders, and rushed to the first hall non-stop, and Chen Li and Chen Li took more than two hundred heavily armed disciples to surround the house where the Lihuo Sect, the Ten Thousand Sword Sect and the Zhenglei Sect were temporarily resting.

"Senior brother, you are looking at Lin Fan here, after Zhongchen brings the thousand-year-old ginseng, you force out the ginseng liquid for Lin Fan to drink, try if you can take your tongue and hands back, I will go to the reservoir first to ask Xuanwu and Qingjiao, otherwise I am afraid I won't be able to suppress them", after Zhang Chenfeng finished speaking, he quickly galloped away in the direction of the reservoir.

On the platform of the Ethereal Gate Reservoir, Xuanwu is lying lazily basking in the sun, while the frogs are fluttering on the sparkling water, chasing the fish for a while, and floating on their stomachs to the sky.

A figure quickly landed in front of Xuanwu from the sky, and Xuanwu squinted and saw that it was the Ethereal Gate Advocate Morning Breeze.

"Xuanwu Divine Beast, Frog Divine Beast, now need two to move to the Ethereal Gate for support"

Zhang Chenfeng took out a small red token in his right hand, which was engraved with a portrait of Xuanwu on one side and a portrait of a frog on the other.

After Zhang Chenfeng took out this token, the air suddenly quieted down, and the frogs not far away were no longer noisy, but just floating quietly on the water, and Xuanwu had never looked at Zhang Chenfeng except for Zhang Chenfeng when he first came.

Zhang Chenfeng, who was holding the token, was embarrassed, the temper of this Xuanwu and Qingjiao was really weird, no one in the entire Ethereal Gate could enter the eyes of the two beasts, and even Zhang Chenfeng's face was not given, sometimes Zhang Chenfeng doubted that once the Ethereal Gate was killed one day, would this Xuanwu and Qingjiao come to the rescue, and only Lin Fan was calculated, and the relationship between him and Xuanwu Qingjiao was so good that he had to pay homage.

"How did I forget the relationship between Lin Fan and the two beasts?"

Zhang Chenfeng thought of this, and hurriedly narrated Lin Fan's situation, although Xuanwu and Qingjiao couldn't speak, but after all, their cultivation had been in the Nine Heavens Great Perfection of the Three Crossing Period, and they could already understand human language.

"I can't imagine that my hall master has to rely on the youngest disciple to be able to mobilize the door protection beast, this Xuanwu and Qingjiao are really incomprehensible."

Zhang Chenfeng couldn't cry or laugh, but now is not the time to think about this issue, it is the top priority to find out the murderer who tortured Lin Fan first.

On the left side of the Ethereal Gate Square, there are five living rooms, these five living rooms are used as a resting place for people who come to the Ethereal Gate, at this time, these five living rooms have been surrounded by more than two hundred disciples led by Chen Li and Zhao Mojian, and they are confronting the disciples of the Lihuo Sect, the Ten Thousand Sword Sect, and the Zhenglei Sect.

"Elder Chen, Elder Zhao, what do you mean?"

Ever since Wang Tang sat on the position of the leader of the Fire Sect, no one had dared to disrespect him, and he never thought that he would be besieged by the two elders and disciples of the Ethereal Sect right now.

"On the orders of the door master, no one is allowed to leave the ethereal door, and he will make it clear to you when the door master arrives."

Chen Li held a dark blue leather whip more than a foot long in his right hand, and said expressionlessly.

"What's going on?"

Jian Mingchen, who was in one of the living rooms, frowned, looking out of the window at the Ethereal Sect disciples who were holding guys, and surrounded the living room where they were resting, and a dozen or so Ten Thousand Swords Sect disciples had been sent outside the house by Jian Mingchen, and they were competing with the disciples of the Ethereal Sect, and there were quarrels from time to time.

"Little junior brother, I think the tragic condition of that Ethereal Sect disciple is your masterpiece."

At this time, in this living room, only Jian Mingchen, Qi Ming and Pan Dacheng were left, Qi Ming looked at Pan Dacheng who was sitting on the chair and said slowly.

"Senior brother, don't wronged me, how could I do such a vicious act", Panda argued with a forced composure.

"I only said the tragic situation of the disciple of the Ethereal Gate, and did not say what happened to him, how do you know that he was poisoned, not long ago I was in the square of the Ethereal Gate, I saw someone holding the disciple galloping through the air, I asked their senior brother Zhou Zhongchen, the disciple's tongue was cut off, his left hand was cut off, and even his feet were broken, at that time Zhou Zhongchen said a few words and left in a hurry, I think about it now, the face of the disciple of the Ethereal Gate is what you call the person who has a space magic weapon, you still dare to quibble"

Zhou Zhongchen walked behind Pan Dacheng as he spoke, and when Pan Dacheng was distracted, his right hand suddenly grabbed Pan Dacheng's right hand, and the bronze ring was being worn on Pan Dacheng's right hand at this time.

"So what, this kind of treasure should be obtained by the capable, that person's cultivation is just a gathering spirit triple heaven, and the Ethereal Gate has decided not to make a big deal for him", since the bronze ring was discovered by Qi Ming, Pan Dacheng did not quibble, and pulled back the hand that was grabbed by Qi Ming.

"How can I have such a femme fatale brother as you, you... You... You", Qi Ming raised his right hand and was about to whip this little junior brother, but was stopped by Jian Mingchen.

"Master, what are you?", Qi Ming asked in surprise as he watched his right hand being held by Jian Mingchen.

"The matter has happened, now is not the time to pursue your junior brother, my Ten Thousand Swords Sect disciple will naturally be handled by me, and it is not the turn of others, now I have to hurry up and find a way to fool the past", Jian Mingchen looked at Pan Dacheng coldly.

"Master, you have to save me, I'm a ghost for a while, and besides, we have no other senior brothers in Wanjianmen except for the senior brother and you who have space magic weapons, I can't hold back for a while... So... So..."

Pan Dacheng knelt at the feet of Jian Mingchen and said in a snort, at that time, his brain was hot, and he actually forgot that there were a hundred people who entered the nameless land, and many flaws were suppressed by the excitement of winning the bronze ring, now that he thinks about it, only Jian Mingchen can save him.

"So you cut off his tongue and cut off his left hand, right", Qi Ming said sharply.

"Enough, you don't have to say a word, he is your junior brother after all"

Jian Mingchen sat on the chair, looking at Pan Dacheng who was kneeling on the ground for a while, no matter what, this Pan Dacheng is his favorite little apprentice after all, and he is also a disciple of the Ten Thousand Swords Gate.

"Okay, don't kneel, get up", Jian Mingchen rubbed his hands on his temples, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

"Give me the bronze ring in your hand, remember, if someone from the ethereal door asks you, you bite to death and say you don't know, and they have no evidence without the ring"

After Jian Mingchen finished speaking, he put the ring handed over by Pan Dacheng into the wrench of his right thumb, and he didn't expect that the wrench on Jian Mingchen's hand was also a space magic weapon.

Jian Mingchen explained a few more words to Pan Dacheng, and as soon as the words fell, a deafening dragon roar came from outside the house, and then there were two "bang" sounds, and it seemed that something behemoth fell outside the living room.

"Door master, on your orders, everyone is here, and no one has been missed", as soon as Zhang Chenfeng and Xuanwu Qingjiao landed, Chen Li stepped forward and said.