Chapter Twenty-Three: Weathered Buildings

At the top of Tianchang Mountain, outside the small wooden pavilion.

All the members of the Qianlong Yuan have already gathered in the wind and snow, and they have set up camp and set up fortifications, and they have the feeling that they want to use this place as a long-term camp.

All the members of the Winning Xingtian and the Ruins Exploration Department disappeared, and there were no traces of formation in the ground breach for two days, although the members of the "Hidden Dragon Yuan" Warhead and Logistics Department were not a group of dragons without a leader, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

However, a few people came up from the "Yan Dao" of the Qianlong Yuan Friendship Organization, and after the leader Ji Daoyan found that he couldn't contact Ou Haichao, he first checked the ground in the pavilion: "There should have been a formation here, and it is likely that the people of your organization and our organization Haichao were teleported into the ruins by the formation together." ”

The two ministers of the Qianlong Yuan War Department and the Logistics Department were discussing the follow-up treatment, and after hearing this, they saluted Ji Daoyan and asked for some inference details, and then thought at the same time: "Since it is related to the formation, just ask Lao Yan." ”

As the leader of the Yan Dao Organization, of course, Ji Daoyan had also heard the name of Yan Siguang, who should be the top formation master of cultivators today, and nodded quickly when he heard this: "With Mr. Yan's help, I may be able to find out the context of this formation." ”

The two ministers quickly contacted Yan Siguang, but as soon as the black fat man opened the video call, he scolded with a slashing face: "Is there an end? One asked and the other asked! Isn't it just the teleportation formation, I just said the direction! What about the boss?"

The two were a little dumbfounded and couldn't figure out the situation, but they still quickly explained the situation in front of them. This time it was Yan Siguang's turn to start frowning: "No, after the last incident, you should at least be more cautious when you win the boss." Not...... That's right, he probably didn't expect that after teleporting twelve people in a row, the formation would completely collapse and disappear. ”

The black fat man rubbed his nose alone on the opposite side of the video, and finally slapped the table directly after talking to himself for a long time: "Forget it, think about it, a few of you can't handle this troublesome situation." Guarding the wreckage of the formation over there, don't let anyone get close to destroy it, and I'll go over when I ask the leader for a leave. It's really a hard work, especially a top genius like me, who can't be avoided, and it's a hard life that can't be avoided......"

The two ministers of combat and logistics on the other end of the phone looked as usual, not in the slightest surprised by the shameless boasting of the black fat man. In fact, in the entire Qianlong Abyss, the members who were familiar with Yan Siguang had already experienced countless similar "baptisms", and their resistance was strong enough to resist this level of attack.

However, the muscles on the face of Ji Daoyan, who pricked up his ears and eavesdropped, twitched for a while, so he couldn't help but laugh out loud.

There is such a living treasure as Ou Haichao in his own "Yandao" organization, and he didn't expect that there was such a funny thing in "Qianlong Yuan", no wonder Ou Haichao was able to cooperate with Ying Xingtian and others last time.

After hanging up the phone, the two of them invariably turned their heads to look at Ji Daoyan, and at the same time, their faces turned red, pretending not to see the latter's face with a smiling expression, and began to gather their teams and station around the wreckage of this formation, waiting for Yan Siguang to arrive.

After a while, this cultivator named "Zheng Donglin", who was infinitely close to the strength of the Grandmaster, still walked towards Ji Daoyan with a slightly cautious expression, and stopped a few steps away from him to salute slightly to show respect for the seniors of the Grandmaster Realm: "Chief, can you please help seal off the peak here, and don't let anyone come up except for the members of the Hidden Dragon Yuan and you......?"

As the leader of the top organization of Huaxia cultivators, how could he not hear the meaning of his words, his eyes instantly shrank when he heard this, and a power unique to the Grandmaster Realm rushed towards the former: "So even if we are 'Yan Dao' people, we can't enter the scope of this place, right?"

As he spoke, this veteran grandmaster of the Chinese cultivation world, who had always maintained a warm smile since his appearance, finally revealed his grandeur as a top master.

And Zheng Donglin, who was hit head-on by his powerful momentum, only felt that he was like a small sailboat swaying on the stormy sea, and it was very difficult to even stand firm in front of Ji Daoyan.

"Hey...... Chieftain...... It's a joke. He clenched his teeth, although his body was shaky, he still managed to stand upright in place, refusing to show the slightest weakness - at this moment, Zheng Donglin represented not only himself, but also the "Qianlong Yuan", a top cultivator organization inherited from ancient times!

It's a small matter to lose face by himself, if he loses the face of the entire "Qianlong Yuan", let alone Ying Xingtian and other senior leaders, even he himself can't pass the level in his heart.

"The ruins and formations here were all discovered by my Qianlong Yuan, and they should all belong to us logically. Winning adults have also set the tone before, and you agreed at the time...... Why...... Embarrassing us again at this moment?"

Ji Daoyan stared coldly at Zheng Donglin for a moment, and after the latter felt that it seemed to be as long as a few centuries, but in fact it was only a few seconds, he finally took the initiative to disperse all his might: "It is worthy of being the guardian of Chinese civilization for thousands of years, and even you, a small middle-level, dare to argue in front of me." Good, good. ”

Zheng Donglin, who was finally relieved, did not see any joy or pride on his face, and only quietly saluted again: "Thank you, Chief, for your understanding." ”

The latter stared at him for a few more seconds, then shook his head with a smile.

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Ying Xingtian and the remaining seven members of the Ruins Exploration Department stood at the entrance of the original dome building, looking out at the pitch-black space inside. The look was solemn and the atmosphere was tense.

Half of the eight people took out the standard high-intensity flashlight of tens of thousands of lumens, lit it and shone it into the "yurt", and soon the whole interior was completely dark. The interior of the building, which was illuminated, made everyone feel slightly stunned - the dome, which was originally clean and tidy on the ground, walls, and every piece of masonry, and had a perfect curve to the point of flawlessness, had become old and dilapidated.

The original blue masonry had faded to a mottled gray, and terrible cracks spread like cobwebs, and all the sconces hung crookedly to one side, as if they could fall from the surrounding walls at any moment.

Although only half an hour has passed...... But the building, where everyone first appeared, seems to have gone through a long time, and it is no longer in its former perfect state.

In the countless ruins exploration of the members of the Hidden Dragon Abyss, this situation is not particularly unfamiliar. Basically, the more tightly closed the ancient tombs, those unearthed silks, calligraphy and paintings, porcelain and even well-preserved dried corpses, after hundreds of thousands of years, suddenly come into contact with the air, and will soon be oxidized into a dilapidated appearance.

But the problem is that this kind of change does not normally appear in things with relatively fixed properties such as masonry and walls, and second...... The entire building was filled with countless small holes and air flow formations from the very beginning of its construction, and it was not stored in a place isolated from oxygen for thousands of years like ordinary excavated artifacts.

There is no logical possibility of change, but it appears so intuitively in front of everyone.

"There is no second exit, if Liu Luo disappears here, it should be the same situation as that Ou Haichao Grandmaster. Several people had already received the news of the disappearance of the "Yan Dao" Grandmaster from Ying Xingtian's mouth, and their worries and worries were even stronger, but they subconsciously thought: "Find the reason and direction of his disappearance, and the two puzzles will be solved together." ”

Ying Xingtian glanced back at a few people, and a trace of worry flashed in his eyes that almost never appeared: "Wait outside, I'll go check in first." ”

"Your Excellency?!"

The seven of them shouted in unison, and then quickly stopped talking. When the words fell, Ying Xingtian's figure had quietly flashed, and he instantly passed through the two-meter-diameter hole, and after the gravity changed, he appeared on the ground where the dome building and the corridor were vertically staggered.

Seven flashlights of tens of thousands of lumens followed him like seven small suns, illuminating everything around him in the slightestβ€”even brighter than when the previous wall lamps were not extinguished.

Ying Xingtian first glanced at the ventilation formation that had been broken by himself before, and did not find anything abnormal. He stepped on the broken bricks all over the ground, walked around the whole building clockwise, squatted down from time to time to check the ground and walls along the way, and directly dismantled a crumbling wall lamp. The original stone and solid material had now turned into slag, and it shattered into countless fine powders in his hands without any force, and there was not even a sound of cracking.

In just half an hour, everything here seemed to have been weathered for thousands of years, and it was impossible to resist the slightest power.

One pit at a time, one pit at a time.

Win Xingtian walked around. He trampled the ground under the broken bricks, revealing only countless smooth rocks, frozen by the cold weather to the point of hard as stones, and occasionally plant roots, but there was never a second entrance to a narrow road.

Whether it is Liu Luo, a middle-grade martial artist, or Ou Haichao, a high-level Taoist master of "Yan Dao", they all seem to have been taken away out of thin air by some force, and there is no trace of it.

Without much hesitation, he walked back to the shattered ventilation formation and passage entrance, and without any force, he expanded the breach from two meters in diameter to four or five meters wide with a few punches - the seven people in the ruins exploration department standing vertically on the ground of the corridor "below" could face him head-on, and the whole scene was extremely weird.

The second formation or the entrance to the Yongdao was still not found in the broken hole, Ying Xingtian sighed and turned over and left the dome building: "Go back to the one just now and take a look, now we have two 'yurts' and two Yongdao, if we find more...... More people are likely to go missing. ”

"The order to disperse the search has been cancelled for the time being, so let's all gather and follow me. Ying Xingtian walked towards the second yurt building in front of him and ordered: "The situation here is getting more and more weird, I suspect that the formation master who arranged the labyrinth back then is likely to have obtained the inheritance of some Daomen ancestors in the ancient era, so that it will have such an effect." ”

As he spoke, everyone moved forward at a very fast pace, and soon arrived at the entrance of the second yurt building.

Then, after the eight people, including Ying Xingtian, saw the situation in the cave clearly, they all looked shocked and speechless.