Chapter 1: Totem
On the westernmost side of the Oriental Realm, the woods are lush but silent, and within it, a town that seems to have long been abandoned has welcomed a new group of visitors.
"No, this is the fourth deserted town!" Chu Jianmo stood at the entrance of the town, the spirit array at the door had long been deserted, he could easily see the situation inside the town, it was deserted, exactly like the three towns they had passed before.
After a three-month journey, they finally came to the territory of Dongfang's house, only five thousand meters away from the Spirit Domain Tianshan where they met Situ Yuxin, and Chu Jianmo, who was originally very happy, also accounted for a larger part of the worries in his heart after experiencing a series of things after entering the country.
"Could it be that because of the sideline, the Dongfang family is consolidating its strength?" Ye Yuchen also looked curiously at the scene inside the town from the entrance.
"No, the source of their strength is spirit beasts, and raising spirit beasts requires a large area of territory, and they have no reason to give up so much territory. The suspicion in Xue's brow had not disappeared since he saw the second deserted town.
"Do you want to go in and have a look this time?" Xiao Junzhuo looked at Lin Xinyue and Qinghuan beside him, when he just passed by the second deserted town, the two of them proposed to go to the town to search, but it was a waste of time to find nothing, and when it came to the third town, it was the same result after looking for a long time, Xiao Junzhuo, who was lazy, naturally asked first, what she meant was to bypass it directly, anyway, she couldn't find anything.
"It's all here, let's go in and have a look. However, Lin Xinyue didn't seem to pay attention to Xiao Junzhuo's meaning at all, glanced at her, smiled lightly and continued.
"Hey, you definitely did it on purpose!" muttered quietly, since she had been beside Qinghuan and Xin Yue, this was obviously a complaint to Xin Yue, Xiao Junzhuo's image outside belonged to the free and easy type anyway, and she switched between the iceberg and her open personality very naturally.
"Because I really want to see this place, please. The sudden softness and coquettishness not only made Gu Qinghuan on the side look stunned, but even Xiao Junzhuo's face twitched, but fortunately, her reaction was fast, as if she was coaxing a child, she directly reached out and hugged Lin Xinyue in her arms and walked towards the entrance of the town.
"Then go in and have a look. ”
"Ehh, hmm..." This sudden move made Lin Xinyue embarrassed, and she didn't move.
Gu Qinghuan beside him was stunned to see that Lin Xinyue would have such a shy and twisted posture, and couldn't help but secretly feel awe of Xiao Junzhuo, this guy is a master...
However, just when he was slightly stunned, the back figure that was advancing in front of him seemed to have an illusory figure overlapping with it, and the hidden pupil array began to operate unconsciously due to the urging of power, but fortunately, the flow of power made Qing Huan wake up, and he scratched his head in amazement, what happened to him recently, and he became more and more unable to control the power of the pupil array.
"Hey, the one over there, if you don't come again, your wife will be taken away by me. Stopping and turning his head sideways, Xiao Junzhuo's ridiculous smile made Qing Huan only stop his thoughts and hurry up with everyone, no way, I always felt that being stared at by Xiao Junzhuo seemed to be like a child who made a mistake, what is going on...
All the facilities and buildings in the deserted town are complete, and like the previous three, there is no trace of attack and damage, if you remove the accident, then the most likely thing is the spontaneous flight of the residents, but here, it doesn't seem like there is any reason to flee.
"Hey, you can let me go now, I'm not a child!" In Xiao Junzhuo's arms, Lin Xinyue found that this guy's strength was okay if he didn't struggle, and it was impossible to force it out, so she tried twice, but she had no choice but to give in, and was carried by a woman to go shopping on the street, this was the first time she had experienced this "weird" situation.
"Got it, let you down, if you're a child, I won't hold you. The corner of her mouth smiled slightly, Xiao Junzhuo's mood seemed to be good, although I don't know if it was pretended, but at least Lin Xinyue got a positive feeling from her expression, let go of the hand holding Xinyue, Jun Zhuo stroked the long silver-white hair on the side of his right hand,
"The first time I saw you and such a feminine side, I thought you could only wield a sword. ”
"You really didn't see it before, maybe I didn't even know how to wield a sword at that time. Xin Yue's casual remarks didn't expect Jun Zhuo to deny it, directly affirmed her words, and said words that made Xin Yue feel unbelievable.
"What... What do you mean?"
"I said, I used to have short hair. As if she was happy because she teased Lin Xinyue, the smile on Xiao Junzhuo's face did not stop, and she was already charming and cold in appearance, but now she has a little more affinity.
“......”
Taking a deep breath silently, Lin Xinyue turned her head sideways to look for Qing Huan, only to find that this guy was standing on her side in a daze, but his eyes were staring straight ahead.
It was the center of the town along with the central street, and a huge stone statue to commemorate an unknown event was placed on a towering crystal platform, the size of the crystal was rare even in the spiritual realm, it was ten meters high and wide, and I didn't know who the lord of the city was, so he threw this priceless treasure here and ran away.
Except for the big scary amethyst, Lin Xinyue didn't see anything unusual, she asked curiously Qinghuan, who was still staring thoughtfully at the stone statue, "What are you looking at?"
"Xin Yue, have you ever seen this pattern before?" The right hand pointed to the huge white marble above the amethyst, the blood-red pattern that did not match the sculpture figure occupied almost half of the white sculpture, and it was precisely because it occupied too much area that except for Qing Huan, no one else cared too much.
"Haven't you seen it in the previous towns, what's wrong? Maybe it's the mark of the Oriental family or something. Xin Yue's eyes were still looking at Qing Huan curiously, and his eyes were still fixed on the bright red pattern on the white marble.
The pattern outlined by this stroke is extremely abstract, but in Qinghuan's consciousness, the image expressed by this pattern could not be clearer, the dragon totem...
He must have seen this pattern somewhere before, his memory buried this pattern, but the pupil array recorded it and showed him the way when he was puzzled, the Zhongling Central Square in Nanjing, the walls of the desert ghost city, Romania, and even the Century Park in Shanghai... He vaguely felt all this, but he didn't know what was going on, and he just forgot...
"Hey, wait, I think I've seen this pattern too. ”
It was Bai Mocheng who spoke, and her attention began to look at this pattern that she regarded as "graffiti" after being attracted by the rare and serious Gu Qinghuan, and when she "extracted" the pattern on the sculpture in her mind, a shocking picture appeared, and only then did she have the horror on her face now...
"Where have you seen it?" The first time I saw this "little witch" who was not afraid of heaven and earth, she showed such an expression, which made Lin Xinyue a little confused, how could they all have images, but she didn't know anything.
"Underneath Tartarus Hospital, the pattern that covers me above my spirit circle is exactly the same as this one. "It's a coincidence that it's in one place, but the same kind of mark appears in two theoretically completely unrelated places, and from the experience of Mo Cheng living for so long, it's a big problem.
"Tartarus?" Hearing this term, Xiao Junzhuo seemed to understand this and faced Bai Mocheng, the language that Mo Cheng had just communicated with Xin Yue Qinghuan was Chinese on the earth, and Xiao Junzhuo could understand it, which made Mo Cheng slightly stunned.
"In our legends, it is synonymous with hell, although it is not known why it is used as a synonym for hospital. Lin Xinyue took Bai Mocheng's words and replied to Xiao Junzhuo.
"What if I told you that it's not hell, it's a prison. Xiao Junzhuo's expression was a little intriguing, Lin Xinyue didn't know if she was ridiculing or shocked, but thinking that Junzhuo was a person who couldn't do two things, Xin Yue, who couldn't guess her thoughts, had to give up and listen quietly on the side.
"Go on. Xiao Junzhuo seemed to be able to answer his missing and forgotten memories, which was undoubtedly a rare opportunity for Bai Mo City, and Jian Mo and the others, who couldn't understand what these people were talking about, just waited quietly on the side for their conversation to end.
"My nickname at the time, in addition to the executioner, was 'Warden', guess which prison I was in charge of?"
"Wait, I'm a little confused, can you talk more about the relationship between this world and our place?" Even with Lin Xinyue's thinking, in the absence of relevant information, it was impossible to be as familiar with these things as Mocheng Junzhuo and them, so she had to interrupt the "unfathomable" conversation of these two guys, and trouble them to speak in layman's terms.
"I mean, I'm afraid you didn't search that place carefully, although I don't know at which point in time it was connected to, but did you take a closer look at the mirror of that place? ”
"Mirror... The world?" Bai Mocheng quickly found the meaning of Jun Zhuo's words in the knowledge in her mind, no wonder she couldn't find the anomaly of that hospital, but she clearly remembered that she must have escaped from that place, but doesn't this mean...
stared at Xiao Junzhuo suspiciously, no matter how much her memory was recovered, there was no part of Xiao Junzhuo, but according to what Junzhuo said, there was no doubt that she at least knew about herself, and besides, a mirror world with all the dimensional worlds, how dangerous an existence was imprisoned, would take such a big deal to build a top-level prison with full-time and space surveillance.
"I haven't been back to that place in a long time. This time, Xiao Junzhuo showed a surprised and puzzled expression, "That place, but the most dangerous place in all the dimensional worlds where you are imprisoned, have you been imprisoned?"
"How long?"
"More than 3,000 years. ”
"Then it's normal that you don't know about me. Indirectly admitted that she was imprisoned, and Jun Zhuo's answer also solved some of her doubts, according to the time flow of this world, the time on the earth has already passed 210,000 years.
And just as they were discussing here because of a pattern, Chu Jianmo, who was looking at other buildings in the city and observing, suddenly felt a cold aura coming from the space around him.
"Young master, look at the heavens over there. Chu Jianyao, who had been beside him, also felt this abnormal change in aura, and raised his hand to the horizon a thousand meters away to the west, where the sky was still clear, and there were already dark clouds over there, filled with a gloomy and murderous atmosphere.
The dark cloud spread extremely quickly, and soon it was approaching the town, and when the black cloud overhead pressed overhead, the ensuing loud hiss made everyone quickly see the source of the chill.
It turned out that under the black clouds, there was even a group of ugly ice crystal-like flying birds, which were unique to the Heavenly Mountains of the Spirit Domain, their volume was not large among the spirit beasts, but the fierce carnivorous habits and strong body organs still had a fatal threat to ordinary spirit races, especially in the face of these hundreds of millions of ice birds, even if they were immortal-level powerhouses, they would give priority to retreat.
This area seemed to be their predatory ground, and under the neighing of the leading icebird, which was significantly larger than the others, the "ice stream" under the black cloud quickly adjusted its direction and flew towards the town where Chu Jianmo and the others were very cooperative.
"It's still five thousand meters away from the Tianshan Mountains, and the range of the Dead Ice Bird is too much exceeded, right?" Lin Xinyue got the information that had the habits and characteristics of most of the creatures in the Spirit Realm, and compared to the others who thought about how to kill them in the first place, she was the one who realized that something was wrong the fastest.
"Maybe others have already set their sights on places other than the Xiao family. "Xiao Junzhuo was nominally entrusted by Xiao Yufeng to investigate the alien race incident that occurred in the Xiao family's domain this time, but with the occurrence of subsequent events, in fact, all the forces in the spiritual domain are clear that this is no longer a problem of the Xiao family, and a force hidden behind them is guiding the change of the forces in the three domains, so in fact, Xiao Junzhuo will not feel that there is a problem with anything abnormal that happens in the spiritual domain.
"Jun Zhuo, how will we deal with it later?" To deal with such a large number of wings, to be honest, Chu Jianmo was not very sure.
The spirit beasts of the Spirit Domain Tianshan have always been known for their strength and ferocity, and the Dongfang family has only conquered the lower part of the mountain range for three thousand meters for such a long time, and the Mourning Ice Bird belongs to the upper layer of these three thousand meters, and its danger is self-evident.
"The weak ones hide behind, and the others can fight as much as they want. As soon as Xiao Junzhuo's words fell, the long sword in his hand appeared, and he flew into the sky alone.
"Do you have the strength to do whatever you want..."In addition to the boldness of the art master, Chu Jianmo couldn't think of what Xiao Junzhuo's arrogant behavior was, but the number of flying beasts in front of him was too exaggerated, even if Xiao Junzhuo could kill thousands of Dead Ice Birds, he would be dragged to death here by exhausting his spiritual power, and at this time, it was obvious that dodging was the best countermeasure.
"Boom!"
The light of thunder and lightning that illuminated the entire sky directly penetrated the cloudy sky, shattering all the ice streams within 100 meters in front of Xiao Junzhuo, turning into ice crystals and falling from the sky.
"Uh..."Xue Tianci was stunned to look at Xiao Junzhuo who was alone in the ice flow that covered the sky, except for the thunder that kept gushing out and the ice particles that were scattered one after another, he couldn't see Junzhuo's figure at all, but he could completely feel the coercion of her existence in the sky, her strength was far beyond the immortal-level powerhouse that Xue Tianci had seen before, this...
"Hey, you two are fine. ”
"I'll pull you back in case of danger. Seeing that Bai Mocheng even held her "Trial" spear in her hand, Qing Huan also knew that this guy might have been stimulated by Jun Zhuo to play, maybe for these powerful monsters, all this in front of them was just a plaything that could make them feel a little excited, and then thinking of his weak strength, Qing Huan waved his hand speechlessly, signaling you to play at will.
"OK, love you, sister. ”
The spirit array under his feet suddenly appeared, and Bai Mocheng couldn't wait to shoot straight into the sky, just like Xiao Junzhuo, he was obviously able to use long-range spiritual techniques to solve the problems, but they all chose to fight in close quarters, and they didn't know what these masters were thinking about, anyway, Chu Jianmo and Ye Yuchen couldn't figure it out.
However, a force from the sky behind her was just as Bai Mo Cheng was about to enter the "ice stream" above, and suddenly a layer of blue giant spirit array across her blocked her path, and it was rare to have an interest, but it was inexplicably blocked, which made Bai Mo Cheng, who had always been willful, not even think about it, and directly raised his hand to throw the "judgment" towards the blocked spirit array.
The spear that flew at great speed collided with the spirit array that spread out in the sky, and in just a moment's collision, the fierce and strong momentum carried by the spear of judgment was completely blocked by this elastic spirit array, and even the sharp spear head could not pierce the formation, which made Bai Mocheng a little surprised, it had been a long time since she had encountered such a situation, and she thought that it was something that disappointed her, but she didn't expect it to raise her interest.
Consciousness instantly swept through the time and space within a radius of a kilometer, directly locking on the source of the aura that made her feel abnormal six hundred meters away, but before she could take the initiative to attack, Xiao Junzhuo, who was killing in the flock of mourning ice birds above, suddenly flashed and appeared beside Mo Cheng, but Jun Zhuo's expression was surprised to look at the flock of mourning birds that were still flying above.