Volume 1: Overture to the Dead Chapter 40: Oasis of the Wasteland
The storm stopped suddenly, and the old man rushed over, picked up Red Flameless, and kissed him non-stop. The red flameless also giggled, and she pulled the old man aside to whisper, and the old man's face showed suspicion to the strangers from time to time.
After a long time, the old man smiled, smiled at the cold night, and arched his hand: "Thank you for saving the precious granddaughter of the little old man." My name is Zhang Lexing, and anyone who is familiar with me calls me Lao Le, or Lao Zhangtou. Since we are destined to be guests from afar, please come to the house as a guest, rest for a few days and then go on your way. ”
With a flick of his hand, the large array opened, revealing a circular arch out of thin air above the desert, and a huge oasis had been revealed in front of everyone.
At the moment when this great array of enchantments opened, Han Yexing's heart suddenly brightened, and he finally understood why he had lost the trace of this strange spiritual vein several times. But after he and He Biling glanced at each other, they were also horrified in their hearts.
The four major paths of this spiritual refining vein all originate from the unique nature of this spiritual energy, among which the spiritual refining is based on the separation and integration of spiritual energy, and the nature that various different genera of spiritual energy can be exchanged with each other. The artifact is based on the radioactivity of the aura itself, which can be integrated into all things. Requiem takes the decaying nature of the aura, which, as long as it is used properly, can dissolve the lesions on the spiritual practitioner's body.
And this array is taken from the nature of this aura aggregation. The array master can use a specific spiritual guide to gather the aura scattered between heaven and earth in one place and exert a specific effect. or store aura, or imprison fierce beasts, or kill people, and so on.
One of the most well-known examples of this array is the Great Array of Spiritual Veins on all sides, and their spiritual leads are all dimensional wills, which are made up of many ancient powers. These large arrays encompass the entire plane, determining the amount of aura in each part of the plane, and are usually controlled by the plane spirit king himself. And among these plane arrays, the spirit vein array of the purple plane is especially famous.
Its dense system and reasonable layout are the guarantee that the Zixuan Plane will always stand tall despite thousands of tribulations, and it is also the foundation for its strength to always rank among the top three in the eight main planes. However, since the current Spirit King Zixuan Kiss ascended the throne, the disorder of this great array has been getting worse day by day.
Especially in the battle of the siege of Xunyang, the self-destruction of this Xunyang Great Array was to move the whole body and directly disturb the spiritual veins on this wind-breathing wasteland. Therefore, this array division that has been hidden in the shadows was able to have the opportunity to use his means, using the entire Fengxi Southern Frontier as the stage to lay out this earth-shattering array, and create such an oasis in the depths of the desert.
Originally, Han Yexing and He Biling thought that the spirit of this strange spirit vein they had tracked along the way would be like other formations, all of them were precious spirit treasures, or the remnants of the soul will of some ancient power. But he didn't expect that the spiritual attraction of this big array was actually blood!
It's the blood of the spiritual!
And this blood came from the little girl named Red Flameless in front of her!!
Maybe the spiritual blood on her body is too domineering and will freeze the spiritual veins. So along the way, every time they lost any trace of this spiritual vein, they would encounter groups of people who had been killed. This should be the method used by this array master to remove the domineering spiritual power on Red Flameless's body, and use the blood of ordinary people to neutralize its coldness.
Originally, he had been puzzled by the cold night walk, but when he came to the core center of this large array and saw the spiritual power attributes on the enchantment of this large array, he suddenly realized.
Han Yexing immediately sneered, and said to the old man: "What a big stroke! I don't know if Mr. Zhang is the person who set up the array!?" He knew that this old man was a spirit sealer, but in order not to expose himself, he had to pretend not to know, and he also wanted to see how sincere this old man was.
The old man smiled, coughed lightly a few times, and said to hide his embarrassment: "Engong is a little old man, if I have this ability, why hide in this wasteland, I am afraid that I will go to the world with everyone and make contributions." ”
Han Yexing didn't expect this old man to be sincere, and continued to ask: "Oh!? Can the old gentleman invite this person to come out and meet him? ”
Old man Zhang smiled and said with a straight face: "I hope Engong forgives me for this! I have to be deeply blessed by this person, and I can get a place to live in this troubled wasteland, all thanks to him." He named him and said that his identity must not be revealed, how can the little old man take revenge!?"
Han Yexing snorted coldly, and immediately said: "Since this is the case, then I will forgive the juniors for disturbing." Now that Flameless has found her grandfather, let's take our leave!"
When the little girl saw that she was about to leave at night, her mouth was deflated, and she was about to cry again.
The old man obviously knew that this little girl was crying badly, so he hurriedly coaxed her, and then turned to the cold night and said: "Presumably, Engong and you have also seen the importance of Wuyan to us refugees in troubled times, so the little old man's gratitude to you is absolutely not false. If there is anything wrong, please forgive me!"
"However, let the little old man tell the benevolent man who has made this array, you killed the little old man here, and I will never say a word. Of course, I don't blame you!"
Han Yexing glanced at Hong Wuyan, felt that this little girl was very pitiful, and was thinking about whether she should be rescued from this sea of suffering. He just wanted to have a seizure, but he didn't expect to be caught and stopped by He Biling.
After all, why is this Ling an old man, he immediately smiled at the old man, and saluted back: "Old gentleman Yaliang, since this is the case, we might as well obey our fate." ”
The red flameless seemed to see that the cold night walk was not happy, and ran over again, happily holding his hand and walking inside.
The heart of the cold night line is soft, and it is not good to have a seizure. He actually knew what this meant by why bother, they were in military affairs, in order to find the whereabouts of the main force of the Yuanmo Alliance from the spiritual veins, seeing that the clue was in front of them, how could they give up so easily? In the end, they were too young and too impulsive.
He looked at the look in the eyes of the girl who was full of anticipation and expectation, so he had to sigh softly and beckon everyone to follow the old man through the gate of the enchantment of the spirit array.
It's just that I didn't expect that as soon as I came to the oasis, I felt a fresh breeze blowing in the cold night.
Compared to the wasteland and the endless slaughter outside, this place is nothing more than a paradise. It's more appropriate to say it's a small grassland than an oasis. On the meadows, which are almost as far as the eye can see, cattle grow and birds fly.
From time to time, there are castles and villages dotted around, and these castles are completely in keeping with the traditions of the Wind Rest Wasteland - simple, quaint, and unpretentious, maintaining the original color of the earth. These villages have quite a few residents, or three to five thousand, or seven or eight hundred, and they can be regarded as prosperous and living and working in peace and contentment.
However, to the surprise of the cold night walkers, most of these shepherds and residents are either missing arms or legs, and although some of them have spiritual powers, most of them are ordinary people.
They all respected this old man as a god, and when they saw what had happened, they all bowed and worshipped, and thanked him for saving them in the chaotic wasteland, so that they would no longer become refugees in this troubled world.
The group of people who followed Old Man Zhang and passed through more than ten villages of all sizes, and bypassed a few palm forests, and finally came to the deepest part of this oasis.
When I looked up at the cold night, I saw a large lake appearing. The cold night line opened his spiritual eyes, and saw that the spiritual energy of this big lake was steaming, which must be the eye of this wasteland spiritual array.
Next to the Great Lake, the people of the oasis have built a small town that can accommodate nearly 100,000 people. Although the architectural style is still in the style of an ancient castle, it is still more popular and has more atmosphere than the outside. Red Flameless led the cold night walk, and the lollipop in his hand was about to bottom out.
She wiped her mouth and told Han Yexing with a look of anger that this was her home.
That night, the old man Zhang Lexing and his party held a grand welcome banquet, which should also be a celebration of the return of Hong Wuyan. Everyone showed that they attached great importance to this red flameless, and they were also extremely enthusiastic about the cold night walk, and there was no hostility towards outsiders at all.
Although the banquet was not sumptuous, compared to the chaotic wasteland outside, it was tantamount to a Qiong Lin jade banquet.
If it weren't for Xun Changtian, a few of them were injured and were arranged to rest elsewhere, otherwise he would have been very happy to be able to participate in such a banquet. Because in the past month or so, in order to protect the safety of several spirit refiners in the cold night, he has hardly eaten a full meal.
Han Yexing opened his eyes and probed around, and found that although the guests at the banquet were not as limb as in the surrounding villages, there were very few spiritual practitioners among them. Only a few sturdy men sitting with Old Man Zhang had spiritual veins, but they were not such great masters, and they finally slowly put their minds at ease.
Red Flameless took it for granted that everyone valued him, and feasted on the unlimited amount of food served to her, and in a few moments, a roasted whole sheep was eaten. It seems that she has really starved her these days when she has been out.
Han Yexing always felt that this oasis was strange in his heart, and he had been secretly probing, but he didn't eat or drink much, but why Biling was an old man who quickly became familiar with each other, and pushed the cup to change it.
When the wine was full, the old man picked up the wine glass and toasted to the cold night line: "Little Engong, don't blame me for being rude." Along the way, you have also seen that if we refugees lose the protection of this great array, we will be just lambs to the slaughter. If it weren't for the girl Wuyan who told me about you saving her, my little old man wouldn't dare to take you here. ”
Seeing that the old man was telling the truth, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty in his heart, and he also raised his glass in return at the moment: "The old gentleman is polite, we have a relationship with this girl Wuyan." She couldn't tell if she saved us or we saved her, but this time she disturbed your realm but became suspicious of the old gentleman, and the younger generation was ashamed. “
As he spoke, he had to drink it all in the cold night.
At this moment, He Biling, who had been drinking happily beside him, stretched out his hand to stop Han Yexing and prevent him from drinking this glass of wine. He stared at the old man drunkenly, but he didn't say a word, and the joyous atmosphere at the banquet suddenly changed.
The old man looked at He Biling with a shocked face and asked, "Brother He, what do you mean by this?"
He Biling burped, stared at Old Man Zhang with a pair of red eyes, and asked word by word, "Brother Zhang, is someone forcing you to take us?"
As soon as these words came out, the stone was shattered!
The old man gritted his teeth, and without waiting for He Biling to continue, he raised his left hand and smashed the wine glass into He Biling's face. At the same time, with a flip of his right hand, a dagger slipped out of his sleeve, and with a flash of inspiration, he immediately slashed towards the throat of the cold night walker.