Ye Qinghe smiled: "Your gentleman teaches almost the same as what we learned." Okay, then I'll tell you about us. In case you get to Jiuyou one day, you won't have to find your way. ”

"There were originally nine cities in the Nine Shades, and the names are naturally very different from your five Xuan cities, decades ago, the sky outside the blue sky and my Nine Shades made a truce and trade alliance, and the chaos city that was originally guarded at the entrance of the Nine Shades was also brought out, and our Nine Shades called that small city Chaos Pass, so the Nine Shades now have a total of nine cities and one pass. ”

"From the Chaos Pass into the Nine Shadows, there are the Light City, the Void City, the Sangju City, the Lelou City, the Fangzhu City, the Wuci City, the Lunan City, the Buhu City, and the Capital City. Distributed along both sides of the River Styx, each has a king guarding it, and there are eight ghost kings in total. ”

Zhang Zhao counted but felt wrong: "Obviously it is nine cities, why are there only eight ghost kings?" Ye Qinghe's expression darkened: "The capital city is also called the ghost emperor city, decades ago, there was a ghost emperor in the nine shadows, it was the ghost emperor who signed a truce alliance with the sky outside the sky, after the ghost emperor was in the sky, the people in the nine shadows were grateful for the kindness of the lord, and the position of the ghost emperor has been empty for all these years to show their remembrance." ”

"There is still a ghost forest in the Nine Shades, and beyond the Nine Cities, there is boundless darkness, countless fierce beasts are attacking day and night, and it is also these fierce beasts that provide me with countless fleshy furs in the Nine Shadows, which are used to exchange with the five Xuan traders for the daily use that the Nine Shadows lack. ”

"The hardships of our lives are beyond words. Ye Qinghe pointed to the rich white mist in the realm of life and death: "Even in broad daylight, in the Nine Shadows, it is even more blurry than in front of you, everywhere is gray and black, day and night are endless. ”

Even if Zhang Zhao had the soul method in his body, he could perceive everything around him without using his eyes, he still felt a little unaccustomed to being in the world of life and death, he just imagined Ye Qinghe's description of the dark scene in the Nine Shadows, and there was a little feeling of depression in his chest.

"Lu Xuedao is a disciple of the Soul Snatcher Ghost King of Guangxu City, and my master is Luo Zisheng, the life-chasing ghost king of Xuluo City. Senior Brother Ghostface is the first disciple of the Mighty Ghost King, he is the oldest, because he was seriously injured and recuperated for a long time, so he has not yet broken the realm. Lao Yan is a disciple of the six-armed ghost king of Fangzhu City. Wei Lao Er is the apprentice of the Shadowless Ghost King of Wuci City, and he has a famous senior brother, who is the most powerful Xiang Qiufeng of our generation of Jiuyou. ”

After Ye Qinghe finished speaking, Zhang Zhao knew a little about Jiuyou and these people, and combined with what he had seen in the past few days, he asked again: "You all have your own masters, and you don't usually live together, so it seems that the relationship is good?"

"Haha, this may be the most different place between us and you, although the Nine Shadows cultivators have learned differently, but when they cultivate to the middle three realms, they have to go to the Beast Rejection Earth City to practice, and those with outstanding skills can even enter the ghost forest, there are endless fierce beasts in those places, if you rely on your own strength, you can't even last a day. ”

Although he couldn't see the situation inside the cave clearly from the outside, Ye Qinghe still glanced back in the direction where the people of Jiuyou were meditating: "I, Lao Yan, and Wei Lao Er were in the same beast-repelling earth city at that time, although it was not taught by a teacher, we were able to pay for each other's lives. ”

"Each of you in the Five Profound Realms only thinks about yourself, but in the Nine Shadows, everyone has to think about not only yourself, but also others. When you get to that environment, you will understand that other people's lives are just as important as your own. ”

Seeing that Zhang Zhao didn't seem to understand, Ye Qinghe explained again: "A few of us look at you pleasing to the eye, also because we saw these things you did, you didn't hesitate to kneel down for your senior brother, and you kept watch here for a day and a night, and just turned your face for those two guys and Ruyi Pavilion." ”

"You're really different from them, and even those of us who have always looked out for each other are a bit stupid. Ye Qinghe smiled: "Sometimes I even feel that you are more like you came out of the Nine Shadows than we do. ”

Zhang Zhao said with some embarrassment: "Actually, Senior Brother Mo, they are very good to me, and my master thinks about me even more about everything, and I don't think there is so much difference as you said." ”

Ye Qinghe thought for a while: "Maybe it's better to be with the same door, but you also heard what the guy from Kongmeng Mountain said just now, if you work with someone like that, can you trust him?"

Zhang Zhao thought for a while: "If everyone treats each other with sincerity, he may change a little, and in the end, he didn't agree to keep those two people." Ye Qinghe sighed helplessly: "It's very good that you're a good person, but you really have a little brainless." ”

He lowered his voice and said to Zhang Zhao: "Dogs can't change eating." That kind of person is used to being selfish, and he must be able to do the thing of putting a knife in the back, don't say I didn't remind you, never turn your back on such a person. ”

Jiuyou is really these people who take turns to guard. Yan Wuxi after Ye Qinghe, Wei Tiesheng and Ghost Face all talked happily with Zhang Zhao. From the conversation, Zhang Zhao felt that Ye Qinghe especially liked new and interesting things, but Yan Wuxi, who was full of ferocity, paid special attention to the beautiful mountains and rivers of Wuxuan. Wei Tiesheng likes to figure out the ins and outs of everything, but the ghost face is observant of everything.

This day is almost over, and the person in front of Zhang Zhao has been replaced by Lu Yingda, who is speechless. After yesterday's half-night silence, Zhang Zhao was accustomed to leaning against the stone wall and no longer speaking, carefully experiencing the changes brought about by the Ten Thousand Souls Formula in his body.

After only two short days in the realm of life and death, Zhang Zhao felt earth-shaking progress. As each stream of qi containing strong spiritual power flowed through the meridians, he could clearly feel the subtle differences in the various spiritual energies in it.

The most important thing for a cultivator to draw qi into the body, in addition to washing the marrow, is to gather qi to form, and then release it from the body to ward off enemies or hurt others. In order to do this, it is necessary to have complete control over the actions of the various auras in the body, and at the same time to expel the alien auras that cannot be controlled.

After listening to Wei Tiesheng's suggestion, Zhang Zhao knew that he couldn't have the idea of breaking through the realm in the realm of life and death, so he just let the more and more powerful spiritual power brush through the pulse in his body over and over again, and he didn't deliberately make any changes.

With the continuous flow of unprecedentedly rich spiritual power in the past two days, Zhang Zhao felt that his feelings for all parts of his body and even every pore became clearer, although he had not yet tried to let the spiritual energy condense and emit out, in the current situation that the Ten Thousand Spirits Recipe had tended to do whatever he wanted, it should not be a difficult task.

Just as Zhang Zhao was intoxicated with the comfortable feeling transmitted back from his body, he found that someone was approaching in his soul, not only that, but the grinding sound of someone carrying sand and stones as they rushed down quickly sounded on the surrounding mountain walls from time to time.

Zhang Zhao stood up straight vigilantly, and Lu Yingda next to him also made a posture of preparing to attack again. The two of them had already been known to everyone in the competition outside the realm of life and death, and although the occasional cultivator who passed by was slightly surprised that the two seemed to be on the same front, they all immediately left in silence.

After careful identification, Zhang Zhao found that none of the cultivators who passed by were among the two hundred people who held the token of life and death, and it seemed that they were all like the fat cultivator Jiang Ruhai, who finally couldn't resist the temptation to sneak into the realm of life and death after enduring it outside for two days.

The screams that followed from time to time proved that not everyone was as lucky as Jiang Ruhai. The rest of the cultivators who found shelter were not like Zhang Zhao and Lu Yingda, who only put on a defensive posture but did not take the initiative to attack.

The screams of this night came and went, and for a long time, someone must have gone mad and died, but the short one was unfortunately killed. Zhang Zhao and Lu Yingda were on guard, both of them were unsheathed, and the opponent knew that it would be difficult to retreat.

There was some light in the white mist, Zhang Zhao let out a long breath, he calculated the time, it was time for Ye Qinghe to come out of the Nine Shadows, although there was no danger this night, it was too boring to face Lu Yingda, who was like a stuffy gourd.

Just when Zhang Zhao had already begun to brew the topic of talking to Ye Qinghe, a brisk footsteps sounded in the white mist. A cultivator in a black suit appeared.

"Looks like you have a place to stay here. The man squinted at Zhang Zhao and Lu Yingda: "How big is this hole, can I go in with it?"

Zhang Zhao hurriedly waved his hand and said, "There are more than forty people on both sides of us, so you might as well find another place." As he spoke, Lu Yingda took a step towards the entrance of the cave and stroked the knife silently.

"More than forty people? If you two don't get out of the way, don't blame my men for being ruthless. "This cultivator has a black scarf wrapped around his head, thick eyebrows and big eyes, a straight nose and a straight mouth, and he is only in his early twenties.

"Squeak" In a piercing sound of plucking knives, Lu Yingda stepped forward directly and raised the knife to cut, the black-clothed cultivator pulled out the knife to resist, Zhang Zhao stepped back and watched, who knew that this person was quite good, and Lu Yingda fought a few moves, and the sound of "boring and boring" intersected between the two knives continued, and there was no defeat.

Zhang Zhao saw that although this person's knife skills were a little rough, each move and style were practical and powerful, which was completely different from the fancy routines of the disciples of various sects he had seen before, at this time, the person and Lu Yingda staggered with two swords, and suddenly jumped to the front of the cave in a few steps. He took something out of his bosom and cried out, "If you don't let me in, let them all die inside." ”

The people in the cave had long been alarmed by the sound of fighting outside, but when they heard the words of the man in black, they all sneered, not only the powerful Nine Shadow cultivators in this cave, but also the organ armor people of the Huangfu family and the Lingxiao people holding famous swords, even if they gathered all the cultivators who were still alive in the life and death realm to fight, it would not be able to win for a while.

Huangfu Chen stood up, and the head of the tall armored man almost touched the roof of the cave: "I want to see what you used to make us all die here." ”

He saw that the man in black was holding a black bead in his hand, about the size of a pigeon's egg, even if it was a phosphorus bomb, it wouldn't hurt a few people if it exploded, not to mention that everyone was prepared at this time, and it was impossible for him to succeed.

"It's a sight to behold. The man in black was also fierce enough, and when he heard Lu Yingda rushing behind him again, he shook his hand and threw the black bead into the hole. He jumped to the side and dodged Lu Yingda's attack.

The black bead was not castrated quickly, and it came right in the middle of the cultivators of the Nine Shadows and Lingxiao sects in the cave. After two days of Huang Fuchen's practice, Zhengjue's whole body was full of energy, and he popped out the light knife in his hand, and lightly faced the black bead, wanting to push it out.

"I can't help it. Jiang Ruhai, the fat cultivator rescued by Zhang Zhao yesterday, just opened his eyes, and saw that the black bead was like a ghost, and he was shocked when he saw that Huangfu Chen was about to use a knife to block it, so he stood up and stopped in front of Huangfu Chen's light knife.

Huang Fuchen saw that the light knife was about to slash at Jiang Ruhai's body, and he hurriedly shook his arm, and the long light knife disappeared with a "bang". "What are you doing?" Before he finished speaking, he saw Jiang Ruhai's hands flicking in the air again and again, and a cloud of water vapor flew out from his fingertips, forming a small splash in front of him, carefully holding the black bead and slowly falling into his hand.

Jiang Ruhai, who was holding a black bead in his hand, trembled all over, his face was pale, and beads of sweat were dripping down. He looked a little more frightened than when he was being hunted down. "This is a thunderbolt, do you want to use a knife to cut and kill everyone?"

"What? It's actually a thunderbolt from the Xuanhuo Domain?" Huang Fuchen was also startled when he heard this, and he looked at the black-clothed man at the entrance of the cave viciously: "You are so vicious, you actually threw this thing in." ”

There are two things in the Xuanhuo Domain that the Daomen Organ family likes and fears, one is the common phosphorus fire bomb, and the other is very rare, even Huangfu Chen has never seen it, that is, the inconspicuous black round ball thunderbolt in Jiang Ruhai's hand.

It is rumored that the thunderbolt can crack the rocks and open the mountain, not to mention the flesh and blood, even the ordinary organ armor will be blown up if they are hit by the vital point. In some large-scale gambling battles in the Xuantu Domain, I heard that some people have used it, but this thing is extremely difficult to make and difficult to preserve, and there is a precedent for a machine person to be injured by a thunderbolt on his body.

"What's the fuss, this thunderbolt is only so big that it will kill one or two people at most. The man in black at the entrance of the cave said nonchalantly: "There is a place but you don't let me in, even if you die, you will find it yourself." ”

He looked at Jiang Ruhai's cautious appearance and was even more disdainful: "Since you know that you are afraid, you will honestly vacate a place for me to enter." Otherwise, you still look good. ”

Everyone inside and outside the cave was stunned, this person failed to break in, and indiscriminately threw a thunderbolt in, and his speech and demeanor were even more arrogant, even the Nine Shadows cultivator, who had always been known for their fierceness, and several members of the Huangfu family wearing machine armor were compared to him.

"Don't talk nonsense with him, let's chop up this arrogant boy. "Yan Wuxi can't stand this, his arms flashed red and he was about to pounce, and several members of the Huangfu family had to go out with him.

Lu Yingda also copied it from the back bread at this time, and the man in black who was surrounded by everyone in front and back had no fear, but he threw the knife in his hand on the ground: "You people are really obsessed, think I don't dare to bomb you all into the sky?"

The few people who were holding their breath ignored it, and were about to rush forward to split his body with a blade, when they saw the man in black probe his hands around his waist, and a few thunderbolts between his ten fingers came out: "Take another step forward, and you will all die without a place to be buried." ”

The few people who were about to rush up suddenly stood still as if they had been nailed down. "Where did this madman come from? How many of these things did he bring? Jiang Ruhai cried and shouted with a sad face: "Don't mess around, everyone is here, anyway, there is a place, just let him in." ”

There was still room in the cave, and it wasn't a big deal for him to come in, but the sulking breath was really hard to swallow. The cultivators in the cave watched the black-clothed man swagger into the cave, and then sat down cross-legged.

"Let me warn you first of all, don't have any crooked thoughts. The man in black put the thunderbolt in his hand back on his belt: "I still have more than a dozen thunderbolts on my body, and there is even a close-fitting thunderbolt spirit bead, as long as my mind moves, it will explode, and then the cave will collapse completely, and everyone will die together." ”

Whether it is the Five Profound or the Nine Shadows, all the cultivators have a bad face. The two sides were originally outnumbered, but now they are tied up and swallowed. was forced to have such a person who would explode at any time by his side, and he felt aggrieved in his heart.

"I'm so. Yan Wuxi rushed out of the cave and panted: "This is even more hateful than letting people run away, a large group of us actually let him be forced into it alone." ”

"Forget it, Lao Yan, this is called the wicked have their own wicked grinding. Ye Qinghe came out and said with a smile: "Since we are not as ruthless as him, we can only endure it, and it is my turn to guard again, you better go in and practice." ”

"Fat man, can you actually recognize the thunderbolt, it is also from the Xuanhuo Domain?" The black-clothed cultivator immediately denied his question: "No, your kung fu to catch the thunderbolt is not Xuanhuo's. ”

Although Jiang Ruhai didn't have a good impression of him, he still replied with great dignity: "I am from the Xuanshui Soft Water Valley, and I have seen the power of thunderbolts before. He recalled the words of the black-clothed cultivator just now and asked, "I heard that the Thunderbolt Spirit Bead needs to be collected by a special method, do you really have it?"

For the first time since he appeared and forcibly broke into the cave, the cultivator's face showed surprise for the first time: "You really know a lot, you even know this?" and then said vigilantly: "Do you suspect me of bluffing?"

He gently raised his hand to separate the neckline, and in the dim light of the cave, a necklace hung around his neck, the strange thing was that this chain looked black, but it could emit a light that people could see: "The spirit bead is here, if you still want to drive me out, just wait for everyone to die together." ”

Jiang Ruhai didn't care about his words, stared at the necklace and thought for a while: "It's actually a necklace made of black essence and manganese iron, you have such a good thing, what risk do you take in the realm of life and death?"

The black-clothed nun covered his collar and covered it with the black necklace that emitted light: "You don't have to worry about this, you know a lot." Not many people can recognize such a thing now. ”

There was no one around to talk to the cultivators, and they were even more unheard of about what spirit beads and mangtie were mentioned in the words of these two people. Since there was no way to drive this guy full of thunderbolts away, he had no choice but to resign himself to his fate and no longer pay attention to him.

Zhang Zhao didn't care much, according to his thoughts, as long as there was still a place in the cave, it didn't matter how many more people came in, and he spoke out to explain the indignation of the people in the Nine Shadows.

As the day approached evening, everyone felt that the white mist around them had changed a little, not only thick as rice soup gradually sticking away, but also more small green dots of light. Against the backdrop of these points of light, the field of view in the white fog becomes wider.

Zhang Zhao didn't know what these green highlights were, but he felt that it was very comfortable to be cool and cool after being stained on his body, and there was nothing unusual about it, and everyone felt the same way, everyone accelerated the absorption of the aura that came from the water and washed away the blocked places of the various meridians in the body one by one.

When night fell, these small green lights flew into the sky like fireflies, and Zhang Zhao observed the movement of these bright spots, and found that they seemed to come from the middle of the realm of life and death. He opened his arms curiously, allowing countless green dots to penetrate his body, but he didn't find a similar sensation in the aura working in his body.

What are these green lights, and why do they disappear after they enter his body? Zhang Zhaozheng found it interesting, and the fifth sentence in his mind, which had not changed for a long time, suddenly jumped, and there was actually an extra golden word.

Zhang Zhao was suddenly pleasantly surprised, this fifth verse has not made much progress since the appearance of the four characters, and he didn't expect that there would be a breakthrough in this world of life and death, and he already understood that the twelve fold scriptures of requiem that he had practiced were very useful. It's just that I don't have a clue how to practice.

Zhang Zhao noticed that these points of light began to flow slowly from south to north. At this time, the world of life and death was already full of stars, and a faint green light flashed everywhere. This scenery is in the eyes of Zhang Zhao, who has been soaked in the white fog for several days, and he really feels a lot more open-minded.

The cave was also brightened by these green dots, and everyone looked at each other with a layer of glowing green light on their faces, which looked a little weird. Everyone ended their luck one after another, guessing the origin of this thing.

"I've never heard of this thing in the realm of life and death. Huang Fuchen looked at the green dot that was still pouring in from the entrance of the cave, and pondered. "How do I feel like it's getting more and more? ”

"Oh my God. Jiang Ruhai remembered something he had heard, he stretched out his hand, looked at the few points of green light in front of him slowly gathering towards his hand, and looked around for a while before asking, "Have you ever heard of the Spirit Devouring Worm?"

"What should I be?" Huang Fuchen laughed: "Of course I've heard of that, but these things have no life at all, how can they be soul devouring insects?"

"I heard that the Spirit Devouring Worm is constantly impacting the cultivator's body like a tide, and it is also a living thing, these things don't feel at all when they fall on the body, and they won't be the kind of deadly things. Ye Qinghe had also heard of this kind of strange thing in the realm of life and death.

"It is said that they only appear for a moment before the realm of life and death is about to close, and there are not many of them, as long as we stay in the cave, we will be fine, don't scare ourselves. ”

With Ye Qinghe's words, the entrance of the cave poured into a cloud of light again, when the green dots in the air were dense to a certain extent, the two adjacent ones suddenly merged into one, all the green dots in the air were constantly repeating this process, and the original green light was just a faint light gradually shining,

Some of the green dots had gone through countless fusions, and the light on their bodies became a little dazzling, and even the white mist next to them seemed much lighter, and then a bright spot began to tremble, and then a second, and a third, as if they had suddenly come to life.

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