The Red Forest Sect, located in a dungeon somewhere......

Not a single ray of sunlight shone in, and the only light came from the torches in the corner.

Lingchuan sat on the somewhat damp straw mat, rubbing his fingers, and looked at the fire with a somewhat dull gaze.

He didn't know how long he had been locked up, but there was no one around, and he hadn't said a word.

"Squeak~"

The sound of the door opening was like a falling rock stirring the calm water.

A short time later, an elderly man in a wide robe walked to the door of the cell where Lingchuan was.

Lingchuan glanced sideways and found that the person who came was the head of the sect Yuanzong, he did not get up and salute, but continued to look at the firelight.

The face of the head of the house, which was always calm, showed a look of helplessness, "Ye Tian, the Yu Hong you have seen today, the cultivation is still above me." Many times, the size of our ability will determine our situation......"

"Master, the disciple has never resented the Honglin Sect, let alone blame you...... The disciples just no longer understand what is good and what is bad. ”

The head shook his head, "The matter of Jingyu Heavenly Cave is very involved and extremely secret, and we didn't know about it before. If I could stop you before you went to Sedum Town, it wouldn't have happened so much. ”

"Master, do you have to hold Gollum, he's just a shy little creature.......

"Alas~ You're about to die, and you're still thinking about him. ”

"If it weren't for him, in the mountains outside Xialiang City, I would have died. ”

"Ye Tian, I believe you have also heard of the scourge of the Ghost Turmoil. ”

Lingchuan nodded, but he didn't know why the head of the sect suddenly mentioned the ghost chaos.

"But you don't know why there are ghosts in the Soul Seeking Continent located in the thirty-sixth level of the Ninety-Nine Heavens......"

The head of the sect held his hands behind his back and slowly spoke, "More than three thousand years ago, the three ancestors of the ghost clan joined forces to open up a spatial channel, connecting the twelfth heaven and the thirty-sixth ........"

"Twelve Heavens and Thirty-six Heavens!" Ling Chuan was shocked and couldn't help blurting out.

The Ghost Clan occupies the first and twelfth heavens, and the Spirit Seeking Continent is in the thirty-sixth heaven, that is to say, the spatial passage opened up by the three ancestors and ghosts bypasses the twenty-four heavens and directly connects the ghosts and the human race!

No wonder, more than 3,000 years ago, on the Soul Seeking Continent, there would be a large number of ghosts, causing chaos in the world!

With this spatial passage, ghosts can pour into the Soul Seeking Continent in an endless stream, and the entire human race may be worried about extinction.

Lingchuan looked up at the head of the house, waiting for him to continue.

"Fortunately, at that time, several Terran Heavenly Venerables noticed it in time and blocked the entrance of the passage, preventing a large number of ghosts from entering the Spirit Seeking Continent, however, tens of thousands of ghosts still broke in...... Just tens of thousands of ghosts slaughtered tens of millions of Terrans!"

"In the end, the Terran Heavenly Venerable, who is the most proficient in the way of the formation, has 'filled' the spatial passage with supreme power. ”

"Alas...... We all think that the space passage has been filled, and we don't have to worry about it anymore. Because even the ancestor of the ghost clan can't just open up another spatial passage casually. However...... It wasn't until Yu Hong of the Qinglin Sect arrived that we learned that once the spatial passage was opened, it couldn't be filled at all!"

"What? The space passage is still there?"

"The space passage can't be filled, it can only be sealed with a formation!Ye Tian, the 'Gollum' in your mouth is the key to the formation!"

"Gollum....... Gollum is the key to sealing the spatial passage?"

Many doubts seem to be clear now......

The ghost in Jingyu Heavenly Cave broke the seal, not to rescue Gollum, but to destroy the formation that closed the spatial passage! Gollum was not an accomplice of the ghost, but just a pawn to seal the spatial passage formation......

No wonder Yu Hong would say that Lingchuan taking Gollum was tantamount to complicit with the ghost, no wonder he would say to Gollum, 'This is your mission!'

Gollum was locked in a dark cave in order to seal the spatial passage and protect the hundreds of millions of people on the Spirit Seeking Continent...... But he had obviously escaped, why hadn't the seal of the spatial passage been broken, and the ghosts hadn't invaded on a large scale?

"The formation laid out by Hongyu Tianzun is called the Eight Directions Tongtian Formation, and it is necessary to gather all the Eight Divine Beasts and guard the space passage with the genus of the Eight Directions. The eight-way divine beast is in charge of the eight directions, and conforms to the spiritual position of the eight directions. Back then, Hongyu Tianzun searched all over the Divine Beast Clans, and only then did he collect all the Eight Divine Beasts......"

"Eight Directions Heavenly Formation?Eight Directions Divine Beast?Gollum is a Divine Beast!In the Sect of Knowledge, I have never heard Elder Miaoyan talk about a Divine Beast like Gollum?" Ling Chuan groaned in his heart.

"After the Hongyu Heavenly Venerable formed the Eight Directions Heavenly Formation, he disappeared with all his might, and for more than 3,000 years, there was no ...... news"

"The Eight Directions Heavenly Array is composed of eight sub-arrays, and no one knows the specific location of the sub-array. For so many years, the high-level of the spiritual cultivation world has been secretly probing, but they have never dared to divulge a single thing!"

"Because, the ghosts who broke into the Spirit Seeking Continent back then are still quite a few hidden among the human race, and their mission is to break the Eight Directions Heavenly Array and restart the spatial passage. ”

"But for some reason, this time, the ghost clan actually found the sub-array in the northeast before the human race, and broke the seal of the sub-array, releasing the divine beast inside, which is what you call 'Gollum'. ”

"Ye Tian, now you know, why this matter is so implicated, even the Qinglin Sect is greatly shaken, right?"

Lingchuan lowered his head, not knowing what to say for a while.

"The divine beast in charge of the northeast direction is the Covering Heaven Clan...... the head of the sect immediately said.

"Divine Beast Covering the Sky? Gollum is a Divine Beast Covering the Heavens!"

Lingchuan had heard of the Heaven Covering Clan among the Divine Beasts, they were the most mysterious race among the Divine Beasts, and even Elder Miaoyan knew very little about them.

"The Heaven-Covering Divine Beast is shy by nature, and even among its kind, it rarely communicates, so the number is extremely rare! The 'Gollum' you rescued, although it is still a juvenile, may be the only Heaven-Covering Divine Beast that the human race can find!"

"If you can't catch it back as soon as possible, it will take another half a year at most, and the Eight Directions Heavenly Array will be invalid. At that time, the space passage will be restarted, and the Spirit Seeking Continent will be in danger of the dead! Because the Hongyu Tianzun has disappeared, no one in the world will be able to seal the space passage!"

"Ye Tian, do you understand?" said the head of the house.

"Disciple...... The disciple understood, and the master was talking about catching Gollum, who had just regained his freedom and had not been around for a few days, and resealing him into a dark and cold cave. That hole in the ground is better than this cell, because there is at least one light here!"

"But Gollum, I'm going to be alone, in that cave, I don't know how many years I will have to be sealed!"

"Ye Tian, exchanging the freedom of a heaven-covering divine beast for the peaceful survival of hundreds of millions of living beings on the Spirit Seeking Continent is a great righteousness!

"I, I can tell clearly, what you say, what you see, and what you pursue are all righteousness! You don't have to care about what Gollum thinks or what you need to endure, because it's all petty. After all, he's just a mythical beast, only one......!

"He was alone, he had been imprisoned for more than 3,000 years, but he never held a grudge against humanity. Even if he escaped, he never thought about revenge, and he didn't hurt anyone! Even the most docile creature would have been sealed away for so many years, he would still have resentment, right? But he never had ...... Obviously, we didn't care about his feelings and forcibly sealed him, but why didn't he hate or complain......"

"Ye Tian, I understand your relationship with 'Gollum', but in the world, there are always trade-offs, and you always have to choose and let go, this is the most helpless part of life!"

"Boss, I just don't understand why the more I experience, the more I can't tell what is good and what is bad, what is righteousness and what is petty love......"

"Alas......"