Chapter 73: The Birth of the Spiritual Root (3)
The sky suddenly dimmed, a few stars appeared in the sky, and then a round of crescent moon hung in the sky, the pale silver moonlight was paved like a stream of water, a mountain path made of jade masonry appeared under the boundless moonlight, and there were more arch cave portals formed naturally in the shade of the trees half-covered and half-hidden, and on the top of the distant mountains, a beautiful palace suddenly appeared, and the bright light went straight to the sky.
"What kind of place is this?" A hint of horror flashed in Mu Qinglian's eyes, this scene was too amazing, even the Trap Island where the Mu Clan's main sect was located was much inferior compared to it.
"I don't know. Xu Zheng removed the flame in his eyes, and his expression became as calm as before.
Wei Zhen couldn't help but glance at him a few more times, he didn't know exactly what the fate of this time meant, but obviously Mu Qinglian and Xu Zheng both knew some inside stories.
"I wonder how many people who have entered this place have seen this scene?" he thought to himself.
The vision didn't last long, and after a few breaths, as the strange woman's voice faded away, the world inside the pillar of Babel returned to its original state, as if everything just now was just an illusion.
"Let's go, maybe someone will get ahead of you. Xu Zheng said indifferently.
This time, he took the lead, Mu Qinglian followed dumbly, Lu Shi, Cao Ling and Xia Yi were in the middle, and Wei Zhen fell in the last position.
There was no fixed route in the mountains, and the six of them climbed all the way up, and at this time, as far as the eye could see, there were constantly figures shaking in the nearby woods, or seven or eight people, or three or four people, who were the other sect disciples who entered this place together.
After walking straight for a stick of incense, Xu Zheng paused in front of an ancient tree, hesitated, and suddenly walked straight, and stepped in front of a few people who disappeared.
Mu Qinglian seemed to have guessed that this would be the case, and she also followed in, ignoring the four people behind her. Lu Shi and the three of them looked back at each other for a while, not knowing whether to advance or retreat, Wei Zhen directly passed them and strode over.
Although he didn't understand the secret of this place, he guessed that this ancient tree was an arched portal in the previous scene.
"If only little Hei Hei were here. Wei Zhen suddenly thought in his heart.
As soon as he entered, Wei Zhen only felt that the light in front of him was dim, but then he got used to it, and there was a mess under his feet, and the cave was dark and damp.
Not far away, Xu Zhengzheng was carefully observing a purple-leaved plant, and when he saw him walk in, he couldn't help but smile slightly, Mu Qinglian's eyes narrowed, and he turned his head away.
After a few breaths, Lu Shi, Cao Ling, and Xia Yi came in one by one, and Mu Qinglian's face looked a little better.
The six of them continued to move forward as before, and as they went deeper, Wei Zhen gradually had a feeling of being in the underground cave world outside Cangyan Mountain, except for the different growth of vegetation in the eyes, the landform was actually seven or eight points similar.
After stepping up a few stone steps, the terrain in front of them suddenly became open, but at this moment, dozens of meters away from them, there was a sound of fighting on the left corner.
"Lin Shaoshao, don't be a shrinking turtle!" a mocking voice mocked.
"Hehe, Song Daoyun, if there is a kind of you, you will call!" another voice immediately shot back in a light-hearted and joking tone.
"You're a fat man! I'm not used to seeing you!"
"Die the villain first!hahaha!"
When Wei Zhen heard the sound of bickering, he had already guessed the identities of the two in his heart. The six of them turned around the corner, only to see two groups of people in different costumes fighting in one place.
In the middle, a young fat man with a small belly held a small Ugin umbrella, rotating it from time to time, and dissolving all the meteor hammer attacks of an elegant young man opposite.
These two people are none other than Lin Shaoshao of the Hundred Treasures Sect and Song Daoyun of the Five Elements Sect.
As soon as Xu Zhengcai appeared, the two of them immediately stopped.
"It turned out that someone from the Mu family had arrived!" Song Daoyun had no trace of respect in his mouth, and slowly retreated in front of several young women.
"This little brother, we met again, it's really fate! By the way, I forgot to ask your name last time? I'm Lin Shaoshao of the Hundred Treasure Sect. Lin Shaoshao smiled at Wei Zhen, but his eyes kept rolling behind him, as if he was looking for something.
"My name is Wei Zhen, thank you for helping me out last time!" Wei Zhen thanked him seriously.
Song Daoyun saw him at this time, his eyes flashed, and he couldn't help but reveal a trace of greed.
"No thanks, good things are not afraid of stealing, just afraid of thieves!" Lin Shaoshao said with a sneer.
"Dead fat man, how can you talk about it?" Although Song Daoyun was full of anger, he still held back and didn't make a move, but his mouth was not so polite.
Between the two of them, they didn't take Mu Qinglian, Xu Zheng and the others in their eyes at all, in fact, it was normal, they were all people who could have stepped into the threshold of the spirit captain, but in order to enter the pillar of heaven and seek the opportunity of the spiritual root, they deliberately suppressed their cultivation at the peak of the late stage of the ninth-level spirit master.
"I'll give it to you, isn't it just a 'Purple Golden Lotus'?" Lin Shaoshao said indifferently.
"That's what you said. Song Daoyun pointed with his hand, and a delicate young woman behind him walked out and walked towards a plant growing in the shade of the rock wall.
It is a blue plant with oval leaves and five petals, and the petals are gradually withering at the moment, and only a small purple fruit is planted in the center of the stamen, and it seems that it will take some time for this small purple fruit to mature.
When Mu Qinglian heard the words "Purple Golden Lotus", her eyebrows jumped sharply. "Purple Golden Lotus" is already a fourth-order medicinal herb, and it has little value in itself, but the "Purple Golden Fruit" it produces is very precious. When the spirit master is promoted to the spirit captain, he can take an elixir called "Pure Power Pill", the only effect of this elixir is to purify the impurities in the Yu Dan and purify the spiritual power, so that the quality of the Yu Dan is higher, and the future upward space of the person who takes it will also increase. "Purple Gold Fruit" is one of the four main medicines for refining "Pure Power Pill", and the other three medicinal materials are "Pressing Evil Grass", "Metamorphosis Wood", and "Gentian Fruit". Before Wei Zhen was selected for Mu Qinglian's trial team, Wen Lan had given him a medicinal herb atlas, which mentioned these herbs. Although others may know something, no one dares to step forward and snatch it at this moment.
The young woman stepped forward a few steps, stretched out her jade arm and grabbed the root of the "Purple Golden Lotus", and lifted it up forcefully, just about to uproot it.
Who knew that at the moment when she grasped it, the "Purple Golden Lotus" in her hand suddenly changed, and the whole herb suddenly shook, and it turned into a foot-long gray strange fish, opening its mouth to reveal two rows of thin teeth, which quickly drilled into the center of her eyebrows like lightning.
The young woman was defenseless, her soft body trembled violently, her palms suddenly held her head, and her mouth let out a heart-rending scream, but then she fell limply.
The foot-long gray monster fish poked out of her eyebrows again, licked its thin short tongue, wagked its tail, and quickly burrowed into the rock wall in front of her.
All this happened in a short time, and when Song Daoyun found the abnormality, he didn't know how to rescue him for a while.
"Sure enough, the villain died first!" Lin Shaoshao stuck out his tongue and smiled, in fact, he was secretly glad.
When Song Daoyun heard this, a trace of green energy flashed across his face, not only him, but no one else here thought that the "Purple Golden Lotus" was actually a resentful spirit turned into a strange fish.
They all came from the great clans, and there were already records of the situation in the Babel Pillar within the sect, but the memories of everyone who had entered here were not the same, but they were very different.
Wei Xin's heart moved, and an idea instantly came to his mind.
"Wei Zhen, would you like to join us?" Lin Shaoshao suddenly asked at this time. Song Daoyun had already left with the people of the Five Elements Sect with anger, and only the team of the Hundred Treasure Sect and Mu Qinglian was left here.
"Thank you! As a Mu clan spirit slave, I accompanied Mu Qinglian Gongzi to participate in the trial this time, and I must not quit halfway. Wei Zhen politely refused, in fact, another reason why he didn't want to go with him was that he couldn't figure out why Lin Shaoshao treated him so differently.
"Well, that's right. Lin Shaoshao is not the kind of person who bullies the weak, and after thinking about it for a while, he feels that he is a little abrupt.
He hurriedly bowed his hand, took his fellow door, and this time chose the opposite direction to Lin Shaoshao and hurried away.
Mu Qinglian saw that Wei Zhen had rejected Lin Shaoshao's kindness, so she couldn't help pursing her lips and thinking, and she didn't know whether she was happy or unhappy in the flickering of her eyes.
"The five of you entered the Babel Pillar with me this time, but you didn't actually participate in any kind of trial. In the pillar of heaven, there is a spiritual root born, and the so-called destined person gets it, and I don't need to hide it anymore. He spoke in a low tone, apparently after a fierce inner struggle.
Except for Xu Zheng, the other four people all had a look of realization on their faces, no wonder Mu Qinglian let them take the poison "Biqing Pill" before entering here.
The so-called spiritual root, Wei Zhen, Lu Shi, Cao Ling, and Xia Yi don't know much, and they only have a vague concept in their hearts. In their minds, the spiritual root is a symbol of a certain kind of talent, and having a certain type of spiritual root will have a great advantage in a certain aspect. For example, in the qualification test when he first entered the slave house, Du Xiaoqiu's spiritual power attribute was set as wind armor, which means that his speed in absorbing wind attribute spiritual power will surpass him by several times, and in the same way, cultivating and using wind attribute spiritual skills will also take advantage of it.
Mu Qinglian saw that she had already spoken, and simply said some of the things she knew and guessed.
"No one knows the origin of the Pillar of Heaven, and in later generations, some people have speculated that this is a lost secret realm, and some people have speculated that this was once a relic of immortals. But no one can confirm anything!"
As soon as his voice fell, he heard Xu Zheng continue: "It is rumored that the heavens and the earth have changed, so the world inside this Tongtian Pillar has also changed!"
As soon as these words came out, not only Wei Zhen and the others, but even Mu Qinglian's face also changed, even if he was a core disciple of the Mu family, he had never heard of the saying "heaven and earth have changed".
All of a sudden, the six young people were thinking about their own thoughts, slowly groping their way through the world inside the portal of this arched cave.