Grand Ruins.

"Could it be that the true will is not meant to direct me to where I go or what to find, but simply to keep me out of danger?"

Xu Chong's heart was a little puzzled.

Because the guidance of the true will is only a simple direction, neither saying how far it is or what there is, this causes Xu Chong to have to give up the space movement so as not to miss something.

But now half a year has passed, exactly like the previous year, nothing has been found.

But the question is, if it's just to guide him to avoid the crisis, why is it in this direction?

Given the sheer size of the ruins and the fact that nothing has happened in the past year and a half, it is impossible to have only one direction to be safe.

Take 10,000 steps back and talk about ......

It's not a good thing to keep it safe all the time.

Judging by the exaggerated attitude that Salo shows towards the virtual and real persons, the theft of authority, and so on, this matter must not be left at that.

In other words, apart from his name, Xu Chong had been exposed to the sight of the Void Camp.

The best course of action is to be as strong as possible in dealing with a possible crisis.

"No, you can't just waste it......"

After thinking about it for a while, Xu Chong decided to speed up and directly use the space to move.

Of course, in order to avoid unexpected situations, it is still a distance within the reach of the eye.

In this way, Xu Chong, who was in the form of nothingness, suddenly began to accelerate and soared in the ruins.

One, two, three......

In seven days, Xu Chong crossed the distance that he had only reached half a year before.

It's a pity that there is still nothing.

Until the eighth day.

“！！！”

As soon as Xu Chong came out of the crack, his heart tightened suddenly.

He felt as if he had touched something.

"I didn't see any gray fog or anything else before I moved here, but I still got feedback from touching it...... Is there some unknown existence? ”

In the Great Ruins, the unknown often means danger.

As soon as possible, Xu Chong stopped all his movements, tried his best to restrain and calm his ethereal body, and slowly retreated as if he didn't exist at all.

However, before he could retreat far, the gray mist suddenly appeared, and in an instant, it filled a large area, encompassing Xu Chong's void body as well.

'Kill', 'Devour', 'Hungry'......

Countless thoughts fluctuated.

Almost subconsciously, Xu Chong wanted to move away from here, but he immediately suppressed this impulse.

To be able to appear in such a strange way, this void entity is likely to be more powerful than Salo, and it is obviously unrealistic to move out of the range of the gray fog by means of space.

Therefore, Xu Chong could only try to remain calm, and at the same time observe this new 'strong man'.

One breath, two breaths......

A full cup of tea has passed, and no new movement has appeared.

In his perception, the dense fluctuation of thoughts continued, but without exception, all thoughts only possessed the simplest and crude meanings.

It seems that this large area of gray mist only has the seed of nothingness, and there is not even the existence of the bud of nothingness.

However, Xu Chong did not let his guard down because of this.

Judging from the experience of two encounters with nothingness, the seeds of nothingness with extremely low intelligence can only exist by relying on the nothingness of a higher person, and they themselves do not even have the ability to act autonomously, let alone gather together, or even appear in this strange way.

It's more likely that the real 'boss' is hiding in the shadows and secretly observing, or that he hasn't woken up yet.

But no matter which one it is, at least the space around Xu Chong has not been frozen.

"Take a gamble!"

Xu Chong made a decision immediately, directly opened the crack in his body, and moved out in the direction of the way he came.

It's a pity that the move was successful, and 100,000 miles passed in an instant.

But it didn't work out completely.

Because Xu Chong encountered the exact same situation when facing Salo...... He was still in the area where the gray mist had spread.

Xu Chong was a little depressed.

This kind of behavior of not letting him go and not revealing his true identity is like a cat playing with a mouse.

"Okay, okay, that's fun, isn't it?"

Xu Chong turned his heart sideways and suddenly began to stretch his empty body, "Since you don't show up, then don't blame me." ”

A trick 'crystal bun' reappears in the ruins.

The transparent body of nothingness enveloped a large gray mist, and burst into an intense light.

Just by breathing, those wrapped gray mist annihilated one after another, providing 2 spiritual sources for the panel.

However, just as Xu Chong was about to move to another place to continue making steamed buns, the gray mist that permeated the surroundings actually began to shrink.

And this contraction is essentially different from Salo's condensing body.

Salo condenses his body, with the place where his mind is the only center, and these gray mist actually have countless centers, probably in a unit of every ten zhang square circle.

"This ......"

Before Xu Chong's doubts could arise, he took the first step to see the essence of this gray mist.

It's actually a grain of dust, countless motes!

Motes?

The gray mist shrank into the dust?

I have to say that this scene in front of him is beyond Xu Chong's understanding of nothingness.

After all, although the ruins are extremely barren, it is still very common to see such 'impurities' that seem to be fine dust, but are actually worthless to both nothingness and reality.

No matter how you look at it, there is no way to associate impurities with nothingness.

At this moment, all the gray fog in the field of vision disappeared, as if it had never appeared.

"If it's not something wrong with my cognition, it's something wrong with the motes."

Xu Chong's heart moved slightly, driving the void body to wrap the nearest speck of dust.

The Void Body retained the ability of the Divine Soul's 'Shrouded Omniscience', so it only took a moment for Xu Chong to distinguish the special on it.

Dust is indeed a common impurity that does not contain any energy, but its extremely fine surface is engraved with a mysterious rune.

"Moham!"

Xu Chong raised his head sharply and looked in the direction he had moved before.

That is, the direction of the true will.

If nothing else, the appearance and disappearance of the gray mist are all derived from the ability of this rune.

With such an incredible performance of ability, there is only one thing Xu Chong can think of.

Ring the sky.

Or rather, the surviving immortals?

Thinking of this, Xu Chong caught dozens of the same fine dust.

Sure enough, there was that mysterious rune on it.

"Are there really any immortals who have survived until now......

Xu Chong's mood was a little complicated.

Part of it is the joy of finally being able to meet the 'kind', and part part is the wariness of the highly intelligent 'kind'.

But after thinking about it again, Xu Chong decided to go and get in touch.

"After all, it's all here."

Xu Chong put the dust back in its place, switched into its true form, and then used the power of light to turn himself into a seventy-year-old man with fairy wind and Taoist bones according to the image of the 'Taoist priest' in his memory.

After all this is done, continue to return in that direction.

In order to avoid triggering the reaction mechanism of the motes again, he did not use the power of space, but rushed directly in the flesh.

Although this reduces the speed a lot, it greatly reduces the resistance of the other party.

In this way, more than half a year passed.

Finally, Xu Chong found the goal of this trip.

A portal.

The portal is pitch black throughout, blending in almost perfectly with the environment of the ruins.

If it weren't for the fact that it was completely on the path guided by his true will, it was not certain that Xu Chong would be able to find it.

And after research, Xu Chong found that this portal is not so simple.

In addition to being imperceptible to the naked eye, another kind of rune scattered all over it can even show the same characteristics as 'impurities' in the perception of his ethereal body.

At this point, everything is clear.

After the portal, it must be a real space.

This kind of magical rune may have been inherited from Huantian, or it may be a new system developed in this space over the long years, just like the path of the Heavenly Xuan Realm.

"Maybe that's the real thing......"

Xu Chong took a deep breath, raised his right hand, and knocked lightly three times.

Knock, knock, knock.

……

……

Five Spirit Realm, Yin Forbidden Land.

It is said to be called a forbidden place, but it is not an exaggeration to say that there is a fairyland on earth.

At this time, in the bamboo forest of this 'fairyland', there are three old men in white clothes and white hair, with long eyebrows and chests, sitting cross-legged, surrounding a small pool with a square foot in the middle.

The pool is constantly flowing and misty, and a small portal looms in the middle.

They were three of the five people with the highest status in the Five Spirit Realms - the Supreme Elders of the Fire Spirit Palace, the Earth Spirit Palace, and the Water Spirit Palace.

In addition, they are also the guardians of the Five Spirit Realm, and together with the other two Supreme Elders, they are responsible for guarding the entrance and exit portals of the Five Spirit Realm in turn.

So far, the longest-standing Elder of the Fire Spirit Palace, Huo Bu Extraordinary, has been sitting here for nearly a hundred years.

"It's coming, it's coming."

Huo Bufan's eyes are empty, and saliva is about to drip from his mouth, "Lao Tzu will be able to go out soon......"

"You've said it 10,000 times, you don't have to keep reminding us."

Shui Yunzi, the Supreme Elder of the Water Spirit Palace, snorted coldly in dissatisfaction.

"It's over......"

The other stroked his forehead helplessly.

He is the Taishang Elder Tusanshan of the Tuling Palace, although he is younger than the other two in age, but his personality is much calmer, and he doesn't know how much mediation he has done over the years, and he is really a little tired.

Sure enough, Huo Bufan, who was still talking to himself, immediately became energetic and scolded when he opened his mouth.

"Old ghost Shui, you are not ashamed to talk about it here!"

"Lao Tzu's nature is impatient, and the cultivation of the Fire God Text is equivalent to adding fire to the fire, and it is already very face-saving to be able to sit here in front of you two old faces for so long!"

Huo Bufan's tone was wild, and his eyes were even more vicious, "If you press it again, Lao Tzu will burn your old turtle grandson." ”

"Oh yes?"

Shui Yunzi was unmoved, and said, "It seems that your brain has burned out, and you have even forgotten about water and fire." ”

"I'm ...... you"

Huo Bufan stood up and began to roll up his sleeves.

Seeing that the two were about to pinch together, Tu Sanshan had an idea, and suddenly roared: "Shut up!! ”

A huge wave of sound set off a strong wind, blowing the bamboo forest to the side.

“……”

Huo Bufan and Shui Yunzi were stunned at the same time.

After so many years of getting along, it was the first time they saw Tu Sanshan, a good old man, angry, and they were really a little frightened.

"Sure enough, the one who is close to ink is black, and even the good temper of the soil boy has been led astray by you."

Shui Yunzi said.

Although he was still sarcastic, his tone was much weaker, and he was obviously easing the atmosphere.

Huo Bufan is just short-tempered, not stupid, and naturally understands that this is the meaning of a truce.

But just as he was about to answer, he suddenly found that Tu Sanshan's expression and eyes were very wrong.

The expression was full of solemnity, and the eyes were ...... Looking at the small pool between the three of them.

Boundary Gate?!

Huo Bufan turned his head sharply and stared at the small portal in the pool.

"What's wrong?"

Shui Yunzi also reacted, and asked out loud while also staring at the boundary gate.

"Just now, the boundary gate seemed to tremble."

Tusanshan said in a deep voice, "So I told you to shut up. ”

“……”

Huo Bufan's face was extremely ugly, and he said astringently: "Don't scare me, after so many years, except for us taking the initiative to open it to maintain the big array, the boundary gate has never been moved." ”

"I'm sure it's not a delusion."

Tusanshan reaffirmed, "It's extremely slight, but it's really there." ”

"Extremely slight?"

Shui Yunzi raised his eyebrows and seemed to relax a little, "If it is an extraterritorial demon, it is impossible to break through the heavy array and reach the portal, so it is impossible to cause only such a big movement...... I guess my quarrel with Tusanshan interfered with the operation of the Lock Pool. ”

"Impossible."

Tu Sanshan shook his head, "After so many years, it's not the first time that the two of you have messed around, and you have even moved your hands more than once, but the boundary gate shook, but only today appeared." ”

"This ......"

Huo Bufan's heart that he had just put down lifted again, "What do you think will be the reason?" ”

"I don't know."

Tu Sanshan's expression was still solemn, and his tone was quiet: "The amplitude of that vibration is too slight, I can't describe it, I have to say it...... It's like someone is outside stroking the portal. ”

"Shhh

Shui Yunzi gasped, and his cold hair stood on end, "What are you saying is even more terrifying." ”

"It's really ......"

Huo Bufan also felt furious in his heart, "If the extraterritorial demons can completely avoid the big array and directly contact the boundary gate, then we are still guarding here!" ”

"That being said, we can't take it lightly."

Tu Sanshan accepted it when he saw it, "Next, don't make a fuss, prepare separately, once there is any change, the three of us will work together to fight the enemy at any time." ”

"That's right."

Shui Yunzi nodded solemnly, his expression was straight, and he returned to the previous state of staring intently at the boundary gate.

“……”

Huo Bufan looked at Shui Yunzi suspiciously, and then at Tusanshan, always feeling that something was wrong but couldn't say it.

Helplessly, both of them put on a look like they were facing a great enemy, and he could only sit down cross-legged and keep silent.

However, as soon as he sat down, Huo Bufan bounced.

No, it's not just him.

The same goes for the other two.

At the same time, they clearly heard the movement coming from the boundary gate.

Boom.

Boom.

Boom.

"Knock! It's a knock! ”

Huo Bufan's face was shocked.

Shui Yunzi was also shocked, "You just now, weren't you cheating on the old ghost?!" ”

The two of them reacted differently, but they both stared at the gate.

As everyone knows, Tu Sanshan's expression at this time is much more exaggerated than theirs.

It's a hellish look.

"When did I get my cursed authority?"

Tusanshan is full of bitterness.

(End of chapter)