Chapter 111: The Temple of Yuxi
With Luo Yun leaving, the Ice and Snow World Realm that covered the entire Concubine King City quickly dissolved. After this catastrophe, the surviving explorers began to retreat outside the city one after another.
Because they finally understood that the battle that was going on in the middle of the city was not something of their level that a figure of their level could participate in. This harvest in the desert ancient city is very sufficient, and there is no need to lose your life for that straw.
Zhang Lao stood in place, silently watching Luo Yun and Yu Wufeng leave, a trace of cunning suddenly flashed in his eyes, he turned around with a smile, and just saw Yang Rui and Yu Jiu rushing over from different directions.
"Misty Wind!"
Yu Jiu looked at the spatial passage that was surrounded by the ice and fire enchantment, shouted unwillingly, and plunged the big sword in his hand deep into the boulder floor of the main hall, and a crack stretched forward for more than ten zhang.
"What's wrong?" Yang Rui keenly sniffed a hint of abnormality and asked hurriedly.
The current appearance of the Nine Elders of the Undead Race was really too different from the cruel and indifferent he had seen in the ancient tomb at the beginning. I don't know what happened to make that calm Concubine Jiu so angry?
"Princess, she ......" Speaking of this, Yu Jiu couldn't help but choke a little, and even didn't bother to pay attention to Tong Xuan and Xiao Xuannu when she saw it, and kept rubbing the blood-drinking sword with her dry hands, and muttered: "It's all because I didn't take a good look at the princess, the princess she was killed by the concubine fog wind!"
"What! how can this be?" Xiao Bai's eyes immediately turned red when he heard this, but he didn't expect the princess to suffer a worse misfortune than himself.
"Did you see it with your own eyes?"
Yang Rui immediately had an indescribable feeling in his heart. At the same time, it is as if another voice is saying to itself that things are often not as straightforward as they seem. For some reason, he still seems to be able to sense the presence of the concubine.
"The princess is not dead, don't worry too much. ”
Suddenly, a whisper sounded in everyone's ears, it was Zhang Lao's voice.
Everyone present, especially Yu Jiu, turned their heads in shock to look at the smiling sloppy old man. At this point, his mouth was not moving, and he seemed to be motioning for everyone to be silent.
Then Zhang Lao's voice appeared in everyone's ears again, "Take me to the place where the princess fights." ”
Yu Jiu nodded slightly when he heard this. Pull out the big sword with a thud. Turning around, he led everyone through several corridors to the main hall where he and the princess had been attacked just now.
The snow and ice have melted here, and only a puddle remains, large and small. Yang Rui looked around. It's like I'm looking for something. Suddenly. He saw a golden glow in a small waterhole left behind a battle.
The boy didn't think about it, but ran over as fast as he could, grabbing the contents of the pool. If you look closely, it turned out to be the golden crystal necklace that he and the princess found in the Heavenly Consciousness Temple's director's room!
This necklace left by the princess by the concubine Mist Wind has also been borrowed and worn, and it has a strange protective power. It was on this necklace that the boy felt a hint of the princess's presence.
At this time, Zhang Lao and the others also came around.
The sloppy old man waved his robe, quickly laid an enchantment around him, took the crystal necklace from the young man's hand, and said briefly: "The princess is in this necklace!"
"What!?Zhang Lao, you don't lie to me!" Yu Jiu was overjoyed and surprised when she heard it, and looked at the necklace and asked dryly.
"Well, we'll talk about the details later. Elder Zhang's expression was grim, he put the necklace into his sleeve robe, turned his head to the black-clothed young man beside him and said, "Take out the Dharma Protector Formation Stone, and immediately urge it when you hear my instructions." ”
Although the young man didn't know what to do like everyone else, he still quickly took out the palm-sized crystal and put it on the ground.
Zhang Lao smiled and nodded, and with a light tap of his palm, he outlined three runes, faintly similar to the black runes in the Dharma Protector Array Stone. The knotted sword pointed to his lips and said something, and the three runes were suddenly ignited, emitting a faint blue light, enveloping the Dharma Protector Array Stone.
"It's now!" Zhang Lao drank lightly.
When the young man heard this, he quickly closed his eyes, and became one with the Dharma Protector Array Stone's mind, urging it to move.
Then everyone was amazed to see that the black runes in the Dharma Protector Array Stone swam out of the array stone, and together with the three runes, they formed a formation similar to a spatial passage!
"Come with me!" said Zhang Lao and walked into the passage first.
The young man glanced at everyone and walked in one after another. After the last person entered the passage, the formation light flashed, and it disappeared in an instant along with the Dharma Protector Formation Stone, as if no one had ever been here......
This is a fiery world, full of magma and flames, the air is flowing with pure fire elemental power, the temperature is terrifyingly high, in such a harsh environment, there is a golden temple-like building sitting on the magma!
Suddenly, a spatial passage appeared above the temple, and several people stepped out one after another, and came to the gate of the temple, it was Zhang Lao and Yang Rui and their party.
In front of the huge metal gate inlaid with exquisite golden patterns, Elder Zhang motioned for the young man to put the Dharma Protector Array Stone into a hole. At the urging of the young man, with the humming sound of the array stone, the door of the temple slowly opened.
In such a roasting environment, everyone didn't want to stay for a moment, and quickly entered the temple under the leadership of Zhang Lao, and then the door slowly closed behind everyone.
"Welcome to the second holy place of the Yuwang City, the Yuxi Temple!" Zhang Lao seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, turned around, and looked at everyone with a smile and said.
Everyone looked at the magnificent, quaint and generous palace in front of them, and they couldn't believe it, it felt like a foot from hell to heaven. There is not the slightest heat in the air here, and there is plenty of aura, the temperature and humidity are suitable, and the fragrance is everywhere.
Zhang Lao led everyone through the huge corridors, came to a reception courtyard full of flowers and plants and sat down, fingers tapped, and fresh and delicious melons, fruits and pastries appeared on the large table carved with many exquisite patterns.
While everyone was amazed and admired the luxury and beauty of this temple, they were also very curious that this sloppy old man was so familiar with this place.
"This is the Underground World Realm thirty miles above the ground. It's ten times the height of the Tower of Babel. Looking at everyone's surprised expressions, Zhang Lao explained with a smile: "The existence of this temple is only known to the patriarch of the undead race, and it has been passed down from mouth to generation through generations, and there is no written record. ”
"Then how do you know the truth?" the young man looked around as he told the questions in everyone's hearts.
Zhang Lao's ears pricked up, and he looked at the young man with a smile and said, "Hehe, the little apprentice is quite clever, because I am the designer of this Yuxi Temple!"
Hearing this, Tong Xuan and the others were extremely shocked, how old should the designer of this holy land be to live until now? Only the little Xuannu was eating the pastries in a big gulp. Very unimpressed. Because the years she herself has lived are not short.
"The Tower of Babel......" Yu Jiu asked a little dazedly, as an elder of the undead race, even he didn't know the true meaning of the second holy land.
"The Tower of Babel is nothing more than the entrance here, and there are disguises above the first floor. Hey. All the intruders get through the levels is a god statue and a pile of broken copper. Zhang Lao leaned comfortably on a giant horned velvet recliner. Picked up the gourd on his waist and poured it and said.
"However, the golden bodies of those undead ancestors are real, because only the patriarch is qualified to sit in the temple of Yuxi. ”
"Did the patriarch also come here after the battle with the Nine Infants?" Yu Jiu's indifferent eyes flashed, thinking of the current patriarch who had been missing for many years.
"Hmm. I guessed this when I saw the reappearance of the Protector Array Stone, and Yu Chen gave the Array Stone to the Snake in order for it to one day find a suitable person to bring the princess back here to complete the inheritance of the undead. The sloppy old man glanced at the young man beside him and said.
This candidate finally let him meet after 10,000 years.
"You just said the princess wasn't dead?"
The Nine-Tails clan to which Xiaobai belonged naturally had a strong curiosity about this kind of place, and after a turn in this fresh courtyard, he jumped back into the boy's arms and asked curiously.
"Yes. The sloppy old man put away his smile, took out the golden crystal necklace from his sleeve robe and said, "She was just sealed in this necklace and fell into a deep sleep temporarily. ”
"What about the fog wind!?" Fei Jiu suddenly thought of something and asked loudly.
"Well, this has to start with the invasion of the Nine Infants. Zhang Lao picked up the gourd and poured it again, saying: "After the Great War, the undead human race suffered heavy casualties, and only four of the nine elders remained, and Yu Chen and Ming Snake were seriously injured and missing. You're living in a desert tomb with a sleeping princess, so you don't know what's going on behind the tunnel. ”
"After that, your Great Elder went out and was killed, and in the end only a spiritual image was transmitted. Through the video, Mist Wind, who was the patriarch at the time, speculated that someone would take advantage of the situation to snatch the treasure and inheritance of the undead race. ”
So when he came to me and told me what he was going to do, I was surprised. Zhang Lao sighed and continued: "He wants to personally lead out the mastermind behind the scenes and reveal the true face of the enemy. ”
"Then Yu Wufeng is not a traitor?!" Yu Jiu suddenly thought that he had wrongly blamed the good man, and he had almost killed him just now!
"Of course not. Zhang Lao looked at Yu Jiu solemnly and said: "You should know the character of Wufeng the best, you have the talent of heaven but you only like to knock and beat to specialize in art, and you have the qualifications to compete for the patriarch, but you quietly gave it to Yu Chen." ”
"How could such a misty wind be a traitor?"
"But......" beads of sweat the size of beans flowed from Yu Jiu's forehead, he and Yu Wufeng grew up together, and it was precisely because of his understanding of him that he felt deceived and became angry, "But why didn't you mention this to us earlier!"
"Ahem...... This was also the idea of the foggy wind. Zhang Lao continued: "He knows you and the princess too well, with your straightforward character, if you knew the Tao in advance, can that battle be so realistic?"
"I'm afraid that the experienced Phantom Ice King has already seen it, and in this way, the whole plan will be in vain!"
"Ahem...... That's, that's. Yu Jiu suddenly realized, coughed dryly, and nodded incessantly. Now he is really a little afraid, if his ultimate blow is sacrificed, he may really wipe out his brother for many years.
Then he looked at the crystal necklace and asked, "What is the matter with this chain, and why can't I feel the breath of the princess at all?"
"Hehe, have you forgotten that the princess is a spatial physique?" Zhang Lao leaned back into the recliner again, picked up the gourd and poured it and said: "This crystal necklace is a treasure specially tailored for the princess by Wufeng, and with her spatial power, it can be sealed inside without leaking the slightest breath." ”
"Only in this way can the Phantom Ice King believe that the princess is really dead!"
"But Yang Rui seems to be able to feel it!" said the little lady who was lying comfortably on the side and touching her stomach. Not only her, but everyone here saw that it was the boy who first found this golden crystal necklace.
The boy scratched his head when he heard this, and even he felt incredulous, because what he felt was not the breath of a princess, but her presence, and breath and existence were not at all the same concept, the former was based on facts, while the latter could be said to be a belief.
For this, to be honest, Zhang Lao also felt strange, the world is so big, it is really strange, no one can cover all the knowledge.
Taking a deep look at his little apprentice, Zhang Lao said freely: "Maybe this is fate!"
(If you want to know what happens next, and listen to the next breakdown.) (To be continued......)