Chapter 161: Return
At the same time, with the bleak laughter, a gloomy mist also rose from the ground, and then the huge tomb floor slowly seeped out of the icy black water, and what was even more shocking and strange was that there were endless flames burning on this black water!
Fire & Water ...... Unexpectedly!
Looking at this shocking scene near and far, Leng Yi's cheeks twitched suddenly, but in this short moment, the mist of water and fire also instantly swallowed Leng Yi!
"Hahahaha!
"Fool! You didn't expect it after all, did you? You tried your best to even think of martyring the town to seal this seat, but in exchange for such a result!hahahaha!"
As the mist steam up, the bleak laughter became more and more arrogant, and then, in a heart-rending scream, the huge tomb was instantly swallowed up by the raging flames, and Leng Yi, whose face was pale, could only watch the monstrous water and fire swoop towards him but could not do anything!
This time...... It's really dead!
Leng Yi let out a faint sigh in his heart, and then slowly closed his eyes......
And at this moment, there was an obvious change in front of Leng Yi's eyes, only to see that the water and fire in front of him turned into endless darkness in an instant, and the endless darkness was full of vast mist, gloomy, weird, full of antiquity and vicissitudes, it seemed to be like ......
Just when Leng Yi frowned, thinking that he had arrived in the netherworld, a strange figure slowly conjured up in the endless ghost mist—
a blurred face, a gloomy black shirt, a sturdy figure, a long white hair that is windless, and a pair of eyes that hide under the long hair like an endless abyss;
"I know ...... old immortal!" looked at the evil figure. Leng Yi was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes suddenly widened, and a trace of hope flashed in his eyes;
Although he had never seen who this person was, he was absolutely sure. This person must be the old dragon!
Although he was full of anger at what the old dragon had just done, he ...... Even fathers, sons, fathers, and mothers will quarrel and slam the door, isn't it? How could the old dragon really die for the sake of a quarrel? It's just that the test just now seems to be a bit ...... But anyway. The old dragon is back after all......
"The old man only asks you one sentence!Do you know if you are wrong!" However, what was waiting for Leng Yi was still that cold and ruthless sentence;
What the!
Listening to the cold and decisive words, Leng Yi's cheeks twitched again, and the glimmer of hope that had just risen disappeared in an instant, and the disappointment and anger that had just dissipated filled his heart again at this moment;
Is this way forcing me to bow my head?
I'm really stupid, the evil way, after all, the evil way, the deal, has always been a deal!
"Hmph! Lao Tzu also tells you a word-" Leng Yi clenched his fists tightly, letting the nails of his hands dig deep into his palms, but he still raised his head and stared at the old dragon word by word-
"I'm not wrong! Let me do things against my conscience! I—"
"Can't do it!"
"If you think you can force me to bow my head on this matter, then you are wrong! Lao Tzu is dead, and he will not bow to a demon like you!"
"Huh, huh, demonic way?" heard a cold and determined roar. The old dragon's eyes narrowed slightly, and a killing intent swept by, "Good! good! good!"
With three "very good" sounds passing through Leng Yi's ears, the figure of the old dragon slowly disappeared again, and what echoed in Leng Yi's ears was only a sigh full of sadness:
"When the old man was young, he was like you, thinking that he could change a qiē if he didn't accept his fate;"
"Boy, the rest of the way, you can do it yourself!"
What do you mean?!
Hearing Lao Long's last words, Leng Yi's heart suddenly shook. seemed to understand something in an instant, and his face suddenly turned as white as paper:
"What are you going to do, come back!"
"Roaring ——!!"
Just as Leng Yi yelled to rush over and grab the old dragon, an earth-shattering dragon roar suddenly resounded in the mist, and then Leng Yi saw a huge figure swimming slowly in the endless darkness, and it was getting farther and farther away from him. until Leng Yi's eyes turned into an endless darkness again;
"......"
Leng Yi gasped and opened his eyes with difficulty, only then did he realize that there were broken bricks and tiles under him, and he looked up. Surrounded by endless ruins, the ruins of the palace that should have stood in the middle of the ruins are still missing, as can be seen from the remains of a qiē. The palace had been reduced to rubble;
Leng Yi endured the pain all over his body and struggled to get up, and then a vague memory appeared in his mind;
Just when that monster wanted to kill everyone, it was about to devour Leng Yi. The old dragon finally made a move, and under the thunderous power of the old dragon, the monster just struggled desperately, and then was killed by the old dragon;
After the old dragon killed the monster that could symbiosis water and fire, he integrated his blood into Leng Yi's body, and then the old dragon fell into a deep sleep;
But fortunately, the old dragon was just sleeping, and Leng Yi knew that with the continuous improvement of his cultivation, the old dragon would wake up one day after all......
"Old immortal, I'll settle accounts with you when you wake up!" Leng Yi gritted his teeth and scolded in a low voice, but there was a ripple of pain on the face of the dusty servant, of course he knew that he was just a dead duck with a hard mouth, and only he knew what that heart-wrenching pain meant......
However, now Leng Yi didn't have much time to be sentimental, as he imagined, that large array did have the effect of time and space passing, when he just entered, the time inside passed faster than the time outside, and just when the upheaval occurred, the space in the tomb was disordered, and the time inside was several times slower than the outside, so it was only the period when Leng Yi was in a coma, and the time outside had passed for eight months!
Eight months, there are only a few months left before Cheng Guiyun ascends......
With a sense of bitterness and urgency, Leng Yi ran out of the ruins and plunged headlong into the Western Wilderness. He only had two months, and in those two months. He had to hurry up and improve his cultivation, but it was okay. Leng Yi's body was integrated with the bloodline of that monster that had been cultivated for thousands of years, and it was not difficult to break through the Qi Gathering Realm in a short period of time;
In this way, Leng Yi found a secluded cave in the Western Wilderness, and then closed the entrance to the cave and began a long retreat;
And so on until two and a half months later......
Bang!
On a bright morning, a loud bang suddenly sounded somewhere in the dead Western Wilderness, and then I saw a barren mountain at the foot of a barren mountain suddenly explode into the smoke and dust, and then a thin figure slowly walked out of the smoke and dust;
This person was Leng Yi, who had been in retreat for two months, after two months of long refining. Leng Yi's cultivation had already broken through the gap of the Qi Gathering Realm and directly reached the third order of the Qi Gathering Realm, although Leng Yi didn't know how many levels Cheng Guiyun was in the Qi Gathering Realm, but he had already tried his best, no matter what, he had to go and see ......
As the smoke and dust slowly dispersed, Leng Yi raised a pair of shining eyes to look at the darkness in the distance, and looked over the space and looked in the direction of Xichuan Mansion City;
"Cheng Guiyun, I'm here!"
Bang!
With a burst of air. Leng Yi jumped up like a lone wolf and ran all the way in the direction of Xichuan in the dark night;
In March, Xichuan Mansion is in the spring when the flowers are blooming and the sun is melting, and the huge Xichuan Mansion is still bustling and crowded under the warm sunshine;
The city of Xichuan was not a city built on a plain, but a city built between the foothills, after all. The inhabitants of the city were mainly monks, not mortals, and the plains were a good place for mortals to live, but for monks who needed aura. Between the mountains is the best choice for cultivation and living;
It is precisely because of this that the huge city of Xichuan contains several not too high peaks, and the Cheng family, which is the ruler of Xichuan. It is impressively located on one of the peaks, and this peak is called "Cheng Mountain";
In this small but vast mountain. The splendid mansions stretch and bully like honeycombs all over the mountain, the mountains are full of flags, and the golden characters reflect the incomparably bright light in the warm sunlight;
This is Chengjia Mountain, compared with Chengjia Mountain, the small Baihe Town is simply as dilapidated as a chicken coop and dog kennel; this is of course, as the master of Xichuan, the Cheng family is no less than the emperor of Xichuan; and for monks, many mortal things are very easy to obtain, so it is not difficult to build such a huge family house;
The Cheng family is the blood of the Cheng family alone, there are more than 20,000 people up and down, plus the family slaves, servants, and family members at all levels, the population of the entire Chengjia Mountain is at least 80,000; in Xichuan, it is simply a giant family; such a huge family must have a large flow of people every day; but compared with usual, Chengjia Mountain has been particularly lively in recent days......
For example, in front of the gate of Chengjiashan today, the traffic is busy and bustling, and many carriage banners have appeared in front of the gate of Chengjiashan in a false flattery...... There are also some small sects in Xichuan, such as the Black Snake Sect, the Dongsha Sect, the Zhenchuan Sect, the Caiyun Sect, and so on...... The number one force in the entire Xichuan has come today, even the family or sect forces that have always been hostile to the Cheng family have also sent heavyweights;
It can be seen from these various people that the forces of Xichuan are very diverse, of course, on the whole, only the Cheng family and the Hua family can be regarded as top-level forces; as for those who are of any sect, it can be said that they are not even a force at all; after all, what can be called a force must be at least a "door"; faction, this statement is actually similar to a gang, and it is completely a force that does not enter the stream;
Of course, in the poor and remote area of Xichuan, no force dares to call itself a "gate", and even the subordinate force "Ge", which is a little smaller than the gate and belongs to the door, no force dares to call itself a force;
From this point, it can be seen how weak the overall size of Xichuan is, such a huge area and a population of more than 200 million, there is no force that can be called a door and a cabinet;
With so many forces gathered together in one day, there is of course only one thing, that is, Cheng Guiyun, the ruler of Xichuan, will soon be elevated;
For Nishikawa, Nishikawa hasn't been promoted for a long, long time;
The barren geographical environment restricts the development of cultivation, and the development of cultivation restricts the growth of power, and the growth of power restricts the inflow and control of cultivation resources. The Xichuan cultivation world has formed a terrifying circle that can never be broken; just like mortals, the poorer they are, the poorer they are, the poorer they are. Coming and going, after all, it is impossible to break this strange circle;
If you want to break this cycle. The only thing that can be done to break this vicious circle is to step out of the land of Xichuan, so for many years, how many people in the cultivation world have wanted to break this strange circle, but for thousands of years, countless people have been angry and trying to be strong, but after all, no one has been able to truly break this strange circle;
After all, the monks from the outside world would not watch the Diao people from the "poor mountains and bad waters" of Xichuan come out to forcibly seize their cultivation resources and fertile soil; Until today, Cheng Guiyun has broken this vicious circle for thousands of years;
Regarding Cheng Guiyun, many people only know that he is a master of the Qi Gathering Realm, but few people know for sure what Cheng Guiyun's cultivation is; after all, it has been almost twenty years since Cheng Guiyun last made a move; it has been more than ten years since the last time he showed his cultivation, that is to say, Cheng Guiyun has not made a move for at least ten years;
Although it is said that in Xichuan, a poor and remote place, Cheng Guiyun's cultivation cannot increase much in the past ten years, but. Those who are interested will find that Cheng Guiyun actually rarely lives in Xichuan for a long time, which especially shows that Cheng Guiyun's cultivation place is likely not in Xichuan;
Of course, if Cheng Guiyun's cultivation place is in Xichuan. It was also difficult for him to break through the Qi Gathering Realm and become the master of Xichuan, after all, Hua Jin did not cultivate in Xichuan at all;
So, judging by the rumors. Cheng Guiyun's cultivation is likely to have surpassed the third order of the Qi Gathering Realm;
Like the Quenching Body Realm and the Bone Refining Realm, the "three, five, seventh, and ninth" in each cultivation level are all a dividing point, and the second order of the Qi Gathering Realm and the third order of the Qi Gathering Realm seem to be not much different. But in fact, as long as the large number of three is passed, there will be a qualitative leap in its power. And Cheng Guiyun belongs to this ranks;
In this way, it can be imagined how its prestige is;
In today's Xichuan cultivation world, except for Hua Jin's few battles with Cheng Guiyun in the name of "competition", no one dares to challenge Cheng Guiyun;
Of course, many people will think that "it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years", but more people also understand better, they are just thinking about it, I don't know how many ten years have passed, Cheng Guiyun has always been the master of Xichuan, and they have always been the monks at the bottom;
Now, Cheng Guiyun will soon step out of Xichuan and enter the capital as an official; as a result, the status of the Cheng family will rise again, and even hear that the current lord of the dynasty has a fief to give to the Cheng family; the power of the Cheng family is once again in full swing;
However, most of these people who came to congratulate must be thinking about the Cheng family leaving quickly, although Xichuan is poor, it can be regarded as one acre and three points of land, and the Cheng family is gone, so they will naturally vacate a large area of interests for others;
From a certain point of view, Cheng Guiyun's departure is a good thing;
In the face of these people from all walks of life with ghosts, the Cheng family didn't care, but opened the door on the mountain and sent a large number of servants and maids to entertain people from various sects;
Although they all know that these people have ghosts, but in any case, at least they come with heavy gifts, and they don't stretch out their hands to hit the smiling faces, and their faces are so solemn, as the head of a house, how can they not put on a little master's bearing;
In this way, in the bursts of false flattery, the sun rose higher and higher, and there were more and more guests from all walks of life on the mountain, and the whole Chengjia Mountain became bustling and lively;
"Hey, don't you think the Cheng family's masters are a little too few?"
"Yes, they said that all the masters of the Bone Refining Realm went to the fiefdom to pioneer first, but no one has come back for more than eight months;"
"That's right, I've heard that the wives and daughters of some masters think their men are dead;"
"Don't talk nonsense, haven't you noticed? Not only are there many fewer masters in the Cheng family, but there are also a lot fewer people in the Hua family and the Shi family in the Wang family;"
In the crowd that seemed to be extremely lively, there were always some discordant sounds, which were never broken, but today for some reason they seemed unusually lively, as if everyone felt something in the dark;
After all, as cultivators, they all have a little bit of a feeling, all in all, for many people, they always feel that something is going to happen to the Cheng family......
And at this moment, in the flattery of everyone, Cheng Guiyun is smiling everywhere; although Cheng Guiyun now looks full of smiles, he still can't hide a trace of worry in the corners of his eyes;
Eight months have passed, and there have been thousands of monks of all levels sent out by the four major forces, but none of them have returned;
Neither the Cheng family nor the Hua family, even the barbarians or Wan Zhenghe, has not received any news of their return so far; the four major forces have also sent people to investigate, but they have found nothing; the ruins are still the same, except for the traces of sacrifice, there is still no news;
Cheng Guiyun knows a little bit, there may be another mystery in the seemingly misty mist, and the master invited by the Hua family also said that it is very likely that the time inside and outside the mist is different, so Hua Jin also advised Cheng Guiyun not to worry; however, it is false to say that he is not worried; the master of the Cheng family's Bone Refining Realm sent almost two-thirds this time;
Although it is said that Cheng Guiyun has been promoted, no matter what era and place, where he goes, he is fighting for comprehensive strength; with two-thirds less manpower in one breath, how can the Cheng family take root after they arrive in a new place?
Cheng Guiyun had the heart to investigate it himself, but he didn't know how many pairs of eyes were staring at him motionless, especially the eyes of the imperial court, looking at him almost without leaving a step......; after all, this is a moment, and today he read the imperial edict in front of everyone, Cheng Guiyun has to take office, and he will never leave at this time;