Chapter 210: Flying Over the Millennium
The Celestial Motion Instrument is a spherical instrument.
Interlocking tracks dot the perimeter, each connected by a hair-thin yet immensely strong wire. There are copper balls in orbit, and so are the copper balls around them, nested back and forth.
All the tracks are filled with mysterious terms that ordinary people don't understand, and are painted with extremely elaborate and intricate patterns. The copper balls are large and small, and seem to correspond to different celestial bodies.
This instrument, with its base, should look extremely bulky. Surprisingly, however, it is not as difficult to move as it could be.
Under the guidance of the Nine Spirits True Monarch, Li Yan and Xiao Hongyu instructed them to disassemble the instrument, move it from the secret room to the main hall, and reassemble it again.
Li Yan only felt that the core sphere was as if it were nothing in his hand—it was terrifyingly light, and the material must not be copper.
After the assembly was completed, Xiao Hongyu curiously touched the red ball marked "Yingchao" on the side, and the copper ball suddenly moved along the track.
This is exactly what moves the whole body. The whole celestial motion instrument seemed to come alive, and all the stars began to move regularly. The main hall is filled with the rustle of track friction, melodious and rhythmic.
Jiuling Zhenjun turned his head sideways and listened intently, and after a while, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The track is not broken, and the core is no problem." That's a thousand years. I was surprised that the machine was still intact.
Back then, that person slashed the ecliptic......"
He stepped forward tremblingly, placing his hand lightly on one of the thickest tracks. For some reason, Li Yan seemed familiar with this scene.
The Nine Spirits True Monarch continued, "I thought to myself: It's over, everything is ruined...... But look at it, it's still good!"
Jiuling Zhenjun's hand stroked the track inch by inch, and his empty eye sockets were suddenly full of hope: "In a few more moments, as long as I can go home in a few more moments......"
Behind him, the spider was silent. The spider has always been a silent companion, and it will not speak until 100,000 times of urgency.
This thousand-year-old cultivation has endowed it with insight beyond ordinary people. Although it didn't know the inside story, it sensed that the old fox was using the one-armed swordsman.
It knows that Dugu Jiu only has the queen in his heart - maybe he can pretend to be Heng'er. But apart from these two people, he wouldn't care about anyone's life or death. Not to mention going to great lengths to turn on the Celestial Motion Instrument and go to another distant time and space to help.
But as Fang just said, silence is the biggest breaking of spiders.
Besides, it also hopes that the tragedy of that year never happened, and that it will always be a little spider in the summer, not a terrible monster like it is now.
At this time, Jiuling Zhenjun grabbed the handle of the switch and asked, "Are you all ready?"
Xiao Hongyu's heart was full of curiosity and excitement, and she said in a slightly trembling voice: "Grandpa, I'...... I'm ready!"
But Li Yan suddenly said, "Old man, did you really find Miyuki?"
Jiuling Zhenjun snorted coldly: "I can't believe it, I can not go." See. Wool, Chinese net"
Li Yan wanted to say something more, but in the end he chose to remain silent. At this point, everything is out of his control.
Jiuling Zhenjun asked again, "Old Spider, won't you come with me?"
The spider shook his head like a human: "I'm going to guard you here, watch the Celestial Motioner." If you succeed, I'll know. Old fox, don't die!"
Jiuling Zhenjun's nose was sour, and his eye sockets were painful as if they had been pricked by steel needles. He turned around sharply and said loudly, "Pure talking nonsense. You're better at managing yourself than anything else!"
After that, he said to Xiao Hongyu and Li Yan, "Hold it steady!" and then pulled the handle down suddenly.
The blue light in the core flashed, and the Su Shengguo under the dark night seemed to tremble slightly.
The stars made of copper balls began to spin rapidly, and finally broke out of their orbits and orbited in the void.
Xiao Hongyu felt that her body was gradually separating from her soul, and she said loudly: "Grandpa, I'm afraid of ......" but before the words fell, the blue light flashed violently, and the three of them disappeared without a trace.
The celestial motion instrument also stopped rotating.
The spider looked at the fading blue light in front of him and muttered, "Old fox, take care." ”
However, at this time, it suddenly felt that something had changed in its body, its tentacles, bristles, hard carapace, and even the strong silk sac were all disappearing little by little, turning into shiny dust in the air.
It felt like a piece of ice melting in warm water, and I didn't even have the strength to struggle.
The spider's consciousness grew larger and larger, and after a moment there was no trace.
But the sky outside the temple lit up.
The night was gone, but instead of dawn, it was a nightmarish sight.
Whispers were heard in the sky. The demonic mist filled the sky like a pile of paint that could not be dissolved. Dark purple lightning scurried in the air like long snakes. Su Shenguo looked even more eerie and terrifying against the backdrop of this scene.
At the same time, Li Yan and his entourage were swept into the whirlpool of time and space like leaves in the wind.
This storm is not at all enough for a human body to resist. Li Yanyi stretched out his hand and grabbed the Nine Spirits True Monarch tightly, and hooked Xiao Hongyu's arm with his toes, yearning for a mention in his arms. Xiao Hongyu hooked his waist tightly and refused to let go of anything.
The wind howls so violently that it is almost impossible to open one's eyes.
Li Yan asked loudly, "Zhenjun, which direction should I go?"
The Nine Spirits True Monarch shouted at the highest volume, "You forgot, I'm blind!, but there should be a flash of light nearby—flash, understand?"
Li Yan raised his head, and suddenly saw that there was indeed a small crack in the distance, radiating a faint light.
As soon as he gritted his teeth, he gave birth to a force that he had nothing to rely on, and with a kick of his legs, his body went straight up.
But at this time, strange clouds suddenly became angry in the turbulence under them, setting off patches of purple demonic atmosphere, and two torch-like red lights shot out violently.
That's obviously the eye of some monster.
Li Yan was shocked: "Zhenjun, what is that?"
Jiuling Zhenjun also sensed this terrible sense of oppression, he sweated profusely, and said in a lost voice: "I...... I don't know!"
Li Yan grabbed the Nine Spirits True Monarch and couldn't draw his sword, so he could only swim towards the exit with all his might.
I only heard a thunderous roar erupt from the demon mist, and two mountain-sized palms rushed out and grabbed upward.
The monster roared, "No one can escape my grasp. Come down and make my meal!"
Its voice is like the wailing of thousands of people gathered together, making people creepy.
Under those pitch-black claws, the three of them were more fragile than ants.
But after all, Li Yan was experienced in a hundred battles, and he twisted his waist and raised his knees to avoid the edge of his claws. As it swept by, its toes slammed a little above it, and its body jumped upwards like an arrow from a string.
In this moment of lightning, Li Yan's mind flew around, and he said to Jiuling Zhenjun: "Old man, be careful!" With that, he slammed his arm into the glowing exit.
Before the Nine Spirits True Monarch could react, he disappeared into the crack.
At this time, only Li Yan and Xiao Hongyu were left.
But Li Yan had already freed his hand and pulled out the single knife at his waist.
With a knife in hand, Li Remnant can cut off the clouds and cut off the long river.
The monster's claws struck a second time, like a five-headed black dragon, surrounding the two of them in the center.
Li Remnantbao's knife spun around, and after a soft buzzing sound, the monster's hard skin as hard as iron was cut open, and the stinking blood burst out.
The monster ached and snapped back its hand. Li Yan took this opportunity to move upwards again and jumped to the front of the exit.
A thin arm suddenly stretched out from outside, it was the Nine Spirits True Monarch.
Li Yan put away the single knife and held it tightly.
As soon as Jiuling Zhenjun exerted his strength, the two were dragged out together. The moment they return to the real world, the exit closes.
Li Yan was shocked and said, "What was it just now? I have never seen such a terrible demon...... It's scary and different from every opponent in the past. It was like a freak born from the ruins of hatred and despair, a feeling that no previous enemy had brought to me. ”
It was only then that Li Yan found that his forehead was full of beads of sweat.
Looking at Xiao Hongyu again, she was already so frightened that her face was bloodless, and her teeth chattered and she couldn't say half a word.
Jiuling Zhenjun said in a daze: "If it weren't for walking with you, I would definitely be swallowed by him in one bite." To put it this way...... Heng'er, isn't Heng'er also more auspicious?
Alas, traveling through time and space is indeed a matter of anger to the heavens, and perhaps what has passed is destined to be unchangeable. ”
It was the speaker who was unintentional and the listener was intentional, Li Yan listened to his words on the side, and his face became more and more gloomy.
He finally couldn't help but say in a deep voice, "Old man, didn't you bring me here just to find Miyuki?"
Jiuling Zhenjun suddenly realized that he had spoken out of his mouth, but he had always been tough and unwilling to bow his head and admit his mistakes, so he also said coldly: "What I want to do has nothing to do with you, as long as I can take you to find the Fusang woman, what do you care about the rest?"
If it were changed to normal times, Li Chuan would not be counted. But this matter is related to Miyuki, and he came here after a lot of hardships, how can he let these two sentences be dismissed?
Therefore, Li Yan did not back down, but took a step forward and said, "Please also ask Zhenjun to give Li a reasonable answer!"
Nine Spirit True Monarch snorted: "My old fox has never been threatened by people. If you dare to talk to me like that again, don't blame me for not fulfilling my promise anymore. ”
Li Yan simply made his words clear: "I'm afraid that Your Excellency has other plans from the beginning, right?"
Jiuling Zhenjun said: "So what? I wasn't originally a charity. You use me, I use you, this game is how to play.
But I can tell you that the person you're looking for is on this plane. If you don't believe me, you can find her yourself.
But if you still want me to help, you can be obedient and do a few things for me first!"
When he said this, the Nine Spirits True Monarch was fearless.
He knew that if he didn't rely on his own strength, it would be more difficult for Li Yan to find someone than to find a needle in a haystack. But anyone in their right mind will choose to endure and die for themselves.
The Nine Spirits True Monarch is a person who keeps his promises, and this is true. But from the moment he made his promise, he would do everything possible to exploit the rules and loopholes to seek the best interests for himself. This is also true.
Thousands of years of darkness, this way has long been his way of survival.