(There will be a third update later, a supplementary chapter)

A desert town on the frontier.

Since the opening of the Star Path, the forces here have slowly calmed down after the initial turmoil, and have become quieter.

In the town, merchants with feet do the most ordinary trade, spreading animal skins flat on the soft sand, and then neatly arranging the goods prepared in advance.

When he was ready to give up, he didn't shout, but he took out the small stool he was sitting on, and dozed off half-leaning and half-leaning.

Pedestrians in the town walked from the central road of vendors and merchants on both sides, coming and going to watch the goods.

Everything was so peaceful and peaceful, like the desert before the dust storm rolled up.

Suddenly, the tallest pavilion above the town shook violently, and then began to peel and collapse from the top floor out of thin air, quickly causing a ruin around it, and stones and wood chips were scattered.

Pedestrians and merchants in the town, as well as women with children in their arms, and elderly people in their families, hurried away from the center of the collapse and watched from a distance.

They didn't understand why the good pavilion collapsed, they just got together and talked about each other.

In the drunken afternoon, the favorite thing for those who have eaten and drunk is to get together and chat, and the sudden collapse did not alarm them.

"Isn't that the house of the elder of Shazhen, I still remember that when the construction was completed, there was a feast in the whole Shazhen, but I had a good meal. If memory serves, it's only been three or five years!"

"Three or five years, three or five years, why is there a good end of the collapse, is it because the builders have cut corners?"

"Don't talk nonsense, it was built by the most famous carpenter in our town, and the quality is not to be said. ”

"You are all here to join in the fun, if you don't go up and see, if anyone is buried in the sand, if there is someone in the pavilion, it will be a matter of human life!"

Having said that, instead of going to investigate, the onlookers moved farther and farther away and gathered more and more, for fear of getting into trouble, and wanted to join in the fun and see how the matter turned out.

The elder of Shazhen does not have a very good reputation in Shazhen, otherwise he would not be the only one who stands out in this low house.

This time it collapsed, I don't know how many jealous people usually dare to be angry but dare not speak, but now they are hiding in the crowd and stealing fun!

When the crowd of onlookers grew, the ruins that had been accumulated by the debris of the pavilion like a small mountain suddenly shook the ground.

That's right, everyone who paid attention saw that in the middle of the ruins, the hill, suddenly burst upwards for a short moment, and then calmed down again.

Many people thought they were dazzled and involuntarily rubbed their eyes.

But before they could take off their hands that were rubbing their eyes, the sky was suddenly covered by the wild sand coming from the pavement.

I don't know who was the first to scream, and then many people followed the riot and panicked, and began to push and flee in an exclamation of "Sandstorm is coming!".

The old and the young, the young and the old, at this time can no longer care about any courtesy, no order, under the sandstorm covering the sky, their only instinct is to survive, that is, to preempt others to survive.

In the rolling sandstorm, there were a large number of pavilion sawdust stones, and there was a faint white sway, but it was quickly covered by the yellow sand.

The sandstorm erupted from the very center of the town and spread in all directions.

This was so unpreparedness that almost everyone but the most marginalized people were killed in this sandstorm and buried in the rolling yellow sand!

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...

By the time Zhao Shumad and Zhao Mengsheng arrived, it had become a ruin submerged in yellow sand, and the sand town, which was not prosperous but also somewhat lively, had been completely erased from the map of the Pingbei Desert.

Zhao Shufang frowned, he squatted down and picked up a touch of sand, put it under his nose and sniffed it.

"What, is there anything wrong?" Zhao Mengsheng walked to Zhao Shufang's side, she hadn't seen her for a long time, but she had actually been raised.

Now it looks like it's no longer the original Lori's small appearance, but more like a little girl waiting to be released.

"Something is wrong. There is a special smell in this sand, if I guess correctly, it should be the smell of the remnants of the formation. Zhao Shufang put down the sand in his hand and said in a solemn tone.

"Formation remnant formation-" Zhao Mengsheng chewed these words carefully and said, "You are an expert in the formation path, you say yes." ”

"There are many unknown secrets in the desert, and a few broken formations are buried, which may not be something worth making a fuss about. But the inhabitants of Butsand Town—"

Zhao Shu paced wildly on the edge of the ruins, his head lowered, and slowly followed the residual formation pattern he felt, and began to carefully look for possible clues.

"Hey, why take it so seriously. At the end of the year, countless monks and cattle have died in sandstorms in the Pingbei Desert, and this may just be another accident. Our father-in-law asked us to come and investigate, but he didn't let us study the results. ”

Zhao Mengsheng was a little bored, following Zhao Shumad, staring at the thief in this town that had become a ruin, it was really interesting......

Zhao Mengsheng's urging did not make Zhao Shufang give up his current exploration, but instead said: "This matter is not ordinary, I have to figure it out before I can go back and report." ”

"What to report, people are already dead! Obviously, I finally came back from the star road, and I still have to run errands everywhere, which is called an experience, which is really ......."

Zhao Mengsheng couldn't help but start chattering, "It's okay now, when I first came back from the Star Road, the entire Pingji Desert was pitch black, and I don't know what the hell I bumped into, and those star marks that chased and killed us, it's really troublesome!"

"Okay, little sister, be quiet!" Zhao Shufang stopped Zhao Mengsheng from continuing to complain, "If Big Brother Qiye is here, he will definitely do it." ”

As soon as he heard Qiye's name, Zhao Mengsheng's original complaints and dissatisfaction were silent.

After a long time, she said sullenly, "Then when are we going to look for him?" I heard that he is now in the Demon Domain and is the city lord of Seven Nights City, let's go find him!"

"Things in the desert are not done yet, my father is exercising and training us, only after experiencing the exercise and experience, confirming that we have the ability to walk independently, will we be let out of the desert, and at that time, we can go to Brother Night. ”

"Then let's run away secretly, right?" Zhao Mengsheng couldn't help but blink, and said strangely.

Zhao Shu glanced at her helplessly, "You still refuse to give up after the previous six failed escapes?"

In this Pingbei Desert, if you want to escape the sight of the Zhao family, you have to find all the monks hidden in the desert, which is almost impossible.

Even if it is the current Zhao Shumad and Zhao Mengsheng, they are strong, but in terms of concealment and transmission of information, they are far from being the opponents of these veterans who have been working for many years in the Pingbei Desert.

"Huh?" As he spoke, Zhao Shufang seemed to have discovered something and leaned over.

He picked up a gray-white bone fragment from the ground, and the shape of this bone fragment looked like it had peeled off from something.

"Throw it away!" Zhao Mengsheng's eyes flickered suddenly, her pupils suddenly doubled, and she hurriedly opened her mouth to remind Zhao Shufang.

Zhao Shufang saw Zhao Mengsheng's current situation, and threw away the bone piece without saying a word, and then came to Zhao Mengsheng's side in three steps and two steps, lifted her shoulders and asked carefully: "How is it, are you still Zhao Mengsheng now?"

"Phew-it's okay, it's almost impossible to suppress. Zhao Mengsheng wiped the cold sweat on his forehead.

"There was a lot of energy on that bone fragment just now, so my body was ready to move and want to devour it. Zhao Mengsheng explained.

Her body, since Devouring was awakened, once she encounters something that contains energy, Devouring will have the urge to appear, which is a good thing.

Because the more energy Zhao Mengsheng devours, the greater her own energy, and the faster her cultivation and realm will break through. But because after the devouring appears, Zhao Mengsheng's consciousness will fall asleep, and the uncontrolled devouring will endlessly devour everything in front of him.

That would be a disaster that I don't want to see a second time.

"It's okay. The bone fragment just now was not simple. Zhao Shufang was also relieved to see that Zhao Mengsheng could still speak.

But the bone fragments that can cause Zhao Mengsheng's body to devour the active reaction, how much energy should it contain, and how much energy can it contain?

"I could feel that the energy in that bone fragment was extremely negative energy. If it were to be described in color, it should not be an off-white bone fragment, but a pitch-black, endless darkness. ”

The bone fragments that were thrown away by Zhao Shu were lying quietly in the desert ruins.

And what Zhao Mengsheng said represents the pitch black of endless darkness, and there is no shadow at all on this gray bone fragment.

"Let's go, I've pretty much done investigating here. Including the rudiments of the patterns of the broken formation, they have all been drawn. Let's go back and report to my father!"

Zhao Mengsheng nodded, and Zhao Shu frantically went home, and the bone fragment in the ruins of Shazhen was slowly reburied by the flowing yellow sand in the gentle breeze and disappeared.

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“...... The above are the results of the investigation of this sandstorm incident in Shazhen, does my father have any opinion? ”

Zhao Shufang put away the jade slip in his hand, and then asked Zhao Yindao.

After Zhao Yin pondered for a long time, he spoke: "The formation of sandstorms is generally formed by the slow convergence of small wind sources in an open place, and it is indeed rare for a sandstorm to break out in the center of a town like this. ”

"By the way, the bone fragment you just mentioned, the bone fragment that made Meng Sheng feel the desire to devour......"

"I have already thrown it away, because I am afraid that my little sister will feel unwell again and lead to unforeseen results, so I took it upon myself and did not bring it back. ”

Zhao Yin nodded, there was nothing wrong with Zhao Shumad's approach in this matter.

Compared with the ruins of the entire sand town, compared with the sandstorm, if the devouring in Zhao Mengsheng's body is revealed, it will be an unimaginable disaster for the entire Pingbei Desert, so it is understandable that Zhao Shufang did not try to collect the bone fragment.

"Tell the master, the envoy of the Mu family outside is here. ”

Just as Zhao Shufang took Zhao Mengsheng and was reporting to Zhao Yin about the sandstorm in Shazhen, a monk came in to report.

"The Mu family, the Mu family is so decent, what are you doing at my Zhao family's place? Go, go out and have a look!"

Zhao Yin said, took Zhao Shumad and Zhao Mengsheng, and walked to the front hall.