After hearing what Liang Yan said, the old tree spirit also showed a trace of embarrassment on his face.
"I couldn't help but the situation was critical at that time. I had no choice but to use secret techniques to teleport you away, but the interference in the mountain was so great that even I couldn't choose a place to stay."
"I understand." Liang Yan nodded and said, "I can't blame you for this. It can only be said that there was some mistake. Now I seem to be further away from the top of the mountain."
Having said this, Liang Yan made a magic formula with one hand, and the Buddhist spiritual power in his body began to circulate rapidly. Golden light covered his whole body, and he wanted to try to climb up.
However, just taking one step felt like a mountain peak was pressing on him. The short distance of more than ten feet took him half a stick of incense!
"It's too difficult! The further you go up, the greater the pressure you feel. It wasn't so obvious when climbing along the mountain road before, but now it's almost impossible to move even an inch off the mountain road."
Liang Yan shook his head, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
At this moment, the old tree spirit suddenly thought of something, stretched out his hand and patted his forehead, and said with a smile: "Although the old guy can't help you, the little guy can!"
"What?"
Liang Yan was stunned for a moment, and the next moment he saw the old tree spirit bend down, put his hand into the Taixu gourd, and then pulled it back, and unexpectedly pulled out a young boy wearing a blue bellyband.
This boy looked to be no more than three or four years old, and his eyes were a little confused. However, when he saw Liang Yan, he immediately grinned, revealing his dimples.
He stretched out his hands, and the next moment he fell into Liang Yan's arms.
"Xiaojiu?"
Liang Yan looked at the young boy in front of him and couldn't help but feel something in his heart. The last time he saw his true form was when he was in Hell. Now after so many years, he hasn't changed at all.
"After all these years, I haven't seen you grow up."
Liang Yan had a strange feeling in his heart and reached out to touch the boy's head, as if the boy was his own child.
"Can you help me climb to the top of the mountain?" Liang Yan was silent for a while and then asked suddenly.
After hearing this, Xiaojiu nodded immediately and babbling something.
Liang Yan could vaguely understand part of it through the mental connection between the two. At this moment, he frowned and said, "You mean, the entire mountain peak is actually a magic weapon?"
This time, Xiaojiu nodded faster, with a hint of joy on his face.
Liang Yan looked at him, suddenly thought of something, and asked with a strange expression: "You don't want to tell me that you want to eat the whole mountain, right?"
Xiao Jiu is the spirit of the cave, and he is born with the ability to swallow the magic weapon of the cave. This was what Dumb told him. In the past few times, Xiao Jiu also had the feat of swallowing the magic weapon of the cave, so Liang Yan made this guess.
Who would have thought that as soon as he finished speaking, Xiaojiu's face showed a trace of frustration, as if she had been wronged, and she babbling something again.
"Well, this mountain is too powerful for you to eat. But is there a way to take me up the mountain?" Liang Yan vaguely understood what he meant.
At this time, the old tree spirit man also said: "According to my observation, this mountain peak is a very special cave-heaven magic weapon. It is a world of its own and contains several great laws. Once creatures like you and me are
If you step into it, you will die if you are not careful. But Xiaojiu is a cave spirit. Although he cannot swallow this cave magic weapon, he is not restricted by the rules of this world."
When Liang Yan heard what he said, he couldn't help but look happy and asked, "Xiaojiu, do you really have a way to take me up the mountain?"
When Xiaojiu saw his happy look, the previous depression immediately disappeared. She immediately patted her chest and made a "wrap it up on me" look.
Liang Yan was also amused by him, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll leave it to you."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Jiu opened his mouth and blew, and a green mist swept out, sucking Liang Yan and the old tree spirit into the Taixu Gourd.
Then Xiaojiu took another step forward and became one with the Taixu gourd in mid-air. Two soybean-sized eyes immediately appeared on the surface of the green gourd.
The eyes turned around, as if trying to determine the direction. The next moment, Taixu Gourd turned into a blue light and went straight to the top of the mountain.
This time, the speed was more than twice as fast as before on the mountain road. Liang Yan was in the Taixu Gourd and could not feel the oppressive force from the mountain.
"It really works!"
Liang Yan was overjoyed and calculated the time silently.
He had finally climbed halfway up the mountain before, but was in danger because Murong Tuo triggered the mountain road ban. In order to save him, the old tree spirit could only use his secret technique to teleport him away.
Now I'm climbing the mountain again. Although the distance is quite far, with Xiaojiu's help, I still have a chance to reach the top of the mountain before the treasure appears.
Thinking of this, Liang Yan didn't worry and left the rush to Xiaojiu, while he sat cross-legged and meditated in the space inside the Taixu Gourd, silently recovering the previously lost spiritual power.
In the huge fairy mountain that cannot be seen in its entirety, a green gourd shuttles quickly through the forest.
Half a day had passed since Xiaojiu took Liang Yan up the mountain. During this period, he had recovered all the spiritual power he had lost before. At this time, he was letting go of his consciousness to detect the surroundings.
The vast and endless woods seem to be the boundary about a hundred feet ahead, and beyond that is a road paved with bluestone slabs.
Since his consciousness could not be separated from his body too far in this mountain, Liang Yan could not see much outside the woods, but he had a vague feeling in his heart that the top of the mountain should be right ahead.
brush!
With a sound that broke through the sky, the Taixu Gourd finally rushed out of the woods, and then a white light flashed at the mouth of the gourd, and Liang Yan's figure reappeared.
"Thanks a lot!"
Liang Yan sent a message and raised his hand to take the Taixu Gourd back to his waist.
The moment he left the woods, he found that the oppressive force between heaven and earth suddenly dissipated, everything became normal again, and he no longer needed Xiaojiu's help.
"Looks like we've reached the top of the mountain."
Liang Yan murmured in his mouth and looked around. He saw that this was a bluestone square with white mist surrounding it, and he couldn't see very far.
However, there seemed to be an outline of a huge palace ahead. Although it was not clear, some corner bricks and tiles poked out from the white mist.
"Is that where the treasure appears this time?"
Liang Yan's eyes narrowed, and the Tianji Pearl and "Yuanmu Dao" spells in his body were activated at the same time, and his whole figure suddenly became thin and insubstantial.
The closer he got to the target, the more cautious he needed to be. Liang Yan did not dare to be careless at this time. After disguised himself to be watertight, he cautiously approached the palace.
It didn't take long for him to see the appearance of the palace clearly. To his surprise, there were ruins everywhere and there was no aura around it. It didn't look like a treasure trove.
"It's strange. This place looks like an ordinary palace, but the opportunity that the four major families and the Qingyun Chamber of Commerce are competing for actually appears here?"
Liang Yan carefully climbed over the wall while letting go of his consciousness to detect the surroundings.
There are many dilapidated attics and corridors in the palace. Most of them are covered with moss and dust, and they look very old. Other than that, there is nothing special.
He casually walked into an attic and saw a lot of books on bamboo slips piled inside. After years of baptism, these books had not yet rotted, but were just covered with a thick layer of dust.
Liang Yan was also quite curious and couldn't help but take down a book from the bookshelf. With a flick of his right sleeve, he brushed off the dust on the book cover.
He browsed it carefully, but couldn't help but be disappointed.
This book actually introduces how to plant flowers, plants and trees, and they are all ordinary trees in the world. It looks like a planting manual for a servant.
At first, Liang Yan thought there was some mystery hidden in the book. After all, this place is a fairy mountain in the sea. Even if there is no inheritance from the fairy family, there should at least be some allusions recorded.
However, when he tried all kinds of methods and failed to find any secrets from the book, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
He shook his head, threw the book aside, and took another one off the shelf.
This book no longer teaches people how to plant flowers, plants and trees, but how to place rockeries and rocks in the courtyard, and how to lay them out so that they look elegant and beautiful.
The book rambles on and talks about a lot of gardening knowledge, which makes Liang Yan's head spin.
"What are these!"
Liang Yan threw the book aside and couldn't help but cursed: "Could it be that all the ancestors of the four major families have lost their sight? Is this really just an ordinary palace?"
As soon as this idea appeared, he shook his head and denied it: "It's impossible. This fairy mountain is so weird. There must be some mystery here that I don't know about."
Just when he was silently calculating in his mind and preparing to go to other places to find out, a subtle sound came from the distance.
Liang Yan has practiced "Eight Parts of Evolution" for a long time, and his five senses and six senses are far superior to those of monks of the same level. Although his spiritual sense cannot be released here, and there is white mist that blocks his sight, he can hear any movement several miles away.
"somebody is coming!"
He only listened for a moment, and he was able to identify the source of the sound, which was directly north of him, and it seemed to be the sound of someone fighting!
“Go check it out!”
Liang Yan's heart moved, he made a secret with one hand, and once again activated the Tianji Pearl in his body, his whole body almost turned into a wisp of smoke, and he walked out lightly.
After walking for about half a cup of tea, he heard the sounds of fighting getting louder and louder, and in the mid-air in front of him, he could already see visions caused by magical powers.
When Liang Yan arrived here, he became more and more cautious. He was unwilling to get too close. He only hid his figure behind a ruined wall before he raised his eyes and looked forward.
He saw several figures fighting each other on the square in front of him, and he had seen all of these people before. One of them was from the Nangong family, and the other was from the Wang family who had attacked him.
Liang Yan looked carefully for a moment and found that although the fighting was fierce, not everyone took action.
Among them, only three members of the Nangong family participated in the fight, and Nangong Changge, who was at the peak of the Golden Core, was standing leisurely with his hands behind his back.
This man's face was full of pride, and he didn't even look at the crowd, as if the fight on the battlefield ahead had nothing to do with him.
As for the Wang family, the only people participating in the fight were two young female cultivators and the man with inverted triangular eyes.
As for Wang Long and the chicken-skinned old woman, they were standing aside with their hands behind their hands, staring at Nangong Changge not far away with wary faces, as if they were very afraid of this person.
After a while, Wang Long suddenly stepped forward, raised his hands and said: "Nephew Nangong, now the opportunity has not yet come, and you and I are fighting here. If this continues, won't it be an advantage to the Su family and the Murong family?"
As for me, why don’t we just stop and make peace, and wait until the treasure is born before we can argue about it again.”
After he finished speaking, he stared at Nangong Changge in the distance. Unexpectedly, the other party ignored him and still stood with his hands behind his hands. After a long time, he said leisurely:
"Stop and make peace? Huh! When you used the 'Underworld Ghost Prison Formation' to sneak attack on us on the way, did you ever think of giving up and making peace? Now it seems that the Wang family is just a bunch of clowns.
He will plot a sneak attack, but once he meets you head-on, it will be over immediately!"
"you!"
No matter how good-tempered Wang Long was, he was still very angry by these words. He couldn't help but shouted angrily: "How dare you look down on our Wang family!"
He wanted to say something more, but he was held back by the chicken-skinned old woman behind him. The old woman had a faint smile on her face, as if she was not angry at all.
"Nangong Changge, your magical powers are very powerful, I understand this. But you and I are here to compete for opportunities. Now the Su family and the Murong family haven't shown up yet, and you just suffered another loss on the mountain road.
Will one person still fight us to the death?" the old woman said slowly.
"Hahaha!"
After hearing her words, Nangong Changge suddenly laughed loudly, as if he had heard the most interesting thing in the world.
"The fish is dead and the net is broken? Wang Min, you think too highly of yourself! In the eyes of Nangong Changge, your three major families are just chickens and dogs, vulnerable!"
As soon as the word "strike" came out of his mouth, Nangong Changge's figure flashed and he suddenly disappeared from the spot.
"Be careful, he's coming!"
Wang Long's pupils shrank and he shouted loudly.
Although he has the hottest temper, he is extremely wary of Nangong Changge. All his attention was focused on this person just now, so he had already keenly caught the other person's murderous intention as soon as it was revealed.
"Here I am!"
Wang Min suddenly shouted loudly, arched his back and hurried forward.
Behind her, Nangong Changge's figure suddenly appeared, a ball of black energy lingering in his hand, turning into five black chains as thick as an arm, running towards Wang Min's back.
Wang Min had obviously fought against Nangong Changge before and was very familiar with this man's elusiveness. He had already started to dodge in advance the moment before he appeared.
But despite this, the five black chains behind her were also as fast as lightning. At this moment, they came first and arrived behind her in just an instant.
"Hahaha, let's see how you can escape from my Wuzhishan this time without the help of the mist in the secret realm!" Nangong Changge's cold voice sounded from behind.
