There is no water below the lake, but endless darkness.
Liang Yan felt that the world was spinning, the stars were moving, everything around him was changing, and he gradually couldn't sense the breath of other people. Only Xiong Yue'er was tightly held by him, always following him.
I don’t know how long it took, but I heard a “pop” sound again, and water splashed all around!
"Huh?"
Liang Yan emerged from under the water, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
He actually resurfaced, but the surrounding scenery was completely different. Instead of the lush green forest, there was a barren gray desert.
"What's going on? Is this still where we were just now?"
Liang Yan's thoughts were racing, and he suddenly felt his thigh being tightly held by someone. He hurriedly reached out and pulled Xiong Yuer out of the water.
Wow!
As soon as Xiong Yue'er showed her head, she spit out water and her face became a little pale.
After a long time, she calmed down, looked around with her eyes wide open, and murmured: "Master, where are we?"
Liang Yan did not answer.
He was also very confused now, so he secretly released his spiritual consciousness and began to check the surrounding situation.
I saw a gray desert on the shore, completely different from the vibrant forest before. There was no breath of living things here, only deathly silence.
Not long after, he sensed a fishy smell that was nauseating!
Liang Yan's expression changed slightly, and he was about to take a closer look when he suddenly heard the sound of splashing water, waves appeared not far away, and another person emerged from the water.
But he is the Lesser Sage who forgot to return to the city, so he has no fault!
"Brother Liang?"
Seeing Liang Yan, Gui Wujiu's face relaxed a lot and nodded slightly to him.
Next, there were splashes of water, and the familiar figures of Lord Da Ku, Gu Tian, Bei Mingjing, Gui Wuqi, Lord Fuhu, and Wang Chonghua emerged from the water one after another.
The heroes of Nanxuan gathered together again, left the lake, and returned to the shore.
Gui Wuqi quickly counted the number of people and found that no one was missing and all the monks were here.
"Amitabha."
Venerable Great Suffering looked pleased: "Fortunately, no one was killed in the battle. If someone else dies here, the poor monk will be blamed."
"However, five fellow Taoists have already died." Gui Wuqi glanced at him and said solemnly: "This 'Daluo Cave' is obviously the inherited blessed land of your Luotian Mountain, why are there monsters? Now it is harming us.
Five fellow Taoists died, I hope you can give an explanation."
When Venerable Great Suffering heard this, his face was sad and he said nothing, but he didn't know how to answer.
Everyone in Luotian Mountain was like this, and many monks whispered, doubting the inheritance of their sect for the first time.
After a while, Gu Tian also spoke: "Great suffering, it's not that I want to question you, it's just that this place is really weird. Look around you. Does it look like a quiet place in Buddhism?"
"this"
Lord Da Ku looked around, with a look of confusion in his eyes.
There is only an endless gray desert here, without any aura, like a prison.
"How could this happen?" Venerable Da Ku murmured: "Our Luotian Mountain has been passed down from generation to generation, and the 'Da Luo Cave Heaven' is a quiet and precious place. The essence of Buddhism in Luotian Mountain is hidden here. Learning from it can lead to the holy realm! Absolutely not
This is the scene in front of you.”
"Look!"
Liang Yan, who had been silent before, suddenly pointed to the lake behind him.
Everyone came back to their senses and looked towards the lake.
I saw a forest reflected in the lake. It was lush and full of vitality. It was the dense forest where everyone was just now!
"Does this mean that the place we were in just now was just a bubble in the water, and now this is the real 'Da Luo Cave Sky'?"
"Illusions are all illusions!"
The Great Suffering Master involuntarily took a step back. Because he had been injured before, his feet were weak and he actually fell to the ground.
He was an eminent Buddhist monk, but he didn't care about his image at all at this moment. He just stared at the lake blankly, as if he had been greatly shocked.
Fu Hu, Xuan Ye, and Fu Hai also had blank expressions on their faces, as if their Taoist hearts had been damaged, and they were stunned for a moment.
Seeing this scene, Liang Yan sighed and said: "The matter has come to this, there is no point in blaming yourself. After all, this is your secret realm in Luotian Mountain. I hope the four fellow Taoists can cheer up and take us out of here."
After listening to his words, Venerable Fuhu came back to his senses, but his face was still blank: "We also know very little about the 'Daluo Cave'. Although it is recorded in the sect's classics, it is completely different from what we see in front of us, so we
I don’t know where the exit is.”
Liang Yan frowned slightly and said thoughtfully: "So no one has entered Luotian Mountain before this? Someone from your mountain master or senior uncle must have entered this place, right?"
Venerable Fuhu thought for a while and replied: "The conditions for entering the Daluo Cave are very strict. It is said that many seniors have enlightened here in history, but in the past ten thousand years, only one person has been allowed to enter except the mountain owner.
here."
"Who is that person? Didn't he tell you about this place after he came out?" Liang Yan asked.
Venerable Fuhu shook his head and said: "The one who was allowed to enter this place is Master Wu Nian. He is the greatest prodigy in Luotian Mountain in ancient and modern times. He has practiced for eight hundred years and became a sub-sage. Before a thousand years have passed, he has already reached the peak of sub-sage and is a half-step saint."
!That's why he was allowed to enter the 'Da Luo Secret Realm'. But unfortunately, he did not choose to enter the 'Da Luo Cave Heaven'. Instead, he debated with the master of the mountain, Master Bo Chan Ji, on the Shenji Peak, and finally left two 'Buddha's'
The big character rebelled against Luo Tianshan. Later, there were rumors that he turned from Buddha to demon and turned to practice the demonic path. From then on, he has nothing to do with our Luo Tianshan."
When Liang Yan heard this, his heart moved and he thought of someone.
"Fellow Buddha and Demon, is it him?!"
The figure of the old monk in yellow came to mind. It was this man who broke into Tianhe City alone and helped him achieve the Hunyuan Avenue!
"Then do you know the whereabouts of senior Wu Nian?" Liang Yan asked.
"Uncle Wu Nian disappeared after he became a demon. We don't know where he went. Moreover, this is a scandal in Luotian Mountain. The mountain owner forbids us from talking about it. The brothers and sisters occasionally mention it in private, but they only feel sad."
After hearing this, Liang Yan secretly thought in his heart: "It seems that it is him without a doubt! He has been suppressed in the 'Jiuqu Yellow River Tower' for the past few years, but looking at his appearance, it seems that he was willing to be suppressed, but he didn't know that he was suppressed.
Why?"
Naturally, he would not express these thoughts in his heart.
I heard Venerable Fuhu continue: "After Master Wu Nian disappeared, no one in Luotian Mountain was allowed to enter the 'Daluo Cave'. Later, the mountain owner also disappeared. We, Luotian Mountain, were leaderless. If it hadn't been for this situation,
Special, I'm afraid the 'Daluo Cave' will never be opened."
Everyone in Nanxuan couldn't help but sigh when they heard this.
"After all, it turns out that no one understands the situation here. You, Luo Tianshan, have really harmed all of us this time!"
The speaker was a casual cultivator, wearing a Taoist robe and holding a fly whisk. He had the ability to overcome calamities and overcome three difficulties. His tone was full of complaints.
In fact, it's not just him, many people think so, but it's just because of the strength of the Four Luotian Lords that they don't say it out easily.
"Well, the matter has come to this, and it's useless to complain." Gui Wujiu sighed: "Let's look around and find a way to leave this place, and then we can make other plans."
After hearing his words, everyone was helpless.
Indeed, at this point, it would be useless even to kill the four Luo Tianzun. Besides, we still have to rely on the four of them. Maybe we can find a way out.
"I feel like there is an unusual atmosphere in the southwest."
Liang Yan pointed to the distance and muttered: "In order to prevent unexpected events, let's not disperse for the time being. Let's explore in this direction first."
Regarding his suggestion, Gu Tian and others all nodded slightly.
"Yes, the situation is unclear now, and it is not wise to spread our forces. Let's move forward in the direction directed by Fellow Daoist Liang."
Everyone quickly reached an agreement and slowly headed southwest.
After walking like this for about a quarter of an hour, a huge iron pillar appeared in the desert ahead, over a hundred feet high and as thick as ten people's arms.
The few young saints walking at the front stopped at the same time, with looks of horror on their faces.
Because they saw a chain hanging from the top of the iron pillar. The chain was hanging down, and at the end was an iron hook, stained with blood, hooking a corpse.
The wind blows in the desert and fills the sky with dust, but the body is motionless in the wind. I don't know how many years it has been dead, and it has been hanging here like this.
What’s even weirder is that the corpse is wearing a monk’s robe and has a scar on its head. It looks like it’s a monk from Luotian Mountain!
Seeing this scene, Da Ku, Xuan Ye, Fu Hu and others could not help but feel their hearts beat faster, and their breaths became somewhat disordered.
Without the slightest hesitation, the four Luo Tian deities made magic spells at the same time and quickly flew over.
They looked up at the corpse hooked by the iron hook, and they all fell into silence. After a long while, they heard Master Fuhu murmur: "If I remember correctly, this should be Senior Zen Ji."
"Well, I have seen his portrait in the ancestor's ancestral hall, and it is unmistakable." Xuan Ye nodded.
"Senior Zen Ji was also amazingly talented back then. How could he die here? In Daluo Cave?" Venerable Fu Hai had an expression of disbelief on his face.
The expressions on the four Luo Tian's faces were extremely serious.
At the same time, people from Nanxuan also came over one after another.
Liang Yan looked at the corpse above his head, frowning slightly, thoughtfully.
"He did not pass away. He was drained of his essence and blood before he died. Now it is certain that this 'Daluo Cave Heaven' is definitely not a place of inheritance. There must be a secret here!" Liang Yan said solemnly.
"Even the eminent monks of your sect died here, what happened?" Gui Wujiu narrowed his eyes slightly.
Lord Da Ku could not answer, so he could only silently cast a spell, put down Zen Ji's body, and temporarily put it into the storage space.
"Look further ahead. If I guess correctly, there are more corpses ahead."
Liang Yan said and led everyone to continue moving forward.
Sure enough, iron pillars appeared one after another along the way, and on each iron pillar hung the body of a senior monk from Luotian Mountain.
The death of these people was extremely miserable. Most of them had their essence and blood drained away, leaving only skin and bones. Their eyes were gouged out, leaving only two empty eye sockets.
"This is simply the purgatory of your Luo Tianshan Mountains!" Gui Wuqi said in horror.
Gui Wujiu glanced at him and shook his head slightly, signaling his nephew not to say anything more.
Everyone was silent and the atmosphere was a bit depressing.
"Everyone, be careful, there is a breath of living people ahead." Liang Yan suddenly said.
The other sub-sages were slightly surprised after hearing this.
"Fellow Taoist's spiritual consciousness is really far stronger than ours, and everything he said along the way is true! It seems we have to be careful, there may be danger ahead." Gu Tian said in a deep voice.
"Um."
Gui Wujiu nodded and said to Gui Wuqi: "Stand behind me. Remember, no matter what happens, you must survive."
After Gui Wuqi heard this, he was slightly startled and looked at his uncle in surprise, as if he felt a little strange.
But Gui Wujiu didn't look at him and turned around, leaving only his back.
"Let's go, let's go see what kind of existence is ahead."
Everyone set out again and walked along the southwest direction for a while, when a foul smell floated from the distance, which was nauseating.
"That is"
Gu Tian and others' pupils shrank, with horrified expressions on their faces.
In the distance, a huge monk sat cross-legged on the ground, over a hundred feet tall, like a mountain of flesh!
Wearing a red cassock and holding a sandalwood rosary, he should have looked majestic, but his eyes were cloudy, his mouth was drooling, and his body was trembling with fat, like mud!
"harsh harsh harsh"
Seeing the crowd arriving, the monk let out a weird laugh.
If you look closely, you will see that there are hundreds of blood holes on his body, and black worms are drilling in and out of his body, exuding a rotten stench!
"Uncle!"
The four of them exclaimed at the same time, and among them, Venerable Great Ku, knelt down involuntarily.
"Mountain Master!"
All the monks in Luotian bowed down at this moment, kowtowing to the monk who looked like a mountain of flesh.
When Liang Yan saw this scene, he was shocked and secretly thought: "The person in front of me is actually the mountain master of Luotian Mountain, a saint? Why does he look so disgusting!"
It’s not that he has never seen the appearance of a saint. Linghu Bai, Li Yuxian, and Wu Xiang, which one is not unparalleled in splendor, who is like this puddle of mud?
But judging from the expressions of the monks in Luotian Mountain, this person's identity should not be false.
Just when he was confused, Liang Yan's heart skipped a beat, and a huge warning sign suddenly appeared.
He turned his eyes and saw that the monk's right index finger moved obviously.
"No! Everyone, back off!"
Liang Yan shouted loudly and used his magic power to roll up Xiong Yue'er. Wu Xin, Li Xiran and others turned into escaping light and retreated dozens of miles in an instant.
As for the other monks, when they saw the strange appearance of the monk, they were wary and did not approach easily.
Hearing Liang Yan's call again, these people retreated without hesitation!
Only Venerable Great Ku was still kneeling on the spot, looking at the monk in front of him dreamily, as if he was fascinated by something.
boom!
Hearing a dull loud noise, the body of Lord Great Ku exploded like a watermelon and turned into a ball of blood mist in front of everyone.