Dozens of domesticated giant scale beasts lined up in a row, standing behind the city gate, none of them dared to move or scream.
"Very good, it seems that you are all mentally determined people, and you will definitely gain a lot from this trip.
Before departure, I have one more thing to remind you. Although Puppet City has temporarily joined forces with us, it must be on guard. I hope that you can unite and cooperate with us to conspire for the secret treasure."
After gathering all the selected people together, Ehuang revealed his plan to explore the Great Ruins with Puppet City and let everyone decide whether to stay or go.
But it is obvious that everyone present can become the best among the many profound practitioners in Xuancheng, and there is no timid person.
A great opportunity is ahead of them, and they must fight for it no matter what!
"I will obey the city lord's order!"
Everyone accepted the order in unison.
Seeing this, Ebo nodded with satisfaction, and with a wave of his hand, the city gate rumbled open.
As the footsteps of "dong dong dong" sounded, the giant beast team began to pass through the door and walked towards the outside of the city.
Everyone immediately jumped onto the mounts assigned to them.
The leader of the scaly beast is more than a hundred feet tall, with a head like a green lion and a body like a giant crocodile. On its back is a black stone palace with carved lintels and star bones. It looks quite gorgeous. It is the palace of Eva.
Although the dozens of black-scaled elephants that followed were also carrying black stone temples, their shapes were simple and unpretentious, and they were incomparable to those of Eva.
As one of the four auxiliary city lords, Zhu Yan alone owned a stone palace, so Luo Hong took Fang Chan with him to ride on a beast.
The situation was similar for Old Demon Han. He took Zi Ling, Chen Yang, and Gu Qianxun into the same black stone palace.
Half an hour later, the team passed a pass in the mountains, and the view immediately became wider.
At this time, Luo Hong saw Puppet City's team for the first time.
The opponent also used black-scaled elephants as their main beasts of burden, but each of those black-scaled elephants exuded the aura of death, had beast cores embedded in their chests, and had two sharp spears protruding from their mouths. They turned out to be puppets.
Suddenly, a figure flew out from the Puppet City team, and in less than three breaths, it arrived in front of the Xuancheng team, hovering high in the sky.
Escape techniques cannot be used in the Jiling Sky Realm, so naturally one cannot fly, so the visitor's abnormal behavior immediately caused a certain commotion among everyone in Xuancheng.
However, Luo Hong's spiritual consciousness was strong enough, and he discovered the opponent's reliance early on.
He looked up and saw a dark cloud high in the sky, knowing that there was a scaled-winged bird hidden in the cloud.
Threads invisible to the naked eye hang down from the clouds and are connected to the figure, allowing it to fly in the air.
Looking at the person, she turned out to be an extremely charming and beautiful woman. Her graceful body was wrapped in a black skirt, and her two snow-white thighs were exposed, making her look extremely alluring.
"Dear city lords and colleagues in Xuancheng, Lord Sha Xin asked me to come here to inform you that in order to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings and conflicts, it is best for our teams from the two cities to stay at a certain distance from each other before arriving at their destinations.
Hurry forward one after the other."
The woman in black skirt spoke in a charming voice.
Hearing this, Xuancheng was silent for a moment, and then a white-armored guard next to Ewan, Zhu Ziyuan, who was also among the top ten in Huiwu, passed the message on his behalf:
"Please go back and let me know. We, Mr. Ewei, have exactly the same intention."
The woman in the black skirt immediately nodded slightly and commanded the wing-scaled bird above her head to fly back to the team in Puppet City.
Not long after, a loud horn sound came from the puppet city team, and the scale beast puppets lying on the hillside began to stand up one by one and slowly moved forward.
Xuancheng's team followed him step by step five to six hundred feet behind, and the atmosphere between the two sides seemed to be quite harmonious.
Several years passed by, and on this day, the black stone palace stopped shaking again. Luo Hong, who had long been used to it, didn't even open his eyes, still thinking about his mysterious killing move.
After all, the further away they go from Xuancheng, the worse the environment becomes, and they are often attacked by powerful scale beasts.
Therefore, it is normal to stop suddenly like this.
However, the situation this time is different.
"Brother Luo, we seem to be arriving soon. You'd better come out and take a look."
Zhu Yan's call came, just as Luo Hong was indeed stuck in a bottleneck, so he thought of taking a break before continuing.
After getting up and walking outside the stone hall, Luo Hong stood on top of the black-scaled elephant and looked around.
I saw that the surrounding terrain was clearly visible, and the teams on both sides of the Xuan Puppet were calm and there was no sign of the scale beast attacking.
However, on the land a hundred miles away, the space was obviously distorted, and a chaotic space crack raged there like a storm, clearly dividing the void.
And below that area of dense space cracks, there is a bottomless and terrifying rift valley, which stretches to both sides with no end in sight!
It was pitch black in the rift valley, as if wisps of black mist were rising. Every once in a while, you could see a huge black vortex, stirring the mist and spinning constantly, like the eyes of the devil.
"What a violent force of space. Even though we are so far apart, it can still make me feel the tearing power. It seems that this is the natural chasm that Ewan mentioned!"
Seeing this scene, Luo Hong couldn't help but frowned, partly because those black mist whirlpools contained terrifying spatial power, but mostly because these black mist whirlpools gave him a familiar feeling.
"Strange, how come the breath of these black mist vortexes is somewhat similar to the bottomless whirlpools I saw in the outer world before? Is there some connection between the two?"
After a moment's recollection, Luo Hong grasped the source of this familiar feeling, and couldn't help but feel confused.
The bottomless whirlpool and his entourage did not leave Luo Hong with any good memories. Even if his cultivation level reaches Daluo in the future, he has no interest in exploring it again.
"Brother Luo, Zhu has already asked. The great ruins we want to go to are right behind the great rift valley, so we must cross over."
At this time, Zhu Yan jumped up to Luo Hong and told the news he had learned.
"What method of crossing have the two city lords prepared?"
Luo Hong asked calmly.
This natural chasm is the culprit that prevents the two cities of Xuanpuppet from exploring the Great Ruins. It will take millions of years for it to usher in a period of decline.
Because of this, Ewan and Sha Xin must have been prepared for this.
"We don't know yet, but the Lord of Ewan City has already gone to meet with Sha Xin. I believe it won't be long before news comes."
Zhu Yan shook his head to express his ignorance.
As soon as he finished speaking, a figure flew up from the crowd in Puppet City, crossed a hundred feet in the air, and fell towards this side.
I saw that he was of medium stature, ordinary in appearance, but extremely powerful in appearance. He was none other than E Pang!
When he was about to land, he spread his hands and fingers, floated in the air and pressed down. His body's fall suddenly slowed down, and finally he landed as light as a feather on the head of the lion-headed scale beast.
"Everyone in Xuancheng listens to the order and continues to move east along the direction of the rift valley. Pay attention to the changes in the space cracks along the way. Don't stray into them, let alone leave the team!"
A not very loud voice sounded, but it seemed to have a shocking power that penetrated into everyone's hearts.
"So that's the case, don't they have anything good to do?"
Upon hearing this, Luo Hong knew that there was nothing special about the crossing method discussed by the two city lords. It relied on choosing the safest route.
Soon, the two teams set off again, walking slowly towards the east one after the other.
Along the way, Luo Hong could occasionally see some scale beasts, which strayed into the range of space cracks. As a result, they were directly cut into pieces, and their death was very miserable.
There were also some scale beasts that were good at flying. While being hunted by natural enemies, they passed over the rift valley, but failed to resist the powerful attraction of those black mist whirlpools and were swallowed whole!
After marching eastward for about half a year, the two teams came to a large mountain range along the rift valley.
This mountain range is very strange. Half of it shows a golden-red color under the reflection of the setting sun, while the other half is dim and shows a strange blue color.
The place where the two teams entered the mountain was at the latter. It was still just at the edge of the mountain, and Luo Hong could already clearly feel the slightest chill.
You know, he is a Xuanshi in the middle stage of Daluo, and his physical strength is so strong that few people in the immortal world can compare with him!
He felt a slight chill at this moment, and those Taiyi Xuanshi must have felt even worse.
Although the scale of the mountain range is large, when you climb up and look at it, you can see that it is still divided into two halves by the black mist rift valley!
"Brother Luo, we are going into the mountains next.
According to the Lord of Eva City, half of this mountain range is extremely cold and the other half is extremely hot. An extremely terrifying phenomenon will occur at the junction of these mountains.
And it happens that this mountain range is penetrated by the Black Mist Rift Valley, so there will be a place where the two anomalies collide.
By offsetting each other, a safer area is formed.
As long as we pass through that area, we can enter the Great Ruins!"
Zhu Yan came to Luo Hong again to report the news he had discovered.
"Well, Brother Zhu's sulfur blood cloud has been completely refined?"
Luo Hong nodded when he heard this, but then suddenly changed the topic.
"Just refined a year ago, this sulfur-flavored blood cloud is indeed the most precious treasure of mystical cultivation. It not only helped me recover from my orifice injuries, but also helped me open three mystical orifices in one fell swoop!"
Although Zhu Yan was a little confused at the moment, he still said with excitement on his face.
After all, although there are not many three mysterious orifices, they are no longer a concept when he is already at the peak of Taiyi.
Zhu Yan is now a Xuanshi in the early Daluo period!
"There must be a lot of dangers in this mountain, and Luo will rely on Brother Zhu to protect him from now on."
After saying that, Luo Hong stood up and walked out of the black stone palace.
It wasn't that he was deliberately looking for something to do for Zhu Yan, but the closer he got to the mountains, the stronger the inexplicable palpitations in his heart became.
This was by no means a trivial matter that could not be ignored, so Luo Hong decided to postpone the study of Xuan Dao's ultimate move. After entering the mountain, he devoted all his energy to observing the situation in the mountain until he found out the reason!
As soon as I walked out of the stone palace, a sound of horns and bells sounded at the same time.
The two teams immediately moved closer together, and the manpower from both sides also gathered around their respective city lords.
Now that the two sides were only less than a hundred feet apart, Luo Hong glanced around and saw two noteworthy people.
One of them was a burly man with a height of two feet, with a half-bald head and a braid sticking up to the sky, which looked quite funny.
However, the exposed muscles on his upper body look like fine steel sculptures, making people dare not take him lightly.
Standing next to the big man was a dwarf man less than four feet tall. He was quite handsome. He was wearing a set of snow-white bone armor. He stood upright and looked inexplicably imposing.
The dozen or so people behind these two people are mostly curvy women. Most of their clothes are black skirts and gauze clothes, and their faces are covered with a layer of gauze.
The woman in black dress who had previously driven the Winged Scale Bird to communicate with Xuancheng was among them.
At this moment, a woman with a graceful figure and a slim figure wearing a white gauze skirt and a veil on her face walked out of the crowd.
Wherever he passed, everyone in Puppet City bowed their heads respectfully and gave way.
Although it is just a light lotus step, every tiny movement of its hands and feet can make people's hearts sway.
Not to mention the male cultivators in Xuancheng, even the female cultivators like Gu Qianxun and Zhu Ziyuan were staring straight at this moment, wishing they could stick their eyes on the woman in the white dress.
"What a powerful charm. This woman must be Sha Xin, the lord of Puppet City!"
Luo Hong calmed down and praised sincerely.
The pinnacle of puppetry is to use people as puppets, and the art of charm is just in line with it.
Of course, Sha Xin's appearance this time was not to turn the people of Xuancheng into her puppets, so she quickly curbed her flattery and began to clarify her purpose.
What she wants to say is very simple, that is, the dangers in the Ice and Fire Mountains are too great. The two teams can no longer enter the mountains one after another like before, but must truly form a team.
"No matter how deep your hatred is, I just hope that you can put it down temporarily in the extreme vein of ice and fire."
Sha Xin also knew that the blood feud between the two cities could not be resolved with just one word, so after saying that, she looked at Ewan.
"The dangers of Ice and Fire are indeed far beyond your imagination. I also agree to put aside the grudges between our two cities and support each other for the time being."
Ehuang nodded and agreed on behalf of Xuancheng.
Everyone in Xuancheng was silent for a while after hearing this, and then under the leadership of Qin Yuan, they received the order.
Immediately, under the arrangement of the two city lords, the scale beasts from both sides began to be arranged one spaced apart from another.
In this way, if either party is in danger, only the monks from the other city can immediately rescue them.
In this way, no one dares not to cooperate sincerely.
After all, as long as you refuse to save yourself once, you will definitely not be saved the next time you are in danger.
Soon after, the beast herd, headed by the scale beasts of Ewan and Sand Heart, began to penetrate deep into the ice and fire extreme veins.
Luo Hong didn't care much about these. As he went deeper into the mountains, he became more and more certain that there were definitely no small secrets hidden in the mountains.
Just because he has discovered that his palpitating feeling was actually brought to him by the little black ball!
To be precise, it was his Law of Absolute Beginning that sensed something.
Listening to the sound of the mountain wind in his ears, which sounded like a woman whimpering, Luo Hong's face sank as deep as water.
If he hadn't known that Old Demon Han and the others had successfully entered the Great Ruins in the original time and space, he would have even had the urge to make long-term plans at this moment.