The sky is clear and crisp in autumn, and the scorching sun is covered by a touch of white clouds.
On a meadow with green mountains and green water, Gu Zheng was enjoying himself while grilling something, and the alluring aroma filled the air.
"If Xiaoye and the others were here, they would definitely cry. It's a pity that we have to meet again by chance!" Gu Zheng kept flipping the movements in his hands, while putting some simple seasonings on it, and then directly picked up the wooden stick and raised it.
"Xiaoying, let's go out to eat!"
Next to Gu Zheng, a picture scroll slowly floated in the air. Hearing Gu Zheng's voice, a small figure flew out from it. His eyes were shining as he looked at the barbecue in Gu Zheng's hand, and there was a trace of light on his small mouth.
The crystal liquid flowed out.
"Want to eat? Just tell me if you want to eat!" Gu Zheng lightly waved the barbecue in his hand, letting the aroma on it spread to the surroundings.
"Master Gu!" Xiaoying shouted coquettishly, looking at Gu Zheng with pitiful eyes.
"Haha, here you go!" Gu Zheng laughed upon seeing this, stopped teasing her, stretched out his hand and handed the barbecue over, and set up a large piece again in the still burning flame.
Although Xiaoying is small, she can eat twice as much food as her body.
Although she no longer needed food, she still couldn't resist Gu Zheng's delicious food and fell into despair.
After she finished eating that one in small bites, she just handed it over.
Xiaoying quickly threw away the meat skewer with the residue, took it again, bit down on it, tore off a piece of meat and swallowed it, her big eyes narrowed into a crescent shape, looking like she was enjoying it very much.
The meat from the same wild animal has different flavors, and each one is super delicious.
"By the way, Mr. Gu, is the Xiaoye you mentioned just now the big bird that you missed outside?" Xiaoying here said vaguely while eating quickly.
"Yeah, but they also followed Xingcai over there. I also left a message for them, asking them to stay with Xingcai." Gu Zheng extinguished the bonfire in front of him, stood up and walked towards the distance.
Looking around, you can vaguely see a loess avenue appearing in the distance.
After walking through the primeval forest here, you will pass through a long wasteland and arrive at Shahai City, which is within a radius of thousands of miles.
In this place, tens of thousands of kilometers in radius are covered with yellow sand, and no one can live there at all.
But there is a very large oasis in the middle. When many people pass nearby, they will be blown up by the sudden strong wind, and eventually they will be sent to the innermost place, forming the original city.
population base.
These were discovered by Gu Zheng in the previous city, but these disappearances were just rumors. They didn't know what the specific circumstances were. They were just legends.
After all, if ordinary people want to get out of that place, even if there is no sandstorm, it will take several years to get out, which basically prevents ordinary people inside from coming out.
Most of this news was left behind by the immortals who passed by. They learned that since then, no one has passed by here.
As for why you want to go to Shahai City, that's because according to the Starry Sky theory, the nine-story pagoda is there. If you want to solve the problem,
"It's such a pity. I think the other person is very cute. It seems like I'm playing with him." Xiaoying, who had quickly eaten the food, was still mumbling.
"If you have nothing to do, just come out and play. Use your legs to show off your legs. Just calm down your breath and don't scare others." Gu Zheng glanced at Xiaoying. Although she looked ghostly, she didn't look anything like it outside.
It's really strange to be affected.
"Really?" Xiaoying looked at Gu Zheng with a look of joy. She was also very happy when she saw Gu Zheng nodding towards her.
Although she only saw the outside a few times, it still caught her attention. The colorful world really made people unable to help but enter, not to mention that she had never been to the outside world.
"Of course, but you can't do anything outside. It would be bad if you hurt others." Gu Zheng nodded, but felt that Xiaoying was neither serious nor serious, so he gave his blessing.
"Okay, I won't hit others." Xiaoying spun around in the air excitedly. She also knew how fragile people outside were, and she was afraid that if she did anything casually, she would be killed or injured countless times.
He quickly ate up everything in his hand, threw the lantern in his hand back, submerged it into the scroll, and hung it in the corner of the house. Then the entire scroll quickly shrank and returned to its normal size.
"Here you go, if I need to go back, I can forcefully summon you back without any mistakes." Xiaoying hummed and stuffed the scroll into Gu Zheng's arms.
"Okay, but you should also be careful not to be deceived by others." Gu Zheng chuckled and said casually.
"Isn't there still you?" Xiaoying's body began to glow with green fluorescence, and the next moment a little girl, barely reaching Gu Zheng's waist, appeared in the air. She looked to be only eight or nine years old. Her two pigtails had also become slightly longer.
The original short skirt also stretched to below the knees, and she wore a pair of green shoes, flying in the air.
Just like a little fairy.
"Wow, is this what it feels like to step on the ground? In the past, my grandfather wouldn't let me come out at all. At most, I would just follow him." Xiaoying took a few steps on the ground and then ran wildly towards the surroundings, excited at the same time.
shouted.
Gu Zheng chuckled. After the other party took the Red Soul Pill, her cultivation had reached the peak of Golden Immortal. Even half of the damaged scroll had been repaired. Half of the house had appeared in the corner of the scroll. She felt that she had grown longer.
A little bigger.
"Okay, you've seen enough of these scenery. By then you'll be tired of looking at it." Gu Zheng shouted to Xiaoying who turned into a ball of smoke.
"brush"
The next moment, Xiaoying's body immediately stopped in front of Gu Zheng, and the wind and waves started blowing crazily in the surroundings. Grass clippings were flying everywhere, making it a mess.
"You see, if there are innocent beasts and people around, wouldn't they be harmed by you? You have to control yourself when you are excited, do you understand?" Gu Zheng pointed to the surroundings and said to her.
"I know I was wrong, I won't do it next time!" Xiaoying looked around, but she didn't expect that she could cause so much damage just by having a little fun.
"When I have time in the future, I will take you to a good place. You can't destroy that place even if you want to. It is enough for you to enjoy yourself. You should keep a low profile in the world. You must know that if you attract the attention of some hypocrites and take you away to make elixirs, you will cry.
Already." Gu Zheng said deliberately with a straight face.
"Young master, you won't let others take me away to make elixirs. I'm not afraid at all!" Xiaoying smiled at Gu Zheng. She was not afraid of Gu Zheng's lessons at all. She could feel Gu Zheng's worry in her heart.
, that look didn’t scare her at all.
"Okay, let's go. We have been out for a year now, which is about the same time. We must hurry up and hurry up. If so, we can find the murderer behind your grandfather's death." Gu Zheng clapped his hands and moved forward.
Start walking.
"I will never let him go. Not only my grandfather, but also many of my grandfather's friends were killed by him. If my grandfather hadn't tried his best to protect me, I would have been devoured long ago."
Bian Xiaoying said bitterly when she heard it.
"When the time comes, we will deal with each other together, not only for your grandfather, but also for those who died tragically because of their selfish desires." Gu Zheng's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and in the end he hesitated for a long time, but he still moved this way.
come over.
Thinking of the hundreds of thousands of people who were unable to escape and died miserably below, although there were their reasons, the biggest culprits were still those people.
That Xingkong was actually sent by Star Hegemon to lurk in the opponent's system. Xingkong itself had a special physique. With the blessing of its own treasures, even if it was defiled by the opponent, it could still maintain its true intelligence. It just didn't cost much to hide it.
After thousands of years of hard work, he has at least been accepted as part of the periphery, but he still has not been able to find the hiding place of the other party.
The only thing that reassures them is that they are interested in the gourd in their hands, but without the bloodline of Xingba, they can't control it, so this is an opportunity.
Their only hope is that Xingkong must find the other party's hiding place before his own mind completely collapses.
Of course, Gu Zheng did not fully trust the other party, but he was pressed for time and was afraid that the other party would detect something wrong with the surveillance spell left on him. Gu Zheng and Xingkong did not talk much, otherwise how could the other party leave so easily.
And he couldn't follow them, because they had a weird transmission method that was impossible to follow. The only clue was the nine-story tower in Desert City, which was the only clue he heard occasionally.
But in a hurry, there is no other way. If Xingkong returns in embarrassment this time, even if Gu Zheng appears, it will arouse the other party's distrust, so Gu Zheng came here first to look for some clues.
Three days later, they walked out of the grassland that Xiaoying couldn't bear to leave. Everything in front of them was yellow. The further they went, the more desolate the land became.
Despite this, Xiaoying did not feel bored at all. For her, such a windy and refreshing weather was completely different from before. She still looked around with bright eyes, as if there were flowers on the barren land.
.
Half a month later, Gu Zheng and the two of them had already set foot in a real desert area. Heat waves were emanating from the scorching sun, and even the air was slightly distorted. The hot sand was under their feet, making a slight sound with every step they took.
At this time, Xiaoying didn't have the same energy as before. She lowered her head and slowly followed Gu Zheng step by step. She didn't have the same energy as before.
"Master Gu, you said that the desert city is so magical. We flew above it and didn't even notice where the other party was. Do we really have to walk there step by step below, or be sent there by a sandstorm?" Xiaoying said weakly,
After getting tired of seeing these annoying scenery, Xiaoying really didn't want to look at it anymore, it was really not fun.
"It's indeed a bit strange. Even I didn't notice it." Gu Zheng nodded, agreeing with her statement.
Originally, they wanted to fly directly, but they found that they had not found the location of Shahai City. How fast were they? They searched the huge desert area here in almost half a month, but still could not find it.
.
Gu Zheng took a closer look and found some unusual fluctuations in it. He guessed that someone must have used great magic to cover up the location of Shahai City. I am afraid that he had to use the most conventional method to see it, so he stepped from the outside step by step.
Walk towards the center.
And after walking for several days, even if they deliberately speeded up the pace a little bit, they had only just gone a little deeper. After learning that it would take a few more months, Xiaoying became like this, like an eggplant beaten by frost.
, I couldn't show any interest, so I almost asked to go back to my scroll.
"There's something moving!" At this time, Xiaoying's ears suddenly twitched, and she suddenly raised her head to look at it in the distance.
Gu Zheng also stopped almost as soon as the other party spoke and looked into the distance.
In the originally cloudless and clear sky, yellow storms suddenly gathered, as if they appeared out of thin air. Then in a short period of time, countless yellow clouds slowly gathered in the sky and slowly rotated, forming a super huge sandstorm.
formed in the air.
This kind of power of heaven and earth, even though it did not cause any harm to them, was still shocking in their hearts.
Watching the hundreds of meters of yellow sandstorm suddenly rise, as if a pillar was rising under the sky and the earth, the whistling yellow sand was sucked in from below and poured into the concave vortex above.
Gu Zheng watched a few rays of light flashing through it, and his spiritual consciousness was also looking over there. Unfortunately, the whole world was in chaos, and he couldn't see what was going on inside.
They originally thought that the opponent's aftermath would hit here, but they couldn't feel any abnormality, and it was no different from usual, which made them, who were fully armed, feel that they were unnecessary.
The sandstorm came and went quickly. In less than a stick of incense, the sandstorm suddenly fell from the sky, and the yellow clouds quickly dissipated in the sky, as if it had never come.
"There seems to be someone over there, should we go and have a look." As the storm dissipated, Xiaoying on the side said, and she also saw several obvious rays of light in the sky.
"Walk!"
Gu Zheng and Xiaoying immediately started running forward. Even in this state, they maintained a normal fifth-level running speed and did not exceed this intensity at all.
After three full days, their speed suddenly stopped. A huge pit with a depth of dozens of feet appeared in front of them, covering an area of several thousand meters. Countless quicksands around it flowed downwards. Even so, there was still a hole below.
It's a sea of sand, and I don't even know how deep it is.
"I'm afraid that the other party has not been sucked away, and I don't know where to go, or even whether he will be buried underneath." Xiaoying's body slowly floated up, as if she was standing on Gu Zheng's shoulders, looking into the distance.
go.
Gu Zheng didn't speak. He looked around with his whole eyes, and his consciousness swept around this huge ground.
Suddenly, Gu Zheng's figure moved, and he rushed forward with a single step, jumping into this huge pothole. Xiaoying was startled, and when she was about to follow, she found that Gu Zheng had already flown up again.
It's just that I'm holding a person in my hand.
"Heal him." Gu Zheng shook his hand, and the figure covered in yellow sand revealed his face. He looked like a young monk. The monk's robes were in tatters, and even some of his flesh and blood were worn away by the sand.
The breath is dying.
When Xiaoying heard this, she waved her little hand in the air, and a piece of green light scattered from the air, fell on him like green light, and merged into his body again.
The young monk, who was originally weak and looked like he could die at any time, has regained his breath visibly.
"Is he really buried down there? If we hadn't come, he would have been buried alive. It's really terrible." Xiaoying said with some fear when she thought of Gu Zheng's behavior.
"Wait and see, he is the only one here, but he can escape from the storm with a brush." Gu Zheng said in a deep voice, and at the same time led them back some distance away from the huge pit.
.
After a full day, the young monk who was in the late stage of Celestial Immortal finally woke up.
"Are you okay?" Xiaoying floated flat in the air and came into view of the young monk below.
"The other party has just woken up. Don't make trouble. Wait for a while." Gu Zheng grabbed Xiaoying's calf and pulled her back.
After waiting for a long time, the young monk who was lying on the ground stood up, looked at himself in brand new clothes, looked at Xiaoying who was looking at him up and down, and Gu Zheng who was standing aside, and clasped his palms towards them,
He lowered his head slightly and said.
"Thank you to the two benefactors for your life-saving grace."
"We also happened to see you, are you the monk running from inside to outside?" Xiaoying's body floated up here, and she was still floating in the air as before, going around the monk.
Gu Zheng also looked over curiously, wanting to know why he wanted to leave from inside, couldn't he just fly away.
"Oh, it's hard to explain. I wonder if the two donors want to go to Shahai City." The young monk's face darkened and he didn't say anything. He just asked them.
"Of course we are going to Shahai City, are you really weird? If we don't go there, who will have to pass through this boring desert? It's not pretty at all." Xiaoying answered first.
"Of course, we went there to visit Master Wuxiang. We heard about his profound Buddhist teachings and wanted to ask for advice." Gu Zheng also said the same.
"Hey, I advise you not to go any more. People there are so panicked right now that even the master can't do anything. He asked us to break out and go to the west to look for Master Deshan. You have also seen the result. If you hadn't appeared, I'm afraid we would have
A small group of people were all wiped out." After hearing this, the young monk said.
"What's going on? That Master Wuxiang is said to have boundless power. Besides, without his protection, Shacheng here would have disappeared a long time ago. How could we encounter something that can't be solved?" Gu Zheng said as his mind was spinning.
According to Xingkong's hearing of the slightest disappearance, it seemed that he had already attacked Master Wuxiang. Gu Zheng thought that the master had already blocked the opponent's plot, but he did not expect that this juncture would appear. Could it be related to the information Dong** heard himself?
Deliberately restraining him?
After hearing Gu Zheng's words, the young monk looked even more embarrassed. He hesitated, gritted his teeth and spoke again.
"Now Shahai City has been completely closed. We do not welcome outsiders here. Please leave the two donors and wait until you have the opportunity to visit my master in the future."
"Hey, you little monk is a little unkind. You said you wouldn't let us in, so we didn't. We were lost in the sea of people who wanted to see our young master. This is your master's honor, you know?" Xiaoying here?
When he saw the other party rejecting him, he didn't feel angry and said immediately.
"No matter what you say, thank you for saving my life, but please leave quickly." The young monk ignored the other person at all and said again.
"Rumble"
Along with the roar, the sky suddenly turned yellow clouds again.
"Here we go again!" the young monk shouted with a pale face.
