Under the extremely dark sky, Ulan Lake is like a giant diamond embedded in the ground, blooming with brilliance.
Bagua City is the most dazzling light source inside this diamond.
"Where's Sister Ning?"
Su Meng, who was on the edge of the island, saw Pang Jian walking alone from the darkness and hurriedly looked behind him.
But she didn't see the beautiful figure she was familiar with.
Su Meng had never experienced such a dark night before, and she didn't know if there was any horror hidden in the darkness. This made her secretly worried for her "Sister Ning".
"It was too dark on the mountain and she fell down on the way."
Pang Jian responded indifferently, his eyes falling on the head of the black turtle that was engraved with dark green light and strange power.
Zhou Qingchen was stunned: "You didn't help her up?"
"She has arms and legs, why should I help her?" Pang Jian asked strangely.
"Well……"
Zhou Qingchen was speechless.
"Boy Zhou, you and Little Brother Pang should learn from each other. This woman, you can't be too good to her and take care of her feelings in every way! If you were half as capable as Pang Jian, the one you admired in Hongshan would be
Senior Sister Jiang Li, you won't..." Han Duping exposed his shortcomings.
Zhou Qingchen's face turned red and he said angrily: "Shut up!"
Looking at the turtle head exposed on the ice, which was condensed with dark green lines and supernatural powers, Pang Jian was surprised: "Is this the entrance to the mirror tunnel?"
"Well, that's what Ning Yao said."
Han Duping nodded first before expressing his opinion: "Based on my superficial understanding of the formation, it should really be the entrance to the mirror tunnel."
Pang Jian asked curiously: "After entering, where should we come back?"
Han Duping smiled bitterly: "You can't find out until you go in."
"All right."
Pang Jian no longer asked for details, but looked at the other three people beside him: "Do you want to go down?"
"Of course I'll go down!"
Zhou Qingchen shouted immediately.
"If he insists on going, what can I do? I have no choice but to accompany Mr. Zhou." Han Duping lowered his head with a look of reluctance.
"Um."
Pang Jian held the dragon-patterned spear tightly and planned to be the first to jump to the lake where the turtle's head was, playing the role of a pathfinder for everyone.
"Don't you wait for Sister Ning?" Su Meng shouted angrily.
Pang Jian, who had been waiting for this moment for a long time, did not respond to her at all. He jumped up with the dragon pattern spear and landed directly towards the turtle's head.
Above the crystal clear lake, the turtle's head, made of dark green light and supernatural power, suddenly changed when he fell.
The turtle's head seemed to be raised high, but mysterious ripples were rippling around the neck, spreading outward in circles.
At a glance, this black turtle's head and neck look like there are many collars surrounding it.
"call!"
Pang Jian landed on the turtle's head, which was looking up, and suddenly disappeared in the center of the rippled aperture.
"Let's get there quickly, lest we can't keep up with him and be forced to spread out after entering!"
Zhou Qingchen made a prompt decision, and as soon as he confirmed that it was an accessible passage, he jumped into it immediately.
Han Duping followed him without hesitation.
In the blink of an eye, Su Meng was the only one left in front of the turtle head with brilliant ripples.
The dark island was completely silent. Su Meng's heart trembled slightly, and she timidly shouted into the darkness: "Sister Ning, they have all gone in, are you...still there?"
"exist."
Luo Hongyan's lazy voice filled with resentment sounded slowly from the darkness, making Su Meng quietly breathe a sigh of relief.
Not long after, Luo Hongyan appeared from the darkness and slowly came to Su Meng's side.
Her dark eyebrows furrowed slightly, her bright eyes revealed a look of surprise, and she suddenly stared at the north of Ulan Lake, the place on the other side that was swallowed up by darkness.
That's where the thick "weird fog" first appeared.
"Sister Ning, what are you looking at?"
Su Meng said softly.
She found it strange that when Luo Hongyan came over, she didn't look at the black turtle representing the passage or the rippling ripples, but instead looked at the other end of the lake.
"It's not that I'm looking at anything, I feel like... there's something watching us in the mist."
Luo Hongyan, who was feeling a little inexplicably panicked, always felt that there was some unknown creature standing in the depths of the "weird fog" where the extreme cold force penetrated into the lake.
This feeling made her hair stand on end.
At first she was hesitant about entering Bagua City, but now she suddenly no longer had any hesitation. She grabbed Su Meng's little hand, and the two of them jumped to the turtle's head together.
The two of them also disappeared instantly.
When there was no more living thing on the island, something slowly emerged from the darkness where Luo Hongyan had been staring, where the thick "weird fog" filled the air.
It was a huge gray ape, with a cold and ferocious look all over its body, and a pair of ice-blue eyes.
If Pang Jian and Zhou Qingchen were still here, they would have recognized this gray ape at a glance as the one who had been captured by Shangguan Qin, imprisoned in an iron cage, and finally released at the request of Pang Jian.
At this moment, its size has increased several times compared to when Pang Jian said goodbye.
It is like a gray hilltop, slowly stepping out from the depths of the "weird fog", stepping on the thick crystal ice, and walking slowly on the lake.
"Crack! Click!"
It walked step by step towards the turtle's head, and the thick rock ice under its broad feet opened up large cracks as it walked.
The rock ice, overflowing with the power of extreme cold, could not bear the terrifying force every time it set foot, and was fragile and constantly cracking.
However, every time it leaves those cracks and the extremely cold air permeates again, it will repair the broken rock ice layer and quickly restore it to its original state.
In the "strange mist" deep in the darkness, it seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and would not reveal itself until everyone disappeared.
Its dense gray ape hair has now become silver-grey. As it shakes its body slightly, the silver-gray ape hair shines with a strange brilliance like steel needles.
All the way to the front of the turtle's head, standing on the translucent lake like ice rock, it finally stopped.
It looked at the entrance and exit indifferently with a pair of ice-blue evil beast eyes, and also looked at the brightly lit Bagua City below.
After a while, it slowly squatted down here
…
Different place.
"Bang! Bang bang! Bang bang!"
Five figures fell heavily to the ground one after another, each one falling dizzy.
Zhou Qingchen touched his hot butt and yelled angrily: "Why did it fall from the sky?"
He was stunned as soon as he opened his mouth.
He stood in front of a huge city gate. The city gate was more than ten feet high and was entirely made of bluestone. It looked majestic and majestic.
"Bagua City, we have indeed arrived at Bagua City!"
When Zhou Qingchen exclaimed, he saw Pang Jian who came one step ahead of him and was also in front of the huge city gate.
Following Pang Jian's line of sight, he saw two eye-catching characters above the city gate, as if carved with knives and axes.
——North Gate.
"Pang Jian, can't you wait for me?"
Luo Hongyan, who fell behind in the last step, angrily asked for an attack as soon as she came over.
Pang Jian turned a deaf ear.
He stared blankly at the word "North Gate", silently ran the "Hu Tian Qi Nourishing Technique", and said: "The spiritual energy of heaven and earth here is pure and rich, and is many times stronger than the island in the middle of Wulan Lake.
"
"Bagua City was located in the Second Realm, so it naturally has richer aura than the barren far north land of the Fourth Realm, an island in the middle of a lake." Han Duping said matter-of-factly.
"But behind us..."
Pang Jian, who came first, turned around and turned his back to the north gate of Bagua City, looking at the same extreme darkness as the island in the middle of the lake.
Everyone turned around one after another, all looking shocked.
Ahead, there is boundless darkness, as if covering all the space outside Bagua City!
In the brightly lit Bagua City, the brilliant light coming from the walls seems to be desperately penetrating into the darkness of the outside world, as if to spread the light into the depths of darkness.
However, the range within which these dazzling lights can spread is only about three feet.
Three feet away, there is endless darkness, and there is no longer any light.
Pang Jian said in a deep voice: "The atmosphere that exists in the depths of darkness is completely different from that of Bagua City!"
He had just tried it before a few people landed, and he hurriedly pulled back as soon as he entered the darkness.
In the darkness, the air he could smell was filled with sour, rancid and other strange smells.
After those breaths fell into his organs, they seemed to be quietly eroding his flesh and blood, making him feel uncomfortable all over.
When he practiced the "Hu Tian Qi Nourishing Technique", he found that the "spiritual pot" he visualized was no longer blue-black, but a pure black.
Black and shiny!
The power he absorbed in the darkness was full of filth and various impurities, and its spiritual power was so small that it was almost undetectable.
At that moment, there was a lot of filth in the depths of his Dantian spiritual sea.
The operation of his spiritual power suddenly became sluggish, and the funnel-shaped vortex connecting his Dantian and the spiritual sea gradually became stagnant.
——He hurriedly exited from the darkness because he felt something was extremely wrong.
"Colorless, cyan, blue-black, black."
He frowned and pondered, and based on the color of the "spiritual pot" when he visualized it, he came to a conclusion.
When he was practicing, if he was channeling the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, even if it was the extremely thin spiritual energy from the fourth realm and still contained some impurities, his "spiritual pot" would not have a specific color.
When he cultivated with pure and flawless spiritual stones and spiritual jade to incorporate the spiritual power in them, his "spiritual pot" became blue.
If it is a spiritual stone containing the power of filth in the fourth realm, there are also some special stones, such as stones containing the "power of mysterious yin", or the dark power in the black water pool.
Then what his "spiritual pot" will appear will be blue-black. The more filthy things there are, the richer the black part will be.
On the other hand, if the absorbed power and spiritual power are obviously more than the dirty things, the color of the blue-black "spiritual pot" will be more blue.
He had briefly tried the "Hu Tian Qi Nourishing Technique" in the darkness before, and the "Spirit Pot" actually showed a rare pitch black color, just like the endless darkness.
This was something strange that he had never encountered before.
"In the depths of darkness, there is a very strong power, but there is a strong sour, rancid smell. There seems to be spiritual power in it, but it is only sporadic, and it is nothing compared to the dirty power."
Pang Jian expressed his previous feelings.
Zhou Qingchen and Su Meng looked confused, but after Han Duping and Luo Hongyan listened, their expressions quietly changed.
"Pang Jian, never go into the darkness again. Listen to me, don't leave Bagua City, and don't try to explore the outside world!"
After a while, Luo Hongyan suddenly shouted a reminder and signaled everyone to step back and return to Bagua City as soon as possible.
"Listen to her!"
Han Duping was also shouting.
Pang Jian looked at the two people and asked doubtfully: "What is the origin of the darkness outside Bagua City?"
Han Duping licked the corner of his mouth and said in a difficult tone: "Maybe, I mean maybe, outside Bagua City... it may be the fifth realm."