The group of five people quickly moved towards the center of the city, fearing that they would be overwhelmed by the spreading darkness behind them.
"Stop!"
Suddenly, Pang Jian shouted softly, and the swift figure stopped.
Zhou Qingchen and others kept a short distance from him, and when they saw him stop, they all restrained themselves.
Pang Jian, who was holding a dragon-patterned spear, walked to the corner of the house on one side with a solemn look and looked at a corpse wearing a dark robe with a red mountain symbol on the chest.
Black clothes with the Red Mountain logo on the chest are the common attire of monks from the Red Mountain in the upper world.
"We from Hongshan!"
After Zhou Qingchen approached, he shouted with a cold face: "They were killed and their bodies were left in the corner. The other party must have been preparing to continue killing people, so as not to alarm the newcomers with their conspicuous corpses, so they dealt with them in a hurry."
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"There are a few more here, they are all from Hongshan."
Han Duping also saw several corpses in the other corner, also wearing Hongshan's clothes.
He was a little surprised and said weirdly: "Pang Jian, when we are traveling fast, how come you still have time to look around the corners?"
"Habit."
Pang Jian responded indifferently.
The most important quality of an excellent hunter is to be good at observation and pay attention to every detail.
He has been hunting in the Serenity Mountains for many years, and observing the environment has long become a bone-deep instinct, and he will naturally examine every place he passes.
During the previous march, while the others were looking ahead, he had been paying attention to both sides of the street.
Hongshan's group was not the only one to pile up corpses in some corners of the stone building. He saw many corpses along the way.
It is not difficult to imagine that before they entered Bagua City, several bloody battles broke out on this street.
Not all winners will clean the battlefield carefully and wipe away the blood stains.
Most people simply deal with it, dragging the body from the street to a corner and placing it casually. As long as it is not so conspicuous and will not be immediately seen by latecomers, it is enough.
"The bodies are disappearing little by little."
Pang Jian drank lightly again as a reminder.
This is what really caught his attention and made everyone stop and pay attention.
Everyone was shocked and turned pale. They immediately focused on the corpses of the Hongshan monks in front of them. As expected, they saw those corpses slowly blending into the stone floor at a slow speed.
Just like water slowly blending into the sea.
The ground in Bagua City seemed to have suddenly turned into a bloodthirsty beast, slowly devouring the corpses in the city.
"I said before that the souls of Jian Yaoyang and others who were killed by us quickly disappeared underground the moment they died."
Luo Hongyan frowned and squatted down gracefully.
She looked at the disappearing corpse and found that not only the flesh and blood, but also the clothes and hair of the corpse were disappearing.
With a look of surprise on her eyebrows, she murmured: "First the soul, then the flesh and blood. This ancient city that has disappeared for three thousand years doesn't feel very simple."
The phoenix bones that fell into the Silent Mountains only killed the target in the image and took the essence of their flesh and blood.
The dark giant anaconda in Blackwater Pond, the black turtle in Wulan Lake, and the beast souls all survived without being sucked by the phoenix bone.
She came to the phoenix bone and was able to refine Luo Meng and Hong Tai into "spiritual evil spirits", which also proved that the phoenix bone has no requirement for the soul.
But in this Bagua City, even the soul was not spared, which made her feel uneasy.
"As soon as the rare treasure in the center of the city was born, the filth of the outside world was eroded by the darkness. This city seemed to lead or force everyone to the center of the city." Han Duping said with a stern face.
"There really is a rare treasure in the center of the city, and eight streets have gathered in a short period of time. Practitioners from all over the world..."
Zhou Qingchen took a breath of cold air and shouted: "Maybe we shouldn't be so anxious! If I guess right in the center of the city right now, there will be a river of blood!"
Su Meng shrank to the corner and said in fear: "Then what should we do?"
Behind them is the endless spreading darkness, forcing them to move closer to the center of the city, otherwise they will be overwhelmed by the filthy darkness of the fifth realm.
The mirror tunnel is in the center of the city, and strange treasures have also appeared in it. It is bound to become the cruelest battlefield.
Moving forward, you will face the baptism of a bloody battlefield.
From now on, we will fall into endless darkness.
Going forward or retreating is not a good choice.
"The darkness is spreading and will not drown us so quickly."
Pang Jian looked behind him, thought for a moment, and seriously suggested: "If we can suppress our burning desire for the rare treasure in the center of the city, we can slow down the pace. Moving forward is our only way out. If it is not for the rare treasure, we will slow down."
It doesn’t hurt at all.”
He looked at the crowd.
"Then slow down!"
Su Meng was the first to express her stance.
Zhou Qingchen and Han Duping looked at each other and nodded lightly.
Luo Hongyan, who was most eager to enter the center of the city, quickly calmed down as the body slowly disappeared, and agreed: "Then slow down."
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Bagua City, the tallest tower.
Li Jie, who was drinking green juice, squinted his eyes slightly and took in the eight streets in full view.
Every person on every street cannot escape his gaze at this moment.
He saw a girl in white walking slowly along the corner of the street on one of the streets.
Ten feet behind the girl in white is the dark frenzy that is slowly eroding from the fifth realm.
The girl seemed to know that the incoming wave of darkness would not rush at a sudden speed. She kept a constant distance from the wave of darkness and moved forward unhurriedly.
In front of her, in the hundred-foot street, there was no other person moving.
"A very smart guy."
Li Jie muttered something, looked around, and saw Pang Jian and the other five.
"Eh!"
He was slightly surprised.
When the light beam in the center of the city just reached the sky, Pang Jian and others, like the rest of the people on the block, immediately ran towards the center of the city, hoping to reach their destination as soon as possible.
At that time, Li Jie silently withdrew his gaze and did not continue to look down.
Unexpectedly, this small team with a small number of people and a low level of cultivation could actually stop in the middle and start walking calmly.
"Did you restrain your inner greed, or did you discover something?"
Li Jie whispered with a strange expression on his face.
While saying this, he looked at Dong Tianze and others who were about to arrive in the center of the city. Dong Tianze was also the target of his attention. He wanted to see Dong Tianze's performance.
"He is a cruel person."
After a moment, Li Jie nodded slowly and commented sincerely.
As soon as Dong Tianze rushed out of the street, he immediately joined the tragic battlefield and fought bloody battles in the central square where corpses were strewn. In the blink of an eye, there was no one alive around him.
The few people from Yinling Temple who came with him saw that he had become the center of attention before they could take action.
Li Jie suddenly felt alarmed, turned his head suddenly, and looked at another street.
Not far from the city gate, in a land submerged by the darkness of the fifth realm, there are signs of living creatures!
"Did someone practice in a stone building before and didn't notice the strange treasure appearing in the world and didn't know the darkness was drowning, so they were trapped inside? Or... someone took the initiative and wanted to expose themselves to the darkness?"
Li Jie's face turned solemn.
If it's the former, it's not a big problem if someone was accidentally submerged in the darkness.
But if someone takes the initiative to enter the darkness, such a person will definitely become trouble for him.
Next.
That area became the focus of Li Jie's observation, and he frequently scanned that area to avoid uncontrollable changes.
"God, this is the first trial my family has arranged for me. I must not make any mistakes."
Li Jie put his hands together and prayed for God's blessing.
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"Chi!"
A bit of red fire suddenly shone out from the tip of the dragon pattern spear.
Pang Jian, who slowed down his pace, had time to figure out how to exert the power of the "Earth Flame Technique". He poured the flame power into the spear shaft, and through the array amplification in it, he gave him a little red fire light.
At that moment, the shaft of the dragon-marked spear turned red. When he stabbed with the spear, the entire dragon-marked spear was like a flaming meteor.
"Pang Jian, this dragon-patterned spear I gave you won't last long."
Zhou Qingchen glanced at it and said helplessly: "The shaft of the dragon-marked spear is made of dragon-marked wood. Even if the wooden spear shaft is engraved with a solid spiritual formation, it will be difficult to carry the power of the earth's flames for a long time."
"Well, the Earth Flame Technique you are currently practicing is not compatible with the Dragon Pattern Spear. As your fire power increases, you will eventually need a new spear. The shaft of the spear must be made of fine gold. Only
Only fine gold can perfectly carry the power of Earth Flame." Luo Hongyan on the side also nodded in agreement, frowned in thought, and then said:
"We don't have such an artifact in our hands at the moment. But you don't have to worry, I just saw a long gun in the light beam, which is a gun shaft made of some kind of rare fine gold."
Pang Jian's eyes lit up.
He also realized that if he only used spiritual power to penetrate the dragon pattern spear, there would be no problem.
When spiritual power and fire power are mixed and flow together in the spear shaft, the transmission efficiency becomes a bit slower.
The spiritual formation inside the spear didn't seem to be well compatible with his newly refined fire power.
Hearing that there was a spear suitable for him in the strange light pillar in the city, Pang Jian also became hopeful.