The entrance to the cave was very small, only half a person tall. Yi Xifeng guessed that the previous earthquake might have buried the entrance, and the "four-legged snake" should have been blocked here when it went out to look for food.
Zhong Lingxi was about to approach the cave entrance with the dome in her arms. At this moment, a "four-legged snake" suddenly rushed out of the cave entrance, waving its sharp claws like blades and rushed towards the girl like a swift wind!
The change came so suddenly that Zhong Lingxi was shocked. At this moment, she had no time to react. At this critical moment, she only heard a "swish" sound, the sword shadow flashed past, and the "four-legged snake" flew directly in the air.
The middle is divided into two.
Yi Xifeng put away her sword and breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Phew, it was such a close call. Fortunately, I reacted quickly."
He said to Zhong Lingxi:
"I'll go in and explore first." After saying that, he lowered his head and walked through the hole to the other side.
"Be careful."
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Three young men and a group of black-clad guards followed closely behind a middle-aged man in yellow robes. They were the three brothers of the Zhang family and Ying Shan.
"Master Yingshan, where are we going?"
The speaker was Second Young Master Zhang Miao. Although he tried to remain calm when speaking, he still could not conceal his inner impatience. His purpose was just to snatch the Blood Spirit Jade, not to enjoy the mountains.
After hearing this, Yingshan just glanced at Zhang Miao coldly, and was so shocked that he took two steps back, lowered his head and did not dare to say anything more.
Not long after, everyone arrived at the foot of a mountain.
"You, go explore the way!"
Ying Shan raised his chin, looked coldly at Mr. Zhang and said coldly.
Zhang Miao trembled all over and did not dare to resist. He quickly led a few men in black and walked deeper.
Not long after, Zhang Miao turned back, lowered his head and gritted his teeth and said:
"My lord, there is a cave in the dark bush. Is this the place you are looking for?"
Yingshan replied while playing with the brown crystal core in his hand:
"Well, go back and continue to lead the way."
"Yes, sir."
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Zhong Lingxi waited at the entrance of the cave for a long time but did not see any movement from Yi Xifeng, so she thought that the other party was in some danger, so she shouted:
"Yi Xifeng, how are you? Are you okay?"
After a while, a voice came from inside.
"It's okay, come in."
Hearing Yi Xifeng's greetings from inside, Zhong Lingxi immediately lowered her body and walked through. After taking a few steps, she felt that the entrance of the cave was very narrow.
After a few steps, I suddenly saw a bright light in front of me. There were bright lights in the distance. A towering tower stood quietly in the center of the cave. The tower was surrounded by a bottomless cold pool. On the cold pool stood a stone forest, like a lake.
A long dragon is nailed to each stone nail, and the entire cave looks like a mysterious underground palace.
Seeing such a scene, Zhong Lingxi couldn't help but look at it a few more times. It wasn't until Yi Xifeng called her name that she recovered from the shock. At this time, the blood jade on the fair young man's chest became brighter and brighter.
, as if urging him to hurry over.
However, Yi Xifeng was not impatient. He first walked around the tower with Zhong Lingxi, and then used Qinggong to land in front of the tower door.
Recalling what happened to the "Tower of Two Realms" in the capital of God's Domain, the fair young man's vigilance was immediately raised to the highest level. Although the tower was a hundred feet high, with his current strength, it was impossible to jump up to it.
It only takes one leap to reach the top of the tower.
"Moonstep—Dragon Climb!"
Yi Xifeng tiptoed, and between the ups and downs of his body, he landed on the top of the tower as lightly as a maple leaf. After walking around it, the fair young man found that there seemed to be nothing strange about the tower. No matter how much he explored,
Not even the slightest fluctuation of true energy was found.
Yi Xifeng frowned and jumped down, landing next to Zhong Lingxi again.
"Xifeng, how are you? Did you find anything?"
Yi Xifeng shook his head and replied: "This tower... seems a bit unremarkable. Forget it, let's go in and take a look."
Immediately afterwards, Yi Xifeng opened his palms and pressed them firmly against the old stone door. Then he pushed hard, and there was a violent "creaking" friction sound between the stone door and the gap.
"Rumble..."
The dilapidated tower was reopened, revealing the true appearance inside. Yi Xifeng looked up and exclaimed:
"I didn't expect it to be so neat inside. It's almost like new."
There is no debris inside the tower, only a stone tablet standing in front of the door. The spotless environment is in sharp contrast to the dilapidated tower.
Yi Xifeng and the two stepped into the tower and saw a few bright red small characters engraved on the stone tablet. The small characters recorded the time when the tower was built.
"Thirty-six years in the celestial calendar..."
Yi Xifeng secretly noted that the word "celestial calendar" should refer to the year used to record time in the secret realm.
Zhong Lingxi held the dome and looked above her head. There was a huge difference between the inside of the tower and the outside of the tower. The outside of the tower was a layer-by-layer structure, while the inside was a spiral structure. This made her feel strange.
"This tower is so strange..."
"What's wrong?" Yi Xifeng looked over and asked.
"I have seen many volumes related to stone towers in the ancient books at home, but I have never seen one with such a strange structure."
The two continued to penetrate inside, but when they passed the stone monument, they felt an extremely powerful pressure hitting their heads.
The drastic change happened so suddenly that Zhong Lingxi felt her knees weaken and she knelt directly towards the ground.
"careful!"
At the critical moment, Yi Xifeng suddenly took action and held him in his arms.
"stuck"
Yi Xifeng's feet suddenly sank into the ground, and the coercion seemed to suppress him underground. Even his realm of breaking the wind could not be touched at all. Beads of sweat as big as beans rolled on the fair young man's forehead.
But he still straightened his legs to resist the pressure.
But on the other hand, Zhong Lingxi's situation was not good. The giant egg in her arms had long been thrown to the ground. At this moment, let alone talking, she didn't even have the strength to raise her head.
"Damn it!"
Yi Xifeng gritted his teeth and spit out two words. He should have known better than to come in rashly.
At this time, the glowing blood jade suddenly flew out from his chest and rushed straight up against the pressure. A flash of light suddenly bloomed on the top of the tower, and the endless pressure suddenly disappeared.
.
"Huh~" Yi Xifeng breathed a long sigh of relief and slowly put down the beauty in his arms.
Zhong Lingxi knelt down and rubbed her legs vigorously. It took her a while to recover. She stood up staggeringly, trying to steady herself.
Yi Xifeng wiped the sweat from his forehead. At that moment, he felt that he was facing a strong man from the holy realm. If he had been an ordinary warrior, he would have been crushed into a puddle of mud.
.
Then, Yi Xifeng cast his eyes on the giant egg rolling in the distance, and found that the egg was intact, which surprised him.
"Are the eggs of Archaeopteryx so strong?"
After Zhong Lingxi recovered, he walked to the dome and picked it up again, while Yi Xifeng had already set his sights on the top of the tower.
"Alas, it seems that this Blood Spirit Jade won't be removed for a while."
The two began to climb along the stone stairs on the tower wall, but starting from the second floor, murals appeared in front of them.
The content of the painting roughly describes a person's story, but Yi Xifeng and his wife did not do much research on the murals, so the guessed results were somewhat incorrect.
At this time, Nanfeng Sword, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly came to life.
With a flash of emerald light, a woman wearing a jade dress slowly appeared in front of the two of them.
"Sister Nanfeng!"
"Senior Nanfeng!"
Nanfeng Sword Spirit glanced at Yi Xifeng "calmly" out of the corner of his eye, causing the other party to feel embarrassed.
"Since you and I, the sword master, are already married, you can just call me sister. There is no need to use the word senior."
As soon as these words came out, Zhong Lingxi couldn't help but think of what happened that day, and then a touch of red clouds appeared on his face, as tempting as a shy peach blossom waiting to bloom, which made Yi Xifeng on the side couldn't help but look at it more
Two eyes.
Zhong Lingxi raised her eyebrows slightly and saw the fair-skinned young man staring at her. Although she was very happy in her heart, after all, there were "outsiders" here, so she naturally had to act more reserved.
"Yi...Yi Xifeng, you...stop staring at me." Zhong Lingxi's voice was very soft, almost as small as a mosquito. If it weren't for Yi Xifeng's extraordinary hearing, he might not have been able to hear what she was saying.
What.
Then, Yi Xifeng turned his head. In order to relieve the embarrassment, he made a fist with his right hand and put it to his mouth and coughed twice:
"Ahem, Nanfengqian...sister, I still don't know why you asked us to come here."
At this time, Nanfeng Sword Spirit was looking intently at the murals on the tower. After hearing the other party's question, he replied:
"Have you ever understood the story on this mural?"
Yi Xifeng and Zhong Lingxi looked at each other, and then shook their heads at the same time.
"We are not experienced archeology experts, how can we possibly understand this."
Nanfeng Sword Spirit just nodded after hearing this, but didn't say anything more. He just started to continue climbing to the top of the tower.
Although Yi Xifeng and the two felt that "Sister Nanfeng" was acting a bit strange, they had no choice but to follow her and continue climbing.
Nanfeng Sword Spirit walked very slowly, and would stop and watch every time she saw a mural. Especially when the man in red robe appeared in the mural, she would frown, so the three of them spent half a stick of incense.
It took only half of the climb.
During the whole process, Yi Xifeng saw that Nanfeng Sword Spirit had been observing carefully and did not dare to disturb him, so it was very quiet along the way.
At this time, a black shadow flashed past silently, but it was just outside the tower, so it did not attract the attention of the three people.
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"Master Yingshan, there are two cave entrances ahead, which way should I go?"
The speaker was Zhang Miao of the Zhang family, but Zhang Fu laughed and replied:
"This is not easy. You lead a group of troops to the right, and I will go to the left with you. Isn't it enough to divide the troops into two groups?"
Zhang Fu's words made Zhang Miao very angry. He was already very angry when he was sent to investigate, but now that he was so provoked by the other party, he felt that he couldn't bear it.
"Zhang Fu, you are looking for death!"
Zhang Miao pulled out a long knife, pointing directly at Zhang Fu, with murderous intent in his eyes. Zhang Fu was not to be outdone, he stepped forward with his right foot, clenched his left fist, and suddenly rushed towards him with aura.
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"Huh, I'm afraid you won't succeed!"
Just as the two were at war with each other, a figure suddenly appeared in the middle of the two.
"Both brothers are members of the same family. Don't let a trivial matter break your friendship. In my opinion, it's better to listen to Master Yingshan's decision." The person who spoke was the eldest son of the Zhang family.
At this time, Yingshan, who had been silent for a long time, nodded and said:
"Or maybe your eldest brother Zhang Tao has some foresight, why don't you two losers stop?"
As soon as he said this, Zhang Fu could only snort coldly, put away his fists and stood aside again, and then quietly glanced at his "big brother" out of the corner of his eye. In his opinion, what the other party said seemed like
In fact, trying to mediate the conflict between him and Zhang Miao is actually flattering Yingshan.
Although Zhang Miao put the long sword back into the scabbard, his teeth were still being bitten and the veins on his neck were exposed, like two black dragons. The men in black robes watching on the side could feel it even from a few feet away.
That strong killing intent.
But even so, Yingshan never took another look. In his opinion, the life and death of Zhang Miao and Zhang Fu had nothing to do with him, and he didn't care at all. He only needed to complete the tasks assigned to him by the family leader.
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"Order everyone to go to the right entrance of the cave." This sentence was still said to Zhang Miao.
"yes……"
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On the top of the tower, three people stood in front of a stone tablet hovering in mid-air. Four mysterious runes were engraved on the tablet. In addition, there was an axe-shaped shadow chopping on the stone tablet, and the handle of the ax was in contact with the stone tablet.
The place where the ax blades meet is where the blood jade is inlaid.
"Sure enough, it's him..."
After Nanfeng Sword Spirit saw the four runes, Xian Shu's temperament suddenly changed. It was no longer as calm as before, and endless killing intent was continuously released from the depths of his eyes.
Yi Xifeng and Zhong Lingxi looked at each other. They didn't know why Nanfeng Sword Spirit burst out with murderous intent after seeing the inscription.
After a while, the Nanfeng Sword Spirit returned to calm.
"Senior Nanfeng, what does this stone tablet mean?" Yi Xifeng asked.
Nanfeng Sword Spirit stared at the stone tablet with cold eyes and said four words.
"Emperor Yuanshi!"
"Sister Nanfeng, do you recognize this person?" Zhong Lingxi asked with concern.
"He is the Blood Emperor!"
"Blood Emperor?!"
"He is the creator of this secret realm!"
Nanfeng Sword Spirit's simple words set off a storm in Yi Xifeng's heart. He had learned a lot about the Blood Emperor from Zhong Lingxi before, but he didn't expect...
"The Emperor of Heaven is shocked...The Emperor of Heaven is shocked... Could it be that this blood-stained secret realm is the body of the Blood Emperor?"
Although there is no substantial evidence, Yi Xifeng feels that his conjecture is very close to the truth.
"Blood Emperor... Yuanshi Emperor..."
Yi Xifeng took a breath. He had thought that the person who created this secret realm was an extremely powerful person, but he did not expect that this person turned out to be the Blood Emperor!