The rising sun was rising in the east, and looking at the vast blue-grey mountains painted with soft light, Zhang Baoer breathed a sigh of relief while riding on his one-horned horse, feeling lucky that he had not encountered any obstacles along the way.
At the same time, he also felt a little confused, because Wanbao Pavilion should have known the news, but for some reason they didn't send anyone to block the way.
"Don't think too much, there are still more than two thousand miles to go... Erha, let's go!"
"Ouch!"
The unicorn roared and plunged into the woods.
Since this is the isolation zone of the Black Flag Empire and it exists as the first border defense, few big forces dare to enter blatantly. Even if there are people, they are in small groups. Over time, this forest has been created.
It's dangerous, and all kinds of monsters are rampant.
Sects like the Ice Blue Sect can only establish sects with the permission of the Black Flag Empire. This is also a method used by the Black Flag Empire to prevent too many monsters from becoming a climate, such as: hunting down the sect's area
The king-level monster.
Zhang Baoer and Unicorn did not walk very fast because the road was difficult and dangerous inside.
Many times, when encountering a dense forest or a place with strange terrain, Zhang Baoer would even have to come down and explore the path first, letting the unicorn horse follow behind.
However, although they encountered a few monsters, the levels of those monsters were very low, so their trip went smoothly.
Time passed slowly, and as the distance approached, Zhang Baoer's face gradually became joyful, because he found that the closer to the Ice Blue Sect, the fewer the monsters and the lower the level.
"Haha, there shouldn't be any big problems ahead, right?"
Zhang Baoer smiled. Fortunately, those few Yunshang tribe people told him the route they took, which saved him a lot of trouble.
However, he also knew that arrival meant the arrival of the biggest crisis, and the situation was not optimistic, so his smile was superficial.
"There are only more than three hundred miles left... Try to arrive before tomorrow morning, let's go!"
Perhaps feeling Zhang Baoer's eagerness, this time the unicorn horse used its speed to the extreme and sprinted hard.
Time continued to pass, and just as Zhang Baoer thought, they were not blocked by the monsters, and they arrived at the entrance of the Ice Blue Sect at about three o'clock in the morning.
There were no people at the entrance, and there were no guards. There was only a three-story boulder on the side, with the words "Ice Blue Sect" written in blue letters on the boulder.
The reason why he was able to accurately find the entrance was because there was a road in front of the Ice Blue Sect, which connected the north and the south. When he saw the road, he immediately thought that this road connected the Ice Blue Sect and the Black Flag Empire.
So he turned south and followed the road to the entrance of Ice Blue Sect.
As soon as he arrived, his nose wrinkled up, because the Ice Blue Sect was located between three mountains, with little wind and a lingering smell. As soon as he arrived here, he smelled a strong smell of rotting corpses.
"It seems that what they said is true. Ancestor Yun must have killed many people..."
Thinking of this, Zhang Baoer pointed at the big stone and said to Erha:
"Erha, you go and hide behind the rocks, I'll go in alone!"
"Hoo ho!"
The unicorn nuzzled his shoulder with its head, as if to say 'be careful'.
Zhang Baoer nodded and watched the unicorn go and hide behind the big rock. He took off his shoes, rolled up his sleeves and trousers, and disappeared into the jungle on one side.
He didn't take the main road because it was easy to be discovered there. He walked very slowly because it was completely silent inside, and the slight sound he made seemed to be the only sound here.
The further they walked in, the stronger the smell of rotting corpses became. Suddenly, Zhang Baoer let out a light sigh because he could see that the road and the grass where he was were covered with corpses.
"No one is complete...it seems to have been shattered. This...is so scary!"
Looking at the devastated land, he realized that these people were not killed one by one or a few, but were killed in a large area. For example, there was one in front of him that was one foot deep and more than five feet long.
, an irregular pit about two feet wide.
"Well...this is what that 'spaceship' did, right?!"
Thinking of this, Zhang Baoer tightened his mind, because he saw that the weapons in the pit were all in pieces, and he thought that Patriarch Yun's methods must be extremely terrifying.
He didn't dare to be careless and deviated a little from the main path, so he dared to continue to move forward cautiously.
While moving forward, he kept saying in his heart, "Cai'er, I wish you were still here", because it was so quiet here, with no movement at all and no light. He didn't know if Cai'er was still alive. If so,
Will you still be here if you are alive...
After walking for another ten minutes, the avenue finally reached the end. What we saw was a ruin of houses covering an area of tens of thousands of acres. It was as if it had experienced a huge earthquake. It was devastated, with huge palm prints, spaceship prints, and cutting marks...
The smell of rotting corpses here was extremely strong. Since many corpses were buried by collapsed houses, he couldn't tell how many people died here. He could only guess based on his last experience when he returned to Luan City: at least ten or twenty thousand
people!
This is very scary. Not to mention that one person can kill ten or twenty thousand people, but these ten thousand or twenty thousand people must be many monks from the Golden Elixir, Nascent Soul, and even the Divine Palace realm!
But his eyes did not stay on these ruins for too long, but looked at the end of the ruins. There was a huge palace there. Moreover, it was still standing and the damage was not serious!
After thinking about it, Zhang Baoer turned and walked towards the mountain. He did not dare to be careless and decided to go around from one side to take a look - although the ruins were easy to hide, there were debris on the ground. If Patriarch Yun was still there, a
If he's not careful, he might be discovered with just a little sound.
When he came to the hillside, he found that there were many corpses here. They should have been killed while fleeing. Their corpses were very complete, but each of them had a small hole from the back of the head to the forehead.
The caves were different. Zhang Baoer checked for a while and found that they were all killed by small stones or sand. The small stones or sand that killed them penetrated their heads and shot several inches into the hillside.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Baoer suddenly became nervous, because he suddenly no longer thought that Patriarch Yun was a person in the realm of ordinary gods.
"I don't know if any monks in the Ice Blue Sect who are in the realm of the gods have been killed. If so, did he inflict heavy injuries on Patriarch Yun before he died?!"
This idea is ridiculous, but Zhang Baoer has no choice. He can only hope that Patriarch Yun is not in his prime state... because the stronger Patriarch Yun is, the less likely he is to escape after success or failure.
"No matter... take a look first and then talk!"
He wanted to search around to see if there were any traces of a fierce battle, but he suddenly realized that it was unrealistic. It was dark at this time, and even if he had figured everything out, it would probably be bright by then.
It’s no longer difficult to hide.
So, he held his breath and slowly moved towards the main hall.
After a while, he discovered that the hall was half-embedded into the bottom of the cliff of the mountain behind, and there was no 'back door'.
In desperation, he had no choice but to walk to the boulder wall and then turned to the main entrance.
After a while, Zhang Baoer couldn't help but tremble when he looked at the dark door, feeling that it was like a huge mouth that was about to swallow him...
He resisted the urge to swallow, tensed his mind and body, and after listening to no avail, he slowly moved his head towards the stone door frame with a gap.
The hall was a mess. The floor was covered with pieces of wood, stone pillars and corpses. There was a high platform in the middle with a metal chair on it.
There was no breath of living people in the hall. Looking at the scattered chairs and corpse fragments on the ground, Zhang Baoer took a slow breath, then held his breath and slowly walked in.
The reason why he was like this was because he saw that the hall was empty and there was nothing...
"Have Cai'er and the others already left? No...where is the 'Holy Pond'?!"
After going around in a circle, he felt huge disappointment and thought he was late. But just when he was about to shout to vent his frustration, he suddenly thought of what those people called the 'holy pool'.
Patriarch Yun stayed here precisely because of this ‘holy pool’, but he didn’t see any pool.
"...There shouldn't be a 'holy pool' in the ruins outside. If there is one, it's either heavily guarded or...a hidden place?!"
Thinking of this, his eyes froze and he checked again.
This time, he gained something. He found that those people's space rings were missing, and they didn't even have weapons. He felt that Patriarch Yun was short of money, otherwise it wouldn't be like this!
"Is there some kind of 'secret room' or 'treasure house' somewhere?!"
Thinking of this, he began to knock here and there, on the floor and on the stone wall...
Boom!
Just when he knocked on the stone wall facing the palace door, a different sound came into his ears. When he took a closer look, he saw that they were stones about one foot long and one foot wide.
He was overjoyed and hurriedly searched around, but found nothing for a long time.
"It's strange..."
He pushed hard several times and found that the boulder was not moving at all, but he was not exhausted and continued to search... Wherever his fingers went, his eyes were almost touching the ground or the wall.
It was precisely because of this meticulous attitude and persistence that he found it ten minutes later!
The button to turn on the mechanism turns out to be on the metal chair in the center. There is a small square that is hard to see on the armrest. Press the small square:
Boom!
The stone wall was lifted upwards, revealing a dark upward stone staircase one foot high and wide, from which a musty smell wafted.
Zhang Baoer was overjoyed and hurried over, but he frowned because there was dust on the stone steps. There were many footprints on the dust, but those footprints were from a long time ago. As a half-archaeologist, he could
It is concluded that they left at least more than a year ago, which does not match the time Cai'er and the others arrived here.
"Huh... go in and take a look. After all, Patriarch Yun can fly."
In the end, he chose to go in.
He did not immediately go up the stone steps, but searched everywhere because he was worried that just as he thought - he was going to close the door!
Fortunately, it didn't take long. After a while, he found a smooth stone with a protruding surface. After pressing it, the stone door rumbled down.
Zhang Baoer quickly held his breath and listened. After finding that there was no sound coming from the top of the stone steps, he walked up carefully.
He was very skillful when going up the stone steps. He did not drop his whole foot, nor did he choose the middle position.
In order to prevent leaving obvious traces, he walked like this: Use the thumbs of both feet to point on the edge of the stone wall...
Zhang Baoer found that this passage was very long. He walked for half an hour without seeing the end. He also found that this secret passage did not go too far into the mountain because it was sloping upwards at a large angle, faintly connected to the mountain.
The hills outside are parallel.
"Is it straight to the top of the mountain?!"
Zhang Baoer frowned, because if it leads directly to the top of the mountain, then the existence of this passage will not be of much significance. Just build the sect on the top of the mountain.
Half an hour later, he found that the inclination had changed, and the stone steps no longer went up, but went straight into the heart of the mountain.
At the same time, he also stopped. His body did not emerge, but his eyes were slightly higher than the stone path, because he found a faint light coming from the depths of the stone path.
"It's not direct radiation! It seems to be a reflection... Sure enough, the stone wall is very smooth, and there is a strange fishy smell!"
After confirming that the light point in the distance was not shining directly, he stood up and found that the stone wall was very smooth and there was a fishy smell on it.
"Could it be that this place was not dug manually from the beginning, but some kind of monster?!"
Thinking of this, he stopped thinking about it, because a lot of time had passed and it was almost dawn outside. If he was discovered, the probability of the few people escaping successfully would be greatly reduced.
So, after he slowly took another breath, he continued to hold his breath and moved forward.
Time continued to pass, and twenty minutes later, Zhang Baoer walked into a space in the mountain the size of a basketball.
His whole body turned blue, because it was a space illuminated by blue light. The light source was located in the center of the space. There was a pool of steaming water mist, and both the water and the mist emitted a dazzling blue light.
He walked out without hesitation, his body stumbling like a child just learning to walk, his eyes widened, tears flowing out of his eyes, and the tears left his cheeks and fell to the rocky ground like a blue gem, exploding.
Because besides tears and blue, there is another person in his eyes.
"Cai'er?!"
He shouted out, but received no response, because the man lying flat and floating three feet above the pool, surrounded by blue mist, had his eyes open, but there was no color in them, and they were empty... as if they were lost.
Stamens of flowers.
She didn't turn her head, she didn't breathe, her chest didn't rise and fall, and she didn't have a heartbeat...
She was wearing a long white dress, the style was exactly the same as the one she wore when they met Zhang Bao'er, but... Zhang Bao'er didn't know if they were the same long dress, because he remembered that the original one had been destroyed by Sitting Mountain Wolf, and
The set in front of me is perfect.
Just like the long skirt, Zhang Baoer didn't know whether the person in front of her, whose skin was covered with dense blue lines, was still Cai'er from before...