"About two days. There is no time basis here. I can't accurately judge the time."
Wang Lan stood up with some difficulty. With a crash, a necklace fell from her arms and spread out. The pendant of the necklace was opened, and there was a photo inside.
There was a little girl in her teens, who looked like Bai Ji. Behind her, a man was hugging her. When Wang Lan saw the man, her pupils suddenly shrank.
Yu Ruoyun looked at Wang Lan curiously and pursed her lips, "Don't you have a girlfriend? When did you fall in love with Bai Ji?"
"Ah?" Wang Lan looked up at Yu Ruoyun inexplicably.
"Tch! Still pretending? I discovered before that when Hayate and Bai Ji came together, you saw them together several times with unnatural expressions on their faces. Now you've been staring at Bai Ji's necklace for so long,
Do you miss people after seeing things?"
"I always thought you were a calm and rational woman, but I never thought that you would also show your emotional side." Wang Lan smiled slightly, "And your ability to think things through is not inferior to that of ordinary girls."
"Does your implication mean that I am not a woman in your mind?"
"Well! You are a goddess, and a popular goddess."
"Huh... Xinyu said that you are a big pig with lumps on the elm, it seems... she doesn't understand you. You are very good at teasing."
"I'm just telling the truth."
"I don't want to listen to your nonsense. I know what I look like, and my aesthetics are not different from ordinary people."
"Do you think I'm complimenting you? Come on, we are teammates, brothers who have carried guns together, okay? Do you think I'm a handsome guy? How can I be so superficial?
The label of your popular goddess was not put on by me, but by all the classmates of Xingwu Academy in the Magic City. Apart from anything else, the two guys in my dormitory even mentioned your name with respect on their faces, and barely stood at attention.
Salute and sing the national anthem.
Don’t you know your image in the hearts of your classmates? You are like the goddess in the Moon Palace. You are too cold to be high up and can only be seen from a distance but not close to you. You are always strong, wise, wise and mighty, but... you can’t connect with women.
stand up."
"Okay, okay... stop talking." Yu Ruoyun waved her hand, "If you keep talking, I won't dare to look in the mirror anymore."
"Why?"
"I'm afraid I can't help but worship in front of the mirror."
"hehe……"
"Then why are you staring at the necklace in a daze?"
"There is a photo inside the necklace." Wang Lan held up the photo and showed it to Yu Ruoyun.
"Then what? I've seen it before. It's just an ordinary photo. It should have been taken when Bai Ji was a child."
"But this photo tells me why someone wanted to assassinate Bai Ji."
"Oh? Is it related to that man?"
"Well, that man's name is Xiao Qing. He is the man who was arrested by the Tianjian Bureau some time ago and controls the entire underground soul orb trade in the Demon City. There are many people who have done business with Xiao Qing. When he was arrested, many people wanted him to die immediately.
Although he never revealed who was behind him until his death, the person behind him had to be eradicated. Unexpectedly, Bai Ji was Xiao Qing's daughter. What kind of civilian genius can achieve great achievements through hard work... It turned out to be just
fairy tales."
"Is this so?" Yu Ruoyun didn't seem to have much emotion, but thinking about it, now that they are in a desperate situation, how can they be in the mood to consider other things.
"Are there no strange beasts here?"
"I don't know why the strange beasts don't dare to come close."
Wang Lan felt that she was almost recovered and stood up slowly.
"Have you looked around?"
"Not yet, I've been keeping an eye on you, and you almost died seven or eight times in the past two days. What now? How are you, are you sure everything is okay?"
"It's okay!" As long as the Life Hymn Star's martial arts skills don't flash, it means it's okay.
"Let's go and look around. What kind of sect is this Xianyun Sect? Maybe it's really a cultivating sect. If we can leave a secret book, treasure, golden elixir, etc., so that we can ascend directly in the day, that would be great
beautiful."
"I think too much, and I'm still flying in the day. I think it's more like daydreaming." Yu Ruoyun said jokingly, stood up and took a step, but suddenly staggered and almost fell.
Wang Lan quickly stretched out his hand to support him, "What's wrong with you?"
"It's nothing, just a little exhausted."
The two of them helped him out of the palace.
The moment you set eyes on it, you will be shocked by the natural scenery.
The solitary peak that collided violently is located due east of the main hall, and the main hall is also located at the peak of a mountain. Outside the main hall, there are steps that stretch to the foot of the mountain, each step is half a meter high.
Surrounded by mountains, undulating seas of clouds, and dense jungles, it is endless as far as the eye can see.
Countless flying beasts were hovering in the distant sky, and in the dense forest, bursts of beast roars could be heard one after another.
"Did you carry me up along this staircase?" Wang Lan asked in surprise.
"What do you think? Otherwise, how could I lose my strength?" When Yu Ruoyun spoke, a faint blush appeared on her cheeks again, "If you were the only one, it would be okay. The armor you are wearing weighs at least thirty kilograms. I am carrying it on my back.
You weighed nearly two hundred pounds and climbed for a full day and night."
"Thank you so much!"
"fine."
"Have you found the big bell?"
"I haven't had time to find it yet."
Along the gravel street outside the main hall, Wang Lan turned around and came to the back of the main hall. But behind the main hall, there was a stretch of ruins.
The ruins have been abandoned for an unknown number of years. Judging from the scale, this Xianyun Gate was once extremely glorious and prosperous. It may have been destroyed by war, and traces of battles can be seen everywhere.
Obviously, Xianyun Gate was destroyed like this.
"Wang Lan, look!" Following Yu Ruoyun's guidance, Wang Lan found some bones among the ruins.
Wang Lan jumped up and down several times to reach the white bones, which were severely weathered and shattered into powder at the slightest touch.
Returning to Yu Ruoyun again, "These withered bones must be thousands of years old. Otherwise, they would not be so badly weathered. The Xianyun Sect must have experienced a catastrophe, and the entire sect was destroyed."
"But if this is the case, why does the hall remain intact? And why do strange beasts dare not approach it?"
"Maybe it has something to do with that big bell. Have you heard the bell since?"
"I heard it twice, ten times each time. Maybe the bell rang once a day. But the strange thing is that I couldn't tell where the bell came from. After arriving at Xianyun Gate, the bell seemed to be everywhere.
.”
"Look for it, be careful!"
Wang Lan supported Yu Ruoyun and walked around the Xianyun Gate in a complete circle. Except for the main hall, the entire Xianyun Gate was destroyed.
"strangeness……"
"when--"
Suddenly, a bell rang, right next to Wang Lan's ears. Wang Lan quickly raised her head and looked around. But the bell seemed to be everywhere. No matter where Wang Lan turned, she could hear the clear sound of the bell.
"when--"
The birds in the distance flew away in fear, and even the roars of beasts stopped.
Suddenly, Wang Lan raised her head and stared at the sky.
The sky seemed to be rippling, spreading into the distance.
"Ruoyun, we...may be...located in that big bell." Wang Lan said speculatively.
"What? Why can't I see it?"
"This big bell covers the entire Xianyun Gate, and it is transparent. So we are in the big bell, and the bells ring as if they are coming from all directions."
Yu Ruoyun imitated Wang Lan and raised her head, and after a long time nodded in agreement, "This is the only explanation."
"Ruoyun, have you ever thought about why the entire Xianyun Gate was destroyed and all the buildings collapsed, but only the main hall remained intact?"
"Maybe... the texture of the main hall is stronger?" Yu Ruoyun laughed first as she said that, "I'm just talking nonsense. It stands to reason that the materials of the main hall are the same as other buildings."
"I guess... Xianyun Sect must have fought hard to preserve this hall. But the sect has been destroyed, so why keep the hall?" Wang Lan's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Inheritance!"
"It should be, let's go back to the main hall to search. They say that surviving a catastrophe will lead to good fortune. We are all unlucky enough to be sent to this hellish place. If we can't get some adventure, we will be sorry for this encounter."
"What makes you think so?"
"What?"
"When encountering danger, there must be adventure?"
"Aren't all the protagonists in TV dramas like this? They are knocked off a cliff, get a peerless magic weapon, and then return to the world to kill all the enemies. They are deposed to the Star Palace, but encounter the myth of the Star Martial Arts, rebuild the Star Palace and return to the top."
Yu Ruoyun's eyes gradually became strange when she looked at Wang Lan, with deep pity.
"You are so innocent and romantic."
"This is called never forgetting the original intention."
Although they were bickering, it was just to comfort each other's nervous emotions. As for whether there are any treasures or inheritances in the hall... there is a high probability.
Wang Lan has analyzed that all other buildings have collapsed, and there is no reason why the main hall is intact. In addition, the invisible bell covering Xianyun Gate is obviously for protection.
What the big bell protects is definitely not the ruins. So it can only be the main hall.
However, the main hall was also in a mess. Even where the chairs were once placed, there was only dust on the ground. If it weren't for the traces of chairs, Wang Lan would have thought that the main hall was empty.
The steps in the center of the hall have collapsed, and even the statues originally enshrined have turned into rubble. The only thing that can be regarded as something is the pile of stones.
Wang Lan and Yu Ruoyun came to the gravels enshrining the statues together. The gravels were so brittle that they would break into pieces if they were lightly pinched.
While Qing Li was crushing the rocks, Wang Lan suddenly looked hesitantly at an irregular stone in his hand.
"Ruoyun, you see something is wrong with the color of the stone. It doesn't look like a naturally formed stone, but more like...concrete?"
"Teacher Wang, please be sensible. Concrete has not been around for less than seven hundred years."
"Crack--" Wang Lan squeezed it gently, and the concrete shattered into pieces.
A blue soul bead appeared in Wang Lan's palm.
Wang Lan raised his eyebrows and looked at Yu Ruoyun. Although he didn't say anything, his meaning was very clear. Now, do you have anything else to say?
Yu Ruoyun said hello with a black face.
Was he really deceived?
Immediately, Yu Ruoyun quickly started to dig out a stone that looked like concrete from the ruins. With a slight squeeze, the stone shattered, and a fiery red high-grade soul bead appeared in Yu Ruoyun's palm.