While thinking, Jiang Beiran noticed that Feifu had stopped, and then heard Shi Fenglan's voice ringing in his ears.
"Xiao Beiran, they stopped."
Jiang Beiran nodded and looked out through the Sky Eye Formation again. He found that although the sect had been surrounded by Gu cultivators, the sect-protecting formation had not yet been broken. Everyone was relying on the formation to fight against the Gu cultivators.
.
Cheng Yanqing, who was in front, rushed down first and knocked away all the Gu cultivators surrounding the sect-protecting formation.
'It seems that there are no Gu cultivators of the Xuansheng level here.'
Seeing Cheng Yanqing fight his way back to his sect as if he was in a deserted place, Jiang Beiran knew that he had no role to play.
After Shi Hongyun, Cao Jinghua and the other Xuanshengs also took action, the Gu cultivators outside the Wanhua Sect were quickly cleared out. In order to prevent fraud, Fu Yichen and Cuntou Xuansheng guarded the outside of the sect.
However, when all the disciples of Wanhua Sect boarded Fei Mansion, there were no accidents. It can be said that it was quite smooth.
As before, they first escorted the disciples of Wanhua Sect back to Yuancheng, and then everyone went to the next sect.
…
Several disciples of the Xuansheng Sect were safely escorted back to Yuancheng without any accidents along the way. If the miasma hadn't been there, Jiang Beiran would have even thought that all the Gu cultivators had retreated.
But on second thought, Jiang Beiran and other Xuansheng had to think about another problem.
‘Where have those Xuansheng-level Gu cultivators gone…’
It's like a spider appears in your room. You will feel wary and your whole body will be tense, but you can still stay calm and think about how to deal with it.
But if this spider suddenly disappears from your sight, you will never feel any peace of mind. Instead, you will become more and more frightened, and even start to fidget and scare yourself. Before you find this spider, you will not even be able to sleep.
It's impossible to sleep peacefully.
And this is Jiang Beiran's current mentality.
The disappearance of those Xuansheng-level Gu cultivators did not make them feel relaxed at all. Instead, they became more and more nervous, constantly thinking about what big news they were going to make.
"What do you think?"
In Yuan City, Shi Weiyi looked at Jiang Beiran who had just walked out of Fei Mansion and asked.
"What the sage said means..."
"You know what I mean." Shi Weiyi looked at Jiang Beiran and asked.
"If the sage is asking about the whereabouts of those Gu cultivators who can fight Xuansheng, then I can only say that I don't know, but the sage should have discovered it. The people in the towns and villages on the road are all fine."
Shi Weiyi nodded: "Well, we have all discovered it, and we also know the purpose of these Gu cultivators coming this time."
After thinking for a moment, Jiang Beiran still asked: "Sage, can you tell me what the relationship between this Gu cultivator and Xuanlong Continent is."
Shi Weiyi turned back and glanced at Jiang Beiran. His eyes were two parts surprised, three parts doubtful, four parts appraising, and seven parts disbelieving.
"Bei Ran really doesn't know?"
With this look and tone, Jiang Beiran knew that Shi Weiyi must think that he was asking questions knowingly.
After all, the pretense just now was too great. In their eyes, I should have a terrifyingly powerful background, and it is not just as simple as having a hermit master as my master.
In Shi Weiyi's understanding, since he has such a background, it is impossible not to know the connection between Gu Xiu and Xuanlong Continent.
But Jiang Beiran didn't care at all how they guessed him, whether he was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, or whether he was wise or foolish, anyway, before they guessed his true identity, they could make up their own reasons to convince themselves of anything they did.
After all, this is how Jiang Beiran came all the way.
There are more and more top experts being bluffed.
"It makes the sages laugh, but the juniors really don't know." Jiang Beiran cupped his hands and said.
If it had been before, Shi Weiyi would have smiled slightly and replied, "Actually, I don't know either."
But this time Jiang Beiran has done too many things for the Shi family, and there are still countless pairs of greedy eyes staring at him. Shi Weiyi firmly believes that when this Gu cultivator incident is resolved, there will be countless sects
The family offered extremely attractive terms to win over him.
So even if he felt that Jiang Beiran was asking questions knowingly, Shi Weiyi still answered seriously: "Actually, I don't know much. Even in ancient books from a hundred or even a thousand years ago, there are very few records about the Gu clan. It's like
Someone is deliberately erasing the evidence that they ever existed."
Since even Shi Weiyi said so, it is a certainty that someone deliberately covered up traces of the Gu clan's existence.
So what kind of person would do such a thing?
Most likely it's a person with a guilty conscience.
If it was Gu cultivators who failed humans, they should be nailed to the pillar of shame instead of being covered up.
Of course, I can't say it so absolutely, but it should be close to ten.
"Since the sages said it is rarely found, does that mean there are still records in some ancient books?"
"Indeed, but most of it is spread by word of mouth."
'Passed down by word of mouth?' Jiang Bei was stunned for a moment, 'What does the ancestral teaching mean?'
After all, this kind of seemingly taboo topic will most likely not be discussed publicly. Those who can spread it orally are naturally within the family.
'Then the older the family, the more they can know?'
When Jiang Beiran guessed, Shi Weiyi continued: "One thing is certain. Gu cultivators were indeed a clan on the Black Dragon Continent, and they were an extremely powerful clan. They even ruled the entire Black Dragon Continent at one time."
'Well... on this point, it is still different from what the public says.'
When Jiang Beiran first heard about Gu cultivators, it was said that they were surrounded and suppressed by other cultivators because their practice was too cruel.
In the name of absolute justice.
Now Gu Xiu seems to have become the ruler of the mainland. Of course, this can still be because the cultivators ruled by Gu Xiu felt that Gu Xiu was too cruel, so they joined forces to resist and overthrew the tyranny.
This can barely be explained.
"The subsequent legends about Gu cultivators are just speculations and sporadic records. They cannot be accurate." After agreeing on this premise, Shi Weiyi continued: "Because Gu cultivators were unprecedentedly powerful at that time, they set their sights on the secret realm.
The alien continent in the world, trying to dominate more territory."
"But other cultivators did not agree with this plan, but the Gu cultivators directly rejected their objections and asked them to serve as an advance force to go to the new continent to investigate the situation."
"It is precisely because of this that internal conflicts broke out in Xuanlong Continent. As you know, the result ended with the Gu tribe being expelled. As for what happened in the middle, I don't know."
'It means I don't know the key details at all...'
However, what Shi Weiyi said can basically coincide with the history that Jiang Beiran learned from Yin Jianghong before. Although there are no details of the process, from the beginning of what Shi Weiyi described, other cultivators backstabbing the Gu clan is simply
A perfectly normal thing.
After all, if I don't cheat you to death, if you are going to cheat me, you must strike first.
Seeing Jiang Beiran's calm expression, Shi Weiyi kept thinking about a question in his mind.
'He suddenly asked me what this meant...'
Although Jiang Beiran tried his best to express curiosity in his tone, Shi Weiyi still didn't believe that he really didn't know anything, because on this continent, the five monsters are the most likely to know this history.
Three Heavenly Jue, because these secret realms contain the oldest families in the entire continent, they naturally know the most.
"Bei Ran."
Just when Shi Weiyi kept thinking about the reason why Jiang Beiran did this, Cao Jinghua suddenly came over and shouted.
After hearing this, Jiang Beiran and Shi Weiyi turned around and cupped their hands towards him and said, "Senior Cao (Cao Meng)."
Nodding, Cao Jinghua looked at Jiang Beiran and continued: "We just tried various methods of transmitting messages again, but they all failed. Now a few of us intend to go out to find the sects of several old friends. They have not yet come.
, I’m afraid something unexpected might happen.”
'It's really a big trouble...' Jiang Beiran sighed inwardly after listening to Cao Jinghua's words.
When he was rescuing the Wanhua Sect just now, Cheng Yanqing discovered that his sect's communication method had failed.
Like all the sects and families that Jiang Beiran has seen, Tongguo also has many "communication" methods.
Token-type "walkie-talkie", "BB machine" made of jade slips, etc.
But as the miasma spread, communication suddenly became basically relying on shouting.
This is undoubtedly the work of Gu cultivators. As for the reason, according to Jiang Beiran's analysis, the crux lies in this miasma.
Because no matter what kind of communication method, including his paper kite transmission, it is inseparable from the use of spiritual energy. It is precisely because spiritual energy spreads throughout the continent that the paper kite can go anywhere.
But if it encounters a magic weapon like Feifu that can disrupt the spiritual field, Zhiyuan will lose its direction.
And this miasma obviously has the same effect. While polluting the spiritual energy, it also completely interferes with its function, making many mystical arts that originally relied on spiritual energy lose their effect.
Jiang Beiran also tried to send a few paper kites to his disciples, but there has been no reply so far, which is enough to show that the communication method has indeed failed.
He arched his hands towards Cao Jinghua: "Senior Cao, do you want this junior to go with you?"
"Yes, I know this trip is dangerous, but we will take good care of you."
"Since Senior Cao has said so, then Junior will do as he is told. When will we set off?"
"This matter cannot be delayed. Let's leave now."
"good."
After Jiang Beiran finished speaking, he returned to Feifu and followed Cao Jinghua and others out of Yuancheng.
'quiet……'
After flying for a while, the situation inside the miasma can be said to be so quiet that it makes people feel a little nervous.
Especially Shi Hongyun and the Xuanshengs who fought fiercely outside all day yesterday. It was obvious that Gu cultivators were wreaking havoc everywhere yesterday, but why were they so peaceful today?
This calm before the storm reminded several Xuanshengs of a long-lost emotion.
disturbed.
In the midst of uneasiness, the three Feifu ships landed on Qimu Mountain, which is the gate of the Tianming Sect. The sect leader is a good friend of Cheng Yanqing. Because it is the closest to Yuan City, they came here first.
Looking out through the Sky Eye Array, Jiang Beiran found that this place was even more exaggerated. There were not even miscellaneous fish Gu cultivators. This sect was as quiet as if nothing had happened.
Outside the mountain-protecting formation, Cheng Yanqing went down to Fei Mansion and shouted in: "Is Brother Chongjun okay?"
Soon, a figure flew out of the sect.
"Greetings to Headmaster Cheng." The figure bowed his hands to Cheng Yanqing, "My ancestor went out when the miasma came and has not returned yet. We are also very anxious."
Cheng Yanqing nodded after hearing this and asked again, "Has your sect been harassed by those monsters?"
The middle-aged man nodded immediately, "Not long before you came, those monsters were still surrounding our sect, but now they suddenly retreated. I was still thinking about what happened. It turns out you are here."
Cheng Yanqing naturally knew that those Gu cultivators could not be scared away by him, so he felt even more baffled.
But he didn't have time to think too much: "In that case, you first gather the disciples within the sect. Now that all the sects in Tong State have gathered in Yuancheng, it is too dangerous for you to stay here."
After hearing this, the middle-aged man was shocked at first. He didn't expect the situation to be so serious. After all, he had never encountered a Xuansheng-level Gu cultivator, so he had not yet deeply felt the horror of these Gu cultivators.
But since even a Xuansheng-level powerhouse like Headmaster Cheng had asked him to take refuge, it meant that the situation was already very dangerous.
But after hearing this, there was a hint of hesitation on the middle-aged man's face. After all, they would never dare to do such a thing without their ancestors saying it themselves.
Cheng Yanqing obviously noticed his worries and didn't explain too much. Instead, he asked several other Xuanshengs to walk out of Fei Mansion together.
"Hurry up and organize the tribesmen to follow us. All the sects and families in Tong State are now in Yuancheng. Your ancestors will not blame you if they find out." Cao Jinghua took the lead and said.
Seeing so many Xuan Sages appearing in front of him, the middle-aged man no longer hesitated and immediately raised his hands and said: "Yes! Thank you all the saints for coming to the rescue. I will go and gather the clan members."
Seeing Wu Yurong turn and leave, Cheng Yanqing frowned and said, "You should have heard what Yurong said just now. What do you think is going on?"
The Gu cultivators who were attacking the Tianming Sect retreated en masse. This was really strange.
Cao Jinghua thought for a moment and said: "No one can be contacted now, and there is no point in guessing. Let's save more people first, and take a look around on the road to see what happened."
Several other Xuanzongs could only nod silently after hearing this. After all, they couldn't think of any better way.
Although they usually have great abilities, they really can't display them at all in the face of this miasma of unknown origin.
After carrying the disciples of the Tianming Sect back to Yuancheng, Cao Jinghua and the others continued to search for the next sect without stopping.
Until late at night, Cao Jinghua and his party, who had already rescued three sect disciples, were even more confused.
Because their situation was all the same as that of the Tianming Sect, the Gu cultivators who originally attacked them suddenly withdrew, and there was no news about their own Xuansheng.