“Decades ago, during that desolate beast tide riot, this powerful enemy took advantage of the beast tide riot to sneak into the Myriad Manifestation City's treasure pavilion and steal a secret treasure. If it hadn't been for our Grand Elder discovering this person at the time, we wouldn't have known that there was such a lurking cultivator. With the Grand Elder's peak mid-stage strength at the time, he couldn't even stop this powerful enemy. This time, when the Azure Cloud Pavilion opened, we investigated and found out that this person might also sneak into this place, which is why we wanted to use the imitation spiritual treasure in the hands of fellow Daoist to trap this person. Unexpectedly, the two of us were tricked, which is really hateful.”
“No wonder fellow Daoist wanted to borrow the Sea-Overturning Bottle of my Flood Dragon race. Although this imitation spiritual treasure in Lan's hands is not as good as the Sea-Overturning Bottle of the clan, it can still exert 30% of the original power. I didn't expect it to only leave behind an incarnation. What kind of treasure did this person steal that made you search for so long?”
“Alas, this matter is a secret of my Myriad Manifestation City, please forgive me, Brother Lan.”
“Hehe, if fellow Daoist Linghe doesn't want to say it, then so be it. But this person has already escaped, are you still going to chase after him?”
“Of course, although this person escaped from the hands of the Grand Elder, he was also injured. Moreover, he was marked by a secret technique of the Grand Elder. As long as he is within a thousand miles, it will be easy to track down this person's whereabouts.”
While the one man and one demon were talking, they suddenly looked towards another direction at the same time. They saw several rays of escaping light flying towards them.
Approaching the four cultivators, two of them were the man and woman who had just questioned Zhang Ling, and the other two were male cultivators. All four of them were nascent soul stage cultivators.
The colorfully dressed beautiful woman saw that Realist Linghe's face was not very good, so she asked, "Senior Brother Linghe, did that person escape again?"
Realist Linghe nodded helplessly, chatted with the others for a few words, and then left with the four nascent soul stage cultivators.
Only the Blue Flood Dragon demon cultivator was left in place, looking at the direction they left, stroking his chin as if thinking about something. Suddenly, this demon said in a muffled voice towards a direction not far away.
“Fellow Daoist Niu has been watching here for so long, I wonder if you have seen anything.”
As soon as the words fell, a ray of golden light appeared in the originally empty place, rippling like water waves. A white-haired old man in a yellow robe appeared, with a pair of golden curved horns on his head. He was one of the vice pavilion masters of the Azure Cloud Pavilion who had shown his face before.
“You and Linghe, plus the imitation spiritual treasure in your hands, allowed the true body of that strange cultivator to escape. Niu can't see anything, but don't you think that the small flag that the true body of that person sacrificed before escaping looks a bit familiar?”
“Oh, Brother Niu really saw it. If Lan is not mistaken, that seems to be a Four Direction Flag. This is interesting. It seems that that person may also be inseparable from the Five Elements Spirit Cauldron.”
“Hehe, Four Direction Flag, Five Elements Spirit Cauldron, Heavenly Tower Palace, True Spirit……”
The two demon cultivators talked to each other like this, and their faces became a little more serious, as if they were thinking about something.
……
Drifting clouds float everywhere in the sea of clouds, and the endless clouds cannot be seen to the end.
Two days later, Zhang Ling had flown tens of thousands of miles all the way, and he sensed a strange strong wind zone not far away. Before approaching there, he could feel the strong wind raging continuously, as if he was about to enter a storm.
Low-level cultivators would not be able to stay in this environment for too long.
Zhang Ling did not hesitate at all. A faint protective spiritual light appeared on his body. After a cup of tea, he easily passed through the strong wind zone, and his eyes suddenly opened up. He saw an island with a not-so-small area.
This island located in the strong wind is extremely calm and is in a windless zone. The area is also several hundred miles in size, but the strange thing is that most of the island is broken, forming several layers of rubble layers of different sizes.
However, the central area is still relatively intact, and you can see several dark black stone mountains on it, and you can occasionally see some traces of buildings.
This is Black Spirit Island. This island is also quite legendary. According to the introduction on the map, this island was discovered thousands of years ago and was occupied by a cultivation force with two nascent soul stage cultivators. There was also a not-so-small trading market built on it.
Generally speaking, no force would come to the sea of clouds to build a trading market. The reason for building a trading market on this island is because this island is rich in a special spiritual mine called Black Magnetic Phosphorus Mine.
This phosphorus ore contains geomagnetic power and can be used to refine some special magical instruments and magic treasures. The biggest function is to refine formation tools or objects such as altars.
The force established a trading market on the island to mine spiritual mines. After so many years of mining, it is said that the Black Magnetic Phosphorus Mine was basically mined out two hundred years ago, and the force occupying the island also withdrew, and the trading market on the island gradually declined.
Zhang Ling recalled the introduction of Black Spirit Island while passing through the rubble area of dozens of miles. Before long, he came to the island and landed directly on a bluestone square at the foot of a mountain. Looking around, the scene in front of him was a scene of ruin.
The square is not small, it is a hundred feet wide. Not far away, there are also several huge flying boats parked. They are all flying cloud boats that travel between various islands. They are widely used and can be used to carry people and pull goods. This kind of flying boat is expensive and is considered a top-notch spiritual weapon.
Occasionally, you can see some huge stone pillars standing there. There are also several wide streets crisscrossing the square. Some stone houses and stone towers are located on both sides. But most of the doors are closed, and some of the buildings have been weathered beyond recognition, like an abandoned deserted island.
Although this trading market is dilapidated, you can still see some of the original prosperous scenes. In an area near the foot of the mountain, there is a blue light curtain covering the area of several miles in the center of the trading market.
This is a formation restriction, and it is obvious that some cultivators are still left here.
Zhang Ling's divine sense moved slightly, and a divine sense passed through the light curtain. With the strength of his divine sense, he roughly explored the situation inside in the blink of an eye. There were indeed some cultivators left behind. The number was not large, only about a hundred people.
However, the aura of some of them is not weak. In a moment, he discovered more than 30 golden core cultivators, seven or eight of whom had reached the late golden core stage.
Zhang Ling smiled and walked towards there. The blue light curtain also seemed like the restriction outside the usual trading market, and he easily passed through it.
After entering the light curtain, he stood on a dim street, and only three or four cultivators were walking in a hurry on the street. This environment made Zhang Ling think he had come to a ghost market.
At the same time, he also sensed several divine senses sweeping over him. The strength of these divine senses was emitted by golden core cultivators. Of course, he is now showing the cultivation of the middle stage of golden core.
If he didn't suppress his cultivation and suddenly came a nascent soul stage cultivator, it would definitely cause some commotion. Zhang Ling glanced at the street and walked purposefully towards a shop called Divine Weapon Pavilion at the corner of the street.
This shop is not big, it is a bit dim inside, and you can see a few magic weapons of little value and some broken formation tools on a few shelves. It seems that no business has visited for a long time.
Zhang Ling walked in without hesitation, and turned his eyes to a white-haired old woman behind a mahogany counter on the left.
The old woman had snow-white hair, a hunched body, and was holding a jade slip in her hand, seemingly checking something. Seeing someone coming in, she said without raising her head, "My small shop only has a few third-rate magic weapons. If you want to collect Black Magnetic Phosphorus Mine, please go to another shop."
“Hehe, Fairy Ye invited me here, are you going to reject me?” Zhang Ling smiled helplessly.
The old woman's hair was disheveled and her face was gray, looking like she was dying. But under his divine sense induction, the person in front of him was not so old. He saw at a glance that the old woman's face had no wrinkles and was fair, it was Ye Zimei.
The old appearance was just the woman's disguise.
Hearing his words, the old woman also looked up and glanced at him, a golden light flashed in her eyes and she stood up. “Eh, it's you, you really came.”
While speaking, the woman waved her hand, and the door of the shop closed with a bang.
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A quarter of an hour later, led by Ye Zimei, the two walked out of the blue light curtain and flew towards the other side of the island with their escaping light. After flying for more than twenty miles, they entered a low mountain and landed below a remote cliff in the mountain.
Zhang Ling observed the surroundings along the way. The location where they landed was a small valley. Except for some gray-black weeds, there was no vegetation, which looked extremely desolate.
Ye Zimei raised her hand and took out a black token, and a black light shot out when spiritual power hit it, hitting the cliff wall. The cliff wall in front of him trembled and cracked a gap a foot wide.
“Fellow Daoist Zhang, please.”
The woman pointed at the mountain seam and walked inside first. Zhang Ling followed half a step slower. While opening the restriction, his divine sense quietly penetrated into it to check it, and found nothing wrong.
Inside was just a simple cave, which seemed to be temporarily built.
After entering it, they walked directly into a stone house. Zhang Ling immediately smelled a strong medicinal fragrance, and instantly noticed that there was a wooden barrel about a zhang in size in the center of the stone house, and a figure was soaking in it.
When his eyes fell on the face of the figure, he saw a wrinkled brow and a pale face, it was Ding Ruozhao, the woman.
Zhang Ling instantly felt that the woman's breath was weak. As Ye Zimei said, she was seriously injured. I don't know how this woman got into this state.
Seeing this woman again, Zhang Ling felt a little complicated. After being silent for a while, he asked, “What happened to your sister, can you tell me now?”
Ye Zimei also recovered her true appearance at this time, glanced at her sister and suddenly asked again, “I still want to ask you again, have you really entered the nascent soul stage?”
“Zhang did indeed enter the nascent soul stage not long ago.”
Zhang Ling ran the nascent soul in his body, and a spiritual pressure belonging to the nascent soul stage cultivator appeared on his body, and a powerful aura burst out.
Seeing this, Ye Zimei's face changed slightly, and then a look of joy appeared on her face. “That's good, if you have this kind of cultivation, then my sister can be saved.”
Zhang Ling's brows also frowned. Looking at the woman's expression, her sister's situation must not be optimistic. Otherwise, why would she test his cultivation again and again.
Ye Zimei smiled bitterly and explained in detail the experiences of their sisters. Zhang Ling sighed after listening.
It turned out that it had a lot to do with the Tianyuan Secret Realm decades ago. Ding Ruozhao was so seriously injured, which happened in Tianyuan.
The source of all this is related to the Kunshan Sect's ruins that they explored in the desolate region. It is also related to Tian Chenzi, who turned into a white jade skeleton, the Blood Child, and some ancient secrets.
At that time, Zhang Ling and Ding Ruozhao separated after escaping from Tian Chenzi's control. Zhang Ling didn't know what happened after that.
But Ding Ruozhao had a secret method to sense that Ye Zimei was not dead. After separating, she returned to the ruins, wanting to find Ye Zimei's trace.
It is said that at that time, Tian Chenzi and the Blood Child were both defeated, and no one got any good. In order to compete for the Qianling Cauldron, they razed the Kunshan Sect's ruins to the ground.
When Ding Ruozhao arrived there again, it was already empty, and there was no trace of Ye Zimei. The woman was naturally unwilling to wander there for a few days, but still gained nothing.
But when she wanted to give up, she met the white jade skeleton Tian Chenzi again. After a fight, the old monster's strength was greatly reduced, and most of the skeletons that had been transformed were broken. He was very weak, but wanted to absorb Ding Ruozhao's whole body to restore his strength, but after his strength was greatly reduced, he was suppressed by Ding Ruozhao instead.
Ding Ruozhao spent a while controlling Tian Chenzi. I wanted to ask about Ye Zimei's situation. Unexpectedly, Tian Chenzi really knew something, and learned that Ye Zimei was controlled by the Blood Child.
In order to rescue her sister, Ding Ruozhao and Tian Chenzi reached a cooperation. She helped Tian Chenzi recover his strength, and Tian Chenzi helped her rescue her sister.
There was another important reason for cooperating with this old monster, because Ding Ruozhao learned that the Blood Child turned out to be the second nascent soul transformed by Tian Chenzi's split soul.
With this relationship, Tian Chenzi understood all the details of the Blood Child.
Hearing this, Zhang Ling was also quite surprised. He didn't expect that so many things had happened after escaping at that time. Moreover, Tian Chenzi and the Blood Child are still the main nascent soul and the second nascent soul in this connection.
This made Zhang Ling feel inexplicably awkward, and he thought of himself and Xuan Gui.
“Tian Chenzi, Blood Child, no matter who is the split soul or the main soul. They are indeed the same person. Our sisters have been involved with them by mistake. My sister cooperated with Tian Chenzi, and I was controlled by the Blood Child. In fact, what we did was the same, helping them restore their strength. In the past hundred years, some elders of the top ten sects have been fighting in secret, more or less related to these two guys. My sister also followed Tian Chenzi and released a big demon from the Hidden Demon Valley, and also involved many transformed demon kings. And many of these things are related to ancient secrets, the Five Elements Cauldron, and the seal of Tianyuan.” Ye Zimei said with a wry smile.
