Gu Jie opened his mouth and shouted. His voice was like a great bell, instantly dispersing the woman's laughter.
With a flick of his wrist, the air in front of him fluctuated and a green flying sword appeared out of thin air. It quickly flew towards the woman in white.
The woman in white didn't move, but the snow lotus under her suddenly shone brightly. A jade-like petal swayed in front of her and blocked her body.
"Zheng!" A sharp sound was heard.
The tip of the green flying sword pierced an inch into the snow lotus petal and could no longer move forward. It could only tremble in the air.
Seeing this, Gu Jie made a sword sign with both hands and silently chanted an incantation.
The runes on the green flying sword shone brightly. The tip of the sword that pierced the snow lotus suddenly lit up with a green light the size of a grain of rice. It emitted bursts of strong wood attribute aura.
With the illumination of this green light, the entire snow lotus petal began to change from a translucent white jade color to a sparkling emerald color.
"Pu!" A light sound was heard.
The grain-sized misty green light suddenly flashed and suddenly emitted a bright light. A sparkling and translucent jade-like dark green thread suddenly shot out from within. It was as thin as a hair and looked extremely weak, but its speed was incomparably shocking. In an instant, it penetrated the petals of the snow lotus and shot into the flower bud.
When the woman lying in the snow lotus saw this, her eyes slightly narrowed. She waved the white flower in her hand and hit the dark green thread.
"Pu! Pu!" Another two light sounds were heard.
The dark green thread went straight through two layers of petals before stopping. The light dimmed and then dissipated. The white flower in the woman's hand also had two petals turn black. They directly withered and fell off.
"You really don't know how to have tender and protective feelings for the fairer sex."
The woman caressed the white flower with some resentment. Then, she stood up and bent her finger to point at the tip of the green flying sword that was inserted into the snow lotus petal. She bent her finger and gently flicked it.
The green flying sword immediately seemed to be struck by lightning. It emitted a mournful trembling sound and flew away from the petal. It spiraled back into Gu Jie's hand.
Just as Gu Jie grasped the hilt of the flying sword, he suddenly felt a strange itch in his palm. Looking down, he saw that the hilt of the flying sword was covered with pink crystal powder.
Before he could let go of the sword hilt, there was a flash of light from the crystal powder, and a series of colorful butterflies flew out from it. The butterflies were densely packed, and they quickly enveloped his entire body.
Gu Jie frowned, and the runes on his armor flashed. Azure light shone brightly, and slender azure vines suddenly extended from the armor. They surged in all directions, instantly submerging the butterflies and killing them.
But right at this moment, he was shocked to discover that the white snow lotus and the woman in white had actually disappeared. Even the ripples of their auras had completely vanished.
He twisted his body and looked around. He was shocked to find that his surroundings were empty. There was nothing there. Even the snowfield beneath him had disappeared.
"Humph!
Don't even think about trapping me with a mere illusion … "Gu Jie murmured.
After saying that, he closed his eyes and began to silently open and close his mouth.
Accompanied by a low murmur, a wisp of azure light lit up in his palm. The runes on his armor and the longsword in his hand lit up at the same time, releasing a lustrous green light.
After a moment, his eyes suddenly opened, and he held the sword with both hands and slashed it forward. At the same time, he let out a violent shout.
"Activate!"
In the void behind him, the azure light exploded, and seven thousands of meters tall azure sword shadows, like a falling mountain, smashed forward with a tyrannical and unparalleled momentum.
"Boom boom boom …"
The void rumbled continuously, and the seven sword shadows fell one after another, causing the entire space to shake violently.
However, as the violent shaking gradually subsided, there was still nothing around, and there was not the slightest change.
The expression in Gu Jie's eyes finally changed. At this moment, he realized that he seemed to be in an absolute space of nothingness.
"Daoist Gu, I think there is no need for us to continue fighting.
Can we sit down and talk now? "At this moment, the voice of the woman in white suddenly sounded in the surrounding void.
"What do you want to talk about?" Gu Jie asked.
"I have some understanding of what happened.
This is just a mission of the alliance, and they are only carrying out the mission. They did not do anything wrong, "the woman in white said slowly.
"What a joke!
They killed a Perfected Immortal cultivator of my Immortal Palace who is very likely to become a Heaven Alchemist, and you say that they did nothing wrong?
Then isn't it even more wrong for me to seek revenge? "Gu Jie said angrily.
"Indeed, what you did is not wrong, Daoist Gu.
They only killed one of you, but you … killed more than one person from the Anicca Alliance, or should I say the Torch Dragon Path, right? "The woman in white asked.
"How can these people's lives be compared to Ping Yaozi's?" Gu Jie sneered.
"That is your position.
From my point of view, you have already gone too far, and it is time to stop, "the woman in white shook her head and said calmly.
"If the other two don't die, don't even think about letting this matter rest," Gu Jie snorted coldly and said resolutely.
"I am only saying these words to you to give face to the Northern Frost Immortal Palace. If you continue to be ungrateful, although I may not be able to make you stay, I can go into seclusion for a thousand years to seal your twelve apertures, greatly reducing your strength.
Having said that, don't think that the Immortal Palace will really fall out with the Torch Dragon Path and the Anicca Alliance for a Golden Immortal.
If that is the case, you won't come here alone. "The woman in white's face finally sank.
Gu Jie's expression stiffened and he fell silent.
"The people you killed before, whether it is the Anicca Alliance or the Torch Dragon Path, will not be held accountable. This matter is over.
If you know the consequences, leave the Ancient Cloud Continent as soon as possible. "
As the woman in white's voice gradually faded, the sky above Gu Jie's head suddenly opened, and several huge petals bloomed in all directions, releasing him from the petals.
Then, with a flash of light, the huge white lotus flower disappeared with a bang.
Gu Jie floated in the air, his expression changing for a while. Finally, his figure blurred and turned into a blue light, speeding towards the north.
Half a day later, on an unknown mountain in the Torch Dragon Path.
In the middle of the mountain, there was a spacious round altar, surrounded by eight black stone pillars. There was a brazier on top of it, and some kind of oil was burning in it, giving off a red light that illuminated the surrounding space.
Under the illumination of the fire, a tall man wearing a blue deer mask and a black cloak was rubbing his hands and pacing back and forth on the altar. His steps were messy and he looked very anxious.
It was Lin Jiu.
He already knew that the people of the Anicca Alliance in the Torch Dragon Path were killed one after another. Through the scattered news in the alliance, he also determined that the Golden Immortal elder of the Northern Frost Immortal Palace had come to kill him.
He originally wanted to leave the sect and hide in a secret realm that no one knew about, then come back after he became a Golden Immortal. But when he was about to escape, he received a message from a senior member of the Anicca Alliance, telling him not to leave the Zhong Ming Mountain Range and to wait here for news.
He waited for nearly a year, but there was no news at all, which made him a little worried.
At this moment, at the center of the altar, a white light suddenly shone, and a white snow lotus bloomed in the air. The white light flashed, and a woman in white appeared.
"Yun … Senior Lin San," Lin Jiu hurriedly greeted and greeted her.
"Gu Jie's matter is no longer a problem.
However, don't set foot on the Dark Frost Continent for the next thousand years, "the woman in white said indifferently.
"Thank you, Senior Lin San, for helping me out," Lin Jiu hurriedly bowed and said respectfully.
"I've repaid the favor I owed you previously. If something like this happens again in the future, I won't help you anymore. You're on your own," the woman in white said indifferently.
As soon as he finished speaking, his figure turned into a ray of white light and dissipated before disappearing.
Lin Jiu could only smile bitterly and bow to the void.
Then, he took off the deer mask on his face, and his body suddenly shrank, turning into a short and fat man dressed in a luxurious golden robe. It was Xiong Shan.
…
Outside the Ancient Cloud Continent, in the East Stream Sea, there was a deep blue sea that was not frozen.
There was a ring-shaped island in the sea, and below the island was a pitch-black trench that was tens of thousands of feet deep.
In the depths of this trench, there was a grayish-white stone tablet that was ten feet tall. It was covered with holes of different depths caused by the erosion of seawater, and it was also covered with a layer of slippery black seaweed, causing it to look no different from a reef in the sea.
However, in reality, this grayish-white stone tablet was the entrance to a grotto-heaven secret realm under the Fire Dragon Path.
Inside the secret realm, on a white stone plaza on a green mountain that hung high in the void, Han Li held the railing with both hands and looked into the distance.
As far as his eyes could see, there were numerous solitary peaks that were lush with lush vegetation, and all of them were floating helplessly in the void. There were no roots touching the ground below each of the peaks, only extremely dense green vines that hung down like green threads and fell into the grey mist below.
This secret realm was called 'Hovering Mountain', and there were thousands of solitary mountains within it. The mountains were filled with the essence energy of heaven and earth, and all kinds of supreme-grade spiritual herbs grew on them, including the Mountain Root Spirit and Crouching Dragon Ginseng that were needed to refine many kinds of Earth Elixirs.
At the bottom of these Hovering Mountains was a bottomless ravine filled with thick fog, and there were many strange humanoid creatures with gray skin hidden in it.
There were no records of their original names, so the people of the Fire Dragon Path named them 'White Ghosts' based on their appearance.
Under normal circumstances, these White Ghosts would never leave the ravine and come to the Hovering Mountains, but every few years, the thick fog in the ravine would rise without warning and spread toward the Hovering Mountains above.
At this time, a large number of White Ghosts would rush out from the depths of the ravine and rush into the Hovering Mountains covered in fog to collect various spiritual herbs on the mountains. Once they were blocked by cultivators, they would break into conflict and fight.
The combat power of these White Ghosts was not very strong, but there were many of them, and each of them was fierce and unafraid of death. In the several large-scale conflicts in history, neither side could gain any advantage.
Later, in order to stop the White Ghosts once and for all, a Taoist Master in the Fire Dragon Path who was good at formations set up a strong restriction under the Hovering Mountains, which could prevent the thick fog from rising. Thus, the invasion of the White Ghosts was completely stopped.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. People soon discovered that without the spread of the thick fog, the production of spiritual herbs on the Hovering Mountains in the secret realm decreased year by year, and spiritual herbs such as the 'Mountain Root Spirit' were directly extinct, and not a single one could be seen.
At this time, the cultivators of the Fire Dragon Path realized that there was a unique symbiotic system in this secret realm, which would affect the whole body with a slight change.
After that, the Taoist Master removed the restriction formation and no longer blocked the rise of the thick fog. He also left a ban that as long as the White Ghosts did not invade the Hovering Mountains covered by the thick fog, they would not fight them.
However, in order to avoid accidents, in addition to a large number of Void Training Stage disciples and puppet servants, at least one True Immortal Realm elder must be stationed in the secret realm all year round.