Qingtong was not surprised to see Mingyan standing there. He had been like this for many years. A dragon standing in the void, looking at the snow on Taixuan Mountain. Whenever you couldn’t find Shizun, it was best to start searching from this place to find him.
Mo Tianliao’s scalp tightened at the scene.
The thick blood evil aura that spread from the cave in the mountain was due to the death of many people in a short time, very similar to the Death Valley back then. And Mingyan was just standing there blankly, as if he didn’t see or feel anything out of the ordinary.
“How’s the crafting of Xuan Jian progressing?” It was snowing at the top of the mountain. Mingyan didn’t turn to look back at them, but the corners of his lips slightly curled up as he watched the pure white snowflakes turn red.
“I encountered some obstacles,” Mo Tianliao embraced Qingtong and slowly approached, narrowing his eyes to look at Mingyan, “Taixuan Hidden Treasure Cave, were you the one who opened it?”
Qingtong was taken back and turned his head to look at Mo Tianliao.
Mo Tianliao quietly squeezed the palm of his hand, motioning for him to stay calm.
“What makes you think so?” Mingyan seemed to be in a good mood. His tone of voice was milder than usual, though he did not answer the question straightforwardly. He seemed to have a sudden interest in small talk.
“Taixuan’s Hidden Treasure would open every thousand years, but the time is not certain. This time as soon as the cave opened, the predicament of the Woyun Sect suddenly disintegrated, and also Shizun reminded me at the beginning that I should concentrate on crafting Xuan Jian and should not care about these affairs.” Mo Tianliao kept a close eye on Mingyan. He didn’t care about the number of people who had died. After all, during a secret treasure hunt, most people would die, but he had to understand Mingyan’s true purpose.
If all of this was done by Mingyan, then Mingyan was obviously playing a big game, and even he and Qingtong were both trapped in this game. At the beginning, Mingyan had vaguely talked about crafting Xuan Jian. Mo Tianliao didn’t care about doing wicked things, but he didn’t like being used by others. Most importantly, he wanted to ensure that Qingtong was not harmed.
“Correct,” unexpectedly, Ming Yan confessed openly, flipping his hand and taking out a yellowed jade tablet, “A thousand years ago, I had commissioned someone to craft the Xuan Jian, but unfortunately it resulted in failure. Now, this is that person’s handwritten notes, maybe it would be useful to you.”
Mo Tianliao looked at it and slowly reached out his hand to pick it up. But his eyes were guardedly watching Mingyan.
“Humm –” Suddenly, a roar came from the mountain, as if the sound of some great array had been opened.
Mingyan’s mood seemed to get even better, and he turned to walk into the mountain: “You guys come and take a look too.”
Mo Tianliao hesitated a bit. To be honest, if Mingyan was not Qingtong’s master, then he wouldn’t have trusted him even this bit. After all, for so many years, Mingyan had planned this strategy and he was not a kind-hearted person. This matter was full of oddities, and Mingyan refused to explain it clearly…
“Shizun will not harm us.” Qingtong looked at him and said slowly.
Mo Tianliao raised his head, met the pair of light-colored glass eyes, and slightly curled his lips. His cat knew what he was thinking even without him talking: “Would you like to go see?”
Qingtong nodded, there was no worry in his clear cold eyes.
“Then do you know what’s inside?” Seeing that he was so sure, Mo Tianliao expected that Qingtong might know something.
“I don’t know.” Qingtong said flatly.
Mo Tianliao twitched the corners of his mouth, took a look at Mingyan’s disappearing figure, sighed, and pulled Qingtong to catch up. Whatever it was, it had to be seen.
The cave was located on the cliff of the main peak of Taixuan Mountain. He didn’t pay attention when he came before. The thick bloody aura made Mo Tianliao frown, he signaled Qingtong to become a cat and hide.
Qingtong didn’t say much, he turned into a small furry ball and got into his robes. If he was small, he would suffer less from the bloody aura.
Mo Tianliao added more than a dozen defensive enchantments around his body. Only then, he approached the cave. The opening of the cave was not neatly cut. It didn’t look like a cave that was dug out, but as if it was blown open by some force.
The cave was dim, and Mo Tianliao popped out a few illuminating small magical artifacts, instantly reflecting the long corridor, and was startled.
At the moment when the cave was illuminated, countless eyes on the mountain wall were illuminated at the same time, and they all stared at him in unison. The kitten in his arms immediately grabbed his clothes.
“Chi You insects…” Mo Tianliao patted the fur ball in his arms and motioned him to go in and not look. It was rumored that Heaven and Earth killed Chi You and the whole mountain was dyed red with blood. Due to the strong blood evil aura, a kind of evil worm was born in the shadow of the mountain. Because this kind of insect was nourished by Chi You’s blood, it was called Chi You insect.
Chi You’s eye was as big as a copper bell. In addition to this eye, there is still a sucker on it’s whole body. This sucker usually allowed it to attach to the mountain wall, when it encountered a living thing, it would madly pounce on it, and would suck the blood dry. Even a cultivator couldn’t fight it.
Right now, these insects were lying quietly on their stomachs, as if they were full, but Mo Tianliao didn’t dare to be careless. He used his Qi, tapped his feet lightly and floated in the cave without making any sounds. Along the way, one could see many corpses that had been sucked dry, as well as scattered clothes and artifacts. Floating to the end of the tunnel, countless fork roads appeared in front of them, each of them, dark and deep. Mingyan was standing in front of the fork in the open space waiting for them.
“Ahhh–”
“Be careful!”
“Wow! See what I found!”
Noisy sounds came from different forks. It seemed that some roads led to treasures and some were dangerous. Obviously, people were not dead. On the surface of the open space below Mingyan’s feet, there was a very complicated and large array painted, with bright red marks, it was flickering and dimming.
“This array needs countless amounts of blood to open. Once it is opened, there will be inexhaustible treasures.” Mingyan’s expression was very indifferent as he turned around and walked towards one of the forks in the path.
The harshest screams were heard from that dark fork of road, just moments ago.
Mo Tianliao added an insect proof barrier around his body, and took out many of the defensive weapons in the storage bracelet and hung them on his body. The most important thing was to put a few on the cat in his arms, just in case.
Just stepping into the fork, the scene in front of them changed abruptly. It was no longer dark and gloomy, instead the sun was shining here, and there was a cave. A stone gate stood not far away, and on the arc, there were two characters written, “Xuan Pin”.
The stone gate was one hundred feet high and one hundred feet wide, glowing with bluish light, and it looked very ethereal and unreal, as if it was immersed in the seabed. The word Xuan Pin was like the door plaque of the Dragon King’s crystal palace under the sea, glowing blue.
“Duantian!” A familiar voice came from the front. Looking carefully, they turned out to be Liu Mang and Liu Bi. They were holding a spiritual weapon and looking at him with unkind eyes.
“Indeed enemies on a narrow road!” Liu mang gritted his teeth, and swung the spirit weapon in his hand towards him.
Mo Tianliao raised his hand and blocked the spiritual sword with Taishi. He stood still and closed his eyes slowly. He raised his hand and turned Taishi into a longbow. He tried to glean the direction with his divine sense, but it was chaotic. He opened his eyes and said, “Baby, tell me where Shizun is.”
Everything in front of him was an illusion, because Mo Tianliao never saw Mingyan from start to end, so this was an illusion array!
The snow-colored kitten jumped out and turned into a human form, slowly closing his eyes. The demon soul was several times stronger than the human soul. Amidst the chaos, he quickly found the direction where Mingyan was, raised his hand and pointed to the strange stone gate. .
Mo Tianliao pulled his bow, a tortoise-shell arrow quickly flew towards the stone door, and the moment the arrow rushed out, the scene in front of him began to collapse.
The bright sunshine disappeared, and it was pitch black once again. Mo Tianliao popped up the light illuminator, which startled Qingtong and caused him to grab Mo Tianliao’s arm.
The two of them were on a very narrow path. One side of the path was a precipice, and the other was a deep overhanging cliff. Under the cliff, there were countless bright eyes of the Chi You insects.
Immortal Liu Mang sat on the road ahead, wailing with one leg held in his arms, Liu Bi held the spiritual sword in her hand, her face was a little pale: “If you don’t cut off your leg, Chi You insects will suck you dry.”
The leg that was cut off gurgled and rolled down, the insects that were above, obviously had their fill, the ones below hadn’t, and as soon as the leg reached the bottom the dark tide of insects quickly submerged the leg. Liu Mang’s scalp went numb, and he did not dare to make any more noise. He quickly chewed two pills to stop the bleeding.
The Chi You insects here didn’t seem to want to rush and bite people, which was a lucky thing.
Mo Tianliao looked up, Mingyan was not far away, walking forward slowly without turbulence.
After making sure that the two people from the Liuyun Sect in front of him were not illusions, Qingtong opened his mouth and asked, “How come it’s just the two of you?”
“The disciples who followed us are dead.” Liu Bi’s face was very ugly. In fact, there was far more than one illusion array here, there were countless killing arrays and trap arrays. They had been trapped here for a long time, and now they did not dare to move forward.
Mo Tianliao ignored them and only looked at Mingyan. Mingyan did not follow the path, but took a few steps, floated into the air, and then dropped down to take a few steps. Onlookers would certainly find it comical to look at, but Mo Tianliao could see that it was a specific type of stride that avoided the countless arrays there.
As an Array Master, Mo Tianliao kept in mind the path that Mingyan took and then without missing a single step, followed him. After just two steps, he saw Qingtong follow him, and immediately reached out and picked him up: “Don’t go by yourself, it’s very dangerous here.”
Qingtong nodded, lying on Mo Tianliao’s back and letting him carry him.
The two people floated, following Mingyan in a similar manner. They didn’t know how long they walked when a stone gate appeared in front of them, exactly similar to the gate in the illusion just now.
“This is…” Mo Tianliao put Qingtong down and walked slowly to Mingyan’s side.
“The gate of Xuan Pin.” Mingyan stretched out a hand and slowly rubbed the three grooves on the door.
This stone door had no handles, and no gaps. There were only three strange grooves on it.
“To open this door, you need three things,” Ming Yan’s fingers stroked the three grooves one by one, “Xuan Zhu, Xuan Wu, Xuan Jian.”
Mo Tianliao’s pupils shrunk, and he paused as he spoke word by word: “What’s on the other side of this door?”
“Over there…” Mingyan despondently looked at the thick stone door. This was a gate made by ancient gods and stones. No one could use external force to break open. Only the ancient gods and demons could open it. “It’s the Taibai Continent.” He slowly put his palm on the door, as if this way, he would be a little closer to that world.
At the same time, on the other side of the door, a long, slender hand, slowly pressed in the same position.
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Mini Theater:
Carpenter: Who is that over the door?
Mingyan: Zhang Qiling
Carpenter: ……..What do you want to do with Zhang Qiling?