Changsheng: I have been in Jiaofang Division for thousands of years

The palace is resplendent with gold and jade, and thick pillars stand in the main hall, looking majestic and sacred.

Zhao Mu looked up and saw that the decoration in the main hall was simple, and in front of the main hall, there was a huge altar with a height of three people.

Several people approached the altar and jumped on it.

It can be seen that the center of the altar was scorched black, as if it had been burned by a raging fire.

At this time, Liang Kun's eyes flickered, and he slowed down his pace calmly, pulling half a body away from Zhao Mu and others.

Just when he turned around and was about to flee, a voice suddenly came: "Where are you going?"

Swish!

The turtle spirit flapped its wings and flew back, landing in front of Liang Kun: "Hey, old man, are you trying to escape?"

At this time, Zhao Mu and Hei Jiao also turned around and looked at Liang Kun coldly.

"No, no, my lord misunderstood, how could the little old man escape?"

Liang Kun was taken aback, waved his hands again and again and said, "Little old man is actually... actually..."

"Okay, don't say it's useless, do you really think that we will be defenseless against you and let you lead us into a trap?"

The black flood dragon also flew over and snorted: "Tell me, what is in the middle of this altar that makes you think that it can kill us so that you can escape by yourself?"

Liang Kun hesitated.

"Prefer not to say?"

Gui Ling said with a sly smile: "Hey, if you don't tell the truth, I will ask Chu Ying to put you in that bottle again, Mr. Gui, and let you be melted to death."

"No, I say."

Liang Kun was terrified, obviously he had lingering fears about swallowing the sky jade bottle.

So he said: "Well, the little old man admits that he really wanted to plot against the three of you just now, but now the little old man is telling the truth, please don't kill me."

He paused, and then continued: "Actually, when I came here last time, the little old man found the corpse of Sima Tongsheng in the center of the altar."

"At that time, he was standing in the middle of the altar, but when the poor Taoist took him away from the altar, the place where he was originally standing suddenly burst into red flames."

"The flames were extremely hot. The little old man had actually stepped down from the altar at that time, but he still felt as if his whole body was about to be melted."

"Obviously, if I was still in the middle of the altar, I would have been burned to ashes, so..."

"So you want to trick us into the middle of the altar and use that kind of flame to burn us to death?"

Gui Ling stared angrily.

"Forgive me, my lord, I will never dare to lie to you again, my little old man."

Liang Kun knelt on the ground in horror and begged for mercy.

Zhao Mu ignored him, turned around and looked at the center of the altar: "You all retreat outside the altar."

"it is good."

The black flood dragon and the turtle spirit immediately flew out of the altar, and Liang Kun also hurriedly got up and retreated when he saw this.

At this time, Zhao Mu also walked outside the altar, picked up a stone from the ground, and threw it directly into the middle of the altar.

boom!

Immediately, the scorched area really burst into crimson flames.

The temperature of the flame was extremely high, making the whole palace hot in the blink of an eye, and the stone thrown in was instantly reduced to ashes.

Zhao Mu thought for a while, then suddenly looked at Liang Kun: "You just said that the last time you took Sima Tongsheng's body away from the altar, did the fire suddenly appear?"

"correct."

Liang Kun nodded blankly.

"Is that so?"

Zhao Mu pondered for a while, and urged Lingxu Immortal Mansion to release Sima Tongsheng's body.

He said to Liang Kun: "Control the corpse on the altar, and slowly approach the flame in the center."

"it is good."

Liang Kun immediately pinched the seal of the puppet, controlled Sima Tongsheng's corpse to jump onto the altar, and walked towards the flame step by step.

Immediately, a surprising scene appeared, and every time Sima Tongsheng took a step forward, the red flame actually retreated a little.

That kind of feeling, as if the flames have spiritual intelligence, because they don't want to hurt Sima Tongsheng, so they keep avoiding.

And when Sima Tongsheng walked to the middle of the altar, the flame even disappeared immediately.

"Sure enough, there is some connection between Sima Tongsheng and that flame."

Zhao Mu looked back at Hei Jiao and Gui Ling: "You two know more about things in the world of cultivating immortals than I do. Do you see anything about this flame?"

"Our two current cultivation bases are too bad, we can't directly analyze the flame itself, but..."

Hei Jiao hesitated for a moment, and said: "It's just that the aura emanating from this group of flames, I always feel familiar, as if I've seen it somewhere before, Gui grandson, what do you think?"

"Well, I also feel a little familiar, it seems to be..."

Guiling scratched the bird's head with its wings, then suddenly patted its head and said: "By the way, I remembered, this seems to be the breath of the nine-colored glazed cup."

"Yes, that's right, it's the nine-color glazed cup."

Hei Jiao also remembered: "Tsk tsk, I didn't expect that after 2000 years, we actually found clues to this treasure in this southern region."

Chapter 160 The 200-Year Immortal

"Nine-colored glazed cup, what is that?" Zhao Mu asked suspiciously.

"Uh……"

Hei Jiao and Gui Ling were at a loss for words for a while, as if they didn't know what to say: "Actually, we don't know what it is, we only know that it must be a treasure."

What he said was almost like saying nothing.

In the end, Gui Ling explained: "Let's put it this way, the nine-color glazed cup is a treasure that suddenly appeared in the Northern Territory 2000 years ago."

"No one knows its origin, and no one knows what it is capable of, but the mysterious power it exudes can make everyone sure that it must be a peerless rare treasure."

"I still remember what happened on that day 2000 years ago."

"At that time, the nine-color glazed lamp appeared out of thin air, suspended in the endless sky, and the bright nine-color brilliance almost illuminated the entire northern region, attracting countless monks to compete."

"In that battle, blood flowed like a river, and countless monks died. Everyone wanted it, as if they were crazy, or even unable to control themselves."

"That battle lasted from morning to night, with masters from various factions facing each other, and in the end even a few great supernatural powers fought."

"But just when everyone was about to win or lose, the nine-color glazed cup disappeared, just as abruptly as it appeared."

"Later, many people tried to find it, but after exhaustively searching every inch of land in the Northern Territory, they found nothing. I didn't expect that there would be clues about it in the Southern Territory now."

Gui Ling reminded: "Chu Ying, if the nine-color glazed cup is really here, you have to be careful, after all, that thing is rather weird, and no one knows what it is?"

"Actually, the nine-color glazed lamp is not surprising to appear in the southern region. After all, it was inexplicable to appear in the northern region."

"This king is even more curious about how such a treasure has anything to do with a mortal country. What happened between the ancestor of the Beimang country and the nine-color glazed cup?"

Hei Jiao said, "To be honest, the longer I live, the more I discover that this world is really full of secrets. Even if you are the strongest person in the world, it doesn't matter, there are still things in the world that you don't know." .”

Upon hearing this, Zhao Mu smiled slightly: "Do you know how to find out all the secrets of this world?"

"How to find out?" Hei Jiao was curious.

"Hehe, it's natural to live long enough, because no matter whether it's a conspiracy or a secret, there will be a day when time will reveal it."

Zhao Mu smiled and said, "So in theory, if you can survive until the end of the world, then you should be able to know [-]% of the secrets in this world."

"That also requires you to survive until the end of the world."

Hei Jiao shook his head: "But who in this world can live to that day? Not to mention us, even those with great supernatural powers, will they also face the five declines of heaven and man?"

"Okay, why do you two suddenly lament the time, can't you talk about business?"

Gui Ling flapped his wings and said, "Liang Kun, control Sima Tongsheng to leave the altar."

"it is good."

Liang Kun immediately asked Sima Tongsheng to back off.

Pong!

Seeing the center of the altar, the crimson flames suddenly burned again.

Gui Ling said: "Chu Ying, four-legged snake, do you have a feeling that this flame seems to have consciousness, and the reason why Sima Tongsheng extinguished when he approached it, could it be the spiritual wisdom of the flame itself, knowing him? "

conscious?

Zhao Mu and Hei Jiao looked at each other, and immediately felt that this guess was very possible.

Zhao Mu asked in a deep voice, "What do you think?"

Gui Ling thought for a while and said, "I think this flame is probably a spirit body, but it should be relatively weak, so it can't communicate directly with the outside world."

"I think... Chu Ying, what you practice is pure yang mana, which is similar to the attributes of this flame. You can try to infuse mana into the flame to help it recover some strength. Maybe it can communicate with us. When the time comes here We can also figure out the situation."

"Okay, I'll try."

Zhao Mu nodded, visualized a big sun in his heart, and the magic power in his body suddenly surged.

He raised his hand, and the bright golden light shot out immediately, like a ponytail that sank into the flame in the center of the altar.

boom!

In an instant, the flame swelled several times, as if extremely excited, making people feel that it might really be conscious.

At the same time, Sima Tongsheng, who had been silent all this time, suddenly trembled slightly.

It was as if the flesh and blood in his corpse had reacted with the flame, it was very strange.

Gradually, as more and more mana was absorbed, the flame began to shrink inward and collapse, and finally a human-shaped flame condensed.

The human-shaped flame further solidified, slowly revealing clear facial features.

And when Zhao Mu saw this appearance, he was surprised and said, "Mu Xinzhi, it's you?"

That's right, this flame man is exactly Mu Xinzhi who left with Sima Tongsheng back then.

Mu Xinzhi slowly opened his eyes, clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha, poor monk Mu Xinzhi, I have met all of you, this friend, do you know poor monk?"

"Hehe, naturally I know."

Zhao Mu smiled and said, "My name is Chu Ying, you should know my master, his name is Zhao Jinyan."

Zhao Jinyan was the name he used for his second life after he returned to his youth, and it was also the identity he used when he taught Mu Xinzhi how to practice martial arts.

"It turned out to be Mr.'s disciple."

Mu Xinzhi suddenly realized: "Hey, it's been more than 200 years, I didn't expect the poor monk to see the old man now."

"Yeah, I didn't expect to see you here."

Zhao Mu smiled inexplicably: "If my master knew that you are still alive today, I would probably be very surprised."

"Indeed, the poor monk himself was also very surprised. Back then, he thought his life span was approaching, but he didn't expect to live until today in the form of a spirit body."

Mu Xinzhi looked at Sima Tongsheng's corpse and sighed, "For the two of us, one has an immortal body and the other has an immortal soul. I really don't know if this is a gift from heaven or a curse?"

He shook his head bitterly: "Perhaps, it should be a curse. This is God's punishment for us. We shouldn't be greedy for things that don't belong to us. Some treasures are really beyond the reach of mortals."

"You're talking about... the nine-color glazed cup?" Zhao Mu asked.

Mu Xinzhi raised his head in surprise: "You actually know the nine-color glazed cup. Have you also read the "Secret History of the Royal Family" recorded by the royal family of the Jin Dynasty?"

"No, I haven't seen any "Secret History of the Royal Family". I just heard about the nine-color glazed cup from a friend just now."

Zhao Mu shook his head and asked, "Can you tell me what happened after you and Sima Tongsheng left the capital?"

"Why did you come to the Totem Temple, and why did it become what it is now, and what does this have to do with the nine-color glazed cup?"

……

Chapter 161 The Secret History of the Royal Family

Hearing Zhao Mu's inquiry, Mu Xinzhi sighed deeply: "Speaking of this, even today, the poor monk still finds it inconceivable."