Artifact Smuggling Specialist

The mysterious realm of the land of souls, the vast ancient atmosphere, made everyone feel an urge to kneel and worship.

Zuo Lan's legs trembled a little, he gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, took a step back, and stood with Jiang Cuoming, Xi Yulin, and Chongyu.

They were standing on a huge circular platform at the moment, surrounded by desolation and desolation, looking very depressed.

Zuo Lan didn't know about the other people's situation. Anyway, he had his own map. If his previous map was not mistaken, they were now in the southwest of the entire secret realm. The ancient battlefield was marked on the map, and the entire secret realm was like a desert. The circular continent, they are only on the edge of the secret realm at the moment, and if the secret realm really has heavenly grade Horcruxes, it must be at the very center of the continent.

At this moment, 27 people are standing here, seemingly calm, but they have already started to guard each other.

Before Zuo Lan came, these people had secretly hooked up and were ready to go together.For example, the three members of the Soul Art Guild wore uniform uniforms, so it was likely that others would not recognize them as a group.

The people with companions in front had already chosen a direction to walk, and Zuo Lan actually saw Lin Jianren from the Ninth Soul Academy among the group of people leading the way.

They fell last and were in no hurry to go.

Zuo Lan asked, "Do you know everyone who came this time?"

Jiang Cuo calculated the number of people secretly, "Most of them know each other, but many of them haven't seen each other for a long time, so I don't know them very well."

At least the members of the Ten Thrones family knew each other.

"Chongyixi, Wujiang, Seven Seasons and Nine are all descendants of the direct line, but the rest of the Ten Thrones, it seems, are not. Among the nine soul institutes, there are still people from the Ten Thrones, even among the three of the Soul Art Guild. It belongs to the Ten Thrones. Some people can distinguish who they represent, but some people hold several positions and don’t know who they represent. For example, Zuo Lan, which party do you represent?"

Xi Yulin was very curious. Although he had vaguely guessed the result, it was better to ask.

The Zuo family is not among the Ten Thrones, so it is impossible for Zuo Lan to represent the Throne Family. The representative of the Ninth Soul Academy is Lin Jianren, an outstanding student of the previous Mu Academy. It is even more impossible for the Soul Art Guild, so Zuo Lan can only be The spokesperson of the Soul Emperor, then—which Soul Emperor is it?

You know, the matter of the Lincang Tui Clan has caused a lot of trouble, could it be...

Sure enough, Zuo Lan did not disappoint Xi Yulin, he smiled lightly: "I am the spokesperson of Lincang."

Chongyu over there had already guessed, sneered silently, and raised his lips.When he received the family's notice to come here, as soon as he heard that the Soul Emperor would have a spokesperson, he immediately thought of that day in the grove by the Meihu Lake, when the new emperor Lincang made a move. Chongyu has knocked down the realm, and now he is just a soul warrior Zhongping, not much better than Zuo Lan and the others.However, those who can be selected by the family to come to the secret realm are not simple characters, not to mention that Chong Yu was once the representative of the new students. Although he did not appear, it does not mean that he has no means of his own.

However, Chongyu suddenly looked at Xi Yulin: "I just saw that you are not the only one who came to the throne, Xiwu, who do you represent?"

Xi Yulin hugged his arms, took two steps on the spot, stood still, and glanced at the three people around him: "Of course, an alien like me can't represent the family. I represent——Xiyi Emperor Jiangshan. "

Zuo Lan was stunned, he actually represented the Soul Emperor!

Xi Yulin explained: "There are more powerful people in Xiwu, the imperial seat, why should I go to make fun of myself."

To put it bluntly, he is just an unfavored direct descendant of Yuzuo Xiwu Middle School.

Jiang Cuoming did know that just now Xi Shuangyun, another direct descendant of Xiwu, the throne, looked at Xi Yulin very unkindly.Obviously, there are also internal struggles within Xi Wu, the throne. "I represent the imperial seat Jiang Qi, then—Brother Chongyu, you..."

"Chong Yan, Emperor of Daybreak." Chong Yu said lightly.

At this moment, it became clear who the four people represented, and it turned out that three represented the Soul Emperor, and only one represented the Throne Family.Zuo Lan represents Lincang, the emperor of Tianyuan, Chongyu represents Chongyan, the emperor of Breaking Dawn, Xi Yulin represents Jiangshan, the emperor of Xiyi, and Jiang Cuoming represents Jiang Qi, the emperor.

"Five Emperors, there are three of us gathered here." Xi Yulin suddenly laughed sarcastically, then looked at the surroundings that had become deserted, and said, "We should go."

The others have been gone for a long time, and they are still grinding here.

"Since we have entered the secret realm, life and death are already in the hands of the heavens. If any of the four of us unfortunately leaves, whether it is killing each other or being killed by others, it is hereby agreed that the dead person must be killed." bring the ashes back to the Soul Continent."

Before leaving, Chongyu said this to the other three people.

The other three nodded, but their hearts suddenly became heavy.

But Xi Yulin suddenly licked his lips, with a bit of cruelty in his eyes: "Isn't this good? Anyway, the soul emperors don't know what will happen here. The fact is that whoever gets out alive has the final say. It’s not a big deal for so many people to die.”

For example, it is normal for Xi Shuangyun to die.

Zuo Lan guessed what Xi Yulin was thinking by looking at Xi Yulin's expression, and couldn't help but find it funny, but the nervous feeling suddenly faded a lot.

This place is indeed about to be full of intrigues and fights, not only because they want to find and compete for heavenly grade Horcruxes, but also—the 27 people here have intricate relationships with each other, and some of them are enemies themselves.

Jiang Cuoming said: "Let's go inside."

He flipped his hand and turned out a compass, which attracted everyone's attention.

"It's an ordinary compass, but it's useful in our current environment."

At this time, the four of them are already a small group by default, so they should take out things that should not be hidden. Jiang Cuoming does not hesitate to use these gadgets to stimulate the soul power, and the soul array appears, slowly circling , the golden compass began to shine brightly, and a circular plan suddenly appeared in the void, and a small golden dot was in the middle of the disk.

"The golden anchor point in the middle is where we are, but I'm not sure where we are in this secret realm. We need to look at the terrain." Jiang Cuoming casually took out a mid-level earth-grade soul crystal , got stuck in the soul crystal slot at the bottom of the compass, and withdrew his own soul power, and the whole compass began to run automatically.

Jiang mistakenly tapped the golden positioning point in the center of the compass, Zuo Lan and others immediately felt circles of soul power fluctuations emanating from the compass, hitting all around, as if they were running to a far away place, spreading out Come.

Immediately afterwards, as the fluctuation spread, the map in midair changed again, and circles of lines began to appear, drawing some pictures on the originally empty circular map.

Zuo Lan looked at it and was stunned, contour topographic map?

He immediately understood the working principle of the compass. The ripples emitted by the compass have a height. When they hit something, they will feed back to the compass and leave a record on the map of the compass. This principle is the same as that of sonar detection.At that time, he suddenly felt that the world was very strange.

Touching his nose, Zuo Lan smiled: "Master Jiang Si is very interesting."

Too bad the coverage is too narrow.

Zuo Lan has a map of most of the secret realm, so he naturally knows where they are now. The area detected by this compass has not accounted for one-tenth of the entire secret realm. They should go east now.

Jiang Cuoming frowned, and continued to click on the golden positioning point, another round of ripples swayed out, and soon fed back the information, and the whole map became more detailed.

The four of them are very smart and can basically understand the meaning of the picture. The situation of the entire scanned area is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. The secret realm is like another continent.

"Go southeast." Chongyu looked at the picture, said this, and then explained, "There is an arc-shaped mountain range in the northwest, but the inside of this arc is a relatively low-lying place, so the southeast should be a basin. This There is an ancient battlefield in the secret realm, it seems that it is not as simple as we guessed before, it is the self-space of the soul saint, there are many dead bodies here, which proves that there are still extraordinary people, so it is right to go into the basin."

This thinking is very careful, and indeed the inference is correct.

On Zuo Lan's map, they did have to go southeast to get close to the location of the Horcrux, the Triangle Altar.

He said: "I agree."

Jiang Cuoming is very good at map work, so he nodded immediately: "I have no objection."

Xi Yulin said: "You don't have any opinions, can I have any opinions?"

So the four set off.

This place is indeed a desolate ancient battlefield. At this moment, Zuo Lan and the others have no living people.

Those corpses wearing battle armor had already left only thick white bones, probably because of the damp, some of the bones were moldy and discolored, which looked particularly terrifying.

Xi Yulin didn't seem to mind this at all. At the beginning, he would go up to check the piled up bones and look through the dilapidated iron armor, "These are not things of our time, Zuo Lan, you are right. I am familiar with the history of the mainland, let’s see which era this is from?”

Zuo Lan was also interested when he heard it. He was looking at it, but he didn't expect to check the time. He walked over, picked up a piece of armor, and squeezed it hard. Scum, but no matter how hard he tried, nothing changed at all.Zuo Lan frowned, and said "Huh", "It turned out to be pig iron..."

pig iron?

At this moment, Jiang Cuoming and Chongyu's attention was also attracted, "Are these armor pieces all cast iron?"

Xi Yulin stretched out his hand, pulled out a few bones from another pile of bones, tapped them, and then raised his eyebrows, "Pig iron."

……

The corner of Zuo Lan's mouth twitched, he looked around suddenly, and said quietly: "If these are made of pig iron... how much is it..."

The other three: "..."

Zuo Lan, can you put some normal things in your mind?

"Cough..." Zuo Lan closed his eyes and returned to normal, "If all the battle armor on this battlefield is made of pig iron, and——I just made a rough estimate, the hardness is good, and the content of pig iron should be high, then , On this large ancient battlefield, there is a large amount of pig iron. Our Soul Continent may not have so much pig iron in three years. So these armors should be from a long, long time ago, and the specific era-look at this pattern , too simple, the battle armor here is just an ordinary battle armor, without any additional effects engraved, only the most common defensive formation, this formation has long been abandoned because it is too simple, when it prevailed... 7000 years ago ..."

This conclusion surprised Zuo Lan himself. In 7000 years, this speculation was completely different from the information they were told before they came in. This huge gap made everyone silent.

Xi Yulin's face was still pale, his lips were bruised, his eyes slanted, he stretched out his feet and kicked away the pile of skeletons blocking him, "It doesn't matter if he is hundreds of years or 7000 years old, he has come in, don't you still think about it?" go out?"

Now the channel of the secret realm must have been closed, and the opening of the channel requires the joint action of the five soul emperors. Although it is only a formality, it is inevitable that this channel will be difficult to open, otherwise the five emperors will not come forward. Anyway, they will definitely rely on their own strength. Unable to open, at this moment can only take one step to see one step.

Zuo Lan touched his chin, "Let's go through this ancient battlefield first, I always feel something is wrong."

Maybe it was because he was too sensitive to stay in the pile of bones, and he always felt that the place was dark and windy. Although he was not afraid of ghosts, he was afraid of accidents. The map showed that there would be tall buildings in front of the ancient battlefield, and he could go there to rest at that time.

A place like the ancient battlefield is too evil to be suitable for living people.

They walked all the way, quickening their pace.

The old rusty smell wafted in the wind, the countless corpses around were almost silent, and the dusty banner was waiting for the dark black bloodstains to flutter in the wind, everything was hidden in a kind of tragic silence.

Jiang Cuoming kept holding the compass, and the anchor point where the four of them were located was gradually moving, and the entire map was also expanding.The compass has an automatic memory function, and the previously recorded map can be superimposed on the newly formed map. They have already passed through half of the ancient battlefield, and the map shows more things.

Chongyu has always been at the forefront. He belongs to the Water Academy in the Ninth Soul Academy. He is only acquainted with Jiang Cuoming and Xi Yulin. He is not familiar with Zuo Lan. A person in the front is taken for granted.

However, he stopped suddenly. The dry and cracked black land and scattered broken soldiers were all common sights here.

Why did Chongyu stop?

His anomaly attracted the attention of the people behind him. Xi Yulin walked in the second, stepped forward when he saw this, and then also froze.

Zuo Lan and Jiang Cuoming felt that something was wrong, and after following up to take a look, they felt chills in their hearts.

On the pile of bones in front, there was a fresh corpse. A long gun passed through his chest from his back, piercing his whole body on the gun, and the gun was inserted into the pile of bones. Look at it like that It was clearly a long time ago.

The fresh blood had a seductive aura, dyeing the dense white bones below red. The man in the fine clothes opened his eyes wide, with residual fear in his eyes, looking at the dark and gloomy sky above.

Dark clouds crush the ground, bones and blood!

Zuo Lan and the other four remained silent.

This person was wearing a golden robe with a small tripod-shaped pattern embroidered on the cuffs and a small "ten" underneath.

"Throne Duan Shi, this person is Duan Qi." Chong Yu's voice suddenly became gloomy at this moment.

It was beyond their expectation that someone would die so soon.

It's only been an hour.

Duan Qi's death was too strange, why would he go to the pile of bones if he had nothing to do?How could it be penetrated by an ancient spear?

Jiang Cuoming took a deep breath, and slowly took a step forward. The soul array under his feet reappeared again. He stepped on a beautiful umbrella-shaped pattern under his feet. This is his soul map.Zuo Lan took a closer look, and immediately frowned. He had never seen such a Horcrux in the "Soul Continent's Excellent Horcrux Ranking List". What level is this soul map?

But after all, it was not the time to think about this question, Zuo Lan suppressed his doubts for a while, and looked forward with more focus.

His two weeks of retreat and painstaking practice have not only improved the realm of soul power.

At the underground auction of the Ninth Soul Academy in Meihu Lake, he disassembled and looked at the wood-type soul magic black tube, and learned a little bit about it. Zuo Qiuyan also gave him some soul magic during that time Scroll, because it has all attributes, so it is very complicated and difficult to learn, but it will be fine after getting used to it.

Zuo Lan doesn't have a melting device, and the current soul master state in the middle stage of enlightenment is also the lowest among the four, but his soul power reserve should be said to be the strongest among the four.Not for anything else, just because he has thirteen soul maps that need to be nourished, he spent a lot of soul power, and naturally stored a lot, while the others only had one.

At this moment, he is clasping the Chong Feng that has been nourished by the space of the Yuqing Baji Pan in his sleeve. , but because of the existence of Yuqing Baji, it can temporarily integrate with the white chess, and Zuo Lan can also use the heavy front, which is more offensive than using ordinary weapons.

The four of them were very vigilant, there must be some kind of danger ahead, and Duan Qi, who was sitting on the throne of Duan Shi, fell here.

After careful observation, there were no traces of fighting nearby, only the pile of white bones was scattered, as if... Duan Qi himself had been inserted there.

Such a situation is unavoidable to make people feel creepy.

The dark wind on the ancient battlefield blew the corners of their robes.

Xi Yulin asked, "Who did Duan Qi team up with before?"

"Duan Shi Duanqi from the imperial seat, Yan Sanyan from the imperial seat, the spokesperson of Xue Bing, the emperor of modeling, Xue Zhongshi from Xue Liu from the imperial seat, and Ji Shen from Ji Jiu from the imperial seat." Jiang Cuoming is very familiar with the grouping of these people , said it all at once.

"Xue Chongshi is Xue Bing's spokesperson and Xue Bing's proud disciple. With him around, how could something happen to Duan Qi?" Xi Yulin shook his head, as if he was very confused by this.

"Aren't Throne Xue Liu and Throne Duan Shi a world feud?" Chongyu suddenly sneered, "There are dangers in this secret realm, there is no need for Xue Zhongshi to take action, he just needs to stand by and watch, Duan Qi's cultivation is meager, so naturally he can't beat him."

"Let's go and have a look. It's useless for us to speculate here."

Zuo Lan looked at the upright spear, looked at the height of the spear, and suddenly felt that something was wrong, and the looseness of the pile of bones outside seemed to be different.

He flipped his hands, and a huge soul array suddenly flashed, the gray and white color was extremely dazzling in the black battlefield, and many white dots wandered in the hexagram soul array, which looked as breathtaking as a starry sky.

His soul array is not the same as the i in the legend - Chongyu, Jiang Cuoming and Xi Yulin realized this problem at the same time, so they also remembered the previous doubts, how did Zuo Lan suddenly become a soul warrior? In this realm?

It stands to reason that it is difficult for Zuo Lan to open the soul array of the thirteen soul map, but Zuo Lan is a pervert, how many days has it been...

How did they know that Zuo Lan's soul map was tampered with when he was born. The rules of the Soul Continent are that people can only check the soul map when they are 15 years old, and when the soul academy recruits new people. Appeared, but the soul emperors are people with great powers. They can change Zuo Lan's soul map through special means, so they can check it naturally.Maybe it's because they changed the soul map before, Zuo Lan was in the state of soul opening from the beginning. It seemed to be lower than others at the beginning, but in fact it was higher than others. As a soul warrior, it took only a short period of more than a month from the opening of the soul to the enlightenment of the spirit. This is also shocking to the world.

But at this moment, it is in a secret realm, so naturally it will not be reported.

Zuo Lan took the initiative to check the pile of bones lying on the corpse, Jiang Cuoming and the other three didn't stop them, but they were ready to go and rush to rescue if there was any situation.The four of them didn't have much conflict, and the Horcrux hadn't appeared yet. This small group of four wouldn't kill each other here.

Zuo Lan frowned, looking at the high spear, the right hand holding Chong Feng was still hidden in the sleeve, he calmed down, but his left hand protruded from the wide sleeve, raised his hand with soul power, and the wind swept away Next, the pile of white bones scattered a lot, and fell to the ground with a clatter, and even a skull fell at his feet, with two empty eye holes facing Zuo Lan.

In the middle of the pile of bones, under the spear, there was actually a person wearing clothes, but because it was blocked by Duan Qi, who was already dead on top, and buried by the bones, he couldn't see clearly.

At this moment, Zuo Lan waved his sleeves, and waved away all the blocking things, revealing the people below.

Wearing the pure black soul art guild uniform, staring wide-eyed at Duan Qi on top of his head, it was as if he was dying.

Not long after he died, the blood hadn't completely clotted.

Jiang Cuoming and others followed and stood beside Zuo Lan.

Xi Yulin sighed: "Soul Art Guild, Qi Yu. Another one died."

"Qi Yu and Duan Qi are not together, right?" Jiang Cuoming also had a bad premonition in his heart.

"What did you encounter, so you killed each other? But—how to explain that spear?" Chongyu was also confused.

This strange death, coupled with the implication and stimulation of the bones of the ancient battlefield, brought infinite panic to the four people present.

Xi Yulin bent down and picked up the skull at Zuo Lan's feet. Zuo Lan noticed that his palm was covered with a thin layer of light red light, which should be the soul power of the fire attribute.

The skull was stained with blood, but it didn't flow down. Instead, it slowly seeped into the bones, which looked extremely strange.

"Crack-"

Xi Yulin pinched it hard and crushed the skull directly, but his hand was clenched into a fist, as if he was holding something.

His eyes turned cold, and he sneered: "This ancient battlefield is really interesting, Zuo Lan, you should know what it is?"

He slowly spread his palm, and under the thin red light, he could clearly see that there was an ugly black beetle lying in the palm of Xi Yulin. The front end was wedge-shaped, but the tail was like The worm, fat and disgusting, was still struggling at this moment.There was a small red dot on the beetle's head, which looked extremely strange on the black beetle.

"Scale Broken Scorpion..."

Zuo Lan's face darkened, and after he said the name, Jiang Cuoming and Chong Yu also turned frosty.

How Duan Qi and Qi Yu died is still unclear, but Xi Yulin discovered this weird and disgusting bug again. This time, the adventure in the secret realm seems to have just begun.

"Don't move it, let it go, let's go first."

Jiang Cuoming's sleeves bulged, as if he was holding something, this time he was the first to take the lead, and he walked around without looking at the two dead bodies wearing together, this time nothing unusual happened.

After walking over, Zuo Lan turned his head, and the spear was still piercing the sky. There were two fresh corpses underneath. He suddenly had the illusion that the spear was like some kind of plant, and the corpses were the nutrients for his growth. ...