There are bandits in Zhongshan

In the north of Youzhou, over the continuous mountains, more than [-] Nascent Soul monks are slowly heading northwest under the leadership of the head Huashen monk.

The cultivator of Huashen is named Yu Tong, and he is in command of the Hundred Thousand Loose Cultivators of the Treasure Hunting Association in the Zhenbao Pavilion. He is an important figure in the Zhenbao Pavilion. Go to Shuoyuan.

After Li Langxuan's death, Zhenbao Pavilion, which was coveted by many forces, finally fell into the hands of an unknown woman.

That woman's name is Mu Yun, and she is only a Nascent Soul cultivator. She seems to have been seriously injured, and she is always sick. The pavilion regained its prestige.

After Mu Yun took over the Treasure Pavilion, on the basis of the original auction, a Treasure Appraisal Conference was added every ten years.The conference was held in Shuoyuan, providing trading venues for monks who did not want to reveal their identities, and also arranged a fighting field for monks to learn from each other.In order to avoid injustice, both sides of the fight need to limit their cultivation to the same level, and the one who wins the first place will get a rare treasure provided by Zhenbao Pavilion.

In the first year, almost no one took this to heart, but they did not expect that the treasure was actually a bottle of Peiyuan Pill, which is an elixir that can help people break through to the realm of transforming gods. I got one, but Zhenbao Pavilion donated a whole bottle of seven. Since then, more and more monks have come to the Appraisal Conference, and Zhenbao Pavilion has not disappointed them. An eye-opening treasure appears.

No one knows where the Zhenbao Pavilion found these treasures, and it seems that they are becoming more and more rare. The treasure last time was a piece of Tianchi jade. Tianchi jade is a jade that can only be found on Kunlun Mountains. Refining a weapon can make a magic weapon hundreds of times more powerful.It's just that Kunlun Mountain has gone to the upper realm, and Tianchi jade is considered to have long since ceased to exist in the lower realm, which is enough to show its preciousness.

Now, another ten years have passed, and the Treasure Appraisal Conference is coming soon, and what Yu Tong transported is the treasure that will be given to the winner of this year's fight.The treasure is sealed in a car equipped with esoteric techniques, and ten Nascent Soul cultivators on the left and right follow each other like a shadow, guarding it tightly.

Shuoyuan has a vast area and can be reached by crossing the mountains in the northern part of Youzhou.It's just that the wind and snow above Shuoyuan are raging all year round, and it is difficult for even a cultivator of Huashen to stabilize his body, let alone a cultivator of Yuanying who needs to walk with a sword. Therefore, monks often go to Shuoyuan through Tianyu Canyon. It is the only land route that can enter the ice sheet.

Seeing that the mountain ahead was getting higher and higher, and the wind was getting stronger, Yu Tong waved his hand, leaned slightly and went down, and the rest of the monks followed.

Although there is still some distance from Tianyu Canyon, the ground here has been covered with a thin layer of frost. Yu Tong glanced at the white powder under his feet, and suddenly felt that something was wrong. The next moment, he felt his feet sinking, as if Being tightly entangled by something, the ground he was standing on sank, and the originally hard ground turned into quicksand, submerging him in an instant.

The accompanying monks witnessed this scene and knew that they were in an ambush. They immediately sacrificed magic weapons to surround the car that stored the treasures, and chanted spells together to open the barrier.

Spiritual power surged, and dozens of figures surrounded them like ghosts and ghosts. They should have been prepared for a long time, and concealed their appearance with vestments. Some people entangled the cultivator in Zhenbao Pavilion, while the other half rushed to the most central driver, attacking mercilessly.

Not long after, a crack was heard, and a crack appeared on the car. Then, a thin rope penetrated into the crack, and fine spiritual patterns emerged on the car. Then, there was a loud noise, and the car was torn apart by the dazzling spiritual power , with a delicate box wrapped around the end of the thin rope and flew out high.

"Not good!" Seeing that the treasure was about to be taken away, the monks in the Treasure Pavilion showed anxious expressions.

At this moment, the ground suddenly cracked, and a figure jumped up carrying the scattered yellow sand. It was Yu Tong. He finally broke free from the spirit circle that trapped him. Seeing the treasure chest fall into the hands of others, his expression changed. Rin, with a flick of his hand, his sleeves immediately turned into a long silk, wrapping around the treasure chest.

The person who snatched the treasure seemed to be not weak in cultivation, the thin rope only swayed, and it was still tightly wrapped around the treasure box.

Just when the two were at loggerheads, Yu Tong suddenly caught a glimpse of something flashing past his eyes, and distractedly checked, but it was a piece of ice, which fell from the mountain, and it was probably shaken by spiritual energy. It hit the ground for a while, bounced up slightly, then fell down, and turned into water vapor before landing. Almost at the same time, the treasure box could no longer withstand the two forces, and broke from the middle. Among the shattered powder, a slender piece The body fell out from inside.

"Look at the trick!" When the other party was distracted to look at the treasure, Yu Tong's arm suddenly sank, his sleeve covered the thing, and at the same time he sacrificed his natal magic weapon with the other hand. To stab.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the opponent didn't dare to fight, and disappeared in the same place in a flash, and those who came together also dispersed completely.

Yu Tong breathed a sigh of relief, retracted his sleeves, and then, when he saw clearly what had fallen on the ground, he couldn't help gasping.

It was a three-foot-long branch, as if it had been cut from any tree. It hadn't been polished in any way, and there was even a small branch branching out from the front.

The treasure of this year's Treasure Appraisal Conference is such a branch. It sounds ridiculous, but Yu Tong can't laugh.

Because he saw the sword energy lingering on the branches.

It was not a branch, but a sword.

Above his head, on the top of a very high mountain, it was covered with ice and snow, and the whole mountain was white, but the edge of the cliff was dotted with greenery, like new sprouts sprouting from under the snow.

The pretty girl is sitting on the edge of a straight cliff, playing with a few cold ice crystals in her hands, the thin bamboo fir on her body seems to come from the bank of the summer stream, and her leisurely posture is like sitting on the bluestone by the stream, His feet were shaking slightly, as if he was going to fiddle with the water in the stream.

Suddenly, a pitch-black tit landed on her shoulder, flapped its wings, and clung to her neck, as if unable to bear the coldness here, she smiled casually, and scratched the tit's neck with her hand. He turned his head, then flipped his hand, conjured up a vermilion fruit and handed it over, said lightly: "You are the one who insisted on following."

"There are so many places below, who knew you would choose this place, my lord." The tit muttered a few words in dissatisfaction, and then swallowed the vermilion fruit in one gulp, which relieved the chill.

The girl looked up at the boundless sky, her light-colored eyes reflected boundless coolness.

After an unknown amount of time, the tit heard a sigh, soft and ethereal like smoke:

"350 a year."

The wind rises and the wind falls, the clouds roll and the clouds relax, time always flies very fast.

At the same time, on Jiuyi Mountain, thousands of miles away, the setting sun faded away, and night fell. At the foot of the mountain, due to floods, it was reduced to a wild river bend, and a few light blue spots quietly emerged on the calm water surface. colored rays.

Jiuyi Mountain is surrounded by fertile soil for thousands of miles, and the weather is smooth and rainy all year round.Ordinary people don't know that someone on this mountain once ascended to Taoism, but they only know that this place is suitable for living. Over the past thousand years, more and more people have moved here, and now it has become one of the most prosperous places in Kyushu.And because the fertile soil is centered on Jiuyi Mountain, they regard it as a sacred mountain, and even put tablets in temples and temples, and pay tribute every year.

Towns and villages occupy every inch of fertile soil, but the river bend at the foot of Jiuyi Mountain seems to be a land that is beyond belief, not to mention fertile land, and there is not even a hut for hunters and woodcutters.

Occasionally, a traveler passes by and is puzzled by this, and the local residents will say that it is a resting place for gods, and ordinary people must not disturb it, otherwise it will lead to disasters.

It turned out that there had never been a city, and it was even the most prosperous area at one time. However, more than 600 years ago, a sudden earthquake triggered a mountain torrent, and the flood flooded the entire river bay overnight.

Jiuyi Mountain is not the birthplace of rivers and rivers. There are only a few mountain springs on the mountain. No one knows where the flood came from. It can only be explained by ghosts and gods. In the world of mortals, the trend of Feng Shui will change, which will lead to catastrophe.

Some daring people once went to explore, but when they came back, they were like frightened birds, saying that there were water ghosts taking their lives. As time passed, it became a forbidden area.

No one has set foot there for a long time, where the vegetation grows wantonly, turning into a dense forest, quietly surrounding the wide river, facing the phoenix forest on the top of Jiuyi Mountain, like an unchanging picture scroll.

But tonight, the water surface was illuminated by the spirit patterns. At first, the spirit patterns were somewhat blurred, but gradually became clearer and expanded continuously. From the initial sporadic points, it became densely packed with symbols.

When this section of the river bed was completely covered by those symbols, a small vortex suddenly appeared in the middle of the river, and then a touch of moon white jumped out of it.

She was a beautiful woman, she stepped barefoot on the water waves, her black hair and clothes danced with the wind, in the bright spirit patterns, her eyes were blue like sea water.

If someone passed by, I am afraid that this place is really the place where gods live.After all, even the goddess in the imagination of ordinary people is somewhat inferior to that woman.

She looked at the runes under the water, as if she was in deep thought, suddenly turned her palm, and something broke out of the water, and stopped in front of her, but it was a dark mirror.

Afterwards, the runes at the bottom of the river flowed, at first very slowly, then faster and faster, turning into a stream of light, and finally flew out of the water and merged in the mirror.

The originally pitch-black mirror suddenly shone with dazzling light, and after the light faded, a clear scene appeared in the mirror.

It was not a reflection of the forest, but a city of lights.

Immediately afterwards, dark clouds surged from all directions, followed by overwhelming water, raging and raging, turning the field into a vast ocean in an instant, and the majestic city tower was vulnerable like paper under such water, and in an instant It was overwhelmed and swallowed up.

It was exactly the situation when the flood occurred more than 600 years ago.

Ruoye looked at the flood in the mirror, a trace of helplessness appeared in her eyes, and soon she shook her head and said to herself: "Even if this is the case, it doesn't mean anything, maybe—"

Her voice also stopped abruptly.

In the mirror, the strong wind tore apart the dark clouds, and a few figures appeared behind the clouds, holding a magic weapon like a towering giant tree. The magic weapon was connected to a dark mirror, and the power in the mirror was continuously injected into the torrent on the ground through the magic weapon. And a strange totem is engraved in the spiritual array where the spell is performed.

The upper half is a Peng, the lower half is a Kun, like a bird but not a bird, like a fish but not a fish, it is the Kunpeng totem of the Ruoye clan.

The ancestors of Yumen and Yuren were both the sons of Kunpeng, so they both inherited their pattern, which is connected with their people's blood, and has a unique power that cannot be imitated by other races.

And that magic weapon is the same as Ruoye's "Yaoqin", which is taken from the coral bone of thousands of years, and it is a magic weapon that only sharks can obtain.

——The mountain torrent that destroyed the land of the river bend was actually done by the sharks.

The mountain torrent in the mirror is still raging, engulfing houses and livestock, and sweeping away mortals who are too late to call for help, destroying and destroying without mercy, leaving no trace of life.

Ruoye lowered his eyes, couldn't bear to look any more, his eyes were stained with the darkness of the night, and there was unspeakable sadness in them.

She has always felt that the monks are scheming and always intriguing. Compared with her hometown, she is so filthy, but in the end, so are her people.

A town of mortals is so vulnerable to a merman who holds the Eight Desolation Mirror.After a while, there is no trace of the city in the mirror, only the boundless water, like a vast ocean.

The dark clouds parted, the sun shone, and the day dawned, and the water flow gradually calmed down.

It's over - Ruoye thought so, but the next moment he heard thunder.

Before that, there was no sound in the phantom in the Eight Desolation Mirror. No matter how turbulent the flood was before, there was not even a sound of splashes, and even the crying and howling of the residents came from Ruoye's imagination.

But at this time she heard thunder, it was not an illusion, the thunder was not just once, but one after another, seemingly without end, even the dark ancient mirror shook slightly,

And in the mirror, I saw countless blue thunders piercing the sky, not falling from the sky, but as if coming from outside the sky, tearing the sky instantly, like a cold sharp sword, or like a roaring dragon. The unstoppable momentum rushed towards her clansman, and those mermen realized it and immediately cast spells to resist.

They built many barriers, but those seemingly solid barriers were wiped out the moment the lightning touched them.They could not resist, no one could resist—

That was the contract that the monk who gave up his ascension made with the Heavenly Dao back then: those who disturb the mortal world will be punished by the Heavenly Dao.

More thunder and lightning surged down, worse than the torrents on the ground, sweeping the entire heaven and earth.Across the ancient mirror and the distant time, Ruoye could feel the awe brought by the slaughter of heaven and earth. The shock of the Eight Desolation Mirror became more and more intense, and the thick mirror seemed to be broken at any moment.

At the moment when the blue-white light swallowed everything, all the scenes in the mirror disappeared, the magic spell became invalid, and the Eight Desolation Mirror returned to its original state. Ruoye looked at the icy blackness, then raised his head, and looked forward as peacefully as if The surface of the water where nothing happened.She could see the ruins under the water, the broken rubble, the twisted stone paths, the disaster came too fast, and the life of the town was terminated in an instant. Although there are no water plants, it can still be seen that its layout is unique and its decoration is exquisite.

What a beautiful place it would be if it hadn't been destroyed.

She sighed faintly, raised her eyes to look at the cold moon on the top of Nine Yi Mountain, the light in her eyes dimmed, and then, with a flick of her hand, she put away the Eight Desolation Mirror, and the tip of her toes turned into a stream of light and went there.

On the edge of the cliff at the end of the phoenix forest, Lu Lin stood with his hands behind his back, like a straight gun. He noticed that Ruoye appeared behind him. He glanced at her expression, and the usual sneer appeared in his light gray eyes, and said : "It seems that you have seen it."

Ruoye glared at him, as if wanting to retort, but soon lost his temper, and said sadly: "Why..."

Her eyes fell on Lu Lin. There was a rock with a secret technique standing there. At this time, the huge rock was removed, and the buried things were dug out. It turned out to be five corpses.

The corpse was in the shape of a human, but there were bony spurs protruding from the limbs, which looked like fish fins, scales on the abdomen, and half-moon-shaped cracks behind the ears, which were the characteristics of sharks.

After the merman leaves the water, they often use spells to cover up these characteristics. After death, the spells expire, and the original appearance will be revealed.

Those were the bodies of five mermen.

They stole the Eight Desolation Mirror, caused a flood and destroyed the city in the river bend, and finally died in the slaughter of heaven.

More than 300 years ago, when Lu Lin investigated Jiuyi Mountain, he found that there was a breath of divine bones under the soil.But because the seal on the boulder was extremely complicated, he couldn't untie it for a while. He wanted to send someone to help, but unexpectedly received the news of Li Langxuan's captivity before he could send the letter, so he had to put the matter on hold until a while ago. Undo the seal.

He suspected that the corpses of the sharks were buried in it, so he invited Ruoye over, on the one hand to let her confirm whether those were her people, and on the other hand to see if she could use the Eight Desolation Mirror to reproduce the events of the past .

Once enemies, they are now strangely allied.

"We have nothing to do with the people on land, why did they do this..." Ruoye looked at the corpses of the tribe, with pain, resentment, and confusion in his eyes, "Their strength is not enough at all To resist those thunders, and why their bodies are so complete..."

After the merman's death, the body will not be wiped out like a monk. The flesh and blood skeleton will be transformed into spiritual power little by little, melting into the heaven and the earth, nourishing the water and soil. Hundreds of years after death, the body will never be intact.

Her eyes lit up suddenly, and she said: "Could it be because of the seal!" But she soon fell into confusion again, and muttered: "But why seal their bones..."

Lu Lin glanced at her, his light gray eyes still full of mockery.

Ruoye noticed his eyes, frowned, and said again: "Also, why do you know how to use the Eight Desolation Mirror? You can also recognize the inscription on it, that's—"

"If you want to know why, just ask her." Lu Lin interrupted her with a cold voice, sounding like he didn't care at all, as if coming here was just a routine, "She figured out the driving method of Bahuangjing, It's just that she couldn't leave, so I ran for her."

"Her?" Ruoye's eyes flickered, "Zhong Mingzhu? Where is she?"

"Now, I don't know." Lu Lin smiled playfully: "It's just that you can find her near Nanming Villa."

Nanming Villa is a small town where the Treasure Pavilion is built by the Pantianzhishui. It is used for monks who go to Shuoyuan to practice. It is also the location of the Treasure Appraisal Conference.

"She's going too?" Ruoye sighed softly, looked up to the north, and complained a little more in his voice, "It must be nothing good."