Yu Hongchen

Ji Qing shouted: "Qu Kongqing!"

The casual cultivators around were also dumbfounded. The cultivator who pushed him down was so frightened that his face turned ashen. Although Qu Kongqing is notoriously ignorant, he is also a cultivator with advanced cultivation. How could he be so Unprepared, it is easy to push people down.They didn't know that the square shore stone that Qu Kongqing leaned on was actually one of the illusions, and it couldn't bear the weight of a grown man; in addition, Na Qu Kongqing was lazy and addicted to alcohol, so he hadn't drunk for many days , already a little absent-minded, just strong self-support, outsiders can't see that's all.That's why he taught him to roll into the sea of ​​clouds by an accident.

Shang Lixing watched him roll all the way down, his eyes flickered, but he didn't move at all, Xiao Fang said: "Maybe it's God's will, let's go over and have a look."

So those who don't fit in, those who are unwilling, those who are tired and cunning, those who have different thoughts, cheer up, and follow the traces of Qu Kongqing's rolling into the clouds and mist.

People were in a state of panic, the wind was blowing and the rain was rushing. After a few days, everyone was exhausted and miserable. Their heads were covered, their hair was loose, and their clothes were stained with mud, but no one cared. They just bowed their heads and followed.It's not that the monks don't care about their own image. In the past few days, some people still cared about wiping their faces and keeping them clean.But when the wind and rain come suddenly, they always blow away everyone's tidy and tidy bodies.After three or four days, everyone seemed to have given up on such futile endeavors, and Jie Rili looked disheartened and tired.Looking at it this way, it looks even more helpless.

That day, as Qu Kongqing accidentally fell into the sea clouds and mist, the monks walked in behind, but found that the cloud and mist suddenly dissipated. For a piece of scorched black soil.

Everyone exclaimed for a while, both startled and afraid in their hearts, the previous barriers disappeared, and they stuck tightly to each other, fearing that they would fall into some terrible illusion again.

Qu Kongqing was lying grinningly on the scorched earth beside him, his body was covered with yellow mud, he smiled and said to Ji Qing, "I thought I was going to die..."

Ji Qing hurriedly helped him up, and said angrily and resentfully: "You really scared me to death just now!"

Qu Kongqing shook his head, hehe said: "I don't know what happened when I fell to this place where the birds don't shit? What kind of place is this?"

While everyone was discussing, Shang Lixing stood with his hands behind his back and looked around.The wilderness is boundless and dark, and the sky is smudged with large pieces of dark clouds, like mottled in ink painting. Only one of the blood-colored red clouds remains, and the edge is clearly visible, which is not blocked by the surrounding dark clouds at all.Against the backdrop of the dark clouds and black mist, it is even more dazzling red.

Looking around, the endless stretches of scorched black soil turned out to be desolate and barren, with no mountains, rocks or trees to be seen.

Shang Lixing kept his eyes fixed on the red cloud in front of him, and waved his hands back: "Everyone follow."

So he walked all the way towards the red clouds in the sky.Everyone felt uneasy, and the road was not very peaceful.The environment in this barren land is dangerous, sometimes it is misty and rainy, and sometimes it is unbearably hot. Fortunately, the monk has a cultivation base, so this kind of danger can still be tolerated.It's just that there is no day and no night here, and all the monks can only rely on their cultivation bases to feel the passage of time, and feel very dull in their hearts.

After a whole day and night, the climate intensified again.There was a storm for a while, thunder and fire for a while, the heavy rain smashed the black soil on the ground into potholes, and thunder and fire burned thousands of miles of wilderness.Only then did everyone understand why the soil here was scorched black.There were also monks in the crowd who relied on their cultivation to run the water-avoiding spell on their own.

On the fifth day, the wind and rain suddenly increased, and heavy raindrops fell heavily on the heads of the monks. Even the water-proof talisman couldn't bear the weight of the raindrops and burst suddenly.Many people were drenched on the spot, and they were in a mess.Hearing Shang Lixing's words, more than half of the journey has passed, and he is gradually approaching the eye of the formation, a little hope is kindled in his heart, he cheers up, and hurriedly follows.

But the red cloud in the sky has always been like the most loyal guard, standing still.

When the wind and rain did not stop, the sky suddenly burst into red light, and it actually rained fire one after another.The cloudy golden fire rain came suddenly, with violent and turbulent air waves, it suddenly hit head-on, and when it landed, it burst into purple-red flames.A monk was caught off guard, and his arm was burned by the flames on the spot. Shang Lixing quickly pulled the black-robed man beside him and protected him in his arms. Cover your head.

At the moment when everyone was terrified, they were so frightened that they remained motionless. They just hid in the defensive circle, silently reading the time, hoping that this wave of sudden visions would disappear as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, the fire rain not only came quickly, but also lasted for a long time. After five or six hours, it still didn't stop. On the contrary, it became more and more violent, and even burned up the black soil under its feet when it hit the ground. The color is getting darker, and there are bursts of black air.

Shang Li acted to protect everyone and sacrificed a defensive magic circle, which consumed most of his true energy. Even if he was a high-level practitioner, he was a little exhausted.At this moment, his face was pale from exhaustion, and even his voice was a little weak: "Everyone, don't act on your own, wait until this batch of fire rain passes."

The monks were apprehensive, and hid in the formation and whispered: "How long will the fire last?" "This is the fire of heaven, which can burn all living beings in the world." "Why do you think this formation is so hard to find?" " Could that red cloud be the eye of the array?"

Shang Lixing shook his head decisively: "Impossible!"

He hugged the black-robed man with one hand, pinched the dharma jue with the other, and moved the dharma circle. His body was Yuan Ting Yuezhi, and he had not moved for a long time.The man in black wanted to break free several times, but Shang Lixing said coldly, "Don't move!" He froze and gave up resistance altogether.

After another seven or eight hours, the fire rain gradually dissipated. When it was confirmed that the fire rain would no longer harm the monks present, Shang Lixing withdrew the magic circle and announced that everyone could move freely.

Everyone was in such a difficult situation, and they felt lingering fears, how dare they stay away so easily?So they all gathered around Shanglihang and surrounded him.Shang Lixing looked tired, waved his hand to persuade everyone to leave, and ordered everyone to rest for a while, and move on again after half an hour.

Although he withdrew the magic circle, he never let go of the black-robed man's hand. He led the black-robed man up and down without making any noise, quietly, like an obedient little pet.

The journey after that was even more treacherous.Everyone hid from the rain and the fire all the way, and walked in the mirror until the seventh day.On this day, everyone walked to a piece of barren land where the landscape was still considered complete. The wind and rain gradually subsided, and everyone stopped to rest.Shang Lixing pulled the man in black to sit aside, and said softly, "Be careful not to touch the muddy water."

The man in black was exhausted after the past few days, he didn't even have the strength to shake his face, so he obediently let him arrange everything.Shang Lixing suddenly felt elated, and the movements of his hands couldn't help being gentler.

Some monks in the crowd whispered: "I have been walking for many days, as if I have been standing still, and I haven't changed much."

Another person said: "Yeah, I haven't been able to get out of this wilderness after going around. I suspect that we have encountered a ghost magic formation."

A casual cultivator suddenly said loudly: "No, it's still changed. Look," he stretched out his finger to the far corner, "The red cloud in the sky is gone."

Another person followed the prestige, and shouted again: "What's the noise! ​​It's not that it disappeared, it just ran to the other side..."

Everyone exclaimed again: "Look, the direction of that cloud has changed!" "Didn't it be in the north just now? Why did it suddenly go to the south?" "This is incredible!"

Shang Lixing watched the fuss of everyone, and explained warmly: "This is the world in the mirror, and everything is constantly changing. We have entered the third mirror world, so it is naturally more weird and unpredictable."

Everyone was stunned, and then they heard Shang Lixing say: "Everything has animism, even this square formation is no exception. I think this square formation sensed that we were about to find the eye of the formation, so it changed its direction to confuse us. We just need to look towards It is not difficult to find the eye of the formation if we push forward along the original road."

The monks knew that this meant that they were about to leave the illusion world, so they settled down a bit, so they also sat down immediately.

Shang Lixing brushed off the plaster on his clothes, and sighed: "It's been seven days, such a sinister scene, I'm afraid the land of Central Continent is no more than this."

Qu Kongqing crossed his legs and sat on the side. Hearing this, he raised his head with curiosity in his eyes: "Master Shang has even been to the land of Central Continent?"

Shang Lixing then smiled and recalled for a while: "At that time, when I was young, I saw the shimmering water in the back mountain overnight, so I was happy, raised my sword and went to Central Continent for a trip. The tide of the moon and the flow of the river, such a marvelous sight, can be said to be hard to see in a lifetime."

Qu Kongqing tsk-tsk said: "It's rare for the head of the Shang sect to be so young."

"Is there anyone who hasn't been young?" Shang Lixing couldn't laugh or cry, "You look at me old-fashioned, do you think I was born like this?"

Everyone around laughed, and Shang Lixing said again: "However, I think this kind of environment is more suitable for a group of races to live in."

A monk asked, "What race?"

Shang Lixing articulated slightly, and spit out two words: "Beast race."

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly stood up as if feeling something, and looked around.The people beside him asked puzzledly, "Master, what are you looking at?"

Shang Lixing murmured: "I think... I really heard the roar of the beast clan."

The people around him also stood up one after another, turned their ears to the outside, looked left and right, and shouted again: "Master, I didn't hear anything." "I didn't hear anything." "Where did the beast race come from in the illusion?" ?”

Shang Lixing waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, then turned to look at He Suowu: "Did you hear that?"

He Suowu nodded: "I heard it. It's in the southwest corner, about [-] miles away from here. The voice is high and low, and there are about a dozen of them."

Qu Kongqing, who was sitting on the side, closed his eyes tightly, listened for a while, and said: "And they are rushing here, and they can reach here in just two hours."

The expressions of the monks behind him changed: "What?" "Are they coming for us?"

Shang Lixing frowned slightly, puzzled: "Is this a conspiracy by the demons?" Since entering the Qianzhong Screen Wall, the journey ahead has been smooth and safe.Shang Lixing was skeptical at first, thinking that this trip would not be so simple. Later, when he smashed the mirror with his sword and stumbled into the world in the mirror by mistake, he realized that the place is dangerous and full of ups and downs. Impermanence, unpredictable gods and ghosts."He also recalled that the demons had already occupied the underground caves of the Thousand Shadow Walls, and kept secret, and there were people in the demons who were proficient in manipulating sea beasts, so it was not impossible to set up many obstacles for them on the way.

It's just that I didn't expect... there would be a beast race... Could it be that the demons have hidden in the Northland for many years, and have secretly learned the method of manipulating the beast race?How amazing is this?

Shang Lixing suddenly looked at the man in black robe who was still sitting on the ground, and thousands of thoughts flashed through his mind.

"Master—" Everyone looked at Shang Lixing, waiting for his order.Shang Lixing pondered for a while, and said seriously: "Let's find the formation first, and don't confront the beast clan."

"Okay!" Everyone came here for days, exhausted physically and mentally, and they didn't want to cause more troubles.Immediately responded, they all packed up their things, got ready, and were about to set off.

Shang Lixing figured out the direction and the next route, but saw the man in black robe beside him stand up leisurely, suddenly covered his heart, and let out a hasty low cry.

Shang Lixing didn't have time to take back his hand, so he stretched his long arms, propped his body up, leaned on his shoulder, and hurriedly asked: "What's wrong?"

The man in black was eager to break free, but unfortunately he lacked strength, this pushing movement not only failed to get rid of Shang Lixing, but actually made him get closer.He was weak, and patted him softly: "Let go... let go... let me go..."

Shang Lixing didn't take his petty actions in his eyes, instead he held his hand, took his pulse carefully, suddenly looked down at him, and said in astonishment: "You, how could you ——No wonder, no wonder that time in the secret realm—”

The black-robed man was still struggling to escape, muttering something in his mouth, as if he wasn't listening to Shang Lixing's speech at all.

Shang Lixing lowered his face, turned his heart, took the black-robed man under his shoulders, took the lead, and ordered: "Go!"

"Let me go! You—" The black-robed man couldn't move, his voice became stagnant with Shang Lixing's walking movements, and was turned by Shang Lixing to his back, and the scolding disappeared instantly. Robe room.

Everyone behind him was stunned.He Suowu called out in a cold voice, and everyone came back to their senses and followed in a panic.

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Shang Lixing walked in a hurry, left and right, front and back, and the crowd followed closely behind. They felt that his movements were strange, and it could be regarded as infinitely changing and full of mysteries.While circling around, the man in black lay on his back, his body trembling even more, as if he was a little unconscious.

After walking a hundred or ten steps, Shang Lixing suddenly stopped, stopped on a barren land, calculated for a while, and said in a deep voice: "It's almost there, the eye of the formation is not far away."

Everyone heard the reputation and looked around, and saw that the scorched earth was still around, the surroundings were desolate, and the red clouds in the sky had disappeared. They were puzzled, and looked back at Shang Lixing, only to see him half-bent, gently placing the man in black on the ground, and then transported He took out the long ebony staff, swung the staff down, and muttered something in his mouth.

As he called out the spell, everyone felt that the things in the foreground began to distort and shake disorderly, and they couldn't distinguish any dark clouds and scorched earth; after a while, they felt sudden pain all over their bodies, and their bodies were squeezed by an inexplicable force. Not uncomfortable, tense everywhere, opened his mouth in vain, but couldn't spit out any words.The distorted scenery in front of my eyes became more and more painful, so I had to close my eyes, but there was a buzzing in my ears, and I could only hear strange noises faintly.When the consciousness was confused, Shang Lixing's calm and composed voice came from the sea of ​​consciousness: "Now I will use the method of breaking the mirror to send everyone out of the illusion. Please be patient."

Everyone calmed down and waited for Shang Lixing to cast the spell.At this time, a drop of rainwater suddenly fell on the cheek, and the rain and waterfall all over the sky suddenly arrived.Everyone forcefully opened their eyes, and suddenly there was a "bang", lightning flashed and thundered, and the rain was violent, sometimes accompanied by the sound of explosions, the wind, fire, thunder and lightning intersected, and the flames erupted violently, hitting everyone's bodies violently.Everyone panicked again, and all the visions they had encountered in the illusion appeared at the same time.

Shang Lixing urged his luck and awakened everyone's minds: "Everyone, don't panic, this is an illusion, which means we are about to succeed."

Under his forceful urging, the original calm space swayed for a while, a gap suddenly appeared out of thin air ten steps in front of everyone, and the gap gradually expanded until it reached the outline of a human shape.

"This is the eye of the formation." Shang Lixing did not retreat, his eyes fixed, looking at the brilliance in the crack.

After the crack appeared, the clouds stopped and the rain stopped for a while, and the thunder disappeared and the fire stopped.All the scenes that approached the crowd just now disappeared suddenly, they came and went suddenly.

Shang Lixing raised his voice and warned: "Everyone, go out through this gap."

Everyone gradually regained their sanity, and many people still stood on the spot blankly, unable to react.Suddenly, a monk in the crowd jumped up and shouted: "Look! What is that?"

Shang Lixing looked towards the sound, and saw a wave of mountains shaking on the vast land in the distance. There were dozens of giant red beasts, with murderous intent in their eyes and thunderous roars, rushing towards this direction come.He was shocked in his heart, screaming inwardly, just now he used all his strength in the eyes of the formation, but he didn't notice the foreign object's movement, when did this group of giant beasts approach?

Some of the monks who had come to their senses had already reacted, and shouted loudly: "What's going on? How could there be beasts here?" "Didn't we just avoid them on purpose?"

In the midst of his busy schedule, Shang Lixing split his mind and thought to himself: Why do you attract the beasts here despite clearly avoiding the direction of the beasts?

In fact, should have thought of it earlier.The spatial orientations of the illusion in the mirror are all opposite, and they cannot use themselves as a reference. From their point of view, they are getting faster and faster away from the monster, but from the point of view of the monster, they are getting closer.The more you want to get rid of the world in the mirror, the more you can't help yourself.It's a pity that he was in this formation, and he was also confused by the illusion, and he didn't understand this truth until now.

Thinking of this, he had an idea in his mind, no longer hesitated, opened the gap in front of his body wider, and said calmly: "You go first, I will break it later." Then while supporting the magic circle, he pulled out the other hand, and with a flick of his wrist, Yang, whipped up a strong wind, centered on his position, from far to near, or two or three, or four or five, threw the standing or sitting monks to the gap with their backs.When he saw the corner of the black-robed man's sleeve, his hands stopped, his eyes turned, and he skipped over the black-robed man.

The scattered cultivators were unwilling to leave at the gap, and said one after another: "Sect Master, let's go out together!" "Yes, how can we leave the Sect Master and leave on our own?" "Sect Master, come here quickly." What's more, some casual cultivators' eyes were red, and they rushed back desperately.

"That's too late,"

Shang Lixing shook his head slowly, his strength had already been exhausted, he just tried to raise his voice, "I can only support this far. He Suwu, send them out safely."

He Suowu responded: "Yes. Brother, be careful." With a gloomy face, he threw the casual cultivator who was running back screaming into the gap, and was swallowed by the flowing brilliance.With a cold face, he said: "Don't make trouble for my elder brother." He held his sword and guarded the edge of the gap, not allowing the casual cultivators to escape.Some of the casual cultivators fled in a hurry, and some stayed where they were, showing reluctance. In the end, they had no choice but to sigh and say a few words of respect to Shang Lixing before walking into the gap.

Ji Qing was also pulled into the gap by Qu Kongqing, full of reluctance, he just shouted: "Master, I won't go! I want to stay too." He struggled desperately, but he couldn't hold back Qu Kongqing's strength, the two of them Pulling and pulling all the way, it gradually approached the crack.

In the midst of his busy schedule, Shang Lixing took the time to glance at them: "I'm sorry."

Qu Kongqing also replied indifferently: "You are welcome. We are outside the door, waiting for the message from the owner of the Shang sect."

"Okay." Shang Lixing didn't move, and replied, "When I recover my strength, I will open the formation eyes again, and I will meet you again at that time."

Qu Kongqing didn't say any more, brought Ji Qing into the magic circle, and finally looked back at Shang Lixing, He Suowu stayed at the end, and waited until all the monks had left, then turned around without looking back into the opening.

Shang Lixing heaved a sigh of relief, retracted the magic circle, suddenly ran into a monster rushing towards him head-on, and was bumped by the huge body of the monster, his eyes became dizzy immediately, and his chest felt a fishy sweet smell.He hastily called out the Autumn Water Sword in his arms, and the sword was like the wind, with fierce sword intent, hitting the monster's life gate, and stabbing the monster to death on the spot.

After killing four or five monsters one after another, he restrained his mind, forced himself to swallow the blood gushing out of his heart, and closed his eyes deeply, in order to regulate the turmoil in his body.At this moment, the black-robed man suddenly let out a mournful cry. Shang Lixing hurriedly looked over and saw him half-kneeling on the ground, his head deeply buried in the scorched earth, his whole body was covered in blood, and a monster lying in a pool of blood , the blood-stained head rolled to the other side, and Tong Ling's big eyes were full of unwillingness.He was terrified in his heart, propped up his body, and hurriedly ran over, brought the man in black robe up, and saw that his black clothes had been stained with blood, revealing a deeper color than before.But it turned out that it was not the wound on his body, but the blood left by the monster whose head he had beheaded.

Shang Lixing was a little relieved, he held him half in his arms, felt the trembling body in his arms, and comforted him repeatedly: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Who doesn't have blood on their hands? Alone?"

The black-robed man kept trembling, and his voice was panicked: "But, but I obviously didn't do anything—"

Shang Lixing patted all the dirt off his body, and was about to speak to comfort him again, when two more monsters roared and rushed over.

After activating the technique of breaking the mirror, he had already exhausted his whole body's true energy. After killing a few monsters just now, his whole body's true energy was gone, but he was in a dangerous illusion, surrounded by powerful enemies, How could he be allowed to hesitate?He once again urged the little remaining true energy, transported a small killing formation, surrounded the remaining seven or eight monsters in the formation, and kept moving his hands, manipulating the formation to cut the spirits of the monsters until destruction.

After dealing with the monster, the tense heartstrings finally relaxed completely, and his body couldn't support it, so he took a few steps back.Drowsy, Shang Lixing felt dizzy and couldn't help but his legs went limp, and the man in black was sitting on the scorched earth together with him.Cold sweat poured down his cheeks, and he felt a tingling pain in his temples when he was blown by the cold wind.A dazed voice was heard next to my ear saying: "We are separated, can't we get out again?"

Shang Lixing was both amused and helpless, and a smile was forced from the corner of his mouth: "Say something stupid, it's not easy to open a broken mirror, I was just afraid that they would be impulsive and make mistakes, and my efforts were wasted."

The body of the man in black gradually stopped trembling, and his voice gradually returned to normal, "Then what should we do now?"

Shang Lixing smiled wryly: "I can only find the formation eye and go out after I recover my true energy."

"How else can I get out?" The black-robed man snorted again, "Sacrificing the ego, benefiting the world, the owner of the Shang sect is really great."

Shang Lixing recovered a little bit of strength, propped up his half body, and slowly helped him straighten his robes, "The natural vision we encountered is real, and the monsters we killed are also real, which means that the current illusion is exactly in line with my The phrase 'everything is true', since it is true, there are traces to follow."

The man in black suddenly slapped his palm down, and said in an excited voice, "What is true and false, what is false and true! You said earlier that 'true or false is not that important', but now it's 'everything is true' ', how long are you going to contradict yourself!"

Shang Lixing was taken aback by his yelling, and after a while he sighed softly: "You're right. I trust my own judgment too much."

The black-robed man broke out nonsense, but Shang Lixing was always gentle with him. To him, it was like hitting a ball of cotton, and he couldn't use his strength.After a long silence, he asked again, "Why didn't you take me away with you just now?"

Shang Lixing said indifferently: "If they take you away, I won't worry."

"You mean they will kill me to vent their anger." The black-robed man said in a muffled voice, "I'm not afraid."

Shang Lixing said slowly: "But I'm afraid, I'm afraid that once your identity is revealed, it will be difficult for you to gain a foothold in the various sects, especially Qiushuimen."

The man in black robe was startled: "You—"

Shang Lixing sighed suddenly, and looked at him fixedly: "Oh, now it's only you and me, how long are you going to hide it, thank you, junior brother."

The man in black was shocked, and after a long time, Fang said in that hoarse voice: "Do you know it's me?"