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Jiang Jingyuan couldn't describe what this feeling was.

Her body was stiff, and she watched from the corner of her eye as people continued to excitedly rush into the hall and head straight for the white jade pillar platform in the center of the hall - no one noticed anything wrong, as if Jiang Jingyuan's uneasiness was just an illusion.

She swallowed and put all her strength into placing her raised right foot on the white jade tiles inside the palace...

"Is this the new magical weapon?! It's a dagger!"

"Senior sister, come here quickly, take a look!"

"This aura, haha, is truly not ordinary!"

It was very quiet, with only the sounds of people's footsteps and exclamations, and no sudden mechanisms or traps.

Jiang Jingyuan's uneasiness didn't diminish at all, but instead intensified. She gritted her teeth and took another dozen quick steps forward.

Or nothing happened?!

She breathed softly and broke out in a cold sweat unknowingly. Finally, she gave in to her uneasiness and stopped where she was, gazing at the magnificent white jade pillar platform in the distance.

The white jade pillars were carved with gorgeous patterns that Jiang Jingyuan had never seen or heard of before. They seemed to depict certain specific things, but also seemed to be just some decorative patterns.

Complex and indescribable.

A cold and exquisite short sword was quietly placed on a white jade pillar platform half a person's height. When the eyes fell on it, it was as if one had instantly fallen into a world of ice and snow, feeling gusts of cold wind blowing past, and the coldness was biting.

What stopped everyone from snatching and forced them to wait patiently was the invisible barrier that emerged around the dagger. On the barrier, there were lines of ancient and sacred words flowing, like confinement and shackles.

It’s all beautiful…

It was so beautiful that Jiang Jingyuan even doubted whether everything he saw was real.

Jiang Jingyuan did not move forward, but she did not completely trust her intuition. She just secretly looked at the people in the hall who had different expressions.

Countless eyes filled with surprise, curiosity, admiration, expectation, and greed fell on the dagger in the center of the pillar platform, and almost everyone walked forward with burning eyes.

Now, no one has taken action simply because the barrier of the magic weapon has not been broken. However, as long as the barrier is broken, a fierce battle will immediately begin... She can't snatch the magic weapon away from under the noses of so many people. It is better to step back and wait and see, and then take action after someone gets the magic weapon... Jiang Jingyuan pondered and moved back silently.

She moved to the corner and turned around silently, but the scene before her made her pupils shrink suddenly -

Silently, with only a puff of gray dust rising up, the heavy gray stone door carved with ancient and gorgeous patterns closed at an extremely fast speed.

“!!!”

Jiang Jingyuan felt like he was hit by a stick. He woke up instantly and without thinking too much, he ran towards the stone gate.

As she ran faster, the stone door closed faster and faster, making a loud, dull sound without any concealment.

"Hey! What's going on?!"

"The door is closed?"

"Senior Sister, someone is playing tricks on me!!"

"Fuck, why is the door closed!"

"I saw it all. Whose spiritual power is it? You want to fight?!"

Almost everyone noticed the movement of the stone door. They might not have figured out what was happening, but when they turned around and saw the stone door closing quickly, they all felt panic and urgency to some extent.

"Who the hell did this?! He can't even hide his spiritual power and he wants to harm others?"

"What are you trying to do?! Are you going to catch us all in one fell swoop?!?"

Everyone suddenly started pushing and shoving each other in panic, rushing towards the stone gate, cursing as they ran.

"boom--!!!"

A violent and violent airflow instantly rose behind everyone in the hall, and the powerful spiritual energy contained in it immediately blew away dozens of people fleeing in front of it.

Almost simultaneously, bloody figures with scars all over their bodies caused by spiritual power fell from the dome, the ground, and the three exquisite stone walls made of white jade.

"Ahem... Shit, who's this villain who only knows how to play dirty tricks behind people's backs?!" someone cursed. "They're already fighting before the magic weapon's barrier has even dissipated?!!"

"Oh, a bunch of idiots."

A cold voice sounded from deep within the magnificent palace.

"How can it be that the phenomena of heaven and earth appearing with the magical weapon have ended, but the barrier has not yet disappeared? Doesn't this mean that we have to choose a master after the fight?"

"We'll have to fight in the end anyway, sooner or later."

Hearing this, someone with a ferocious look on his face grabbed a big knife and turned around to rush in the direction of the voice, shouting, "Come and fight! Despicable villain!"

"Damn! They're actually using dirty tricks!!!"

"Fuck, do you understand the rules?! Is there any morality?! They're fighting before the magic weapon barrier has even disappeared. There are actually such villains in the immortal sect!!"

The others also got up and stopped running towards the stone gate. They all picked up their weapons and turned back in anger!

The cold voice sneered:

"An idiot is an idiot. He's defenseless himself, so who can blame others? What kind of rules do they actually believe in? Ha, such a loser deserves to die in Bai Zhou Mountain!"

Suddenly, a mighty wave of air surged up from deep within the hall again.

"boom!"

"Ah—shit, I'm going to beat him to death today!"

"Everyone, come on, let's get rid of this scum of the Immortal Sect together!"

"Wow...Puff! Senior, Senior Sister...help me!"

All kinds of magic spells flew behind him, pills and yellow-black talismans were swept into the air currents, and Jiang Jingyuan, who was closest to the stone gate, was shining with white light. She stared at the gray-white stone gate in front of her that was about to close.

She gritted her teeth and took advantage of the gust of air coming from behind her, and slid into the only remaining gap in the stone gate as slippery as a loach!

"boom!!!"

The sound of the stone door closing completely overlapped with the explosions in the hall.

Jiang Jingyuan fell down the stone steps in a panic, closed his eyes, cursed inwardly, and silently encouraged the people in the hall separated by a door: "Beat him! We must beat him!"

call--

White sand rose up and then slowly fell down, landing on the girl in white who fell face down on the stone road.

After a moment, Jiang Jingyuan staggered to his feet and raised his hand to brush off the lime on his clothes. He looked down and found that his white clothes had turned into a mottled ink painting. He paused and then put his hand down silently.

She looked back at the closed stone door behind her, her face expressionless, but with a hint of helplessness in her eyes——

Is she going to wait at the door for the person who got the magic weapon to come out?

"Come to think of it, is this the source of the uneasiness I felt when I first entered the stone gate?"

Jiang Jingyuan pondered, "That seems a bit exaggerated. I didn't panic at all when facing the attack. I was just anxiously worried that I wouldn't be able to get out before the stone gate closed... So how could I feel such intense panic and anxiety before the attack even arrived?"

"It felt like even taking a step forward was difficult..."

"Is it really because of that person's plan to catch the turtle in the jar?"

Jiang Jingyuan subconsciously lowered his eyes as he thought, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a beautiful aqua blue on his left wrist. He was stunned: "Oh right, how come I'm here, but Hua Simiao hasn't seen me yet? I clearly followed the direction of the spirit rope, so Hua Simiao should have arrived here before me."

"She felt something was wrong and left first?"

Jiang Jingyuan looked down at the direction where the spirit rope was floating in the air. "No, she's behind me on the left now. She must have stopped halfway..."

"Why did you stop?"

Jiang Jingyuan had a flash of inspiration: "Hua Simiao also found a magic weapon?"

Jiang Jingyuan felt that Hua Simiao would not be trapped by anyone unless she wanted to. And the magic weapon that had just been unearthed was from Bai Zhou Mountain, so its rarity could be imagined. She felt that Hua Simiao would not miss this opportunity. In this case, the only thing that could stop Hua Simiao must be the newly-born magic weapon itself.

Thinking of this, she raised her foot and was about to follow the direction of the spirit rope to the left and rear.

After taking two steps, she stopped again——

"Could it be possible that there are two magical instruments that have been born?"

Jiang Jingyuan's eyes were dark, and his thoughts were in a tizzy: "Impossible, this phenomenon of heaven and earth only happens once, it's impossible for the phenomena of heaven and earth caused by the emergence of two magical instruments to coincide with each other—"

"Then it's fake."

Once Jiang Jingyuan figured out the key, his thoughts became much smoother:

"The magical weapon in the stone gate behind me is most likely fake, and the one with Hua Simiao..."

She tends to be fake too!

The real newly-born magic weapon should have been hidden by himself, and a few fake ones were specially placed to confuse visitors.

"Tsk, this magic weapon is a bit shady."

Jiang Jingyuan thought silently.

She had put in so much effort but couldn't even find the real body... Well, she felt a little frustrated, and also felt that it would be a shame if all her efforts were in vain.

Jiang Jingyuan looked up at the several forks in the road ahead——

Although she understood the problem, she still had no idea how to find the magic weapon itself.

Does she really have to use her traditional skills of the landscape school and just guess at random?

Jiang Jingyuan shook his head secretly in his heart.

Her eyes were slightly dazed as she recalled the direction of the strange phenomenon in heaven and earth that she had felt when the magic weapon was born. It was strange that she first followed the spirit rope and then followed others, so it was inevitable that she would find the wrong place. But did others follow the aura of the magic weapon without paying attention to the direction of the strange phenomenon in heaven and earth?

Forget it, no matter whether the direction of the strange phenomenon in the sky and the earth has been confused by some means, I will go and take a look myself first.

Thinking about this, Jiang Jingyuan compared the direction of the strange phenomena in the sky and earth in his memory with the route he took when he came here, and finally walked into a stone path.

Winding around in the maze-like stone path, at first you would encounter three or two lone people, but later slowly Jiang Jingyuan was the only one left, wandering like a ghost in the stone path, with emptiness and silence always around.

A lake-like azure light lit up faintly in front, clearly distinguished from the warm candlelight in the stone path. Only when people stood in it could they feel the gorgeous colorful scene of two completely different lights falling on their bodies.

Jiang Jingyuan's face was calm as he walked in slowly and without stopping.

This is a rather simple and unpretentious cave compared to the magnificent palace we saw before.

A closer look reveals that the gray-white grottoes are carved very delicately and neatly, with the hazy light of water scattered dimly in them... The moment people step into the grottoes, they can't help but feel a long-lost peace like a calm sea from the bottom of their hearts, as if they can completely relax in this small world, and no longer feel a trace of vigilance or alertness.

Jiang Jingyuan sensed all this and decisively and skillfully took out her dagger and slashed her left arm several times. Blood flowed, and the pain stimulated her to focus her attention on the center of the cave.

I saw——

In the center of the empty cave shrouded in aqua-blue light, a blood-red figure stood quietly with its back to her.

“Da, da…”

The crisp sound of footsteps was particularly obvious in the empty cave, and each one seemed to strike Jiang Jingyuan's heart.

The red-dressed figure turned around slowly, revealing a half-human-high gray-white stone pillar behind her, and on top of it—

A light aqua blue plum blossom sleeve arrow that looks like it's made of ice.

Jiang Jingyuan's gaze moved, and he saw the face of the figure in red, and his pupils constricted!

This person is...!!!