In the smelting room, the three of them gathered together in silence, each without saying a word.

To be honest, among the Three Pure Ones of the orthodox religion, they are all the chosen ones of heaven and the rising stars of the sect.

Although they had dealt with each other before, they were not very familiar with each other. At best, they were just nodding acquaintances.

Now suddenly we have become "sisters"...

And they are sisters who have to share their husbands. Such an absurd fact is really hard to accept.

In fact, the fact that everyone has been able to restrain themselves and not fight until now is a sign of great self-cultivation.

Shi Liuli operated the furnace calmly, thinking that the current situation was within his expectations.

The most ideal situation, of course, is that the two people on the opposite sides start fighting, and she takes advantage of the situation to threaten her son and lure her husband back to Penglai.

The most dangerous situation is, of course, that everyone falls out with each other, and you are the first to be killed because of your weak strength, and naturally there will be no follow-up.

In other words, the first thing to avoid is physical combat, and the second thing to do is to try to make the two people on the opposite side hostile to each other.

Qiongying is a person with a clear mind. Although she doesn't like conspiracies and intrigues, it is quite difficult to scheme against her, so the main thing is to win her over.

Jiang Xiao is relatively straightforward and simple, but he does have the potential to instigate and manipulate others, and he can induce them to become enemies with Qiongying.

In this case, Qiongying would inevitably be forced to fight.

Xu Yinglian urged the Earth Fire with an expressionless face, thinking that that dog senior brother was really too abominable. Everyone said that Jiang Xiao was reckless and straightforward, so why did he stab his senior brother with a sword without even meeting him?

Dong You claims that everything she predicts will come true, but it seems that the rumors may not be credible... No, we are now love rivals, and she may not tell me the truth.

Since Jiang Xiao has never turned against Senior Brother Gou, it probably means that she also has deep feelings for him. Perhaps we can use this to ask her to help keep him here after repairing the sky.

I have to find a reason to find out what she means.

An Zhisu leaned against the wall of the cave with his sword in his arms, wondering why things had turned out like this?

The junior brother has been found and is willing to admit his identity. The reason why he left Shushan has also been figured out, but why are there suddenly two more Taoist companions? Does the junior brother still want to make up the sky and leave?

If she could solve it with a sword, she wouldn't be so troubled, but this kind of emotional struggle was really beyond An Zhisu's expertise.

According to the Sun Zhenmei Sword, it is impossible to stop him from repairing the sky, and the best he can do is to stop him from ascending on the spot.

But ascension is not unstoppable, because leaving this world requires a process called "metamorphosis".

As long as the ascender can be defeated during the metamorphosis process and his mind can be shaken, his path to ascension can be temporarily blocked.

Of course, Chen Guanshui's ascension did not come from practicing Taoism, but from his merits. Even if he failed to ascend, his merits were still there, and he could continue to ascend in a moment... Therefore, after pulling him down, he still had to use some tricks to keep his heart.

At the same time, he had to be careful of being intercepted by other women, after all, he only had one junior brother...

An Zhisu's head was about to explode with thought, and he wished he could draw his sword and cut this complicated relationship into pieces.

But her junior brother was too important to her, so she could only patiently think hard and rack her brains.

"It's actually not as complicated as you think." Taiyang Zhenmei Sword laughed loudly, "All you have to do is to defeat your junior brother during the ascension process. Then defeat the other competitors. Simple, perfect!"

"You don't understand." An Zhisu said irritably, "If Junior Brother ascended now, I wouldn't be so worried."

Her gaze fell on Xu Yinglian, then turned to Shi Liuli, moving back and forth between the two of them, showing how conflicted and depressed the senior sister was.

What he inherited from Changmei Immortal and Su Jian was a very clear character about what he loved and hated: he was unconditionally tolerant and doting on his own people, but ruthlessly killing his enemies.

However, now, facing Chen Guanshui, who is "his own man", An Zhisu doesn't want to treat him well at all because the other party suddenly has a few more wives.

Facing "rivals in love" such as Xu Yinglian and Shi Liuli, An Zhisu could not fight with them because the Bu Tian Stone had not been successfully refined yet... He could not do this or that. It was like a beast trapped in a cage, with his nature forcibly suppressed, making him feel as if he could not be free.

These three people either had ulterior motives, were on guard, or were suppressing their murderous intent, so naturally there was no possibility of communication, and the atmosphere around them became increasingly bad, and the smell of gunpowder almost condensed into substance.

Chen Guanshui was chatting with Kunlun Jing when he walked in from outside:

"At present, there is still room for further improvement in the efficiency of smelting the Bu Tian Stone, mainly because..."

He stepped into the cave and was immediately frightened by the murderous aura in it.

Then, with the three people's cold gazes focused on him, Chen Guanshui immediately said:

"But I still need to investigate carefully to see if there are any hidden dangers around the Tianzhu."

After saying that, he turned around calmly and left in a dashing manner.

…

Southern Xinjiang, Yulong Mountain.

Shi Yao, the leader of Donghuang Dao, has appeared more often recently. He is accompanied by a beautiful girl, and the two are almost inseparable.

But everyone in the cultivation world knows that a girl who looks like a young girl may actually be older than everyone else combined, so everyone is respectful and dares not offend.

In the square in front of the East Emperor Palace, there is a jade lion unicorn lying there all year round. It usually sleeps with its eyelids drooping, and most of the monks and disciples treat it as if it does not exist.

However, ever since the arrival of the absolutely beautiful girl, she could be seen chatting with Qilin at least two out of three days.

"I have long anticipated the decline of the Qilin clan." The Qilin snorted coldly, "If we had defeated the royal family fairly, it would have been fine."

"While Emperor Yinglong was away, he secretly controlled and supported a Jiaolong prince, and launched a coup from the top... If you ask me, if you don't get the position right, you will suffer the consequences."

Dragon Fox just smiled when she heard this. She knew that this person was a general under her father's command in the past. After her father was captured by the human world, he could not accept the fact that his own clan had usurped the throne and overthrew the superior, so he simply stayed in the human world and did not leave.

Now that the Qilin Clan in the Donghuang Realm has declined again, this senior is not sad at all. Instead, he thinks that his prediction was correct and his mood has obviously improved a lot.

Although Longhu found it a little funny, he also had some subtle understanding when he thought about how he had once betrayed the Canglong clan.

"Your Majesty, you want to find the late emperor. This is difficult, but it is also easy." Qilin continued, "The restrictions of the Shushan Demon Locking Tower are loose on the outside and tight on the inside. It is very easy to sneak in, but it is extremely difficult to rescue the late emperor from inside."

"But I heard that my aunt succeeded once." Long Hu said somewhat unwillingly.

"That's because she spent a long time spying and studying the restrictions of the Demon Locking Tower, and then she happened to encounter a perfect opportunity when the Shushan Immortal was not guarding the Demon Locking Tower, so she had the opportunity to sneak in and take action." Qilin said disapprovingly, "But that opportunity no longer exists."

"First of all, Immortal Changmei has now resigned from his position as the sect's guardian immortal and handed over all power to the sect leader Su Jian. Since then, he has been on duty at the bottom of the Demon Locking Tower for twelve hours every day. The only time he went out recently directly caused the theft of the sect's treasures. It is estimated that it is almost impossible to wait for him to leave the Demon Locking Tower again in the short term."

"Secondly, according to your aunt's investigation, the restrictions of the Demon Locking Tower have been completely renovated recently. The person who did it was an extremely advanced formation master, so the many loopholes that existed originally have been filled one by one, which means that all the intelligence work done in the past has been in vain."

"The last and most important thing is that the late emperor does not want to leave the Demon Locking Tower."

The dragon fox fell silent.

She knew that the reason her father was willing to be trapped in the Demon Locking Tower was that he made a bet with the Changmei Immortal. If he could not defeat Changmei, he would imprison himself in the Demon Locking Tower.

In fact, it was because of the failure of the expedition that his mother was ostracized, exiled and even died in the Eastern Emperor Realm. He could not let it go for a long time, so he chose to atone for his sins with the rest of his life.

My aunt had tried to persuade him many times, but to little avail. Later, she rescued him by force. As a result, my father wandered outside the tower for a long time. After Changmei arrived, he fought with him for hundreds of rounds and was finally locked up in the Demon Locking Tower again.

To Long Hu, this biological father gave birth to her but did not raise her at all. His importance was not even one ten-thousandth of that of Long Long in her heart.

I went to the Demon Tower to see him, not only out of my duty as a daughter, but also because I wanted to borrow his power.

If he is willing to come out and help his daughter find her husband, that would be the best; if he still insists on staying in the tower and spending the rest of his life atonement for his mother, then let him go.

"I still want to see my father." Longhu insisted, "This is filial piety and cannot be violated."

She knew that this senior Qilin was the most loyal and righteous person, so she deliberately brought up the idea of ​​filial piety. Sure enough, the other party hesitated for a moment, then shook his mountain-sized body and stood up.

"Since your majesty has ordered it," he opened his yellow eyes and said in a voice as loud as a bell, "I will die for you."

After persuading Senior Qilin to help him, Longhu turned around and went to look for Aunt Hu Li.

"Uh." Hu Li was silent for a while, then said, "If you just want to see your father, you don't need the help of that senior."

"If father wants us to rescue him, wouldn't the more manpower the better?" Longhu asked back.

"The restrictions of the Demon Locking Tower have changed drastically now. All the loopholes that we found have disappeared." Hu Li sighed faintly, "Besides, the Long-Eyebrowed Immortal stays at the bottom of the Demon Locking Tower all day long. If you want to sneak in with me, you have to wait for the right opportunity."

Dragon Fox was a little disappointed, but he still cheered up and said:

"Then I'll leave it to you, Auntie."

"By the way, I also found out about the Heaven-Repairing Stone you mentioned." Hu Li suddenly remembered something and said, "It was around the time when the Long-Eyebrowed Immortal left the mountain that the Shangqing Sect of Mount Shu lost a valuable treasure."

"Is it the fragment of the Sky-Repairing Stone?" asked Longhu.

"That's about right." Hu Li nodded and said, "Although there is no conclusive evidence, it's probably like this."

"The previous restrictions of the Demon Locking Tower were almost entirely suppressed by a certain precious sealing treasure. Therefore, although there were many loopholes, it could still be maintained."

"Ever since the Immortal Changmei left the mountain, the restrictions of the Demon Locking Tower have changed greatly, and many loopholes have been filled one by one..."

"What my aunt meant," Long Hu guessed quickly, "was because the seal treasure was stolen, causing the Demon Locking Tower to have many loopholes, so Shushan had to hire someone to overhaul it, which led to all these loopholes being filled?"

"Maybe." Hu Li sighed again, "Speaking of precious seal treasures, even if you don't understand the formation, you can use it to complete the restriction. The first thing that comes to mind is the fragments of the Bu Tian Stone."

"What's even more interesting is that similar situations seem to have occurred on the same day in Kunlun and Penglai."

"Aunt, are you saying... that all the Sky-Bulding Stones were stolen?" Longhu asked in surprise.

"Almost." Hu Li speculated, "If you think about it, if all three sects have the Bu Tian Stone, then if you want to steal them all..."

"They will definitely choose to attack at the same time." Dragon Fox said immediately, "Otherwise, if one faction's Bu Tian Shi is stolen, it will immediately alert the other two factions. Just taking away and hiding the Bu Tian Shi fragments will mean that all the original intelligence will be invalid."

"So, since they were found on the same day, the probability that they are all Bu Tian Shi is quite high." Hu Li took out a jade slip from the bookshelf, handed it to Long Hu and said, "Kunlun Changgeng, Shushan Qingheng, and Penglai Jingyun, you can take a look at the information about these three people."

If there really exists an organization in the world of cultivation that specializes in stealing the Sky-Burn Stone, then Long Long might also be a member of this organization... Thinking of this, Long Hu took the jade slip and examined it carefully.

Kunlun Changgeng, with a clear mind of Taoism and a brilliant resume, has had almost all the glory of his life.

If you think about it carefully, Long Long is also a person who likes to show off. He was also very prominent in the Canglong clan. Could he be related to Chang Geng?

Continuing to read on, Qingheng of Shushan, the master of Taiyin Sword, was once treated harshly by the sect. He endured humiliation and fought back. His story is passed down and worshipped by many grassroots cultivators of Shushan.

In comparison again, Long Long also has a strong and unyielding character. In the past, he took me on a long journey in Nanzhou, and we were hunted by the Feather Tribe and went through all kinds of hardships. But have you ever heard him complain?

Looking at the third piece of information, Penglai Jingyun is very intelligent. It is said that he is a rare master-level figure in Penglai who specializes in formations. His achievements are well-known in the world of cultivation.

Long Long...Long Long is also very smart! When he learned various dragon magical powers, he was no worse than other cultivators of the same race!

The more Long Hu looked, the more he felt that these three people had a lot of common characteristics with Long Long, and might have been trained by the same organization.

As long as we find these three people, we will definitely be able to follow the clues to find Long Long!

"How do we find these three people?" The little fox found his aunt again and asked calmly, his tail under his skirt already wagging happily.

"Well, we don't know where they went yet." Hu Li said, stroking his chin, "But since they are fragments of the Heaven-Repairing Stone, after they are gathered, they will definitely go to the southeast where the Heavenly Pillar is broken to repair the sky."

"So we are going to the Southeast Sky Leak?" Long Hu asked cautiously, "Will there be many forces lying in ambush over there?"

"Not yet." Hu Li replied, "The news of the fragments of the Heaven-Repairing Stone has not been widely spread. Most forces in the cultivation world only know that a treasure of the Three Pure Ones of the Orthodox Sect has been stolen."

"If you want to go to Tianlou to investigate, you don't need to go there in person. I can arrange for someone to do it."