Chapter 632 Meeting an acquaintance in the city
The sword flashed and appeared in front of him in the blink of an eye.
At this moment, a silver light fell from the sky above the ancient city, and in the silver light, a white talisman paper descended.
The white talisman paper blocked Chu Ning's body, absorbing all the sword lights and making them disappear.
The sword light dissipated, and the white talisman paper turned into ashes.
Chu Ning breathed a sigh of relief. He watched the sword light coming at him, and then saw the white talisman paper appear, blocking the sword light for him.
He didn't know where the white talisman paper came from, but he knew that if he didn't have the white talisman paper, he would really be in trouble this time.
"This is a place that only Shan Zong disciples can reach. Logically, there shouldn't be any danger. Could it be because of the corpses at the city gate?"
Chu Ning frowned and fell into deep thought.
When the mountain peak cultivated by the Shanzong disciples reaches a height of 100,000 feet, they can come here and eventually reach the gate of Guishan City.
It is impossible for the Shanzong elders to leave traps for later Shanzong disciples.
There are only two explanations. One is that an external enemy broke in here, and the predecessors of the Shan Sect set a trap. The corpses at the door are the external enemies buried here.
Another possibility is that this sword light came from an external enemy, with the purpose of killing the newcomers from the Shan Sect.
No matter which situation it is, it is not good news for Chu Ning.
If it was the former, it meant that Shanzong had powerful enemies, forcing the Shanzong predecessors to resort to this method, and they could not even take care of the safety of Shanzong's later disciples. If it was the latter, it would be even more difficult.
Shan Sect suffered a devastating disaster, and even its base camp was occupied by the enemy. The sword light was left behind in order to completely annihilate the Shan Sect disciples and leave the Shan Sect without a successor.
The Shan Sect is different from other sects in that it does not have any master-disciple inheritance. As long as one can comprehend the Mountain Transformation Technique, or the Immovable As A Mountain Technique, and then give birth to a mountain, one can be considered a disciple of the Shan Sect and does not need a master to guide one.
In this situation, even if the powerful enemy of Shanzong could destroy all the predecessors of Shanzong at that time, they would not be able to exterminate Shanzong. As long as there were successors, Shanzong would still exist.
Unable to determine what the situation was, Chu Ning stopped thinking and looked forward.
There was silence in the ancient city.
Unlike the cities in the North and the Cangtian Realm, Guishan City has no streets or houses, just a flat land.
However, the flat ground in this city was covered with corpses, and there were bloodstains on the ground that had dried but still exuded spirituality.
Big battle!
Chu Ning could imagine what a brutal war this Guishan City had experienced.
There are mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and every one of them must have been a terrifying existence when they were alive.
As he went forward, Chu Ning discovered a clue. The scars on these corpses were the same, which meant that these people were killed by the same person before they died, or to be more precise, they were killed by the same method.
Was it the trick of Senior Shanzong? After walking through this land of corpses, Chu Ning came to the center of the city. The next moment, his pupils shrank because he saw the source of the sword light that had previously put his life in danger.
In the center of Guishan City, there is a mound of earth that is only three meters high. It is not even a mountain, but on top of this mound is a long sword.
Chu Ning's intuition told him that the previous sword light was emitted by this long sword.
Standing in front of the mound, Chu Ning suddenly felt an inexplicable sadness. This sadness from the depths of his soul made him understand that this mound might be related to Shanzong, and this long sword came from Shanzong's enemy.
Just as Chu Ning was falling into sorrow, the long sword suddenly trembled, and an invisible energy wave swept through Guishan City, and all the surrounding scenes became blurred.
He saw a scene that he would never forget.
Guishan City is suspended above the endless void, where the power of various laws permeates.
There is the first ray of light in the darkness and the first thunder of birth.
The ancestral thunder roared, and the light tore through the endless darkness.
He saw wind, fire, thunder and lightning, and the birth and destruction of worlds. All of this was in the long river of time, like a scroll slowly unfolding.
A law can give birth to a powerful Dongxu master, but not every Dongxu master can fully master a law.
Chu Ning was shocked by the number and completeness of the laws in Guishan City.
If this is the strength of Shan Zong, it means that Shan Zong once stood at the pinnacle of cultivation! How could such a Shan Zong become what it is now? How strong must Shan Zong's enemies be?
While Chu Ning was shocked, the scene before him changed again.
He saw a sword, a sword light that seemed to have crossed time and space, and all obstacles in the world. It came out from the void and slashed towards Guishan City.
Guishan City was shaking, and this sword did not affect Guishan City at all.
The next moment, a figure landed in Guishan City. Chu Ning couldn't see the face clearly, but he felt vaguely familiar with it, as if he had seen it somewhere.
After a long time, a light sigh was heard from Guishan City, and the figure who walked into Guishan City walked out of the city and disappeared into the depths of the void.
Another sword light fell.
This time, Guishan City did not resist. When the sword fell, all the laws surrounding Guishan City disappeared into thin air and formed steps above the sky.
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A few breaths later, a sword fell from the end of the stairs. It was not a sword light but a long sword. It was the sword that Chu Ning had seen stuck on the mound in Guishan City before.
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The picture changes again.
Chu Ning saw a man walking into Guishan City.
"Zhang Bairen?"
When Chu Ning saw the man's face clearly, there was a gleam in his eyes. He did not expect to see Zhang Bairen appear in Guishan City.
This peerless duo who had loved and hated him in Wenjin Sect, and who later sat on the Xuanhuang Road in the Taoist Palace, actually appeared here.
Chu Ning knew that Zhang Bairen's luck was extraordinary and that he must have a big secret, but he never expected that Zhang Bairen would appear here.
He was certain that the scene he saw before his eyes must have happened in some very distant era.
So Zhang Bairen already existed at that time? Reincarnation? In an instant, this thought popped up in Chu Ning's mind.
Zhang Bairen’s cultivation level cannot deceive anyone. He was already at the Foundation Establishment Stage when he met him. If he had pretended to be a pig to eat the tiger, he would not have been snatched away the opportunity of Shanzong by himself.
But he couldn't figure out the depth of Zhang Bairen in front of him.
Zhang Bairen entered the city.
Zhang Bairen left the city.
Looking up at the steps hanging high in the sky, Zhang Bairen flicked his sleeves and said, "Whether this road is wrong or not, I don't know, but I know that your road is wrong. I will take a completely new road."
Chu Ning's eyes flickered as he watched Zhang Bairen disappear.
The next moment, another figure appeared in front of the city gate.
Chu Ning knew in his heart that this figure was not following Zhang Bairen closely, but the scene he saw was fast-forwarded, traveling through time and space. Perhaps a thousand, ten thousand or even a hundred thousand years had passed between the two people.
What shocked Chu Ning even more was that the person he saw was another familiar face.
(End of this chapter)