Chapter 104
Chu Jinhuai was more patient than they expected. A month later, the lion-headed chariot symbolizing the young master of Dengtian City entered the Qingmang Yanyue Mountain.
Huan Mang entertained Chu Jinhuai in the cave where the Dragon Lord entertained guests.
There were two people standing behind Chu Jinhuai. Ji Tang recognized one of them, it was Chu Jinhuai's shadow.
During the Nightmare Battle, he was ordered by Chu Jinhuai to follow Jitang back to the Nightmare Clan and obey Jitang's orders. At the critical moment, he weighed the pros and cons and decisively withdrew, putting Jitang in a difficult situation. Jitang still remembers this incident clearly and will never forget it.
More than four hundred years have passed, and he is still in the middle stage of Dongxu, without even a small level advancement.
This is actually very normal and common in the world of cultivation. Speaking of which, people like Ji Tang and Su Jinzhou who advance extremely quickly are the exceptions.
Ji Tang had no impression of the other person. He looked young, no more than twelve or thirteen, but his long hair, which fell to the ground behind him, was completely white. His eyebrows and eyelashes were also as white as snow. His eyes were dull and emotionless, not like a living person.
Ji Tang's gaze lingered on him for a moment longer, and then he used his Yuan Shen power to reach out to Huan Mang, who was sitting in the main seat. "Brother, this person is in the late Dongxu stage, a small level higher than the one next to him."
Huan Mang was surprised, "This young city lord is indeed quite capable. The people following him are all powerful people in the Cave Void Stage."
Chu Jinhuai had only recently reached the early stage of fusion, but he was able to order the powerful people in the Dongxu stage to do things, which shows the profound foundation of Dengtian City.
Ji Tang: "The tall one is Chu Jinhuai's shadow, he has been following him for four hundred years."
Huan Mang glanced at the shadow and said, "I know this person."
Ji Tang wondered, "You know?"
Huan Mang was shocked to realize that he had let something slip and laughed, "Ah, well... I've heard of that."
Jitang glanced at Su Jinzhou.
Ever since she discovered the secret stone chamber of the magic weapon cave in Su Jinzhou's dream, she had an idea in her mind.
Su Jinzhou can remember every cultivator who attacked the Nine Nether Abyss, so he can definitely remember Shadow even better.
Ji Tang almost immediately confirmed that his brother knew about Shadow from his senior brother.
Huan Mang briefly understood the cultivation level of the person behind Chu Jinhuai, then smiled and said, "What a distinguished guest! I wonder what brings the Young City Lord to my Qing Mang Yanyue Mountain this time?"
Chu Jinhuai, the old fox, also smiled and said with a folded hand: "This happened suddenly. It is really impolite to come directly to Dengtian City without submitting a visiting card first. I hope Young Clan Leader will forgive me."
Huan Mang: "Oh? What do you mean by something unexpected happening?"
Chu Jinhuai didn't beat around the bush. "Young Patriarch, do you know about the black-clad believers?"
Huan Mang looked at Su Jinzhou and said, "I've heard something."
Chu Jinhuai: "To be honest, Young Clan Leader, I have been investigating the Black-Cloaked Followers for hundreds of years and have gained quite a bit of information. Over the years, the Black-Cloaked Followers have been looking for talented individuals to join their camp. I have discovered a common thread among them: they will try to win over cultivators above the Fusion Stage."
Huan Mang: "Young City Lord has already reached the Fusion Stage."
Chu Jinhuai: "The same goes for the young clan leader." He then bowed to Jiuxiao, "And the young clan leader Tuowei."
Jiu Xiao: "So the Young City Lord came here for this."
Chu Jinhuai: "Exactly."
Huan Mang asked, "Young City Lord, what are your thoughts? Do you want to join the Black-Cloaked Believers, or refuse?"
Chu Jinhuai: "Of course I refuse."
Huan Mang: "Indeed, it is wishful thinking for a mere black-clad believer to want to take over Dengtian City!"
Chu Jinhuai smiled and said, "The black-clothed believers are not to be feared. What is worrying is the black-clothed lord who commands the black-clothed believers."
Su Jinzhou: "Lord in black?"
Chu Jinhuai: "Yes, he is the master of all black believers and the leader of the entire black camp."
Su Jinzhou took advantage of the time when Chu Jinhuai continued to talk to Huan Mang to look at Ji Tang.
Jitang shook her head, indicating that she didn't know the title of Lord in Black.
Huan Mang: "How much does the Young City Lord know about the Black Lord?"
Chu Jinhuai: "He has never shown his true face. I learned from the first-level black-clothed believers I captured that every time he appeared, he would cover himself with a black robe, and the hood would hide his face, leaving only his chin exposed, which was also covered by the black mask. I really don't know what he looks like."
Huan Mang didn't forget to act, "Are you a first-level black believer again?"
Chu Jinhuai explained, "There are also different levels among the Black-Cloaked Believers, from the lowest level six to the highest level one, for a total of six levels. Level one Black-Cloaked Believers are the ones who most often come into contact with the Black-Cloaked Lords, and I've captured quite a few of them."
Huan Mang leaned forward slightly, "What did the Young City Lord ask?"
Chu Jinhuai: "I do know some things, one of which is very important, Shadow."
Shadow stepped forward slightly, "Yes."
He took out a roll of animal skin from his storage bag.
On the animal skin, the side used for writing and drawing is soft and delicate, while the side facing outward is uneven.
Ji Tang could tell at a glance that this was the skin of a monster. The remaining monster aura on it had not yet completely dissipated, which meant that the monster's skin had just been peeled off not long ago.
Several people leaned over and looked at the intact animal skin on the table, which was an arm's length and half an arm's width.
The shadow pointed to the area on the hide where a triangle was drawn. "This is the general map of Kyushu. The areas marked with triangles are the areas where we know the Black Clad believers are active."
Ji Tang looked at it carefully. She had also explored it before, and the area she had explored the most was in Chenwuzhou.
Most of the triangles marked by Chen Wuzhou on the map were identical to those she knew. In addition, she knew of some that were not on the map.
Jitang nodded slightly.
This picture is real.
Her actions were immediately noticed by her own people.
Huan Mang: "Has the Young City Lord explored these places in depth?"
Chu Jinhuai: "We have sent people to investigate. We have captured some black-clad believers, but some have escaped."
Chu Jinhuai's move was not small. He mobilized so many black lords and had to stand against them from the very beginning.
Shadow continued, "We've found some strange things in these places."
"What is it?"
He took out another piece of tortoise shell from his storage bag. "This. Every place where the Black-Cloaked Followers are active has a piece of tortoise shell. We have collected over nine hundred pieces so far."
Several people were studying the tortoise shell, but only Ji Tang looked calm and composed.
She knew this tortoise shell.
The first time she saw this tortoise shell was thousands of years ago, when she was in a fantasy world of coral caves under the sea outside the Wei Hai Palace.
At that time, she suspected that the tortoise shell was the center of the illusion, but later she found out that it was not.
She also showed the tortoise shell to the monk who was leading the team from Wei Hai Palace at that time. The other party could not see anything strange about the tortoise shell, so Ji Tang threw the tortoise shell into the storage bag and did not think about it for a long time.
Until she began to investigate the Black-Clad Believers, she found the same tortoise shell in the Black-Clad Believers' activities.
She collected less than a hundred tortoise shells in total, and as she fell into the bottom of the Nine Nether Abyss, the Nine Nether Tower was looted and the storage bag containing the tortoise shells disappeared.
Shadow: "We don't know what this is, but we found another suspicious point."
He started with the first triangle shape and slowly moved his finger across the animal skin scroll. As the route became more and more complicated, the expressions of the people became more and more solemn.
Jiu Xiao hesitated slightly, "Is this a formation?"
Chu Jinhuai: "Young Patriarch is right. My Dengtian City is good at constructing formations. I ordered those proficient in this art in the city to study it a long time ago. After hundreds of years of research, they finally glimpsed the mystery of this formation."
He tapped the hide. "This massive formation contains several different types of formations," he began sketching. "Eternal Burning Fire Abyss Formation, Nine Thunders Earth-Exploding Formation, Exhausting Imprisonment Formation, Ten Thousand Sealing Illusion Formation, Soul-Fixing Formation, Soul-Summoning Formation, Instant Teleportation Formation, Demon-Binding Formation, and the Rotating Universe Formation."
"Nine types of large formations are distributed across the Jiuzhou Continent. Each continent has a large number of these nine formations. Only powerful beings who have mastered the art of formations in the Tribulation Crossing Stage can possibly set them up. They are so powerful that they are intimidating."
Several people looked at Su Jinzhou at the same time.
It's not that they doubted him, but as they were also powerful people in the Tribulation Crossing Stage, they really wanted to know what Su Jinzhou was thinking.
Su Jinzhou said in a deep voice: "In the world of cultivation, there are only two people in the Tribulation Crossing Stage, Jitang and I."
Chu Jinhuai couldn't help but smile bitterly. "This is the point that I find most incomprehensible. The Nightmare Venerable fell into the Nine Nether Abyss four hundred years ago and died. Now, the only one in the world of cultivation who is at the Tribulation Crossing Stage is the Immortal Venerable Bian Jing. So, who on earth constructed these formations and deployed them across the Nine Provinces?"
"It takes a long time to set up these formations. A conservative estimate is thousands of years. The Lord in Black is playing a very big game, and we are all pawns on his board."
He pointed at the animal skin scroll and said, "Look, when these formations are unleashed, they can cover more than half of the Kyushu Continent. If these formations were to take effect at the same time, the Kyushu Continent would be transformed into a living hell in an instant."
Huanmang pointed out the area not affected by the magic circle and said, "The situation isn't too bad, is it?"
Chu Jinhuai curled his lips and asked, "Young Patriarch, how can you be sure that the places I sent people to explore and mark are the places where all the black-clothed believers are active?"
Several people were speechless for a moment.
Chu Jinhuai's visit this time can be said to be quite sincere, which is inconsistent with his previous image of a smiling tiger.
This also indirectly confirmed the seriousness of the situation, which was far beyond his expectations and control.
Chu Jinhuai sighed slightly and said helplessly, "This is no longer something we can resist. The entire cultivation world must know about this. The black-robed lord must be a cultivator in the Tribulation Crossing Stage, but why have we never known of his existence? This is worth further investigation."
"But before that, we have another matter to resolve. The three of us have reached the fusion stage, and I believe the black-clothed believers will come to us soon. It's easy for us to refuse, but they have a poison that is very toxic. Young Patriarch Huanmang, you should be very clear about this."
Huanmang looked serious and pursed his lips tightly.
Chu Jinhuai's brows relaxed slightly, and he asked softly, "Is the Dragon Lord in good health?"
Huan Mang: "Thank you for your concern, Young City Lord. It's OK."
Chu Jinhuai: "This poison is very strong. One can be infected without knowing it, and we don't know the antidote. Once it enters the body, the consequences can be as severe as what happened to the Dragon Lord... Forgive my rudeness."
Huan Mang: "No problem."
Chu Jinhuai: "In serious cases, it will be the end of Senior Sturgeon Shark King Beast, so everyone should not take it lightly."
Su Jinzhou's hands on his legs clenched unconsciously.
Jitang patted the back of his hand gently.
It seems that the boat has finished its night.
Jitang had a smile in his eyes.
He gradually relaxed his hand, narrowed his eyes, and nodded gently to her.
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