After saying that, Xue Ranran skillfully lit a fire so that Tu Jiuyi could relax, and also heated up some sugarcane juice crushed with stones for her to drink.
Tu Jiuyi glanced at Xue Ranran and didn't say thank you. She had grown up in a rather cold environment, and she wouldn't say thank you when someone was kind to her, but she would remember it in her heart and wish she could return it as soon as possible so as not to owe them anything.
Wei Yan watched coldly from beginning to end, obviously ignoring Tu Jiuyi who had finally survived the ordeal and returned.
In fact, he knew in his heart that Tu Jiuyi had no other man besides him, and judging by the number of months, it was not the fake man's child. But she dared to secretly carry his child, which was an unforgivable sin in itself.
The young dragon boy following the Dragon King hummed in dissatisfaction at the situation in front of him. Ran Ran didn't understand, so the Dragon Island Town God translated for the boy: "He said there are too many damn men here, and he really wants to eat one of them in one bite..."
After hearing this, Wei Yan and Yao Laoxian glared at the young man, somewhat unsure who he was scolding.
The dragon boy silently put his head into the arms of the Dragon Island Goddess, and arched his back out of habit, letting her touch his little dragon horns.
This was a habit he had when he was a little dragon, and he couldn't change it even after transforming into a human form.
That greasy and crooked energy also made Medicine Old Immortal feel sour and bitter.
However, the current situation is critical and people do not have much time to indulge in the grudges between men and women.
Perhaps it was because he had used too much force to fight against Wanjie Tianlan before, but the shield didn't seem to have as much spiritual energy as before. The Dragon Island Town God transformed into a dragon again, and with a flick of his tail, he broke a corner of the shield, creating a crack.
When they entered, they did not encounter any Brahma followers to stop them. There was no one on the mountain road, and the birds and beasts had just fled through the cracks in the shield. The whole mountain was just like its name, empty.
In this way, everyone arrived at the pagoda smoothly.
When they reached the tower, they realized why the journey was so smooth. It turned out that the tower seemed to have been almost completed, but those Brahma followers seemed to have lost control of themselves and committed suicide one after another. Their blood splashed into the ditch under their feet, forming a small river that was absorbed by the tower.
Mu Ranwu was also among them, and she drew out her sword uncontrollably.
Her spiritual power far surpassed that of other believers, and she had witnessed the fate of those believers with her own eyes. Now her face had turned pale with fear, and she was trying hard to fight against the power that controlled her, trying to let go of the sword in her hand.
But the force was too strong. She couldn't control her hands at all. At this moment, she saw Xue Ranran and the others rushing over, and she immediately screamed: "Sister, come and save me!"
Xue Ranran was actually really annoyed by the word "sister". But she also knew that she must not let the Spiritual Tower complete the blood sacrifice, so she only controlled the short sword and attacked Mu Ranwu's wrist, trying to knock the sword out of her hand.
Mu Ranwu was also exhausted at this time, and had no strength to control her wrist. After the sword in her hand pushed away the short blade, it stabbed straight towards her throat.
At this moment, Ran Ran's other four daggers also attacked quickly.
Her skill in controlling the daggers has become more and more proficient, and she can control five daggers at the same time at will. When the five daggers came quickly, she barely blocked Mu Ranwu's sword that was stabbing towards her throat.
Just when the sword was blocked, Su Yishui waved his hand and shook the sword away.
Mu Ranwu, however, still uncontrollably picked up the sword thrown on the ground by another disciple, and continued to try to slit her throat. At this time, she was already in tears: "Sister, sister, please save me, I don't want to die yet!"
Xue Ranran flew up and used the mechanical stick to push away the sword in Mu Ranwu's hand again.
At this time, the sky was getting darker. Yao Laoxian stretched out his hand and drew out the true fire which rose into the air and illuminated the surroundings of the black tower.
When the fire flickered, Xue Ranran discovered that Mu Ranwu's pupils, who were very close to her, turned into two thin lines for a moment, like snake eyes, revealing an indescribable weirdness.
Although her pupils quickly returned to normal after being illuminated by the firelight, this instantaneous change was enough to alert Xue Ranran.
Sure enough, the moment Ranran approached, the sword in Mu Ranwu's hand suddenly turned around and stabbed straight at her.
Although Xue Ranran was alert, it was still too late for her to dodge. She remembered that she was wearing the soft silver armor Zeng Yi had made for her, so she had to gather her true energy to resist the sword.
But no one knew where the sword in Mu Ranwu's hand came from. When it stabbed forward, it was actually wrapped in a fierce evil spirit, splitting mountains and cutting rocks along the way, breaking through the protective true qi, and stabbing straight towards Xue Ranran's chest.
Seeing that he could not avoid the sword, a hand suddenly stretched out from the side, and held the sword with two fingers. At the same time, the true energy flowed out along the fingers, making the sword make a clanging sound.
Mu Ranwu looked up and saw that it was Su Yishui who came to Xue Ranran's side in time and grabbed the sword.
But Mu Ranwu was not panicked. She just smiled viciously, turned the wrist holding the sword lightly, and suddenly a dozen long needles shot out from the handle of the sword and shot towards Xue Ranran again.
This time it was too fast. Although Su Yishui used his true Qi to shake it in time, a long needle still pierced through the true Qi and pierced Ranran's chest.
Although protected by soft silver armor, the needle tip still pierced Ranran's skin.
At that moment, Ranran felt a burning pain and immediately realized that the needle tip was not clean and seemed to contain some poison!
At this moment, Su Yishui had already turned around and pierced Mu Ranwu's heart with his sword.
Mu Ranwu's body quickly turned into green smoke, leaving only a grinning head...
This "Mu Ranwu" is obviously fake, she is transformed from a nine-headed snake, so her eyes will change into snake eyes for a moment when facing the light.
Although the fake one died immediately, blue smoke began to emerge from Xue Ranran's head.
Wei Yan and Tu Jiuyi were both experienced people. When they saw this, their faces changed and they shouted in unison: "Oh no! She has been poisoned by the nine-headed giant python!"
Just as they were about to finish their words, the green smoke condensed and transformed into another Xue Ranran, with the same figure and clothes, with almost no difference.
As soon as the fake object took shape, it suddenly turned around and jumped towards the bushes on the side, disappearing without a trace in a flash.
Su Yishui stuffed a detoxification pill into Xue Ranran's mouth, which finally relieved the pain caused by the snake venom.
At this time, the canals surrounding the stupa were flowing with dark blood, and after absorbing the blood, the stupa seemed to begin to breathe, and it was moving up and down like a human body.
But the blood sacrifice of these people was obviously just an appetizer and not enough to activate the spirit tower.
What Xue Ranran is more worried about now is, what will the Brahma Cult use its own shadow for after taking so much trouble to create it?
At this moment, Yao Laoxian looked towards the top of the tower, his expression suddenly changed, and he whispered, "Human Demon King..."
Everyone looked up and saw a glittering golden skull at the top of the tower.
Xue Ranran and Su Yishui recognized it at once. It was the skull of the Human Demon King that was stolen from the secret cave in Chiyan Mountain.
This skull has never been refined, and it has gathered the resentment of the Human Demon King. Now it is placed high up on the Tower of Defying Heaven, and no one knows what its purpose is.
Xue Ranran saw this and shouted, "Senior Duntian, please come out and speak!"
But her voice echoed in the empty mountains, and no one answered.
This bone tower was soaked in the blood of the Azure Dragon. The pungent dragon blood was simply the most outrageous provocation to the dragon's guardian god, so the guardian god could no longer hold back and once again transformed into a golden dragon, gathering his true strength and fiercely attacking the tower.
Ran Ran saw this and immediately shouted "Stop!"
The golden dragon rushed too fast and ignored her attempts to stop it. Just as its tail was about to sweep up the tower, the black bone tower suddenly made a wild roar like that of a wild beast, and many sharp bone spurs suddenly emerged from its sticky and squirming surface, which could penetrate the hard dragon scales and pierce the golden dragon's tail.
Those bone spurs were like the mouthpieces of giant mosquitoes. After piercing, they began to suck the dragon's blood desperately.
Dragon blood is the source of the dragon's spiritual power. Once sucked away, the power will be greatly reduced, so the Zhenshen immediately groaned in pain and quickly retreated, trying to get rid of the bone tower.
But the suction force of those bone tower spikes was so strong that they hooked the golden dragon tightly.
At this moment, Yao Laoxian and Long Shaonian both became anxious and rushed over together.
The dragon boy flipped his body and turned into a glowing dragon, then pulled the golden dragon with his dragon claws, while Yao Laoxian drew out his sharp blade and slashed at the attached spikes.
With the combined efforts of both parties, they finally rescued the Zhenshen.
When the golden dragon transformed into a human form and fell down again, Ranran discovered that the bone spurs had barbs and hooks that were hanging on her flesh.
"No, this tower is now a living tower, desperately absorbing the spiritual energy and flesh of those who are close to it. We have no way to overthrow it!"
The Dragon Island God tried to hold back the pain and whispered. No wonder the immortals in heaven made such a cruel decision, just to overturn the earth and bury the pagoda in the abyss. They should have expected that the pagoda would be difficult to approach and that no matter humans or gods, they would be helpless against it!
Wei Yan said bitterly: "What should I do? Is my long-standing foundation going to be buried along with Duntian's spiritual tower?"
His roots are all in the Red Flame Mountain. If he cannot overthrow the Spirit Tower, it means that all his efforts over the years will be destroyed. Moreover, the Spirit Tower selects places where spiritual energy gathers.
After the earth calamity, it was extremely difficult to find a suitable place to practice. When his spiritual power was exhausted, perhaps he could only become like an ordinary person, gradually getting old and dying of illness, and turning into a handful of dust without doing anything.
At this moment, Duntian's voice rang out in the vast darkness: "If you are not allowed to try, how will you know your own weight? This bone tower has the flesh and blood of the Azure Dragon and the blessing of the human demon king's soul. It is already a spiritual tower with both form and spirit. You are not its opponent, so don't even think about shaking the tree like an ant..."
After looking around, Su Yishui said loudly: "The heaven will not allow you to go against the will of heaven. Rather than implicate thousands of innocent people, you'd better stop as soon as possible!"
In the dark night, another cold laugh was heard: "I just want to find my most precious thing, but so many people are trying every means to stop me. To become an immortal, one must go through countless tests and give up one's most precious thing, but what happens after becoming an immortal? In order to overthrow the Spirit Tower, the heavens decided to subvert the world and kill so many lives, and they just use a casual sentence of 'heaven's destiny cannot be violated' to get rid of it?"
Su Yishui said coldly: "You decided to sacrifice your wife and children. It was your own choice! Since you have made the decision, why regret it now?"
Duntian stopped laughing, and his voice was filled with incomparable coldness: "What about you? When you watched Mu Qingge's soul fly away and you were powerless to do anything, didn't you regret it? Didn't you want to kill all the righteous people present to pay for her life? Didn't you want to break the heaven and earth and pull her back from the underworld?"
Su Yishui didn't say anything, but what Duntian said was indeed his state of mind when he witnessed the devastation twenty years ago.
He and Duntian had never met before, but this possessed master could accurately describe his thoughts at the time. Was this just a coincidence, or...
At this moment, Ran Ran said firmly: "He won't!"
"Oh, why are you so sure? Do you really understand this man? He is just like that demon king. They are both chosen demons, destined to be possessed by demons for the rest of their lives and to cause the destruction of all living things!"
Facing Duntian's doubts, Ranran said seriously: "He won't, because he knows that if I did those things, I would not be happy, let alone live like this. Hasn't the fact proved it? He didn't do something as crazy as you because of my death."
Duntian seemed to be convinced by her words. He was silent for a long time before he said, "You guys go. This war is about to begin, and everything in the world will be reinterpreted. I hope you won't make a choice that you will regret..."
After he finished saying this, a strong wind blew over and unexpectedly swept several people up and blew them straight down the mountain.
In this sudden gust of wind, several people were blown away.
By the time they managed to steady themselves, they had been blown to the foot of an empty mountain.
Tu Jiuyi had always been in a weak state, and she had been suffering from severe morning sickness recently, so her legs were also a little weak, and she almost bumped into the tree just now.
Fortunately, Wei Yan grabbed her arm and stabilized her body.
"Be careful..." Wei Yan said.
Tu Jiuyi couldn't help but look up at him after hearing this, and something seemed to be throbbing in her eyes. But Wei Yan's next words suddenly made her heart fall to the bottom: "After this matter is over, you should find a reliable clinic to abort the child... Once you conceive a mortal fetus, there will be no hope for you to ascend to heaven in the future!"
Tu Jiuyi sucked in a breath of cold air and silently pulled his arm away. He lowered his eyes and said, "My stomach... has nothing to do with Your Majesty. I will take good care of it. Please don't worry..."
Wei Yan was accustomed to Tu Jiuyi's absolute obedience, and he immediately became furious after hearing her veiled words. However, before he could glare at her, Tu Jiuyi fell down holding her stomach, looking exhausted.
According to Wei Yan's personality, he never said a word to his disobedient subordinates, and just chopped them off with a whip. But now, looking at Tu Jiuyi's pale face, he suddenly remembered the strange feeling when he saw the fake corpse in the inn and thought Tu Jiuyi was dead...
At this point, he slowed down his whip, thinking: After things here are settled, it won't be too late for him to slowly settle the score with her.
At this moment, the other people who were blown down the mountain also slowed down.
The wound of the Dragon Island Town God pierced by the bone tower has been oozing blood. The flow of dragon blood means the loss of divine power, so the bleeding must be stopped immediately.
Medicine Immortal was anxious and hurriedly removed the bone spurs and treated her injuries from a distance. However, Zhenshen avoided him and said indifferently: "No need, Ranran will treat my injuries."
Su Yishui of Xishan was an accomplished doctor. As his favorite disciple, Xue Ranran naturally learned a little bit from him and even carried some hemostatic medicine with him.
So Ran Ran immediately took out the medicine bag from her arms and used the small tweezers inside to remove the bone spur for Zhen Shen.
Yao Laoxian hit a cold wall and naturally felt a chill in his heart. At this moment, he understood Duntian's feelings to some extent. The desire to turn back time and correct mistakes was indeed very tormenting.
But Feng Mou refused to forgive him now, so he could only stand aside silently, watching Ran Ran deftly pick out the bone spur and apply hemostatic ointment to Feng Mou...
The night was getting darker, and it would soon be midnight. The only thing left was the true fire of Yao Laoxian. The pressure from the sky was getting heavier, making people feel like they couldn't breathe.
They knew that if they hadn't figured out a way to overthrow the Tower of Heaven, they would have to evacuate.
The punishment from heaven will come as scheduled tomorrow at midnight, and there will be no intact land left in the Four Peaks. No matter if you are a human or a god, if you still stay here, you will be sucked into the abyss of the ground, and there will be no possibility of coming out.
At this time, Gao Cang, Bai Baishan, as well as Wang Suizhi and Qiu Xier who stayed in the inn, also hurried back in the dark.
According to Bai Baishan, they went to the nearby government offices and villages to deliver letters, but the officials and leaders all stared at them as if they were crazy.
Even if they talked their mouths off, no one would believe them. There was even a village where some tough people used spike rakes and dung scoops to drive them out of the village.
"Now all we can do is see if your letter to the emperor can be delivered in time. However, the emperor is far away and even if Su Yu believes this, I'm afraid he won't have the time to disperse so many people..." Bai Baishan's shoes were worn out and had holes in them. He could only take off his shoes while speaking dejectedly.
When Qiu Xier saw Tu Jiuyi, she was so scared that she let out a low cry.
There was no way. When she was in the inn, she was frightened by the fake Tu Jiuyi. When she saw him again, she couldn't help but doubt whether it was real or not.
At this time, the faint sound of clappers came from a distant town. It was exactly midnight.
So Gao Cang said, "Don't be afraid, Junior Sister. I will help you to distinguish the truth from the falsehood!"
As he spoke, he raised the torch he had been using to light the way and came close to Tu Jiuyi.
Although the female elder of the Red Flame Sect was physically exhausted, her momentum remained undiminished. She just stared at Gao Cang with cold eyes.
Her expression actually looked very much like a dead snake, but the shadow beside her was bright and eye-catching.
Apparently, the Tu Jiuyi who escaped death was real.
After Gao Cang saw it, he said to Qiu Xier, "Don't be afraid, Junior Sister. This Tu Jiuyi has a shadow!"
Since it was midnight, Gao Cang excitedly held up the torch and shone it on other people.
Originally he was extremely bored and was trying to find joy in misery, but the smile on his face suddenly froze when he took the photo of one of them.
That person...there is nothing under his feet, no shadow!
Gao Cang stiffened his neck, slowly raised his head, held the torch, and stared at the man's face with cold sweat on his forehead...
The smile on this person's face was as sweet as ever: "Big Brother, what's wrong with you? It's like you saw a ghost?"
Xue Ranran was staring at Gao Cang with a pair of innocent big eyes and talking to him with a smile.
Gao Cang's chin was dripping with sweat, and his gaze shifted to Xue Ranran's feet again - there was indeed nothing under her feet, without a single shadow!
"Ah...she...she is not Xue Ranran!" With Gao Cang's scream, everyone's eyes were focused on Xue Ranran.
Xue Ranran also looked down, then raised his head and asked in confusion: "Strange... where is my shadow?"
At this moment, a clear voice suddenly rang out from the bushes nearby: "Master! Be careful, there's a fake snake demon pretending to be me!"
As the words came out, another Xue Ranran ran out from the bushes, panting.
Gao Cang shouted, "Don't come over here yet!" Then he raised the torch and shone it at the feet of Xue Ranran who was coming later - a clear shadow appeared.
It seems that the later Xue Ranran is the real one. Just now they were blown down the mountain by Duntian's evil wind, with flying sand and rocks, and it was extremely chaotic.
The fake product might have taken advantage of the chaos to get swapped among them.
Fortunately, Gao Cang had an idea and shone a torch one by one, otherwise this fake guy might have mixed in and done something bad!
At this moment, the fake seemed unwilling to give up, and asked anxiously: "What's going on? I am Xue Ranran! Where is my shadow? Master! You have to believe that I am the real one!"
As she said that, she eagerly rushed towards Su Yishui.
But Su Yishui drew out his sword and put it against her throat in time: "Don't move!"
Xue Ranran, who had a shadow, looked at the fake one who wanted to replace her with disgust, and shouted loudly: "Master, this must be the fake one that appeared after I was stabbed by the poison needle just now. Quick! Chop off her head, so that she won't cause trouble again!"
The fake one seemed to be so angry that his face turned red: "Shut up! You are the fake!"
Su Yishui seemed too lazy to continue this farce, and he turned his wrist and chopped straight at the fake's neck.
And the fake seemed to have copied Xue Ranran's skills perfectly, jumping and dodging as smoothly as flowing water, without being at a disadvantage at all. It seemed that killing her would not be easy.
When Xue Ranran saw it, he immediately pulled out his own stick and fought against the fake product together with Su Yishui.
When she joined the battle, the fake's weakness was immediately apparent, and within a few rounds, the mechanical stick in his hand was knocked away. Xue Ranran used a clever and powerful shock to knock the fake onto Su Yishui's long sword.
Under the flickering torch, the bright sword pierced through the fake's chest. Bright red blood immediately dripped out from the tip of the sword, wetting the snow-white clothes.