The mysterious mirror on top of the high tower of the City Lord's Mansion reflected a tragic scene with great honesty.
The six Neon Island disciples in the mirror were standing in the pool of water, shaking at an incredible high speed, as if they were dancing in the water or zombies were released from their cages.
The elder of Xuanxu Sect and Qu Feiqing outside the mirror had different expressions, and several gazes met in the picture. Silence is golden.
"No way! After spending so much time circling around the jade pendant, it turns out the door is fake?"
What broke the dead silence was the wailing of a Neon Island elder in the corner: "Who could have guessed this!"
Then another person murmured, "Something must be wrong when things are out of the ordinary. The jade pendant came too easily. Rong Ci should have been more careful."
In the mysterious mirror of Neon Island, the picture naturally changes according to the perspective of Rong Ci and others.
The elders were very involved in the situation and even though the younger disciples could not hear it in person, they still offered suggestions along the way, showing their true feelings.
Ever since they met Ningning and the others, the elders have been enjoying the fun and chattering with great interest, talking about things like selling their bodies, poisoning, moral kidnapping, and even "letting Rong Ci marry Ningning as her concubine."
However, despite the noise, in the eyes of most people, Rong Ci's actions were logical and unnoticed by gods or ghosts. If nothing unexpected happened, the Burning Sun Bow would definitely fall into the hands of Neon Island.
In the end, they were devastated to find that they were completely wrong just like Rong Ci and were troubled by the real and fake jade pendants. Life is full of surprises.
"These disciples are used to having everything go smoothly, and they always act arrogantly and recklessly. It's good for them to suffer a little occasionally."
Qu Feiqing recovered from her long silence and did not show any grief. Instead, she smiled slightly and said, "I wonder if Rongci will still have feelings for Ningning."
To be precise, it is "dare you dare".
“But speaking of which,” Lin Qian propped up her cheek with her right hand, and tapped her left knuckles lightly on the table, “What should we do about the Fox Tribe and the Demon Tribe? The secret realm has always been sealed off, and who would have thought that there would be remnants of demons left, causing trouble for the area—”
"We can't get in now, so we can only rely on the performance of the young disciples."
Tian Xianzi narrowed his eyes thoughtfully, frowning slightly as if thinking about something: "But, I always feel that there is something strange in the secret realm... But I can't tell you where it is specifically."
Ji Yunkai shook his two short legs and tried hard to swallow a large piece of cake in his mouth. He almost choked to death. A generation of sword immortals died on mung bean cakes: "We have too little information now, why don't we continue to read on."
He pursed his lips and smiled slightly, but unfortunately he could no longer smile like the calm and indifferent master he once was. His cheeks suddenly bulged, like the silly son of a landlord who stole snacks. "I'm looking forward to what they will do next."
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In the secret realm of trial, the waterfall rushed with a piercing roar, rolling up thousands of piles of snow.
Now that the lightning had passed, everyone on Neon Island had lost their minds and collapsed in the water without any consciousness. They were brought out of the pool by Ningning and others.
Since it was stipulated in advance that tokens could not be put into storage bags, and it was not safe to hide them in a sparsely guarded camp, after careful consideration, almost all the contestants carried all the tokens with them to ensure absolute control.
It was also for this reason that the group easily harvested more than twenty pieces after searching for a while.
"As expected of Neon Island, what a generous move!"
He Zhizhou held the tokens that were equally divided among himself and smiled cheerfully: "Isn't this just opening the door to send warmth? It's really great that they can come and deliver it in person."
They got the jade pendant and solved the big problem of Neon Island. Now they are heading to the real secret door under the leadership of Qiao Yan.
Ningning followed the little fox obediently, and when they were close to their destination, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
——Poor Neon Island will never know until the end that the place where the Fox Clan stored the Burning Sun Bow was not somewhere else, but behind a secret door in the underground secret room of the ancestral temple.
"Then... I'll open the door."
Qiao Yan was extremely nervous, her lips were trembling, and the pair of furry ears on her head were also shaking slightly. She obviously took a deep breath, trying to make herself less nervous.
Ningning watched her take out the jade pendant and carefully place it in the depression on the stone door.
The illusion behind the waterfall was actually very similar. Whether it was the weathered and ancient patterns on the stone or the oppressive aura of the entire door, they were exactly the same as the real thing.
The fox child who created the illusion was still very young, but he was able to reach such a high level. I wonder if it was a racial talent or just a natural genius.
The ancestral hall had been in ruins for many years, and the light in the underground secret room was dim. It was pitch black all around, and even though Ningning lit a fire, the atmosphere was still dark and chilly.
The scarlet flames licked the darkness wantonly, and in the midst of the leaping red flames, the stone door made a slight clicking sound.
Then, as if receiving an order, he lifted himself up heavily.
Dust flew everywhere, and a more turbulent darkness came towards them from behind the secret door, like a huge wave covering the sky and the earth, making Ningning feel inexplicably suffocated.
The air in front of her was silent for years and almost rotten. She subconsciously held her breath and moved the candle forward.
The secret room behind the stone door is not big, and it is empty all around, with only a square stone platform standing at the end.
The candlelight slowly devoured the darkness, and finally came to the front of the stone platform, illuminating the scene on the platform.
Everyone was stunned.
——There was nothing on the stone platform.
The secret room was empty. The Burning Sun Bow that Qiao Yan mentioned should have been placed here was nowhere to be seen. All that could be seen was a dark and silent scene.
Ningning's first reaction was that she had been deceived, and she hastily turned her head to look at Qiao Yan.
However, unexpectedly, the fox girl's face was no less surprised than theirs. Her eyes widened in disbelief, and her paper-white lips trembled constantly.
“How could it be…”
Qiao Yan didn't care about anything else. She rushed into the secret room in a daze. She looked around blankly, but didn't find any trace of the Burning Sun Bow: "The bow should be here, why..."
Her tone didn't sound fake, and even had a hint of tears in it. Ningning took a step forward, and her voice echoed several times in the secret room: "Could it have been taken away by someone?"
"impossible!"
Qiao Yan turned around again, her eyes were already filled with tears, and her voice was trembling like a thread in the wind: "My father had an accident when he was taking the bow. I saw with my own eyes that the jade pendant was taken away by the Fire Phoenix..."
She couldn't continue talking after this point and could only bite her lower lip and turn her back to prevent herself from crying out loud.
With her home destroyed and her loved ones in imminent danger, Qiao Yan had placed all her hopes on the Burning Sun Bow. Now, watching all her hopes shattered, it is hard for her to accept the fact.
If the Burning Sun Bow was taken by the Fox Tribe, they would not hide it secretly, but use it to deal with monsters;
If they had been taken away by the monsters early on, there would have been no need for them to stay in the secret realm for such a long time, and finally be trapped in the Water Mirror Formation, unable to escape.
"What on earth is going on?"
He Zhizhou walked up to her and whispered, deliberately lowering his voice: "Without that bow, how can we deal with the demons?"
The development of the matter was far beyond expectations, and Ningning didn't know how to respond to him.
The joy of finally winning against Neon Island was completely washed away by this incident. Except for Ning Ning, the others present were straight men who were not good at speaking and could not comfort others. Moreover, they could not find any useful words to comfort Qiao Yan at this moment. No one spoke for a while.
The secret room was already gloomy and silent, and at this moment it was shrouded in a cloud of unsolvable doubts, making it seem even more mysterious and eerie.
From the time they met Qiao Yan to the time they obtained the jade pendant, they believed everything the little fox said, even though she had no intention of lying.
But what if Qiao Yan was also the one who was kept in the dark?
After a long silence, Qiao Yan finally spoke herself. Although she was still a little choked up, her tone was much calmer: "... Let's go."
Xu Ye hesitated for a moment: "The Burning Sun Bow——"
"Not here, there's no point in staying in the secret room."
She still had her back to him, and hurriedly raised her hand to wipe away the tears from her eyes. She then turned around and looked Xu Ye in the eye: "Thank you for helping me find the jade pendant. I will think of another way to deal with the demon clan."
He gritted his teeth and said, "I know you still have tasks to complete, so I won't bother you any more. If you want to find a place to rest, the fox village will welcome you at any time."
Ning Ning couldn't bear to see the little girl like this, and responded softly: "Don't say that. There are many doubts now, and the demons are waiting for an opportunity to move. We have also obtained a lot of tokens, so we will naturally do our best to help."
"Yes, yes! We still don't know who took the Burning Sun Bow. I must find that guy!"
He Zhizhou nodded in agreement: "It's just that we currently have too little information. Can you tell me more about the Water Mirror Formation and the Burning Sun Bow?"
Qiao Yan didn't expect that they were willing to continue helping, and she stood there with her mouth half open.
After a long while, he nodded as if he had made up his mind: "This is a long story. My mother knows much more details than I do... If you don't mind the trouble, then follow me back to the village and I will tell you in detail."
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The group left the secret room in high spirits, but when they came out again, they were all worried.
Ning Ning was a little confused and couldn't figure it out. She used voice transmission to quietly poke Pei Ji: "What do you think?"
"She doesn't seem to be lying."
Even when he was transmitting his voice, his tone was extremely cold, and no emotion could be heard: "The secret door showed no signs of violent damage. If someone really took the Sunburnt Bow in advance, they should have used the jade pendant to enter the secret room."
"And for all these years, the jade pendant has been in the Fire Phoenix's lair."
The more Ning Ning thought about it, the more strange it felt: "The Burning Sun Bow should have been taken away many years ago... After all, it is a sacred object with extraordinary power. Regardless of whether it is righteous or evil, how come there has been no news about it?"
Pei Ji shook his head.
Given his personality, he should have stopped talking at this point, but this time he unexpectedly pursed his lips, paused for a moment, and continued in a low voice: "I will find out, don't worry."
As if to comfort her.
They returned along the same route, and when they left the dilapidated ancestral temple, they were back to the fox village that was like a dead city.
The village is not far from the waterfall. According to Qiao Yan, she built houses not far from the waterfall in order to be closer to the water source, so as to reduce the burden on the tribesmen with limited mobility.
Ningning listened with admiration and sighed. As she was walking on the long street filled with wind and smoke, she suddenly heard the sound of fighting coming from not far away.
There are quite a few people participating in the trial, and this is one of the few villages in the secret realm, so it naturally attracts a lot of attention. She looked at Pei Ji and walked forward following the sound.
As a result, from a distance, I could see two big, round, shiny bald heads.
"Isn't that Master Mingkong?"
Xu Ye had met Ming Kong once before, and he smiled happily when he saw this. When his eyes fell on the person next to him, he showed a puzzled expression: "Strange, who is that?"
He didn't notice that He Zhizhou beside him had a dark complexion and a sinister look like Snow White's stepmother. He squeezed out two words from his throat: "Ming Jing."
By the way, he once saw injustice and helped others, but ended up being badly betrayed by Ming Jing. After that monk sneaks away, the ones who beat He Zhizhou will be 30% plus 70%, a total of 100%.
It’s miserable. Really miserable.
Mingkong and Mingjing are both disciples of Fanyin Temple, and it seems that they have a very good relationship.
Specifically, Mingjing danced with the bell and hammer, while Mingkong sat leisurely beside him with a big forehead like a light bulb, reciting in a broadcasting voice: "Brother, the wind blows and the water passes, the flowers fall without a trace. Listening to your song, I feel that life has meaning again, and everything becomes eternal."
Mingjing's bell ringing was no different from the drum beating at the opening of the Spring Festival Gala. It became faster and more intense, and in the end it even sounded like a drum set, dong dong clang clang, and Ningning's ears hurt from the sound.
He Zhizhou covered his ears with distorted features, unwilling to take another step forward: "What the hell is this, is the Death Song turned up to full power?"
They felt uncomfortable listening to this, and the man and woman who were confronting the two men felt even more miserable than death.
The two should be disciples of the Beast Taming Sect. They were wearing sky-blue sect uniforms, and beside them were a large number of sturdy spirit beasts lying in a mess. It seemed that they had all been polluted by the spirit of the Brahma Bell, and their legs and feet were twitching and they passed out.
"How can there be a Le Xiu like you, you're despicable!" Seeing Ming Jing swinging the bell pestle at her, the woman was so angry that she was shaking all over. The young man beside her was also in a panic, shouting in panic: "Junior sister, there is no time to lose, it seems that we can only ask those two to come out!"
The woman's expression was stern: "Those two? But they are our most precious treasures——"
She paused for a moment and finally gritted her teeth and said, "Okay!"
As soon as these words were spoken, not only Ningning and the others, but even the elders outside the Xuanjing showed curiosity.
"The treasure of the town?"
Ji Yunkai looked at Lin Qian with his big black grape eyes. His voice was naturally soft, like a spoiled child: "What is that?"
Lin Qian's mouth twitched: "Take your time and see, there's no rush."
Ming Jing swung the bell pestle with great force, splitting the calm air in the village like a broken bamboo, and rushed straight towards the two beast masters;
The woman trembled slightly and lowered her head. A golden light flashed in her storage bag.
In an instant, the sky and the earth changed color, and even the murderous Ming Jing paused, with an expression of extreme horror on his face!
"No, no way!"
Xu Ye's eyes were round, and his voice was almost broken: "How could it be them!"
The floating light faded away, and in the hands of the female cultivator, something suddenly appeared -
A cat and a rabbit.
And it is a very ordinary kind, without any spiritual power at all.
Ningning:……?
The cat was small and the white rabbit was adorable, both curled up in the female cultivator's palm, without a trace of murderous intent on their bodies.
The woman blew her breath gently and said in a desperate tone: "Let's get started!"
The two animals received the command and their ears wiggled.
The rabbit opened its big red eyes, and its long ears swayed softly. It raised its paws and rubbed its round face as if it was quite comfortable.
The cat's tail stood straight up, and its eyes were like glass soaked in water, reflecting the bright water light. Finally, it rolled over obediently and made a soft and sticky sound from its throat: "Meow~"
Xu Ye was shocked.
Are you sick? Is this the most precious treasure of your Beast Taming Sect? Who would stop attacking just because of a rabbit or a cat! Not even a fool would fall for such a stupid trick!
He bet a spirit stone that the woman would be hit on the head by the bell pestle in the next moment, curing her cerebellar hemiplegia.
Unexpectedly, Ming Jing's pupils trembled, revealing an extremely terrified expression: "Oh, damn it!"
--No! meeting! Bar!
The monk in mid-air suddenly paused, but the surging and vast spiritual energy around him could not be withdrawn. Mingjing took one last look at the cat and rabbit's watery eyes, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Then he pulled the bell back suddenly, his spiritual power reverberated, the bell was like thunder, and all the attacks were countered in an instant -
He actually performed a "I kill myself" scene on the spot and was hit by a bell pestle and flew three feet high!
Xu Ye was silent, Ning Ning was shocked, there was no light in Pei Ji's dark eyes, and he frowned while holding the sword.
But Mingjing was knocked far away by his own bell pestle, his bald head drew a graceful arc in the air, and finally fell to the ground sadly, spurting out a mouthful of blood.
——But this person is even more sick! ! !
Xu Ye's eyes were about to fall to the ground, and Ningning also had mixed feelings.
These two are really bold in thinking and doing. If they were born in the 21st century, they would definitely meet in a mental hospital or the brain department of a hospital one day and sing "A friend in need is a friend indeed."
“Senior Brother!”
Mingkong was horrified when he saw this, and hurried to his senior brother, his head as thick as a boiled egg showing sorrow: "Your ringing of the bell is a mistake, how can the falling leaves make death so brilliant and calm."
——What is this bald guy talking about?
"Monks are compassionate. I wanted to kill them, but they were too cute."
Ming Jing laughed weakly and answered with a faint voice: "In fact, along the way, every season is incomplete, and every story has hidden wounds. I am tired of fighting and killing. I just want to guard a tree of snow pear flowers, guard a pool of plain lotus, and slowly watch time grow old inadvertently."
——What is this bald guy talking about? ? ?
The Beast Taming Sect disciple standing nearby looked as if he had eaten a fly.
They were fighting fiercely, it was a typical hot-blooded fairy tale plot, but those two monks from the Fanyin Temple were conscientiously performing a miserable act, it was so disgusting, so disgusting.
"Are all the monks in Fanyin Temple like this?"
Ning Ning frowned: "Even after all this, you still want to pretend to be an artistic person?"
The bell pestle was hit by the spiritual power. Unlike the monks of Fanyin Temple who had no skills to protect them, it was shattered into powder in an instant.
Mingkong and Mingjing acted out the tragic scene of a young man sending off his younger brother. The woman took back the rabbit and cat, and a sneer flashed across her eyes: "Now that you have no weapons, and your only junior brother is a shield that can only defend, you two are doomed to be unable to escape, so you'd better surrender!"
"Who said I don't have a weapon?"
Ming Jing raised his hand to wipe the blood from his mouth and coughed softly: "As long as there is martial arts in your heart, everything can be martial arts."
Ning Ning hesitated: "Could it be that he has another bell pestle?"
"wrong."
Pei Ji responded in a low voice: "The material of the bell and pestle he used is unusual, and it must be difficult to make... The monk wanted to use another object as a weapon."
Other objects?
However, the clear spiritual energy was so powerful that ordinary objects could not be used as bell pestles. Even if they were only slightly impacted by the spiritual energy, they would shatter instantly.
To find a solid object that won't be damaged by collisions -
Ningning's pupils suddenly shrank.
No, that won’t happen.
Ming Jing smiled slightly, and managed to get up from the ground. What he said was chilling: "Ming Kong, are you ready?"
Mingkong put his hands together, and his whole body radiated a bright golden light, like an eggshell just fished out of brine: "Brother, come on."
"etc!"
The young man from the Beast Taming Sect was filled with horror: "Don't let this get you down!"
The two monks smiled unfathomable smiles at the same time.
"The Buddha said, I can only serve you as a bell and pestle for three days."
Mingkong clasped his hands together and looked down, showing compassion, warmth and peace.
His voice also floated in the air with his body, with the sincerity of a male announcer, and he spoke word by word: "Yesterday, today, and tomorrow."
In the gradually darkening night, the tall monk lifted up another body that was standing straight, as if he was swinging a big stick.
There was still a smile on Mingkong's face, and his glowing head was swung 180 degrees and hit heavily on the big clock.
Buddha's light spread out and the sound of humming was loud.
Xu Ye had lost all his words, and the Beast Taming Sect disciple beside him took his place, roaring out the words that were deeply engraved in their hearts with his hoarse voice: "Are you sick!!!"
"Good fellow."
Even He Zhizhou was stunned and exclaimed: "With this level of awareness, I will definitely not watch it if they are not among the top ten people who moved China this year."
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