Chapter 83
Then, Lanman Renjian caught the shining little star with a piece of cold and hard bluestone.
—— Sui Sui ‘Dun’er’ fell on his buttocks and sat down on the cold bluestone slabs, his expression was confused, and he opened his black round eyes foolishly.
It hurts a little.
The little guy thought aggrievedly that he missed his brother every year.
“Woof woof woof!”
Sui Sui had just gotten up from the ground, and before he had time to look around, the furry giant pounced on him impatiently, wagging its tail.
Although it still remembered to control its strength and not knock down its beloved little master, it obviously underestimated the huge presence of its own body - Sui Sui, who was still in a confused state, was pushed back by it and finally couldn't hold on and sat down on the cold bluestone slab.
"Big Black..." The little guy, whose bottom hurt, said in a sinister tone, threatening fiercely: "If you push again, I will shave all your hair! You will become a bald dog!"
The big black dog's furry tail, which was shaking like a propeller, froze in mid-air, and its body was motionless.
Sui Sui struggled and struggled, and finally managed to get out from the double squeeze of the black dog's heavy body and thick, soft fur.
"Pfft, pfft, pfft..." The little fellow smoothed out his wrinkled red robe, spat out the dog hair that had accidentally gotten into his mouth, and said angrily, "Dahei, you made Sui Sui angry!"
"Sui Sui is going to strip you of your title as a furry guard and won't be taking you out with me for a whole month!"
The big black dog curled up into a pitiful heap at Sui Sui's feet, whimpering softly, "Woo woof woof..."
"Hmph." Suisui was furious. Feeling the dull pain in his little bottom, he became even more ruthless. He showed no mercy to the pitiful pile of puppies curled up at his feet. "When we get back to Qiumu Peak, Dahei, you'll be left here. Suisui won't take you with him when he goes out."
"real!"
Suddenly, Dahei's cry became even more resentful.
"... Sui Sui?" The dog's barking continued, and a familiar figure slowly walked out of the dark fog ahead.
"Shao Jishuang!" Suisui's baby voice was full of surprise. Before she could even lift her foot, she saw Shao Jishuang striding towards her.
"Sui Sui, are you okay?" Shao Jishuang glanced at the black dog that had stopped howling. Her bloodshot eyes quickly scanned Mao Tuan Tuan's body. Not noticing anything unusual, she breathed a sigh of relief. "I came here after hearing Dahei's barking, but did we just run into an enemy?"
The big black dog, who had just climbed up from his young master's feet, wagged its tail nonchalantly.
"No." Suisui puffed out his cheeks and shared the black dog's 'crime' with his friends: "Dahei just knocked me down, my butt hurts so much!"
Shao Jishuang worriedly grasped Mao Tuantuan's soft, slightly fleshy wrist. Spiritual energy passed through the point of contact, restraining herself and circulating only once around the surface of Mao Tuantuan's body. "Are you feeling better now?"
"Alright~" Sui Sui snuggled into the arms of the young man in the sword robe, smiling softly with her cute bun hair: "Thank you, Shao Jishuang."
"No need to thank me. Without me, Suisui can just circulate her spiritual power and get well soon." Shao Jishuang chuckled as she hugged the soft fur ball.
Oh, Sui Sui was so busy teaching Da Hei a lesson that he forgot this point...
The little guy selectively forgot his previous stupid behavior, and tilted his head to ask curiously: "Was Shao Jishuang just nearby?"
"I felt like I just talked to Dahei for a short while, and you came over here~"
"It's closer than Sui Sui thought." Shao Jishuang's bloodshot eyes sparkled with a smile. "As soon as I woke up, I heard Da Hei's dark and resentful howling. I only took two or three steps towards this side and found Sui Sui."
The big black dog's furry tail slapped the bluestone under its paws to show its dissatisfaction.
Sui Sui perfunctorily stretched out her little hand and touched the big black dog's forehead, then retreated back into the arms of the young man in the sword robe.
"Wow..." The little fellow held up his chubby face and thought, "We were swept away together with Yu Hongze and Chu Junning. Since we are all here and not far from each other...then they should be nearby, right?"
"If nothing unexpected happens," Shao Jishuang mused, "Before being swallowed by that power, I tied up all of us with the Sky-Locking Rope. I just woke up from the illusion, and the Sky-Locking Rope fell beside me."
As he spoke, he took out a long, jet-black rope that looked very familiar to Sui Sui and showed it to her: "The Sky-Locking Rope didn't break. It only returned to its original form because the spiritual energy within it was exhausted."
Sui Sui pursed her lips when she heard the word "illusion". Her black pupils were dazed for a moment, but she did not ask any further questions. Instead, she said, "Then let's go find Yu Hongze and Chu Junning first."
"Okay." Shao Jishuang looked at Mao Tuantuan with a smile on his lips, but when he thought of his experience in the illusion just now, his bloodshot eyes deepened slightly.
But soon, he restrained himself from losing his composure and left no trace.
"I can't see clearly. The fog blocks my view." Sui Sui didn't notice. He looked around and wrinkled his nose in disgust like a kitten.
The mist was thick, completely obscuring the surrounding scenery. Sui Sui could only see the neat, quaint bluestone pavement beneath her feet, Shao Jishuang standing next to her, and at most a large black dog wagging its tail with a serious expression. Beyond that, she could see nothing.
The little guy frowned and thought for a moment, then his eyes drifted quietly to the majestic black dog.
Dahei's slowly wagging tail paused, the hair on his back stood up, his ears erected, and he looked around vigilantly, but found nothing unusual. He had to look away in confusion and move closer to his little master.
"Dahei..." Sui Sui slowly smoothed the hair on the back of the big black dog that came to her door. Her little voice was also slow and soft at the end: "Can you bark a few more times? Just like you did just now, um..."
The little fellow thought for a moment and described it carefully: "Deeply resentful, like crying and complaining, extremely..."
"Woof!" Suisui's baby voice was suddenly interrupted by the angry black dog: "Woof woof woof!"
Sui Sui blinked his round eyes, and saw the big black dog turned its head and pointed its butt at him, making it clear that there was no room for negotiation.
Shao Jishuang stood quietly by and watched the interaction between the cub and the dog, her blood-red eyes unspeakably gentle.
"Don't..." Sui Sui walked around to the big black dog's head, and with her jade-white little hands, she tugged at the dog's ears and said in a baby voice, "We can discuss this. How about this? Big □Sui Sui calls Yu Hongze and Chu Junning over, and Sui Sui will forget about Da Hei knocking Sui Sui over earlier."
The big black dog's ears moved.
The little guy knew that Dahei was moved.
He took advantage of the victory and hugged the big black dog's neck. He rubbed his white, soft, chubby little face in the shiny fur, like a naughty kitten rolling in the fur: "Big Black——"
"The best and most beautiful big black man in the world—"
"Woo woof!" The big black dog had no choice but to compromise.
"Great~" Suisui let go of the big black dog Senwan and jumped happily on the spot: "Dahei, come on, show off your voice!"
Shao Jishuang looked at the happy little guy, and the big black dog also looked at his lively little master. Man and dog, one with a pair of blood pupils and the other with a pair of black eyes, the soft emotions contained in their eyes at this moment were almost exactly the same - helpless and indulgent, gentle and doting.
"Ao——" The big black dog moved its head away, avoiding its little master, and howled.
It was not the kind of mournful howl that Sui Sui described, but the majestic and long wolf howl.
Suisui's little face drooped.
"Aww~" he mimicked and muttered, "This is not what I thought at all."
Listening to the howling of the little wolf cub, and glancing at the big black dog roaring hard, Shao Jishuang couldn't help laughing.
Before he could open his mouth to comfort the unhappy little wolf cub, two familiar voices sounded one after another.
"Sui Sui!"
"Sui Sui!"
As Dahei stopped howling, two figures appeared vaguely in the mist in front and on the right.
The figure gradually became clearer. Sui Sui recognized it and shouted happily, "Yu Hongze! Chu Junning!"
"You are all okay, that's great!" When everyone gathered together, Suisui looked at her friends who were all safe and sound, and a sweet smile appeared on her pretty little face.
"After Sui Sui was swallowed by that power, he fainted, and then somehow entered the illusion. When Sui Sui came out of the illusion, he was here." The little guy explained after climbing onto the big black dog and sitting upright.
"I also entered the illusion." Chu Junning continued: "It's similar to Sui Sui's experience."
"Me too." Yu Hongze said coldly, "That illusion was very crude and not interesting at all."
Sui Sui tilted her head and looked at him.
"What's wrong?" Yu Hongze was a little annoyed and spoke in a bad tone.
"Hmph." Suisui, using the black puppy's fake power to look down at Yu Hongze, said, "This is a case of trying to cover up one's own faults. Is this illusion difficult to overcome?"
"Nonsense." Yu Hongze slightly raised his head to look at the little ball, and became even more annoyed: "Why did Dahei grow bigger again? It was still small before. Did you do it on purpose?"
"No, that's not the case. This is Dahei's true appearance." Sui Sui curled her lips and said, "It gets smaller because sometimes it's more convenient that way."
"And Sui Sui wasn't lying. If the illusion was any better—" The little fellow pretended to be stern and said, "I only stayed in the illusion for less than an hour before I came out. You guys…"
“Jiang Suiyan!” Yu Hongze interrupted Suisui, who was imitating him, and gritted his teeth, “Why are you so idle?”
"I didn't." Sui Sui didn't want to indulge him. She raised her chin and was about to fight back: "It's you!"
"Stop, stop, stop—" Chu Junning said tiredly: "Two little ancestors, can you wait until we get back before arguing?"
"Sui Sui listens to Chu Junning." The little fellow blinked his big watery eyes and promised sweetly: "As long as Yu Hongze doesn't provoke Sui Sui, Sui Sui won't quarrel with him~"
Chu Junning was immediately healed by the sweet little guy and cheered up: "It seems that we have all entered an illusion."
"Yes." Shao Jishuang, who had been silent the whole time, nodded. "I also fell into an illusion. After I woke up, I followed Dahei's cries and found Suisui."
"Is it a formation or a spiritual weapon..." Chu Junning murmured, "I can't see the surroundings clearly now. How can I tell where we are?"
"It's not a formation." Yu Hongze frowned, "The illusion created by the formation is not like that."
Yu Hongze had been dealing with formations for many years, and Sui Sui did not doubt Yu Hongze's judgment. He nodded and said, "That must be a spiritual weapon or a spiritual beast."
"As soon as I emerged from the illusion, I tried to contact my brother, but all my messages were blocked." Sui Sui shared his discovery: "This place is isolated."
Shao Jishuang and the other two nodded in agreement. Obviously, everyone had tried to contact the commander.
"This fog is strange, not poisonous, but spiritual consciousness cannot penetrate it." Sui Sui continued, "We can't stay here forever. Should we go forward and see what happens?"
Shao Jishuang and the others thought the same, so Suisui's proposal was quickly passed by everyone.
They walked along the bluestone path.
The light was dim and the fog was gloomy. Sui Sui sat on the thick black fur, looking at the gray silence around him. After thinking for a moment, he broke the dull silence with a cheerful tone: "Why do you think we are here?"
Dahei is willing to carry Suisui on his back, but Suisui won't make decisions for Dahei just because of his loyalty and indulgence. Besides, his friends are all cultivators, so they'll take out their spiritual weapons when they get tired.
So, Suisui decided to end the depressing atmosphere and make everyone more energetic!
Although we are trapped in a strange place, don't be discouraged, there will always be a way.
——Then, the little guy got angry as he was talking.
"Who secretly hid that power there? It's sneaky! It's obviously not a good thing! It has no moral principles! It swallowed us up in an instant, separating Sui Sui from her brother... Sui Sui has never been separated from her brother for so long before..."
Shao Jishuang glanced helplessly at the angry child and agreed with him: "It's really not a good thing. It's normal for Sui Sui to hate it."
Chu Junning watched helplessly as the topic went off the track and moved his lips. However, seeing Sui Sui looking at him eagerly for approval, he changed his words: "That's right! Sui Sui is right, they are not good people!"
"Heh." Yu Hongze sneered.
"What? What do you think?" Sui Sui, the little kitten, bared his claws and glared at Yu Hongze.
"I dare not." Yu Hongze's gaze paused on Sui Sui's cute, soft face, which was a faint pink due to anger, and his tone softened: "However, that power is definitely not a good thing, otherwise how could it bring us here."
Shao Jishuang glanced at Yu Hongze, who was speaking softly with a stern face, and then looked at the little guy with satisfaction in his big black eyes and Chu Junning with a look of "I knew it would be like this", and a smile couldn't help but flashed in his bloodshot eyes.
"See—" Sui Sui felt that she had convinced Yu Hongze, and couldn't help but puff out her chest proudly.
But before the little guy could finish his words, a strong wind carrying a fishy smell rushed straight to his face.
Sui Sui's face turned serious, and his small body flexibly lay on the back of the big black dog. Transparent blood-red vines shot up into the sky and fiercely knocked the thing away.
Shao Jishuang frowned, took a few steps forward, and stood before Suisui and Dahei with his sword. Yu Hongze and Chu Junning also moved forward, guarding them on either side.
"I'm fine." Suisui climbed up from Dahei's back, patted Dahei's back and comforted his friends: "Dahei is fine too."
"It's still alive. I took a quick look and saw a gray-black monster." Sui Sui looked towards the spot where the thing had landed after the Ying Xue Teng had opened it. Her delicate fingers touched the Ying Xue Teng's winding vines around her, and her eyebrows knitted together. "This fog is too much of a bother. Hong Hong only opened the thing. It should still be alive..."
"This fog is good for it. Now that it has started, it won't be easy for it to leave. It would be okay if there is only one of them, but if it has companions..." Chu Junning was worried.
As if deliberately responding to his words, countless beast roars came from all directions, sharp and piercing.
"...Sorry, I'll shut up." Chu Junning said embarrassedly.
"It's not your fault." Shao Jishuang glanced around, took the time to comfort him, and said in a deep voice: "The fog is dim, everyone should not wander around. If you separate, you might encounter something."
"One for each of us." Sui Sui thought for a moment, then rustled out a few long, narrow leaves from her Jiuchun bracelet. "These are the leaves that Xuexue dropped earlier. I picked up some that were still intact and put them away."
"Hold it, so Xuexue can find your location." Suisui's eyes sparkled, "This way, everyone won't have to be so tense."
"Okay." Shao Jishuang suppressed the urge to rub her furry little face. After taking the leaves, she quickly distributed them to Yu Hongze and Chu Junning. "Let's continue along this road. These well-paved bluestone roads usually lead to important buildings in the city. If we go in the wrong direction, we're still heading towards the city gate."
“Swish——”
Suisui commanded the Yingxuevine to sweep away the gray-black monster that pounced on him, muttering, "Now that we can't send any messages, I think even if we reach the city gate, I'm afraid we'll only see some kind of barrier or formation, and won't be able to get out. Better lead us to some important building. At least we need to figure out where we are and what's going on, right?"
Chu Junning thought about it and felt that there was some truth in it, and even Yu Hongze did not refute it.
"You can talk a lot, but don't forget your work." Shao Jishuang dodged the splashing monster blood and drew out his sword neatly, reminding: "These monsters are very fast, be careful."
"It's a Banyan Beast." Yu Hongze looked around cautiously and walked slowly forward with everyone else. "They like to live in groups and are good at illusions. I think the illusion we fell into earlier was caused by them."
“Alas.” Sui Sui sighed, and it was as if a pair of invisible fur ears on the top of his head drooped. “The banyan beasts have always lived in abandoned cities, feeding on dead air. Now there are so many of them here…”
Everyone fell silent.
"Let's do our best." It was Sui Sui who first proposed it, but at this moment, it was Sui Sui who smiled first, her eyebrows curved, bright and innocent: "Do your best, you won't regret it in the future."
Shao Jishuang's bloodshot eyes looked directly into those innocent black round eyes and couldn't help but smile: "That makes sense."
He was busy talking to Sui Sui, but he did not relax his hands. He cut off the head of a mountain banyan beast that attacked him by surprise with one sword.
However, Chu Junning, who was standing by, was a few years younger than Shao Jishuang and Yu Hongze. He was busy looking at Suisui's cute little face and was careless for a moment, and his face was covered with the splashed blood.
“…”
Sui Sui sat upright and dared not speak again.
In an atmosphere that was serious yet somewhat cheerful, accompanied by the sharp roars and continuous attacks of the mountain banyan beast, Suisui and his companions finally saw a three-story palace.
Sui Sui breathed a sigh of relief, and the big black dog under him also walked more easily.
There were many banyan beasts that attacked them, some in the Foundation Establishment stage, and some in the Golden Core stage.
If it weren't for the fact that both the Green-Leaf Hypericum and Yingxue Teng were in the middle stage of the Golden Core cultivation, and if each of them was not an ordinary disciple of the Qingmiao Sect, and their bodies were not stuffed with life-saving spiritual weapons by their teachers, they would probably have died halfway.
"I hope there is no more danger in there..." Chu Junning sighed as his face was covered with blood after being wiped several times with his sleeves.
Sui Sui blinked her round eyes, and a sense of foreboding rose in her mind: "Chu Junning...why don't you just keep quiet?"
Chu Junning looked at his cub, Naiguai, who was looking at him expectantly, and choked: "Okay."
"Can you do a Dust Removal Technique?" Yu Hongze stepped forward and pushed open the palace door, not forgetting to be disgusted: "You have a face full of monster blood, and you don't mind the fishy smell."
"I don't know the Dust Removal Technique." Chu Junning's brown eyes, identical to his sister's, lowered in embarrassment. "I'm always confused about spells and such, so my family gave me to my sister and asked me to follow her and become a physical cultivator."
Sui Sui glanced at the big black knife in his hand, thinking about something.
"Okay, come in." Yu Hongze threw out a few jade talismans to set up a formation. He watched the hall light up and said this without noticing any danger.
Suisui and the others entered the hall and closed the door. When there was only a narrow gap between the door and the door frame, the Hypericum jewelii and the Yingxue vine that were blocking the mountain banyan beast outside instantly turned into two rays of spiritual light and flew into the hall.
"Bang——"
The palace door slammed shut, and Chu Junning immediately threw out a colorful necklace. The necklace floated in the air, emitting a gorgeous and soft light, reinforcing the palace door that was shaking from being hit by the mountain banyan beast.
"Alright." Chu Junning breathed a sigh of relief. "This necklace was given to me by Daoist Lord Cangwu. Although I haven't used it, since it was given by Daoist Lord Cangwu, it must be much more reliable than anything my sister gave me."
Suisui tilted her head and withdrew her little hand that was touching the Jiuchun bracelet. Her invisible furry ears stood up quietly, and she felt that there must be many interesting stories behind this.
Yu Hongze had long known about the grudge between Chu Xuanning and Chu Junning, brother and sister, so he did not interrupt. Instead, he looked at the scene in the hall with the help of the light of the formation.
"What is that?" When he saw the lifelike mural on the wall in front of him, he felt that something was about to come out, but it was always missing a little bit, and it was choked uncomfortably in his throat.
"Zhongzhou, Qingshi City." Shao Jishuang said calmly, "The Danding disaster happened here hundreds of years ago."
Sui Sui looked up in surprise.
Is this the disaster about the Meteorite Bone Powder that Taoist Cangwu talked about a few days ago?
"If this is the Bluestone City that suffered the disaster..." Sui Sui was confused. "It's in this state now, why is there no news from Dan Ding Pavilion?"
Back then, countless people in Qingshi City were implicated by the Meteoric Bone Powder, their paths to the Dao cut short. Although the mastermind was later dead, she was still a disciple of Danding Pavilion.
Therefore, since then, Dan Ding Pavilion has protected Qingshi City under its wings. Now Qingshi City seems to have become a dead city. How come they didn't hear a single word of such a big change?
Upon hearing this, Shao Jishuang gently rubbed Mao Tuantuan's head without saying anything.
Sui Sui pursed her lips and pout slightly.
They were considered the core disciples of the Qing Miao Sect, but they couldn't hear the news...
Either Danding Pavilion concealed the matter secretly, or this matter was more serious than they imagined.
The children all avoided the topic.
"Chu Junning, let me clean the blood off your face." Sui Sui raised her little face and looked at Chu Junning with a smile: "Otherwise, if she contacts Xuan Ning Daojun later, you will definitely scare her."
"She won't be afraid, she will just laugh at me loudly." Chu Junning muttered, but let Sui Sui chant the spell.
"We can't contact the outside world at all right now." Yu Hongze interrupted lazily: "So no one is watching him."
"You're so annoying." After cleaning Chu Junning's face, Sui Sui took Da Hei to hide aside in disgust, and once again missed her brother: "I don't want to quarrel with you now, don't provoke me!"
Listening to the little dumpling's unintimidating words, Yu Hongze curled his lips, but really calmed down.
After everyone fell silent, a hint of weirdness emerged in the silence.
Sui Sui stared at the dark corner of the palace and couldn't help but pinch her little red robe: "I feel like something is wrong..."
"Get out of the way!" Shao Jishuang shouted coldly. His usually gentle features turned cold and stern, his bloodshot pupils icy. He took a few steps forward and leaped forward, drawing his sword. "Get out of here!"
"boom--"
When the huge beast claws and the sharp sword collided, Shao Jishuang fell down like a kite with a broken string, bleeding from his mouth.
Sui Sui immediately directed the blood-clotting grass to catch Shao Jishuang. He looked warily at the huge Banyan Beast, which licked its claws grimly after a failed attack. His face was gloomy. "A Banyan Beast in the Cave Void Stage."
Yu Hongze looked at Shao Jishuang who was being supported by the blood-clotting grass to heal his injuries, then looked at Suisui who was firmly blocking him and Chu Junning with her small and soft body, and gritted his teeth.
"I don't know if it's useful or not. This was created by my uncle by mistake. It can teleport us away, but where we'll end up and whether we'll be separated are all unknown. We might just escape from the claws of the banyan beast and fall into the mouth of another beast!" Because time was tight, Yu Hongze spoke very quickly.
"Don't worry about it, use it quickly!" Sui Sui shouted loudly as he threw the green jade sword around his neck to block the attack of the banyan beast.
Yu Hongze immediately threw out the formation plate, exchanged a glance with Chu Junning, and both injected spiritual power into it at the same time.
The next moment, the dazzling light drowned everything.
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