After listening to Lianyi's explanation, Sun Lanlan was left with envy. She felt that the other person must have a spirit stone mine at home, so he could use the spirit stones for cultivation so extravagantly. She didn't dare to do that. The spirit stones in her storage bag would only be taken out for use in emergencies.
Qiao Hao coughed lightly, drawing everyone's attention back, and then said:
"We will arrive at Bianxia City in two hours. Everyone, get ready."
After saying that, he controlled the flying boat to continue moving forward. The only time he stopped was to wait for Lianyi to complete his promotion.
Qiao Hao actually didn't recommend Lianyi to break through halfway, because there were unstable factors in the surrounding environment, and it would be easy for unexpected situations to interrupt her advancement, which could easily cause backlash. It was just that Lianyi was lucky, or she knew how to choose the time, so her advancement was very smooth, and her cultivation was now on par with his.
Lianyi used these two hours to familiarize herself with the wind-related magic in the "Nine Transformations of Wind and Cloud". Several people watched Lianyi constantly practicing the magic formula on the flying boat, from being unskilled in the beginning to being able to perform magic instantly, and finally being able to control the wind and keep herself in the air.
You should know that only cultivators who have broken through the Jindan stage can fly in the air. If cultivators in the foundation-building stage want to stay in the air, they can only use flying swords.
This time, the four of them once again witnessed the gap between genius cultivators and ordinary cultivators, and they were greatly shocked.
Even though Lianyi understood what was expressed in their eyes, she did not want to comfort them. If they could not accept even this small gap, how could they walk out of their own immortal path?
The agreement she had reached with the recruiter from the Space-Time Administration included retaining her cultivation, so there was no bottleneck in her practice.
What's more, the original body was only one step away from the Nascent Soul stage when she died. This was because the technique she practiced was not compatible with her hidden spiritual roots. Even so, she was able to practice to the late Golden Core stage. It can be seen that the original body's talent was not bad, but she was misled by her ungrateful senior brother.
After Lianyi became familiar with the spell, he continued to cast the whirlwind and communicated with the other party in his sea of consciousness.
"Xuanfeng, I have advanced to the late stage of foundation building. Has your cultivation been weakened?"
"Yes, but now is not a good time to break through."
Tornado replied immediately.
"Don't worry, wait until this mission is completed, then you can make a small advancement. Before entering the Yuntian Secret Realm, we must suppress our cultivation to the peak of the late foundation building stage, otherwise we will not be able to enter."
"Master, rest assured. Tornado understands."
Tornado felt very comfortable being stroked, he turned over in Lianyi's arms and fell asleep. Spirit beasts usually spend their promotion process in sleep, and Tornado was no exception, but this time he was just sleeping.
"We're here."
Qiao Hao spoke out.
Everyone opened their eyes and looked at the city not far away.
The city was built with special black stones, each of which was engraved with array patterns. If an unexpected situation occurred, the city defense array could be activated immediately. However, the Bian City in front of him was a little deserted, with almost no one entering or leaving the city gate.
“This is too quiet.”
Sun Lanlan said.
"After something like that happened, many people don't want to come here anymore. No one would be stupid enough to rush in knowing there is danger."
Xiao Shanhe sighed.
"Meow" Tornado called out without any warning, the sound was long and attracted everyone's attention.
"Elian, what happened to your spirit beast?"
Lianyi was communicating with Xuanfeng at this time, and Xuanfeng actually discovered the problem of this city.
"Master, this is not one city, these are two cities."
"Two cities?"
"Yes, it's like a nesting doll, with a small city inside a big city, but they are in the same location. Neither side should know the existence of the other city."
Tornado made his meaning very clear.
“Is there a space hole here?”
"It must be man-made. I can see that the city is fading away. It feels like a ghost town."
"If that's the case, it would explain why those people suddenly disappeared. They should have been sucked into another hidden city."
Lianyi understood after thinking about it.
At this time, Qiao Hao and the others looked at the thoughtful expression on Lian Yi's face, and were very curious about what she saw.
"Elaine, what did you see?"
Sun Lanlan asked first.
"I didn't see it, it was my whirlwind that saw it. This is a city within a city."
Lianyi briefly explained it to the few people.
Before he mutated, Tornado was a black cat, also known as the Black Cat. His eyes could see yin and yang, and he could see things that ordinary people could not see. After being led into the path of cultivation by Lianyi, he followed the path of demon cultivation, which had a bonus effect on his abilities, so he was able to see through the mystery at first sight.
"Junior Sister Elaine means that the missing person is in another city, in the same place as this Bianxia City."
Qiao Hao asked in surprise.
"Yes."
"Is that city alive? Can he choose specific monks to enter it?"
Sun Lanlan was really surprised.
"How can a city have consciousness? Only humans can control these things."
Zhao Mingyu said in a deep voice.
Lianyi nodded. This was also her guess.
"If we want to rescue those missing people, we can only find the person who took action, otherwise people will continue to disappear."
Xiao Shanhe said in a deep voice.
“We will definitely be targeted by each other.”
Ripple said with narrowed eyes.
This time no one objected, because their cultivation was all high, and according to the other party's selection criteria, they would most likely become targets as soon as they entered the city.
"Let's go into the city first."
As the captain, Qiao Hao spoke up immediately.
Naturally, everyone had no objection. After landing the flying boat, they slowly walked towards Bianxia City.
There were only two young cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage guarding the city gate. When they saw Qiao Hao and his group of five were all wearing Five Elements Sect robes, they immediately came forward to greet them:
"Are you all seniors from the Wuyun Sect?"
"Exactly."
"Finally, you are here. Please come this way. I will take you to the City Lord's Mansion."
The male cultivator at the tenth level of Qi Refining immediately became alert and wanted to bring the person to see the city lord as quickly as possible.
"Thank you for your help."
Qiao Hao nodded.
The group looked around as they walked, checking the surrounding situation.
The few of them seemed to be walking very slowly, and their steps were not big. It took them less than a quarter of an hour to reach the City Lord's Mansion.
It is called the City Lord's Mansion, but in fact it is just a three-courtyard building. It only looks like that because of the protective formations arranged on the walls.
"Seniors, please come in."
The City Lord's Mansion also received the message, and a thin man came out to greet them.
"I am Zhou An, the Lord of Bian City. Please follow me."
Several people followed Zhou An into the second hall. After they sat down, Qiao Hao asked about the specific situation.
Zhou An sighed and talked about the disappearance of the monks in the city, and then explained helplessly:
"I am only at the middle stage of foundation building, and I have not been able to find the reason why the cultivators in the city disappeared. I had no choice but to ask the sect for help, but two mission teams disappeared in the city in a row. I was very panicked and I really didn't know what to do."
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