Hua Shi heard the voice and looked back, and saw the crowd parting, and then saw Ji Yuan walking towards this direction through the crowd.
Ji Yuan's face was very gloomy today. He walked quickly and arrived at where Xuan Shuzhi and others were in just a moment. He looked around and paused for a moment when passing by Wen Zhong who was wearing a mask. Then he frowned without saying anything, and finally fixed his eyes on Hua Shi.
"What are you doing here?" Ji Yuan's face was clearly extremely ugly before, but when he spoke to Hua Shi this time, he seemed to deliberately soften his tone, and even his expression became gentle.
The surroundings suddenly became quiet because of Ji Yuan's words.
He came here with a low mood just now, and everyone could see the seriousness of the matter. However, no one expected that the first thing he asked after arriving here was not about the black snake, but this.
It was not until this time that someone noticed Hua Shi who was following Xuan Shuzhi. They remembered that he was the winner of the Yuanhu Sword Testing Competition not long ago, the most talented among the young disciples, and the young master of the Hua family who was fought over by four masters including Ji Yuan and Xuan Shuzhi at the previous Spirit Transformation Competition.
But even with these connections, it was still a very strange thing that Ji Yuan, who had just arrived here and didn't care about major matters, cared about this disciple.
What's more, this disciple did not finally become his disciple, but went to Xuanling Pavilion.
Not only were the others surprised, even Hua Shi had not expected that he and Ji Yuan were not really familiar with each other, but in the few times they met, Ji Yuan had always taken good care of him. Hua Shi could not explain what it was about him that made Ji Yuan look at him differently, or maybe...
Hua Shi looked at Ji Yuan, his eyes suddenly widened, and he remembered what was special about himself.
He didn't know the truth before so he had no way to judge, but now he already knew the identity of the system in his body, naturally there was no way he couldn't connect them together.
Because his system is Liu Qishuang!
Ji Yuan used to pester Liu Qishuang every day, and now Liu Qishuang is by his side. If Ji Yuan knew about this, it would completely explain why he pestered himself like this!
So this guy is actually after Liu Qishuang who lives in his soul?
Hua Shi didn't realize it until this moment. Although he had no way to verify it with Liu Qishuang because he was still pretending not to know the identity of the system, from Ji Yuan's attitude and so many details, he was able to judge that the truth must be not far from what he guessed.
Thinking of this, Hua Shi's expression changed slightly. Facing Ji Yuan's concerned eyes, he felt something strange in his heart, and a slight feeling of jealousy spread in his heart.
"Why are you here?" Ji Yuan asked Hua Shi again. When he didn't get a response, he turned his gaze to Xuan Shuzhi again. "Master Xuan, at this critical moment, you shouldn't let an ordinary disciple like him come here. If he encounters danger, he won't even be able to protect himself."
The people coming from all around were masters from various sects. The only young disciple like Hua Shi was Zhou Li, but Zhou Li came under the protection of many teachers and leaders of the sect. And for some reason, Ji Yuan did not care about Zhou Li's arrival, but only cared about the appearance of Hua Shi.
His tone was a little hurried, even a little angry, and it was clear that he was eager to drive Hua Shi away.
Hua Shi didn't understand why he was so angry, and he was not as helpless as Ji Yuan said. He had a substitute talisman in his hand and could open the space of Yunxiu Pen to take refuge at any time. His strength was not too weak. It was really unreasonable for Ji Yuan to let him go without caring about anything.
"Spirit Master, I came here on my own initiative. I can protect myself." Hua Shi looked straight into Ji Yuan's eyes and said calmly.
Ji Yuan frowned slightly when he heard this. He obviously disagreed with Hua Shi's words. Just as he was about to say something else, Xuan Shuzhi smiled and stroked his fan and said softly, "Spirit Master, you don't have to worry about this. I will protect my own disciples. The situation is urgent now. Spirit Master, please take a look at the situation ahead first."
Ji Yuan was interrupted by Xuan Shuzhi, and thus missed the opportunity to persuade Hua Shi to leave, because at this moment, someone shouted from a distance: "Be careful!"
Everyone's attention was immediately attracted by the voice, and they all turned around to look, including Hua Shi.
The moment his eyes moved over, he suddenly saw a dark shadow flashing out. Hua Shi's expression froze and his heart almost jumped into his throat, because the black shadow was none other than the black snake he had seen in Yuan Lake before.
Perhaps it was because the memory of the battle against the black snake was too profound, and the feeling of powerlessness that could not resist was still engraved in his heart, so when he saw this thing at this time, Hua Shi grabbed the Yunxiu pen in his hand without thinking, ready to let Ji Yuan, who was still questioning whether he could protect himself, see how strong his life-saving ability was.
However, the reactions of the people present were much faster than Hua Shi's. Before he could even take out the Yunxiu pen from his arms, many people had already drawn their weapons and rushed towards the black snake.
But in the blink of an eye, the black snake that had just appeared was smashed to the ground by the sword light and palm wind, and there was no sound anymore.
Hua Shi: “…”
He stared at the black snake on the ground over the heads of the people in a daze, and then he realized that the black snake seemed to have appeared from the woods on the other side. However, before it could do anything, it was dealt with by the masters present.
Hua Shi, who was badly injured by the black snake last time, could not accept this contrast. He could not help but approach Wen Zhong behind him and asked in a low voice: "It died so easily? Then wasn't it embarrassing for us to be beaten by it and unable to get up?"
Wen Zhongben was standing nearby wearing a mask and watching the fun. He couldn't help but smile when he heard Hua Shi's voice. "That's naturally different. The black snake last time absorbed other powers, so it was naturally much stronger than other black snakes. Ordinary black snakes are only this strong. Now those present are all masters from various factions, so it's no problem for them to deal with this ordinary black snake."
Hua Shi blinked his eyes, then he realized that the black snake at that time and the black snakes now should be the difference between elite monsters and ordinary monsters. Although there are many black snakes now, they are not as scary as before.
Having said that, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt that he had regained a lot of face.
At this time, Ji Yuan no longer cared about Hua Shi. After getting rid of the black snake, everyone looked at Ji Yuan. Ji Yuan met their gaze and walked slowly forward. The crowd quickly made way for Ji Yuan and allowed him to walk to the black snake in the woods.
Xuan Shuzhi was not polite at all and immediately took Hua Shi and others to that side.
Hua Shi had always wanted to see the situation inside clearly, but there were too many anxious people in front of him and he couldn't see clearly. Now everyone took the initiative to make way, and Hua Shi naturally followed them in.
But when he saw the situation clearly deep in the forest, Hua Shicai couldn't help but gasp and stopped in an instant.
There was a big hole in the forest where the black snake was lying in the middle. The black snake fell to the ground, surrounded by broken trees and bushes. The body of the black snake was slowly dissipating and turning into ashes, which was not much different from the situation after Rihua Shi killed the black snake in the Yunxiu Pen space. And at the place where the black snake disappeared, the dark cave gradually revealed its original appearance.
It was a deep pit that could not be seen with the naked eye. It looked as if someone had dug a hole in the ground. The hole was not big but very deep. A stone was kicked down nearby, but there was no sound for a long time. A cold wind blew over the deep pit, and as if it was swallowed by something, there was no sound from that place.
"What on earth is that..." Hua Shi was extremely surprised and unconsciously wanted to walk over there. However, at this moment, Xuan Shuzhi raised his hand and held Hua Shi back: "Don't go over there."
Hua Shi stopped and looked up at Xuan Shuzhi, then he heard Liu Qishuang's voice in his mind again: "That is the gate to the spiritual realm."
Leading to the spiritual realm?
If this deep pit could lead to the spiritual realm, wouldn't the black snakes in the spiritual realm be able to come and go freely from here?
But they had never heard of any movement here before. Who dug this pit? How could they create such a deep pit without making any noise?
Hua Shi's mind immediately changed. Fang Wei heard his thoughts and corrected him immediately, "This is not a real pit. It's just a passage under the formation."
However, the spiritual realm cannot be seen clearly from this end of the passage, so it looks as if it is pitch black, which makes it look like a deep pit.
Fang Wei had figured out the reason for the matter after seeing the pit clearly. Back then, the Spirit of Xuanqing came from the Spirit Realm, reached an agreement with the people of Xuanqing Continent and arranged formations across the entire continent, with Tianqing City as the center of the formation and the Gate to the Spirit Realm placed in the center of the formation. This gate can be opened once every three years.
The black snakes used this formation to make subtle changes to it in a short period of time, changing the position of the center of the formation, and tried to open it within the time when the gate to the non-spiritual realm was open.
Fang Wei had no idea what had happened in the Spirit Realm during this period. He had asked the Mountain Whale, but the Mountain Whale knew very little. According to it, when the Mountain Whale was sleeping in the water, it suddenly sensed some kind of danger. Then it fought with several black snakes of unknown origin. Afterwards, it was chased by the black snakes and ran out of the Spirit Realm in a panic, with the black snakes following closely behind it.
According to the mountain whale, Fang Wei had reason to guess that the black snakes must have discovered a way to break through the spirit realm, and this method required the huge size of the mountain whale to accomplish. This time the passage between the spirit realm and the Xuanqing continent might not be open for long, or the two realms might not be completely connected, so the group of black snakes would begin to tamper with the formation of the Xuanqing continent after leaving the spirit realm.
To be precise, perhaps their purpose is this formation.
After this incident, they had only one goal, which was to rescue the monster that was still in the abyss.
Fang Wei figured out what was going on, but it was too late, because at this moment, a sound like thunder hitting the clouds came from the dark pit.
Hearing this voice, the expressions of everyone present suddenly became solemn. Hua Shi tightly grasped the Yunxiu pen in his hand, turned around to look at Xuan Shuzhi, Ji Yuan and others, and then saw that the two of them had the same ugly expressions.
The dozens of black snakes that had previously come to Xuanqing Continent from the Spirit Realm were probably just a minority.
But the real trouble is still in the spiritual realm, and will soon break out.
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