Over the past six months, he has been using the Yunxiu Pen as a storage space, and he always throws his usual collections into it. Now he doesn't know how much has been piled up. Even he himself has forgotten that the original function of the Yunxiu Pen was not this. There is a world of its own in it.
However, since obtaining the Yunxiu Pen, Hua Shi has never used this function, so he still doesn't know what the space of the Yunxiu Pen looks like.
Thinking that he could use the Yunxiu pen to escape in times of crisis, Hua Shi couldn't help but feel a lot more relieved.
He now has the formation talisman given by his master, the life-saving talisman given by Ji Yuan, and the space that comes with the Yunxiu pen. With this calculation, he still has at least three lives to use. Unless he encounters any desperate situation, he will not encounter any major problems under normal circumstances.
Of course, Hua Shi also hopes that it would be best if he doesn’t have to use these life-saving things. Naturally, these things must be kept on him all the time to give him enough confidence.
While he was thinking about these things in his mind, Yu Xing and Zhou Li in front of him had already walked an unknown distance. Looking back, they saw that Hua Shi had not caught up yet, so the two of them stopped and waited for a moment before continuing to move forward.
After walking for a long time, they had reached the depths of the Frost Forest Valley, and the originally vague and strange sound seemed to be closer to them. From being far away in the sky at the beginning, it now seemed to be very close.
Sometimes, even when Hua Shi was walking, he couldn't help but feel that the voice was right next to his ear. As long as he turned around slightly, he could see who was making the sound.
Not only him, Zhou Li and Yu Xing seemed to have the same feeling. They kept looking back while walking, but no matter how close the sound sounded, they could not see the person who made the sound.
Before they knew it, they had been wandering in the valley for a whole day.
The sky gradually darkened, and the three people walked in this gloomy environment, and their pace slowed down a lot.
Hua Shi was walking at the back. Thinking back to the whole day he had spent wandering in the valley, he couldn't help but wonder where all his time had gone.
"Should we leave?" He suddenly stopped and said to the two people in front who were still searching.
Hearing the strange sound earlier, the three disciples were a little nervous, and Hua Shi was naturally the most nervous among them. However, anyone who has walked in the forest all day with the strange sound surrounding his ears while nothing actually happened would get used to it, even the most timid person would get used to it.
Hua Shi finally broke through himself. At this time, he was not so scared anymore. Instead, he felt that the sound was a bit noisy.
However, this does not mean that he is willing to stay in the valley overnight. You know, many times night is the source of all strange things.
Even if they are safe and sound during the day, who knows if they will encounter something at night?
Hua Shi urged the two people in front. Fortunately, although Zhou Li and Yu Xing were full of fearlessness and impulsiveness of young righteous disciples, they were not so reckless and had no plans to spend the night in this forest.
The two discussed for a moment. Although they felt a little helpless about not being able to find the person, they finally decided to leave this place and return to the town, and continue looking for it the next day.
Hearing their decision, Hua Shi felt relieved. The three of them turned around and walked in the direction of leaving the valley. However, this was not the road they came from. Later, they wandered around in the valley to look for someone. They did not specifically remember the direction, so when they went back this time, they walked for a while before realizing that they had accidentally ended up in a place they had never seen before.
What I saw before me was an empty space that looked like an altar.
There were many weeds growing on the open space, but it was strangely different from other places around it. There was no sign of any trees growing. And right in the center of the open space, there stood five strange stone tablets.
This stone tablet is twice as tall as an adult. The wide stone tablet is here. For some reason, the three people who had been wandering around for a long time before did not find this place at all. Now they are standing in front of the stone tablet and looking up at the words on the stone tablet, but...
"I can't understand a single word." Yu Xing frowned. This look reminded Hua Shi, who was watching from the sidelines, of the poor student who looked around in confusion when he picked up his pen in the examination room in his previous life.
Hua Shi looked at Yu Xing, then at Zhou Li, who seemed obviously knowledgeable, hoping that he could give an answer.
But unfortunately, Zhou Li also looked a little confused at this time.
Hua Shi also came to the stone tablet and stared at the words on it for a while. He found that the words were really strange. They seemed like some kind of mysterious symbols, and vaguely like some strange paintings. They were obviously different from any kind of words he knew.
"Can you understand it?" Yu Xing walked over at this time, and seeing Hua Shi frowning at the stone tablet, he couldn't help but ask.
Hua Shi certainly couldn't understand it.
He shook his head, but did not speak immediately. Instead, he called up the system in his mind.
He really couldn't understand the text, but he still had a cheat.
"System, can you understand what is written on this stone tablet?" Hua Shi asked.
Of course Fang Wei knew. Not only did he know, he had been here before. When Hua Shi said he wanted to go back just now, he looked at the direction the three disciples were walking and judged that they would definitely pass by this altar.
He revisited the old place, but Fang Wei didn't have much feeling for it.
Listening to Hua Shi's curious question, Fang Wei said after a while: "The text on this stone tablet is a sacrificial text."
Hua Shi raised his hand to touch the words on the stone tablet, but when he heard this, he suddenly stopped. Then, as if he remembered something and was afraid that the dust on the stone tablet would dirty his fingers, he stopped and asked, "What sacrificial text?"
Fang Wei said: "This contains the text left by the ancient tribe that has disappeared from Xuanqing Continent. The surrounding stone tablets are engraved with sacrificial texts. Only the stone tablet in the center tells the story of a hero from Xuanqing Continent fighting against the most powerful monster in Xuanqing Continent to save the world tens of thousands of years ago."
Hua Shi nodded. He had heard a lot of rumors like this in his previous life. He was curious about something else: "Why have I never heard of this kind of rumor?"
Every world has its own myths and legends. Stories like this one about ancient monsters being conquered by heroes are the most legendary.
But why, after living in Xuanqing Continent for more than a year, the most distant rumor he had heard was a story from more than 2,000 years ago, while the most popular story was about Fang Wei, the Lord of the Evil Way, from a thousand years ago? The further back in time, the more vague the story became.
This story about a brave man fighting a monster on the stone tablet was the first time Hua Shi had heard of it.
"What's the ending? The hero defeated the monster, so peace returned to the world?" Hua Shi said the usual routine ending.
However, this time the system's response was beyond his expectations.
Fang Wei said: "In the end, the hero failed to kill the monster. Instead, he was devoured by it."
Hua Shi was stunned for a moment, somewhat suspecting that he had misheard what the system said.
Zhou Li was carefully memorizing the symbols on the stone tablet at this time, and seemed to be planning to go back and look up ancient books to see if he could figure out the meaning. However, he glanced at Hua Shi inadvertently, and seeing Hua Shi's stunned look, he could not help but ask, "What's wrong?"
Hua Shi was still shocked by the story told by the system. Seeing Zhou Li asking questions, he had no way to explain. He could only shake his head and make the excuse that he accidentally stepped on a stone. When Zhou Li withdrew his attention, he came to his senses and asked the system: "The monster is not dead? If the monster is not dead, won't Xuanqing Continent be doomed?"
Fang Wei said: "No, the monster left after devouring the hero. Everyone thinks that because it devoured the hero's power, it took a long time to digest this power. So although the hero failed to destroy the monster, he did stop it. For a long time, the monster was dormant and absorbed power, and there was no way for it to cause trouble in the human world again."
Hua Shi was dumbfounded, not knowing how to describe this story: "Is this possible? But the monster is not dead. When it absorbs all the power, won't it become stronger?"
"Yes, but no one could kill it." Fang Wei said, "So when the monster came again, people came up with a solution. Since the hero was devoured before, the monster stayed quiet for thousands of years. Then they found another person to be devoured by the monster, and the monster stayed quiet for a long time again."
Hua Shi couldn't describe his feelings at this moment. He just felt it was ridiculous: "Are they raising a monster? The stronger it gets, the more difficult it will be for them to kill it in the future. If one day that thing gets a bigger appetite and is unwilling to swallow just one person..."
"They didn't think that much." Fang Wei interrupted Hua Shi and finally said calmly, "And this is just a fictitious legend."
Perhaps it was because Fang Wei's tone was too calm, but his words successfully calmed Hua Shi, and Hua Shi finally came back to his senses from the bizarre dark myth. He looked around and said, "You just said this is an altar. Could this be..."
Fang Wei's response quickly confirmed Hua Shi's guess: "This is where the ancient tribe offered sacrifices to the monsters."
Although he knew it was just a story, Hua Shi still felt a chill down his spine when he heard the word "sacrifice" from the system. He quickly turned around and poked Zhou Li's arm with his elbow: "You usually read a lot of books, right? You know everything about the Xuanqing Continent over the past few thousand years, right?"
Zhou Li frowned slightly and shook his head: "I have only read some books with my father, and I can't say I know everything."
Yu Xing smiled and said, "It's almost the same. Senior Brother Hua, if you have any questions, just ask Senior Brother Zhou. If Senior Brother Zhou doesn't know, then it must not be recorded in the classics."
After Hua Shi confirmed it, he quickly asked, "Do you know any powerful monsters in the history of Xuanqing Continent?"
"Demon beast?" Zhou Li hesitated for a moment, "Indeed, there have been quite a few."
"It's a very powerful one that no one can deal with? We can only offer it as a sacrifice and let it eat until it's full and in a good mood before it leaves?"
Zhou Li's expression suddenly became strange: "I have never heard that no matter how powerful a demon beast is, it is not stronger than a cultivator. Even though there have been powerful demon beasts that have been cultivated for various reasons in the history of Xuanqing Continent, no matter each time, there have always been amazing masters who have emerged to subdue them."
Hua Shi heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this.
Since even Zhou Li didn't know about it, it seems that this legend is just an ordinary legend without any authenticity, and this altar is just a product of the superstition of our ancestors.
Hua Shi was worried about the rumors, but Yu Xing had come to the vicinity of the altar without knowing when. She was looking at something with her head down. After a while, Hua Shi heard her shout, "Come and look at this!"
Although they didn't know what the other party had discovered, the fact that Yu Xing's tone was a little excited was obviously not an ordinary discovery. Hua Shi and Zhou Li immediately put down the stone tablet in front of them and walked towards Yu Xing. Halfway through, Hua Shi suddenly woke up and asked in his mind: "Is it the formation left by Liu Qishuang?"
He did not forget that before coming here, Xuan Shuzhi mentioned that there was a formation left by Liu Qishuang and others in this Frost Leaf Forest. They wandered around in this valley all day today, but Hua Shi still didn't see the formation. Now he thought it should be near the altar.
Fang Wei listened to Hua Shi's slightly happy tone and responded helplessly, "Yes."
He could never understand why, whenever the name "Liu Qishuang" was mentioned, Hua Shi's mood seemed to immediately become bright, and he even forgot about the things he was worried about just now.
Watching Hua Shi rushing towards the formation, Fang Wei did not forget to remind Hua Shi: "Be careful around you."
Hua Shi paused slightly, then he noticed that there seemed to be something wrong around him.
The crying and shouting sound that had been surrounding them in stereo all day suddenly disappeared for some reason. They had been observing the stone tablet near the altar and did not even notice when the sound disappeared.
Just when Hua Shi was on alert, he arrived in front of the formation and saw the whole picture of the formation.
Not long ago, Xuan Shuzhi had given the talisman for repairing the formation to Hua Shi. After Hua Shi took it over, he kept it carefully, but before putting it away, he did not forget to take a few careful glances at it. It was those few glances that made him suddenly remember many things when he saw the formation now.
The so-called formation in front of him should be the runes carved by Liu Qishuang on the mountain wall here back then. The runes on the mountain wall are almost exactly the same as the patterns on the talisman that Hua Shi had seen before, but these runes are so old that they are all hidden under vines and branches. Some are even entangled and climbed by the roots of giant trees, blocking most of them.
Seeing this, Hua Shi, Yu Xing, Zhou Li and others had to reach out and pull away the extra vines and roots, which gradually revealed the formation's original appearance.
Just when he was uncovering a certain vine, Yu Xing paused, took a half step back, and then turned back to shout to Hua Shi and Zhou Li: "Look here!"
Hua Shi already had a bad feeling when he heard the system reminder just now. When he heard Yu Xing speak, he could almost feel his heart skip a beat. He walked quickly to Yu Xing and raised his hand to brush away the vines. Only then did he realize that the stone under the vine that was supposed to have the spell engraved on it had been chipped away by someone at some point, leaving only a broken gap.
This formation——
Yu Xing was still puzzled and asked, "I heard from Master that this formation is very solid, how come it was damaged so easily? Was it due to disrepair or was it done intentionally?"
Hua Shi felt that now was not the time to talk about this. Fortunately, Zhou Li was still relatively sober. He came over last, but the moment he saw the situation clearly, he immediately said, "Quickly take out the repair talisman, quickly--"
In fact, he didn't need to speak. Hua Shi had already taken out the Yunxiu pen and started searching for the talisman in the space inside.
However, he usually stuffed too many things into the space of Yunxiu Pen. At this time, he wanted to find something in a hurry, but after shaking it for a long time, he only shook out peanuts, melon seeds and a bunch of miscellaneous books, and didn't even see half a talisman.
"Come out quickly, come out quickly..." Hua Shi couldn't help but chanted, his tone a little bitter, "System, where did you put my talisman?"
Fang Wei was about to respond, but his consciousness suddenly sensed something and he immediately changed his words: "Be careful!"
Before he could finish his words, a force like a raging wave swept towards the three people as if it had sensed that its territory was being invaded. This sudden attack was completely different from the last time in the Spirit Realm. Last time, those spiritual creatures in the Spirit Realm were nothing but manic and mad, out of control, and even though their power was violent, they were just destroying without any method.
But this time was different. The opponent this time was coming towards the three of them, not giving them any time to breathe. However, the moment he met them, Hua Shi had already realized that this was not an enemy they could fight against.
He didn't even have the chance to ask the system for help.
Hua Shi didn't know what his situation would be like when he was about to die, but he only felt that time seemed to stop suddenly before his eyes, and he actually thought of many things in this instant.
Regret, unwillingness, and deep worry.
He remembered that he had the substitute talisman given to him by Ji Yuan. Even if he was hit by this extremely violent and terrifying force, he could survive with the power of the talisman, but now there were three of them.
Neither Zhou Li nor Yu Xing had any talismans on them, so if they died, they would be really dead, and he could not save them.
No, there is still hope.
Hua Shi suddenly opened his eyes wide!
The Yunxiu Pen was still in his hand. Not long ago, the system had reminded him of the true function of the Yunxiu Pen.
Hua Shi came back to his senses in an instant from the blankness of his mind. He had made up his mind and moved smoothly without any hesitation. He flew towards Zhou Li and Yu Xing behind him, clasping Yu Xing's wrist with his left hand and holding Zhou Li with his right hand. He was still holding the Yunxiu Pen tightly in his right hand, and spiritual power was glowing in his palm at this moment. However, at the moment when that power swept over, Hua Shi was choked by the power and blood came out of his mouth. However, at the same time, he had activated the power of the Yunxiu Pen and brought the two into the space of the Yunxiu Pen.
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A moment later, the three figures appeared at the same time on the shore of a lake filled with stars.
The lake water under the starry sky rippled slightly because of the arrival of the three people. Hua Shi felt that he and the two people were thrown to the ground. He raised his head with great effort to look at the two people beside him, only to find that they had fallen into a coma due to the impact of the force just now.
His face was pale and blood was still oozing from the corners of his lips. However, only after he checked on the two people and found that they were just unconscious and not in danger of life, did he finally breathe a sigh of relief and turned over to lie on his back on the grass.
There were brilliant stars above his head and there seemed to be wind all around. Hua Shi turned his head with difficulty and saw the fairyland-like palace by the lake. Only then did he finally confirm that he had arrived in the space of Yunxiu Pen and was in a safe place.
However, what he didn't expect was that the inside of the Yunxiu pen would look like this.
"Looks quite wealthy." Hua Shi couldn't help but smile with the corners of his lips, but the smile didn't last long, he fainted due to exhaustion.
The three young disciples who had fainted at this time did not know that at this moment, a golden ball of light slowly floated out from Hua Shi's chest, and then in the bright light, it gradually took a human form, as if a dazzling golden shadow appeared beside them.
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