The old man wore a somewhat tattered and worn-out robe, with a large red gourd on his back. He walked with a waddling gait, like a duck, which was quite amusing. He grinned and asked: "Young fellow, may I ask the way? Is there a Jingtan Temple around here, is it up in the mountains?"
"Disciple hummed: 'However, recently Jingtan Sect has sealed off all observations, you'd better hurry up and leave!'"
He waved his hand impatiently, wanting to drive him away. The old man's eyes flashed a hint of sternness and he smiled: "Thank you!"
He had just turned around, and the lid of the gourd behind him suddenly flew up automatically. A silver light flew out from inside, as if a sharp flash was made in the void. It was only an instant, but that disciple had already been cut in half at the waist. The silver light wrapped around again, and his body had turned into blood water.
The old man muttered to himself: "I've searched the entire mountain, but can't find any trace. Could it be that there's another secret within the mountain, and they entered some kind of immortal cave? It's strange to say, but the spiritual energy here has been cut off, not a single hint remains, where did it all get absorbed to? That Su kid is really unreliable, he's been gone for so long, and still no news has come back."
He looked around and shouted: "Hey, Old Xing, aren't you coming out yet? Without your feng shui skills, I won't be able to find the direction. You don't even care about your own apprentice, I'm not interested in collecting his corpse!"
From the woods behind him, a tall and robust old man with a ruddy complexion emerged. He held in his hand a round object resembling a compass, covered with various colored patterns that made one dizzy at first glance. A long needle floated back and forth on the surface of the compass.
The short and stout old man grinned and said: "Old Xing, have you found anything?"
The old man with a red face said, "This is my first time coming to this spiritual mountain, and I found that it actually hides mysterious mechanisms, which is an omen of 'Seven Stars Hidden Dragon'. If you say there's another world at the foot of this mountain, I wouldn't find it strange at all."
The stout old man grumbled: "All you're saying is nonsense. If we delay any further, your disciple will become a roasted pig."
The old man with a red face spread his hands: "I also have no way, you also know that if it is an immortal cave, there is no door to enter and exit."
The short and stout old man said: "Why didn't you take out that broken bead of yours?"
The red-faced elder said angrily: "The Xumi Pearl is the treasure of our Guiyuan Sect, how can it be taken lightly? As the Supreme Elder, I must not break the rules."
As they were talking, a sudden massive shock came from under their feet. The two people stood unsteadily and almost fell down. The two old men jumped up at the same time and flew high into the air, looking down to see that the mountain range stretching for hundreds of miles was now strangely undulating.
This is a change that ordinary people cannot see, and it's not that the mountains are really undulating, but rather the spiritual energy under the earth is undergoing intense changes.
The old man's compass in his hand began to shake violently at this time, and the needle trembled constantly, as if it would break at any moment. He frowned and said, "This is the gate of the underground cave that is changing, it should be caused by some external force impact."
The short and stout old man opened his big mouth, laughing: "That's easy to handle, we can rush in!" He stretched out his hand and patted the gourd behind him, shouting: "Go!"
Ten thousand silver lights flew out of the gourd's mouth at the same time, converging into a beam in mid-air that enveloped the old man's entire body. His whole person had already transformed into a silver light in mid-air, and he still had the leisure to turn his head and smile, saying: "This time you've lived up to your name, Open Mountain!"
The Yuan Ying ancestor of the Return to Origin Sect, Jiyu Fei's master, looked up and burst out laughing. In his hand was a massive axe that could hold up the sky. He let out a loud roar, and his body suddenly expanded violently. With one foot on the ground, he swung the axe down with great force.
This axe fell into the green mountains and clear waters, without a sound. But the figures of the two people had already silently disappeared.
Only those with great spiritual power can see that the old man's axe has already chopped up the source of the earth's spiritual veins, which means they forcibly chopped open this heavenly gate!
In the underground cave, Lingji Zi was still reverently taking out the Candle of Heaven's Tears. The secret book, after being soaked in his vital blood, flew into the statue and immediately turned into nothingness. The lotus platform, on its own, slowly split open to the left and right. The precious pearl then slowly flew out.
Mo Zi Chen whispered: "Ji Ge, you said that was really Rong Tian Lei?"
Ji You flew shook his head: "How do I know? Such a gift, even if it were my master, would be afraid to touch. This Ling machine, is really bold, he does not fear, on the spot by the yuan Shen Duosha?"
Mo Zi Chen scratched her head: "Actually, I think this bead isn't that scary." She actually had another sentence she didn't say, from the first glance at Xuan Tian Lei, she felt that this thing looked very familiar, and even had a desire to reach out and touch it.
The candle tear hung above the lotus platform, and then condensed in mid-air without moving. Lingji Zi waited for a moment, as if he finally couldn't hold back, stepped forward, and reached out to take it.
He held his hands up to his eyes and wept, his expression changing in an instant.
Tears condensed in mid-air, he added force several times, but couldn't budge it half an inch.
At this time, Zhu Tianlei was right in front of Ling Jizis eyes, only a few feet away, clearly visible, but suspended in mid-air, with no strings or anything else around it, yet it seemed to have grown there naturally, and no matter how hard he tried, it didnt budge.
At this time, the seven pillars behind him suddenly began to rise rapidly, and the seven spiritual veins in the air were like crazy, bursting out with dazzling light. Bai Shanzi cried out in alarm: "Master brother, the spiritual energy is about to be exhausted!"
The statue suddenly lowered its head at this time, as if it was impatient. No one noticed that the ritual object in his hand had already begun to fall slightly.
The spiritual energy is being constantly drained from the ground, and the spiritual veins are withering rapidly. The light that had just burst forth was like the last fleeting appearance of a meteor. Everyone in the Net Temple could clearly feel the ground falling away beneath their feet, and this space was also continuously shrinking.
"Bai Shanzi shouted loudly: 'Brother, let's hurry up and leave, or else we'll be trapped here!'"
Lingji Zi gritted his teeth and said: "Wait a little longer, I'm not reconciled!"
He tightly wrapped his arms around Zhu Tianlei, and suddenly let out a loud roar. Zhu Tianlei remained motionless, but he felt a powerful force rebounding back at him, and couldn't help but spew out a mouthful of fresh blood.
A loud rumbling sound came, followed by a series of deafening crashes, the ground began to crack continuously, and the high stone wall started to peel off rapidly. Large boulders kept falling down, Mo Zichen let out a loud cry, the rock under her feet had already flown out, and she slipped and fell from the sky. Ji Youfei was caught off guard, quickly stretched out his hand to grab, but only barely brushed against her fingertips. Mo Zichen's body fell from the high altitude, like a falling leaf drifting in the air, shouting: "Save me!"