Chapter 526 Game and Sword Tomb
It's really hot.
Lin Luoran totally gets lost in the dense forest.
Damn it. The snake monster is definitely not a nice guy. It plays the game with her and takes advantage of it. The monster kept staring at her wrist. In the end, it didn't take away the sacred pearl but the six jade plates Lin Luoran holding in her hand—in this way, she couldn't leave the secret land at any time and had to follow the rule of the game—to leave Bermuda secret land on her own during one-month downturn period of the snake monster.
Then she was thrown into this strange jungle.
Lin Luoran is extremely angry. She doesn't have the map issued by the special department that year. How can she find the landmark to the exit?
The abyss where White Fairy's soul was hiding, the magnetic mountain where the monster bat was, the underwater palace where the female corpse in white stayed... well, the first three places she knows are not good choices. Maybe she can go to the Monkey hole.
It's a pity that she can't use the holy spell to "listen". If she can hear all sounds of all things, she will not feel so helpless now.
It will also be helpful if she can find a talking monster... well... in fact, she has figured out the principle of monsters' strength along the way. The closer it is to the edge of the secret land, the weaker the monster is. Can this principle help her go out?
Lin Luoran feels that her temples begin to throb. She recognizes the north and the south by judging how dense tresses and mosses are. Now she is heading north. If she gets it wrong, she has to turn back. During these two days, she has met many monsters which just became intellectual recently. However, it's impossible for her to communicate with them. Not having seen even one monster of high rank, she begins to doubt if she is in the right way.
This day, she has been to many places. On her sword, she climbs over mountains and sees the cold pool again. She suddenly feels extremely cold.
Has she been back to the original place?
There is no double-headed snake, but she will always recognize this pool. It is the case of "female corpse mystery" exactly the same as White Fairy's story. Therefore, she has subconsciously excluded White Fairy from this journey since she entered the secret land. However, she still can't help but talk to her at this moment.
White Fairy leaves the space and checks the distribution of the mountains around. Her face turns pale immediately.
"It is a natural illusion circle!"
Not to mention Lin Luoran, even the snake monster itself can not get out of this illusion circle if what the fairy thinks is right. Lin Luoran's face is also a little pale, "Did it trick me and leave here with my jade plates?"
White Fairy shakes her head, "Don't worry about this. Without signing the blood pact of master and servant, monsters in Lost Land can't get out even with jade plates."
White Fairy knows much more about Lost Land than ordinary cultivators. She accidentally read an incomplete ancient book in Misty Peaks Library saying that Lost Land is a world created by some ancient masters to imprison fierce monsters. If imprisoned monsters want to leave this place, they have to sign blood pacts with human race cultivators or gather twelve jade plates all together. This rule extends over generations... Lin Luoran is frowning because of losing her jade plates. After consideration, White Fairy decides not to talk about it at this moment.
The chance of gathering twelve jade plates is too small. Telling her the truth will only make her anxious.
"Can you come up with a method to solve the illusion circle problem?"
White Fairy grits her teeth, "It is almost impossible. Even if I can take you out, the positioning may not be accurate. We don't know where we will be."
Lin Luoran feels confused. White Fairy thinks for a while before telling her.
"Thousands of years ago, I was trapped and finally survived as a remnant soul. As my primordial spirit is incomplete, I have lost a very important memory... "
Lin Luoran is shocked. It reminds her of the female corpse in white in the underwater palace. She continues to listen like nothing happened. White Fairy herself is also confused, "Lost Land opens once a hundred years. I have been here more than once. Now if I take you out of this illusion circle, I can't make sure where our destination will be. Maybe we will go to a more dangerous place. "
"We can't even know a general area?"
White Fairy shakes her head, "Our destination may be a monster's nest, the bottom of the abyss that you have been to, or the exit... Gathering Vitality cultivators of our days went to strange places and planted spiritual mind seeds there casually. If those seeds have been preserved after so many years, the place where we will appear must be a place I have visited before."
It's the first time for Lin Luoran to know this news and she feels so amazing. This is really a good way to leave spiritual mind seeds as signposts. The spiritual mind seeds belonging to Gathering Vitality cultivators are useless for other people.
She nods in approval. White Fairy spreads out her palms, and countless beams of light fly out of her palms as if someone accidentally blows off a glowing dandelion. Light scatters and disappears in the blink of an eye.
A ray of white light comes in the distance and White Fairy finally smiles.
"Go!"
As White Fairy has extravagantly used 1000-year Hollow Azurite to build up her body, her soul of departed can now catch real things. Her palm on Lin Luoran's wrist is cold, but Lin Luoran doesn't hate it.
"Follow this direction. Don't stop and don't look back. You can get out of the illusion circle in this way, understand?" White Fairy instructs her solemnly and Lin Luoran also nods seriously.
White Fairy takes Lin Luoran to fly in the dense forest, mountains, and mists. Traveling faster and faster, they cross all rivers and mountains they meet. Lin Luoran doesn't know when they get out of the illusion circle. Lin Luoran didn't notice that White Fairy has taken her to a strange place until the white light that has been guiding them goes out.
This place looks like a battlefield.
Not far away, there are deep pits comparable to meteorite craters. There is scorched land, hills split from the middle, and broken swords buried in sand. Traces of a big battle among cultivators can be seen at first glance
There are thousands of swords of all kinds. Some are inlaid on the mountain, some inserted in the rock, and some buried under the dust, only revealing exquisite hilts.
It is more like a sword tomb than a battlefield.
"Fairy, where is this?"
Lin Luoran doesn't say a word because of the solemn atmosphere here. White Fairy only shakes her head as her reply.
It is so strange. She has never been to this place. Why did the spiritual mind seed bring them here? White Fairy feels so confused. She squats down and slowly digs the sand on the ground. When delicate patterns of the broken swords are exposed, her expression changes slightly.
"...these are all swords of Zu Mountain."
White Fairy picks up a broken sword. The word "Ye" of small-seal style is engraved on the hilt. The Ye Family of Zu Mountain... is it the sword of an ancestor of Ye Xiaobei? Lin Luoran had a good relationship with Wen Guanjing so she knows some stories of Zu Mountain. The Wen and Ye family were originally two large forces of the Zu Mountain School. However, the number of elites in the Ye family decreased so the family gradually declined. The last family member with Taoist root was Ye Xiaobei who went to the Tower of Babel that year and got a Foundation-laying Bolus.
Thinking of this, Lin Luoran start to help White Fairy dig broken swords.
They get every broken sword buried under the soil, embedded in the stone wall, and inserted in the rock.
Swords are lined up on the ground, looking dim without light. However, Lin Luoran can imagine how gorgeous these flying swords were before they were destroyed.
There are eight hundred and forty-two broken swords. The word "Ye" is engraved on the hilts of 70% of these swords while the word "Wen" is on 20% of these swords.
Were all the elites of the Ye family dead here?
White Fairy held an ordinary broken sword in a daze. When she touches the sword with her jade-like fingers, it even makes her tremble.
Lin Luoran has never seen White Fairy look like this. This graceful beauty is overwhelmed by sadness and despair. The owner of the broken sword in her hand must be very important for her.
Zu Mountain School is a swordsman school. Flying sword is more than a normal magic weapon for Zu Mountain cultivators. A broken sword can't show the condition of its owner. However, countless broken swords are enough to reflect the tragic situation of the battle.
Lin Luoran suddenly thinks of those murals in the underwater palace for no reason... a bride wearing "Sword of Bright Snow"... Does this ordinary flying sword belong to the groom?
Is the bride White Fairy? ...
"A broken sword doesn't mean anything. Fairy, there is no corpse here."
White Fairy's dark eyes light up.
Lin Luoran is right. A broken sword does not mean that its owner is dead. For the worst scenario, he may be just like her. Even if he survived as a remnant soul, it's still possible for them to see each other again.
At the end of the distant mountains, double-headed snake raises its head from the cold pool. It sneers when it stares at the direction the two people left.
"Qi-trainer, the game... has just begun."
Chapter 527 Conspiracy and Love (I)
White Fairy hasn't said a word for a long time. Finally, she only takes away the most ordinary broken sword with her.
Lin Luoran thinks for a while and then digs a big hole to bury other destroyed flying swords underground. A real sword tomb is made.
There are many traces of fighting here, but no corpses as Lin Luoran said. Even if they were all swallowed by monsters, the site would not be so clean. If cultivators of the Zu Mountain school had buried the corpses, they would not leave the broken swords here... Is it because someone has destroyed all corpses? Or maybe the swordsmen who participated in the battle were still alive but something unexpected happened so they couldn't take back their own flying swords...
In either case, the truth has disappeared in history. Lin Luoran may never know.
Bringing the broken flying sword that White Fairy values, they go on their journey again. White Fairy has calmed down and even spontaneously tells Lin Luoran her old history.
In the past, she had a Taoist partner whose surname was Ye. He was a once-in-a-century genius with single Taoist root of the Fire in the Ye family, Zu Mountain. It was in this secret land that they first met. At that time, he was just a Bearing Essence cultivator while she was still struggling in the Laying Foundation period. They were both juniors who followed their teachers to see the world.
The world of cultivation emphasizes respect for hierarchy and order. Zu Mountain was the top school at that time. Although White Fairy was a personal apprentice of Misty Peak, she was quite different from male cultivators of the Ye family in terms of identity and personal ability. If they hadn't accidentally gone through thick and thin together in the secret land, the male cultivator Ye wouldn't have noticed White Fairy who was in the Laying Foundation period.
"That was the first time we entered Lost Land..."
Lost Land opens once a hundred years. After they got to know each other, they had entered secret land together for several times. Something happened to the White Fairy in the third year of the reign of Emperor Zhouwu in the Tang Dynasty. Wu Mei'er from the Joy School took the opportunity of human emperor and went to the mortal world to become a female emperor. White Fairy's personal ability was in the late Gathering Vitality period at the time. As for the male cultivator surnamed Ye, he was about to achieve Divinization!
There had been few cultivators of the Divinization period in the world of cultivation for many years. Of course, the male cultivator surnamed Ye has caught attractions from all kinds of people. The last opportunity for him was not easy to seize. Coincidentally, it was the third year of the reign of Emperor Zhouwu when the secret land appeared after a hundred years. Lost Land has never been explored, with tremendous danger and countless lucky chances in it.
The male cultivator surnamed Ye asked White Fairy to come to secret land. He made a promise to his Taoist partner who he has known for hundreds of years. If he failed in Divinization this time, he would make her his official Taoist partner. Even if he succeeded, he would still wait for her to enter the Divinization period. At that time, they could work together to break through the void and become immortal.
Facing White Fairy's obsession for centuries, the male cultivator surnamed Ye, who had been devoted to becoming an immortal, finally made a decision to stop for her.
"The word 'Bright' is in his name, and 'Snow' in mine. The Sword of Bright Snow you got was originally a token of affection after he gathered vitality. He searched all over the South Sea for the Mermaid tears to refine the sword. "
Lin Luoran suddenly realizes that the double-headed phoenix hairpin was originally a token of love for White Fairy and her Taoist partner. She was complacent when White Fairy showed up. However, she never thought that how could it be possible to make determined White Fairy in the late period of Gathering Vitality appear without items she valued, like a token of love.
White Fairy touches the broken sword and smiles, "Do you know how happy I was when I saw you falling down the abyss? At that time, I wanted to possess you. However, your qualification was so bad that I couldn't do it..."
Lin Luoran rubs her nose and smirks. Though scheming against each other at the beginning, She and White Fairy are friends now. It's best to talk it through.
White Fairy thinks of the reason why she gave up on Possession on Lin Luoran at the time. Lin Luoran's poor qualification was surely one reason. The scene she saw when dealing with the monster bat was also a vital reason. Originally, she wanted to let Lin Luoran go and made use of her to leave secret land. In this way, she could practice Possession later on. However, after sleeping for many years, other cultivators on the earth all disappeared when she woke up. She had to give up the method of Possession.
"Putting our history aside, I have watched you enhancing your personal ability for hundreds of years. You have done one thing much better than me—you have gathered vitality in 300 years as a trash cultivator."
The praise of White Fairy makes Lin Luoran flattered. Without sacred pearl, how can she gather vitality in three hundred years in the environment of the earth?
White Fairy seems to have read her mind, "The sacred pearl space is just a support. I said that you have done a good job. I mean you have never loved anyone when you enhance your personal ability... It is really a strange thing. Ordinary cultivators cut off their connection with the mortal world and then they can treat their relatives and friends indifferently. However, romantic relationship has always been a great obstacle. Throughout the ages, many masters have failed because of it. However, you are the only one who can't let go of the mortal world but can abandon romantic relationship. Lin Luoran, have you ever really loved someone? "
Lin Luoran is stunned without a word.
White Fairy points it out bluntly, and she starts to face the problem.
Has she ever really loved someone? She used to think that she loved Li Anping, which was the reason why she cried bitterly after being betrayed. However, three hundred years later, she thinks about it again. The so-called "pain" at that moment was just a kind of unreasonable emotion belonging to young people.
She was also attracted by the elegant young man wearing gold-rimmed glasses. After knowing that he was her good friend's fiance, she became sober.
She noticed the admiration in the eyes of the younger generations and also the rich man's son who she knew when she was still not so famous picking roses with dewdrops and staying in front of her door every day.
But why didn't she feel deeply touched inside?
Did she lose the ability to fall in love? Or subconsciously, she has been waiting for the right person?
Liu Zheng used to be Baojia's fiance. They also had a story of family interests. He is not the right one.
Mu Tiannan didn't have the Taoist root at that time. A mortal will die in a hundred years. She can't bear the pain of losing her lover, so he was not the right person, either.
Who is the one?
Lin Luoran has always known that she is emotionally sensible. But at this moment, White Fairy awakens her. She finally realizes that she is more than sensible. She is indifferent. However, she really cares about her relatives and friends... It is a problem that she has to solve by herself. Those who are closely involved cannot see clearly. Lin Luoran feels that a cloud has blinded her soul, making her unusually confused.
Seeing that Lin Luoran starts to think, White Fairy is worried that she may be thinking too much. In this way, her words can only have a counter effect. White Fairy quickly returns to the subject.
"Romantic relationship is a big problem. If you are not trapped in it, it may not be a bad thing for your personal ability enhancement. Taking me as an example... I was plotted back then. I got news from him and I was robbed and killed the moment I arrived the destination... It's pity that I lost my memory. I can't remember who ambushed me at that time. "
White Fairy smiles bitterly, but Lin Luoran has understood the subtext.
White Fairy has lost her memory and couldn't remember who ambushed her. She had the personal ability of late Gathering Vitality period. How many cultivators had the ability to beat her down and made her a remnant soul? The news was from cultivator Ye. If the person who ambushed her was the male cultivator almost Divinization, then it would make sense.
White Fairy must have also suspected that man surnamed Ye. Therefore, her smile is bitter when she tells the story. However, when White Fairy found the flying sword of the man surnamed Ye, she couldn't hide her sadness. Lin Luoran shudders. If this is the great obstacle White Fairy talks about, she would rather never have.
Lin Luoran's stubbornness and sluggishness make her look a little dazed at this moment. Seeing the way she looks, White Fairy relaxes a lot. She wants to investigate the case back then, but Lin Luoran is still thinking about the "game" of the double-headed snake. The two have their own concerns and go on their journey preoccupied by troubles.
When they pass by one place of the water on the sword, Lin Luoran inadvertently glances down. She is surprised to see several familiar hills and waterways. Her fingers tremble while making the Sword-riding Spell gesture. She almost falls off the flying sword.
Underwater palace! She and White Fairy have traveled around and accidentally arrive at this place! Lin Luoran feels happy and worried at the same time. She is happy because she has never seen this water before. Checking several other places, she almost knows where she is now—She finally finds the general direction of the exit.
She is also worried because she keeps avoiding this place. However, she still can't get away with the female corpse in white in the underwater palace.
White Fairy suddenly opens her eyes. She looks at the surging river thoughtfully.
Lin Luoran feels inexplicably nervous in her heart.
White Fairy smiles at her, "Linny, why do I feel that you are weird after you enter secret land, especially here."
Lin Luoran's face looks bitter. White Fairy has survived in the world of cultivation as a Gathering Vitality cultivator after many battles. Compared with her, she is rather poor at concealing emotions.
"What the hell is it underwater? I feel something very familiar."
White Fairy stares at the river and murmurs to herself, making Lin Luoran hesitate whether to advance or retreat at this moment.
...
Like Lin Luoran, Mu Tiannan is also in a difficult situation at this moment.
Finally, he sneaked out of the red rock district carefully. However, he was attacked by another monster. Mu Tiannan did not notice it and suffered a lot.
Mu Tiannan has been injured a lot when he finds the high magnetic mountain under the instructions of the old monster.
Wiping off the blood from the corner of his mouth, Mu Tiannan looks at the magnetic mountain and then stares at the bat ring for a long time, "Old monster, you helped me prolong my life. I collected jade plates for you. When it is over, the deal between us is also over, right?"
The old monster hasn't answered yet and the bat ring flashes red. A slightly younger voice shows its unwillingness, "Mu Tiannan, how can you prolong your life to this day without this ring? Don't forget that you have promised me to kill her... "
Mu Tiannan can't help but sneer. These barbarians are really stupid. He has done everything possible to live to this day just for the obsession in his heart. Surviving to kill her? Is he crazy?
However, everything is about to end. Mu Tiannan told himself to be patient.
The young voice hasn't received a response after a long time. It can't help but feel annoyed. The severe pain comes from Mu Tiannan's finger. He clutches his finger wearing the ring. This pain spreads from the finger to his whole body, and it penetrates his bone marrow and affects his antennal nerve. He wants to cut off his hand wearing the ring—but he just can't!
The two beings in the ring do not often torture him in this way in more than three hundred years. He knows it because he remembers each pain for a long time. They won't let him go until he follows their order, whether he is willing or not.
When Mu Tiannan kneels on one knee and wishes to die immediately, another voice comes from the bat ring, "Well, the foreign barbarian has always been impatient. Do our business first!"
With a snort, the young voice stops unwillingly and temporarily.
Mu Tiannan kneels on the ground and gasps. After the pain disappears, he finally stands up and walks into a cave in the magnetic mountain.
Being disturbed, a group of vampire bats fly out like a dark cloud. They pass over his head and disappear in the dense forest.
Chapter 528 Conspiracy and Love (II)
"Listen to me, calm down. You must calm down first..."
Lin Luoran turns her head to see White Fairy while casting a spell to separate water. Facing the dilemma, Lin Luoran feels that it will be better if she tells Fairy the truth first. At first, she tentatively asked if White Fairy and Mr. Ye had a wedding, and White Fairy firmly denied it.
She just forgets what happened when she was ambushed. Can the soul of the departed suffer from Alzheimer's disease? It's impossible that she even forgets whether she married her sweetheart or not.
Therefore, Lin Luoran finally decides to tell her about the murals in the underwater palace.
White Fairy is a lady who scolds people in classical and elegant Huaxia language, but now she gets mad out of anger...
Angry White Fairy is very difficult to deal with. Lin Luoran feels that facing the anger of a lady is as difficult as facing a powerful monster.
White Fairy insists on going to the underground palace, and Lin Luoran doesn't disagree. Anyway, she is no longer a training Qi rookie who could be easily bullied in the past. She can't deal with the snake monster, but she is not someone that all people and ghosts can tease. She is also very curious about the identity of the female corpse in the Crystal Palace... Even if it is a trap, it is better to deal with it all at once than to keep a time bomb near her.
Lin Luoran consoles White Fairy while thinking that as her teacher and friend, the fairy should never betray her.
Separating the water, they go down. After three hundred years, the stone path under the bluestone steps is still well preserved. White Fairy is one step ahead of Lin Luoran. She is now standing before the first mural.
There are several peaks surrounded by clouds and fog, and pavilions hidden between the green mountains and rivers. Well-dressed cultivators in ancient costumes sit and drink under pines, meditate and fish by the stream, or have a sword fight... There are also some boys in cyan carrying medicine bags shuttling through the mountains and forests, and some maidservants in pink feeding cranes... Stillness and motion, flowers and grass... the lines are simple but vivid, all recreating the scene of the Zu Mountain school.
Facing magnificent Zu Mountain in the past, this mural brought a huge impact to Wen Guanjing. But for White Fairy, it is just the scenery she was used to seeing before.
She mainly focuses on the second mural.
It describes a grand wedding of the world of cultivation. White Fairy looks at the back of a new couple, and her whole person is trembling.
"It's ridiculous. I don't even remember that I was a bride... but that figure is obviously mine."
Even if she can't recognize him, she even makes a mistake about her own figure?
"I know a friend of Zu Mountain. He said Zu Mountain had no record of this wedding." Lin Luoran thinks what Wen Guanjing said back then may be useful for White Fairy, so she mentions it quickly.
White Fairy sneers, "No wonder you used to indirectly ask me if I have twin sisters. There are definitely no records about things that have never happened... or maybe the people who attended this wedding are all dead."
She finishes her sentence, and both of them remain silent. They all remember the sword tomb that they made in the previous two days. The Zu Mountain swordsmen of the old days totally disappear.
White Fairy hasn't stopped before the third mural for a long time. After Liao told Lin Luoran about the "spiritual world", she no longer held on to where cultivators of Gathering Vitality went thousands of years ago. It is the fourth intangible mural that makes White Fairy sneer.
After the stone path, it is the stone gate with wood carving Pixiu.
White Fairy shouts out gently, "Come here. Draw a blood figure to suppress it."
Lin Luoran comes to this place for the second time. She finally finds that the eyes of the two woodcarvings Pixiu look really smart, like living creatures. It reminds her of the colored sculptures of the two concubines of Xiaofei and Xiangfei on Junshan Island.
She doesn't know how to draw a figure but White Fairy does. After thinking about it in her heart for a while, Lin Luoran follows White Fairy's instruction. The moment she bites her middle finger, woodcarving Pixiu's eyes are full of vitality, as if it is about to come alive. She quickly draws two blood figures into Pixiu's body in the air. The smart wooden sculpture then becomes dull.
White Fairy nods and she is very satisfied with the figure Lin Luoran draws. However, it is not a good time for further explanation. Lin Luoran thinks the blood figure is very similar to the yellow figure lines which the crazy Taoist pasted on the colored sculpture of the two concubines. The difference is probably that one figure is about life while the other is about death.
White Fairy even had Introduction of Swords of Zu Mountain. It's certainly easier for her to know a few inhibition techniques.
The stone gate slowly opens without any effort. The underground lotus pond palace enough to hold a thousand people appears again.
Above their heads, a big pearl as big as a bowl makes the room full of brilliance. The lotus pond remains the same, but the blue waves are stinking. Some dead branches are floating on the black water. Among pink and white lotuses, there are also purple lotuses. These lotuses seemed to be always blossoming, but now they are a disaster.
In the center of the lotus pond, there is a transparent crystal coffin. Several large pythons as thick as buckets roll around it. The entire underground palace is filled with choking stench.
Ignoring that the environment here is totally different from "her" mausoleum described by Lin Luoran, White Fairy's eyes flash like lightning. She is staring at the crystal coffin.
A familiar breath in the coffin is beckoning her. With White Fairy's eyesight, she can naturally see the scene in the coffin—a woman in her favorite yellow palace dress. Her hair is like clouds, her eyebrows are like black ink, and her cheeks are plump and rosy. Her favorite flower peony is inserted in her hair—-eyebrows, eyes, lip... it is clearly her!
White Fairy is shocked. Can it be that her body was not destroyed back then?
Someone actually drove her primordial spirit out of her body, and then seized her body?!
She had the personal ability of the late Gathering Vitality period and she was possessed by someone else. Considering the strength of the world of cultivation at that time, White Fairy feels that it is even more humiliating than being ambushed and destroyed! Someone didn't hurt her body, but shattered her primordial spirit. Only a ray of her remnant soul survived... Could it be that there was still a Divinized Cultivator in secret land at that time?
White Fairy thinks of so many things in her mind, but she looks calm. She grits her teeth and says to Lin Luoran, "The body in the crystal coffin belongs to me!!!"
She must be so angry that her tone is fierce.
Lin Luoran doesn't feel relaxed after White Fairy confirms. In fact, she has more in her mind.
It's so ridiculous! The spiritual mind inside the female corpse actually succeeded in possession on White Fairy. It was totally out of luck for her to escape with the help of fire phoenix last time!
What's even more ridiculous is that she and White Fairy actually come here again like two idiots.
Lin Luoran looks around vigilantly. Except for large pythons wrapped around the crystal coffin, there are no other noises since they came in for so long.
"Fairy, be careful."
Seeing that White Fairy is going to investigate, Lin Luoran soon reminds her.
"It's okay. No matter what the ghost is, you have sealed the two wood Pixiu carvings at the door. At least 80% of its power has been sealed and now it can do nothing to me."
White Fairy is a powerful soul of the departed, and her spirits are solidified into entities. Now that she is determined, Lin Luoran will no longer stop her.
The underground palace is quiet. The soul is a dark thing, and a few pythons can never fight it. When White Fairy walks in, they all scatter and escape.
The crystal coffin looks new, and the beauty in the coffin seems to be sleeping. White Fairy stands by the coffin. She is moving while the person in the coffin is still. They are like twins.
She stares at the body in the coffin and her expression changes. No one knows what she is thinking.
The underground palace is too quiet. Lin Luoran always feels something is wrong. Her back feels cold, as if she is stared at by a poisonous snake in the dark.
White Fairy feels disgusting, but she controls it and touches the crystal coffin that was wrapped by pythons. Lin Luoran remembers how she was possessed before. She feels that it is really a similar case. Her mouth is dry and she is alert.
"Wait..."
Lin Luoran doesn't have the chance to say it, and she sees black water rolling in the smelly lotus pond. Lotus leaves rush out from the bottom of the pond and they spread out in the blink of an eye. White flowers, pink buds, and enchanting light purple color... White Fairy is surrounded by beautiful lotus flowers. It also makes her look charming more than ever.
The faint fragrance makes people intoxicated. The most beautiful one is purple lotus. A beam of white light bursts out from the center of the brightest part.
White Fairy snorts coldly. She is about to capture the ignorant existence. However, the white light ignores her and attacks in the direction of Lin Luoran after changing direction.
Lin Luoran moves her mouth and she seems to be smiling. "A scholar who has been away three days must be looked at with new eyes." After more than three hundred years, the "spiritual mind" still regards her as a weak person and has an obsession with her?
A fire net emerges from Lin Luoran's palm and goes to the white light.
White Fairy remembers that that thing actually possessed her body in the past, and Lin Luoran is just in the early stage of Gathering Vitality. She feels a little worried.
"You get out of the way!"
After all, it's too late. The white light suddenly spreads out like how White Fairy found her way out of the illusion circle before. It escaped from the cracks of the dense fire net and then merges again. It is aiming at Lin Luoran's direction to attack—
...
In the magnetic mountain, Mu Tiannan has been to the altar.
Mu Tiannan is now in the smelly vampire bat cave, but his expression has not changed.
Looking at the dark shadow gradually solidifying at the altar, he stretches out his hand wearing the ring.
"I have taken you back to this place as agreed, and our transaction is officially completed."
An unwilling voice comes from the bat ring, "What about our agreement? You swore by Devil Inside. Once you break the contract, aren't you afraid that Oath of Devil Inside will be fulfilled? "
Mu Tiannan laughs, "Roddick, you have lived for so many years anyway. Aren't you too naive? I only swore to the Venerable. It's not you who judges if I have broken the oath... Besides, it's just Oath of Devil Inside. Do you think a person who chose the demonized way will be afraid of it? "
Roddick seems to be knocked by a stick. It is so angry that it can't speak.
"Okay, enough. Just put the ring on the altar."
The tone of the black shadow Venerable seems to be impatient. If it has anything in common with Mu Tiannan, it is that it always regards a Blood Line like Roddick as a "barbarian". It will never consider Roddick's interests.
Roddick is still "chirping". If it doesn't agree, the bat ring will always lock on Mu Tiannan's finger. The black shadow Venerable feels impatient and it simply takes over the ring.
It was extremely painful to wear the ring back then, but now it will only hurt even more if he wants to take it off.
Mu Tiannan has worn the bat ring for more than three hundred years. It has been deep into his hand bones. Connected by red blood, the bones of his whole body are locked!
Chapter 529 A Broken Arm
The inner side of the bat ring connected to Mu Tiannan's finger looks ordinary, but countless sharp red thorns thinner than vellus grow there. These sharp thorns are all over his body. There are exactly 206 thorns, which is the same as the number of bones of a human.
Each red thorn is closely connected with Mu Tiannan's bones. These red thorns make him live longer. However, the pain almost kills him every time it occurs!
The bat ring is being stripped. Over the past more than three hundred years, those thorns and Mu Tiannan's bones have almost merged with each other. If he wants to strip them now, the pain will be more severe than that of peeling off skin and bones. It's similar to flaying a part of the skeleton.
Mu Tiannan's face always looks pale but now it's even worse. His forehead is covered with beads of sweat larger than soybeans. The blue color around his eyes and ragged clothes make him look miserable. He doesn't look noble anymore.
But when the bat ring is gradually stripped off, unconcealable joy on Mu Tiannan's face overwhelmed with pain can still be seen.
He has betrayed the rule of the world of cultivation. He cultivates to be a monster with the body of a human. The bat ring enables his personal ability to improve quickly while it is actually a shackle to Mu Tiannan.
Men live for several decades and death comes on time. That's not his choice. He went abroad, pursuing a wild life. He remembers that he had lived a drinking and muddling life for a few years until he met Roddick of Blood Line in an underground bar in New York.
Roddick was very hostile to Huaxia people. It followed him out of the bar just to suck his blood.
"The wolf has a winning game when the shepherds quarrel." Another old monster had been hiding in the bat ring for several years. It woke up and chose drunk Mu Tiannan.
"Do you want to achieve immortality?"
A trace of sober flashes in his drunk eyes. Immortality? There is probably nothing in this world that is truly immortal. He heard that the person went to a dangerous place again and the date when she would be back was undecided. The difference between a mortal and a cultivator was that time would never be equal to them. Maybe when she comes back, he will be dead of drinking too much and have cadaverous odor.
Mu Tiannan laughed.
"Immortality? I'm not interested. But I'll be interested if you know how to help an inept person begin his cultivation."
Just with a short conversation, he readily sold himself to the devil.
It is not a way of the Human School, the Monster School, or the demonized School to cultivate to be a monster with the body of a human. He would definitely be abhorrent to the world of personal ability.
However, he just wanted to live. He doesn't really care about getting the power promised by the old bat...
Today, he is finally going to be free.
Mu Tiannan sees that the ring has been stripped off and the red thorns are withdrawing. Finally, there is a sincere smile on his twisted face.
The black shadow Venerable is also waiting for the ring to be placed on the altar.
It is also not in a good condition. Back then, it separated its primordial spirit to attach itself on the blood bat and leave the secret land. Its body had been gradually consumed since then.
The Blood Line and Lin Luoran had a battle. Because of the war, Heaven's Doom split its primordial spirit and its own body was also affected.
The sacred bat ring of the Barbarian Blood Line saved it, but it also divided its primordial spirit into two parts.
Now the primordial spirit in the ring is independent. If not combined with the one in the ring, the second primordial spirit will be independent either.
It knows everything that happened to its second primordial spirit, including the fact that it took a lot of time to go to a lot of trouble. It didn't enjoy Mu Tiannan as a good meal, but allowed him to collect twelve jade plates and return to secret land.
The two primordial spirits originate from the same source, so they definitely have the same mentality—devouring!
It wants to devour the mature second primordial spirit. Of course, the second primordial spirit also wants to take advantage of its weakness to devour the main primordial spirit.
The bat ring is placed on the altar, and some red thorns are still there. The altar is for trapping the black shadow Venerable, so it will not allow a second primordial spirit. Regardless of the second primordial spirit's will, the power of the altar forcibly combines it with the main primordial spirit of the black shadow Venerable.
A black shadow is stripped away from the bat ring by the altar. The battle between two primordial spirits is about to begin.
Mu Tiannan has collapsed to the ground in pain. He grits his teeth and smiles, "The ring has been placed on the altar. What's the point of holding on to me?"
The black shadow Venerable ignores him. Roddick has always been suppressed as the second primordial spirit. Now it finally can laugh, "Can't you tell? Yellow-skinned monkey, since the very beginning, you have been a body container it raised. You are a shell prepared for its own primordial spirit. How can it let you go easily?"
Mu Tiannan's complexion changes drastically and Roddick feels very happy. It is about to ridicule him with a few more words, but it does not find Mu Tiannan's smiling eyes when he lowers his head.
"I knew it."
His voice is gentle and peaceful, and his pale face flushes with excitement, making him look like a castaway nobleman. Although his clothes are ragged, he is still glowing.
Yes. When he had the deal with the devil, he knew that he couldn't quit easily once he chose this way. Therefore, he has prepared that he would pay a heavy price for freedom one day!
The black shadow Venerable senses the abnormal mood of Mu Tiannan while the second primordial spirit senses the Venerable is distracted at this moment. It feels that this is a unique opportunity so it launches an attack. The second primordial spirit thinks it should take advantage of its weakness and kill it now!
The black shadow Venerable doesn't care too much about it. It has just been a few years since the second primordial spirit was separated. It is not able to rebel at all.
The black shadow Venerable always thinks Mu Tiannan can never escape. However, he also chooses the same moment to rebel!
The thorns of the bat ring are still connected to his joints. Mu Tiannan knows this is his only chance. He can't remove the ring. The only choice he has is acting desperately to survive—"sacrifice the knights in order to save the queen"!
As blood sprinkles like rain, Mu Tiannan disappears in an instant.
An arm is broken at the elbow, lying in a pool of blood on the ground. The slender fingers are still connected to the bat ring on the altar by red thorns. The vigorous smell of blood excites the blood bats and they all flutter around.
The black shadow Venerable is fighting with the second primordial spirit for control. It is stunned immediately, and the second primordial spirit also freezes.
They compete for control. After that, they definitely need a body to leave the Lost Land with twelve jade plates. However, their chosen body abandons an arm and runs away regardless of the blood poison remaining in his body.
Things become a little troublesome.
Roddick laughs triumphantly in the ring. The yellow-skinned monkey tricked it, and the old bat occupying its room also doesn't get any benefits. Shouldn't it be happy?
The black shadow Venerable is fighting with the second primordial spirit and it releases a gust of black smoke. The bat ring is sizzling loudly while it is being corroded. Roddick's laughter is fading.
It whispers, "Look, Crystal, they kill each other."
Crystal certainly can't hear it. Roddick's voice is blown away by the wind, and it is inaudible in the sound of bats flapping their wings.
Crystal died of Heaven's Doom triggered by the old bat. Roddick also died of the old bat. Perhaps it is because of doomed ties between Western Blood Line and Eastern bat monsters.
The black shadow Venerable destroys talkative Roddick. With a wave of his hand, tens of thousands of blood bats fly out from the endless cave, following the taste of the broken arm on the ground. They cover the sky and the sun. Wherever they go, monsters of secret land escape all around, not daring to face the sharp momentum.
Mu Tiannan is now a hundred miles away. He has forborne patiently for many years. If Lin Luoran hadn't entered the secret land together, he would have been transported out of the Lost Land after he broke his arm and got rid of the ring. He would have destroyed all jade plates so the old monster would be left in secret land forever.
But Lin Luoran was also here.
Mu Tiannan smiles bitterly. He can't stop the bleeding of his broken arm. Those blood poisons are destroying his body. If he hadn't cultivated to be a monster with the body of a human, his physical body would not have been so strong. The pain of blood poison is so bad that it makes people want to commit suicide.
He can't stop the bleeding, so he can only seal up the veins of his body. The bleeding is gradually stopped, and half of his body is almost paralyzed. It is not possible for him to move.
Is his pursuer coming soon?
Bats have no eyesight and they rely on sound waves to locate. Vampire bats are different from ordinary bats in that they are naturally more sensitive to blood.
When Mu Tiannan escapes, he passes through seven water pools and three swamps. He takes a bath for ten times. Finally, he even jumps into a mud puddle to cover up the smell of blood completely.
Then he gets a simple flight cabin that can only accommodate two people from the pendant world hanging around his neck. He comes on board and lays down. When the door is closed, three hours has passed since Mu Tiannan escaped from the bat cave.
Three hours later, he finally can relax to deal with his wounds.
The flight cabin is small so it is considered as simplicity. Mu Tiannan's storage pendant is only a few square meters in size. It is extremely difficult to obtain this flight cabin under all-day surveillance of the old bat and Roddick. It is the latest simple flight cabin invented by high-rank alliances in the Galaxy with advanced space technology.
Its small size enables it to travel at a faster speed. The outer cabin made of new alloy will not be damaged by the sharp claws of blood bats. Even though Mu Tiannan has great ability, it is still not easy for him to get such a flight cabin.
However, it is worthy.
The soft brush in the cabin gives Mu Tiannan an air bath, and then drains the muddy water out of the cabin. After that, it disinfects and bandages him.
Mu Tiannan lays in the cabin. Hiding safely, he then chooses to search around. The flight cabin disappears in place.
The analysis data is constantly flashing on the screen. Lost Land is full of mysteries and rampant monsters. In this place, data analysis becomes inaccurate. Sometimes the screen will be filled with question marks.
Unlike Lin Luoran, Mu Tiannan has prepared to enter Lost Land for a long time. In addition to the jade plates that can help to transmit, he also tries very hard to collect secret land maps compiled by cultivators of various countries in the past few years.
Mu Tiannan has just regained freedom. Driving the flight cabin to wander on the edge of areas marked dangerous, he doesn't even feel tired at all.
In fact, his lips look pale and bloodless. What he needs most at this moment is a good rest.
As the flight cabin searches all the way, some messy codes suddenly flash on the screen that Mu Tiannan is staring at.
He feels that the flight cabin is hit by something, and then it shakes violently.
A snake's head stretches out and it looks at the slippery iron box. Through the cold metal, it can feel the fluctuation of jade plates.
Another snake's head also stretches out. It looks at the weird-looking box, and chooses to turn it over without hesitation.
The flight cabin shakes. Mu Tiannan is about to command the cabin to fly high when the tail of the double-headed snake follows up.
"You have jade plates with you."
It's the first sentence the double-headed snake says.
Mu Tiannan puts his finger on the button. As long as he presses it gently, strong acid will be sprayed fromthe surface of the cabin. He specially prepares this for bats and he hopes this big snake will also like it—
"She also has jade plates... you are teammates."
Mu Tiannan stops. The double-headed snake shakes its heads and laughs quietly.
"Oh, you are also attacked by blood poison of the old bat. Hand over the jade plates and I will send you out of secret land. Or maybe... you want to be sent back to the bat cave?"
Mu Tiannan now only has a right hand and it gets a little stiff.
On the other side, when Mu Tiannan is choosing, the white light in the underground palace of the lotus pond has already hit towards Lin Luoran's eyebrows—
Chapter 530 Little School Sister
The white light escapes from the fire net Lin Luoran sets and then it hits toward her. Lin Luoran is a little surprised about it and she makes a firewall in front of her quickly.
Fire is the most destructive power for primordial spirit, but this white light has no fear. It hits towards Lin Luoran's eyebrows. White Fairy's attack comes later but still makes it derail. The white light lands and then humanizes, transforming into a beautiful woman in palace dress like White Fairy. The only difference between the two is that White Fairy prefers light yellow spring dress, while the primordial spirit hidden in the female body is in dress whiter than snow. She looks perfectly white and pure.
Her smiles and movements are no different from that of White Fairy standing next to the coffin. No one knows what lucky chance she has got in three hundred years. At a glance, her soul is as solid as that of White Fairy.
White Fairy is so angry that she even laughs, "Who are you?!"
The woman in white dress picks a purple lotus by the side of the pool and smiles, "Look at these lotuses in the pool. They are all your favorite. He collected them across Huaxia; Look at the crystal coffin. It is from the ten-thousand-meter ice layer in the polar regions, which can protect body from decay for tens of thousands of years. He found it by going down the ice layer himself. How many people in the world of cultivation deserve such kindness of Mr. Wuye?
Take a closer look at my face. It is famous in the world of cultivation... Don't you understand that I am you and you are me?"
The woman in white says so many strange words that she makes Lin Luoran feel dizzy. White Fairy seems to be speechless about her words. Seeing the confusion in White Fairy's eyes, Lin Luoran really wants to yell at the woman in white. She is crazy. It is not the time to discuss the "real me".
Liao once told her that cultivators with certain personal ability can cultivate a second primordial spirit besides the first primordial spirit. However, it should be the realm beyond Divinization period. White Fairy is obviously out of range.
Who is the lady in white?
"Fairy, don't listen to her..."
White Fairy nods to Lin Luoran. Their enemy is also a soul of departed. Once she decided to cultivate as a soul, it will take hundreds of years to make progresses. In this case, if a soul wants to possess again, it can only give up hundreds of years of hard work and then possess as a primordial spirit. It's not an easy choice to make.
Therefore, White Fairy knows what the soul did to Lin Luoran was just to teach her a lesson, not for "Possession".
How can she tolerate something evil copies her face and then swaggers right before her?
White Fairy launches a fierce attack. It is the first time for Lin Luoran to see a war between souls of departed. After their bodies are condensed, their destructive power will not be worse than that of cultivators of the same level. Because they turn virtuality into reality, they usually virtualize again and escape before the attack reaching them.
Light and shadow are dancing. White Fairy and the female corpse in white are fighting fiercely. Even though Lin Luoran wants to help, she can't aim accurately. At this moment, the female corpse in white is standing there, and the next second the person changes into White Fairy.
To avoid accidental injury, Lin Luoran has to stand aside and gather her strength. She is ready to give the female corpse in white a fatal blow.
She is not afraid of ordinary flames. What about the fire of golden word figure?
Lin Luoran's fingertips move gently, waiting for a chance. At this moment, a faint noise comes from the stone door. Something with a dark shadow is thrown in.
Lin Luoran stares at it and it turns out to be Mu Tiannan.
He is now very different from the person she saw on the sea. His exquisite clothing is in tatters, revealing a scarred skin. More importantly, one of his arms is broken. His wound is still bleeding and he is in a state of half unconsciousness.
"Get out..."
He seems to be trying to stay awake, trying his best to stretch out his one arm to catch Lin Luoran. Lin Luoran still remembers how he attacked her on the sea. She takes two steps back with alert.
Mu Tiannan smiles bitterly. He can't catch Lin Luoran at once and loses all power. He collapses to the ground immediately.
"The game is not over yet. Why should you get out?"
The double-headed snake crawls in slowly along the stone path. Its body shrinks several times, so it can almost crawl freely along the stone path. It seems to laugh at Mu Tiannan's useless work. Deliberately crushing Mu Tiannan's wound with a heavy body, it sneers.
"As you wish, I bring you to the little female cultivator. Little monster, where is the last jade plate?"
Mu Tiannan suffers great pain and he gasps. The snake monster is vicious. It said they were about to make a deal. However, in fact, it forcibly tore his storage space and snatched the jade plates. If he hadn't seized the opportunity to hide the last jade plate, the snake monster would never kindly bring him to find Lin Luoran.
Unfortunately, the last chance to escape is lost because Lin Luoran doesn't trust him. Mu Tiannan feels that he is hoisted by his own petard. Facing the inquiries of the snake monster, he remains silent.
Lin Luoran looks on indifferently, wondering what Mu Tiannan and the snake monster want.
On the other side, seeing the snake monster coming in, White Fairy stops fighting first.
She stares at the female corpse in white, and says slowly but firmly, "You are Bai Zhi."
The soul freezes, and then she suddenly smiles sweetly, "Senior school sister is still smart, as always."
Maybe because she has been recognized, Bai Zhi doesn't disguise herself anymore. The light flashes, and she reveals her real face.
She is an elegant female cultivator in white dress with beautiful eyebrows and eyes. She looks like White Fairy to some extent. She is just a little shorter so she looks petite. White Fairy is peony while Bai Zhi is a rose near a bamboo fence.
One is graceful while the other is delicate but petty.
"Fairy?"
Lin Luoran frowns. After so many dramas, it is not the cases of "twins" or "split personality" as she imagines. The other soul is actually the school sister of White Fairy?
White Fairy is even more shocked at this moment. When she went through the accident, Bai Zhi had just advanced Gathering Vitality. How could she do such a thing? She even suspected Ye Zhao, but she never thought that it would be her little school sister whom she had always cared about! White Fairy finds it very ironic. Bai Zhi is not only her school sister. Both of them come from the Bai family. Strictly speaking, they are cousins of close blood relationship and that's why they are similar in appearance.
"You don't have the right to call me Senior School Sister. Bai Zhi, it's actually you."
White Fairy can't understand why Baizhi hates her so much. The hatred motivates Baizhi to occupy her body by making her soulless! Bai Zhi was beautiful, and she was also one of two misty peaks beauties at that time.
Bai Zhi laughs, "Sister, how can you always pretend to be innocent? Yes, you were the perfect fairy in the world of cultivation. The master loved you and gave you the best chance to practice and the best resources for personal ability enhancement. Mr. Wuye helped you secretly and removed the obstacles of personal ability enhancement for you. My talents had to be tested before being recognized. However, you enhanced your personal ability for hundreds of years without killing a person... Am I worse than you in terms of aptitude? You don't have to pretend to be kind to me!"
White Fairy feels that Bai Zhi's words are all simple and easy to understand. But the whole sentence is obscure.
Bai Zhi seems to have been tolerant for hundreds of years. After being seen through by White Fairy, she vents her emotions all at once.
"I'm not convinced! Bai Qingxue, I am not convinced! The master liked you. It's fine. However, I liked him earlier than you did. I have liked him for hundreds of years. All he saw with his eyes was you, a pretentious woman. Well, since he liked your face, then Bai Zhi could become Bai Qingxue..."
Lin Luoran shudders because of her deep hatred.
The matter is probably related to the male cultivator surnamed Ye. Seeing frustrating White Fairy, she thinks it must because of Bai Zhi's plot. Lin Luoran feels that the romantic relationship is not only sadness White Fairy talks about. People even may become monster and commit sin for it. Lin Luoran can't imagine the situation where she and Baojia like the same man. She will never touch her sister's man!
Bai Zhi is full of hatred. Apart from plotting White Fairy, Lin Luoran feels that she embarrasses all women in the world. What a shitty school sister she is! Bai Zhi does not deserve the school sister like White Fairy.
White Fairy's expression changes for many times. She has never expected that she almost disappeared for such a ridiculous reason.
The jealousy of her school sister... her chance of pursuing Tao came to an end in the late Gathering Vitality period because of the jealousy as vicious as a snake! She feels sad and ridiculous.
"So you want to replace me, being the master of Misty Peaks and marrying Ye Zhao? Bai Zhi, you are so ridiculous. You occupied my body, but you still end up like this... You keep fighting, but you end up like me. Haha... it is really ridiculous."
Bai Zhi's eyes are red, cold like a snake.
Lin Luoran suddenly feels alert when Bai Zhi is very close to the snake monster. Why is Bai Zhi not afraid of the snake monster?
Thinking of the endless snakes when she first escaped from Bai Zhi three hundred years ago, she comes up with a terrible suspicion.
In that side, Mu Tiannan works hard to build himself up and approaches Lin Luoran little by little.
The snake monster seems to be watching a drama. Or maybe it is thinking of some insidious ideas. After Bai Zhi is recognized by White Fairy, it only remains silent and watches aside.
The atmosphere in the underground palace is solemn and depressing, and lotuses in the pool can't relieve the panic in people's hearts.
...
In Dongting City, the second floor of Ma' s Villa, where the war is coming.
Liao has had a fever for two days and talked nonsense in his dreams. The four young people are all worried. Hu Ji is proficient in pharmacology but he still can't do anything.
Lin Luoran suddenly disappears again while the war is about to begin. No one knows if it will affect the Earth Federation. Liao's fever can't be brought down, and all four young people are exhausted.
While Lin Luoran and White Fairy are trapped in the underground palace, Liao feels hot all over his body. After struggling, Liao suddenly turns over and sits up on the bed. He shouts,
"Little school sister!"