Barrier of Light

"What you have to do is very simple, just help me change my blood."

The Great Elder smiled and said: "If you think this kind of thing is dirty and don't want to get involved... you can refuse."

"No."

Yao Jin whispered: "My hands have been stained with countless blood, how can I think your blood is dirty?"

"It's not my blood that's dirty, but Pluto's 'disaster'."

The Great Elder said gently: "Although the capsule can complete blood transfusion and blood drawing on its own... the blood bank at the terminal needs to be replaced manually. I will only leave this kind of thing to the people I trust the most."

It used to be Yuanyang.

And now...he chose Yao Jin.

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Blood transfusion is not complicated.

Soon, fresh blood was sent into the aging body. The great elder's complexion improved visibly. He opened his eyes and slowly sat up from the light barrier. The old blood stained with disaster was sent into the body. Let’s go, there are several cabins at the end of the blood bank. Inside are the dead [undead]. The last savings of the blood bank have been used up. Their skins are the containers for disasters. This time the blood transfusion is over, the bodies of these people will be permanently sealed.

"The world operates according to two sets of laws."

"One set is on the table... For example, the Seven Gods apostles cannot cross the border, and the five continents help each other. If there is an unknown crisis outside the five continents, such as the [Ice Sea Ruins], according to the convention, everyone needs to contribute. "

"This set of rules on the table was jointly formulated by strong people, and they agreed to abide by each other."

"The other set of rules is placed in the dark."

Yao Jin retreated to the world outside the screen.

The great elder stood in the darkness bathing and changing clothes.

His voice was still aging, but no longer trembling. After the injection of the blood of the [Undead], his whole body regained its vitality, and even his withered white hair had a hint of darkness.

"Many of the things we agreed on look the same in the light, and look different in the dark."

"For example, spreading faith across the five continents."

"The fundamental reason for the failure of Secret Line No. 1 is that Yuan Yang exposed the secrets that should have been kept in the dark to the light."

"The lesson of this incident is not that... the temple cannot do dark things."

The Great Elder slowly walked out of the darkness. He looked at Yao Jin and seriously warned: "Since there are two sets of rules in this world, then we must abide by the rules... Games that can only be played in the dark must not be played in the dark. The light shines.”

Yao Jin was thoughtful.

He murmured and asked: "It's like... this 'assassination'?"

"yes."

The Great Elder said calmly: "Utuo's betrayal and escape are in line with the 'dark law' I just mentioned. You have done a good job in this matter. From the beginning to the end, there is no evidence on the table to prove that Wutuo's incident has anything to do with Xizhou." It’s related. If we don’t let Wutuo show up, Dongzhou must abide by the rules of the game in the dark if he wants to solve it.”

Yao Jin thought for a while and said, "I understand."

"When Gu Nanfeng arrives in Guangming City, he will definitely inquire about last night's assassination..."

The Great Elder said slowly: "As long as we hide Utuo well, then the Gu family has nothing to say."

The two left the attic together.

The Gu family mission has arrived in Guangming City, the Holy Ceremony is being held, countless people are marching, and the carnival of believers will last for a whole month.

The Yunchuan airship flew over Guangming City.

A large number of security personnel are maintaining order.

This is a seemingly chaotic "celebration", but in fact everything is under the control of the City of Light.

The Great Elder and Yao Jin stood at the east entrance of Guangming City and quietly welcomed the delegation...

However, everything that happened next was different from what he expected.

When Gu Nanfeng entered the city, he did not ask anything about the "assassination" last night. After the elder took the initiative to apologize, the young master of the Gu family just hummed lightly and turned it over without caring.

The Great Elder has prepared countless rhetoric to deal with the next mission from the Gu family.

But nothing happened.

This seemingly grand welcoming ceremony into the city couldn't be more ordinary.

There is no undercurrent at all.

What's the point of turbulence?

Gu Nanfeng didn't have a chatty temperament along the way. Even when he talked to the great elder, he only said a few perfunctory words. Nowadays, the relationship between Xizhou and Dongzhou is not good. It is meaningless to bring up those old feelings from back then.

The Great Elder was once an old friend of Rusty Bones.

But judging from the current situation, if the Great Elder really has a chance to see Xiugu again, the other party will most likely arrive at Xizhou in an energy boat with the mighty army of the Fourth Legion.

This meeting ceremony ended quickly.

Gu Nanfeng searched for a remote courtyard in the temple and took people to stay... From the time he entered the city to the end, it only took less than an hour.

The great elder felt a sense of frustration in his heart for no reason.

He has just used up the last blood of the [Immortal], which means that from today on, his "active lifespan" has officially entered the countdown. If he cannot find fresh spare blood, he will have to lie down again in the next few days. Return to the life capsule.

And just when he was thinking about why the Gu family was so abnormal...

A piece of news came from Mu Xin, who was in charge of garrisoning Xihaidu.

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"When he was discovered... he had been dead for a long time."

In the small courtyard of Xihaidu.

The three elders, Yao Jin and Mu Xin, looked at the corpse with a "serene face".

Yao Jin looked at his old friend in front of him in a daze.

He was thrown to the West Sea Crossing to practice cultivation since he was a child. He only had one friend, "Utuo", but when they grew up, he continued to guard the temple, while Wutuo was sent to Dongzhou as an undercover.

Just yesterday.

This guy was still alive and talking to himself.

But now, it is already a cold corpse...

Since guarding the secret prison, Yao Jin's hands have been stained with a lot of blood, but only this time, he has been stained with the blood of someone he cares about.

Uto...died because of himself.

"[Profiling] is useless, the man left no evidence."

Mu Xin said in a hoarse voice: "There is no image, no footprints, no traces... It's like a living ghost that came to Xihaidu silently and took away Wutuo's life. In the process, we didn't even listen." to a cry for help.”

For a fourth-level strong man, he couldn't even call for help.

How terrible is this?

The Great Elder looked at Wutuo's body, remained silent for a long time, and then said with an ugly expression: "The [Red Phoenix Crossbow] was taken away."

"……yes."

Mu Xin gritted his teeth and said: "I immediately used the [Guangming Jian] to look for the mark of the [Red Phoenix Crossbow], but there was no harvest. Damn it, I can't even generate a little sense!"

"No wonder...Gu Nanfeng didn't say a word."

The great elder stretched out his hand to support the wall, feeling a little dizzy.

Wutuo is dead, this news... Gu Nanfeng must have known about it!

This world does conform to two sets of laws. Guangming City chose the one hidden underground to pick up Wutuo.

The laws of darkness cannot be illuminated by light.

Now, Nagano is using this set of rules to retaliate and let Guangming City reap the consequences.

With Utuo's death, Guangming City couldn't make any noise, couldn't retaliate, and couldn't even raise a single word of doubt about the matter... because on the surface, they shouldn't be interested in such a number one person as "Uto" at all.

Yao Jin looked at the corpse quietly and said after a long time: "This is the person behind the scenes I want to find out."

He always knew.

The guy who was playing chess with him in the air was not Gu Nanfeng.

"It's difficult to find out the identity of the 'man behind the scenes'. We only know that he came earlier than the Gu family mission."

Mu Xin said with a headache: "It's just that the temple has hosted too many extraordinary people in the past few days. This person may have been mixed in the crowd...or maybe he has been hiding his identity, and even the temple does not know that he has arrived."

It is impossible to confirm your identity by searching immigration records.

"If you can kill 'Uto' silently, you will at least be banned."

The Great Elder frowned and said: "There are only so many titles in Dongzhou, when did such a number one person appear?!"

Every account banned will be recorded by the parliament!

Their whereabouts and residence are also closely watched!

Trying to create a ban out of thin air is simply nonsense...

The most likely explanation is that Dongzhou has long been plotting to cultivate an extremely powerful "shadow".

Although this is ridiculous.

But this is the only explanation the Great Elder can think of.

A banned person quietly hid in Guangming City, and without anyone noticing, he killed a fourth-level strong man who was under strict protection.

How ridiculous is this?

Once this news spreads, it is likely to cause panic in the temple.

"Don't go out these days!"

The Great Elder spoke in a deep voice: "Until the 'man behind the scenes' is found, only Guangming City is safe... Once you leave the city, you may be targeted. After last night's round, you have been exposed."

Yao Jin originally wanted to find out the "man behind the scenes" in Dongzhou.

But last night, he set up an ambush and personally led the people to hunt down the murderer...

Instead, it brought him to the surface.

In this way, he is in the light and the other party is in the dark.

That guy chose to kill Wutuo while he was leading the Holy Judge to Donggang. Thinking about it carefully, what happened to the Gu family mission was just a part of that guy's plan. He was delayed and could not return to Guangming City. , and then there was the tragedy of Uto.

Mu Xin asked with a trembling voice: "Great Elder, what should Wutuo... do?"

"..."

The great elder just shook his head.

what to do?

There is nothing to do, the person is dead and everything is over.

Yao Jin saw the great elder's reaction and silently came to Wutuo's side alone. He closed his eyes for his only friend.

The spiritual sea is shattered.

Wu Tuo's pupils were dilated.

Although his face was peaceful at the moment, he actually died ugly... Looking at this broken face, Yao Jin suddenly felt a little sad.

More unwilling than sad.

He really lost this game, but he was still alive, so this game was not over.

At this moment, Yao Jin heard his inner voice again.

"Want to take a gamble?"

The unknown person hiding in the dark seemed to have a powerful magic power, attracting him to go and check it out.

From the moment you guess the other person’s existence.

Yao Jin began to try to find out the trajectory of that person... This kind of magic power hit his heart, as if it was the guidance of fate, allowing him to act uncontrollably.

People who have taken the first step are often not willing to stop there.

Maybe if you take two more steps... you can reach the end and unveil that person?

Yao Jin knew that the best thing for him to do at this moment was to stay calm.

He is no longer an shadow, no longer a shadow.

As long as he stood under the sunshine of Guangming City, the other party could not do anything to him...

In the divine realm, the sun shines fiercely and everything appears.

No matter what the other party wants to do, as long as he stands in the light, he will be invincible.

But he wasn't willing to let it end like this.

Yao Jin raised his head and said to the great elder: "I want to try and find that person out."