Do not die

pain!

A sting that penetrates deeply into the soul!

Soon, Meng Zhou confirmed that he had not been harmed.

This sudden severe pain was actually a phantom pain.

Just because he had just entered the body of Tai Sui on the other side, hidden in the Gray Mist Mountains, he was unprepared to experience the feeling of self-destruction from a first-person perspective.

Because this experience was so real, even though his consciousness had returned to his original body, the pain was still with him, giving him an immersive and real experience subconsciously.

However, Meng Zhou had no intention of paying attention to this at the moment.

All of his thoughts were focused on the only and final information captured after his thoughts entered Tai Sui's body on the far side.

A man with a shawl and an indifferent expression stood casually in the void, looking down at Tai Sui's body with an indifferent expression.

With just one look, Tai Sui's body, which had the third level of pill formation, seemed to be imprisoned, unable to move at all.

At the moment when Meng Zhou's thoughts entered Tai Sui's body, the man stretched out a hand and just touched Tai Sui's forehead and eyebrows.

He seemed to be searching for souls by force.

But unfortunately, his outstretched finger was like a needle poking into a balloon that was almost inflated to the extreme.

Almost at the moment when the man put his hand on the forehead of Tai Sui's body, the overwhelming and unstoppable power wanted to penetrate deeper -

BOOM!

Just like puncturing a "balloon" composed of flesh and blood, Tai Sui's body instantly exploded from the inside out and turned into a ball of blood mist.

Although, this is only a momentary thing.

Meng Zhou only had time to use the eyes of Tai Sui to roughly see the appearance of this indifferent man.

In an instant, Meng Zhou felt a loud "boom" sound in his heart.

"Lian Ziling?!!!"

Meng Zhou was no stranger to this person.

To be more precise, "Yanzhuang" is no stranger.

Meng Zhou obtained all of Yan Zhuang's memories, and what Yan Zhuang knew was naturally what he knew.

What's more, after knowing that Yan Zhuang was just a puppet with strings and that there was a very invisible manipulator behind him, he even consciously remembered that he had interacted with Yan Zhuang, or even just knew him, but he The monk from Xingxiu Palace, who had never interacted with each other before, reviewed it over and over again countless times.

Yan Zhuang is naturally no stranger to "Lian Ziling", who is known as a genius among geniuses and one of the strong contenders for the new Nascent Soul.

However, after searching all of Yan Zhuang's memories, he had no personal relationship with this "Lian Ziling".

Even if there were occasional close encounters, they were always in public gatherings, and the exchanges between them were only very formulaic words.

All along, until the moment Yan Zhuang died, "Lian Ziling" was just a faint, symbolic figure in his heart.

There is no deep friendship between the two parties, and there has never been a personal relationship.

Yan Zhuang would never have imagined that his relationship with him would be so deep.

At this moment, the image of "Lian Ziling" solidified into a painting in Meng Zhou's heart.

…

Go back in time a little.

Sea of ​​Stars.

Not long after the five sects joined forces to instantly wipe out the four secret forces that served as the "eyes" of Xingxiu Palace.

In an island cave, a hurricane suddenly emerged.

When the sudden hurricane stopped, Lian Ziling's slightly flushed figure was revealed.

There is no doubt that he is the one who pays the most attention to the trends in the five realms, the so-called giant wilderness of Xingxiu Palace.

It can even be said that he focused almost all his attention here after practicing.

He had used so many reasons to convince other people before, but his real purpose was also for this place.

Long before persuading "Eldest Brother" and others, he had already used his authority to make strategic adjustments to the forces loyal to the Constellation Palace in the Juye Wilderness, and quietly activated them who originally focused on hiding in order to survive. Let him have a comprehensive understanding of the current situation of the Juye Wilderness Territory (Five Territories).

Immediately afterwards, he successfully persuaded "Big Brother" and others to advance the scheduled date of Xingxiu Palace's re-emergence several times while ensuring that his cultivation level, which had just broken through the Nascent Soul level, would not be greatly affected. Year.

He thought that his response was fast enough and his reaction was timely enough, but now——

Lian Ziling, with a flushed face, sat there cross-legged, his expression changing.

Doubt, gloom, hesitation, cruelty...

Because of the violent fluctuations in thoughts, the cultivation level that had not been completely stabilized showed signs of loosening again.

At least the efforts of the previous few months were in vain.

But he had no intention of paying attention to these things now. The successive changes that happened in the Juye wilderness made his determination, which he thought was firm and never wavering, finally have doubts, hesitations and other emotions.

What makes him feel most irritated is that until now, he doesn't know what the thing is that is going against him!

At this moment, two messages flew into the island from a distance and stopped in front of his cave.

Those were two subpoenas, respectively from "Elder Senior Brother" and "Second Senior Sister".

Their summons all told him one thing: Xingxiu Tianchi can now be officially opened.

——Although there is an opening plan provided by him, not only does it take time to open, but it also takes time to officially activate it after it is opened.

Considering that his "third junior brother" and his "fourth junior sister" who broke through to Nascent Soul later than him have not broken through for a long time, what is most needed is to seize the time to settle and stabilize, and it is not appropriate to invest time in such chores.

Therefore, "Elder Senior Brother" and "Second Senior Sister" took the initiative to take over this job.

This also makes it convenient for Lian Ziling to seize the time to stabilize his cultivation and always be able to devote some of his energy to paying attention to the dynamics of the Juye Wilderness Territory (Five Territories).

At this moment, after receiving the news that Xingxiu Tianchi could be officially opened, Lian Ziling no longer felt happy in his heart.

Instead, there was an indescribable anxiety.

"No, no, something must be done, something must be done!"

He felt an indescribable sense of passivity. If he just went to Xingxiu Tianchi to "train" like this, the growing uneasiness in his heart would really make him suffocate.

"At least I have to know what happened and who my enemy is!"

With this thought in his mind, Lian Ziling gritted his heart, gritted his teeth, and made a decisive decision.

Thinking like this, he did not immediately get up and go to the place where Xingxiu Tianchi was, and continued to sit cross-legged in the cave's quiet room.

…

A few days later, two more messages urging him to hurry to Xingxiu Tianchi entered the cave.

But when these two messages entered the cave, they did not fall behind. Instead, they started "wandering" left and right in the cave.

Just because there were two Lian Zilings in the cave.

One of them was sitting cross-legged on the stone couch in the quiet room.

His face was pale, and the aura at the Nascent Soul level fluctuated up and down, with extremely violent fluctuations, giving people the feeling of being on the verge of falling at any time.

On the other side of the cave, there was another Lian Ziling.

His breath was steady and his expression was indifferent.

Just standing there gave people a strong sense of intimidation.

Sitting cross-legged on the stone couch, Lian Ziling looked as pale as a sheet of paper and extremely haggard.

He stretched out his right hand tremblingly, and there was a yellow paper talisman in his hand.

He patted this talisman on his body with trembling hands, and in an instant, all the abnormalities on his body disappeared and returned to a perfect state.

This is not a real recovery, it is just a clever disguise, just to make yourself look normal in front of a few other people.

Finally, he looked at the other "Lian Ziling" with a complicated expression, which happened to collide with another pair of indifferent eyes.

If he had the choice, he wouldn't be able to do this.

If it weren't for Xingxiu Tianchi, this decision, which could be called "reckless", could even destroy his foundation from the ground up.

Originally, the thought of making rapid progress and soaring into the sky with the help of Xingxiu Tianchi in a short period of time has become a luxury.

His biggest hope now is to use the help of Xingxu Tianchi to restore the current incomplete foundation.

With this thought in his mind, Lian Ziling stretched out his hand and took the two "at a loss" messages in the air. Then he slowly stood up from the stone couch, gave "Lian Ziling" one last indifferent look, and said nothing. Fa Zhi left the cave.

Another Lian Ziling stood in the cave, motionless, his expression still indifferent, not knowing what he was thinking.

After leaving the cave, Lian Ziling rushed all the way to Xingxiu Tianchi.

When he met the "eldest brother", "second senior sister" and "fourth junior sister", maybe he was pretending well, or maybe the three of them were waiting anxiously and didn't pay attention at all.

Soon, as all four people entered the Xingxiu Tianchi, the law and prohibition began to block it again, and the Xingxiu Tianchi was completely hidden within the world of Xingxiu Sea.

And almost at the same time, in the distant island cave, another Lian Ziling finally moved.

He stretched out his right index finger and gently pulled it from top to bottom. The void in the real world was like a layer of skin, and a long and narrow crack was made by his finger.

Through this crack, the real world of Xingxiu Sea was exposed before his eyes.

The real world of Xingxiu Sea is like a brilliant starry sky, with countless stars twinkling.

But if you look carefully, you can find that it is not a "starry sky".

The countless flashes are not "starlight", but runes that are engraved into the real world one by one.

These countless runes all over the real world of Xingxiu Sea together form a huge net that wraps the entire Xingxiu Sea in this big net.

Lian Ziling's eyes moved back and forth on this huge net, looking at the auras that seemed to swim irregularly in the knots of the net.

At a certain moment, he suddenly disappeared from the cave and jumped into the real world through the narrow crack.

At the same time, he reached out and inserted his hand into the nearest knot, then gently pulled it to the left and right, and a passage that allowed him to pass appeared in front of him.

Lian Ziling's figure was like lightning, and he flashed into this passage.

The next moment, the passage that he had forcefully opened returned to its original state.

In the cave, the crack in the void that he opened with his finger also disappeared, and everything returned to its original state.

No one would know that there was a person who slipped out before the Xingxiu Sea was unsealed, without disturbing anyone.

Of course, if those new Nascent Souls had not yet entered Xingxiu Tianchi, things would not be so easy.

…

Lian Ziling's goal is very clear.

After leaving the Xingxiu Sea and entering the Juye Wilderness Territory, that is, after the Five Territories, Lian Ziling went straight to the Emerald Jade Lake in the Qingxuan Territory.

This was the place where Yanzhuang bred the "Yan clan" and was the original source.

Without disturbing anyone, he "visited" the current Jade Lake.

He did not use the ability to go back in time rashly.

Although his strength far exceeds that of forming a pill, and it is much easier to perform time retrieval than forming a pill, it consumes equally huge amounts of his soul and mental energy.

Moreover, there is no fourth-level spiritual vein in the Five Realms. If his power is consumed too much, it will be difficult to recover quickly except for some resources prepared with him.

Therefore, as long as there are other ways, he will not use the hugely consuming abilities such as time retrieval easily.

Not only that, he also adheres to the principle of saving as much as possible for other consumption.

Therefore, after having a basic and comprehensive understanding of the past and present of Jade Lake through hearing and seeing, he did not rush back in time and started looking for clues from the source one hundred, seventeen or eighty years ago. , although this is the simplest.

He also had a clearer clue.

He remembered the date of Yan Zhuang's death very clearly.

And he was basically convinced that Yan Zhuang died in Qingxuan Domain.

Then, he just used two middle-grade spiritual stones to get the information he wanted.

——The time when Yan Zhuang died, there was a lot of noise. The Qingxuan Sect Law Enforcement Hall was alerted, and it spread throughout the Qingxuan Territory in a short period of time.

Although no one knows who the two sides of the fight are, a fight at the late stage of the Danjie took place on this day, and there is no doubt that a powerful, mysterious Danjie that is not Qingxuanzong fell.

Although, Lian Ziling learned the news easily and basically confirmed that the fallen "mysterious pill" was Yan Zhuang.

This is very simple.

He immediately left Jade Lake and went straight to the battle site in the Gray Mist Mountains.

I had just arrived, and I had only briefly observed the specific situation around me, but I hadn't even had time to use my time-traveling ability to look for clues.

His eyes suddenly became extremely sharp.

Just because he felt that there was an aura in the mountain not far away that was integrated with the surrounding mountains.

This breath is extremely obscure.

If there hadn't been a slight abnormal fluctuation at that moment, even he would have ignored it.

The owner of the breath seemed to realize something and quickly dived deep into the earth.

In an instant, Lian Ziling didn't hesitate at all, and shot towards the mountain with a palm in the air.

As he grabbed it, the mountain was crushed into pieces by the volley like tofu.

The aura that was integrated with the mountain was naturally forced out of it.

The figure of a monk with only the third level of pill formation appeared.

Lian Ziling stood in the void, condescendingly looking down at the little ant he held in his palm.

"What are you doing lurking here?" he asked indifferently.

The third-level alchemy-forming monk looked resolute and stubborn and said nothing.

"Ha!" Lian Ziling smiled faintly, stretched out his finger, and touched the person's forehead between his eyebrows.

A mere ant, does it matter whether he says it or not?

What's more, the other party's words cannot be trusted at all.

He wanted to see for himself.

But at the moment when he pointed his finger at the center of the other person's eyebrows, he wanted to penetrate into the other person's sea of ​​consciousness.

"Bang!"

As if a bubble had been popped, the third-level pill-forming monk exploded into a cloud of blood mist in front of him without any warning.

Lian Ziling's fingers were frozen there, his eyes fixed on the red fingertips with a cold expression. (End of chapter)