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"Eldest Brother" was stunned when he heard this, then shook his head and said:

"Know nothing."

"Bald Meng Zhou" asked again:

"Do Outer Continents Really Exist?"

This is not only asking the other party, but also Meng Zhou asking himself.

Although he had seen words like "Outer Continent" many times in the ancient book collection of Xingxiu Palace, that was all. There was no more description of this "Outer Continent".

However, because there are examples like the Eight Wastelands of the Outer Realm and Xingxiu Sea, it is enough for the Xingxiu Palace monks to form a clear and stable "world view".

Before the "Realm of Death" disappeared, the monks in various wilderness areas had no idea about the situation in the outer areas.

But from the perspective of the Xingxiu Palace monks, they can easily see the entire outer world.

Because they have such personal experience, they can easily accept the setting that there are even more vast "outer continents" outside the known world.

But for Meng Zhou, while accepting this concept, he always maintained a bit of doubt in his heart.

Upon hearing this question, "Big Brother" immediately responded: "Of course it is true."

"Bald Meng Zhou" narrowed his eyes slightly, "Since you know nothing about the specific situation of the outer continent, why are you so sure of its existence? Isn't this very contradictory?"

“Because the first ancestor of our Xingxiu Palace came from another continent, and he laid the foundation of Xingxiu Palace with his own hands.

Regardless of everything else, you can't say that this Xingxiu Palace is fake, right? "Big Brother" said.

"Kou Chong" suddenly said:

"'Uncle Zheng' has read through almost all the ancient books that can be found in the Xingxiu Palace, and he was also curious about why there are so few records about outer continents, so that the public monks know almost nothing about outer continents.

For this reason, he also specifically asked the ancestor at that time for advice on this issue. "

"Is that the one in front of you?" "Bald Meng Zhou" asked.

"Yeah." Kou Chong nodded.

"What did he say?" Bald Meng Zhou asked curiously.

"He said two things.

A rumor that is said to have been around since the time of the first ancestor, but it is difficult to tell whether it is true or not, but the rumor has indeed existed for a long time. "Kou Chong" said.

"What rumors?" "Bald Meng Zhou" asked.

"It is said that when the first ancestor was still here, after a sermon, he was chatting with his disciples. Some disciples were curious and asked about the scenery of other continents.

The first ancestor didn't answer, just shook his head.

I didn’t say this until the end.

‘People like to think about what is on the other side of the mountain, but in fact, the other side of the mountain is also a mountain, and it is not necessarily better than this side of the mountain.

Maybe some of you yearn for a distant paradise, but is there a possibility that the paradise is right at your feet?

If you are really curious about what is happening in other continents, there is no need to worry. When your cultivation reaches the peak of Nascent Soul, even if you don’t understand it, you will all know what you need to know. ’”

"Kou Chong" had already closed his mouth, but everyone else seemed to be lost in thought. For a while, the scene was very quiet.

After a while, "Bald Meng Zhou" seemed to wake up from his meditation, looked at "Kou Chong" and asked, "What about the second point?"

"Kou Chong" said:

"The second point mentioned by the previous ancestor is actually some speculation that the ancestors of the past generations believe in. Speaking of which, this guess is basically based on this rumor."

"What guess?" "Bald Meng Zhou" asked.

"It's probably not very good to say that the situation is in another continent. The first ancestor came here to open up the Xingxiu Palace lineage, which may be related to this." "Kou Chong" said.

"Bald Meng Zhou" nodded slightly.

Originally, Meng Zhou wanted to ask other questions, but because of "Kou Chong's" answer, he felt that it was no longer necessary.

And just when "Bald Meng Zhou" signaled to several people and was about to say goodbye and leave, "Elder Brother" opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything until he left completely.

"Senior Brother?" the "Fourth Junior Sister" beside him reminded softly.

"Huh! Huh?" "Elder Brother" was confused for a moment, then quickly woke up and turned to look at her.

"Did you want to ask something just now?" "Fourth Junior Sister" asked.

"Yes." "Eldest Brother" nodded, "I think this... fellow Taoist's behavior is really strange, so I wanted to ask."

Having said this, he suddenly shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said no more.

The other three people next to him were also silent.

They all understood why he shook his head and smiled bitterly, and why he chose to shut up before speaking.

They will not naively think that if the other party treats them as equals, the relationship between the two parties will be truly equal.

Apart from anything else, so far, the other party has not even told them his last name. They are not even sure how to address each other. It is impossible that they cannot understand the deep meaning behind it.

However, if Meng Zhou knew what they were thinking at this moment, he would definitely say, "You are thinking too much."

Even if the "elder brother" really asked and wanted to know about his situation, he would not hide anything except what he couldn't tell.

Of course, since I'm too lazy to make up lies, there really isn't much I can say.

Therefore, it is also good for "Big Brother" to choose to shut up in the end.

…

Within the "Xingxiu Tianchi".

Meng Zhou meditated quietly.

His own personal experience, as well as the direct and indirect information he had received from various channels these days, were all mixed up in Meng Zhou's mind.

Gradually, some clear threads began to emerge.

Due to the lack of more information, Meng Zhou only sorted out a rough outline in his mind.

Meng Zhou did not feel regretful, but thought that he had gained a lot.

Among them, the biggest gain was "peace of mind".

Originally, because of the scene of the two camps' law forces fighting around him at the end of the tribulation, Meng Zhou was always worried and could not be completely at ease.

He felt that there was a pair, or even multiple pairs of hostile "eyes" watching him in the dark.

Because of this feeling, Meng Zhou felt that his heart was always hanging.

Now, Meng Zhou no longer has such worries.

It's funny to say that this real peace of mind comes from the "prison characteristics" of this so-called "sealed demon land" itself.

Various signs show that the "sealed demon land" is not really able to prevent any infiltration and invasion of external forces.

Not to mention the Xingxiu Sea, it has long been infiltrated into a sieve.

Only the few Xingxiu Palace Yuanying he has come into contact with, except for "Kou Chong" who can barely be regarded as a real "Xingxiu Palace pure blood" because of his special formation of the infant.

Meng Zhou was not sure how many of the other four people could be considered "pure blood of Xingxiu Palace".

Let's not talk about Lian Ziling.

Even the "Big Brother", "Second Sister" and "Fourth Sister" who did not show any abnormality, what was their true color inside?

Are there any people like Lian Ziling among them?

And in the outer domain of the Eight Wastelands outside the Xingxiu Sea, Meng Zhou also saw signs of infiltration.

The first thing Meng Zhou thought of was a regular tetrahedron altar found in the magma sea in a crater in the "Juye Wasteland" a long time ago.

There were mysterious human-shaped flames that appeared regularly, collecting "Tianchi Star Mud" like cutting leeks.

Later, Meng Zhou carefully "scanned" again and found more of the same regular tetrahedron altars, and also found a special existence that regularly collected "Tianchi Star Mud".

Moreover, the existence that collected "Tianchi Star Mud" was not just one, and there was something dirty inside.

In addition, through time travel, one of the beings appeared outside the "harvest period" just before and after the death of the previous Yuanying ancestor of Xingxiu Palace.

At that time, Meng Zhou felt that there was some connection between the two events.

It is certain that the existence of the harvest of "Tianchi Star Mud" is very likely to come from the outside world.

Later, Meng Zhou discovered the "Tianchi Star Mud" that had already existed and played a role in the "Xingxiu Tianchi", and was even more convinced that there was a very close connection between the "inside" and the "outside".

Not long ago, "Kou Chong" broke the news that the death of the previous Yuanying ancestor was likely related to Lian Ziling.

The veins in Meng Zhou's mind also became clearer.

Although Meng Zhou did not go to the other seven wastelands to look for traces of the tetrahedron altar, Meng Zhou believed that such an altar could never be just a special case of the "Juye Wasteland".

Although these altars are hidden very secretly, for normal Jindan cultivators, their location is a "forbidden land" that they cannot set foot in.

But that is only for Jindan cultivators.

For the Yuanying ancestors of Xingxiu Palace, this is not so easy.

But Xingxiu Palace has experienced so many generations of Yuanying ancestors, and there is no record of these altars.

Meng Zhou didn't know whether they were blind or deliberately blind.

And this, in turn, shows how much the power of the outside world has penetrated the Xingxiu Palace.

In addition, Qingye's behavior is also very strange.

Other things are fine.

On the point of how to pass the tribulation and become an infant, he has no need to share it so frankly with a stranger.

What's more, his method of passing the tribulation and becoming an infant is so strange.

This is equivalent to directly sharing the core of his own way.

Saying "talking about deep things when you are not close enough" is not enough to describe this behavior. In Meng Zhou's impression, Qingye is not such a person without a sense of propriety.

He must have a reason for doing this.

At a certain moment, Meng Zhou suddenly had a flash of inspiration and vaguely guessed the real purpose of Qingye's behavior.

In fact, Qingye himself has made it very clear.

"I am not your enemy."

If this sentence is slightly changed, it can actually be "We are one family."

If we are not enemies, then we are one family.

And Meng Zhou believes that the reason why Qingye behaved like this is definitely not just because he also violated the "taboo regulations".

At least, this is not the fundamental reason.

"The reason why he violated the taboo regulations is that he took a completely new path."

"He should know that I, or someone in the 'Xingxiu Tianchi', has a similar situation to him through some method."

"From a certain perspective, we are natural fellow travelers.

This does not even require us to make a decision ourselves. The power of the law that comes from the two of us has already walked into the same camp before us."

When this idea just came into his mind, Meng Zhou himself felt a little absurd.

But this is already the most reasonable explanation Meng Zhou can come up with.

This also confirmed another thing, that is, since the end of the tribulation, Meng Zhou had a feeling that there seemed to be a pair or even multiple pairs of hostile "eyes" watching him.

However, it can be corrected that some of those "eyes" also have good intentions.

After understanding this, I suddenly had a deeper understanding of how so many new Nascent Souls and fourth-level true spirits had rushed into the Sea of ​​Stars under the bewitchment of "Lian Ziling".

Everyone's figure seems to have become hazy and blurred.

Are they really all bewitched by "Lian Ziling"?

Logically speaking, after making these discoveries, Meng Zhou should be more worried.

But it was these discoveries that made Meng Zhou really feel at ease.

This made Meng Zhou understand that although the "Devil Sealed Land" was open to air everywhere, from the Sea of ​​Stars to the Outer Territories, it had been almost penetrated into a sieve by various "messy" external forces.

But this also shows that the ability of the "Demon Sealing Land" to isolate the inside and outside is really very strong.

For the current Meng Zhou, as long as it is not a direct intrusion with absolutely strong force, the so-called "infiltration" has no lethality at all.

He will only think that it is "sneaky" and "little trouble".

The rumors shared by "Kou Chong" today related to the first ancestor of Xingxiu Palace, and the speculations also related to the first ancestor of Xingxiu Palace, provided Meng Zhou with more powerful circumstantial evidence.

"If the Demon Sealing Land is a large prison, it would be difficult for people inside to get out, but by the same token, it would be equally difficult for people outside to get in."

"It not only closes the inside, but also protects the outside. The power inside can't get out, and the power from the outside can't get in. In fact, it has the effect of isolating the inside and outside."

"The Xingxiu Palace, established by the first ancestor of the Xingxiu Palace, is like a jailer, managing everything inside the prison."

"External forces that cannot break in directly use various means to infiltrate, contaminate, and even entrap these 'jailers.'"

So what is the real purpose of this "prison"?

Meng Zhou thought of those tetrahedral altars, the "Tianchi Star Clay" that could distort and cover the original rules of heaven and earth within a certain range, and the three poems whose prototypes could be found among the tetrahedral statues. The three-faced statue of Lihen...

"Like me, like Qing Ye, I have been so obviously targeted just because I have taken a path that is considered 'deviant' by the mainstream of the orthodox path."

"What happened to the statue of Lihen can be known without asking."

"And on this tetrahedron altar, you can easily find the prototype of the statue of Lihen..."

Meng Zhou thought of how when he was cleaning up the Lihen Sect, he would find other types of statues in addition to the Lihen Sect's core headquarters in every wilderness.

In addition to the statues of Lihen based on hatred, there are also statues based on extreme negative emotions such as murderous intent, anger, despair, and fear.

If you think about it carefully, you can find the prototypes in the three sculpture groups of the tetrahedron altar.

From this perspective, the tetrahedron altar is simply like a "master plate" of some kind.

"Sealing demons and sealing demons...the ones sealed this time should be these altars."

Based on various clues and information, Meng Zhou came to this conclusion.

And all kinds of chaotic forces penetrated into the Xingxiu Sea and the entire outer world, and did all kinds of things that were contradictory and hostile to each other, and even made things difficult for each other. Meng Zhou was convinced that the real situation was far worse than this so-called "Sealing the Demon" is more complicated.

Previously, Meng Zhou had not realized that the forces of law were actually divided into camps and faced each other tit for tat.

In that case, his understanding of the tetrahedral altar was somewhat biased and not comprehensive enough.

For those who harvest "Tianchi Star Mud" regularly, it can be simply understood that they are simply attracted by the extraordinary properties of "Tianchi Star Mud" and start to covet it.

Having said that, with the characteristics of "Tianchi Star Clay", how many monks can not be tempted?

But now, Meng Zhou already knows that from a certain perspective, the tetrahedron altar is simply the "source of all evil" or even the "cancer of all evil".

——Meng Zhou himself certainly didn’t think so. He only came to such a conclusion by interpreting it from the perspective of “sealing demons”.

Under such circumstances, the act of regularly harvesting "Tianchi Star Mud" seems very divisive.

Use "posting" taboo regulations to stop the use of "Tianchi Star Clay".

But in the actual operation, some people directly used it to lay traps. In Meng Zhou's view, it was similar to law enforcers using Aipin to deceive people. It was simply magical.

"You can see through the tube. From this perspective, the founder of Xingxiu Palace is really right. The other side of the mountain is really not worth looking forward to." (End of Chapter)