Estranged

The second deep abyss?

Xu Jingxian: "Where is it?"

Chang Ming said truthfully, "I don't know."

Xu Jingxian: ...

On the outside, she has a hundred ways to deal with Changming.

But now Xu Jingxian really can't do that.

"Then what's the difference between you saying it and not saying it!" She gritted her teeth.

The crisis is imminent, why is this guy still in the mood to joke?

Chang Ming said: "Go back to the beach and go to the place where we first came."

Xu Jingxian: "Do you want to go back?"

Chang Ming: "Just do as I tell you."

Xu Jingxian didn't have time to ask any more questions. As soon as Zhang Mu left, the Seven Star Tower was about to collapse. Those corpses seemed to be in an uninhabited land. Several monks who didn't believe in evil had been swallowed directly. They all scattered and fled for their lives.

Some of them took advantage of the chaos to plunder and slaughter, bully the weak, kill and seize treasure.

Qixinghe was completely in chaos.

Chaos is the normal state of Jiuchongyuan, but this is the first time that the barrier has been broken. Corpse insects ravaged Qixinghe, adding a trace of hopeless panic to the chaos.

Everyone wanted to find a way out, either to leave Jiuzhongyuan or go to the second abyss.

It is rumored that the Rainbow Bridge in the Second Abyss is a picturesque place that is like spring all year round. There are exotic flowers and plants that are not seen outside, and it is not as chaotic as the Qixing River in the first Abyss. The name of the Rainbow Bridge is Aunt Xinrong. , it is said that he was an unknown casual cultivator in his early years, but he became famous only after he came to Jiuchongyuan.

All of the above was told to her by Chen Ting, a disciple of Wanjian Immortal Sect, during the last night banquet.

But no matter how good the Rainbow Bridge is, it has nothing to do with them now.

Xu Jingxian ran towards the beach with Chang Ming on her arm, occasionally sword energy flew towards them, whether it was an accidental injury or a sneak attack on purpose, she also hid them.

Xu Jingxian remembered that the last time she was so embarrassed was when she first joined the Blood Sect.

Seeing that there was a male cultivator in the Blood Sect who coveted her beauty, and his cultivation base was quite high, he tried to get her over and over again, one of which was even poisonous and plotted against him, and he almost succeeded, the situation was critical and close.

Although Xu Jingxian has no scruples in acting teasingly and dissolutely, it is also based on her own willingness, rather than being forced to compromise.

But in retrospect, the danger back then was nothing compared to what it is now.

No matter how damned the male cultivator is, no matter how the blood sect preys on the weak, it is still a human world after all.

What's on the beach?

Dead whales, mist, corpse worms.

Those memories are not good, but Xu Jingxian has no choice.

"Are you sure the seaside can save us?"

She didn't wait for an answer, she took the time to look down, and Chang Ming had already fallen into a semi-consciousness, blood was dripping from the corner of his mouth, and his face was like gold paper.

Xu Jingxian: ... There is no hope of raising real grass, can she leave Jiuchongyuan in her lifetime?

She pinched Chang Ming severely, and flew towards the beach.

It's close at hand.

The sea breeze rushed with the unique fishy smell of sea water, and the sea soon appeared in front of my eyes.

Chang Ming grunted when he was pinched by her, and he was really sober.

"Into the sea of ​​fog."

"Really want to go back?" Xu Jingxian was still a little unwilling.

When I came in, I didn't encounter any opportunities, and I was empty-handed, and there was a burden attached.

Lianzu now started to "play dead" again and didn't speak.

Xu Jingxian felt resentful in her heart, but she had no choice but to follow his advice and run towards the mist.

Chang Ming did not pass out completely.

He was closing his eyes and resting his mind, thinking quickly.

Before they came to Jiuzhongyuan, they entered through this fog. At first glance, it looks like an entrance.

But after thinking about it again, his unscrupulous apprentice also came out of the mist, and according to Zhou Ke and He Xiyun, Yun Weisi is on the other side of the Ninth Abyss.

That being the case, does it mean that this sea of ​​fog is not a one-way passage, it can only come and go to the outside world, and it can also go to other places in Jiuchongyuan?

This is just Chang Ming's guess.

He didn't have the energy to analyze with Xu Jingxian, so he could only let her lead him into the sea of ​​fog first.

"Stay, fellow daoists!"

Chen Ting's voice came from behind.

Xu Jingxian pretended not to hear, it was impossible to stop.

Chen Ting was faster, caught up with her in a blink of an eye, and was even with her.

He spoke quickly: "Fellow Taoist, is this going to leave? This fog is very strange. I have a fellow apprentice who came with me. It was in that fog that he disappeared, and there is no one there. They said that the entrance of the second layer of abyss Under the palace where the sad tree lives, the formation is broken now, how about trying it in the past?"

Xu Jingxian: "Then why don't you try it?"

Chen Ting: "I don't think fellow daoists look back, they are not hesitant like others, they seem to be more confident."

Xu Jingxian: ...

How can she be more sure, she is eager to escape.

While speaking, Chen Ting sacrificed his Qinglan Sword.

"Two friends come up!"

He has already seen that although Xu Jingxian has a high level of cultivation, he does not have a magic weapon for flying, so he can only use gauze to rely on foreign objects.

Before Xu Jingxian could speak, a paper crane flew out of Changming's sleeve, carried him and Xu Jingxian on its back, and flew into the sea of ​​mist.

Chen Ting hesitated for a moment, then turned around and saw the chaos at Qixing Terrace, and decided to chase after him.

Entering the mist is equivalent to being half blind, with a vast expanse of whiteness in front of your eyes, no matter how high your cultivation is, you will be helpless.

But I heard Chang Ming say, "Borrow fairy Yulinling to use it."

Xu Jingxian was vigilant: "What are you going to do?"

Chang Ming: "Just dawdle for a while, when my origami crane's strength is exhausted, we will fall into the abyss of the sea of ​​fog."

Xu Jingxian: ...

She is very upset.

Because ever since she met Chang Ming, she has been restrained everywhere, every time she is half a step behind, being led away by the other party, even if it is a trap, she is still willing to jump down.

No matter how upset she was, Xu Jingxian still handed over Yu Linling.

"Be careful..."

Before the words were pronounced, Chang Ming had already thrown Yu Linling out!

Xu Jingxian let out a cry, and almost killed him by mistake.

"My magic weapon!"

"Hush."

With a twist of Chang Ming's wrist, the golden beads on the glazed golden bead stick also slowly left the Zen stick and flew in front, as if following the golden bell.

Xu Jingxian didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd.

The paper crane moved forward slowly, the white mist lingered around the body, and the sweet breath made people drowsy. Although Xu Jingxian held his breath, he couldn't help inhaling some, and had a momentary illusion, mistakenly thinking that this place was still Lingbo Peak, and almost fell off the paper crane .

A sharp pain came from the back of her hand, and she suddenly woke up.

There is no Lingbofeng, and there is no nephrite and fragrant maid to serve her, she is still in Jiuchongyuan.

Looking down again, the back of her hand was almost bleeding from Chang Ming's pinch.

This must be revenge, revenge on himself for pinching the back of his hand just now.

Xu Jingxian: "...you better pray that we can get out of here."

Chang Ming: "Otherwise?"

Xu Jingxian: "Otherwise I'm afraid I will kill you before I die!"

Chang Ming coughed twice, his left ear went in and his right ear went out.

He inhaled more strange breath than Xu Jingxian, if he hadn't held on with one breath, he would have collapsed by now.

Jingle bell, jingle bell.

The bell rang, suddenly far away and now near.

Xu Jingxian: "It seems that it is my golden bell?"

Chang Ming's fingers moved slightly, and the paper crane turned in a different direction, as if being pulled by an invisible object, it dived deeper into the mist.

The sound of the bell fluctuated, but it never stopped. Xu Jingxian also saw a ball of light floating in front of them, approaching from a distance, and flying towards them.

Chang Ming raised his hand, and Jin Zhu returned to his palm, like an obedient and well-behaved child, emitting a warm light.

"Buddhism has the saying of morning bells and evening drums, opening tranquility and awakening the mind. The second head of Qingyun Temple, Dingkong, used this to create the Buddhist sound guidance technique, which is intended to break through the confusion and return to the true. These fog seas deceive our eyes. , just change your ears to perceive, your golden bell and this Zen staff just come in handy."

With the golden bead in his hand, Chang Ming felt his spiritual power slowly returning, and only then did he have the strength to say a few more words to her.

When Xu Jingxian got an answer, she felt even more strange.

Why does this person seem to know everything, has a wide range of knowledge, but his cultivation is so low?

Not only is he proficient in Buddhist techniques, but he also dabbles in Taoism and demons. If he knows a little bit of superficial knowledge, it's fine, but even the treasures of Qingyun Temple's town hall can be easily used at his fingertips.

Who is he?

There was some speculation in my heart, but it disappeared in a flash, hard to catch.

The speed of the paper crane was getting faster and faster, so fast that Xu Jingxian could hardly ignore it. She had to bend down and put her upper body on the paper crane to prevent her body from accidentally slipping into the abyss of mist.

"Make it stop!"

Chang Ming didn't answer her, and Xu Jingxian couldn't hear whether the other party answered or not, because the wind was howling in his ears, and even his hair was blown by the strong wind, and the white mist rushed to his face, which melted away in an instant, misty and chaotic, day and night.

And they can only hand over their fate in this unknown.

Xu Jingxian endured the severe discomfort of dizziness.

Under such circumstances, the level of cultivation seems to be a dispensable burden and useless. She can neither summon Sha Ling to fly out of the sea of ​​fog, nor can she order the paper crane to stop. The so-called monk who is above ordinary people, It is nothing more than a mortal with slightly higher abilities, and there are too many and too powerful forces that cannot be contended between heaven and earth, and it is nothing more than working tirelessly throughout his life.

It was the first time for Xu Jingxian to feel how small she was.

In the past, she always believed that man could conquer nature, as long as she was strong enough, there would be no enemy she could not defeat.

But this sea of ​​fog, and the corpse worms beyond the sea of ​​fog, gave her frustration that she had nowhere to focus.

Just like no matter how hard you try, a small boat on the vast sea will never reach the other side.

Xu Jingxian was thinking wildly when she suddenly felt her back sink.

Her heart also sank.

"Chang Ming? Chang Ming?! Wake up!"

There was no response.

Xu Jingxian: ...

What crime did she do to be tricked in by this man?

Even if she used to do a lot of unscrupulous things for her cultivation and status, God wouldn't have such a person to punish her, right?

It's true that I didn't cultivate in my previous life and met this person.

The paper crane was still swooping forward, and the golden bell was still ringing intermittently, as if leading the way ahead.

Under such circumstances, Xu Jingxian's mind gradually fainted, and she also passed out.

…

Changming opened his eyes.

He has been to many places in his life.

He has seen a lot of the setting sun on the long river, the bright moon on the sea, the glow of the snow-capped mountains, the dense forest and thousands of streams, the scenery in the world, and the phantoms in the underworld.

But the beauty and variety in front of him still made him lose his mind for a moment.

The rainbow is practiced across the sky, and the water flows under the rainbow.

It is not the color that can be drawn by the skillful craftsman in the painting, nor is it the stunning beauty that can be compared with the most dangerous place in the world.

The water drops splashed, fell on the rainbow, and turned into crystal jade beads, reflecting the magnificence of everything.

And they are on this huge rainbow training.

I don't know that the sky is water, and nowhere is like the world.

"Hey, you've woken up, did you sleep well?"

Chang Ming came back to his senses, and when he heard Xu Jingxian's sarcastic remarks, he felt a little kind.

Seeing that he could still laugh, Xu Jingxian's teeth became more itchy, and she moved closer to his ears.

"My Yulinling is gone, and I'm just waiting for you to wake up. You can't live, you can't die!"

Chang Ming didn't even move his eyebrows: "The old ones won't go, and the new ones won't come, so sorry for the fairy."

Chang Ming knew that she was just deceiving him on purpose.

If the golden bell was really lost, Xu Jingxian would not be so calm now.

Furthermore, it is impossible for him to make mistakes in his guiding technique.

This woman is always trying her best to get some advantage, but it's a pity that she met him.

Xu Jingxian couldn't blackmail her, so she raised her hand and wanted to print her palm on it, but Chang Ming coughed first, and turned her head to spit out a small mouthful of black blood.

"Don't think that I won't dare to touch you every time I repeat the old trick!"

Chang Ming sighed: "We have all lived and died together, why can't you be gentle with me, if you really beat me to death, where else would you find a reliable companion like me?"

After spitting out the blood, he felt that the tightness in his chest had subsided a lot, and he sat up slightly on his elbows.

There are more than two of them on Hongqiao.

A couple of men and women were also sitting not far away, talking softly with sad faces.

There were also a few monks coming from a distance, their brows were furrowed, and they seemed to have encountered some setbacks.

"Two fellow daoists, I have finally found you!"

A person walked quickly from under the bridge, panting slightly, with surprise on his face.

It was Chen Ting, a disciple of the Wanjian Immortal Sect that he had met before.

He followed the two into the sea of ​​fog and then got separated. Xu Jingxian didn't expect him to leave there, and couldn't help but look at him with admiration. After all, Xindao is a disciple of a famous sect, and he doesn't know if he will have the opportunity to make a furnace.

Although she doesn't like to use the usual way of seeing the blood sect to practice, the thinking habits developed over the years are hard to get rid of.

Chen Ting approached.

"Fellow Daoist Changming's complexion is not very good, is this an injury?"

Chang Ming wiped away the blood from his lips.

"It's okay, I didn't expect to reunite with Chen Daoyou so soon."

Chen Ting was a little embarrassed: "The sea of ​​fog was so weird that I almost couldn't get out, but I still heard the bell and followed behind, and escaped the danger."

Isn't that the light of your own? Xu Jingxian rolled her eyes and said with a coquettish smile: "It seems that you heard my golden bell ringing, so I still have the grace to save Daoist Chen!"

Chen Ting cupped his hands: "Thank you, fellow daoist, for your help."

Xu Jingxian: "If you owe me a favor, you will be involved in karma. Daoist Chen will not be scolded and punished by the master if you are involved in the magic sect's karma?"

Chen Ting: "I just want to go back to the teacher's school, but I can't do it now. It's not too late until we can all leave Jiuchongyuan safely."

Gently and skillfully, she uncovered her words of begging for compensation.

As expected, men in the world don't have a good thing, Xu Jingxian sneered slightly.

"We don't know anything about this place. I don't know what kind of tricks Chen Daoxiong has figured out?"

Chen Ting: "If I'm not mistaken, this place should be the second abyss in the Nine Abyss, the Rainbow Bridge."

Xu Jingxian said in her heart that I don't need to guess, and I know that this is the Rainbow Bridge, but she felt that Chen Ting was still valuable, so she held back.

"Where did the owner of the Rainbow Bridge go? Could it be that Xu Fenglin also killed him?"

Chen Ting: "I didn't see this place occupying the main place, but I just explored for a while, and I got a rough idea of ​​the mystery of the Rainbow Bridge."

He pointed down the bridge.

"Under the bridge is the mirror lake, but what it reflects is not what it should be on the lake"

Xu Jingxian also noticed that just now there was a stream splashing into pearls on the surface of the lake, which almost made her mistakenly think that there was a stream under the bridge, but now that the lake has calmed down, it reflected an abyss, which was unpredictable. With weak legs, even monks like them will inevitably feel insurmountable.

At this time, a man and a woman had a dispute on the bridge, and the noise of the quarrel grew louder. The woman became ruthless, took off the jade pendant around her waist and threw it down.

Under the eyes of everyone, Yu Pei not only did not break the calm of the lake, but actually fell into the abyss.

It was silent, not a sound could be heard.

"I suspect that this lake is actually an entrance, maybe leading to the third deep abyss, maybe—"

Before he finished speaking, the male cultivator who had quarreled with the female cultivator immediately jumped off the bridge and jumped into the lake.

There were no splashes or ripples, and everyone watched him jump directly into the abyss and disappear from sight.

"Wei Yichong!" the female cultivator exclaimed.

"Maybe it's not the entrance, but a dead end. The two fellow Taoists have also seen it. It's weird here. Since we have the same goal, we all want to find opportunities. It's better not to be too scattered when we leave here." Chen Ting This completes the second half of the sentence.

Xu Jingxian: "Wei Yichong's name is so familiar, isn't he the favorite disciple of the head of the Tianmu Sect?"

Chen Ting: "That's right. That female cultivator is his junior sister and Taoist partner, Guan Xiashang. The other three people, one of them is fellow Taoist He Qingmo from Shenxiao Immortal Mansion, and I don't know the other two, but they should be They all just came to the Rainbow Bridge just like us.”

Xu Jingxian: "I didn't expect Brother Chen Dao to have a wide range of friends, and there are people who can't name them."

Chen Ting said with a smile: "My cultivation level is not high, and I have not been a teacher for a long time, so I don't know many people."

He was able to cross the sea of ​​fog and come to the second abyss, and his cultivation was not low, so Xu Jingxian naturally didn't believe his modest words.

The scenery of Mirror Lake under the bridge changes every once in a while.

Xu Jingxian wanted to calculate the frequency of changes, but found that there was no law at all.

After the sky above their heads darkened, Mirror Lake was still bright, even reflecting the Rainbow Bridge during the day, and it was a spectacle that day and night coexisted for a while.

But no matter how beautiful the scenery is, if you are trapped here forever and cannot move, it will be anxiety-provoking.

After He Qingmo discussed with the other two, he decided to explore the Rainbow Bridge first. They came to invite Chen Ting, but Chen Ting saw that Xu Jingxian didn't want to move and Chang Ming was injured, so he got up and left with them.

Chang Ming took out a green bead from his sleeve.

"What is this?" Xu Jingxian leaned over to look, and suddenly gasped, "I've seen this thing before."

Chang Ming: "Think carefully."

The green color of the beads is vivid, and there are water droplets flowing in them. When the palm shakes, the water droplets also reflect the moving light under the starlight.

Xu Jingxian didn't have to think about it for a long time, because such a thing was destined to be nothing ordinary, and she would definitely be impressed after seeing it once.

"It's at the Qixian Gate."

Chang Ming: "Huh?"

"On the day I went to Qixianmen, the Xiao family sent me a dowry. Zhang Qin invited me to see it, and put out every box. I was afraid that others would not know how much the Xiao family valued their daughter and wanted to use the Xiao family to suppress me. "Xu Jingxian snorted, "There is this green bead among them!"

Chang Ming: "Do you know the origin of this bead?"

"Why don't you know? It's called—"

Xu Jingxian's eyes fluttered, and she stopped talking, "You are not trying to trick me, are you?"

Changming: "It's called Canghai Yueming, a rare green pearl. The reason for its name is that many years ago, a skilled craftsman made it into two halves that can be opened, and medicine and incense can be put in it. Look at it now. , doesn't it just fit the meaning of the moon and the moon in the sea?"

Xu Jingxian: "You know quite a lot...No! Since this bead is a dowry of the Xiao family, why is it in your hands? Could it be that you really killed Liu Xiaoyu?"

Chang Ming: "This bead was found by a puppet when I was fighting Zhang Mu before, and it was found from the sad tree."

At that time, the Tree of Sadness was dead, and everyone's attention was attracted by Zhang Mu and Chang Ming. Later, when Zhang Mu revealed his true form as a demon, all the crowd attacked, the Qixing Platform collapsed, and corpse insects attacked, and everyone was busy running for their lives. , almost no one will pay attention to the real cause of death of Sad Tree and the movement around him.

Changming remote-controls the puppet to search for the dead tree of sorrow, but finds a bright moon.

Xu Jingxian: "You mean, Liu Xiaoyu's death may also be related to Zhang Mu?"

Chang Ming gave a brief account of Sad Tree's death.

"His death is the same as that of Liu Xiaoyu. The sad tree was killed by Zhang Mu. I saw it with my own eyes, but Liu Xiaoyu may not have been killed by Zhang Mu, because the time is not right. It is impossible for Zhang Mu to lurk beside the sad tree and run away at the same time. Go to the mountain behind the Qixian Gate thousands of miles away to kill people. It can only be said that there is some kind of connection between Zhang Mu and Liu Xiaoyu's murderer, and maybe they are also the hands of demons."

He closed his eyes and endured the dizziness caused by too fast speaking.

"This is my original guess, but now with the addition of this bright moon, the situation is a little more complicated."

Xu Jingxian changed from being careless to listening carefully.

She heard Chang Ming say: "The water drops in the Canghai Yueming are not ordinary water, but a kind of medicine called Wuqiu. People, if there is a chance later, just ask them and they will know."

Xu Jingxian: "No need? What's the use?"

Chang Ming: "Specialized treatment of mania can calm restless people quickly. It is said that the most beautiful things in the world will appear before the eyes of people who take this medicine, or the precious things they have been longing for, and they will be immersed in it." In the illusory dream, once you have it, you have nothing to ask for, even the monks were not spared. Wuqiu was originally intended to be used by him to treat his wife, but then he was left outside for some reason. Decades ago, Xinghong There was a generation of emperors in the dynasty who were addicted to smoking and died young, with a smile on their faces before they died."

Xu Jingxian thought for a while: "At that time, I thought Liu Xiaoyu had some kind of lover in the back mountain, and he wanted to have fun before getting married!"

Chang Ming: "Fairy judges others by himself. Even if he wants to have an affair with a man and a woman, he will definitely choose a place he is familiar with. How could he choose a place behind the outer door that he has never set foot in?"

Xu Jingxian smiled on the surface: "What did you just say?"

Chang Ming: "I mean, he will choose a place he is more familiar with."

Xu Jingxian: "The first sentence."

Chang Ming: "Fairy Bingxue is smart and as beautiful as a fairy."

Xu Jingxian: ...

She found herself becoming more and more opaque about Changming.

Let's say he is glib, but he didn't cross the line, and always retracted his hand before touching her bottom line.

Say he is smart, but he will always cause some unnecessary troubles.

For example, she almost died in Zhang Mu's hands, and almost caused her to die in Zhang Mu's hands.

Another example—

A person came slowly from under the bridge.

There are no flowers on the Mo, but there are clouds under the bridge.

His clothes fluttered, calm and unhurried, there were clearly two people in front of him, but there seemed to be only one person in his eyes, focused and affectionate.

Yun Hai smiled: "Why are you looking at me like this, don't you two welcome me?"

He looked at Chang Ming again.

"Fellow Daoist Changming is staring at you, you must be missing me?"

Another example is getting into trouble with Shang Yunhai, a lingering ghost of unknown origin.

Xu Jingxian finished the unfinished words in her heart.