Chapter 416: Guards
The empty ice field was left with nothing but the sound of the wind and the sound of snow under your feet.
Tian Xian looked around strangely, his mouth hidden in the thick cotton clothes, and asked in a muffled voice: "Did Grandma Kong say what the Hangu Tower looks like?
Ling He's eyes were as puzzled as Tian Xian, "No, Grandma Kong usually never mentions the matter of Hanguta, this is a taboo in the clan, after all, it is the place where the clansmen were punished in the past, and since we are getting farther and farther away from the place where our ancestors live, the clansmen who come back to be punished are almost equivalent to being sentenced to death." β
Tian Xian frowned slightly, "Once you are punished in the Hangu Tower, will you die?"
"As far back as I can remember, no one has ever come back from Hanguta. β
Looking at the sky is still strong sunlight, Tianxian can't feel the slightest warmth, "Grandma Kong is so ruthless, she doesn't even let go of her own daughter." β
Ling looked at Tianxian and looked at the sky, "Our Tianyan clan is like the clouds in this extreme north, thin and indefinite, but it is more unpredictable than the clouds of the human continent, we have survived alone in this barren land for thousands of years, and no one knows our secrets for thousands of years, and many times, what we are hiding is not clear even to our own people. β
"You mean what is the secret of Grandma Kong's exile of Eve to the Cold Ancient Tower?"
"Maybe there is, maybe ......not," Ling smiled slightly, "but I wonder if there is one, I didn't venture here because Evelena was my mother, but because I was her daughter!"
"What's the difference?"
"It doesn't matter what she does, but ...... Her affairs are likely to involve me, my condition does not allow me to move freely, and I must use this opportunity to get to the bottom of everything before I can gain a foothold in the clan. β
Tian Xian smiled. "So you were afraid that Eve's present is your future, and you want to find out what happened back then, so you took the risk to come here with me?"
"Not bad. β
Looking Ling up and down, there was not the slightest flaw on her face, and Tian Xian nodded, "It's okay." Even so, I think Eve would be very happy, no matter what, after all, her daughter had come to her rescue. β
Tian Xian's gaze that seemed to be able to penetrate his body made Ling very uncomfortable, and he snorted and said, "It's better to find the Hangu Pagoda first and then talk about this nonsense!"
"Indeed......" Tian Xian looked at the empty ice field and scratched his head hard, "Then can you give me two more hairs?"
Ling was stunned for a moment, and his face suddenly became unnatural, "You...... What do you want my hair for?"
"I'm going to get my bearings?"
"Directions?" Ling glanced around. He looked slightly angry, "Do you want to say that you are in the wrong place?
"No, if the breath of sensing is weaker, it will be easier to distinguish the subtle direction, and I want to see where we should dig now. β
"Digging?" Ling's gaze fell to the place full of ice and snow with Tianxian's eyes, and his eyes couldn't help but shrink slightly, "You mean...... Underground?"
"It's better to be like that. Tian Xian looked up at the sky, "Eve's breath is in this position. Either over our heads or under our feet. Compared to it, if it is on the head, it is a big trouble, indicating that this Hangu Pagoda has some kind of very strange, and may be very powerful forbidden protection, but if it is under the feet. β
"It's much more convenient." Maybe it's just been buried because of the perennial snow and ice. β
Ling couldn't help but look at the air with a little worry, "Heaven...... Nothing. β
"That just means we can't see anything. Tian Xian stretched out his hand, "hair." β
Ling Piao's body in mid-air unconsciously moved back slightly, as if he instinctively resisted Tianxian's request, and frowned and said, "You can't weaken the search strength a little." Why do you have to have my hair? β
Tianxian was very strange, "Using hair is the most convenient way, or do you want me to feel like I hold your hand." β
"You ......" Ling glared angrily, but he couldn't do anything about the day, he snorted and immediately pulled out two strands of hair, "It's good for you! But this is the last time! My hair is not used for this." β
Tianxian took his hair and couldn't help muttering, "Women are really troublesome, and they don't want to shave their heads, why are they so stingy, and the snow was ......like this at the beginning."
Ling couldn't help but be surprised, "Have you taken Xue's hair?"
"What's wrong?" Tian Xian looked at Ling strangely, "She's much more generous than you, and both hairs are so stingy......"
Ling's eyebrows jumped, but he didn't say much, just snorted and turned his back.
Tian Xian couldn't understand Ling's thoughts, so he simply didn't care, and silently went against his mind and began to search for Eve's location in detail.
Although this is almost a forbidden place for life, the void spirit is extremely active, with Ling's hair as the medium, Tian Xian found Eve's breath as soon as possible, and she is indeed here.
Carefully aware of the precise position of this breath, with the passage of time, Tianxian's expression became more and more strange, and his eyebrows couldn't help but wrinkle together.
Ling had been secretly paying attention to Tianxian's movements, and seeing that Tianxian's expression was wrong, he couldn't help but ask, "How is it?"
Tianxian's fingers suddenly moved slightly, and the two strands of hair were instantly burned to ashes by the flames of the evil eye, Ling was taken aback, and couldn't help exclaiming: "My hair!"
Tian Xian had already raised his head, looked at the sky, and said solemnly: "Unfortunately, it seems that we are going to fly into the sky to find Eve." β
Ling looked at the ashes of his hair, and was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but raise his head, "Heavenly?"
"Eve's breath came from the sky, and there was nothing wrong with it! β
Ling looked overhead in astonishment, where the shining sun was shining with dazzling light, "How is this possible?"
Tian Xian played with the sky and thought for a while, and said, "Ling! If I'm not mistaken, you should be much more powerful now than before, right?"
"Why do you ask this?"
"If so, can you let the Ethereals scout the sky?"
Ling pursed his lips, "If it's really in the sky, then ...... It may be a little tricky, but I've heard that our Sky Eye Clan has the ability to build invisible towers in mid-air, and the big house we live in now is the highest masterpiece of the Sky Eye Clan. So ......"
As he spoke, Ling glanced at Tian Xian, who was also looking over, and both of them saw a little nervousness in each other's eyes.
"Didn't you build it by your Tianyan clan?" asked Tian Xian.
Ling smiled slightly wryly, "If not, what are you going to do?"
Tian Xian licked his lips. Suddenly, he knocked on the hilt of the Great Sword of the Desolate Dust, "Can you feel anything?"
Ling was very surprised by Tian Xian's strange behavior, but she immediately realized something in her heart, and her eyes couldn't help but quickly search back and forth on the Huangchen Great Sword, with a bit of anticipation in her eyes.
"Nothing! It was nothingness. The voice of the evil eye came, and this time the voice did not evade Ling.
Ling was a little excited when he heard this voice, "This...... This is the evil eye?"
"Little girl, you have a good eye!" laughed the evil eye.
Tian Xian increased his strength and flicked the big sword a few times. Continue asking, "What does a piece of nothingness mean?"
"A piece of nothingness, a piece of nothingness! nothing. The evil eye replied in a strange way.
Tian Xian silently took off the big sword and aimed at the air, "Does that mean that if I throw you on it now, you will also turn into nothingness, and I will never suffer from it." β
Evil Eye immediately shouted, "Stinky boy, you don't want revenge! you can survive so many dangers." If you dare to kill them all now, I will make you regret it!"
Tian Xian smiled and put away the sword casually. "I'm just making an analogy, why are you so excited, but if you're so scared, is it dangerous?"
"Hmph! It's dangerous for you people. β
Tian Xian immediately took off the big sword again, and the scream of the evil eye suddenly sounded again......
Ling Zai looked at Tian Xian and his sword "talking" about something, although he had never been to the Human Continent. But I've heard the name of the evil eye, and I have the impression that it is an all-enable, extremely vicious evil spirit, but now it looks ...... How does it look like a pet that has been kept privately?
"You mean...... I don't feel anything on it. Is it the world of the void?" The "discussion" between Tian Xian and the Evil Eye finally came to fruition.
"Probably, but I'm not sure, after all, I'm not good at probing, and the environment here has greatly suppressed my power. β
It's the truth that he can still give some advice in this environment.
"Ling, can you take a look?"
Ling Zheng wondered why the Evil Eye was such a large sword instead of the legendary slender gray sword, and was stunned by Tian Xian's question, and immediately replied, "Okay, you wait a minute!"
After silently saying something, a black unknown rune suddenly appeared on Ling's forehead, and his eyes lit up with a strange light at the same time.
Looking up at the air, Ling jumped up in mid-air, just when Tian Xian thought that Ling was going to fly into the sky like this, a fierce wind rose from the ground, and a strange light surged on the ground in between, and in the deep chirp, a huge giant beast seemed to come out of the ground with a huge luminous body, jumped into the air, firmly caught Ling's body, and carried her into the air.
Tian Xian looked up at the sky, the thing looked like a giant walrus, the translucent body was shining, this was the first time Tian Xian had seen such a solid, shiny ethereal spirit.
The "walrus" looks clumsy, but it is very flexible in mid-air, and it is swirling around in mid-air, very fast, and every movement will sprinkle a little bit of bright light from mid-air, and the whole clear sky suddenly has a little more color.
Soon Tian Xian found that Ling kept circling around an area, occasionally leaning over, but immediately retreating, and the "walrus" would make a low chirp at this time, as if he was a little afraid.
"Ling, take me up!" Tian Xian mustered up his strength and shouted loudly to the sky.
Riding the "walrus" slowly landed in mid-air, and looked at Tian Xian a little strangely, "You're not a real soul eater, I'm afraid you're ......"
Tian Xian had already jumped up, jumped to a terrifying height of twenty meters, and one of them turned over and fell to Ling's side.
Ling was stunned, twenty meters is seven or eight stories high, it was the first time Ling had seen someone who could jump so high, this was simply a monster!
However, Ling soon found the clue, around Tian Xian's body. There was a faint ethereal aura around him, and his right eye had already begun to flash with golden light.
"It turns out that I borrowed the power of the Void Spirit, but you know what kind of power to use in this place to save the effort. β
"I'm just a half-soul eater, and I'm afraid I'm going to fall from the sky if I can't hold it up after a while, so you'd better take me to that strange place quickly!"
Ling immediately lifted into the air. He frowned and said, "Do you have any way?" I have checked that place, the sky seems to be fake, and there are very quiet but powerful ethereal spirits condensed around it, like a fault line that separates the world, ordinary ethereal spirits cannot be approached, and other beings naturally have no choice. β
"Okay, take me there!" Tian Xian only nodded.
Ling was even more strange, "What the hell are you going to do?"
Tian Xian looked at Ling, "I just don't want to do nothing." It's just a matter of watching you go about your business, and of course I might find out something. β
"Really?" Ling couldn't believe Tian Xian's answer at all.
"You won't believe me if it's false, okay, let's go!" Tian Xian smiled and urged.
Ling was a little sulky, because he completely didn't want to be idle, and while rising to the sky, he warned: "Although we seem to have found what we are looking for, you better be honest." It's a strange place, and the ethereals might be rioting about something. And under their protection, we don't know what's inside. β
"I'll be careful. Tianxian handed Ling a reassuring look, but this made Ling even more uncertain.
Soon, Ling took Tian Xian to the middle of the air, that strange area.
"Look!"
Tianxian frowned, because Tianxian couldn't see anything. There was only an empty sky in front of him, and even if he pushed the power of the ethereal spirit to the limit, he still couldn't see anything.
Tian Xian understands that after all, he is not a real soul eater, and in terms of induction of void spirits, there are some places where he cannot be like a spirit eater. Maybe Ling could see those void spirits, but he couldn't.
"Can you get closer?"
"It can be dangerous. Although Ling said this, he still moved closer, and at the same time became more vigilant, "These ethereal spirits are very quiet, but the ethereal spirits are never quiet things, they should be quiet in this area for some reason, if you don't believe in touching......"
"Closer!"
"Closer?"
"Closer!"
"Okay, but it can't get any closer!" Ling moved closer again.
"Closer!"
"Are you crazy, can't get any closer!"
"It's okay!" Tian Xian immediately interrupted Ling's words, "I trust you, we'll be fine." β
"I ......," Ling was speechless for a while.
Tian Xian looked at Ling closely, "We didn't come here to hide, did we? We have to do something, lean in! The closer the better! If something happens...... I don't think you can handle it! I'm not worried at all!"
"But I'm worried!" Ling Dawei was furious.
"It's okay, I'll protect you, so you don't have to worry!" Tian Xian was still very calm, "Trust me, and believe in yourself! If you don't try, you will never succeed!"
Ling definitely disagreed with Tian Xian's statement, but Tian Xian's sparkling eyes made her a little unbearable, and the willingness to insist on it baked Ling's nerves like fire.
"You madman!" Ling avoided Tianxian's eyes, gritted his teeth fiercely, and harnessed the "Walrus" to approach again, "If something happens, you are ready to be a substitute for me!"
"It's an honor!"
When the "walrus" stopped in mid-air again, Tian Xian looked forward intently, and finally a smile appeared on his face, and at this distance, he could barely see something.
This is a very large area, and Tianxian can only see that it is huge, but he does not know what shape it is, because Tianxian can't see it far away.
"Is it tower-shaped?" asked Tian Xian.
"Probably ......" Ling looked up at the sky again, this area where the quiet ethereal spirits gathered, like a giant pillar that reached the sky, rose to an endless high sky, "It should be considered a tower-shaped." β
"Sort of...... That's enough, too. Tian Xian took a deep breath and stretched out his hand forward.
Ling was almost frightened and almost screamed, Tian Xian actually reached out to touch those void spirits! But before she stepped forward to stop her, Tian Xian's other hand had already held her down, "Quiet!"
Ling couldn't do anything, Tian Xian's hand had already touched those void spirits......
The ethereal spirits swam quietly in a flat area, and the act of idleness was like throwing a cross into a pool of unwavering water from an ancient well.
In an instant, as if receiving some kind of order, those originally quiet ethereal spirits gathered in this direction, and a strange roar swept over like a storm.
"Hurry up!" Ling didn't care about anything else, and pounced on Tianxian.
Tian Xian pressed Ling again with one hand, his face sank like water, his eyelids didn't blink in the face of the swarming void spirits, and his arms still maintained a posture of stretching forward.
The ethereal spirits that surged like a tide were squeezed together in front of Tian Xian's eyes, and countless shapes of transparent ethereal spirit forms were superimposed and squeezed against each other, and it was impossible to distinguish the number at all.
But...... None of them could step past the invisible wall, and could only roar angrily at a distance from the sky.
In a short period of time, Ling was already nervous and broke out in a slight cold sweat, "You...... What the hell did you do?"
Tian Xian slowly withdrew his hand and shook it in front of Ling's eyes, this hand was intact, and there was no trace of being hurt by the void spirit, which made Ling Bu's eyes widen even more, this hand should have been gnawed all over the place just now!
He smiled very incomprehensibly, and Tianxian had the intention to tease Ling, "You see, they are afraid of me." β
"Fear ...... Afraid?" Ling looked a little afraid of Tian Xian, "Why does the void spirit ...... Why are they afraid of you?"
"Because you're stupid. β
"Because ......" Ling was stunned for a moment, "I...... Am I stupid?"
Tian Xian laughed, immediately took a breath of cold air, his frozen lungs stiffened, and he quickly shrank his head, and lowered his voice before saying, "I just put in other void spirits, and by the way, I covered up my own breath, you see...... The ethereal spirits have been devoured, but because of those ethereal spirits, my hands have been neglected, hehe...... In the end, there are some beings without wisdom. β
Ling was stunned and looked at Tianxian's intact hand, "You...... You're crazy! If you don't completely hide your breath, if you guess wrong, they rushed out, we're ......."
"I can naturally hide my breath, and I don't guess, but know. β
"Know?"
Tian Xian unloaded the Great Sword of the Wasteland, and his eyes gradually became cold, "You just said that the Void Spirit is never a quiet thing, right?
"This ......"
"The Hangu Pagoda is the place where the Tianyan Clan distributes sinners, so what are these void spirits used for?"
"Uh...... Yes, guards?"
"Yes! These ethereal spirits must be guards, and they are for internal guards, so they can't move freely, only in this area, and have to be quiet. While saying that he was alive, Tian Xian clenched the Great Sword of the Wasteland, and his eyes began to become sharp.
"You...... What are you going to do?" Ling suddenly realized that something was wrong.
"I didn't test it in vain just now, these ethereal states are probably ...... Tough Cheng dΓΉ. Tian Xian nodded a few times, "Probably...... Got it. β
Ling felt worse and worse.
Tian Xian took a deep breath, "We are very lucky, this invisible wall with the ethereal spirit is one-way, it seems that the people who built this place in the first place intended to let the ethereal spirit kill an outsider, which provides us with a lot of convenience." β
"You...... Do you ......" Ling's face became so ugly.
"Get behind me!
"Hum!" the great sword of the desolate dust roared, and the flames of blue on the outside and white on the inside ignited.
These days, I have a headache and a bad brain, and it seems that I am going to make up for it slowly...... (To be continued......)