The luxurious carriage had been parked in the backyard, and its owner was already seated in an elegant bedroom facing a garden full of flowers. This is the pavilion specially arranged by the Kapok City Lord for these ghost owl messengers.

In the bedroom, a bright bronze mirror is placed on the quaint table. In the mirror, a young woman wearing a bright and beautiful blue skirt has picturesque eyebrows, bright eyes like waves, and skin like snow. Her slender jade fingers untied the pale red rope tied to her long jet-black hair and spread it over her shoulders like a waterfall.

She picked up a delicate fuchsia wooden comb and smoothed her long hair down the stream. The Frosty Witch felt that her hair had been rampled by the wind just after she had just gone out in the car, and she needed to tidy it up again.

Behind her stood a tall, handsome man with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, who was none other than Mu Chenghei, who had been escorted by the Ghost Owl Saintess to the Sleeping Evil Mountain to inherit the throne of the Tree Emperor.

He stood obediently behind the shrine maiden, a flattering smile on his face, and at the same time stretched out his hands and gently kneaded her on the shoulders to relieve her fatigue.

If Gou Zhu is here, he will immediately recognize that this "Cold Dust Witch" is none other than the senior sister Lan Ruoshuang, who is from the same door as Gou Zhu and has a blood contract with him and worships as a brother and sister.

After Lan Ruoshuang died of her master Gu Wentian, she disappeared along with the Soul Wound Sword, and even Gou Zhu didn't know her whereabouts. But in fact, she was sentenced out of the division and defected to the ancient family of Yuntian City.

For ordinary monks, betrayal of the sect is a heinous crime. And for her, betrayal is just a matter of routine. She never believed in anyone, let alone any sect or force. Her purpose in defecting to the Gu clan was also to betray. Not only does she want to betray the Gu family, but she also wants to take revenge on the lonely revenge of her life, and she wants to completely exterminate the Gu family!

As long as she can't hide in the Gu family, the Jade Palace doesn't know where she went. What's more, the Torture Hall Elder Ghost Xuanyin, who was originally responsible for chasing down defected disciples, had an inextricable relationship with the Gu family. No one knows if he knows that Lan Ruoshuang is hiding in the Gu family, anyway, he just checked Lan Ruoshuang's whereabouts and left it at that.

Lan Ruoshuang's bitter cold body was originally valued by the Gu family, not to mention that she also held the Soul Wound Sword, and secretly the Gu family had already regarded her as Gu Wentian's concubine or even the main room to cultivate. After Gu Wentian unfortunately died, they did not hesitate to make a waste use and accepted this "quasi-widow".

Of course, it is impossible for the Gu family to fully trust this woman. Fortunately, the Gu clan has many connections, so it didn't take long to send her to the Hanchen tribe in the bitter cold north to cultivate. This Senior Sister Lan has become the most important "Hanchen witch" of the Cold Dust Tribe with her charming face and a pair of ecstatic eyes in the Cold Dust Department.

When Gu Zhongyou set off a plan to seize the throne of the Demon Emperor in the demon world, he thought of this "Cold Dust Witch". He pulled the cold dust into the plan. Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, now is the time for this witch to show her skills and make meritorious contributions to his Gu clan.

For Lan Ruoshuang, only by making more contributions and occupying a more important position in the Gu family can she direct her real revenge plan. If you want to destroy the family, it's not as simple as killing one or two people. Fortunately, she has time and patience. And she never asks for help from any forces, she wants to build her own power with her own hands.

Mu Chengsi rubbed her soft and boneless fragrant shoulders, looking at her beautiful image in the mirror, he obviously felt that her face was cold, and her face was full of unhappiness. Of course, he wouldn't ask the witch what was wrong with her heart like a fool, but he immediately filtered through everything that had happened today, made a guess, and then smiled:

"That ghost owl saint is still so short-tempered, it is really too far behind her junior sister. I put up with her for a long time today, but it's a pity that Master Zhongyou and the ancestors have to ask us to cooperate with the ghost owl, otherwise I won't be too lazy to deal with this kind of woman! Even if I ascend to the throne of the Demon Emperor in the future, I only wish that you will be the queen alone, and I will never have a second woman. ”

When Lan Ruoshuang heard him say this, she didn't answer, a strange smile appeared in the corner of her eyes. I couldn't tell if she was happy because of the love words, or if she was laughing at his obsession. But the more he can't see through the woman, the more he can't stop.

Helping her gently massage her shoulders and seeing that she seemed to be enjoying herself, Mu Seungji was greatly inspired, as if he was pinching the most beautiful thing in the world.

In fact, in terms of appearance, in the Xuanmen rivers and lakes, Lan Ruoshuang can only be regarded as middle and upper. But she has a different kind of charm that no woman can imitate. What's more, this is a delicate and incomprehensible, but not blasphemous poisonous flower.

She has a bitter cold body, and this strange physique is a great temptation for Mu Chenghe. No one can touch it at will, except him. As if that was a proud achievement in itself.

He is a descendant of the Tree Queen, and has an incomparably powerful Tree Emperor bloodline. It is said that as long as the physical body is refined to the level of the Purple Mansion, he can withstand the cold poison in the body of the bitter cold. At that time, this bitter cold body not only did not cause harm to him, but it was of great benefit to his cultivation.

Of course, all this was prepared by the Gu clan for Gu Wentian. It's just that Gu Wentian no longer exists.

Mu Chenghe's cultivation was originally not far from the Purple Mansion. When he ascends to the position of the Demon Emperor, there will naturally be no shortage of various resources. Even if he used blood spirit stones to pile up, it would be enough to pile him up in the Purple Mansion.

In the midst of his thoughts, he suddenly felt that his hands and wrists were gently grabbed by this junior sister. Lan Ruoshuang quietly pulled out his two hands, her hair was curled, and said:

"Let's talk about it after you ascend the throne as the Demon Emperor. I'm going to retreat and practice, and no one will come in and disturb me until noon tomorrow. ”

Mu Chengsi smiled embarrassedly, although he was extremely unwilling in his heart, as if he had been slashed but couldn't fight back, he still obediently retreated.

Thousands of miles away, in the lava deep in the South Underworld, the Spirit Sail Flying Boat crashed into no ordinary rock. These giants are black all over, with sharp edges, like knives and axes, and although shiny on the surface, they are not gold and iron, but obsidian-like crystals.

These rocks are the aggregation of countless sharp flakes, forming huge stone pillars with a diameter of several zhang, with no head at the top and no tail at the bottom.

The Sail began to turn to the right, and soon came across the second and third stone pillars. All the stone pillars are the same size, standing parallel to each other, forming a row of huge fences. There is a gap of more than ten zhang between the stone pillars and the stone pillars.

There were countless formations on the stone pillars, and an invisible barrier was drawn in the gap between the two stone pillars, and the spiritual light fluctuated in the lava, like countless crystal filaments implicated in the water, blocking the huge wind boat that was about to break in.

Huang Lu tried to force his way through. But she found that the crystals were extremely tough and extremely fine, tightly pressed against the pure yang shield outside the big ship, making a sharp grinding sound. Once this crystal filament cuts through the Pure Yang Shield, I am afraid that it will be able to slice the entire big ship into pieces in an instant.

Theoretically, she could parse the formation here, crack it layer by layer, and eliminate these crystals one by one. But it wasn't on the ground, the entire array was soaked in boiling lava. The bright lava blocked her vision, making it impossible for her to see the array.

Lian Ling let the wind boat moor between the two huge stone pillars, looked at the looming crystals in the lava, and stretched out his right palm. She quickly condensed a strong ball of green light in her right palm, which she threw into the bright lava in front of her, and quickly said in her mouth: "Mu Dun, Immortal Tree!"

Countless green shoots sprouted from this ball of light, and a tree grew out of the lava. The dense shadows of the branches and leaves burn when they meet the fire, but after burning, they form a kind of ash that is extremely resistant to high temperatures. The ashes float in the lava, instead forming a ring of protection.

Countless green shoots and roots continued to grow, and a large tree with coiled roots and branches like snakes forcibly grew out of the lava.

It was surrounded by a ring of charred ashes and a protective wall of overlapping walls, with a powerful trunk and countless branches growing in between. Underneath it is a huge root system that is deeply embedded in the lava, constantly being scorched by the lava while constantly absorbing the aura of water and soil from the lava.

In the dense branches, a passage through the lava was formed. It's just that these passages are not airtight. From time to time, lava dripped from the gaps between the branches and leaves overhead, like golden rain.

The branches of the big tree clinged to the Lingfan Wind Boat one end, and at the end of the other side it touched was a strange gray space, where Huang Lu could see that there was an enchantment that cut off the line of sight, and the line of sight could not see through it.

Although the immortal tree planted by Lian Ling opened a path in the lava, it could not dislodge those sharp crystal filaments. Those crystals shimmered with a metallic sheen, made of pure gold-blended qi. Jin Nengkemu. Immortal trees can grow without them, but they can't get rid of them.

Fortunately, although the gap between these sharp filaments cannot pass through the spirit sail boat, it is not a problem to pass through a person if you are careful. It's just that there is no danger behind the gray barrier at the end of the passage, but it is impossible to predict. Lian Ling frowned slightly, and the content recorded in Qin Zunyang's travelogue came to mind:

"Vermilion Bird Palace, the bones of the small part of the holy beast Vermilion Bird have been transformed. The shape is like a cage, and the Xuanjing fossil is a fence, which rises and falls every 500 years. When sinking, it goes deep into the polar vortex, and it is impossible to calculate it. When floating, it drifts with the South Underworld Current, and the depth is only 1,000 zhang. Follow the direction of the extreme current, and it can be reached by the law boat. However, there will be misfortune if you enter, and it can be solved with killing. ”

Attached is a diagram of the South Pole Flow that he calculated. With this diagram, it is possible to deduce in detail the time period when Suzaku Palace ascended and the location of the flow in the lava when it ascended. This position is not fixed, but can be estimated at any time from the astrological disk and the geocompass.

At the same time when he found that Dead Murong's blood-seeking disk pointed to this sea of fire in the south, Lian Ling roughly guessed the story.

More than 500 years ago, Qin Zunyang, Mu Ye, and Dead Wood Rong came to the South Hellfire Sea to find the Vermilion Bird Palace. Qin Zunyang had already calculated the location of the Vermilion Bird Palace, but he did not calculate that he would be intercepted by a strong enemy on the road.

After a great battle, the Dharma boat they were carrying was damaged and could no longer enter the sea of fire. By the time they got a new magic boat, they had already missed the last opportunity, and they could only watch the Vermilion Bird Palace fall into the abyss of the sea of fire and sink thousands of miles. And the next chance will be more than 500 years later.

Qin Zunyang, Mu Ye, and Kumu Rong should all three of them have mastered the method of calculating the location of the Vermilion Bird Palace. If Qin Zunyang was still there, he would naturally not let go of the opportunity to come again in five hundred Chinese New Year's Eve years. But Qin Zunyang had already soared, and Mu Ye died in the Harmless Mountain. The only one who can come here is the Elder Deadwood Banyan who has followed Mu Ye for many years.

As a royalist, Deadwood Rong was hit by Rong Qianzi and others in the Muye tribe. Now that the prince has returned, he needs more strength to support the prince to ascend the throne, so he came here alone and entered the Suzaku Palace to try to get the opportunity left by the holy beast Suzaku.

It's just that he probably hasn't read Qin Zunyang's notes: "If you enter, there will be doom, and you can solve it with killing." "This withered elder came alone, and of course there was no way out.

Back then, Qin Zunyang went to the North Underworld to find and kill first, and even after the ascension, he kept it in the Transmission Tower, which was very likely for the trip of the Southern Underworld.

It's just that there is one thing that Lian Ling hasn't figured out yet. Qin Zunyang is notoriously unstoppable, he would actually obediently leave all the good things he left for himself, such as the Yin and Yang Twin Crystal Dan Seed and the Vermilion Bird Palace, to the younger monks who left behind in the Jade Palace after five hundred years of ascension?

Could it be that he had already planned to pick it up himself in five hundred years, but for what reason he couldn't come, so he cheapened Gou Zhu and her?

Lian Ling didn't think about it anymore, walked over and brought the fat cat who had eaten the dried salted fish and was licking the salted residues on the deck, held it in his arms and stroked it gently, and said, "The ancestor said that you can solve the misfortune, so you can go over and take a look." Don't worry, Master Zu is right, and you will never be fine. ”

Killing was so shocked that the cat's hair stood on end, and he cried out with a sad face, "I'm just an old cat whose teeth are about to fall out, and I'll be familiar when I come back from a trip to that place!"

Lian Ling smiled: "Who has nothing to do and always brag about how many people have run back and forth in the burning fire domain of the Vermilion Bird's true body?" After speaking, he threw the killing into the passage opened up by the immortal tree, and landed on a thick tree root.

The kill almost fell straight into the lava. It was easy to grasp the root of the tree, and suddenly felt a tingling pain in the back of the buttocks. Looking back, the dense sword qi like countless thorns was approaching from behind. He was forced to flee all the way forward, and took a leap through the gray fog in front of him.

"Let's go. Lian Ling beckoned. She didn't need to wait for the Killing Transmission to reply to her, as long as she felt that after the Killing Felling entered the gray mist, her breath was still normal, indicating that there was no danger behind it.

Huang Lu and the Nineteenth followed her closely, and together they walked into the overlapping gaps between the branches and leaves and roots of the Immortal Tree, carefully dodging the gold-splitting crystals that were intertwined on the road. Even standing at the base of the tree, they could feel that the tree was getting hotter and hotter.

As the three of them walked by, there was a violent spatial wave behind them, and the Lingfan Wind Boat that was more than ten zhang long disappeared without a trace, turning into a small boat the size of a palm, which was collected by Lian Ling into the fairy lotus.

The spherical shell of the rock, which had been stretched out by the shield around the wind, was instantly crumpled into a small paper ball by the crowded lava, and melted and disappeared. Torrents of lava rushed towards the passage behind them, but were clogged by the countless branches and leaves of the Immortal Tree growing again.

Huang Lu followed Lian Ling closely and walked all the way into the gray mist. As soon as she walked in, she immediately felt cool, and the original hot heat wave disappeared without a trace. But at the same time, her feet suddenly emptied, and she was about to fall before she had time to escape.

Fortunately, Lian Ling reacted very quickly, her mind moved slightly, and the bulging wind and mist were like a flying carpet that held her and the nineteenth together.

Only then did she see clearly that the so-called Vermilion Bird Palace turned out to be a huge birdcage floating in the lava of the Southern Underworld!