Vol 3 Chapter 33: doubt

The eruption of hundreds of volcanic islands around the huge sea column has stopped, but they have created smoke, dust, and water vapor, turning this sea area into a foggy place that can't be seen a little farther away.
It has only been more than an hour in the past, and the reinforcements sent by the clique can not come in such a short time no matter how fast they are sent by the news. Even with the speed of Jin Dan Grandmaster, it will take five or six hours to pass.
Of course, in fact, it can't wait that long, because there is a teleportation array here, but unfortunately it is not a teleportation array directly to the main island of Penglai Island. Reinforcements can only go to nearby islands, such as Mingyue Island Tidal Square, and then use the teleportation array.
Therefore, coupled with the speed at which the news spreads, the reinforcements of the martial art should arrive in about two hours.
But this is not the reason why Penglai sent the disciples to watch. After leaving a few disciples waiting for reinforcements and guarding the mine, the deacons took other disciples into the mist and searched for the disciples who were missing during the patrol. .
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Shi Xuan turned into a breeze and followed this corridor, constantly escaping outside. When passing a certain corner, Shi Xuan unexpectedly saw a piece of clothing corner of the inner disciple. Judging by the clothes color and style, it should be Ma Yuanjing.
Ma Yuanjing also entered this Flame Mountain? Where is he now? Questions like this immediately entered Shi Xuan's mind.
Without daring to delay, Shi Xuan continued to escape along the corridor. This time he was more cautious. To use his Gengjin Sword Qi again, he would need to be warmed up for several months. If he meets Ma Yuanjing, it will be dead or alive.
Unexpectedly, Shi Xuan did not encounter any difficulties along the way, and he arrived at the exit half an hour later.
The exit was a gorgeously decorated arch, and the outside was foggy. Shi Xuan was a little worried. After using several spells to detect the outside, he was relieved that it was not too dangerous.
After turning into a clear breeze and escaping into the mist, Shi Xuan immediately flew down against the sea with a Vientiane Shadowless Sword, and at the same time judged his position based on the direction of the sea.
When Shi Xuan's soul power consumed more than half, and he stopped to prepare to recover with a pill, a few figures flew over in the mist in front of him. Look carefully, it was the costume of the Penglai school disciple.
"Is my Penglai disciple in front?" the cultivators who flew over also asked from a distance.
Shi Xuan shouted loudly, "I don't know who are the senior disciples Shi Xuan in the Xiawaimen?"
The other side heaved a sigh of relief, and a familiar voice came: "Junior Brother Shi, this is Yan Wanxiao. These are the disciples guarding the mine." The disciples couldn't hold back their joy, and whispered: "Finally again. I've found a disciple." For this kind of rescue of fellow students, Zongmen has always been generous with rewards, which can be counted as a lot of good deeds.
Hearing Yan Wanxiao's voice, Shi Xuan drove his sword light and flew over. When he saw Yan Wanxiao and his own embarrassment, he couldn't help but smiled, "I don't know how Brother Yan escaped from the huge shock?" Yan Wanxiao hair. It was messy, there were burn marks in many places on his body, and the robes were also in tatters, and it was barely visible that they were Penglai costumes.
Yan Wanxiao also looked scared: "When Junior Brother Meng and I encountered a huge shock when patrolling, we fainted on the spot, and then we were rushed to the periphery by the sea, and we encountered a volcanic eruption, so it became like this. Brother Meng, I think he should have the protective items given to him by Grandmaster Meng, and it won't be a big problem."
Shi Xuan understood that Yan Wanxiao was reminding himself that Meng Yu should be fine, and he had to be careful, but Meng Yu had nothing to do, but he never knew better than Shi Xuan. Shi Xuan also made a look of fear: "My encounter with Senior Brother Yan is similar, but the damage to the Taoist robe is more serious, so we can only change one on the spot, and then fly back to the center without knowing the direction. As for Senior Brother Ma , But never saw him."
The two of them had to talk for a while, and there was another loud noise in the distance, and the fog was dispelled one after another. What appeared in front of Shi Xuan and the others was a majestic mountain of flames in the distance, and purple-blue erupted from it. The flames burned the sea water to a level.
Shi Xuan opened his mouth and looked at the scene in front of him, knowing that Nanming Lihuo Lake should have erupted. If he walked late for a while, I am afraid it would turn into a plume of smoke. It's just that the timing of this outbreak is too coincidental, right?
However, this also relieved Shi Xuan’s worries. Originally, he wanted to pretend to be injured and return to the sect first, so that even if Meng Li knew that he had killed Meng Yuchang by secret method, he could also tell the truth in Zhanglu Hall. The monks with normal IQ can see that if they are deliberately preparing to start, Yongxiang will definitely not shield him, but that will reveal his knowledge of Taoism, but at that time, can Taoism be more important than life?
As for now, Shi Xuan was relieved, Meng Li could only see a group of Nanming Lihuo even if he used the secret method.
The eruption soon ended, and the fog came from outside again, turning this place into a world of fog and smoke again. Shi Xuan suppressed the doubts and followed Yan Wanxiao and others in the fog to search for other disciples.
The disciples were also very curious about the mountain of flames, so the direction they searched was to subconsciously get closer and closer to the mountain of flames.
At a certain moment when the mist was blown thinly by the wind, Shi Xuan seemed to see a high-crown dungeon robe with a pattern of fire, flames as a seal, two wide sleeves, and an ancient-looking middle-aged tall monk stepped from the direction of the Flame Islands to the sky above the Flame Mountain.
Mai? Not flying? ! Shi Xuan thought that he was dazzled and wanted to look again, but was blocked by the fog.
"Let's go, there seems to be a disciple ahead? Let's go and take a look." Yan Wanxiao said to several people, Shi Xuan was not good enough, and followed Yan Wanxiao with doubts.
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Above the Flame Mountain.
The ancient-looking middle-aged monk looked around and said to himself: "Fortunately, I’m catching up. The old Tao has long calculated that this sacred mountain of flame will be born during this time, but he never thought it was today. The old ghost was blocked, and it was almost too late." After he finished speaking, he slapped one after another simple talisman on the flame mountain.
As Fu Zhuan hits more and more, the Flame Mountain is gradually getting smaller, starting from a few thousand feet, but in a moment, it has become several dozen feet in size.
At this moment, the ancient clumsy cultivator's face condensed, and then he stopped the action of marking the seal, showing a sincere smile, and said to the east: "Two fellow Taoists, this sacred mountain of flames is a thing of the old way. But it’s incompatible with your practice, and it’s of little use to take it home, so let’s just give it up."
Seeing that there was no movement in the east, Brother Gu Zhuo said with a cross: "This matter is regarded as my Zhu Yanzi owes two people a favor, and I will be repaid in the future."
At this time, there were two cold snorts from the east, and then a thundercloud, a clear breath suddenly appeared, and then hurried away, disappearing in the breath.
Zhu Yanzi breathed a sigh of relief now, one-on-one, but not afraid of himself, he couldn't think of two old monsters coming together, so he could only give way to one or two. Fortunately, the flame mountain was of little use to them.
Continuing to type the talisman, and finally with a finger, he placed the Flame Mountain in his palm, and appeared on the horizon with one step toward the Flame Islands, and disappeared after another step.
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Shi Xuan and others successively found several outer disciples, plus news from other teams. Now that they are missing, only Meng Yuchang and Ma Yuanjing are missing. Of course, other outer disciples also have bad luck. , Had become a corpse when he was found, his whole body was scorched and incomplete, it should have been directly encountered by a volcanic eruption when he was above the crater.
Suddenly, the sea water underneath began to move unexpectedly, surging violently towards a certain area in the center, even fog and smoke seemed to have this tendency.
The disciples discovered the anomaly, looked at each other a few times, and unanimously decided to quit first, so they flew out and flew away, because they were worried about encountering danger, they all resorted to their whole body. Xuan also added a small fresh breeze when he controlled the sword light.
Halfway through the flight, the suction power of the vortex in the center became more and more powerful, making all the disciples rejoice. If you walk a little late, you have to say whether you can fly.
Soon, the disciples flew out of the misty sea and returned to the island where the mining site was located, and then watched the sea water rush towards the center, and the mist and smoke also shrank rapidly.
After a quarter of an hour, the smoke disappeared, and the wind was calm. Shi Xuan and the disciples who were with him just looked at each other, where is the towering mountain of flames they saw before? It's impossible to be dazzled, so many disciples have seen it!
However, Shi Xuan still has a guess, could it be that the ancient clumsy monk in the high-crown robes sealed the Flame Mountain? How much mana is this? Could this be the true soul of the legendary soul?
At this moment, the teleportation array in the center of the island lit up, and several elders walked out of it. Among them, the head of Tianquan Peak was led by Meng Li. He was holding a extinguished glass lamp in his hand, and his face flew over and shouted loudly: " Who was with Yuchang when the accident happened?"
Yan Wanxiao stood up with a pale face and saluted: "It's a disciple, but the disciple had passed out at the time, but he didn't know where Junior Brother Meng had gone. However, Junior Brother Meng's strength is extraordinary, and he should be able to get away safely."
"Huh, get out safely?! Don't you know this soul lamp? Yuchang's soul lamp has been extinguished!" Meng Li said angrily.
Meng Li was not polite. He performed a polygraph and interrogated Yan Wanxiao, but what Yan Wanxiao said was the truth, and the natural light remained unchanged.
Another white-haired elder walked to Meng Li's side and held Meng Li: "Senior Brother Meng, it should not be him. You don't remember. Yutan's soul lamp was always on when the accident happened, and it didn't go out until an hour later. . It should be something encountered where the flame erupted."
"Huh." Meng Li withdrew the polygraph with an ugly expression, and then took a few elders to check out the flames.
After that, several groups of inner disciples rushed over through the teleportation formation.
Naturally, Meng Li and others couldn't find Meng Yuchang in the sea of ​​flames, so they had to turn their direction to Ma Yuanjing, so they investigated Shi Xuan who was with Ma Yuanjing. Except for that piece of clothing, Shi Xuan did not see Ma Yuanjing again. Naturally, what he said made the elders doubt whether Ma Yuanjing and Meng Yuchang had a dispute with Meng Yuchang because of a certain treasure. Yu Tan escaped after killing it. But the news from the sect was that Ma Yuanjing's soul lamp had also gone out.
Both monks in the air-entraining period were dead, but the interrogation of the monks in the out-of-aperture period was relaxed, and even the polygraph was useless! Because no elder wants to believe that one monk in the out-of-aperture period can kill two monks in the entraining period!
In the end, Meng Li unwillingly used the soul-calling secret method. Although he died before the Yinshen stage, his soul disappeared, but he could use the clothes of the deceased to hook the breath he left before his death, and finally received certain news.
Shi Xuan understood that the aura left by Meng Yuchang had already dissipated completely when the Nanming Lihuo Lake erupted, so he was not afraid. He watched Meng Li's practices throughout the process. There is no doubt that he shamefully failed.