He slowly said, "Red Shadow has gone crazy, and Ruan Zhu Jing is... "He's already dead."
"What?!" Shixiong Ruan was dead?!
This bad news was like a bolt from the blue! I think that my expression must be very fierce right now, because after Qing Ling said those words, he immediately came over and held my hand, and even comforted me softly with a pat on the back, "Ah Wu, don't be sad. Although this Yuan Zhujing is already dead, maybe we can still see him in the next layer. "You know, this Bewitching Formation is like a pagoda. There are similar people on every floor. Perhaps he is still alive and well …"
I felt that my hands and feet were trembling, cold sweat flowed down my body, as though I was about to collapse. "But, didn't Qing Ling just say that the enchantment here is actually a parallel dimension? Then, if Elder Apprentice Brother Ruan died here, wouldn't it affect him in the mortal world? Would he be injured because of this? Will you... Would he really die? "
Qing Ling's face also became pale. He opened his mouth but did not say anything, and in the end, he lowered his head, revealing a helpless expression. "Sorry, this … "I don't know either …"
After he finished speaking, he ran back to where the Tower of Saint's Tower was, as if he was hoping for a fluke. At this moment, the earth-shattering tremors from before have already disappeared. Qing Ling and I stood in the midst of the ruins and stared at a deep and dark hole in front of us. The Tower of Holy Light had sunk into the ground, leaving behind a gigantic black hole in the ground as though a beast had opened its bloody mouth.
We don't know how deep this hole is, but we can't see the end of it from where we stand, not even the tip of the Tower of Saints. It was pitch black down there. Could Shixiong Yuan and the red light have been buried underground? Just thinking about it makes me shudder.
"What happened? Which demon attacked the Evergreen Sect?" I muttered to Qing Ling, while his eyes were filled with pain and confusion.
"Aren't we going to save Brother Ruan and the others?" I asked again.
Qing Ling shook his head, "Ruan Zhu Jing is already dead. There is no longer a need for us to save him, and the red shadow has already gone crazy. If we bring him up, I'm afraid it will be even harder to deal with him. Let's first find some of our fellow sect members and see if we can be of any help. "
I was so upset that I started to cry. I haven't returned to my sect for hundreds of years. I was still full of yearning and even thought that if I could see Senior Ruan and Hong Hong, I would definitely persuade Hong Hong and have him accept Senior Ruan's feelings. But who would have thought that he would not even be able to see the last time!
"Alright, rather than grieving here, why don't we hurry and find Little Yu and the others? Maybe they need our help right now! " Qing Ling said.
I thought of Xiao Yu, Senior Martial Brother Shangguan and the rest, and immediately stopped crying.
Qing Ling rode on his Immortal sword and rushed straight to the highest peak of the Evergreen Mountain Range, the Zhiyang Peak. Qiyang Peak was the personal residence used by the Evergreen Sect to entertain the returning immortal masters. Because it was a VIP tower, it was built with a jade palace like palace buildings. Normally, it was extremely heavily guarded and at the same time, it was the safest place within the sect. At this moment, Qing Ling's gaze was resolute, as though he had a plan of destination. I didn't ask him why he wanted to go to Qiyang Peak. Perhaps Senior Brother Ruan told him something before his death?
I lay on the Immortal Sword as I looked down at the continuous rise and fall of the mountain forest below me. Changqing is located in the south of the Yunming River, the climate is warm, and the seasons are always spring. In his memories, he remembered Immortal mountains towering into the clouds, white clouds swirling between the mountains, and temples towering and holy. The Evergreen Sect was the largest sect in the martial arts world, and it was also a famous sacred place that cultivators were familiar with.
But at this moment, as the Cyan Cloud Sword got closer and closer to the heart of the Evergreen Sect, I realized that something was wrong with the situation on the ground. First, there were one or two corpses dressed in the robes of Evergreen that occasionally appeared by the side of the road in the forest, and then, as we got closer and closer to the main hall of Evergreen Sect, the fallen comrades could be seen everywhere! Some of them were still swinging their swords while they were alive, while some of them had expressions of either pain or fear.
When we were passing by the plaza in front of the Scripture Tower, I saw hundreds of corpses, and those were the disciples dressed in the robes of the five great halls of the Evergreen Sect. They were all dead by now, some with blood all over their faces, some with green and white faces, some with missing arms and legs. The people in the square seemed to have experienced an extremely arduous battle, and today was probably the first day that this tragedy occurred. As a result, the corpses on the ground piled up and emitted a faint stench of corpses, causing the scene to truly lie on the ground for a thousand miles.
Qing Ling calmly controlled the Immortal Sword and didn't lower his head to look at the corpses. Although I could tell from his expression that he had already seen the tragic state of the ground, he didn't stay here for long.
"Don't look, those are all fake. As long as we break through this formation, we might be able to save them. " Tsing Ling said to me. However, I caught a trace of unconfidence in his slightly trembling voice. Is he trying to comfort me? Perhaps, he was encouraging himself?
I was very scared, but I didn't want to show it at this moment. I didn't want to affect Qing Ling's decision.
Since he was going to Qiyang Peak, then he must have his own reasons.
However, the situation in the square beneath my feet is too tragic. I can't bear to look, but I can't help but look. In the end, I flew across the plaza with my eyes wide open. I saw something from the center, and discovered that the corpses of the disciples at the center of the plaza, although scattered all over the place, seemed to be displayed in accordance with some kind of formation array. Because the Evergreen Sect has five branch halls, the disciples' attire is clearly different, so it is not difficult for me to distinguish the identities of those people before they died. The ones at the outer most are the young disciples of the five branch halls, and the ones at the middle are the hall guards who have relatively deep magic power, and the people at the center of the most important formation are the hall masters with the highest magic power!
In other words, most of the disciples of the five great halls of the Evergreen Sect had arrived at the square and used their own magic power to form a huge Demon Subduing Formation. Perhaps they wanted to use the Demon Subduing Array to kill the demons, but it was obvious that the array was broken and they had all sacrificed themselves for it. I was extremely saddened to see senior brother Shangguan. When I left the Evergreen Sect in my previous life, he had already taken Qing Ling's place and ascended to the position of Hall Master of the Green Wood Hall. He hadn't ascended to Immortal Ascension in hundreds of years, but he had died tragically in the Demon Subduing Formation!
I couldn't help but pull on Qing Ling's sleeves. "Wait!" I see senior brother Shangguan! "
Qing Ling's expression also faltered slightly, but he didn't stop there. "That's fake, don't take it too seriously. We can't stay here much longer. "
I cried, "At least let me bury senior brother Shangguan's body, right?"
Qing Ling lowered his head and looked at the square before waving his sleeves. Immediately, Senior Martial Brother Shangguan's corpse was gone.