Purgatory

Chapter 63 Enter the city!

The night is like ink.

Under the extremely dark sky, Wulan Lake is like a giant diamond embedded in the ground, shining brightly.

Bagua City is the most eye-catching light source inside this diamond.

"Where's Sister Ning?"

Su Meng, who was on the edge of the island, saw Pang Jian walking alone from the darkness, and hurriedly looked behind him.

But he didn't see the beautiful figure she was familiar with.

Su Meng had never experienced such a dark night before, and she didn't know if there was any horror hidden in the dark, which made her secretly worried for her "Sister Ning".

"It was too dark on the mountain, and she fell down on the way."

Pang Jian responded indifferently, and his eyes fell on the head of the mysterious turtle engraved by dark green light and strange force.

Zhou Qingchen was taken aback: "You didn't help her up?"

"She has hands and feet, why should I help her?" Pang Jian asked strangely.

"Uh……"

Zhou Qingchen was speechless.

"Boy Zhou, you and little brother Pang should study hard. This woman, you can't be too kind to her, and you can't take care of her feelings! If you have half of Pang Jian's ability, the one you admired in Hongshan Senior Sister Jiang Li, she won't..." Han Duping revealed his shortcomings.

Zhou Qingchen blushed and said angrily, "Shut up!"

Looking at the tortoise head exposed on the ice surface, which was condensed by dark green lines and different forces, Pang Jian was surprised: "This is the entrance of the mirror tunnel?"

"Well, that's what Ning Yao said."

Han Duping nodded before expressing his opinion: "Based on my shallow understanding of the formation, it should really be the entrance of the Mirror Tunnel."

Pang Jian asked curiously, "After entering, where should we come back from?"

Han Duping smiled wryly: "You can only find out when you go in."

"Ok."

Pang Jian stopped asking for details, but looked at the other three people beside him: "Are you going down?"

"Of course I'm going!"

Zhou Qingchen shouted immediately.

"He insists on going, so what can I do? I have to stay with Boy Zhou." Han Duping drooped his head with a reluctance on his face.

"Ah."

Pang Jian gripped the dragon-patterned spear tightly, and planned to be the first to jump to the lake where the turtle head was, and play the role of a pathfinder for everyone.

"You didn't wait for Sister Ning?" Su Meng called angrily.

Pang Jian, who had been waiting for this moment for a long time, didn't respond to her at all. Holding the dragon-pattern spear, he leaped and fell directly towards the turtle's head.

Above the crystal clear lake, the tortoise's head, made of dark green light and condensed force, suddenly changed when he fell.

The head of the tortoise seems to be raising its head high, but there are mysterious ripples around its neck, spreading towards the outside in circles.

At a glance, the turtle's head and neck seem to be surrounded by many collars.

"call!"

Pang Jian landed on the raised tortoise's head, and suddenly disappeared in the center of the rippling light circle.

"Let's go over quickly, so as not to be unable to keep up with him and be forced to disperse after entering!"

Zhou Qingchen made a decisive decision, and as soon as he confirmed that it was a passage that could be entered, he immediately jumped into it.

Han Duping followed him without hesitation.

In the blink of an eye, only Su Meng was left in front of the rippling tortoise head.

The pitch-black isolated island was completely quiet, Su Meng's heart trembled slightly, and she timidly called out to the darkness: "Sister Ning, they have all gone in, are you... still there?"

"exist."

Luo Hongyan's lazy and resentful voice rang out from the darkness unhurriedly, making Su Meng quietly heave a sigh of relief.

Not long after, Luo Hongyan appeared from the darkness and slowly came to Su Meng's side.

She frowned slightly, her bright eyes showed surprise, and she suddenly stared at the north of Wulan Lake, the other side was engulfed by darkness.

That's where the thick "strange fog" first appeared.

"Sister Ning, what are you looking at?"

Su Meng said softly.

She found it very strange that after Luo Hongyan came over, he didn't look at the mysterious turtle representing the passage, and didn't look at the rippling ripples, but instead looked at the other end of the lake.

"It's not what I'm looking at, I feel...something is watching us in the mist."

Luo Hongyan felt inexplicably flustered, always feeling that there was some kind of unknown creature standing in the depths of the "strange fog" that permeated the extreme cold and alien force into the lake.

This feeling made her hair stand on end.

At first, she was still hesitant to enter Bagua City, but suddenly she no longer hesitated, she grabbed Su Meng's little hand, and they jumped to where the turtle head was.

Both of them disappeared in an instant.

When there was no more living thing on the island, from the darkness where Luo Hongyan was staring at before, where the dense "strange fog" filled the place, something slowly emerged.

It was a huge gray ape. It was cold and ferocious, with a pair of ice-blue eyes.

If Pang Jian and Zhou Qingchen were still there, they would recognize this gray ape at a glance. It was the one who was captured by Shangguanqin, imprisoned in an iron cage, and finally released at Pang Jian's plea.

At this moment, compared with when Pang Jian said goodbye, its size has grown several times.

It is like a gray hill, slowly stepping out from the depths of the "strange fog", stepping on the thick crystal ice, and slowly pacing on the lake.

"Crack! Kick!"

It walked towards the turtle's head step by step, and the thick rock ice under its wide soles opened large cracks as it walked.

The rock ice overflowing with the power of extreme cold can't bear the terrifying power every time it lands, and it breaks fragilely and continuously.

However, whenever it leaves those cracks and the extremely cold breath pervades again, it will repair the broken rock ice layer and quickly restore it to its original state.

In the "strange fog" in the dark depths, it seemed to have been waiting for a long time, and it would not reveal itself until everyone disappeared.

Its dense gray ape fur is now silver-gray, and as it shakes its body lightly, the silver-gray ape fur glows with a strange radiance like steel needles.

All the way to the front of the turtle's head, standing on the ice-like translucent lake, it finally stopped.

With a pair of ice-blue evil beast eyes, it looked indifferently at the entrance and exit, and also at the brightly lit Bagua City below.

After a while, it slowly squatted down here
……

Offsite.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Five figures in succession fell heavily to the ground one after another, making them dizzy.

Zhou Qingchen touched his hot ass and cursed angrily: "Why did it fall from the sky?"

As soon as he opened his mouth, he froze.

He stood in front of a huge city gate, the gate was about ten feet high, and it was all made of bluestones, looking at the grandeur and grandeur.

"Bagua City, we have arrived at Bagua City!"

When Zhou Qingchen exclaimed, he saw Pang Jian who had come one step ahead of him, also in front of the huge city gate.

Following Pang Jian's line of sight, he saw two striking big characters above the city gate.

--North Gate.

"Pang Jian, can't you wait for me?"

Luo Hongyan, who fell in the last step, was annoyed as soon as he came over, and asked Xingshi to question him.

Pang Jian turned a deaf ear.

He stared at the word "North Gate" in a daze, and silently ran the "Heaven Nourishing Qi Jue", and said: "The aura of heaven and earth here is pure and rich, and it is many times stronger than the island in the middle of Wulan Lake. "

"Bagua City was located in the Second Realm back then, so it is naturally richer in aura than an island in the middle of a lake in the barren extreme north of the Fourth Realm." Han Duping said as a matter of course.

"But behind us..."

Pang Jian, who came over first, turned around and turned his back to the north gate of Bagua City, looking at the same extreme darkness as the island in the middle of the lake.

Everyone turned around one after another, their eyes showing astonishment.

Ahead, there is boundless darkness, as if covering all the space outside Bagua City!
In the brightly lit Bagua City, the brilliant light from the walls seems to be desperately penetrating into the darkness of the outside world, as if to spread the light into the depths of the darkness.

However, the range in which these dazzling brilliance can spread is only about three feet.

Thirty feet away, there is endless darkness, and there is no ray of light in sight.

Pang Jian said in a deep voice: "In the depths of the darkness, there is an aura that is completely different from Bagua City!"

Before a few people landed, he had just tried it out, and as soon as he entered the darkness, he hurriedly withdrew and came back.

In the darkness, the air he could smell was filled with sour, rancid and other weird smells.

After those breaths fell into the viscera, it seemed to be quietly eroding his flesh and blood, making him feel uncomfortable all over.

When he practiced with the "Heaven Pot Nourishing Qi Art", he found that the "spiritual pot" he visualized was no longer blue and black, but a pure black.

Black shines!

The power absorbed by him in the darkness is full of filth and all kinds of impurities, and the spiritual power is so small that it is almost undetectable.

At that moment, in the depths of his dantian spiritual sea, there was actually a lot of filth.

The operation of his spiritual power suddenly became sluggish, and the funnel-shaped vortex connecting his dantian and Linghai gradually stagnated.

——He hastily exited from the darkness because he felt something was extremely wrong.

"Colorless, cyan, cyan black, black."

He frowned and pondered, and based on the color of the "spiritual pot" when he visualized, he came to a conclusion.

When he was cultivating, if he channeled spiritual energy from the heavens and the earth, even if it was the extremely thin spiritual energy from the fourth realm, and still contained some impurities, his "spiritual pot" would not have a specific color.

When he practiced with pure and flawless spirit stones and spirit jade to absorb the spiritual power, his "spiritual pot" was blue.

If it is a spirit stone containing the power of filth in the fourth realm, there are also some special stones that contain the power of "mysterious yin", or the dark power in the black water pool.

Then his "spiritual pot" will appear blue-black, and the more filthy things there are, the more intense the black parts will be.

Conversely, if the absorbed power, the spiritual power is obviously more than the dirty things, the color of the blue-black "spiritual pot" will be more blue.

He used the "Heaven Pot Nourishing Qi Art" in the dark before, and the "Spiritual Pot" unexpectedly revealed a rare jet black color, just like the endless darkness.

This was a strangeness that he had never encountered before.

"In the depths of the darkness, there is a very strong power, but it has a strong sour and rancid smell. There seems to be spiritual power in it, but it's only sporadic, and it's nothing compared to the dirty power."

Pang Jian expressed his previous feelings.

Zhou Qingchen and Su Meng looked blank, but Han Duping and Luo Hongyan's expressions changed quietly after listening.

"Pang Jian, absolutely don't enter the darkness again. Listen to me, don't leave Bagua City, and don't try to explore the outside world!"

After a while, Luo Hongyan suddenly shouted in shock to remind everyone, and motioned everyone to back off and return to Bagua City as soon as possible.

"Listen to her!"

Han Duping also yelled.

Pang Jian looked at the two, wondering: "What is the origin of the darkness outside the Bagua City?"

Han Duping licked the corner of his mouth, and said in a difficult tone: "Maybe, I mean maybe, the outside of Bagua City...may be the Fifth Realm."

"Fifth Realm?!"

Zhou Qingchen and Su Meng cried out in shock.

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(End of this chapter)