Purgatory

Chapter 9 The First Bone

When Zhou Ning and his family had enough to eat and drink, and they were about to finish their reorganization, Pang Jian also walked out of the stone pile in time.

"Pang Jian, you are still in charge of this horse."

Seeing him appear, Zhou Qingchen, who had replaced He Ziren's dark horse, smiled and waved from a distance.

Beside him was the maroon warhorse that belonged to Liu Qi but was occupied by Pang Jianjiu.

"The dragon-marked spear on the horse is for you to use."

Zhou Qingchen pointed to the spear hanging on the waist of the horse, and said with a bright smile: "From now on, everyone will be partners in fighting side by side. The long knife you are used to is not the weapon we practitioners should use , I heard from Ms. Ning that you have also embarked on the road of cultivation, so I will try your hand with the Dragon Spear first."

"Later, if there are more suitable utensils, it's not too late for you to change them."

Seeing that Zhou Qingchen's attitude towards Pang Jian had changed drastically, the Ning family, both old and young, didn't know what medicine he was selling in his gourd.

First, he took the initiative to deliver meat to the stone pile, and then gave him the dragon-patterned spear that died under his command. All kinds of strange things made the two of the Ning family suspicious.

Including Han Duping, the rest of the Zhou family diners were also at a loss by Zhou Qingchen's actions.

Pang Jian acted calmly, and after thanking him softly, he climbed onto the horse and tried to lift the Dragon Spear.

The shaft of the spear is rough to the touch, with natural wood grain, and looks like a dragon pattern when you look closely.

The spearhead is a kind of bright silver metal, shining with an icy luster, looking extremely sharp.

When pulling it vigorously, Pang Jian realized that the spear shaft was made of unknown wood, which was extremely heavy, several times heavier than the long knife he was used to!
Swaying and getting used to the weight, he pointed the spear deep into the mountains with both hands, and said, "The Cenji Mountains are huge, do you have an exact direction?"

Zhou Qingchen thought for a while and said, "Go to the north, to the place closest to the strange fog."

Ning Yao and Ning Yuanshan changed color slightly when they heard what he said, and looked at him in surprise.

When they discussed before, they only talked about searching for Tianfeng's remains, as well as artifacts that fell from Blood Moon, Star River Alliance, and Yinling Temple.

The people of the Ning family actually didn't intend to go deep into the northernmost part and take greater risks to explore the anomaly of "Strange Fog".

"It's okay, we are not really going to enter the area shrouded in strange fog."

As if seeing their concerns, Zhou Qingchen continued with a smile, "I always feel that the remains of Tianfeng and the searchers of the three major forces are in the north near the mist."

Ning Yuanshan reluctantly agreed, and reluctantly said: "Then... okay."

"The canyon we are in is at the southernmost part of the Cenji Mountains. If you go north, you can go straight all the way. However, there are two roads to choose from. One is a mountain road and you need to climb a high mountain. The other is to walk along a winding river. But it will take a detour and the journey will be slower, how do you want to go?"

Pang Jian took the initiative to ask.

"Since you are most familiar with this place, it's up to you to decide." Zhou Qingchen looked indifferent.

"If we're riding a horse, let's walk along the river." Pang Jian seriously suggested.

"Listen to you." Zhou Qingchen smiled cheerfully.

Ning Yao frowned slightly, secretly dissatisfied in her heart, Pang Jian was obviously the guide she hired with money, but judging by Zhou Qingchen's posture, how did Pang Jian become his man?
Dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, but she didn't show it, but kept silent.

For the rest of the trip, Pang Jian decided on the itinerary and direction, and he led the crowd along the turbid stream.

Whenever everyone was resting and eating, Pang Jian would leave alone, find a secluded place, take out the cracked gray-white rock in the bamboo basket, and practice with the "Heaven Nourishing Qi Jue".

As long as he covers the cracks in the rock with his palms, there will be a strong "power of mysterious yin" flowing into his dantian spiritual sea to help him wash away the filth in it.

The strange rocks he got by chance made his practice progress very fast, and a lot of "cotton wool" in the spiritual sea was removed.

As the amount of "cotton wool" continued to decrease, he could clearly feel that the spiritual sea had become brighter and more open, and he continued to guide the power going in, and encountered fewer and fewer obstacles in his activities.

He soon became convinced that with the help of that rock, he would be able to clean up the filth in the spiritual sea in a short time.

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"A Tianfeng remains!"

On this day, Zhou Qingchen was on the horse, looking at the densely wooded distance, and suddenly said excitedly: "Did you see it?"

Because of his reminder, everyone looked into the distance together, and suddenly saw a dead bone like a giant pillar inserted in the forest several miles away, which shocked them from a long distance away.

"go!"

Everyone waved the reins vigorously, driving the horses under them to continue to accelerate.

As a guide, Pang Jian looked at the huge bone and was pulled behind everyone in shock.

Only when he got close did he realize how huge one of Tianfeng's remains was, and he couldn't help but think about how huge that mysterious Tianfeng's real body must be.

When he noticed that everyone was about to leave his sight, he hurriedly rode his horse to follow.

After a while, Pang Jian, who was the last one, finally arrived at the place where the Tianfeng remains.

The dead bones over a hundred meters pierced the forest like a sword, causing many ravines like spider webs to bloom on the ground.

It seemed that the moment it pierced the ground, it caused a terrifying energy wave, and the aftermath tore the surrounding earth apart!
There is still a few tens of meters away, and there is a vast and ancient sacred aura coming from the dull dry bone, making all those who look up at the dry bone uncontrollably have a desire to worship.

The remains of Tianfeng stand like a mountain on the ground, as if they can suppress the evil spirits in the Cenji Mountains.

Pang Jian's mind was shocked and infected.

Just a single dead bone is more than a hundred meters thick and as thick as a giant tree root. How shocking was that Feng's demeanor during his lifetime?

Isn't it a mythical existence?

No wonder, the divine bird floating above his house was easily assassinated to death.

"Blood Moon's Unsettled Ferry!"

When Pang Jian's mind was agitated and daydreaming, Ning Yuanshan suddenly let out a soft cry and pointed to the back of the withered bones.

Immediately, the huge sailing ship that Pang Jian had seen with the pitch-black pennant and the bloody crescent moon on the pennant appeared behind the dead bones in his sight.

"Go and see!"

Accompanied by Ning Yuanshan's yell, Pang Jian and the others rode their horses around the dead bones to observe them closely.

I saw a sailboat tens of meters long, crushing countless trees, and moored on the debris and dead branches all over the place.

Around the sailboat, there are blood-stained dead bones all over the place, and the blood moon pattern on some clothes is still there.

"This is the real blood moon practitioner."

Ning Yuanshan glanced at it, covered his nose, and said, "After they died, they should have been eaten up by the nearby wild beasts. Look, beside their bodies, there are blood-stained gold and silver utensils." Was spit out."

Different from those corpses in the Yinling Temple wearing blood moon clothes in the stone pile, the corpses here exude a pungent bloody smell after being eaten with flesh and blood, which makes people want to vomit.

"Were they killed by nearby wild beasts, or were they killed by people from the Yinling Temple and the Galaxy Alliance? Or, is there another danger in the Cenji Mountains?" Ning Yao couldn't help but suspect the cause of the skeleton's death.

"The beasts in the Cenji Mountains should not be able to kill practitioners," Pang Jian said.

He has been haunting the Cenji Mountains all year round, and he knows best what kind of power the beasts here have.

He didn't think the most ferocious beasts could deal with people like Zhou Qingchen and Ning Yuanshan, so the death of the blood moon practitioner should have nothing to do with the wild beasts in the mountains.

"No, you don't understand the power of the mist."

Zhou Qingchen's face was deep, he shook his head, and said solemnly: "I am sure that the strange fog has penetrated from the boundary wall to the northernmost part of the mountain range. If the wild beast that strayed into it can come out alive, it will definitely mutate, and will Become a ferocious beast or spirit beast that is many times stronger than before."

"And such beasts are no longer the species you were familiar with before, and they can no longer be called beasts."

As soon as these words came out, Pang Jian felt awe-inspiring, knowing that he really didn't know much about "Strange Mist".

Although he has been active in the Cenji Mountains all year round, he has never been in contact with the "Strange Mist", and he is also restricted by his father, who strictly forbids him to go hunting in the far north.

"Hoo! Hoo hoo!"

There was a sudden whistling of the wind, and the black flag erected above the Wuding Ferry was whistling with the wind.

The huge scarlet crescent moon in the center of the banner, with the movement of the banner, unexpectedly released a strange blood-colored light, illuminating the surrounding area in crimson.

Under the crimson blood light, those skeletal bodies without flesh and blood suddenly looked extremely permeable.

"Don't act rashly."

Zhou Qingchen stared at the blood moon in the banner, felt it silently, and said: "I'll go and confirm whether there is any magic left behind on this fallen Tianfeng bone. If you want to... just wait by the side first, Qian Qian." Don't touch the utensils left by the bones, and don't go to the Wuding Ferry."

"it is good!"

All the people who had experienced the misery of the pile of rocks were more cautious this time, and they were all obedient.

Zhou Qingchen got off his horse immediately, either avoiding those gaps with larger gaps, or flying across directly, and soon arrived at the place where the huge dead bones landed.

He turned his back to everyone beside the dry bones, and took out something from his arms, as if he was examining it carefully.

"No."

Zhou Qingchen soon had an answer.

With his back to the crowd, he took back what he had taken out first, then turned around and said, "It's just an ordinary phoenix bone, without any strangeness in it. The death of the blood moon practitioner has nothing to do with this dry bone. Killed by something else."

"Okay, now everyone can spread out to check, but still be careful."

In Zhou Qingchen's mind, the remains of Tianfeng were the most terrifying thing. Seeing that it was not what he thought, he relaxed a little and signaled everyone to search for it.

But he still warned: "As for... the Wuding Ferry, everyone should not go in. You should check the corpse first and see if there is anything weird about the utensils they left behind."

Everyone moved quickly.

Pang Jian knew that he might not be qualified to obtain the relics of those practitioners, so he might as well have waited for Zhou Qingchen to take the initiative to give them to him, so he did not search around with the crowd, but waited quietly.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhou Qingchen suddenly frowned again, and said softly, "Someone is here."

When the busy people heard this, they immediately stopped, their expressions tense and ready.

Both Blood Moon and the people from Yinling Temple are all practitioners from the upper realm, and most of them are in a higher realm than them.

Those powerful figures have died in large numbers in the Cenji Mountains, let alone them?
They had to be doubly cautious.

After half a sound, accompanied by the deliberately lowered "rustling" sound, a group of people gradually appeared, emerging from the forest behind the Wuding ferry.

The two sides looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

"People from the Zhou family and the Ning family!"

"So it's from Shangguan's family!"

Amidst the soft cries of relaxation, a group of nine people finally dared to show their heads generously, and the nine people seemed to be more careful than them just now.

The first person is dressed as a graceful lady, wearing a luxurious and bright dress, and the exquisite jewelry on her body is shining.

She has a beautiful appearance, like a ripe peach, and her figure is extremely attractive.

At this moment, she clutched Gu Gu's white towering chest, and fussed and blamed: "I'm scared to death, I thought I encountered survivors from the upper world, and they were going to kill us all."

The beautiful woman with a plump figure came swaying gracefully, winking at Zhou Qingchen from a distance, "Qingchen, we haven't seen each other for a long time, I feel relieved when I see it's you."

Zhou Qingchen smiled casually: "So it's Aunt Qin."

"Sister Qin, you, Brother Han, and I are here too." The bloated Han Duping, squinting his small eyes, stared lewdly at the white patch of her chest, and said without looking at her face: " Others say you are Kefu, but I am not afraid, anyway, two of your men are dead, or we can make do with each other."

"As long as you nod my sister, I will part ways with Boy Zhou and join your Shangguan family directly."

Han Duping beat his chest to promise, and put on a posture that he could break up with Zhou Qingchen immediately and become her servant.

Zhou Qingchen knew what kind of virtue Han Duping was, and with a helpless expression on his face, he smiled and said, "After all, we will meet each other. Old Han, if you really want to do this, I will not only reluctantly send you off, but also prepare a generous gift."

"Bah! Fat winter melon, stop daydreaming!" Shangguanqin's gorgeous face was shrouded in disgust and coldness, and sarcastically said without giving any face: "You old toad, you also want to eat swan meat?"

"Ha, you've already killed two men, and you're not too young now, so you can't be considered a swan." Han Duping revealed her background with a smile.

Shangguanqin's breath was short of breath, but her chest seemed to be towering, more and more tall and turbulent.

"Squeak!"

A tall and strong man, wrapped in thick heavy armor, dragged a huge iron cage with one hand, and only appeared at the end of the Shangguan family.

Pang Jian, who was originally among the crowd of Ning's and Zhou's and didn't care about the people coming from this group, suddenly looked at a gray ape in the iron cage.

The gray ape has a pair of strange ice-blue pupils, revealing violence and ferocity. Although it has been imprisoned, it still looks murderous.

When Pang Jian saw it, the gray ape covered in scars also looked at Pang Jian.

"know?"

Ning Yao, who was next to Pang Jian, followed the gray ape's ice-blue eyes, looked at Pang Jian beside him, and couldn't help asking in surprise.

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(End of this chapter)