Do not engage in underworld operations in the human world!

"Ah? Don't you want to take her with you?" Jiang Lu felt strange: "It's Tiangang! She should be the one to take us with her."

"Is there a possibility that this isn't actually talking about your cat?"

Scythe, who had already opened the Exorcist panel, reminded Jiang Lu: "Why don't you take a look?"

Jiang Lu opened the Exorcist panel and after careful inspection, he found that this time the Voice of the World had text displayed on the panel.

【Don't take him with you! 】

Who is he?
Jiang Lu, sickle and performers must be moistened.

Then the answer is obvious.

"Dong Wanggong is OUT!" Jiang Lu shouted.

Everyone was shocked.

Dong Wanggong was even more flustered: "I... I didn't do anything."

"No, it's not him." Queen Mother Xi said at this time: "Maybe he is talking about my brother. We can't cooperate with him."

"Cooperation? Of course I won't cooperate with him."

But just after he finished speaking, Jiang Lu fell into deep thought.

If Huang Xiu'e was not there, if they wanted to find a glimmer of hope in the predicament, it seemed that they could only try to open the "door". The purpose was the same as Yuanshi Tianzun, and it seemed that they were really cooperating with him.

Wouldn't it be more convenient to cooperate with him, who has been planning for a long time?

It was as if the Voice of the World was aware of all their movements, and provided clues at the right time when there was a turning point in their actions.

But she doesn't seem very smart. Didn't I say we wanted Huang Xiu'e?

Or is it a preset reminder?
Seeing that there was no follow-up to the Voice of the World, Jiang Lu said to Dong Wanggong: "Forget it, let's not think about it so much for now. Anyway, you should bring Huang Xiu'e back first."

"okay."

Dong Wanggong was ready to set off, but as soon as he set off, he found that something seemed to be different.

"Ok?"

Dong Wanggong turned around with a strange expression:
"I can't seem to get down."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to touch the edge of the cliff, but it seemed as if there was an invisible wall of air blocking it, bouncing his hand back.

"What's happening here?"

Jiang Lu followed and touched it, and found that he was also bounced back.

Everyone, regardless of their level of cultivation, seemed to be affected and unable to go down the mountain.

They were all confined in the limited space at the top of Kunlun Mountain.

Dong Wanggong flew around and roughly figured out the specific range of the air wall.

A circular area with a diameter of one hundred feet.

They were like being caught upside down by an invisible bowl.

"In a small space."

The Queen Mother of the West pondered.

Dong Wanggong was startled, and his face suddenly turned ugly: "Brother's magical power? When?"

"do not know"

In a small space, Jiang Lu had heard of this magical power.

Like the Sumeru mustard seed in Buddhism and the universe in the sleeve in Taoism, they are all great magical powers that can control a certain space.

And Yuanshi Tianzun's is even more advanced.

No need for a medium, no magic weapon, and even no need to cast a spell. Just a casual stroke of the hand can isolate a piece of heaven and earth.

"What is a small space?" asked the sickle, who was unaware of its power.

Jiang Lu looked at him with a serious expression: "You are quite knowledgeable about mythology, but do you know that according to legend, Maitreya Buddha has a treasure called the Human Race Bag?"

Scythe nodded: "I know. Legend has it that the human bag is an acquired treasure produced by Maitreya himself. It can absorb all things. It is the world of Maitreya's future Buddha."

"This is an enhanced version of the Sleeve of Secrets. It seals the bag and once you are put inside, it is impossible for you to get out. A similar magic weapon is the gourd that King Jinjiao and King Yinjiao stole from Taishang Laojun, also known as the Lord of Daode, in Journey to the West."

Jiang Lu explained:
“These things are the most top-level magic weapons, extremely difficult to refine, and they only have one owner.

But such an awesome thing is just a small magic of Yuanshi Tianzun. He just stretched out his hand and grabbed it, and it turned out to be a human bag, a gourd.

The name of this little magic is "A Square Inch of Space."

"It doesn't matter how powerful this spell is." Hong Yi looked up: "What matters is that we may not be in Kunlun Mountain now."

Yuanshi Tianzun held up an exquisite half of a crystal clear glass ball in one hand, and looked at Hong Yi, who was as small as a speck of dust inside it.

"Jiang Lu, Jiang Lu, you really were ahead of me back then."

"However, it's a good thing that you walked ahead of me."

"Patronus?"

"interesting."

“This proves that I am on the right path.”

Kunlun Mountains.

Yaochi was in chaos.

Taoist Yuzhu was extremely worried, or rather, she was going crazy.

After the thunder tribulation, she saw that after calm was restored, neither Xuannv, Dong Wanggong nor Xi Wangmu showed up. She wanted to wait until she had arranged the things at hand, and then go up to look for them to see how they dealt with the chaos in the lower world.

But unexpectedly, she arranged everything in an orderly manner, brought everyone back from Yao Chi, started the reconstruction work, and was about to go up the mountain.

When I looked up, I found that half of Kunlun Mountain was gone.

Taoist Yuzhu was completely stunned.

She clearly remembered that when the thunderstorm ended, there were many more charred marks on the white snow, and in some places the terrain had changed significantly due to lightning strikes and the avalanches caused by them.

But at least the mountain should still be there.

Because it was too unbelievable, and she couldn't understand how anyone could dare, or have the ability to, do that in the Queen Mother of the West's temple, she subconsciously thought it was some kind of high-level sleight of hand that could even deceive her.

After a closer look, I found that this was not an illusion. The entire hilltop was gone, leaving only a large deep pit.

In the deep pit, apart from five large and deep grooves, there was no other trace, as if it had been completely dug out by someone.

"No. Wasn't it still there just now?"

At this time, a shout was heard from a distance.

"Master! Master!"

Taoist Yuzhu fell back to the ground, and Lu Qing and Zhu Zhen trotted towards her.

"Master, what's going on?"

Lu Qing has regained her spirits. Although she still doesn't want to talk to Zhu Zhen, she still fulfills her duties as the eldest sister well in this critical moment.

After receiving the order from Taoist Yuzhu, it didn't take long before everything in Yaochi was arranged in order.

She also looked up and found that Kunlun Mountain had turned into Bibi Mountain, so she hurried over and met Taoist Yuzhu who was equally shocked.

“I don’t know either.” Taoist Yuzhu shook his head: “They disappeared suddenly, without a sound, and I couldn’t find any trace of the ancestors.”

"Could it be that they left on their own for some reason? So they gave the hill to me."

"I don't think so."

Taoist Yuzhu denied it without even thinking:

"The founder loves his own temple the most. He usually sends his disciples to Fangzhu Mountain for martial arts competitions or sect competitions, fearing that any grass or tree on the mountain might be damaged. How could he destroy half of Kunlun Mountain?"

"That's right." Lu Qing nodded.

So she had no idea.

If it wasn't the Queen Mother of the West herself, who else could do this?

They did have a few guesses in their minds, but they didn't dare say it out loud.

This is obviously no longer something they can participate in.

When he was puzzled, Taoist Yuzhu suddenly noticed that Zhu Zhen, who was lying behind Lu Qing, was in a low mood. He lowered his head, fiddled with his fingers, and looked aggrieved. So he asked, "Zhu Zhen, what's wrong with you?"

"I" Zhu Zhen hesitated and finally shook his head: "I'm fine."

Lu Qing looked at her with a complicated expression, but didn't say anything. Just as Taoist Yuzhu wanted to ask further, suddenly...

"Meow~"

The three of them turned their heads and found that a golden kitten had appeared in the snow at some point.

A gleam of light suddenly flashed in Zhu Zhen's gray eyes, and the liveliness of a young girl remained on her face for a moment again: "What a cute kitten."

As she said this, she picked up the kitten.

The kitten wanted to struggle at first, but then it stretched its head to sniff Zhu Zhen, focusing on his chest and legs for a long time. It seemed to smell a familiar scent that made it feel at ease, so it stopped struggling.

"Where did this wild cat come from?" Taoist Yuzhu was puzzled. "There has never been a cat on the mountain. Could it have run up from the bottom of the mountain during the chaos?"

Hearing this, Zhu Zhen shook the kitten in her arms with some concern, as tenderly as a mother holding a baby: "If you really ran up from the mountain, you must have been very tired and exhausted."

Ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine steps. God knows how much suffering such a small cat must have endured.

Lu Qing originally just thought of it as an ordinary pitiful kitten, but after noticing that it was a female cat but kept trying to get into Zhu Zhen's chest, he thought of some of the habits of cats, and a strange idea suddenly popped up in his mind, and then he took the kitten from Zhu Zhen's arms as if possessed.

Unexpectedly, after a brief moment of uneasiness, the kitten found a sense of security in Lu Qing and began to burrow into her chest. It even behaved more comfortable than when it was with Zhu Zhen, and even made a purring sound.

She realized.

He lowered his head and sniffed the kitten, and sure enough, he smelled Jiang Lu's scent.

"This is his cat! So he will feel at ease after he smells his scent on us."

Zhu Zhen reacted instantly, remembering which parts of her body the kitten had sniffed for the longest time. Suddenly, several fresh memories flashed through her mind, and she blushed and became shy.

The longer she smelled, the more likely it was that Jiang Lu had stayed there the longest and had picked up more of the scent.

Compared to Zhu Zhen, Lu Qing was even more impressive, so the kitten felt more secure and began to coo happily.

However, Taoist Yuzhu didn't know this and asked curiously, "Who? Whose cat?"

Lu Qing did not answer directly.

After experiencing the betrayal of her closest junior sister, she has now become a sensitive little girl, and everyone looks like a mistress to her.

"Master, please hug me."

After saying that, she stuffed the kitten into Taoist Yuzhu's hands.

The latter took the cat without knowing why, but the kittens, who had been so well-behaved in Zhu Zhen and Lu Qing's arms, actually had a stress reaction, arched their backs, and even had their fur standing on end.

"Ow!"

Even the screams became rougher.

"It seems that she is not very close to me." Taoist Yuzhu felt a little sad when he saw this.

Even she was a woman after all, and she naturally had a tendency to feel close to cute things. However, such cute things seemed to dislike her, which made her somewhat sad.

Then she heard Lu Qing say inexplicably: "You passed."

"Hmm?" Taoist Yuzhu was full of questions.

Lu Qing took the kitten back and explained, "This is Jiang Lu's cat. Maybe it followed him all the way here."

"You can find it from such a distance?" Taoist Yuzhu was not quite convinced: "A cat is not a dog, how can it have such a keen sense of smell? I'm afraid he brought it here secretly, right?"

"No." Lu Qing said with certainty: "Since he went up the mountain, I have been with him all the time. He definitely didn't bring a cat with him."

"Never leave." Taoist Yuzhu pondered over these few words, and her expression suddenly became a little ugly. It was obvious that she thought of something that made her, her master, very unhappy.

But she couldn't say it directly in front of Lu Qing, for fear that Lu Qing would feel ashamed if her, the head of the family, knew his secret, and then get angry and blame her for prying into his secrets or something.

So she changed the subject and said jokingly, "Since you insist on thinking so, I remember that Jiang Lu also went up the mountain with Master Xuannv at that time. Why don't you let it go and see if you can smell Jiang Lu's scent and lead us to Master Xuannv and the others."

Unexpectedly, Lu Qing took the joke seriously: "I'll try."

Afterwards, Lu Qing took the kitten and flew to the vicinity of the big pit.

When the kitten came here, it was obviously a little confused. It stretched its neck and looked at the big pit, blinking its two big eyes again and again.

Lu Qing put it down, and it jumped into the deep pit in three steps, turned around a few times, turned back, and jumped back into Lu Qing's arms.

Its head kept turning, looking in different directions. Finally, as if it had finally confirmed something, it looked in one direction and stopped moving.

Then he called out softly, as if to say: This is it, I'm sure.

"Master!" Lu Qing was very surprised when he saw this: "I really found it!"

He was communicating with Zhu Zhen, wanting to find out why Zhu Zhen was unhappy, and ended up judging the truth from just a few words. Taoist Yuzhu, who was suppressing his anger and feeling a pain in his heart, was stunned when he heard it.

"Don't be ridiculous. It's a cat, not a dog. How can it really smell something?"

"Really, Master, it just barked."

"Can you understand cat language now?"

Taoist Yuzhu was having a headache. His two disciples were more troublesome than the other, and they both fell for the same person. He even became obsessed with finding the person and could even understand a cat's meow. It was really a pity.

"No." Lu Qing returned to the two excitedly: "Look."

She turned around in front of the two men, and then something amazing happened.

The kitten's head is always facing the same direction, just like a compass. No matter how you turn it, the direction it faces never changes.

"This..." Taoist Yuzhu looked surprised.

But this is not the end. In order to eliminate randomness, Lu Qing flew into the air again and flipped at various angles and directions.

But no matter how she changed, the kitten's head didn't move at all, and it was even steadier than a chicken's neck.

Taoist Yuzhu was greatly shocked.

“Is this a cat?!”

Lu Qing returned to the ground: "Don't worry about what it is, but this is really not a coincidence. It may really lead us to find the ancestors."

Taoist Yuzhu thought for a moment and said, "The mess is too big now. We really need to find them. Let's give it a try."

Lu Qing was overjoyed and felt that he had been recognized. He subconsciously looked at Zhu Zhen and smiled as he did in the past.

But then she remembered something and her smile turned into a cold one.

Zhu Zhen, who had just felt a little relieved and was about to smile to please her, lowered his head guiltily when he saw this.

Taoist Yuzhu saw it all, but she didn't know what to say, let alone how to reconcile the situation. In the end, she could only sigh with mixed feelings.

Yao Chi’s affairs have been arranged, so they don’t need to worry about them anymore.

So soon, the three of them set off.

On the road, the kitten played the role of navigation perfectly.

In Lu Qing's arms, the three of them would adjust their direction accordingly, depending on which direction its head turned.

Lu Qing believed in it very much, but in the eyes of Taoist Yuzhu, this was a bit blind. Many times she wanted to ask whether she was deceiving herself because this might be the only way to find Jiang Lu now.

It's not her fault.

Looking at the path they have taken, normal people would probably have such doubts to some extent, and their confidence in kittens would decrease.

Starting from Kunlun Mountain, they passed through snow, forests, canyons, swamps, deserts, an oasis, a crack left by an earthquake where magma could be seen, and even crossed a large plain where a tornado was blowing.

Taoist Yuzhu wanted to know, how strong is Jiang Lu's body odor that even a tornado can't blow it away? !
She finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"Lü Qing, are you?"

She wants to ask if you are a little crazy.

But before she could finish her words, she heard Lu Qing call out softly, "Master, it's just ahead!"

Taoist Yuzhu looked from afar and saw a small wooden house lying quietly in the lush forest in a quiet place surrounded by mountains.

The wooden house is accompanied by soft sunshine, a clear spring gurgles, the sound of water is crisp, the breeze blows, and the sound of pine waves interweaves with each other. All around it, the fields that were once cultivated are now abandoned, and the traces of time have quietly settled here.

"The style is very similar to the courtyard built by our ancestor on the top of Mount Kunlun." Taoist Yuzhu said.

But they did not continue forward. Instead, they stopped, descended from the air, and disappeared into the dense forest.

Because they knew very well that the work of digging away the top of Kunlun Mountain was most likely not done by the Queen Mother of the West, so they did not dare to go deeper.

“But I didn’t see anyone.”

Just when Taoist Yuzhu was feeling strange and wondering if this might not be the end, the kitten in Lu Qing's arms saw that they suddenly stopped leaving and suddenly became anxious.

While Lu Qing was not paying attention, it broke free from her arms and ran towards the wooden house.

"Don't!"

Lu Qing wanted to catch it, but it dodged by turning sideways. He could not catch up with it. (End of this chapter)