The dense jungle is full of towering trees that block out the sun. The sun cannot shine in. The dark jungle is full of dangers. If you are not careful, you will be attacked by poisonous insects, snakes and ants, and it will eventually become a jungle.
of fertilizers.
This is a primitive jungle located in Shiwanda Mountain. Although it is not close to the core area, it is not a place that can be underestimated.
This is the paradise of monsters and demons, the abandoned and desolate world, the pure land of exiles and exiles - Shiwandashan.
The other areas radiating out from the core of Shiwandashan are the primitive jungle areas.
At this moment, in this primitive jungle, a young man wearing a white robe was trekking hard. The white robe was covered with traces of blood. It was obvious that he had gone through several arduous battles.
In the core area of Shiwandashan, there is no good impression of the disciples of sects who claim to be righteous. After all, Shiwandashan is not only the territory of the demon clan, but also a paradise for criminals in the monastic world. The people who live here are all in other places.
They hid here after being chased until they had no way out, so they have a deep hostility towards people coming from other places, especially the righteous leading sects like the top ten famous sects.
Even Taohua, who is known as the Little Grandmaster of Piaoxiang Academy, does not dare to be too presumptuous here, because Shiwandashan is a place where the law of the jungle is completely put on the table. As long as you are strong enough, you can do whatever you want.
No one will interfere, even practitioners who have fallen into the three demonic paths can still survive here.
This is a place without order and rules.
Therefore, Taohua could only send Xie Zhengyang to this area and then leave. If Xie Zhengyang and Taohua acted here together, then they might have died here before they reached the Demon Sword Sect's sect.
It is reported that Piaoxiang Academy, located in Shiwanda Mountain, has lost two grand masters and nearly ten minor masters. As for the outstanding disciples of other famous and upright sects, there are also many outstanding disciples. There was even a war that almost broke out here.
Recalling the situation here at Shiwandashan, Xie Zhengyang waved the Qingfeng Sword to cut off the thorns blocking the road.
The low-grade spiritual weapon Qingfeng Sword is indeed only suitable for cutting thorns and the like.
"It should be here." Xie Zhengyang looked around and said with some uncertainty. The mission given to him by the master this time was to break into the Demon Sword Sect. To put it more bluntly, he was to be an undercover agent.
Around Xie Zhengyang, there is a rare place that is not covered by towering trees. The sun shines on the ground through the gaps in the leaves, leaving some spots on the ground. There are no chirping insects or birds, and there are no signs of human habitation or animals.
This seems to be a forgotten place.
On Xie Zhengyang's left hand side, there is a huge boulder that is about two people tall and requires at least five people to hug it. The boulder is full of pits and has serious signs of weathering. Beside the boulder, there are many smaller stones scattered around.
If you observe the surroundings with the boulder as the core, you will have a strange feeling: as if the woods and rocks are worshiping this boulder.
Xie Zhengyang stroked the boulder gently, then picked out a small stone with a sharp corner on the ground, and then knocked on the boulder nine times.
A breeze suddenly blew, and the fallen leaves on the ground flew up with the breeze, swirling and drifting away into the distance.
Suddenly, a ripple appeared next to the boulder, as if a stone was thrown into the water. However, if you look from the back of the ripple, you cannot see this strange phenomenon. It seems that the ripple
The charm only works in a certain direction, and as the ripples gradually expand, a crack appears in the air as if it has been torn apart.
The scene that he originally stood in front of the ripples had completely disappeared at this moment. What appeared in front of Xie Zhengyang was a stone road paved with cobblestones, winding forward to an unknown direction.
"Who rings the stone bell?" A middle-aged man with a beard stood on the stone road, carrying a huge sword as high as a man on his back.
Beside this man, who was as tall as an iron tower, stood thirty-five young men and women dressed in blue and white cloth. Each of them held a bronze sword in their right hand. The movements of these people were very neat and uniform.
If they hadn't looked at Xie Zhengyang in surprise, outsiders would have thought that these thirty-five people were just thirty-five finely crafted puppets.
"How do you know how to ring the Jianyin Bell?" The big man also had a hint of surprise on his face, "It is impossible for an outer sect disciple to leave the mountain gate."
Although the words of this big man did not reveal the slightest anger or murderous intent, Xie Zhengyang knew that if his answer did not satisfy the other party, then his fate could definitely be imagined.
The big man in front of me is the gatekeeper of the Demon Sword Sect.
In Nanzhanbuzhou, there are many secret realms. Some of these secret realms have been discovered, and some have not been discovered yet. The so-called immortal ruins and ancient ruins refer to these secret realms.
According to the different scales of secret realms, they can be roughly divided into three categories: large, medium and small. The smallest secret realm may only be as large as a dozen square meters, while the largest secret realm may be as vast as the territory ruled by a dynasty.
And similarly, these secret realms cannot all be safe. Even if the head and deputy head of Piaoxiang Academy enter some secret realms, they will have a narrow escape.
No one knows where these secret realms were born, but what people know is that some secret realms are complete and have not experienced any damage, and there are even secret realms with spiritual veins.
What do cultivators need? It is nothing more than a place with abundant spiritual energy.
Why did the nine sects of Nanzhan Buzhou launch a war?
Is it really to avenge the fallen Yaoshen Sect?
The answer is self-evident, if people do not serve themselves, they will be destroyed by heaven and earth.
Revenge for the Yaoshen Sect is just an excuse, or a cover, to take this opportunity to launch a war and plunder the resources of Shiwanda Mountain, and the secret realm is the top priority.
Since these secret realms have no owners, have not been destroyed, and are so full of spiritual energy, how could they be let go? Therefore, many sects will naturally snatch a secret realm as the seat of their sect. In that period of darkness,
In historical dynasties, many sects were destroyed because they occupied a good secret realm but were unable to defend it. Over time, the sect's occupation of the secret realm gradually became a secret. Only those sect disciples would know about it.
Where is the door?
But even so, it is not safe. Occasionally, some disciples will be bribed by other sects, and some bloodshed will occur.
In order to cope with this situation, the position of gatekeeper was born in the monastic world.
Of course, the word "gatekeeper" is not meant to be fun. People who can become gatekeepers all have considerable strength, and as a reward for being a gatekeeper, that is what it means to be a gatekeeper.
As time goes by, you can gain a higher status and better guidance. Over time, "gatekeepers" have become a kind of weathervane in various sects: people who can become gatekeepers must be insiders whose status is about to be promoted.
The disciples, as long as they survive, their lowest achievement in the future will definitely be the elders of the sect.
Similarly, being a gatekeeper is just a training and responsibility, but it does not mean that the gatekeeper can stop elders or people who are too powerful. Therefore, every sect secret realm will have a gatekeeper array and special restrictions.
, the gatekeeper in front of Xie Zhengyang and the thirty-five inner disciples of the Demon Sword Sect behind him are the key figures in activating the gate-guarding formation and the restriction.
Tiangang Wuji Sword Formation.
The Demon Sword Sect's gate-protecting formation was born out of the Dongyue Sword Palace's 36,000-breaking military formation.
"It's...Senior Lu Feng asked me to come." Xie Zhengyang pretended to be very timid. He didn't know who the gatekeeper was in front of him, but he knew the level of a person who could be a gatekeeper.
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"Lu Feng?" When he heard this name, the big man's face became a little strange, but the thirty-five disciples behind him suddenly whispered.
"Silence!" The big man shouted in a deep voice, and the disciples behind him fell silent instantly, "You said Lu Feng asked you to come, do you have any tokens?"
"Token?" Xie Zhengyang pretended to be stunned for a moment, with a look of distress on his face. After a moment of hesitation, he took out the Ping Shen Jade pendant that had been hanging close to his body, "Can this...can be counted?"
This screen of divine jade was specially given to him by Grandmaster Taohua before he left, and he also told him some basic information about the Demon Sword Sect.
"Screen God Jade!" Everyone exclaimed when they saw the jade pendant that Xie Zhengyang took out, and there was undisguised greed on everyone's face.
The Demon Sword Sect is one of the leading sects of the Demon Sect, and most of its disciples are arrogant and unruly people. Most of their principles of conduct are based on force. At this moment, seeing the precious Ping Shen Jade, everyone's face naturally changed.
They all showed greed. The value of this screen jade is very clear to any cultivator, but they don't know that the screen jade pendant on Xie Zhengyang's body is like a gift from the king of hell to others.
"You all think you have a long life?" The big man shouted in a deep voice, waking everyone up from their greed, "That is our sect's token, do you dare to take it?... This thing is indeed enough to prove your identity.
Yes. Only Lu Feng would give such a precious thing to others as a token. Come in, I will arrange for someone to take you to Yijian Peak, but it is hard to say whether you can see the leader."
"Thank you... thank you."
Deep in the secret realm of the Demon Sword Sect, there is a continuous sea of trees. If you look down from the air, you can see that this sea of trees stretches for thousands of miles, like a blue dragon.
Among the sea of trees, there are nine towering peaks reaching into the clouds.
The peak in the middle is the highest, hundreds of meters higher than the eight peaks surrounding it. What's rare is that the other eight peaks are exactly the same in height.
Even the distance between each side peak and the main peak in the middle, as well as the distances between other side peaks, are completely consistent.
This phenomenon is completely contrary to common sense. A discerning person will know at a glance that it is not natural.
Here is where the inner gate of Demon Sword Sect is located, Nine Swords Peak.
This secret realm was originally called the Nine Swords Secret Realm because it was once the location of the Nine Swords Sect.
But when a war broke out between the Demon Sword Sect and the Nine Swords Sect, due to the absolute disparity in strength, the Nine Swords Sect naturally ended up being annexed by the Demon Sword Sect.
What the Demon Sword Sect wanted was just a mountain gate, so it did not destroy the Nine Swords Secret Realm too hard. After absorbing the inheritance of the Nine Swords Sect, the Demon Sword Sect's strength expanded unprecedentedly, and even for a period of time
Completely surpassing the top ten famous families.
Of course, this all happened a long time ago.
The reason why the Nine Swords Sect is called Nine Swords means that the sect has nine sword skill inheritances with different styles. Each of these nine peaks represents a kind of inheritance.
Before the Demon Sword Sect annexed the Nine Swords Sect, only the lineage represented by the leader could live in the main peak of the Nine Swords Peak. Therefore, after every election for the leader, the lineage that became the leader could occupy the main peak, and originally
The inheritance of the main peak must be moved to the side peaks.
This practice was still retained even after the Demon Sword Sect annexed the Nine Swords Sect, because it could ensure the vitality and strength of a sect.
Of course, although there are also nine inheritances of the Demon Sword Sect, they are not the nine inheritances of the original Nine Swords Sect, nor are they the inheritance of the Demon Sword Sect itself.
After annexing the Nine Swords Sect, the head of the Demon Sword Sect discovered that the inheritance of the sword skills of the Nine Swords Sect was largely consistent with the sword skills concept of his own sect. After spending decades of painstaking study, the two
Zong's sword skills not only achieved a perfect fusion, but also achieved an unprecedented sublimation.
This is also the reason why Demon Sword Sect was able to surpass the top ten famous sects back then.
Among the nine sword skills inheritance, except for three that are inherited by the Nine Sword Sect itself and one that is the core sword skill of the Demon Sword Sect, the other five are newly developed and established sword skills. The new five sword skills
Sword skills combine concepts such as the Five Elements and Qi Sword. Although they cannot be compared with the other four sword skills, these five sword skills can have a mutually reinforcing effect and create special sword formations to greatly increase the combat effectiveness of the disciples.
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Although the Yi Jian Peak that Xie Zhengyang visited on this trip is one of the eight side peaks, it is one of the three sword skills passed down to the Nine Swords Sect.