Time passed so fast, in the blink of an eye it was already the seventh day of Zhu Jiu's practice again, and there was only less than one day left before the start of the Haichao Ceremony.
In the square tower of the Yuandi Chamber of Commerce, Palace Chief Long was already a little anxious. If Zhu Jiu was delayed due to his practice, the candidates for the Tide Ceremony would become an imminent issue.
When Gong Changlong was hesitating whether to go to Zhu Jiu's retreat room and call the door, he suddenly felt a frightening aura coming from somewhere in the square tower.
This aura was not very sharp and powerful, but its majestic power and strange power attributes were far beyond Gong Changlong's expectation. He sensed in detail that this aura actually came from the direction of Zhu Jiu's retreat.
Gong Changlong looked overjoyed. This was obviously a sign that Zhu Jiu had made a breakthrough in his practice and was about to leave seclusion.
Gong Changlong's slightly fat body disappeared from the place in a flash and went straight to Zhujiu retreat.
Cheng Ting, who was responsible for guarding Zhujiu retreat outside the door, saw the palace chief Long arriving in person and immediately bowed and saluted.
Gong Changlong nodded lightly, asked a few questions, and then waited outside the door in person.
The aura surging in Zhu Jiufang became stronger and stronger. Gong Changlong sensed it a little, and he was a little confused about what kind of power attribute it was. He only felt that some of the Yin Qi essence contained in it was so strong that it seemed to be as strong as the power fluctuations of ghosts.
There is a slight similarity, but there are many differences.
At this time, if you look outside the square tower, you will find that the boundless Yin Qi and black clouds are gathering towards the floor where Zhu Jiu retreats and practices.
The gloomy sky and the hundreds of meters covered by clouds suddenly turned from day to dark night. This phenomenon immediately attracted many creatures to stop and watch around, and they talked about it, but no one knew what was going on!
The pervasive gloom is getting thicker and thicker, and there are still black shadows faintly flashing in the black clouds, as if countless demons and ghosts are hiding and watching.
The black clouds were billowing endlessly, and after several hours they gradually converged, and slowly shrank into the room where Zhu Jiu practiced. From the bottom of the tower, it looked like there was an invisible giant mouth that swallowed up all the yin energy of the black clouds.
In the practice room, Zhu Jiu slowly woke up, with a slight smile on his lips. Breakthroughs in practice always make people feel happy.
In the sea of consciousness, the mysterious Yinsi Realm Gate pattern on the golden talisman became clearer due to the breakthrough of the second level of the Yin Code. The surface of the door seemed to be vaguely about to undergo new changes. The Yin Qi and black clouds that filled the sky before were all caused by this door.
Swallowed by the gate.
Zhu Jiu tried hard to see clearly the changes in the realm gate, but also felt that the gate contained some kind of mysterious power. The harder he tried to look at it, the less clearly he could see it.
Zhu Jiu did not force it. His thoughts withdrew from the sea of consciousness, ended the practice, stood up and opened the door to the practice room.
Gong Changlong looked over eagerly with his fat face full of joy, looking up and down, as if he was puzzled by the strange phenomenon that appeared when Zhu Jiu just broke through, but in the end he didn't ask anything.
Every cultivator has his or her own secret of cultivation. For an old man like Gong Changlong, he would not easily inquire about other people's privacy. He would just congratulate with a smile on his face:
"The vision just now was very astonishing and strange. There must be another breakthrough in the secret technique that Master Zhu has practiced. It just so happens that the ceremony is about to begin. It seems that Master Zhu will be able to show off his power. How about we go and prepare now?"
Zhu Jiu nodded silently and said:
"This time I would like to thank Senior Brother Gong for preparing many precious materials for the ghost sacrifice."
Afterwards, Zhu Jiu followed Gong Changlong to the narrative hall on the sixth floor of the square tower again and learned in detail about the matters related to the Tide Hunting Hall.
It turns out that this wave hunting is slightly different. In the past, every few years, several major chambers of commerce in the Demon Sea Monster City would send their outstanding disciples to hunt sea beasts in the sea within a radius of thousands of miles. In the end, they relied on hunting
Quantity and quality determine the outcome.
This time it is a grand ceremony that happens to happen once in a hundred years. What is different from usual is that every hundred years, a mysterious island covering an area of more than a hundred miles will rise from the seabed about eight thousand miles away from the coast of the Demonic Sea.
When this island appears, it will cause boundless ocean tides and huge waves in the nearby sea area thousands of miles away. Within a month, the island will slowly sink and disappear from the sea.
It stands to reason that this island rises from the bottom of the sea, and the island should be extremely humid. However, in fact, since this island was discovered a few years ago, everyone who has landed on it has found that it is not only extremely dry, but also extremely humid.
Moreover, there are intelligent races that are not marine creatures.
Therefore, some people suspect that the island may not have risen from the sea. After in-depth exploration to confirm this statement, they found that the island has always been protected by a mysterious force. People with more advanced magical powers often land on the island and are attacked.
The greater the influence of unknown forces on the island.
Even some powerful people with extremely profound magic power landed on the island and felt the threat of death in an instant. Some people who saw the opportunity quickly stopped pressing and quit immediately. It was no surprise that the sense of crisis enveloped their hearts.
It will recede quickly.
Of course, there were also people who persisted and relied on their magic power to go deeper. In the end, these people mysteriously disappeared without knowing whether they were alive or dead.
As a result, there are more and more speculations and legends about this island. There are different opinions and there is no conclusion. However, it is true that this mysterious island produces many rare materials that are rarely seen in the outside world.
Therefore, the most powerful forces around here have jointly agreed that whenever the island is born, a wave hunting ceremony will be formed that is different from the past.
And because the island has more restrictions on people with higher magic power, it was decided to let the young generation come to compete in skills and go to the island to do things. This is the origin of the Tide Ceremony.
The so-called hunting is to hunt marine life on the 8,000-mile sea road to the island, and at the same time compete with the order of landing on the island. After landing on the island, you have to collect many treasures on it, and finally see which one is the best in the world.
In the process, you performed the best and gained the most.
Zhu Jiu silently listened to Gong Changlong's explanation of the rules and origins of the Tide Ceremony. At this time, Gong Changlong said again:
"Master Zhu still has another mission after he lands on the island. According to the analysis of senior officials within the sect, it is suspected that there is some kind of special secret on the island, because people from the top three chambers of commerce who land on the island will disappear for a few days without any reason. We have tried every means to trace it.
Wherever they go, they never make it."
When Gong Changlong said this, he felt deeply strange and shook his head before continuing:
"The island is less than two hundred miles in size in total. People in the sect who have participated in the Tide Hunting Ceremony have already drawn detailed maps, and their footprints have covered almost every inch of the island. However, they still don't know who the top three chambers of commerce are.
How did he suddenly lose his trace and then reappear a few days later? Therefore, after Mr. Zhu landed on the island, while collecting a lot of materials, he also had to pay special attention to the whereabouts of the three top-ranked chamber of commerce people."
Zhu Jiu nodded and asked with a thought:
"Does Senior Brother Detailed Picture Palace on the island have it?"
Gong Changlong nodded without hesitation and said:
"I was about to take it out to show you."
As he spoke, he waved his hand, and a dark-yellow light came out of his hand, quickly enlarging into a detailed map of an island measuring dozens of meters.
This spiritual map is not a map of earth veins, but someone used magic power to depict it. The terrain and vegetation on the map are all transformed by magic power. It is very real, almost like a real miniature island.
From the picture, it can be seen that the four walls of the island are rugged and rocky, with steep cliffs. The terrain in the center of the island is even more complex, with rocky vegetation and even many small lakes.
When Zhu Jiu first saw this mana map, he was actually a little disappointed. Because it was not a map of earth veins, the Sea of Knowledge Map should have no response at all. However, he did not expect that the Sea of Knowledge Map also seemed to detect the appearance of this mana map, but suddenly
The fluctuations were more violent than ever before.
What is the reason for this?
Could it be related to the secrets contained in the island itself?
In the spirit map in the consciousness sea space, the light and color are shaking more and more violently, and great changes are taking place.