Chapter 1420: Reefs Revealed by Rising Waves

On the North Ice Continent, an old man stood in a courtyard.

If Dong Fuyi and Pei Buchong were to see this place, they would immediately know where it was. It was the hidden sect they had searched for a long time and had infiltrated to rescue True Lord Qianchong.

The old man had gray hair and was dressed in a gray robe. He looked to be about sixty years old, with many wrinkles on his face. But under his gray eyebrows, he had a pair of sharp, eagle-like eyes.

In the entire courtyard, only he stood there, making it seem so quiet.

At this moment, he was holding a jade slip in one hand. Ever since he had withdrawn his Divine Sense from the jade slip, he had been looking up at the sky, lost in a daze.

“It has been decades. It seems Dong Fuyi and the others have really left this continent! Originally, I thought that after they had severely damaged the Xiao Yunzong, and with True Lord Qianchong’s accumulated anger, they would take the opportunity to eradicate all our hidden sects on the North Ice Continent. But I didn’t expect them to have disappeared completely like stray dogs, with no thought of revenge. And in these years, there has been no trace of them in the Immortal Spirit Realm. After sending out so many people and inquiring for so many years, only a faint trace of Qianchong was suspected to have been found on the Forsaken Continent. But now, according to these feedback clues, it should be some traces he left behind when he came to the North Ice Continent and supported the ‘Sacred Demon Palace.’ After that, he lost his trace… After they disappeared from the North Ice Continent, no new traces have been found on the Forsaken Continent. That ‘Sacred Demon Palace’ cannot be touched. Otherwise, once those old demons in the Immortal Spirit Realm find out, they will definitely not let us off easily…”

The gray-robed old man looked at the sky. After the Xiao Yunzong was severely damaged and escaped, they had immediately chosen another hidden base of the sect and had immediately gone into seclusion to heal.

And it was not until the gray-robed old man returned that he discovered that there was a problem here. Everyone had disappeared. This made him very shocked.

When he found the Xiao Yunzong, looking at the other party’s almost crippled state, his shock was beyond words.

After a simple inquiry, the gray-robed old man then knew that Dong Fuyi had actually appeared. He hadn’t expected that their “fishing” here would end with even the bait escaping.

With such a big thing happening, he and the Xiao Yunzong were both guilty of a major dereliction of duty.

For a moment, even the gray-robed old man did not dare to report this matter to the higher-ups. The higher-ups still thought that they were still setting up an ambush, waiting for the arrival of the cultivators of the Five Immortal Sects.

Fortunately, this setup, the higher-ups were determined to wait for a long time. In fact, they still did not know that True Lord Qianchong had already fallen into the trap.

It was just that the gray-robed old man and the Xiao Yunzong were too greedy. True Lord Qianchong’s defense was so abnormal that the two of them had been unable to take him down.

But they had not asked for help from the higher-ups. The two of them were just thinking of getting a bigger harvest, so as to shock the entire sect in one fell swoop.

Who would have thought that in the end, all their schemes would come to naught, and even the Xiao Yunzong had almost perished!

“… The Forsaken Continent? And in that deadly red lightning area, traces of someone having passed through have also been found. It’s just that that place is too dangerous, and I can’t enter either. I can only use a magical treasure to spy. I don’t know if the person who broke in was from the Five Immortal Sects, or if someone else had strayed in and had already perished. Assuming… assuming it was someone from the Five Immortal Sects, then can we infer that True Lord Qianchong and the others did not directly land on the North Ice Continent through a spatial node, but came from other continents… Their… their main purpose in coming down should be to find their disciples… Forsaken Continent… Forsaken… Continent…”

The gray-robed old man held the jade slip in his hand, and a series of thoughts arose in his mind.

After pondering for a long time, the gray-robed old man finally made a decision. He was going to personally go to the Forsaken Continent. Maybe there, he could find traces of the Five Immortal Sects, and even the origin of the lower realm disciples…

On the fifth floor of the “Northern Abyss Demon-Suppressing Pagoda,” Hong Yin looked at a demonic beast pouncing at her, her pretty face showing a bit of uncertainty.

In these years, according to Li Yan’s words, she had basically been carefully exploring the bottom of the pool on the second floor, almost inch by inch.

Li Yan had said that the tip of the “Red Whisk Crimson Dragon Spear” had come from the lava of the “Flame Palace.” So she had been searching there carefully.

But even though she had personally entered the lava time and time again and searched carefully and repeatedly, she still hadn’t found any useful clues.

In the end, she had turned her attention to that strange demonic beast with a large head and a thin tail. Li Yan had said that this demonic beast could enter dreams through fire, obtaining others’ dreams, and even memories.

In the end, it would even transform into the person in the dream and live out that person’s life. This was truly a strange and extreme demonic beast.

So, after Hong Yin couldn’t find any clues, she simply sat cross-legged in front of the “Flame Palace” and began to continuously search the memories of these strange demonic beasts one by one.

This made many cultivators who came here see a very alluring female nun sitting there, constantly capturing demonic beasts with large heads and thin tails one by one, as if she was exploring something.

Because Hong Yin’s appearance was too alluring, her curvaceous figure, and her exotic face, could arouse a man’s fiery passion even more, which actually attracted the covetous eyes of many cultivators.

So, a pile of corpses soon accumulated around the Flame Palace, and those corpses were slowly swallowed by the lava.

Hong Yin was also very annoyed by this. While she was searching the memories of those demonic beasts with large heads and thin tails, those small cultivators actually came to provoke her without fear of death.

She often just sent them to the land of ultimate bliss with just a glance.

On the second floor, a terrifying piece of news finally spread. It was possible that a Nascent Soul-level old monster had appeared here.

This made the bottom of the Red Maple Pool a forbidden place that people talked about with a change of expression for a while. But what made these low-level cultivators strange was that no expert from the Jingtu Sect had ever appeared to intervene.

Hong Yin had also been constantly searching those demonic beasts with large heads and thin tails in these years, and the information she had obtained was basically meaningless fragments of memories.

At this point, even with Hong Yin’s Buddhist heart, she slowly became impatient. But finally, on a certain day, she actually made a discovery.

It was a scene of heaven and earth changing color, but it was only for a few breaths before it was gone. In that short scene, what she saw was a ball of light as bright as day, and an endless void…

Just that short scene, Hong Yin felt the extreme fear of this demonic beast with a large head and a thin tail. In its senses, that was a power that could truly destroy heaven and earth.

But after Hong Yin was surprised, she also felt that this might be some kind of dream that the other party had once obtained. But this scene just gave her a relatively real feeling.

Just like that, under uncertainty, she could only put these doubts in the bottom of her heart.

After more than ten years, Hong Yin had no more discoveries. So she left the bottom of the pool and came to the third, fourth, and now the fifth floor of the “Northern Abyss Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.”

When she reached the fifth floor, the demonic beasts and soul beasts here were already a threat to her life.

It was just that the appearance of the demonic beast she encountered today made Hong Yin a little dazed. It was a lizard-like demonic beast, more than ten zhang long, with rows of blood-red sharp spines growing on its back, similar to the ancient stegosaurus.

This made a strange feeling arise in Hong Yin’s heart. The appearance of this demonic beast was actually sixty percent similar to the “Yin Mountain Beast” she was most familiar with.

“This… this should… should just be a similar shape!” Hong Yin’s beautiful face was stunned, but she quickly thought with some uncertainty.

Soon, she still felt that she had been looking for clues everywhere for a long time and might have become too suspicious.

Crawling lizard-like demonic beasts were already somewhat similar to the “Yin Mountain Beast.” No wonder she had mistaken it.

However, a thought suddenly arose in her heart at this moment. She wanted to capture the other party and carefully soul-search it.

Once this thought arose, she could no longer suppress it!

But this was the fifth floor of the “Northern Abyss Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.” Any demonic beast or soul beast that appeared here was definitely not easy to capture alive. It might even attract a group of demonic beasts or soul beasts to attack…

Under a blue sky and white clouds, an endless green prairie spread out. Looking down from the sky, the green grass, like waves of wheat, was constantly rising and falling with the wind like sea waves.

Looking from a distance, it was like an endless green carpet, very beautiful.

But if you were really on the prairie below, you would not have such a thought.

These green grasses were one or two people deep. If a person fell into them, they would be completely submerged. Apart from the dense various green weeds around, you couldn’t see anything else at all.

Not to mention wanting to look far into the sky and enjoy the prairie scenery. Even the sky above your head had become like looking at the sky from the bottom of a well.

And among these green weeds, it was definitely full of dangers. There would be various fierce demonic beasts hidden, as well as many unknown poisonous insects as dense as ants.

They could quickly crawl all over your body. Even magical treasure-grade clothes, under their desperate tearing and biting attacks, might show some cracks.

Then these dense poisonous insects would take the opportunity to swarm in…

At this moment, in a certain patch of lush, forest-like grass, there were several figures hidden. And above their heads, a feather as pure and white as jade was hovering.

The feather was only the size of an adult’s palm, pure white, and was emitting a large amount of white light, firmly enveloping the several figures. It was precisely Jia Fugui’s “Illusion Tail Feather.”

The three people and one dog stood in the grass, and the densely packed thatch did not even bend a single one. It even continued to sway with the wind…

If someone’s Divine Sense could scan the three people and one dog, they would see that they seemed to have turned into transparent people, and were being passed through by blades of thatch.

Some unknown insects and ants, after entering this area, did not have any awareness. They still sensed that they were walking normally in the grass.

In fact, they had already been pulled to other places by an invisible force.