Chapter 49: The bell rings at midnight
Chapter 49: The bell rings at midnight (seeking follow-up reading)
"From here, you can cross the sea and reach Cangzhou."
"Only when you arrive in Cangzhou will you realize what it means to have many immortal gates! Only then will you realize that the Yulong Continent you are in is just an abandoned island - only then will you realize that the people of Zhao, Wei, and Qiao are just barbarians."
The man's voice was unusually clear amid the sound of the waves.
This surprised Tian Lin, because he had entered the "illusion" several times and had always only seen the person but never heard his voice.
When Tian Lin opened his eyes, in addition to seeing the man, he also discovered that there were many other people standing around.
These people all carried knives or hammers, exuding the temperament of martial arts heroes.
Only the man standing on the bow looked particularly conspicuous in his Taoist robe.
"Master Zhou, can you really lead us into the Immortal Gate?"
A man stood up. The hammer in his hand was huge, but it was as light as a feather in his hand.
"Haha, I said I would take you into the Immortal Gate, and I will definitely take you into the Immortal Gate."
As the man spoke, he raised his hand.
A flame appeared in his palm, and he said, "Look, I am a powerful person at the first level of Qi training. How could I lie to you?"
As soon as he said this, Tian Lin felt bad.
He suddenly thought of Manager Xu. The old man had also "rubbed" out the flames and brought them to the mine to be miners.
Looking at this Immortal Zhou now, he seems unreliable no matter how you look at him.
Does it mean that in order to pass the 99th stone step, one must kill the Immortal Zhou in front of him?
Tian Lin's heart sank, thinking that the difficulty was really too exaggerated.
Not to mention that he is not a Qi Refiner now. Even if he really reached the first level of Qi Refining, he may not be a match for this Immortal Zhou.
"No, there must be a way to break the situation, but I can't think of it at the moment."
Tian Lin walked to the side of the boat and suddenly pointed at a group of fish "playing" in the sea and asked, "Master Zhou, what kind of fish are these?"
Zhou Xianchang looked at the monsters with sharp teeth and as strong as rhinos at the bow, and said with a pale face: "These are sawtooth monsters. Even a Qi training master like me will have a hard time escaping if entangled by them."
"This sea water doesn't seem to be simple, does it?"
Tian Lin looked at the [Shuiling Foundation Building Pool] under the boat and listened to Immortal Zhou say:
"This sea water is as terrifying as its name. It is called the 'Sinking Immortal Pond'. Even immortals would drown if they fell into the sea. So you must be careful not to fall into the sea."
Tian Lin didn’t know how other people’s methods of breaking the impasse were, but his own method was to sink to the bottom of the sea with everyone else.
The only scary thing is those [Caries Poison Dragons] in the sea.
According to the entry, these [Caries Poison Dragons] have the effect of detoxification and are treasures for Qi Refiners when they travel.
But the entry shows that he is a [Caries Poison Dragon], and it is only after he enters Tian Lin's mouth that he becomes one.
Now, Tian Lin is more worried about how to avoid falling into the mouth of the saw-tooth monster.
"Shenxiantang? Can it really sink immortals? This name is a bit exaggerated. If even immortals would sink to the bottom, then our wooden boat may not be reliable."
On the deck, a gangster said something with a smile.
There were a dozen or so martial artists on the deck, all of them were masters, and it was quite lively.
After thinking for a while, Tian Lin quietly went to the stern of the boat.
He doesn't have the strength or courage to fight against a cultivator at the Qi Refining level.
But he had the ability to chisel wood to sink the ship, and the courage to take the risk and go into the water.
He saw him raise his sword and drop it, and then he heard Master Zhou at the bow say, "What's that sound?"
Tian Lin said at the stern: "Master Zhou, don't worry. A sawtooth monster just hit the boat. But this monster was too stupid. It only hit the boat twice and then left."
"You should also be careful not to fall into the sea. If you fall into the sea, even I can't save you."
Following Master Zhou's kind reminder, Tian Lin struck again with his sword.
With his strength and the black sandstone weapon made with dozens of taels of silver, even if the deck was hard, it couldn't stop him.
"What's going on again?"
Zhou Xianshi asked a question and heard Tian Lin shout, "Oh no! The sawtooth monster has smashed the boat and the seawater is flooding in."
A burst of hurried footsteps was heard, and by the time those martial artists arrived, Master Zhou had already leapt to the stern of the boat.
At this time, Tian Lin had already sheathed his sword. Standing on the holed deck, he nervously asked Master Zhou, "What should we do?" "This ship is smeared with medicine. The Sawtooth Monster never likes to get close. How could he hit the ship for no reason? Even if he hit the ship, how could he knock off the deck as well?"
Immortal Master Zhou was a little bit unbelieving, and heard Tian Lin say: "Immortal Master, the most urgent thing now is to block the boat first."
Master Zhou did not suspect that Tian Lin was the one behind this. After all, no one could escape if the ship sank.
He just said with a pale face: "It's over. Once this boat leaks, it can't be repaired. All of us are really going to become a corpse in this Shenxiantang."
As he spoke, Tian Lin was retreating quietly, but how could several masters remain calm?
They stepped forward and said, "You are a powerful person at the first level of Qi Refining, is there nothing you can do?"
Immortal Master Zhou flew into a rage and said, "The first level of Qi Refining is nothing in the world of cultivation! I am not a Foundation Establishment expert who can fly in the air."
"Since you are a cultivator, there must be a way, right?"
At the critical moment of life and death, and alone on the ocean, no one can keep calm.
Master Zhou finally couldn't stand it anymore. He grabbed a master by the collar and threw him into the sea: "My way is to live longer than you!"
The master was considered an expert, but after being caught by Master Zhou, he became as fragile as a child.
I saw his whole body falling into the water, but not even a wave was created, and he sank into the sea in an instant.
The people on the boat were terrified and couldn't help asking, "Is there a water ghost in the sea?"
Tian Lin also felt a little worried at this time, but he was not afraid of falling into the water, but that Master Zhou would not die fast enough.
"What should we do? Hold on to the wood and escape!"
Someone shouted, but the entire ship had already sunk to the bottom of the sea along with all the people on board.
Soon, the deck sinking into the sea became quiet.
Tian Lin saw with his own eyes that even the Immortal Master Zhou could not create a single wave in the sea, and sank silently to the bottom of the ship.
[Shuiling Foundation Building Pool, a blessed land needed for building the Shuiling Root foundation, contains a large amount of water essence, which can be consumed directly]
Tian Lin fell into the sea, his mind full of this entry.
He spread his arms and floated on the sea, while kicking his legs to get away from the sea.
The sea is dead and cannot cause any harm to him.
But the Sawtooth Monsters are alive. At this moment, they are tearing apart the corpses of the masters in the sea, dyeing the sea red.
Tian Lin swam while staring down with wide eyes.
He couldn't see the existence of Master Zhou, but he lamented why Master Zhou didn't die yet!
Because Master Zhou died, he was able to get out of this illusion.
I don’t know how long it took, but just when Tian Lin felt desperate, the scene in front of him finally changed.
He looked around in a daze and found that the moon was hanging high in the sky, illuminating the smooth platform and the trees on both sides of the platform.
Tian Lin turned his head and saw Bai Ye at level 97, and old man Gou at level 95 who was looking at him eagerly.
"It's done, it's done?"
Old Man Gou couldn't believe it, Bai Ye couldn't help laughing and said, "I always thought that level ninety-nine was a killing trap, used by Yaoyue Sect to trick menial disciples into willingly working for them. I didn't expect it to be true."
The two of them were acting even crazier than Tian Lin on the stone steps under the platform, while Tian Lin was relatively calm at the moment.
He walked towards the design table on the platform, where he saw a piece of white paper with eight big characters written on it: "Below the golden elixir, we are all ants."
The eight characters were so powerful that they could be seen through the paper. Tian Lin could tell at a glance that they were written by the ancestor of Yaoyue Sect.
Because the handwriting is obviously the same as the words "Immortals and mortals are forever separated, humans and ghosts are not allowed to enter" on the mountain gate.
Just as Tian Lin picked up the paper, the bell on the mountain rang.
This was the first time that the Dao bell had rung at midnight since the immortal ladder on Dao Mountain was built.
In an instant, Tian Lin, Bai Ye and Old Man Gou all looked towards the mountain top hidden in the night.
They couldn't see the figure ringing the bell under the pavilion, but they could imagine that there must be an old man in Taoist robes who rang the Taoist bell the moment Tian Lin picked up the paper.
The sound of the bell spread throughout the Yaoyue Sect, and in an instant the Yaoyue Sect was in an uproar.
This period of time will be a matter of life and death, so please read this! Please.
(End of this chapter)