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After thinking this through, Jiang Lu couldn't wait to find someone to experiment with it.
He asked the two of them, "Come to think of it, I've been gone for such a long time, have they finished building their foundation?"
"I remember they said it would take two hours if everything went well, right?" Scythe recalled, looking at the clock in the room: "It's more than three hours now, it should be almost time."
"Then let's wait a little longer." Jiang Lu nodded, walked to the balcony and sat down on the recliner.
Just as he had just laid down to take a rest and was thinking about how to use the "loss of control" to deceive or launch a sneak attack, he suddenly felt the recliner under him shaking.
"Eh? Is this a massage chair?" Jiang Lu stood up and asked in surprise.
But before the other two could react, Jiang Lu discovered that not only the recliner, but everything in the room was shaking. Several glass cups on the coffee table were shaken to the ground by the strong vibration and broke into pieces with a crisp sound.
Jiang Lu breathed a sigh of relief and lay back down: "I was shocked. It turned out to be an earthquake. I thought it was a massage chair that would secretly charge a fee."
"You seem to care about something a little strange..."
The performer complained and then quickly stood up and went to the window to look out.
In just over ten seconds, many quick-reacting guests had already fled the hotel and were standing on the ground outside, confused and not knowing what was happening.
Soon, more and more people escaped from the hotel. Most of those who came out late were busy with something, taking a shower or sleeping, so they were a little slow. Some of them didn't even put on their clothes, and escaped wrapped in bath towels and nightgowns.
The empty plain soon became noisy, with shouting and crying heard everywhere, filled with the crowd's helplessness and fear about the unknown emergency.
"Let's leave quickly. We don't know the magnitude of the earthquake. The house might collapse." Sickle urged and jumped out from the balcony.
The performers followed.
Jiang Lu saw that they all left. Although he felt that Xiao Zhen didn't need to run and Da Zhen couldn't escape, in order to fit in with the group, he also climbed out from the second-floor balcony.
However, the direction he chose was different from the other two.
Because he had just been on a recliner, he did not notice that the two people slid down the drainpipe, but just jumped down.
As expected, it was unexpected.
The sickle and the performer, who were hanging up and down on the drainpipe, watched Jiang Lu hit the head of a person who had just escaped from the emergency exit downstairs, knocking the person unconscious.
Seeing this, they began to slide down faster and faster.
When Jiang Lu came to his senses, he found that he had knocked a passerby unconscious, and he immediately looked around.
Fortunately, no one seemed to notice the situation here, and in the few short seconds it took for the sickle and the performer to slide down the pipe and trot over to his side, he thought of how to remedy the situation.
He immediately raised his arms and shouted: "Hurry up, someone has fallen over here and fainted!"
Hearing his shout, two hotel staff members who were maintaining order immediately ran over and helped carry the innocent passerby to a safe area.
In the panic, a cold-looking woman ran out of the crowd, shouting, "Junior sister! Junior sister, what's wrong with you?!"
Jiang Lu took a closer look and found that this person looked familiar, as if he was...
It seemed like he was the guy who was not very friendly to him in the casino at that time.
When she looked down again, she realized that the person she had knocked unconscious was the little Lolita next to her.
Seeing the cold woman running to the little Lolita, Jiang Lu didn't have time to think about why they were here, and immediately explained with a guilty conscience: "Just now when she was running out, a piece of gravel fell and almost hit her head. Fortunately, I pushed her away in time. Who knew that she lost her balance after I pushed her away and fell down, and then fainted. I'm sorry, I meant well but ended up doing something bad..."
"It's okay. Falling is better than getting hit." The cold woman checked the little girl's injuries. After confirming that she was not seriously injured, she comforted Jiang Lu without raising her head and said, "She is fine. She should just be too frightened. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine..." Jiang Lu was about to say that he was fine, but suddenly changed his words and said, "Ah, I didn't notice it just now, I sprained my ankle."
After saying this, she limped forward in cooperation.
The sickle and the performer on the side frowned.
"Why hasn't he lost control yet?"
"I don't know, it should be soon."
When the cold woman heard that someone had been injured in order to save her junior sister, she planned to express her gratitude to the benefactor. But when she looked up, she was suddenly stunned: "It's you?"
Jiang Lu also cooperated and pretended that he had just noticed it: "Ah? It's you?"
Although her first impression of Jiang Lu was not good, it was a fact that he saved her junior sister, so she could not help but change her opinion of Jiang Lu and had a little better impression of him. Finally, she solemnly expressed her gratitude to Jiang Lu: "Anyway, thank you."
"Of course, of course." Jiang Lu said modestly, "Then I'll leave first."
As soon as he raised his foot, he suddenly grimaced.
The cold woman frowned: "Are you seriously injured?"
"It's out of the way."
"Let me see." The cold woman didn't say anything. She squatted down and lifted up Jiang Lu's trouser leg, then looked up in confusion: "Your foot is okay."
Jiang Lu didn't expect that she would check directly. In a hurry, he suddenly said "Huh?" in the direction of the little loli.
The cold woman thought her junior sister had woken up, and subconsciously turned back, only to find that her junior sister was still unconscious.
In this split second, Jiang Lu's face showed a ruthless look. He raised his left foot and stepped hard on his right ankle. With a click, the right ankle cracked.
When the cold woman turned around, she suddenly saw that Jiang Lu's ankle, which had been normal just now, was swollen and strangely bent.
The moment Jiang Lu stepped on it, he regretted it.
The next moment after the severe pain came, he remembered that the healing BUFF seemed to be useless in this spiritual realm.
"What's going on? Didn't you just..." The cold woman was shocked.
Where's your sprained ankle? It's about to be broken, right?
Jiang Lu forced a smile: "It's a delayed injury. The pre-swing was a bit long, and it's happening now."
"Hurry up and sit down. I'll help you. Don't move your leg anymore."
Having said that, the cold woman forced Jiang Lu to sit down where he was, and then she carefully treated his injuries.
Seeing this, Scythe and the performer's brows furrowed even more tightly.
“How cruel…”
"Now I hope he doesn't lose control. He deserves this."
While the cold woman was bandaging Jiang Lu, the shaking did not disappear but became more intense.
Until this time, the two people, who had not found Jin Yao and Hong Yi in the crowd, began to worry.
Scythe said with some worry: "Jin Yao said that the foundation building cannot be disturbed, but who knew that such a thing would happen. They should be fine, right?"
"I don't know. Should we let Jiang Bao go and take a look?" said the performer.
When they looked at Jiang Lu, they heard Jiang Lu sitting there like an old man, saying things like "Your hands are so small", "What do you do? Your skin is so good", "Oh, this is so itchy".
I feel like I can't rely on him.
At this moment, on the other side of the hotel, a red-gold beam of light suddenly rose into the air and shot straight up from the ground towards the sky.
The originally clear blue sky was covered with dark clouds in the blink of an eye. No one knew where and when the dark clouds came from, but they covered the top of the hotel layer by layer, and then gradually spread to the entire Nanjiang City.
A dark purple lightning flashed, and the next moment, the shocking thunder resounded in everyone's heart, making people's eardrums hurt.
And this was just the beginning. Dense dark purple lightning flashed continuously and gathered behind the dark clouds, as if something was brewing.
This scene seemed like the end of the world, and everyone in Nanjiang City fell into panic...
Chapter 317 The Foundation of Creation
"This doesn't seem to be a simple earthquake..."
Even Jiang Lu, who was enjoying a gentle physical therapy, couldn't help but become serious. He squinted his eyes and looked at the red-gold beam of light in the sky and the purple thunder storm brewing in the dark clouds.
Seeing this shocking scene, the crowd suddenly became agitated. They were already panicked by the earthquake, and now in the face of the unknown scene they had never seen before, they were like the frightened crowd in the sea who scattered when a huge monster swam by.
For a moment, there were cries and shouts incessantly. Everyone wanted to escape from this center. They crowded and pushed each other, not caring whether they stepped on other people or not. Even though they didn't know how wide the scope of this strange scene was and whether they could escape at all, they still tried their best to squeeze out like crazy.
Upon seeing this, the cold woman held her junior sister tightly to her side and cast a simple spell to make the passers-by subconsciously avoid this side, freeing up a small open space.
"Someone is going through the tribulation!"
After doing all this, the cold woman suddenly spoke, then pointed at the purple light under the dark clouds and said with certainty: "That is the thunder."
"Overcoming the tribulation?" Jiang Lu looked intently and found that it was indeed somewhat similar to the impression he had of a cultivator overcoming the tribulation, except that the momentum this time was even more magnificent, and also more frightening.
The panicked people are fighting against the inner fear that comes from their awe of nature. They are facing the mighty power of the entire world.
"Whose tribulation could cause such a huge phenomenon?"
The cold woman clenched her teeth and trembled all over. It was unclear whether it was because of excitement or she was trying hard to restrain herself from being overwhelmed by this breath.
"No matter who it is, this is illegal, right?"
Jiang Lu sat on the ground, frowning and saying:
“I heard from the people in the Law Enforcement Bureau that after the construction of the Sanqing Temple, not only can the monks not freely release their magical powers in public, but even the wild monsters must have a pass from the Sanqing Temple before they can come out.
If you want to transcend the tribulation, shouldn't you find a deserted mountain forest, or go to an immortal sect and do it under the care of an immortal?"
“That being said, judging from the aura of this person who is trying to overcome the tribulation, I’m afraid this person is not an ordinary person.
If he fails to survive, he will die and there will be no need to investigate. But if he succeeds, I am afraid that even if he is investigated, he will not be subject to the control of Sanqing Temple. "
The cold woman stared at the huge beam of light intently, and felt that there was a faint voice containing great truths lingering in her ears, making her unwilling to look away, and she seemed to be immersed in it.
Jiang Lu was about to say something else when the beam of light changed again, interrupting his thoughts.
Four phantoms with feet on two dragons flew out from the light column, facing four different directions and guarding under the light column. The next moment, countless mythical beasts of different appearances emerged from the light column, attached to the light column like a relief, turning the light column that originally looked like a column of blazing fire into a complex totem.
An ancient and majestic aura emanated from the totem from top to bottom. It was as if the heavy feeling that had come from ancient times across the long river of time had made the entire Nanjiang City breathless.
The cold and elegant woman who saw the four shadows clearly was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth for a long time.
"In the south is Zhurong, who has a human face and a beast's body, and rides on two dragons. In the west is Rushu, who has a snake in his left ear and rides on two dragons. In the east is Jumang, who has a human face and a bird's body, and rides on two dragons. In the north is Yujiang, who has a black body and hands and feet, and rides on two dragons."
"What the hell?" Jiang Lu was confused: "Isn't Zhurong Meng Huo's wife? How come she has a human face and a beast body, and a two-headed dragon? Meng Huo is Fu Rui?"
It's no wonder that he didn't know them. These four ancient gods had already retired from the world when Jiang Lu was hanging out in society. Not only had he never seen them, many people in the fairy world today had never seen them. Perhaps only those old brands that had also survived for countless years had really dealt with them.
They now only exist in some ancient books, but everyone knows that Jiang Lu does not read serious books, except for the time when he was young and had to read some serious things for the purpose of cultivation. Most of the time he prefers to read unofficial history and fan fiction, such as "Love of the Osmanthus Tree: During the years when I was separated from my husband, I fell in love with the lumberjack in my family" (written by Marshal Tianpeng) and the like.
The cold woman was not too surprised by Jiang Lu's ignorance. After all, even if she knew about them and their specific appearance, it was only because there were relevant records in the books in Kunlun Mountain, and she happened to have read them.
There are many people who can see a wider world without such resources and platforms. Jiang Lu in front of him is just one of them. This is normal.
So, the cold woman explained: