Chapter 740: Fierce Fighting
In the fierce battle, many villagers were injured, but they did not retreat. After a hard fight, they finally repelled the guardian beast.
Continuing to climb upward, they encountered powerful restrictions. These restrictions formed an invisible barrier that blocked their progress. Qi Tongwei tried to crack the restrictions with the knowledge he had accumulated in various mysterious ruins. He carefully observed the runes and energy fluctuations on the restrictions. After many attempts, he finally found a way to crack them and led everyone to break through one restriction after another.
As they approached the top of the mountain, the air was filled with a strong floral scent. Everyone was delighted, knowing that the Pure World Lotus was nearby. However, just as they were looking for the Pure World Lotus, a huge trap appeared in front of them. The ground suddenly collapsed, forming a bottomless pit filled with sharp stone thorns. Qi Tongwei reacted quickly and grabbed several villagers around him in time, but some villagers still accidentally fell into the pit and cried out in pain.
Qi Tongwei was extremely anxious, but he knew he couldn't panic at this moment. He looked around and found a narrow passage that seemed to bypass the trap. So he led the remaining villagers along the passage. Finally, on the edge of a cliff at the top of the mountain, they found the Pure World Lotus emitting a sacred light.
The Pure World Lotus grew on a huge rock, surrounded by a layer of soft light to protect it. Qi Tongwei approached the Pure World Lotus cautiously, and when he was about to reach out to pick it, a mysterious man in black suddenly jumped out from the shadows beside him. The man in black had a cold look in his eyes, and attacked Qi Tongwei without saying a word. Qi Tongwei quickly raised his sword to resist, and the two started a thrilling duel.
During the battle, Qi Tongwei discovered that the black-robed man's martial arts were extremely strange and powerful. However, with his tenacious will and superb swordsmanship, he gradually gained the upper hand. In the end, he seized a flaw in the black-robed man and repelled him. Seeing that the situation was not good, the black-robed man turned around and fled from the top of the mountain.
Qi Tongwei did not chase the man in black robes, as he knew that the most urgent task was to get the Pure World Lotus. He successfully picked the Pure World Lotus and led everyone down the mountain quickly. After returning to the village, they came to the cave and prepared to merge the Pure World Lotus with the Holy Soul Heart according to the method they had heard before.
When the Pure World Lotus came into contact with the Holy Soul Heart, a strong light burst out, illuminating the entire cave. Qi Tongwei and others cut their fingers, dripped blood onto the light, and then began to cast the ancient forbidden spell. As the spell progressed, the energy in the cave became stronger and stronger, forming a huge energy vortex that sucked all the evil aura into it.
Just when the evil power was about to be completely sealed, suddenly, the black-robed man who had escaped before appeared again, holding a black box in his hand, muttering something, and actually tried to break the seal. Seeing this, Qi Tongwei rushed towards the black-robed man regardless of his own safety and fought a desperate battle with him. At the critical moment, the villagers also joined the battle and fought against the black-robed man together.
Qi Tongwei and the black-robed man fought fiercely, swords crossed, spells flashed. The villagers also did what they could, some wielded hoes and sticks, some chanted simple self-defense spells, and worked together to fight the black-robed man. However, the black-robed man was very strong, and the black box in his hand exuded a strange power, which bounced off everyone's attacks.
In the chaos, Qi Tongwei caught a glimpse of a sneer on the black-robed man's face, and he had an ominous premonition. Suddenly, the black-robed man suddenly opened the box, and a black light instantly enveloped the entire cave. Then, everyone felt a black screen in front of their eyes, and their bodies seemed to be pulled by a powerful force. When they came to their senses again, they found themselves in a strange and weird world.
The sky here was dark red, the ground was cracked, and there was a foul smell. The surroundings were a desolate scene, with rolling mountains in the distance, but filled with billowing black smoke. Qi Tongwei realized that the man in black robes used the power of the box to bring them into an evil dimension, with the purpose of completely destroying the seal here, releasing the evil power, and using the evil power of this space to strengthen himself and achieve his ulterior purpose.
Hou Liangping searched for Qi Tongwei and others in the real world, but found nothing. He was extremely anxious. With his keen intuition and previous experience in handling cases, he realized that the seriousness of the matter was far beyond his imagination. He visited everywhere and consulted ancient books, and finally found some clues from an ancient local chronicle. It recorded a mysterious legend related to the seal of the other-dimensional space and the evil power, and the way to save them was hidden in a mysterious relic.
At the same time, Qi Tongwei led the villagers to survive in this strange world. They encountered various strange and terrifying monsters, some of which were ghostly, erratic, able to invade people's minds and create hallucinations; some were huge and powerful, and every attack could make the earth tremble. Qi Tongwei waved the demon-suppressing sword and kept killing the approaching monsters. His eyes were firm and resolute, and he had only one belief in his heart, that is, to find the man in black robes, stop his conspiracy, and protect his hometown and relatives.
During a fierce encounter, Qi Tongwei discovered that these monsters seemed to be afraid of a certain light. He observed carefully and found that the sword that suppressed the demons had absorbed the evil energy of a certain number of monsters after killing them, and then released a weak purifying light. Qi Tongwei had an idea, and he asked the villagers to surround him and use the light of the sword to form a protective circle to temporarily resist the monsters' attacks, while looking for the traces of the man in black robes.
After a difficult search, they finally found the hiding place of the man in black robe. It was a black castle standing in the middle of a blood-red lake. A strong evil atmosphere permeated around the castle, as if it was the core of the evil power in this world. Qi Tongwei knew that the man in black robe must be inside, planning the final conspiracy.
He led the villagers to approach the castle carefully, avoiding various traps and patrolling monsters along the way. When they arrived at the gate of the castle, Qi Tongwei found that the door was engraved with complex runes and patterns. These runes seemed to be an ancient seal that prevented outsiders from entering. Relying on the knowledge he had accumulated in the mysterious ruins before, he began to try to crack these runes.
As time passed, Qi Tongwei's forehead was covered with sweat. The villagers also looked around nervously, alert to the danger that might arise at any time.