164|The Enchanted State Counselor’s Enchanting Words and Enchanting Heart 2

Xie Ren’s first reaction was to lift up his heart and chop down. Fortunately, he was used to it, and before he did it, he swept a glance and stopped, saying, “General Pei?”

This person rolled over and stood up, and it was Pei Ming. He dusted off his shoulders, actually quite calm and elegant, and glanced at them, saying, “His Highness the Crown Prince and His Excellency the Ghost King are enjoying themselves here.”

Xie Ren said: “okay, okay. Then what General Pei you are not serious? I seem to have just heard a ‘click’ sound ……”

Pei Ming said: ”Oh, it doesn’t matter. Thank you, Your Highness for your concern. Thank you, Your Highness, for your concern, it wasn’t my bones that made the ‘kala’ sound. It’s this one.” He lifted up a thing, it was that unlucky man’s thigh bone, which was no longer in bone shape. He said, “Fortunately, with the help of this kind brother, Mister Pei was able to dig a way out of this mountain monster. Although it’s a man’s bone, it can be considered a good man with a strong iron bone.”

As soon as the words fell, a second silhouette fell from the sky, landing heavily. People walked over to see, this time it was Pei Zhu. In fact, there were two of them, he was protecting Halfmoon in his arm, and Halfmoon was protecting the two black pottery jars containing Carving Mill and Rong Guang in his arm. Both of them are dusty, but it looks like nothing serious, quickly climbed up, Pei Su spat out a few mouthfuls of mortar, said: ”General, army! Crown Prince Palace, down.”

Pei Ming said, “It seems that this mountain monster thought we tasted bad and ate and vomited.”

Hua Cheng and Xie Ren glanced at each other and said in a faint voice, “Not necessarily. Perhaps, it’s just someone telling it to spit it out.”

Pei Ming walked a few steps, sensed the unusual vibrations and frowned, “What’s going on with this mountain? Why is it shaking so much?”

Xie Ren said, “Because it is carrying us, traveling toward the copper furnace.”

Pei Ming walked over to the hole that Lead Jade had opened and looked out, saying, “That was fast! Good, just in time to save us the footwork.”

However, up to this point, there was still one person missing. Xie Ren said, “Where is Ling Wen?”

Hua Cheng seemed to look with his right eye and said, “The silver butterfly perched on his back was swallowed by the mountain monster. He’s disappeared.”

In other words, Ling Wen and Jin Yi Xian, could now move around freely. This was a big deal, Xie Ren said, “Hurry up and find him!”

Thus, the group of people ran around the body of this mountain monster again. Flower City released nearly a hundred Necrotic Butterflies, and after a search, in the end, led the group to another cave entrance.

This hole was made hard, the edges are extremely irregular, outside is the fast receding scenery, whistling gusts of wind pouring straight into the mountain, emitting human-like ghostly cries and howls. It is thought that after Spirit Man was spat out by the mountain monster, he opened a hole here by himself and ran away. Xie Ren looked down from the edge of the hole and frowned, ”How can this be? The Brocade Immortal is too destructive, it can’t just be left alone.”

Hua Cheng said, “No need to worry. He’s going to the Copper Furnace in the end anyway, it’s just a different path.”

A few people gathered, Xie Ren briefly told what he had heard, omitting some details. After the speech, the crowd sat on the ground and fretted. After all, now that there were no monsters to fight and they didn’t have to rush themselves, they couldn’t help but feel a bit empty and bored.

Because Citation Jade said that he didn’t know how to communicate with Quan Yizhen, seeing him gave him a headache and he was really scared, Xie Ren also felt that it wasn’t a wise choice to let Quan Yizhen out right now, so he temporarily let him maintain his inverted form. Pei Ming idly flicked the tumbler to play with it, Xie Ren looked at the tumbler and saw that it was tilting to the east and west so much, as if it was a small child being violently beaten, feeling a bit pitiful, so he coughed softly and said, “General Pei, don’t play with it.”

Pei Ming first responded with his mouth. However, after Xie Ren got sleepy and leaned against the mountain wall to take a nap, he started bouncing again. No one cared about him, Guiding Jade had been guarding the cave entrance calculating how far she had traveled, looking at this side from afar, several times she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn’t say anything. Who knows, joy begets sorrow, Pei Ming playing playing, aside Pei Su suddenly “thud” sound, head crooked. This is the pro descendant, Pei Ming immediately did not want to play, grabbed Pei Su said: “Little Pei? What’s wrong with you?

The jade took the opportunity to quietly come over to pick up that not fall down, rest to Xie Ren next to go. Hua Cheng said, “What’s the noise, can’t die. His Highness is sleeping didn’t you see.”

Xie Ren was indeed awakened, and in a daze, he realized that he was leaning on a person’s shoulder at some point, and Hua Cheng’s voice was right by his ear, “Brother is awake?”

Xie Ren rubbed his eyes, beside him Quan Yi really not fall down to shake around, he casually collected, said, “I fell asleep against you? Sorry …… what happened?”

Hua Cheng said with a calm demeanor, “It’s fine. If you’re sleepy, you can sleep again, we’ll be there in a short while.”

Xie Ren saw opposite Pei Ming grasping Pei Su collar wildly shaking, slightly startled, woke up most of the time, thought again something happened, rushed forward to help see. After looking at it, he said, “Oh, General Pei don’t have to worry, little General Pei is just hungry and tired, a moment of weakness.”

After all, Pei Su is a human body, tossing this for a long time without food and water, and does not have Xie Ren’s rich experience of starvation resistance, finally could not support the collapse here. Pei Ming felt that this understatement of his was problematic: “What do you mean by ‘starving and unable to support myself for a while’ just?”

That can’t be helped. Not to brag, Xie Ren can eat a meal for three days, and even after receiving ten beatings, he can immediately get up and collect rags as if he is fine, which Magus is as experienced as him in this regard? Xie Ren said, “This, ahem. Does anyone have anything to eat?”

No one answered. Only Half Moon took out something and said, “Sorry, I only have this ……” Pei Ming took a look at the jar that contained the upside down and immediately said, “Why are you still holding this? Who do you want to kill? Throw it away quickly!”

There was a lot of noise over there, and Hua Cheng said to Xie Ren, “Look, I said it’s fine. Why don’t you sleep again.”

The mountain monster carried them for most of the day, Xie Ren saw that the sky was dark outside and said, “How far have we traveled? How long is it now until the Copper Furnace?”

Citation Jade replied, “It has run nearly eight hundred miles.”

This was too much faster than their walk, Xie Ren also stood up and came to the cave entrance. Originally, he was just taking a casual look, but who knows, after a glance, he suddenly saw something, and the cold hairs on his back stood up, saying, “What is that?”

In the darkness of the night, looking down from above this mountain monster, on the ground below, there was a huge human face!

This human face had curved eyes and the corners of its mouth curled up, as if it had blossomed into a bizarre smile at him. Xie Ren couldn’t help but take a step backward, and Hua Cheng caught him behind him. He was slightly tranquilized, and then took a closer look, it turned out that the “human face” is a combination of mountains, gullies and other patterns, but it is just a visual illusion. However, this illusion is so vivid that at a glance, one can’t help but be amazed.

Xie Ren said, “What is that furrow that is very much like an eye and a mouth?”

Hua Cheng said behind him, ”That is the Wuyong River, which is called the ‘Mother River’ by the Wuyong people, originating from the high mountains, and is a river formed by the melting of snow water. Of course, it has completely dried up now. Arriving here means that it’s close to the Copper Furnace.”

Xie Ren added, “What about that ‘nose’?”

Hua Cheng said, “That’s a prosperous city on the bank of the Wuyong River. Going down to take a look?”

Xie Ren sidled up and said, “Is there anything to see down there?”

Flower City said, “In that city, there is also a Uyong Shrine. I guess maybe brother would want to visit it.”

If there was a shrine, then there could be murals. Xie Ren immediately said, “Go down.”

He couldn’t wait to know more about Prince Wuyong. Pei Ming also said, ”Go down. We need to find some food and water for Little Pei. How can we go down though? The sword is broken again.”

Hua Cheng waved his hand, and a few silver butterflies floated around each of them, glittering with phosphorescence, perched on their shoulders, backs, tops of their heads and cuffs. When the others saw such small silver butterflies, they would inevitably mutter about whether they could carry them, but Xie Ren didn’t ask a single question and threw out Ruoxi to tie everyone together so that they wouldn’t get separated in mid-air. The introduction of jade to the hole opened up more large, large enough to let five or six people at the same time in | out, ready, a group of people have come to the edge of the hole, Xie Ren said: “all of you, ready–“

Pei Ming said, “Wait.”

Xie Ren turned his head and said, “Is there anything else General Pei wants?”

Pei Ming said, “What are these in your hands?”

Following his gaze, Xie Ren looked down and saw his own hand. It was then that he realized that the red thread between the fingers of the two of them, he and Hua Cheng, were still connected.

“…… “Xie Ren coughed lightly and said, “This, this is the same magic treasure that …… uses to connect.”

Pei Ming said, “Oh. Won’t it be difficult to move around? After all, it’s a thread, so if it gets tripped or twisted somewhere, something might happen.”

It made sense for him to remind him so. How could Xie Ren not know that as a Martial God, it was most taboo to have something tugging at one’s strings when striking out. However, for some subtle reason, Xie Ren didn’t quite want this thread to break. Seeing him look slightly stagnant and seemingly torn, Hua Cheng glanced at him and laughed, “Makes sense, this is indeed inconvenient to move around.”

After saying that, Xie Ren saw the red thread between their fingers disappear. Hua Cheng said, “It’s much more convenient now.”

Xie Ren stared at the patch of air where the red thread had disappeared, slightly stunned. The red thread had only been connected for a short while, and then it was gone. Although it wasn’t a big deal, no, it should be said that it was simply a small matter of sesame seeds, he still felt slightly lost. Afraid of being seen, Xie Ren hurriedly smiled and said, “Let’s go! Prepare to – jump!”

The mountain monster was still charging forward, not realizing that these grasshopper-sized people were quietly falling from their bodies. And a group of people in a group of dead spirit butterflies surrounded by floating to the ground, unharmed. The place where they landed was the “nose” of that huge smiling human face.

After getting up, Xie Ren, however, was very strange and looked around, saying, “Sanlang, is the Uyong Divine Hall and the city right here?”

Flower City said, “On it.”

Xie Ren doubted, “But …… there is nothing here?”

When really. He thought that after he landed on the ground, he would see the scenery of a small town like the first divine temple before, and could see streets, stores, homes, ancient wells, divine temples, and so on, however, what he saw in front of his eyes was a flat empty land, empty of anything, not at all as if a city had ever existed. Pei Ming set up Pei Su and stepped on a boulder with one foot, saying, “Where is the ‘prosperous city’?”

Flower City said, “At your feet.”

“What?!”

Everyone gathered around. Pei Ming’s feet were under the stone, and Xie Ren said, “Could this be some kind of mechanism?”

Hua Cheng put his hand on the hilt of his machete and walked over with a flourish, saying, “Come, come, stand over here.”

The people followed the words, only to see him pull | out of the scimitar life, the tip of the knife downward, with the speed of the lightning does not rush to cover the ears, split into the ground next to the stone block. The tip of the knife pierced the ground, the first is a click, cracked a layer of spiderweb cracks. Then, the cracks spread out rapidly, getting bigger and bigger, deeper and deeper, and finally, the ground collapsed, revealing a cool black hole.

Hua Cheng took the lead and jumped down, Xie Ren didn’t expect him to suddenly jump ahead of him and pounced to the edge of the hole, saying, “Sanlang?”

A short while later, Hua Cheng’s voice came from the bottom, still with a hollow echo, saying, “It’s fine down there, you guys can come down now.”

It turned out that he had gone down first to scout the way. Xie Ren was relieved and immediately jumped down after him. Hua Cheng took Xie Ren’s hand and pulled him to his feet as Xie Ren said, “It’s so dark.”

As soon as the words fell, several silver butterflies lit up in the darkness, fluttering away with phosphorescent stars, and there were also several more clusters of ghostly flames, instantly illuminating the depths of the hole in the ground. Presented in front of the crowd was a long street.

A thousand years ago, this should have been a prosperous street with dense stores and tall houses. The boulder that Pei Ming’s feet stepped on just now was the roof of a house. The rest of the people also jumped down one by one, Xie Ren looked upwards and said, ”So that’s how it is. Is this city buried? Earth shaking? Landslide? Or ……”

Flower City said, “Volcanic ash.”

Xie Ren turned his head violently. Hua Cheng said, “Volcanic ash as thick as two feet buried the entire city underground. What you are seeing now is a part of it excavated by those demons and devils who came to Copper Furnace Mountain to try out. More parts are still buried deep in the volcanic ash.”

Xie Ren immediately recalled the murals on that second shrine, and the bright to the point of blinding red color seemed to resurface before his eyes. The scene of annihilation in that Prince Wuyong’s dream had actually come true!

Pei Ming put Pei Su on the side of the road and said, “Let’s not worry about that for now, is there any water? Fill him up with two mouthfuls first.”

Flower City said, “The surface rivers are dry. However, I remember that there is underground water deep in this city, so we’ll see if we get lucky.”

Thus, Pei Ming, Half Moon, and Guiding Jade went to look for water first. As Xie Ren was pondering, Hua Cheng came over and said, “Brother, look at the hand.”

Xie Ren subconsciously did as he was told, and only when he raised his hand did he realize that although the red line between the two of them had disappeared, the crimson karmic knot that Hua Cheng had personally tied for him on his third finger had not disappeared, and was still bright and colorful, as if it were a tiny red butterfly perched on the back of his hand.

Hua Cheng had clearly said that the knot would disappear when the red thread between the two was broken. Xie Ren couldn’t help but say, “This is ……”

Seeing his surprise, Hua Cheng laughed, “The one before was just a small blindfold. The red thread is hidden, the distance is not limited, and you don’t have to worry about being tripped up, but it’s actually not broken.”

He raised his own hand and showed Xie Ren the identical knot, saying, ”As long as the karmic knot is still there, it means that the person on the other side of the red thread is safe and sound. As we get closer to the copper furnace, the dangers have increased, and we still don’t know what’s waiting ahead. So after thinking about it, I still can’t take down this red thread. What does brother say?”

Learning that the red thread was still there, the corners of Xie Ren’s mouth couldn’t help but rise up, and as soon as she realized it she immediately pressed it downward and said with a straight face, ”Oh, right. That way you can always know if the other party is still safe. Very good, very practical spell.”

Hua Cheng also laughed a little, then restrained his smile and said, “However, Your Highness, there is something I must say, and I also hope that you will listen to it.”

Seeing his expression suddenly turn solemn, Xie Ren also became serious and said, “What is it? You say.”

Hua Cheng looked straight into his eyes and said, “I know that you won’t die, nor are you afraid of death. But even if you are strong, don’t pretend that you won’t get hurt yourself.”

Xie Ren froze. Hua Cheng added, “Not dying doesn’t mean you won’t get hurt, much less hurt. Don’t touch anything strange and dangerous when you see it, find me first and let me handle it.”

Xie Ren suddenly remembered that when he was underground before, when he used his hands to hold up those two skulls that were stained with necrotic poison, Hua Cheng’s face instantly became not very good, could it be that at that time, Hua Cheng was angry because of this? It wasn’t because of anything else, it was because he saw something dangerous but picked it up with full concern?

If this is really the case, he really does not know what to say. Only after a long time did Xie Ren say, “Okay …… I won t.”

Hearing him answer sincerely, Hua Cheng seemed satisfied, nodding slightly and turning to walk forward. Xie Ren said, “Sanlang wait!”

Hua Cheng stopped and turned back. Xie Ren squeezed for half a day before whispering, “…… You, you too. If you see anything dangerous, I won’t touch it, and you shouldn’t touch it either. None of us should touch it, okay?”

Upon hearing this, one side of Hua Cheng’s mouth slowly raised. When Xie Ren finished this, a little nervous, he unconsciously laughed a little, and when he saw Hua Cheng take a step closer, he was about to speak, when he suddenly heard Pei Ming say not far away, “What the hell is this?”

Halfmoon said, “It seems to be human.”

Pei Ming said, “It’s still true! But how do people become like this?”

Hua Cheng and Xie Ren looked at each other and walked in the direction their voices came from. Xie Ren said, “How’s it going?”