Destiny is ashes

Chapter 399: Xiandao Ancient City (33)

"It really works! This idea is correct!"

An Jing was also very surprised. He had previously used the power given by Ming Guangchen to be able to burst out with his elixir and promote the 'Demon Disintegration Method' to defeat the martial arts master of the Zuohuan Sect in one move.

After losing Ming Guang Chen's power, this technique could not be used temporarily, because the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique also needs a foundation to promote it, and it is not something that can be used with just some internal strength.

After getting a hint from Huo Qing, he discovered that Hou Tu Fa actually had a similar trick. By combining it with the power of Huang Tian Fa and condensing his own essence into a pill, he could now also explode with the pill!

Although he is still no match for the Grandmaster, at the critical moment, An Jing also has the means to inflict fatal damage to the Grandmaster!

And...Huo Qing has indeed changed a lot.

He became quite confident, because people who lack confidence will not believe that what they have temporarily realized can be used. Even at the critical moment of life and death, most people still cannot believe in themselves. They will just freeze in place and be unable to move, with no ideas in their minds.

The fact that Huo Qing could overcome this fear and take action meant that his character had also changed. He was no longer the same Huo Qing who was intimidated by people like Da Qiang.

Although he was very happy, An Jing knew that now was not the time to exchange progress in martial arts.

He asked Huo Qing about the details of the three-legged golden crow's attack on the city and got two interesting pieces of information.

Firstly, monsters have been attacking the city frequently recently, causing the Purple Mansion Array to operate very frequently. There may have been some problems, and the Great Yuan Ni Tower was being repaired at the time, so Chonggang Town was so badly hit by the monsters.

Secondly, the three-legged golden crow was not the first to appear. At the beginning, everyone thought that this was a relatively large monster attack, and a few foundation-building monsters would be enough to deal with it, so after temporarily adjusting the Great Yuan Ni Tower, they hurriedly activated it and drove away several attacks led by foundation-building monsters. As a result, after the three-legged golden crow appeared, the insufficient energy of the Great Yuan Ni Tower could no longer generate enough power to threaten it.

"Oh?"

After An Jing heard this, he narrowed his eyes and whispered, "So... this three-legged golden crow seems to know everything about the city... Could it be that there is a traitor demon in the city?"

"How can this be."

Huo Qing shook his head like a rattle: "Demon spirit traitor? How could such a thing be possible? What on earth can a demon spirit have to make someone a traitor? And it's such a thankless task. Look, once Master Mengshan makes a move, this three-legged golden crow will have no chance to perform."

He was quite optimistic about Master Mengshan, perhaps because they were both formation masters.

"Yes. A traitor is impossible, but on the other hand, there may be someone in the city who intends to use the monsters to do something."

Huo Qing is relatively pure, while An Jing is from Huaixu. Everyone in the Huaixu world seems to have something in common with the devil, using the devil's power to achieve their own goals, which makes him very sensitive to such conspiracies and intrigues.

An Jing even had a guess in his mind: "Perhaps... it wasn't the Three-legged Golden Crow that was spying on some of the treasures in the city, but the people in the city who were spying, so they attracted the Three-legged Golden Crow, leaked the information, and lured it to attack the city?"

He walked out of the warehouse and looked in the direction of Mengshan Zhenren and the three-legged golden crow outside - the golden crow was still launching attacks from time to time, but it was still unable to break through the defense of Mengshan Zhenren's flag formation, and its strength was constantly being consumed and reduced.

The Golden Crow is a real spirit after all, and since it cannot be defeated, it will not waste its strength in a meaningless battle. With a clear whistle, the already sparse group of fire crows began to spread out and retreat towards the outside world, like a smoke ring that continued to rise and spread.

It also flapped its wings and slowly flew up. The dark clouds in the sky dispersed, and a sun was suspended among the chaotic stars.

Countless sharp rays of light overflowed from it, like the eyes of the sun gazing at the earth.

This was the final blow - both Master Mengshan and An Jing could see that this was the last attempt by the true spirit, unwilling to accept defeat, before leaving. It had no hope of defeating the enemy with this blow, it was simply out of dignity.

And Master Mengshan also stood up solemnly, and the six formation flags spun rapidly, and the [Liuhe Yuanyi Zhenyang Zhensui Formation] was set up in the air.

But, just as An Jing was about to return to the warehouse to avoid the aftermath of the battle between Zhen Ling and Zifu Zhenren.

As expected, an unexpected incident occurred. Boom!
With a loud bang, an extremely violent explosion suddenly occurred at the Da Yuan Ni Tower in the center of Chonggang Town. It was not known whether it was the disorder caused by the continuous overload operation of the Zifu Array for many days, or someone was sabotaging it from inside, but the terrifying golden flame magnetic thunder erupted from the center of the base of the array.

The entire towering Yuan Ni Tower was like a broken chopstick or a pushed-down building block, and began to overturn and collapse. Not only An Jing, but also Huo Qing, who sensed something was wrong, came to the door. Most of the surviving residents in Chonggang Town opened their eyes wide and stared at the scene of the collapse of the Yuan Ni Tower involuntarily.

At this moment, Master Mengshan was fighting with the three-legged golden crow and was powerless and unable to stop it.

But this is just the beginning.

Rumbling--

With the collapse of the Great Yuan Ni Pagoda, the entire Chonggang Town began to experience violent earthquakes. Under the horrified gazes of everyone, a huge rift opened up from south to north in the entire Chonggang Town with the original site of the Great Yuan Ni Pagoda as the center. The east and west land on both sides of the rift slowly rose on the east side and slowly sank on the west side, creating a height difference of nearly 100 meters in just a breath.

The rift was still expanding. An Jing and others on the east side kept moving with the warehouse, which made him subconsciously summon Teng Shuangbai and take Huo Qingfei into the air. Many cultivators in Chonggang Town also flew up with their own means. They looked down at this land that had been silent for many years in shock and silence, listening to the roar of the power deep in the earth, and layer after layer of the earth's crust and rock were pushed up by the terrifying force, forming an earth wave that spread towards the entire floating dust plain.

——Boom boom boom boom——

The thunder originating from deep within the earth resounded throughout the world. The dust and mist produced by the collapse of the earth's crust were blown from the depths of the earth to the sky, forming a thousand-foot-high dark brown cloud layer that covered the sky and the sun. Countless underground spiritual minerals were blown away by this force, turning into seven-colored light spots shining all over the sky, and transformed into a magnetic neon in the air.

Seeing this scene, the Golden Crow, who had originally intended to retreat, let out a sharp scream, then pounced on Master Mengshan again and held him tightly in place.

Even the Cangsu mole that had been unconscious in An Jing's chest pocket woke up, staring at one direction with its bright eyes, making a squeaking sound, and turned its back, with its big furry tail standing straight up, pointing directly at a raised layer of ground and the side of the rift wall.

"What? Wait..."

An Jing used his True Spirit Pupil to take a look, and his breathing suddenly became rapid - because that was the source of the 'Chen Crystal Mine', the most core mineral vein in Chonggang Town... a Chen Crystal seed!
This crystal seed, which is about one person tall, is embedded in a huge crystal cave, surrounded by silver-gray sunken crystals. It was brought out by the movement of the earth's crust and was sleeping there quietly.

——Opportunity? An Jing didn't think much about it. At this point, if he didn't take it, people would be suspicious. Even if Chonggang Town asked him to hand over the crystal seeds later, he could be said to be helping Chonggang Town protect the crystal seeds and gain a lot of benefits from it.

"Got it!"

An Jing drove Teng Shuangbai to the side of the rift wall. He raised his hand, lifted the crystal seed with telekinesis, and then put it into the Taixu magic weapon. The whole process took less than a snap of the fingers. He was so skilled that it seemed as if he had done it millions of times.

"Haha, it's so simple?"

Feeling quite pleased with his fluency, and that no one else was competing with him for the treasure, An Jing was in a good mood at the moment: "It seems that there must be a treasure in the catastrophe. Although I don't know what the three-legged golden crow wants, it is worth my risk if I can get this crystal seed!"

He controlled Teng Shuangbai to continue rising, then glanced sideways at the crystal cave he had just flown past.

Then, An Jing's movements stopped.

He opened his eyes wide in disbelief, and his True Spirit Pupils were subconsciously stimulated to the extreme. The golden-red blood and golden evil flowed and evaporated from the corners of his eyes, causing Huo Qing behind him to sense that something was wrong.

But at this moment An Jing had no time to care about these things.

Because he saw it. He saw that beneath the rift, between the endless dust and the pitch-black abyss... there was light.

Below the light, in the deepest part of Chonggang Town, there is a huge underground cavity, which is much larger than Chonggang Town.

The opening of the rift revealed a glimpse of its true appearance. Inside this huge cavity was an ancient, dusty ruins.

A huge, nearly intact, ancient fairy city.

(End of this chapter)