Who said I practiced the exercises incorrectly?

Ning Yan swallowed another half of the Qi-boosting pill.

Jinqi Pills are a type of pill used to restore vitality.

Unlike ordinary elixirs, the vital energy produced by the Jinqi Pills is profound and refined, thicker and purer than ordinary vital energy. In essence, it should be considered compressed vital energy.

This is a pill specially supplied to warriors who have entered the realm of strength for recovery.

If taken by someone with normal temper, any one of them would be enough to blow the person up on the spot.

Even Ning Yan could only take half at a time.

Basically, all the remaining energy pills from everyone who entered the force were concentrated in his hands.

There is no other way. Now he is the only one who needs to continuously consume his energy.

In order to keep everyone hiding, he needs to continue to use the Shengxie Palm, so that all the remaining energy pills in the team will be concentrated in his hands.

After roughly recovering his strength, Ning Yan and the others continued on their journey. In front of them, they could already see the tightly closed heavy city gate.

When they stopped to rest earlier, everyone did not delay and discussed ways to break the impasse, but as there were relatively few records related to the Ghost City, in the end they could only break through according to the established method.

This is one of the key attempts.

Arriving at the city gate, Li Qingzhi tried to push it open, but the gate seemed to be grown together with the city wall, and no matter how hard he tried, it didn't move at all.

There was no other way, and the crowd had no intention of breaking the door by force and alarming the entire strange city, so they just climbed up the wall.

The wall of Cangming City was not very high, only four meters. This height was too high to allow the entry of strength, and even those who had practiced the technique of lifting and leaping could not stop the gathering of energy.

However, while climbing, they encountered new problems.

That is, the city wall will continue to grow higher.

I watched as the wall that was so close to me grew rapidly upwards, and in the blink of an eye it became an untouchable chasm.

Unconvinced, the crowd used the aerial secondary relay climbing method, but even after climbing up to a height of fifteen feet, they still couldn't touch the edge of the wall.

There is no doubt that even if they continue to relay and climb higher, the result will not change.

Realizing that the city wall was too high to be breached, everyone immediately decided to break through by force.

In an instant, everyone entered their strength and took action. With the humming of swords, they all slashed at the city gate.

The solid city gate shattered in the blink of an eye, revealing countless fragments and a huge hole.

But when they saw the scene behind the cave entrance, everyone was stunned.

Because it was clearly endless and bottomless darkness, as if it led to another world.

While they were stunned, the city gate quickly returned to normal, and the entire city seemed to be shaken violently. The city gate and city walls continued to grow inward, quickly pressing towards everyone.

Ning Yan quickly took action and used the Rising Evil Palm on everyone one by one.

However, even though he made everyone's aura become similar to that of the Ghost City, the changes before his eyes did not stop.

As a last resort, everyone had to retreat into the city.

At this time, they also saw many powerful zombies gathering around them.

But the zombies did not attack them. Obviously, the Rising Evil Palm was still working.

Just as Ning Yan was thinking this——

"Pfft!"

There was a sudden cracking sound, and a powerful swordsman in the team exploded instantly as if he was hit by a bomb.

Seeing this scene, everyone felt unbelievable.

The next second, Li Qingzhi suddenly roared and pounced to the right. As the sword slashed quickly, a sharp explosion sound suddenly came.

Li Qingzhi took more than ten steps back, and suddenly there was a clear sound of metal falling to the ground.

It was actually a metal ball and chain as big as a head.

As the chain was cut open, the enemy behind the scenes finally revealed its true identity.

It was a gigantic human-shaped mass of flesh, nearly two meters tall and about ten meters wide. Its body was made up of countless corpses. There were obvious sutures between the corpses, as if countless corpses had been sewn together artificially.

"Flesh Tailor!"

The Fifth Sword cried out in horror, an expression of disbelief on his face.

When Ning Yan heard this, his eyes also became extremely solemn.

The Flesh Tailor is also an evil creature, but unlike other evil creatures, this kind of evil creature generally only moves in Shinra ruins. It can even be said that this is an evil creature unique to Shinra ruins.

According to the records in Yue Letang's exploration notes, the Flesh Tailor is most likely a transformed disciple of the Shinra Wanxiang Sect. His weakest strength is comparable to that of an advanced level sect. He can be said to be a representative evil creature of the Shinra ruins.

Fortunately, this kind of evil creature seems to be subject to certain rules and cannot appear in the outside world.

But now, the flesh and blood tailor in front of him clearly violated common sense, which meant that unknown changes had occurred in the Shinra ruins.

But the more crucial point is that they must find a way to defeat this evil creature, because since the other party would attack them by surprise, it means that the Rising Evil Palm has become ineffective, or at least there is no way to hide it from this monster.

In an instant, everyone understood everything.

Li Qingzhi shouted urgently:
"Let's stop it! Fifth Junior Brother, Brother Ning, hurry up and lead the other evil creatures away, otherwise we will be surrounded and no one will be able to escape!"

Ning Yan and the Fifth Sword immediately understood Li Qingzhi's idea.

Immediately, the two of them stopped hesitating and revealed their original aura.

At this time, countless evil creatures around them chased after them frantically as if they had discovered sweet food.

When Ning Yan saw those crazy evil creatures, he felt his scalp tingling for a moment.

He and the Fifth Sword ran desperately in the direction away from the Flesh Tailor.

Soon, they were about to be caught up by the powerful evil creatures behind them, so Ning Yan quickly used the Rising Evil Palm again.

After running for a distance, they released their aura again, just like fishing, and continued to pull the evil creatures forward.

After an unknown amount of time, Ning Yan and the Fifth Sword realized that the evil creatures should have been pulled far enough away, so they changed direction and sneaked back.

Houses collapsed, the ground was torn apart, and ruins were everywhere, as if a terrifying monster had swept through.

Soon they went deep into the core of the battlefield and saw that two of the best fighters had been killed on the spot, and the remaining four, including Li Qingzhi, were all injured.

The extremely horrifying flesh and blood tailor had already turned into bloody remains all over the ground.

One could even faintly see the flesh and blood wriggling, as if trying to gather again.

With a "click", Li Qingzhi stabbed a sword into the head-sized mass of flesh. With a slight shake of his hand, the squirming mass of flesh instantly shattered, losing most of its activity.

"This damn thing!"

Li Qingzhi's tone was cold and his expression was sinister. Blood was flowing down his cheeks and soaking his hair. "Brother Li, this monster..."

"already dead."

Li Qingzhi replied in a deep voice.

"Brother Fang and the others..."

Li Qingzhi was silent, and everyone present was also silent.

After a moment, Li Qingzhi looked at the scattered remains of the Flesh Tailor and said in a serious tone:

"Something might be wrong."

"During the battle just now, we have discovered that the true form of this Flesh Tailor is not a disciple of the Shinra Wanxiang Sect, but a member of the Yindu Sect."

"Yindu Cult?"

The fifth sword suddenly changed color:
"Hasn't the Yindu Cult always been active in Fengze? Why did they come to our side?"

“I don’t know the specific situation, but this news is definitely not good.

The strength of the Yindu Sect is even stronger than ours, and they are brutal and ruthless, with no taboos. It's only because they have been entrenched near Fengze City for many years that they have kept away from us.

Now that the Yindu Cult's people have appeared nearby, they might be plotting something. We must find a way to report this to the Sect Master."

Li Qingzhi's expression was extremely solemn.

The Fifth Sword glanced at the unrecognizable wreckage on the ground and asked:

"Since the people from Yindu Cult appeared here, why did they become blood and flesh tailors?"

"This may be related to the Shinra ruins."

Li Qingzhi said in a deep voice:
“I now have reason to speculate that something unexpected happened to the Yindu Cult members when they were exploring the Shinra ruins, and that’s why they were transformed into Flesh Tailors.

And this flesh and blood tailor was further used, combined with the destruction of Cangming City, to create this strange city.

Although I don’t know how they did it, the current situation has proven that they do have the potential to create such a terrifying monster.”

The Fifth Sword listened and was horrified:
"So, can they create other ghost cities?"

Li Qingzhi shook his head with a serious expression:

“Even if they have a way to create a haunted city, there must be extremely harsh conditions, and this kind of thing is not 100% likely to succeed.

In addition, the clan leader has already sent people to patrol other counties, so if there is anything unusual, they should be able to discover it in time."

After hearing this, the Fifth Sword was still worried.

Li Qingzhi didn't explain any further.

In fact, everyone knows that what he said is just an ideal state. Since Cangming City can be transformed into Guicheng, the same possibility exists for other counties.

The most crucial point is that, except for those who are in danger, people outside may not have received the corresponding information.

They may not even know the existence of the ghost city.

Not to mention that the disciples of Yindu Sect showed up in the Shinra ruins.

After Ning Yan cast the Rising Evil Palm on everyone, the ground suddenly began to tremble slightly, and the trembling sound quickly approached this side.

Soon everyone saw a huge shadow cast around the corner of the street.

Then, a flesh tailor taller and stronger than before appeared from the corner.

Seeing that ferocious and huge body, even those present couldn't help but turn pale.

Li Qingzhi had a bitter expression, then sighed and said:

"I was originally planning to find a way out, a way to escape, but now it seems that this haunted city is far more dangerous than I imagined."

"Well, this situation has made me determined. I originally didn't plan to use the Star-Guiding Sword, but now I have no other way to pass on the information here except this method."

As he spoke, Li Qingzhi took out a palm-sized silver sword that was glowing with light.

He touched the blade of the small sword, and said with a guilty look on his face:
"Master, Qingzhi has disappointed you."

As the words fell, the starlight on the silver sword suddenly became brighter, as if thousands of stars had exploded from then on.

The horrifying light was so blinding that people could not open their eyes. Even the flesh and blood tailor who was rushing over from a distance could not help but stop and raise his arms made of corpse parts to protect his eyes.

When the light dissipated, the small sword in Li Qingzhi's hand had disappeared.

……

Sword Sect.

On a stone platform at the top of the mountain.

Duan Haishan, dressed in a green shirt, sat cross-legged on a high platform. On his knees was not the spiritual sword that was famous throughout the city, but an ordinary long sword. The material of the long sword was not even as good as ordinary black iron. It looked like it was casually forged by a lousy blacksmith.

The blade of this sword is covered with many scars, and there are even tiny gaps in some places. These are clearly left over from previous clashes with other weapons, and have now become history visible to the naked eye.

At this moment, this seemingly ordinary sword suddenly made a crisp buzzing sound.

Duan Haishan slowly opened his eyes, revealing a pair of clear eyes with distinct black and white.

He stroked the long sword in his hand and sighed:
"It's really a troubled time. We sent so many people out, but we still can't solve the problem completely. It seems that the mastermind behind this time came prepared."

"Hey, can't everyone just practice peacefully? Why do you have to cause trouble for me?"

Duan Haishan stretched out his right hand and lightly flicked the blade of the long sword. A crisp sound suddenly spread, but it did not dissipate as quickly as a normal person would think. Instead, it turned into a gust of wind and rushed down the mountain swiftly. It soon rushed out of the inner city and rushed to the vicinity of the dragon-slaying sword stuck in the ground.

The Dragon Slaying Sword made an almost imperceptible sound, but the warriors surrounding it who were about to draw their swords did not notice anything wrong.

At this moment, the light sound turned into a dragon-shaped sword light that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye and shot out.

After the dragon-shaped sword light swept out of Fulong City, it swept through endless weeds and vegetation, alarming the horrible evil creatures hiding everywhere, making them tremble in fear all day long. In the end, it just passed by, until it arrived at the valley where Ning Yan and others disappeared, suddenly broke through the void and slashed into it.

The next second, a terrifying explosion like muffled thunder was heard in the air.

The phantom of a city suddenly appeared on the spot.

It switched back and forth between reality and illusion. The tall city walls twisted and grew rapidly like living things. The many houses in the city were constantly shaking, quickly growing larger, and then collapsing one by one, leaking out countless black mucus, which evaporated on the spot after appearing. Even the many zombies that had been entrenched in the city melted quickly like candles. In the end, the entire city became fragmented and exploded.

Faintly, one seemed to be able to hear an extremely shrill howl.

In a nearby forest, a dragon statue with two black dragon horns on its head stood on a slightly swaying treetop.

Looking at the debris and survivors that fell out of nowhere in the valley, Long Zun couldn't help but sneer:
“In the past, the Dragon Slayer Sword Saint left behind three swords as his foundation, and this is the second sword.

Duan Haishan, ah Duan Haishan, how long can you guard that last sword?" (End of this chapter)