Three days later, inside the Heavenly Extremity Sect's External Affairs Hall.
A middle-aged man dressed as a deacon elder was talking with Liu Ying Yao, and next to her stood a young man dressed as an inner disciple.
From time to time, this man turned his head to salute Liu Ying Yao, making her feel very uncomfortable: is this kid blind, he has glanced at him so many times, and still looking there, his cheek is really comparable to the corner of the city wall.
"In the past, the cultivators stationed on the island would send back the mined spirit stones every other year, but now a whole year has passed, neither the disciples have brought back the stones, nor have they replied to the messages sent to the island."
The young man next to him inquired, "Elder Miao, has this ever happened elsewhere?"
"Not ever," hearing the man in inner sect attire inquire, the deacon elder's expression became somewhat flattering, "Senior Brother Ying, why are you going along?"
Ying Yiming replied rather snidely, "Could it be, Elder Miao forgot about the inner sect disciple mission that occurs every three years?"
"Oh, look at my memory, how could I forget this," Elder Miao did not feel embarrassed at all and said with a smile, "It's just that the situation on the Hundred Veins Island is unknown and quite dangerous.
Elder Miao took out a booklet and flipped it over, "Brother Ying, look, I have one for patrolling the mountain gate, and one for caring for the medicinal fields.
Liu Ying Yao listened to the belly gossip: really a horse's ass, especially at such an old age, really rare.
Ying Yiming coughed dryly and said to Elder Miao, "No, no, please just introduce the mission of this Hundred Veins Island for me and Senior Sister Liu."
Ying Yiming deliberately increased the sound of the word Senior Sister Liu between his words, and also gave a wink to Elder Miao.
This Elder Miao may not be the best of all the deacon elders in terms of cultivation, but the ability to read people's minds is definitely the most powerful, and immediately understood the information about the Hundred Veins Island.
"This Hundred Veins Island--" A moment later Elder Miao punched a magic power into a white jade pendant before continuing, "If the island's formation is open, this jade pendant will be the key to enter."
Elder Miao suddenly looked at Liu Ying Yao and took out another letterhead, with a deep meaning in his words: "Remember, it will last for half a month."
"Yes, I will remember." Liu Ying Yao took the item and turned around to walk towards the door of the temple.
Just as she was about to step out of the hall door, she suddenly felt a substantial gaze coming from behind her, unrestrainedly wandering over her body. However, Liu Ying Yao's footsteps were only slightly beaten and she did not pay any attention to it.
After leaving the hall, 'Liu Ying Yao' glanced at the man next to her with a cold face and said in a very cold tone, "Have you seen enough!"
"Not enough, not enough," but the young man next to her not only did not feel embarrassed, but also had a playful face: "Sister Liu is one of the most beautiful women in the world, it is not enough to look at her for a lifetime."
Sensing the other party's strength at the ninth level of the Qi refining stage, 'Liu Ying Yao' sneered with crossed eyebrows, "Heh, you are better than that Elder Miao inside."
Ying Yiming posed himself in a rather nice pose and laughed lightly, "To be praised by senior sister is like feeling spring breeze on your body."
"Cut the crap, this mission is limited to half a month, if because of you ---"
"If I'm not able to complete the task, I'm at your mercy." Ying Yiming cut off the conversation, his words were quite confident.
Hearing this reply, Liu Ying Yao was speechless for a moment: this kid is specially cultivated what face of the gong method can not.
Liu Ying Yao coldly hummed, turned around and walked quickly in the direction of the Tianji Sect's mountain gate.
Ying Yiming narrowed his eyes and sniffed the aroma left in the air, his expression was quite enjoyable: "Touring the mountains to tease senior sister, hehe."
Hundred Veins Island, located in the sea outside the Sea of Ten Thousand Demons. Hundreds of miles away from the Tianji Sect, the island is full of low-grade spiritual veins, there are even several medium-grade spiritual veins, thus the name hundred veins.
On top of a barren island in the Sea of Ten Thousand Demons.
"Sister, you and I have been traveling day and night for two days, now we have at most half a day to arrive, why did we stop instead?"
"Do you really do not understand or pretend to be stupid," is closed eyes meditating to adjust the 'Liu Ying Yao' glanced at Ying Yiming: "the island still has the Foundation Establishment elders stationed still appear abnormal, you and I should take precautions. "
"Well, sister can have a plan?"
'Liu Ying Yao' took a look at the sky before speaking: "After the night I will sneak into the island to investigate, to break the dawn as an appointment, if I do not return you will go directly to the sect to seek help."
"Absolutely not," Ying Yiming's head shook like a rattle when he heard such a solution, "How can you go alone, I'll go with..."
Liu Ying Yao interrupted Ying Yi Ming with a jade hand: "Brother Ying, if there is a fraud in the island, you and I go together will not be in prison, and the identity of brother in the sect is not ordinary, if there is really an eventuality, you need to come forward for help."
"This... okay."
After a moment of silence, Ying Yiming took out two small jade talismans and handed one of them over before saying, "Sister, this is a transmission talisman, injecting spiritual power will allow you to send a text message."
Liu Ying Yao nodded slightly, took the jade talisman and closed her eyes to continue to enter the meditation.
The sea and the sky were in one color, the waves were choppy, the sea birds were singing and returning to their nests, the sun was slanting into the sea, and the night was falling.
After a slight recognition of the direction, 'Liu Yingyao' suddenly started to fly in the direction of Hundred Veins Island.
In the late night, the stars and moon were missing from the Sea of Ten Thousand Devils, and the wind was gusting. Hundred Veins Island is silent, no candle flame, no insects singing.
"The island is surrounded by vaguely visible haze light, clearly is the appearance of the island protection formation open."
Liu Ying Yao took out the jade pendant and took a look at it, then moved to fly to the island.
Into the formation moment jade pendant haze flashing, her body as if the stone into the water, stirring up a circle of ripples.
"Too silent, according to that elder, this time when the miners return from the mine, it should not be so,"
"Hmm?" Liu Ying Yao suddenly frowned and gently sniffed: "This is, the smell of blood!"
Liu Ying Yao followed this strong bloody smell and came to the place where the miners lived.
"This, this is the work of whoever did this!"
In an open space outside the house, a rather large unknown spell formation was carved, and some blackened thick blood was slowly flowing within the formation pattern.
In the middle of the formation, a huge lance-like magic weapon was embedded in the ground, on which a man dressed as a deacon elder was hanging through his chest.
Its eyes were wide open, as if it had seen something unbelievable.
The center is slightly outside, there are four complicated and unknown engraved marks, engraved marks surrounded by a large number of gray-white crystal debris.
Three of the carvings covered with limb fragments, the remaining one carved some cracks, vaguely visible traces of what seems to be sitting on the plate.
And in the spell formation outside a dry corpse dressed as a miner, each body hunched face painful, with a hideous expression, seems to have suffered great pain before death.
This bloody sight made 'Liu Ying Yao' draw a cold breath: "This, seems to be a blood sacrifice means."
She forced herself to hold back the smell of vomiting blood and walked close to the spell formation, examining the body of the deacon elder in the center of the spell formation and the few engraved marks. Surprisingly, she found a trace of demonic energy!
"This formation actually has the presence of magic Qi!"
"But according to her memory, there aren't any demonic sects existing in the only few sects in the North State,"
"Could it be that it came from the Central State?"
"Or maybe --- it came from the Spiritual Yuan Continent!"
"But why go out of their way to come here to do such a thing,"
"Moreover, although most of the techniques cultivated by the Devil Dao practitioners are poisonous and vicious, they all rely on the five elemental attributes of heaven and earth for their spiritual energy, so where exactly did that trace of Devil Qi come from!"
'Liu Ying Yao' shook her head: forget it, after returning to the sect, let's see if we can access the relevant information through the canon.
After converging her aura as much as possible, 'Liu Ying Yao' quickly walked towards the depths.
Inside the valley, several single-story wooden houses of uniform style were lined up on the right side against the mountain, and a small two-story building stood on the ground inside.
Behind the whole house a little farther on the mountain wall, is a cave carved out for the storage of spirit stones.
The whole valley was silent, and the atmosphere seemed very strange. 'Liu Ying Yao', who had already collected her breath to the extreme, still did not dare to be careless, and stalked slowly against the mountain wall away from the house.
When she stepped within a few feet of the two-story building, a figure in the building with its knees closed suddenly opened its eyes, and then got up and broke the window and flew out.
The sound of the window breaking is particularly piercing, only to see the darkness of the night, a sturdy figure of bald men towards the 'Liu Ying Yao' location to fly rapidly, a few feet away in an instant.
When they met, the man did not say anything, but reached out with his hand, a long knife with a strange shape and a black surface appeared, and swung it violently in the air!
Before the majestic blade qi arrived, the killing intent came first.
Liu Ying Yao felt a cold chill on her back and her sweat hairs stood up.
She hastily raised her entire body's magic power and gathered it in her left palm, while her right hand quickly took out the spiritual sword from her storage bag and stretched it across her body.
A semi-circular shield with water waves flowing in front of her body instantly took shape and held her upside down within it.
Just at the moment when this was just about finished, the majestic sword qi came close and violently collided with her.
"Clang!"
A loud sound, the shield immediately shattered, but its spiritual power did not dissipate. Instead, it converged at one point and then exploded in front of the knife qi.
The energy spread, making the surrounding trees shattered and scattered, the stone ground cracked three feet deep!
The explosion of power dissipated, 'Liu Ying Yao' brow sweat, the corners of the mouth remaining red, the collar of the shirt is crimson.
The bald man was surprised to see that his blow failed to kill a Qi refining stage cultivator. Under the operation of the magic power flicker of red red light around the body is also accompanied by a wisp of thick black magic gas surge!
The pressure released by the man suddenly multiplied, 'Liu Ying Yao' sensed under the heart of horror: Foundation Stage cultivator!
Above the nameless deserted island, Ying Yiming looked at the gradually sinking moon, holding another piece of messenger face anxious color gradually emerged.
A few moments later, Ying Yiming rose to the sky, towards the direction of the Hundred Veins Island rapid break through the air to fly.
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