Chapter 681

The Immortal Forbidden Land located deep within the Punishment and Prison Division was originally one of the palaces of the Ancient Emperor Xuanyou, distributed in many places on the Wanggu Continent.

In the past era, every place was a sacred palace.

Only the Royal Family could reside in them, and the entire Saint Lan Great Domain only had this one place.

But with the arrival of the God Remnant Face and the departure of the Ancient Emperor Xuanyou, this place was inhabited by the Fish Bone God.

Thus, the Royal Immortal Palace became the Immortal Forbidden Land.

The many treasures inside were also submerged in strange substances, and commoners and even cultivators found it difficult to step inside.

Even the Human Emperor of the Dongsheng era was unwilling to go to war with the gods for such an immortal palace.

Until a few years ago, the Human Emperor ordered the opening of the Immortal Forbidden Land, Red Mother resurrected in Zhang Siyun's body and swallowed the Immortal Forbidden God, and only then was this place controlled by others again.

After Fenghai County became autonomous, it naturally developed it. Although most of the treasures inside had been emptied by the Seventh Prince, the remaining ones also possessed great value for Fenghai County.

At this moment, at the lowest level of the Punishment and Prison Division, above the cave where the former sealing array was located, the figures of Xu Qing and Immortal Zixuan slowly appeared.

Xu Qing could not refuse Immortal Zixuan's request, especially since he also wanted to know why there was that sigh echoing after he got the Time Bottle.

That sigh seemed like an illusion, but Xu Qing, recalling it now, felt that it might have truly existed.

Most importantly, he had lost three days of memory there back then.

Even now, recalling it slowly, he was not very clear about the Phoenix Bird Palace; only the Time Bottle was the most eye-catching.

This feeling made Xu Qing have many thoughts. After experiencing many things in the Moon Sacrifice Great Domain, especially after realizing the artistic conception of forgetting, he had more understanding of memory.

"There, I must have seen some unbearable scenes, so I couldn't remember them."

These, he also told Immortal Zixuan on the way.

So after arriving here, the two of them had no hesitation and each stepped downward. In an instant, their figures fell into it, and a vast underground palace, with the arrival of the two, was reflected in their eyes.

This place was somewhat different from what Xu Qing saw when he arrived back then.

Back then, this place was permeated with strange substances, thick fog was like the beginning, everything was blurred and distorted, and the earth was covered with flesh and blood.

But now, the strange substances here had dissipated by ninety percent, the ground was no longer flesh and blood, and the true face of the ruins was revealed.

Looking at it, there were very few complete palaces, most of them collapsed.

The feeling of antiquity and the traces of the passage of time were particularly obvious here.

There were even huge pillars standing on the earth, emitting light and illuminating everything.

Perhaps because she had been here many times, Immortal Zixuan was very familiar with this place. Standing in mid-air at this moment, she took a deep breath, her body flickered, and she headed straight for the bottom.

Xu Qing followed behind. The two of them were very fast, one after the other. In a short time, a collapsed ruin appeared in front of Xu Qing and Immortal Zixuan.

"It's here."

Immortal Zixuan's figure paused, and she spoke softly.

Xu Qing's heart also had ripples. The place where he got the Time Bottle was exactly here. Thus, after gazing, Xu Qing said nothing, walked forward, and walked step by step to the front of this ruin.

The strange changes that happened here back then did not appear.

"After I took away the Time Bottle, the changes in this place also dissipated. It's not that it becomes clear as you approach it, but that it has truly become a ruin."

Xu Qing murmured in his heart, walking in this ruin, looking at the broken walls and ruins around him, some strange, some familiar.

But there was strangeness in familiarity, and familiarity contained strangeness.

All of this made the feeling in Xu Qing's heart that his memory had been changed gradually become intense.

Until he arrived at the place in his memory where he retrieved the Time Bottle with the stone lion.

Here, Xu Qing turned his head and glanced at Immortal Zixuan behind him.

Immortal Zixuan stood not far away, her clothes whiter than snow, her appearance beautiful, cold, and clear, her eyes like cold smoke covering a dark jade deep pool, revealing a thick sense of confusion.

Faintly, a sense of loneliness seemed to rise slowly on her body.

This feeling made Xu Qing's heart ripple. After a long while, he suddenly spoke.

"Immortal Zixuan."

This time, he did not call her Upper Immortal.

Immortal Zixuan turned her head gently and looked at Xu Qing.

"I got the Time Bottle at this position. I don't know what will happen if I put it back. My memory has been affected. Are you... sure you want to pursue the source of familiarity here?"

"Is it possible that the reason you are only familiar with this place in your dreams is because everything in your past was something you chose to forget yourself?"

Xu Qing's words made Immortal Zixuan silent.

After a long while, she raised her hand to brush her side hair, her eyes as green as lake water, gazing at Xu Qing's face, and spoke softly.

"Everything in my dreams has troubled me for many years. I want to know... what connection does that lamp have with me?"

Xu Qing closed his eyes. After a long while, his Divine Treasure roared behind him, the Time Bottle flew out again, floated in front of him, and slowly fell.

The moment it touched the ground, the Time Bottle shook violently, erupting with endless brilliance, completely illuminating this ruin.

The next instant, this place blurred, all things changed, one Phoenix Bird Palace after another rose from the ground, accompanied by a circle of vermilion high walls. This ruin turned into a courtyard, and there was even a Phoenix Bird Palace much larger than the others, which formed in the center and stood within the courtyard.

All nine Phoenix Bird Palaces appeared.

Xu Qing looked at these, and a tearing pain came from his mind. It seemed that a memory was reviving in his sea of consciousness along with the scene before his eyes.

And Immortal Zixuan, her body was trembling, looking at the Phoenix Bird Palace, looking at everything around her, her heart stirred with intense ripples.

"I have been here..."

"In my dreams, I appeared here..."

Immortal Zixuan's breathing was rapid. While murmuring, she instinctively walked forward. After passing one palace after another, she paused in front of the Phoenix Bird Palace in the very center and turned to look at Xu Qing.

"I... seem to have lived here once."

Immortal Zixuan's voice also carried trembling. The biggest secret of her life was the pitch-black dream that kept appearing.

This made her instinctively want to find light, to find the warmth that would drive away this darkness.

And today, the reason for all this seemed to be placed right in front of her, but her heart, for some reason, rose with sadness.

That sadness became thicker and thicker, finally turning into loneliness, submerging her.

Xu Qing, hearing this sentence, also had endless ripples in his heart, his gaze following Immortal Zixuan, looking at that palace.

The next instant, it was as if lightning flashed across his mind, making a scene of memory that had been erased reappear.

That was a flash of the three days of memory he had lost here.

In the scene, Xu Qing saw himself pushing open this palace, but as for what was inside, his memory was a blank.

Xu Qing was silent. Looking at Immortal Zixuan's trembling appearance, he felt unbearable in his heart. In his daily life, the Immortal Zixuan in his eyes was always charming, always full of confidence, and magnificent.

She was always the active party, and it seemed the word "fragile" would never appear on her.

But today, he saw another side of Immortal Zixuan.

She was like a little girl, appearing nervous, uneasy, sad, and deeply lonely in that trembling.

Xu Qing walked silently to Immortal Zixuan's side and reached out to hold Immortal Zixuan's cold, soft hand.

Using his own warmth to melt the coldness of Immortal Zixuan's hand.

Immortal Zixuan instinctively turned her head, tears in her eyes, and grabbed Xu Qing's hand hard, like the instinct of a drowning person in the face of life and death, until her own hand turned white, and she did not loosen it in the slightest.

After a moment, she took a deep breath and smiled reluctantly at Xu Qing: "I lost my composure."

Xu Qing shook his head and did not let go.

Immortal Zixuan closed her eyes. When she opened them again after a few breaths, she put away all her weakness, her eyes revealing firmness, and she was about to push open the palace door in front of her.

Xu Qing raised his other hand and pressed it on it with her: "I will accompany you."

Immortal Zixuan's heart trembled, looking at Xu Qing.

Xu Qing also looked at her.

For a long time, the two used force at the same time. With the echoing of a creaking sound, the door of the Phoenix Bird Palace in front of them slowly opened.

A pitch-black darkness spread from inside the door like ink, shrouding the figures of the two.

At the same time, in the Saint Lan Great Domain, the former capital of the Tianfeng Dynasty now belonged to the Seventh Prince.

He established his mansion here, with many subordinates, his momentum like a rainbow.

In addition to his own followers, his maternal clan also arranged for many to come here to assist.

There was even the divine power of King Tianlan, making him an existence that had the final say in this Saint Lan Great Domain.

It was not much different from his own fiefdom.

Even the Saint Lan Grand Duke avoided the sharpness of King Tianlan. Although he did not submit, they were extremely harmonious with each other.

Thus, for the Seventh Prince, the only thorn in his heart at this moment was Fenghai County.

Originally, he wouldn't care about a mere county, but Fenghai County was different.

There, he experienced the first setback of his life.

There, he remembered a person named Xu Qing.

So, in terms of conscription, he paid extra attention to Fenghai County.

Everything was going well, and Fenghai County, according to his ideas, was being slowly split and invaded.

And under the general trend of the Black Heaven Clan war, the final direction of Fenghai County was either to choose to submit or to be suppressed.

So, this time the army lost contact in Fenghai County, which made him both surprised and unsurprised.

Because the news was completely blocked, he didn't know the specifics of the army's loss of contact, which surprised him, but he could also feel that Fenghai County, even now, still possessed a not-so-small foundation.

As for why he was not surprised, it was Fenghai County's choice, which was already within his expectations.

Thus, after receiving the news that the army had lost contact in Fenghai County, the Seventh Prince's eyes revealed indifference.

While arranging for his subordinates to report this matter to King Tianlan, he looked outside the palace.

There, two people dressed as scholars were waiting for an audience.

One of them was the former Eight Sect Alliance General Alliance, Chen Yangzi.

"Chen Yangzi!"

The Seventh Prince spoke calmly.

The General Alliance outside the palace, hearing this, immediately bent over and walked over, cupped his fists in the palace, his expression full of respect.

"The subordinate is here!"

The Seventh Prince played with the jade slip in his hand and said casually.

"The cauldron you mentioned last time can be taken from Fenghai County now. This palace will try to see if it is really as mysterious as you said."

The General Alliance, hearing this, felt some reluctance in his heart, but soon let go and bowed respectfully.

"Obey the decree!"