Chapter 79: Shadows Looming

Shadows Looming

A wave rolled over, and two figures appeared on the gloomy lakeside. Ruan Ci lifted the veil of her hat, looked around curiously for a moment, then turned to Qin Fengyu and smiled, "Yu Niang, I almost laughed when you came over just now."

Qin Fengyu was no longer cold and beautiful, covering her mouth and laughing, "I had already laughed out loud in my heart—ouch!"

She suddenly straightened her face again and pretended to be serious, saying, "But don't provoke me to chat. Before I went out, I set a method for myself. This time when I go out, I can only say a thousand words a day at most, and I have already used two."

Saying this, she pursed her lips tightly, seemingly expressing her determination to use the remaining nine hundred and ninety-eight sentences on the cutting edge. Ruan Ci was amused to the point of holding her belly, but upon reflection, she felt that this Dharma cultivator's setting was very much in line with Qin Fengyu's character. The path of Dharma cultivation and Vow cultivation had always been that the harder it was to achieve, the more generous the feedback. For Qin Fengyu, there was truly nothing more difficult than speaking less.

"Does sound transmission, which is not spoken out loud, count?"

Qin Fengyu glanced at her, clearly enduring it very hard. Ruan Ci couldn't help but laugh, and no longer teased her. She looked left and right, and transmitted, "Where are we at the entrance of the Hengze Heaven?"

At this time, the lake surface was full of shadows, all of them ghosts walking on it. The other cultivators rolled in by the waves were not nearby, clearly the space here was much larger than the Baoyun Sea. As the two women stayed longer, the shadows gradually became clear. This place was a city, and the residents were walking and hawking in the market, almost no different from the scene at Baoyun Ferry. Qin Fengyu squinted at the distant city gate and said, "This is the Zhucheng Gate, a long way from the cities where Jade Dew usually appears."

She added, "Junior Martial Uncle, we are not in a hurry for a moment, why don't we tour this market first?"

At this time, the surrounding shadows were almost no different from real people, but there was silence between everyone's lips and teeth, which seemed a bit strange. Ruan Ci said, "Okay, anyway, if we rush there now, it's either killing or preventing being killed. Even if we get the Jade Dew, it's impossible to go out immediately."

During the opening period of the Hengze Heaven, it was not a matter of entering and exiting at will. It was like a tide. Now the tide is rising, and standing by the Baoyun Sea, one will be rolled into the Hengze Heaven. When the spiritual energy eruption gradually fades and this overlap is about to end, the spiritual energy will be sucked back into the Baoyun Sea by the Langhuan Zhou Tian. At that time, cultivators must catch up with those waves of returning water. If they are delayed by something and do not come out in time, the life lamp left in the sect will go out shortly after the Hengze Heaven closes. Therefore, not to mention that the Hengze Jade Dew has not appeared yet, even if it has, being the first to get it is not good news for the cultivators.

"Let's go, let's stroll around the market and see if we can get anything good." Ruan Ci said, but soon she was a bit curious, "But in our situation, how should we get treasures from the shadows?"

She opened her hands and tried to pass through the pillar of a stable beside her, passing through without any obstruction. Qin Fengyu said, "I heard people say that it is best to let the residents here take the initiative to give it to you. But this is very difficult. Usually, the residents here turn a blind eye to us. Even if they respond to you, it is difficult for you to move them, and it is difficult to even do things for them."

She spoke very fast, as if she could count several sentences as one to save the quota. Ruan Ci nodded, remembering what she had seen and heard in the Qinghua Heaven, and said, "Indeed, these residents are actually transformed by the inner scene world..."

Before she finished speaking, Qin Fengyu covered her mouth and looked to the side in fear. Ruan Ci looked with her and saw that the figures of those residents were swaying again, not as solid as before. Qin Fengyu whispered, "Junior Martial Uncle, who doesn't know this? But if you say it out loud, the virtual scene here will not exist, and everyone will fall into an open space, waiting for that drop of Jade Dew in the Jade Pool to transform. There are more than ten thousand people, do you know how many want to gain something in this Hengze Heaven? Just say that we who want to take the Jade Dew, one or two thousand people are staring at the Jade Dew in an open space. When the time comes to fight, no one can control the scene. Even you may not be able to go out alive, so you must remember, here, you must never say the truth of this place. Just treat it as real, that's enough."

Ruan Ci was horrified, "What if one of the ten thousand cultivators lets it slip?"

Qin Fengyu said, "No, many cultivators, in order to pick treasures, will even buy a kind of spiritual medicine at the Baoyun Sea, which can bewitch themselves, let themselves believe without doubt that this is the present world, just set a hint to let them return in time when they encounter a spiritual tide."

Ruan Ci did see this kind of spiritual medicine for sale at Baoyun Ferry. At that time, she didn't know what it was for and thought about asking Qu Tanyue, but forgot. Now she knew that those Ping Sect cultivators had such an idea. No wonder they were not afraid of being affected by the Sheng Sect's fighting. For them, after taking the medicine, this place was the present world. It might be difficult for cultivators who hadn't taken the medicine to find them among the shadows.

"Now that I have told you the taboos, it doesn't matter. And the sentence you just said doesn't count as breaking this illusion, it will only slightly affect the effect. It is rumored that the Hengze True Person is a strong person who is only one step away from the Dao Ancestor level. Even if the inner scene world is broken to this extent, it is not something that we little Foundation Establishment cultivators can break with a few words."

In order to dissuade Ruan Ci, Qin Fengyu said a lot of words in one breath. At this time, she felt a bit reluctant, like a miser. She counted her fingers, "I've said more than fifty sentences."

Ruan Ci said, "You wasted another sentence just now—but what if I find something and really want to tell you? What should I do then?"

Qin Fengyu hesitated for a moment and reached out, signaling Ruan Ci to write on her palm. Ruan Ci could also see that she was not 100% sure about this flexible method. Both of them were coming to the Hengze Heaven for the first time, and this kind of illusion formed by the inner scene world had always been changeable. Even if they had been here once, they couldn't say they had figured out the laws of change here.

Ruan Ci was also a bold person, thinking of whatever she wanted to do, not caring about the worst result. She wrote a few words on Qin Fengyu's palm with her fingertips. Qin Fengyu couldn't help but be horrified, stared at Ruan Ci with wide eyes for a long time, and then hurriedly looked around, seeing that there seemed to be no change in the surroundings. Only then did she dare to whisper, "Really?"

Ruan Ci saw that the surrounding residents were still busy, not even giving them a glance, and her courage grew. She transmitted, "Look at their clothes, they are all left-lapel. Maybe others thought it was reflected through a mirror, so it was reversed, but the spiritual energy here is also very different from the outside. When I refined some Donghua sword intent in Huang Shoushan, I once saw the scene of the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao Ancestor holding a sword to slash a phoenix. The spiritual energy at that time was very similar to this place, and at that time, the Dao Ancestor was also left-lapel..."

The Five Elements Dao Ancestor naturally never needed to take action in this universe. Before Qingjun had spirit and had not fallen, he would never let anyone hold it to fight. This scene could only happen before the creation of this universe. In other words, this Hengze True Person was also a cultivator who followed the Five Elements Dao Ancestor from the old universe to here, or rather, he had fallen long before the opening of this universe, and only the inner scene world was brought here along with the Langhuan Zhou Tian.

Qin Fengyu was older than Ruan Ci, but only about a thousand years old. How could she not be fascinated by this secret realm that could be traced back to the opening of the universe? After listening to Ruan Ci's words, she just looked at those shadow residents left and right, and after a long time, she slowly let out a cold breath and whispered, "This... I'm afraid no one has discovered this before you."

She couldn't help but tremble again, "Before, I heard that I was asked to come to the Hengze Heaven, and I was actually very happy. Usually in the sect, every move is under the care of the Grandmaster, or is seen by other great True Persons. Even outside the mountain gate, there is no free feeling. Central Continent looks like mountains and rivers are wide, but in fact, we are all moving in the palms of great cultivators. It is not easy to come here, and what we do is completely autonomous, and great cultivators cannot intervene... But for some reason, after hearing you say this, realizing that even the power of the Dao Ancestor may not be able to penetrate here, I feel a bit guilty and a bit scared."

Ruan Ci smiled slightly and said, "Really? Why do I feel that if even the power of the Dao Ancestor cannot penetrate here, I feel more at ease?"

Qin Fengyu forgot the ban on a thousand sentences for a while and sighed, "If I were you, I would probably have the same feeling. Foundation Establishment twelve... No, from the moment you got the Donghua Sword, you were already in the eyes of the Dao Ancestor. This feeling that every move, even every thought in your heart, can be seen through, must be very uncomfortable."

Ruan Ci usually didn't let herself think about these problems. First, thinking was useless, and second, she was not sure whether her thoughts would fall into the Dao Ancestor's mind. Although Qingjun could not read, that was meeting in the past life. In the present world, there were still seventy-two living Dao Ancestors. Who knew to what extent their power had reached? Even at this moment, she didn't dare to indulge her thoughts, for fear that it was just her misunderstanding. Although she was willful, in one aspect, she had surprising self-control.

"Let's not talk about this for now." She no longer talked about these dangerous topics, "I see that we have said so much, and they are still fine. Why don't we stroll around and see. If we see something we like, even if we can't get it, we can see if there are other Ping Sect disciples who have entered here, and ask him to find a way to exchange it, and we will buy it from him after we go out."

Ruan Ci guessed this, and Qin Fengyu immediately paid much more attention to this place, pulling Ruan Ci toward the lively part of the city. She was also very careful about etiquette, unwilling to pass directly through the shadows. She seemed full of awe and curiosity about them, and even looked at the sundries in the residents' hands very carefully, as if distinguishing the differences between the two universes. She watched for a long time and said to Ruan Ci with some frustration, "It is indeed different from the utensils we usually use... But I can't tell whether this is the difference between the two universes, or a little difference that every country in our Zhou Tian will have. I have cultivated for a thousand years, but I actually know very little, and I know nothing about the life of mortals... Actually, I can be considered a bumpkin."

Although she spoke a lot, it was not boring. Ruan Ci said, "When you cultivate into a cave-heaven, you will have plenty of time to travel around the Zhou Tian."

Qin Fengyu shook her head and sighed, "It's not that simple. Maybe after I cultivate into a cave-heaven, there will be many things that must be done in the cave-heaven, busy and busy, and there will never be a moment of leisure."

"Then wait until you have no hope of the Great Dao, and you will always have plenty of time to do what you want."

The two shuttled through the crowd, looking at everything they saw, and kept chatting. Ruan Ci intended to lead Qin Fengyu to say a few more words, so as not to let Qin Fengyu save all the quotas for the last hour, making that hour very difficult. Qin Fengyu was still immersed in the shock, did not think of the thousand-sentence agreement, and pulled Ruan Ci again, "Look, look, that weapon refining technique, that spiritual power, that talisman seal, is indeed very different from our Zhou Tian."

She squeezed into the spiritual tool shop on the street, staring at the weapon refiner processing spiritual materials at the edge of the crowd, "It's not refined by the five elements, nor is it yin and yang. It's wonderful, it's wonderful, this technique..."

If it were in the Langhuan Zhou Tian, such public stealing of teachers would be the most serious provocation. If Qin Fengyu didn't pay a sufficient price, it would be difficult to leave. But here, the shadows ignored them, and the weapon refiner even changed several techniques. Qin Fengyu watched intently, no longer thinking about other treasures and spiritual tools. Ruan Ci knew nothing about weapon refining. After watching for a few times, she turned her eyes away and carefully examined the spiritual tools. Several spiritual tools were very beautiful, and one mask was exquisitely made. Although it was as thin as a cicada's wing, it emitted a warm treasure light and was like jade. Ruan Ci couldn't help but reach out to touch it, but her fingertips passed straight through it, and she still couldn't touch it.

No matter when the Hengze True Person fell, he was a visitor from the old universe, which was beyond doubt. Ruan Ci had a strong interest in these magic tools that had not been stained with Dongyang Dao rhyme. She couldn't help but sigh, withdrew her hand and was about to walk away, but saw a shadow clerk walk over and bow in her direction. The salute he performed was also very different from the Langhuan Zhou Tian. His hands were crossed, buckled into a flying swallow shape in front of his chest, and he bowed slightly.

Ruan Ci was surprised, but when she looked back, she saw someone behind her also bowing. Only then did she feel relieved, so she stepped aside and let the two of them talk about business. The guest also took a fancy to the mask, so the clerk put it on, muttered words, pinched the formula to pass the magic power, and transformed into a graceful young girl, wearing strong clothes, took off the veil hat, pulled a silver hairpin from her hair, and smiled slightly at Ruan Ci. It was exactly Ruan Ci's appearance.

Ruan Ci stood in place, silent and motionless, listening carefully, but still didn't hear the clerk's voice. This meant that she hadn't fully invested in the illusion and treated the fake as real. Theoretically, these shadows should also turn a blind eye to her—

The clerk transformed and returned to his original appearance, took off the mask, and gestured a number to the guest. The guest took out a deerskin package from his arms, took out a dozen green stones, seemingly not enough, so he shook his head and walked away. The clerk didn't keep him, put down the mask, and turned to greet other guests.

Ruan Ci stood for a long while before turning to find Qin Fengyu. Qin Fengyu was still stealing teachers by the smelting furnace. When Ruan Ci pulled her, she was extremely reluctant, "Oh, let me finish watching! I want to see how many techniques this master has. From just now to now, there has been no repetition. Is the old universe so luxurious that a weapon refiner in any city has to use so many fancy techniques when refining weapons?"

Ruan Ci pulled her out of the shop and said, "When you come back, you can see it the same way. Now follow me to the city."

Qin Fengyu wondered, "What are you doing outside the city?"

Ruan Ci said, "Looking for stones—my guess shouldn't be wrong. Although we haven't been able to communicate, they are already willing to exchange things with me."

"Really?" Qin Fengyu was still a bit confused, but she didn't need Ruan Ci to pull her, and chased after her. "What do they want? Stones?"

"Actually, what they want most is not stones." Ruan Ci reached into her arms and squeezed the Qiankun bag, "But I am not willing to give it, so they settled for the second best and wanted the blue stones in the mountains... They seem to want to give us things very much, just like that weapon refiner, who wants to teach you everything he knows."

She glanced at Qin Fengyu, "But do you still dare to keep watching?"

Qin Fengyu didn't know when, but cold sweat had already flowed down her forehead, "This... this..."

Thinking about it, she couldn't help but sigh, "In this cultivation world, one really can't take a wrong step—ah! Terrible! I've spoken hundreds of sentences again!"

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Updated, sorry for the long wait, everyone. I will send out the red envelopes for the previous chapter in a while.

Fengyu is really too good at padding the word count, I have to add some restrictions to her, otherwise the whole scene will be her voice.

Lunch is braised pork, shredded potatoes, and mushroom soup! I didn't read the text yesterday, played a few rounds of King's ranking. To be honest, I'm usually quite elegant, but sometimes the teammates in the ranking are really... the kind that can make the best-tempered person curse out loud...

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