Chapter 302: Purple Bamboo Forest

The thick stone gate fell like a cage, as if to block something that should not appear in this hall.

The two and one cat no longer talked. They were now the feast offered to the Divine Child before the steps. After the ceremony began, this was originally a place with no way out and no way in.

At this time, there was no retreat.

And for Seeing Pei Ye, being able to come in and find the young girl, no longer making her face danger alone in a place he could not see or touch, was actually enough.

Apart from this kind of thing, there were not many things the boy was afraid of.

He slowly tightened his grip on the young girl's hand, wanting to hold the black cat in his arms, but Li Piaoqing had already hugged it first. Thus, the boy raised his head to look at the rising light spots and pressed the hilt of his sword at his waist.

In a silence, this unstoppable ceremony was finally thoroughly completed, and the firefly-like light spots flowed into a river reaching the sky.

The silver belt hanging upside down from the sky submerged the three.

Seeing Pei Ye had that feeling of the world drifting and the stars shifting again, but it was completely different from the time under Zhu Gaoyang and the time outside the stone gate just now.

—Everything in front of him was leaving his field of vision, except for those purple bamboos and white fog.

In his hand, there was only a severed arm of the young girl left.

Such a real bamboo forest.

His heart suddenly tightened—this underground stone hall was not small, nor was it big. If the ceremony was completed, at this time, the so-called Divine Child might already be in the bamboo forest within reach.

Seeing Pei Ye was stiff all over, and cold suffocation tightly strangled his throat.

They were growing and ethereal.

Seeing Pei Ye was stunned for a moment on this, before noticing the abnormal silence around him.

Under his feet was still the hard stone surface. The Jade Ke Array drawn with complexity was slowly dissipating its fluorescent light, and the stone wall was so cold that it seemed to seep water droplets.

It was just that the strange bamboo around was taller, as if it had grown for decades, reaching into the darkness above that could not be seen to the bottom.

Seeing Pei Ye saw the appearance of these strange bamboos after they grew up for the first time. The purple of the different quality was as deep as jade marrow, but it did not come from some illusion. Except for the fallen leaves, both dead and new, covering the ground, the bamboo body was also cold, moist, hard, and even like naturally growing bamboo, it had roughness, curvature, and even diseased spots.

It was still that deeply shrouded seclusion. Only by being underground could one's ears have such a sense of fear as if isolated from the world.

Did not go to any place.

No leaving or changing. Bamboo pierced the white fog, gauze caged the purple bamboo, so clearly shrouded toward them. When everything settled, Seeing Pei Ye only felt that he was still in the original place.

At this moment, a calmness like cold night water permeated his heart. 【Chunshou】 instantly cleared his mind. Seeing Pei Ye's eyes focused, only feeling that he had pierced through a layer of fog. The young girl's severed arm in his hand twisted and changed, falling into a black-purple snake shadow.

Thinking of this, he tightened his grip on the young girl's cold palm again, turned his head, and said in a low voice: "Be careful, that Divine Child might already be—"

As if a giant hammer had smashed onto the back of his head, Seeing Pei Ye only felt scattered and hazy. The next moment, this fine white arm with green sleeves like clouds suddenly wrapped around his arm. The boy's heartstrings were stretched into a trembling straight line at this time. He pulled out Shanyu, but his movements were stiff, and for a moment he did not know what to do with this arm that made his heart tremble.

In an instant, the boy's heart seemed to be squeezed and exploded.

The ferocious mouth was pouncing toward his face.

Shanyu swept up, with a "clatter" sound, the autumn water sword blade first pierced the snake's neck and then pierced the purple bamboo. Between the bamboo shaking and leaves drifting, the two were nailed together.

Seeing Pei Ye gasped deeply before calming down the suffocating feeling in his chest. A green shadow tilted beside him. He immediately reached out and hugged the young girl's tilting waist.

She was already pale and her lips had lost their color. At this time, she was even more like a relapse of a serious injury, paralyzed in his arms and trembling deeply.

The black cat's green eyes looked solemnly as it withdrew its small claws from her cold forehead: "This place suppresses the mind, like a blade piercing the heart. Her Heart Candle is not clear, and she suffers more in this place."

"This place?" Seeing Pei Ye asked in a daze, suddenly realizing something, and slowly turned around.

It turned out that he was not still in that stone hall, so he could still see the purple bamboo and stone walls.

It was just that after he came here, he had always been at the starting point, with his back to the most vast things.

The dome was still a deep and secluded black, like an abyss hanging upside down, but in front of him was a light source from nowhere, and everything in his eyes was clearly visible.

The boundless bamboo forest paved into layers of purple jade shadows. The fog drifted and shuttled through it, soft as a breeze, floating like water waves, covering until the end of the field of vision.

This did not look like any deep and cramped underground, but a real ethereal fairyland.

Between this bamboo forest, a straight white stone road paved like jade led far into the depths of the fog. That kind of high indifference that made mortals' minds tremble was pressing over from the end of the road.

They were at the starting point of this divine path.

Seeing Pei Ye suddenly felt empty in his heart and reached out to press on the sword box behind his back.

This was his final reliance for all his rushing and crashing after coming to Xiangzhou. At this time, he opened the box to take the sword. The clear, moist, and exquisite sword body of Zhanxin Liuli was still lying quietly inside, but Seeing Pei Ye pressed on the hilt and already felt something.

Distant communication, faint transmission.

Seeing Pei Ye suddenly knew where he had come to.

Thirty years ago, the place of obsession that Western Tian sought after wandering in the mountains alone for a month; two months ago, the nightmare place that Zihuang and Zhang Zijing found with the painting. At that time, the Candle World Sect was plotting everything about the Immortal Lord's descent a month later here.

It was deep in Xincang Mountain, and it would take a full fifteen days to travel from Yinyang to here.

"..."

"I'm fine." The young girl leaning on his shoulder stopped trembling and propped up her body, her voice weak.

Seeing Pei Ye looked at the young girl's face. The pale, weak color did not diminish, but her gaze had already solidified. She supported her body herself and gave a weak smile: "True Qi is coming back little by little, I have no problem."

Seeing Pei Ye nodded, pulled the long sword from the bamboo, and the snake corpse with cold scales fell to the ground, the wound flowing with a few strands of ghostly blue blood.

Seeing Pei Ye's gaze stayed on it for a moment, then turned to look forward solemnly.

This was the final place they reached by tracing the Immortal painting. Legend has it that the 【Listening to the Edict Divine Child】 lived here. Undoubtedly, by passing through here, he could uncover many secrets of the Candle World Sect.

This evil sect that had disappeared without a trace as soon as it appeared.

Seeing Pei Ye closed the cover of Zhanxin Liuli without a word and stepped forward first.

Li Piaoqing followed closely behind, holding the black cat. Such a vast and ethereal fairyland was silent, with only the lonely footsteps of the two of them.

The Jade Ke Array completely lost its light, and the ethereal fog gradually submerged their figures. And in the place where the two left, the snake corpse that fell to the ground had already disappeared. ===== CHAPTER 303 =====