This figure who suddenly appeared began to search the Qianli Garden carefully.
His purpose was very simple. First, he wanted to carefully check the concealment measures in Qianli Garden to see if there were any loopholes.
Just like after a flood, no matter if there is any problem or not, it is always necessary to check the sluice gates carefully again.
The second is to see if Lu Qingshan and Mo Yan have left any tricks.
After a quick check, he was relieved to make sure that all measures had no loopholes due to the passage of time and no other abnormal situations were found.
Seeing that everything was safe, the figure immediately stretched out his hand and waved it, as if pulling open a curtain, and a glittering crack suddenly appeared in the empty space next to him.
The gap is not big, but not small either. It is several feet long and wide, allowing two people to pass through. Moreover, through the gap, one can vaguely see the scenery inside.
Without hesitation, he raised his leg and stepped into the gap, disappearing.
Then the gap closed quickly, as if nothing had happened.
It's calm.
Half a quarter of an hour later.
A dim long sword in Qianli Garden suddenly regained its divine light and turned into a blazing red sword light. It first moved silently along the ground for dozens of miles before starting to speed up. Finally, it broke through the air, its speed increased rapidly, and disappeared into the sky with the sound of a sonic boom.
…
boom!
On a mountain thousands of miles away from Qianli Garden, Mo Yan heard the thunderous and extremely familiar sound of a sonic boom.
He raised his head and saw a red light flying towards him rapidly from the sky.
The red light is a flying sword, which is bright red and as crystal clear as fire jade.
Mo Yan was also very familiar with this flying sword.
It was Lu Qingshan’s natal sword, which was said to be a Taoist weapon.
As an expert, Mo Yan agrees with the term "Tao weapon".
Because no matter how wonderful the charm, powerful, or mysterious the Dragon Bird is, he can't think of any other magical weapon of any level that can even come close to it except a Taoist weapon.
The dragon bird emitted astonishing fluctuations, and without stopping at all, it shot straight towards Lu Qingshan like red lightning, and finally drilled into his body and disappeared.
"Did you find anything?" Lu Qingshan asked in his mind.
"Yes," Qin Yitian responded obediently, explaining the situation in detail, "In Qianli Garden, there is also an extremely special second space."
"Second space?"
"That is, a special small realm that overlaps with our main domain. Although it overlaps with our main domain, the space does not belong to the same space."
It's a bit confusing, but not difficult to understand.
In layman's terms, they overlap in three dimensions, but the fourth dimension is at a different position.
To put it more simply, it is somewhat similar to the situation where the two objects are at the same point on a plane but at different heights .
This is also why Lu Qingshan could clearly feel that the Peach Blossom Mark was right in front of him, but he could not find the person.
Lu Qingshan frowned slightly and asked again: "What is in the small world?"
"Spiritual energy," Qin Yitian said, "Incredibly rich spiritual energy. I even saw waves of spiritual energy storms raging in the small world."
"Sir, it is normal for some caves and blessed places built on spiritual veins to have abundant spiritual energy. For example, the spiritual energy in the Sword Sect is extremely rich. But the strange thing is that the spiritual energy in that small world is quite mixed. The spiritual energy brought by the spiritual vein should be very pure."
"The mixed spiritual energy cannot be absorbed and refined." Lu Qingshan paused and agreed.
"So, the spiritual energy in the small world must be caused by humans."
"The demon cultivators gathered so much spiritual energy in Qianli Garden, not to create a blessed place for cultivation, but they also hid the small world so carefully..." At this point, Lu Qingshan gradually sensed that something was wrong.
Then, an idea came to his mind, and he quickly took out a detailed map of the Central Spiritual Realm from the mustard seed.
Mo Yan couldn't hear the conversation between Lu Qingshan and Qin Yitian, but seeing Lu Qingshan's actions, he could guess that Lu Qingshan must have made some new discoveries, so he hurried over.
Lu Qingshan's eyes wandered across the map, gradually revealing a sharp light.
He had realized something was wrong.
"Look at these dots..." Lu Qingshan stretched out his finger and drew a line on the map.
The starting point is naturally Qianli Garden.
After that is Bingyu Forest, then Muzhuo Cave, Qiansong Mountain, Jianlong Pool, Titian Valley, Jinxiu Peak, and so on, and the end point is the front battlefield.
Mo Yan's eyes followed Lu Qingshan's finger. He was also a smart man and immediately realized that something was wrong. "These are the spirit beast gardens where Huanling Sect once raised monster beasts. They were later abandoned."
“If you hadn’t pointed it out, I wouldn’t have noticed anything was wrong,” Mo Yan attached great importance to Lu Qingshan’s reminder and said in a deep voice, “After you pointed it out, I realized that these spirit beast gardens abandoned by the Huanling Sect were actually in the same straight line…”
"Looking at the map, these points look like an arrow." His voice became lower and lower as he discovered something extremely terrifying.
"The direction of the arrow is pointing directly to the front battlefield!" Mo Yan was extremely shocked and even cried out in shock.
On the map, Qianli Garden, Bingyu Forest, Muzhuo Cave, Qiansong Mountain, Jianlong Pool, Titian Valley, and Jinxiu Peak, seven stars are connected, forming a devilish arrow, pointing directly at the front battlefield where most of the human cultivators, including the Sword Sect cultivators, gathered at the moment!
"Brother Lu, what do you mean?" Mo Yan looked at Lu Qingshan, confused and uncertain.
Lu Qingshan nodded, "I just left some tricks in Qianli Garden."
"Through these means, I discovered that not long after my mark was erased, the evil cultivator from the Huanling Sect inexplicably appeared in Qianli Garden..." Lu Qingshan recounted to Mo Yan what Qin Yitian had just seen.
Mo Yan did not ask Lu Qingshan what the specific method was, but immediately understood what Lu Qingshan meant, "The Huanling Demon Cultivator is using some method to accumulate mixed spiritual energy into the small world. Once these spiritual energies accumulate to a sufficient concentration, due to their mixed nature, conflicts will occur, forming a violent spiritual energy storm."
In the world of cultivation, especially for some large sects, small worlds are not common, but they are definitely not rare.
Whether it was the ruins world of the Shanhai Pavilion or the sword monument secret realm of the Sword Sect, they were both a type of small world.
The final round of the Seven Realms Discussion Competition was also held in the small world.
As one of the seven great Taoist sects of the human race, Huanling Sect has quite a few ninth-level cultivators. They are good at raising monster beasts and have more experience than other sects in how to establish an area with abundant spiritual energy and gather and control spiritual energy.
The flow of spiritual energy is a very complicated matter. In order to cultivate spiritual beasts of sufficient quality, the requirements for spiritual energy are extremely stringent.
In the tens of thousands of years of raising spiritual beasts, they are bound to encounter various unexpected situations, such as abnormal flow, confusion, backflow of spiritual energy, etc.
In the process of continuous processing, they must have summed up a unique system that allows them to manipulate spiritual energy to a certain extent.
The small world is even less important to them.
"At this time," Lu Qingshan continued, "if the Huanling Demon Cultivator opens the small world again and releases these violent spiritual energy storms, it will form a scene of a violent spiritual energy tide rushing forward like a floodgate opening."
“If the same small worlds and spiritual energy storms exist in the other six abandoned spiritual beast gardens besides the Thousand Carp Garden, and are released one after another… after seven times of stacking, the spiritual energy storms will be extremely violent and unimaginable. They may even drive the originally stable and pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth into a frenzy. When the range becomes larger and larger, it will form a spiritual sea frenzy that is enough to destroy everything…”
“According to the direction of the arrow, the spiritual sea tide will rage from east to west, bringing immeasurable devastating blows to our cultivators on the front battlefield…” Mo Yan’s voice became colder and colder. In the face of such a catastrophe, even cultivators of the eighth realm could not guarantee safety. “By then, under the impact of this spiritual sea tide, the middle-level spiritual cultivators will completely lose the power to resist the demons!”
Lu Qingshan judged: "This possibility, even if it is just a one-shot possibility, must be eliminated."
The consequences are too terrible for human beings to bear.
The army of monks currently on the front line of the battlefield is the last resistance force that the seven domains of the human race can organize.
If anything happens to them, Zhong Ling will really have no choice but to give up.
"Two things. First, we need to go back and confirm the time and reason for the abandonment of the seven spirit beast gardens. Second, we need to confirm the situation on the front battlefield again to verify whether our guess is correct," Lu Qingshan said decisively. "In addition, we need to report this news to the monk in charge on the front line immediately."
This is a wise choice.
Although it would be rash to report the matter without verification and confirmation in the current situation of insufficient manpower, because this would undoubtedly involve a great deal of the energy of the intermediate spiritual practitioners.
But compared with this negative impact, the safety of the entire Zhongling is undoubtedly much more important.
The monks in charge must be prepared for this and make corresponding preparations.
After all, no one knows whether or when the spiritual storm will break out.
They do what they say. Lu Qingshan and Mo Yan are both decisive people. Now that they have made their judgment, they will of course act immediately.
They didn't dare to waste any more time on such a big matter.
…
Dome City.
This is the provincial capital of Youzhou, located in the center of Youzhou - unless there are unexpected circumstances, most provincial capitals are located in the center of the state, so as to radiate the entire state.
At this time, the human race established the first line of defense in the three cities in the western part of Youzhou to block the demons.
Naturally, the Dome City became the "command center"
"The seven spirit beast gardens were all abandoned at the time of 16,500 years in Chang'an, with a time error of no more than ten years," Lu Qingshan took out several jade slips and placed them in front of Mo Yan in the Dome City Lord's Mansion, and continued, "Moreover, the reason for the abandonment of these seven spirit beast gardens was the exhaustion of spirit veins."
"What a coincidence..."
"How can it be such a coincidence? It's obvious that these spirit veins are exhausted because the magic cultivator Huanling is draining away the spiritual energy!" Mo Yan gritted his teeth and said, "Three thousand five hundred years ago, the magic cultivator Huanling was preparing for this day. He really had a deep plan and foresight..."
Lu Qingshan's eyes flickered slightly.
The demons are truly an extremely terrifying enemy.
Long, long ago, the demons had foreseen this day and had made preparations for it, leaving a backup plan.
"How is the battle situation in the three cities of Ma Ti, Niu Jiao and Hu Tou?" Mo Yan asked again.
"It's tragic, extremely tragic. The plains outside the three cities have become a meat grinder. Because we don't have a strong enough formation, we can only use the lives of monks to delay the pace of the demons' attack. Thousands of monks die every day." Lu Qingshan said slowly.
"But..." He paused and continued, "Behind the tragedy, there are some unusual things."
"On the front battlefield, the demon clan has sent out the eighth-grade demon lord and the ninth-grade demon clan. It seems that the formation is very large, but if you observe carefully, you will find that you have never seen a demon cultivator of the level of the demon lord take action, so the defense line is still as solid as a rock so far..."
“The monk in charge originally thought that the demons just wanted to consume more of our strength, so he didn’t take these slight anomalies to heart.
In other words, for the rulers of the demon race, except for the Demon Lord, the demons of other levels should be worthless "consumables", and it is reasonable for them to use them to exchange their lives with our human cultivators."
"But now, if we combine our guesses, we will find that this anomaly also has a different and reasonable explanation," Lu Qingshan said solemnly, "The reason why the Demon Lord did not take action and wasted time with us is because they did not intend to break through our defense line with their own strength, but wanted to rely on the Spirit Sea Tide Soldiers to break through the formation without bloodshed."
"After all, if they want to break into the city head-on, even if they are much stronger than us, they will need to lose several demon lords to do so."
"And with the help of the Spirit Sea Tide, the demons will only have to sacrifice some consumables that are not important to them." Lu Qingshan had been to the abyss once, so he had an extremely good understanding of the demons' situation and was very confident, so he made a direct conclusion about the demons' thoughts.
His judgment will not be wrong.
Combining these two pieces of information, the demon clan's plan to create a spiritual sea tide behind the three cities is, if not 100% certain, at least 98% likely.
Mo Yan's face was as cold as ice. "Brother Lu, have you informed the leader of your sect?"
Lu Qingshan nodded.
In fact, as the young master of the Sword Sect, Xie Qingyun gave him a communication token that could allow him to contact him directly.
So Lu Qingshan conveyed the news to Xie Qingyun as soon as possible.
However, the news of Xie Qingyun's ascension to Zhongling was top secret and must not be leaked to anyone else. Even to Mo Yan, Lu Qingshan would not tell him.
"I have received your message. I will verify the matter personally." At this moment, Lu Qingshan received a message from Xie Qingyun in his mind.
Xie Qingyun happened to be in the Dome City at this moment.
Lu Qingshan couldn't help but feel happy - since leaving Yishuitai, no one knew Xie Qingyun's whereabouts.
Not only Lu Qingshan, but also the other three peak masters didn't know.
And for such a horrific matter, there is no one who would be more reassured than to let Xie Qingyun take care of it.
Lu Qingshan was feeling thankful in his heart, but he didn't know that Xie Qingyun was also feeling mixed emotions at the moment.
He originally thought that in a battle between Taoism and demons of this level, Lu Qingshan's cultivation level of the sixth realm was just a drop in the ocean, not even worth mentioning, and would have no effect at all.
So in order to protect Lu Qingshan, he restricted Lu Qingshan to the rear to patrol and assist in the evacuation work.
But who could have thought that only a few days had passed and there had been no major movement on the front battlefield, but Lu Qingshan in the rear brought such shocking news like a thunderclap.
If this is true, Lu Qingshan's discovery is equivalent to saving the Zhongling coalition from danger, and no one dares to imagine how great his contribution is.
"It happened to be him, it happened to be him again..."
There were so many patrolling monks in the rear, but it was Lu Qingshan who discovered this.
It is true that “gold shines wherever it goes”…
"Luozi Tianyuan..." Xie Qingyun murmured, "Could it be that the young master of my Sword Sect really holds the Tianyuan Sword?"
While in reverie, the Qingyun Sword Immortal left the city quietly.