Volume 4: It's Dark, Please Close Your Eyes Chapter 95: Veins of Heaven, Veins of Earth, Veins of Dragon
Both Tang Zheng and Xiao Tanzhi spoke very frankly. Tang Zheng knew that Xiao Tanzhi wanted to destroy the demon race, and Xiao Tanzhi also knew that Hua Yingxiu and the two half-demons in Tianxia Minglu were people Tang Zheng could not give up, so after both sides saw Fang Junji, their positions might immediately become opposed.
Xiao Tanzhi could use Xu Qingyan's life to threaten Tang Zheng to give up Hua Yingxiu, but even if he could destroy the demon clan, he couldn't play such a trick on Tang Zheng, so he could only take it one step at a time.
This conversation between Tang Zheng and Xiao Tanzhi did not produce much results.
After continuing on the journey the next day, there were fewer and fewer clues, but Fang Junji and Luo Fei always had traces to follow, which meant that they had broken through the Heaven's Secret Map!
"This isn't the kind of trial-like Heavenly Secret Map in the Star-Seeking Tower. This is a real killing array!" The few people who knew that a Heavenly Secret Map had been set up at the place where they had rested before all broke out in cold sweats.
What kind of powerful demon clan did the Tianjitu destroy in the past?
Fang Junji and Luo Fei are both five-star warriors at most, right? At their age, being able to break through to five stars is already a rare achievement in the world, but in the Tianjitu, is five stars a strong enough strength?
But their traces appeared outside the Tianji Map.
Moreover, the decreasing number of traces indicated that they were encountering fewer and fewer battles and their injuries were recovering faster and faster.
Until the seventh day of going deep into the Far North Wasteland...
Tang Zheng and his team completely lost any clues about Fang Junji and his team.
Several nearby demon tribes showed no signs of being disturbed.
"It would be great if Mr. Xu was here..." Tang Xiaotang looked at the flying sand all over the northern wilderness in spring. The scene was completely different from the last time they came here.
It's really not an easy place to survive outside Xinjiang.
It is cold in winter, scorching hot in summer, and in spring and autumn the sky is filled with dust as soon as the wind blows.
The last time Tang Zheng and his friends came here, the temperature was at least dozens of degrees below zero, but if they came here in the summer, temperatures of 50 or 60 degrees would be common.
"Yes, if Xu Qingyan was here, with so many clues now, he could have found Fang Junji and Luo Fei directly." Tang Zheng shook his head.
Xu Qingyan's astrological talent makes him more suitable for this kind of tracking than anyone else.
At noon, Tian Meng came over to discuss with Tang Zheng. After confirming that the entrance to the remains of the Purple Gold Emperor should be nearby, everyone stayed in place.
Except for people like the Tianqin family who came from border families, many princes who came from inland areas to join in the fun were gradually unable to cope with it.
Most of them were not weak in strength. At least they had been to the Star Tower and had lit up quite a few levels of the tower. However, under the sky outside the border, everyone was extremely uncomfortable and looked dusty.
All was fine during the day...
At night, two people came to Tang Zheng's tent at the same time.
"I want to go to the north."
"I want to go to the south."
The two people who were speaking were Du Qixi and Azhi. They were heading to the south and the north respectively, but they did not act on their own. Instead, they came to ask Tang Zheng for his opinion first.
Tang Zheng certainly wouldn't let them leave the team at night: "What for? To pee?"
Du Qixi smiled: "Brother Tang is indeed interesting, but unfortunately, I guessed wrong. Just now, I saw a purple-gold dragon soaring in the sky in the south..."
"Du Qixi, the illustrious master of Purple Gold City, is also a fortune teller?"
"Pfft..." Azhi laughed without giving any face.
"What are you laughing at? What did you see?"
"To the north, a black dragon is soaring into the sky..."
Tang Zheng looked to the south and north and saw nothing.
The two charlatans, one big and one small, one fat and one thin, looked at him with starry eyes.
"Before that, please tell me clearly what you saw..."
"Although the five cities of Xingyao Continent are within the boundaries of the aristocratic family fiefdom order, they are not under the jurisdiction of the aristocratic families. Brother Tang, you should know this, right?" Du Qixi knew that he had to explain it clearly today, "But have you ever thought about why?"
"Why?" Tang Zheng was very studious and curious.
"Because these five places are the five dragon veins left by the Great Emperor, suppressing something called 'Heavenly Veins'. Similarly, there are five corresponding dragon veins in the demon race, suppressing something called 'Earthly Veins'. The center point of the five famous cities in the territory is Ziwei Dingxing Mountain. It is said that the Heavenly Vein is there, and if there is also one outside the territory..."
"Come on, call Tian Meng and calculate the midpoint!" Tang Zheng did not ask how Du Qixi and Azhi could see what he could not see. What he was sure of now was that as long as they found the location of the earth vein, they would be able to enter the ruins of the Purple Gold Emperor.
Although I don't know where the entrance has moved to...
Although there is a method, it is still not very smooth.
Because they wanted to calculate the exact center point outside the border, in addition to Du Qixi who was from the Purple Gold City and Azhi who was from Shadow Mountain, they also needed Xiao Tanzhi from the Tianyi Valley, Luo Fei from Bailianfang, and Hua Yingxiu from the Yaoshan Tribe.
Although Xiao Tanzhi agreed to cooperate, Luo Fei and Hua Yingxiu were not there...
At the critical moment, it was Tian Meng who completed a breakthrough in martial arts and replaced Luo Fei and Hua Yingxiu to find the location where the silver dragon and the seven-colored dragon celestial phenomena were boiling.
Purple-gold auspicious dragon, black dragon, white dragon, silver dragon, seven-color dragon...
When the locations of the five dragon veins that suppressed the earth were marked on a piece of paper in front of Tang Zheng, they immediately carried out calculations and finally narrowed down the midpoint to an oasis less than two kilometers away.
"Found it, let's set off tonight!" Tang Zheng looked at the dim sky and immediately ordered to move at full speed.
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There are many such oases in the Far North Wasteland, large and small, with different demon tribes scattered around.
The oasis that Tang Zheng and his team found was very large. They avoided at least twenty tribes before reaching the point in the middle.
However, after arriving there, Tang Zheng and the others looked at each other in bewilderment.
There was only a flat ground there, so flat that it looked as if it had been paved with bluestone slabs.
"Go up and step on it." Tang Zheng no longer cared about the identities of the people accompanying him at this time, and directly used the human wave tactics.
"Ah?" There was a commotion in the team, "How can you just step on..."
"That is to say, we should at least test it with star power first."
Tang Zheng just laughed.
If this is an entrance to a place left behind by Emperor Zi Jin that is different from the entrance to Fengmen Village, then what can they find out with their star power?
Qin Rong didn't say anything to Leng Zhan. He probably came to the same conclusion as Tang Zheng and went up directly.
Tang Zheng stretched out his hand towards Xiaotang.
"Master..." Xiaotang didn't expect Tang Zheng to still remember her. She smiled and took Tang Zheng's hand and jumped up, "Together?"
"Haha, let's do it together." Tang Zheng nodded.
In the area paved with bluestone slabs, dozens of figures gradually separated...
Soon, with a "whoosh" sound, a scream came from not far away from Tang Zheng.
"Ah, I'm going to fall..." His voice quickly turned into an echo.
Tang Zheng's eyelids twitched.
This scene is so familiar!
Several princes ran over in panic to save the man, but the bluestone slab flipped over and then covered it back up again, and a living person seemed to be swallowed up.
Qin Rong went over and stood on the bluestone slab without saying a word.
However, nothing happened.
"It seems that the first person among us who found the entrance has appeared." Tang Zheng smiled instead, "Everyone keep working hard."
"Uh...what...what do you mean."
"That is to say, just find as many stone slabs as you can to jump down and flip them over. However, each stone slab can probably only be flipped over once..."
The last time Tang Zheng was in Fengmen Village, he and Zheng Qian did not enter through the same entrance.
The place he arrived at was completely different from the place Zheng Qian arrived at.
How big are the remains of Emperor Zi Jin?
Nobody knows.
It is not clear how many entrances to the ruins there are in Fengmen Village, but what Tang Zheng knows is that there are probably quite a few entrances to the ruins in this place!
"Well...well, I think I shouldn't go in."
"That's right, I'm here to look for Fang Junji. Since we haven't found him yet, we won't go into any ruins for now..."
Many people backed out.
Tang Zheng didn't force them - they really didn't know how shocking the things in the remains of the Purple Gold Emperor were.
Not to mention anything else, just the garbage dump of the Purple Gold Emperor would probably be enough for them to forget for the rest of their lives.
"Master, here!" Xiaotang pointed to a piece of bluestone in front of her, "That flower..."
"..." Tang Zheng followed Xiaotang's gaze and saw that the stone slab was very different from the other slabs. There was actually a small flower growing on it.
"That's it?" Xiaotang said, "I think there's a chance."
"Go ahead." Tang Zheng nodded.
The two of them stepped onto the stone slab together. Suddenly, they felt the wind whirring in their ears, and a dizzy feeling swept over them...
Tang Zheng immediately turned around, hugged Tang Xiaotang tightly, and whistled at Leng Zhan and A Zhi who were still outside: "Go ahead."
After saying that, the two people moved from the stone slab with a flower on it to another stone slab.
But that "other slab of stone" was actually in mid-air.
The clouds are right under their feet.
Then the stone slab they were standing on moved, passing through the sea of clouds and facing the direction of the sunlight. They saw three large characters written in a flamboyant style - Qianqiong Palace.
"Ah? Didn't the Heavenly Medicine Secret Realm that Xiao Tanzhi was looking for disappear in Qianqiong Palace in the ancient times... Is Qianqiong Palace here?"
"The Demon King's Palace in the Far North Wasteland, the Worry-Free Island at the end of the world, the Qianqiong Palace at the end of the sea of clouds, and the Nether Castle in the underground maze." When Tang Zheng was teaching at Tangjiabao, he read a lot about these places that no one had found. Unexpectedly, they were all in the ruins of the Purple Gold Emperor. "Xiaotang, Xiao Tanzhi said that the Heavenly Doctor Secret Realm is deep in the Qianqiong Palace. That means, if we find the 'Demon-Extinguishing Fire' first, Xiao Tanzhi will..."
"Well, at least we can't let him kill Sister Xiu'er and Daji and the others." Xiaotang nodded heavily.
Bang...
The stone slab under their feet was embedded in the entire square in front of the main entrance of Qianqiong Palace.
Tang Zheng and Tang Xiaotang jumped down hurriedly and were about to push the door open, but they heard a familiar voice from inside the misty door of Qianqiong Palace.
"Qin Xi, ha..." Fang Junji's voice was filled with a hollow smile, just like when they first met, "What you just said is the funniest joke I have ever heard in my life."
