Qeng Ho Mage

Chapter 582 Journey to the South

No one answered Mrs. Zhu’s question.

Tongtianhe suddenly changed drastically. Everyone was confused about the situation in Hanoi and could only wait and see the changes and wait patiently for news.

As the river wind continued to blow, monks kept flying out of the river.

The Witch of Baihua paid close attention to the figures of these monks, and soon found Fang Dushu in the downstream waters: "Madam, look quickly, he has already left the river!"

Mrs. Zhu was overjoyed when she saw this: "Let's go and greet him!"

She directly used the clam shell as a flying weapon and dived downstream.

After Fang Dushu rushed out of the river, he was entangled by the river wind. As soon as he cast a spell to rush out of the river wind and stabilized his body in a safe place, he saw Mrs. Zhu driving the clam shells to fly nearby.

"Master Fang Qing, have you got that spiritual beard yet?"

Mrs. Zhu was thinking about her dragon beard, so she asked about this river treasure first when they met.

"I caught it by luck!"

Fang Dushu has already received the reward from the other party and will abide by his promise.

He threw the Burning Dragon Beard to Mrs. Zhu and looked up. Just now, the dragon sucked water and exploded in the river. Heli rolled the Nizhen Baking Furnace to him, and he easily salvaged it. He didn't know whether the more than ten god-transforming monks were there. Discovered his behavior.

At this time, the dragon was still sucking water, and monks kept escaping from the upper reaches of the river. These monks did not search for Fang Dushu after they came out of the river. They were all staring at the hiding place of the Arm Feather Demon Lord in the river. It is expected that they still thought that the evil king was hiding in the river. The True Oven is still with the Demon King.

In the past, when the Tongtian River was exposed to its treasures, it was often blocked in the river by the Arm Feather Demon Lord. This was a common occurrence.

Fang Dushu quietly snatched the Nizhen Oven, and no one noticed him for the time being. He didn't have to worry about the suspicion of the dozen or so god-transformation monks.

But Tongtianhe is no longer a place to stay for a long time, and Fang Dushu must leave immediately.

By staying away from Kun-Lai Island as soon as possible, his situation would be completely safe. Originally, he wanted to use gold ooze to trade with Tian Xuanqing in exchange for the thirty pieces of true gold he had given away earlier. But now that the situation has changed, the deal will fall through.

Mrs. Zhu was so happy that she got his Dragon Beard and forgot about everything, and did not ask him about the situation in Hanoi.

This was not the case for Tian Xuanqing and Lu Liangshi who were accompanying them. They were very concerned about the cause of this drastic change and asked Fang Dushu anxiously: "Master Fang Qing, what is going on in Hanoi? Is the ancient demon king making trouble?"

Fang Dushu was vague: "I'm not too sure. After I entered the river earlier, I just salvaged the Zhilong beard when I heard a roar of water animals coming from the river. I was far away and couldn't see the source of the roar, so I couldn't see the source of the roar. I couldn’t identify the demon king, so when I tried to leave the river, the waves started to erupt and swept me directly downstream!”

He didn't want to talk to the two of them too much, so he planned to use his injury as an excuse to return to Qinghu's station on the ground.

Unexpectedly, at this time, a horn sound suddenly came from upstream.

Hearing this, Tian Xuanqing, Master Lu Liang and Mrs. Zhu quickly looked up and frowned: "This is the summons of the Taiping League. All the good teachers in the transformation stage must go and obey the order. There may be a big battle to be fought. !”

The three of them seemed very reluctant, but they had been in the alliance for many years and the cost of disobeying the order was too high, so they all decided to obey the order.

They all looked at Fang Dushu: "Master Fang Qing, we are going upstream on errands, are you willing to accompany us?"

Fang Dushu asked: "Do I have to go?"

All three of them laughed: "Master Fang Qing must have forgotten that you are not a Taiping ally, so naturally you do not have to obey the orders of the alliance, but if you are willing to contribute to the alliance, the reward will be quite generous!"

Fang Dushu responded to them: "To say that there are still more than ten days left for the Tide Sacred Gift, it is not a bad idea to accompany a few fellow Taoists. However, my body was injured when I went into the river to retrieve the dragon's beard just now, and I need to adjust my breathing immediately. I’m afraid I can’t afford to accompany you!”

The three expressed their understanding: "It must be for healing. We will never embarrass Master Fang Qing. Just ask Master Fang to do what he wants. We will get together again after we finish the matters within the alliance!"

Mrs. Zhu warned Fang Dushu alone again: "The order sounded in the alliance this time is unusual. It should be of great importance. It will take a long time to deal with it. If it is delayed until the end of the Tide Sacred Gift, please ask Fang Qing Master, don’t leave in a hurry, you took the risk to find the Burning Dragon Beard for me, I want to give you a nice banquet to thank you!"

Fang Dushu said something casually.

With Fang Dushu's confidence, Mrs. Zhu drove the clam shell upstream.

Naturally, the Witch of Flowers would not accompany him and jumped out of the clam shell first.

Fang Dushu stared for a moment, then waved to the Witch of Flowers: "Let's fall into the lake!"

On the way, I asked privately about the location of the teleportation array gate.

Long before the Tide Gift erupted, the Witch of Flowers followed Fang Dushu to the lake dojo. She had already carefully explored the terrain and figured out the exact location of the teleportation array gate. She could lead Fang Dushu to find the array gate at any time.

It happened that a drastic change occurred in the Tongtian River at this time, and all the monks in the transformation stage gathered in the upper waters.

The central camp in Qinghu under the river was empty of troops and was basically a fake. No matter how Fang Dushu explored the bottom of the lake or even if he cast spells violently, he would not attract attention.

After he landed on the lake, he didn't even return to the temporary dojo. He directly led the Flower Witch into the center of the lake and fell into the depths of the lake.

Seeing that Fang Dushu was leaving in such a hurry, the Witch of Flowers guessed that Fang Dushu must have encountered something unexpected when he was salvaging the Dragon Beard earlier. It was most likely that he had grabbed some kind of treasure, so he left Kun Lai Island in a hurry. .

But the Witch of Flowers had something on her mind, but she didn't say much. She strictly followed Fang Dushu's orders and swam for dozens of miles at the bottom of the lake before stopping among a dense aquatic plant.

These aquatic plants grow in the mud at the bottom of the lake and are as tall as a person, completely covering the terrain.

"Master, the formation gate is sealed under the water plants!"

The Witch of Flowers introduced the direction of the array gate while casting spells to dig.

She first circled an area several feet in diameter in the grass and set up a simple magic circle. Then she pulled out the water plants in the circle and dug out several feet of mud to reveal a round stone slab.

The color of this slate is similar to that of mud, and its surface is very rough, like an ordinary rock structure. Even if it is discovered by outsiders, there will be no clues.

After the stone slab appeared, Baihua Witch stretched out her hand toward Fang Dushu: "Master, do you have to use true gold to open the formation gate?"

Fang Dushu casually threw her a storage bag, which contained dozens of true gold ingots. He felt that the formation was more than adequate.

As a result, the Witch of Flowers opened the bag and placed the true gold on the corners of the stone slab one by one. Even if the gold ingots in the bag were used up, the stone slab still had no reaction.

The Witch of Flowers said again: "Master, the True Essence Gold is not enough! Kun-Lai Island drifts at high altitude all year round, and it is far and near from the South China Sea. If Kun-Lai Island happens to float over the South China Sea, the True Essence Gold is enough to activate the formation gate. There is no movement at the formation gate right now, which means that Kun-Lai Island is far away from the South China Sea. I can’t estimate how much true gold should be used!”

No one can estimate this kind of loss. Because the amount of gold ingots consumed by the array gate is determined by the distance between Kun-Lai Island and the South China Sea, Kun-Lai Island's whereabouts are irregular. Where it is drifting at the moment cannot be seen or touched at all.

After listening to Baihua Witch's explanation, Fang Dushu suddenly swept his sleeves and took back all the true gold on the stone slab. Then he took out the Yuanbao Mountain he had salvaged in Jianhua Cave and hung it over the stone slab.

After a moment, the stone slab suddenly lit up, and the stone surface began to soften, gradually turning into a shimmering blue water curtain. This water curtain slowly rotated, forming a vortex entrance.

The teleportation array gate is completely opened.

Upon seeing this, Fang Dushu took back Yuanbaoshan.

The Witch of Flowers jumped into the whirlpool first to explore the way, followed closely by Fang Dushu.

When both of them entered the formation gate, the vortex stopped rotating and returned to the shape of a stone slab. The simple magic circle built around the stone slab also collapsed immediately. The force of the formation rolled up mud and water plants, covering the stone slab tightly.

This area has returned to its original grassy landform, as if Fang Dushu and the Flower Witch had never been there.

Fang Dushu didn't know it. Not long after he left Kun-Lai Island through the teleportation gate, the three major forces of Jiuyuan Sect, Xiaoyao Palace and Taiping Alliance gathered almost all the god-forming monks and once again broke into the Tongtian River in an attempt to salvage Ni Zhen. Oven and other sealed river treasures.

The result was unsuccessful.

What's even more outrageous is that in the following ten days, although the Holy Gift of Tides continued to erupt as usual, and the most precious treasures still fell from the upper reaches, all the treasures were, without exception, fixed in the river by the Arm Feather Demon Lord, regardless of what was outside the river. No matter how the monk cast spells to salvage it, it all didn't work.

Unless they have the courage to take risks and gather all their forces to go deep into the heart of the river to kill and destroy the Feather-armed Demon King, they will never be able to salvage a piece of river treasure again.

However, the Arm-Feather Demon Lord is extremely powerful. They only dare to swim around the outside of the river and compete with the Arm-Feather Demon Lord across the water. However, they never dare to go deep into the Demon Lord's lair. If they are trapped by the black water barrier again, they will There will be no hope of escape.

Since they could not salvage Hezhen, they began to study ways to deal with the Arm Feather Demon Lord. To deal with the Demon Lord, they must first break the black water barrier that was like a copper wall.

They didn't have a way to break the barrier, but they knew someone who could.

When they first entered the river to search for the Nirvana Furnace and joined forces to fight the Demon Lord, a monk secretly broke down the barrier and helped them escape from the Demon Lord's lair. As long as they found this monk, the problem could be easily solved.

So they began to investigate the identity of the monk who sneaked into the river that day. In the end, Fang Dushu became their biggest suspect.

Unfortunately, by the time they sent people to look for Fang Dushu, nearly half a month had passed since Fang Dushu left Kun-Lai Island, and they immediately went to look for Fang Dushu's Shenzhou comrades.

But since the Dragon Water Absorption outbreak and He Zhen was sealed in the Tongtian River by the Arm Feather Demon Lord, all the monks from the Divine Continent who participated in the Tide Sacred Gift have returned to their hometown in the Divine Continent because they could no longer salvage He Zhen.

They couldn't find Fang Dushu's whereabouts and were unable to go to Qinghe Divine Continent, so the matter ended up being left unsolved.

No one is going to trace the whereabouts of Nizhen Oven.

Fang Dushu inadvertently became the biggest winner among the Tide Sacred Gifts, other than the winner of Juxia Dan.

As for what happened in the second half of Tide Sacred Gift, Fang Dushu had no interest in it.

After he left the teleportation gate at the bottom of the lake, he appeared directly in a whirlpool at the bottom of the South China Sea.

He did not stay at the bottom of the sea. He immediately flew out of the sea and climbed to high altitude.

After some terrain exploration, he found that this sea area was located exactly between the southern border of Qinghe Divine Continent and the Nantian Buddhist Kingdom.

According to Fang Dushu's previous knowledge of the geographical situation, the southern border of Shenzhou and the Nantian Buddhist Kingdom face each other across the sea. The distance between the two places is only a few hundred miles.

Fang Dushu looked down from a high altitude. To the north, he could see the coast of the southern border of Shenzhou, and to the south, he could see the territory of the Nantian Buddhist Kingdom.

As early as when he was at the Wuyue Palace, Fang Dushu had collected detailed maps of the Nantian Buddhist Kingdom because he had long had the idea of ​​traveling to the Nantian Buddhist Kingdom.

This time he went to Nantian. He had two tasks. One was to find a way to subdue the relic heart ape, and the other was to find the secret passage to Fuyao Tower.

Regardless of the task, he must go to Dafu You Temple and ask Master You Xian who is stationed in the temple for help.

Dafuyou Temple is one of the two ten thousand-year-old temples in the Nantian Buddhist Kingdom. The other ancient temple is Dapudu Temple.

When Fang Dushu went to see Master Zhuge, he heard Master Zhuge say that although Dafuyou Temple and Dapudu Temple were both founded by Namo Sushang Buddha, they were hostile to each other and were not harmonious.

These two temples, one in the north and the other in the south, divided the Nantian Buddhist Kingdom and formed a confrontation.

Among them, Dafuyou Temple is the northern sect. The disciples in the temple all came from Shenzhou to practice Buddhism across the sea. They were originally from Shenzhou and settled in Nantian Buddhist Kingdom because of their admiration for Buddhism.

Dapudu Temple belongs to the Southern Sect, and the disciples in the temple are all indigenous monks who were saved by the Supreme Buddha when he first opened his cave in the past. They regard the Nantian Buddha Kingdom as their ancestral home and exclude all outsiders.

The master You Xian that Fang Dushu is looking for this time is the transformed god Buddha of Dafu You Temple and a representative figure of the Shenzhou Buddhist Sect.

Twenty years ago, Dushu came out of Ba Mie Quan in the East China Sea. At that time, Master Zhuge of Xiaoyin Palace, Master You Jue of Zhongmiao Palace, and his son You Qizhi all crossed south to the Buddhist Kingdom and settled in Dafu You Temple. Fang Dushu didn't know whether his family had returned to Shenzhou. He would only find out when he arrived at Dafu Temple.

After surveying the terrain, Fang Dushu took out the Wancheng Magic Car given to him by Master Fan Gai, handed it to Baihua Witch to drive, and rushed in the direction of Dafu Temple.

He sat cross-legged in the car and began to count the harvest of Kun-Lai Island.

After he landed on the island, he first went to search for the whereabouts of the pagoda bell. Although he successfully collected the bell, the Avalokitesvara Dharma Eyes was attracted to a secret disk and cannot be separated to this day.

This secret disk is currently sealed in the blood fly silkworm cocoon and is being devoured and refined by the crystal silkworms he raised. He cannot calculate when the refining will be completed, so he can only wait for the time being.

Then he rushed to Tongtian River to participate in the Holy Gift of Tide. He first traded with Mrs. Zhu and exchanged it for a bottle of Reborn Divine Water and Tengyuan True Dew. He also salvaged a magical snail that can increase the mana of the mid-stage Nascent Soul.

These river treasures were of vital importance to him, but their use was very time-consuming. He had to find a stable retreat in order to realize the great value of the divine water and divine conch.

He planned to visit Dafu Temple first and then plan his trip slowly.

The biggest gain from his trip to Kun-Lai Island was the True-Reverse Oven, which could reverse the heresy and turn it into his own way.

His Thunderbolt Sword Body is an outsider. Although it was united by him once, it cannot be promoted to the Tao level. Now with the Anti-Truth Baking Furnace, the Thunderbolt Sword Body can be used forever.

(End of this chapter)