That sword fairy is back

Chapter 17 The Forest of No Return

Su Jianxing was stopped at the city gate.

"Who? Why are you leaving the city now?" Those were two disciples of the Immortal League, guarding the gate of the city with serious faces and asking.

In addition to the fact that the gates of the deserted city were closed due to the need to open the protective array during the tide of monsters and beasts, there was never a curfew in the deserted city even though disciples of the Xianmeng were on duty at other times.

Therefore, the door check at this moment seems a bit strange.

"Going out of the city to look for someone, my sister got lost." Su Jianxing replied, "What are you doing? Are you looking for someone?"

Just as the disciple of Xianmeng was about to answer, his eyes paused, and he looked behind Su Jianxing. At the same time, a slightly familiar voice came from behind Su Jianxing: "Friend Su——"

Su Jianxing turned around and saw Taichen.

The Xianmeng disciples saw Taichen and bowed to him: "My lord."

Taichen nodded and said: "I'll come here, you go first." After finishing speaking, he looked at Su Jianxing: "Are you sure your sister is outside the city?"

Su Jianxing didn't know why he asked that question, but he still nodded, "It's getting late, my sister has always been afraid of the dark, fellow Taoist Taichen, I'll take a step first."

Tai Chen nodded, but said something completely irrelevant to Ah Yue: "Cheng Qian ran away."

"What?" Su Jianxing didn't react for a while, but soon she understood the meaning of Taichen's words, she paused, and looked at Taichen sharply: "Cheng Qian ran away? When?"

"This morning, maybe earlier." There was a trace of apology on his face: "Originally he was grounded in his own yard, just waiting for someone from Sheng Yuanzong to take him away, but unexpectedly..."

Unexpectedly, Cheng Qian ran away.

Needless to say, Su Jianxing already understood the following words. "It's coming for me."

Taichen said: "I will go out of the city with you to look for it."

Su Jianxing glanced at him and did not refuse.

Tonight, the moon is bright and there are no stars, and the cold moonlight casts a silver light on the earth.

Almost as soon as you step out of the city gate, you can feel the chill brought by the wind on your face. The warmth of the day has been blown away by the wind.
Ah Yue didn't wear much when she went out, so even if her life was safe, she would still be terribly cold.

One mile away from the city gate is a dense forest, known as the Forest of No Return, and this name sounds ominous.

It is said that when the barren city was called Linxian City thousands of years ago, there was no such forest at all.Standing on the towering city wall, all you can see is a large stretch of endless hectares of fertile land and scattered villages and towns.It is not until the farthest point that one can vaguely see a mountain that is half hidden in the clouds and mist all year round.

It is a gathering place for monsters and beasts. Ordinary people and monks seldom set foot there, and few can come out after entering it. It is called the Mountain of No Return.

Of course, the monsters of Bugui Ridge never leave the mountain, so for tens of thousands of years, the monsters and mortals in Bugui Ridge have maintained a peaceful situation where the well water does not violate the river water.

This situation was broken when the first wave of monster beasts began thousands of years ago.

The unexplained wave of monsters scattered countless houses and fertile fields along the road.

The monsters in the tide of monsters are irrational and rely entirely on instinct, not only biting humans, but also killing each other, the scene is extremely tragic.

At first, everyone thought that the wave of monsters was just an accident. After the monsters faded, some people went back to rebuild their homes and continue to live their lives, but they didn't expect that the nightmare would always repeat itself.

Within a few years, fertile land turned into wasteland.The grass and trees grow wantonly, and a forest is formed over time.The activities of the monsters gradually expanded to the forest.

The forest becomes a forest of no return.

"It's in the Forest of No Return." Su Jianxing closed his eyes, tried to sense Ah Yue's aura, and said, "Let's find each other separately."

She hadn't expected that such an accident would happen to Ah Yue before, so she didn't deliberately leave a mark on Ah Yue.Only relying on the sword embryo and mahogany hairpin she refined for Ah Yue and Zhen Zhen to sense the vague position is already the limit.

Taichen stopped her and said: "Don't rush in, you should replenish your spiritual energy first."

Su Jianxing glanced at him, and thought that this man was observing carefully.Su Jianxing spent most of his spiritual energy when he opened the ring restriction before, and he will go to Buguilin to find someone later, so the remaining spiritual energy will not be enough.

Without any hesitation, she took a top-grade spirit stone to supplement her spirit energy.

Taichen didn't realize it, he raised his eyes to see the forest in front of him.

This forest has luxuriant branches and leaves, layered on top of each other, blocking all the moonlight outside, and the inside is dark.It seems that the shadow formed by a giant beast crouching on the ground in the dark night gives people a dangerous and mysterious feeling.

A little fluorescent light flashed in the forest, it was the light from the eyes of monsters lurking in the dark night.

While Tai Chen was looking at it, Su Jianxing had already absorbed a top-grade spirit stone.

"Okay." Su Jianxing said.

Taichen nodded, handed over a communication stone and said, "Take it, keep in touch."

Su Jianxing took it, and nodded at him, without any further delay, he walked into the woods in a blink of an eye.

Taichen also entered it immediately.

Not long after the two of them entered, the moonlight in the sky seemed to brighten up again, and there seemed to be some invisible breath flowing slowly in the clear moonlight, gathering and forming.

……

Zhifeng was in the center of the city lord's mansion, sending spiritual energy to the large formation protecting the city.

The defensive array is the basis for the deserted city to survive countless waves of monsters and beasts for thousands of years.The lives of [-] people in the city also depend on it.

However, it takes a lot of spiritual energy to launch the large city protection formation once, so it is necessary to replenish spiritual energy from time to time on weekdays for the next opening of the formation.

Those disciples like Su Jianxing who were sent to serve by various punishments can exchange contribution points with the materials collected from treasures after each wave of monsters, and can also exchange contribution points by sending spiritual energy to the formation at regular intervals.Of course, there is a fixed amount of spiritual energy delivered every month, and only when this standard is reached can one be considered to obtain basic contribution points.

In addition, if there is a surplus and can continue to lose aura, the contribution points will be doubled.

It's just that the last rule is rarely met.When Xianmeng formulated the monthly fixed amount of aura, it stipulated different amounts for disciples of different realms.Basically, they are stuck on the points that those disciples can achieve.It is almost impossible to overachieve the task.

For example, Su Jianxing even posted one or two spirit stones in order to get the basic contribution points every month, not to mention the excess.

Of course, the amount of spiritual energy transported every month by the uneven cultivation of the serving disciples is not completely enough to maintain the operation of the entire formation.Therefore, the disciples stationed in the Immortal League were doing this work, and Zhifeng, who was the city lord, naturally had to do it too, or even more.

Two hours later, Zhifeng came out of the control room with a pale face.Even if his cultivation has reached the stage of transforming into gods, his spiritual power is not enough to support the operation of the entire formation.No wonder the big formation needs so many people every month to maintain it. The power of this formation is a bit stronger than the mountain protection formation of ordinary sects.

After stepping out of the house, a disciple of the Immortal Alliance came up to him, and asked with a courteous and puzzled look: "City Master, the monster beast tide just passed a few days ago, as usual, there will be no more problems in a short period of time, why are you doing this?" hard work?"

The disciple said it easily, but Zhifeng didn't think so.Although according to the usual practice, he said exactly the same as that disciple, but these days he was always worried, thinking that something would happen.

(End of this chapter)