Chapter 685: Dragon Stone, Clash of Consciousness

"I... I don't know." Kunjun felt that Zhongli's words were right, but also wrong, and his head ached slightly.

“Long, Long…” He covered his forehead, “Sorry, I can’t explain why… I’ve been in a daze these past few days. I can’t remember anything except my name and home address.”

Kunjun opened his heart and said, "To be honest, I have been feeling anxious. It seems that there is something I have not done yet and I have forgotten it..."

The blurry memory and the inability to remember things made him feel indescribably uncomfortable.

"Ah, I know that feeling!" Paimon echoed, "Knowing that I forgot something, but can't remember what it was."

Ying nodded.

Kunjun continued, "I didn't know where to go, so I wandered around. When I was walking through the market, I heard someone talking and vaguely mentioned the 'Dragon-Suppressing Stone'."

"These three words sound very familiar, as if what I am going to do is related to that kind of stone... So. I want to find a piece to take a look at."

"Maybe, if I hold the stone in my hand, I can remember what I want to do."

Jiang Yi nodded: "After losing memory, finding familiar things to touch and use to recall is indeed a good way to restore memory."

Zhongli: "I see... If I have the chance, I will help find this kind of stone."

Kunjun said happily: "Really? Thank you Mr. Zhongli."

Zhongli waved his hand: "It's just a small favor, not worth mentioning."

The crowd continued to move forward, leaving Tianqiu Valley and entering the territory of Nantianmen.

A stream comes from the north, flows through Nantianmen, and accumulates into a lake here. There is a small island and ancient relics in the center of the lake. There are ice slimes on the lake and two aggressive rock dragon lizards by the lake.

The rock dragon lizard roared and pounced on everyone.

"Be careful!" Ying stood in front of everyone.

"Rock prison!" Jiang Yi stretched out his hand, and rocks on the ground grew out, turning into stone pillars to form a cage. Shining golden runes moved around, trapping the rock dragon lizard.

Kunjun looked at the runes on the rock prison and felt that they seemed familiar.

"So easy." Paimeng looked at Jiang Yi, who was using magic with ease, "Jiang Yi's strength is becoming more and more unfathomable."

Jiang Yi looked at the South Heaven Gate, and a powerful pressure from the immortal way surged like a mountain.

"Has the formation in Jueyunjian been activated?"

He felt the restless earth veins calm down, and the power of the magic circle intimidated the rock dragon lizard into the South Gate of Heaven.

According to his calculations, all the Liyue immortals, including True Lord Lishui Dieshan, True Lord Liuyun Jiefeng, True Lord Xueyue Zhuyang, Great Sage Jiangmo, and so on, had all gone to the nodes of Jueyunjian and Liyue formations many days ago to suppress the earth veins.

Lishui Dieshan Zhenjun is located in Hulao Mountain, guarding the seal of Fulong Tree.

The immortals knew about the change in the seal a long time ago, and the Demon-Subduing Great Sage even came to the South Heaven Gate to check it out on the occasion of inspiring Ganyu's potential.

Under the Fulong tree, there is a terrifying existence recorded in the immortal books.

Now, the immortals are unable to escape.

Maintaining the stability of the entire Liyue's earth veins has exhausted their strength, and they are unable to pay attention to the remaining minor changes.

The hatred of the terrifying existence caused the remaining demons under the demon-suppressing stones to riot at night.

Fortunately, most of Liyue's territory is actually within the Bagua Nine Palaces and Lianshan Guizang formations, with the Wuwang Yinjiu Secret Palace, Zhenlei Lianshan Secret Palace, Huaqing Guizang Secret Palace and other secret realms as nodes, plus countless demon-suppressing stones, demon-subduing seals, and peach talismans seals.

Although the power of the formation cannot completely suppress all the remnants of the demons and prevent the birth of evil spirits, it can ensure Liyue's safety at a critical moment.

"Look, there's someone lying on the ground over there." After walking for a while, Paimon pointed ahead and said, "Maybe he was injured by the attack of the Rock Lizard. Let's go and take a look."

In fact, this place is under the pressure of the formation and there are no dragon lizards.

Jiang Yi walked over and saw a tall, black-haired man lying on the ground with a backpack filled with stones next to him.

"Hey!" Paimon shouted from the side, "Can you hear me?"

The man's body was covered in dirt and dust, but he had no wounds.

"Looking at his appearance, he must have fainted from exhaustion." Zhongli squatted down and took his pulse.

"You're sleeping very soundly." Ying vaguely heard the other person talking in his sleep.

"I can still... still dig..." The man's lips opened and closed, full of cracks.

"Hmm? He seems like he wants to get up..." Paimon tilted his head and listened.

The man seemed to be rushing to work, but he couldn't wake up or move because of a nightmare.

"Such persistence is really abnormal." Zhongli said, "There is a camp nearby. Let's take him there to settle down first, and then make plans."

Jiang Yi and Kunjun helped the man up.

Put him in a camp that was once built by a group of treasure hunters or adventurers.

"This is one of the four missing workers. His name is... Xiaomao." Jiang Yi pinched his fingers and said, "He fell into a coma due to overwork, but his life is not in danger."

"I just heard him mumbling about digging something. Is he tired? He's so tired, but he doesn't even plan to rest. How strange." Paimon looked around. "There's no mining area nearby. Where is he digging?"

Ying looked at Jiang Yi: "According to what you and Kunjun said, the miner was taken away by a child. Why is he left here alone?"

"Besides, this area is probably the territory of the immortals."

Kunjun suddenly said: "Wait, there seems to be something in his pocket..."

Looking at the strange ore that fell out of the man's pocket after his body was moved by them.

"Fragments of a rare ore." Kunjun said, "Everyone, let me check the memory inside the ore."

He closed his eyes and saw the man digging in a dark passage and picking up ore.

Zhongli and Ying waited.

"To see stones, all you have to do is put your hands on the stones? That's amazing." Paimon was a little envious. "There are stones everywhere in this world. Is he more amazing than Jiang Yi and Mona? You can only know most of the things in the world, but he can know everything."

Kunjun opened his eyes, heard what Paimon said, and shook his head.

"I'm not that powerful. My ability depends on the specific stone. Different ores have different memory abilities. Common ores like iron ore and white iron are basically useless. The memory is very vague."

"Amber and crystal have stronger memory capabilities and can record more and clearer scenes."

Jiang Yi agreed with this statement, but his own magic was not based on the memory of objects but on history, looking back through the meaning of time, or using the veins of the earth, which was more powerful than simply "using stone as eyes".

This person... has a mortal body, with only a weak, extremely otherworldly consciousness, possessing Kunjun, and the abilities he displays at this moment are obviously incomplete.

Walking together along the way, Jiang Yimeng's laws and consciousness power have already felt the weirdness of Kunjun's consciousness.

But no one pointed it out.

"These fragments were brought out of the mining area by this person, which shows that he is indeed one of the four miners we are looking for." After checking the ore memory, Kunjun confirmed Jiang Yi's words.

"Ah? He was taken away, and then... abandoned?" Paimon was puzzled. "If they were going to abandon him, why did they bring him all the way here?"

"Maybe the other party's goal is about to be achieved, or... this person doesn't have a pickaxe in his hand, and the pickaxe is probably broken, so he was thrown out to fend for himself." Jiang Yi said.

"It's possible." Zhongli nodded.

"A kid who mysteriously appeared in the mining area, is he so powerful? Is there someone else behind him?" Paimon scratched his head, "Jiang Yi, do you think this man's behavior is similar to that of the unconscious person who was mentally suggested to climb the Pointed Hat Mountain in the fallen meteorite?"

"Wow! Paimon, you've become smarter. You can even find the connection." Jiang Yi pretended to be surprised.

"What! I've never been stupid!" Paimon stomped his feet in anger.

"That means there may be strange stones around that can affect this person's consciousness? Or a mysterious existence that can give mental suggestion like you?" Ying raised her hand and became alert.

She always remembered Jiang Yi saying that he couldn't figure out who the mysterious man was and his divination technique was affected by the other party's power.

"It feels more and more mysterious and terrifying." Paimon was a little scared. It would be too scary if he was hypnotized to go mining and mined until he was exhausted.

"Let's explore the surroundings, eliminate any danger, and temporarily place this worker here." Zhongli said, "Then continue walking and look for other workers."

Ying nodded: "Then let's leave a note for Lao Dai, so that when he comes looking for us, we can deal with it in time."

"That will probably take several days, Ying. Don't forget that we flew most of the way here. The roads from Lingju Pass to Tianqiu Valley are not easy to travel." Jiang Yi thought for a while, "After we check the surroundings, I will leave a golden armor warrior to take care of and protect him."

"Let me try first and resolve the other party's mental suggestion."

"Leave him another note, some food and drink, so he can rest and replenish his energy when he wakes up."

Taking a deep breath, Jiang Yi's eyes became slightly solemn.

The law of dreams in his hand, combined with his own conscious power, condensed into an invisible sword, and pointed at the man's brow.

"Who?" A strange and hoarse voice suddenly rang through Jiang Yi's mind.

A being with black aura all over the body, resembling a little girl, with an evil, ominous and distorted face, appeared in Jiang Yi's spiritual vision.

"Back off!" Zhongli pulled Ying and Kunjun back, and Paimeng flew away in panic.

They saw thick black air emanating from the man lying on the ground, rushing into Jiang Yi's body and attacking him.

Jiang Yi's eyes turned into the sun and the moon. Above the North Pole Kunlun in his sea of ​​consciousness, the Tongtian Sword Formation, which was based on the divine wheel of the elements of the heavens buried in the Kunlun Mountains, started to operate in an instant. Lines of sword intent rushed into the sky, directly strangling the approaching evil spiritual power.

"It was a bit troublesome at first. I was afraid that when I killed the mental suggestion, it would affect the worker's soul. But you took the initiative to turn the mental thoughts you imposed on the other party into attacks and completely removed them. It became much easier."

Jiang Yi looked at the black air on his sea of ​​consciousness. Although the other party's spirit and will were of high nature, it was ultimately just a force that affected the minds of mortals, and the other party would not leave too much will.

Therefore, it doesn't take much time to strangle it.

"Jiang Yi, are you okay?" Realizing that the danger seemed to have passed, Ying and Paimeng hurried forward.