#679 - Clear water and creek breeze

"Such a strong divine energy, and a faint demonic energy." Zi Xuan has summoned the water spirit, which appeared in front of the floating island.

The reason why she was so active was because she discovered that Lin Yeping's face in her memory had turned into Jingtian, and she wanted to divert attention.

"Demon?" Xu Changqing seemed to be given an injection of chicken blood and immediately flew into the sky on his sword.

He had already attributed the impending eruption of the underwater volcano to the sudden appearance of the floating island.

Jingtian took a step forward, and a blue portal came towards him. The next moment, he appeared beside Zixuan, and Longkui and the others followed him through the portal.

In the end, it was Xu Changqing who arrived at the floating island last.

Through the fog, the whole island was in sight before their eyes. There were still traces of human life on the island, but now there was no other life except flowers, trees, a few insects and birds.

There is a glittering passage at the bottom of the island, and there seems to be another world inside the island.

"This must be valuable, right?" Xuejian couldn't help but sigh.

As they got closer, they discovered that it was a spiral cloud crystal tunnel. When they reached the end, seven inverted floating islands appeared in the indigo mist.

At the bottom of each island extends an aerial plank road woven with bronze chains, and glowing quartz stairs extend with footsteps and shatter into stardust after passing by.

“How interesting.”

The little monkey tried to step back and found that the stardust had reshaped itself into glowing quartz steps.

"The exit seems to be on the last floating island?"

Zixuan's eyes sparkled with a clear light that penetrated the indigo mist that was almost everywhere.

"These mists," Jingtian spread out his palms and collected a cloud of mist, "are truly a work of art that surpasses the work of nature. The water spirit power is woven so intricately. If one's strength is not enough to match the sum of this layer of accumulated spirit power, and one does not know the art of space, one can only walk along this plank road honestly."

This is the accumulation of time and superb skills. Only gods with infinite lifespans have the ability to create it. To put it in an easy-to-understand way, it is equivalent to knitting a sweater continuously for thousands of years, with the same style and size.

This repetitive and mechanical work

Even though he already knew that the owner behind it was Shuibi, he couldn't help but admire her patience.

Maybe this is like a rest for Shuibi?

Just like Xiyao's habit of staring blankly at the sacred tree, counting the fruits on the tree non-stop.

"Squeak." The jacaranda hummed twice, as if it was trapped in a spider web and wrapped in mist.

"Huaying asked why you didn't say it earlier." Xuejian translated.

"This is very obvious." Jingtian pressed his palm towards the blue-gray mist. "It bounced back gently with a hidden traction, like a combination of a soft mattress and a whirlpool in the water."

After reaching the last floating island and the end of the quartz stairs, and passing through the indigo mist, everyone arrived at the next level.

There are suspended chessboard-like mica plates, each of which is flowing with liquid light patterns.

The moment everyone jumped onto the floating board, the board carried them to the coordinates in the fog. Lightning flashed from the abyss from time to time, splitting the floating board in half as it passed by.

"Really fast. And they have completely destroyed our retreat route." Jingtian said. They had reached the end of this floor. "It seems that the owner of this place has discovered us."

The next level is an inverted cone-shaped floating island covered with bronze discs. A star map compass is embedded in the center of each wheel, and the rotating gears inside make a buzzing sound.

"Stop first." Jingtian stopped everyone who wanted to go to the island.

As soon as he finished speaking, the entire floating island suddenly flipped over, and a vertical passage appeared in front of everyone. The fallen chain ladder clanged in the wind.

"How insidious." Xue Jian said angrily, "If we weren't careful just now, we would have fallen directly to the first floor."

"This is a test, but also a mercy." Jingtian led everyone onto the passage. "This floor does not restrict flying. This is to allow ordinary people who accidentally break in to leave."

"Brother Jing, do you mean that the owner of this island is not the mastermind behind this?" Xu Changqing was surprised.

At this moment they have reached the fourth floor.

This level is extremely thrilling.

It is divided into two mirror-image islands by lead-gray fog. A whalebone suspension bridge extends from the floating island on the left, and a spider-web plank road hangs on the right.

Each one is a dangerous path, and they all converge at the siphon vortex at the eye of the storm.

The broken mica flakes in the vortex reflected twelve moon wheels in the cyclone, as if they were going to tear all the invaders to pieces.

Xuejian tried to throw in a stone, only to see it turn into powder in an instant.

"This is a normal security measure." Jingtian flew in front of the vortex, standing in the air, and inserted his hand directly into the center of the moon wheel, but he was unharmed. "As long as you walk through the passage normally, there is no danger to life. This is just to discourage people from retreating."

"Also, kill the unruly intruders."

Some of the Creek style is already evident here.

The Creek Wind in this world is the game version.

His love with Shuibi was not as beautiful as in the TV version, but tragic: he moved the goddess' heart with his voice and exchanged his voice for the appearance of the Demon Lord. However, the goddess no longer recognized him and stayed where she was, turning into a stone statue, waiting for him to keep the appointment. Xifeng kept challenging Chonglou to get his voice back.

In this world, Xifeng is the right-hand man of Demon Lord Chonglou.

Shuibi is the priest who came to capture Feipeng.

She fell in love with Xifeng at first sight, and on a whim they eloped to the human world together, staying together for a thousand years.

"What a pity, we came too early." Jingtian has led everyone to the last floor.

There is no path to walk on this floor, only floating platforms.

After stepping onto the first moonstone floating platform, subsequent floating platforms appeared in the fog one after another.

"How about coming late?" Xu Changqing held the magic sword in his hand and walked forward while observing his surroundings vigilantly.

"This floating island will sink to the bottom of the sea if we get late," Jingtian said as if he was taking a walk in a garden. "In order to suppress the seabed, most of the mechanisms will be abolished. After the seawater flows back in, each layer will be more beautiful."

"The only trouble is, there might be more sirens."

In Jingtian's opinion, the siren is not a problem. The corals, fish and other seascapes that enter with the siren are more important. Even the siren itself is just an embellishment.

And you don't have to follow the arrangements of the island owner to move forward, so you can be more free.

"Here it comes." After stepping on the last floating board, Jingtian looked up.

In the center of the thunderstorm that appeared out of nowhere, a bronze attic was slowly descending, and the bronze bell under the eaves remained motionless in the surrounding hurricane.

On the attic, two men and women were looking at them.

"Excuse me, is the accumulation of fire spiritual power on the seabed related to you two?" Xu Changqing asked.

After a thousand years of companionship, Shubi's dressing style has been completely distorted by Xifeng. He no longer has the dark style unique to the demon world, and now looks like a fairy.

Xu Changqing also failed to detect a trace of demonic energy.

"That's good to know." Xifeng said, "Please leave quickly and don't get in the way."

Damn it, if you keep talking nonsense like that, I’m afraid a fight might break out.

"Speak human language." Jingtian said, "Also, I hate it most when others look down on me."

He seemed to be taking a casual step forward.

A golden sacred mountain that only he and Xifeng could see had fallen, forcing Xifeng to kneel on one knee.

"He and I came here to suppress the erupting underwater volcano." Shuibi explained hurriedly, her eyes fixed on the faces of Jingtian and others, "Fei Peng, Xiyao?"

She didn't recognize Long Kui.

She is a new god created by the Fruit of the Sacred Tree. Even though she was a traitor and entered the human world, she could not escape Fuxi's memory cleansing from her bloodline. The first new god in her memory was another goddess named Kui Yu.

"Long time no see, Shuibi." Jingtian nodded and took back the golden mountain from Xifeng. "This is for your sake."

"Are you the divine general Feipeng? How is that possible?" Xifeng knew Feipeng.

The secret meeting partner of our lord Chonglou.

"How could I fall into reincarnation and not know my true self?" Jingtian said, "The so-called reincarnation is nothing but a projection of [Cold Marrow]."

He is not bragging.

Not to mention the TV world line, if you don't stubbornly follow Fuxi's words, you will be treated with kindness, but the neurotic Fei Peng who just can't understand what people say is demoted to reincarnation.

Fei Peng and Xi Yao in the game world line are both honest people. If they secretly carry [Zhao Dan] or [Qing Qiong Feng Shen Zhu] with them when they reincarnate, they will not lose their memories, and their spiritual energy will not be dormant.

Therefore, in the game world line, when the gods in the divine realm recognized Jingtian, they mistakenly thought that he had recovered his spiritual power and secretly ran back to the divine realm.

"How did you escape from the pursuit of the gods?" Zi Xuan was curious.

She observed that Shuibi's psychic power was not very strong, and although Xifeng was strong, it was not as strong as that of the red-haired demon.

"This was his idea." Shuibi looked at Xifeng, "He used his magic power to create this floating island and let it float to a different place every day. You know, seven days in heaven is a thousand years on earth, and a day on earth is less than a moment in heaven. Although I am a god and the gods can detect my breath, they cannot know where I am in such a short time, so we have been safe for a thousand years."

"As for the demon world, no one will care if there is one more or one less of me. Even Chonglou won't care, let alone other demons." Xifeng said.

"Zhonglou knows." Jingtian said, "He just doesn't care."

His eyes glanced into the depths of the fog, where there was a dark shadow.

"How could there be gods and demons?" Xu Changqing felt like his head was about to explode.

"Oops." Shuibi's face changed, "We stayed on the sea for too long. The Dijiang beast is coming!"

Divine beasts mostly refer to innate gods that retain their animal form and have not yet cultivated into the form of Pangu.

Secondly, it is the [beast] created by Shennong that still retains its divine status.

And Dijiang is the latter.

It is a divine beast that rules over space, and its duty is to capture gods who have defected to other realms.

Right now, ripples are beginning to appear in the space, and the increasingly strong vibrations that arise out of nowhere are signs of its arrival.

"We should be able to deal with it." Xifeng did not lose his composure, "and"

He glanced at Feipeng.

With the presence of the number one god general who is capable of defeating the Demon Lord, they have nothing to fear unless Fuxi descends.

"No, didn't we agree upon this when we formed the alliance? For the rest of our lives, neither of us will violate the life of any one in the world of gods or demons." Shuibi shook her head.

The two had an argument.

"Come with me to the demon world! They can't go to the demon world."

"Whether it's the God Realm or the Demon Realm, neither is as free as the human world. If I go to the Demon Realm with you, how will other demons see you? Will they accept us? If we could go, we would have gone long ago. Why wait until now?"

“Idiot!” Chonglou couldn’t help but show up, “Xifeng, why does my demon world care about rules like the God World? The demon world has all the creatures from the six realms. Why are you so long-winded? If I were you, I would have tied this woman to the demon world long ago. You don’t look like a demon at all!”

"My Lord." Xifeng's joy was beyond words. "You are here."

He almost immediately realized that what Jingtian had said before was true. As long as the Lord who supported them to be together was there, why should they care about the mere Dijiang divine beast?

"Demon Lord." Shuibi took a step back and subconsciously looked at Feipeng.

"If you trace the origins of gods and demons, they were all created by the Three Emperors." Jingtian said, "The conflict between gods and demons is just a replay of the war between humans and gods. Shuibi, you don't need to worry about whether you are guilty or not. You just need to ask yourself whether you still want to be with Xifeng."

The reason why Shuibi didn't want to go to the demon world was not the reason she said.

She thought she was guilty.

I like Xifeng, but I don’t want to become a demon, so I want to remain a god.

"I think so." Shuibi stammered.

Dijiang seemed to notice the change in her attitude.

The frequency of the surrounding vibrations has reached its peak. In the space that is twisted into a kaleidoscope that is imperceptible to ordinary people, a strange beast with red clouds flowing all over its body appears. Its six feet create ripples when they step on the void, and cracks appear when its four wings spread. It has no face and is surrounded by twelve mysterious lights.

Afterwards, there were two giant gods armed with weapons accompanying them.

"Wow, no, it's the Demon Lord!"

“Run away!”

Just as the two gods turned around to retreat, Dijiang had already half of his body penetrated into the space tunnel.

"Hmph!" Chonglou raised his eyebrows.

The ripples in space subsided instantly, and Dijiang was stuck in mid-air. The mysterious light on his body that reflected the scenes of the twelve seasons around him disappeared, and the two giant gods riding on the clouds almost fell from mid-air.

In terms of the way of space, no one in the six realms can match the Demon Lord who has the purest Shennong bloodline.

“Chiuwu, chiuwu——”

Hearing Dijiang's cry, Xuejian subconsciously translated, "It asked the Demon Lord to spare its life. It is just a guide. The Demon Lord must know that its appearance will not make such a big noise. This noise is just to remind the captured god to escape."

The two giant spirits, each ten feet tall, nodded in agreement.

“Yes, yes, yes.”

"We're just going through the motions."

“We were just doing our job.”

"We won't say anything when we go back."

"Tell your superiors." Chonglou blocked Feipeng intentionally or unintentionally, "Xifeng is my subordinate. If you don't want to violate the Three Emperors' Covenant, don't bother him."

Good brother!

Jingtian couldn't help but sigh.

Of course he knew what Chonglou meant. Chonglou was concerned about what he had said before about not wanting to return to the God Realm, so he didn't want people in the God Realm to notice him.

He cares about his feelings so much, he is worthy of being the gaming version of Chonglou.

On the other side, the two giant spirits replied "yes" in unison.

The twelve mysterious lights surrounding the body of the Dijiang beast were restored, and it immediately pushed its calves hard into the void, causing ripples while completely drilling into the passage.

"Wait for us!"

"Thank you, Lord Demon, for sparing our lives!"

The two giant spirits also plunged in.

"This air tremor is really weak," Xuejian was surprised, "That guy really didn't lie."

"The divine world has already fallen." The Demon Lord said disdainfully.

"They are gods?" Xu Changqing wanted to deny everything he saw, but as someone who had learned to observe qi since he was a beginner, he had already sensed a vast divine aura from the beast and two gods just now.

They just went through the motions, warned the enemy in advance before arresting the traitors, and begged for mercy from the enemy in order to save their lives.

He has now completely lost his enchantment of God.