"calm!"
Holding the man's shoulder, Zhou Zhongyu looked out through the jade window on the inside of the flying boat.
but...
He looked around and found nothing unusual, and suddenly felt a little dissatisfied.
"Xiao Si, what are you yelling about... Damn it!"
The words turned into swear words halfway through, and Zhou Zhongyu suddenly froze.
Just then a wave of sandstorm blew by, and the visibility became much stronger.
So he saw that in the vast black sand nearly twenty miles away, there was a huge shadow flipping in it. It should have been motionless just now, but now the guy took off, and even the thick sand curtain could not cover its huge body as big as a mountain.
It can be so huge even though it is so far away.
"Python? Jiao? Or... a dragon!"
The size, length, and vague outline of the object only allowed Zhou Zhongyu to think of three possibilities. But no matter what it was, such a large creature was definitely rare. Perhaps it even produced a "demon pill."
If he could seize the "demon pill" of this monster, wouldn't he have a chance to form a pill!
If you don't take what heaven gives you, you will suffer the consequences!
Therefore, Zhou Zhongyu did not hesitate at all and immediately said, "Come over immediately."
At this moment, the man just now shouted strangely again: "Uncle Yu, that thing is gone!"
Zhou Zhongyu was startled and quickly lowered his head to look outside.
Sure enough... at this time, there was no trace of the giant shadow in the endless black sand, as if everything just now was an illusion.
"Could it be... Sand Magnetic Light!"
Zhou Zhongyu's mind raced, and he suddenly remembered some strange celestial phenomena in the legend of Tianhuang Territory.
Magnetic light is very similar to mirage, but the difference is that mirage is a refraction of space, while magnetic light is a refraction of the past.
Due to the influence of the black sandstorm, the magnetic field in some areas of the Tianhuang Territory accidentally produces some unknown disorder, and the magnetic light will project images of the past to the present.
"Come closer!"
Zhou Zhongyu was very unwilling to return empty-handed, so he finally gave the order.
The flying boat suddenly deviated from its course, sticking to the ground and sliding towards there rapidly.
The twenty-mile journey passed in a flash.
Zhou Zhongyu carefully observed the outside world, his eyes passing over the undulating sand, the clumps of wild thorns growing on the ground, and the weathered rocks.
However, what I saw were the most common scenes in the Tianhuang Territory. This place seemed no different from other lands.
"Could it be that I saw it wrong?" Zhou Zhongyu thought doubtfully.
"Hey, Uncle Yu, look over there!"
A scream from someone beside him woke him up.
Zhou Zhongyu quickly followed the man's gaze.
Um?
I saw that on a gravel slope about two miles away from the flying boat, the slope suddenly sank down a lot, forming a huge pit, and at the edge of the pit there was a cave about ten feet high, and traces of human excavation could be vaguely seen at the entrance of the cave.
"Quick, come over here!"
Zhou Zhongyu looked overjoyed and immediately gave the order.
"yes,"
At a command, the flying boat quickly flew to the cave.
As we got closer, the traces of human excavation in the cave were already very obvious.
"You guys stay outside, I'll be back soon!"
After leaving a word, Zhou Zhongyu flashed out of the flying boat, flew into the cave in a blink of an eye, and disappeared.
Zhou Zhongyu quickly passed through the passage and saw dusty stone chambers along the way, which made him happy.
There is no doubt that this is an abandoned residence of an immortal cultivator.
The passage was not long. In just a few breaths, he flew into a spacious stone chamber in the deepest part of the cave.
After just one look at the scene in the stone chamber, Zhou Zhongyu's eyes lit up in surprise and his breathing stopped.
At this moment, on the stone bed at the end of the stone chamber, a skeleton was sitting cross-legged, leaning against the stone wall.
A gray storage bag fell out of its arms, and on the bed in front of it were pill bottles lying in a mess. At the feet of the skeleton, a small blue sword was half-buried in the stone bed.
The scene before him was very simple. It was obvious that an immortal cultivator had exhausted his lifespan and passed away here many years ago.
But this scene did not attract the attention of the visitors at all. At this time, Zhou Zhongyu's sight was all focused on the stone bed.
A round bead, the size of a head, emitting a faint glow, lay there quietly.
Next to the bead, there was a shriveled insect corpse over two meters long, with only its skin left and golden rings growing on the skin. It was tightly wrapped around the bead, and its head opened a sharp mouth like a chrysanthemum, as if it wanted to swallow the bead.
However, this unknown bead actually emitted a faint but very clear pressure, which seemed to intimidate the insect corpse and finally caused it to fail!
When Zhou Zhongyu saw this scene, he felt his mind trembling under this pressure. His heart was suddenly shocked and he even started to stutter.
"This is Long Wei!"
Zhou Zhongyu stepped forward instantly, picked up the beads and placed them in front of him.
As expected, after his hands touched the bead, the pressure from the dragon ball became even more obvious. And deep in his blood, he instinctively felt waves of fear, like the blood pressure of a higher life form suppressing a lower life form.
Zhou Zhongyu looked extremely excited and kept stroking the dragon ball.
However, gradually, the joy on his face disappeared, replaced by an expression of extreme sadness and regret.
Because at this time, he had already realized that the essence of this dragon ball had been lost for some unknown reason.
Perhaps too much time has passed, or perhaps the previous owner extracted the essence of the Dragon Ball. Perhaps...
"Damn it!" Zhou Zhongyu cursed in a very unruly manner.
He put away the dragon ball with regret on his face and waved his hand to pick up the insect skin.
After observing it carefully for a while, Zhou Zhongyu suddenly became overjoyed. "This is the Golden Ring Spirit Earthworm! Could that dragon ball be the legendary Mountain Dragon Pearl?"
In an instant, Zhou Zhongyu's mind was full of thoughts and he thought of many things.
An hour later, there was no one in the stone chamber. All that was left was a pile of messy bones on the bed.
At this moment, the stone wall somewhere on the top of the stone chamber suddenly became blurred and distorted, and then a person jumped down from it.
This person doesn't do what he wants, there is no one else but Zhao Sheng!
Zhao Sheng held a real shadow ball in his hand, looked at the empty stone chamber, and suddenly a meaningful smile appeared on his face.
…
One month later, in Quanxia City, Changshengfang
In a room in a mansion somewhere, Zhao Sheng was preparing a new type of mixed spirit wine.
At this time, Zhou Zhongyu came to the door excitedly.
After entering the room, he sat down opposite Zhao Sheng and said excitedly, "Brother Zhao, I'm going back to Hongyangzhou!"
Zhao Sheng's hand movements paused slightly, then returned to normal.
As he continued to mix the spirit wine, he casually asked, "When will you be back? When you come back, I'll let you taste a new wine."
Zhou Zhongyu's face froze, and he looked at the wine cup in Zhao Sheng's hand reluctantly, saying regretfully: "I won't be back this time!"
"Oh?" Zhao Sheng put down his wine cup after hearing this. "Then we won't be able to see each other often. I finally found a drinking buddy like Brother Zhou. Now... Alas!"
"Who says it isn't true? Brother Zhao and I have similar interests. But unfortunately, we can't disobey family orders!" Zhou Zhongyu also felt the same way.
Moon Spring is five thousand miles away from Hongyangzhou. If it were in another realm, it would only be a day or two's journey.
But in the Tianhuang Realm, a black sandstorm broke out, and the wind and sand were blowing for thousands of miles. The Gobi Desert was full of dangers. Even the foundation-building cultivators were unwilling to take the risk and rush through the black storm.
Zhao Sheng pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Does your family still accept guest officials?"
Zhou Zhongyu was surprised and delighted when he heard this, and immediately asked, "Brother Zhao, what do you mean by this? Could it be..."
Zhao Sheng nodded and suddenly let out a long sigh.