After capturing the Vermilion Bird, the cultivators were relieved. They decided to set up camp at the Three World Mountain and prepare to set off tomorrow morning. They would pass through the Three World Mountain and arrive at the Taishang Dao Palace's last checkpoint, the Yellow Spring Sea. Then, they would wait quietly in front of the Four Evils for the arrival of Hou Jiuyue's ascension. The moment the Taishang Dao Palace's grand array closed, they would kill the Vermilion Bird and offer it as a sacrifice. Then, they would officially enter the Dao Palace and search for the Taishang Dao Orthodoxy.
The leaders of the clans were worried about the Vermilion Bird they had just captured. They interrogated it overnight and even tested its bloodline. In the end, they found that the Vermilion Bird's bloodline was quite pure. However, no matter what they asked it, it would not say a word. Occasionally, it would look at the crowd with indifference mixed with disdain. It was quite annoying, but none of the cultivators dared to hurt it.
Regarding this matter, Fang Xing felt that it was too easy. Although he had fought with the Vermilion Bird several times and gained the upper hand, he had to admit that the Vermilion Bird still had some brains. Its schemes were insidious and ruthless, and it almost tricked him several times. Now that it had been captured so easily, could it be that it had really made one wrong move and was ready to accept its fate when it felt that the situation was hopeless?
He was really worried, so he prepared to drag Magu out and interrogate her to find out the truth.
The Three Dimension Mountain was the place where the Sovereign Dao Sects received the guests of the Three Dimension Mountain all those years ago. There were numerous houses and palaces built on the mountain, but all of them were extremely dilapidated now, and some had even transformed into an expanse of rubble and gravel a long time ago. However, to cultivators, eating the wind and drinking the dew were nothing special, so there was naturally no such thing as hard work. They could just casually find a large rock to meditate on, and it was extremely convenient.
However, although Fang Xing could endure hardships normally, he did not want to mistreat himself when the conditions were right.
Fang Xing took out the palace magic treasure he snatched from Magu from his storage pouch and threw it into the air. A gorgeous palace floated in the air. Then, Fang Xing entered the palace and ordered the eight golden core servants to guard it. Only then did the red dragon spit out Magu … Previously, Hen Tianning pretended to be Magu, but the real Magu was stuffed with a Soul Lock Talisman by Fang Xing and then stuffed into the red dragon's stomach.
This was something that couldn't be helped. Living beings couldn't be directly put into storage pouches, and could only be done after being fed the Turtle Breath Pill. After a cultivator formed their Gold Core, their Divine Sense would be powerful, and their physical body would be fierce. The Turtle Breath Pill would no longer have any effect on them. They couldn't borrow the medicinal power of the Turtle Breath Pill to conceal all of their aura, so they couldn't be stuffed into storage pouches. Otherwise, the cultivator's physical body would collapse.
Fortunately, the red dragon was big enough, so in an emergency, Fang Xing used it as a pocket.
"You … what did you do?"
After taking off the Soul Lock Talisman, the first thing Magu did was to nervously stare at Fang Xing and ask. She seemed to have predicted something.
When Fang Xing forced her to swallow the Turtle Breath Pill, she already guessed that things had developed beyond her expectations.
"Nothing much. That Vermillion Bird suddenly appeared and wanted to steal my mirror. In the end, half of its body was torn apart by Doggie's claw, and then it was captured by us. Great beauty, you don't have to worry about me killing you this time. Haha, the Vermillion Bird took the initiative to deliver itself to me, so it's not a ready-made sacrifice. You can rest assured and worship the Gate of the Four Evils. I've obtained benefits in the dao palace, so I won't forget about you! "
Fang Xing laughed and said while looking at Magu's expression.
Magu's face was full of shock and disbelief. She murmured: "Impossible, he can't steal your mirror at this time, he doesn't need it … You're lying to me, are you? He definitely wasn't captured by you, right? "
"It seems you're not going to deny that you know that strange bird …"
Fang Xing looked into Magu's eyes and saw that her sadness didn't seem fake, so he said with a smile.
The other clans didn't know about the relationship between the Vermillion Bird and Magu, but he had already guessed it and wanted to verify it.
Magu seemed to realize that her reaction just now had already revealed the problem and her entire body was slightly dazed.
"Speak!"
Fang Xing suddenly slammed the armrest of the hall and shouted at Magu.
He actually hated the feeling of being schemed against by others. It was like being stared at by a poisonous snake and the entire situation was under someone else's control.
Because of this, he was often more ruthless towards those who schemed against him than those who directly attacked him.
Now that they were at Three World Mountain, Magu's usefulness as a guide was already very small. If she didn't tell the truth, he was very willing to kill her.
"What else is there to say?"
Magu was a Jindan Stage cultivator, but she was startled by Fang Xing's killing intent. Her pretty eyes fell on Fang Xing's face with a complicated expression. The expression on her face kept changing; sometimes it was sad, sometimes it was painful, sometimes it was desperate …
After a long time, she finally calmed down and softly sighed: "If Young Master really has fallen into your hands, then you can do whatever you want with him. I do know him. In fact, he was raised by me and has always been by my side. He's the closest person to me. Actually, before entering the Black Swamp, I had already sensed his aura. You said that he stole your copper mirror, but I don't believe you. He probably only wanted to save me and leave, but I don't know what kind of trick you used to capture him … "
"You raised him?"
Fang Xing didn't pay attention to Magu's nonsense. Instead, he was a bit surprised by her past.
Magu let out a long sigh as if she was recalling the past. After a while, she said: "I once told others that my father never returned from a trip forty years ago. This was actually a lie. At that time, all the clansmen of the Seeking Dragon Clan that entered the depths of the Returning Ruins died, but my father forced himself to return to the clan's land. He also brought back an egg of the vicious bird, the egg of the Vermillion Bird …"
"A few days after my father came back, his lifespan ran out and he died. But before he died, he taught me a secret method to hatch this egg. He said that they went through a lot of hardships and entered the first layer of the Dao Palace. They didn't get anything else, but they accidentally found this Vermillion Bird egg. In the future, if there's a chance to enter the Dao Palace through the Gate of the Four Perils, this beast egg will be their only hope!"
"I hatched this egg with a secret method and saw the birth of this Vermillion Bird. Then, I raised it little by little. Even the spells it cultivated, other than the Life Fire Divine Art, were all taught to it by me. It was very smart and grew very fast. Before the age of forty, it had already stepped into the Golden Core realm. Its cultivation had already surpassed mine …"
"The members of the Dragon Seeking Clan had all died. I no longer had any hope of exploring the Ruins, and I couldn't bear to sacrifice it to the Gate of the Four Perils. Therefore, I had already given up on this idea. But when it saw me sighing while looking at my father and ancestor's memorial tablets, it wanted to share my worries. It kept vowing to help me enter the Dao Palace. At the same time, it wanted to understand its own origins, so it was more concerned about this matter than me!"
"In order to help me enter the Dao Palace, not only did it study all the secret manuals left behind by our Dragon Seeking Clan's ancestors, it even snuck into the Heaven Grudge Clan to steal the treasure mirror passed down by Ancestor Heaven Grudge. But you know the result … Sigh, I've always wanted to tell it that it was just courting death by doing so. Even if I obtained the bronze mirror, how could I bear to sacrifice it?"
At this point, Magu glanced at the Red Dragon and sighed softly. "No one would have thought that the phenomenon of the nine moons rising into the sky would actually appear at this time. The only chance to enter the Sinkhole for thousands of years was right in front of me, so how could I really be at ease? I had no choice but to borrow the name of the Red Dragon to order the cultivators of the Sinkhole to search for you. But the result … "
At this point, Fang Xing had more or less understood.
Since the True Dragon had appeared in the Sinkhole, Magu naturally wouldn't sacrifice the Vermillion Bird. But at that time, he had already escaped from the Heaven Grudge Clan's territory. In addition, with the Vermillion Bird and her strength, they really couldn't deal with the Red Dragon. Therefore, she appeared at the Immortal Ascension Stage and gathered the clans of the Sinkhole. She used the excuse of exploring the Dao Palace's secret place to order the clans of the Sinkhole to deal with him.
After a moment of silence, he suddenly looked at Magu and said seriously, "Tell me, what is the secret of the mirror that you know?"
Magu was slightly startled. She raised her head and looked at him. "You still don't know?"
Fang Xing said, "Of course I know. I'm just testing you!"
What was there to test about this?
Magu was a little speechless. After a while, she softly said, "The Heaven Grudge Clan has a secret pavilion that stores the secrets of the Sinkhole. It's not strange that many people know about it. But what other cultivators know is that there is a jade scroll left behind by Ancestor Heaven Grudge in the Heaven Grudge Clan's secret pavilion. It's a map of the depths of the Sinkhole. It's been too long and has no value at all!"
Fang Xing nodded, but he understood. This time, the cultivators had entered the depths of the Sinkhole according to the map left behind by the Dragon-Seeking clan decades ago. Due to the changes in the terrain and the migration of ferocious beasts over the decades, there were so many unexpected dangers, and almost half of the cultivators had died inside. What use was the map left behind by Patriarch Heaven Abhorrer thousands of years ago?
"Many people know about this. It's because of this that the Heaven Grudge Clan's secret pavilion wasn't completely destroyed by the clan's spies." Magu said softly. Her tone gradually became solemn. "However, the Dragon Seeking Clan has been searching for the secrets of the Sinkhole for thousands of years. Not only did we venture into the depths of the Sinkhole again and again, we also paid attention to collecting information about the secrets of the Sinkhole. We discovered that Ancestor Heaven Grudge is the only person who entered the Supreme Dao Palace after the Sinkhole was sealed for thousands of years …"
"That's the point!"
Fang Xing secretly nodded and pricked up his ears.
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