Chapter 696 Night Talk (Part 1)

At this time, footsteps suddenly came from outside the door.

"Shh!" Li quickly made a silencing gesture.

The visitor knocked on the door and said, "It's me. I have something to ask you."

Everyone in the house was stunned. Judging from the sound, the other party was none other than Lord Shengtian.

"Why would she look for the boss at this time?" Shan Hui asked in a low voice.

"Why don't you pretend to be asleep?" Jiulin also suggested in a low voice, "Everyone is here, so we are not afraid of her forcing her way in. Well——"

Before she could finish her words, she was lightly knocked on the head by Luo, and the Tengu was not spared either. "Okay, let's all go out and let His Holiness and Li chat alone for a while."

Shan Hui looked shocked, "Miss Luo, could it be that you have secretly surrendered to the Black Gate——"

Seeing the other person's hand raised again, he quickly covered his mouth.

"Luo Qingqing?" Li said somewhat surprised.

"I don't think Venerable Shengtian has any ill intentions towards you, so you can feel free to see her." Luo nodded gently to her, "I will also stay outside, just in case."

"Since you said so..." Li turned to Shanhui and the others and said, "Then everyone should go back to their rooms first, and we will meet again later."

When the boss speaks, others naturally can only agree.

After the door opened, everyone filed out, but Lord Shengtian didn't take it seriously at all, as if he had expected this scene. After everyone left, she walked into the room and closed the door.

"What... do you want to talk to me about?"

After thinking for a moment, Li decided to use honorifics. She didn't know much about this person. The only thing she could confirm at the moment was that she was much older than herself and had good skills. Judging from the moment when she was approaching him and he had almost no reaction, this person's fighting ability is not much worse than the Privy Council Green Sword.

"We are leaving for Jinxia tomorrow. Before that, I want to have a complete understanding of Jinxia City." Venerable Shengtian found a chair and sat down. "Tell me about things there, especially you. How did I go to Jinxia, ​​and how did I get to know the alchemist named Xia Fan."

Li couldn't help but feel a little puzzled.

Why do you have to come to your room alone to talk about this kind of thing? After setting off tomorrow, it will take at least two or three days on the road, which is enough time for her to inquire.

"Are you sure you want to listen? I'm afraid it will take quite a while..."

"It doesn't matter, it's better to spend your time here than causing trouble." The venerable said indifferently.

"...causing trouble?" The fox demon was stunned.

"You gathered together because you wanted to wait for most people to fall asleep and take the opportunity to explore this patio." A light flashed in the other party's eyes. "I advise you to give up this idea. Evil spirits are most active at night. "

"Uh..." Li twitched his lips. In fact, they did have this plan. They finally managed to sneak into the Black Sect's base camp. If they didn't search it themselves, they would not be worthy of the name of the reconnaissance team. "Don't those evil spirits appear regularly?"

"You think it's a wild night, but in fact the courtyard is always in a wild state - this is an area where evil spirits are rampant." Venerable Shengtian chuckled.

Flood zone.

This answer made Li exclaim in surprise.

After the fall of the Yong Dynasty, many evil-infested areas appeared on the mainland. Some of them were wiped out by the Privy Council at great cost, while some still exist today. She has also seen with her own eyes the tragic situation of a city turning into a flood zone. If no one cleans it up, the evil threat in the flood zone will never subside.

She just didn't expect that the center of Baiyao Mountain would become an area infested with evil spirits.

This place looks very normal during the day.

"There is nothing surprising. When you see this patio, you should understand that the number of people it once accommodated is no less than that of the capital of Xu State, or more than ten times." Venerable Shengtian said slowly, "There are people After going to the Kingdom of Heaven, there will definitely be many people staying here. Their anger lingers for a long time after death, eventually forming an area flooded with evil spirits. Of course, this area is located at the bottom of the patio, but it will rush into the upper level at certain times, threatening it. to our station.”

"How deep is this patio?" After a while, Li returned to Shinto.

"Currently, the Salvation Cult has gone the deepest to the fifty-fifth floor underground, and the bottom is still bottomless." She shook her head, "This is also the Pope's biggest headache. We urgently need lighting and weapons resources to open up the passage between the upper and lower floors. Finally found the activation device of Heaven. If it weren't for this problem, he would never have agreed to contact Jin Xia so easily. "

In other words, Salvationism has not yet found the true kingdom of heaven?

This answer made Li's heart skip a beat.

Is it really okay for the other party to say such an important thing directly?

"So for safety reasons, it's better for you not to go anywhere." Venerable Shengtian raised one leg and changed his sitting position, "Now let's talk about your... ahem, Jinxia's matter, you are not from Shenzhou. Human?"

"Honestly, I don't know where I was born..." Li curled his lips, "The reason why I went to Jinxia was purely an accident. At that time, I regarded the alchemists of the Privy Council as my enemy, so I mixed up with the scholars. In Qingshan Town, the examination center, I unexpectedly met an extremely strange person. "

That was her first encounter with Xia Fan.

Looking at the woman in front of him, Lord Shengtian had mixed feelings.

She didn't expect that fate would be so wonderful that she would see Li again one day. According to her idea, Li's best life was to stay in the countryside or remote villages and towns, and never be discovered by the Privy Council. When she was still in Shangyuan, she was still able to protect him in secret, but after the Privy Council split, she was escorted to Xu State, and everything became a matter of fate.

Then the convoy was hijacked by the Black Gate Cult... or the Salvation Cult.

This is also their way to quickly win over the alchemists.

The Privy Council uses the examination to select the Qi-sensing people, and the Salvation Cult directly snatches people from the Privy Council, especially those who hold different political views from the court or the Seven Stars. The sect has spies in various places. Although they cannot get confidential information, they can still get wind of earth-shaking events like Wanjing Tower.

She was extremely disappointed with the Privy Council at the time, and gradually learned about the inside story of the Black Gate Cult. She finally chose to join the other party and became a member of the sect.

After spending several years to ascend to the Supreme Heavenly Venerable, she had also inquired about Li's whereabouts, especially the execution records of Shangyuan City. She had been paying attention to it, looking for whether there were fox demons listed among them.

To be honest, this was just a means of comfort, because the Privy Council would not necessarily treat demons as key examples to deal with, and it was possible that they would just kill them when they encountered them. She could only deceive herself that no news was good news.