Chapter 1650

The sky was clear and crisp in autumn, and the scorching sun was covered by a touch of white clouds.

On a grassland with green mountains and green waters, Gu Zheng was happily grilling something, and the tempting aroma filled the air.

"If Xiaoye and the others were here, they would definitely cry with envy, but unfortunately we can only meet again by chance!" Gu Zheng kept flipping the movements in his hands, and at the same time put some simple seasonings on it, and then directly picked up the wooden stick on it and raised it.

"Xiaoying, come out to eat!"

Next to Gu Zheng, a scroll slowly floated in the air. Hearing Gu Zheng's voice, a small figure flew out from it, looking at the barbecue in Gu Zheng's hand with shining eyes, and a trace of crystal liquid flowed out of the small mouth.

"Do you want to eat? If you want to eat, just say it!" Gu Zheng gently danced the barbecue in his hand, letting the aroma on it spread more around.

"Mr. Gu!" Xiaoying shouted here like a spoiled child, looking at Gu Zheng pitifully.

"Haha, here you go!" Gu Zheng laughed when he saw this, and stopped teasing her. He stretched out his hand and handed over the barbecue, and in the still burning flames, he put up another large piece.

Although Xiaoying is small, she can eat food that is twice her body size.

Although she no longer needs food, she still can't resist Gu Zheng's delicious food and falls in love with it.

When she finished eating that in small bites, this side was just handed over.

Xiaoying quickly threw away the meat skewer with residue, took it again, bit it, tore off a piece of meat and swallowed it, her big eyes narrowed into a crescent shape, and she looked very enjoyable.

The meat on the same wild animal was made into different flavors, and each one was super delicious.

"By the way, Mr. Gu, is the Xiaoye you mentioned just now the big bird that leaked one side outside?" Xiaoying said vaguely while eating quickly.

"Well, but they also went there with Xingcai. I also left them a message, asking them to accompany Xingcai well." Gu Zheng extinguished the campfire in front of him, stood up and looked into the distance. He could vaguely see a loess road appearing in the distance.

After passing through the primeval forest here, you will pass through a long wasteland and come to the Shahai City within a radius of ten thousand miles.

In the place ahead, the area of ​​tens of thousands of kilometers is all yellow sand, and no one can survive at all.

But in the middle, there is a very large oasis. In addition, when many people pass by nearby, they will be blown up by the sudden strong wind and eventually sent to the innermost part, forming the initial population base of the city.

These are what Gu Zheng found out in the previous city, but these disappearances are also rumors. They don't know what the specific situation is inside. They are just legends.

After all, if ordinary people want to walk out of that place, even if there is no invasion of sand and wind, they have to walk for several years before they can come out, which basically prevents ordinary people from coming out.

Most of this information was left by the immortals who passed by, and they learned that no one had passed by since then.

As for why they had to go to Shahai City, it was because according to the Starry Sky, the Nine-Layered Pagoda was there. If they wanted to solve it

"What a pity, I think the other party is very cute, it seems to be playing with the other party." Xiaoying, who had already eaten quickly, was still muttering.

"Come out and play when you have nothing to do, transform your legs, and then restrain your breath, don't scare others." Gu Zheng glanced at Xiaoying. Although the other party was ghostly, she was not affected at all outside, which was really strange.

"Really?" Xiaoying looked at Gu Zheng with joy, and was very happy when she saw Gu Zheng nodding to her.

Although she only saw the outside a few times, it also attracted her attention. That colorful world really made people unable to help but go in, not to mention that she had never come to the outside world.

"Of course, but you can't do anything casually outside. It's not good to hurt others." Gu Zheng nodded, but felt that Xiaoying was not serious, so he blessed her.

"Okay, I won't hit others." Xiaoying excitedly turned in the air. She also knew the fragility of people outside. She was afraid that if she did it casually, countless people would be killed or injured.

She quickly ate up the things in her hand, threw the lantern back, sank into the scroll, and hung it in the corner of the house. Then the whole scroll shrank rapidly and returned to its normal size again.

"I'll give it to you. If you need me to go back, I can directly summon it back by force, and nothing will go wrong." Xiaoying snorted and stuffed the scroll into Gu Zheng's arms.

"Okay, but you should also be careful not to be deceived by others." Gu Zheng laughed and said casually.

"Aren't you still here?" Xiaoying's body began to emit green fluorescence. The next moment, a little girl barely reached Gu Zheng's waist and looked only eight or nine years old appeared in the air. Her two pigtails had become longer, and her short skirt had stretched to below her knees. She was wearing a pair of green shoes and was flying in the air.

She looked like a fairy.

"Wow, is this what it feels like to step on the ground? My grandfather never let me out before, and I could only follow him at most." Xiaoying took a few tentative steps on the ground, then ran around frantically, shouting excitedly.

Gu Zheng laughed. After the other party ate the Red Soul Pill, her cultivation had reached the peak of the Golden Immortal. She even repaired half of the damaged scroll, and half of the house had appeared in the corner of the scroll. It felt like she had grown up a little bit.

"Okay, you've seen enough of these scenery, and you'll be tired of seeing them by then." Gu Zheng shouted at Xiaoying who had turned into a ball of smoke.

"Swish"

Xiaoying's body immediately stopped in front of Gu Zheng, and the wind and waves she stirred up blew wildly around her, with grass debris flying everywhere and a mess.

"See, if there are innocent beasts and people around, they will be harmed by you. You must control yourself even when you are excited. Do you understand?" Gu Zheng pointed at the surroundings and said to her.

"I know I was wrong, and I won't do it next time!" Xiaoying looked around and didn't expect that she would cause such a big damage just by playing a little.

"I'll take you to the good things when I have time in the future. You can't destroy that place even if you want to. It's enough for you to have fun. You should keep a low profile in the world. You should know that if you attract the attention of some hypocrites and take you away to make elixirs, you will cry." Gu Zheng said with a deliberately stern face.

"Sir, you won't let anyone take me away to make pills. I'm not afraid at all!" Xiaoying laughed at Gu Zheng. She was not afraid of Gu Zheng's lesson at all. She could feel Gu Zheng's worry from the bottom of her heart. That look couldn't scare her at all.

"Okay, let's go. We have been out for a year now. It's almost time. Next, we have to hurry up. If so, we can find the murderer behind your grandfather." Gu Zheng clapped his hands and started to walk forward.

"I will never let him go. Not only my grandfather, but also many of my grandfather's friends were killed by him. If my grandfather hadn't fought to protect me, I would have been swallowed by him." Xiaoying heard this and said hatefully.

"When the time comes, we will deal with him together, not only for your grandfather, but also for those who died tragically because of their selfish desires. We can't let them go." A fierce light flashed in Gu Zheng's eyes. After hesitating for a long time, he still came here.

Thinking of those hundreds of thousands of people who couldn't escape and died tragically below, although there were their reasons, the biggest culprit was still those people.

That Xingkong was actually sent by Xingba to lurk in the opponent's system. Xingkong himself has a special physique. With the blessing of his own treasures, even if he is polluted by the opponent, he can still maintain his true intelligence, but he usually hides it.

After thousands of years of hard work, at least he has been accepted as a part of the periphery, but he still can't find the hiding place of the opponent.

The only thing that makes them feel at ease is that the gourd in their hands is what they like, but without the blood of Xingba, they can't control it, so this is an opportunity.

The only thing they hope is that Xingkong must find the hiding place of the opponent before his mind and soul fall into it.

Gu Zheng certainly didn't believe the opponent completely, but time was tight, and he was afraid that the monitoring spell left by the opponent on him would detect something wrong. Gu Zheng and Xingkong didn't talk much, otherwise how could the opponent leave so easily.

And he couldn't follow behind, because they had a weird way of transmission, which made it impossible for people to track. The only clue was the nine-story tower in the desert city, which was the only clue he occasionally heard.

However, there was no way to deal with it. Xingkong went back in a mess this time. Even with Gu Zheng's appearance, it would cause distrust from the other party, so Gu Zheng came here first to look for some clues.

Three days later, they walked out of the grassland that Xiaoying lingered on. The front was all yellow. The further they went, the more desolate the land became.

Despite this, Xiaoying did not feel bored at all. For her, such a windy and refreshing weather was completely different from before. She still looked around with shining eyes, as if there were flowers on the barren land.

Half a month later, Gu Zheng and the other two had already set foot on the real desert area. The scorching sun was emitting heat waves in the sky, and even the air was slightly distorted. The hot sand was under their feet, and every step they took made a slight sound.

At this time, Xiaoying did not have the energy she had before. She hung her head and slowly followed Gu Zheng, walking step by step without any energy.

"Mr. Gu, you said that the desert city is so magical. We flew over it, but we didn't find the other side. Do we really have to walk step by step below, or be sent there by the sandstorm?" Xiaoying said weakly. After getting tired of these annoying scenes, Xiaoying really didn't want to look at them again. It was really not fun.

"It's really a bit strange. Even I didn't notice it." Gu Zheng nodded, agreeing with her.

Originally, they wanted to fly directly, but they found that they didn't find the location of the Sand Sea City. How fast were they? They turned over the huge desert area here in almost half a month, but still couldn't find it.

Gu Zheng looked carefully and found some unusual fluctuations in it. He guessed that someone should have used great magic power to cover the location of the Sand Sea City. I'm afraid that the most conventional method must be used to see it. Then he walked step by step from the outside to the center.

After walking for several days, even if they deliberately accelerated their pace, they only went a little deeper. After learning that it would take several more months, Xiaoying became like this, like an eggplant hit by frost, sick and uninterested, and almost asked to go back to her own scroll.

"There's movement!" At this time, Xiaoying's ears suddenly moved, and she suddenly raised her head to look at the distance.

Gu Zheng also stopped and looked at the distance almost as soon as the other party spoke.

In the originally cloudless and clear sky, yellow storms suddenly gathered, as if they appeared out of thin air. Then, in a very short time, countless yellow clouds slowly gathered in the air and slowly rotated, and a super huge sandstorm formed in the air.

This kind of power of heaven and earth, even if it did not cause any harm to them, but their hearts were shocked.

Watching the yellow sandstorm that was hundreds of meters long suddenly rise, it was as if a top pillar rose under the sky and earth, and the whistling yellow sand was sucked from below and poured into the sunken vortex above.

Gu Zheng watched a few rays of light flashing in it, and his consciousness also explored that side, but unfortunately the whole world was in chaos and he could not see what was going on inside.

I thought the opponent's aftermath would impact this side, but I could not feel any abnormality, no different from usual, making them feel that they were doing something unnecessary.

The sandstorm came and went quickly. In less than an incense stick, the sandstorm suddenly fell from the sky, and the yellow clouds quickly dissipated in the air, as if they had never been there.

"There seems to be someone over there. Should we go and take a look?" Xiaoying said as the storm dissipated. She also saw several obvious lights in the sky.

"Let's go!"

Gu Zheng and Xiaoying ran forward instantly. Even in this state, they maintained the speed of the general fifth-level running, and did not exceed this strength at all.

After three days, their speed suddenly stopped. A huge pit with a depth of dozens of feet appeared in front of them, covering an area of ​​thousands of meters. Countless quicksands flowed towards the bottom. Even so, there was still a sea of ​​sand below, and it was unknown how deep the sea of ​​sand was.

"I'm afraid that the other party was not sucked away, and I don't know where to go, let alone whether he will be buried below." Xiaoying's body slowly floated up, as if standing on Gu Zheng's shoulders, looking into the distance.

Gu Zheng didn't say anything, his eyes were looking around, and his consciousness was sweeping across the vast ground.

Suddenly, Gu Zheng's figure moved, and he rushed forward in one step, jumping into the huge pit, which scared Xiaoying. Just as she was about to follow him, she found that Gu Zheng had flown up again, but he was holding a person in his hand.

"Heal him." Gu Zheng shook his hand, and the figure covered with yellow sand revealed his face. He looked like a young monk. His monk's robes were tattered, and even some of his flesh and blood were worn out by the sand. He was dying.

When Xiaoying heard this, she waved her little hand in the air, and a piece of green light scattered from the air, falling on his body like a green light, and merged into his body again.

The young monk, who was originally weak and looked like he could die at any time, recovered his breath visibly.

"Is he really buried down there? If we don't come, he will be buried alive. It's so terrible." Xiaoying said with some fear when she thought of Gu Zheng's behavior.

"Let's wait and see. He's the only one around here. But he's quite capable of escaping from the storm." Gu Zheng said in a deep voice, and led them to retreat a little further away from the huge pit.

After a full day, the monk who was in the late stage of the immortal finally woke up.

"Are you okay?" Xiaoying floated in the air, appearing in front of the monk below.

"The other party just woke up. Don't mess with him. Wait for a while." Gu Zheng grabbed Xiaoying's calf and pulled her back.

After waiting for a long time, the monk lying on the ground stood up, looking at his brand new clothes, and then at Xiaoying who was looking at him up and down and Gu Zheng who was standing on the side. He put his palms together and bowed his head slightly.

"Thank you for saving my life, both donors."

"We just happened to see you. Are you the monk running from inside to outside?" Xiaoying floated up, still floating in the air as before, and turned around the monk.

Gu Zheng also looked over curiously, wanting to know why he wanted to leave from inside. Couldn't he just fly away?

"Alas, it's hard to explain. I wonder if the two donors want to go to Shahai City." The monk's face darkened, and he didn't say anything, just asking them.

"Of course we go to Shahai City, you are so weird? If we don't go there, who would want to pass through this boring desert? It's not beautiful at all." Xiaoying answered first.

"Of course, we go there to visit Master Wuxiang. I heard that he has profound Buddhist teachings, so I want to ask him for advice." Gu Zheng also said the same thing.

"Hey, I advise you not to go there anymore. Now the people there are in panic, and even the master can't do anything. Let us break out and go to the west to find Master Deshan. As a result, you can see that if you didn't show up, I'm afraid our small team would be wiped out." The monk said after hearing it.

"What's going on? Master Wuxiang is said to have boundless magical powers. Besides, without his maintenance, the Sand City would have disappeared long ago. How could he encounter something that he couldn't solve?" Gu Zheng said as his mind turned.

According to Xingkong, he seemed to have already attacked Master Wuxiang when he heard that little bit of disappearance. Gu Zheng thought that the other party had already blocked the other party's plot, but he didn't expect him to appear at this critical moment. Could it be related to the information he heard in the cave, and he deliberately restrained him?

After hearing Gu Zheng's words, the monk's face became more embarrassed. He hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said again.

"Shahai City is now completely closed. We don't welcome outsiders here. Please leave, and come visit my master when you have the chance in the future."

"Hey, you little monk are a little unkind. You said you don't let us in, so we won't go in. Those who want to see our master have gone into the crowd. It's your master's honor, you know?" Xiaoying saw that the other party rejected her, and she was not angry, and she said immediately.

"No matter what you say, thank you for saving my life, but please leave quickly." The monk ignored the other party and said again.

"Boom boom"

Accompanied by the roar, the sky was quickly filled with yellow clouds again.

"Here it comes again!" The monk shouted with a pale face.