Chapter 677: Reunion
Due to the huge scope of Diling City and the restricted air restrictions of Babel Tower, it is impossible to fly.
Therefore, when it was built, in order to transport materials to the whole city as quickly as possible, a canal was dug almost every one or two miles in the city to transport various materials.
The entire Diling City is hundreds of miles in size, and there are at least a hundred canals, large and small, crisscrossing the city, connected to each other by various bridges.
This kind of layout is very similar to Liuyue City.
In fact, not only Diling City and Liuyue City, almost all larger cities in China will use this layout to solve the problem of material transportation.
Especially the city with the Tower of Babel.
However, although this layout makes the transportation of materials within the city much more convenient, it will also make the bridges in the city an extremely important hub for traffic in and out of the city.
Now Duan Qing and four others are blocked by a canal.
Duan Qing couldn't help but feel a headache when he looked at the black mass of wandering ghosts on the bridge in front of him on the right.
If he was alone, he could still use the secret technique of Baimengxing to pass through. This was how he passed the two bridges he encountered before.
But now there are Yu Fan and three others, and if they want to cross this bridge, they may have to force their way through.
Judging from the many faint blue lights on the bridge, the blue-eyed ghosts on it are probably inevitable!
It's probably not easy to break through.
"Fellow Daoist Duan, what should we do now?" Yu Fan stared at the large group of ghosts on the bridge, feeling a little upset.
Duan Qing pondered for a while, his eyes swept across the canal in front of him, and suddenly his eyes lit up.
"How about we find a canal that runs north to south and take a boat out of the city through the water?"
When Yu Fan heard this, he shook his head like a rattle and retorted: "No, no, our Tiangong Sect tried to sneak out of the city this way before, but we were attacked by ghosts in the water, and we got separated!"
"Besides, being in the water is not conducive to the use of your fire spells, Fellow Daoist Duan!"
After hearing what Yu Fan said, Duan Qing stared into the canal, and sure enough, he could vaguely see a black shadow swimming under the water.
"Then we can only force a breakout from the bridge!" Duan Qing sighed.
The others had no other options and fell silent for a while.
"Let's go!"
Duan Qing said hello and took the lead to touch the stone bridge in front of him on the right.
After walking a few steps, he heard a faint movement on the right, but was blocked by a house at the end of the bridge, so he couldn't know the specific situation.
"Stop!" Duan Qing reminded everyone, and hurriedly hid behind a big tree beside the canal to watch what happened.
Yu Fan and others also heard the noise and each found a place to hide themselves.
Not long after, as the movement became louder and louder, a group of monks were seen emerging from the avenue and marching towards the stone bridge.
There were about a dozen monks in that group, the leader was an elegant and beautiful woman, and the remaining dozen or so monks were all wearing cloud-patterned robes.
He is from Tianyun Sect!
Duan Qing recognized at a glance that the elegant young woman taking the lead was Wu Zhongze, the deputy head of the Tianyun Sect!
Duan Qing couldn't help but be overjoyed when he discovered that it was the people from the Tianyun Sect who were breaking out of the encirclement. He immediately said to Yufan and others: "Follow me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Duan Qing took the lead and rushed towards Shiqiao, hoping to join Tianyun Sect and others to break out of the encirclement together.
When Duan Qing rushed to the bridge, he happened to meet Wu Zhongze and others.
"Junior Shinto Sect Duan Qing has met senior Wu." Duan Qing cupped his hands to Wu Zhongze.
There were pursuers behind them, and countless ghosts on the bridge in front of them blocked them. Wuzhong just nodded slightly to Duan Qing, then rushed straight towards the people leading the Tianyun Sect and headed towards the bridge.
When Duan Qing saw this, he didn't say much, and immediately joined the Tianyun Sect's team, using the fire-living technique to attack the chasing ghosts behind them, and began to cut off the rear.
Yu Fan and others took the opportunity to join the crowd, looking happy.
The possibility of joining up with other teams and breaking through is much greater.
"After many days of separation, how are you doing, Fellow Daoist Duan?" At this time, someone from the Tianyun Sect crowd greeted Duan Qing.
Duan Qing turned his head and saw that it was Hua Tian, a disciple of Qingyunzi, the head of the Tianyun Sect.
He had a good impression of Hua Tian. While using the Lihuo Technique to cut off the back, he said to Hua Tian: "Duan is fine. I never expected that I could meet fellow Taoist Hua here again."
You don't need to think about it to know that Hua Tian and his party must have received the Five Elements Sect's request for help and went to Lingzhou to provide assistance.
The Five Elements Sect has tricked a lot of people this time!
At this time, Duan Qing noticed that someone in the Tianyun Sect crowd looked at him very unkindly.
That man was none other than Wu Zhongze’s son, Wu Qiming!
Seeing Wu Qiming's eyes, Duan Qing couldn't help but secretly thought something was wrong.
It seems that Wu Qiming probably already knew that it was he and Xue Wanyun who connected Qingyunzi with the Zuo family and caused his plan to marry Huang Shi to fail.
Although he and Xue Wanyun were only responsible for pulling strings and did not specifically participate in the Zuo family's plan to exchange the civet cat for the prince, it was obvious from Wu Qiming's hostility towards him that he already harbored a grudge against him.
Also, his Taoist companion was changed for no reason, and even Zuo Wanqiu was later kidnapped by others.
It can be said that he failed to steal the chicken and lost his face.
After suffering such a blow, he will definitely not let go of everyone who caused this easily!
Thinking of this, Duan Qing couldn't help but feel a little depressed. He didn't know whether it was a good or bad thing for him to take the initiative to find the Tianyun Sect and his party!
That's fine with Wu Qiming. With his cultivation at the late stage of the Spiritual Sea Realm, there's nothing he can do against him.
The key is his mother Wu Zhongze.
If Wu Zhongze holds a grudge against him like Wu Qiming, then this will not be good.
But now that he has joined the Tianyun Sect team, it is not easy for him to leave rashly.
Anyway, in public, the two of them probably wouldn't dare to do anything to him.
With a nervous mood, Duan Qing pretended that nothing had happened, and continued to march with the Tianyun Sect team with a normal look.
With Wu Zhongze leading the way, the group moved forward unimpeded. It didn't take long for them to clear the ghosts on the bridge and pass the stone bridge.
After passing the stone bridge, the group did not stop for a moment and continued to march towards the north gate of Diling City.
About half a day later, Duan Qing and his group had advanced thirty or forty miles, and only ten miles were left from the north gate.
At this time, with the setting of the sun, Diling City, which was originally shrouded in the dark night under the gloomy air, was even darker.
Except for the bright light emitted by Duan Qing and others' magic and the dim light emitted by the ghosts' eyes, almost no other light could be seen.
Fortunately, everyone's cultivation was not lower than those in the late stage of the Questioning Heart Realm, and they could see things even in the dark.
"Fellow Daoist Duan, do you feel that these ghosts seem to have suddenly become much stronger!" At this time, Hua Tian whispered beside Duan Qing.
Duan Qing nodded, and he also noticed this.
His fire separation technique could originally burn ordinary ghosts to death directly, but now, it can only burn ghosts. It takes two fire separation techniques to completely kill the ghosts.
"Ghosts are not suppressed by sunlight at night, so they will become stronger!" Duan Qing explained.
He has dealt with Black Stone a lot, so he naturally knows the characteristics of ghosts.
"So that's it!" Hua Tian suddenly realized and stopped talking.
Seeing Hua Tian silent, Duan Qing did not speak again, frowning and thinking.
In fact, compared to the ghosts getting stronger at night, he was more worried about other things.