Immortal Mansion: With mediocre qualifications, I have no choice but to live forever

"Fellow Daoist Qing, do you know the origins of these black-robed monks?"

"Their poison is so strange and their style of action is so cruel that it seems that it is not something that ordinary sects can do."

Zhou Yiqiao pondered for a moment, and before Qing Jimeng could answer, he spoke again.

"To be honest, Fellow Daoist Qing, our team heading to the Forest of Eternal Life was also attacked by black-robed monks."

"However, the other party seemed to have underestimated my strength and only sent one person, who was killed by me in the end."

When Qing Jimeng heard this, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and then he showed a look of understanding.

The character she and Xu Hanchang created for Zhou Yiqiao has always been that of the leader of the Danxin Alliance who is obsessed with refining pills, but they never mentioned a word about Zhou Yiqiao's strength.

But she and Xu Hanchang both knew that Zhou Yiqiao's strength was unfathomable, and he was also one of the top young people in the Tianchen Realm. If the black-robed monk underestimated him, he would undoubtedly be seeking his own death.

"I don't know the origins of these black-robed monks."

Qing Jimeng withdrew his thoughts, shook his head, and answered Zhou Yiqiao's question.

"Each of them is extremely powerful, and their behavior is strange. They don't seem to care about our identities or backgrounds, and just keep attacking us."

"I have tried to find out their true appearance, but they seem to have some secret method that can conceal their identity. Even I can't get any clues."

Zhou Yiqiao frowned, thinking about his own experience.

After the team he led separated from everyone else, they had a smooth journey without encountering any obstacles until they entered the Forest of Eternal Life, where they were blocked by magical beasts and black-robed monks.

Although the black-robed monk was not targeting him, he attached great importance to him and even spent a huge amount of money to set up a trap in order to delay Zhou Yiqiao's steps so as to leave enough time for the black-robed monk himself to slaughter the other monks in Zhou Yiqiao's team.

"Zhou always felt that these people were not coming for us."

There was a hint of solemnity in Zhou Yiqiao's words as he looked at the many disciples of Qinjian Villa who were in the ice beside him.

"They seem to be looking for or guarding something of vital importance, and we are just chess pieces that have strayed into this game."

"If it is as Brother Zhou said, this secret realm should be far more complicated than what those three forces have found out."

Qing Jimeng frowned slightly, as if she wanted to agree with Zhou Yiqiao's opinion, but did not want to admit the truth behind this opinion.

As the two fell into silence, Xu Hanchang's voice came from outside.

"Miss, Brother Zhou, how are you doing?"

Before he finished his words, a figure approached from afar and was beside the two of them in the blink of an eye.

Xu Hanchang's image at this time had undergone a drastic change since he parted with everyone.

Xu Hanchang's figure appeared in the sight of Zhou Yiqiao and Qing Jimeng, and his appearance had changed incredibly.

The originally handsome face now seems to be shrouded in a thin layer of mist. This mist is not ordinary. It carries an ancient and mysterious atmosphere, as if it is a shadow from another dimension.

On his forehead, a strange symbol can be vaguely seen. This symbol looks like a closed eye, but not entirely. It emits a faint light and seems to be constantly observing everything around it.

There were several strange tentacles wrapped around his neck.

These tentacles are not flesh and blood. They are more like condensed from some ancient power. They slowly wriggle around Xu Hanchang's body and seem to have independent consciousness.

At this moment, Xu Hanchang's face was already blurred, with only a pair of eyes exposed to the sight of Zhou Yiqiao and Qing Jimeng.

These eyes were extremely deep, and ancient runes seemed to flicker in the depths of the pupils, like a portal to an unknown world, hiding endless mysteries that made people feel awe.

"Brother Xu, the changes in you..."

Zhou Yiqiao quietly took precautions and asked tentatively.

Hearing this, Xu Hanchang looked helpless and told Zhou Yiqiao and the others the whole story of how he followed the leader of the Xuantian Alliance to the Pofa Pavilion, encountered the black-robed monks and was completely annihilated, and how he displayed his strength and killed them all, and how he was parasitized by a strange object in the Pofa Pavilion and became what he is now.

After he finished speaking, he pointed at Zhou Yiqiao's left arm and the guqin behind him and said.

"Don't talk about me. Brother Zhou has also encountered a similar situation."

Qing Jimeng came back to her senses at this moment. She had just focused all her attention on rescuing several disciples from Qinjian Villa and had no time to ask about Zhou Yiqiao's condition.

"Yes, Brother Zhou, what's the matter with this strange ancient zither on you?"

Zhou Yiqiao shook his head helplessly and replied.

"My situation is similar to that of Brother Xu. After we dealt with the black-robed monk, we encountered this strange ancient zither in the depths of the Forest of Immortality. After a battle with it, neither of us could do anything to the other, and thus this symbiotic situation was formed."

“Perhaps those black-robed monks know what’s going on.”

Hearing that Zhou Yiqiao's experience was similar to his own, Xu Hanchang nodded and continued.

"how you said that?"

Zhou Yiqiao and Qing Jimeng were both stunned, and then asked in unison.

Xu Hanchang understood the feelings of Zhou Yiqiao and the others, and did not keep them in suspense for too long, and continued speaking.

"During the battle with the black-robed monks, I deliberately left one person alive and used the soul-searching technique. However, I found that their memories seemed to have been sealed by some kind of power. I was unable to find out their origins and purpose at all."

"This soul-searching secret technique of mine was created by a master from the outer world. It is extremely powerful and rarely fails, but it is ineffective on this black-robed monk."

"To be able to cause such a situation, it can only mean that the existence that cast the sealing technique for them is very powerful, or it is not affected by the soul-searching secret technique at all."

There was a hint of solemnity in his eyes as he continued.

"I didn't think much about it until I encountered this strange thing on my body. Then I realized that there might be some connection between the two."

"You mean, the mass killing of those black-robed monks regardless of their faction might be related to the abnormalities in the two of you?"

Qing Jimeng was obviously a little bit unbelievable.

Xu Hanchang nodded and continued.

"Yes, my spiritual perception tells me that this so-called mysterious secret realm is not at all the resource-rich, fairyland-like secret exploration place that the Yunyin Sect leader and his men said it was."

"Its true image is most likely the opposite. It is a sinister place shrouded by ancient curses and unknown forces."

"Those black-robed monks are most likely driven by this power, or they are fighting for and protecting a key object in the secret realm that can unlock or intensify this curse."