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Three days later.

The White Lotus Pilgrimage ceremony was held as scheduled, and tens of thousands of people rushed to the island's statues like a tide.

Liu Ruohuan and Gu Qingyao also changed into the snow-white White Lotus Sect uniform and mixed in.

When the orderly abortion entered the ceremony in advance, they were also led to the core area under the feet of the statue by disguised teeth.

And Liu Ruohuan realized that no matter how magnificent the statue you had seen outside, it was not as shocked as the statue to personally look down on the statue.

This statue of god was so big that it made him wonder if there was a ladder directly to the heavenly court at the top.

The tooth took out two tokens from the White Lotus Sect from his arms, “When you go in later, you will not stop you from taking out these two tokens. Remember to detonate the explosives at the joints of the statue on time.”

After Liu Ruohuan and his two nodded and promised, they were watched by the dentist and walked into the statue.

The threshold for entering the statue's body is made of good Hotan white jade. Liu Ruohuan walked into the statue's body for the first time and found that the huge statue's interior was even more lively than the outside world where the people worshiped.

The even more amazing interior of this statue of Tongtian is an extremely exquisite mechanism structure. The huge gears are filled in every corner of the statue with exquisite and ingenious design.

The gears hanging about thirty or forty feet above their heads are tightly stitched with gears as small as their fingers. The slow rolling reveals the designer's whimsy and great talents.

Liu Ruohuan looked at all this in a daze, "This... this is too exaggerated, right?"

Gu Qingyao, who has always been disliked to speak out, was also shocked by the scene in front of her and revealed her amazing evaluation.

"Let's go! Go quickly! Move these materials on!"

The "crackling" whip sounded in Liu Ruohuan's ears. At this time, a row of hard laborers from the White Lotus Sect were naked and carrying a bucket of heavy objects slowly climbing the stairs.

Here are several steps winding and winding, reaching the top of the statue.

Liu Ruohuan and Gu Qingyao looked at each other and followed him upstairs together in the back of the hard labor.

No one stopped this group of hard laborers before they walked up the 30th floor, but after the 30th floor, the guards of the White Lotus Sect stopped everyone and called to check everyone's information.

The explosives given by Yunmengli are located at the fifty level, probably on the waist and abdomen of the statue. They are still a certain distance from the target during this trip.

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It is not a good job to stay here to take care of hard labor. The interior of the statue is hot in summer and cool in winter, and the temperature difference between the inside and outside is huge. Not to mention that there is no guardrail between the steps between the various floors, which is very easy to fall from the upper floors.

Almost every day, hard labor will fall from high altitude due to overwork. Most of them will be thrown on the rotating gears, break their legs and then crush them, and they will die in a tragic way.

Occasionally, guards will fall, after all, long-term labor will make people feel tired.

At today's pilgrimage ceremony, Lu Wanyao, who was stationed here, can be regarded as the last group of guards working overtime.

And the hard laborers in front of us are carrying the burden, and the limes required on it are contained in it.

Lu Wanyao glanced a few times, then picked up the tip of the knife with his back hand and picked up the things inside. After confirming that it was correct, he let him go.

At the end of the hard-working queue, two disciples in sect uniforms followed step by step.

"Slowly, there are fifty floors above. The sacrificial clothes you wear are just ordinary church members. How can you get from below the thirty floor to get here?"

A voice that wanted to be a beautiful male voice sounded, "Sir, we have the documents of the Saint, and we have specially approved the entry here."

Since Lu Wanyao has been stationed here for a long time, he hasn't seen many men in almost three years.

She glanced at the man in the tutelage and was immediately attracted by the other party.

The man in the brothel portrait is not as beautiful as him.

But what the other party said is still a bit strange. The statue of the god is above the fiftieth level is a secret realm that can only be entered by middle and high-level sects. How could the Saint let the two believers come up?

After hesitating, she said to her companions: "We cannot make the decision on this matter. You should first ask the priests responsible for this ceremony. I will keep an eye on them here."

The other party also felt that Lu Wanyu was right. She turned around and disappeared deep into the shadows. Then, Lu Wanyu changed his face and put away the sharp blade.

"Is Mr. Liu? I am also from the Saint's Sect. I will come to help you on the order of the Saint."

Liu Ruohuan had no documents at all, and they had already planned to do it at that moment.

But who would have thought that the Saint had installed a new guide in the top management of the statue? Gu Qingyao was also a little surprised.

"The situation is urgent. We are the last group of guards before the ceremony. Please come with me, Mr. Liu."

Lu Wanyu led them to the other side of the stairs. Liu Ruohuan couldn't help but say in surprise: "There seems there is no way to go above this stairs. Did you go the wrong way on the 50th floor?"

"No, this statue is a divine object left over from ancient times. If it is above fifty levels, it cannot be understood by common sense. I have been stationed in the statue for eighty levels, and each layer behind is mixed with countless illusions."

Liu Ruohuan frowned slightly. The ancient divine objects indeed have profound connotations that ordinary people cannot understand. Just like he once saw the remaining divine eyes in the illusion, he almost destroyed his spiritual consciousness by that thing and turned into a useless person.

"How many layers are there in the statue?"

"The ninety-nine floor, but there is still the 100th floor. Climbing to the last floor is equivalent to sitting in the sky and looking at all living beings." Lu Wanyao shook his head and said, "But the layers above are very dangerous, especially after the ninety floor, even the tokens engraved by the leader did not work, so the last few floors were left unattended."

The three of them talked and walked, and from time to time they had arrived at a place where the stairs were broken.

The front seemed to be cut off, and there were only countless gears rotating slowly around.

"Young Master Liu, please remember to follow your heart after the fifty floor."

After Lu Wanyao finished speaking, she walked out of thin air and suddenly a illusory ladder appeared on the soles of her feet, which made her continue to walk upwards.

Gu Qingyao was originally a genius of swordsmanship with clear sword hearts. She almost instantly realized the ingenuity of this statue and also walked to keep up.

Only when Liu Ruohuan took a step, she suddenly felt her body hanging in the air and almost fell down.

"It's good to feel it with your heart. Walk over as quickly as we do, and everything will disappear."

Hearing the guard's urging, Liu Ruohuan calmed down and thought for a long time.

Finally, he raised his hand and threw it out, and the sword body turned and pierced the chest of the guard who was waiting anxiously. Gu Qingyao's face changed in the distance and said, "This is the guide specially sent by the saint. If you kill her, how can we successfully arrive at our destination?"

The sword flew back to Liu Ruohuan's hand as he flew coldly to the anxious face "Gu Qingyao", his voice full of indifference.

"You told me that there will be many illusions and confusing minds in the fiftieth floor, but what are you pretending now?"

"Gu Qingyao" looked stunned, then smiled slightly, and then the entire space seemed to be fragmented and collapsed. After Liu Ruohuan opened his eyes again, he had already crossed the fiftieth floor.

In fact, after the fifty level, the White Lotus Sect did not set up any more guards, because these illusions that tempered their minds were already the most dangerous guards.

The illusion just now was advising him to walk out of the ladder and fall from the sky on the rolling gears.

Fortunately, Liu Ruohuan saw a few flaws, which prevented such tragedies from happening.

The only thing Liu Ruohuan is that Gu Qingyao lost her position in the illusion just now, causing him to separate from the other party.

Then do you have to detonate the explosive step by step?

Liu Ruohuan walked to the watchtower filled with black gunpowder and looked down the windows on each floor. She saw black heads covering the entire Penglai Immortal Island, like dense black dots.

If the explosives are used to power and this statue of god collapses, then tens of thousands of people who worship the White Lotus Sect will die on the spot.

Moreover, it is not clear whether this ancient divine object will be related to the surrounding terrain and other related environments. If it causes a more terrifying natural disaster, the people on the entire island will be in danger.

Liu Ruohuan closed her eyes slightly and remembered the clues he had obtained after the second day when he quietly explored the Sect Master's Temple.

He still remembers that there was...

Understood!

All the clues gathered into a complete line here, and finally broke through all the fog and gave him a correct answer.

He looked down at the crowd like ants below, and those people were welcoming the White Lotus Sect leader into the lecture hall of the pilgrimage ceremony.

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The pilgrimage ceremony was held as scheduled.

The two sides of the pilgrimage were admired by the White Lotus Sect.

After a long time, a guard of honor slowly appeared in everyone's sight, and at the same time, the sky began to slowly lower the petals.

Someone looked at the sky above his head and saw that these petals were sliding between the fingers of the huge statue of the god, which immediately made them even more awe.

There was a throne standing on the golden carriage in the guard of honor, and the one sitting upright was the leader of the White Lotus Sect. However, her appearance and body were covered by gauze, and people in the world could not see her face clearly.

After a while, melodious music came from the golden cart in the back. Under this solemn environment, the pilgrimage ceremony officially began.

The red carpet was laid on the pilgrimage road, reaching the feet of the statue. The leader slowly walked under the cover of the gauze tent to the throne he prepared in advance.

Behind her were the saint Yun Mengli in gorgeous clothes and Jiangying, who had not appeared in front of others for a long time.

"Have a bow."

Amid the presidency's words, countless people knelt down to worship the statue of the gods and the leader.

At the same time, each of them seemed to have a trace of luck and poured straight into the statue.

This scene is very similar to the puppets being controlled in the puppet show. The difference is that this time there are more than 100,000 threads, all of which are collected into the body of the statue and gathered into an extremely pure energy.

The priest took out the gilded sword from the golden cart and walked step by step to the leader, "Please bless me, the God of God, to go out of the east and enter the Jiuzhou."

The leader slowly raised half of his hand in the curtain, but before she could touch the sacrificial sword, a sudden shock came from the sky.

Everyone looked up and saw that one person jumped out of the statue in the air and fell straight into the center of the pilgrimage ceremony.

There was a loud bang, and smoke and dust rose everywhere.

When the priest's eyebrows changed, he realized that the sword in his hand had been snatched by this inexplicable figure.
To be continued...