Volume 1: Straight to the Rising Clouds Chapter 299: Strange Footprints
Suddenly, the corners of Qin Yuang's mouth hooked slightly, and he laughed directly.
When he saw behind him just now, he suddenly remembered that he had brought Chen Yubai here yesterday.
In the Demon Spring, Chen Yubai's cultivation has reached the level of the Xuanwu Realm, and her martial spirit has even reached the fourth level of the Xuanwu Realm.
Since Chen Yanbai's cultivation had not improved in the past, in Qin Yuang's heart, she was the one who needed to be protected, and now she suddenly became powerful, which made Qin Yuang a little uncomfortable for a while.
Chen Yubai also understood at this time, the two looked at each other and smiled, and they both nodded lightly.
"Sect Master, do you have any secrets with Gongzi Qin? Hou Ping scratched his head, looking at the sly smiles of the two, he didn't know what was going on.
But Hei Bai rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Senior Brother Hou, even if the master and the sect master really have any secrets, it's not something we should ask, now let's hurry up and see what the situation is in this magic pool." ”
The black and white words can be said to wake up the person in the dream, Hou Ping quickly smiled awkwardly, and also nodded: "Senior sister is right, I am too talkative." ”
Qin Yuang and Chen Zhubai didn't care much, they all looked in the direction that Chen Yanbai was pointing in just now.
There, there is indeed a powerful aura, but because there is a lot of aura in the magic pool, it is particularly difficult to find for a while.
But from Qin Yuang's point of view, he could feel that there was definitely something that could threaten him, and he believed that Chen Yanbai must have felt it too.
"Master, let's go over and have a look. ”
Black and white looked at the darkness in the distance, and suddenly seemed to notice something unusual there.
Because in that corner, it seems that a few eerie white bones have been thrown there at random!
But the distance was too far, and Hei Bai couldn't confirm that he was not mistaken, so he could only say: "Master, sect master, there seem to be some corpses there." ”
"Corpses!?"
Hou Ping suddenly exclaimed, and said with chattering teeth: "Young Master Qin, this place is really dangerous. ”
"Senior Brother Hou, don't be afraid, I'm not too sure. Hei Bai smiled and shook his head, he didn't expect Hou Ping's courage to be so small.
Chen Yubai couldn't help laughing, and joked with some disdain at Hou Ping: "Hou Ping, you are still the senior brother of our Tianque Sect, why do you look like a coward." ”
"Sect Master...... If you let me enter the Wu'an Sect now, I won't be afraid to cut them down, but there is a demon pool in the Demon Domain!" Hou Ping stood behind Qin Yuang tremblingly and said to them, "Otherwise, let's go out now, anyway, there will be a lot of safe places after walking for a while." ”
"No, I can't. ”
Qin Yuang shook his head directly.
Since he felt that he had what he needed here, he absolutely couldn't let it go.
"Hou Ping is fine, I'll protect you, just stand behind me. Qin Yuang patted Hou Ping's shoulder, smiling like a kind father......
"Alright, let's go inside. ”
Hou Ping had no choice but to nod, after all, there were still two girls, Chen Yubai and Hei Bai, who were here, and he was embarrassed to delay too long.
"Be careful, all stand behind me. ”
Qin Yuang waved his hand at them, and he was the first to walk in that direction.
At this time, the location of the four people is the periphery of the cave, where the terrain is open, but the area that can be seen is still very small, so it will give people a sense of crisis.
The four of them nodded hurriedly and slowly followed behind Qin Yuang.
Although they looked very close to each other just now, they still walked a long way.
Qin Yuang was always vigilant and slowly approached that corner.
"Young Master Qin, this place is really extraordinary. ”
After Hou Ping walked for a while, he whispered.
"Even I can feel that the aura here is very different from the outside, and you should feel it in black and white. ”
"Well, it seems like I'm going crazy, but it's not particularly strong. ”
Hei Bai nodded, and said to Hou Ping while walking cautiously.
"You're right, maybe that's why this place is called the Magic Pool, don't talk. ”
Qin Yuang stretched out his hand and walked forward alone.
When he saw the black and swarthy cave entrance, he instantly understood why there was nothing in this so-called magic pool.
It turned out that it was just the first entrance just now, and I am afraid that it was because those golden-armored warriors discovered the danger of the magic pool that they established that cave from afar.
But now, Qin Yuang felt that the mood in it was even stronger, and he couldn't even control himself.
"It's really white bones. ”
Hou Ping muttered to himself.
All four of them saw the entrance to the cave, and indeed as black and white had just said, there were several corpses that had become white bones.
Judging from the remnants of the aura on their bodies, these people are at least middle-level cultivators in the Gangwu Realm, and their strength is relatively strong, but they don't know why they died tragically outside.
"All of us cheer up, we're going in. ”
Qin Yuang took a deep breath, because of these white bones, as well as the words on the map before, his emotions couldn't help but be a little nervous.
What worries him the most is that the cave is very dark, and he can't see anything clearly, and he feels a sense of mystery.
As Qin Yuang took the first step into the magic pool, there was also a soft sound inside.
"What?"
Qin Yuang's ears moved, and he suddenly found that after entering the magic pool, he seemed to feel that he had an idea of entering the illusion.
This feeling was not particularly strong, even an illusion master like Qin Yuang could only vaguely feel a little bit, so he didn't ask the three people behind him.
A ray of light suddenly shone on Qin Yuang's face, and after such a long period of darkness, he couldn't open his eyes for a while.
But Qin Yuang still instantly used the Divine and Demon Holy Skill, and at the same time directly summoned his Netherworld Martial Spirits, all of which were placed in front of the four of them, so that if someone sneaked attacked, they would not be particularly passive.
When people heard Qin Yuang's voice summoning martial spirits, they couldn't help but feel nervous, and they all rushed in.
When they saw the scene in front of them, they couldn't help but let out a long sigh from the bottom of their hearts.
At their feet is the abyss!
Hou Ping gasped, if it weren't for Qin Yuang's Netherworld Realm Martial Spirit blocking in front of him, he might have fallen directly.
People knew they were entering a cave, but they didn't think there was such a shocking place here.
Qin Yuang's heart also accelerated a little, and in front of him was a huge pit at least thirty or fifty zhang deep, and it was also full of mist, so that he couldn't see the bottom at all.
And the position where the four of them are standing now is only about half a zhang, which is a narrow stone platform, and they only need to walk a few steps before falling directly.
But this kind of shock was something they had never seen before, and the four of them did not speak for a while, just silently stared into the distance.
"Whoever designed this place, I'm afraid there are a hundred and eighty people who fall below every year. ”
Hou Ping patted his chest and said with some fear.
"It's a miracle of nature. Qin Yuang smiled slightly, shook his head and said, "But I estimate that as long as anyone enters here, they will be very careful, so no one will rush down so recklessly." ”
"Yes, the aura here is too strong, I'm afraid there are many people attracted here, and those white bones at the door should be monks who came here to hunt for treasures. ”
Chen Yubai nodded and said to the three of them.
"What I'm most worried about now is whether the other sects will go down directly. ”
Qin Yuang saw that there was no danger for the time being, so he put away the Netherworld Realm Martial Spirit and pointed to the deep pit below and said.
Because the Tianque Sect was the last to enter the Demon Domain, this was also what Qin Yuang asked for with No. 2 in advance, so that people would not be able to follow them, and it would be very convenient at that time.
But this also has a drawback, that is, they don't know where the people from the previous sect have gone.
"I guess someone has already gone down. ”
The black and white eyes were very good, and he pointed directly to the distance with his chin.
There was a stone staircase that spiraled down, and there were already a few shallow footprints on the ground.
Qin Yuang's brows furrowed slightly, seeing that these footprints were still very new, so he judged that they had indeed just gone down.
Fortunately, there are not too many footprints, I'm afraid that only a few people have gone down, so Qin Yuang is not particularly worried.
But when he looked in the distant direction, his heart suddenly tightened.
The middle part of the staircase, somehow got a lot of mud on it, and it was densely packed with footprints!
"Look there. ”
Qin Yuang pointed to the stairs, shook his head and said, "Their footprints are all in one direction, which proves that they are not wandering there, so now there are at least ten or even more than twenty people going down." ”
"Hiss......"
Hou Ping couldn't help but gasp, looking at those footprints, he was a little speechless in surprise for a while.
After all, this place is very mysterious, and you can't see the scene below at all, and you don't know who went down into it so recklessly, and it is absolutely impossible to change it to Hou Ping.
But who would have thought that Qin Yuang walked directly towards the stone stairs not far away, and said with a smile: "Let's go down quickly, otherwise all the good things will be taken away by them." ”
"Qin Gongzi, is this really good. ”
A flash of fear flashed in Hou Ping's eyes, and he looked under the pit on tiptoe.
"We don't know much about it now, if there's really any danger down there......"
"Don't worry, I've surveyed it here with my divine thoughts, at least there is nothing special about the aura in the exposed mud. ”
Chen Yubai smiled slightly, said to Hou Ping, and then followed behind Qin Yuang.
"Okay......"
Hou Ping muttered, his heart said that Chen Yubai's cultivation was not as high as his, even if he had used his divine thoughts to investigate, what was the use.
But after all, Chen Yubai was the sect master, and Hou Ping was reluctant and didn't dare to talk nonsense, so he had to nod and follow.
I don't know who placed the spiraling stone stairs here, each one deeply embedded in the stone wall next to the cliff.
It's almost regular, with one every three feet or so, so people just need to take a big stride to get through comfortably.
But now none of the four of them felt comfortable, especially Hou Ping, who thought to himself that he would rather not have these steps, as long as he didn't let himself go down.
"Ever since I entered here, it has been obvious that this place seems to be a fantasy, I don't know if you have such a thought. ”
Qin Yuang said to the black and white behind him as he stepped down the next step.
Because Chen Yanbai and Hou Ping had almost never been in contact with the illusion, Qin Yuang did not ask them.
It's just that after the three of them listened, they couldn't help but be stunned.
They looked up, and at this time they had already walked a distance of more than ten zhang, if such a large space was all illusions, the person who made the illusion was really a bit scary.
Hei Bai also looked up at the stairs he walked down, shook his head and said: "Qin Gongzi, this place is very real, could it be that you feel wrong, if this place is all illusions, then what kind of cultivation should the creator be." ”
"No, you're misunderstanding, I mean the entrance. Qin Yuang shook his head, recalling the scene just now and said, "When we came in, it was only a short three or five steps away, but it seemed that it took half a pillar of incense to get here, which is not a normal situation at all." ”
"What Qin Gongzi said makes sense, and I feel it too. Hou Ping paused slightly, frowned and thought for a while and said, "It's normal for us to see the outside after we come in, but it's obviously half a day longer than that distance, is this someone designing us?"
"Not sure. ”
Qin Yuang narrowed his eyes and looked down, at this time, everyone was still almost half the distance to reach the bottom of the entire deep pit.
"These are all designs made by nature, and I don't mean that someone is trying to get people who enter here, but I feel that the aura here can affect the thinking of cultivators, so you must be careful when you go in. ”
After hearing this, the three of them all became more cautious, and I held on to the stones around me, for fear that one of them would accidentally fall.
Chen Yubai thought deeply, she is now a cultivator in the Xuanwu Realm, so she can naturally see more than the black and white of the Gangwu Realm and Hou Ping.
Although Chen Yubai didn't understand any illusions, the instinct of the Xuanwu Realm made her obviously feel that something was wrong.
"The surname is Qin, look at the front there, why is there suddenly a large piece of mud. ”
Chen Yubai stretched out his finger and said to the staircase in front of him, which was full of footprints.
Qin Yuang was stunned for a moment, and quickly stopped.
He knew that Chen Yubai's current cultivation was very powerful, and if she felt something, it was likely that something was really wrong.
So Qin Yuang didn't dare to slack off, and quickly asked Hou Ping and Hei Bai to stop and look towards the mud.
I don't know where it started, there were at least a dozen of them on the stairs below, all of which were covered with mud, and Qin Yuang also observed that there were also quite a few on the walls below these stairs.
It looked like the mud underneath had suddenly splattered up, and many people had left a lot of footprints after walking there.
Qin Yuang couldn't help but nod secretly, and said in his heart that there was really a problem here.
"Have you noticed, there's a lot of blood underneath the footprints? Qin Yuang sneered, pointed to the mud on the top of the stairs and said, "And everyone's steps are very big, there is definitely something going on here that makes them so panicked." ”
"Yes, in mid-air, especially when no one can see what is underneath, there must be very few people who dare to stride over it despite the danger. Hei Bai nodded, and after a little thought, he said, "Coupled with the blood qi that Master said, I guess it is very likely that something happened to them here, and even many cultivators died on those steps, so the rest of them hurriedly fled in stride." ”
"So what are we going to do? ”
After hearing this, Hou Ping couldn't help but ponder and asked the most critical question.
"If there's really any danger there, we can't get over it, so why don't we go back directly?"
"Of course not. ”
Qin Yuang smiled faintly, shook his head and said, "Since you have already arrived here, there is naturally no reason to go back." ”
As he spoke, he directly stretched out his hands and transported countless dark auras out from above.
"Since we can't walk through, let's fly over. ”
"Qin Gongzi, you mean ......"
Hou Ping suddenly felt that his eyes lit up, and he scolded secretly, why didn't he think of this method.
Although the four of them were all in mid-air, they could completely ignore the steps and use their aura to fly down!
It's just that when they came here before, they were shocked by the current scene, and these steps on the ground made everyone think that they should have stepped on the steps in the first place, which made them fall into a strange circle.
"Prepare yourself, you can fly over directly after I set off. ”
Qin Yuang waved his hand to the three people behind him, and he took another step forward.
"Master, aren't you coming with us?"
Hei Bai was stunned, and the aura running in his hand also stopped.
"Of course not. Qin Yuang shook his head, his eyes fixed on the bottom of the steps, "I don't know what is down there, in case it all of us suddenly come out in mid-air and sneak attack, it will be broken, so let me cover you." ”