Chapter 228: Sinking

They were startled and hurriedly retreated to the side, while the four stone pillars continued to patrol the hall as if they had come to life.

After about ten minutes, they heard a few more crisp taps, as if something was connecting.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the four stone pillars to stop completely, and at the same time, the ground on the side around them shook violently, and then they were pushed up by something and rose more than a meter.

After the four returned to calm, Li Kan took the lead in walking over and taking a few looks, and turned back to everyone: "It's strange, this seems to be a monument!"

The others also surrounded them curiously.

"Those who are in the Yellow Springs are also the place where the dead return, and those who are in the Yellow Springs are also buried in the place. Fang Xin read the inscription on it in a low voice, "The sea of suffering is endless, turning back is the shore, if you don't turn back, you will taste all the eight hardships, and life is better than death." ”

"Is the gap between the real world and the Heaven of Birth the Yellow Spring Array?" Wu Xun pondered, "Legend has it that there is a saying in Buddhism that there are eight sufferings in life, which are birth, old age, sickness, death, love and separation, resentment, unwantedness, and five yin flourishing.

But in the end, these are just an experience, a kind of perception, could it be that this Huangquan Array is a serial phantom array?"

"I think it's like some kind of metaphor. Ling Cang took over, "For example, the previous Xingxiao was condensed by the resentful spirit, which can barely be regarded as a resentment meeting, and I think the others should be similar." ”

Li Kan listened to it and his brain opened: "Could birth, old age, sickness and death be some kind of virus, and the people who are infected will have a corresponding state?"

Fang Ling touched his face: "In this way, there is nothing more terrible than aging, if I become an old woman at a young age, I might as well die." ”

“……”

The rest of the people were a little speechless, but she was not wrong, there is a saying that "beauty has been like a famous general since ancient times, and it is not allowed to see white heads in the world", and youth is difficult to find forever, so you should cherish the good years when you were young.

"It's strange, there doesn't seem to be an exit here...... "Feeling a little off-topic, Fang Ling cleverly shifted the topic back, "Do you want to move this stone tablet away?"

Everyone looked at Bai Xiu one after another, and as soon as they saw him nodding, Fang Xun and Li Kan, the two most uncomposing people, immediately helped each other, half-squatted down and tried to lift the base of the stone tablet.

As a result, as soon as they removed a crack, a cold air rushed out in an instant—there was indeed a hole underneath.

The two of them were so close that they couldn't stand it, and when they moved it away completely, they immediately put down the stele and ran back.

Fang Xun couldn't help but scold: "What the hell is the place, it's cold to death!"

"Do we really want to go in from here?" Li Kan was also a little dumbfounded, "It turns out that the death of birth, old age, sickness and death is such a way of death - to freeze to death!"

Fang Ling said speechlessly: "Then what do you say, anyway, horizontal and vertical is also a death, it is better to die a little more clearly." ”

She said it naturally, and the two were a little eager to try.

Bai Xiu thought about this risk and still couldn't let everyone take it, and said to them: "It's better like this, I'll go down first and see, one person is more flexible after all, if there is no danger below, the big army will go down again, so it's safer." ”

Fang Xin looked at him and pursed his lips: "I'll go with you." ”

Ling Cang suddenly smiled: "A few of us big men are here, how can we let you girls take risks, I'll go with Bai Xiu." ”

Li Kan also came to join in the fun: "No, no, no, Bai Xiu and I are old friends, I should go with him!"

The three of them argued, but Bai Xiu had already made a decision in his heart:

Yu Fangxin, he never wanted to put her in danger; Ling Cang's eyes were unknown, it was really abnormal to be so diligent, he had to guard against it; and Li Kan was an ordinary person, and as a cultivator, he couldn't let ordinary people go into danger no matter what.

After weighing it for a moment, a better candidate came to his mind, and he turned his head to look at Fang Jin: "I am in a group with Third Brother Fang, let him go with me." ”

Fang Jin was stunned, obviously he didn't expect to be named by Bai Xiu, but he still nodded.

The two of them drilled into the hole one after the other, and in an instant, a wave of winter vacation rushed towards them, Bai Xiu took a deep breath and walked slowly towards the depths of this underground passage.

The passage was very narrow, and the height was only more than a meter, but it was very long, and he turned on the flashlight and shone it, and he could not see the end of it.

They had been walking for about ten minutes before there was a slight change in front of them—the sound of ticking water was echoing not far away.

Bai Xiu's heart moved, and he immediately quickened his pace, and soon a small cave appeared.

There is a big difference between the bottom of this cave and the passage, and there is a deep pool of water, which is four or five meters deep, like a well, and the top of the cave has water dripping down from time to time, and it is very pleasant to hear when it falls on the surface of the water.

He swept his gaze and gradually found the clue.

It's strange to say, along the way, a lot of hoarfrost has condensed on the stone walls on both sides, and the temperature in this cave is lower, but there is no freezing, is there anything extraordinary about this water?

He squatted down, wanting to pick up a handful of water to take a look, but as soon as he stretched out his hand, an extremely sharp chill crept up his fingertips in an instant.

Almost at the same time, his heart pounded violently for a few seconds, as if some danger was approaching.

His heart was cold, and he was about to retreat, but suddenly there was a burst of dizziness in his brain, that is, the blank thinking of these two seconds, his body was unstable, and he was directly dragged down by a force.

Fang Jin was not slow to react, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to pull Bai Xiu, but as a result, he couldn't compete with that force at all, and he was taken by it, and he fell into the water with a bang.

Bai Xiu finally came back to his senses, but his body was like a big stone tied, and the more he struggled, the more he sank to the bottom of the water, Fang Jin was no better, and in just a moment, he had disappeared into the water.

What's going on?!

Bai Xiu was shocked in his heart, but fortunately he didn't panic, he simply took a deep breath and chased Fang Jin to the bottom.

The water in the cave was very clear, and in the faint light of the flashlight, he quickly found Fang Jin, who was gesturing at him with great effort, as if he wanted to say something.

He didn't know why at first, but when he saw Fang Jin's hands kept clasping together, he immediately understood what the other party meant: "There's a hole here!"

Then he came into contact with the bottom of the cavern, and the force came and went suddenly, and miraculously disappeared, but when he tried to swim up again, it came up again.

This was undoubtedly a dangerous signal, and Fang Jin obviously noticed this as well, and gestured again, wanting to see if he could escape from the hole at the bottom of the cave.

Bai Xiu went over to take a closer look, and a very narrow hole was indeed opened in the dark corner.

They had been tarried for a long time under the water, and the breath in his mouth and nose was about to run out, so he no longer hesitated, pointed to the mouth of the hole, and went in first.

The entrance to this hole is indeed very narrow, and it is also a loss that the two of them are not fat, and they finally squeezed out from the other side with all their might.

Waiting for Fang Jin to come out, Bai Xiu turned on the flashlight, and finally saw the scene in front of him clearly, they seemed to have come to the bottom of a river, which was only three or four meters wide and about the same depth, and the river was slightly muddy.

Both he and Fang Jin breathed a sigh of relief and were about to go upstream, but that power appeared ghostly, it was like a water ghost looking for a stand-in, viciously trying to keep them here forever.

The familiar feeling of suffocation arose, and even a strange crack slowly spread on the back of Bai Xiu's hand, but he was unexpectedly calm in his heart, if he was possessed by the breath of gods and demons, I was afraid that Fang Jin would be the first to suffer.

He can't get people in the way, even though they don't necessarily get out.

Having made up his mind, Bai Xiu pulled out the Demon Breaking Blade and aimed it at his heart, and then stabbed it without hesitation.

A sharp pain came from his heart, something he hadn't felt before, and for a moment he could barely react, but maybe this was the real harbinger of death.

And the moment before he lost consciousness, he saw countless blood gushing out of the wound, and then drifting towards a certain place.

When he awoke again, he found himself lying in a weed-fringed clearing, the light of water pouring overhead, as gentle as the moonlight.

He sat up in a trance, and was finally awakened by the sharp pain that rushed up from his heart.

He subconsciously looked at it, and there was blood stained there, and although the wound had been bandaged, blood was still oozing out from time to time.

Strange, the Demon Breaking Blade could actually stab him? Bai Xiu's heart sank, and he raised his left hand to see that the previous wound was indeed still there.

"Is it ......?"

A flash of spiritual light flashed, but unfortunately Fang Jin's words interrupted his thoughts in the next second: "Lie down quickly, your injury is not light......

Although your blood has allowed us to find a place to go ashore, I still think that your method is too aggressive, and you don't know that you almost stabbed your knife into your heart, and it would be really unskilled. ”

Bai Xiu was about to ask him this question: "By the way, how did we get ashore?"

Fang Jin looked at him, probably thinking that he was asking knowingly, but he also replied, "I swam in the direction guided by your blood, and that strange force suddenly disappeared, and I took you ashore." ”

Bai Xiu's heart moved, and he struggled to stand up: "I want to go and see." ”

Fang Jin also understood his character, and knew that his persuasion was useless, so he helped him to the place where they went ashore.

While walking Bai Xiu, he looked at the illusion around him, and the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became, this seemed to be a tidal flat formed by the impact of a river, very small, only about two or three acres in size.

The two rivers flowed from different directions, met at one corner of the beach, each circled it half a circle, and then converged again at opposite points, and then rushed in different directions.

"Why is this terrain so familiar...... he was stunned, and then he immediately reacted, the pattern of this river and river beach is an eye.

How similar it is to the pattern on the Tribulation Ding!

Could it be that this is the Heaven of Robbery, and the Huangquan Array mentioned in the inscription is just alarmist, and the famous dangerous place was easily conquered by them?

This is obviously unlikely, but there should be some clues hidden here that can help them find their way to the Heavens of Death, at least he has to figure out what the previous force is all about, and then leave here to join Fang Xin.

After a while, he and Fang Jin arrived at the place where they landed, which was the confluence of the lower reaches of the two rivers.

Looking at the river, Bai Xiu was stunned, the water in the river was clear and turbid, although the two rivers were merged here, they were distinct and weird.

It was at this time that he remembered some strange things that Bai Yan had told him, and couldn't help but suddenly say: "I understand, there is no strange power in the water at all, but there is something wrong with the water itself-

It's 'backwater'. ”