Chapter 487: The Lake Inside the Volcano
Seeing that he insisted, Ning Xiaoxian also went with him, and immediately ordered someone to help him to the top of the mountain.
Several fire-wielding youkai, including Tu Quan, showed their true bodies, opening their mouths and spitting out pillars of fire. These pillars of fire are condensed and gorgeous, and they burn no matter how the wind blows on the top of the mountain. The fire lion demon let out a long roar, instigating everyone to drive the supernatural powers, and the pillar of fire in front of him was entangled like a snake, slowly fusing and shaping, and in an instant, it was re-molded into a huge fire dragon.
Its body was as thick as three wine barrels, its head was hideous, its fangs were like dragon's whiskers, and even the crimson scales on its body were readily available. This is the lion demon's natural ability, the art of flame shaping.
This fire dragon was not created to add to the festive atmosphere. It took shape and soared twice over everyone's heads, and the heat almost scorched the human hair, and then it roared in satisfaction, and plunged headlong into the ice, its claws gouging its teeth. When Jian Bing encountered such an unreasonable fire dragon, he suddenly made a sneering sound, and a few puffs of smoke came out, but it was the ice that was directly vaporized at the high temperature.
In a few moments, the fire dragon dug a deep pit in the ice. If someone sticks out their head to look down, they can see that the fire dragon is going down vertically, trying to gouge. The place it digs becomes a large hole with a diameter of nearly a zhang.
After more than a dozen breaths of effort, the ice cave suddenly became bright, and then returned to loneliness. The monsters who were closing their eyes and controlling the fire dragon opened their eyes, and the lion demon's face turned a little pale, and at this moment he said with a strong spirit: "Lord Ning, the ice has been opened." "That burst of bright red sparks, it was the fire dragon that completed the task. A burst of bright light before it dissipates.
"Let's go back to the car and rest. Ning Xiaoxian knew that it was extremely difficult for him to control the demon technique in this way, so he comforted him a few words, and turned his head to the others. "Come with me. Qizai's figure flashed, and he had already rushed ahead of her to enter the ice passage.
As soon as she entered the passage, she knew that her previous estimate was not wrong. Due to the impact of volcanic recovery and geothermal overflow, the ice on the mountain peak is less than 20 zhang (more than 60 meters) thick, making it easy for immortal cultivators to penetrate it. Otherwise, against hundreds of zhang thick layers of hard ice, even the hidden guards would have to work hard.
The pangolin is right, it is indeed a very large and hollow place. With a deep lake underneath and a slightly transparent layer of ice above, it looks like an empty cave no matter how you look at it. And it's at least the size of six or seven standard football fields. The air in this area is very hot, at least fifty degrees Celsius, and if ordinary people enter here, I am afraid that it will not take half an hour to sweat. Thanks to the reminder of the pangolin. All the guards held their breath. Beware of harmful gases being inhaled into the body and delaying business.
By the faint light from the bottom of the ice, she could see that the lake beneath her feet was clear and beautiful, because the crater had been closed by solid ice above, the lake had been isolated from the world for decades, and there was no wind here, the surface of the lake was almost still, only the droplets of water from the melting ice lapped against the lake. will evoke a ripple. Occasionally, a series of bubbles rise from the bottom of the water, like a naughty fish spitting bubbles. But Ning Xiaoxian knew. There are basically no living things here.
This is a rare wonder in the world, and it is also something that mortals cannot see at all, because under the beautiful scenery lies a vicious crisis, and any mortal who enters here will suffocate or be poisoned to death within twenty breaths. However, the mood of everyone present was so heavy that they did not have time to appreciate it. Because the preservation of this lake reminds them of three things:
First, the lake is too wide, and the search is difficult, and the lake water is so clear that there is no impurity at all, indicating that the bottom of the lake is very deep.
Second, if the difficulty of completing the task on land is one point, then it is ten points underwater. Because she can't predict the prophet, she can't count that she actually has to dive into the bottom of the lake in the snowy mountains, so the hidden guards she brought are almost not good at water, otherwise it would be good to bring a few bay crocodile demons over, but unfortunately these guys are not very hardy by nature. In fact, the monsters in the hidden stream are mainly land monsters or bird monsters, and there are very few aquatic ones.
Third, the volcano is about to erupt, although I don't know the specific time, but if the moment of eruption comes, they still stay in the belly of the mountain, the only fate is to be vaporized with the whole lake and turned into nothingness. There was not a single monster present, including Ning Xiaoxian, who dared to use his physical body to fight against such a power of heaven and earth.
I can only use the stupidest way. She divided the twenty or so people in front of her into different search areas, and the hidden guards put away their magical powers and fell into the water one after another, reminding of the rising temperature of the lake, which was actually not much different from dumplings. But she can't laugh now, because she is also a dumpling that sinks rapidly to the bottom of the lake. The further downstream, the greater the resistance, and the darker the light, and when you reach the bottom of the lake, you can't see your fingers as usual.
According to her estimates, this volcanic lake is at least 200 zhang (more than 600 meters) deep, which is already a depth that mortal bodies cannot reach.
On the way west, she had a lot of dealings with the lake - the first time she entered the lake, she swam out of the waterway of Rock City, and she also met a small dragon - so she was also very experienced in walking at the bottom of the lake, and was about to take out the glowing grass and tie it around her waist, but suddenly the voice of Gong Zhao came from the god and demon prison: "How can you find things at the bottom of such a dark lake?"
She was stunned, and suddenly remembered that this guy was the hall master of the Qianjin Hall, a famous master of skillful weapons, and he would never be untargeted, so she immediately said happily: "What is a good treasure, hurry up and use it." ”
As a result, there were two things that Gong Zhao took out, and it was very appropriate to deal with the current predicament. Strictly speaking, it is not a clever weapon, because this thing is shaped like a crocodile, but it has no sharp teeth in its mouth, and it is about two meters long, and its only ability is to be able to move backwards, backwards, left, and right on its own according to the owner's will, and its body shines with dazzling brilliance. Normal people know that the light is hindered by the water waves under the water, and the scope of the illumination is not as large as in the air. However, the brilliance of this thing is too great, and it is the most transparent white light, so even at the bottom of this deep lake, after being released, the bottom of the lake within 20 meters can be fully revealed.
In her opinion, this guy is a high-power flashlight with a portable displacement function.
"Where's enough for one?" she scoffed, and the public quietly took out more than thirty of them from the storage ring, causing her to almost pounce on him and kiss him twice. Now where does she care about his identity, the incarnation of the Nine Shadows of the Divine Horse, is it good for people to call Gong Zhao? According to himself, this thing was originally used for spiritual mining, as we all know, the underground mine is also very dark, there is this thing, that is, the lighting fixtures that are carried with him, of course, considering that some ore veins are sunk in the water, this ingenious weapon is designed to be amphibious mode, and I can't imagine that it can also come in handy at the bottom of the volcanic lake today.
The second useful thing was actually a gold-devouring beast. This beast is about the size of a mouse, its strength is not much greater than that of a mouse, its teeth are small and white, and its bite force is weaker than that of a human, and it is hard to believe that it can gnaw on metal. However, the Gold Devouring Beast did not use its teeth, but used the acid in its saliva to dissolve the metals, so as to eat them little by little, and many high-strength metals such as moire gold and star meteorite iron were actually defeated in its mouth. A single drop of saliva from the Gold Devouring Beast can dissolve five catties of Starfall Iron, and many refiners will also use the stomach acid and saliva of the Gold Devouring Beast when regulating metal. However, it mostly lives in the mines in the northern part of the southern part of the continent, and lives by gnawing on all kinds of metals, and the higher the purity of the metal, the more excited and happy it becomes.
The reason why Gong Zhao sent this guy was also because the Gold Devouring Beast was naturally good at finding all kinds of rare metals. No matter how powerful Nan Ming's fire sword is, it is also made of a variety of metals, and from her point of view, at most, it is forged with special alloys, and it should not be able to escape the innate spiritual sense of the gold devouring beast.
It's just that this little thing can't dive, after all, there aren't so many potholes in the mines of Beishan to wade through. But this is not a problem for Ning Xiaoxian, she has a water-repellent bead dug out of the giant mussel, hold it in her hand, and there is naturally a waterproof barrier around her, she just needs to hold the gold devouring beast and let it guide the direction. It is also worth mentioning that although the body of the Gold Devouring Beast seems to be weak and windless, it is very resistant to the poisonous qi here, after all, the northern mining areas are all in the mountains, and some are also near the volcano, if it does not have some ability, it will not be able to reproduce now.
Don't forget, there are also several treasure hunting rat demons among the hidden guards this time, and their names are not called in vain, so if Nan Mingli's fire sword is indeed in this water, she is still very confident that she can find it.
As time passed, it turned out that looking for things was boring, and looking for things underwater was not a human job at all. The bottom of the lake was formed by the cooling of the original crater magma, and it is not flat, and you can even see the shape of the lava after solidification. Some places are layered like terraces, twists and turns like a labyrinth, and consume a lot of her time.
Although the Gold Eater is gifted, it has a small brain capacity, in other words, it has a low IQ, a stupid mind, and often squeaks. She was excited at first to find the sword, who knew that the volcano was rich in minerals, many of which were metal elements, and the stupid mouse led her all the way, but in the end it was a mass of scrap copper and scrap metal. Sometimes it is still a little more competitive, and it can find a very pure black iron block from the volcanic eruption, if this thing is sold outside, it can be sold for thousands of spirit stones, but now she only wants to find the Nanming Lihuo Sword!
There is no good way to deal with this. This thing was born with a little mental retardation, what tricks does he have? But after being tortured for an hour, Ning Xiaoxian came up with a way, that is, to let Tu Duan summon a soul clone, attach it to this stupid person, and use its talent to help her continue her search work. Although Tu Duan also has his own work in his hands, but it is not easy for soul cultivation to use two or even three or four purposes......?