Chapter 823: Starlight and Black Fire
Those things, since they will be moved away by Kuriyama with great effort, and such a white stone castle is built on the ground, and the things are hidden inside, and even a bunch of women are brought in as cover, even if someone finds out here, after coming in, they will only think that this person is famous, and like that Chiyuan, he is also a womanizer, and he will not think too much.
That means that none of the things in this underground palace are mortal, even those large and small archways, flower pots, and even the soil and plants in the flower pots that can be dismantled.
Otherwise, Kuriyama wouldn't have had to spend so much money to move these things up from below.
But for Jiang Ning, this is another problem.
Since those large and small archways and flower pots have their own uses, it is not enough to use them directly in the underground palace, and maybe it will be more secretive, so why do you have to move them? Anyway, as long as a few women are hidden in the castle above, even if others are curious to follow them, and he happens not to notice, there will be no problem.
Thinking of this, Jiang Ning shifted his gaze to the empty front yard right now.
"There must still be some kind of restriction here," Jiang Ning said to himself, "so much so that even if Nali Mountain has runes that can freely pass through the suspension bridge, there is no way to stay here for long." At least, there is no way to stay next to those two torii. ”
There are only a few situations where the building can bring convenience to the practitioner, or the words engraved on it are a certain mental method, combat technique, or the material of the building itself can help the cultivator to cultivate.
According to the Tasha practice mantra that appeared on the stone wall before, even if there is a text on the torii, it must be the text of their original world, and Kuriyama saw it, and I am afraid that he will not understand what it means at all.
Then, the reason why he moved those archways and flower pots out is probably because the materials of those things themselves can directly help him in his cultivation.
"It's probably some kind of material that can attract gathering star power, right?" Jiang Ning thought for a while, then walked over directly, stood on the edge of the stone pier left after the archway was removed, and quietly operated the heart-warming heart method in his body, and sure enough, the flow rate and gathering speed of star power around the stone pier increased by nearly two percent.
The cultivation speed blessing of two percent does not seem to be much, but over time, the improvement in strength is still considerable. What's more, this is just a stone pier, if the entire archway is there, the bonus of cultivation speed should be more than that.
Jiang Ning originally felt that Chi Yuan had mastered the cultivation technique of purple heart worms after all, even if he couldn't find purple heart amber, he could use a sufficient amount of purple heart worms to absorb the power of demon beasts and refine them for his own use, plus his own cultivation talent was also superior in this rainforest, if Chi Yuan wanted to catch up with his progress, it would be impossible to rely on his own independent cultivation alone.
The so-called people have no foreign wealth and no wealth, horses have no night grass and no fat, Jiang Ning has felt that this person must have some unknown secret since he saw Lishan before, and now it seems that it is the flower pot and archway that he moved from the underground palace.
Although Jiang Ning's inference is not completely correct, it is already eight or nine years old, at this moment, Ziyu and Dong Xun, who are staying outside, because they don't want to go where they want to go after they go up, so they feel that they should live in the empty white stone castle for a day or two, and it is not too late to take action after thinking clearly.
On the first floor, in addition to the garden, the warehouse and the stove room, there are all the residences specially arranged by Kuriyama for those delicate women, and there are some swings, pavilions, ponds, pianos, chess, calligraphy and paintings and other things for those women to play when he is not there, there is nothing special about it.
The two of them stood in the courtyard outside, feeling a little bored for a while, at this time, Dong Xun suddenly looked at the high wall on the north side of the castle, "There is a building there, idle is idle, should we go there and go around?"
Ziyu nodded, in fact, he was also a little curious about there, in fact, according to the normal castle pattern, it would not be possible to build a pavilion on top of that kind of high wall, which was not in line with aesthetics, and it was also a trouble for those who built castles.
But since this thing exists, then there must be a reason for its existence.
For example, there is something hidden above the attic, or there is a certain space hidden under the attic, where the high wall meets the mountain behind it, and the existence of the attic is only to hide the existence of the space below.
This time, Ziyu also guessed correctly.
When the two of them walked up the stone stairs to the top of the attic, the door of the attic was locked, not only locked, but also laid a barrier around the perimeter.
Looking through the barrier, you can see stone piers, futons, and weapons on display, which is obviously a practice room built by Kuriyama for himself here.
However, under normal circumstances, the practice site would be built directly on the ground, and it is obviously unreasonable to build it in this way.
Therefore, he used eight or nine points of strength and stomped on the ground fiercely.
"Empty. Dong Xun's ears moved slightly, and then he smiled: "There is still a space below." ”
Immediately, she fell on Ziyu's body and said with a smile: "I'm not good at breaking the seal and finding a passage, so it's up to you." ”
Ziyu snapped his fingers and smiled lightly: "No problem." ”
After a while, the two of them appeared in the attic, and Dong Xun knocked around the room, and soon found a narrow opening leading to the bottom.
After the two of them went down, what they saw was a circular exercise platform made of gray gravel, and on the edge of the exercise platform, there were several or eight flower pots with simple shapes and heavy textures, the soil in the flower pots was purple, and some common fruits were planted in the pots, but those fruits had been eaten by people, leaving only bare branches and leaves.
Dong Xun didn't feel anything for a while, he just felt that it was refreshing to stand here, and the strength of his body recovered very quickly, but Ziyu, who cultivated star power, immediately found that when he stood on the practice platform, his cultivation speed had almost doubled!
"Good place!" Let's practice here during this time...
Underground palace.
Jiang Ning wandered around the front yard for a long time, and there was nothing new to discover, and the root barrier of the big locust tree, he couldn't break it for a while, but whenever he took the initiative to attack the roots, the big locust tree seemed to have woken up, and even launched the root system to take the initiative to attack Jiang Ning.
According to his current strength, when dealing with the locust tree, he can only dodge it with the subtlety of his body, and he can't bear the volley power of the root system of the locust tree at all.
Entangled for a moment, there was no other way except to dodge, the body of the locust tree was as hard as steel, and the Shen Yin Long Sword finally hit it once, as if it hit a diamond, it could only rub out some sparks, and it couldn't be destroyed at all. Therefore, Jiang Ning no longer wasted time, but turned around and went back, and then paced back and forth in the front yard of the underground palace.
Since these doors are closed and no one is allowed to enter, it means that there are still some hidden obstacles in this front yard, and the dead Kuriyama has not been discovered before, or has not been able to solve it.
At this time, it is often the best choice to wait and see what happens.
Jiang Ning was also calm, found a large pile of food left by Li Shan in a corner of the front yard, and after finding out and eating and drinking some of it, he walked to the stone pier left by the big archway, sat down cross-legged, and cultivated quietly.
Even if he doesn't have any gains in this underground palace, during this time, he can also use the help of the stone pier to cultivate his star power in the rest of the time.
A few hours passed quickly.
In the outside world, the sun has completely sunk behind the mountain, and the moon has quietly hung above the eastern sky.
The underground palace seemed to have passed some kind of unknown boundary, and above the pearl on the top of the cave, the originally extremely bright moonlight had completely dimmed at this time, and the cave began to become pitch black.
Jiang Ning's pupil technique is not ordinary after all, although now in the world of the giant scorpion palace, it is not possible to directly see the flow and change of regular lines like in the original world, but it is still possible to achieve night vision.
But when the darkness came, Jiang Ning was surprised to find that he seemed to have lost his vision, and he couldn't see anything at all.
He immediately realized that something must have happened, and this incident was most likely the reason why he had not been able to enter any of the surrounding doors before.
The fact that his eyes are unable to see does not mean that Jiang Ning has no way to perceive the changes around him.
On the contrary, as early as when Qingyang Peak was studying art, Tong Zhi had already trained him how to deal with attacks in the shadows in a similar environment.
Among the mortals, the mastery of listening and distinguishing is actually a very useful skill.
Because, in many dense places, traps or formations, there will be similar means of sensory restriction, and there are even some masters who directly master some kind of means of sensory deprivation.
In situations where people are deprived of vision, effectively using the sense of hearing to dodge attacks and counterattack is a means that a true master must master.
Jiang Ning still clearly remembers that in the small black house, in order to practice the ability to listen to voices and distinguish positions, he suffered how many tomatoes, rotten eggs, and rotten vegetable leaves from Tong Fat Man.
The ability is practiced in such a little bit of water milling.
Although the change in the airflow in the front yard was very weak, Jiang Ning could still clearly perceive it.
"One, two, three, four......"
In the darkness, Jiang Ning silently recited rhythmically in his heart.
In his perception, it was obvious that there was some kind of object of similar size that was not small in size, and the number was not small.
After they appeared, they slowly emerged from the top of the stone wall, and fell little by little, changing their position against the surrounding high walls.
Jiang Ning was originally ready to defend, but those things that kept wandering around were always just hovering at the height above his head, and they didn't mean to get close to him at all, so Jiang Ning was slightly relieved.
However, the change did not stop there.
There was also an opening somewhere on the ground, and some slightly smaller beings ran out, also moving under the root of the wall, and they didn't mean to get close to Jiang Ning.
"Thirty-six overhead, thirty-five underground. When nothing new appeared in the surrounding space, Jiang Ning said silently in his heart.
These things should have been secretly in line with the number of heaven and earth, but there was one less thing on the ground, could it be that it was destroyed by the chestnut mountain?
At this moment, thirty-five things on the ground began to rush towards Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning's gaze couldn't see anything at this time, and he didn't know what those things were, but with the subtle and chaotic sound and the slight changes in the surrounding airflow, Jiang Ning was still able to determine their exact location and an approximate volume.
He has just started to cultivate, and the previous method of stepping on the gap in space is just a basic footwork that is not even getting started, but it is already very powerful.
After all, with Jiang Ning's current strength, in this world, if he was allowed to break through the space by himself with his own strength and step into the cracks of the space, he would not be able to do it at all, and he was far from having that level of strength.
However, after learning Tasha Xing's body method, he can not use the star power in his body, but only rely on the body method itself to pull the space, so that he himself can achieve the level that is close to foul, which shows that the grade of this body method is much higher than the Liuyun Moon Body Method that Jiang Ning had mastered before.
Although Jiang Ning could easily dodge the impact of those guys on the ground right now with just relying on the Flowing Cloud Crossing Moon Body Method, he still chose to do it once and for all, using Tasha Xing to appear in the gap of space, no matter how those things attacked, it was impossible to touch him.
Sure enough, his body only took a slight step forward, and it seemed that he was still standing on the ground, and the objects that hit him were not able to touch him, and for a while, as if he was stupid, he was crowded around Jiang Ning in a daze.
At this moment, the thirty-six moving objects above his head suddenly lit up, and Jiang Ning's vision also recovered.
However, for some reason, under the illumination of that light, he immediately couldn't maintain his state in the gap between the space, and returned to the outside space.
Fortunately, Tasha's body movement is also extremely fast in terms of speed, Jiang Ning turned and jumped in the front yard, constantly dodging attacks on the ground.
At this time, he saw clearly that there were thirty-six lamps suspended above his head, and these lamps emitted a cold light on your face, Jiang Ning could clearly feel that it was also a kind of star power.
Moreover, when that star power shone on his body, Jiang Ning only felt that his body strength, as well as the meridians, and the level of star power in the acupoints began to increase, and with the passage of time, the magnitude of this increase was also constantly increasing.
What appeared on the ground was thirty-five flames as black as ink.
When they say flames, it's just because they look like flames.
There was a black light beating, and the shape was no different from the flame, but those things had no temperature at all, neither the kind of mutated cold fire, nor the alien fire that could scorch people, but whenever they approached him, Jiang Ning would have a feeling of heart palpitations.
The black flames were wrapped in a hollowed-out copper ball, and below it was a base and a long stand, between which the copper ball and the bracket were connected by bronze chains, swaying as they continued to move, and occasionally a trace of black flame jumped up, almost touching his body.
Jiang Ning continued to dodge the impact of the black flame lamp, he knew that the longer he delayed, the more benefits he would get from the star lamp above his head, but gradually he found that he was not the only one who got benefits from the star lamp.
The black flame lamps on the ground also became more powerful under the light of the star lights, and the speed at which the lamp body rushed towards him was getting faster and faster.
Jiang Ning dodged, his eyes were still observing the surrounding environment, and soon, he found that in this front yard, there was a corner, which was a safe place, although there were star lights shining overhead, but all the black flame lamps would not go to that side.
And there, it is exactly where Kuriyama used to store his own food.
He immediately realized that the dead Kuriyama was not unaware that there was such a test here, he was just limited to his own strength and could not pass it, so he chose to hide in that safe corner.
"That place wasn't attacked, maybe because there was one less flame lamp on the ground. Jiang Ning subconsciously thought like this.
He subconsciously wanted to retreat to that place.
However, as soon as he came out, he retracted it and continued to dodge the onslaught of the flame lamps in the front yard.
If he stood in that safe place and could still absorb the power of the star lantern, then after so many years, Lishan's strength would not be at this level at all, and the Chiyuan tribe should have been annexed by him a long time ago.
This shows that hiding there can only be said to ensure safety, but there will be no gain.
Therefore, Jiang Ning constantly switched between the two body methods of Liuyun Crossing the Moon and Tasha Xing, skillfully dodging attacks again and again, until the sun began to rise on the second day outside, the starlight above his head disappeared, and the black fire lamps under his feet also flew back from the mountain wall one by one, but the black bronze lamps that flew back on the ground were only thirty-four, and the last lamp was still in front of Jiang Ning, without the slightest intention of going back.
Immediately afterwards, the copper ball, the lamp pole, and the base slowly deformed, flying up in front of Jiang Ning, and then continued to shrink, shrink, and became a small bronze hook, which naturally flew into Jiang Ning's palm, and the black flame that lost its restraint turned into a black line of fire, divided into two, constantly tapering and lengthening, like two small dragons, drilling into Jiang Ning's body along the nostrils.