Chapter 311: White Bone Forest
stayed at the inn for one night, and early the next morning, Su Ruoxi set off with Xuanyuan Mo and his party to Huoling Mountain.
Fire Spirit Mountain is in the west of Tianyu City, not far from Tianyu City, and it can be reached in half a day by riding an ordinary horse.
The group hurried non-stop, just in time to arrive at Huoling Mountain at noon.
The entrance to the Fire Spirit Mountain is a long canyon.
On the way here, Xuanyuan Mo told her that in order to find Huoling Mountain, she had to pass through seventeen dangerous canyons.
And at this moment, what is in front of her is only the first course.
Just at the entrance outside the Fire Spirit Mountain, Su Ruoxi could already feel that the temperature here was much higher than the others.
There was a strong burning sensation in the air, steaming her sweat continuously.
"Miss Su, the terrain here is dangerous and dangerous, why don't you let the people below go ahead and open the way?"
At this time, Xuanyuan Mo rode to Su Ruoxi's side and said to her in a deliberative tone.
Su Ruoxi nodded and agreed, "Then I'll trouble you!" ”
Someone clears the way, and of course she is willing to follow.
Walking into the canyon, the light became much darker, but the burning sensation did not dim at all.
"Look, master!"
It didn't take long for Tian Yu to find something, and he pointed to a place on the edge of the canyon.
Su Ruoxi looked over and saw a white skeleton scattered there, and she didn't know how long that person had been dead.
The further you go, the more white bones there are on both sides of the canyon, and some of them even have green moss-like things growing on them.
Looking at the scene on both sides, Su Ruoxi sighed, she didn't expect a canyon to ask for so many people.
Hearing Su Ruoxi's sigh, Xuanyuan Mo, who was walking in front of her, turned around and explained with a smile: "Miss Su must be surprised, right? ”
"If you guess correctly, these people should have died here because they wanted to go to Fire Spirit Mountain to find Fire Spirit Stones for money."
"Looks like you know a lot about this place!"
Su Ruoxi teased casually, all the way over, no matter what he saw or talked about, Xuanyuan Mo could say a thing or two, as if he was very familiar with this place.
"Fire Spirit Mountain is not something that anyone can enter, and if you want to get something, you naturally have to make full preparations in advance."
Xuanyuan Mo smiled indifferently, he never did things that he didn't plan and wasn't sure of, that's why he seemed so confident.
After walking for a while, the top of the canyon became narrower and narrower, and finally when you looked up, you could only see a glimmer of sky.
Su Ruoxi cautiously followed the team, and when she was about to leave the first canyon, Xuanyuan Mo suddenly gave her a black cloak.
"Put it on, put your hat on, there's rotten water left in front of you, and if you accidentally drip on your body, it will burn your skin."
Su Ruoxi took the cloak and glanced up at the team in front of her, all of them had already put on this black cloak.
"Can this cloak still keep rotten water out?"
How can an ordinary-looking cloak withstand the erosion of rotten water?
Su Ruoxi knew that the rotten water in their mouths was actually sour water.
Huoling Mountain is an active volcano, and it's normal for these to have some sour water.
Xuanyuan Mo smiled and explained: "Don't underestimate this cloak, this cloak has been dyed with dark water, not only can it resist acid water, even fire can't burn it." ”
Seeing that the exit was getting closer and closer, Su Ruoxi could clearly hear the sound of water ticking in front of her.
So, she didn't say much to Xuanyuan Mo, but put the cloak on her body.
About a hundred meters from the exit, large droplets of water began to rain down from the top of the canyon.
The water droplets eroded the ground for a long time, making many holes in the ground.
Their men and horses passed quickly, and because they had been prepared, they did not suffer any casualties after they came out.
Out of the first canyon, not far is the second one, the middle of the dozen canyons is very short, but the space inside is narrow, and the line of sight is not good, so they walk extremely slowly.
Despite the darkness in the canyon, they could not light torches for fear of a fire.
In every canyon, there are some places that need to be paid attention to, and if you are not careful, it is easy to die here.
With Xuanyuan Mo here, Su Ruoxi hardly needed to worry about anything, because he seemed to have explored the situation in each canyon very clearly, and he had made all preparations in advance.
When passing through the sixteenth canyon, there was a pungent and unpleasant smell in the air in the canyon.
They were veiled with quenched medicine, so that they were not poisoned by the gas.
And just when she first entered the canyon, Su Ruoxi noticed that something was wrong.
At the entrance to the canyon, she saw more than a dozen corpses, and next to one of them, there was a short sword.
She clearly saw that the hilt of the short sword was engraved with a tiger talisman pattern.
And this pattern, she also saw it on Xuanyuan Mo's guard sword.
"Wait a minute!"
Suddenly, Su Ruoxi shouted.
Xuanyuan Mo suddenly stopped, looked at Su Ruoxi suspiciously, and asked, "Miss Su, is there anything wrong?" ”
Su Ruoxi pointed to the short sword not far away, looked at Xuanyuan Mo with sharp eyes and asked, "That sword, I'm afraid you won't be unfamiliar, right?" ”
Xuanyuan Mo understood that when Su Ruoxi said this, he naturally wanted him to give a reasonable explanation.
"Hehe, Miss Su is really observant, presumably when Su Ruoxi came all the way just now, she saw a lot of corpses and bones in each canyon, right?"
Su Ruoxi nodded, she was still thinking about this question before, how could there be so many white bones in the canyon.
If it was the people in Tianyu City, they should know very well that the Fire Spirit Mountain was very dangerous and easy to lose their lives.
If it weren't for the extremely poor people, who would risk their lives to come to such a place to find stones to sell for money?
Thinking like this, Su Ruoxi glanced at the white bones again, and said in surprise: "Could it be that most of the white bones we saw just now are your subordinates?" ”
Su Ruoxi's suspicion was not unreasonable, because Xuanyuan Mo knew too much about the terrain and environment here.
Xuanyuan Mo is a person from Cangyue Country, it is impossible for him to know such a true and detailed understanding of Huoling Mountain, the only possibility is that he sent someone here to investigate.
Xuanyuan Mo smiled indifferently, "Miss Su is right, most of these white bones are indeed my subordinates. ”
"If it weren't for that, how would we be able to get in so smoothly?"
Looking at Xuanyuan Mo's calm expression at the moment, Su Ruoxi gasped, and thought secretly in her heart: "It seems that this Xuanyuan Mo is approachable on the surface, but it turns out that he is also a ruthless character!" ”
Do whatever it takes to achieve your goals!