Chapter 274: The Ancient Road is Long
Only Duan Duxue blinked a pair of big watery eyes, she has lived in the city since she was a child, and she is very curious about this ability to surpass the weather forecast.
After inquiring about the location of the Ningjiang Ancient Road, the three of them found a human-powered tricycle and led them to the goal.
The tricycle driver was an uncle in his fifties, with dark skin, strong muscles, and wrinkles on his hands and face, which looked like the result of years of exposure to the wind and sun.
The uncle was very talkative, and while pedaling hard, he introduced them to Ningjiang Town, where he had lived all his life.
Tricycle Lin Yun listened to the uncle's introduction without a word, most of the content he had seen from books in the past, but it became a lot more vivid when he said it from the uncle's mouth.
Duan Duxue listened to it with relish, these new things that she had never been exposed to before, as if they had brought her to another new world, and she really regarded herself as a tourist.
Xia Tong was absent-minded, looking around aimlessly, about to meet his father, or in this embarrassing way, which made him a little upset.
The three of them, each with their own thoughts, slowly crossed the road under the guidance of the tricycle uncle, and came to a quiet confiding.
The tricycle could only take them here, Lin Yun paid the fare, and specially gave the tricycle uncle an extra fifty yuan, which was regarded as his remuneration for the part-time tour guide along the way.
The tricycle uncle thanked him repeatedly, and after saying goodbye to everyone, he also left his mobile phone number, and then went back happily.
In order to be in a hurry, the three of them didn't have time to eat, so they just took out the bread and water prepared in advance from their backpacks, and while eating, they stepped into this ancient road of Ningjiang.
Because it is the off-season for tourism, and today is a working day, there are not many tourists on the Ningjiang Ancient Road.
The whole Ningjiang Ancient Road is made up of many stones of different sizes, which have experienced perennial wind and rain, as well as the trampling and climbing of tourists, the surface of the stones has become smooth and round, and if it rains, it will increase the risk of slipping.
The speed of the three of them was not fast, this was mainly to take care of Xia Tong, although he was proficient in enchantment, his martial arts cultivation was limited, and he couldn't even keep up with Duan Duxue's footsteps, let alone Lin Yun.
"Where did they meet Xia Shangyuan?" Lin Yun poured a few mouthfuls of water into his mouth, wiped the water stains from the corners of his mouth and asked.
"It should be in the middle of the Ningjiang Ancient Road, a place called Guhan Canyon." Duan Duxue replied.
Since they couldn't determine Xia Shangyuan's exact location, the three of them could only use the most clumsy way to go to the place where the Duan family had met Xia Shangyuan before, and try to try their luck again.
"I hope he hasn't left here yet." Lin Yun glanced up at the gray sky and muttered to himself.
The deeper the three of them walked deeper into the ancient road, the denser the trees on both sides became, and the sunlight poured down mottled through the layers of emerald green leaves, sprinkling on the ancient road and on them.
The tranquility and lightness of the surroundings make the ancient road more and more deep and mysterious, and the rugged mountain and stone road seems to have come to an end several times, but after turning a corner, it becomes dark and bright, and so on countless times, and finally comes to a relatively open space.
Among the rocks of the clearing, there are several rushing streams, constantly flowing in the same direction, converging into a pool of tranquil water, and from a distance, a vast scene of smoke and waves.
Lin Yun knew that this place was called Gudao Tianchi, which was a natural lake, and not far from that was the Guhan Canyon, and before that, there was a rugged mountain road.
As if she had discovered a new world, Duan Duxue happily ran towards the lake, stood on the rocks standing by the lake, and shouted at Lin Yun and Xia Tong: "Come here, there are fish in here!" ”
Lin Yun and Xia Tong looked at each other, and they had to admire this girl's heartlessness and heartlessness, so quickly put the matter of saving people behind her.
Lin Yun came to the edge of the ancient road Tianchi, looked into the lake at will, and saw that the lake water was clear and rippling, and there were indeed groups of small fish swimming in it, the speed was so fast, but it was difficult for ordinary people to catch it with their hands.
"Let's go, when it rains later, the ancient road will be even more difficult to walk." Xia Tong looked at the misty lake and said with a frown.
Lin Yun glanced back at Xia Tong, as if he was aware, but he didn't want to ask more, so he just echoed casually: "Xia Tong is right, let's get down to business first." ”
Duan Duxue reluctantly took out her mobile phone, took pictures of this beautiful scenery given by nature, and then followed Lin Yun and Xia Tong to embark on the ancient path again and walk towards the ancient cold canyon.
This time, the mountain road is more difficult to walk than the previous ancient road, and the branches and wild chrysanthemums blooming all over the mountain make people feel like they are in the dense forest of the fairy mountain.
But the further I walked, the lower the temperature became, and there was a chill that melted into the rocks, slowly rising from the soles of my feet and flowing all over my body in an instant, making Xia Tong and Duan Duxue shiver at the same time.
"It's cold." Xia Tong bent down and rubbed his knees, straightened up and said.
"It's not winter yet, and even if there is a temperature difference between the mountains and the city, it shouldn't be so much different."
Lin Yun said, stretched out his fingers, and felt in the air for a while, only to feel that the mountain wind was cold and biting, and the temperature was likely to reach below zero, which was obviously extremely abnormal.
At this time, I heard Duan Duxue shouting, "Look, it's all frozen there!" ”
The two of them looked in the direction pointed by Duan Duxue, and saw that there was really a lot of frost in the shade of the mountain road, which coalesced into a white expanse, like a harsh winter.
"Guhan Canyon, that's why it got its name, right?" Xia Tong said with a dry smile.
This is Xia Tong's cultivation is the lowest, and in terms of resisting the cold, he is also the most poor, he is still wearing autumn clothes, in this almost zero degree environment, he is really shivering from the cold.
"Not exactly, the special environment here will indeed make the temperature drop a lot, but it is impossible to exaggerate this point."
After Lin Yun finished speaking, he stopped, carefully observed the changes around him, and continued to move forward according to the original plan when he couldn't figure out the situation, which was undoubtedly a very dangerous thing.
At this moment, a delicate voice sounded in Lin Yun's ears: "Master, this place is extremely yin, it is likely to be a ghost valley!" ”
"Ghost Valley?" Lin Yun was shocked, and the term in Linglong's mouth suddenly startled him.
The so-called Ghost Valley, Lin Yun had seen it in some ancient books in his early years, just like its name, countless Yin Spirits gathered here for various reasons, making the Yin Qi in this place continue to increase, and finally formed an extremely Yin area, completely reduced to the territory of Yin Souls.
Normally, the birth of the Ghost Valley is caused by some potential factors, such as the fact that there are some extremely yin things buried in the ground here, so that the yin spirits gather in order to absorb the yin qi, and finally form a ghost valley.
But in Lin Yun's opinion, this possibility does not exist, because the Guhan Canyon has existed for a long time, if there was something extremely yin buried underground, this place would have become a ghost valley long ago, and it is impossible for it to change until now.
What's more, there are tourists coming and going every day on the Ningjiang Ancient Road, and it is easy to find that the temperature here is different, and the relevant parties have never reported it, which shows that this phenomenon is only recent, and even just formed today!
In this way, there seems to be only one plausible explanation, and that is that just now, they stepped into an invisible barrier!
Lin Yun's idea was immediately recognized by Xia Tong.
In fact, as early as when he was in the ancient road Tianchi, Xia Tong felt that the surrounding environment was a little wrong, but he was not sure at the time, so he didn't bring it up, and now it seems that he may have made a fatal mistake......
Being able to arrange an enchantment in such a large area that even Xia Tong is difficult to detect proves that this person's mastery of the enchantment has reached an unstoppable level, looking at all the events that happened before, all the spearheads are pointed at the same person - Xia Shangyuan!
However, now that the three of them are trapped in the enchantment, they don't know where Xia Shangyuan is hiding, even if they guess that he did it, there is nothing they can do about him, the only thing they can do is to find a way to get out of here first.
According to Xia Tong's account, every enchantment master has a sense of his own enchantment, and once the enchantment is destroyed, he can detect it as soon as possible, which means that as long as this enchantment is broken, Xia Shangyuan may show up.
But this is easy to say, if you want to break the barrier arranged by Xia Shangyuan, how can it be so easy to talk on paper?
Now, the greatest hope is in Xia Tong, as Xia Shangyuan's son, he should be the most familiar with his father, if even he is at a loss, let alone saving people, it will be a luxury for the three people here to get out.
I saw Xia Tong sitting on a rock on the side of a mountain road, his eyebrows locked, thinking hard, the enchantments he knew were all learned from his father, and now it was not easy for him to deal with his father in turn......
As time passed, the temperature here became lower and lower, and now not only Xia Tong, but even Duan Duxue couldn't stand it a little, and kept rubbing her cold little hands and trotting in place.
In contrast, only Lin Yun was not affected, his cultivation was already much higher than the other two, coupled with the effect of the "Emperor Extreme Qi Dispersion Technique", it condensed into a layer of aura on the surface of his body, making it impossible for the cold qi to invade his body.
"Let's keep going, it's better than freezing to death here." Lin Yun proposed.
"No, the further we go, the more likely we are to fall into other traps, and we are at least safe for now." Xia Tong immediately objected.