Chapter Eighty-Seven: Demon Suppression Tower
It was early morning on the second day of the trip to the Black Mist Mountains.
The cold haze has not yet dissipated, and the air is still gloomy, completely lacking the freshness and vitality of the morning sunrise.
The two of them packed up, left the small valley where they had temporarily sheltered last night, and continued to move towards the Black Fog Mountain Range, not daring to show their skills lightly and cautiously along the way.
After passing through a dense forest of black trees where the leaves had fallen away, we had reached the Black Mist Mountains.
A gravel path into the mountain winds into the mist of the mountain range, Xu Ning looked around, and saw that on the strange peaks and cliffs of the Black Mist Mountain Range, there seemed to be no grass, and there was a bare scene everywhere, it seemed that the poisonous gas here could not even breed grass and trees.
The two walked side by side, following the path into the mountain.
Except for the faint sound of thunder coming from between the mountains, it was extremely quiet, and there were no insects chirping, no birds, and no monsters.
The two of them unconsciously quickened their steps, and finally began to use their way of getting up, like lightning rushing through, Xu Ning felt that there was a wind in his ears, and there was something strange and unknown following them behind.
The two men walked for two hours before they reached the depths of the mountain, and the path into the mountain had come to an end, and a huge bottomless ravine appeared at their feet.
Xu Ning stood on the cliff and lowered his head to look.
But I saw nothing in the black cloud below, except for the black fog that was tumbling and steaming up, not even the shadow of the birds, the black fog here was faintly wrapped in a vicious atmosphere, and the fishy smell overflowed everywhere, and the smell was disgusting.
The sound of thunder was faintly heard in the air, and he looked up at it, and his heart was shaken:
Oh, my God! It was really hard for him to believe that something like a mountain peak was floating in the air above the group, and the qiē in front of him was real.
Chen Jin just smiled when he looked at his surprised expression, and ran to a stone tablet in the distance, getting busy.
The more Xu Ning looked at it, the more surprised he was in his heart.
I saw a strange mountain peak floating overhead, and after the thunder, four bolts of lightning would flow down in four directions, and on each of those four directions stood a square stone monument.
Xu Ning hurriedly ran to a stone monument on the cliff where he was standing, and Chen Jin was carefully checking left and right.
This tall and simple stele is densely engraved with some runes, among which there are four big characters that are particularly conspicuous, he has been learning talismans with the old man Huangji for some days, and vaguely feels that these four words are: destroy the gods and demons.
What does the four words of destroying gods and demons mean? He was about to open his mouth to ask, but when he saw Chen Jin running to the stone wall behind the stone tablet to look at something carefully, his face was solemn, so he didn't ask any more.
He also found that one of the lightning bolts cast from the hanging mountain was connected to the stone tablet, and it did not seem to be lightning, but other electric rays, although it flickered endlessly not far overhead, and did not feel any danger at all, and this electric light was very soft.
"Whew!"
Before Chen Jin turned back to the stele, he breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "It seems that the energy here is still very stable, and there is no change in a single qiē." ”
Xu Ning was puzzled.
Chen Jin pointed to the strange mountain peak floating in the air above the huge ravine and said, "That's the Demon Suppression Tower." ”
When Xu Ning heard this, he was dumbfounded, he had been in astonishment for the past two days, this wild place was really strange.
"Demon Suppression Tower? Isn't this a mountain? Xu Ning asked, "When you came, it was hanging and floating in the air?" ”
He didn't care about this question, and even Chen Jin, who had never been smiling enough, laughed out loud at this time: "Hahaha......"
Xu Ning became more and more puzzled: "Senior Brother Chen Jin, this?" ”
"Don't say the mountain was floating there when I came." Chen Jin tried his best to hold back his laughter and continued, "Even our grandfather and ancestor don't know when it floated up. ”
"So no one knows?"
"It's just that I don't know how authentic it is, in fact, there are still people who know a little bit about it." Chen Jin put his hand on the runes on the stone tablet and recited the magic formula.
Xu Ning saw that the stone tablet moved like a living body, and the runes engraved on the stone were all moving and becoming golden.
"These ancient texts record the origin and story of the Demon Suppression Mountain, that is, the Demon Suppression Tower." Chen Jin explained to him, "This Demon Suppression Tower was not originally here, it was moved here a thousand years ago. ”
A mountain was moved here, and it was floating. Xu Ning really couldn't understand it.
"You won't understand these things after I talk about them for a while, and I'll explain them to you slowly when I get back." As soon as Chen Jin finished speaking, he rotated his hand vigorously, and saw that the stele trembled slightly.
Xu Ning looked up, and a thick and dark iron cable appeared on the line where the original white electric light flowed, and it was directly connected to the Demon Suppression Mountain suspended above it from the end of the stone stele.
If it weren't for witnessing it with my own eyes today, I would never have imagined that there would be such an incredible creation as zài in this heaven and earth.
"Come with me." As soon as Chen Jin's words fell, the person had already jumped on the iron cable, and his moon-white clothes were puffed up with the wind.
Xu Ning did not hesitate to follow the flying body, the black iron chain was extremely thick, and the two of them stood at the same time without moving.
Chen Jin nodded and climbed up first.
Xu Ning followed, walking on the ground, only a moment was already in the sky, the wind in his ears was whispering, blowing up the clothes and long hair of the two, and the Buddha was like two immortals flying through the clouds, chic and handsome.
It's just that the more Xu Ning walked up, the more he felt shortness of breath and tightness in his chest, and he felt a little comfortable after the vitality in his body was running hard. I thought to myself, "The demonic aura above this chain is much stronger than below. ”
His feeling became stronger as he got closer to the peak of the Demon Suppression Mountain, and he gradually understood in his heart: "It turns out that this huge gully below with no visible bottom is where the demonic energy is steaming out, and these four stone tablets are estimated to be the sealing formation for sealing demons." ”
He was not wrong at all, these four stone tablets were not only the formation formation of sealing the monsters, but also the black iron cable that absorbed the demonic qi here and transmitted it to the demon suppression tower above.
Walking under the big black iron rope, Xu Ning's heart inexplicably remembered that the eighteen soul destroying chains in his body, which had been integrated into the flesh and bone marrow, were not similar, and he couldn't help but laugh in his heart.
"Senior Brother Xu has arrived." Overhead, hearing Chen Jin's greeting, Xu Ning kicked people with both feet and flew up like a bird, jumping directly onto the huge black mountain peak that was floating.
It is said that this Demon Mountain is huge because it is actually a giant tower that suppresses demons, but in fact, it is smaller than the surrounding peaks below, I don't know how much.
There is also no grass on it, and the black stone is all the same, and the sunlight above is blurred and glows black.
"Obsidian." Xu Ning exclaimed.
"It's obsidian, the same stone as the Trial Pagoda at Tongtian Peak."
Chen Jin replied, walking down a stone staircase into the distance.
Xu Ning also moved and walked, and heard a loud thunder roar, several lightning bolts jumped in front of him and behind him, and the ground under his feet trembled violently, he raised his eyes to look at Chen Jin in front of him, and he was very relieved to see how he looked at him and was not strange.
This strange tremor like an earthquake was about to happen every now and then, and as soon as there was a tremor, there was thunder in the dark clouds that gathered on the top of the mountain, and lightning would be sucked into the obsidian and down the stele.
After walking through this stone step, I have reached the halfway point of Zhenmo Mountain, and a mountain gate appears in front of me.
Xu Ning could see at a glance a few clumsy big characters engraved on the lintel: Zhenmo Mountain.
He thought to himself that this Demon Suppression Tower must be in it, and as soon as his mind moved, the person walked in, entered a small courtyard, and rarely saw a few pine trees standing in the courtyard.
Xu Ning followed Senior Brother Chen into a small hall, which was dim and dark, and he could barely see what was around him.
Chen Jin lit a few oil lamps and sighed: "Originally, there were special people guarding here. ”
His sigh was extremely heavy, and it seemed that he must have experienced some tragic change, no wonder this handsome young man always had a depressed look on his face.
With the orange light diffused by the oil lamp, several wood carved figures appeared in Xu Ning's eyes.
Although these figures are old and dusty, they still make people feel lifelike, young or old, with expressions ranging from angry to smiling, and he counted them slightly, and there were eight in total.
"Probably this is the senior master who established the Demon Suppression Array." Xu Ning thought to himself.
The two of them returned to the courtyard, turned and walked through the back door towards the back of the mountain, and there was another violent tremor under their feet, which was louder than before.
"Look, that's the Demon Suppression Tower."
Xu Ning's eyes followed the direction of Chen Jin's finger, and he was surprised to find that a strange hill shrouded in black mist appeared in front of him.
This hill turned out to be the Demon Suppression Tower!
The Demon Suppression Tower is indeed just a huge stone pillar, the obsidian tower body is thick in the black fog, and the entire small mountain peak exudes a mysterious and unpredictable atmosphere.
In fact, in this wild continent, which one is not mysterious?
It's just that Xu Ning doesn't know yet.
In the end, they stopped in front of this "high tower", and Chen Jin left Xu Ning alone to look around the Demon Suppression Tower.
Xu Ning faintly heard strange sounds coming out of this cylindrical mountain, these sounds were very noisy, there were human roars, monsters and other violent roars, and there seemed to be women's crying
The top of the Demon Suppression Tower is also the place where the demonic energy is the strongest. The churning and rolling demonic aura is as thick as the dark clouds that accumulate before a summer thunderstorm, as if countless demons and evil things are trapped in it, wantonly venting and tearing.
"I came to inspect half a month ago, and the demonic aura was not as strong as it was today." Chen Jin came back from the other side, frowned and said, he didn't know if he was talking to himself or to Xu Ning.
Xu Ning heard him and said thoughtfully: "Judging from the information sent by the stone tablet below, the demonic qi of this Demon Wind Mountain Range has not become stronger, but the demonic qi in this Demon Suppression Tower is obviously more unstable than usual. ”
Chen Jin fell into his usual contemplation, and after a long time, he raised his head and said coldly: "There must be an outsider coming in!" ”
Xu Ning's heart was also condensed when he heard this, and he thought: "Although I don't know what the impact of outsiders coming in here will be, judging from the solemn expression on Senior Brother Chen's face, it must be a very strict matter." ”
Just as the two of them were thinking about their thoughts, they could only hear that somewhere in this town demon mountain, a sound of tearing gold and stone echoed.
This strong and fierce anger made both of them suffocate when they heard it.
Chen Jin drew his long sword and discerned the direction of the sound, like a white lightning bolt shooting straight past.
Xu Ning was shocked!