Chapter 33: Sealing the Demon Valley
In the dark night sky, a bright moon quietly hid into the clouds, casting a thick shadow on the blood lake.
Li Ji and Li Ruoxi slowly floated out from the bottom of the lake, and the swaying fire on the wooden boat was sparse and transparent, like the stars in the sky.
"Is it Brother Li and Miss Li?" Zhou Babao, who was standing on the boat, shouted loudly, and after confirming that it was the two of them, his face was full of smiles, "Finally back......
The surroundings of "Senior Brother ......" are so quiet, only at this time is the most exciting, Xinyan opened her mouth and called, feeling that her heart was about to jump out, and she couldn't calm down for a long time.
"There's really something strange down there, it turns out to be the place where the floating old demon was sealed during the flood period, and the tornado and the big lake monster we encountered before were all his ghosts. After Li Ji and Li Ruoxi climbed into the boat, they breathed slowly, and then recounted the adventures at the bottom of the lake in detail.
"Li Ruoxi is the identity of the wolf girl, if you say it at this time, it is a little inappropriate, first, Miss Li has long since remembered what happened, and there is no proof of death, so everyone will not believe it; second, even if everyone believes what he said, can they accept her? Third, although she was temporarily suppressed by the evil bead, when will she relapse? Is there an antidote? There are many doubts in my heart, and it is difficult to say a word. After thinking about it carefully, Li Ji decided not to mention the matter of the werewolf at the bottom of the lake, and it would be better to find a suitable time in the future!
"Water demon?" Zhou Babao trembled violently, so frightened that he couldn't speak clearly, his face was distorted, he clenched his fists and looked at the blood lake, muttering in his heart, "Fortunately, I didn't go down!"
"Eight treasure porridge, don't stand there in a daze, hurry up and show Miss Li her arm. Li Ji's face turned pale, and he called out anxiously at Zhou Babao, and there was a touch of melancholy in his eyes.
"Hurt?" Hearing this, Zhou Babao held Li Ruoxi's jade arm for a long time, and suddenly shook his head and exclaimed, "Miss Li's arm is broken, but the strange thing is ......"
"What's wrong?" asked in unison, all startled by his movements.
"This ...... Miss Li's hand, although there are traces of breaking, has healed naturally, and it is only dislocated at present. The speed of self-healing is unprecedented. Zhou Baibao was puzzled, scratched his head, and said with a frown.
Xinyan said sarcastically: "I don't think you have the ability to take a good look at Miss Li's injury, put on your face and become fat, and deliberately show off your mystery there!"
Zhou Babao said seriously: "Although I haven't been getting started for a long time and haven't learned any skills, but in addition to eating first, sleeping second, and third, I like to read, and I have read a lot of medical books, and I am really not a stranger to orthopedic treatment techniques......
Li Ji tugged at his sleeve and said, "Is this true?"
"What Ben Bao said has always been responsible, and there is no lie. Zhou Babao saw that everyone didn't believe it, patted his chest a little anxiously, and swore that "Because my Zhou family has been a doctor for generations, I grew up with my ears and eyes and smelling medicine." Hehe, originally my least favorite thing is also medical skills, I can't imagine that I have worked so hard to become a doctor in Shennong Villa, it really hurts my heart!"
"Then why are you still stunned? Hurry up and treat Miss Li, otherwise someone will be in a hurry......" Xinyan glanced at Li Ji's anxious expression and muttered sourly.
Zhou Babao nodded slightly, and slowly sat next to Li Ruoxi, only to see that her appearance was beautiful, although her face was as pale as paper, but it gave people a sense of pity when I saw it, so he called softly: "Miss Li, it will hurt a little later, please bear with me!"
"There's Brother Lao Zhou!" Li Ruoxi raised her head lightly, the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, and her face was flushed with a pair of small dimples.
"By the way, can you tell me how you got hurt?"
"Uh...... I don't remember, it was like a dream, I don't know if I hit somewhere...... Ah......" Before the words were finished, Li Ruoxi suddenly screamed, screaming in pain, tears rolling down, her immature and delicate body trembled violently, and her lips were bitten and bleeding.
"Eight treasure porridge, what's going on?" Li Ji was also startled when he looked at her painful appearance.
"Hey, right...... I can't stop it!" Zhou Babao smiled innocently, pointed to Li Ruoxi's jade arm, and stammered, "Miss Li, you ...... Move your arms and see how?"
Li Ruoxi slowly stretched out her slender jade arm, and there was a look of surprise in her eyes, because she could feel that although her arm was aching faintly, it could basically move freely, and she couldn't help but exhale deeply, and said with emotion: "Huh, it's amazing, my arm can move, thank you Brother Zhou......"
It turned out that Zhou Babao deliberately let her talk to distract her, and then put force on her arm to reset the dislocated joint.
"Just now...... It hurt Miss Li...... I'm sorry. Zhou Babao raised his red fat face slightly, his clear eyes flashed with guilt, so he lowered his head and bowed.
As soon as he bowed, something fell out of his arms, and "jingle" rolled to the ground, and the moonlight reflected the thing, shining, clearly a night pearl.
"Isn't this the Night Pearl in the Death Swamp Underground Palace, when did you steal it?" asked Li Ji as he glared at him, frowning.
"Uh...... How can it be considered stealing? When I left, the bead was ...... Be all abroad...... Fell into my arms. Zhou Babao barely laughed a few times to hide his embarrassment, his big eyes were full of panic, and he hurriedly put the night pearl into his arms, and then slurred.
"This guy will be ashamed of ......," Xinyan said sarcastically, and several of them laughed together.
Li Ji habitually put the thumb of his left hand under his lips and moved back and forth, then stared at Zhou Babao, frowned and said, "Babao porridge, let me tell you something." I inadvertently got an ancient demon treasure at the bottom of the blood lake - the water god halberd, which was originally going to be given to you, because you don't have anything long on weekdays, and when you meet demons and monsters, you know how to hide blindly, what if you encounter a powerful character who can't hide in the future, if you have this treasure, you also have a self-defense thing. However, you kid, as a disciple of Shennong Villa, is not clean and self-loving, but insatiable, I will take back what I just said now!"
"Don't, my brother Li, good brother......" Zhou Babao was surprised and delighted when he heard this, where could he just give up, pestering Li Ji to ask for the water god halberd, and even swore a poisonous oath, "I'll play with this night pearl for a few days, now the underground palace of the Death Swamp no longer exists, it's impossible to return it, it's a big deal that I will hand it over to the villa after I go back, and let the owner dispose of it, what do you think?"
"Okay, okay, don't keep tugging on my sleeve, just give it to you, you have to count!" Li Ji was so soft and hard that he couldn't calm down, and handed over the water halberd.
Zhou Babao was very excited with the water halberd, and kept playing with it in the palm of his hand, and he liked it very much.
After a while, the four of them came to a valley in a wooden boat.
"After the Sealed Demon Valley, it is the Black Forest. Li Ruoxi said to everyone, as if she had come to a familiar place. "But everyone pay attention to safety, the miasma in this area is extremely powerful, and there are often spirit beasts infested. ”
Li Ji looked up and saw this valley, the rolling mountains embedded in the sky, majestic and magnificent, and the peaks soared into the sky.
The mountain walls on both sides are majestic, the valley is circuitous, because the two sides of the rift valley are ten thousand cliffs, there is no way to go, and you can only go along the valley bottom.
There is a large rock standing at the mouth of the valley, on which are written the words "Sealing Demon Valley".
Li Ji wiped the beads of sweat on his chin with the back of his hand, and said suspiciously: "It is said that the miasma of the Southern Wilderness is poisonous, what is the miasma?"
Zhou Babao has loved to dabble in all kinds of books since he was a child, and when it comes to miasma, he is as easy as a treasure: "Miasma is simply the poisonous gas generated by the decay of animals and plants in the forest. The miasma of the Sealed Demon Valley is somewhat different from others, because of its low-lying terrain, great humidity, stone mountains divide qi, earth veins are sparse, the soil is thin and shallow, and the yang qi is exhausted, plus the trees, flowers, birds, feathers, and animal bones accumulate over time, corrupted into gas, curling smoke, wet with fog, ascending and not seeing the way back, looking at it from a distance, it is like the clouds in the forest, the colors are gorgeous.
In the southern wilderness, miasma is prevalent, there are green grass miasma in spring, yellow plum miasma in summer, and yellow grass miasma in autumn. Miasma, light cases vomit and discharge, they can't move for a few days, and there is no cure for severe cases. The miasma of the Sealed Demon Valley is different from the ordinary miasma, and its toxicity is stronger. ”
A few people found a path in the deep mountains, walked for several miles, and the warm wind in the mountain road blew people dizzy.
There was a choking smell wafting around, wisps of red smoke were filling, but it was tightly spread in the valley, and behind it there seemed to be a monster with a bloody mouth, countless sharp fangs slowly poking out, waiting for the intruder to enter the valley.
Xinyan looked at the strange mist in the distance, so she stopped and reminded everyone: "To go to the Black Forest, you must pass through the Sealed Demon Valley, and there is a miasma all over it. Miasma comes from the ground, and there must be a miasma mouth, so the way to crack the miasma is to first find the miasma mouth, and then purify all the enchantment stones at the exit and seal them before the miasma can be completely removed. Everything is mutually reinforcing, let's look carefully and see if we can find any clues?"
Xinyan has an extraordinary skill of Qimen Dunjia, meticulous, good at observation, often able to work hard from small things, find differences from subtleties, and see the truth from the ordinary.
The Taoist Qimen Dunjia technique is one of the three secret techniques of ancient times, namely "Qimen", "Liuren", and "Taiyi", which has the saying of "proficient in the three styles, but is a god", which is a science that conquers the heavens and creates nature.
The Yellow Emperor and Chiyou fought in Zhuolu, and the Nine Heavens Xuannu went down to teach the "Qimen Dunjia Technique". The Yellow Emperor relied on this technique to defeat Chi You, and passed it on to later generations, Jiang Ziya used Qimen to destroy Wang Jianzhou, Zhang Liang used this technique to help Han Gaozu Chu and Han to fight for hegemony, and Zhuge Kong Ming laid eight arrays to help Liu Bei divide the world.
This technique is to assist the king in marching and fighting, related to the safety of the society, and the prosperity of the state to control the chaos, so it is known as the emperor's learning, and it is secretive and unannounced.
After generations of oral teaching, many schools have been derived, and most of the mortal world is respected by the Shennong Mountain Villa Kamikaze Temple, which is promoted as the first in the world.
Xinyan has studied since she was a child, and she is blessed, ice and snow are smart, exquisite, and she is a combination of heaven and earth aura, and has a deep attainment in the art of Qimen Dunjia.
According to what Xinyan said, everyone began to look for the enchantment stone in the Sealed Demon Valley.
After looking for a long time, Zhou Babao suddenly found that a big tree was covered with purple crystal stones, crystal clear, as if it contained a mysterious power, shining with light, he rubbed his hands with joy, and shouted loudly: "Look at it, is it this ......?"
"Eight treasure porridge, quickly avoid ......," Li Ji suddenly shouted, but he was still a step too late.
At this time, a red miasma spread rapidly, Zhou Babao felt a foul smell coming to his nose, the sky was spinning in front of him, his body was weak, and the whole person collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
"Seal the Demon Miasma!" the red miasma opened its teeth and claws to meet her, and Xinyan exclaimed, "Purify all the purple enchantment stones first, and then try to save people." ”
She condensed her spiritual power and silently recited the mantra, and a ray of light shot into the purple crystal stone from her palm.
After a while, the purple crystal stone slowly turned white, and the red miasma that drifted around gradually disappeared.
"The color of this miasma is extremely bright, and it is the strongest miasma in the Sealing Demon Valley-Sealing Demon Miasma, and the poisoning is difficult to dissolve. Looking at Zhou Babao, who was lying unconscious on the ground, Xinyan frowned and said.
Suddenly, a buzzing sound lingered in her ears, Xinyan pulled out the mandarin duck knife, and with a "snap" sound, she slapped the back of the knife on the back of the tree.
She slowly lifted the knife, and her face changed suddenly.
Beneath the knife was a huge vermilion insect, as big as an orange, and although it had been shot to death, the barbs on its body were still struggling and wriggling.
It has a pair of antennae on its forehead, two pairs of transparent wings on its back, one large and one small, with dark red patterns on the wings like skeletons, sharp fangs all over its body, and hideous barbs on its legs.
"Ghost King Bee!" Li Ruoxi, who was walking in front, screamed.