After bidding farewell to the villagers, Gu Ming and Bai Suzhen went all the way to the north.

Along the way, it can be said that my eyes have been opened, and I have seen countless strange creatures, of course, including some demons, demons, fierce beasts and so on.

At the same time, he also harvested some ancient spirit grasses, spirit flowers, spirit fruits, and the like that had long been extinct in the outside world.

It's a pity that I didn't hear a trace of news about Nie Xiaoqian, Xiaoqing, and Ying Ning.

About ten days later, the two arrived at the great desert that divided the continent in two.

Standing on the edge of the desert and looking around, one can fully understand the meaning of "clear and clear".

On one side, the green hills are faint, the grass grows and the warbler flies, a vibrant scene.

On the other side, there is an endless sea of sand, where life seems to be extinct, and it seems lifeless.

Standing on the edge of the desert and watching for a while, Bai Suzhen remembered what the patriarch of the Xingtian clan said, so she said to Gu Ming: "Childe, why don't I try to see if I can fly?" ”

"I'd better do it!"

Gu Ming is a man after all, so he should take the initiative.

As soon as the thought moved, his body rose into the air...... After this flight, I finally understood why I couldn't fly here.

Because there is an invisible force that suppresses it, it is like carrying a mountain on its back.

In such a state, even if you barely fly, how far can you fly?

"Gu Gongzi, what's going on?"

Seeing that Gu Ming had just flown for a short distance and landed on the ground, Bai Suzhen couldn't help but ask.

"White girl, you can try it yourself."

Gu Ming confirmed that there was no danger, so it was better to let Bai Suzhen experience it for himself than his explanation.

"Hmm~"

Bai Suzhen answered, and also rose into the air......

"I see!"

As soon as she flew into the air, Bai Suzhen couldn't help but suddenly realize, and she also fell to the ground.

"As the patriarch said, there must be some kind of law binding this place......"

Gu Ming looked into the depths of the desert and muttered.

Bai Suzhen couldn't help sighing: "It's really a strange place, it seems that my vision was still too narrow before." ”

"Isn't that right? This is the present meeting of the long insight. ”

"That's ...... too"

Bai Suzhen smiled and followed Gu Ming towards the depths of the desert.

At first, it was quite smooth, the sky was clear, and there were no fierce beasts or anything like that.

After walking for a long time, the sky suddenly darkened.

"Looks like it's going to be windy."

Bai Suzhen looked up at the dim sky.

"Hmm!"

Gu Ming nodded, subconsciously glancing around.

If this was just an ordinary desert, he wouldn't care about the wind and sand, even if it was a sandstorm. It didn't hurt him at all.

But you can't take it lightly here, and you can't meet Gangfeng and the like.

"Let's go, go and hide."

Gu Ming pointed to a sand dune in the distance.

"Hmm!"

The two quickly came to the sand dune and together dug out a sand hole several meters deep.

Subsequently, Gu Ming arranged two layers of protective prohibitions outside the sand cave.

It didn't take long for it to get completely dark.

A huge sandstorm swept in from afar, obscuring the sky and the sun, like a landslide and the earth cracked.

"Bad ......"

The first wave of sandstorm swept by, and the first prohibition arranged by Gu Ming was destroyed in an instant, and the second prohibition was like a candle in the wind......

In this way, Gu Ming finally saw the horror of this desert, and couldn't help but exclaim, and at the same time quickly took out a few chess pieces to arrange the chess game.

Bai Suzhen was not idle, and hurriedly helped to repair the ban, and at the same time added another layer of protection.

The storm was tight, and the two of them were constantly tinkering and reinforcing the prohibition.

After almost half an hour, the storm finally subsided.

"Is this a dismount for us?"

Bai Suzhen smiled self-deprecatingly.

"Sort of...... But that's fine, and it's a wake-up call for us. ”

On the next journey, the two of them increased their vigilance, after all, they were careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years.

Two days later, the two walked into an area of rolling sand dunes.

These dunes are generally not high, the highest ones are only a few tens of meters, and the short ones are only a few meters.

After walking a short distance, Gu Ming suddenly stopped.

Bai Suzhen also sensed it, frowned and glanced around, and muttered, "It looks like we are being targeted, there must be something under the sand dune." ”

"It's okay, brake quietly!"

Gu Ming replied softly, and Biluo hung above his head, and at the same time showed his discernment and probed in all directions......

"Boom~"

At this moment, a sand dune dozens of meters away suddenly burst open, and a huge scorpion jumped out of the sand.

"Boom~"

Then there was another roar, and the adjacent sand dunes also exploded, and a larger scorpion appeared in the dust.

"Human-faced scorpion?"

After seeing the form of the two scorpions clearly, Gu Ming couldn't help frowning.

This is the record he saw in the ancient books left in the Linglong Tower, this thing belongs to the demon world, the appearance is like a scorpion, but the body is quite large, and it can reach tens of meters with head and tail when it becomes an adult.

The reason why it is called a human-faced demon scorpion is because its head is similar to that of a human, and the overall appearance is very weird.

Its body is covered in a hard shell, and there are few weaknesses to be found on its entire body except for its head.

But the head of this thing can be retracted into its shell like a turtle, and it is difficult to know what to do.

Its pair of giant pincers are terrifying, capable of crushing magic weapons, and its sharp tail is highly poisonous...... Anyway, it's not easy to deal with.

"......

After the two demon scorpions appeared, they rushed towards Gu Ming and the others separately.

Although they are large, they can walk at an astonishing speed on the sand, and they feel like they are shrinking into inches.

"White girl, be careful!"

Gu Ming shouted at Bai Suzhen, and at the same time waved his gesture, and a ball of flame erupted, sweeping towards the demon scorpion like flowing water.

At the same moment, Bai Suzhen's mind moved, and the magic weapon turned into a long sword, slashing heavily from the bottom down......

The sword was like a rainbow, and it immediately split a crack deep in the sand, and surged towards the rushing demon scorpion at lightning speed.

"Boom~"

The demon scorpion was sprinting, and it didn't have time to dodge at all, it was directly lifted high by the sand waves, and flew upside down more than ten meters away like a kite with a broken string......

However, this guy is really durable.

As soon as he stabilized his body, he jumped up, his head retracted into his shell and fell down, and his body instantly sank into the sand.

It seems that they want to sneak up from the underground.

Bai Suzhen was not afraid, her body instantly moved to the top of the sand dune, holding a sword in one hand and pinching the trick in the other, a golden light poured out from her body to protect her whole body.

"Heaven and earth are infinite, and Qiankun borrows the law ......"

"Boom!"

At this moment, the sand scorpion emerged from the sand again, and its sharp pointed tail swept through the stinger.

"Slash!"

Bai Suzhen soared into the air, and the sword in her hand reflected the sunlight, forming a dazzling light curtain and slashing down.

"Bang~"

There was a dull sound at the scene, and the turbulent air currents caused large patches of sand and dust to splash in all directions.

This sword finally broke through the demon scorpion's defenses and cut through the hard shell that it was proud of.

After all, Bai Suzhen's own strength is not weak, and this sword is transformed by a magic weapon, and its power is far greater than that of ordinary magic swords.

"Squeak~"

Wounded in the tail, the demon scorpion let out a strange roar of pain and scurried under the sand again.

On the other side, Gu Ming was a little more relaxed.

At first, he summoned some fire to burn the scorpion, but it turned out that it was not too useful, so he decisively cast the nine-character mantra.

After all, the Confucian nine-character mantra is by far the most effective way to restrain demons.

"Jen!"

"Righteousness!"

Gu Ming only used two words in the nine-character mantra to suppress the human-faced demon scorpion to the point that he couldn't move.

The word "benevolence" is pressed on the body, and the word "righteousness" is pressed against the tail.

The two big characters flashed with golden light, which seemed to be small, only the size of a sea bowl, but they were like two mountains pressing on the demon scorpion, not only making it unable to move, but even the magic power was suppressed, and it was impossible to sneak into the sand.

"Click, click......"

A crisp sound began to echo over the dunes, like the cracking of the ice.

With the continuous blessing of Gu Ming's power, many cracks appeared in the hard shell of the demon scorpion, and quickly spread to the whole body.

It didn't take long for the shell to shatter.

At this time, Gu Ming waved again, and the two words immediately submerged into the demon scorpion's body.

The next moment, a wisp of black smoke filled the air.

The demon scorpion was finally able to move, but it was a struggle before dying, and its body seemed to be burned by real fire, and all its flesh and blood were turned to ashes......

Then, Gu Ming's thoughts moved, and Biluo swept through the air, hitting another demon scorpion hard.

Bai Suzhen took advantage of the situation to slash out a sword, and beheaded with a sword!

After the trip, the two encountered all kinds of monsters or monsters one after another, but fortunately, they were all thrilling.

Before I knew it, I had been walking in the desert for more than half a month......

"I don't know how far it goes?"

That afternoon, Bai Suzhen looked up at the distant sky and couldn't help muttering.

"It's hard to say...... But I think it's half the way. ”

Gu Ming replied with some uncertainty.

"Hey, I don't know where Xiaoqing and the others are, there are no clues at all along the way."

"White girl, I have a hunch that they should be on the other side of the desert."

Bai Suzhen looked puzzled: "It shouldn't be, right?" They shouldn't be as fast as we are. ”

"Perhaps, they were on the northern continent in the first place. After all, the space-time channel is not fixed, just like when Xiaoqing came to this world before, didn't she also appear in the Western Regions? ”

"Well, it would be great if that was the case, it might be a little difficult to cross this desert with the strength of Xiaoqing, Xiaoqian, and Ying Ning."

"It's okay, even if they really have to cross this desert, the big deal is that they will suffer some hardships, and there won't be much danger."

While chatting, the two lifted their spirits and walked quickly.

After walking for about an hour, a large green ...... suddenly appeared in front of me

After walking for nearly twenty days, this was the first time they saw a desert oasis.

From a distance, the scale of this oasis is quite large, I am afraid that it is a hundred miles in circumference.

"Great, maybe it's inhabited, so we can get some news."

Seeing the oasis, Bai Suzhen was in a good mood and couldn't help cheering.

"Well, it looks like it's alive, let's go, let's go and see."

The two quickened their pace towards the oasis.

When I got closer, I realized that the green in my eyes was almost all cactus.

I don't know what the situation is like inside, but from the outside, this place can be called a cactus forest.

Large and small, tall and short, in a variety of ways.

The tallest ones are tens of meters tall, and the shorter ones are several meters. However, there are still many spherical cactus spines growing on the ground, which look like mushrooms growing under trees compared to those tall cacti.

In the gaps, there are also some weeds and bushes.

After standing on the periphery and watching for a while, Gu Ming and the others stepped into the cactus forest and began to explore this oasis.

For the sake of safety, and in order to explore this area as soon as possible, Gu Ming made every effort to show his discernment, and Bai Suzhen also made every effort to release his divine sense to explore.

After a while, Bai Suzhen suddenly frowned, and whispered, "It seems that someone ...... However, the other party seemed to sense my consciousness and quickly disappeared again. ”

"Oh? In what direction? ”

"...... over there"

Bai Suzhen raised her hand and pointed to the front right side.

Relatively speaking, although Bai Suzhen's divine sense is not as large as Gu Ming's, it can cover a large area, but it explores farther, so it also discovers before Gu Ming.

"Are you sure it's human?"

"It's hard to say, it's not an ordinary human being."

"I hope they can understand what we are saying, so that there is hope that they will get some news."

The two changed directions and traveled in the direction where Bai Suzhen found movement.

After walking a short distance, Gu Ming finally made a discovery, and couldn't help but pause: "White girl, the other side has come to us, and there are a lot of people." ”

"What then?"

"Let's hide around and see what happens."

So, the two quickly hid behind a tall cactus and laid down two layers of prohibition to cover their breath in case the other party found out.

After a while, sure enough, a group of people appeared......

Not people, to be precise.

It's a group of people who look like cacti, or human-like cacti.

And there is also a big difference in appearance between the same kind, some of the head shape is flat, like drawing eyes, nose, and mouth on a cactus.

Some of the heads are round, like cacti.

But one thing is the same, these people have no hair because their heads are full of thorns. He had no clothes on his body, and he was covered in thorns.

There is no difference between the genders from the appearance, at least Gu Ming doesn't know how to tell the difference.

Because there are no human male and female features in them, just like real cacti.

If it is said that the cactus has cultivated into refinement, it doesn't feel very similar, it should be a special race from ancient times.

After all, along the way, Gu Ming and Bai Suzhen have seen a lot of strange races.

"Twitter Gollum ......"

"Squeaky Wow......"

"Bald ......"

A group of cacti searched around, but when they couldn't find anyone, they began to chatter.

Obviously, these people spoke an indigenous language, and Gu Ming didn't understand a word anyway.

Including Bai Suzhen was also at a loss.

However, Gu Ming underestimated the strength of these people, searched for a while, and actually discovered their hiding place.

The group immediately began to converge, apparently preparing to attack.

In order to avoid a senseless fight, Gu Ming simply removed the ban and walked out.

"Don't do it, we're just passers-by, not your enemies!"

As soon as the ban was lifted, Gu Ming used his exit to shout.

Regardless of whether the other party can understand it or not, you have to give it a try, and if it doesn't work, we'll talk about it later.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Gu Ming and Bai Suzhen appeared, the other party and his party were stunned on the spot one by one......

Seeing this, Gu Ming was overjoyed......

Could it be that they can understand what they are saying?

Or is it that the effect of the words is not divided into languages?

But no matter what the case may be, in short, it's a good thing that the other party didn't do it.

Gu Ming immediately added: "Everyone, we just have no intention of breaking into here, we want to go to the Northern Continent, I don't know ......."

Before he finished speaking, the other party seemed to finally come back to his senses, throwing down the weapons in his hands one by one, his expression was extremely reverent, his hands were crossed in front of his chest, he bent down and bowed to Gu Ming and the others, and said unintelligible words in unison.

But the appearance is a tribute to the two.

"This ...... What's going on? ”

Bai Suzhen looked dazed.

"I don't know...... Could it be that what kind of gods do they think of us? ”

"It's possible ......"

"But it looks like they can't understand us at all, so they can't communicate?"

"Twitter Gurgling ......"

At this time, the other party stepped forward alone, bowed again respectfully at Gu Ming, and gestured, Gu Ming didn't understand what he said, but he understood the gesture, it should be the meaning of invitation.

"You ......"

Gu Ming pointed at the other party.

"You're inviting me......"

Gu Ming pointed at himself again.

"Where you live?"

Then he pointed in the direction that the other party had just pointed.

"yes yes yes ......"

The other party looked very happy, obviously understanding what Gu Ming meant.

That being the case, it doesn't hurt to take a look.

Led by these cacti, Gu Ming and the others followed all the way to the place where they lived.

Unexpectedly, these people would actually fiddle with the formation.

Gu Ming couldn't see what the specific formation was, but he could see that the other party was using the natural terrain and transplanting some cacti, stones, shrubs and other auxiliaries to set up a maze array.

Once inside, the surrounding scene became exactly the same, and I didn't know how to find the exit without someone to guide me.

After walking around the cactus array for a while, finally, the place where these people lived appeared in front of me.

There is a small lake in the middle, and there is no water source in sight, so I think it must be an underground spring.

There are still a lot of cacti growing in the village, as well as some flowers and plants that have not been seen before.

As soon as Gu Ming and the others entered the village, the people in the village, regardless of men, women, and children, had the same shocked expressions as the people who had led them into the village before.

Then, one by one, they bowed respectfully.

"Wow-wow-wow-la-......"

The person who had led before walked in front of Gu Ming again and gestured, and pointed to a high ground at the end of the village.

Above, there is a small, temple-like building, which looks very solemn, majestic, and mysterious.

"Go up there?"

Gu Ming raised his hand and pointed to the building and asked.

"yes yes!"

The man nodded happily.

"Childe, there won't be anything weird here, right? Why don't I take a look first. ”

Bai Suzhen whispered, and then released her divine sense to inspect the building.

"It's strange, my consciousness is blocked."

"Is there such a thing?"

Gu Ming was a little puzzled, and subconsciously showed his discernment...... Sure enough, there seemed to be an invisible force enveloping the building, and it was impossible to perceive what was going on inside.

"Wow-wow-wow-la-......"

Seeing that Gu Ming and Bai Suzhen were only talking and did not move, the other party began to compare and draw again, as if urging the two.

"Childe, what should I do? To go or not to go? ”

Bai Suzhen couldn't help asking.

Gu Ming pondered for a moment and said, "Judging from their demeanor, they are quite respectful of us. The answer may be in that building, so let's take a look. ”

"Okay, then we need to be careful."

"Hmm!"

Gu Ming nodded, then smiled at the other party and made a gesture of please.

At this time, almost all the people in the village walked out, one by one with their hands crossed on their chests, with a pious expression, and saluted at Gu Ming and the others.

Although this scene is quite weird, Gu Ming relied on his intuition that these people were not malicious, but seemed very respectful.

The building, though mysterious, didn't give him any unsettling feelings.

Otherwise, he would never have stepped in easily.

"Wow Wow Wow ......Wow W

When there was still some distance from the building, the leader stopped, and he didn't know what to say.

Then, an old voice came from the hall.

"Tweet Wow ......"

The person who led the way turned his head sideways and said a word to Gu Ming and the others, and raised his hand to signal the two of them to follow him into the temple-like building......