To the surprise of the two, the more they walked into the valley, the fog became lighter and lighter, and now Zi Qi Lu became overjoyed, and hurriedly beckoned Lao Wu to speed up his pace.

The two of them passed through a large field of wild meadows overgrown with unknown dwarf shrubs, and came to an undulating meadow of water and meadows, where the grass was crisscrossed with ravines and stagnant water, and the water was silt black and smelled of rancidity.

At this time, the fog had completely dispersed, and Qi Lu saw that there were towering mountains in front of them, and the position they were in was the very center of the valley, and the dense fog behind them was still covering the way they came, as if to remind them that only by moving forward could they have a chance to live.

"How can there be a waterweed swamp in the canyon?" Qi Lu asked with a glare, feeling that this was a bit contrary to common sense in geography.

"Anyway, maybe it's a trap laid by some god who wants us to linger a little longer." Lao Wu replied.

Qi Lu took out the compass from his backpack, but found that the pointer was swinging wildly, and couldn't help but sigh and said: "It seems that the magnetic field in the valley is very strong, and the compass is out of order, and now we can't tell the direction, and there is no guide or anything, how to go later?" ”

"I don't know, I can only move forward." Lao Wu said: "The swamp in front of me is probably a dangerous area, and I have heard that there are many hidden rivers in Death Valley, and if you accidentally fall down, you will die. ”

"Although the divine power has disappeared inexplicably, we won't die in this hellish place, right?" Qi Lu looked at the animal corpses scattered everywhere in the swamp, frowned slightly, and said, "Strange, how did those pregnant women get through this swamp?" ”

"Hmph, I can't even take care of myself and worry about others! These women are all pregnant with divine fetuses, and naturally there are gods who are secretly blessed, and they can't die if they want to. ”

After Lao Wu complained, he pinched the sharp short knife in his hand, turned around and cut down two small trees, cut off their branches and leaves to make crutches, and then handed one to Qi Lu.

"Wait, don't walk around, step on the meadow and jump over one by one."

Qi Lu took the crutches and nodded silently.

Lao Wu told him again, "The stick is not for you to use as a crutch, you can use it to test the depth when passing by puddles, and remember to put it across your chest when you don't use it." ”

Hearing this, Qi Lu laughed, "Master, you are really not a water god in vain, you look like a veteran." ”

It turns out that there are many quagmires hidden in the aquatic weeds swamp that are difficult to detect with the naked eye, and it is easy for inexperienced people to fall into them. The mud is usually very deep, and if the person who falls into it struggles desperately, he will sink deeper and deeper and eventually be swallowed by the sludge. Lao Wu reminded him to put the stick across his chest in case he fell into the mire to increase the force area, so that he could slowly move his body and climb out.

The two of them walked forward one foot at a time, stopping from time to time to check the nearby terrain so as not to fall into the dark swamp in a daze.

The grass was muddy and watery, and the shoes and trouser corners they wore on their feet were wet after walking for a long time, Qi Lu felt very uncomfortable, and when he was about to bend down to take off his shoes, he saw a snake in the puddle next to him raise its head from the edge of the protruding rock, and hiss at him with a threatening sound.

Lao Wu didn't think about it, he stretched out his hand and beat this nasty guy away with a stick, and the two continued to move forward, and Qi Lu found that there were not many other living creatures except the bones along the road. He couldn't help but sigh, "It's really Death Valley, I haven't seen any animals for half a day." ”

As if he was joking with Qi Lu, a commotion suddenly sounded in the big grass pile in front of him. A wild bird flew up with a clatter, followed by another, and soon the whole meadow was covered with the screaming and circling birds.

Old Wu immediately laughed at Qi Lu, but his smile froze in an instant, and he found that flying in the air was a small bird the size of a sparrow and covered in yellow and black feathers.

"This is the yellow bird of Pengshan, how can they appear here?" Qi Lu also recognized the origin of the bird.

"The yellow bird has appeared, will the blue bird be far away?" Lao Wu's face is getting more and more ugly.

Qi Lu was silent, he was very familiar with the two divine birds that Lao Wu said. The yellow bird is not an ordinary bird in the world, it is a mythical bird that feeds and transmits messages to the Queen Mother of the West in myths and legends. And the blue bird is their leader, accompanying the Queen Mother of the West all the year round, and will only appear in the world when conveying the great will of the mother.

Is the sudden appearance of the yellow bird to convey some important message to himself? Qi Lu hurriedly stared at these divine birds, but when his neck was paralyzed by stretching, these divine birds were still flying around in a group, but he didn't have the slightest gesture of wanting to land.

"Maybe they're not here to deliver the message." Lao Wu hesitated behind him and said, "Maybe...... Perhaps their appearance is some kind of sign. ”

"What signs?"

"It heralds that the valley of Nalengrad has become the abode of the gods." Lao Wu squinted at these little creatures and continued: "The green and yellow birds usually do not leave Pengshan and Kunlun, but now they are gathered in large numbers, which can only mean that Niangniang has arrived in the Nalengrad Gorge. ”

"Yes, the master should be here." Qi Lu retracted his gaze, "Her spirit is fortunate to be in the arms of one of the 14 pregnant women, and she can be resurrected into this world at any time." ”

Lao Wu also felt the same way, nodded and said: "It seems that the beast really didn't lie to us, the dawn of the gods is coming." ”

At this time, Qi Lu's eyebrows suddenly tightened, and he remembered what Meng Huai had said to him, and he couldn't help but say in a lost voice: "By the way, I remember, Meng Huai once told me that this is the site of the ladder, and he also said ......."

But he stopped halfway through his sentence, because the sudden vision in the air succeeded in attracting the attention of the two.

As if sensing some kind of danger, the yellow birds flew towards the distant mountains without warning, and disappeared in an instant.

"There is a situation!" Qi Lu hurriedly glanced at Lao Wu, but as soon as the words fell, his face suddenly changed, and a thunderous sound that shook the earth instantly sounded around him. At the same time, a cold wind with mud and a fishy smell hit you.

"Damn, there's no place to hide from the rain yet!" Old Wu just shouted angrily, and a thunderbolt fell into the grass near him, bursting out countless sparks of lightning, and then extinguished.

It was only then that the two realized that something was wrong, and there was thunder in the sky, but not a drop of rain fell. Countless bolts of lightning burst into the air, all slashing into the grass just a few meters away from them. It was a shocking scene that I can't describe it in words.

Strangely, however, none of the places struck by the lightning burned with flames, and not a single lightning bolt struck them.

"Is this a command from the gods?" Qi Lu immediately made a judgment, if it weren't for this reason, this strange thunder and lightning would have slashed at them a long time ago.

As expected, as Qi Lu finished saying this, the thunder suddenly stopped, and the sky returned to a clear place.

"Don't be so confident, maybe there are demons at work." Lao Wu took out the ghost hunting instrument that Ding Xiaolan often used from his backpack.

"Shh Qi Lu suddenly put his finger to his lips and motioned to Lao Wu not to speak.

Because he seemed to hear someone talking in a low voice in the distance, and when Qi Lu calmed down and continued to listen, the voice became louder and closer.

Lao Wu also heard it and found that it was the sound of two men talking. He whispered to Qi Lu: "It seems that someone is coming, let's find a place to hide first and see what's going on." ”

Qi Lu nodded silently in agreement, so the two walked behind the nearest protruding haystack and crouched there, listening with bated breath like rabbits in a hole.

The two men spoke faster and faster, judging from this urgent tone, they talked very seriously, almost fiercely, but Qi Lu found a strange phenomenon, that is, they were not speaking modern language.

Lao Wu bit his ear and said, "Isn't this accent familiar?" ”

Qi Lu was silent, but his body trembled, because the tone of these two men was too intimate, this is the language of the gods of Kunlun, and the humans in the world can't understand a single word at all.

As if sensing that someone was eavesdropping, both sides of the conversation suddenly stopped, and even the wind was strangely quiet. Qi Lu poked his head out from behind the haystack with questions in his head, wanting to see which god the man was talking to. But reality disappointed him, there was no half a figure in the swamp, and there was not even any sign of living creature in the sky.

"Maybe the two of them used an invisibility spell, and I'll use a spell to force them to show their original form first." As soon as Lao Wu finished speaking, the two mysterious male voices appeared again.

Qi Lu hurriedly signaled Lao Wu not to act rashly, because they both clearly heard what the two men were saying.

One of the men said, "The man you have been waiting for is about to appear." ”

"Yes, he's coming."

Qi Lu poked his head out from behind the grass pile again, this time he really saw two white shadows floating ten meters away in front of him, surrounded by a faint light, he couldn't see their appearance at all, he could only judge from the outline of his body that they were two burly men.

"Let me open the way for him!" The man who spoke first pinched the trick with his left hand, pointed his halberd over, and a golden light flashed on his fingertips, and then the sound of gold and iron clashing sounded, and the water and grass swamp in front of them disappeared in an instant, revealing a broad avenue.

"The grievances I have carried," another white shadow whimpered in a strange voice. "It will be cleansed by you, and the blood I shed will be repaid to the gods tenfold!"

The place where the two white shadows were standing suddenly burst into golden light, swirling up and down like a tornado, enveloping them heavily. With a thunderclap, the two mysterious men had disappeared from Qi Lu's sight.

Everything returned to silence, Qi Lu and Lao Wu stared at each other, unable to say a word in shock.