Chapter 22: Deadwood
After the dark vortex jumped in, it gradually calmed down, Mo Ge was a little anxious, and he was about to rush in as soon as he dragged Su Mu, who was so frightened that he hurriedly admonished him that if he went in now, he would be in the mouth of a sheep.
Mo Ge looked at the vortex anxiously and said, "Don't hold me, this entrance is obviously using the means of a qi refiner, and we martial artists can't imitate it!" ”
The whirlpool faded away, and the moonlight shone on the flowing stream, a peaceful scene, and there was not a trace of blood left on the strange stone statue, except for the scattered feathers on the ground to show that the raven had existed.
Mo Ge said with some annoyance: "You saw it! It's all over, the car they drove when they came is now parked in the parking lot, and there is obviously no plan to come out again, this mission is over! ”
Su Mu sneered: "I don't think so!" ”
As soon as the words fell, Su Mu slowly walked out of the grass, took out his mobile phone, walked down the steps to the statue, and gently touched the statue's eyes with his hand, and a cold touch passed over with a cold air and a trace of blood.
Su Mu took out his mobile phone, opened the idle game, and chose the thing he had redeemed before.
"Item used successfully, consume 50%!"
The pupils of the old man's statue opened again, but this time he didn't shed blood and tears, Su Mu sighed secretly, put his right hand on it, and drew part of the power of qi and blood from the qi and blood jade pendant and injected it in, a faint trace of blood appeared on the statue's pupils, and the smile gradually became weird, and then, a burst of qi fluctuations passed out, and the dark red vortex in the river reappeared.
Mo Ge: (⊙ˍ⊙)
He froze in place, dumbfounded, and his heart was like a river overturning the sea, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
Su Mu glanced at him, entered with a pale face, and said lightly: "Let's go." ”
"You're a Qi Refiner? Here's how to do it! ”
Before Mo Ge could finish asking, Su Mu jumped into the vortex one step ahead of him.
“……”
Mo Ge's eyes flickered, this person he couldn't see the way clearly, his strength was low, and his body was weak, but he had all kinds of weird methods, first the power of qi and blood that was stronger than him, and now there was a means to open the ban on qi refiners, Su Mu made him unable to figure out the way.
The last thing that flashed in his mind was the indifferent appearance of Su Mu before he entered, Mo Ge shook his head with a smile, maybe he was too worried.
So, on tiptoes, he leaped towards the river and sank into the whirlpool.
Yueyunwan returned to calm again, the statue with blood and tears slowly closed its eyes, and suddenly a palm slapped on it, and the statue's movements stopped abruptly, and then, Dou Da's blood and tears flowed out of the closed eyes, and the vortex also stopped.
Then, a figure leaped down.
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The barren land has no grass, no day or night, no clouds, and no life.
This place is far from the environment of the Immortal Secret Realm, there are no clouds in the entire sky, only a dull green, and strange spots of light flash from time to time, illuminating this space are street lamps with simple shapes.
Su Mu and Mo Ge walked to the edge of the cliff along a river one after another, and they were both shocked by the scene in front of them.
This dark red stream originated from nowhere, flowing slowly, the river was dark red, no different from the vortex under the stone statue, unlike the texture of ordinary water, flowing down from the cliff, but there was no waterfall landscape, falling into the deep pool, only the sound of mucus gurgling.
Under the cliff is a vast deep pool, the stream to the deep pool is actually scarlet and viscous, these strange pools of water are constantly churning, a huge dead tree rises from the ground, it is actually a lot higher than the cliff, rooted in a small island in the middle of the deep pool, some strange directions carved on the trunk, there is not a leaf on the branch, but tied with white cloth, like a locust tree in the deserted village cemetery in the cold winter, ghostly, lifeless.
Looking further out, it is a barren land, no different from the cliff, except that there are many people, and there are many more tin houses like construction site mobile houses, which are much more simple than the common houses on the construction site.
In every tin house, there was something like an iron cable extending out, buried on the surface, slightly below the ground, Su Mu counted, no more, no less, exactly seventeen, and from a high place it was clear at a glance, these chains finally converged towards the deep pool, and seemed to extend to the bottom of the pool.
Mo Ge stared at the chains, silent, and his expression was a little stunned.
"Do you see any doorways?" Su Mu asked in a low voice.
Mo Ge nodded and said: "Although it is far away, I can still feel that these chains are attached to the qi and blood of people, or the qi and blood of martial artists, which is very strange, qi and blood cannot exist independently of the human body, and these chains do not know what they are, they can act as conductors of qi and blood, bringing them together in this pool, you see that this pool is extraordinary, most of them are affected by the power of qi and blood." ”
Su Mu looked at it and found that the four people who were carrying the black package before were delivering the human-shaped package to a tin house, his pupils shrank suddenly, and a terrifying thought appeared in his mind.
Seeing this scene, Mo Ge was also slightly shocked in his heart, turned to Su Mu and said, "Let's go down and take a look, most of these people in black clothes are qi refiners, and they are really not the opponents of our martial artists." ”
Su Mu was puzzled and asked with some puzzlement, "Qi Refiner ...... What is it? ”
Mo Ge squinted, "You don't know about Qi Refiners?" ”
Su Mu shook his head.
"How can I say it, they can be regarded as people who pursue the Great Dao like martial artists, but their methods and paths are very different from our martial artists, and their cultivation methods are ...... It's more like cultivating immortals, you know? It's the kind of cultivation path in fantasy novels, which mainly relies on absorbing and breathing spiritual energy to improve cultivation, but the combat ability is not very strong, but the means are strange, and it can take advantage of the situation and change the momentum......"
"I haven't had much contact with this kind of people before, they are generally based on birth cultivation, but a few years ago, it seems that some sects that entered the world established an organization called the Qi Refiner Alliance, that is, after the secret realm was discovered for the first time, this organization mainly based on Qi Refiners was active in the sight of the Jianghu people."
Su Mu nodded as if he didn't understand, absorbing the aura of breathing...... Why do you do something like this?
"Let's take a look at the next task of the Academy!" Only then did Mo Ge remember that the last task of the Shuyuan was to let them enter this secret realm, and the next task prompt would only be unlocked here.
Su Mu also took out his mobile phone and checked it, and a prompt appeared on the interface of Yunyuan Library.
"Respected two Yunyuan guests, on the premise of guaranteeing your own lives, please destroy the formation of the Qi Refiner Alliance and rescue Wang Shigen."
Mo Ge's pupils shrank, this person's name was particularly eye-catching, but Su Mu just felt that this task was too difficult and the operation was difficult.
Seeing that Mo Ge's expression was a little wrong, Su Mu wondered and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Mo Ge looked at him with a foolish look and said, "You don't know Wang Shigen? ”
Su Mu's face turned red, and he shook his head again, although he was very reluctant to lose this person, but he did know very little about the things in the rivers and lakes, and the way the Fisherman's Pavilion treated temporary workers was to block everything and let the temporary workers have less contact with these things as much as possible, they only needed to let the temporary workers deal with some simple things.
"He's ...... Forget it, I can't finish it for a while, you know, it was a legendary mission, but then some accidents happened in the rivers and lakes, and then he was never heard from, as if he disappeared from the rivers and lakes. ”
Su Mu was shocked in his heart, such a master was actually tied up here to be squeezed his qi and blood, how deep is the water here!
I still have to save my life, I have to break the ban and replenish the life of Lingyuan!
However, since entering this secret realm, the body seems to be much more comfortable, although the feeling of weakness is still there, it is weakening little by little, and the blocked breath in the chest has gradually disappeared.
Su Mu was thinking nonsense, Mo Ge suddenly patted him on the shoulder, pointed to the giant tree below and said in surprise: "Look at that!" ”
Looking down, I saw that the iron chains turned from blue and black to red, and the heaven and earth were full of scattered qi machines, and a rich qi and blood fluctuation was transmitted from each room through the chains, gathered in the deep pool, and the mysterious lines on the trunk gradually brightened, and the white cloth strips hanging all over the branches were dyed red, as if gathering the weight of a thousand catties, and pulling the branches down fiercely.
Sting!
A piercing sound came out, like a shrill mushroom on an iron plate, a trace of white smoke rose from the trunk of the tree, the red viscous pool water did not rise and waves, and the thick pool water actually churned up a three-meter-high wave and smashed down towards the trunk.
A barely visible wisp of colored mist wafted out of a line in the trunk.
Su Mu's pupils shrank, staring at the lines on the trunk.
Yes! Absolutely, yes.
This towering dead wood is the prohibition that guards the spiritual veins in this secret realm!
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