Chapter 21: The Stone Staircase
The two roads are one left and one right, how to choose, the two of them looked at the little monkey together, hoping that it would know how to go. The little monkey first shook his head to show that the giant beast had not told him, and after thinking for a while, he pointed to the hole on the left, and nodded earnestly.
Jiang Haijian said: "Men on the left and women on the right, we are all men, so we should go to the left," and then took the lead in front to open the way for them.
When he came to the cave, he did not enter it rashly, but observed it carefully, and did not feel a sense of crisis, so he went head-on. "When" there was a loud bang, Jiang Hai was shaken open, only to hit the dizziness, and the eyes were full of gold stars. Fortunately, the head is hard and the force is not great, if not, I am afraid that the peach blossoms on the face will bloom more, and the wisps of red will fall. Even so, there was a bag on his forehead.
Jiang Hai touched his forehead and got up from the ground, turned his head and was about to count the unreliability of the little monkey. found the little monkey lying on the ground pointing at him and laughing, and he couldn't stop rolling. With a black face, he walked to the cave again, and carefully stretched out his hand, and sure enough, there was a layer of matter separated by it, and the shape and color were not clear and clear. Knowing that there was a ban here, he said, "Let's go, this road is not passable." ”
Picking up the little monkey, he gently pinched its ears as a sign of punishment, and in the little monkey's dissatisfaction, he went to the cave on the right.
This place is different from the one on the left, there are two thick stone gates, and now the stone doors are wide open as if to welcome people. In the meantime, a trace of white gas overflowed, neither rising nor falling, and it dispersed for a long time. When I got closer, I felt a chill, and it turned out to be cold.
There is no obstacle here, and two people and one monkey can easily enter it.
As soon as I entered the stone gate, I felt a deep chill, although it was not so biting that it was freezing to the heart, but it was also very different from the temperature outside the cave, and it dropped by more than ten degrees.
In front of me is a white expanse, the cold air is mostly floating on the ground, and some are scattered in the air, so that the field of vision is only a zhang. The hazy and hazy is like a fairyland above the nine heavens, and it is like a mountain village after a heavy snowfall.
"Ding.... Ding", the sound of water droplets falling in the hole is very neat and regular, but I don't know where it is. Other than that, it was quiet, peaceful, and there seemed to be a special aura in the air, but I couldn't remember it for a while.
The path in the cave is extremely difficult to walk, and the light is faint. Every time you walk a flat road, you have to climb downhill. I don't know where this cold comes from, and it doesn't dissipate, it seems to cover the whole cavern, until I see a spare.
The hedron is white and transparent, emitting a faint white light, and the light in the cave is what it emits. It looks like an ice cube, and it looks like a snowflake with six corners, and the cold air comes out of it.
"That's cryolite," Tan Feng explained after seeing it. "It is extracted from the crystals of the snowy mountains, and it contains a lot of cold air, and it only takes a little bit to cool the whole room. Most of them are used by dignitaries to cool off, but it is extremely difficult to obtain, so the price is very expensive!"
Jiang Hai listened and carefully observed the cryolite. The hedron sticks to the wall, but it is not embedded in it, and the rock below is cut flat, and the hedron is placed on the top. There was water in the cave, and that water coalesced into lumps of ice beside the hedrons. Half of the temperature in the cave is made up of the hedron and half of it is emitted by the ice.
"Jiang Hai, you release your divine sense and look around!" Tan Feng suddenly shouted.
Jiang Hai opened his divine sense, but he was taken aback. There is a soil slope one or two zhang away from the divine consciousness, and there is no grass or flowers on the soil slope, but there is a section of plant, and it is only when the divine consciousness shrinks that it is a bamboo seedling that has just been planted. Further into the dirt slope, there was a corpse, all of which had a hundred legs, and it was a thunder light beast.
What kind of dirt slope is this, and the graveyard of the Thunder Light Beast. Immediately collected his divine sense, and when he saw that there was also a grave under his feet, he turned into two steps and jumped off the grave in three steps, but he didn't expect that his back was also one.
The range swept by the divine consciousness was as many as six or seven.
If it's a cemetery, that's easy to explain. Why is this place much colder than other caves, and it is also filled with expensive cryolite. One is afraid that the corpse will rot and stink and attract insect bites, and the second is to prevent the corpse from rotting, which can be regarded as a disguised way to let the clan survive in the world. The third is the living habits of the thunder light beast itself.
"What is the purpose of this beast, to tell the tribe where the cemetery is? Are we going to cut off the Thunder Light Horn from them?" Tan Feng wondered.
"I'll forget it. Jiang Hai hurriedly vetoed, "If you want me to cut the horns from the corpse, I can't do this grave and steal the corpse, so I should find another way." ”
After hearing this, Tan Feng smiled and said, "In this way, we can only continue to move forward and see if there is any other way." In fact, he was not ashamed of such behavior.
The two moved on. This cave is really vast, even wider than the first cave, and it takes more than half the time to walk, and there is no end in sight. Even the Holy City under the academy can't compare to this scale. Along the way, it is roughly estimated that there are two hundred tombs, which shows that the base of the Thunder Light Beast group is huge, and it also proves the hardships of survival in this burning plain.
The water droplets in the cave still jingle the bell, which is a requiem to comfort the departed creatures?
A pair of eyes kept staring at Jiang Hai and the two, and when they saw that there was no such thing as digging the grave, they retracted their vision and fell into a deep sleep.
I thought that this cemetery was the end, but I found that there was still a road ahead, and the two walked in and came to another place.
Compared to the cave in front, it is much narrower, and the three of them barely pass side by side. One side is a stone wall, and the other is an earthen wall, but it is too high. The further you go, the higher it gets, and at first you can see the top of the rock above your head, but halfway through it is already unsightly, looming above the clouds. Calculating the location, this should be the main peak of the mountain range, so it has such a height.
Before you know it, there is no road ahead, is this a cave, more like a cloister aisle.
Looking at the stone wall, this stone wall from the entrance to the end, such a wide is rare, the stone body blue and the same stone as the mural, but even more huge.
It is said that the stone wall is more like a stone tower, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. Embedded in the mountain, even though it is exposed, it still gives the feeling of the tip of the iceberg, as if the mountain was formed from it.
The stone wall is not flat, the depression is convex all over the body, and if you look closely, there seems to be a stone body stretched out five feet above the head, and Jiang Hai jumped up and stood on it.
It is not inlaid or inserted, it is a stone wall, but it is extremely flat and large, even the huge size of the thunder light beast can stand steadily. Looking up, there is a stone slab of the same size in the upper right and above. "It seems that I have found something interesting," and then shouted downward, "Captain Tan, come up, there is an unexpected harvest." ”
Hearing this, Tan Feng also jumped on the stone slab, and followed Jiang Hai's finger to see the stone slab. "There is no road below, the real road is above the stone wall, let's go up and see, if we still find nothing, we can only go back to the grave digging." ”
There is still some distance between the two stone slabs, but both of them are perfect swordsmen, so naturally it is not a problem. Jumping high like a roc spreading its wings, it landed on the stone slab, and the toes lightly used the stone slab as a lever, and jumped upwards again.
Using such a stone slab as a ladder, I am afraid that the thunder beast did it deliberately. Naturally, the two of them didn't know what it would do, so they were just trying their luck. Between the tossing and turning, the two of them have connected to the eighty-eight steps, and they have been more than forty zhang when they rest and look down, and if the little monkey sees it, he is afraid that he will be frightened.
The baby monkey has two weaknesses, fear of heights and sensitivity to cold. So when he was in that cemetery, he had already hid in Jiang Hai's arms. Without it, the river and the sea are also relaxed, but I am afraid that it will climb with it and be lazy to take care of it.
Looking up, but still not seeing the top, how many steps are there? Just like climbing a tree, it is easy to go up and difficult to come down, for fear of going too high and falling down.
The top of the cave can be vaguely seen on the two hundred and sixty steps, but it is still some distance.
The top of the cave can already be clearly seen by the five hundred steps, but the top of the cave is completely sealed, and there is nothing to be seen.
Seven hundred steps
"This is Lei Guangjiao!" Jiang Hai shouted as he looked at the pile of objects on the inside of the slate.
Tan Feng also saw it, didn't care about sweating profusely, and squatted down to take a closer look. Nodding his head, he was sure that this was what everyone had been looking for for for eight or nine days, and he was a little excited. There were ten of them on the ground, which had greatly exceeded imagination, and all of them were as black as ink, losing their original color. Pick up one and put it on the injured to check, in which the spiritual power is still there, and a small amount of electric current pierces out, making the fingers a little numb.
After the joy, there was confusion, and the ten horns were lined up and pointed upward. Directly above is the roof of the cave, which is completely sealed and there is nothing unusual. The corpses that Jiang Hai Divine Sense swept over in the cemetery before, all of them had no horns, and the horns were all placed here! What is the meaning of that? And all these questions are pointed to the top of the cave, and they can only be revealed by climbing to the top.
Jiang Hai glanced at Tan Feng, who put down the horn in his hand and climbed up in his heart according to the previous arrangement.
Seven hundred and one, also a column of ten horns
Eight hundred steps, but it has increased by ten.
Nine hundred steps, increased to thirty.
The two of them were panting, but they were pondering the law, if it was an unintentional move, how could it be so regular, increasing by ten for every hundred steps.
"Captain Tan, do you know the secret? "Knowing that Tan Feng has been walking on the rivers and lakes since he was a child, he naturally knows more things than himself.
Tan Feng thought for a while, sorted out the useful information, and slowly spoke: "I actually saw such a legend in an ancient book. It is somewhat similar to this situation" "The book says: 'Thousands of generations of cultivation are only for immortals, the ladder at the end of the immortal road is present, and the technique of ninety-nine is the most, stepping on the existing Daluo Immortal'"
"I think they built it this way to follow that legend. Do you see that this corridor at your feet doesn't look like a road? Then this stone staircase is the ladder, and the horns represent the climber. I don't know how it worked, but that last order was definitely rewarding. ”
The two continued to climb up, continuously climbing, they were already exhausted, but there was a belief to support the two of them upward. Whether you become an immortal or not, that's another story, there are so many horns in this thunder light beast, you can complete the task by taking a few of them. Since you have climbed the 900 steps, the last 100 steps are to climb up to find out. It takes so much energy to not believe that it is really just a copy of legends, even if it is a legend, there is a certain basis.
Step by step, crawling in the midst of difficulties, and finally reaching the top This is the nine hundred and ninety-ninth steps, and the answer should be revealed.