Chapter 275: Water Coffin
The master was stunned for a moment and said, "Well, no matter what, the time of existence of the corpse clan is definitely far from the present. If this dungeon was really built in that era of rampant witchcraft, we have to be careful. When I was young, I followed your ancestor to an old tomb, which is also a prehistoric tomb, and most of the institutions there have the mental power of the great witches, which is very powerful. Anyway, be careful, don't go out of your way. ”
After saying that, Master lowered his body slightly and felt towards another bronze door, and as I followed him, I felt that the closer I got to that door, the more slippery the ground became. I could only barely keep my body steady by half-squatting, holding the lantern in one hand and holding the ground with the other, but my master still walked upright on two legs, although he was very careful, but he was far less embarrassed than me.
Master is standing so firmly, probably because he has practiced the eight-step divine movement for a long time, and his strength is stronger than mine.
But I was thinking so in my heart, when my master suddenly said "hey", and I saw that he didn't step on one foot, and suddenly he stumbled, and he was about to fall to the ground on his back.
I quickly slid two steps forward and pressed my back against my master.
Master held my back and struggled to stabilize my center of gravity, then let out a long breath of turbid air and said to me, "The road surface here is too slippery, you have to be careful." ”
Obviously, you were careless!
Thinking so in my heart, I didn't dare to say that, so I quickly nodded at the master.
Master held me by the shoulder, regained his footing, and then asked me, "Youdao, do you feel that the yin qi in front of this door is much heavier than in other places?" ”
I still nodded: "Not only is the amount of Qi large, but also more refined, I estimate that the other side of the copper door should be the source of yin qi." ”
My master raised his eyebrows, stood thoughtfully in place for a while, and finally did not speak, and continued to walk towards the bronze gate.
The bronze door we walked through earlier had become very fragile due to the corrosion of moisture for a long time, and Master only gently pushed it to shatter. But the door in front of me seemed to be unaffected by the moisture, and it still looked very strong, but strangely, it was not completely closed, and there was a gap more than a foot wide between the two door panels.
And the strong yin qi in the air flows out of this gap.
When he came to the bronze door, the master stretched out a hand and tentatively pulled the door panel, but the rust at the bottom of the door had already connected the door panel with the wet ground.
My master couldn't help frowning, pointed to the crack in the door and asked me, "Do you think you can get through?" ”
I roughly examined the gap between the bronze doors, and then shook my head at Master, "Hanging." ”
Master glanced at me: "What are you doing with such a big guy, the next tomb will be troublesome." After speaking, he took out the green steel sword, flipped the sword body, and smashed it twice at the bottom of the copper door.
With a few muffled sounds, the rust under the copper door was smashed off by my master, and then I pulled the door panel with my master, and finally the width of the gap was slightly widened.
Master asked me to see if I could get in, and I went to the gap between the door panels, and squeezed it in two times, and after the rough door panel covered with patina had worn out two or three holes in my clothes, I finally squeezed through.
On the other side of the bronze door was a very narrow passage, and I had to lean sideways when I walked in it.
The floor of the passage was also very slippery, but the walls of the passage were very rough, covered with countless potholes and edges, which had been polished by thousands of years of dripping water, but still hurt when my back was pressed against the stone wall.
I took a few steps deeper into the passage against the wall, and that's when Master came in, and he raised his chin at me and motioned for me to move on.
There has been a wind blowing out from the depths of the narrow passage, and the gust of wind is very cool, blowing on the body and face, giving people the feeling of being in an ice pool, and in this wind, there is also a strong yin qi.
I don't know how long I walked, but there was a small sound of running water in front of the passage. Master pulled me from behind and told me to stop.
Because the space on the left and right was too narrow, I couldn't turn my head, so I could only ask Master without looking back, "What's wrong, Master?" ”
My master was silent for a moment before he said to me, "There may be the source of the river veins ahead. Such a heavy yin qi...... There may be something hidden in that place, do you still have the soul sealing talisman I gave you? ”
I replied briefly, "Yes." ”
I heard the master say, "Take one out first, just in case." ”
I put all the soul sealing talismans that Master gave me in the pocket on the right side of my body, but my right hand was still holding a lantern, and in this extremely narrow space, my body was completely caught by the stone walls on both sides of the passage, making it difficult to move. In desperation, I could only hold Xian'er's fox fire lantern to my mouth, and then free my right hand and took out two soul sealing talismans from my pocket.
Originally, I only wanted to take one out, but the two talismans were stuck together by the moisture in the air, and I couldn't separate them with only one hand, so I had to take them out together.
After that, I put the soul sealing talisman in my mouth and held the lamp again with my right hand.
Master asked me just after I finished tossing, "Did you take it out?" ”
I couldn't speak with the talisman in my mouth, so I let out an "um" from my nose.
After that, Master patted me on the left shoulder: "Go forward." ”
Then I shifted my pace again and felt in the direction where the sound of the water was coming from.
After twenty minutes of twisting through the narrow passage, we finally came to a relatively spacious space, and when my body was freed from the angular and potholed stone walls, my heart was suddenly much more relaxed.
In front of me is a cave filled with strong yin qi and dampness, and the uneven stone walls around it are covered with water droplets the size of beans, and in the center of the cave is a small pool.
That incomparably pure yin qi emanated from this pool.
The ground was extremely slippery, and Master and I supported each other and walked to the edge of the waterhole in small steps.
The water doesn't seem to be particularly deep, and when I took a lantern to the surface of the pool, I saw a long black shadow at the bottom of the clear water.
As soon as I saw that shadow, Master and I became nervous at the same time, and Master immediately raised the Qinggang Sword, while I held the lantern in one hand and the Soul Sealing Talisman in the other, standing in front of Master.
I stared at the shadow beneath the water, not daring to move, but the shadow didn't move either.
I don't know what that shadow is, but I can clearly feel the yin energy emanating from it, it is the source of the yin energy of the earth river!
It was a stalemate for a long time, Master and I remained motionless, and the black shadow under the water did not make any movement.
It wasn't until I felt that my legs were a little numb that Master patted me from behind and said, "That thing may not be a living thing. ”
I turned my head to look at Master, who didn't explain much, he took out his flashlight, pressed the button, and a miserable white beam of light instantly shone into the pool.
The beam of the searchlight has some strong penetrating power, it directly penetrates the pool water, illuminating the shadow at the bottom of the pool.
Only then did I see clearly that the thing at the bottom of the pool was actually a long and narrow sarcophagus, and the stone coffin lid was broken into two sections and scattered on both sides of the stone pour.
The master stared at the coffin in the water and couldn't help frowning: "It's so heavy yin qi." ”
As he spoke, he handed me the flashlight, which I took and swept the sarcophagus with a beam. At this time, my master suddenly leaned down, at first I thought he was going to check the water in the pool, but then I realized that something was wrong, and after the master bent down, he planted his head directly in the pool.
Only then did I realize that because the ground was too slippery, Master had not stabilized his center of gravity and was about to fall.
At that time, the distance between Master and me was about half a meter, I didn't think of anything in my head, so I quickly stretched out my hand and grabbed Master's wrist, but I forgot to slip on the ground, not only did I not hold my Master, but I was also carried by his weight, and I also planted it towards the waterhole.
With a bang, Master and I fell into the water at the same time.
The seemingly calm waterhole also came into play at this time, and under the calm water, there was a very strong undercurrent, and Master and I were swept into the undercurrent as soon as we got out of the water.
I kept my eyes on when I fell into the water just now, I closed my breath, I didn't choke after entering the water, I was very conscious, and as soon as I felt the undercurrent, I immediately took off the oxygen mask around my waist and put it on my face, and then turned on the oxygen concentrator behind me.
Looking at my master again, my master was also looking at me at this time, and he also put an oxygen mask on his nose and mouth.
The pool wasn't too deep, and the two of us quickly sank to the bottom.
In fact, the undercurrent in the water is not particularly strong, and after reaching the bottom, Master and I can barely stabilize our body by holding on to the vegetation that resembles aquatic weeds and moss, so that we will not be washed away by the undercurrent.
To be honest, it was a bit beyond my imagination to be able to grow vegetation in water with such a heavy yin qi.
The fox fire lantern in my hand is not afraid of water, and even at the bottom of the pool, the fox fire is still burning, as if it is on the ground. The flashlights prepared by Liu Shangang also have excellent waterproofness and can still be used underwater. I turned on my flashlight and shone on my surroundings.
About two meters in front of me was the sarcophagus I had seen earlier, and about ten meters further from the sarcophagus was the edge of the waterhole.
At the bottom of the wall of the pool where the beam hit, there was a large hole, in which from time to time there were wisps of narrow bubbles, as well as broken branches and leaves of aquatic weeds and mosses.
It seems that the hole should be the inlet of the waterhole, and the water upstream of the river vein flows into the waterhole from this hole.
I turned my head and shone my flashlight in the direction of my heel.
There are three small holes side by side in the wall of the pool behind us, and these three holes are the outlets of the pool.
Although, if we go through these holes, we may be able to return to the lower reaches of the river, and I can almost certainly determine that the one in the middle of the three small holes should be connected to the river vein in the tunnel we passed through earlier.
The problem is that these three holes are too small for a person to drill through.
I grabbed the vegetation at the bottom of the pool, climbed against the undercurrent to Master, touched Master with my hand, and pointed to the inlet and outlet of the waterhole behind me.