Chapter 022: The Dark Flower Blooms
A small inconspicuous valley deep in the Cloud Mountains.
This place is hundreds of miles away from Thundercloud Town, and less than 200 miles away from the Demon Yuan Mountain Range.
It stands to reason that the closer you get to the Demon Abyss Mountain Range, the higher the level of the Mysterious Beasts here, and the greater the possibility of encountering the Mysterious Beasts.
However, the strange thing is that within tens of miles around the entire small valley, there is not even a single hare, let alone any large mysterious beasts.
In the valley, there were two young people, a man and a woman, who were looking into the distance, it was Shen Li and Chu Yingshuang who had rushed from the Qiyun Sect.
"Senior Sister Chu, there is the Valley of the Underworld ahead!" Shen Li said as he pointed to a place more than ten miles away.
Although it was a full distance of more than ten miles, it could still be seen that a thick layer of gray smoke wafted over the distant Dark Valley.
These gray smokes are the breath of the underworld, rising from time to time, and falling rapidly, as if they were living creatures, once a beast or other thing enters the range of ten miles of the valley of the underworld, these smoke will be like a gluttonous mouth, and it will be swallowed directly in an instant.
In a few breaths, the living creature would melt away from its flesh and blood, and it would be a pile of dry bones.
Unless they are powerful Xuan Beasts above the eighth order, or masters of cultivation above the Human Spirit Realm, they can barely resist the erosion of the Netherworld Qi for a short time and escape their lives.
Although the frost fairy Chu Yingshuang is extremely talented, at the age of nineteen, she has already broken through to the peak of the Condensation Realm, but once she is contaminated by the dark qi, I am afraid that it will not take two breaths to completely erode and turn into dry bones.
Not to mention Shen Li, he is only a cultivation of the ninth layer of the Quenching Body Realm, and I am afraid that he will not be able to last even half a breath.
"I hope I can find that thing on the periphery......" Chu Yingshuang also had a solemn look on his face.
Although she was conceited, she also understood that with her current cultivation, if she wanted to forcibly break into the valley of the underworld, there was no possibility of success at all.
"Senior Sister Chu, I take the liberty of asking you, what exactly are you looking for? Perhaps, I can help. Shen Li thought about it, gritted his teeth and said.
It stands to reason that in the face of such a dangerous situation, the most important thing Shen Li should do is to hide in the valley honestly, not ask anything, and do nothing, so as to save his life.
However, after all, Chu Yingshuang had done Shen Li a great favor, so that Shen Li just watched doing nothing, and Shen Li was not comfortable.
"Weren't you scared before, why were you so brave all of a sudden?" Chu Yingshuang turned his head to look at Shen Li, his face full of urgency.
Shen Li's face remained unchanged, and he was not embarrassed at all, just looked at Chu Yingshuang lightly. After all, he is also an old guy who has lived for decades in the previous life, can he still be blushed by a little girl when he says a few words? Isn't that too embarrassing?
"Brush!" Chu Yingshuang's face turned red all of a sudden, and he hurriedly turned aside.
In the end, she is only a nineteen-year-old girl, although she is used to being arrogant and domineering on weekdays, but where has she ever been stared at like this?
"Hmph! The thing I'm looking for this time is called the Spirit of the Netherworld, which is the crystallization of the soul formed after the Netherworld Flower blooms. Chu Yingshuang snorted and said.
"The Soul of the Dark?" Shen Li, a look of doubt appeared on his face.
It is said that after swallowing the spirit of the underworld, it can strengthen and nourish the soul, even if the soul is born weak and cannot be cultivated, after swallowing the spirit of the underworld, it will become extremely talented, and it will become a thousand miles a day.
Of course, the spirit of the underworld is also extremely rare!
The Xuanyuan Continent is millions of miles wide, and there are ninety-nine connection points of the Netherworld, that is, the Netherworld Valley, but within 100 years, it may not be possible to find even a piece of Netherworld the size of a fingernail.
Shen Li was a little curious, Chu Yingshuang's talent was already so extraordinary, did he still need to swallow the spirit of the underworld to strengthen his soul?
However, since Chu Yingshuang's purpose in coming to the Valley of the Netherworld was to find the spirit of the Netherworld, Shen Li had to find a way to help her.
"The Shadow Flower only blooms once in ten years, and I have already determined in advance that the Shadow Flower in the Dark Valley here in Cloud Mountain should bloom today or tomorrow. Chu Yingshuang said lightly.
"In that case, let's settle down in this valley, and maybe the Netherflower will bloom tonight. Shen Li said with a little thought.
Soon, Shen Li cut down a few small trees and set up two temporary tents.
Time passed little by little, and the sun went down as the sun went down, and the sky slowly darkened.
More than ten miles away, above the Valley of the Underworld, there was still a rising and tumbling gray mist, constantly changing shapes, as if there were countless mysterious beast souls struggling in it, roaring silently.
After Shen Li and Chu Yingshuang hastily ate some dry food, the two divided the labor, Shen Li was responsible for the first half of the night, and Chu Yingshuang was responsible for the second half of the night.
After all, a few of them came from Qiyun Sect, thousands of miles away, and even as martial artists, they felt very tired.
Once you find out that there is something unusual in the Valley of the Netherworld, it is almost certain that the Netherflower is about to open.
The first half of the night passed quickly, and Shen Li endured his sleepiness, looking at the dark valley in the distance without blinking.
Seeing that it was already the third watch, Shen Li woke up Chu Yingshuang with a shout, and then he got into the tent, and after a while, he snored like thunder, and fell asleep.
Chu Yingshuang was also stunned, her head was upside down, as if she would fall asleep.
Seeing that the sky was already white, and the sun was about to rise, at this time, the fog over the valley that was still very calm, suddenly spread rapidly as if it was crazy.
At the same time, a little bit of darkness with a little golden light slowly emerged in the mist.
If you get closer, you will find that the pitch-black and golden-dotted light is a small flower the size of a grape with countless faint silver roots.
These small flowers are densely connected, and their thin roots are intertwined with each other, slowly rising into the air.
It is a small flower unique to the Netherworld----- the Flower of the Netherworld!
One, two, ten, hundred, thousand......
Countless Nether Flowers were connected to each other, like balloons filled with air, and slowly rose into the air.
The morning sun sprinkled a little golden light, which was instantly reflected on the thousands of dark flowers, and the small golden dots on those dark flowers suddenly seemed to be ignited, blooming with bright light.
A small golden dot that is 100 times smaller than a grain of rice slowly takes shape!
A small golden dot is still inconspicuous, but the golden dot on the thousands of dark flowers is slowly approaching the center, converging ......
"That's what it is...... The Spirit of the Shadows......" Chu Yingshuang's eyes widened, and his face was full of joy and excitement.