Volume 1 Tribulation Chapter 139 The Fellow Disciple of the Dead
Situ Kong's move was so fast and domineering, Xu Chen couldn't resist and dodge, just when he was lamenting in his heart that he was going to die here, he suddenly felt a sudden tightening on his shoulder, as if a big hand was pulling him out of thin air, and his body soared straight into the air, far away from Situ Kong's attack range in a blink of an eye.
Situ Kong was dumbfounded, if it was said that Xu Chen's death could not be explained by luck the first few times, but he had dodged his nirvana unharmed just now, which was definitely a true reflection of his own strength.
At this time, he realized that the kid in front of him was able to kill Jiangnan Sansha, not because he used any tricks, but because he really had this strength!
Situ Kong couldn't stay calm anymore, he thought to himself: "This kid is less than twenty years old and has such amazing cultivation, if I can't kill him today, I will probably not be able to beat him in the future." Isn't that a tiger to be a problem, and then he will die at his hands?"
Thinking of this, Situ Kong's evil was born to the side of his guts, and the true qi in his hand had been used to the limit, and he would never let Xu Chen escape from his hands today.
Xu Chen's face sank, and he saw that the other party was going to put him to death, and was about to fight with all his might, when he suddenly heard someone secretly say: "Run to the mountain road on the left!"
This is Wang Shen's voice! Xu Chen couldn't help but be ecstatic, it turned out that he had misunderstood him, this old man didn't leave him alone, he quickly looked sideways, and sure enough, he saw a winding muddy path in the messy grass in front of him.
The way down the mountain was blocked by Situ Kong, and if he wanted to escape for his life now, there was only this way up the mountain, Xu Chen didn't have time to distinguish between the serious, so he hurriedly got up and ran straight in the direction of this road.
"Where to escape!" Situ Kong shouted, stretched out his hand and grabbed it in the air, and where Xu Chen had just stayed, countless vines suddenly stretched out from the ground and roared up, wanting to entangle his legs and pull him back to the ground.
But after all, Xu Chen's action was one step faster, and all these vines were in the air, but he took advantage of this short period of time to make two vertical jumps in succession, and the person had already run out of more than ten zhang away.
The angry Situ Kong saw that his intention to capture Xu Chen alive had failed, and the person was already chasing after him in the strange scream.
His cultivation was many times higher than Xu Chen, but after just a jump, he was less than a zhang away from Xu Chen.
"Give Lao Tzu hell!" Situ Kong flicked his sleeves, and a sledgehammer glowing with blue light suddenly appeared, and as soon as the sledgehammer came out, it was good in the wind, turning into a giant sledgehammer the size of a wheel in the air, and it smashed down against Xu Chen with the momentum of thunder!
The moment he made the move, he was already full of murderous intent, this kid's strength was too weird, and what was even more terrifying was that he still had the ability to hide his cultivation, if he succeeded in escaping, he would definitely become a terrifying opponent that threatened the demon clan in the future, so Situ Kong didn't want him to leave here alive no matter what!
Sensing that danger was coming, Xu Chen looked back and suddenly felt numb, but he was no longer able to turn his body in the air to avoid the attack.
The hammer instantly smashed into Xu Chen's back, and the intense pain spread rapidly throughout his body, and he fell straight down like a kite with a broken string, and a huge crack appeared in the ground, and the giant hammer also fell, forming a dazzling electric shock wave within a radius of ten zhang.
But Situ Kong was suddenly stunned, and he was surprised to see Xu Chen's body disappear the moment he hit the ground, as if he hit not a living person, but a disembodied ghost.
"Little bastard, you come out for Lao Tzu!" Situ screamed in a hurry, but all he could answer was the whirring mountain wind.
But Xu Chen didn't realize this sudden vision, he just noticed that his body was constantly falling, and it was pitch black all around, and from time to time there were star-like points of light scurrying in his eyes, stimulating his nerves.
I don't know how long it took, Xu Chen found that his fallen body had finally fallen to the ground, and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, which was the sequelae of the injury caused by Situ Kong's giant hammer.
Falling from such a high place and not dying, Xu Chen knew that his luck was extremely good. But it was still pitch black in front of him, and he couldn't see the surrounding scenery at all, and he endured the great pain in his chest, curled up in the darkness, gasping for air.
Xu Chen didn't know where he was, but at the moment he was more worried that Situ Kong would chase after him and kill him.
In this way, he hid in the unknown darkness for half an hour and did not hear any movement, and there was silence around him, so quiet that it made people feel frightened, as if he had come to the underworld.
But in any case, Xu Chen finally realized that he had escaped Situ Kong's tracking, he slowly stood up, took out the fire fold from his arms and lit it, and the scene in front of him suddenly surprised him.
He found himself standing in a bottomless tunnel, with a hard rock wall above his head, and no downward opening.
Xu Chen was shocked and worried, since this is a closed space, how did he fall into this tunnel from above? This is really a strange thing!
He lifted the fire fold and looked ahead, and saw that the dark underground world was crawling like a black python. The tunnel in front of it was not straight forward, and after a few zhang in front, it turned into a dead end in sight, which made it difficult for Xu Chen to judge its true length.
"Uncle Wang, are you there?" Xu Chen tentatively screamed a few times, but did not get the slightest response, and the empty echo made him goosebumps rise when he heard it.
Xu Chen had no choice but to stumble forward, and after walking for a long time, he found himself at the end of the road. By the faint light of the fire, he saw a stone door on the rough rock face, and in the center of the door seemed to be a large pattern covered with dust.
Xu Chen wiped the dust off the stone door with his right hand, and looked at it, the pattern on the door was the image of an animal, its turtle shell and snake body, with thick limbs, and the outstretched head was actually a male face, with a thick beard on the side of the mouth.
Xu Chen immediately recognized that this was an anthropomorphic divine beast Xuanwu, and he couldn't help but think: "I actually saw a divine beast pattern outside of my Chongwu Mountain, could it be that there really a Xuanwu shield in Ao'an Mountain?"
At this time, the fire fold had burned out, and at the moment when it was about to be extinguished, Xu Chen saw this Xuanwu Divine Beast glaring angrily, and its expression was extremely hideous, giving people the feeling that it was guarding this place to prevent outsiders from entering the door.
The cave was surrounded by darkness again, and the anxious Xu Chen couldn't care about what terrible things were hidden behind the door, so he stretched out his hand and pushed hard, only to hear a "creak", and the heavy stone door was pushed open by him, and a faint light suddenly came out of the door.
It is a two-zhang high enclosed cave, and the rock wall is smooth, as if it was dug out by hand. To Xu Chen's surprise, the faint light actually emanated from the surrounding rock walls, and these faint lights shone like night stars in the darkness, giving people a dreamlike feeling, allowing him to barely see the situation in the cave.
The first thing that caught his eye was a stone tablet in the cave, Xu Chen subconsciously walked towards it, and found that the body of the tablet was bare without any ornamentation, and there was not a single text engraved, and then he found that there were delicate and luxuriant patterns on the base, and after a closer look, Xu Chen recognized that this was the unique stone tablet ornament of the Chongwu Mountain God Clan.
What surprised Xu Chen even more was that he found that this stele was carved from white marble, and now he couldn't keep his composure anymore, thinking of the missing wordless stele that Tie Jiugong said, the stele in front of him was highly similar to what he said in appearance, could it be that this is the stele that was stolen by the God King Su Liuyun?
At this time, he saw that there was text engraved on the side of the stele, not only on the left side, but also on the other side. Xu Chen carefully studied these words and found that it was a poem: Since ancient times, heroes have come out of my generation, and they will not hit the south wall and do not look back.
Although there is no text on the front of the stele, there is a poem on the side, which means that this is not the missing stele that Tie Jiugong said, and more importantly, Xu Chen has identified it by the newness of the stele It has not been carved for more than ten years, which makes him breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that Uncle Tie didn't tell himself that the wordless stele had been destroyed by Uncle Taishi in public, how could it still exist in the world, it seems that he is too sensitive.
But why did the person who carved the stele engrave such a poem, Xu Chen couldn't guess the reason, but he felt that the last sentence of this poem was heroic and dry, but the next sentence was a bit vulgar and decadent, which was really a bit of a big scene.
But he didn't have time to delve into the meaning of the poem, for his eyes were drawn to something in the corner, a white skeleton with rotting clothes.
At the same time, Xu Chen found that there were still three skeletons lying in other corners of the cave, and their clothes and pants were also rotten, but judging from the degree of decay, these four skeletons should have died together at about the same time, and the time of death is estimated to be four or five years.
In addition, there were some empty wine jars stacked in the cave, some of which had been broken into pottery shards, as if they had been smashed by someone, but Xu Chen couldn't confirm whether his judgment was correct.
When he calmed down and examined the four skeletons, he found that the ribs on their chests were broken, and it was clear that they had been killed in the cave by being shot in the heart.
"It's really pitiful, no one knows that you died here, and your relatives are afraid that they will see through their eyes. Xu Chen sighed and bent down, packed these skeletons together, and prepared to bury them in the cave nearby, so that the dead could be buried in the ground.
But just as he picked up a skeleton, his right hand suddenly touched something that seemed to be erected on the skeleton's waist, Xu Chen hurriedly picked up the clothes that were about to rot into silk, and saw a rusty sign under the skeleton's ribs falling to the ground.
Xu Chen picked it up and found that it was a bronze medal, and there seemed to be words on the card, so he ran his true qi to remove the rust on the bronze medal, and saw the five big characters of Chongwu Mountain travel.
Xu Chen was stunned for a moment, and he recognized that this was a special descending token for Chongwu Divine Mountain. This kind of token is divided into two kinds of copper and iron, the iron medal is used by the disciples of Chongwu Mountain when they go down the mountain to visit relatives, and the bronze medal is the token for performing tasks.
Based on the ornamental patterns carved around the bronze medal, Xu Chen recognized it as a token used on a top-secret mission.
In an instant, Xu Chen felt a buzzing in his head, there was no doubt that the identity of this skeleton was a disciple of the Protoss of Chongwu Mountain, but I don't know which predecessor he was, but unfortunately he couldn't complete the task and died here in the end.