Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Underground Cave
Listening attentively, there was silence in the branch mine, and Chen Qiang walked in with a spiritual lamp in his hand.
This branch mine is very deep, and it can even be described as bottomless, the mine twists and turns, and he walked in the mine for nearly half an hour, but still could not reach the bottom of the mine.
"Hidden copy?"
Chen Qiang's heartbeat couldn't help but speed up a few points, and his pace also sped up a few points.
The reality disappointed him a little, it was just a mine, and there was an ordinary old man at the bottom of the mine, the same ordinary old man he had once met.
Seeing the old man here, Chen Qiang was a little surprised, nodded at the old man, turned around and left.
"Old decay Zhong Mu. The old man Zhong Mu suddenly spoke.
"Chen Qiang. Chen Qiang paused, reported his name, and waited for the old man to follow.
"Old man, I started practicing martial arts at the age of thirty, and it has been more than forty years, and I have never slackened, but my qualifications are not good, and I have never been able to officially step into martial arts. For more than 40 years, I have tried many methods, taking the spirit grass to eat different fruits, and several times I have narrowly escaped life, and there is no martial arts
Cheng actually took a handful of strength. For martial arts, I didn't have hope anymore, I just wanted to save more money and spend the rest of my life in peace, but now I saw hope. Here's something to help me get into the martial arts, and it's going to help you. Zhong Mu's emotions were slightly agitated.
"What is it?" asked Chen Qiang.
"Earth milk, ten thousand years of earth milk, can help me step into the martial arts, can help you purify the true element. Zhong Mu said.
"Why are you telling me?" asked Chen Qiang.
"The milk is accompanied by fire, the old man can't get it, I need your help, after the matter is done, you and I will share the milk equally. Zhong Mu said.
Chen Qiang thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
The old man Zhong Mu groped on the rock wall for a while, and a 'Kerala' machine sounded, and the rock wall was divided into two, revealing a dark passage.
"Here. ”
Zhong Mu was the first to step into the dark passage, followed by Chen Qiang.
The stone walls on both sides of the tunnel are as black as ink, smooth as a mirror, and can reflect the figure of a person, obviously different from the material of the stone wall elsewhere, and a staircase leads straight to the depths of the earth.
The further down it goes, the higher the temperature gets, and the faint glow of the fire comes out, and a wave of heat hits the face.
This is a large cavern, with a dome stalagmite hanging upside down, and a small magma lake in the middle of the cave, where the magma is churning and bubbling with bubbles, and the bubbles explode and smell of sulfur.
There is an island in the center of the magma lake, on which stands a stone pillar, and there is a stone depression at the top of the stone pillar, which is shaped like a stone bowl, and the fragrance wafts out and can be faintly smelled.
"In the early years, I got a volume of the former sage's notes, which recorded that the milk of the land for ten thousand years was fragrant and elegant, if the wine was fragrant, the smell made people intoxicated and refreshing, this must be the milk of the ten thousand years!" Zhong Mu said intoxicated.
Chen Qiang nodded yes, he didn't know if it was ten thousand years of earth milk, but he only smelled a trace of that tempting aroma, and he felt that the true yuan in his body had been purified a little.
He walked around the lava lake, contemplating the past.
He wrapped his palm with the true element, stretched it into the magma lake and carefully tested it, the true element was rapidly consumed, and after only a few seconds, the true element in his body was exhausted, and he had to withdraw his palm.
The temperature of the magma was extremely high, and with his current cultivation, if he fell into it, it would not take long for him to melt into a cloud of ashes.
After that, he looked up again and observed the stalagmites in the dome.
The stalagmites are long and short, and the stalagmites above the magma lake are especially short, he throws rocks and hits them, and the stalagmites break in response, falling into the magma, and several bubbles rise, and the fallen stalagmites disappear.
"No, it doesn't. Chen Qiang pondered, he originally planned to pass through the dome, but the stalagmites were very brittle, and once they were swung hard, they were likely to break.
"Have you come up with a way?" Zhong Mu asked.
"You can take a risk, but if you want to change the distribution plan, I want two-thirds of it, and a stone bowl for it. Chen Qiang said.
"Cheng!" Zhong Mu didn't hesitate too much, then nodded in agreement. The other party needs to risk his life and ask for two-thirds of what he gets, which is not too much, but he does not know why the other party wants the stone bowl.
After the conditions were negotiated, Chen Qiang began to get busy, he took out the Ziyun Knife, carefully tested it, and found that the Ziyun Knife could withstand the high temperature of magma, so he began to use the Ziyun Knife to rub the stone of the magma lake bed.
The stone of the lake bed has been subjected to the high temperature of magma all year round, but it has not melted into magma, it must be a little special, if you use these stones to refine a small boat, maybe you can safely cross the magma lake, and then reach the island in the middle of the lake, this is Chen Qiang's idea.
As for whether this method is feasible, he will have to try.
The boat was refined, and he threw it into the magma lake, and began to wait patiently, and after half an hour he scooped it up again, and found that the boat was not damaged, so he was ready to cross the lake.
The stone boat was thrown into the magma lake again, Chen Qiang jumped on the stone boat, the true yuan drummed, and the stone boat went offshore, like an arrow from the string to the central island.
"That's not right!"
The closer to the central island, the higher the magma temperature, and the stone boat showed signs of melting, Chen Qiang stepped up the output of the true yuan, and the speed of the boat increased again by a few points.
There was a soft 'pop', and a fist-sized hole was melted into the bottom of the boat by magma, and the magma spread along the hole to the inside of the boat.
It's too late. The boat had already traveled two-thirds of its journey, and with the current trend of magma leakage, it would be completely submerged by the magma before the boat could retreat to shore.
Chen Qiang gritted his teeth, his eyes were resolute, he advanced without retreating, and he rose up with spare strength, and Zhenyuan drummed to push the boat to continue to move forward.
The hole in the bottom of the boat was getting bigger and bigger, and the magma seeped in faster and faster, and gradually, only the two sides of the boat were on top of the magma lake, and most of the hull had sunk into the magma lake.
Chen Qiang stood on the boat with his feet on the gang, the scorching heat had burned his trouser legs to ashes, his hair was curled with roast, and his skin was slightly chapped.
When there were still dozens of meters left from the island in the middle of the lake, the stone boat was finally overwhelmed and completely sank under the surface of the magma lake.
He turned around and looked around, where the original stone boat was, a large number of magma bubbles had bubbled out of the 'grunt', and the trace of the boat had completely disappeared.
Chen Qiang lay on his back on the slightly cool island in the middle of the lake, gasping for breath, holding the spirit stone in his hand, silently recovering the consumed true yuan.
When Zhenyuan recovered, he stood up and took a closer look at the island in the middle of the lake.
The area of the island in the middle of the lake is not large, only less than 100 meters in circumference, and the bare area is unobstructed, and only a stone pillar stands tall.
The entire island in the middle of the lake is made of black stones, the material is somewhat like jade, and the material is the same as that of the side wall of the dark tunnel, even if it is soaked in high-temperature magma, it is still cool to the touch.
The stone pillar standing in the middle of the island is the same, but the material is more delicate and the color is darker.