Chapter Ninety-Seven: In the Belly of the Mountain
Ji Jiu is now in a huge hall, in front of which is a nine-story platform, surrounded by twelve figures cast in silver, each of which is standing, holding a silver plate, and the water droplets falling from the dome of the main hall accurately hit the silver plate, making a clear ticking sound. The sounds come and go, and they mix up like a light drizzle.
The nine-story platform is made of pure black basalt, like a huge cone, pointing to the dome. The height of the dome is four or five times higher than that of the high platform, and the three main stars, the nine auxiliary stars, and almost all the stars in the sky are inlaid with silver. Over time, the entire dome rotates slowly around the axis of the celestial pole to the north, corresponding to the real starry sky.
"This kind of building is not at all like the visible building of the Rong family, it is a bit of an alien style. Could it be that this is an ancient ruin?" Ji Jiu was surprised.
There are ditches dug on both sides of the hall, the water on one side forms a pool, raising giant pythons, and the other side leads to the outside world along the complex terrain.
"The Rong family originally took the water here for cultivation, with the main hall as the center, scattered like a ray, the higher the status, the closer to the center? Is it so stupid? Still thinking about blessing future generations in the long run, hehe, good things for future generations?" Ji Jiu walked towards the front of the main hall, where there was a high platform, and the fire he saw just now came out from above.
"For such an opportunity, it is naturally better to fish with all your might. Ji Jiu didn't care.
"Huh? Coercion, it's heavy. ”
Ji Jiu's brows suddenly furrowed, and his footsteps stopped.
Sure enough, it is impossible for the Rong family not to move such benefits, it turns out that they can't move.
As he approached the high platform, a mountain-like heaviness suddenly fell on his shoulders, as if carrying a mountain of thousands of feet, Ji Jiu's knees hurt and he almost fell.
In addition to this, there was a strong feeling of suffocation in the air, yes, it was the feeling of suffocation, as if a lonely person had been thrown into the depths of the sea, and there was darkness on all sides, all the water gushing in.
Ji Jiu couldn't bear it, and immediately retreated to the back, until he retreated beyond the range of the shallow ditch under his feet, and the heavy depression disappeared, just now he didn't notice that there was a shallow ravine under his feet.
Presumably the warning range.
Ji Jiu looked again, and then he found that a figure stood up on the high platform, not a figure, but a corpse, a humanoid skeleton as white as snow, exquisitely clear, he was draped in a wide and tattered black robe, and a small flower grew on his skull.
It was a small, strange flower, the size of a palm, made of ice and snow except for the flower, and its rhizome was as white as snow, piercing into the skull. Holding a flower condensed by flames, the shape is strange, similar to a human face, the expression seems to be smiling rather than laughing, crying rather than crying, revealing a strong strange taste.
"It seems that this is the so-called Rong family's two heavens of ice and fire? The rumors are really unbelievable, and yes, the rumors are all for ordinary people, and the real situation is always in the hands of a few people. Ji Jiu looked at the little flower, and for some reason, he felt that the flower was also looking at him, as if with mockery.
The water droplets dripping from the dome soaked into Xiaohua's body, and then flowed down the high platform and deposited in the ditches on both sides, thousands of years have passed before the Rong family has the dark spring it is today, and it is the water with strange effects that has helped the Rong family greatly improve its strength.
"This flower is bound to be obtained. Ji Jiu's eyes were full of fire, and after a while, his mind also fell silent, and he began to think about how to pass, the Rong family has been planning here for thousands of years, and it has also been fruitless, it must not be too simple.
As for the skeleton, Ji Jiu looked at it again, but it had already lay back down, only the strange little flower rooted in its skull kept jumping, like a candle flame.
"This skeleton should not be weak, but it seems that it can't step out of the high platform, because the giant python does not show fear or worry, it has been here for so many years, it should have been familiar with the habit of figuring out skeletons, so it is said that it has no fear. ”
Ji Jiu thought so in his heart, but he walked towards the giant python, it was suddenly alert, its upper body was propped up, and its fierceness was revealed, its intelligence was not high, but it understood that the person in front of it was extremely dangerous, and it was the kind of existence that could easily kill it.
"Don't be afraid, I won't kill you, I just want you to do me a favor. Ji Jiu took away the Huanyan Sword, and his body disappeared from the spot in an instant, and the next moment he had appeared beside the giant python, and his thin-looking body suddenly burst out with incomparably powerful power.
He is originally a demon body, with a green lotus immortal body, and his strength is not weak, but stronger than many demon beasts.
So Ji Jiu hugged the neck of the giant python with both hands, the difference in size between the two was too great, and it was impossible to fully hold it, but because of Ji Jiu's huge explosion, the blood vessels on his arms were even more bulging and looked like they were about to burst, making people's toothache bones shatter.
The giant python's neck was strangled by Ji Jiu with great force, as if it was firmly bound by a circle of wire, it roared in pain, its long and thick tail trembled violently, and the snake's pupils were crazy.
"I said I won't kill you, what are you struggling for?" Ji Jiu frowned, the strength of this giant python is really not small, he almost can't hold it, especially there is a layer of scales on the snake's body, which is slippery and slippery, and it is difficult to hold it tightly without having much strength.
But Ji Jiu won't let it move, his legs are slightly bent, nailed directly to the ground like a stake, and then his waist exerts force, his arms turn into a circle, and the giant python is then held by him and spun up, boom, boom......
The giant python's tail suddenly swept on the surrounding stone walls, and the rocks rolled with a rumbling sound, Ji Jiu saw that the direction was accurate, and immediately let go, and the giant python was instantly pulled out like a whip, but because the head was chained, its snake body more than ten zhang long was straightened in an instant, and then the tail slammed towards the high platform.
Regardless of the python still roaring in pain, Ji Jiu looked intently, only to see a misty gray light emanating from the high platform, like a drizzle, and then the giant python's tail paused, as if blocked by an invisible wall.
Then in the next moment, a strange scene happened.
Even Ji Jiu's pupils shrank suddenly, and he was shocked in his heart.
The python's tail disappeared without a sound.
It's as if swallowed by something weird, there is no blood or anything left, and the break is as smooth as a mirror, flat and flawless.
With a loud bang, the upper half of the python's body fell to the ground, and it was still trying to struggle, but the little flower on the high platform trembled violently, as if there were invisible silk threads surging from all directions and burrowing into the python's body.
The giant python's eyes showed despair, and it opened its mouth and roared, but it had no effect, its body within the warning line instantly shattered, and the flesh and blood splashed everywhere, disappearing invisibly.
"Offender, die!"
The cold voice came from nowhere, and Ji Jiu was cold, secretly on guard.
Half an hour later, everything was silent again.