Volume I, Ninety-Five, Sword Marks
Ninety-five: Sword marks
Zuo Qing and Wan Feifei cautiously advanced along the canyon.
Although there was no white mist, Zuo Qing and Wan Feifei knew that the most terrifying thing in the sword abyss was not the mist or the strange beast, but the miasma that permeated the depths of the sword abyss.
The so-called miasma originally refers to a kind of poisonous gas produced after the decay of the corpses of dead animals and plants, but in places where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is abundant, this poisonous gas will be mixed with spiritual energy to form an extremely terrible "miasma".
Because these miasma is contaminated with the "resentment" left behind when the living soul dies, it is easy to erode the practitioner.
Therefore, cultivators will not choose to absorb the aura of heaven and earth in this environment full of miasma, and if they accidentally inhale the miasma into their bodies, they will be poisoned at least and infected with the "resentment" hidden in the miasma, infecting their souls, and thus going mad and becoming a walking corpse.
Why there are so many miasma in the sword abyss, and where these miasma come from, no one knows now.
After leaving Broken Sword Mountain, the Tianwu Sect would always send people back to Broken Sword Mountain every few decades or hundreds of years to investigate and see if they could find the relics left by their ancestors.
Only here in Jianyuan, there are very few people who come in, because it is rare to be able to resist such a powerful miasma.
"Senior brother, use the aura to protect your heart, and you will enter the middle of the sword abyss ahead, be careful. Zuo Qing said to Wan Feifei.
The inside of the sword abyss is slightly different from the outside of the sword abyss, there are still some plants growing here, but there are very few, most of them are hidden in the stone crevices under the boulders, and most of them are bright and gorgeous, extremely delicate.
"Senior brother, that's the Fire Spirit Grass!" Wan Feifei suddenly pointed to a mountain rock in front of him, and a fiery red plant grew on the mountain rock.
Zuo Ling grabbed Wan Feifei, who was about to rush forward, with his hand, and said, "Senior brother, be careful!
You must know that the Fire Spirit Grass is a precious elixir, if you have this elixir, the extraordinary "White Rainbow Battle Body" will break through to a great realm, which will be of great help to his strength improvement.
Although Zuo Qing stopped Wan Feifei, he knew that this elixir was of great significance to Wan Feifei, and maybe he could use this to allow Wan Feifei to break through another realm in one fell swoop and reach the fifth layer of the Qi Refining Realm.
The two of them walked one after the other, staring at this strange flower with their eyes fixed, and walked over gently.
A gust of wind blew, and the fire spirit grass shook a few times, and a few sparks were thrown out of the leaves.
Wan Feifei smelled that the air was suddenly filled with a smell of fireworks, which made him very excited, because this was the manifestation of this fire spirit grass that had entered the maturity stage!
Zuo Qing and Wan Feifei surrounded the rock where the fire spirit grass was located, and after exploring around, they didn't find anything unusual, and then Wan Feifei carefully collected it.
Wan Feifei took out a bottle made of wood, and took out a small shovel made of wood, trying to dig out this fire spirit grass by the roots.
Because the nature of the fire spirit herb is fire, it cannot be dug with tools made of metal, which will destroy at least half of the medicinal properties of the fire spirit grass, so Wan Feifei has always carried a set of wooden tools on his body, just to be able to pocket it as soon as possible when he encounters the fire spirit grass.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the extraordinary little shovel touched the root of the Fire Spirit Grass, the Fire Spirit Grass actually shuddered, and then "Whoosh!" burrowed under the ground.
Then the earth "rumbled", and the big stone under Zuo Qing and Wan Feifei's feet suddenly grew higher and higher, as if something had been pulled up from the ground.
Zuo Qing and Wan Feifei felt that something was wrong, and quickly jumped away from the boulder under their feet, and then stood on the cliff on the edge of the sword abyss.
I saw that the boulder grew higher and higher, and it stopped when it had grown to seven or eight feet.
In the middle of the boulder, a black slit slowly opened, and out of the crack was a basin-sized eye!
However, Zuo Qing's Wan Feifei stood at the height of the cliff, and was hidden in the stone crevices, and the giant eyes looked at it for a long time and found nothing, and closed it again.
The stones next to the giant eye covered the eye, and there was no gap in it.
The boulder staggered a few times, then slowly sank to the ground, but the fire spirit grass never grew again.
Zuo Qing and Wan Feifei looked at each other, and they didn't dare to say a word for most of the day.
After a long time, the two saw that the boulder had no movement, and then left along the cliff.
"Senior brother, is that a strange beast?" Wan Feifei said with palpitations: "That big stone can't be the head of that strange beast, right?, how can it be so big?!"
Zuo Qing nodded: "It's very possible, but fortunately, this strange beast is not very aggressive, so it didn't do anything to us." If he had come out completely, we would have been bolognese long ago. Based on what I've just seen, I think it's a beast like a mountain mover! They sleep beneath the ground all year round, and they love all kinds of exotic flowers and plants. ”
Wan Feifei nodded, and he deeply agreed with this. Although the beast did not show its whole body, it could be known from his head that its body must be unusually huge, and if he fought in this narrow valley, neither he nor Zuo Qing would be able to take advantage.
Although the strength of a strange beast does not depend on its size, generally speaking, the larger the size of the strange beast, the more powerful it is, especially the strange beast like Fang Cai, which is obviously related to the earth and mountains and rocks.
"But the scale of this beast tide is actually not large, the most powerful beast is just something like the Black Water Python, why is there such a monster coming out? If it is an adult mountain moving beast, it is usually a strange beast in the Dan stage, and the passage here is not enough for it to get out at all." Zuo Qing said to Wan Feifei.
Wan Feifei thought for a moment and said, "Could it be that this strange beast has been sleeping in the Sword Abyss?"
After hearing this, Zuo Qing also felt that it was very possible, although the alien beast would be surrounded and suppressed by cultivators as soon as it appeared in the Pangu Continent, but the Pangu Continent was so big, who dared to guarantee that no alien beast would become a fish that slipped through the net?
What's more, no one has entered Jian Yuan all year round, and this strange beast has been sleeping underground, so it is normal not to be discovered.
After leaving the fire spirit grass just now, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief, if they really provoked a mountain moving beast, then there was no doubt that they would end up with those corpses in the sword abyss.
The deeper you go into the sword abyss, the temperature gets cooler and lower, and the sky above you gradually narrows. This is all because Jian Yuan actually started from the entrance and the terrain has been sinking, and in the end it will even be lower than the bottom of Yanqi Lake, and at this moment they are far away from the entrance.
"Senior brother, there seems to be no light in front of us, and if we go any further, we should be underground, but we still haven't seen the little junior brother. Wan Feifei said.
Zuo Qing said: "Well, above our heads at the moment should be the main hall of the Hanging Pavilion, let's look carefully here, if we haven't found the little junior brother, then we can't move forward anymore, this is our limit." ”
The aura here has been mixed with a large amount of miasma, and the two of them fortunately used the aura to protect their hearts from the beginning, but if they continue to move forward, their aura will not be enough.
"Exotic...... In the midst of that darkness. Zuo Qing Nannan said.
Wan Feifei looked at the darkness, his heart was a little hairy, he didn't know what was hidden in that darkness, he instinctively felt that if he really walked into that darkness, he would never come back.
The two of them each took some elixir and replenished some aura, and searched carefully here.
The terrain here is slightly more open than before, and Wan Feifei and Zuo Qing carefully inspect along the cliff wall.
"This is ......" Zuo Qing found something similar to a sword mark on a rock.
"Senior brother, look, there are also here!" Wan Feifei also found some sword marks.
Only then did the two of them realize that there were many traces of swords on the rocks here, some deep and some shallow, some thick and some fine.
Wan Feifei stroked these sword marks and said, "Could it be that there was a senior here who practiced swords, or was there two swordsmen who fought here to the death?"
He looked at those sword marks, and compared them according to the position of these sword marks, he found that there was a wonderful law between these sword marks, which seemed to contain a sword technique!
Zuo Qing was also fascinated by these sword marks.
They are all swordsmen, and they know that some skilled swordsmen can even reverse a whole set of swordsmanship through sword marks, and do they want to achieve this kind of magical thing today?