Chapter 148: Stepping into Jinling The Old and New Valleys
The former Jinling Valley was a beautiful spiritual valley. Towering mountains are on both sides, a meandering river runs through the valley to the south, and a dense forest to the north. Surrounded by a variety of dense spiritual trees, there is a unique spiritual tree "Golden Feather Tree" growing in the middle of the forest.
Every hundred years, the Golden Feather Tree can give birth to 99 Golden Feather Fruits, each of which is the size of a fist, flowing with golden brilliance throughout the body, and is covered with patterns like feathers. It is an excellent metallic spiritual fruit, which is of great benefit to monks who practice metallic exercises, and it is also an extremely rare material for refining high-level battle armor. In the entire Shenzhou boundary, this is the only place where this kind of golden feather fruit is produced.
At the same time, there is such a spiritual fruit here, and the location is also very important, it is located in the hinterland of the Thousand Demon Mountain Range, and it is only five or six hundred miles away from the pure spirit pool where the five black dragons are entrenched, just outside the thirty-six spirit peaks.
This place is so important, naturally attracted the covetousness of all forces, and the battle around this place has never stopped, and the potholed ground outside the valley, as well as the remains of corpses half-exposed under the soil and various broken spiritual weapons, you can see the countless tragic battles in this place.
Because the battle here was too bloody, no one could control it alone, so thousands of years ago, led by the Council of Elders, all parties reached an agreement that no race should monopolize this place, and at the same time, when the golden feather fruit was ripe for a hundred years, they would jointly send representatives to enter the place to pick.
Although the daily battles have stopped, but every hundred years of harvesting, the battles here will become more and more cruel and bloody, each side of the forces want to capture more spiritual fruits, all the representatives who enter it are often carrying all kinds of large-scale killing weapons, as long as the people of all parties meet to fight in the dark, the representatives sent by the various races are almost nine deaths after entering.
During the last great war 6,000 years ago, the monk of unknown side actually detonated his Yuan Infant before he died, causing a chain reaction, and the precious Golden Feather Tree was also destroyed, and the valley was also severely damaged, becoming no longer habitable, and became a dangerous place in the Thousand Demon Mountain Range.
More than six thousand years have passed, and all forces have forgotten the existence of this place, because the Thousand Demon Mountain Range is too big, there are still countless places to explore, there are countless treasures waiting for their masters, and no one cares about such a worthless place.
It is also a blessing to be forgotten, thousands of years have been a long time, after a long period of self-restoration, the original damaged forests have gradually regained their scale, the river outside the valley continues to flow south, and various creatures have gradually multiplied.
However, because the spiritual veins of the earth in this place have been destroyed, the situation of a few years ago cannot be restored at all, so the spiritual energy in this place is not very full, and there are still no monks who want to live here.
In this way, a long time passed, and the river outside the valley to the south dried up, and large clusters of ghost spirit grass grew on the original riverbed, a kind of evil plant that could absorb the aura of the monks of the past. As a result, no one wants to approach this place even more.
No one can say clearly, when did the Yuan Infant Jiaolong arrive here to live, and the big demons who lived nearby knew that there were already people in the Golden Feather Valley, but no one cared about it anymore, not to mention how big a wave of the Yuan Infant Jiaolong could set off? You know, just within a thousand miles around, there are hundreds of great demons in the Tribulation Period.
There is another very important reason why these powerful neighbors did not deal with this dragon, that is, they are not sure what the relationship between this golden dragon and the five dragons of the Five Dragons Peak is, strictly speaking, they are all children of the dragon clan.
Such a place is not very important, if it is occupied, it will be occupied, anyway, the aura inside is so thin, there can be nothing valuable.
No one cares about the true identity of this golden dragon.
This is the information that Zhang Xiaoshan got from Huang Wu, as the top existence of the Thousand Demon Mountain Range, Huang Wu certainly knows more than others. She didn't ask Zhang Xiaoshan why he asked about Jinling Valley, after all, for the local demon clan of the Thousand Demon Mountain Range, there were more low-level demons who didn't know the name of Jinling Valley, how could Zhang Xiaoshan be so interested.
Zhang Xiaoshan didn't want to hide his own affairs, after all, for a powerful existence like Huang Wu, as long as he spent some time afterwards, he could easily know the true purpose of his trip, and he didn't want to leave a bad impression on Huang Wu. Therefore, although Huang Wu did not ask, Zhang Xiaoshan still frankly explained the purpose of his trip.
Where there is a cause, there must be an effect, the reincarnation of heaven is relieved, there was Jin Jiao who took the initiative to provoke the Zhang family, and afterwards he must be prepared to be revenged by the Zhang family, which is also reasonable.
It's just that for the demon cultivators of the Thousand Demon Mountain Range, no matter how deep the contradiction of the demon clan itself is, it is also their own business, they don't like the human race, and they hate the human race even more for entering the Thousand Demon Mountain Range. This is the world of the demon race, there should be no human race, let alone the human race coming here to hunt and kill the demon race, that is even more of a thing to provoke the anger of the public.
Fortunately, Zhang Xiaoshan only killed a few snake clan monks along the way, but other than that, there was not much killing.
Huang Wu hesitated for a moment, and decided to make an exception to help Zhang Xiaoshan once, and directly used his great magic power to send Zhang Xiaoshan outside the Golden Feather Valley, which had two advantages, one was that Zhang Xiaoshan had the heavy responsibility of taking care of Qingluan in the next ten years, and he would compensate him in advance, and the other was to let Zhang Xiaoshan avoid the various races thousands of miles from Cuiling Valley to the Golden Feather Valley. In this way, Zhang Xiaoshan only went to carry out his own mission, and had no other bad influence on the Thousand Demon Mountain Range.
So Zhang Xiaoshan once again experienced the technique of great transfer, and the journey of thousands of miles was completed in just a few breaths.
On the one hand, he secretly admired the great cultivator's vast powers, and on the other hand, he constantly encouraged himself to cultivate hard, step into a higher realm this morning, and master more skills.
Huang Wu was also decisive and straightforward, and after bringing Zhang Xiaoshan here, he turned around and left without saying a word, as if he didn't want to ignore Zhang Xiaoshan.
Just when Zhang Xiaoshan felt a little confused, Huang Wu Shennian said: "Little guy, this is not better than mine, maybe there are people next to me, I can't make a sound, otherwise once someone finds out that I brought the human race here, it will inevitably cause other offenses, if my clan is implicated, it will not be good, I can only send you here, and then you can do it yourself! Remind you, I believe that those people of your clan must also have the support of the big clan behind them, and they have all arrived here, you have to be careful yourself!"
After Zhang Xiaoshan thanked him gratefully, he found that there was still a figure of Huang Wu around, and his people really came and went without a trace.
He let out a long sigh, and his nervous mind was also relaxed a little, staying with the existence of Huang Wu for a long time was a great challenge to his mind.
In front of him was a large area of crimson thorn grass, and among the vines grew many strange black tumors, vaguely like heads with closed eyes.
Zhang Xiaoshan felt that these might be those ghost spirit grasses, those black giant tumors, but he was afraid that they were transformed by the evil qi, and he still had to be careful, not to get into the means of these evil things.
These ghost spirit grasses grew extremely luxuriantly, covering almost all the earth, Zhang Xiaoshan looked left and right for a while, but did not find anything, so he called the firefly from the Lihuo Palace and explained his purpose.
Hotaru smiled, then opened her mouth to release thousands of small black beetles, and these inconspicuous flying insects went to find a way out.
The fog-like swarm of insects quickly dispersed, and Hotaru closed her eyes, feeling the movement around her at any time.
Suddenly, Hotaru Huang spoke: "Master, there are two passages near here, both of which were opened up not long ago!"
"Oh!" Zhang Xiaoshan said in surprise. He thought to himself: Could it be that the men and horses of the two sects have already arrived? They have actually rushed ahead of him, and it seems that he has to hurry up.
He no longer hesitated, and under the leadership of Firefly Huang, he came to a place on the left, where the ghost spirit grass that had originally grown was burned to ashes, and a straight path was opened.
The stones on the ground have turned blue-gray, which is a sign of high temperature, and some of the sand and gravel have crystallized, which is a sign of high temperature.
Seeing this, Zhang Xiaoshan hurriedly called out the other companions of the Zhang family, recently, the Zhang family has spent too much time away from the Fire Palace, because the aura in it is insufficient, and they cannot practice the exercises, so most of the people are meditating to improve their divine thoughts, and at this moment, Zhang Xiaoshan suddenly called out, and everyone was naturally very happy.
However, Zhang Xiaoshan didn't have time to talk to everyone, so he hurriedly pointed to the ground and said, "Everyone, please see, is this caused by my Zhang family's Lieyan decision!"
Zhang Fangyue had the longest grade and the most knowledgeable, he hurriedly stepped forward to check it out, and replied: "Elder, this is indeed caused by the Lie Yan Decision, and if I am not misjudged, this should be left by the children of the Outer Sect, the Lie Yan Decision they practiced has been adjusted, and the fire attribute inside is more focused on power, and the changes caused to the sand and stone are very obvious!"
"They are walking so fast!" Zhang Xiaoshan sighed: "Everyone must be careful, although these people are the same Zhang family as us, but under the current situation, they are only afraid that they want the lives of a few of us more than these demon clans, everyone must not be negligent!"
When everyone heard this, they all took out their magic weapons, covered their breath, and the group cautiously walked into the Golden Feather Valley.
The valley is divided into the new valley and the old valley, and the area that was destroyed by the great war became the old valley, and in the northeast corner of the valley, the new valley is located, and new forests have appeared there.
The old valley was unusually desolate, with large chunks of rock all exposed, and the occasional rotten remains of monks could be seen under the yellow sand, as well as some broken magic artifacts scattered everywhere.
The valley was empty, there was not even a single cave, and there were no monks to be seen, because the wind and sand were very strong, and there were no footprints on the ground to be found.
Under the leadership of Zhang Xiaoshan, several people marched towards the northwest of Xingu, if Zhang Xiaoshan did not guess wrong, the golden Jiao is very likely to live in Xingu.