Chapter 053: Dry Corpse
Shen Qing was a little unrelenting, his palm was on the stone wall, and he walked all the way along the edge of the stone wall, and he didn't go far before he felt that the heat coming from the stone wall touched by his palm had increased significantly.
After walking more than ten steps along the stone wall, Shen Qing frowned slightly, and then took back the palm that was pressed on the stone wall.
At this time, the temperature emitted by this stone wall was already very hot, and it was obvious that the hot air came from behind the stone wall.
What's next to the stone wall?
Shen Qing's curiosity soared, and he didn't care that the unicorn python might return here at any time, so he stood in front of the stone wall and carefully explored.
The stone wall in front of me was uneven and black, nothing out of the ordinary.
Shen Qing walked slowly along the stone wall, his consciousness was fully opened, and after walking about dozens of steps, he found that a circular iron ring was exposed on the stone wall not far in front of him.
Only the iron ring is dark throughout, and the color of the stone wall is extremely similar, and it is difficult to find without careful inspection.
Shen Qing used his divine sense to probe it, and he didn't find anything wrong with the iron ring, but he found that around the iron ring, a slight gap appeared, and the heat coming from the stone wall seemed to be much weaker.
The gap is rectangular, two feet high, one wide and one long, just like an ordinary door, very regular.
With this discovery, Shen Qing had no experience, and he knew that the very regular gap in front of him should be a secret door, and the iron ring that was not easy to find must be the switch of this secret door.
Shen Qing hesitated slightly, stretched out his hand to hold the iron ring, and tried to rotate it left and right, luckily, when he rotated to the left, the iron ring was a little loose.
With another force, the moment the iron ring rotated, only the sound of "click" was heard, and the secret door slowly rose, accompanied by a wave of heat, and a stone staircase that sloped down came into view.
Fortunately, although the heat wave in this rushing face was overwhelming, it could still be endured, and as soon as Shen Qingwei groaned, he stepped on the stone steps and walked down the steps.
This downward stone step is relatively long, at a glance, afraid that there are hundreds of steps, Shen Qing has been down the steps to the corner, after the corner, it is another stone step that extends down.
Now that he has arrived here, Shen Qing has nothing to hesitate about, and continues to go down the steps.
I don't know how many corners passed, when Shen Qing felt that the heat was getting hotter and hotter, the stone steps finally came to an end, and a hidden stone door appeared in front of him.
Shen Qing released his divine sense to investigate, and there was nothing abnormal about the stone gate, so he came to the front of the stone gate, put his palm against the stone gate, and secretly vomited his true qi, and the stone gate made a "quack" sound and slowly opened.
Behind the stone gate, there is an empty stone room, on the east side of the stone room, there is a stone platform three or four zhang square, on the stone platform, there is a dry corpse sitting on it.
The dry corpse was draped in a green robe, and his dry hair was tied with a crown, although the flesh was not rotten, but in this hot stone room, the moisture of the flesh had long been steamed dry, and the eye sockets were deep, resembling skeletons, and it was very hideous and terrifying to look at.
The dried corpse in front of me should be a monk, but I don't know why it's sitting here?
Shen Qing stood not far from the stone platform and observed for a while, but he didn't see anything hidden on the corpse, not even the necessary storage bag for monks.
However, on the stone platform in front of the dry corpse, there was a jade slip.
With a move of Shen Qing's hand, he brought the jade slip into his hand.
The jade is yellow all over, with shallow spots all over the body, giving people a sense of simplicity, but the feel is very smooth and warm.
Shen Qing released his divine sense to penetrate the jade slip, and his mind suddenly "boomed", and a large amount of information poured into the sea of knowledge.
After a long time, Shen Qing put down the jade slip and sighed softly.
This jade slip contains a spell called "Imperial Spirit", although this technique is only a secondary surname spell, it is left by ancient monks who are quite old, mainly used to resist beasts and insects.
And the ancient monk who left these two jade slips was named Agni Zhenren, that is, the dried corpse that sat here.
Shen Qing had wondered why this ancient monk didn't even leave a storage bag, but left this quaint jade slip, but after investigating the information of this jade slip, he learned that this stone chamber was the underground cave of the fire real person, and leaving this jade slip also had its own special reasons.
Through the information left by the jade slip, this Agni True Person is the same as the powerful monk who refines the Qiankun Bead, and is also a Purple Cloud Sect monk, but the powerful monk who has the Qiankun Bead is the Supreme Elder of the Purple Cloud Sect, and the Agni True Person is just an ordinary deacon of the Purple Cloud Sect.
The information also mentions that there is a stone door to the south of this stone chamber, and behind the stone door, there is an earthfire magma that has existed for an unknown number of years. And in that underground magma, there are several golden ant eggs that were almost extinct in ancient times.
Back then, the Agni True Man built a cave near this scorching hot magma for the sake of those eggs that were unintentionally found here.
However, before the Agni True Flame could hatch the eggs of the Fire Essence Golden Antworm, he was unfortunately involved in the battle of destroying the Gate tens of thousands of years ago, when the Purple Cloud Sect fell apart in that ancient war and was tragically destroyed, and the Agni True Flame also suffered heavy losses because of this.
On the way back to the cave, the badly injured Agni Zhenren directly detonated his storage bracelet in order to prevent his belongings from falling into the hands of the enemy.
However, maybe it is because of the obsession with the near-extinct "Fire Marrow Golden Ant", or is there another reason? In the end, the Fire True Man was reluctant to destroy the "Spirit Guarding Technique" used to drive away all kinds of alien insects, and injected a message into the jade slip, suggesting that there were precious Fire Marrow Golden Ant Ant eggs in the Earth Fire Magma, which were left for those who were destined to ......
Shen Qing obtained this jade slip, which can be regarded as a fateful person, but after tens of thousands of years, I am afraid that the fire pith golden ant has already hatched. Perhaps, in the earth fire magma behind the secret door, there are already thousands of fire pith golden ants, and the horror of the fire pith golden ants is definitely not something that Shen Qing, a rookie monk, can receive.
Shen Qing could also think about it, even if he couldn't get the near-extinct fire pith golden ant, it was already the biggest harvest to get this ancient jade slip containing the "Imperial Spirit Technique".
However, Shen Qingming knew that there were fire pith golden ants in the earth fire magma behind the stone gate, so he was really a little unwilling not to take a look.
Shen Qing was entangled in his heart for a while, but he was still ready to go to the earth fire magma to explore, in his thoughts, even if there might be thousands of fire pith golden ants in the earth fire magma, the enemy could not be beaten, he could escape, no matter how bad it was, he could hide in the Qiankun Bead with just a thought.
With a plan, Shen Qing no longer hesitated, and slowly walked to the stone gate to the south of the stone room.
The stone door was closed, but there was a message from the jade slip, and Shen Qing easily found the iron ring switch, which was also rotated to the left, and the stone door was raised.
After entering the stone gate, there is still a stone staircase, the stone staircase obliquely downward, as far as the eye can see, the fire at the end of the stone staircase looms, and the "gurgling" sound of magma tumbling can be heard.
The scorching heat generated by the scorching heat wave was suffocating, so much so that Shen Qing's body was evaporated by the high temperature into a white mist, it was certain that after a while, Shen Qing would be steamed by this scorching heat.
Shen Qingcha hurriedly released a transparent shield, which didn't have much effect on heat insulation, but it was better than nothing, and it could make him carry it for a while longer.
For the sake of insurance, Shen Qing also separated a trace of his mind to connect with the Qiankun Pearl, and once he was in danger, he could teleport into the Qiankun Pearl.
This stone staircase is not long, less than ten zhang, to the end of the stone steps, the eyes are fiery red, the heat wave is pressing, the fire magma is surging and churning, the fiery red slurry splashes in all directions, and there is a burst of "crackling" sound.
It's hot!
The heat here was extremely terrifying, and the protective shield released by Shen Qing was on the verge of collapsing as it melted at a speed visible to the naked eye. Shen Qing hurriedly blessed another layer of protective shield, released his divine sense, and explored this small area of earth fire magma, and was a little relieved that there were not thousands of fire marrow golden ants here.
According to the information in the jade slip, on a piece of igneous rock raised in the center of the earth-fire magma, a dark red fire jade specially laid by the Agni real person came into view.
The piece of fire jade was about two zhang square, the upper end was flat, like a knife, and the lower end was oval, looking at it, it was like an egg cut in half.
To Shen Qing's surprise, the fire pith golden ant eggs on the fire jade were still there!
Shen Qing then found that the number of golden ant eggs of the fire pith was wrong, there were only ten insect eggs found on the convex fire rock by the fire real person back then, and later after the fire jade was laid, the insect eggs were transferred to the fire jade for cultivation, because the insect eggs were stuck to the fire rock, and two insect eggs were accidentally broken, that is to say, there should only be eight insect eggs on the fire jade.
However, that piece of fire jade was densely packed with insect eggs, and under the shroud of divine consciousness, I am afraid that there were hundreds of them.
Shen Qing only felt that his back skin was numb for a while, it was a good thing that there were more eggs, but it also meant that there were a lot of fire pith golden ants here, otherwise, how could there be so many eggs?
Shen Qing was nervous in his heart, but no matter how his divine sense probed, not a single fire pith golden ant was found in this square area, could it be that those hatched fire pith golden ants were hidden in the depths of the earth fire magma?
In a flash of thought, Shen Qing was slightly happy in his heart, this moment was a good opportunity, taking advantage of the fact that the fire pith golden ant was in the depths of the magma, he happened to receive the piece of fire jade that contained insect eggs, and then hurriedly slipped away.
That piece of fire jade was less than twenty zhang away from Shen Qing, and with Shen Qing's current divine sense, it could barely meet the requirements of the handling technique.
Shen Qing pinched the magic trick in his hand, put his fingers together and pointed at the piece of fire jade, his true qi shot out, and he shouted softly in his mouth: "Get up!"
As soon as the cheers fell, I saw that the two-zhang square piece of fire jade slowly rose into the air and flew steadily towards Shen Qing.