Chapter Seventy-Two: The Broken Bridge
Just when Xuanyuan Yu was roasting chicken wings and consuming Lin Wuxian on the second layer, Xuanyuan Yu had already arrived at the fifth floor of the Tower of Babel with Mengyu.
This tower is very tall and very wide, and it has become a truth engraved in the heart of Huangfu Ying. But at this time, it took a long time to get from the fourth floor to the fifth floor, and he had to be in awe of this tall tower again.
One can imagine how many craftsmen worked day and night when this tower was first built, and how many people died of exhaustion because of the construction of this tower. Their souls may still be wandering somewhere in this tower, watching alone as it turns from glory to loneliness.
Mengyu ran in front of him, and from time to time there was a girl's soft breath in the red hair, and the hearts of the people who teased him were rippling. Although her appearance was a bit abrupt, Huangfu Ying's heart was still very happy.
He couldn't tell what kind of affection he had for this girl, but he felt that he cared so much about a girl for the first time in his life. When she laughs, she wants to laugh with her, when she is sad, she hugs her and comforts her softly, if she takes her hand to go to the whole world, Huangfu Ying will definitely accompany her without hesitation.
Huang Fuying suddenly remembered the conversation in front of Lin Hai, he told the red-haired girl his secret, and also heard the girl's inner voice from her, and he had to be sure that he was fascinated by this girl.
"Look, there's a river here!" Mengyu's voice was full of surprise, and his eyes shone brightly. The whole face was like a flower blooming in an instant, brightly illuminating the eyes of Huangfu Ying.
Huangfu Ying was stunned for a moment, he looked at Mengyu too intently, only to realize that they had reached the entrance of the fifth floor. And just like Mengyu said, a wide river blocked their way.
"River, is there a river here?" Huangfu Ying frowned deeply, a blue river in front of him occupied almost the entire fifth floor, stretching from the entrance where they stood to the exit, with only a broken broken bridge in the middle for people to walk on. The broken bridge is still five zhang away from the land at the exit, and it is very difficult to cross the river without being able to resist the wind.
Even if a cultivator like Huangfu Ying who reached the Illusory Light Realm, if he couldn't fly, he could only use his true qi to jump out of a distance of three zhang at most, which was already the limit of being a human being.
Of course, if you consider using the assistance of spells, you may be able to pass smoothly, but this tower is quite strange, as if there is some kind of prohibition that restricts the flow of true qi in the body. When it is tested that the user is going to fly with the help of True Qi, that prohibition will exert great power.
But all this is nothing, and you can't fly and wade across the river. The most incomprehensible thing for Huangfu Ying is why there is a river here, and on the fifth floor of the Tower of Babel, which is hundreds of feet high, there is an aerial river.
"Let's go, let's go over quickly, are you going to stand here until that god wakes up?" Mengyu shook Huangfu Ying's arm a little impatiently, and dragged him towards the broken bridge.
The river gently laps against the rough and uneven bank, which is clearly the result of the original builders' attempt to imitate this place as a natural embankment.
It's just that the blue river looks like a microcosm of the sea, but it is quiet in the middle, without the monstrous waves and the turbulence that the sea should have, and the silence makes people a little uneasy.
"We'd better wait, this place is a little weird, let's see how it goes. Huangfu Ying looked at the river suspiciously, and his intuition told him that there would be no such quiet place in this Tower of Babel. The closer you get to the soon-to-awaken God, the greater the danger.
"The dignified head of the Sword God Guild, he couldn't have been frightened by those ironclad men just now. The so-called once bitten by a snake for ten years is afraid of the well rope, it should not be you. Meng Yu looked at Huangfu Ying narrowly, and his faint smile was full of tenderness.
Huang Fuying didn't want to defend himself, and he felt that this kind of thing was not easy to explain. It was a natural reaction to danger, like a person who has been squatting in the dark for a long time, and even after coming to the world of light, some small sounds can still touch his nerves.
But Mengyu kept dragging him forward, and he also remembered Long Yunzhou's safety in his heart. The body followed Mengyu towards the broken bridge, but his divine sense looked around, and the wind attribute true qi in his body spread out, flew up to the dome, and got into the water, as long as there was any dangerous movement, he would know it in the first time.
The broken bridge was not broken later, but was deliberately designed to be what it is now when it was built. The fracture of the bridge is uneven, but each protruding ridge is smooth and neat, which is clearly intentional when it was first carved.
Huangfu Ying gently stroked the broken bridge made of white marble, and the bridge railing was carved with lifelike carvings, all of which were an ecological species............ A monster with a snake tail and a human face.
"What is this?" Huangfu Ying frowned, looking at these sculptures, and felt sick in his heart. The serpent-tailed monster held its strangely shaped weapon aloft as if it were shouting.
"This is the ancestor of the Fish-Man Country. Mengyu said faintly: "They are like human bodies in normal times, with limbs and can speak human language. The girls are like fairies in the painting, and the men are tall and handsome. They are good at fishing in the sea, and almost half of the fish on the Dragon Soul Continent are caught by them!"
Huangfu Ying looked at Mengyu, this red-haired girl seemed to have returned to that era that was long gone. With her red hair fluttering, she stood alone at the top of the tide and listened to the melodious singing of the fish-man girls returning to their hometown in the sunset.
But when they fight, they become demons of the sea. Mengyu's voice changed, and his face immediately became hideous: "Their bodies have become larger, their muscles have become stronger, and their bones have become harder. All who are against them will die by their swords. Mengyu stroked the face of a statue, it was a fish-man man with an angry face.
"How do you know so much?" Huangfu Ying tilted his head and looked at Mengyu blankly, suddenly he felt that he was so far away from the girl in front of him, and the mist-like light veil always separated the distance between the two of them.
"Didn't I tell you? My family was once one of the most glorious and greatest families on this continent, and of course I know the legends here. Mengyu regained her cunning appearance, and the mischievous Chao Huangfu stuck out her tongue.
Huangfu Ying's face was cold, the wind roaring sword suddenly unsheathed, the wind around him was twisting rapidly, and his eyes spewed a terrifying light.
"What's wrong, don't get angry so easily, what I said is true!" Mengyu was startled, looking at the cold light in Huangfu Ying's eyes, it was simply a prelude to murder.
"Shut up and don't talk. There's something in the river, and it's moving. Huangfu Ying covered Mengyu's mouth and whispered close to her ear. The heating is blowing in Mengyu's ears, and there is a feeling of numbness!
The river was gently shaking, and a swirl was expanding in the middle of the river. It was as if something had been woken up by the two who had suddenly appeared, and the river began to search for something.
"There will be something in this ghost place, it can't be some kind of monster, right?" Meng Yu opened his eyes wide and looked at the strange appearance of the river, and his face turned pale.
"It's definitely not going to be a good thing. Huang Fu Ying carefully observed the surroundings, the black water was stirring too fast, and his wind attribute true qi couldn't detect what was in the water at all. His instincts told him that something very dangerous was approaching, and a voice in the depths of his heart kept shouting for him to get out of here.
"Let's go, I'll throw you across the river, and then you can catch me with the Wind King's pupils." You can't stay here any longer, hurry up. After Huang Fuying finished speaking, he pulled Mengyu to the end of the broken bridge, and without discussing with her, he hugged her and threw it to the end of the broken bridge.
Dream Rain flew out a red arc in the air, and the moment she hit the ground, she saw a pair of eyes in the water staring at her. There was a crimson glow in those eyes, and a cold fear immediately entered her heart.
Dream rain fell to the ground, turned around violently, and the Huangfu shadow had already risen into the air. The white robe fluttered in the air, and the handsome face would make any woman go crazy at this moment.
Roar!
Just as he was halfway through the jump, a huge black figure burst out of the river.
The huge mouthparts opened and stretched from the ears, and the sharp teeth were like sharp daggers, and in the flash of cold light, they slammed into the waist of Huangfu Ying.
The cyan scales shone with a strange luster, and Huangfu Ying was horrified to find that the mermaid carved on the broken bridge had actually been resurrected.
Rushing at him was a huge mermaid with a length of more than four feet. He also had a male face, but his open mouth was terrifying, no better than a beast. What's even more terrifying is that the mermaid's snake also has two thick arms, and a weapon similar to a harpoon is poking at itself.
The shadow of the emperor is unavoidable, and the fishman is worthy of being a master of predatory. used his mouth and harpoon to seal the escape path of Huangfu Shadow at the same time, no matter how Huangfu Ying escaped with his strength, he either gave the mermaid a bite to death, or pierced the harpoon.
"The sound flow is broken!" A dull voice sounded, and at the moment when the sharp teeth reached the body, the Huangfu Shadow urged the true qi to send out the sound flow break.
The white lightsaber slammed into the mermaid's mouth, and Huangfu Ying's body was knocked out of direction by the force of the rebound, and fell into the water with a thud.
The mermaid was hit head-on by the sound stream, blood flowed from the corners of her mouth, and she writhed wildly and let out a miserable scream. It was encased in armor-hard scales, with only the head being soft.
Huangfu Ying also saw this at the critical moment, so he attacked the mermaid's mouth.
But the mermaid only had a few broken teeth, and his mouth was bleeding a little. Withstanding the full force of the Phantom Light Realm master's blow, the biggest reaction was actually just a few crazy roars.
Huangfu Shadow came out of the water, the icy river water with a salty and wet taste, this is simply sea water, in order to raise this mermaid.
The black figure turned its head violently, anger erupting from its red eyes.
It roared frantically, and the harpoon stabbed the shadow of the emperor who fell into the water