Chapter 32: The Ancient Cave
The trees are towering, with lush foliage and miasma, obscuring the sky and the sun.
This is the dense forest that Xu Fan followed the serpentine mark, and from a distance, the forest towers in the sky like a huge mushroom.
It wasn't until I went deeper that I realized that there was a hole in the world.
Xu Fan held the long sword tightly in his hand, and the originally bright sword body was now stained with blood, and there was even a little flesh and blood stuck to it, which looked extremely disgusting.
These flesh and blood were left behind by the monsters that attacked Xu Fan along the way, including giant palm-sized spiders that foraged for food in webs, colorful poisonous snakes that fused with tree trunks, and some poisons that Xu Fan had never seen.
Fortunately, he had experience in the last duel with that woman, and from the time he entered this dense forest, Xu Fan carried the Bodhicitta Sutra and formed an invisible light shield outside his body.
The Bodhicitta Sutra is the nemesis of evil things in the world!
I don't know how long I left, and Xu Fan didn't know how many poisons he had killed that were hidden in the shadows and suddenly attacked. Some of the flesh of the poison even got on the black veil he used to cover his face.
The fishy smell kept coming through the face towel, and I felt sick as soon as I took a breath.
Xu Fan endured the nausea, and with a sword in his hand, he slashed a winged scorpion that flew from nowhere in half.
This is the reason why Xu Fan thinks that they are not just poisons but also monsters, the scorpion actually has two wings as thin as cicada wings, fluttering and flying in mid-air.
As you go deeper, the miasma and poison gradually decrease.
Xu Fan would not carelessly think that the danger was about to decrease, on the contrary, there were so many poisons guarding the periphery, wasn't it just to prevent the living from coming here?
This is where the real danger is.
Walking through a clearing, Xu Fan raised his head and was shocked to find that although there was a lot of poison just now, the sunlight still penetrated from the dense forest.
And where he was now, there was a yellow-green mist above his head that lasted for a long time, and he couldn't see the sun in the sky at all.
After walking for another half a mile, and when he came to the end of this place, Xu Fan found that what appeared in front of him was actually the foot of a mountain.
Strangely, there is a tree embedded in the middle of the mountain, a towering tree that is hugged by ten people. Although the canopy could not be seen, it would take three or five people to stand up just by exposing the trunk of the tree that was as tall as the two men.
The big tree seemed to grow out of the ground, stretching the mountain in half. The mountain is covered with moss and blends in with the trees.
The strangest thing was that two doors had been carved out of the trunk. The doorway was closed, and each of the two doors contained a humanoid creature.
The reason why they are humanoids is that they all have a tail that is more than a foot long on the back of their buttocks.
The humanoids on both sides were facing each other, their knees bent, their faces facing each other, and their hands raised above their heads, as if offering something to the heavens.
Witch!
A word suddenly popped up in Xu Fan's heart.
Then he wondered in his heart, didn't Sangu say that there was only a witch rudder to the north of the Sui River, so what was this place hidden in the depths of the dense forest?
Sangu is the elder brother of the wife of the owner of the cloth workshop in Bishan Town, the owner of the cloth workshop is called Yue Qingshan, and the proprietress is called Sanji.
Pressing the doubts in his heart, he gently pushed the wooden door with his hand, and to his surprise, the two wooden doors opened it easily from the outside.
Through the light outside, Xu Fan saw that inside was a bottomless hole that was slanting downward.
Standing at the door, Xu Fan hesitated.
Finally, the heart walked in, and the wooden door was shut.
It was dark in the ancient cave, Xu Fan didn't know how long he had been sliding, and he had bumps and bumps along the way, and he didn't need to look at Xu Fan to know that the clothes on his body should be similar to that of a beggar.
After a cup of tea, a light appeared in front of his eyes, and Xu Fan hurriedly inserted his sword into the stone wall, stabbing and stabbing his rapidly gliding body to stop.
Xu Fan jumped down from the entrance of the cave with a jump.
He stood on the ground, and then he looked back, and saw that the place where he had come down was a long corridor.
Strangely, in his senses, there doesn't seem to be a master here.
He followed the torches hanging on the wall, and the road was like a maze.
After walking for half an hour, he heard a few moans and moans.
Walking along with the voice, everything in front of him made Xu Fan's eyes widen, and then there was a monstrous anger in his heart, and he could be regarded as understanding why Sangu had that hatred and fear when he mentioned the witch cult.
It turned out that in front of him was a cellar about ten zhang wide, and his position at this time was the rock protruding from a passage above the cellar.
The cellar is full of all kinds of snakes, insects, rats and ants, which are entangled and killed each other.
The victorious one will eat the defeated one, but before it can finish eating, another poison will come and eat it. In short, an endless cycle.
Poison!
Xu Fan's heart was shocked, this witch sect actually used the method of raising Gu. Immediately thinking of the kung fu they practiced, it was the fastest to practice the poison skill by raising Gu.
This did not surprise Xu Fan, what made Xu Fan angry and full of anger was that dozens of jars of all sizes were placed in the cellar.
Each jar was filled with foul-smelling venom, and dead bodies could even be seen in the liquid.
The liquid in the jar seemed to have some fatal attraction, and the winning poisons climbed up the jar when there was no threat to them.
It's just that Xu Fan saw it clearly, and those poisons finally climbed up the altar, and after falling in, they turned into pus and blood and disappeared without a trace, and some of them became mutilated corpses.
And there was a person in each jar, which was what shocked Xu Fan the most.
These people include young people and some children.
Just now, if there was a moaning and groaning, it was made by the child in one of these jars.
Xu Fan took a look, there were a total of twenty-seven children inside, and the remaining ten were adults.
At this time, those adults closed their eyes tightly, and their faces were painful, if it weren't for the flash of green on their faces from time to time, Xu Fan almost thought that they were dead.
And among those children, there was one child who struggled to open his eyes, and compared to the others, his face was still the normal face of Beiban.
The other children had their heads drooped to the side, their lips white, apparently having lost their lives for a long time.
He also saw Xu Fan, an outsider, with his small mouth open and closed, wanting to say something, but as if he was banned by something, he could only make lip shapes.
Xu Fan saw pleading, fear, and pain in his eyes.
Isn't that kind of pain very similar to my younger self?
Xu Fan no longer hesitated, ran the Bodhicitta Sutra with all his might, formed a yellow light mask outside his body, jumped off the stone platform, and landed in the cellar.
When those poisons saw that someone had broken into their territory, they all stopped fighting and rushed in the direction of Xu Fan instead. However, as soon as he arrived, a foot away from Xu Fan, he was blocked out by the yellow protective light shield emitted by the Bodhicitta Sutra.
Xu Fan took a step forward, and those poisons took a step forward around him. From a distance, it seemed as if Xu Fan was directing them forward.
There were too many poisons, Xu Fan didn't dare to be distracted at all, and suppressed the urge to wield the long sword.
After walking dozens of steps, Xu Fan walked up to the child who was still conscious, and the long sword slashed out, and the jar cracked in response.
At this moment, Xu Fan quickly jumped back, and he saw that after those venoms flowed out of the jar, they actually corroded the ground into a large pit.
Unfortunately, the poison contaminated with venom was even more miserable, turning into a puff of smoke and drifting into the air.
Strangely, however, the child crawled through the venom unscathed.
After leaving the altar, it seemed that he had lost his inhibitions and could finally speak.
Just his first sentence made Xu Fan's heart shocked: "Be careful behind you!" ”
At the same time, Xu Fan smelled a fishy smell from behind him that was difficult to hide, and turned over with a sword.
Unexpectedly, his sword stabbed out, as if it had slashed into the wall, and the huge anti-shock force shook his mouth sore.
He turned around, and a giant snake ten feet long and the size of a bucket raised its head high, constantly swallowing the core, and the narrow pupils on both sides were full of indifference.
What surprised Xu Fan the most was that there was a sharp horn more than a foot long on the top of the head of this giant snake.
What kind of monster is this?
The giant snake was like a master, looking down on Xu Fan condescendingly.
Xu Fan's heart turned up a monstrous wave, and the sword just now went down, and it didn't even cut its skin, leaving only a white mark. On the other hand, the long sword in his hand showed signs of curling the blade.
He stared at the giant snake with his eyes, and quickly explained to the child, "You hide aside first, and I will deal with this beast." ”
In fact, he was not sure at all.
This thing was beyond his cognition, not to mention that it was invulnerable, even his huge body was enough to frighten Xu Fan.
What the hell is this place, how can there be such a huge guy.
One man and one snake, four eyes facing each other.
Out of the corner of Xu Fan's eyes, he saw that the child who was still conscious did not hide to the side, but climbed down the steps on the stone wall to the place where he jumped just now.
Surprisingly, neither the poison at the bottom of the cellar nor the giant snake turned a blind eye to the boy's actions.
Only then did Xu Fan realize that where the boy climbed up, that is, under the stone platform where he was standing just now, there was a bottomless black hole.
Thinking about it, it was the place where the big guy in front of me lived, no wonder he didn't find it just now.
At that moment, the serpent moved, staring at the uninvited guest on the other side and smelling a strange breath. And the other party has a force that makes him very annoying, but he is very oppressive to himself.
If it hadn't been for that, it would have opened its mouth long ago and devoured the other party.
Xu Fan had been staring at the other party closely, seeing that it had just moved. Xu Fan used the Floating Cloud Sword Sect's best light skill cloud step to dodge.
The big snake chased after him, Xu Fan fled left and right in the cave, the big snake's tail kept slapping, and the broken stones on the stone wall in the cave fell down one after another, killing many poisonous things that crawled indiscriminately and bit each other.
Xu Fan could see it from the corner of his eye, even so, those poisons still had no fear, only fighting and devouring. Even if the poison that was still fighting with himself one second was smashed to pieces by a boulder falling from the sky the next second, those poisons didn't care, the opponent died, turned around and went to find another poison to bite.
And the kid who just climbed up, where is he at this time?