It was as dark as paint, and the woods were even darker, Ye slowly looked for a path to go up from his memory and footprints in the forest, and walked for about ten minutes before he dared to take out the night pearl to come out to illuminate, too close to the apprenticeship camp, for fear of being discovered.

This time it was to go down to the stone cave to collect the Netherworld Cold Spring, and the sun could not be seen all day, and each of the three of them prepared a night pearl in case of emergency.

After the cooperation of digging up the elixir last time, the three of them have developed a certain tacit understanding, and as soon as they went up the mountain, they put the elixir pill in their mouths and climbed to the top of the mountain without saying a word.

The mountain was only seven or eight hundred meters high, and the three of them were in good shape, and they came to the stone cave in less than an hour.

Ye Congwen asked Yu Lin and the others to tie the hemp rope in the stone cave, while he hid in a big tree and quietly observed the back to see if there were any people following him.

I squatted in a tree for an hour, but I didn't see a single figure. Ye Congwen saw that the sky had begun to rain and slowly descended the stone cave.

In late autumn and early winter, the temperature in the stone cave was obviously half lower than last time, and Ye Congwen had a whim:

The Netherworld Cold Spring, with a cold character in its name, does it mean that the cold winter is its active period? The colder the weather, the happier it will run, and this kind of strange things in the world will often transform into all kinds of strange shapes, so you should pay more attention to those living creatures that are jumping around when the time comes.

This made Ye Congwen secretly sigh, he still had to read more, if he hadn't plunged into the library in the past few days, how could he know that even water in this world can transform into the appearance of various animals?

took out the night pearl and took care of it carefully, only to see Yu Lin and the others wrap the thumb-thick hemp rope on the vine one left and one right. This time, three bundles of eight hundred meters long thick hemp rope were prepared, no matter which underground this stone cave extended, it was enough to use, for the sake of safety, Ye Congwen asked Yu Lin and the others to each pull a hemp rope and spread down.

Even if one is broken, there is still one available, which can be regarded as a double insurance.

He carefully inspected the hemp rope several times, and saw that the two men did not hesitate to follow their orders, and each bundle of hemp rope was tied with three vines in a row, and the two bundles of hemp rope were tied together.

"This can be said to be foolproof, if there is another problem, I will have no way."

Ye Congwen slowly walked to the entrance of the cave, and found that Yu Lin and the others were all surprised, and immediately understood the reason, and asked happily:

"It's been the end, how long?"

"Half of the hemp rope has not been used, at most more than 300 meters, and the steel ball has not moved."

Yu Yueyue said happily, her eyes were full of smiles, this was much better than she had expected, and it seemed that it was very possible to get the divine spring.

"It's the same with my one, I shook it a few times, and the iron ball didn't move."

Lin Xiaoyu was eager to try it and wanted to go down and find out.

"That's a good thing! The two of you are guarding above, I will go down first to see the situation, if I am sure that it is safe below, I will pull the rope, and when the time comes, Lin Xiaoyu will stay in place to guard, and Yu Yueyue will come down with tools to help. ”

Ye Congwen saw Lin Xiaoyu pouting, and had to explain again:

"You Sister Yueyue's piece of jade can put a lot of tools, and you can also quietly go out with the divine spring, you have to stay here, what if someone sneaks over and goes crazy and cuts this hemp rope? Your combat experience is stronger than Yu Yueyue's, and I am more relieved to stay here. ”

After finishing speaking, he put on cotton clothes and pants, and slowly slid down with an iron pickaxe. A rope was tied around the waist, knotted and firmly tied to the hemp rope, just in case.

As soon as you enter the cave, the cold air inside suddenly emanates, and the road surface under your feet begins to turn into smooth ice. Ye Congwen walked down cautiously, using an iron pickaxe every one or two meters to dig a small pit on the hard ice that was enough to step on.

Ye Congwen took the Night Pearl and carefully looked at the situation in the stone cave, only to see that a thick layer of ice was two or three feet thick, and it had obviously been condensed for a long time.

The further down he went, the more cold and biting it became, and Ye Congwen felt that even the qi that came out of his own could instantly condense into ice. As a last resort, I could only run the exercises, so that the true qi around the body could speed up the circulation, and after a full ten minutes, the limbs slowly returned to normal, but unfortunately I didn't prepare a hat, and my ears were estimated to be frozen red.

What the hell is this Netherworld Cold Spring, why is it cold like this, even though he is still halfway up the mountain? Could it be that this thing really escaped from the Netherworld?

However, judging from the results of Yu Lin and the two people's detection, they did not go to the underground at all, and it is even more nonsense to go directly to the underworld! So, how did it come about in this halfway up the mountain? Or how did it escape?

Just when Ye Congwen was puzzled, Ye Congwen found that the ground was flat.

Ye Congwen picked up the night pearl and took a picture of it, and was immediately speechless!

It turns out that the inside is extremely deep, like a natural karst cave, criss-crossed, twists and turns. The dark and deep corridors seem to have no end. The inside is flat and stable, all of which are ice picks and ice hangers of different shapes, or sharp as knives, or sharp as arrows, with strange shapes and uneven shapes.

Ye Congwen estimated it, and felt that this natural ice forest was actively wide, and according to the distance of his own dive, he had at least reached the halfway point of the mountain, according to the results of his previous observations:

Circle around the mountainside, at least several miles, such a long road, criss-crossed in the dark songs, once you get lost, I am afraid that it will be difficult to get out.

Not to mention looking for the Netherworld Cold Spring in such a vast ice pick forest, even if it lies under its nose, as long as it doesn't move, who can find it? Even if you find its traces, as long as you startle the snake slightly, it will turn around and run, who can catch up?

Thinking of this, Ye Congwen only felt that a fiery heart was poured on a pot of netherworld cold spring, and it could not be extinguished anymore. Although I don't know what the Netherworld Cold Spring looks like, just by virtue of the cold air it emits, it can condense such a vast ice pick snow forest, thinking that the main owner is absolutely fierce, if you are accidentally contaminated, you are afraid that it will be frostbitten if it is light, and if it is serious, it will not freeze people into ice sculptures?

This has to be prevented! You have to have an elixir pill in your mouth at all times, and once you get into it, you have to chew the elixir immediately to resist, perhaps with the domineering effect of the elixir and the Netherworld Cold Spring.

Thinking of this, Ye Congwen broke out in a cold sweat, as if he had a pair of ghostly eyes staring at him in a black hole in the distance, as long as he showed the slightest flaw, he would immediately rush to the front, like a maggot with a bone.

"I have to hurry back to Yu Yueyue, the elixir is all on her, if you want to live, you have to stay with her."

Ye Congwen muttered, grabbed the rope and stepped on the small pit carved out with an iron pickaxe, and quickly climbed towards it.

Ye Congwen had just walked on the front foot, and a transparent snake-shaped monster like crystal suddenly came behind him, only the size of a thumb, about three or four feet long, without a head and a tail.

Hiss! The crystal-like monster rushed towards Ye Congwen's back, but suddenly it was bounced back by an invisible curtain, and fell to the ground and broke into several knots, like an earthworm that had been dug up, constantly wriggling on the ground.

It didn't take long for the joints to slowly join together and intertwine with each other, like a hemp rope, and twisted their bodies unwillingly, and threw their tails at the curtain, which shook themselves into raindrops.

The crystal monster went mad and whipped the curtain until it was all droplets.

The droplets of water kept rolling on the ice, and before long they all came together again, and gradually formed a thumb-thick snake-like creature, crawling towards the dark corridor.

After about half an hour, Ye Congwen finally climbed to the top, and Yu Lin and the others all gathered around and asked about the situation inside.

Ye Congwen sat on the ground and gasped for a while, before he hung his head and said:

"The depth is less than 300 meters, but the width inside is several miles, there are many icicles, criss-crossed, at least dozens of roads do not know where to go, I even suspect that as long as we get lost in it, we may not be able to get out of it in this life!"

Yu Yueyue and Lin Xiaoyu glanced at each other, and they both saw deep surprise and fear in each other's eyes.

"Are you saying that it's a flat icicle forest, like those caves, with many roads and interconnected roads, and the shape is almost the same, and it's easy to get lost?"

Yu Yueyue told Ye Congwen the pictures she imagined one by one, hoping that he would give an accurate judgment.

"It's pretty much the same, but the corridors and scenery in this icicle forest are more uniform, as if they were artificially constructed. I took the Night Pearl and took a closer look, there are eight identical Yongdao crossings inside, if the structure is also like this, 286, 6848, 8864 hexagrams! ”

Ye Congwen read it, and suddenly thought of the location map of the Bagua Life and Death Gate!

"Qiandui away from the earthquake Xun Genkun, Hugh life and injury Du Jing died and was shocked, the gossip is against the eight gates, every twelve hours in turn changes and staggered correspondence, with sixty-four hexagrams, then the Yongdao inside must have regularity, as long as we find the right direction, we can find the Netherworld Cold Spring, and we can also retreat with our whole body!"

Yu Lin and the others looked at Ye Congwen talking to himself, mixed with joy and sorrow, no matter how Yu Lin and the two asked, Ye Congwen had no intention of answering, as if a ghost was on the body, Lin Xiaoyu immediately panicked, and complained to Yu Yueyue:

"I just said that I can't let Brother Wen go down alone, what kind of place is this? If it weren't for the Netherworld, how could there be such a cold and year-round frost! Sister Yueyue, if you had listened to my advice just now, your brother would not have been haunted by powerful ghosts! ”

Yu Yueyue heard Ye Congwen talking about the location of the gossip there, but she didn't know anything about the life, death, and injury behind her. Ye Congwen never told himself.

Yu Yueyue is also a scholar, and the master said: The son is silent and strange. Although he is afraid of the female ghost in red, he has to take out his sister's style to suppress the chaos at this time. Take a cold snort:

"My brother is fine, are you going to curse him? It's probably too cold below, maybe it's freezing people? ”