Volume 4: Test Feather Two Hundred and Twenty-Three: The First Doubt
In the mountains and forests, some people saw that Yan Shuang and the others did not go there to see the excitement, but flew away in a hurry in the opposite direction, and suddenly became a little panicked.
"They ran away, can we chase them?"
"Chase, but don't chase too quickly, Senior Brother Wen didn't let us follow Yanshuang, but followed the people who were staring at Yanshuang, wait, and see how many people were chasing them, and then follow."
"Who's fighting over there?"
"Silence!"
On the mountains and forests, from time to time, there were black shadows pasting the treetops from all directions, and the people who spoke just now closed their mouths, trying their best to hide their figures, looking at the direction of those people, they were actually chasing the five people who were chasing Yanshuang.
"There are so many people, why didn't we find out just now!"
"Silence!"
……
When the firelight exploded, a greasy and obscene middle-aged man couldn't help but rub his hands, as if he was about to rush over and show his hands and feet.
The hand, which had been slightly pale, rested on his shoulder, and the voice of the pale-faced young man came in his ears:
"Don't worry, it's not against those five people, it is estimated that there is an old grudge, I can't help but do it when we meet, the people of the five spirits will not be so reckless, it's not time yet, wait."
When the hand was on his shoulder, the middle-aged man's face turned cold, but after listening to the other party, he realized that although there was a lively fight over there, there was quiet around Yanshuang's people, and the four beautiful little ladies were also surprised to look at the place where the fire came from.
"What's going on, is it our people who are doing it over there?" The thin black woman asked.
"There are no more of us except for our people, and in the end, whoever kills these five people, they are the ones we want to kill, understand?" The young man said.
The thin black woman nodded.
"Hey, those four little ladies ran away!" The middle-aged man said suddenly.
Sure enough, under their hiding place, the figures of the five Yanshuang hurriedly flew into the distance.
"Huh? Why did they run away, don't you look at the bustle over there? So cowardly! ”
The pale young man, who was a little clever, said secretly, he looked at the mountains and forests opposite, where there were unknown people who had been staring at his people, and what was the origin of those people?
"Let's hurry up and chase after it, we can't lose it!" The middle-aged man said anxiously.
"Don't worry," said the young man, "wait a little longer, and when everyone else has chased after us, it's not too late for us to catch up!" ”
……
"Boom".
Yan Xuan looked up at the top of her head, she was now very worried about whether this secret room would be shaken down by Brother Lu's punches.
"It's almost there," Lu Pingchuan shouted, and at this time he was standing in the middle of a large stone cave that had been punched out of the stone wall, which was at least six or seven zhang deep by him, but it had not been penetrated.
"Two more punches, you'll almost be able to get through, grandma's, I didn't expect it to be so thick here."
Li Jian stared at Lu Pingchuan in the big stone cave, at first he thought that if he used a few swords, he would almost be able to break through this stone wall, but now it seems that only this Brother Lu can do this.
There was a "boom" sound, and the rubble splattered out of the hole, but this time, unlike the previous ones, a cold and damp air flow poured from the big hole into the chamber at once.
"Hey, it's all over!" Lu Pingchuan shouted excitedly, and at this time his voice echoed, "There is really water here, and it is quite spacious!" ”
As soon as Li Jian heard this, he walked into the big hole.
Qian Chao made a move, and the few runes in the secret room that glowed yellow followed his figure and walked behind Li Jian.
The last to follow were Tang Ping and Yan Xuan.
Under the yellow light, several people walked into an empty underground cavern.
On one side of the cave, there was an underground river flowing, and the water was clear, but the tentacles were so cold that it gushed out of a dark river, and then flowed in the cave for about forty or fifty zhang and then disappeared into the underground channel.
The side where the river disappeared was also the end of the cave, and there was no way out there, except on the other side, the cave stretched in the darkness for no idea how far it had stretched.
"It's so cool here!" Yan Xuan said, white vapor came out of her mouth when she spoke, which showed that there was a chill in the place, "Brother Qian, will the spiritual vein you said be over there?" ”
The direction Yan Xuan was pointing in was the direction in which the cave had stretched.
Qian Chao is unfolding a map to look at carefully, this map is also hand-drawn by him, it draws out the mountains near the ruins, there are a lot of long lines drawn with colored ink, his fingers found the current location of several people, and then kept crossing and approached a light blue line, that line is the location of the spiritual veins that Qian Chao said, compared the direction, Qian Chao looked at the direction of the cave extended, and then said:
"It should be over there, let's go over there."
"I'm in front." Li Jian said and walked over.
……
Although the ground of this stone cave is also undulating, but the ground is also flat, and even some places can be said to be smooth, and the four walls and the top of the head can see the abrupt stones are also round and without edges, so it can be seen that this place does not know how many years ago it should have been the course of the underground river, but for some reason the underground river disappeared from here, and this place became an empty cave.
In addition to the few runes used for lighting, Qian Chao also took out a few runes, but unlike the runes he had used before, when these runes flew into the darkness of the cave in front of them, the curving runes on them did not light up.
"What is that for?" Tang Ping saw these unusual talismans and asked.
"Those who are looking for spiritual veins, if the spiritual energy is strong, the talisman will glow." Qian Chao said.
Those few talismans continued to fly back and forth alternately, like a pioneer in pathfinding, Tang Ping paid attention to it, and after a while, there was no trace of bright color on those talismans, in the end, would the spiritual vein of the earth line that Qian boy said be in front?
Walking further, the roof of the cave above them gradually became different, it was close to the secret room where the big hole was opened, and there were stones on the top of their heads, but after walking for a while, they also walked out of a short distance, and now the top of their heads seemed to be mixed with earth and stones, and the roots of the big trees on the ground appeared from the earth and stones like earth snakes, and some extended from above, and the further they went, the more roots above their heads became, and it seemed that they had now walked under a dense forest.
"Eh, look there, my boy, how are these roots so tangled like a big snake!" Lu Pingchuan, who was walking at the back, pointed to a place diagonally above and said.
Sure enough, there was a very different place on the top of the cave, and I don't know how many big trees had their roots entangled, like countless big snakes hiding in the cave in winter for the winter, and the earth and stones on the top of the cave were all entangled, and the roots of the tree were not small, like a big whirlpool entwined with tree roots.
"The roots of the trees have become like this, what should the trees on them look like, will they also be twisted together?" Yan Xuan said after reading it.
"I guess it's all twisted," Lu Pingchuan said, "Eh, you say, if there were no these roots, would this place be able to directly lead to the outside?" ”
"It should be about the same." Tang Ping raised her head and said a word.
At that time, Qian Chao didn't care much about the roots of the tree, and it was normal for the roots of the big trees to be entangled with each other in the soil, but Brother Lu's words "If there were no these roots, would this place be able to directly lead to the outside", his heart suddenly moved, and then he stopped, looked up at the entangled roots, and deliberately brought a glowing rune paper closer there.
"What's wrong?" Tang Ping found out and asked.
"No matter how dense the tree is, will the roots become entangled like this?" Qian Chao said, and then he found something wrong in the entangled roots, and immediately said, "Wait, Brother Li, wait a minute." ”
Then he walked to the bottom of the maelstrom of tangled roots, and several glowing runes leaned in, illuminating the roots as thick as a large snake.
"What's here?" Li Jian was curious and leaned over to take a look, but in his eyes, those entangled roots didn't seem to be in any danger, and he didn't know why Brother Qian was interested in them.
In Qian Chao's gaze, the blue light flashed, in his field of vision, on the roots of the trees that were entangled like a mess of snakes, someone left a circle of runes in the inconspicuous places on it, and those runes flashed faintly in his eyes, it was this circle of runes that formed a small and simplest circle, and it was because of this circle that these roots would be entangled like this. And in the same way, as long as the technique is correct and this magic circle is cracked, then these tangled dead roots will immediately spread out one after another, and it is likely that a large hole will be revealed that leads directly to the outside!
"There's a formation here." Qian Chao pointed to those tree roots and said, "It is precisely because of this formation that these tree roots are like this, if they are cracked, they should lead directly to the hole outside......"
Tang Ping immediately understood when she heard this, and she said, "You mean that someone came before us, but ...... We came from the ruins over there, could this formation have been arranged by the people who left the ruins? ”
"No," Qian Chao's body floated and looked at a rune, "This way to leave the formation, it won't take many years to become invalid, this formation is the most recent left, and the time will not exceed a month." ”
"That'...... Could it be Luo Ying's people, Luo Ying will arrange the formation. Tang Ping said again.
"It's also unlikely, coming down from here, the only places we can go to are the ruins behind us and the spiritual veins in front of us, and the ruins are the cave that Brother Lu just opened, so the people who came down from here before didn't seem to know that there was a place to hide treasures along the cave. And Senior Sister Luo, according to my understanding of her, she is proficient in the art of formation, but exploring the spiritual vein is not what she is good at, not to mention that what we are looking for is the spiritual vein of the earth, which is the most difficult to find spiritual vein, opening a hole from this place and coming down directly from the top, it is much closer than us coming all the way from the secret room over there, and the person who can do it is more clever than me in exploring the spiritual vein, which is not like what Senior Sister Luo can do,"
Several people nodded when they heard this.
With all the runes in that circle in mind, Qian Chao said again: "Now we know that not only have people come here, but also used formations to cover the entrance of the cave where they came down......"
Tang Ping turned her head to look at the front of the cave, it was still pitch black, even if she gathered the aura in front of her, she could only see that the cave had been extended, I didn't know how far it was, she asked:
"If it's not Luo Ying's people, does that mean that we came here for nothing this time, if there is anything in front, it must have been taken away by those who have been here?"
"It's possible," Qian Chao said, looking at the tightly wrapped roots, "but if they really found something in front of them, they could have walked away after taking it, so why should they be careful to cover up their traces?" ”
"Could it be ......" Yan Xuan suddenly thought of something, "Could it be that those people come and go here, these tree roots are the portal, they regard this place as their home, is it their hiding place?" ”
As soon as Yan Xuan said this, several people immediately understood, and they immediately became alert!
The Amuro Qi who died in the hands of Qian Chao, the person he would rather die than say it, is also that person, there must be a secret hiding place outside the sect, maybe ......
This is it!
Although Qian Chao felt that this was possible, he looked at the root of the tree carefully, and then shook his head.
"It's not like it's always being opened." Qian Chao said as he stared at the tree roots.
Tang Ping didn't think so, she said: "The three caves of the cunning rabbit, such a secret exit, it is likely to be used for emergency purposes, maybe the place they often go in and out of is elsewhere, and it is possible to escape here." ”
There is some possibility in this statement.
"Eh, will anyone come down and stay here forever?" Lu Pingchuan said suddenly.
"Retreat?"
This is also possible, after all, there is an earthly spiritual vein ahead, and it is naturally beneficial to practice there.
Li Jian said: "It is also possible that there is something hidden in front, or something that is inconvenient to do outside here, in short, we have all come here, we can't give up halfway, and it will be clear to look at the front." But...... Be more careful. ”
After a while, the five of them moved forward cautiously, and their speed slowed down.
After walking in this dreary underground cave for nearly half an hour, finally, when a talisman flew back again, Qian Chao found that the runes on the talisman were shining.
It's supposed to be the spiritual vein ahead!
"Be careful!" Li Jian was also nervous at this time, warning everyone, "There is something ahead, coming over!" ”