Volume 5: The First Song Ninety-Three: Midnight Adventure
Seeing Qian Chao's eyes shining and carefully picking up the only remaining forearm of the sword mantis beast from the pile of powdery wreckage on the ground, first blowing the remnants on it, and then taking out a piece of linen cloth and wiping it carefully, Luo Ying knew that that thing was at least a good thing for Qian Boy.
Luo Ying leaned over and looked at the thing, the stump arm of the sword mantis beast in Qian Chao's hand was almost hard jade, but it looked like a sharp long knife with serrated teeth, she naturally didn't understand alchemy, so she asked:
"This ...... What's the use? ”
"This is the best refining material!"
Qian Chao said excitedly, he didn't understand the art of controlling spirits, and he didn't know that the power of this sword mantis beast was on the two forearms in front of him like a big folding knife, but the jade sword mantis beast forearm in his hand was definitely the best refining material in his opinion, especially after I don't know how many years it was still immortal, it can be seen that this thing is rare, and even Qian Chao thinks that if this thing is refined properly, it is better than the "eight-foot peck" that he has the strongest kill now.
And Tang Ping searched for it in the powdery wreckage, and she still wondered if she could find the demon pills of these two sword mantis beasts from inside, but she was disappointed.
"Soup girl."
Li Jian called her from the side.
"Oh, Brother Li."
"Look here."
Li Jian said with a finger with his hand, there was a black thing in a corner of the stone hall that was inconspicuous, Tang Ping saw that Li Jian specially asked her to look at it, so she curiously leaned over, the thing looked like a broken drum, but it was black, the surface was mottled and there were countless subtle protrusions.
"This thing ......" Tang Ping flipped through the classics she had read before in her mind, and quickly recognized it, "It's the egg of the sword mantis beast!" ”
It is recorded in the scriptures that this sword mantis beast lays countless eggs at a time, and it is also recorded that if its eggs are not born at the right time, it will enter a suspended death-like sleep, and if there are still living eggs in them...... But as soon as my heart was hot, it immediately became cold, and the corpses of the two sword mantis beasts next to me turned into powder, for such a long time, even if this is the egg laid by the sword mantis beast, I am afraid that it will already be a dead egg.
Li Jian smiled lightly when he saw Tang Ping's expression, and said:
"Tang girl, in my opinion, most of these eggs are dead eggs......"
Li Jian used the word "mostly", Tang Ping immediately came to her senses, looked at Li Jian with a look of surprise, and asked:
"Still alive?"
"Yes, but not much, in the innermost part of this thing, and the breath is also dying, if Miss Tang is interested......"
"Of course I am!" Tang Ping turned around and squatted down, "Great, if you can really hatch it......"
Then Tang Ping cautiously put away all the black things, and prepared to wait for her master to return to the sect, and ask her old man to help see if she could hatch a small knife mantis beast from it, even if it was one, as long as there was a living one, she was sure to cultivate it into her own right-hand man, after all, the little guy in it had experienced such a long time without dying, and his vitality was so strong, it must be a rare xenomorph.
……
After the stone wall fell, the stone hall where everyone was located was much larger, and then there was no formation, this stone hall seemed to be specially arranged for these two sword mantis beasts, in order to guard the treasures inside, there is a small door in the corner of the stone hall, and from there to the inside, it is the real treasure of this ruins.
Inside is a vast space, under the illumination of the glowing rune paper of the money tide, there are rows of shelves, things look really a lot, one by one storage bags, large and small boxes are full, seeing this scene, Luo Ying's hearts are warm again, thinking that they will definitely be able to find the sea jade grease lamp, and they are simply here to open and look for it one by one.
The result disappointed them again.
The things found can be roughly divided into four categories, one is all kinds of books, which are directly given to Qian Chao; One is the spirit stones, which are finally divided by everyone, so they are all put together; The third category is all kinds of spiritual weapons and magic weapons, most of these Luo Ying and those people don't care, and they all give Qian Chao to collect them first; In the end, and the largest number, are the materials of various refining tools, needless to say, it is naturally also a tide of money.
Looking around, all kinds of strange things came out a lot, but there was no sea marucinant jade lamp that Luo Ying and others had been looking for, which made them very disappointed.
After the spirit stones were equally divided, Qian Chao saw that the faces of several people were a little depressed, and he was not as happy as his own few people, so he selected a few high-quality magic swords from the pile of spiritual weapons and magic weapons, and put them in front of Luo Ying and said:
"Senior Sister Luo, since we haven't found it, it means that the sea cloud jade grease lamp is still waiting for us, let's continue to look for it tomorrow, it's not that there is no harvest here, oh, these magic swords can be used after building the foundation, and they are the best ones I picked out of those, a few senior brothers and sisters may wish to collect them first, as long as the foundation is built in the future, they can be used."
"Well, I'll lend you good luck!"
Luo Ying said and picked up a magic sword casually and looked at it.
……
In the next three days, ten people opened two ruins in a row, and they gained a lot for the five people of Qian Chao, not to mention anything else, the spirit stones obtained were already a huge wealth for ordinary disciples in the sect, but only the sea cumulus jade lamp was not found, so the other five people, especially Luo Ying, have been sullen.
One night, Luo Ying circled a location on the map, which was where they were going next, Qian Chao looked at the place, which was a little far away from the sect, according to his understanding of the sect, he knew that it should be a more dangerous place, but he was better than there were many people on his side, and he was not afraid.
So after daybreak, the ten men continued to divide their journey, this time a little far, for more than a day, and they arrived there near midnight.
Originally, it was customary to search first, although the people who followed him suffered a loss, but who knows if those people continued to follow, so it is better to be careful, but when everyone was searching carefully around the ruins, faintly, Li Jian always had a feeling of unease.
Of course, only Li Jian has this feeling of unease.
Then the group reunited, and the others failed to notice anything unusual, but felt that there was always a sense of uneasiness in the ruins.
"I don't feel right there."
After the convergence, Li Jian said.
"Oh, did Senior Brother Li find out who is ambushing us again?" Luo Ying asked immediately, and she always felt that the ruins here were a little more heart-wrenching than the ones she had found before.
"No, not a monk, but ...... The closer I got to the ruins, the more dangerous it became, it shouldn't be the people from before, but there seemed to be something there that was watching us just now, as if waiting for us to pass......"
Luo Ying frowned when she heard this, looked at Qian Chao and asked with some inquiry:
"I got this ruin from someone else, it is said that it has not been opened for many years, I have never been here myself, I don't know what the situation is there, if there is danger, I do know that there are ruins nearby, why don't we start somewhere else?"
Lu Pingchuan heard that Luo Ying meant to leave here first, so he said indifferently:
"Eh, what are you afraid of, you're here, you've traveled so far, you have to figure out what's there, if you want me to say let's go over together, even if there are some powerful guys, can we still be afraid of it together?"
Lu Shuang says:
"What Lu Xiaozi said is also good, this place is a little remote, although there may be something powerful, but let's go quietly first, don't rush in, just take a look, if you are not defeated, it will not be too late to leave."
In the end, after discussion, everyone was ready to act according to Lu Shuang's words, further investigate the situation, and then make a decision.
The location of the ruins was at the junction of the two peaks, facing a not very wide canyon, along the hills on both sides inward, where the two peaks were uplifted, and the densest place in the woods at the foot of the mountains was the ruins, and ten people were gathered together this time to take care of each other, they did not fly high, and they did not fly fast, and by the cover of the night, they cautiously walked towards the ruins.
At first, everything was normal at all, and the eyes were full of dark night, but when they got closer, I don't know when, in the middle of the boundless night, five people actually saw the lights passing through the distance through the cracks in the trees!
This is strange, the ten of them had searched here earlier, but they didn't see the lights coming out here at that time, why didn't it take a long time for there to be lights in the depths of the forest?
And through the trees, you can see that it is not a bonfire lit by monks who have spent the night here, but as if there is a brightly lit and lively mansion there.
I've never heard of such a place outside the sect!
In addition to Zongnai, the crowd gathers in the surrounding four towns led by Ruixuan Town, when will there be people living here?
The ten people were all surprised, but according to their own recollections, there must not have been such a scene when they searched just now.
After looking at each other, all ten of them had not very good thoughts, suppressed the fear and anxiety in their hearts, and continued to move forward curiously and cautiously to see what was going on.
As they continued to fly slowly in the direction of the lights, they found that a wide stone path had appeared below, and on both sides of the road there were stone lampstands carved out of bluestone, and the lights in the lampstand swayed, extending towards the brightest part of the lights.
After moving on, I followed the wide and smooth stone path all the way to the deepest point, where there was a brightly lit manor with swaying figures, and it seemed to be very lively.
The splendor of the lights illuminated the halfway of the two peaks on which the manor rested, only to see that the manor had no courtyard walls, on both sides of the straight and wide road, rows of houses were neatly arranged, and the bright lights were reflected in the rooms, plus the lanterns hanging under the eaves and on the high poles, the street was also clearly visible, people were walking around on the road, or stopping to talk, and children were laughing and chasing, and even they saw a few figures dressed as five spirit disciples on the street who were wandering there together. Several high-rise buildings facing the street are drinking and feasting, the sound of laughter comes from the building, the shadows of the staggered are also reflected on the window paper, and the aroma of vegetables and wine also wafts from there, and the fragrance of flowers and plants that I don't know what is planted in this manor. And along the neat road all the way inward, at the foot of the two peaks, at the deepest point, at the foot of the two peaks, was a rather imposing tall building, which was also the tallest building of the brightly lit manor, and in the building you could see the figures moving through the window paper.
Qian Chao only felt that this place was strange, as if it was a lively town store like Ruixuan Town, and saw the Five Spirit disciples walking around, it seemed that those Five Spirit disciples saw Qian Chao and others from a distance, so he beckoned from afar, he was now full of urgency to walk into this manor, or to see what was going on or stop the Five Spirit disciples inside to ask clearly, what kind of place was here.
Also thinking the same as Qian Chao are Luo Ying, Wen Yuan, Luo Bin, Yan Xuan and Lu Pingchuan, and others, like Qian Chao, they are bent on entering this manor when they see that it is very lively.
And these people didn't even realize that they had been hit by the operation at this time!
Li Jian was the first to perceive the danger, he closed his eyes early, and when he opened his eyes, there was a lively scene in front of him, but there was always something strange. But after he closed his eyes, in Li Jian's sense, there was a dark fog in front of him, and I don't know how many flashing strange eyes were looking here, it was really on the ground, in the air above his head and even underground, it was dangerous!
However, Li Jian was also affected at this time, and it was the various smells that came with the night breeze that almost made him feel dizzy, which made him even more aware of the bad feelings.
"Stop!" Seeing that Qian Chao and the others were going to continue to move forward, Li Jian shouted anxiously.
But at this time, Qian Chao was as unheard of, not only him, but also the rest of the people, one by one, they looked carefully with their eyes wide open, and went straight to the manor with a dull curiosity.
"Stop!" Li Jian shouted again.
Although Yan Shuang was also affected a little at first, the sword heart was still there, and after a while of dizziness, he came to his senses, and when he saw that a few people were still going inward, he hurriedly went over to pull a few people.
Tang Ping was able to find out that something was wrong thanks to his spirit beast Rhubarb, the eyes of the little golden monkey were enough to see through the illusion, but Rhubarb could only stop Tang Ping alone. Tang Ping saw that it was not good, and first wanted to pull Yan Xuan back, but Yan Xuan didn't pay attention to her at all, and even wanted to move forward without stopping.
Tang Ping found that Yan Xuan was already flushed, so he just wanted to get rid of his entanglement and rushed into the manor.
Or Lu Shuang finally had a way to solve the siege of everyone, she studied under the goose mirror fairy of the Moon Reflection Forest in Shuiyun Valley, concentrated on practicing illusion, and has long had a lot of attainments, and now seeing this situation, those people are blushing and red-eared to go to the manor, and they can't stop it, in a hurry, they take out an object from the storage bag, and when they are about to use it, they are worried that the power of this thing is insufficient, so they gritted their teeth, bit a finger, smeared a touch of essence blood, and then shook their wrists!
A small "jingle bell" rippled.
Almost instantly, if Qian Chao's heart was clear, he would definitely be able to find that this manor was actually in a trance under this weak bell, like a small pebble still breaking the reflection of the lamp market on the calm water, and then, Tang Ping found that with the faint sound of the bell, almost all the figures that could be seen in this manor, including the shadows reflected on the window paper, paused, and the pedestrians on the road, the children who were chasing, and those who were wearing the costumes of the Five Spirit Disciples, all of them were suddenly stunned, and then stood still, Then I either looked up or turned my head to look at them.
Everyone's eyes flashed with annoyance and anger after the conspiracy was exposed, and the fierce and fierce look when facing the prey!