Volume 5: The First Song Ninety-Seven: Hard-bodied
It was still the middle of the night, and there was no daylight in the day, and the small valley with a good scenery was pitch black, and with the few starlights, as far as the eye could see, there was only a gloomy place.
These people who have been chasing along the ruins opened by Luo Yingqian Chao and others don't know that at this time yesterday, there was also a brightly lit and crowded manor illusion here, of course, if they knew, they would definitely be more cautious here, so as not to step into the trap later.
However, there was no manor, but when they approached the ruins that had been opened by the tide of money during the day, they still found something unusual.
"They're just ahead!"
Someone hurried back in the darkness, and when he got closer, he whispered and eagerly to a leader-like figure, who was the one who flew at the front to listen to the news.
Hearing that there were people in front of them, these people immediately became excited, and many people began to whisper, and immediately the majestic voice of the leader suppressed everyone.
"Silence! Why are you so unruly and scared them away, what should I do? ”
Then the leader asked:
"Can you see clearly, how many people are there, and who are they?"
"There are always eight or nine people, and Luo Ying's people are among them, and they seem to be about to open the ruins."
"Oh?" The majestic voice was silent for a moment, and then said with some excitement, "It seems that we have caught up, but why are there more people?" How could Luo Ying share such an important thing with others? ”
"Senior Brother Chu, don't care about him so much, let's get more people, just take them all together, and then force them to open the ruins, won't you get ......?"
"That's right, so many ruins in front of you have been opened, maybe those people have that thing on their bodies, and the opportunity is rare......"
"Shut up!" The man known as Senior Brother Chu shouted in a low voice, but everyone was like this, this person was not easy to stop, and he himself was also anxious, so he said again, "Okay, let's go quietly, don't make the slightest noise." ”
"Yes!"
In fact, when these people are quietly approaching, they should pay careful attention to why there is a place where they pass by is a round place of fine sand, but the person they are looking for is in front of them, and the thing they are looking for is also close in front of them, so even if they see it, they don't think much about it.
Sure enough, after quietly getting closer, those people found figures walking back and forth at the foot of the two peaks, and counted, no more, no less, exactly ten people.
It's just that they don't know that there is actually no one there, and the ten people they see are all from the illusion of the nightmare.
……
Without the mirage conjuring up a large and lively manor, and without the green moth to fill the manor with convincing pyrotechnics, the Nightmare would have to rely on itself.
As mentioned earlier, during the day, Qian Chao and his party of ten people got rid of the green charm moth and mirage, and then opened the formation, which were clearly "seen" by the nightmare. And Tang Ping also said that the underground nightmare must have become a climate, and it was difficult to deal with, so he left it alone, and the ten people just took the treasures in the ruins and left.
And this nightmare is indeed as Tang Ping said, it has long become the climate, and it is nothing for Qian Chao to get rid of the green charm moth and mirage, after all, the monk has long been unknown how many times he has seen the demon beast in his long life, but those monks have opened a strange place in its territory, and it is the first time for this nightmare to see. Well, just after those people left during the day, these people hurried over in the middle of the night, and the first one sneakily went to inspect the place opened by those people during the day, even if the nightmare was a demon beast, and it was roughly understood that these people were now either coming for those people during the day, or for the place that those people opened during the day.
That's easy to do.
……
In the eyes of those people, under those two peaks, in a mess of rocks and grass, ten figures were searching for them.
And the leader figure, the guy known as Senior Brother Chu, recognized a slender back among those figures at a glance, and that was Luo Ying.
It can only be said that the methods of this nightmare are superb, and the illusion technique is not traceable at all, and these people can't notice anything unusual at all in this night.
Senior Brother Chu quietly gave a strict order, not allowing everyone to act rashly, and only waited for Luo Ying's people to open the ruins before they could do it.
And the nightmare was also very cooperative, it also remembered how a somewhat thin guy in the day opened that strange place, so after the illusion, he re-enacted the scene in the day to Senior Brother Chu and those people.
I saw a thin male disciple of the Five Spirits in a green robe, his expression was focused, and his hands were shining with white light on the ground for a while, and then there was a heavy "rolling" sound on the stone wall, and then sure enough, a secret door appeared in the inconspicuous place of the stone wall, and the door was also a black hole, and then I saw that the thin Five Spirits disciple shook his hand and floated in with a few luminous things all the way, and then the first to go was a female disciple who looked like a girl, and then, Luo Ying and others had to follow up.
"Senior Brother Chu......"
Someone next to him whispered anxiously and eagerly.
"Up!"
Senior Brother Chu finally made up his mind, this time he came out to snatch the sea marucinate jade lamp that can help people build a foundation from Luo Ying's hands, and Luo Ying has opened a number of ruins in a row, and now the ruins in front of him have been opened, and the opportunity is hard to find, so you have to give it a try and grab a handful!
"Up!" Someone in the night couldn't wait to let out a loud shout!
When he watched everyone rush over, Senior Brother Chu was still thinking, who was that thin Five Spirit disciple? Could it be that Luo Ying came to help? Haven't you heard of anyone in the sect whose formation skills are still above Luo Ying?
I can't say no, but recently I heard that there is a kid surnamed Qian who seems to be in the limelight, and it seems that he also has a few hands of formation skills......
When he thought of this, Senior Brother Chu suddenly realized that something was wrong, why had everyone here rushed over shouting loudly, and Luo Ying and those people were still walking into the ruins unhurriedly?
Could it be that they are all deaf and have not heard the movement here?
Or is it ......
Wrong!
There are quirks!
"Beware of ......"
Senior Brother Chu only shouted out two words, and then heard a dull roar that seemed to come from the depths of the ground, and then there was a "boom", and in the dark night, with a little starlight, I saw that the rocks and barren grass were suddenly jacked up by some behemoth in the ground, and the earth and stones flew wildly, first screaming, and then screaming one after another!
"Let's go!"
Senior Brother Chu was shocked, the last time the surname Gong lost was a sneak attack by Luo Ying's people, I didn't expect Luo Ying to be so powerful now, and there was an ambush here
"Run ......"
The screams are still continuous, these people are all Qi refining cultivators who have been unable to build a foundation in the sect for many years, and now the opportunity to build a foundation is in front of them, before this mutation happened, it was really a scramble, lest they fall behind people, and as a result, when the monster in the ground stood out to devour people, but almost all of them in front of them were poisoned, and countless tentacles in the darkness rolled back and forth, making a whistling sound, and many people were entangled in the face and sent into the mouths of the nightmares, and some people woke up and desperately turned around and fled, and when they didn't flee far, they were caught in the waist, also ended up with a hunger for the nightmare
"Fooled!"
"Yes...... Nightmare ......"
Someone recognized what the sneak attack monster was, but it was too late after all.
I'm afraid Tang Ping didn't expect that she didn't get rid of the nightmare because she was troublesome, and unintentionally dug a big pit for those who tracked it to jump.
……
Besides, Qian Chao and a few people, since that day from the ruins found three sea marucinate jade lamps, a few days in a row, and opened a few ruins, it can't be said that there is no harvest, in a ruins finally found another one, in this way, Luo Ying and those people already have four lights, as long as one more is found, then this cooperation will be completed, Luo Ying will be in accordance with the agreement with Qian Chao, will leave all the news of the ruins he knows.
Originally, they should have met the people led by Senior Brother Chu a long time ago, but that night, Senior Brother Chu and the others were unlucky, they were ambushed by the Nightmare, and they lost nearly thirty percent of their manpower, and suddenly their courage became smaller, and they became more cautious, and the speed naturally slowed down, so Qian Chao and the others could always look for the ruins and then open the ruins these days.
Luo Ying's mood is getting better and better, she feels that this cooperation with Qian Chao is very worthwhile, and after this cooperation, she has a lot more trust in Qian Chao.
It was now after noon and approaching the evening, and a group of ten of them found a relic under Luo Ying's guidance, this is the fourteenth relic they came out to find this time, this is not something that can be opened directly, there are some fierce demon beasts outside to build a nest here, so ten people moved to get rid of those demon beasts, Yan Xuan's eyes were sharp, and he also found a few spiritual grasses near the nest of demon beasts, and he started to pick them.
"Well, I hope we can find another light here, so we can come out this time and be complete." Lu Shuang also said with anticipation.
Then she smelled a smell of blood, and when she turned her head, she found that it was Lu Pingchuan who was cutting open the skull of a demon beast with a knife, looking for the demon pill from it.
In the past few days, they are used to seeing this scene, and they generally understand the distribution method after Qian Chao's people go out and have a harvest, this demon pill is completely owned by Tang Ping, the spirit grass is completely owned by Yan Xuan, and the rest of the refining tools are completely owned by Qian Chao, and the rest of the spirit stones are divided equally among the five people, in addition, Lu Shuang has also heard that Qian Chao cooperated with a boy surnamed Bu in Ruixuan Town, it seems that the spirit stones obtained from the sale of Qian Chao's spiritual weapons are also divided equally among the five people, so the elixir refined by Yan Xuan's girl is thought to be used by the five people, No wonder these five men lacked nothing, and they no longer went to the Remembrance to receive the dispatch.
Qian Chao's side had already managed to open the formation, and the hidden stone door opened open, and then ten people walked in.
"This is probably not a small family, right?" Walking in and looking at the situation inside, Yan Xuan said.
"It should be."
There are a lot of things, densely arranged.
"There are two formations in here," Qian Chao said, pointing to a stone wall where everyone walked in, "This is one, it should be used to close the outside entrance from the inside." ”
Then he pointed to the deepest part of the stone chamber and said:
"There is another place there, maybe it is used by this family to escape, if it can't be resisted when the foreign enemy is coming, the family should hide here in times of crisis, and then open a hidden secret passage through the innermost formation to escape."
In order to prove his words, Qian Chao also went to the deepest part of the stone chamber to look, and actually found a simple map carved on the stone wall there, roughly marking the direction of the secret passage.
"Sure enough, it's for escape."
"Boy Qian, according to what you said, if this was a big family at the beginning, then there would be little chance of finding the lamp." Luo Ying said.
"Not really."
As she spoke, Tang Ping walked over with an inconspicuous wooden box, put the box on top of a table, and said:
"The Great Family will also use this thing, but it's just not a good thing, oh, open it and take a look, I found it in an inconspicuous corner."
The wooden box is very ordinary, and there is no special arrangement of formations to prevent others from stealing or robbing, after opening it, it is found that there are two layers up and down, and the lattices are basically empty, except for the two lamps left on the lower layer.
It is the sea marucinate jade lamp, but it is different from the shape found before.
"Wow, there really is!" The crowd rejoiced.
Four have been found before, and now two more have been found, a total of six mozuku jade lamps.
Luo Ying exchanged glances with her companions, and then took one out of it and said:
"Money boy, say okay, we only need five lamps, now it's enough, the remaining one is yours, put it away, don't use it indiscriminately, and when you find four more lamps to build the foundation in the future, you can use it."
Tang Ping raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and secretly said that this Luo Ying was not greedy.
"This ......," Qian Chao hesitated a little, "what if you don't have enough five lights?" ”
"Nonsense, if we can't build a foundation in this way, then we don't want to practice at all...... These two things together, as long as they are high-level Qi refining monks who are close to building a foundation, no matter how bad the spiritual root is, they will definitely be able to build a foundation. ”
"Okay, then it's a good idea." Tang Ping didn't care so much, and with a slight push of the money tide, he put away all the lamps connected to the box.
At this moment, Li Jian suddenly said:
"There's someone out there...... It's still quite a lot, and it's surrounded by them. ”
"What!" Luo Ying's eyes were cold, but she didn't expect those guys to follow again, "How many people are there?" ”
"There's always ...... More than 100 people. ”
"Is it really so much?"
"You can't be wrong."
These days, Luo Ying and others were first amazed and then convinced by Li Jian's induction, and now listening to him say this, it must have been chased all the way here by those guys chasing those opened ruins, and the five sea marucinant jade lamps had just been gathered, and they were surrounded, Luo Ying and the others were unwilling to give up, and a cold look flashed in their eyes, and they were going out to fight.
"Qian boy, Tang girl, let's go out and lure them away first, they must be coming for us, you find a chance to leave." After speaking, Luo Ying and the others walked murderously towards the exit of the stone room.
"No," Qian Chao hurriedly stopped them, "There's no need to fight with them, let's take the secret way to get out." ”
"Secret Passage?"
……
Surrounded outside was the Senior Brother Chu who was ambushed by the Nightmare that night, after suffering a big loss, although he lost a lot of manpower, but this made him believe even more that Luo Ying could be so calculated step by step this time, and he must be looking for the sea cloud jade lamp, so even if he suffered some setbacks, he had to follow, otherwise it would be hopeless to build the foundation.
Therefore, the rest of the people followed all the way under his leadership, and seeing that the ruins they found were opened one by one, and the inside was empty, this Senior Brother Chu's heart became more and more impatient.
Finally, the people who were scouting in front of them saw Luo Ying again from a distance, or ten people, fighting demon beasts first and then opening the ruins, but could this still be a terrible trap?
Senior Brother Chu and the people began to dare to stare from afar, and they were really frightened when they had a lesson, and now no one dared to rush up with a noise.
But when they got a little closer, they were noticed by Li Jian.
After a while, just when they didn't know what to do, they found that the stone door that had been opened was actually closed again with a heavy sound, and there was no trace on the stone wall.
This is actually a wonderful part of the formation, don't look at the location of the stone gate that entered the ruins, but give each of them an iron pickaxe, let them chisel and dig, even if they hollow out the mountain, they can't find a way to enter the treasure place, if you want to get the treasures inside, you can only obediently crack the formation, and crack the formation, among the more than 100 people led by Senior Brother Chu, including him, none of them can do it.
"They...... How did they lock themselves inside? Some of his subordinates asked puzzled.
"Humph! Surely they found us and were worried that we would rush in. ”
"What then?"
"What else can I do? Just wait, I don't believe they don't come out! ”
Then they waited here for a whole day, and during that time, nothing had changed from the ruins.
Senior Brother Chu only stared at this and there, and didn't notice that five people were quietly approaching here from a distance, and after taking a closer look at their situation, he quietly slipped away.
"No," after waiting for another day, this Senior Brother Chu finally got the hang of it, "If there is any secret passage in there, we will wait in vain!" ”
"What!"
"How else could there be such a thing?"
"It's very likely, otherwise, why hasn't there been any movement for so long, maybe those people have already escaped!"
"That'...... block, let's send someone around to look for it. ”
……
Of course, Qian Chao and the others left, through a dark and deep secret passage, and walked out of the secret passage in less than two hours, and then the two groups separated, Luo Ying and the five of them were satisfied and wanted to return to the sect, while Qian Chao wanted to go to Ruixuan Town because he had an appointment with Mr. Zhuang of the Yiming Pavilion in Ruixuan Town.
"Qian boy," when they broke up, Luo Ying quietly stopped Qian Chao, "In the future, if you find more seaweed jade grease lamps, if that Ma Amber foundation is not smooth, you might as well ......"
Luo Ying didn't continue, but winked at Qian Chao.
And Qian Chao looked weird, but he was thinking in his heart, could it be that this Senior Sister Luo was also Ma Hu's accomplice?
As for that Senior Brother Chu, I don't know how long I stayed here, but finally someone in the sect sent a message, saying that Luo Ying had returned to the sect, so he withdrew with people dejected.