Volume 5: Chu Ming 482: The Death of Wei Gelin (3)
In Ah Jiu's mouth, Yugu is the second-to-last forbidden place with a degree of danger, and the reason is that there seems to be no other danger on the ground of Yugu except for some powerful but not particularly powerful demon insects, but the real danger comes from the underground, and there is a complex and huge set of caves under the valley, where the powerful demon insects are located.
If you can't cross it from the air, whether there are demon insects or not, whether it is a person or a beast or a beast that strays into it, it is likely to linger in place for half a day, and it is very likely that you will be trapped in it. If you go all the way from the air to the inside, you can naturally see the whole picture of the valley, just in the center of the valley, the chaotic mountains that surround this valley give way to a flat land as if they retreated together, Ah Jiu said to Qian Chao that there is the entrance to the underground cave, but it is only one of the entrances to the underground cave, she doesn't know how many holes there are in the underground cave, and the most powerful guy in the underground cave should be the Hidden Tiger, Ah Jiu used to shake the cave with her means when she was hunting in the valley, What was shocked out of it was the kind of big scorpion with black armor all over its body, a pair of giant pincers, a tail like a long whip, and a poisonous needle prick at the end, so she said this, but she didn't see the most powerful one, and her means couldn't drive it out of the underground cave, so she had to give up.
The five people of the Secluded Tiger Qian Chao had seen it in Pipa Ridge, and Qian Chao had also used the tail of the Secluded Tiger to refine a spiritual weapon, which was very powerful, but unfortunately it was later destroyed by Du Sha in the tide of the Cold Spring Valley.
Ah Jiu's description of Qiu Gu is actually very vague, which makes Qiu Gu, which ranks second to last in danger, even more dangerous, after all, the danger is hidden underground, and what is the most powerful thing Ah Jiu actually knows is not accurate, it all depends on Qian Chao to go there and explore it carefully.
After entering the valley, Qian Chao found that as Ah Jiu said, all the way to the center, he encountered all the mid-level demon insects, whether they were flying in the air, chirping on the trees, crawling on the ground, dormant in the cracks of the stones, all sizes, all colors, winged, carapace, and countless legs and feet, and every time they were found, those demon insects were in large quantities, which made people confused, and Qian Chao was always worried, worried that he would step on or bump into these insects head-on if he didn't pay attention.
How can I find out the most powerful guy in this valley, Qian Chao naturally has a way in his heart, since he is the most powerful, he will definitely build his lair in the place where the spiritual veins are most concentrated and the spiritual energy is the strongest, which is unbreakable no matter what kind of forbidden place it is.
After some investigation, Qian Chao found that although the entrance of the underground cave was almost the most central place in the valley, the spiritual veins did not converge at the entrance of the cave, but shifted in one direction, and the entrance of the cave seemed to be just a cave entrance, and the most powerful guy in the cave must be in the place where the spiritual veins converged, in the cave below.
For Qian Chao, the situation at that time was very tricky, first he didn't know what was the most powerful thing in this valley, and then he didn't know how deep that guy was hiding underground, and the most important thing was that Qian Chao would never dare to go deep into the cave.
But fortunately, Qian Chao has a way, there is no simple way, Qian Chao still has a stupid way, in the valley he spent nearly two days to determine the distribution and direction of all the spiritual veins in the most concentrated place, and then thought of how to deal with the most powerful guy in the cave.
Qian Chao arranged two formations there, the first is to drive out all the demon insects in the cave, this step will be very dynamic, it will definitely alarm the most powerful one, under the influence of the formation, the underground spiritual veins will temporarily change direction, so to speak, if the underwater undercurrent suddenly surges out of the water, it will definitely wrap the fish in the deep water together, Qian Chao's first formation is this effect, just like when he arranged the formation to drive the blind worm hidden deep underground out of the ground.
Then, as soon as he saw the most powerful guy appear, he would immediately launch a second formation to trap him.
It took a while to arrange the formation, and when Qian Chao really launched the first formation, what he saw in front of him made him startled, the land in that place was surging in an instant, and the mud and sand and stones in a large area were surging and tumbling like the sea in the wind and waves, and in the roar, Qian Chao found that the place collapsed quickly when he didn't see any demon insects coming out from below, which Qian Chao expected, after all, there was a huge underground cave below, but he didn't expect the movement to be so big, The collapsed area will be so wide, as the ground rolls and collapses, then countless demon insects appear from the waves-like surging mud and sand, and sure enough, there are ghosts and tigers he has seen, and there are a lot of them, at that time, those guys were embarrassed to rise and fall in the surging soil, and they appeared and were buried deep in it, in this process, the collapse of the ground has been continuing, almost after two teas, Qian Chao noticed that the demon insects that appeared later were not the ghost tigers, It was a kind of dark brown spider with thin white stripes that he had never seen before, and the size of a millstone, these guys were desperately waving their eight thin legs, struggling in a panic in the boiling soil, until the last "boom" sound, countless mud accompanied by countless big spiders and ghostly tigers were washed into the air, and the collapse seemed to stop, and the big guy who rushed out of the dirt made Qian Chao can't help but take a breath of cool air.
The guy who appeared was not very tall, not as tall as an ordinary house, but it was about the same as a carriage, but looking down from the perspective of Qian Chao, the guy was lying in the big pit and his body was extraordinarily large, with eight thick long legs with dense patterns, and the eight legs were almost supported in the dirt in eight directions, in Qian Chao's eyes, it was like a strange and terrifying flower, its whole body was covered with fine hard hairs, and the proportion of its head and chest was not very large, but the pair of big brown and black eyes on its head made people shudder, The huge aura fluctuation made Qian Chao instantly determine that this guy must be an existence that could match Ah Jiu, followed by its round belly, which almost occupied more than seventy percent of its size, and the tail of the belly was a sharp tail needle.
That's right, in the pit is a giant spider that Qian Chao has never seen before.
But this is not the most weird, what makes Qian Chao feel a little creepy is that on the guy's round belly, there are pimples, trembling, densely piled up countless gray-white eggs, each one is the size of a grape, some have been cracked in the collapse of the ground, gray-white sticky juice is flowing down the stomach of the big spider, but more are still intact on the back of the big spider.
At that time, Qian Chao thought that those eggs were the eggs of this big spider.
In fact, this is not the case, after returning to the Five Spirits Sect and describing what he saw to Tang Ping and Ah Jiu, Tang Ping and Ah Jiu both concluded that those eggs were laid on the back of the big spider by another powerful demon worm, and those eggs were the eggs of the devouring insects.
Insect eater is a kind of existence that almost all demon beasts and monsters are afraid of, it is rumored that this thing is extremely difficult to kill, even if it is broken into ten thousand pieces, each fragment of the insect eater can grow into a new insect again, there is a "devouring" word in the name of this thing, that means that it is a greedy demon worm, and what it devours is not the flesh and blood of the demon beast or the demon bird, but the aura in its body. Once the devouring insect hatches out of the egg, it will burrow into the body of the demon beast and demon bird it encounters, constantly devouring the aura on the other party's body, and the demon beast and demon bird entangled by the devouring insect will be like being infected with an incurable serious disease, and its own aura will be devoured by the insect, but it has nothing to do with the insect, but it can only endure it.
For monks, insect devouring is also a terrifying existence, although there is a way to heal, but whether it is the process of healing or being devoured by insects, it is an unbearable torture.
The last point is that almost no spiritual monks are willing to raise devouring insects, because raising such things will either constantly provide them with demon beasts and monsters for them to devour, which is very difficult to do, and even if they can do it, it is extremely troublesome; Either they have to feed them with their own aura, which is something that all monks try to avoid.
Well, later Tang Ping also told Qian Chao that the big spider he saw was called "Brocade Woman", the silk thread it spit out was extremely tough, and there were many webs it formed in the cave of Brocade Woman, among which the silk threads were dense like cloth webs were rare treasures, even if they got a small piece of it were worth a lot of money, it was the best refining material, and when he heard this, Qian Chao was very tempted.
After the big spider appeared, Qian Chao immediately launched the second formation, and all the spiritual veins in the deep pit where the big spider was located immediately changed again, trapping it like a cage, which was not surprising.
After doing this in Ranshigang and Yugu in a row, all that was left was to wait for these powerful demon beasts trapped in the formation to slowly be drained of their aura by the Locking Spirit Array, of course Qian Chao would not wait here, he had to go back, and there were still many things to do.
Back to Wulingzong from Yugu, the first half of the road is nothing, and the second half of the road coincides with the journey back to Wulingzong from Ruixuan Town, in fact, when he was close to Ruixuan Town, Qian Chao was still thinking about whether to go to Ruixuan Town for a night, not to live in Song Fenglou, but to have a small room of his in Yimingxuan, but then he thought about it and gave up, or go back earlier, many things have to be dealt with.
This was also the reason why Qian Chao was still rushing towards the Five Spirits Sect when it was approaching night, and it was precisely because of this that he encountered the next unexpected thing.