Volume 1 Demon Country Languo Chapter 6: Adventure at the bottom of the bridge
Under the bridge.
The water is clear, slightly cool, but extremely deep.
I don't know if it's because it's almost dusk, the light in the water is very poor, and the visibility is very low, but fortunately, Liu Zisang has excellent eyesight and can vaguely distinguish things in the water, which does not cause much trouble.
One person and one ape didn't expect that this seemingly ordinary town river was a completely different scene in the water.
Countless huge rhizomes continue to spread from the bottom of the old plum tree, and the deeper you go into the water, the more rhizomes there are, densely intertwined, like a huge underwater forest, and occasionally fish wander slowly in the crevices, so uncomfortable.
This wonder could not be seen from the surface of the river, which made Liu Zisang and Duoduo can't help but feel a sense of strangeness.
The two of them shuttled through the root forest, and passed dozens of strange reefs, and they no longer remembered how deep they swam.
I felt that the river gradually changed from the warmth of the water surface to the cool and then to the cold, and the pressure in the chest became more and more intense, almost suffocating.
Liu Zisang is okay, his cultivation is high, and the slightly deep demonic power has helped him resist some cold, and Duoduo's cultivation is low, and the skin under the monkey hair has a lot of goosebumps, and his eyes are about to pop out when he is oppressed by the river.
After the two swam for more than a dozen breaths, they passed through an underwater dark hole, their vision suddenly became clear, and a huge black shadow slowly appeared in front of them.
"It's ......"
Seeing that Liu Zisang suddenly stopped, Duoduo who followed him also stopped, and just wanted to ask the reason, he was shocked by the shocking scene he saw in front of him, and he looked surprised.
If it weren't for the fact that they were holding their breath and couldn't open their mouths, they were afraid that their mouths would also be wide open.
I saw a heavy black silhouette lying quietly on the riverbed, and when I opened my eyes, it was a dilapidated bronze gate! The bronze door seems to be quite old, and the door is engraved with many insects and insects, which is simple and exquisite.
But what is even more striking is that the rhizomes of countless old plum trees are tightly wrapped around the door, and several roots actually pierce directly through the door.
In particular, the several rhizomes in the middle are particularly shocking, not only are they several times thicker than the other rhizomes, but they also stretch open a huge crack several feet wide in the gate, revealing the deep and dark inside of the gate, which looks a little weird.
The sugar gourd fell on the bronze lintel, surprisingly not stained with mud and dust, and seemed to be edible.
Liu Zisang and Duoduo glanced at each other, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes, they had been in the town for several years, and they had never heard of such a secret at the bottom of the river.
Looking at the closed door, it seems that no one has ever set foot on it.
As the saying goes, there must be demons when things go wrong, and the bronze gate is obviously not something that should be in a normal river, Liu Zisang can't help but think of the strange stories that those rough men in the town often boast about after tea and dinner, and they have traveled through most of the Southern Wilderness.
Those men said that they had been to some place, what strange things and dangerous and inexplicable monsters they had encountered, how wise and brave they were, how they killed the fierce beasts, and what priceless treasures they got from them.
At the end, I didn't forget to add that I was favored by the daughter of a certain demon patriarch and hugged the beauty, but I never forgot my hometown, so I left those vulgar money beauties and returned to the countryside to farm and hunt.
Whenever someone says this, there is inevitably a burst of laughter from the audience.
"If you really have such a skill, what are you going to do when you come back? With that glory and wealth, beauty in the arms, it's too late to be happy, where will you come back to our poor place? ”
Yes, in the mouths of these men, they regard money as dung for a while, enjoy all the glory and wealth for a while, and return to their hometowns in fine clothes, which is quite legendary, but if this is the case, I am afraid that these men will leave without looking back.
The rest of the tavern was noncommittal, but it was very tempting for Liu Zisan, a teenager in his early teens, who often listened attentively on the table next to him, his eyes shining with little stars.
This is the adventure.
The so-called adventure, as the name suggests, is first of all to happen something very unusual, too ordinary things can hardly be called a word "strange", aside from others, on this point alone, the bronze gate in front of you seems to have it.
A wave of enthusiasm and excitement boiled in Liu Zisang's heart, could this be the great opportunity he had been looking for for a long time?
But it's too early to tell, and there may be priceless treasures inside, disaster or nothing.
You must know that in addition to the treasure land in the world, there are also many dangerous and abnormal fierce places in the wilderness.
Some of them have existed since the beginning of the Great Wilderness tens of thousands of years ago, and some are still left to this day, while others are habitats formed by the gathering of some fierce monsters, which often have some rare and strange things.
For example, there is a kind of demon beast called the bloodthirsty demon mosquito, the size of a fist, born in a damp and dark place all the year round, and feeds on the blood of other monsters and monsters, ranking among the most hated and unwilling monsters in the minds of many people.
The cultivation is not high, but the number is extremely terrifying, and it is impossible to kill it, and if a dozen of them die, there will be hundreds or even tens of thousands, which is annoying.
If the strength is not good, once you mistakenly break into its territory, you will be besieged by countless demon mosquitoes, and you will end up with no bones!
Duoduo is very disgusted with bloodthirsty demon mosquitoes, to a considerable extent, in his words: everything has a spirit, except mosquitoes.
However, the demon mosquitoes are not all disgusting, they will use the essence blood they have sucked to refine a spiritual material called ten thousand spirit blood, which is very precious. It has a miraculous effect on healing and replenishing qi and blood, and can even save lives at critical moments.
However, thousands of demon mosquitoes can produce a drop of ten thousand spirit blood, and if you want ten thousand spirit blood, you must be prepared to be besieged by at least a thousand demon mosquitoes!
Therefore, although the bronze gate is close in front of him, Liu Zisang is a little hesitant, who knows if this is a treasure land or a fierce place? If you bury your little life, wouldn't it be worth the loss?
However, the door in front of him kindled Liu Zisang with a little hope, the small hope that had been buried in his heart for a long time, small but strong.
For this reason, even if there is a sea of fire in front of Longtan Tiger's Den, Liu Zisang will break through! The big deal is death, who is afraid of whom.
Having made up his mind, Liu Zisang looked at Duoduo, who was slightly stunned, and soon knew Liu Zisang's intentions, knowing that if he didn't let Liu Zisang go in to find out, he was afraid that he would leave a lot of regrets, so he nodded.
Agreed, Liu Zisang skimmed off the distracting thoughts in his heart, picked up the fallen sugar gourd, turned sideways and squeezed into the door through the crack in the door that the rhizome propped up, and Duoduo followed with a little hesitation.
As soon as he entered, it was dark in front of him, and he couldn't see his five fingers, and an unknown fear quietly spread in his heart.
Liu Zisang was about to use his demonic power to explore the surroundings, when suddenly the sky swirled, and a turbulent undercurrent rushed to the mountains and seas, rolling up the two of them as easily as the wind blowing leaves.
Liu Zisang and Duoduo were shocked, and tried to use their demonic power to get rid of this strange power, but with little success, they could only watch their bodies uncontrollably swept into the darkness.
I don't know how long later, the two of them suddenly felt that their bodies were light, their feet were firmly on the hard place, and the feeling of pressure in the water disappeared.
When they opened their eyes, they were in a strange cave.
The cave is not large, the size of a room, surrounded by stone walls and has no exit.
The two of them stood on the only ground in the middle, surrounded by water, and the sunlight shone through a small hole in the roof of the cave, hitting an ancient stone tablet on one side.
The stele seems to be quite old, and the tender green moss covers the stele, extending from the surface of the stele to the ground, adding some life to the lifeless cave.
"Where is this, aren't we in the water?" Duoduo looked at the completely unfamiliar surroundings around him and wondered.
Liu Zisang shook his head, indicating that he was also a little confused: "We seem to have been sent somewhere by the undercurrent." ”
The undercurrent seemed to have a magical power, and the two of them had never encountered it when they were swimming in the river, and they encountered it as soon as they entered the bronze gate.
"It must be the ghost of the gate." Duoduo blurted out without thinking about it, and said firmly.
Liu Zisang waved his hand, ignored a lot of broken thoughts, and walked towards the stone tablet in front of him. It's a blessing that they weren't rumored to be in a dangerous place, where do they care about being passed to a cave.
If you want to get out, you can only see what is special about this place, and maybe there will be a mechanism to go back.
The stele is very old, I don't know how many years it has been placed here, it has been dulled by endless years, and even the words on it are blurred.
Gently wiping off the moss, Liu Zisang frowned, and he recognized the words written on the stele, which were the most common bone inscriptions in the Great Wilderness, but unfortunately most of them were unrecognizable.
Only a fairly small portion of the text is barely visible.
"My name is Xu Shi, and I have been cultivating for more than five hundred years since I was born, and it is difficult to enter the fifth realm after reaching ......the fifth realm," Liu Zisang unconsciously said softly.
"Zisang, what did you just say, Fifth Realm? It's actually a powerhouse of the Fifth Realm! ”
Duoduo leaned over, looked at the first few words of the stele, and couldn't help but exclaim.
The cultivation realm of the people of the demon clan in the Great Wilderness is called the spirit realm, also known as the demon spirit realm, and it is said that there are nine realms in total. The first realm is the lowest, the ninth realm is the highest, and the further you go, the stronger it gets.
The first realm to the third realm are: Desolate Spirit Realm, Muddy Spirit Realm, and Turbid Spirit Realm...... Liu Zisang in the back doesn't know, his cultivation is too low, he can't touch that realm, he only knows the first realm.
Each realm is divided into three levels: low, medium and high, the first realm is the lowest realm of cultivation, which is the most common, and Liu Zisang is currently at the low level of the desolate spirit realm.
When you reach the Desolate Spirit Realm, you can freely transform the absorbed heaven and earth aura into your own demon power, and truly embark on the path of cultivation, this is the demon.
Generally speaking, after stepping into the Desolate Spirit Realm, the demon can already turn into a human form, but it is not a real human form, and the body still retains some ontological characteristics, such as a human body, cat ears, dog tails, etc. Therefore, it is also called semi-incarnate, just like the inhabitants of Landhashi Town.
The demons from the first realm to the third realm are basically semi-transformed, and when they are cultivated to the middle and high realm after the fourth realm, they can completely transform into human form, and their appearance is basically the same as that of a human.
Therefore, if you see someone appearing in a completely human form, then pay attention, this person may be a peerless powerhouse who is not born in the world!
Of course, there are exceptions, there are some heavenly treasures in heaven and earth, which have certain magical effects that can make people directly transform.
For example, if you eat a kind of transformation fruit, you can directly transform the demons of the lower realm into humans, and increase a certain amount of cultivation, which is especially sask in the great wilderness.
Liu Zisang is completely humanoid, but his cultivation is only a low-level of the Desolate Spirit Realm, which is quite rare in Lanqiao Town, and he looks like a Terran boy, so it is difficult not to attract attention.
However, after the residents of the town knew about Liu Zisang's cultivation, they thought that he had eaten the transformation fruit, and now there is nothing to envy Liu Zisang's good luck except for looking at Liu Zisang twice.
After all, the transformation fruit is hard to find, and envy can't be envied, and if you eat it, it's gone, and you can't pick up the poop of Liu Zisang and taste the residual effect of the transformation fruit.
What is the concept of Xu Shi's self-proclaimed fifth realm on the stone tablet?
Let's put it this way, Lanqiao Town has a large population, and there must be more than 100,000 small residents plus the surrounding demon clans! But there are very few masters.
Most of them are cultivators like Liu Zisang, or half-step Desolate Spirit Realm, and there are very few high-level masters in the Desolate Spirit Realm.
There are many powerful demon clans in Lanqiao Town, and the strongest are the two demon clans: the Bamboo Bone Bug Clan and the Stone Spirit Frog Clan. The highest cultivation is the Bamboo Bone Insect Patriarch, Bi Gu, who is said to be a powerhouse in the middle of the Second Realm Hun Spirit Realm!
There is no one in the third realm, and as for the powerhouses in the fourth and fifth realms, not to mention in Lanqiao Town, there is no one within a radius of thousands of miles!
In the eyes of ordinary people, this kind of strong person is almost like a rumor-like existence, and it has long been different from ordinary people, rarely appearing in remote villages and towns, and it is generally necessary to go to some large demon cities to try their luck, or go to the territory of this strong man to see.
You must know that the second realm of Bigu can become the head of a clan and almost dominate a town, and the fifth realm is enough to divide one side and become the overlord of one side!
Such a strong person has enough strength to recruit masters to be loyal to him, and he can protect the people of the demon clan who have their own! Even recruiting a group of demon beauties to form their own demon clan is an easy matter!
And these are simply out of reach for the current Liu Zisang and Duoduo!
The two of them remembered all kinds of rumors about the powerhouses of the Fifth Realm, and were stunned for a long time before they came back to their senses and continued to look down.
“…… My longevity is approaching, and it is about to fall...... I couldn't bear to bury many treasures in the soil with me, so I hid the treasures of my life in various places in the Great Wilderness, waiting for someone to take them......"
Liu Zisang's face was happy, could it be that this was one of the treasures of this senior? But why did this Xu Shi's predecessor do this, Liu Zisang was puzzled, so he continued to look down, and the stone tablet wrote down the reason for this move.
"A lifetime of life, a ...... of grass and trees"
"A human life is not more than a hundred years, and a demon is sad for a thousand years......"
"What can I do if I wait for the extreme pursuit of the peak of cultivation all my life, no matter how brilliant I am, no matter how strong my cultivation is, it will eventually turn into a cup of loess and disappear ...... clouds."
"This move can be regarded as allowing someone destined to inherit my will and make it continue for a long time, and it may be the only proof that I have existed......"
After reading the text, most of the doubts in his heart were dispelled, and he turned his head to look at Liu Zisang with an incredulous face, and couldn't help but burst out with a foul word.
"I'll go, it's really fate!"