Chapter Seventy-One: The Stone Forest Labyrinth
"Ahem... Damn it!"
The five of them immediately took turns to breathe and calm their blood, while guarding the monks who were about to move, lest they fish in troubled waters.
However, they did not realize the seriousness of the problem.
Suddenly, the turf under their feet continued to rise, and everyone was very surprised by the unknown situation.
Immediately within a radius of thirty feet, the turf swelled violently like a wave.
Everyone lost their balance under their feet, and was tossed over by the grass waves.
Seeing that the situation was not good, all the monks fled one after another, but it was too late at this time!
I saw countless dead sandworms rushing out of the ground in a blowout, opening their sharp mouthparts to bite the fleeing monks, and a scream suddenly sounded in the field.
The scene was extremely tragic, either devoured by a dead sandworm or crushed into a pool of blood by its huge body.
The five monks who were blocking the way were in the center of the explosion, and the vast majority of the dead sandworms pounced on them.
The middle-aged monk's face turned pale, and he slashed at the oncoming death sandworm with his sword.
The body of the death sandworm was soft and had very low defense, and it was broken through it in an instant, spilling green liquid on the ground.
The death of the same kind made all the surrounding death sandworms instantly enraged, and countless death sandworms continued to roll and twist, crushing the monks in the field with their huge bodies, blood mixed with black dirt splashed high.
"Hurry, hurry forward to the portal!" the middle-aged monk yelled at the other teammates, and immediately recalled the magic weapon and fled to the portal behind him.
Right now!
A dead sandworm suddenly emerged from the dirt behind him and bit him in the back!
The middle-aged monk couldn't dodge, and reflexively turned around and slashed out a brilliant sword.
I saw that the death sandworm was not afraid at all, and tore off the arm holding the sword in front of Jian Gang!
Red blood gushed out along the severed arm, and the middle-aged monk screamed miserably, his body shaking.
The remaining hand hurriedly took out a handful of pills from the brocade bag on his waist and swallowed it in one gulp, and the bleeding immediately stopped.
The middle-aged monk gritted his teeth to recall the magic weapon, and the magic sword stirred in the belly of the death sandworm, tearing it to pieces from the inside out, and the huge body fell to the ground and writhed, and its vitality was extremely tenacious.
After this battle, he and the purple-haired nun were the only of the five teammates who robbed the path and escaped into the portal.
Two were seriously wounded, and the other three were killed.
Most of the monks who watched the bustle also died, and only a few who happened to be on the edge escaped and ran out desperately, and there were dead sandworms lurking in the ground behind them.
The middle-aged monk glanced hatefully in the direction the three had fled, and rushed into the portal without looking back.
Jiang Ze and the three of them quietly gathered together, watching this scene of human purgatory in a daze from a distance, and they were speechless for a while.
The Death Sandworm roared for an hour before it stopped, and there was only a roll of black dirt within a radius of ten miles of the portal, completely lacking the appearance of a grassland.
The huge carcasses of the several dead sandworms that were killed were also devoured by their own kind, not sparing any energy intake.
"It's... It's going to be too big..."Lian Shan was afraid for a while, and his heart palpitated.
Lan was still frightened, glaring at Lianshan to signal silence, afraid that there were still dead sandworms hiding nearby.
Jiang Ze gradually calmed down the fear in his heart, only to feel that cold sweat was dripping behind his back, and under the cover of the realm of the heart plate, the nest of dead sandworms had scattered away.
"They... Already left. Jiang Ze said softly, his voice trembling slightly.
"Wait a little longer..."Lian Shan hesitated a little, not at all as big as before.
Lan and Jiang Ze nodded, it was better to be cautious, the Heart Plate Realm could only probe a twenty-zhang area, which was less than half the length of the Death Sandworm.
From time to time, a monk approached this side, and the monk who had just been driven away by the five heard the movement and came to find out.
Unexpectedly, the five people who robbed the road were long gone.
The monks did not know what was going on, but they were all overjoyed and rushed towards the portal excitedly.
Seeing that they kept jumping into the portal, and there was no abnormality around them, Jiang Ze and the three of them finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Lian Shan asked: "This dead sandworm generally appears in the desert environment on the fifth layer of the Immortal Mansion Ruins, how do you know that there are also traces of them on the second layer?"
"I encountered it on the road when we were separated, and that horse Teruyabai was also rescued from the mouth of the death sandworm," Jiang Ze said truthfully. "There was only one at the time, how could they be so violent!"
Seeing that the two of them knew very little about the Death Sandworm, Lan explained the confusion of the two and said: "Although this Death Sandworm is only of the third order, all the aura it absorbs is used to increase its size, and its vitality is extremely tenacious, even if it is broken in two, it will grow back into two different individuals. ”
"Moreover, the death sandworm is hermaphroditic, not only can it split, but also can reproduce itself, which is an alternative among the third-order demonic beasts. ”
"You can also treat them as beasts!"
Jiang Ze suddenly realized: "I see! As long as a dead sandworm appears on the second floor, it will not take a year to develop into such a vast trend." ”
Listening to Lan's explanation, Lian Shan nodded again and again, until the last cold sentence made him very unhappy, and he said angrily: "What is the body cultivation in the beast?!
Lan smiled lightly: "I'm just telling the truth, if you have the ability, you can go to the powerful judge who wrote this classic!"
Hearing this, Lian Shan immediately diverted the topic, and Zhengse said: "Since they are all fine in the past, let's leave quickly, shall we?"
Jiang Ze snorted, "Okay, then let's go too." ”
Lan did not forget to tell Jiang Ze to always pay attention to the movements underground, and there were still palpitations in his heart.
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Fortunately, there was no movement around the portal, and the three of them successfully stepped into the third layer of the Immortal Mansion Ruins.
As far as the eye can see, there is a stone forest that cannot be seen, like a labyrinth.
The labyrinth is lined with all kinds of strangely shaped stones, most of which are shaped like stalagmites reaching into the air, and the tips are incomparably sharp.
The three of them happened to fall here at random, and they couldn't figure out the direction for a while, and the road ahead was blocked by stones from time to time.
According to what Jiang Ze learned at Yannan University, these stalagmites should have been eroded by water over the years.
The soft yellow sand under his feet was blown up by the wind like dust, and it was expected that the river had dried up for a long time, and the sand and gravel on the riverbed had been eroded by the wind to its present appearance.
Lianshan gently knocked on the stalagmite, and it made a sound of banging, and the texture was extremely hard.
Lian Shan looked puzzled: "The last time I came, the three floors were rainforest and lake terrain, why did it become like this in a few years?"
Lan panicked in his heart, his innate instinct made him feel that the situation was a little bad, and subconsciously said: "Hurry up and get out of here, I have a sense of foreboding." ”
The two nodded, Jiang Ze judged the direction of the river according to the shape of the stalagmite narrow in front and wide in the back, and the three of them moved quickly in the direction of the river bank.
After walking for less than a quarter of an hour, his feet suddenly began to shake, and the stones scattered on the ground kept shaking.
There was a rumbling sound in the distance.
"Run!" Jiang Ze hurriedly shouted.
Seeing Jiang Ze's expression so flustered, the two of them realized that something was indeed wrong.
Lan and Lian exert their strength at the foot of the mountain, and burst out the true qi of the whole body to increase their speed.
Jiang Ze didn't care so much, so he sacrificed the refraction and stepped on his feet, rose from the ground, and led the way for the two of them in front of him to avoid the dead end in the stone forest labyrinth.
The rumbling sound grew louder and louder, and the ground shook more violently, and Lian Shan and Lan almost couldn't stand.
Jiang Ze was very anxious in his heart, stepping on the refraction to pull up a hundred feet, and finally saw the riverbank, which was only ten miles away from the two.
Turning around and looking at the depths of the river valley, the surging flood carried a large number of boulders rushing towards this side, stirring up waves dozens of feet high, and the sound was terrifying.
The torrent easily crushed the hard stalagmites and swept them into the water, and if Lianshan and Lan were hit by the torrent, they were afraid that it would be difficult to survive.
"Hurry up!Hurry up!!The torrent is still a few minutes away!If it goes on like this, you both have to finish playing!" Jiang Ze urged eagerly.
Seeing that Jiang Ze didn't seem to be joking, the two of them looked at each other and tried their best.
Lan's true qi surged out of the form of an ape, and he immediately bent down and switched to the form of running on all fours, and his speed and agility nearly doubled.
Lan flew through the stalagmites, leaving Lianshan far behind.
"!" Lian Shan subconsciously complained, Lan used his housekeeping skills, and had to reassess the seriousness of the problem.
Lian Shan gritted his teeth, running the exercises while running, the pale red true qi overflowed, and his body instantly skyrocketed to one zhang, and the skin and flesh on his body became as hard as a rock.
In contrast, the pair of axes he carried behind him were the size of toys.
Lian Shan jumped nearly ten zhang in a vertical jump, brutally slammed into the stalagmites in front of him, and constantly narrowed the distance between him and Lan under the blessing of the exercises.
The two of them ran for their lives, the riverbank in front of them, and the roar of the torrent beside them became more and more deafening.
Lian Shan suddenly jumped out of the river valley, and plowed a ravine nearly a meter deep with his feet on the river bank.
Lan also followed, relying on the highest stalagmite on the riverbank, and jumped up the river bank with agility.
The two of them rushed out of the stone forest labyrinth in the river valley one after another, and the torrent swept behind them, stirring up countless droplets of water to lap on them.
The physical consumption was huge, and the two of them collapsed on the ground and gasped violently, their eyes full of happiness for the rest of their lives.
Jiang Ze's imperial sword flew from high in the sky and landed next to the two of them.
"That's!" Lianshan gradually returned to his normal size, his robe was torn, and his body was wrapped in strips of rags.
Lian Shan looked at the rolling torrent and wiped his cold sweat.
Lan sat cross-legged and recovered, and after a long time, he exhaled a breath of turbidity and said, "It seems that this time my luck is a little bad, I only encountered so many bad things when I reached the third floor." ”
Lian Shan complained: "The ancient immortals who left the ruins of the Immortal Mansion are too pitiful, and they are all levels set up for monks who can't fly!"
Lan sighed: "That can't be helped, fortunately, there is a forbidden space formation in the back three layers, otherwise we can only grab a mouthful of soup to drink at this pace." ”
"Don't rush to the road, let's fix it first!" Jiang Ze inserted the refractive light back into the scabbard and proposed.
The three of them silently watched the river that gradually subsided without saying a word, and from time to time fragments of the monk's clothes flowed down the water.
Half an hour later, the valley returned to tranquility as if nothing had ever happened.
The surface of the river is calm and waveless, only a few stalagmites still stand on the water, and birds occasionally land on the tips of bamboo shoots to rest.
"This is what I looked like when I came back!" Lian Shan looked around to identify it, and confirmed it without a doubt.