Chapter 23: The Stone Chamber
Pang Jian's expression was dull, and he didn't understand why this giant python, which was on the verge of death, suddenly went crazy.
The two sides obviously have no enmity or grudge, but the giant python put on a posture of wanting to kill him before he dies.
He secretly complained in his heart, he couldn't care about the existence of the humanoid monster, so he had to keep retreating, preparing to retreat to a place where the snake bones could not reach.
Because the python's head is pinned by a phoenix bone, as long as the snake bone does not extend to his place, he is safe.
After avoiding this wave of attacks, when the phoenix bone eats the flesh and blood of the giant python's head, the giant python will be completely dead.
"Bang!"
A very light, muffled sound came from the other end of the phoenix bone as Pang Jian quickly withdrew.
Pang Jian, who was retreating with his head bored, subconsciously glanced at it, and was surprised to find that the sinuous body of the giant python seemed to have encountered some obstacle at the bottom of the pool, and the speed coming towards him slowed down significantly.
Soon, he saw that there was a person hanging on the white snake bone that the giant python was swinging.
Pang Jian was surprised.
The humanoid monster of unknown origin, because the giant python twisted the snake bone before dying, actually suffered an unjustified disaster, and after being caught by the snake bone without skin and flesh, it was driven to roar in the water.
The humanoid monster that focused on the phoenix bone obviously didn't expect the giant python that was about to die, and it had to make a fuss before it died.
He struggled, hugging the snake bones that had lost their flesh and skin, but were still extremely thick, and tried to break them open.
The anomaly, who had long lost his mind and did not have a trace of humanity in his eyes, thought that this was the attack launched by the "Dark Giant Dragon" against him before he died.
He gathered the strength in his body and fought against the "Dark Giant Snake" that did not belong to this realm, and he also continued to delay the shaking of the snake bone.
Pang Jian took the opportunity to escape to the area where the snake bone could not extend.
He secretly rejoiced that the monster had saved him from the disaster, otherwise he would not have been able to escape in time, and he might have been whipped to death or stabbed to death by the snake bone.
When he fled far away, he could still see the giant python with its eyes open, and its eyes were full of endless hatred.
Pang Jian felt inexplicable.
The first time he entered the Black Water Pool, the first time he encountered such a huge python, why did the python have to get along with himself before he died?
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The night was dark.
The sky is eternally dark, and the drowsy day reappears on earth.
After a night of suffering, the dark ghosts re-observed the black water pool after dawn, and were surprised to find that the thick black water of the pool seemed to have faded a lot.
The color of the water changes from pure black to gray black.
After looking closely for a while, they saw that the surface of the water, which had been calm and waveless, was rippling in circles, and it seemed that a huge movement came from underwater.
"There's something underwater!"
No matter how dull a person is, he can guess that there must be a living creature under the water by the abnormal movement of the water.
Hong Tai, who knew that there was a "dark giant snake", wanted to wait until dawn to see the situation and evacuate.
He suddenly hesitated at this time, so he asked everyone's opinions: "Under the pool, as long as the dark giant snake is still there, all of us will not escape death if we go down." Moreover, it is also possible that it will break out of the blackwater pool and come ashore to hunt us all. ”
"You also think about it, should we give up these prey, or should we take another look?"
His mouth was asking for everyone's opinions, but his gaze only stayed on Jin Yang's face.
"I'd like to see it again."
Jin Yang, who was unwilling, was also shocked by the abnormality of the pond water, he released several "cicada wing swords" that he had withdrawn again, observed the changes in the pool from different angles, and said: "I always feel that the black in this water is rapidly decreasing, maybe it won't be long before we can see the scene under the water." ”
"Well, the water is indeed getting lighter."
Hong Tai gave an affirmative answer.
Through the python that belonged to him, he knew that the corrosive poison in the pool water had weakened, and he was familiar with the characteristics of the python, so he guessed that the "dark giant python" should be retracting the acid and venom power released.
"It's okay to wait, but you have to be careful. Because when the water is clear, the dark dragon may also swim out of the bottom of the pool. Hong Tai reminded everyone with a solemn expression.
Jin Yang nodded.
Next to the dark ghosts, Ning Yao, who was tied up in the silver bright giant net, showed an expression of sadness that was more than death.
She barely sat up in the net, staring blankly at the dazed sky, as if she had given up the struggle.
The people of the dark ghosts, because of the many weirdness of the black water pool, and the uncertainty whether the "dark giant snake" will suddenly rush out, don't care much about her anymore.
Several people like Zhang Heng, who coveted her beauty before, also died in battle.
"Pang Jian......
She hadn't gotten rid of the shadow of death in Ning Yuan Mountain, listening to the conversation of the dark ghosts, her slightly dull gaze slowly wandered to the black water pool, and a figure quietly appeared in her mind.
"Is he still alive?"
Ning Yao, who was already desperate, didn't believe that after so many people died, Pang Jian could still survive at the bottom of the pool.
After such a long time, how could Pang Jian, who had just realized the existence of "qi", not be suffocated?
In the pool water, there is still acid poison that I don't know when it will attack, even Jinyang has suffered, shouldn't Pang Jian's body not exist?
Miss Ning was helplessly thinking.
Thinking that she would end up with one worse than He Ziren, she was ready to bite her tongue and kill herself before that moment came.
Just when everyone was thinking about it, the ripples on the surface of the pool water lasted for a while and then gradually subsided.
Although the black color of the pool water has become much lighter, it is not completely clear, indicating that the acid poison in the water still exists, and everyone can only continue to wait anxiously.
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The bottom of the pool.
Retreating all the way, Pang Jian, who retreated to the rock wall by the pool, looked at the depths of the giant python's pupils, and the resentful light was extinguished little by little.
The more the giant python wants to fight to the death, the faster its flesh and blood energy will be consumed, and the speed at which it will be eaten by the phoenix bones will also be accelerated.
Pang Jian looked at its huge head, the pieces of shiny olive-green scale armor disappeared, and the skin and flesh slowly disappeared in the phoenix bone.
Eventually, it was eaten away.
After a fierce battle, the humanoid monster gasped violently at the other end of the phoenix bone, and the blisters that came out of its mouth floated up in strings.
He was also covered in bruises, but not a drop of blood came out of his body.
He gasped for breath, more blisters in his mouth, and his crimson eyes were still staring at the phoenix bone, waiting for the long-awaited shimmer to condense and take shape.
From beginning to end, in his eyes, there seemed to be no such person as Pang Jian.
"I'm lucky, too."
Pang Jian was not disgruntled because he was despised for it.
Seeing that the giant python was finally dead, the abnormal changes that would occur in the phoenix bone had not yet begun, and he only thought about what he should do.
He looked around for his way out, and was surprised to find an open door next to the rock wall he clinged to...... Stone Gate.
The rock wall here is very far from the phoenix bone, and the stone gate is hidden deep in the underwater world, mixed with a pile of angular rocks.
Because the open stone door is too flat and smooth, and it looks out of place with the surrounding rocks, it is easy to notice.
"Man-made!"
After a glance, Pang Jian was sure that the stone gate was by no means a natural formation, and couldn't help but lean over.
Carrying the dragon spear to the open stone gate, he entered with some nervousness, and saw that there was a narrow and deep stone path inside the stone gate, which seemed to be able to go to the other end of the mountain through the stone path.
After hesitating for a few seconds, he walked more than a dozen steps in the stone path and saw a ...... existing at the bottom of the mountain Small stone chamber.
There was a stone table and chairs in the stone room, and a stone bed, but nothing else.
Looking at the small stone room in the center of the stone road, as well as the stone table, stone chair and stone bed, Pang Jian's face was as strange as it was.
Because the tables, chairs, and beds in the stone chamber were exactly the same as the stone chamber where he lived, he would feel familiar no matter how he looked at it.
The stone room where he lives now has been living since his father left.
Before his father disappeared, because he and Pang Lin were still young, he and Pang Lin lived in a room.
"This ......"
A man-made stone chamber, in the rock wall at the bottom of the pool filled with water, and the layout was so familiar that Pang Jian was stunned for a while.
Could it be that my father had come here before, and it was he who had carved out this stone chamber?
The stone chamber is obviously under the water, ordinary people can't breathe to survive at all, how can my father get the stone chamber at the bottom of the pool?
Pang Jian couldn't find an answer.
However, this deep stone passage that leads to nowhere, as well as this mysterious stone chamber, also made him see a way out.
After some consideration, he did not rush to explore the end of the stone path, but went out first and then closed the open stone door.
Only then did he notice that the surface of the back of the stone door was also jagged rubble, and when the stone door was actually closed, it did not look much different from the protruding gravel nearby.
It turned out that it was only when the stone gate was open that it was a flat stone door.
This is a relatively simple means of masking.
Pang Jian believed that if he entered the stone gate and closed it from the inside, the dark ghost monks who entered the bottom of the pool would probably not be able to find the stone gate that was integrated with the broken stone.
At this moment, he can actually get out and leave, and he can close the stone door and try to explore the end of the deep stone path.
But thinking that the acid poison ability above the black pool seemed to help his cultivation, he still chose to take the risk and stay.
In front of the open stone door, he looked at the slightly blurred phoenix bones, and the huge dry bones of the giant snake.
The amber glimmer in the phoenix bone, wandering inside the bone before it emerges, should be the flesh and blood of the giant python is of great value and needs to be brewed for a longer time.
The attention of the humanoid monster was completely focused on the phoenix bone, and it didn't care about him at all.
Therefore, he still has time, and he can still absorb the pitch-black acid and poison ability from the black water pool, continue his cultivation of the "Hutian Qi Cultivation Technique", and continue to refine his spiritual power with a vortex in his spiritual sea.
So he entered the state of cultivation again.
Time was quietly passing again, and in the blink of an eye, a few days had passed.
In the past few days, when he can't hold back his hunger, Pang Jian will take out the dried meat that has been blistered, and spend the rest of his time cultivating.
He firmly grasped this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for cultivation.
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Outside.
The dark ghosts who had been waiting looked at the water of the black water pool, and the rich black became lighter day by day.
They finally waited for the day when the water in the pool was clear.
"It says that there are no more corrosive acids in the water."
Hong Tai pointed to the python that belonged to him, looked at the pool that had become clear, and said, "It's still too deep, I can't even see the bottom of the pool, which of you will go down to see the situation?" ”
His gaze wandered over the faces of the dark ghosts, but everyone was silent, and no one dared to answer.
"Are you so timid?"
Hong Tai, who had already had an idea, looked at Ning Yao, who was imprisoned in the silver net, and said, "I kept the girl of the Ning family until now, just to use her to test the dark giant snake." The flesh and blood of a young girl is the most delicious for the dark dragon, and it can't resist such deliciousness. ”
As soon as these words came out, Ning Yao suddenly felt terrified.
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