Chapter 62: Deep in the Mine
This spirit fox lair is actually a mine developed by Taiyuan Gate a long time ago, there are many lanes in it, the criss-crossing structure is complex, and it is very deep, but since it was occupied by a group of spirit foxes, people from Taiyuan Gate rarely came, and Xu Chen never explored it in depth.
Xu Chen plans to take the little fox to take a good look inside today.
If it was before, he would not dare to rush in, but now his divine sense as powerful as the True Yuan Realm is enough to cover an area with a diameter of hundreds of zhang, even in a complex mine, he can still clearly see the situation of all the nearby lanes, so he will definitely not be afraid of getting lost.
One person and one fox, under the shroud of divine consciousness, kept going down the complex mine cave inclination.
Deeper and deeper, cascading and staggering all the way down, until finally there are fewer and fewer lanes around it, and only a main roadway winds downward.
And as it descended, the main roadway became narrower and lower, and in the end, even Xu Chen had to bend his waist to move forward.
It looks like it's coming to an end.
In his divine sense, the winding alley in front of him seemed to have encountered great obstacles around Baizhang, and it was completely impenetrable.
At the same time, when the divine consciousness came back, you could hear the sound of dripping water, which seemed to be in the deepest place, as if there was a spring flowing.
In fact, there will be no good things in this abandoned mine, Xu Chen knows very well.
After all, after the sudden collapse of the glorious Taiyuan Gate, the mountain gate was destroyed, and countless monks have come to Taobao for thousands of years to scavenge for waste, and the Taiyuan Gate is a radius of thousands of miles, as long as there are ruins, it has already dug three feet into the ground and rummaged countless times, and the things with a trace of aura have been looted, and there will definitely be nothing of value left.
Since more than 300 years ago, the current ancestor of Taiyuan Gate excavated a complete book of exercises, and reopened the mountain after cultivation, and then reopened the mountain and established the sect, and there has been no one else in Taiyuan Gate so far.
Xu Chen has been collecting dung for three years, and his movements are all over the range of 100 miles near the mountain gate, and he has also searched carefully countless times with the intention of making a fortune on Taobao, but he still found nothing except for harvesting some spirit beast dung.
This cave has also been explored countless times by countless monks who have come to hunt for treasures.
Even if there was anything, it would never be his turn to make a fortune now.
Xu Chen's purpose in coming in was purely out of curiosity.
It is not known what kind of ore was previously developed in this cave.
In the past, according to some information passed down by the master, it seems that there is no mine in this mine.
There are not many ores that are useful for the Immortal Gate, such as Yuan Iron, Yuan Copper, Spirit Stone, Five Elements Crystal, Linghua Earth, etc., but no matter which of these minerals they are, they are almost all in the land rich in Yuan Qi and Spiritual Qi.
And the spirit stone mine needs to have a strong spiritual vein to be born.
But there was no trace of Yuan Spirit breath inside this mine, even if it was dug up, at least some associated Yuan Stone or Yuan Ni and the like should be seen, but none of these appeared.
Xu Chen walked all the way forward with his waist bent, and his divine sense felt that he was getting closer and closer to the end.
After a pillar of incense, Xu Chen came out of a low alleyway that was no more than three feet wide, and suddenly it was much more empty in front of him, and it turned out to be a circular cave with a radius of nearly ten zhang.
The walls of the cave are very flat, about two feet high, and there is a spring water seeping out of the cracks on the top of the head, dripping down, and accumulating a pit of water in the center of the grotto.
The location here should already be in the belly of the mountain, and it is still dozens of zhang deep underground, so there is no light at all, even if Xu Chen is a monk, his eyes still can't see anything, the only thing he can use is divine sense.
However, there is a great difference between what the mind sees and what the eye sees.
Divine consciousness can only discern space and objects, and even detect danger, but it cannot accurately discern shapes and materials.
So Xu Chen took out the dust beads from the storage bag.
As a cloud of white light emanated, he quickly saw the situation in front of him clearly, similar to the scene of divine feedback, except that the stagnant water in the puddle did not look quite a lot, and it was as black as if it was unfathomable.
Xu Chen kicked a stone with his foot, and with a grunt, the stagnant water blistered for more than ten breaths before slowly calming down.
This made him take a breath.
I'm afraid this water is not seven or eight feet deep.
Why would such a strange and vertical pit be dug in the depths of such a cave without any ore?
Xu Chen felt that there should be some secrets buried in this place.
Of course, this place must have been patronized by countless people thousands of years ago, and there must be doubts, and the bottom of this pit should naturally be explored countless times, and if there is a secret, it must have been excavated long ago.
Therefore, thinking about it, Xu Chen felt that he was a little bored, and he kicked down a bigger gravel and prepared to leave.
"Goodo......"
A series of huge water bubbles rose from the bottom of the pit, and Xu Chen's eyelids jumped suddenly, because he saw that there were wisps of black gas among the bubbles emerging from the water surface.
This black qi is very weak, if it weren't for his strong divine sense, and there is the treasure light of the dust bead illuminating, he will definitely not be able to find it.
The only place where he could contact the black qi now was the Black Wind Ridge, and then there was the Eastern Desolate Void Abyss that Lin Qiuya said.
Xu Chen squatted down and reached into the stagnant water with his hand.
Sure enough, a familiar cold aura invaded the skin, making the soul tremble a little, similar to what it felt in the black mist deep in the cracks of the Black Wind Ridge.
This kind of black qi has a corrosive effect on the divine consciousness.
So he instantly understood that under this mine, there should also be a place similar to the crack of the Black Wind Ridge, maybe leading to the legendary underworld.
Although he didn't know what the underworld was really like.
But that doesn't prevent him from making such judgments.
So the original Taiyuan Gate didn't want to dig a passage to the sky from here.
Xu Chen thought about it and felt impossible.
Cangming is just an ancient legend, where is it, what is it, even the fairy world can't say a son ugly Yinmao, no matter how powerful the Taiyuan Sect is, it is just a large sect in the Shenzhou Realm, and its strength is limited, so it is absolutely impossible to do such an unreliable thing.
As the saying goes, it's hard to get to the sky, but it's actually even harder to get into the ground.
It is not impossible to cultivate to the realm of true immortals, break through the void and ascend, and travel for nine days, but since ancient times, no one has ever figured out what the earth is like, and how thick the earth is is purely unknown.
If you dig down like this and dig through the canopy, then this place will collapse if it can't withstand any wind and rain, not to mention the battle of the Great Cultivator of the Spirit Realm, in one battle, the earth will be torn apart.
Therefore, at the beginning, Taiyuan Gate definitely did not want to dig through the cangying, but had another purpose.
Xu Chen felt as if he had caught something, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt like he hadn't caught anything.
"Do you want to go down and have a look?" Xu Chen began to hesitate.
"Woo~" The little fox seemed to know Xu Chen's thoughts, and bit his trousers and pulled them back.
"Okay, okay, don't worry, I won't go down!"
Xu Chen couldn't touch the little fox's scalp with tears and laughter, and finally decided not to take the risk yet.
This pool of black water divine consciousness cannot penetrate, and it can also erode divine consciousness, according to his usual cautious habits, it is indeed not necessary to rush down.
If it was in the past, Xu Chen would have come to such a deep place at all.
It's just that after coming back from this mountain experience, he is much bolder, not to mention, and his heart is more inclined to take risks.
After all, the harvest last time was too big, and he tasted the sweetness.
But just as he got up to leave, suddenly a violent blister bubbled up in the puddle, and at the same time he felt a creepy breath rush out of the depths of the puddle.
"Boom~"
The dark water exploded, and I saw a thing as thick as an arm as a python whirring from the water.
In a hurry, Xu Chen's talisman vitality exploded, but there was no protective effect at all, and the black thing like a python stabbed him around his waist with a sting.
With an exclamation, Xu Chen was dragged into the water almost defenselessly.
There was a pop of water, and the black puddle of water instantly rolled violently, and then quickly calmed down.
"Woo~Woo~~"
Suddenly, the frightened little fox fled in terror, and when the splash subsided, he lay on the edge of the puddle and let out a terrible cry.
"Goodo......"
Xu Chen struggled desperately in the black water, but the thing wrapped around his waist was infinitely powerful, and with an irresistible force, he was quickly pulled into the deep water.
The cold breath was pervasive, as if it was about to penetrate into the body from thousands of pores, and the divine sense was almost useless in the black water, and there was chaos around the darkness, and nothing could be seen clearly.
In the darkness, there seemed to be more black tentacles-like things winding up from all directions, and soon wrapped him around like a dumpling, unable to move at all.
Xu Chen desperately unleashed his vitality to resist, but everything was in vain.
After only a few breaths, he felt that his soul was about to be frozen by the black water, and his body was also strangled by the skin and flesh and bones clicked.
However, Xu Chen was not completely flustered, because he knew that if he gave up resistance, he would definitely die here today, so he concentrated all his divine consciousness in the sea of consciousness, urging his vitality to frantically impact the blue light treasure bottle, trying to stimulate the power of the blue jade bead.
However, it seemed that everything was in vain, and no matter how hard he tried, the blue vase hanging in the sea of consciousness did not react at all, like a boulder, unable to shake it at all, and he also tried to rush his divine consciousness into the mouth of the bottle, but after more than ten attempts in a row, the inside of the bottle mouth was like a pitch-black abyss, and once the divine consciousness entered it, it was like a mud cow entering the sea, disappearing without a trace.