Chapter 57: The Mysterious Old Man

At the entrance of Xuanyuan Valley, there is a stone tablet, which is covered with moss, engraved with the three ancient characters of "Xuanyuan Valley".

I don't know what year and month this stele is, who carved it, and there is a deep crack between the words "Xuan" and "Yuan".

After a moment of silence, Xiao Ting took the lead and entered the valley.

As soon as you enter the Xuanyuan Valley, the concentration of the miasma increases almost geometrically, and there is an indescribable fishy smell.

Just by taking a sip, Xiao Ting felt a feeling of dizziness.

Xiao Ting hurriedly mobilized the soul yuan power around his body and formed a protective shield on the outside of his body to isolate the erosion of the miasma.

The others also did the same, and suddenly, the true yuan power of various colors took shape on the outside of everyone's body, protecting everyone from being eroded by the miasma.

Xiao Ting thought about it for a while, and quietly transformed the colorful soul yuan power into glass fire. I saw a milky white glass fire rising on the surface of Xiao Ting's body, and immediately incinerated the miasma that was close to him into nothingness. Xiao Ting found that his use of glazed fire was much better than directly using the protective shield formed on the surface of his body by using soul yuan power, and the consumption was much better, and the consumption was also less.

This discovery made the corners of Xiao Ting's mouth curl slightly.

Xiao Ting and everyone were in Xuanyuan Valley together, while walking slowly, looking for the traces of the Broken God Grass and the Seven Tricks Exquisite Long Lotus, and took out the map from time to time to look through it, and made marks along the way so as not to get lost.

The Xuanyuan Valley marked in the map is not big, but after Xiao Ting and the others entered, they found that there was a cave in this Xuanyuan Valley, all kinds of flowers and trees were strangely shaped, Xiao Ting almost didn't know one, but the strange thing was that there was still no animal here.

Maybe it's because the miasma here is so dense that there is no animal that can survive here for a long time?

Looking at the miasma that covered the sky and the sun around him, Xiao Ting felt a little worried.

They had been in the valley for more than an hour, but they had not found the Broken God Grass and the Seven Tricks Exquisite Lotus recorded in the Bamboo Slip Book at all. The terrain here is rather strange, they seem to be going downhill all the time, and there seems to be no end in sight to the valley.

The good news is that although the miasma here is very serious, it is not so bad that people are unable to defend themselves, and everyone can also replenish their consumption by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, so that it will not cause a deficit of true yuan power in the body because of the long time of laying a defensive shield on the body surface.

The crowd continued to move slowly, while planting markers.

Gradually, Xiao Ting discovered that the shape of this Xuanyuan Valley resembled a gourd. And the entrance of the entire Xuanyuan Valley was like a gourd mouth, and they followed the gourd mouth and explored inward all the way. It's just that this "gourd" is a little oblique and extends downward, and I don't know when I can go to the bottom of the gourd.

An hour and a half later, everyone noticed that the surroundings were darkened. The surrounding trees and plants have also become something that Xiao Ting recognizes: bamboo.

Calculating the time, it should be ten o'clock in the evening.

Although the miasma that covered the sky and the sun almost completely blocked the daylight, Xiao Ting and the others were still keenly aware of this.

Now there is a difficult problem in front of everyone: this night, should you exit Xuanyuan Valley, or stay here for the night?

After the discussion between Xiao Ting and Luo Fang, they were ready to rest in place. Because it's too much time to quit and come in.

So after deliberation, the people decided to divide into two shifts to take turns.

At night, the cold wind in the valley is biting, it is hard to imagine that it is so warm during the day, but it is so cold at night, even with the cultivation of the late stage of Xiao Ting's King Realm, he also feels the slightest chill.

And because the miasma in Xuanyuan Valley can already corrode soul power, Xiao Ting put Bai Qi into the Soul Locking Hall after entering Xuanyuan Valley, but naturally he did not lock him up, but let him walk freely in the Soul Locking Palace.

Of course, the area where Bai Qi can act is only that large.

Originally, Xiao Ting thought that this night could be spent so peacefully, but the accident happened without accident.

After midnight, it was Xiao Ting's turn and the rest of the five people to be on guard, and at this time, the miasma in the valley suddenly changed!

The original gray-white miasma suddenly went berserk, surging wildly towards the vigilant people, and this time the miasma was obviously different from before, and the erosion speed of the body protection shield was obviously much faster. This change made everyone's faces, including Xiao Ting, change greatly.

If this goes on for a long time, they will definitely be eroded by miasma and poisoned to death because they have exhausted their true yuan power!

After such an accident, Luo Fang and the others, who had just been replaced to rest, couldn't sit still, and there was no way to rest properly.

In just a moment, one of the most powerful sergeants in the crowd, the defense of the body protector had been eroded by the miasma, and he accidentally inhaled a breath of miasma, and immediately rolled his eyes and fainted.

Xiao Ting and the others hurriedly protected him in the middle, and after Luo Fang's investigation, they found that the sergeant seemed to have fallen into some kind of nightmare, causing his spirit to enter some kind of illusion and not be able to wake up.

Xiao Ting said with a gloomy face: "Commander Luo, this place is too dangerous, let's quit first!"

Luo Fang also nodded solemnly, beckoned the others to pick up the unconscious sergeant, and prepared to walk out of the valley.

But after walking for a long time, everyone gradually realized that something was wrong. The markers they had buried in the ground were all gone, and without markers to guide them, they could barely move an inch in the Xuanyuan Valley, where visibility was less than three meters!

After walking for a long time, they found that they were always spinning in place, and not only that, but the miasma around them was even stronger, almost completely eroding everyone. The body protection defense that everyone had worked so hard to support had gradually begun to show gaps, and one after another, after exhausting the true yuan power in their bodies, began to be eroded by the miasma and fell to the ground.

Although Xiao Ting only has the cultivation of the peak of the Wang Realm, his body has been reshaped by Luo Xing, and his strength is not much stronger than that of the ordinary Wang Realm, plus his glazed fire already has a certain restraint effect on poisonous gases such as miasma, so now only him and Luo Fang are still struggling to support.

A quarter of an hour later, Luo Fang also exhausted his true yuan power and fell to the ground in a coma, leaving only Xiao Ting still gritting his teeth and persevering.

While maintaining the glass fire, he tried to communicate with Suo Suo and Bai Qi in his heart, but what made him feel cold in his heart was that no matter how he called, the two of them didn't seem to hear it, and they didn't respond at all! The worst thing is that he can't control the Soul Locking Palace, and he takes himself in, as if here, the connection between him and the Soul Locking Hall has been completely cut off.

Just when Xiao Ting was a little desperate, suddenly, an old voice appeared in his ears.

"It's been two thousand years, and you're finally here!"

Xiao Ting's face was a little pale because of the consumption of soul yuan power. He turned his head and looked behind him.

I saw an old man in linen clothes, looking at Xiao Ting with a smile on his face.