Qingshi originally didn't have a specific plan, and he wasn't in a hurry to go to Baiyun City, but now he met Luoluo Mountain and wanted to take them to explore the ruins of the 'Desert Divine Dragon' underground palace, not only had a chance to get the treasure inheritance, but also used it to avoid the pursuit of bounty hunters and the Ten Thousand Immortals League, why not?

After eating and drinking, Luo Luoshan explained the details of the situation, and Qingshi roughly understood the origin of the so-called 'Desert Divine Dragon' and the specific plan for this expedition.

The Great Desert is an ancient desert, completely different from those that were born after the era of the Great Wars of the Ladyboys.

The Desert Dragon is said to refer to a person, and there is also a theory that he is an Earth Dragon Demon in human form.

Thousands of years ago, the Desert Dragon was active in this vast primeval desert for many years, at that time, the area of the desert was not so large, and the ecology was much better, at least the number and area of oases were much higher than now. As a result, there is a lot of human and animal activity in this desert. And the Desert Divine Dragon is the king here.

The Desert Dragon founded a city, the Dragon City, as his royal capital, the city is not located in an oasis, but in the depths of the desert, it is said that most of it is located underground to escape the blazing sun and sand, and he also built a magnificent underground palace as his imperial palace.

The city is mysterious, as the Desert Dragon does not allow outsiders to enter it, and it is said that it is inhabited only by less than a thousand of his disciples and his trusted people. The desert under his rule has a population of several million, and there are at least ten towns on the oasis.

The primeval desert is rich. The oases are rare and abundant in their native products, and the caravans of buyers from all over the continent come in an endless stream throughout the year, bringing them great wealth. And more importantly, it is said that under the Shenlong City in the depths of the desert, there is a huge spiritual stone vein, which is also the reason why the Desert Shenlong built the royal capital there. Not only that, but the desert is also rich in precious metals and rare minerals. Therefore, the wealth of the desert dragon is famous all over the world.

It is not easy to keep his wealth, but the Desert Divine Dragon has done a good job, the royal capital is mysterious, the number of guards guarding the royal capital is small but very powerful, he himself is a great master of martial arts cultivation against the sky, and he is also a formation master and refining master.

However, no matter how good the cow is, people will die, and the desert dragon failed to become a god and an immortal, and finally died more than 2,000 years ago. It is said that he turned the underground palace into his own burial place, and his own heritage and most prized treasures served as burial objects. Then, the people of the entire city moved away, and the originally ethereal Shenlong City disappeared into the reckless yellow sand.

For 2,000 years, countless people have tried to find the tomb of the Desert Dragon, but no one has ever succeeded. Five hundred years ago, after the era of the Great War of Man and Beast, the ecology of the entire continent deteriorated, and the area of the Archean Desert more than tripled in a hundred years, and it is still expanding today. The clues compiled by generations of treasure hunters were completely useless, and since then, almost no one has mentioned this treasure again.

Luo Luoshan accidentally learned some clues about the underground palace of the Desert Divine Dragon City ten years ago, so he came here to build this inn, the purpose of which was to facilitate his search for the tomb of the Desert Divine Dragon. After ten years of exploration, he is finally able to put his plan into action.

As night fell, Loro Mountain led the team to set off.

There were eighteen people in the whole team. It was divided into five small groups. In addition to the Divine Camel and the three disciples, the Black and White Shuangsha, the Five Elements Catcher and the Tianxuanmen, Luo Luoshan also brought three men with him.

These three guys are called Ah Dong, Ah Xi and Ah Nan, and Ah Nan is the one who quarreled with Duan Wutian. They don't look good, but Qingshi can see that their skills are not low.

Luoluo Mountain led everyone to the southeast, and after walking more than 100 zhang, the team came to the edge of a small sand dune. Assi and Anan each took out a broad-tipped wooden shovel and began to dig up in the sand, the yellow sand was dry and soft, and soon dug a few feet down, revealing a wooden bow.

Luo Luoshan took two steps, grabbed the bow ring, exhaled and shouted, "Get up! ”

With his fierce tugging, a wooden boat ten feet long and about one foot wide was dragged out of the sand.

On closer inspection, the ship looks like it's not small, but it's actually very delicate, it doesn't have a bottom, just a three-foot-wide smooth plank on each side of the keel, and on either side of its hull, there are four small aura drives, which are obviously made for sliding on the sand.

Boss Luo asked everyone to get on the boat, and the ten beams connecting the keel and the two sides could sit or stand, and there were several straight logs of different lengths on each row of beams as handrails. The whole procession was not crowded when they all got on board.

After boarding the boat, Ah Dong activated the four aura drives, and the sand boat began to slowly slide forward, climbing towards the top of the hill.

"Boss Luo," said the Divine Camel, "you must have sails on this ship, right?" ”

"Not bad!" Luo Luoshan said, "Not to mention that the speed of driving with only spiritual weapons is too slow, and the consumption of spirit stones can't withstand it." ”

"What about ...... of your ship's masts and sails?" said the camel's. ”

"Don't worry," said Loroyama, "here is leeward, and when you go up the hill, you will set sail." ”

As the two were talking, the sand boat had slowly climbed to the top of the dune, and sure enough, as soon as they came up, they felt that the wind had become significantly stronger, and the current wind direction was blowing from northwest to southeast.

Luo Luoshan waved his hand, and saw a black shadow as big as a fence bucket flying into the air with a rope, and then, the spherical black shadow was suddenly blown away by the wind and turned into a black sail that was a few points larger than a sand boat. The black sail was stirred by the wind and flew dozens of feet in the air, and the rope at the end was firmly tied to the large iron ring at the bow of the ship.

Suddenly, the sand boat was driven by the big sail and slid forward, rushing down the dunes in an instant, and Loro Mountain skillfully steered the hull of the boat, allowing it to slide along the ridges between the sand dunes.

The night is as cool as water, the desert under the moonlight is like a pond blown by a light breeze, the rolling sand dunes are like the ripples of fish scales, and the sand boat controlled by Luoluo Mountain is like a small fish, shuttling between the sparkling waves, meandering and jumping towards the southwest.

Seven days later, the sand boat had traveled more than 5,000 miles to the southeast, deep into the heart of the desert.

All the way was day and night, this night, just after the hour, Luo Luoshan collected the sails, slowed down the speed of the sand boat, he took out the compass and other objects from time to time to look up at the stars to position, turn, so that after two hours, finally came to a small undulating sand dune area to stop.

Luoluo Mountain led everyone to climb the highest sand dune, and looked forward, only to see that two hundred zhang in front of them, there was a lowland, and within the lowland was a jagged and strange sparse stone forest. The whole stone forest is very long and narrow, like a valley, the width is not more than 50 zhang, and the length is 1,000 zhang.

The lowlands of the stone forest were soft mud and gravel ground mixed with large boulders, and the sand boat could no longer slide, so Luo Luoshan commanded Ah Dong Axi to bury the boat in the yellow sand under the small sand dunes, and prepare to cross it on foot.

"Boss Luo!" Bai Sha said, "The aura in this stone forest seems to be a little stronger than outside, and the sand boat may be able to fly close to the ground." ”

"No way!" Boss Luo said categorically, "The aura is not abundant to that extent, and in the place where the aura is more abundant, poisonous insects and evil beasts will gather, and the sand boat is too large, so it is easy to expose the target and be attacked." We'll have to walk through separately and quietly. After this stone forest, it is not far from the destination. ”

"Since there are poisonous insects and evil beasts," said Jin Yi, "why don't we take a detour?" ”

"This is not good," Luo Luoshan said, "It will take at least a hundred miles to go around from the left side, the spiritual force field in that direction is very chaotic, not only is it difficult to accurately locate Shenlong City, but there may also be other dangers." It is even more infeasible to go around from the right, because there is a quicksand river on this side, and it is impossible to cross it. ”

"Quicksand River?" Duan Wutian said, "There are rivers in this desert? ”

"Cut~" Anan pouted, "I don't know!" ”

"Haha!" Luo Luoshan smiled and said, "I'm afraid this brother hasn't mixed in the desert yet, right?" In this desert, there is a drop of water, where will there be any rivers? As the name suggests, this quicksand river is a flowing river of sand, whether it is a person or something else, as soon as it enters its range, it will sink deeply, even a feather will be buried in the ground by the quicksand. ”

"Oh! I see! ”

Duan Wutian suddenly realized, and the others who didn't know the origin of this name all understood it as well as Duan Wutian.

"This stone forest was called Haoyue Valley thousands of years ago, and now the mountains on both sides have been smoothed by wind and sand, and it has become what it is now." Luo Luoshan said, "Finding it is equivalent to finding the entrance to Shenlong City." The stone forest you see is buried under the yellow sand all year round, and it will only be exposed after a few years, when the sand and dust on the surface are blown away by strong winds. And usually only a month or two, it will be submerged under the yellow sand. Treasure hunters in the past did not understand this truth, so they often searched for a thousand years and could not find this entrance. ”

Everyone nodded secretly, and then they knew that Luo Luoshan had indeed done his homework.

Luo Luoshan took out a compass, stood at the place where the ship was buried and looked up at the stars in the sky, and then took out a wooden stick and stuck it in the ground, before leading everyone towards the stone forest.

"Boss Luo!" Qingshi asked as he walked, "Are you using the stars to locate yourself?" You're worried that by the time we come back, the dunes may have been smoothed out and there will be no place to bury the ship, right? ”

"That's right! I didn't expect the Haiya brothers to also know the art of formation. Boss Luo looked at the bluestone with some surprise and said, "This time the stone forest has been exposed to the ground for nearly a month, and the next large-scale sandstorm may hit soon, and most of those stone pillars will be buried under the yellow sand again, and the landform of this sand dune is likely to change completely." ”

Coming to the edge of the stone forest, Luoluo Mountain stopped again.

He and the three men each took out a large pile of various wooden or metal components from the storage container, and in a few moments assembled them into two golem vans with wheels and wooden legs, quite like Fuya's ballista golems.

Luo Luoshan and Ah Dong released the two puppets together, and they immediately began to roll into the stone forest, the pillars in the stone forest were very sparse and regular, roughly distributed in five belts, and between each two stone pillar belts was like a big road.

The two golems walked in the middle of the road, and after rolling a few feet, they stopped and paced the ground with their wooden feet, and then rolled forward again.

"Each of us chooses a path to enter," said Loroyama, "and try to be careful not to make a noise when walking, and to stop for a few breaths every few dozen steps, in short, to walk without obvious patterns." If one team is surrounded by poisonous insects and beasts, the other teams will help if they can, but they have no obligation to help. Do you understand? ”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

There must have been poisonous insects and beasts, but what they were, Luo Luoshan didn't know, this was the farthest he had explored. He can find the entrance alone, and he will never dare to enter it alone.

So, the teams chose a path and started moving forward.

Everyone understands that the two puppets are bait, so they both want to choose a longer path away from the puppets. Luo Luoshan is generous, let the others choose first. Relying on their age, the Divine Camel first chose the farthest road from the center, and finally, from right to left, there were the Four Divine Camels, the Black and White Shuangsha, the Four Luoluo Mountain, the Puppet Van, the Tianxuanmen and the Five Elements Catcher. The middle road where the puppet is located, sandwiched between Loro Mountain and Bluestone.

After starting to set off, the four of them ran the fastest, and the black and white double brakes and the five elements catchers also hurriedly set off. Qingshi deliberately fell behind, parallel to the Luo Luo Mountain team, and Luo Luo Mountain was completely following the rhythm of the puppet, when the puppet rolled and stomped their feet, they left, and as soon as the puppet stopped, they immediately stopped.

Soon, Qingshi discovered the pattern of Luoluo Mountain's movements, so he also followed the puppet's rhythm.

The desert beneath the moon was mysterious and quiet, except for the slight rumble of the golems' wheels as they rolled, and the thump of their feet echoing through the empty stone forest.

Everyone was a skilled monk, and when they moved, there was almost no sound, and they didn't seem to cause any reaction, including the two puppets who deliberately made noise, and everything was as usual.

Suddenly, a slight rustling sound began to be heard from the ground, and then, the sound became louder and louder, and the sand and stones on the ground began to rise slightly, as if thousands of black lines were crawling on the earth.

Just when everyone had just discovered the anomaly, and most of them had not yet reacted, those black lines that swam broke through the mud and sand and rushed out of the ground. Bluestone could see clearly that it was a black beetle, they were only the size of a fingernail, but there were at least millions of them, and they were crawling quickly on the ground, like a stream of black water, rushing towards the two puppets and the people who were still moving.