Chapter 317: Valley of Horrors
Speaking of valleys, the most prestigious valley on the Sacred Words Continent is probably none other than the Kongyou Valley of the Tang Kingdom, because there is one of the seven great academies located there, the Shengyou Academy.
Su Wen had never been to Kongyougu, so he didn't know how beautiful the scenery there was and how clear the stream was, but he at least knew that Kongyougu would never be as lifeless as the valley in front of him.
Yes, just lifeless.
Even though there are no birds and insects in the valley because of the Yellow Crane Tower's ban on demon beasts, what is even more incredible is that the entire valley is almost as quiet as a tomb.
There was no sound.
The sound of the wind, the sound of running water, the sound of falling rocks and soil, the rustle of leaves, all here, nothing here.
Although at first glance the valley is full of greenery and life, if you look closely, you will find that the whole valley is filled with a very strange atmosphere.
The peaks on both sides towered between the clouds, and there was no end in sight, if you changed the valley, it must give people a mysterious and unpredictable feeling, and I couldn't help but sigh at the magnificence of nature, but on the contrary, the two mountains in front of Su Wen were very short.
Short and straight are two contradictory statements, but here, there is no contradiction at all.
Because from Su Wen's line of sight, the place where the mountains and clouds meet, is only a hundred zhang away from the top of his head.
So it's not so much that the mountains are low, it's that the sky is low.
It feels like it's within reach.
The low sky and idle clouds give people a very oppressive feeling, as if the sky will collapse at any moment.
But that's not weird. What really makes people feel eerie is the whole landscape.
On the whole, there is everything in the valley. For example, the grass and wild flowers on the ground, such as the verdant ancient trees, and the clear stream in the valley, and the rugged and magnificent rocks.
But each of these things makes people feel uncomfortable to look at.
Those grasses were not left over from the original grassland world on the first floor of the Yellow Crane Tower, because these grasses grew very shallow, and the tallest was no more than Su Wen's ankles. But they all stood up like cold needles, and they didn't even see the breeze blowing by for half a minute.
Su Wen once leaned over and touched the weird grass with his hand, but was surprised to find it. These blades of grass felt no different from ordinary grass, not as hard and stiff as he had imagined.
In this way, isn't the growth of these blades of grass completely contrary to the laws of nature?
And that's not all. Let's talk about the wildflowers that are interspersed among the green grass. The flowers are generally pink, and they look soft and weak, but they contrast sharply with the surrounding grass blades.
But this strong sense of contrast is not because the blades of grass grow abnormally, which highlights the ordinariness of the flowers, but because these wildflowers are also abnormal.
Because the branches of each small pink flower are exactly the opposite of the straightness of the grass, and all are curved.
It's like a withered flower.
However, these wildflowers are blooming very vigorously. And it looks like it's at the most beautiful moment of flowering.
If this is the characteristic of this unknown wildflower, then how can it be explained? The angle at which the branches of each flower are bent is exactly the same?
It's like carved out of a mold!
Su Wen also picked a flower and held it in his hand to play, although he had no flowers on his body, but he would not be unable to see the authenticity of the flowers, undoubtedly, these are real flowers, and even if they are in front of him, except for the bent branches, they can't see any peculiarities.
In addition to the flowers and plants, the most eye-catching thing is, of course, the trees in the green hills on both sides.
If you just look at the shape and branches of these trees, they are no different from ordinary trees, but the blame is on the leaves of these trees.
It's verdant, but it's a little too green.
How to say it, at least in Su Wen's eyes, the leaves are like being splashed with a thick layer of dye, which looks so unreal, and after watching it for a long time, not only does it not make people feel relaxed and happy, but they will feel disgusting and disgusting.
At this time, Su Wen had to take care of five companions, so he couldn't climb the mountain to see if the trees were real.
In the end, the completely still, stagnant stream, and the terrifying, ghostly rocks all added to the eerie atmosphere.
In general, Su Wen felt that the whole valley was like a very bad painting, not to mention lifelike, even a beginner in painting could not paint so badly.
If the pen is held by Shengtian, it can only be said that Shengtian has made a very vulgar joke on this valley.
And Su Wen didn't feel funny at all, but got goosebumps all over his body, and even a chill appeared in his bones.
"In this way, even if this valley is not guarded by demonic beasts, it is by no means simple!"
Su Wen sighed, and did not ask Xiao Hei, who was already too weak to speak, but was thinking about what to do when everyone woke up.
For Su Wen, the weirdness of the valley is secondary, and the most important thing is how to deal with the demonic beasts here.
Before this, the only things that Su Wen and the others really fought were the dragon-like python at the bottom of the magma at the beginning and the fire-scaled python with a scorpion tail, and the black beetle swarm encountered in the grotto.
Although in these two battles, Su Wen and the others did not fight to the end, everyone can feel that if they are hard against them and do not pay a huge price, it is impossible to win.
And that was only the eighty-ninth and ninetieth floors of the original Yellow Crane Tower, but at this moment, everyone was on the ninety-seventh floor!
It is said that the Yellow Crane Hundred Floors, one floor and one inheritance, even if this statement is a little exaggerated, but it is undeniable that when the students take every step forward, they can comprehend a more profound Taoism, but correspondingly, they will also suffer more terrible tests.
Before this, few people could understand this, and that was because Huang Tingjian had slaughtered all the demonic beasts below the eighty-ninth floor.
Don't forget, when Huang Tingjian walked to the eighty-ninth floor of the Yellow Crane Tower. It's already the pinnacle of a half-saint!
And what about Su Wen and his party at this time? The highest is only the imperial book!
Perhaps this is the disadvantage of opportunism.
But no matter what, it has come to this point, if Su Wen is allowed to give up. He would never agree, and at this time, everyone was even blocked from turning back.
If they can't move on, then they can only sit here until the end of the January period, or wait for Xiao Hei to recuperate, and then use the dragon power to run over it.
It's just that, judging from Su Wen's previous experience, if Xiao Hei really fell asleep. I'm afraid I won't wake up in a month.
Su Wen calculated various possibilities in his mind, and finally couldn't help but set his eyes on Gojo's body.
Xiao Hei is just a broken dragon soul, and he can shock the Quartet. Let the major demonic beasts bow down, then, what about the three princesses who also have royal blood?
As if sensing Su Wen's peeping, Gojo slowly opened his eyes. Then he immediately understood the fiery meaning in Su Wen's eyes.
She didn't say anything. Just shook his head slightly.
Su Wen also didn't say anything, just looked at her suspiciously.
Gojo sighed softly, knowing that Su Wen would not stop there, so she had to stretch out her finger and lightly tap her forehead.
What does that mean?
Su Wen couldn't understand it, but Wutiao didn't continue to explain, because Meng Yun on the side had already woken up.
"How's it going, do you see any doorways?" he just opened his eyes. Meng Yun couldn't wait to ask.
In this regard, Su Wen could only smile bitterly. Shaking his head, he said, "This place is very weird, you can see it by looking at it......"
Meng Yun was stunned, he didn't expect Su Wen to sell Guanzi.
"Okay. ”
Speaking of which, since everyone walked into this valley, except for Su Wen, everyone chose to close their eyes immediately to cultivate, but they really didn't carefully see what the scenery here was like.
"Weird, why didn't I see it......" Meng Yun first glanced at it hurriedly, and didn't find anything wrong, but before he finished his words, he suddenly stopped.
"Wait, this meadow ......"
After a moment, Meng Yun's brows also furrowed deeply.
"And this tree, this stream, how can it be ......"
Su Wen seemed very patient and waited for Meng Yun to finish reading it thoroughly, then spread his hands and said helplessly: "Now you know what I mean by weird, right?"
"It's really creepy!"
Like Su Wen, Meng Yun quickly discovered the abnormality of this valley, and immediately felt a chill in his vest, but he quickly came up with an explanation.
"Could this be a small world of painting?"
Su Wen shook his head and said almost without thinking: "This is too unreasonable, if you want to build a small world of painting Dao, you must at least have a half-saint position, right? But if this is really a scenery painted by a painting Dao half-saint, it will inevitably be too vulgar!"
Su Wen has seen a small world of painting, and the ink pool built by his teacher Bai Jianqiu on the mountainside of Shenmu is a small world of painting, although there are only pure black and white colors in it, but at least it is also based on a lifelike ink painting, where is it as rough as this valley?
According to Su Wen, if this is really a picture scroll, I am afraid that only a three-year-old child can scribble like this.
Meng Yun pondered for a moment, but still insisted, "What if this is exactly what the painter wants to mislead us?"
Su Wen was slightly stunned, but then retorted: "Even so, everything in the small world of painting is not real after all, but if you look at this grass and this flower, where can it be fake?"
It is true that not to mention the establishment of a small world, even if the people in the painting are performing war paintings, they can also concretize the things in the brush, just like Su Wen's killing the wolf, but it is not a real wolf after all, otherwise the masters of painting in this world will become Ma Liang.
Meng Yun was refuted again, but there was not the slightest hint of frustration on his face, and he was still very calm.
He crouched down, stroked his palm between the blades of grass, and muttered, "True as false, true, false...... It feels real, but it looks like a fake, it can't be ......"
Hearing this, Su Wen's mind suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he suddenly exclaimed: "Illusion!" (to be continued......)