Volume 1: Taoist Temple in the Mountains Chapter 42 The Shadow Under the Lava
The underground space is extremely complex, consisting of dozens of winding forked roads, like a huge anthill.
Starting from Huang Quan, he led the group up a relatively wide road, and at intervals, there would be a beam of light and dark torches, illuminating the blood-stained mottled walls, and human limbs and corpses could be seen everywhere.
All of this tells everyone a fact.
There have been bloody battles here before, and they have been extremely tragic.
Someone smelled the pungent smell of blood in the air, and couldn't help but turn pale and a heart fell to the bottom.
In such an ordinary passage, such a tragic battle can break out, killing and wounding hundreds of people, so how fierce is the frontal battlefield in front at this moment?
"There is more than one entrance to the dungeon, and this passage is fought for by our Imperial Dragon Adventure Group through their own strength, only we can walk."
"The corpses you saw were all people who had tried to challenge the authority of the Imperial Dragon before, so they were beheaded!"
The voice of the second master, Zhou Mu, came from the rear of the crowd.
His words immediately reassured everyone.
Yes, they are not the scattered cultivators who had no background before and could only be expelled from the southern half of the periphery, and they are now also part of the famous Imperial Dragon Adventure Group.
"The team of the main spirit vein, follow Huang Quan and go straight forward."
"The ice spirit vein enters the dark passage on the left, the desolate spirit vein chooses the middle one, and the fire spirit vein is on the right, find the right position by yourself, don't try to fool around."
Zhou Mu said with a flat expression, standing at the end of the crowd, followed by more than a dozen guards, blocking the intersection like a sculpture.
His task is not to fight on the frontal battlefield, but to guard the rear.
If someone wants to enter the dungeon through the passage dug by the dragon, or if someone in the dungeon wants to be a deserter, then he will take action.
Seeing this scene, some monks who had been thinking of taking advantage of the chaos to escape were all desperate.
Under Zhou Mu's gaze, everyone consciously chose the passage, and then continued to walk for a long time.
Unlike the other passages, at least the passages leading to the Fire Spirit Vein region are not so dark.
"It seems to be hot up ahead."
In the long and narrow hole, Ji Ning and a group of more than 40 people walked slowly with their waists bent, and in front of them, the entrance of the cave at an unknown distance flashed with bright red light, as if it was very hot, and the entire underground passage was roasted red.
As the saying goes, look at the mountains and run dead horses.
The small and bright entrance of the cave seemed to be close in front of him, but even if Ji Ning and the others walked in this small space for an hour, they couldn't reach it.
Even the passage is so long.
This once again proves that this dungeon is really big.
"It's here!"
Suddenly, the monk at the front of the line stopped abruptly and took two steps back in horror.
"Boom!"
The golden magma crashed against the stone wall, setting off violent sprays that splashed everywhere, and the hot heat wave hit the face.
"No way?"
Everyone's expressions were stunned, and they were all a little at a loss.
They were still guessing what the so-called extremely dangerous Fire Spirit Vein area would look like after the end of the cave in front of them.
The worst outcome is to have a large and blazing river of fire spirit veins, carrying endless magma flowing slowly, and the area where they are moving is in the middle of that fire spirit vein river, on those unsubmerged ground.
But now it seems that their ideas are still too naïve.
The man at the front saw it clearly, couldn't help but weaken his legs, and said in a trembling voice:
"It's all endless lava down here, and there's no road at all!"
"What!"
Everyone was shocked, and they couldn't care about the scorching heat wave in the air, and they all squeezed to the front of the passage to take a look, Ji Ning also frowned and stepped forward, only to see that in the vast and boundless space below, there was surging magma everywhere, and the blazing and golden heat wave was like explosives that would explode at any time, erupting everywhere without any regularity.
And in the red-hot golden magma, at intervals, you can see some remnants of the ground, such as a reef standing in the waves, only half of the surface is exposed, looming with the surging of magma.
That's where they're going next.
Everyone, including Ji Ning, subconsciously shuddered.
The most scrawny rocks, almost swallowed up by magma, could only accommodate four people standing at the same time, and the smaller ones could only accommodate less than half a person, and it seemed that they had to stand on one leg.
If you slip, you'll fall into the hot lava below.
In an instant, there will be no slag left to be burned!
"Fuck, give that little spirit stone, who is playing with his life, Lao Tzu is gone!"
A thin man stared at the magma below for a long time, swallowed his saliva, and then scolded and retreated, about to leave along the passage.
But then, the man was grabbed by another man, shook his head and sighed, and said:
"It's useless."
"Didn't you notice, Zhou Mu, the second leader of the Imperial Dragon Adventure Group, deliberately led people to guard the main passage, if you go back now, you will definitely bump into him."
"Down into this magma, as long as everyone doesn't fight and walks carefully, then it is possible to live, but if you turn around and become a deserter and are caught by that Zhou Mu, you will definitely die."
When the man heard this, he was slightly stunned, but he was still a little unwilling, clenched his fists and said with an ugly face:
"It's a big deal, a few of our brothers dig out halfway and open another passage to get out!"
When the man heard this, he turned his head sideways to look at the pitch-black rock formation above, and sighed and said:
"It's useless."
"The landscape here is not naturally formed, and between the thick rock formations, many of the hardest obsidian and meteorite are poured, which are far stronger than ordinary mountains, and it is extremely difficult to open up a step forward, and there will be a lot of movement."
"That's why there were corpses all over the passage before."
"The people of the Imperial Dragon Adventure Group have worked hard to open up so many passages, but they are wanted to be occupied by latecomers and snatch resources, so they naturally want to fight and resist in a bloody battle, I estimate that those wounded in the camp a few days ago came here like this."
When the thin man heard this, his face turned white again, his expression was stunned, and he didn't speak for a long time.
"Are we all going to die here?"
Another, slightly younger, tall young man wiped his tears and cried a little impolessly.
"Captain Lu, you have to be the master for us!"
"Yes, Captain Lu, the brothers all believe in you, isn't there only a dozen people in Zhou Mu, there are forty of us in the team, if you can take the lead in resisting, we don't have a chance to live!"
When the man surnamed Lu heard this, he shook his head and smiled bitterly:
"Brothers, you think too highly of me."
"Don't say it's me, even if there are more than a hundred of us in the field, and the monks of the four adventure groups combined, it is impossible for Zhou Mu to be the opponent of that Zhou Mu."
When the thin man heard this, he was obviously a little unconvinced, turned his head to look around, and shouted:
"How is that possible!"
"Everyone present, who is not a ruthless character who goes south and north, has a little kung fu on his body, no matter how strong Zhou Mu is, he is also made of meat, and he will also die if he is cut with a knife, so many of us can kill him even if we use our lives!"
"Besides, among the leaders present, although the realm of a few people is not Zhou Mu, the gap is not very big!"
As he spoke, the man set his eyes on several adventure group leaders, including Xue Zhongjing.
When everyone heard this, a glimmer of hope also appeared in their eyes.
Yes, even if one of their adventure groups is not Zhou Mu's opponent, if all the more than 100 people present resist, then no matter how strong Zhou Mu is, how long can the aura last?
"You underestimate the strong people in the Dan stage too much."
Before the man could reply, Xue Zhongjing in the rear opened his mouth first.
I saw that the man's voice was mellow, and he looked at the hot magma in front of him with his negative hand, and said lightly with an expressionless face:
"For a monk in the Dan Formation Stage, the amount of spiritual energy reserves will be ten or even a hundred times more than that of the Condensation Qi Realm."
"I look at Zhou Mu's snort, smooth and long, and the aura around his body fluctuates deeply and violently, like a bottomless pool, which is enough to prove that the quality of the latter's dantian will not be low, at least it must be cyan, most likely blue."
"Alas!"
When some of the second-stage monks heard this, their faces turned pale and they couldn't help but sigh.
In addition to the most basic division of the lower, middle and upper realms, there is also a division of the quality of the dantian, which is determined by the talent and roots of the people when they break through the realm, and has nothing to do with the efforts of the day after tomorrow.
And once the quality is determined, there is no chance to improve, not like the fixed bone realm.
The quality of the dantian is arranged in the order of gray, white, green, blue, purple, orange, and gold.
The higher the quality, the higher the quality of the dantian, the more aura it can hold, and the stronger the monk's combat power will naturally be.
It is also the Yudan period, and the powerful Jindan monk may be able to suppress the ordinary gray Dan monk with one hand.
The combat power at this stage is the biggest difference, and it is also a realm where mortals and geniuses really widen the gap in the long path of cultivation and immortality.
If the root bones are not good, the quality of the dantian is low, and in the future, it will lag behind people indefinitely, and it will no longer be able to raise its head.
These people, I don't know how long they have been stuck in the upper realm of condensation, the dantian has already taken shape, but they have not been able to completely condense it for a long time, and it is an extravagant hope to break through the realm and want to form a white pill.
But Xue Zhongjing said that Zhou Mu's dantian was most likely Lan Dan.
In this way, no matter whether the other party is in the upper realm or the lower realm of the Dan period, the combat strength will definitely be far from them, and it is almost impossible to kill him with his numbers.
Not to mention, it's still in a small underground passage.
"If only I had resisted earlier!"
The thin man's face turned red, and he couldn't help but slam his fist on the wall, regretting that he didn't choose to fight with Zhou Mu when he was outside just now.
Even if Zhou Mu's realm is higher than theirs and his aura is sufficient, as long as there is enough space to pull, in the battle of life and death, they will each have their own means, and there is still a chance to win.
It's just that now, it's completely gone, because the space under the ground is so small, and a passage is so narrow, they can't give full play to the advantage of having a large number of people.
That Zhou Mu only needed to use a little means to forcibly suppress them with the advantage of the realm, and he could only confront them head-on, and there was no possibility of victory.
"Is it really irresistible?"
Ji Ning silently looked at Xue Zhongjing, who was calm beside him.
From the very beginning, the other party never took his eyes off the magma below, and looked into the distance, as if there was something in it that attracted him.
Can't leave, or don't want to?
Unknown.
In short, he himself did not want to go, because he had a map.
"There is no chance to resist, and it is not a dead end to go on."
Xue Zhongjing said, raised his hand, pointed to the front of the wide surging magma river, squinted his eyes and said:
"Look over there."
Everyone was slightly stunned, and they all looked in the direction of his fingers, and then their eyes suddenly widened.
I saw that in the vast and dangerous magma area, I don't know how many meters ahead, at the end of the line of sight, there was a faint person lying on the stone sleeping, and half of his body was suspended in the air, less than a fist away from the hot magma below!
Seeing this scene, Xue Zhongjing smiled faintly:
"There must be more than one such person, they were the first to arrive at this fire spirit vein, and now they have all gone to the front."
"After so long, they are still alive and can sleep, which shows that this area is not as dangerous as you think, as long as we don't have infighting, it is not difficult to survive here."
As soon as he finished speaking, Xue Zhongjing didn't wait for the others to hesitate, and jumped down.
"Captain!"
Zhen Xixi, who was huddled next to Qi Lan, covered his face and stared at Xue Zhongjing's back in shock and nervousness, as did the rest of the people.
I saw that Xue Zhongjing's body was stable and landed on a big stone.
The edge of the cloth boot under his feet was clinging to the surging magma, but it always maintained a slight distance.
After standing firm, Xue Zhongjing turned his head and smiled, looking at Ji Ning and the others:
"How's that, I said it's okay!"
"Hold on."
Ji Ning took a deep breath, grabbed Qi Lan's arm with one hand, jumped forward, flew six or seven meters away, and also landed on a relatively spacious boulder, and Zhen Xixi also followed
Seeing this, the crowd above looked at each other and sighed helplessly, all ready to accept their fate and jump down in line.
The starting point was quickly filled.
I haven't figured out the situation here yet, so even Ji Ning, who knows the map, didn't act rashly.
He stood on momentum, keeping a cautious eye on the magma surging beneath his feet.
He always felt that there was something in it.
"Hey, the one in front, why don't you leave!"
I saw that at the entrance of the cave above, the thin man who had taken the lead in retreating had an ugly face, staring at Ji Ning and the others from afar:
"Occupy the biggest stone, you guys take a step forward, how can I go down!"
Hearing this, Qi Lan frowned and turned his head, glanced back, pointed to a stone and said:
"Isn't there another place to stay?"