Volume 1 Taoist Temple in the Mountains Chapter 43 The Strange River of Fire

With the man's exclamation, from the hot magma, a huge demon fish suddenly jumped out, opened its bloody mouth, and directly bit off half of the body of the thin man in the air.

"Ah——!h

The terrifying screams of the thin man resounded throughout the cavern.

At this moment, all he could do was scream, the speed of the fish demon was too fast, and the fangs were too terrifying, even if the leader of the Najibo Adventure Group reminded him, he didn't have time to make any resistance.

Poof!

Blood sprayed, and the remaining half of the man's body fell back into the magma along with the scaly fish demon, splattering a golden wave of heat.

The crowd turned pale, staring nervously and fearfully at the vanishing black shadow in the magma beneath their feet.

It's hard to imagine what kind of existence it would be to survive in this hot magma, like fish swimming in a pond, and there is only an inch of space under their feet, if the fish demon makes a surprise attack......

"Gone?"

After a moment of trembling and vigilance, there was no movement in the magma below, and it seemed that the man-eating fish demon had left.

Someone turned pale, turned his head to look in Ji Ning's direction and asked:

"What is that thing, did you know it would come out and eat people?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes were focused on Ji Ning's body, with a little fear in his surprise.

Especially the leader of the Najibo Adventure Group, his face was even more gloomy and could drip water.

They all saw the situation just now, Ji Ning and his group occupied the rock, and they didn't want to give way, but they suddenly changed their words and moved away.

Then, the moment the man jumped from above, a fish demon rushed out of the magma and ate the man.

All this happened in just a few seconds, and some people didn't even realize why the thin man had a verbal conflict with Ji Ning and the others, and as a result, the others died.

"It's such a coincidence, it's like you knew in advance that a demon would rush out from below."

The leader of Jibo's adventure group, Cui Jibo stared at Ji Ning, as if he wanted to see some clues from the young man.

"You took the initiative to come to this dangerous fire domain, is it a coincidence, or do you really know some secrets, and what is the matter with the fish demon?"

Qi Lan, Xue Zhongjing and the others were also silent, and couldn't help but look at Ji Ning, everything that happened just now was too coincidental, and they also wanted to know the answer.

Facing the questioning, Ji Ning only frowned slightly, and said lightly:

"I took the initiative to come here, it's just a gut belief that there is an fate here, and there is no other reason, as for the matter of the fish demon, it is even more nonsense."

"Didn't you hear what the man just said?"

Ji Ning looked at the crowd and asked quietly.

The thin man just now, but in front of everyone, scolded him, and threatened that there were forty or fifty of them, and there were only four of them.

"It's stronger than people, I swallowed this breath and didn't want to have a conflict and gave up my position to him, he himself was unlucky to die, can you blame me?"

"This ......"

When everyone heard this, they were a little speechless, because what Ji Ning said was very reasonable.

Cui Jibo frowned, quietly observed Ji Ning for a long time, and after confirming that the latter's cultivation was only in the willow bone realm, he said lightly:

"Well, then we're wrong about you."

"It's just that the situation is critical now, and the fish demon below doesn't know when it will come up again, which is a great threat to us, I suggest that among the more than 100 people present, vote to choose a common alliance leader, first dispatch and march in unison, and cooperate with each other, and the chances of survival will be greatly increased!"

"I agree with Captain Cui!"

"I agree!"

"Since everyone has been assigned here together, it shouldn't be a plate of loose sand, it's time to choose an alliance leader!"

In the crowd, there were people who responded to Cui Jibo's words, and unsurprisingly all of them were people from his original adventure group.

In addition to him, there were three small adventure groups present, and the largest number of people did not exceed twenty-five, followed by Xue Zhongjing and Ji Ning.

The thin man was right, the Jibo Adventure Group is here, and it is indeed a dominant family.

"It's just that who should sit in the position of the leader of this alliance?"

Seeing that the situation was getting more and more out of control, at the edge, a young swordsman with narrow and delicate eyebrows spoke lightly, he was also the captain of an adventurous team.

"Opportunity and danger coexist, rashly elect the alliance leader to manipulate everyone, once the alliance leader is incompetent and is consumed by interests, then the blow will be devastating."

"Yes, everyone doesn't know each other, who wants to listen to others for no reason?"

"In that case, it's better to go their own way."

Voices of opposition also appeared one after another, all of them were members of those small adventure groups.

Seeing this, Cui Jibo's face was a little gloomy, and he stared at the young swordsman who spoke first and said:

"The position of the leader of the alliance, anyone can sit on it, if your Excellency has the ability to take it, then you will come."

The young swordsman shook his head and said:

"I don't deserve it, and I don't align with it."

"But not aligned, it doesn't mean that everyone can't cooperate with the action, I suggest that everyone move forward in batches, the monks in the rear will protect the monks in front, and the moment the rock jumps, if the fish demon still dares to attack, then immediately kill it."

"And so on until everyone is in relative safety, or something else happens, and then we deliberate."

"That's great!"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone agreed.

Even some of Cui Jibo's subordinates couldn't help but nod.

Cui Jibo saw that his ambition was not successful, and snorted coldly:

"Then let's do it."

"Only, who's going to take the lead?"

Everyone set their eyes on Ji Ning.

According to the current order, the position of Ji Ning and the others is the most advanced.

"I don't think it's right."

Qi Lan's face was solemn, and he said to Ji Ning and Xue Zhongjing.

"This group of people obviously has bad intentions, in case that fish demon rushes out, they deliberately react slowly......"

"No, it won't."

Ji Ning's expression was calm, staring at the surging magma below, silently calculating the time.

The fish demon was actually a puppet left behind by Shen Yu Zhen's life, inhabiting this river of fire spirit vein magma, and all its behaviors were regular, which were marked on that map.

Now, it's not yet time for the other party to prey.

"Let's move on."

Ji Ning glanced at the person behind him, and finally took a deep look at Cui Jibo, then took a step forward and jumped onto a stone that had been eroded by magma and only had a little bald shell, and then waited for Qi Lan and the three of them to follow, and then he moved forward again.

"Let's go, keep up!"

Cui Jibo and the others squinted, but also quickly and vigilantly followed behind, the look behind them was vigilant, alerting the people jumping in mid-air in front of them, and so on, and before they knew it, everyone had walked forward more than forty rocks.

The scene in this underground magma cave has changed slightly.

In addition to the rocks that are craggy and soaked in the water, there are small caves in the rock walls that appear to be recessed inward, as if they are hiding some treasures.

It's just that the cracks in the rocks above are still fresh, and they look like they have been discovered by others a long time ago.

Not only that, but with the bursts of magma surging below, some stone impurities will be brought up from time to time.

And just as the crowd marched silently, at the edge of the cave on the left in front of him, a monk stared wide-eyed, and carefully salvaged a stone from the magma that shimmered with crimson light.

"Top-grade Fire Elemental Spirit Stone!"

The man wrapped his hands in aura, and looked at the treasure in his hand with a face full of shock and surprise.

A high-grade spirit stone can already allow ordinary monks to stay in the mortal world and enjoy the glory and wealth for a few years.

And like this, the price of a top-grade spirit stone with elemental energy can be increased tenfold!

"How lucky!"

When the crowd saw this scene, they couldn't help but show envious eyes, and a few people even rubbed their hands.

If it weren't for the fact that it's really inconvenient to do it here, they would have robbed it a long time ago!

"That Huangquan didn't lie to us, there are really treasures here!"

"Let the people in front hurry up, there are many grottoes in this place that have been mined, I want to go to the front to grab the treasure!"

For a while, the crowd's expressions were excited, and the appearance of a high-grade fire elemental spirit stone made them all forget about the danger.

People with slow hands can't even drink soup, this truth is recognized in the rivers and lakes.

has been following behind, I don't know if there is a guarantee of safety, at least the chance is that it is not with them.

And just as everyone marched, the fire spirit vein river in front of them also became wider, and the widest place could even accommodate everyone traveling in a line, which was hundreds of zhang wide.

"I've found a treasure too!"

"I seem to have that here!"

"Ah, it's just an ordinary stone, wrapped in lava......"

In the sound of one after another, it was found that the temptation of the treasure, like a magic sound, seduced the desire in everyone's hearts, so the formation of the crowd was completely disrupted, and no one wanted to follow the rest of the butts of others, they all wanted to go to the front.

Ji Ning and others were gradually overtaken by the crowd and were in the middle of the stream.

Seeing that the rest of the people were scrambling, Zhen Xixi couldn't hold it back, and couldn't help asking:

"Shall we hurry up too?"

"There's no hurry."

Without waiting for Ji Ning to answer, Xue Zhongjing spoke lightly, looked at the figures in front of him who were getting closer and closer, and said:

"Look at those people, who have been here so long before us, and they have always stayed here, it means that there must be other oddities in this place."

"That's right."

Qi Lan also nodded solemnly, he had already noticed this, the length of this underground palace spanned the entire middle area, and it took them a lot of time to reach this fire spirit vein area alone.

And the length of this Fire Spirit Vein River should also be very long, and you can't see the end of walking for seven days and seven nights.

I don't know how many dangers and opportunities there are.

Why did those people arrive a few days before they did, but they didn't move forward?

"Be careful!"

Suddenly, Ji Ning stopped and looked ahead with a solemn expression.

I saw that in this magma river, it seemed that some kind of change was happening, and the whole river began to tremble violently, and more and more bubbles came out, and the fluctuations became bigger and bigger, until finally, it turned into one pillar of fire after another, and kept erupting.

"Boom!"

"Everyone, be careful!"

As pillars of magma fire erupted one after another, a rain of hot golden magma rain fell, accompanied by some rock residue, but the power was like a cannonball.

Some of the monks who didn't have time to defend were instantly engulfed by the pillar of fire and fell into the magma.

There were also some monks who were hit by the sputtered magma, and one accidentally fell, and even if they didn't fall, their clothes were burned out of a big hole, and their flesh and blood were charred, and they were not lightly injured.

And that's what happened in an instant.

Pillars of fire rose up into the sky one after another, and everyone's eyes were stinging, and everyone was holding up their aura to protect their bodies.

In this way, after half an hour of eruption, the raging magma river below gradually subsided and no longer erupted.

The number of this group of people has also decreased from 100 to 70.

More than 30 percent of people die if they are not careful.

And all of this was caused by an ordinary magma eruption.

"No, this place is too weird, everyone will die if you continue to do this!"

"yes, we've only come so far, I'm afraid we've already killed so many people before we even encountered real danger."

"What's the use of saying that? We can't go back! ”

One sigh after another rang out in the space.

Ji Ning, Qi Lan and the others stood in place safely, and they were one of the few people who were not injured at all.

Cui Jibo noticed this, slowly dispersed the aura shield around him, and asked Ji Ning with a gloomy face again:

"Hey!"

"Do what?"

"You still say you don't know anything?"

Cui Jibo pointed to the rocks under the feet of Ji Ning and the others, and said with an ugly face:

"Everyone, pay attention, the stones under their feet are not glued to the fresh magma ash!"

"This proves that the eruption of magma is not irregular, and some of the stones present should have a point that can absolutely avoid danger, and they are stepping on one of them!"

As soon as these words came out, the crowd's eyes suddenly widened, and they carefully checked the stones that Ji Ning and the others were stepping on, so they were shocked.

"It's true, it's really not!"

"Could it be a coincidence? I wasn't attacked just now. ”

One of them said suspiciously, that there was no fresh lava under his feet, and that no pillar of fire had erupted at him just now.

"Hmph, you are a coincidence, the four of them are not necessarily the same, there are so many places to put their feet, but they are squeezed on the same stone."

"And there is also the previous fish demon incident, whoever believes that this is a coincidence is a fool!"

When Qi Lan heard this, he immediately frowned and retorted:

"Isn't it agreed at the beginning that they march slowly one after the other, taking care of each other?"

"You're so dazzled by greed that it's okay if you don't obey it, but there are only four of us, and of course we have to be tied together, and this can also be used as a reason for you to suspect?"

"What's more, even if you want to be suspicious, you shouldn't doubt us."

"Then who do I suspect!"

Cui Jibo asked in a cold voice.

"Them."

Suddenly, Ji Ning's finger was lightly raised and pointed forward.

In front of him, it was the same group of people who had entered the room early, but had not stopped, resting on one narrow stone after another.

After the chaos, they didn't move.

The stones under his feet are still intact.

"If there's anything wrong here, just ask them."