Chapter 3: Hell
Time passes, and a year passes quickly.
It's been three years, and it's been a full three years since Wang Lung started his training, and although there is more than a year of cultivation time in between, the time span is really large.
It takes three years for one Guardian, but what about seven Guardians?
Wang Lung thought it was incredible, twenty-one years, if he really spent more than twenty years looking for people, after the end of his life, he would have been in it.
Ordinary people can have a few twenty-one years, if they can't become cultivators, the time span of more than twenty years, just thinking about it makes Wang Long shudder.
It's over, quiet and comfortable days of cultivation.
Standing up straight and looking at the endless desert, Wang Lung decided that from now on, the time to find the other six guardians would be as short as possible, twenty-one years, he could not afford it.
Although he is in his forties, Wang Lung is very reluctant to be an old virgin for more than forty years.
After more than 20 days of cultivation, Wang Lung had actually reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, but his sense of smell exercise had just passed, and for Wang Long, who was very strict with himself, he was not satisfied with this result.
Taking advantage of the time to find the next guardian, for the time being, use the compressed aura to wash the nasal cavity and warm the meridians, as for the test of smell, we can only wait for time.
'Hell on earth, paradise for animals' is a phrase that describes the valley of death in the United States.
Wang Lung didn't understand how this valley of death, which looked like the Sahara, could have anything to do with the Golden Guardian, and he might be able to believe it if it had something to do with the Earth Guardian.
With doubts, Wang Lung turned his gaze to Kong, because this was the place where the other party recommended him.
Through the explanation given by Kong, Wang Lung understood a little more.
The main killing, with settlement, slaughter. Things and phenomena of convergence and other properties or effects are attributed to gold.
It is fundamentally different from Wang Lung's understanding of the meaning, as soon as he hears the five elements of gold, he leans on iron, copper, tin, aluminum and other metal materials, which is a mistake in itself.
There are very few naturally occurring metals on Earth, and most of them are formed by smelting. The five elements of gold must have something to do with metals, but they are not metals in the real sense, but various ores, such as: iron ore, copper ore and so on.
The valley of death in the United States is not large, but it contains a variety of ores and has a very high distribution density, and in this small area, a variety of metallic ores coexist, and the evolution of metallic rules will be extremely drastic.
This valley of death in the United States has one of the biggest features. There will be no danger to the animals that enter it, but humans are the opposite, the same number of animals and people pass through the valley of death, and not one animal will die, but the survival rate of people is terrible.
In fact, in addition to the reasons of the human race itself, another factor is still on the Golden Guardian, because the other party is not a human race. It's the demon race.
Given so many explanations, Sora couldn't be sure that this Death Valley was the location of the Golden Guardian. You can only look and make a decision, if this Death Valley with the highest probability is not the lair of the Golden Guardian, then it can only be the same as looking for the old urchin, depending on your luck.
"If you don't want to be beaten, you'd better not move that stone!" warned Wang Lung
At this time, Wang Lung was crouching in front of the famous 'Drifting Stone' in the world realm, and Wang Lung, who wanted to open it to see what the mystery was, could only withdraw his claws after hearing a warning.
I looked up at one. He didn't understand what the other party's warning was for, whether it was for a bunch of boring scientists to do research, or for tourists to take pictures of.
"If this place is the territory of the Golden Guardian, you'd better not mess with anything, breaking any point may interfere with the other party's comprehension law, but I heard that the other party is not very good-tempered. If you don't obey, the Golden Guardian won't kill you, but you can still do it. β
The United States has built Edward Air Force Base and space experiment sites here, and there are not 1,000 wind farms but 800 wind farms, and I haven't watched the Guardians run out and fight with the United States!"
Although Wang Lung was unhappy in his heart, he was just talking, more things are better than less things, in case he let one say it, he would suffer the sin himself.
"Although this place is not big, it is more than 1,400 square kilometers, fortunately it is not a circle, but the length of more than 200 kilometers, it will take several days to walk, you won't let me trespass like a blind man, right?" Wang Lung asked the two brothers.
"It's very possible, we don't know where the entrance to the road is, we can only walk step by step, with your current hearing and vision, you can figure out the situation on both sides, even if this canyon is only six kilometers wide, where you can't notice, I will help you pay attention, this is not the territory of the old naughty boy, you better not always expect me to let go of my divine sense to open the way for you." β
After listening to what he said, Wang Lung rolled his eyes helplessly, there was no way, it was better to ask for others than for himself, it seemed that he could only rely on his own legs.
If it was a smooth road, Wang Lung would not have so many complaints in his heart, the terrain in Death Valley was very complicated. Some places resemble dry riverbeds with the end in sight, some rolling dunes can only be seen step by step, and most hateful are the undulating ravines, deeper than the trenches dug during the war.
Wang Lung had only explored half of the area in ten days, and most of his attention was focused on the surrounding cliffs, and the sand dunes and ravines were only a glance at most.
It's almost June, the tourist season in Death Valley in the United States has passed, the temperature in this place can be hot in the summer, and the heat of more than 40 degrees is not a few fools to venture here, but Wang Lung is three of the few fools.
The high temperature of more than forty degrees is nothing to Wang Lung and them, even if it is ten degrees higher, it is no problem, but seeing a few adventurers lying on the ground waiting for death, Wang Lung still shook his head helplessly. If it weren't for the fact that they happened to pass by here, Wang Lung would not have been able to save each other, and four of the five adventurers fainted, and even if they were not killed by the heat, they would have been bitten to death by a rattlesnake.
Saving people to the end and sending Buddha to the west, Wang Lung gave full play to his fearless heroism, and after knocking out one of the guys who was still sober, he let a flying machine throw all the adventurers to the gate of Edward Air Force Base. What will happen when the other party wakes up is no longer his concern.
In order to save his inventory, Wang Lung has not taken food from the storage space of Yiyi for the past few days. In this insanely hellish valley of death, there's a lot to eat.
Rattlesnakes are highly venomous, but they are still very good for boiling snake soup, sand lizards look like geckos, and Wang Lung is not interested in them, and foxes smell too strong, but their fur is good, but it's summer. Wang Lung still didn't think of the prickly heat, and the most he ate was bighorn goat, grilled meat skewers, which tasted so good that even the brothers and sisters couldn't resist the temptation.
Ten days can do a lot of things, Wang Lung can not only search Death Valley, but also use spiritual temperature to nourish the meridians and nose, and even collect an eyeliner, that is, a yellow warbler.
Collecting Huang Ying's eyeliner was also a whim of Wang Long, when he explained the rune paper to him in the air. I asked the other party for a piece of talisman paper, saying that I wanted to study it myself.
What he gave to Wang Lung was an amulet, this rune paper was very ordinary, that is, it was attached to a certain thing with his own blood, and everything that the other party could see or hear, the owner of the rune paper could know the way.
After knowing the efficacy of the Dao, Wang Lung grabbed a yellow warbler casually for a test, and the effect was really good, although he could not control the movement of the yellow warbler. But what can be seen in the line of sight of the yellow warbler, Wang Lung can see it clearly.
Huang Ying, who was attached to the talisman, only served Wang Lung as an eyeliner for one day and died heroically. The murderer was an eagle.
Seeing that Wang Lung wasted a piece of talisman paper, he angrily scolded that even if he killed all the yellow warblers on the earth, it was not worth the money to possess the talisman, and in the face of Yi's reprimand, Wang Lung left the other party a sentence that made him stunned for a long time.
How can life be measured by rune paper?
Death Valley is hell for the average person, a desert with no end in sight, and unattainable cliffs. These are actually nothing, the most dangerous is the rattlesnake that suddenly appears.
Walking quietly in the valley of death, Wang Lung did not have the consciousness of ordinary people, he felt that this place was very ordinary, except that the eagle and rattlesnake were aggressive. He hadn't seen anything that could kill someone.
The height is different, the problem is also different, as a famous hell on earth in the world, the American Death Valley is not as simple as Wang Lung sees.
Half a month later, Wang Lung crouched on the edge of a bare ruin.
The cultural remains of the Indians thousands of years ago, here, Wang Lung could not find any clues to the Golden Guardian, according to the distance calculation, there are still three or four days before this valley of death will be explored by him.
For more than ten days, Wang Lung did not forget to cultivate when he was looking for clues, whether it was his nasal cavity or meridians, all of them were filled with compressed spiritual energy.
Brushing the dust off his hands, Wang Lung stood up and looked into the distance, only for a moment he shook his head slightly.
"Take the things out, get ready to test your sense of smell, and if you get the desired effect, I'd better open up the meridians as soon as possible. β
A simple command, without replying, directly released a square locket from the storage space, it is time to rest, Wang Lung wants to test the sense of smell He will not intervene.
With a faint whisper in the air, the small box slowly grew larger, and when it was all unfolded, a cube like Wang Lung's height appeared in front of Wang Lung's eyes.
"Death Valley, I don't think so, the name of hell is a bit exaggerated, and if I want to say hell, I'd rather give that title to this box. Wang Lung raised his hand and pointed at the cube that had just unfolded.
This is a very magical box, the whole body is dark, the surface is depicted with some array symbols, the size can be controlled at will, but some formulas are also needed, Wang Lung still does not know the role of these formations, a brother and two only gave him the basis of popularizing the rune paper, the formation has not yet been learned, although the appearance of this square box is shaped and distanced, but the inside is like a boundless universe, but there are no stars, pitch black. It's not a high-tech product, it's just a tool used to test the sense of smell, and there are many kinds of smells in the box, but it's not too many, only eighty-one.
When Wang Lung did the first olfactory test, he told him all the eighty-one smells, the name of each smell, and the smell it emitted...... All of them were instilled into Wang Lung.
In order to pass the olfactory test, it is necessary to smell at least ten groups of random odors, which may be composed of only two or three, or all eighty-one of them.
I thought that with his own ability, Wang Lung would not be able to break into a group of one hundred and eighty, but he was too naΓ―ve. There are only eighty-one scents, but every two different scents can be mixed into a third, or every three, four, or even more, and there are many combinations of scents, and the new scents can be mixed with each other to form new scents.
Eighty-one smells were pediatrics, and one once told Wang Lung that if he could distinguish all the smells, it would take nearly a million kinds.
Speechless, Wang Lung doesn't care much about how many scent combinations are produced, the most terrible thing is that each smell is different, if it's all fragrant or fresh, it's fine, but if it encounters stinky or pungent, then he will be miserable.
What is called hell, this is called hell, although Wang Lung has been in the box many times, but every time he sees it, he wants to vomit, if Wang Lung has a choice, he would rather lie on the pit of the toilet and smell it than get into the box.
Last time he passed, Wang Lung had just passed ten groups of random assessments, and after three days of recovery, Wang Lung could only eat the next bite of food.
It's time to explore the entire valley of death, and now that I'm a little free, I'll test my sense of smell again, and if the effect is good, Wang Lung vows never to drill this box again.
A spiritual light popped out from a fingertip, and instantly submerged into the surface of the box, Wang Lung watched the plane on one side of the box turn into a swirl, and stepped into it without any hesitation.
Adjust your mentality, the test will take a while, Wang Lung hopes to have good results this time.
Without any hints, after his nose was filled with various smells, Wang Lung began to distinguish the same.
There is no need to write by hand, just say the identified gas casually, the words cannot be said casually, you can only say it after 100% confirmation, any word spoken in this space must be related to the smell, any kind of mistake will cause the test to fail, and there is no chance to remedy it.
Wang Lung had always wondered what this pitch-black space was made of, and he asked the two brothers but had no answer. When Wang Lung succeeded in distinguishing a group of gases, there would be a starlight in front of him, which seemed to be there or not, near and far, always giving him an unreal feeling, flickering and dimming like a star in the night sky.
The first group felt good, at least I didn't have the urge to vomit.
The fragrance of the Nine Nights Flower, the armpit odor of the red-pupiled fox, and the sourness of the yellow rotten water......
As Wang Lung uttered the smell little by little, the number of starlights in front of him also increased, and soon the passing line was crossed.
After crossing the passing line, Wang Lung was very glad that at least today's test did not irritate his nose too much, which seemed to be a good sign, and he went all out to see how he had been cultivating during this time.
The eleventh group soon appeared, and when he raised his nose and smelled it, Wang Lung was very puzzled, with only thirteen smells, was such a test too simple?
Before he could think through it, Wang Lung was completely overwhelmed by the sudden smell of mixture.
"Damn, Lao Tzu is just thinking about it, don't be so ruthless, thirteen smells at least a thousand kinds of mixed gases, damn, and...... , no, hold back, can't spit ......"
After some painful struggle, Wang Lung's results were fixed on the forty-nine stars, forty-nine groups of scent combinations, Wang Lung passed all of them, and when he was distinguishing the fiftieth group, he couldn't smell the last smell of the most stubborn one, and unfortunately fell on the fifty hurdle.
Forty-nine, a very good number, the number of seven or seven, and the results are also quite good, in the miracle space, more than forty groups must at least comprehend the late stage to achieve, only the Qi refining period Wang Lung has done very well!
The test effect is very good, although Wang Lung is disgusting, but he is in a good mood, it seems that it is time to step into the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, as well as the abominable Death Valley in front of him. (To be continued......)