Chapter 21: The Intersection

How could there be a hot spring here? Wang Lung's eyes were fixed on the bubbling hot spring, and instead of being distressed, he smiled.

Inside the sun, there is a Pure Land, if it is said that it is the work of man, he believes, Arlinn once told him that the Pure Land is his father's masterpiece, but Wang Lung once thought about a question after seeing the dark shadow of his ancestors, I am afraid that the Pure Land has nothing to do with his father, it should be the work of his ancestors.

Leaving the Pure Land, there were pale yellow hills and fiery red fire trees, and there was no king dragon to see from a thousand feet away, and a hot spring suddenly appeared in front of me, although it seemed to be small in area, but it really existed.

It was water bubbling in the hot spring, and Wang Lung was very sure that inside the sun, where he was now, the temperature was as high as nearly a thousand degrees, and there was actually water and steaming, which made him feel very incredible.

Stretching out his left hand, Wang Lung gently lowered it above the heat to feel the temperature.

Hey, there is a feeling of coolness, the water can boil when it reaches 100 degrees, but the temperature of the space is 1,000 degrees, but the water vapor in the hot spring is not even 100 degrees, and the feeling is naturally cool.

Gently put your hand into the boiling hot water, the feeling is basically the same, it is a hot spring, the temperature is almost 100 degrees of hot water, compared to the surrounding temperature, this 100 degrees seems a little pale.

Through the water vapor, Wang Lung took a closer look at the hot spring, the spring water was boiling, and he couldn't see what was under the water at all, it seemed that this place was just a strange attraction compared to other fire trees and Huangshi, nothing special.

Standing up again, Wang Lung raised his eyes and glanced around, he had already searched nearly half of the area that could be detected outside the Pure Land, and the current location was calculated according to the Pure Land, it should be after the Dragon King Palace, but even so. He still hadn't found the shadow of the Fire Spirit Beast.

In the end, whether the fire spirit beast existed or not, Wang Lung himself began to beat the drum in his heart, searching most of the area, not only did he not encounter a fire spirit beast, but he saw some scenes that he had never seen in his mind, he was not here to travel. There's no time to see the scenery, and if you don't find the fire spirit beast, you won't be able to complete the task Arlinn has assigned.

The first time he planted Baiyue Shame, maybe only one Fire Spirit Beast stole the flower when he was not paying attention, at that time he was a little stunned, and when he looked for it again, the Fire Spirit Beast was long gone; the second time, that is, yesterday, there were at least six Fire Spirit Beasts that came to rob Baiyue Shame. It was also divided into two sets of front and back strikes.

What will happen the third time, Wang Lung can imagine that a hundred moon is surrounded by thousands of fire spirit beasts, even if he has the ability to grow a hundred moon shy, there is no way to save it after the hundred moon shyness blooms.

Wang Lung didn't think of picking it in advance one minute before the flowers bloomed, but this idea only flashed in his mind, for the simple reason that if the flowers of the hundred moons could not be fully opened. Once picked, it will wither instantly, and it will turn to ashes within three breaths.

Arlinn wants a flowering shyaki. It's not a hundred moon shame that has become ashes, Wang Lung can only hold on to picking it after it fully blooms, otherwise he would have completed his mission and returned to Earth a long time ago, and he wouldn't have to worry about it here.

Wang Lung shook his head slightly, sighed lightly and continued to walk forward, the hot spring behind him was nothing more than a strange pool of water to him. Just look at it, he's not interested in swimming in it and taking a hot shower.

Half a day passed quickly, and when Wang Lung searched all the areas he could explore, he re-fought to the location where he had originally left the Pure Land. There was still a sparse fire tree in front of him, and it could be seen from his expression that the fire spirit beast had not been found.

A hot spring, tens of thousands of fire trees, uneven yellow hills, no weeds, no spirit grass, no fire spirit beasts, everything seemed lifeless, this is everything Wang Lung could see after looking for a long time.

The Pure Land was behind him, and through the light curtain, he could see that the branches and leaves of the Hundred Moon Shy Branches, which had no flowers, were still stuck in the soil pit, the flowers were gone, and the Fire Spirit Beast was gone, this thing seemed to be unreasonable, but it was the case.

Could it be that the fire spirit beasts are thousands of zhang away, the flowering time of Baiyue Shame takes about an hour, and when the flowers bloom, its faint floral fragrance will automatically attract those fire spirit beasts to get close to the Pure Land, and when the Hundred Moon Beasts fully bloom, the fire spirit beasts will rush into the Pure Land to rob.

I'm afraid that only this explanation can be said to be in the past, is it that in addition to Baiyue Shy, other flowers and plants have no effect on the fire spirit beast after they grow, in this case, Wang Lung can guess it, because if you look at the pure land without grass, you can know that the fire spirit beast may really be left by its ancestors to make trouble inside the sun, just to prevent vegetation from appearing in the pure land.

Who did this lack of morality, Wang Lung wanted to scold people, but after thinking about it, forget it, I'm afraid that scolding is my own family.

Wang Lung let out a long sigh and turned his head casually, he didn't know where his gaze fell, but when his head turned to the right and looked into the distance with a deep gaze, a place entered his mind.

He had been there, and it was the most unusual place he had found so far, there was water inside the sun, and he was afraid that he would be laughed at by people who didn't know about it, but the fact that the hot spring was there, and the hot spring was nothing special on the surface, but it didn't mean that there was no problem with the hot spring.

Because Wang Lung thought of one thing, a few years ago, when he had just received the trial, he went to the Sun Temple to find the old naughty boy to participate in the trial, and searched all the places in the Sun Temple but did not find the old naughty boy's real cave there, and finally found the old naughty boy's cave from a deep pool in the dragon and leopard's lair.

The deep pool was very deep, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, winding, and there was a cave in it, when he and his two brothers swam for a long time to reach the gate of the old urchin's cave.

Thinking of the deep pool, Wang Long's spirit was lifted, the hot spring is not big, ten zhang square, what is under the hot spring, he doesn't know now, is it the same as the deep pool of the Sun Temple, this idea has become stronger and stronger in Wang Long's mind, he has no good way to find out the hiding place of the fire spirit beast now, only this way can be seen.

Thinking of this, Wang Lung quickly ran towards the direction where the hot spring was, this time he did not run around the Pure Land at all, but turned around and ran back to the Pure Land, intending to pass directly from the back of the Dragon Palace Hall.

Soon, Wang Lung came to the hot spring again, and before he could get close to the hot spring, a smart flame suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. Judging from its size, it was the fire spirit beast he was looking for, but the fire spirit beast flashed away from his sight, and soon disappeared without a trace.

Wang Lung didn't panic about this, because he already knew where the Fire Spirit Beast was hiding, that is, under the hot spring, and it was above the hot spring that the Fire Spirit Beast had revealed its body just now. As if looking for something, it quickly disappeared into the hot water.

Wang Lung walked quickly to the hot spring, his eyes were fixed on the boiling hot water, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, this is really the arrangement of God, if it is on the periphery of the Pure Land, he has no way to take the fire spirit beast outside the thousand zhang, the high temperature of the sun makes him unable to bear it, but it is different inside the hot spring. The water temperature of 100 degrees was no problem for him at all, as long as the Fire Spirit Beasts were all hidden inside, he could completely kill all the Fire Spirit Beasts.

Sinking his mind and slashing the war knife in his hand with both hands, Wang Lung jumped into the hot spring without hesitation.

As soon as he entered the hot spring, Wang Lung shivered all over his body, which was ridiculous to say, and it was still a little cold when he jumped into the boiling water. However, this feeling was quickly replaced by the sight in front of him, and the hot spring was not deep. It was only four or five meters long, and after entering it, Wang Lung's body fell straight down as if he had passed through a layer of water curtain.

A bang came into Wang Lung's ears, and after landing on the ground, he first glanced around. It was pitch black, and with his eyesight, he couldn't see anything ten meters away, but there was no danger around him, he was standing at the bottom of a deep well, and a hundred meters above his head was hot water hanging in the air. Not a drop fell.

After about a cup of tea, Wang Lung's vision finally got better, at least at a distance of about fifty meters, he could already see clearly, although he didn't see too far, but as time passed, his eyesight would recover sooner or later.

Looking at the dark red rocks all around, Wang Lung stretched out his hand and stroked it, and the temperature from the rocks told him that the temperature here was very low, although it did not reach below zero, but it was like early spring, don't look at this temperature There is nothing special, but don't forget that this is the inside of the sun, which is a little weird.

After looking ahead and making sure that there was no danger, Wang Lung raised his feet and walked forward, where he was standing, except for the hot spring above his head was a way out, there was only one way out.

The passage is very wide, ten zhang huge, surrounded by dark red rocks, without a trace of vegetation, it looks a little desolate, these are not Wang Long's concerns, what he is most concerned about is the traces of the fire spirit beast, within his line of sight, fifty meters in front of him is dim, and nothing can be seen.

Wang Lung walked very slowly, and when he walked twenty or thirty meters away, he realized that just now he couldn't see clearly not because his vision was limited, but because the passage had turned a corner, a corner of about ninety degrees, and he didn't know where it extended.

Wang Lung looked up at the top of his head, the passage he was in now was a little weird, its size seemed to be similar to that of a hot spring, ten zhang square, and the color around it was almost the same, and there was nothing unusual.

Wang Lung walked to the corner of the passage, his body first hid behind the rock on one side, gently leaned out a little, looked into the distance, it didn't matter, Wang Lung was attracted by the bright light in front of him, through the bright light, he could see that after the passage turned a bend, there was a fork again, but the fork was a crossroads, and the bright light outlined all the shadows in the four directions of the passage.

From where he was standing to the crossroads, there was no light, and the light came from the intersection a hundred feet away, Wang Lung didn't know what provided the lighting, but after he looked closely, there were no fire spirit beasts in this passage except for the dark red rocks, and it seemed that the fire spirit beast he had just seen above the hot spring had fled somewhere.

Wang Lung slowly walked out of the rock, and walked towards the crossroads, he thought as he walked, which way to find the fire spirit beast first after reaching the front, if the three passages were very deep, and there were fire spirit beasts, what if he killed the fire spirit beast in one passage and let the fire spirit beast in the other two passages escape.

This problem lingered in Wang Lung's mind, he had no good way to solve it for a while, and soon he walked to the crossroads, when approaching the crossroads, Wang Lung looked at the opposite passage, it was already dim a hundred zhang away, and he couldn't see clearly, according to his estimates, it was estimated that the opposite passage extended very far, so he didn't need to think about it for the time being.

Sticking his body to the rock wall of the passage on the right, Wang Lung first looked at the passage on the left, the light was not far away, and it was pitch black in the distance, and then looked at the passage that seemed to be opposite, the dark red rock passage did not know where it extended, Wang Lung shook his head gently, until now he has not seen where the light comes from.

Slowly poking his head out, Wang Lung looked at the passage close to the side of the rock wall, just glanced at it, his brows furrowed, he had already seen the source of the light, the right passage was not far away, that is, a distance of ten zhang, there was a dazzling light curtain to close the channel, because the light was too dazzling, what was behind the light curtain, it was not clear at all.

At the crossroads, four passages are connected, and only one passage is blocked by a light curtain, could it be that the fire spirit beast is hidden behind the light curtain?

Turning around and looking at the other three passages, seeing that there was nothing unusual, Wang Lung walked out slowly, slowly walking like the light curtain.

The dazzling light curtain illuminated Wang Lung's eyes, making him squint, and built a pergola on his forehead with his left hand, trying to see the surrounding situation as clearly as possible, and soon, Wang Lung walked in front of the light curtain.

Half-squinting his eyes, Wang Lung gently handed the war knife in his right hand forward, and the moment the tip of the knife touched the light curtain, he felt that there was an invisible resistance to stop the war knife, Wang Lung was stunned, and he couldn't help but add a little strength to his hand, but unfortunately the tip of the knife still couldn't penetrate the slightest, in this regard, Wang Lung shook his head gently, withdrew the war knife, reached out with his left hand, and put his index finger on the light curtain.

Finger a little light curtain, Wang Lung felt that the light curtain in front of him was like a stone falling into a calm lake, faint ripples around the light curtain, seeing the light curtain react, Wang Lung's index finger couldn't help but step back a little, wait for a while, see the light curtain regain calm, then poke out his index finger again, this time, the strength of his finger also increased a few points.

A soft sound came into his ears, and the light curtain was the same as just now, rippling everywhere, but no matter how much his fingers were added, they still couldn't penetrate the light curtain, Wang Lung frowned, raised his eyes and looked at the top and surroundings of the light curtain, and couldn't help but shake his head.

This layer of light curtain is different from the light curtain that wraps the Pure Land, there are prohibitions, and he can't enter and exit at will, he doesn't know much about the prohibitions of the formation, I'm afraid it will be difficult to crack for a while, Wang Lung was staring at the light curtain and pondering, suddenly, he suddenly looked back, and there was a bright light in the deep part of the left passage that flashed away. (To be continued......)