Chapter 41: Jumping into the River
Holding a small dot of light with lighting magic, hovering thirty centimeters above her left shoulder, Di Xue walked in the dark tunnel with a spade magic staff.
The lighting magic could only barely illuminate the distance of about ten meters in front of it, and the cave without a trace of light source was like a terrifying nightmare swallowed by darkness, and in the dark cave, only the footsteps of Di Xue wading through the water sounded, and the shrill cries of bats hanging upside down on the top wall from time to time.
The water under his feet was sometimes deep and shallow, deep and submerged Di Xue's waist, and shallow but covered his ankles.
The length of this passage in the cave is amazing, it is not a straight one, but a circle of twists and turns, Di Xue can feel that the passage is constantly extending underground, and the direction is also a little frightening, although after a few corners with quite large angles, the overall direction of this passage is actually towards the depths of the fog forest.
Di Xue had been walking in the cave for more than two hours, and according to his judgment, the entrance of the cave was extremely close to the middle of the fog forest when he entered the cave, and he was in the middle of the fog forest at this time!
Fortunately, the passage is located underground, and it is constantly extending deeper, and there is no collapse in the tunnel that will cause the poisonous fog miasma on the ground to leak down, otherwise Di Xue's situation must be very dangerous.
Under the faint and soft light of lighting magic, Di Xue's figure on the stone wall was reflected very tall, and he looked around very carefully, but except for the flying knife, Di Xue did not find any other clues related to Taylor after entering the cave.
It stands to reason that the throwing knife proves that Taylor must have been here, but apart from confirming that the throwing knife really belonged to Taylor, it can't detect any other traces of Taylor's visit.
After thinking about it, he only came to one conclusion, that is, there was a much stronger Existence Zài than himself who had been here, and the aura left by that Storage Zài had obscured the exploration of the Source Technique.
"Could it be Master Herris?" Di Xue couldn't help but guess in her heart.
At this moment, a slight hiss suddenly interrupted Di Xue's thoughts.
Di Xue immediately became vigilant, only to see that at the very edge where the illuminating magic light could reach, a black shadow fell from the top of the cave!
The black image was hung on the stone wall by some kind of silk thread, and it was suspended in the air halfway down, and with a snort, a cloud of slime was spit out by the black shadow, and it flew towards the emperor snow.
When the slime met the air, it turned into a milky white silk net and enveloped Di Xue, who stood in front of him with the spade staff and made the most correct reaction in an instant.
The gem on the top of the spade staff suddenly lit up with a crimson light, and after Di Xue hurriedly chanted a spell, a semicircular flame magic shroud appeared in front of Di Xue out of thin air, and the flames scorched and flowed in the void like water waves.
All the milky white wire mesh spat out by the black shadow was incinerated after encountering the scorching flames.
The black shadow hissed, broke away from the silk thread hanging from itself and fell to the ground, stretching its body, it was a giant spider more than half a human tall!
The huge and amazing spider was obviously a demonic beast, and after spitting out a few more waves of silk webs, he saw that Di Xue's flame magic cover was difficult to break through, so he gave up his long-range attack, and the eight long spider legs moved in unison, rushing towards Di Xue, apparently to carry out a melee attack.
The flame magic cover can block a large area of cobweb attacks, but it may have no effect on the slender and sharp spider legs, even if it can scorch the giant spider, the sharp spider legs can also pierce the emperor snow behind the flame demon cover before being incinerated!
In such a critical situation, Di Xue was still very calm, only to see him open his lips slightly, and quickly chant a magic spell.
The red light on the spade staff was even more severe, and the fire element, which had originally turned into a semi-circular magic cover in front of him, actually converged inward, and in an instant, it condensed into a ball of flames.
Di Xue waved his magic staff, and the flame ball shot at the giant spider that was already very close to him, the passage was too narrow, and the giant spider's body was too big, so he could only avoid this flame ball containing the terrifying fire element.
The giant spider was hit by the ball of flames and flew away, and flames erupted all over its body, and it hissed in the raging flames, and its eight long spider legs stood firm and rushed towards Emperor Xue.
Di Xue pointed the staff in her hand at the giant spider as she stepped back, and at the same time chanted a magic spell loudly: "Angry mad flame, I order you to scorch that evil existence in the blooming red lotus fire!"
The Heaven and Earth Elements in the Dark Cave Passage fluctuated, and it was the magic element responding to the call of Emperor Xue's spiritual power.
The flames burning on the giant spider's body seemed to really understand Di Xue's words, and suddenly became violent, and the dark and damp cave suddenly became extremely bright and extremely hot.
The giant spider howled in pain in the firelight, and its reflection on the stone wall was very terrifying, and the reflection continued to struggle with it in the flames, but no matter how much it struggled, it could not escape the flames attached to its body.
The wisdom of the demonic beast is much more than that of ordinary beasts, and the giant spider rolls on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames with the flowing water under him, but the water flow in the cave here is extremely shallow, and how can Di Xue's flame magic be extinguished by ordinary water?
The spider struggled with less and less, and eventually, collapsed in the flames.
Walking to the corpse of the giant spider that was scorched black and smoking, he was sure that this was a Sazi giant spider with the same name as the Dark Swamp Demon Spider, but fortunately, this Saqi giant spider was not yet fully adult, otherwise it would not be so easy to deal with.
He breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what, at least the dangers he had encountered so far could still be dealt with by his own strength, even if he encountered a high-level or even higher-level demonic beast and used the means left by the teacher to save his life, he would not die, Di Xue thought so in his heart, and decided to continue to explore
The dark passage seems to be endless, sometimes the powerful and dangerous monsters are not terrifying, the endless darkness can be even more desperate, and the feeling of sinking into the dark abyss forever will make people with low psychological capacity fall into madness.
Of course, Di Xue's psychological endurance is not low, his heart is very strong, so he has nothing to fear, except for being wary of magical beasts similar to the Saatchi giant spider that appeared earlier, which likes to live in a dark and damp environment, he walks alone in the dark tunnel, calm as usual.
The terrain becomes more and more complex as you go deeper, and the only constant is the flowing water that keeps flowing under your feet, which proves that although the angle is not large, the tunnel is still constantly extending underground.
Sometimes it suddenly opens up, revealing an empty underground cavern, with a hard stone wall blocking the way, and just when Di Xue mistakenly thinks that he has reached the end, he can always find a narrow passage to continue in a remote and unobtrusive place.
Sometimes covered by green vines, the surrounding area is no longer the same craggy stone wall, and the boring exploration is enriched by special plants that grow underground, followed by poisonous snakes, spiders or scorpions hidden in the sparse foliage.
Sometimes the tunnel winds in the opposite direction, only to return to the center of the fog forest after a few turns.
Di Xue didn't know much about geography, but he was still very surprised by such a strange and strange terrain, he didn't find any traces left by humans along the way, and he didn't find a trace of a collapse in such a long and deep underground cave passage, which was really a little strange.
It wasn't until after about two or three hours of marching that the water suddenly became turbulent under his feet, and the angle of the tunnel extending downwards became very low, forming a steep slope, and finally a glimmer of light appeared in front of him.
Holding on to the stone wall and walking down cautiously, Di Xue found that the place where the light appeared in front of him turned out to be a huge hole, there was no way forward in front of the cave, and the river and prism left here from outside the cave made a splash and poured into the hole.
The sudden turbulent water made Di Xue a little uncomfortable, and he walked to the cave with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and Di Xue leaned over and looked down.
Below the cave seems to be an underground river, and the flowing water turns into a long waterfall into it, and the space below seems to be very open, and there is a mist of light everywhere.
Now that they have all come here, it is naturally impossible to return the same way without finding anything, and the mist below makes Di Xue a little vigilant, but there is no around the underground river, and the air gushing up the cave is also very fresh, so Di Xue decided to go down and take a look.
To be on the safe side, Di Xue threw a bottle of magic poison detection potion down, and the water of the underground river did not react with the potion in any way, which proved that the river water was at least non-toxic.
Spiritual thoughts probed into the storage space in the space ring to search, Di Xue was very surprised to find that there was really a rope in the space ring, and it was actually still with a hook, usually the replacement of items in his space ring was taken care of by Xu Bo and Taylor, since Taylor knew that he had an extremely rare space storage ring, he liked to put some messy things in it, because sometimes she carried it on her body too much......
This hook rope and a bunch of poison weapons were put together, and it was supposed to be Taylor's handiwork......
If there is any danger, immediately grab the rope and come up, Di Xue thought. Then a strange thought came to me: "Taylor, this prince has jumped into the river for you, how can you repay me when you turn around?"
After fixing the rope to the stone wall, Di Xue tried it, and after making sure that it was very strong, he cast a wind light body magic to reduce some of his body weight, he didn't know how deep the underground river below was, so as to reduce some of the momentum of the descent.
When the gentle wind breath surrounded her, Di Xue grabbed the rope, jumped lightly, and fell like a purple feather
(Thanks to the book friend Xianyu for the reward)