Chapter 13: The Devil's Heart Cave (I)
The cave was pitch black, Shi Sheng lit the flame illumination, since he knew that he didn't have much Yin Origin, he would not use the spiritual fire easily, and generally used ordinary flames, 300,000 square meters, which was enough for him to squander.
The entrance to the Demon Heart Cave is relatively narrow, the more you go to the back, the wider it is, the surrounding stone walls turn from black to red, emitting a subtle light, after walking out of more than a thousand zhang, the light emitted by the stone wall is enough to illuminate, Shi Sheng will extinguish the flames, after all, there is not much left of his Yin Origin, and he can save a little is a little.
According to the map drawn by Xu Xiangxiang, the Devil's Heart Cave is very huge, and the path is complex, like a labyrinth, the place where Shi Sheng is currently located is the first layer, and the second layer is down, and so on, there are five layers, and the fifth layer at the bottom is deep into the ground, located under a thousand zhang.
The map in Shi Sheng's hand only drew the first and second layers, and there was no information about the other three layers, Shi Sheng speculated in his heart, most of the time, with the strength of Uncle Zi Xi Qi, he could only reach the second layer, and could not step into the other three layers, Shi Sheng couldn't help but secretly speak, how terrible is this Demon Heart Cave? Even strong people such as Uncle Zi Xi Qi can only reach the second layer!
In fact, things are not as Shi Sheng thought, when Uncle Zi Xi Qi entered the Demon Heart Cave, but he broke into the fourth layer in one breath! The reason why he only drew the terrain of the first two layers for Shi Sheng is because with Shi Sheng's strength, at most he can only mix with the first layer, if he is lucky enough, he can barely save his life in the second layer, but if he reaches the third layer, no matter how lucky Shi Sheng is, he has to finish the game, so Uncle Zi Xi Qi did not instruct Xu Xiangxiang to draw the topographic map of the other three layers, because he wanted Shi Sheng to retreat. Who would have thought that Shi Sheng would be wrong.
Shi Sheng walked all the way, and saw that there were some traces of engagement on the ground, thinking that it should be the elder of the Silver Moon Palace who entered before, and the remnants of the battle were left behind, but the traces of the engagement were very subtle, it seemed that the battle ended quickly, most of the previous grievances were relatively weak, and they were directly killed by the elders of the Silver Moon Palace.
Further down, the terrain has become very open, and some forks in the road have begun to appear. Shi Sheng followed the directions on the map. Go to the path of wrath.
The first layer of the Demon Heart Cave is divided into seven areas, named after the Seven Feelings, and there are seven paths leading to the seven areas, the path to the area of rage. It's called the Path of Wrath.
The end of each area of seven emotions. There is a channel. Being able to go down to the second layer, the elders of the Silver Moon Palace did not have a map, so they chose a path to move forward at random. Shi Sheng, on the other hand, directly embarked on the path of anger to find something to restrain the angry stone.
Shi Sheng is not a reckless person, he enters this Demon Heart Cave, he still has some confidence in self-preservation, after all, with his current cultivation, if he opens the Zhenlong Seal and then uses the Wine Immortal Imperial Sword Technique, he is a powerhouse in the Mahayana realm, and he can also be killed! In terms of combat effectiveness, Shi Sheng is stronger than Luo Chengfeng back then!
Soon after walking into the path of anger, Shi Sheng suddenly had a strange feeling, and before he could think about it, he jumped up, and suddenly stabbed a pitch-black sharp blade under his feet, if it wasn't for Shi Sheng's quick dodge, he would have been pierced through the soles of his feet.
Shi Sheng jumped out a few feet, before he landed, the black sharp blade had already retracted into the ground, nowhere to be seen, from beginning to end Shi Sheng didn't see what was sneaking up on him, only knew that it must be a resentful spirit, as for what kind of resentful spirit, what kind of spells, Shi Sheng did not know.
Shi Sheng stared at the ground, on full alert, in case the black blade resentful spirit sneaked up again, after a cup of tea, the black blade resentful spirit never appeared again, Shi Sheng still did not dare to be careless, cautiously, tentatively forward, to see out of the three zhang, Shi Sheng's heart felt strange again, and he jumped back, and the pitch-black blade almost stabbed the soles of Shi Sheng's feet.
The black blade missed, and quickly retracted, Shi Sheng stood in place, concentrating on guard, for a while, the black blade did not appear again, Shi Sheng guessed in his heart, this black blade resentful spirit most likely has its own range of defense, stepping into that range, it will be attacked by the black blade resentful spirit, leaving that range, the black blade resentful spirit will not move.
Resentful spirits have no ability to think, only simple instincts, similar to animals, many wild animals, will use urine to mark their territory, if you rashly step into, will be attacked, Shi Sheng guessed, most of the resentful spirits also have their own territory, and the territory of the black-bladed resentful spirit in front of him is a few zhang away, as long as you don't walk into that area, you will not be attacked.
In order to verify his guess, Shi Sheng tried a few more times, determined the territory of the Black Blade Wraith, drew a straight line on the ground to sign, and then sat outside the line to think about countermeasures.
The speed of the black blade was too fast, Shi Sheng was able to get away with it, all with the strange feeling in his heart, he could take advantage of the opportunity to barely dodge the first attack of the black blade, but what about the second and third strikes? Shi Sheng tried more than a dozen times, and every time he didn't land, the black blade had already retracted into the ground, and at that speed, the black blade spirit could attack again at the moment Shi Sheng landed, so that Shi Sheng would be completely unable to dodge.
The Demon Heart Cave is full of dangers, there have been countless heroes and heroes who have died in the cave, Shi Sheng does not dare to be careless at all, let alone take risks, and must come up with a perfect strategy to clean up this black-bladed resentful spirit.
Shi Sheng knew that the resentful spirit sensed living creatures through the breath, which was like a sense of qi, so Shi Sheng took advantage of it, tried his best to restrain his breath, and wanted to hide from the sky and the sea, through the territory of the black blade resentful spirit, who knew that just after stepping in a straight line, he was suddenly attacked by the black resentful spirit, thanks to Shi Sheng's caution and alertness, he barely avoided it and retreated outside the straight line.
This made Shi Sheng feel very surprised, with his full strength, he was a strong man in the Mahayana realm, if he didn't look closely, it would be difficult to find that this black-bladed resentful spirit was hidden underground, how could he have such a keen sense of qi?
Shi Sheng groaned slightly, thought of a possibility, bent down to pick up a stone from the ground, threw it in a straight line, and fell to the ground, then saw a flash of the black blade, splitting the stone in half, Shi Sheng secretly said in his heart: "Sure enough! This black-bladed resentful spirit hides in the ground, not to sense living things with breath, but to attack with sound!"
In order to verify his guess, Shi Sheng tried a few more times, and finally believed that he had guessed correctly, this black-bladed resentful spirit really relied on the sound of the object landing to launch an attack, and Shi Sheng gradually increased the distance of the stone to judge how big the territory of the black-bladed resentful spirit was, after a while. Shi Sheng measured that the territory of this black-bladed resentful spirit is really not small, needless to say, it is naturally a horizontal path, and as for the length, it is also more than 500 zhang.
Shi Sheng picked up a bunch of stones, held them in his arms, and planned to throw stones and lead away the black blade resentful spirit, while running over the more than 500 zhang, and was about to take a step. Suddenly, my heart moved. I remembered that Long Shi once said that the more common things are, the more reasonable they are, and the things with obvious flaws. It will be eliminated. The Blackblade Wraith has such a glaring weakness. How can you survive in the Cave of the Devil's Heart?
Shi Sheng's heart sank: "Most of this resentful spirit is deceitful!" Thinking of this, Shi Sheng threw several stones at the same time, and he handled the strength extremely well. Several stones fell to the ground almost at the same time, but when I saw the black blades flashing continuously, a scene that made the stone skin tingle appeared, and several black blades appeared on the ground at the same time, splitting all the stones!
Shi Sheng pinched a handful of cold sweat in his palm, fortunately he was cautious enough to give it a try, otherwise it would be not only the stones that would be split, but also the soles of Shi Sheng's two feet.
"It's too insidious!" Shi Sheng scolded in his heart, and couldn't help thinking about how to deal with the multi-bladed stab of the black blade resentful spirit, and finally Shi Sheng thought of a way to learn from the gecko and climb over the stone wall, although it was troublesome, it was better than being trapped here and not being able to move forward.
Out of caution, Shi Sheng threw a stone at the stone wall, and what made Shi Sheng dumbfounded was that a black blade was also pierced from the stone wall! After splitting the stone, it quickly retracted, and Shi Sheng almost couldn't help but scold, this black blade resentful spirit was so domineering that he didn't even give a little way to live!
This time it really Shi Sheng, since he didn't give him a way to live, then he would kill a way out!
Shi Sheng took out the two-life sword, slashed it on the ground with a fierce sword, and with his half-step Hinayana cultivation, he struck with all his strength, how powerful it was......! There was only a crack on the ground that was a few feet long and half a foot wide, which made Shi Sheng completely dumbfounded!
The rock walls and ground of the first layer of the Demon Heart Cave are all special rocks, and the hardness is extraordinary, even if it is a full blow from a Hinayana realm powerhouse, it will break a few zhang at most, and it is impossible to be like the outside world, which can split the ground with a sword in hand.
Moreover, this is only the first layer, down the second layer, the third layer, etc., its stone wall and ground, even harder, Shi Sheng can still break the ground in the first layer, if it reaches the second layer, it is not easy to break through a foot and a half, the third layer, the fourth layer of the stone wall ground is even more terrible, there was once a warrior to take the fourth layer of the rock out of the Demon Heart Cave, take it to auction, the result was a high price of 300,000 gold, it is conceivable how hard the rock of the Demon Heart Cave is.
There are many crises in the Demon Heart Cave, but it can attract so many warriors to break into the cave one after another, because the Demon Heart Cave is full of treasures, there are countless benefits, people die for money, birds die for food, and there are many outlaws who come here to hunt for treasures.
Shi Sheng looked at the cracks on the ground, and sighed weakly, this Demon Heart Cave is really not an ordinary difficult to break through, the first resentful spirit encountered, it is so difficult, the road ahead is long, I don't know how many difficulties, no wonder so many martial artists enter the Demon Heart Cave, and few can get out like the morning star.
As soon as he thought of this, Shi Sheng's heart suddenly gave birth to a burst of toughness: "No matter how rare it is, there are always people who have gone out, and others can do it, why can't I, Shi Sheng, do it?
The black-bladed resentful spirit is hiding underground, occupying the best of the ground, Shi Sheng can't drive it out, forcibly fight with it, it must be himself who suffers, thinking about it, Shi Sheng took a deep breath, and said secretly in his heart: "It seems that there is no way to take a trick, you can only break through! Faster than it, you can pass!"
If Shi Sheng runs on the territory of the Black Blade Wraith, his footsteps must be extremely fast and heavy, and before the soles of his feet touch the ground, the strong wind under his feet is enough to alarm the Black Blade Wraith, that is to say, if Shi Sheng runs, his feet have not yet landed, he will be attacked by the Black Blade Wraith, so if he wants to pass smoothly, he must run at a very fast speed, fast enough to surpass the speed of the Black Blade Wraith, and he can break through its territory.
However, Shi Sheng's biggest shortcoming is speed, his strength is great, his defense is amazing, and the power of the five sword slashing techniques is fierce, but the speed is too slow, which greatly affects his strength.
When he was in Sanhe County, Shi Sheng was busy refining his body and refining the source, and after coming to the Resentful Spirit Swamp, he concentrated on cultivating Kenshin, learning swordsmanship and sword casting techniques, and he really didn't have time to train his speed, so that Shi Sheng's speed became his most fatal weakness, and it had reached the point that Shi Sheng had to pay attention to it.
"That's fine. Shi Sheng said secretly in his heart: "Just take this opportunity to hone my speed!" (to be continued......)
PS: (three watches)