Chapter 181: The Road Meets the Dragon
Hearing that the High Priest was ready to abandon these unconscious orcs, the faces of the Benedictine and Daga sacrifices changed drastically.
"All the orcs who come here, including us, are ready to sacrifice. If it were me who was unconscious at this time, I would expect you to make the same decision in a similar situation!" The High Priest raised his hand to stop the words from the lips of the two priests.
"High Priest, it's too early to discuss this issue, or wait for me to take a look at the situation in front of us, and then we will make a decision, right?" Li Zijun saw the high priest's resolute expression, and sighed in his heart and persuaded him.
"Bring Shamantha and the Water Shelter Stone, maybe I can help you a little!" the High Priest nodded to Li Zijun and said.
When she first walked into this place, Li Zijun thought that Shamantha's snake body would make her stop early. But what he didn't expect was that Shamantha was not only able to fix herself firmly on the valley wall with the help of the scales on the snake's body, but also used this as a fulcrum to move freely. In this mysterious valley, Shamantha has become the least affected, and it is precisely for this reason that the high priest sent her to assist Li Zijun.
Li Zijun and Shamantha nodded to each other, and they continued their exploration of the valley one after the other.
The valley grew lower and narrower, and the Zuihou cold pool was so completely connected to the 'glass passage' of the Niger River that they had to stop.
"What should we do next?" Shamantha was completely out of idea when she saw this scene, she turned her head and looked at Li Zijun with some panic and asked.
"You wait for me here, I'll try to see if I can go underwater!" Li Zijun looked at Shamansha's expression, and said with a secret sigh in his heart.
"But?" Shamantha couldn't help but worry when she thought of Sarah's lion fur falling into the cold pool.
"I'm just going to try it first, I won't force it!" Li Zijun smiled and comforted Shamansha.
"Why don't you try the water refuge stone first and see if it can work in the cold pool?" Shamantha saw Li Zijun go into the water, and then she remembered the water refuge stone, and she hurriedly handed the jar containing the water refuge stone to Li Zijun.
Hearing Shamantha's reminder, Li Zijun secretly laughed that he was a little anxious just now, he took the jar and took out the water refuge stone, and tried to lean the water refuge stone towards the surface of the cold pool.
What Li Zijun and Shamantha didn't expect was that the water-sheltering stone that opened when it met the water almost completely lost its effect in the face of the cold pool water, and only forced the cold pool water back a little, and Li Zijun was not allowed to enter the cold pool at all. Suddenly, Shamantha's face became extremely ugly.
"What, don't believe me?" Li Zijun said with a smile as he put the water repelling stone into the jar.
"As you saw just now, this cold pool doesn't do anything to me, I'll just go to the front and come back in a circle. Although Li Zijun said it easily, he actually didn't have any confidence about whether he could enter Hantan, after all, the temperature here was a little different from before. It's just that he didn't want to give up halfway in this place, the hardships along the way made him more curious about the Niger River, and at the same time, in order to be able to help the orcs who were kind to him, he decided to give it a try.
Li Zijun slowly lowered one foot into the cold pool, and at the same time, he felt as if his entire body was frozen in this moment. Fortunately, this time was not long, and the warm current that gushed out of his chest in time made him quickly return to normal.
"Is it okay? If it really doesn't work, you come up first, and then we'll think of other ways!" Seeing that the corners of Li Zijun's eyes and eyebrows gave birth to hoarfrost the moment he stepped into the cold pool, although it disappeared quickly, this still made Shamantha break out in a cold sweat, and she couldn't help but persuade Li Zijun to turn back.
"It's okay, it's just that I'm still a little uncomfortable when I got into the water, and I'll be fine next!" Li Zijun smiled at Shamantha and put his other foot into the cold pool. This time, because his body was still full of warm currents, he didn't feel too much discomfort. It's just that he is almost immune to the cold and heat, and he can still feel the biting cold of the pool, which also forces him to quickly use the true qi in his body to resist the cold of the pool.
After Li Zijun stabilized for a while, he smiled at Shamantha and slowly moved forward.
The pool is not deep, and the deepest part is just below Li Zijun's knees, but the top of the valley is getting shorter and shorter, forcing Li Zijun to lower his body and move forward.
Zuihou, Li Zijun came to the junction between Hantan and the 'Glass Passage', and after waving his hand to Shamantha, he leaned over and completely invaded Hantan with his body.
At this moment, Li Zijun felt that his nerves seemed to be frozen, and then he was thrown heavily to the bottom of the pool.
There is no trace of buoyancy in the water, if it weren't for the fact that the pool is not deep and Li Zijun has enough true qi, this fall may be enough for him.
The fast-running warm current made Li Zijun quickly regain control of his body, and although his hands and feet were still a little numb at this time, he was able to continue moving. Li Zijun was at the bottom of the pool, feeling the stones and moving forward slowly, and with the faint glow of the stones at the bottom of the water, a cave that could barely let his body pass through appeared in front of him.
After observing outside the cave for a while, judging by the sharp protruding stones outside the cave, Li Zijun felt that there should be no other creatures in this cave. But even so, he waited outside in the bitter cold, and when he threw three stones into the cave without any response, he crawled into the cave with his hands and feet.
It was true that there were no creatures in the cave as Li Zijun had judged before, but this did not make him relax in the slightest, and he kept vigilant to explore and move forward.
Li Zijun crawled forward like this for more than half an hour, and the passage in front of him suddenly became wider. He was about to get up and look around when he suddenly heard a "whoosh".
The sound was so loud that it shook Li Zijun's ears, which were still in the water, and he hurriedly stopped his movements.
"Whoosh, whoop, whoop, whoop"
Li Zijun listened to it for a while, and he felt that this evenly spaced sound seemed to be the snoring of some creature, but as for what kind of creature it was, he didn't know.
Li Zijun carefully moved himself to the edge of the pool, and he tried to see the situation outside through the pool. But soon he was disappointed, and he saw no living creatures outside except for the strange stones that glowed faintly, except for the snoring that never stopped.
What are the creatures outside? After hesitating for a while, Li Zijun finally decided to see the situation outside with his own eyes.
When Li Zijun looked beyond the waterhole, he saw a huge square. In this square, there is a behemoth sleeping soundly there, and the sound that has just shocked Li Zijun's ears is from its mouth.
Li Zijun never imagined that he would see such a creature in this place, and he couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed.
This giant dragon is very different from the five-clawed golden dragon that Li Zijun saw in his previous life, compared to the five-clawed golden dragon, this guy's body is more like a magnified bee, and the only thing that is more similar between them is their heads, they are all so majestic!
Whether it was the awe of the five-clawed golden dragon in his previous life, or the big guy in front of him that he learned through various channels in this life, he could easily make Li Zijun sure that it was not easy to mess with, which also made Li Zijun have the idea of respecting it.
But when Li Zijun tried to bypass the dragon and continue to find the source of the Niger River, he couldn't help but secretly cry out in his heart.
The chilling stream and the Niger River had made an arc not far in front of Li Zijun, and the dragon was now entrenched at the end of this arc! This discovery made Li Zijun scratch his head, and even ignored the fact that the dragon's snoring had stopped.
"Boy, I'm afraid you're going to fall out if you scratch your hair any more!" the dragon said mockingly, with wide eyes big enough to fit Li Zijun in.
The dragon's voice startled Li Zijun, and he couldn't help but take half a step back.
"Seeing that you kid can stand in the Demon Tan for so long, it's fine, you should also be a guy with some strength, how can you be so daring? Just one sentence scared you like this!" the giant dragon looked at Li Zijun and said disdainfully.
"Although my strength is reasonable among ordinary people, compared to you, the great dragon, it is simply a photometric comparison between fireflies and Haoyue—the difference is too far!" Li Zijun said with a smile on his face.
In the records of the dragons that Li Zijun saw, it was mentioned that they were an arrogant race, of course, this was also closely related to their great strength, and they enjoyed the praise of other strong people very much about them. In order to survive, Li Zijun had to sacrifice his long-collected powerful means of patting sycophants.
"You are indeed quite good among the human race, but compared to our dragon race, the gap is indeed too big!" Hearing Li Zijun's praise, the dragon was really very useful, and it nodded and said.
"Yes, yes, yes, as long as I can get a little bit of guidance from you, I'm afraid I can run rampant in front of the human race and even other intelligent races!" Li Zijun hoped that he would be able to smoothly get a little closer to the dragon, and in a hurry, he thought of this method of apprenticeship.
"Haha, that's natural! Are you here today to learn from me?" For so many years, the dragon could only pass the time by sleeping, and it had been lonely for too many years!
"No, I haven't shown my face outside for thousands of years, how do you know I'm here?" the dragon asked, looking at Li Zijun with wide eyes, and posed as if he was about to have a seizure at any moment.
"I didn't know that you were here, I just heard that there is a supreme existence in the world here, so I went to great lengths to come here!"