Chapter 548: Poison Ice Cave
For several days, Luo Jingbo seemed preoccupied, and on the way to Xiulin Lake, she lost interest in the scenery on the ground. The reason is all in Bai Yingxue's words: "This stunt is the nemesis of your Luo family's insect repellent technique!"
The art of driving poison is the ancestral skill of the Luo family. Although it can't be regarded as unique, whether in the demon clan or the human race, there are very few people who can do this skill, and no one can reach the height reached by Luo's father and son. Now, a master who can break this technique suddenly appeared, and Luo Jingbo certainly didn't feel good in his heart. Because the Luo family has never relied on this technique to be overbearing and harmful, but to study silently in a corner of peace, why is it necessary to create a method to crack this technique?
"Perhaps, someone has an enmity with our Luo family, so they specifically targeted us. Luo Jingbo guessed at first. However, his father Luo Shiran and his elder brother Luo Huansheng are both low-key and kind people, what kind of enemies can such two people have? If they are really enemies, they have a way to break the skill of repelling insects, and they will not be killed long ago? Killing Luo Wansheng's gang of wicked people in Yixia Mountain obviously does not have the ability to make Hurui.
Bai Yingxue saw that Luo Jingbo was silent, and regretted that she shouldn't have said too clearly, after all, she was not in a big grade and couldn't bear too many things. "Xiaobo, don't think about it, I'm just guessing. Linghu Rui's identity is confusing, but at least he won't be an enemy. Maybe the sound of the flute is just a special means of attack, and it is useless to us because he has not used his real skills. The technique of repelling insects is just a general term, and there are no less than fifty kinds of poisons recorded in the "Ten Absolute Tunes" alone, and it is simply thankless to create a special method for cracking so many poisons, and no one will be so stupid. β
"Yes, I think so too, it's completely meaningless, it's better to cultivate hard if you have that kind of work, the strength is enough to directly kill the person who repells insects, and it's wiser than dealing with poisonous insects first." Luo Jingbo's face finally showed a slight smile on his face after several days of tenseness.
The wasteland at the southwest end of the Demon Domain is getting closer and closer, and Bai Yingxue remembers that on the "Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Map" of the Feather Department, the name of this wasteland is "The Great Wilderness". The Great Wilderness is much more desolate than the Hanhai Gobi, with no grass growing within a radius of hundreds of miles, and the terrain is very flat, and even a dirt bag cannot be seen. The wasteland has been dry for many years, the rain, snow and frost have disappeared, and the ground is cracked and pale. As for Xiulin Lake, at the western end of the Great Wilderness, further west, it will become greener and greener, until it reaches the shore of the vast West Sea. Between the green space and the great wilderness, there is a low mountain separated by a spring, most of which flow into the sea to the west, but only a small river goes against the road, flows into the great wilderness to the east, and gathers into Xiulin Lake in the depression, and also becomes the only water source supply of Xiulin Lake.
As the only water area in the Great Wilderness, Xiulin Lake is very easy to find, the white cherry blossoms and snow overlook in the sky, and the gray and white earth at the far end of the little bit of bright green is where Xiulin Lake is located. "The green of the sky, why is it bright?" Bai Yingxue couldn't help but think of these two folk songs. "Could it be that the Great Wilderness was also a country before that?" she thought wildly.
Luo Jingbo said with emotion: "Venerable Lan Yan actually chose such a ghost place to cultivate in the first place, I really can't figure it out. β
Bai Yingxue smiled: "Venerable Lan Yan's talent is not high, and his cultivation is far several times harder than others, and he has finally achieved today's achievements. The so-called 'diligence can make up for clumsiness', which is exactly the case. The harsh environment hones people's physical fitness and mental temperament even more. β
"Well, I admire him too. Why don't we also cultivate here in the future and hone and hone our skills?"
"Haha, don't worry, the place where my sister will take you in the future is definitely not a place to enjoy, although the scenery is more beautiful than here, but the degree of loneliness and monotony is comparable. "When the white cherry snow lands, it is safer to walk over the last distance, and you can also take the opportunity to recover the demonic power consumed in flight. In the demon clan, there are two ways to fly. One is like Bai Yingxue, the body is the Yuede Rabbit, the rabbit can't fly, after the cultivation is successful, with the help of demonic power to fly, and the way humans fly is much the same. The other is like Shi Haoming, the body is a golden-scaled dragon, and the dragon can fly, so flying does not need to consume demon power, only physical strength is consumed.
After landing, the two of them could feel the heat from the earth more and more, the rolling heat wave gushing out from the cracks, and they felt the ground hot through their shoes, and even the distant scenery was twisted and swayed because of the heat wave.
"It's already autumn, it's still so hot?" Luo Jingbo put his hand in front of his eyes, looking up at the sky, the sun didn't seem to be so scorching.
"The heat here doesn't come from the sun, it comes from deep underground. Bai Yingxue took out two hats and put them on herself and Luo Jingbo respectively.
Luo Jingbo smacked his lips and sighed: "Tsk, no wonder it's a fierce place, it's just a frying pan! If you stay in this kind of place for a long time, it's strange if you don't get roasted!"
Bai Yingxue Wan'er: "Venerable Lan Yan has been practicing here for decades, don't you still live well?" Hey, look there!"
Luo Jingbo looked at the white cherry blossom snow, and couldn't help but stand on the spot, a blue sea appeared in the sky in the distance, the sea was rolling waves, and the sea was full of clouds.
"It's a mirage, see you for the first time, right?"
Luo Jingbo nodded vigorously, reluctant to blink even if sweat flowed into his eyes, for fear of seeing such a strange scene less. The gray-white earth below, the blue sea in the middle, and the white clouds above are stunningly beautiful. "How can you see the sea?" she asked curiously.
"The scenery of the West Sea is reflected in the sky. In places where there is a big difference between hot and cold, such a spectacle often occurs. Bai Yingxue explained.
"That is to say, the Great Wilderness is hot here, and the coast of the West Sea
Cold, huh?"
"That's right. β
"Then I don't understand, shouldn't the source of geothermal heat be magma? Why is the boundary between hot and cold on the ground so clear? But after a few low hills, this side is as hot as an iron pot, and there is a cool autumn there. It stands to reason that the magma should be hot in a large area...... Oh, the scope of the Great Wilderness is not small......" Luo Jingbo asked himself and answered a lot.
Her words really touched Bai Yingxue's mind, no matter how vast the wilderness is, the ground will not suddenly turn from hot to cold because of the barrier of the low hills. What's more, if the source of such a hot source is really magma, there should be a volcanic crater nearby.
"Sister Xue, in such a bad place, do you think those poisons are still alive?" Luo Jingbo was worried.
Bai Yingxue nodded very affirmatively: "If Xiulin Mountain is really in the water of Xiulin Lake, the cave should also be cool and damp. β
"The cave should have been flooded, but I hope the poison hasn't drowned. β
Bai Yingxue comforted her: "Don't worry, the place Ling Zun chose must be a suitable place to hide poison." β
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When the two of them were really standing on the shore of Xiulin Lake, they were shocked to find that the surface of Xiulin Lake actually had a thick layer of ice! The lake level was very low, and it was more than a foot away from the lakeside. The ice seems to be so thick that you can't see what is going on underneath it. Luo Jingbo looked back in disbelief, behind the two of them was a vast hot placeβthe Great Wilderness! Not to mention that the Great Wilderness was hot and dry, the fact that it froze in autumn alone was incredible, and usually, the water in the Southern Regions would only freeze in the middle of winter.
"What can I do about this?" Luo Jingbo ran out of ideas.
"Smash the ice!" said Shirakuyuki.
"Smash, smash it?"
"Just try it. After Bai Yingxue finished speaking, she jumped onto the ice, and Luo Jingbo also jumped down with her.
Bai Yingxue took out the moon pestle and smashed it the ice, with a "pop", leaving only a white mark on the ice.
"I'm afraid that even the bottom of the lake is frozen tightly, right?" Luo Jingbo said.
Brute force is not the way, Bai Yingxue collected the moon pestle and patrolled the ice. Luo Jingbo didn't know why, and followed honestly behind her.
"'Two trees and one opposite, showing mountains and dew'. That's right, right?"
"That's right. Are you looking for a tree?" Luo Jingbo was puzzled, there was no grass growing on the shores of Xiulin Lake.
Bai Yingxue didn't answer and continued to walk towards the center of the lake. The small lake is not big, and it will take a while to reach the area in the middle of the lake. Bai Yingxue stood up abruptly and beckoned Luo Jingbo: "Xiaobo, come and see!"
Beneath the ice ahead, blue-black shadows are faintly visible.
Luo Jingbo lay on the ice and looked down carefully: "That's ...... Is it a mountain?"
"Not only mountains, but also trees!" said Shirakuyuki, pointing to two long shadows at the top of the hill.
"It turned out to be aquatic plants!" Luo Jingbo was overjoyed.
Bai Yingxue carefully identified it: "It should be water grass, which usually grows in clusters, and the long stems are intertwined with each other, and finally twisted into a hard thick stem, like a 'tree in water'." Those two clusters of water grass must be the 'forest' of 'two trees facing each other'!"
"Haha, Ling Hurui, he guessed quite accurately!" Luo Jingbo was a little grateful to Ling Hurui at this time, if it weren't for him, the two would definitely turn back, and the vicinity of Yixia Mountain was a dangerous place, so they didn't dare to approach it, and after spending a lot of time, Xiulin Mountain still couldn't be found around Yixia Mountain, which was too disappointing.
Bai Yingxue said: "The hillock raised at the bottom of the lake is so high that it is close to the surface of the water. The ice here is certainly not that thick!" she stomped her foot hard, and sure enough, the sound of the ice was not as dull as it was on the shore. "'Two trees opposite', it should be right here!" "Bai Yingxue walked to the area between the two clusters of water grass, and smashed it with the moon pestle, "click, lala", and the ice cracked a few lines.
She was about to smash it a second time, but the cracks suddenly spread rapidly, and the entire ice trembled. Before the two of them came to their senses, a large hole suddenly fell into the ice, and the two of them fell down in response, fell heavily on the "mountain rock", and then rolled down the slope all the way and fell into a dark cave.
Bai Yingxue couldn't care about the pain on her body: "Xiaobo, are you okay?"
"I was cut by the rock several times!" Luo Jingbo cried, "I seemed to break my leg when I fell in the end!"
"What?" Bai Yingxue followed the sound and touched Luo Jingbo's leg, which swollen a large bag at her right ankle. She breathed a sigh of relief: "It's not broken, it's a broken foot, endure the pain, I'll give you a treat." β
After getting her foot injury, Bai Yingxue looked up and saw that the entrance to the cave was seven or eight feet above her head, and the sunlight shone through the ice at the entrance of the cave, but she couldn't shine into the cave.
"Sister Xue, it's amazing, there's no water under the ice cave!" Luo Jingbo was amazed.
"This glacial lake is not simple...... It seemed to be a large lump of ice, covering the whole mountain at the bottom of the lake. β
"That Venerable Lan Yan is also really, he doesn't tell us about the heat of the Great Wilderness, nor does he know the strangeness of our ice lake!
"I'm afraid it's been a long, long time since Venerable Lan Yan cultivated in the Great Wilderness, and maybe the Great Wilderness wasn't like this at that time. "White Sakura Snow Road, "Since this mountain is Xiulin Mountain, the cave that Brother Ling is referring to should be here." β
Luo Jingbo scratched his head: "Could it be that Daddy and Brother need to break the ice so much trouble every time they come here? If there is no water, how will the ice freeze after they leave?"
"There are a lot of strange places in this world, why bother to find out all the mysteries? Let's hurry up and find those poisons!" Bai Yingxue took out the moon pestle again, a little demonic power, the pestle emitted a white light, although it was not very bright, but it was enough to illuminate the cave.
When she saw the surrounding situation clearly, even Shirakurakueki was startled. A few feet away are full of stalagmites and stalactites, and I don't know how many shadows are longing, and there are several poisonous snakes coiled on each one! "Oh my God!" Looking at the green colors of the flowers and the dense snake scales, the white cherry blossoms and snow were dumbfounded.
Luo Jingbo rushed over happily as if he had discovered a treasure trove, and kept muttering the names of various poisonous snakes in his mouth. She noticed that all the poisonous snakes here were much larger than their normal size, and some of them were even close to the size of "pythons". "Daddy and brother are really amazing!, they have bred such good products!" Luo Jingbo clapped his hands excitedly.
"The 'Blood Feeding Method' is really powerful!" Bai Yingxue admired in her heart, and also walked into the stalactite forest.
The cave was already very cold, and when you got close to the stalactites and stalagmites, you felt even more cold. Luo Jingbo sighed at a stalagmite, which immediately condensed into hoarfrost. She touched a venomous snake lightly, the scales were cold, and the snake was stiff, as if it were dead.
After careful investigation, he accidentally found the cave of the mountain at the bottom of the lake, and decided that this place was simply a natural place to hide poisons. In such cold environments, the poison fell into a state of suspended animation, without drinking or eating, only to be reawakened one day. Bai Yingxue deduced the general process of Luo Shiran's discovery of the cave.
"And that day is today!" Luo Jingbo tried to take a poisonous snake off the stalagmite, but the rigid snake body seemed to "grow" on the stone, and no matter how much strength she tried, she couldn't take it down.
"Don't worry, there must be more than just these poisonous snakes in this cave. Bai Yingxue pulled Luo Jingbo and continued to walk deeper into the cave.
Passing through a stalactite forest, there is a relatively flat clearing behind you. Sure enough, as Bai Sakuraxue expected, a second poison appeared here - a toad.
The flat stone slabs were covered with all kinds of poisonous toads, large and small, each with their eyes closed and covered with a thick layer of hoarfrost. The toad is no better than a poisonous snake, its poison is all on the surface of the body, so Luo Jingbo did not dare to touch it directly with his hands. Ordinary toads can be used as medicine, but the various poisonous toads in this cave are so poisonous that even a little fingertip can cause skin ulceration and toxin invasion.
Bai Yingxue can be regarded as an eye-opener, all kinds of poisonous toads are dazzling, some have thorny eyebrow bones, some have tails behind them, and some have hooks on their claws, all of which are very rare species, and I don't know how the Luo father and son found so many of them.
Walking on tiptoe through the "Toad Zone", the cave made a small turn in front. After rounding the corner, there was another hole not far away, and the two stepped in, and suddenly a large hole comparable to the size of a palace appeared in front of them.
White Sakuraki intensified the light of the moon pestle, and controlled the pestle to spin in the air a few times, allowing for a clear view of the giant cavern. It's a huge poisonous insect cave: the walls are full of ghosts, the top walls are full of beehives, and every corner and rock crevice is covered with layers of cobwebs, and all the most poisonous spiders lie on the webs. The left half of the ground is huddled with poisonous scorpions of different colors, including black scorpions, red scorpions, yellow scorpions, and even some poisonous scorpions that can't even be called white cherry snow. The right half of the ground is full of poisonous centipedes, such as "Poison Sky Dragon", "Red Thorn", "Lei Gongxu", these centipedes, add up to hundreds, and there are not a few centipedes that are bigger than Luo Jingbo's three "Big Green", "Big Red" and "Big Black".
There are five insects in the giant cave, but there are still three kinds of five beasts. Sandwiched between the "poisonous scorpion" and the "centipede" area is a narrow passage that leads to the other end of the giant cave, where there is also an opening.
The two of them continued through the giant cavern, which turned sharply downwards and led to a deeper place. The two of them descended down the hole into another cave. This cave is much smaller than the previous one, almost directly below it. The cave was even colder, and Luo Jingbo couldn't bear it a little, shivering from the cold.
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