Chapter 586: Geometry in the Cave
As soon as she heard that Qu Xingxuan had an accident, Jin Chanyu's heart suddenly sank, and she hurriedly asked the two girls what happened. The two of you said a word, and I told you what happened a few days ago.
Since returning from the immolation of the Heavenly Palace, Qu Xingxuan has never left the Valley of the Naughty Boy. His resentment against Shi Potian has disappeared, and he has nothing to worry about, and he has been comfortable for decades. In addition to cultivating, in addition to studying the mechanism formation, he also instructed the two apprentices to cultivate and cast treasures, and his life can be described as free.
Suddenly, one day, a group of masked black-clothed people broke into the valley of the naughty boy, all of whom were very good at kung fu. The various mechanism formations that Qu Xingxuan had laid out in the valley did not work at all. In order to prevent the two disciples who were not very skilled from suffering, Qu Xingxuan gave up resistance and voluntarily went with the gang.
The two girls hid in the bamboo forest when the group entered the valley. It was precisely because Qu Xingxuan did not resist that the enemy did not search for others and left in a hurry.
After listening to the narration, Jin Chanyu's first thought was a fierce demon. Before the trip to the Burning Heaven Palace, Qu Shuoheng had come to find him, the second brother, to go out of the mountain, and now it is very likely that Qu Xingxuan will be forcibly abducted. However, there is only one detail that Jin Chanyu didn't understand, with Qu Shuoheng's rampant and flamboyant personality, if he wants to be taken captive, he shouldn't hide it, so why act in a mask?
Again, we have to start with clues.
"What's so special about the black-clothed people who kidnapped your master?" Jin Chanyu asked.
The eldest apprentice replied, "Tall, short, fat and thin, men, women, and children, all kinds of things." ”
In fact, what Jin Chanyu wanted to know was whether there were any obvious characteristics of fierce demons among the people in black, such as Qu Shuoheng, who had a pair of wings on his back.
"All of them are armed with magic knives and fairy swords, and they are all humans. The little apprentice was obviously a little more clever, and roughly guessed what Jin Chanyu meant.
"Oh?" The matter was beyond Jin Chanyu's expectations, what was the purpose of a group of human beings kidnapping Qu Xingxuan?" "Which direction did they go after leaving the valley?"
"To the south. ”
The southern part of the urchin valley is the vast Hongyan Plain, and the scope is too large.
Jin Chanyu asked again: "How many people are there in that group of people in black?"
"Five. The two replied in unison.
If humans come to kidnap people, the first thing that naturally comes to mind is the Five Emperors and Five Monarchs. However, among the five monarchs, Shang Xingjie had seen Qu Xingxuan's power, would he only send only five people to kidnap people? If Qu Xingxuan insisted on escaping, all the five generalissimos under his command might not be able to stop him. Bai Zhuodong and Mu Lisha are newly married Yan'er, and they still have the treasure in hand, so they shouldn't send someone to catch a demon treasure caster. And among the five emperors of the demon clan, Zhou Wenxuan and Xiang Zhongyang are not bad, and they are all companions who broke into the Burning Heaven Palace, so they will not do such a thing. The only remaining emperors are Yu Ziqi, Zhuge Feng, Ji Yuqiu, Yu Wenshuo and "Chu Fanghua".
But Jin Chanyu thought about it, these emperors didn't seem to have anything to do with the demon clan for a long time, and they didn't seem to be the masterminds behind the kidnapping of Qu Xingxuan. Unable to come to a definite conclusion, Jin Chanyu continued to ask the two: "What other clues do you have?" ”
The two girls frowned and pondered, and went through every scene of that day in their minds. The eldest apprentice shook his head, while the younger apprentice looked a little hesitant and said, "I don't know if it's a clue or not." One of the women appeared to be a leader, wearing a black cloak. As she lifted her sword into the air, I saw a small white flower embroidered on the chest of her cloak beneath her cloak. ”
"White Flower Gang!" Jin Chanyu stood up with a "Teng". She had heard Ye Yuansheng mention the matter of the White Flower Gang's "wind, cloud, thunder, and lightning" four halls besieging the Sword Forest Village in the Chixi Domain, and Hua Qingyu had just asked her to investigate the matter of the White Flower Gang not long ago. According to Hua Qingyu, she once excavated a strange "stone stalactite" in a cave in the upper reaches of the Huaxue River in the Cangyun Ridge Mountains of the Chiji Domain, and brought it back to Hua Junmai's seniors to study. Before Hua Qingyu left Qingming City, the head of the family issued a secret order for her to investigate the White Flower Gang. Later, because Hua Qingyu was going to cultivate in the Heavenly Prison, she entrusted this matter to Jin Chanyu.
Recalling Hua Qingyu's words, Jin Chanyu suddenly realized a very serious problem. That's the wit of the "walking dead." Judging from the information gathered by all parties, the common characteristics of those "walking dead" are bloodthirsty, murderous, irritable, and crazy, so they should have lost their minds. Jin Chanyu has fought with the "walking dead" and has a deep experience. Moreover, Hua Qingyu also said personally that several "walking dead" in the cave of Huaxue River were easily shot to death by Guan Lingyun. However, from Lan Xiaoning's account of the battle of the Dust and Smoke Palace, it seems that this is not the case. If those "walking dead" really have no intelligence and can only rush, then the talents of Yibu will not fall into such a miserable situation.
In other words, in the past few decades, the "walking dead" has gained some aspects of its "intelligence". If the reason for their mutation is really a miracle poison, it proves that someone is improving this miracle poison. It's horrible.
Right now, the two things of rescuing Qu Xingxuan and investigating the White Flower Gang happen to be together, and Jin Chanyu has arrangements in her heart. "It's too dangerous for you two to stay here, so let's go to the Insect Department Wanming Forest, and report my name to the newspaper." ”
The two girls looked at each other and nodded together. The little apprentice said: "We wanted to go to Yubu for help, but the mountain is high and the road is far away, and when we get to Xiafeng, we don't know that it is the Year of the Monkey." Now that the head of the ministry has promised to save our master, we are also at ease. Waiting for good news from the Ministry Master. ”
Jin Chanyu nodded solemnly and watched the two leave Black Feather Xuan.
Since the White Flower Gang is a human gang, they have to infiltrate the Terran realm to investigate. Without further ado, Jin Chanyu decided to immediately mobilize the masters of the headquarters through the unique communication method of the insect department. In addition to Wan Ming's left envoy Wei Chi Feng, the master of the insect department is the master of the Sixteen Halls of Zhenwei in the Megatron Demon Realm. In order to prevent changes, Jin Chanyu only summoned Jia Shilong, the master of the Sheath Armor Hall, and the eight hall masters of the Qin Fourth Hall and the Fourth Skill Hall, plus Jin Chanyu, a total of ten people, exactly one person was assigned to the human domain. The nine hall masters who received the secret order immediately set off and flew
to all parts of the world. But the land of a domain is so vast, it is really not easy to find a mysterious gang that has been hidden in the shadows of the rivers and lakes for many years.
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After leaping into the forbidden mountain pass, Fei Tukong fell against the raging heat wave towards the scarlet lava abyss in the extreme depths. He was a little apprehensive, wouldn't he be able to survive if he fell to the end like this? But at this time, he had not been roasted, which also proved that the forbidden mountain at this time was indeed different from the past, and his reverence for the prince became the most solid comfort in his heart.
Sure enough, halfway down, Fei Tukong felt like he had landed on a net, and when he opened his eyes with great difficulty, he saw that it was really a net. The mesh is almost transparent, very dense and strong, very elastic, and there are several long threads tied on each side, hanging from two large stones protruding from the mountain wall.
Old Lady Murong also fell, she was far more heat-resistant than Fei Tukong, after she landed on the net, she calmly glanced around, touched Fei Tukong with her crutches, and pointed to the boulder on the west side.
The two of them carefully stepped on a long line to climb the boulder, and the boulder as a whole was diagonally upward, so that the end of the mountain could not be seen until they stood on the boulder. After stepping on it, Fei Tukong saw that there was an imperceptible secret door hidden at the end of the boulder. This is the only place to go right now. Old Madam Murong used her crutches to hook open the secret door, revealing a potential downward passage within the mountain.
The two glanced at each other and walked inward along the dark passage, where there were some small holes in the wall of the dark passage, which let in some light. It turns out that this dark passage is in a zigzag shape in the middle of the mountain wall, so deep that you can't see the bottom. I don't know how long it fell, but when the heat from the rock wall was almost unbearable, the path suddenly turned and extended to the west. This direction is the direction of leaving the volcano, and the narrow path is rocky up and down, left and right, and it feels quite oppressive. After walking about a mile, a large hole marked the exit of the trail. Outside the passage is a spacious underground cavern, about four or five feet high from the top to the bottom. The walls of the cave were lit up by blazing torches. In the center of the cave, Ainana, cloaked, was busy in front of a stone platform.
Seeing the two coming, Ainana nodded politely, and then lowered her head and swung a few strange things on the stone platform. Among them, there is one thing that is very familiar to Mrs. Murong - the "black stone" that she failed to melt at the Lingbomen Martial Arts Conference. When I think about it, it's really the same one at that time. Because Ainana said that she only had two pieces left, one of which had already been forged into a knife by her.
In addition to the "black stone", there are several other materials. With Murong Die's eyesight that had been immersed in the way of casting for many years, he couldn't distinguish any of them. "Maybe it's the same as the 'black stone', it comes from her mysterious hometown. Murong Die looked at Aina from afar.
"Where's the princess?" Fei looked around, there was no one else in the cave except Ainana, only on the other side there was something covered with a thick canvas, about a zhang high, and a person wide, I don't know what it was.
Ainana threw over a scroll, Fei Tukong took it and unfolded it, it turned out to be the edict of the Taigong, which read:
"Fei Xiaoyou, Mrs. Murong:
This cave is a hole outside the void, and time is almost stagnant, and the laws of heaven and earth can be ignored. Please also spare no effort to help Miss Ai cast.
Chiang's"
The words are very simple, but the "weight" is very heavy. First of all, the signature is "Jiang Shi", indicating that it is Jiang Taigong who left the message. The most mysterious is the sentence "time is almost stagnant", which is beyond the common sense of several people. Time inside the cave is almost dead, which means that time is passing outside the cave. One day outside the cave may be a year in the cave, and one year outside the cave may be hundreds of years in the cave. And "you can ignore the laws of heaven and earth", in other words, you don't have to worry about time coming too long. But those who study the three realms and six arts, what they are most afraid of is delaying their cultivation. And here, it's simply an excellent place for cultivation. Taigong's meaning is also obvious, let the three casters improve their casting skills in this cave and cast things. As for how far you want to improve your casting skills, I'm afraid that you will be able to melt "black stones" as easily as Ainana.
"In that case, the old body can help Miss Ai first, anyway, I'm not in a hurry to cultivate. Old lady Murong said.
"Mrs. Murong, you are wrong. Actually, I don't know how to cast at all, and I can't even do anything like 'getting started'. So it's mainly up to him, and you help him do it. Ainana pointed at Fitukong.
"Me?" Fei Tukong couldn't believe it, with Murong Die here, which round would he be the one who was the main caster? Besides, Aina could cast the best magic knife without enlightening the spirit, and many people saw it at the beginning, why did she claim that she couldn't cast it?
"Didn't the Imperial Prince's edict say that I hope you will do your best to 'help' me, not 'assist' me. In addition, Brother Fei is called in front and Mrs. Murong is behind, and it is clear who is the main caster. Anana smiled, "Besides, don't you have a secret book of foundry? ”
Mrs. Murong arched her hand and said: "Miss Ai's original skills are amazing, so that the old body is willing to bow down, I don't know ......"
"My forging skills are rough, my quenching level is poor, and I can't enlighten my soul. I just have the ability to melt the 'Sea Spirit Rock'. If you can melt it too, you can forge it twice and surpass my level. Ainana said, "So in the next period of time, the main task of the two of you is to improve your strength and enhance your skills until you can melt the 'Sea Spirit Rock' like me." It turns out that the "black stone" has such a nice name.
In this way, the cultivation of the three of them in the cave began. In fact, what Ainana does every day is not cultivation at all, she spends most of her time next to the stone platform holding a strange-looking long-handled knife, carving something on a few strange things. Because Fei Tukong is the main caster, Murong Die also shoulders the heavy responsibility of instructing him in casting skills. The Secret Book of the Cave Heaven was placed horizontally on the ground in front of Fei Tukong's body. For these two
, but moved the place of cultivation from the casting house outside the back door of the White Ghost Gang to this cave.
It is worth mentioning that there is also a small forbidden place in this cave - a stone platform in the northeast corner. There was nothing on the stone platform except a large hole in the shape of a round bucket. The shape of the big hole was exactly the same as the big hole on the stone platform in the secret chamber at the bottom of the Heavenly Prison. Ai Nana also told the two of them the advice left by Jiang Taigong, the bottom of the big cave is one of the two void holes that are stable in the Yuyu realm, and the surrounding void pressure is too strong to be approached.
To borrow a common saying, it is really "no time in the hole". Originally, there was no daylight, only illuminated by the firelight, not to distinguish day and night, not to mention that the speed of time in the cave was almost stagnant, and the outside world did not know the geometry of the cave.
Maybe it was Jin Chanyu who mentioned the cultivation level of Xiao Tianhe and the others that stimulated Fei Tukong, and he cultivated extremely hard. In order for her daughter to have something to rely on in the future, Mrs. Murong has strict requirements for this prospective son-in-law. Ainana also found the interaction between the mother-in-law and son-in-law very interesting, and the long days were not boring.
However, peace is often shattered when one is defenseless. On this day, something suddenly happened.
Around the wee hours of the morning, an uninvited guest suddenly came outside the cave.
When this person was far away in the zigzag secret passage, he shouted loudly: "Captain, there is your snow net outside, I know you must be inside!"
Because of the difference in the speed of time inside and outside the cave, the man's voice was pressed very thick and long, and it reverberated in the cave for a long time. As soon as Ainana heard this, her face changed, and she hurriedly greeted her two companions: "The enemy is coming, prepare to fight!"
Fei Tukong, who had just recovered from meditation, was puzzled: "Who is coming?" and what is the matter with the 'captain'?"
Ainana was silent for a moment, and then said, "It's a long story. This man was my subordinate, and he came with me from his homeland. However, after he came, he noticed that he did not plan to go back. We disagreed until now we had to fight each other. ”
"No, right? If he wants to stay, he will stay, and if he wants to go, he will go, at most, 'the way is different, and he will not conspire with each other', and he will not want to meet each other!"
"This ......" Anana looked very embarrassed, and her eyes involuntarily glanced at the stone platform.
Mrs. Murong saw the clue: "But for those materials?"
Anana sighed, "That's right. Truth be told, those materials were the key to whether or not I could return to my hometown, but they were also the key to whether or not this person could stay here. Without these things, not only would our strength drop dramatically, but our lives would be difficult to sustain...... Now you don't understand it, anyway, if I disagree with this person, the material becomes a matter of contention. After a pause, she continued, "This person has a very high talent for fighting, and he was originally my deputy. I had a companion who had been poisoned by him not long ago. Now I'm on my own. ”
"And us!" Fei Tukong waved his fist, "Even my companions are killed, this person is really not a thing! I have always been jealous and hateful, and this kind of villain can only be punished!"
Ainana turned her head to look at him, but the face hidden under the cloak didn't know what the expression was: "It's not that I look down on you, even if our strength has declined rapidly, but with your current level, it is still difficult to deal with him." I'll entangle him then, so you guys hurry up!"
"Let's go together if you want to go!" Old Lady Murong paused for crutches.
"No, I forgot that I was the one who collected the nets, and he came for me, so there is no need to put you in danger. If there is a time to meet again in the future......"
"Hahaha, there won't be!" rushed into the hole.
The man was taller than Ainana, also thin and tall, and wore a white cloak. As soon as he entered the cave, he noticed the pillar covered with a back canvas in the corner, and his face sank, and he was about to say something, when he saw the things on the stone platform, and then laughed loudly: "Wonderful, wonderful! It seems that I have come at the right time!"
"Don't think!" Ainana stood in front of the stone platform.
"What if you keep these things?" the man in the white cloak glanced at Fei Tukong and Murong Die, "Even the forger has been invited, but have you forgotten? You still lack the most crucial thing, and it will fall short after all, so you might as well give it to me obediently!"
"What is missing, I can go and find. If I can't find it, I'll admit it, but wouldn't it be a pity if I found it and lost what I have now?"
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