Chapter 422: The Swamp Under the Cliff
At this moment, on the top of the stone cave, about three zhang or so from the bottom of the cave, there is a platform that stretches out obliquely, the platform is very flat, there is a corner of the small pavilion, the abbot Xu Fangyuan, a stone table is placed in it.
The two people in the pavilion sat opposite each other, and while they were talking, the sound of percussion was ringing in their ears.
"Just let them go like that?" one of the old men asked a middle-aged man in front of him, frowning slightly.
"Or else?" the man asked rhetorically, with a flat expression.
"If the tiger returns to the mountain, it will eventually become a great disaster!" the old man sighed with a sad face.
"In this world, there are young people after all, and Nanting Sect has such a genius, which can be regarded as the luck of this Shenzhou!" the man replied.
"I'm afraid, I'm afraid, I will only increase my troubles in the future!" the old man was still a little uneasy, and replied.
"In this world, there is not only one place in China, the immortal road is cut off, you are sweeping away the eight wildernesses, what's the use, the world is unpredictable, and where is there a long-term enemy!" The man replied, as if he didn't care much about the old man's words.
"What do you think of this young man?" the old man shook his head when he heard this, and asked no longer entangled.
"Woe, blessing is lurking, this child is guilty of Qianyuan City, this time out of the mountain, it is more than lucky, but it is not a short-lived person by looking at the face!" The man sighed with emotion, and there was a bit of compassion in his eyes.
"Back then, he disappeared for no reason on that Futu Island, and then there was a great change, and the righteous path of Shenzhou suffered a lot of losses, but it seems that the Iron Sword Gate and Tianlangfang have never given up the search, and his cultivation is just a life of running everywhere!" the old man also replied.
"It's not a bad thing to go through a lot of hardships!" the man smiled suddenly.
"Okay, then send them away!" When the old man heard this, he immediately got up, and with a wave of his long sleeves, a blue light hit the cave wall, and then he saw that the stone wall, which was originally empty, rippled like water.
At the same time, there was a change beyond the stone wall.
Su Mai and Lu Yunxi, who were standing on it, were striking the stone with their swords, when they suddenly saw a flash of light on the cliff wall, and the rock twisted, stretching out one after another like a trick, staggering and extending straight down, less than a zhang apart from each other.
"Yun Xi, what's going on?" Su Mai saw this, his face was happy, but he was a little incredulous for a while.
"Could it be that we inadvertently opened the mechanism on this stone wall?" Lu Yunxi was also a little puzzled, looking at the stone steps under his feet, with a stunned expression.
"It should be!" Su Mai responded, and then said, "Sir, did you mention this stone step before?"
"No, he only said that he climbed down from this cliff, but he didn't elaborate on how to get down!" Lu Yunxi responded, and then replied: "There is no way to go here, if you can't use spiritual power, it is impossible to go down, the only possibility is these stone steps." ”
"I'm afraid that Mr. already knows, so he ordered us to come down, these stone steps should be a feasible way, I'll take a look!" Su Maifu put away the black sword, clenched the smoky purple silk, and then tentatively jumped towards the first stone step under his feet.
The sudden appearance of the stone looked a little thin, but after Su Mai stepped on it, there was no accident, and it seemed that there was no danger.
After stepping on it vigorously and making sure that it was reliable and reliable, Su Maifu jumped to the next step, and then beckoned Lu Yunxi to follow him.
The Chang Geng bird didn't know if he was also a little afraid of the rune array,
At this moment, he followed Lu Yunxi closely, and he didn't dare to fly in mid-air, but he landed on all fours and jumped over carefully.
This stone is less than a zhang apart, for ordinary people, it may be quite difficult, although Su Mai and the others did not dare to use spiritual power, but after many years of practice, this figure is very light, so all the way down, there is no surprise.
Descending the steps like this, Su Mai roughly counted, nearly half an hour had passed, and the two had jumped over more than 100 stone steps, but under the cliff, they still couldn't see their heads.
As far as the eye could see, it was gray, and I didn't know whether it was clouds or fog, and it was the same scene above my head and under my feet.
"Yun Xi, have you ever mentioned how deep this cliff is?" Su Mai stood on a rock, leaned on the cliff wall, rested for a moment, and suddenly asked.
"No!" Lu Yunxi replied, and then looked around, and felt a little strange, the two of them seemed to be in mid-air at this moment, as they continued to climb, but the road they came from was long gone, and those strange stones also disappeared into the mountain wall.
There is no way back except to keep going down.
"It's strange!" Su Mai also raised his eyes and looked overhead, his brows furrowed, and his eyes were a little puzzled.
"What's so strange?" Lu Yunxi hurriedly asked when he heard this.
"I always feel like these rocks are being manipulated from behind!" replied Sumai.
"You mean, someone is secretly staring at us?" Lu Yunxi heard this, his face changed, and his tone was very surprised.
"If, according to what Mr. said, the talisman array on this cliff is very powerful, and tells us not to use spiritual power, then it is not trivial, I don't believe it, we can open this stone ladder with a few chisels on the stone wall at will, unless someone deliberately lets us go!" Su Mai thought for a moment, and then said.
"In this way, it is also possible, but in addition to the villagers in the ruins, there is only one monk on this island, and we have not found any outsiders on this island for several years, if there is really someone to control it, then who is it, it can't be Mr. 's doing!" Lu Yunxi continued.
"This is also what I don't understand, if there is really someone else hiding here, with the cultivation of Mr., it is impossible to be unaware!" Su Mai replied.
As far as he knew, if someone really set up a garrison here, it would be almost impossible to hide it from Mr., and besides, such a big move was by no means a momentary effort.
Unless, sir, knows about it!
"Could it be that Mr. has something to hide from us?" Lu Yunxi glanced at Su Mai with a suspicious expression.
Su Mai was silent for a moment, looking at his expression, extremely unwilling to believe that this would be the case.
In his eyes, Mr. is a hidden master in the beautiful scenery, in the past three years, he has been affectionate to him, and he can be described as a teacher and friend, he naturally does not believe that Mr. will do something behind them.
"Regardless of whether there is really someone behind this, as long as we leave safely, the matter here will have nothing to do with it, and we will not come back anyway, let him go!"
Lu Yunxi nodded, although she had doubts in her heart, but there were more important things at the moment, as long as she could leave this place, she didn't bother to care about anything else.
In a few moments, the two of them resumed their journey.
In this way, he went down dozens of feet, and there was still nothing unusual in front of him, but when Su Mai wanted to jump forward again, he felt that the purple silk in his hand was tight, but it was Lu Yunxi who pulled him back.
"What's wrong?" asked Su Mai as he turned around and looked behind him.
"Do you smell it?"
Lu Yunxi's nose moved slightly, and then said.
"Taste?" Su Mai didn't feel anything before, he hurriedly closed his eyes when he heard the words, and took a deep breath.
"Like...... There is a smell!" After a while, he listened to him.
"Well, it looks like rancid!" Lu Yunxi nodded in response, paused, and replied: "It seems that the bottom of this cliff is almost here!"
"That's right, there is a smell wafting, which means that there is something underneath here!" Su Mai responded, his face beaming with joy.
"Almost to the bottom of the cliff, the talisman array on this cliff will no longer work, wait for me to explore first!" Lu Yunxi continued.
Without waiting for Su Mai to respond, he saw her figure flash, and she fell down again and again in a few steps.
With a little bit of strength on the rock, the rabbit fell and soon disappeared.
The Chang Geng bird seemed to be very lively, and when it saw this, it also jumped and flew away.
Leaving Su Mai with a surprised face, he wanted to catch up, but he had no way to do so, so he had to look at the smoke and purple silk floating in his hand and smile bitterly.
After hesitating for a moment, Su Mai had no choice but to leap alone and cautiously go down.
After less than a moment, he saw the white shadow at the bottom of the cliff shaking, and soon, Lu Yunxi turned back.
"How's it going, what's the situation?" Su Mai asked hurriedly when he saw this.
"The bottom of the cliff is about fifty feet below here!" Lu Yunxi stabilized his figure and replied.
Su Mai looked down, and then suddenly realized that something was wrong.
"What about the stupid bird?" The Chang Geng bird that went with Lu Yunxi did not return at this moment.
"I'll let it go around and reconnoitre!" Lu Yunxi responded, and then said: "There is a swamp down here, and there are many corpses of birds and beasts scattered in it, and the smell of decay from here comes out. ”
"No wonder ......" Su Mai responded, and then continued: "Is there danger at the bottom of the cliff?"
"I haven't found it yet, but it shouldn't be easy!" Lu Yunxi answered, and then stretched out his hand to make a move in the air, and the smoky purple silk in Su Mai's hand flew towards her as if she was alive.
only heard a "let's go!", Su Mai felt that his body was flying away, Lu Yunxi tapped his toes, and soon, he fell to the bottom of the cliff.
Before Su Mai's feet landed, he felt a very heavy stench rushing in, mixed with the smell of rotting flesh, and an indescribable fishy smell.
The two of them landed on a slightly dry meadow, and when they looked up, countless puddles of water of different sizes and depths covered the bottom of the cliff, and in the distance, there was a jungle, and it was impossible to see what was there.
"In this puddle, there won't be any human-eating monsters, right?" Su Mai looked at for a moment and asked Lu Yunxi with a smile.
"It's hard to say!" Lu Yunxi smiled mysteriously and replied lightly.
"Now that we have reached the bottom of the cliff, it should be okay to think about the rune array, hurry up and call the bird back and carry us over!" Seeing this, Su Mai didn't know if what she said was true or false, and thought to herself, anyway, there is the Chang Geng bird, let it hide and fly out, naturally it's fine.
Lu Yunxi nodded, and was about to speak, but suddenly heard a shout in his ear.
"There's a voice!" Su Mai quickly heard as well.
"It looks like Chang Geng is calling us!" Lu Yunxi listened attentively, and then said.
"It seems to be shouting for help!" Without waiting for Su Mai to respond, Lu Yunxi's face suddenly changed and he said urgently.
"Go and see!" Su Mai moved his footsteps and wanted to move forward.
"Come with me!" The Tianyuan Sword responded and left, and as soon as Lu Yunxi pulled Su Mai, he jumped up.
Because she didn't know if she would be affected by the rune array in this mid-air, she didn't dare to fly too high and walk with her sword a few feet above the ground.
The sword light flashed, and the figures of the two of them also flew away quickly, and under their feet, the puddles of water also quickly retreated, and it didn't seem to be very dangerous.
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