47. Retreat

He suppressed his breath of life to its lowest point, and even his pulse and heartbeat became extremely slow. At the same time, he also gave up resistance to the force of the current, and allowed the river to push itself in all directions, moving downstream.

The King of Hengjiang quickly chased him to the place where he fell into the water, and the demon yuan force swept around, freezing the surrounding rivers.

But Li Miao had already drifted some distance along the current.

"Hey, where's he?"

King Hengjiang pounced in the air, and hurriedly diverted the perception on the eight pointed feet, trying to find Li Miao's whereabouts.

He is a blue crab cultivator, and now he has not yet transformed, he is still a demon body, and he can't get rid of the shackles of the blue crab's body.

Crabs have worse eyesight than most creatures, relying on the perception of their feet to distinguish what is around them. If it was just a normal biological target, he could easily find it, but Li Miao took the initiative to hide his breath, but it was not easy to find.

Li Miao drifted dozens of feet away, and the king of Hengjiang could vaguely sense that he was going downstream, but he couldn't lock the position, so he could only swim and follow.

Li Miao, who was drifting down the river, squinted his eyes, and through the faint light emitted by the stars in the sky, he vaguely saw a huge shadow chasing after him, and secretly complained in his heart.

"If you get caught in the water, you will definitely die. He thought to himself.

At present, he has no magic weapon to win, and the only treasure at the bottom of the box that can fight against the Great Demon of the Guiyuan Realm, the "Floating Magnetic Cannon", has been given to Ji Lingyu, and his strongest means is just a full sword under the Galaxy Holy Body.

But he had already tried it just now, and he could only repel the magic weapon of the King of Hengjiang with all his strength, and it would be difficult to protect himself, let alone kill the enemy.

"What should I do, do I just die in the river and become food for youkai?"

A great shadow was approaching, and it would take a few breaths to catch up with him.

Seeing that the shadow was about to be drawn closer to within twenty zhang, Li Miao had no choice but to take out a fist-sized cosmic crystal from the small universe and throw it in the direction of the shadow, trying to distract the target of the blue crab demon.

This thing is even covetous to the Yang Yan real people in the Xuantong Realm, and it must be able to play a role.

Really.

As soon as the cosmic crystal appeared, the huge energy aura immediately attracted the attention of King Hengjiang.

The giant crab waved its claws and threw out a blue light, freezing the river.

"Well, it's not that monk, it's something"

King Hengjiang caught the ice cube, and his small eyes looked at the beautiful sky-blue rhinestones frozen in it, and he was a little puzzled.

The amount of energy contained in the cosmic crystal is far more than that of a monster at the peak of the Guiyuan Realm, comparable to that of a powerhouse in the Xuantong Realm. Otherwise, it would not have become the core energy of the floating magnetic cannon, causing such terrifying destructive power.

Such a huge cloud of energy appeared in front of him, which made the king of Hengjiang really stunned for a moment, and almost forgot to chase Li Miao such a prey.

By the time he came back to his senses, Li Miao had already drifted a long distance away and escaped from his perceptual range.

"What a cunning human"

King Hengjiang held the cosmic crystal frozen into ice cubes, and scolded angrily.

However, after getting such a mysterious treasure as the Cosmic Crystal, his idea of chasing the prey was much weaker, and when he saw that Li Miao had run away, he gave up tracking and instead devoted his mind to the Cosmic Crystal.

"It's a strange thing, the spirit stone is not like the spirit stone, and the magic weapon is not like the magic weapon"

King Hengjiang didn't know the "fairy jade", and the baby was caught in the pliers but didn't know how to use it, only that it must be a good thing.

After looking around twice and not seeing any clues, he said, "I'll take it back to the cave later, study it with the children, and now go eat the humans on the ship and fill my stomach." "A wave of river water, surfaced.

Upstream, the boat was being carried by the ice, swaying and turning in circles on the river, drifting down the river.

King Hengjiang smiled cruelly and rushed forward.

Li Miao used the price of a cosmic crystal to attract the attention of the King of Hengjiang, but he still didn't dare to relax, he still restrained his breath and went with the flow, lest he be discovered by the big demon.

He held his breath and tossed and turned underwater, drifting far away before he knew it.

After concentrating his eyes and making sure that he could no longer see the traces of the shadow, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"I finally escaped. ”

"I just don't know if Liang Jun and the others can survive"

Li Miao felt a little guilty in his heart.

An hour ago, he was still saying that he could protect the people on the ship from being robbed by the bandits and bandits in Tianmen Gorge. But now that he has encountered such a big demon, he has abandoned people

King Hengjiang couldn't find him, and most of them had to go back to those people to vent their temper, and Liang Jun and the others were afraid that they would die.

"Alas, when I have the ability, I will come back to find the great crab and kill him to avenge you. Li Miao said in his heart.

The force of the river was so great that it almost sank him to the bottom.

This Cangyun River doesn't know how deep it is, and the river water is not clear, he can't see the starlight in the sky at all now, and it is pitch black all around, and he can't see his five fingers.

Li Miao felt that from time to time there would be some mud and gravel passing by him, and he was a little uncomfortable, so he wanted to exert his strength to get out of the force of the current and float to the surface.

Unexpectedly, he had just floated a short distance when he hit a stone with a "bang".

"What's going on?"

The head hit, but it didn't hurt, but it just made him a little depressed.

Tonight's luck is really too bad, and it's bad luck to meet a big demon who gets in the way, and he can't even get along with the stones.

There was no light around him, and he couldn't see what was above his head. Reaching out and touching it, I found that it was a flat stone slab, which for some reason was actually blocking the top of my head.

Li Miao groped around twice, and found that the stone slab was quite large, and couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

"Find a light source to light it up. ”

There happened to be some practical props in the small universe ring, and he took out a small prop "Everbright Tube" that was always available for the expeditionary force, and the surroundings suddenly brightened up a little.

The river flows forward, because at the bottom of the river, you can see a lot of sediment and fine debris moving with the waves.

Under the soft white light, Li Miao could see the things around him clearly.

It turned out that what blocked his rise to the surface was not a simple stone slab, but a long, long stone wall.

At this moment, he was in the middle of a deep road, with stone walls above and on the left and right, and a layer of silt under his feet, and the river filled the entire road, trying to push him forward.

"It's strange, how can there be a tunnel under this deep water"

Li Miao was puzzled.

And looking at the dirt on the stone walls, it looks like they have been there for many years.

He looked behind him, and by the soft white light, he could tell that he was not very far from the entrance of the Yongdao, and if he wanted to leave, he only had to swim against the river for a while.

But when he came to such a place, his curiosity overrode the idea of escaping the waters.

In the depths of this corridor, could there be something special?

The road is unfathomable, and the light of the Changming tube can only illuminate a range of two or three zhang in the turbid water at the bottom of the river.

Li Miao hesitated for a moment, but finally curiosity prevailed, and he pedaled the river twice, and slowly drifted down the river to the depths of the road.

There were many fish, shrimp and water insects under the river, and they dodged around with his arrival, and a turbid current awoke wherever he passed.

The road runs diagonally downward, and the further you swim in, the more sediment accumulates, making the space narrow.

Li Miao walked forward for a distance, and suddenly felt a faint spiritual power fluctuation in front of him, so he sped up and swam in.

When I looked closer, it turned out to be a psychic river shrimp, almost as thick as a thigh, but the Dao line was still very low, about equivalent to an immortal cultivator at the third level of qi refining.

After the shrimp demon channeled, he had a certain amount of wisdom, and when he felt the aura emanating from Li Miao's body, he was very frightened, and hurriedly fled deeper.

Li Miao followed unhurriedly, and after a while, another aura appeared in front of him, which was a water snake spirit monster equivalent to a fifth-level qi refining monk.

The river shrimp spirit ran into the water snake spirit, probably because he had one more companion and had confidence, so he no longer ran away. The two elves swam over together, instigating their weak demonic power to attack him.

A water arrow and a mouthful of venom crossed the river and hit Li Miao, he slapped forward at random, and the two attacks were scattered, and at the same time, the remaining strength was not reduced, and it slapped directly on the water snake spirit monster and the river shrimp spirit monster.

The two spirits couldn't dodge, and were directly crushed by the palm wind, and their spiritual power dissipated and fell into the mud.

After solving the two spirits, Li Miao secretly thought in his heart, "There are monster activities in this underwater passage, and the deepest part should not be a monster's lair?"

This conjecture made him have the idea of retreating.

After all, he was beaten by the King of Hengjiang in the realm of Guiyuan just now, and if he accidentally broke into the lair of the big demon, it would be a lot of fun.

But then he thought about it, the size of the King of Hengjiang was huge, even if he didn't count the eight barbed legs, the size of the carapace on his back alone was already a zhang wide.

And the width of this corridor is only about seven feet, unless the blue crab demon can change the size of the body, it will definitely not be able to enter.

But if it's not a monster lair, where does this passage lead?

It can be seen that this underwater tunnel is artificially built, and the reason why it appears under the river is nothing more than two possibilities.

One possibility is that the humans or youkai who built the tunnel were already living underwater, which was the way home for the builders.

Another possibility is that this corridor was originally a building or secret passage on the ground, but after a long time, the sea has become a mulberry field, and the buildings on the original flat ground have sunk into the ground, become part of the river, and disappear from the sight of the world.

Li Miao is more inclined to the second conjecture.

After a moment's hesitation, he moved on.

After a while, there was a fork in the road ahead, and the road was split in two, one to the left and one to the right.

There seemed to be no difference between the left and right roads, so he kept an eye on it, made a mark at the fork in the road, and entered the right road.

A short time later, he encountered a third spirit.

This time it was a bucket-sized mussel essence, about the sixth level of Qi refining cultivation, and his temper was a little bad, and as soon as he saw Li Miao, he spit out a pink bubble and hit him.

The bubble contained a sluggish toxin, and was a difficult means for human monks to entangle.

But unfortunately, the difference in strength between the two was too big, and Li Miao destroyed the bubble with one palm, and the hard shell of the mussel essence was also shattered.

The mussel spirit is not dead yet. She is quite human, knowing that she is not an opponent, she panicked and spit out a few water blue pearls the size of pigeon eggs and dedicated them to Li Miao, wanting to exchange treasures for a small life.

Li Miao didn't have a good impression of the monster, so he ignored it, and directly crushed the mussel essence, scooped up the pearl, and threw it into the small universe and continued to move forward.

The road is very deep, he has been diving for hundreds of feet, and there is still no end in sight.

After swimming for a while, the road in front of it once again branched out into three branches, leading in different directions.

Li Miao continued to leave marks, and his footsteps did not stop.

Several stronger auras appeared in front of them, this time it was three fish spirits, two at the seventh level of qi refining, and one at the eighth level of qi refining.

The three fish monsters were getting together, not knowing what to communicate. Li Miao's arrival immediately aroused their hostility, and the fishtail flicked and attacked.

For these low-level spirits who didn't even know how to conceive and raise natal magic weapons, Li Miao didn't pay attention to it at all, and still slapped it with one palm and crushed the three fish monsters.

"It's endless"

After swimming so far and not finding the end, the monsters on the road are getting stronger and stronger, which makes him a little impatient.

However, after killing the three fish monsters, he never encountered any other monsters, except for the forks in the road, trying to mislead him about his whereabouts.

Li Miao intuitively identified a path and kept moving forward, and after more than a quarter of an hour, an exit appeared in front of him

"It's there," he sped up and swam towards the exit.

Out of the road, the water around him suddenly accelerated, and when he looked around, he realized that he was back at the bottom of the river.

After wandering around for a long time, I actually went the wrong way

"There must be another way out of this secret passage, do it again"

Li Miao didn't believe in evil and turned his head and got into the tunnel again.

He's been underwater for a long time, but with his genes, breathing isn't a problem.

Returning to the corridor, he swam in the same direction, paying attention to the changes in the speed and turbidity of the water along the way, according to the marks he had left earlier, slowly groping for passage by passage.

Under his unremitting search, after half an hour, the water flow in the corridor under his feet slowly became smooth and gentle, the water quality changed from turbid to clear, the silt and river sand disappeared, and he saw the bluestone slab underneath.

"This path should be the right one. Li Miao said in his heart.

If the water has been turbid and turbulent, it means that his position is still under the Cangyun River, and it has not changed much.

And now, he intuitively felt that he had already left the range of the Cangyun River, and even went deeper than six or seven miles in the direction of the bank, moving underground

As he climbed up a slope along the stone floor, the water curtain in front of him suddenly disappeared, and his vision suddenly widened.

This time it's really here

"Wow"

Li Miao jumped up and jumped from the water to the land.

A faint aura and demonic aura filled the surroundings, and he quickly glanced at it, and found that there was an empty cave in front of him, surrounded by only a few dilapidated statues and a dilapidated stone door.

The statues looked to be some years old, some had missing arms, some had missing heads, some had lost their weapons, and their bodies were covered with dust, and they couldn't see their original appearance clearly.

The situation of the stone gate was not much better, although it was tightly closed, but the central position was blasted open with a two-foot-wide gap, completely losing the meaning of the "door", and a person could walk in.