Chapter Twenty-Eight: Severed Hands

The wind in the wilderness was blowing with dust, and while it wasn't as suffocating as it was in the desert to the south, it wasn't very comfortable. After leaving the Blood Fang Camp, Shen Shi walked on this wasteland for half an hour, and then completely left the lonely and strange demon clan camp behind him, and he could no longer see it.

Looking around, the dragon wilderness was bleak, and it seemed that everywhere was covered with a layer of gray color, and the words of the vast sky and wilderness probably said this. Except for the large and small stones scattered everywhere on the ground, as well as the withered yellow weeds that stubbornly took root on this barren land, Shen Shi hardly saw anything else, not even a tall tree.

Walking in such a vast wilderness, it is easy for people to feel their own insignificance and the vastness of heaven and earth, and of course it is very easy to lose their way. But fortunately, today seems to be a fairly good weather in the Dragon Wilderness, the sun is clearly visible, relying on this guidance, Shen Shicai has been correcting his occasional wrong steps, and has been walking to the east.

I didn't see any animals or beasts along the way, and I don't know if this wilderness is too desolate for even monsters to live here. Recalling that when he first met the Iron Monkey and the Mountain Wolf yesterday, they had gone deep into the oasis in the desert to collect food, and Shen Shi could roughly imagine that the life of the Bloody Fang Clan was not easy.

It's just that if the living environment is so bad, this demon tribe is still guarding here in the Dragon Wilderness, is it really for that somewhat illusory and ethereal legend? Thinking of this, Shen Shi couldn't help but pout in his heart, thinking that with the strength of the Blood Fang Tribe's current situation, even if there was really that ancient demon, if one day he got out of trouble, it would not be something that this tribe could deal with.

Thinking like this in his heart, Shen Shi glanced around again, and made sure that there was no one near the left and left of this desolate and withered wasteland, so he simply took out the Snow Dumping Sword directly from the Ruyi bag, and then called the little black pig, and flew directly to the east.

Once the sword flew, both the vision and the speed suddenly increased more than ten times, all the way in the wind swept forward, and soon saw from the high altitude in the distance, a touch of green and water appeared somewhere on the earth, Shen Shi couldn't help but secretly sigh in his heart This flying magic weapon is indeed a powerful aid for exploration and travel, it is really easy to use. Although he couldn't fly for a long time due to the Dao Realm, as long as he flew for a moment or two, it was enough.

Thinking of this, he suddenly thought of the sword word she whispered when she passed by Zhong Qingzhu outside the Yunxiao Hall on Jinhong Mountain that day, and sighed silently in his heart for a while, but he didn't know what happened to her and several other friends, whether she had safely entered the Wentian Secret Realm, or where she landed, and whether she had any chance?

The Tilting Snow Sword was not an ordinary product, carrying Shen Shi and Xiao Hei at a very fast flying speed, and it didn't take long for it to approach the rare green in the wasteland in front of him, and Shen Shi landed directly on the periphery. One is to save the consumption of spiritual power, and the other is to be cautious, this Wentian Secret Realm is full of dangers and unpredictable, even if this piece of greenery looks vibrant, but compared to the desolation of other places in the wasteland, I am afraid that it is more dangerous.

The first thing that caught his eye was a few jagged dwarf trees, growing in a zigzag, and at the same time the wind was blowing in front of him, which actually carried a little moistness. Shen Shi's spirit was invigorated, there would actually be water vapor in this wilderness, presumably in front of him was the swamp that the iron monkey said was rare in the dragon wilderness.

After taking a closer look at the surroundings, Shen Shi walked forward, as he gradually moved forward, the surrounding environment began to change significantly, the air began to moisten and mild, the trees and weeds were increasing, and obviously began to be a little greener, but along the way, Shen Shi still didn't see any beasts and animals.

Xiao Hei also looked obviously lively, with a little curiosity to sniff nearby, so he walked forward almost fifty or sixty zhang away, and when the surrounding grass and trees had become lush, Shen Shi saw a piece of water appear in front of him.

The mirror-like surface of the water lies quietly behind the grass and trees in front of it, and occasionally a light breeze blows before it makes a little ripple, and many unknown plants and plants with half rhizomes growing in the water can be seen on the edge and in the middle of the water. When he arrived here, Shen Shi also began to hear a burst of muffled sounds around him, which seemed to be similar to the common insect chirping sounds, faintly coming from the dense water and grass.

Shen Shi turned his head to look, only to see that this piece of water looked not small, in terms of area alone, it should be much larger than the few oases in the desert in front of him, it is strange to think about it, in such a large desolate dragon wilderness, there is such a humid swamp, it is really a very strange thing. However, heaven and earth are naturally created and mysterious, and no matter how strange things are, there will be some strange things.

Shen Shi watched by the water for a while, but did not immediately walk towards the depths of the swamp, but after muttering for a while, he retreated a distance, rested and recovered for a while, and then sacrificed the Snow Dumping Sword again, but he flew directly into the air and flew over this swamp.

In such a rare place of water and grass in the wilderness, if there are monsters nearby, I am afraid that they will definitely come here, in other words, this is actually an extremely dangerous place. Including the Iron Monkey, it was actually mentioned before that although the Bloodtooth tribe often sent people here to fetch water, they themselves had a fixed time and place to come here for thousands of years, and it was relatively safe at that time. And in the danger of the swamp, the iron monkey also focused on talking to Shen Shi about a few.

Flying in mid-air, Shen Shi held Xiao Hei while carefully looking at the swamp below, only to see that the water surface was originally calm, but when the Snow Dumping Sword flew through the air, somewhere below the surface of the swamp, a huge piece of silt-like underwater mud seemed to suddenly shake, and it looked like a strange monster beast that was several times larger than the oasis crocodile demon beast, raised its head and stretched out of the water, and let out an angry roar at the prey that escaped in the sky.

The water surface of the swamp trembled violently, and the momentum was so great that Shen Shi's pupils shrank slightly, if he wanted to save spiritual power or if he didn't have the flying magic weapon of the Snow Falling Sword, he would venture through the swamp, and he was afraid that this huge demon beast alone would be enough to threaten his life.

And in the next flight, in this vast swamp, Shen Shi saw several similar demon beasts one after another, and even saw a giant beast swooping out of the water in the depths of the swamp with his own eyes, biting the deer that came from nowhere and was ready to drink water by the water's edge directly, and then dragged it into the swamp in a pool of blood. The whole killing process is bloody and ferocious, but it takes a very short time, which makes people feel palpitations.

No wonder the Iron Monkey said that no one in the Blood Fang Tribe has crossed this swamp for many years, if this is a little weaker, I am afraid that nine out of ten people will become the belly of this nameless giant beast, and listen to the meaning of the Iron Monkey, there are several extremely dangerous things in this swamp that the ancestors of the Blood Fang have encountered in the past, including a bug that will instantly suck up blood, a very strange monster with a wolf body but can run upright, and even a seemingly harmless but can eat people.

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However, all this was dangerous, with the help of the magic weapon spirit sword of the Tilting Snow Sword, Shen Shi easily dodged it. He didn't dare to stop in the middle of this swamp, so he urged his spiritual power and flew directly over the entire swamp, until he crossed the water surface for more than a hundred feet, and then landed.

After landing, Shen Shi let out a sigh of relief, put away the Tilting Snow Sword, and then found that the situation in his body seemed to be better than originally expected, his heart moved, and he looked inward and checked himself, and found that this way the Imperial Sword was speeding over, and the spiritual power consumed seemed to be less than before, or was it that his spiritual power had entered the realm a little bit since he came to the Yuan Shi Gate?

Shen Shi obviously felt that the spiritual power in his dantian was slightly thicker than before, you must know that before this, he had never dared to fly too much, what he was afraid of was that the spiritual power was too depleted, and he would be in trouble when encountering danger. But at this moment, he had a faint feeling that he was about to touch the threshold of the high-level of the Ning Yuan Realm. It's just that this thought made him himself a little surprised, after all, the time it took him to break through to the middle level of the Ning Yuan Realm was not too long, and it stands to reason that his cultivation speed should not be so fast.

Thinking about it, he couldn't help but think of this trip to the Yuan Shi Gate, except for the Yin and Yang Mantra secret method that he secretly practiced or some might have a bonus effect on the Dao Xing, the rest may be because he touched the Wuzhen Rock in the Yuan Shi Gate this time...... Hmm, okay, I don't know if it's that big stone yet, and then I went to Dazhu Peak and accidentally found another fragment of the Immortal Killing Ancient Sword. Maybe that time, did it improve your spiritual power?

Shen Shi thought for a while, and shook his head silently, and he was also bottomless about this matter, because the Killing Immortal Ancient Sword had been lying quietly in the corner of his Ruyi bag these days, and there was nothing unusual, if it was said that it had promoted his Taoism, there was no obvious sign.

So in the end, he collected his mood and continued to move forward. After this swamp, there was a desolate and withered field in front of it, but perhaps because of the influence of this piece of water, in the wilderness behind the swamp, the grass and trees were still more or less prosperous, some dry and thin trees began to grow on the wilderness, and wild grasses also appeared in piles, and Shen Shi even saw one or two hares jumping through the grass on this wilderness.

Occasionally, a fox with yellow fur ran out of the middle, poked his head out of a bush, and looked at Shen Shi and Xiao Hei, the two uninvited guests who suddenly appeared, with some curiosity, Shen Shi was nothing, and kept walking forward, but Xiao Hei glared at that side, and suddenly roared, grinning with his teeth, which startled the little fox and jumped back with a whoosh.

Shen Shi glanced at Xiao Hei, a little funny, and just wanted to tell it not to be troublesome, but he saw that the little black pig actually rushed out and rushed into the wild grass, looking like he was a little dissatisfied with the fox and wanted to teach it a lesson.

Shen Shi was angry and funny, shook his head and shouted, "Xiao Hei, don't chase, come back." ”

It's just that there was a shaking in the grass, but there was no figure of Xiao Hei, Shen Shi sighed, and also turned around and walked over, and said at the same time: "It's just a fox, what are you doing so excited, and people haven't messed with you......"

Before the words fell, Shen Shi's body suddenly shook, his face sank suddenly, and he stood in place. In front of him, deep in the weeds, Xiao Hei trotted all the way back, but in its mouth, there was something in its mouth.

It was a half-severed human hand, and the blood had dried up, but judging from the wound and the flesh of the severed hand, the hand must have been cut off and dropped in the past few days.