Chapter 212: The Little Valley

Walking forward for a while, Shen Shi's face was calm but his eyes were always a little cautious, scanning the surrounding woods. It's just that the forest has always been quiet, the trees and thorns and wild grasses are full of green, and occasionally the mountain breeze will blow and sway lightly with the wind, which looks like a very comfortable place.

It's just that Shen Shi always felt that something was not quite right.

He frowned slightly, pondered for a moment, and then continued to walk forward, but the palm of his right hand was already slightly hanging down at his side, not far from the Ruyi bag tied around his waist.

Judging from the speed of the floating immortal boat flying along the periphery of the Black Crow Ridge just now and the frequency of letting people down, Shen Shi recalled in his heart that he felt that every Ning Yuan Realm disciple who entered the Black Crow Ridge would be separated from each other by at least a mile or two, and in some places, if there were some valleys and ravines or something, the distance would be even farther.

In other words, in the beginning of this period, unless some wealthy trial disciples directly used the flying magic weapon, but of course, such a move was undoubtedly not a clever method in this strange place, otherwise, at least for the first half of the day, most people were alone and would not meet others.

There was a strange smell wafting in the air, which was uncomfortable but bearable, Shen Shi seemed to have thought of something, turned his head to look at Xiao Hei, but found that the little black pig seemed to be completely unaffected, from the beginning to the present, he had been quite excited to trot in the forest and sniff.

It stands to reason that Xiao Hei's sense of smell is much sharper than that of ordinary people, and it is impossible not to feel the strange aura here in Black Crow Ridge, and the reaction should be stronger, how can he look completely casual? Shen Shi thought about it, and was always a little puzzled, and in the end it could only be attributed to the fact that there were too many strange things on this pig, maybe he was born to only smell the fragrance of spiritual herbs and ignore other disgusting breaths.

But thinking of this, Shen Shi remembered an important thing, beckoned Xiao Hei over, and then squatted down and touched its head, and said with a pleasant face: "Xiao Hei, this time I came to Black Crow Ridge is different from when we go out to travel and explore on weekdays, if we can find more spiritual grass and spiritual materials, we can also make friends, don't be lazy, okay?"

Xiao Hei raised his head and glanced at him, nodded the pig's head, and was unexpectedly easy to speak, but it startled Shen Shi for a moment, and looked at the little black pig in surprise.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Shen Shi still felt a little uneasy, thinking that this pig is used to being cunning on weekdays, maybe he has been a little smarter in recent times, and it would be bad if he learned to do this kind of scoundrel in front of him and behind his back, as the saying goes, it is indispensable to prevent people from being lazy...... Sizzle, it doesn't seem like there's a good way to do it.

Shen Shi scratched his head, simply patted Xiao Hei's head lightly, and said: "Xiao Hei, according to the past practice, it is also to motivate the disciples, every time in such a trial, the sect will take the five people with the highest harvest to give rewards after the final results come out, those things are very good, I want them very much." If you can really squeeze into the top five at that time, I will give you ......" He thought about it and decided to bleed heavily.

"If you can find more spirit grass spirit materials or something, let's get into the top five, I'll give you fifty spirit crystals at once, okay?"

Xiao Hei's body was smart, showing a little excited, but it seemed that he still had some doubts, Shen Shi glanced at it, rolled his eyes for a moment, and then came to his senses, laughed, reached out to the Ruyi bag and wiped it, and after a while, he suddenly saw the treasure light flickering, the crystals swaying, and a bright and transparent bunch of spirit crystals appeared in his hands.

Xiao Hei opened his mouth slightly, looking at the large handful of spirit crystals in Shen Shi's hand, his eyes lit up, and suddenly a trace of saliva came down.

Shen Shi smiled, thinking that this little black is really not good at counting, and it is useless to use the fifty that he said to have a concept at all, so he took it out and showed it that this dazzling and dazzling large number of spirit crystals were placed in front of him, and it immediately had a miraculous effect.

"A full fifty!" Shen Shi touched Xiao Hei's head with a righteous face, and said, "See, such a big pile, you can buy a whole mountain of spirit grass! This time it's cheap, let's go find the spirit grass, okay?"

The little black pig nodded desperately with his mouth open, then turned around like an arrow from the string, and rushed out at once, full of energy and momentum.

Shen Shi stood up with a smile and walked forward, and at the same time, as if he remembered something, he shouted at the back of the black pig:

"Xiao Hei, keep your mouth shut and stop drooling. ”

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Black Crow Ridge is a vast mountain range that occupies a very large area, the mountains are undulating, the terrain in the mountain is also very complicated, there are all kinds of dangerous places with dangerous peaks and deep valleys, poisonous fog and miasma, and many places are covered with a thick layer of purple-black strange soil, so that when people look at it from a distance, they will feel that most of the whole mountain is black, and the name of Black Crow Ridge is also derived from this.

This layer of unusual black soil was the blood-sucking soil that Shen Shi had identified after careful identification. According to the records that Shen Shi had read in a certain ancient scroll in the past, this kind of soil is very rare, it is said that it was raging for a period of time in a certain period of ancient times, but then it died out for some reason, and in the future, there was only sporadic news of the discovery of blood-sucking soil in the Hongmeng Realm, but I didn't expect that there was such a large scale of blood-sucking soil in the Hundred Mountains Realm.

This kind of soil is cold in nature, and there is blood in the mud, which looks the same on weekdays, but at most, if the body of a living beast dies and falls on this soil, it will quickly be corroded, and the essence blood is sucked by the soil, but it has no effect on the various trees and plants that grow on it.

But a small piece of blood-sucking soil is not a big problem, if the number of blood-sucking soil is expanded to an extremely huge boundary, it will become another extremely dangerous place, countless yin qi gathered and I don't know how many essence blood souls gathered, this very strange thing between heaven and earth will gradually turn into the place where the world is yin and cold, at this time, the central area of this large area of blood-sucking soil will often become the most suitable ghost for ghosts, and then give birth to a fierce ghost thing beyond human imagination.

Legend has it that the land in the Nine Secluded Mansions under the Yellow Spring is a blood-sucking soil that has spent endless years, where ghosts and creatures are rampant in darkness and eternity, and it is the most terrifying place in the world for millions of years.

In fact, from a distance, the Black Crow Ridge is black, but when you walk into the nearby mountains, you will find that the pieces of purple and black are not completely connected, but they are separated from each other in different sizes, and it seems that there is an invisible force in the dark that restricts these bloodsucking soils, preventing them from merging and amplifying.

Such a large number of but small scale bloodsucking soils have not had much impact on the monk's face, but Shen Shi did not take it lightly, after all, the bloodsucking soil is a thing of the most yin, and it is not too surprising that some unguardable ghost things jump out of here.

It's just that in this way, for the disciples of the Ling Xiao Sect who participated in the trial, the difficulty of this trial feels a little too great. Shen Shi felt a little confused in his heart, but he didn't think about those questions, it was useless to think about them anyway.

Compared with the many thoughts in his heart, the little black pig looks much more enthusiastic and simple, at this moment, the black pig seems to have turned into a little mad dog in the Black Crow Ridge, running around the surrounding woods with great energy, smelling and sniffing to find the spirit grass, this momentum also makes Shen Shi feel a little more emotional, thinking that it has been a long time since he has seen this product so hard.

It's just that despite this, for some reason, Shen Shi and Xiao Hei's harvest is not good. They trekked in this mountain forest for about an hour, but there were only three spirit grasses they found, two of which were the most ordinary first-grade spirit grasses, and only one was a second-grade spirit grass that could barely be seen.

Something was obviously not right with this situation, Shen Shi looked around at the surrounding forest, thinking to himself that no matter what, under Xiao Hei's extremely sensitive sense of smell, the spirit grass found here should not be so few. And Xiao Hei also ran back to his side at this time, looking a little confused, and snorted at Shen Shi twice.

Shen Shi shook his head and whispered to Xiao Hei, "I don't know either." ”

Xiao Hei looked a little depressed, stretched out the pig's trotters and casually scraped the soil under his feet, the black soil layer dispersed, and a slightly stronger breath emanated.

Xiao Hei snorted, looking a little disgusted, and jumped up and walked to Shen Shi's other side. Shen Shi frowned slightly, glanced at the dirt on the ground, and there was thought in his eyes.

Maybe...... This breath of blood-sucking soil is not as completely indifferent to Xiao Hei as it seems on the surface?

This kind of strange soil in the legend is really weird, Shen Shi shook his head, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Let's go, go to the front and have a look." ”

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This time, Shen Shi didn't stay on the way for too long, but took Xiao Hei straight forward, and on the way, Xiao Hei still wanted to run out and find out if there was any spirit grass on the way, but he was called back by Shen Shi.

The harvest of the spirit grass in this mountain forest is so small, either because the bloodsucking soil has a secret and overwhelming effect on Xiao Hei's sense of smell, or because this place has been swept by the disciples of the Ling Xiao Sect before, so the number of spirit grass is not much. No matter what it was, it was not a good idea to continue to search for spirit grass in this mountain forest, so Shen Shi decisively gave up this seemingly relatively safe mountain forest and continued to walk towards the depths of Black Crow Ridge.

There should be bigger and more dangerous places ahead, but there should also be more to gain.

After walking for about half an hour, Shen Shi found that he had walked out of the mountain forest, and the edge of the blood-sucking soil seemed to only extend to the edge of the mountain forest, and then he walked out, Shen Shi suddenly felt that his body suddenly loosened, as if there was always a stone pressing on his heart during the previous period, and this time he was suddenly moved away.

Beside him, Xiao Hei also seemed to be suddenly happy, subconsciously shook his body, and screamed twice with laughter.

However, when Shen Shi entered the mountain from the floating immortal boat, it was almost noon, and then he was delayed in the mountain forest for a long time, and at this moment, it seemed that the sky was already a little dark, and it looked like it was close to dusk.

Shen Shi turned his head and glanced around, only to see that behind him was the mountain forest that had just come out, and in front of him was a hill, and on the left was a valley that was sunken downward, not very deep, and some grass and trees grew sparsely.

However, by the light of the sky, Shen Shi clearly saw that the place where the hill was halfway up the mountain, and some familiar purple-black color had been revealed, which was exactly the appearance of blood-sucking soil, but the bottom of the valley was cleaner.

He pondered for a moment, then led Xiao Hei towards the valley.

Walking down the mountain, the valley is not too deep, but it is actually very long and deep, and when it reaches the bottom of the valley, it is not until it gets dark, Shen Shi and Xiao Hei do not see the end of this valley.

The mountain wind whistled, the darkness sank down, and above the sky, the first star showed its head.

And on the Black Crow Ridge, under the cover of night, this first mysterious and dangerous night also came here.