Chapter 61: The four escaped and entered the underground palace
"This strange vine looks fierce, but I didn't expect this stem to be so fragile that it can be pierced in one fell swoop!" Shi Quan felt strange and said.
Qingyue looked at Shi Quan, opened her mouth, and did not speak.
"What do you know, I'm a wood spirit bead, of course you can easily hit its rhizome, otherwise you won't be able to cut it in with a sharp blade!
"Wood Spirit Beads?"
"The beast has an inner dan, and the tree has an inner essence, the meaning is actually the same, but the inner essence is a liquid and cannot be easily taken out. And this wood spirit bead can break through ten thousand trees, and at the same time can absorb the essence of the flower. ”
"That's amazing!"
Shi Quan was a little suspicious, picked up a piece of sharp gravel, and hit the blood-colored rhizome hard.
"Bang!"
Unexpectedly, the gravel not only did not penetrate into the rhizome, but was also crushed by the impact, and Shi Quan had to believe it.
"The wood spirit bead is so easy to use, where is it sold, I will also prepare one, be prepared. ”
Qingyun and Ziyun almost beat Shi Quan when they heard this, Shi Quan was a monster who was particularly angry in their eyes.
"Hmph, Brother Huangquan, this Wood Spirit Bead is not available everywhere, only the people of Tianze have the opportunity to give birth to this bead from the body, there are less than a dozen people in the world who can have this bead, the Wood Spirit Bead is the host's natal bead, who will give it away?!" Qingyue was afraid that Shi Quan would make up his mind and tell the origin of the Wood Spirit Bead.
"You know how powerful this girl is, not to mention the wood spirit bead, even if it is a pseudo wood spirit bead, it is rare to see!"
"Pseudo-Wood Spirit Bead?"
"You don't know!"
Shi Quan's head is big for a while, and when he first entered the rivers and lakes, he is indeed still a little white, and it is normal to be looked down upon.
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At this time, the cannibal silk vine has changed, the branches are constantly wriggling, and the emerald green leaves are rapidly losing life, first turning yellow, then turning into dead branches and leaves, and finally completely decaying, without a trace of life. The red rhizome is no longer colorless, like a thousand-year-old rotting root.
It took less than a cup of tea before and after, and Shi Quan was a little dumbfounded when he saw this scene. It was in danger just now, but now this green sea has completely become a dead place.
"Back!"
Ziyun snorted lightly, and the wood spirit bead broke out of the roots, and the anger that came to his face was even worse than just now, and it seemed that it had grown a small circle, and the rhizome of the man-eating silk vine suddenly turned into powder.
"It's not bad, this cannibal silk vine isn't bad!"
Ziyun's small mouth was so happy that he opened his mouth to swallow back the wood spirit bead.
"Ouch!"
"Youkai!"
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A few strange cries came from the withered branches.
"By the way, I don't know what happened to Li Xiaosheng?"
Shi Quan hurriedly looked for Li Xiaoshang in the withered branches, just now the five people of the Black Evil Sect, in addition to the three elders, one of them survived, and the other three seemed to have their throats cut off and had already died of anger.
Shi Quan soon found Li Xiaosheng, but fortunately she was fine, she just fainted. Holding it in her arms, she took out a pill and stuffed it into her mouth, and after a while, Li Xiaoshang slowly woke up.
"Brother Huangquan, be careful, there are strange trees!"
"Don't worry, it's all right!"
At this time, Li Xiaoshang noticed that there was no green around her, and there were withered branches and leaves everywhere.
"What's going on?"
Shi Quan simply told what had happened, and Li Xiaoshang suddenly realized.
"Ahem, I said enough hugging!" Ziyun saw that the two of them were talking endlessly, and teased with a dry cough.
Li Xiaosheng's face flushed, only to find that she had been curled up in Shi Quan's arms, hurriedly stood up, tidied up her clothes, and said to Qingyue and Ziyun: "Thank you two for saving each other!"
Although Li Xiaoshang has some abrasions on her face, she can't hide her peerless beauty. The two couldn't help but take a few more looks, which made Li Xiaoshang feel very embarrassed.
Shi Quan hurriedly came over and introduced the two sides, Ziyun was familiar, holding Li Xiaosheng's arm and asking questions, talking non-stop.
The two people of the Black Evil Gate, who escaped death, also came to thank everyone, and expressed their willingness to go with Shi Quan and others, but they were simply rejected by Shi Quan. If it weren't for Qingyue and the others, Shi Quan would have gone up and killed them a long time ago, how could he have walked with them.
The two of them touched the ashes and entered the cave first.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have been in danger all the way, and all of this is no accident, more like someone deliberately did it. If this cave is really the tomb of the Netherworld Poison Venerable, then you can imagine how dangerous it is. Be careful and careful. Shi Quan knew that the road ahead would not be peaceful, so he reminded him.
"Aren't there two unlucky ones in front of you......?"
"You......"
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The stone cave is ingenious, and on the surface it seems that a cave has been dug at the bottom of the stone mountain, but it is not. As you go deeper, the interior of the cave becomes wider and begins to move underground. The slope was not steep, and it was slowly descending, and several people did not notice this change at first, until the entrance of the cave suddenly disappeared, and the four of them noticed that they had been walking down.
The inside of the stone cave is not dim, and the builders have inlaid a night pearl in the cave wall, so all four people can see the situation in the stone cave without the need for fire.
The cave is very well ventilated, there is no mildew, and there are no small animals living in the cave, so there is no rancid smell.
"It seems that this is really the location of the tomb of the Netherworld Poison Venerable, and it is very carefully built!" Li Xiaoshang couldn't help but admire.
"There are so many night pearls, I don't know if I can dig them up and take them away!" Ziyun was not shocked, and his words made Shi Quan and Qingyue almost fall on their heels.
"Sister Ziyun, although these night pearls are of good texture, I'm afraid it's hard to take them away!"
"That's right, this is a master who used his true qi to inlay it in the stone wall, and this person has profound skills, it is not easy to take it out!"
Shi Quan had long noticed that the inlay technique of these night pearls was unique, and it must have been done by the Netherworld Poison Venerable himself.
Although Ziyun didn't give up, after trying it himself, he had to give up.
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Before they knew it, they had already walked a long way, and they didn't know how many turns they had made, but fortunately there were no forks in the tunnel, and they could keep moving forward.
Suddenly, the eyes of the four of them lit up, and the front became very wide, and the light of the ever-bright lantern could be seen.
"It should be the destination ahead, I didn't expect it to be so smooth!"
The four of them quickened their pace, and there was a cave at the end of the cave, although it was at the bottom, it was built like a castle. The underground seemed to have been hollowed out, and they didn't know what means this Netherworld Poison Venerable used, but the four of them looked up and actually saw the stars in the sky.
"Wow, you can actually see the stars!" Ziyun exclaimed in surprise.
At first, everyone was really surprised, they were three hundred meters deep underground, if they directly opened the ground, how much effort would it take, not to mention that there was a stone mountain on the surface!
"No, those stars are also night pearls, artificially created starry sky!" Qingyue and Shi Quan discovered the problem.
"This Nether Poison Venerable is really a good means!"
Although it is not a real star, it is so ingenious that it is difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.
The four of them carefully observed the castle-like building in front of them, and the whole should be circular. There are four huge curved courtyards in the east, west, north and south, with high stone walls, and some unique buildings can be faintly seen in the courtyard. The middle of the circular castle rises high, and although it is also a courtyard, it is very special, there are no stone walls, and the surrounding area is full of green flowers and plants. At the same time, the four of them saw a huge sarcophagus, parked in the middle of the courtyard, and at the bottom of the sarcophagus, there was a black spring gushing out, divided into four streams and flowing to the courtyard below. However, the black spring water did not really flow down, but disappeared halfway through the flow.
"Nether Spring!"
Li Xiaoshang recognized it at a glance, this ink-black spring water was the Netherworld Spring.
"Netherworld? I didn't expect the root to be here. But it's really strange, how does this spring water flow out of the mountain, we are deep underground!" Li Xiaoshang was a little puzzled.
"Maybe that's not where it came from!" Shi Quan guessed, "You see, the spring water doesn't really flow out, it seems to be back into the ground!"
"Come and see, there are words here!" Ziyun suddenly shouted.
Shi Quan, Qingyue, and Li Xiaoshang rushed over when they heard the sound, and Ziyun stood in front of a stone gate, and there were three big characters on the door, 'Northern Beast Palace'.
"Look, there's a little print here!"
Everyone found that there was a line of small red characters on the left side of the stone gate: "Junior talents, if you can enter the palace of the four beasts and collect all the gold, wood, water and fire beads, you will be destined, you can climb to the top of the central palace, take a deity from the sarcophagus, don't be greedy!"
"Is there still a test that cannot be achieved?"
"Four Beast Palaces, Northern Beast Palaces?"
"It seems that the other three courtyards are the Three Beast Palaces in the South, East and West, since they are called the Beast Palace, there must be strange beasts guarding them, everyone be careful!"
"We have followed the traces of the Ghost-Faced Sect all the way to this point, it should be a strange beast in the Four Beasts Palace!" This verified Shi Quan's previous guess, and the Ghost-Faced Sect was indeed related to the Netherworld Poison Venerable.
"It's better to get the tiger's den, you can get the tiger!Ziyun, are you sure you have what you want here?"
"This is the top secret of the Green Devil Pavilion, and I have occasionally heard Grandpa Tai mention this matter. It is said that someone in the clan came here with a friend, and when he returned, he became insane, and kept muttering that he was dead and that name, so he should not be wrong. ”
"Green Goblin Pavilion?"
Shi Quan knew that Ziyun was originally from this place, but it was still unfamiliar to him. In addition, Qingyue Ziyun's dialogue, it is obvious that there are some things that are inconvenient for outsiders to know.
"The Green Demon Xuan is a powerful sect in the Southern Holy Kingdom, good at using plants as weapons, and is very mysterious. Li Xiaoshang whispered to Shi Quan to popularize knowledge.
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Although the four of them knew that the Four Beast Palace would not be simple, they still pushed the door and entered the North Beast Palace.
After entering the courtyard, everything in front of me was completely different from what I imagined, there were not many buildings inside, only a high stone pavilion with stone tables and stone benches. On the pillars on both sides of the stone pavilion is written a sentence: "Put four beads into the hole". The crowd found that there were four round holes in the middle of the stone table.
"Looks like there's a trap here, and when you put in four beads, the trap will open!"
"If we reach the top of the Central Palace, we must find the four beads of gold, wood, water and fire as soon as possible"
The four of them understood that this was a test for the Netherworld Poison Venerable.
Because the four of them can clearly see the Central Palace and the huge sarcophagus through the courtyard. Originally, the central palace was built on an isolated artificial hill, and was not connected to the other four beast palaces, surrounded by a chasm in the middle, about fifty meters wide, and the bottom of the ditch was bottomless, I don't know what it was. The opposite mountain is full of strange poisons, and there is nowhere to put his feet, Li Xiaosheng was stunned to see this scene, if someone wants to go directly to the top of the Central Palace, it is simply death.
In addition to the stone pavilion, the entire courtyard is only a labyrinth-like rockery. A winding path that winds around the rockery. On the left is a corridor leading to the east, and on the right is a path to the west.
"Brother Shi Quan, Ziyun and I will go to the east, and you will go to the west, so that you can collect the beads faster, everyone be careful!" Qingyue said.
Shi Quan originally wanted the four of them to go in one direction, after all, he was facing a poisonous beast like a ghost-faced man, and if he was not careful, he would die without a place to be buried. But Qingyue obviously didn't have this intention, so Shi Quan had no choice but to give up, and after saying goodbye, he and Li Xiaoshang walked west.
The courtyard was very large, and Shi Quan and the two walked for a long time, and finally went around the rockery and came to a wide area.
"Ahh......h