Chapter 19: The Desert

When the darkness came over and flooded his body, Shen Shi also deliberately glanced back, the little black pig had been following him all the time, and he was also a little curious to follow him into this darkness. Naturally, many people next to him saw the little pig, but no one stopped him.

Until this moment, Shen Shi didn't know if Xiao Hei would be able to follow him into the Wentian Secret Realm.

And in the next moment, Shen Shi seemed to have suddenly stepped into another time and space, with the illusion of suddenly being in the endless night sky, the darkness seemed to be boundless, covering the whole world, and in the sky above him, it was dotted with stars.

He seemed to see the stars, but then he felt that they didn't seem to look like them, not stars but just streams of light, flying through the night sky, straight into the distance. And when he was initially calm, he hurriedly lowered his head, only to see that in the dark, Xiao Hei suddenly appeared at his feet, and his limbs suddenly hugged one of his ankles tightly for some reason, as if hanging on it, and his mouth moved a few times, and he seemed to be humming and screaming with some dissatisfaction.

Shen Shi laughed, relieved a lot.

The darkness obscured his vision, making his surroundings suddenly wider, and he felt like an ant suddenly falling into the vast sea, isolated and helpless, and there was no sound of people around him.

Then he suddenly lightened himself, and when he looked down, he only saw that soft but bright light, enveloping his body, and flying towards the depths of darkness with Xiao Hei, and gradually, he also turned into a small inconspicuous light in the night.

The darkness opened its arms to meet the beams of light that flickered in the darkness, everything looked weird, but it was still very stable and calm, the front beams, some of which seemed to have flown to the deepest part of the darkness, and then disappeared and disappeared, while the beams behind were still flying, like meteors crossing the night sky of the universe.

There is a strange beauty in the stars.

It's just that at this moment, for some reason, at the top of all the beams, the black night sky that seemed to be as deep as eternity suddenly shook violently.

In the entire dark world, with this sudden vibration, it was like a transparent cup that was originally intact, and suddenly there were a few more cracks.

The crack was the sudden thunder and lightning above the Dao brilliance, and after the thunder and lightning, a kind of reddish cloud suddenly appeared like red blood, illuminating a night sky. It resembled a nebula in the distance of the deep night sky, rapidly rotating into a huge whirlpool, and in the center of the whirlpool, a huge black hole without the slightest light, deep as ink, appeared. A terrible storm suddenly blew from afar, tearing apart everything that was close to the spiral nebula, and a few unlucky-looking meteor rays passed near the nebula, and in the blink of an eye, they were sucked in, and then there seemed to be no screams of struggle, and almost instantly, everything vanished into nothingness.

All the beams of light in this night sky seemed to be frozen for a moment, but in this strange gap passage, it seemed that all the power was completely imprisoned in that light, and no one had any way to change their trajectory, but could only fly forward involuntarily, flying to the deepest part of the darkness.

The blazing lightning tore through the night sky, and it looked extremely hideous, as if the demon that had jumped out of the Nine Hells Mansion had opened its bloody hands at those ant-like brilliance. Streams of light kept passing by, avoiding the beams of the nebula that luckily escaped the catastrophe, and then there were still seven or eight starlights that rushed around the massive nebula and were engulfed silently.

Shen Shi was in the light, watching all this dumbfounded, his mind seemed to be frozen, and he could hardly believe his eyes. Haven't you said it a long time ago, there are many dangers in the secret realm of asking the sky, but in the process of entering and exiting the secret realm, it is always the safest?

Was it a hallucination to see this tragic scene?

He only felt his throat suddenly dry, but fortunately, his beam was far enough away from the terrible blood-red nebula to brush shoulders with death, but in that strange light, he disappeared into the darkness ahead.

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"Boom!"

It seemed to be a loud explosion in his ears, which made Shen Shi's heart tremble, and the whole person seemed to suddenly hit a hard wall, and with a "bang", the whole person was bounced away.

The force of this impact was really extraordinary, Shen Shi even felt a little like his bones falling apart, but fortunately, his foundation was solid, and his physical body was also tough, lying on the ground and grinning his teeth for a long time, only then did he ease up, slowly sat up, and looked around.

At first glance, he saw Xiao Hei.

The little black pig seemed to have suffered the same fate as its master, and he didn't know what he had bumped into, rolling on the ground several times before stopping beside Shen Shi. However, compared to Shen Shi's gasping and grinning appearance, Xiao Hei seemed to be just a little dizzy, as if he had turned around a little more, and then tilted his head, calmed down, and stood up, snorting at Shen Shi, looking unharmed.

Shen Shi was already surprised by this little pig with rough skin and thick flesh, and he could only smile bitterly at this moment, turning his head to look around, and after a while, he was suddenly stunned.

As far as the eye can see, there is a vast expanse of yellow sand.

A round of scorching sun hangs lonely in the sky, the yellow sand is boundless, and there is a scorching breath everywhere in the air.

Shen Shi frowned, and after a moment of silence, he first stood up and glanced in all directions, only to see that the sand dunes were undulating and the yellow sand was long, no matter which direction he looked at, it seemed that he could not see the edge, let alone any greenery, including living animals.

Between heaven and earth, there was a loneliness, as if there was only warm sunlight and uncomfortable hot air.

Shen Shi stood in place and thought about it carefully, and then found with a little gloom that before entering the Wentian Secret Realm, he had also asked some senior brothers and sisters about the experience in this secret realm, and they also said some tips on how to do the best in various terrains, but no one had ever encountered this kind of desert terrain.

No one has ever mentioned it at all......

Shen Shi shook his head, smiled bitterly at himself in his heart, and looked at Xiao Hei with a casual look, looking at the desert scene he had never seen around him with some curiosity, and said, "Okay, although it's not good here, it's not particularly bad, at least it's better than falling into a bunch of powerful demon beasts, right, Xiao Hei?"

Xiao Hei snorted twice in his mouth, and he didn't know if he agreed with Shen Shi's words, but it seemed to be a little disapproving.

Shen Shi didn't bother to pay attention to it, thought about it for a while, lowered his head and grabbed a handful of sand on the sand under his feet, and looked at it carefully, the sand under the scorching sun was very hot, but this bit of heat was nothing for the monk. In addition, the sand here is very fine, and Shen Shi even noticed that most of the fine grains of sand seem to look similar.

But other than that, I don't see anything unusual about the sand here.

Shen Shi shook his head, shook off the sand casually, and was about to walk forward and start exploring this strange place, but he was suddenly stunned, and stood still, with a somewhat puzzled look on his face.

He looked around, there was a little surprise in his eyes, just now, when he just landed here, he clearly felt like a stone hitting a wall, including the little pig looked the same, but at this moment, looking around, the yellow sand was undulating, most of the places were gentle terrain, but where was there any high wall to block it?

At this moment, he was really puzzled, and then naturally, he thought of the terrifying and magnificent changes that had occurred in the gap of that strange night sky-like passage in the process of entering the secret realm of Wentian. When he thought of the blood-red nebula vortex in his mind, he couldn't help but shudder a little, it was a kind of natural fear of a person who was completely irresistible to a power.

It's just that...... Why is there such a mutation?

If there was such a terrible danger in the process of entering the Wentian Secret Realm, then the elders and seniors in the sect, including the senior brothers and sisters, would never fail to mention it, but obviously everyone knew nothing about this sudden situation...... Thinking back to the dozen or so starlights that were swallowed by that whirlpool, Shen Shi's heart also sank.

I hope I don't have friends I know, unfortunately encounter such an unlucky thing.

He took a deep breath and put these thoughts away from his mind, now is obviously not the time to dwell on this problem, the top priority is that he has arrived in the secret realm of Wentian at this moment, and is in a completely unfamiliar environment, so exploring the surrounding environment, looking for the possible existence of spiritual materials and secret treasures, and even the legendary inheritance of chance, is the most important thing at the moment.

He shouted to Xiao Hei, and then prepared to walk forward, but when choosing the direction, Shen Shi still hesitated. In this desert, the scenery in all directions around looked exactly the same, and it was impossible to tell where it might be different, so in the end, Shen Shi chose a random direction, took Xiao Hei, and walked over there.

The scorching sun is high, the yellow sand is vast, this road seems to be endless, or rather, there is no road at all in front of Shen Shi's eyes at this moment. He walked over the fine sand, leaving a lonely footprint, but when he occasionally turned back, he would see the wind blowing from the depths of the desert, gusts of yellow sand, from far to near, slowly submerging the footprints on the road behind him, one by one, from deep to shallow, and then disappeared, as if no one had ever walked.

When Shen Shi saw that scene, he was silent for a while, and then he didn't say anything more, just continued to walk forward.

The world is high and vast, but at this moment in the world, it seems that he is the only one left.

After walking for more than an hour, what Shen Shi saw in front of him was actually almost exactly the same desert scenery as before, which made him feel a little irritable, and his mind was turning, so he wondered if he was going to sacrifice the Falling Snow Sword, if it was the sword flying, the natural speed would be hundreds of times faster than now, and the line of sight would be definitely much wider when he rose into the air.

Just thinking about it, Shen Shi hesitated a little again, for the disciples of the Ning Yuan Realm, the flying of the sword was not a thing that could easily withstand the consumption of nothing, and in such a strange environment, it was obviously not a good thing to easily consume a large amount of spiritual power in the body.

So after pondering for a while, Shen Shi decided to continue walking for another while, after all, for a monk, walking like this kind of flat walk would hardly consume physical strength, at most, it would take more time. If you're a newcomer, it's better to be cautious.

So he took Xiao Hei, a man and a pig, and walked in the desert for another hour.

Seeing that the scorching sun was gradually turning westward, Shen Shi couldn't help but feel a little restless in his heart, and was hesitating, when he suddenly heard Xiao Hei suddenly whisper twice to a tall sand dune in front of him, and there was a bit of abnormality in his voice.

Shen Shi raised his eyebrows, turned his eyes, and after a moment of silence, he walked towards the sand dune with Xiao Hei. About half a cup of tea later, he and Xiao Hei climbed to the top of the sand dune, and when they looked forward, Shen Shi's body suddenly shook.

Under the sun, in the desert, which was originally unchanged, there was finally a different scene from before.