Chapter 100: Blackwater Pool
The three of them stopped at the place where there was a stone monument on the path, and the stone tablet was engraved with extremely cumbersome strokes, which was far from the current general text.
Although Cheng Ru's face was still a little pale, judging from the expression on his face, he was recovering quite well. Staring at this stone tablet for a long time, Cheng Ru rubbed his chin and muttered to himself.
"Do you recognize the words written on it?" Jiang Lili asked.
Cheng Ru nodded, and then shook his head again, "This kind of writing is an ancient text from more than a thousand years ago, and it is far from the ancient text of the Great Sui. But fortunately, I once read a similar book, and I recognized the word "water" written on it, but I didn't recognize the others. β
The Yin envoy replied: "Don't admit it anymore, there is no doubt that this is engraved on the black water pool." I came and went several times, remembering the swampy jungle not far ahead. β
Saying that, the Yin Envoy pointed to the faint yellow-green in the woods in front of him and said, "See, that is the miasma, this stone tablet should be used as a point for pedestrians to wake up, only take one step forward, and then enter the place where the miasma is permeated." β
Originally, I was thinking of going to the black pool, but when I arrived in front of the black pool, Cheng Ru was a little flustered, and asked hesitantly: "Are there any monsters in this black pool?" For example, a monkey with three heads, a fish with a bloody mouth, and a big python with four legs?"
The Yin Envoy interrupted Cheng Ru yes angrily, "Isn't a four-legged snake a dragon? Have you ever seen a dragon hiding in such a swampy place? Don't worry, I haven't seen the kind of monster you mentioned, but there are really a lot of giant poisonous spiders with eight legs!"
Cheng Ru's face suddenly turned pale.
"It's done, don't talk about this kind of useless," Jiang Lili took out the silver-edged box that the mother-in-law gave him from his arms, picked out two miasma avoidance Gu from it, and then took out the Tiger Spirit Knife.
"Get your hands out!" Jiang Lili shouted at Cheng Ru.
"Trick you!"
Cheng Ru hesitated, "Gu? So fast? Is it really necessary to make a cut on the hand? Can't you use other methods? The kind that doesn't hurt? Even if you don't, can you change a knife? Your knife is too sharp, I look a little scared, what if you directly cut off my palm?"
Cheng Ru chattered, Jiang Lili was a little annoyed, and when he was about to scold, he only heard the Yin envoy suddenly shout: "Look over there?!"
Cheng Ru was shocked, "What, what, whatγγγγγγ? Ahh
Just as Cheng Ru poked his head out in the direction of Yin's finger, Yin used a blade to quickly cut a bloody clasp on Cheng Rushi's arm. When Cheng Ru turned to glare at him with a angry face, he said slowly: "No thanks!"
In many cases, Yin envoys are really much more reliable than Cheng Ru!
Throwing it to Cheng Ru is miasma avoidance Gu, Jiang Lili directly used the Tiger Spirit Knife to cut a cut on his palm, and when the blood flowed out, he quickly put the miasma avoidance Gu on the wound, and saw that the miasma avoidance Gu that had become a cicada chrysalis suddenly came to life, pulled out eight legs, and slowly drilled from the wound to the flesh and blood after crawling on Jiang Lili's palm for a long time.
A trace of pain came, Jiang Lili didn't have much look on her face, but she kept screaming.
Not long after, after the miasma Gu got into the flesh and skin, he saw a fingertip laughing meat bag protruding from the palm of his hand, and seeing that the meat bag slowly dissipated, a trace of coolness slowly flowed all over the body near the wound.
The Yin Envoy stared at the two of them with amusement, and said, "Is it considered a good Gu now? This Gu technique really has some doorways. β
took out a small medicine bottle, and casually tore off a piece of cloth from his clothes and threw it to Cheng Rusi, and then only tore off a piece of cloth and wrapped it around his left hand, Jiang Lili said: "It's done, let's go!"
Stepping past this boundary monument is equivalent to stepping into the underworld with one foot, Jiang Lili felt so in her heart, and she did not hesitate at all.
The forest in front of him seemed to be not much different from the jungle behind him, the only difference was the miasma floating above his head.
The Yin envoy smiled: "This miasma floated out of the black water pool, don't think that the black water pool is just like this." It's not much of a difference to me, but to you, Yunni!"
The deeper he went, the more he saw the yellow-green gas above his head getting denser and denser, and he felt that the soil under his feet was much softer. Obviously, the road is covered with verdant fresh grass, but after a trip, even the upper of the shoe is full of wet mud.
"Huh, what is this?" Cheng Ru raised his leg and pointed to the black mud under his shoes with a look of disgust.
"Swampy jungle, black water pool," the Yin envoy slowly reminded as he floated in the air, "Do you still think you took the Zhuangkang Avenue?"
Cheng Ru took out a handkerchief and wiped the foul-smelling mud under the soles of his shoes, and said: "I also know that I am not walking on Zhuangkang Avenue, but it is not like this, right?
The Yin Envoy glanced at Cheng Rushi, "This is still good, until you really enter the realm of the black pool, you will know what despair is." β
Cheng Ru snorted, and said that he really didn't have a backache when he stood and spoke.
After a while, he saw that the trees around him were much thinner, replaced by all kinds of weeds that were a man tall, and the trees seemed to be hanging from the ground vines
There were many more, and they were mixed together, and they were extremely chaotic. Not only that, but there was little water in the area around the original road, and even if it did, it was a stream that meandered down from the top of the mountain. At this time, I saw a puddle in three steps, a puddle in ten steps, and there were dense weeds growing in the puddle, just one accidentally stepped into it, and half of his legs were soaked.
Cheng Ru has suffered this loss.
Cautiously moving forward, after walking for an hour, they saw a piece of weeds and greenery in front of them obscuring the sight of the two, and turned their heads to look away, which were also tall weeds, and several people seemed to have been trapped in this half-sized place by these dense weeds, as if the only way out was to go backwards.
Jiang Lili frowned and asked, "Is there no way?"
"Naturally not!" the Yin Envoy floated in the air and looked ahead, he had seen the scene here many times, but every time he saw it, he still felt shocked, "Go directly to the weeds, pass through the weeds, and you will really come to the black water pool." β
Cheng Ru compared the height of himself and the weed, and found that the weed was a head taller than himself, and then he was a little timid, "This grass is so high, so messy, what if we get lost in it? Besides, there may be something in such a dense grass, maybe you stepped on a poisonous snake before you took two steps, maybe you didn't take two steps before you met a spider, you can't sayγγγγγ β
Looking at Jiang Lili's somewhat annoyed eyes, Cheng Ru closed his mouth very interestingly, and laughed twice, "Just remind you to pay attention, pay attention." β
Cheng Ru and Jiang Lili listened to the advice of the Yin envoy yesterday, changed into a pair of long-sleeved trousers, and even wore a pair of extremely high boots, in order to be able to walk in this dense grass.
The two of them slowly stepped forward and burrowed into the dense grass.
The Yin Envoy floated above the heads of the two of them, "I will show you the way in the sky, you can see me when you look up, and you can get out of this grass just by following me, so it's that this guy says that he gets lost or something! β
Jiang Lili only sighed, lowered his head, and only felt that his whole world was occupied by this greenery, and he was like a redeemer stumbling looking for a way out.
If there is no yin envoy to lead the way, it will not be difficult to get lost in this forest greenery.
After walking in the grass for about a quarter of an hour, I saw a glimmer of light suddenly appear in front of me, and I realized that the grass was much thinner.
The Yin Envoy turned his head to look at the two of them and smiled sympathetically, "Now that we are about to get out of this grass, this black pool is coming." β
Tearing away the weeds in front of him, Jiang Lili looked at it and hissed coldly.
Cheng Ru followed behind Jiang Lili, scolded and pulled the weeds in front of him, and after spending half a day to untie the vines wrapped around his body, he spit hatefully, and then spit out the grass leaves in his mouth a few times, and finally greeted the Yin envoy twice, and finally removed the weeds in front of him, and was stunned for a moment.
"This, this, thisγγγγγγγ What the hell is this?"
I saw that it was dark in front of me, and the thick yellow-green miasma in the air was like a dark cloud, blocking the sunlight from the sky. In the distance, an old, shriveled tree sits alone on a small dirt bag, with several shriveled vines hanging from the tree, and several fist-sized insects crawling on it. The small dirt bag under the tree was sparsely covered with a few yellow weeds, and beneath was the dark lake.
There were only five or six small dirt bags in front of me, and all of them were pools of water that smelled of fish and gurgled with faint yellow bubbles.
Like death, silent, silent.
Blackwater Pool.
Cheng Ru swallowed a mouthful of saliva, covered his nose again, and complained: "What kind of smell is this?"
The envoy replied: "Presumably this is the smell of miasma, I don't know what happened in this soil, the smell is abnormal, it actually dyes the water black, and these miasma emanates from this soil." β
Jiang Lili broke off a piece of hay and plunged it into the pool of water in front of him. But the hay went deep into the water, and even when it went deep into the soil, there was no sense of stagnation, and the arm-long hay was inserted into the dirt without seeing the bottom.
Jiang Lili's face was solemn, and he uprooted a piece of hay that was a head taller than himself, and poked into this pool of water, but he couldn't even get to the bottom of it.
"The depth of the water is only three inches long, but the mud underneath it... Jiang Lili licked her lips.
Cheng Ru didn't believe it, and pulled out the weed that Jiang Lili had inserted in the water, and countless bubbles came out of the soil.
Cheng Ru covered his nose, and forcibly held back the disgusting feeling in his heart, looked at the hay in his hand, compared the length of the stained mud, and finally screamed, "The mud under this is longer than mine, and I am afraid that I will be buried alive in this mud when I go down!"
The Yin envoy smiled and said: "Since the Black Water Pool is listed as a forbidden place, it naturally has its sinister place! Ordinary people only think that the sinister thing in it is this miasma that covers the sky and the sun, but they don't know that in fact, this swamp and mud is the one that kills people the most!"
Jiang Lili's eyes were fierce, and he turned his head to look at the Yin Envoy, "Aren't you entertaining us by bringing us here?!"
The Yin envoy hurriedly explained, "If there are all around
If it's this kind of mud, then I can't have brought you here, you see those little dirt bags in this water, and those little dirt bags are a little soft, but they are much stronger than the underwater mud, and ordinary people standing on them will not fall into it as long as they don't make much movement! Therefore, you just have to jump on top of the dirt bag with the method of unloading. β
Jiang Lili roughly measured the distance between the nearest dirt bag and himself, which was roughly half a mile away, and it was not difficult for him to jump on it with his current physical fitness. Although he is not proficient in unloading, he can also use the dead wood on the dirt bag to make himself stand firm when he lands on the dirt bag.
But where did Cheng Ru have such a skill, and he shouted again: "You still say that you are not entertaining me? How can I jump over?
The Yin envoy looked at Cheng Ru and was in trouble, and after pondering for a long time, he replied: "Actually, this water is half a person deep, you can actually swim directly from here to the dirt bag, and then we will take some effort to pull you up, so that you will not fall into the swamp." β
Cheng Ru was stunned, he glanced at the dark water in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a little stunned in his heart. But there was no other way, and when I finally made up my mind, I suddenly caught a glimpse of a colorful little snake slowly swimming out of the three or four miscellaneous aquatic plants in the water, and I was shocked, and I caught a glimpse of a toad on its back that couldn't stop the pus from flowing in the black water, spitting bubbles leisurely and comfortably, and immediately shook its head into a rattle, "I can't help it, how can this be made?" As soon as I jumped down, I might be bitten by the poisonous snake, and then poisoned by the poisonous toad, and even if I didn't die, I only had half a day left, so I couldn't help it. β
Jiang Lili frowned bitterly, "Then how do you want to go with us?"
The Yin envoy was also a little embarrassed, and suddenly said that I would fly into the sky after a while, and there would be no shadow in a puff of smoke.
Cheng Ru looked at the back of the Yin Envoy, "He shouldn't have left us here and run away, right?"
Jiang Lili pinched the bead in his arms, "Don't worry, he can't run!"
It took half an hour for the Yin Envoy to arrive, only to see the Yin Envoy fly over, take out a cloth bag from his arms, and countless bamboos crackled down from the air.
Cheng Ru hurriedly dodged, but he was still dizzy from the bamboo that was smashed on his head, and finally came to his senses and scolded at the Yin Envoy: "Do you want to die,,,?
"That's right. The Yin Envoy must have had a little revenge against Cheng Ruyi, and now he spoke with a hint of pride, "With these bamboos, you can make a bamboo raft and swim in this black water." β
Cheng Ru happily said that you are really a little clever in this thing, and at the end he was stunned again, looked up and asked, "You also have a hidden bag?"
The Yin Envoy sneered, "I originally came to the Yang World to trade with people, could it be that all the goods I obtained from the Yang World have to be carried back by myself?"
Cheng Ru snorted, "I didn't expect you to have such treasures, it's really unfair." β
The Yin Envoy replied in a cold voice: "Although this treasure bag is extremely convenient, it is not a rare treasure. In Yunling Shengzhou, there are even more such hidden bags, generally speaking, the children of the sect who can be appreciated by the elders will be rewarded with one, it is nothing more than the difference in the size of the space, and it is only in your Huang Tianjing Continent that this kind of thing is regarded as a treasure. β
Without carefully pondering whether Yin Ling's words were mocking him, Jiang Lili only used the Tiger Soul Knife to clean up the weeds behind him and cleared out a small open space. He also removed the bamboo branches from these bamboos, cut out the bamboo poles of length and shortness, and then took out a rope from the hidden bag, turned his head and said to Cheng Ru: "Tie these bamboo poles into a bamboo raft." β
Cheng Ruye's hands and feet are a little stupid, but he is smart, and after being scolded by Jiang Lili a few times, he is obviously much more flexible, and it is only a short and half an hour, and a fresh bamboo raft is baked.
threw the bamboo raft into the black water, and after it stabilized, Jiang Lili jumped onto the bamboo raft and felt the buoyancy on it. It's just that because these bamboos have just been cut down by the Yin Envoy, there is a lot of water in them, so they seem a little heavy, and after Jiang Lili jumped up, the bamboo raft slowly sank a little.
shouted Cheng Rushi, Jiang Lili handed Cheng Rushi a bamboo pole used as a pole, and asked Cheng Rushi to pull the bamboo raft into for a few minutes and then signaled Cheng Rushi to jump up.
Cheng Ru still hesitated, "This bamboo raft won't sink, right?"
Jiang Lili was annoyed, "Come up!"
Cheng Ru cautiously stepped on the bamboo raft with one foot, and before the other foot came up, he saw a poisonous snake swimming towards him at a rapid pace, and his heart was shocked, and his steps were unsteady and he almost fell into the water.
After pulling it for Jiang Lili, Cheng Ru patted his throbbing chest and breathed a sigh of relief, "Grandma's, this is too exciting." β
"Stimulus?" the Yin envoy smiled, "This is stimulating, and you will be stimulated later!"
Cheng Ru was stunned, "What do you mean?"
The Yin envoy didn't reply, so he only pointed out a direction to Jiang Lili and slowly floated into the sky.
"Hey, hey, you haven't said anything yet?" Cheng Ru felt a little bad in his heart.
"You'll know when you arrive!" the Yin envoy waved his hand.
A bamboo raft walked slowly in this black pool.