Chapter 22: Cave Flowers
The goddess and the others walked inward along the entrance of the cave, and although there were many branch holes in this cave, they were all very narrow and could not be passed through at all.
"Wow, senior brother, look, it looks like a rock lotus. ”
Lu Ming pointed to a branch hole in front of him and said excitedly.
Peng Wuya walked over to take a look, and sure enough, there was a brownish-yellow flower growing in the branch hole, the color of this flower was very close to the surrounding rock and soil, and it was impossible to see it if you didn't look carefully.
Peng Wuya first pulled out his sword and stabbed it into the hole, and after making sure that there was no danger, he unceremoniously picked the rock lotus.
"It's been a long time since I've seen a rock lotus in such good condition. Peng Wuya sighed, and after speaking, he put Yan Lian into a snakeskin bag.
"What is a rock lotus, is it precious?" the goddess asked.
"Sister Goddess, this unintentional know-it-all is that the rock lotus is a flower that grows in the rocks, her roots are extremely powerful, able to absorb the nutrients in the rocks, and have a miraculous effect on strong bones, and its flowers contain the essence of the earth is the best herb for nourishing the kidneys and invigorating qi. If the flowers and roots are refined together to form the Rock Lotus Pill, it will have a huge uplifting effect on those who practice external skills. ”
"Xiao Wuxin, I didn't expect you to know a lot, this flower doesn't mean much to our Kongyuan faction, but it can be regarded as a treasure for your Tianlong faction. Peng Wuya said.
"yes, that's why I know it. ”
"Okay, when you get out of the cave, you can take us to see Master Guanding, and I will sell it for a good price." ”
"Okay, Master Yanlian with such a good condition will definitely like it, but this is what we found together, do you have to give a discount?"
"It's up to you to listen or not, and if you're running around and we're too worried, I'll have to raise the price. ”
"I don't dare to run around in this hole, I'll follow the goddess sister. ”
Luo Wuxin leaned over to the goddess and hugged the goddess's thigh.
"Hey, little monk, what are you doing here, Master hasn't educated you, is the woman under the mountain a tiger?" Zhou Xiao said.
"I don't care, the goddess sister is the most powerful here, I want to hug her thighs. ”
The goddess smiled helplessly, she didn't know where to go, but someone took the initiative to come and hug her thigh.
"Alright, let's move on. Peng Wuya said.
Everyone continued to move forward, and after a few steps, they harvested another rock lotus, and then the rock lotus appeared one after another, and the deeper they entered the hole, the better the condition. Peng Wuya was very excited, thinking that Jiazi Cave was indeed a treasure cave, and it had only been a few minutes since he found a random cave to enter, and the rock lotus collected was already enough for the expenses of the sect to come here.
"Hey, there's a different one over there. ”
Lu Ming's eyes were sharp, and he found a delicate flower on the wall of the cave.
He reached for the flowers, but found that his hands felt cold and hard to the touch.
"What is this?"
Lu Ming touched the wall of the cave and was a little stunned.
"What's the matter, junior brother, what kind of flower is this?"
"This looks like a mural?"
"Murals?"
Peng Wuya also stepped forward to take a look.
The flower was delicate and lifelike, but when the torch came up, it was found that the flower had no thickness, and it was indeed a mural.
"This is strange, the opening time of Jiazi Cave is only seven days, and it is too late to explore the treasure, who will have the heart to paint on the wall of this cave?" Zhou Xiao said.
"Could it be that those rumors are true? It is said that when the martial god Zhou Tongxuan and the swordsmith Ou Yezi entered the cave and did not come out, could it be that they were bored and painted in the cave?" Lu Ming said.
The goddess came to look at the flower, and suddenly her mind churned, as if she had grasped something, but in an instant it disappeared again.
The goddess touched the mural and tried to think about it, but she just felt a sense of familiarity, but she couldn't even remember the name of the flower.
"What's the matter, goddess, do you recognize this flower?" Zhou Xiao noticed the strangeness of the goddess. Everyone's attention was on the goddess, because they didn't recognize the flower.
"I don't recognize it, but it feels familiar. ”
"Familiar?"
Zhou Xiao was very surprised, the goddess was very unfamiliar with everything in the world, but she was somewhat familiar with the strange murals in this cave, which was indeed a bit unbelievable. This cave is opened once in sixty years, even if the goddess has come in before, it must have been sixty years ago, but looking at the goddess's body and mind, it is obviously only in her twenties, is this flower not unique to Jiazi Cave, the goddess has seen it elsewhere?
Peng Wuya was also a little surprised, his understanding of the goddess was limited to amnesia, coldness, and extremely high martial arts talent, but he didn't expect that she seemed to have some kind of connection with this cave.
"Let's keep walking, maybe we'll remember something a little further in. ”
Walking further in, there were no more rock lotuses on the stone wall, and countless dense and arm-thick holes began to appear on the cave walls on both sides, which looked very uncomfortable.
"Senior brother, how can there be so many holes here?" Lu Ming asked.
"I don't know, but there shouldn't be any rock lotus in these holes so narrow, let's not look at it anymore, let's speed up." ”
The crowd hastened forward, trying to get out of the disgusting hole as quickly as possible.
Walking further inside, the air began to moisten, and the goddess suddenly called everyone to stop.
"Listen, something seems to be coming. ”
Everyone hurriedly pricked up their ears.
"It seems to be a voice. ”
Luo Wuxin said.
However, the others didn't seem to hear it, and after listening for a while, Peng Wuya said:
"Although I didn't hear it, but children generally have stronger hearing, and the goddess also heard it, so it's definitely not an auditory hallucination, this hole shouldn't be that simple, let's go all the way is a little too smooth, so be careful next." ”
At this time, everyone showed their weapons, the goddess, Peng Wuya, Lu Ming used the Kongyuan sword, Zhou Xiao used the guard knife, and Luo Wuxin also took out a small copper-headed Tianlong stick.
After walking for a while, the air in the cave suddenly moved, and the goddess only felt that something dangerous was flying behind her, so she turned around and turned to a sword.
"Wow".
The back that was empty just now was actually cut off by the sword of the goddess.
Immediately afterwards, the dense holes behind the back all grew arm-thick vines at great speed, like tens of thousands of snakes crawling out of the holes, and the scalp of the people watching was numb, and the way they came was quickly completely blocked.
"Run!"
Peng Wuya shouted and beckoned everyone to hurry forward.
As they ran, the vines behind them quickly chased after them, and at the same time, vines began to crawl out of the cave walls on both sides.
"What the hell is this? Zhou Xiao said as he ran.
"The ghost knows what this is, I guess the voice just now came from it, goddess, do you have any impression of this?" Peng Wuya said as he ran.
"It's also a little familiar, and I always feel that it's not good to be caught by it. ”
After the goddess finished speaking, Luo Wuxin suddenly fell to the ground with an "oops", it turned out that a skull on the ground tripped him, and a vine quickly wrapped around his ankle and dragged him to the cave wall.
Seeing this, the goddess raised her sword and cut down the vines, and quickly pulled Luo Wuxin up, at this time, the vines surging from all directions began to constantly try to entangle the goddess, and the goddess danced the sword and slashed and retreated.
"That's not the way to go, let's set it on fire. Zhou Xiao said.
"But if there's a fire here, we'll all be burned to death. Lu Ming said.
"Then let's go help the goddess. ”
Zhou Xiao and Lu Ming came over to help the goddess, but they finally resisted the entanglement of the vines, and several people reluctantly continued to run towards the cave.
As they continued to go deeper, the bones of dead men continued to appear on the ground, and the people who watched became more and more frightened, and now they could only hope that this hole was not a dead end.
However, after not long of running, the cave has reached the end, and at the end of it is connected to a larger cavern, which seems to be really a dead end.
"No matter, let's go first. Peng Wuya said.
Everyone retreated into the cave, and the goddess and Peng Wuya fended off the invasion of vines at the entrance of the cave.
The vines kept coming, surging faster and faster, and although the goddess and Peng Wuya's martial arts were superb, they could only resist for a moment and a half, and when they fought to the exhaustion, they would definitely be entangled by this vine, just like the owners of those bones were trapped in the hole.
Zhou Xiao felt it in the cave, there seemed to be a flow of air, and then looked at the entrance of the cave and said: "This can't be done, there are too many vines, you can only fight, unintentionally, borrow your Tianlong stick and use it." ”
"Oh. ”
Wuxin handed the copper-headed Celestial Dragon Stick to Zhou Xiao, who tied his torch to it and aimed it at the entrance of the cave.
"Lu Ming, it's up to you to take your Kongyuan Fist next. ”
Lu Ming knew what Zhou Xiao wanted to do, he looked at the situation around him and seemed to have no other way, he immediately came to Zhou Xiao, and hit the Tianlong stick with a move, and the Tianlong stick flew out with a "whoosh", and a firelight flew into the depths of the vine.
Zhou Xiao's trick really worked, the place where the Tianlong stick fell began to burn, and the air in the cave surged outward because of the burning, blowing the flames in the direction they came, and at the same time, there were holes in the cave to connect with the outside, and new air was added so that they would not suffocate.
The flames burned from the middle to both sides, cutting off the vines, and after the vines that rushed in front were cut down by the goddess, everyone threw the cut vines into the hole, forming a flame barrier.
The fire grew in the cave, and suddenly the smoke was billowing out, and several people covered their mouths and noses and tried their best to lean into the cave, if the fire continued to spread like this, they would also suffocate to death.
At this moment of urgency, the vines began to shrink towards the hole, and the vines in the hole stopped burning, and the fire quickly decreased, leaving only a mass of stumps still burning.
Seeing that the fire was under control, and the smoke was draining the hole, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, and began to observe the cave by the light of the fire that had not yet been extinguished by the vines. At this glance, everyone was shocked, at the end of the cave was a huge cave wall as high as a five-story building, and on the cave wall there was an equally huge flower, the flower was earthy yellow and blended with the stone wall, but the person who came in just now did not notice it.
On closer inspection, the flower has withered and has no water at all, but the shape of the flower still shows that it is the same species as the one painted on the cave wall at the beginning.
"What kind of flower can grow so big? Zhou Xiao sighed as he touched the withered petals, the texture of the petals was as hard as steel.
"It seems that the mural outside the cave is a sign that there is this flower in the cave. The flowers on the mural are so bright that it seems that the flower should have been alive when this mark was drawn. Peng Wuya said.
"This flower must have been dead for at least a hundred years. Luo Wuxin said suddenly.
"How do you know?" asked Lu Ming.
"You see, the petals of this flower have begun to crystallize and petrify, and they will not become like this if they have been dead for more than a hundred years. ”
Lu Ming approached, holding a torch and taking a closer look, because this flower grows on a rock, the mineral content in the petals is extremely high, and the surface of the petals has precipitated many crystals like ice crystals, so even if it withers, it does not completely decay, and it can still maintain its shape.
"If it has really been dead for more than a hundred years, then could it be that the murals were painted by people a hundred years ago?"
Lu Ming looked left and right around the petals, and said as he looked at it: "Will this flower have the same miraculous effect on strengthening muscles and bones as Yanlian?"
He crouched down, trying to find the root of the flower, trying to see if he could cut off a piece for him to study. Just as he was squatting and looking up, a faint blue cold light suddenly flashed between the petals, and he fell to the ground in fright.
"What's wrong, Lu Ming?"
Peng Wuya hurriedly stepped forward to check, while Lu Ming pointed to the giant flower on the cave wall and said, "In that flower, there is something in the flower!"