Chapter Twenty-Six: The Phantom and the Thorn

Along the way, Xiang Yang knew that the underground world was vast, and it took a day to just this canyon.

After leaving this canyon, there is a wide valley, and there are many strange-looking trees growing in it, no matter what the species, the leaves are very fat, but they are not very high, and the highest is only a few feet high.

The valley is rich in water, and the whole valley is divided into small grids by streams, and the swarthy earth is soft and soft to step on, and the dark and shiny soil is extraordinarily fertile, and there are clumps of weeds that emit blue light and patches of aquatic plants that grow in the stream.

There is a low hill in the middle of the valley, and at the top of the hill, there is a small crater, and the hot red magma keeps tumbling down, and the high temperature evaporates the water next to it into a piece of mist, and after it spreads, it is illuminated by the blue light emitted by those wild grasses, as if the whole valley is covered with a layer of glowing blue veil, which is as beautiful as a dream.

After walking together for so long, Youhuo and Yougang around him are two guys who like to talk, and without Xiang Yang's deliberate guidance, they have roughly figured out the situation in this underground world.

How big this underground world is, even they don't know very well, only know that there have been a few warriors who walked in all directions, and finally encountered a bottomless abyss and could only return, but in the abyss, there should still be a wide space.

The tide is the method of keeping time in the underground world, here, there are turbulent dark rivers and streams, and the natives time is timed according to the time when the water surface rises and falls, one tide at a time, according to Xiang Yang's own judgment, it should be about the same length as a day in the outside world.

In this underground world, there are dozens of races, large and small, and the Phantom is the largest of them, so the king of the Phantom race is also the king of the underworld.

Of course, the size of these ethnic groups is not large, even the Youyou clan only has a population of a thousand, and the other small clans are as many as hundreds to dozens, and the total is estimated to be less than 10,000.

This is not due to the scarcity of underground materials, on the contrary, the climate here is warm and humid, and there are many things to eat, such as those plants in the water, most of which are good ingredients, and there are endless fish in the dark river, so there is no need to worry about lack of food.

However, in this underground world, the natives have natural predators.

Here, there will be a big tide every 900 tides, when the water level of the dark river will drop to half of its usual level, and at this time, a monster will attack.

It was a strange flying snake, with a dragon's head and a snake with bat wings, so huge that the natives called it the Stinger.

In the texts of the Phantom, the Thorn appeared in the underworld at the same time as the Phantom.

It stands to reason that with the strength of the natives, they can't stop the Stygian Thorn from hunting them at all, but it's strange that every time the Thorn attacks, it will not be wiped out, but will leave after eating a certain number of humans, and usually don't know where it stays, and it won't reappear until the next big tide.

Over time, the natives have become accustomed to this kind of life, and whenever the thorn attacks, they are too lazy to resist, and even some old and frail people will take the initiative to send them to death, so as to save the life of the prime of the clan.

In addition to the thorns, there are many strange things in this underground world, such as the fish caught, there are two identical ones, one is fine if you eat it, but the other may be poisonous. The same is true for seemingly ordinary aquatic plants, which from time to time people will be poisoned and die.

Of course, this percentage is not very high, and it is possible to have one case in thousands, but how terrible is it to feel like death is with you every now and then?

Various factors have led to the fact that in this underground world, the reproduction of human beings is not rapid, and it has been passed down for thousands of years, and this is the population.

It is precisely for this reason that almost all normal people here look at life and death very lightly, if they are placed outside, no matter how vicious the outlaws are, they will not have the madness that they don't care about life at all.

The people of the You Clan don't know how to cultivate immortals, but each of them is a master of body refining, and in Xiang Yang's eyes, almost everyone has a realm above the Silver Body Realm, even His Royal Highness, who is about the same age as him.

This His Royal Highness's name is Youtan, is the only daughter of Yousheng, the king of the Youzu clan, some time ago, the king of the clan was suddenly poisoned, although it was not fatal, but he became a madman, the high priest of the clan said that this is a madness, only by taking the blood of a bird called Wen Ray can be cured, Yu Tan took people out to look for it, but did not expect, Wen Ray did not find, but met a fairy...

It took another day, a group of people passed through the valley, and entered a canyon, walked forward for dozens of miles, a dark river dozens of zhang wide cut the canyon into two sections, there is a natural stone bridge above the dark river, the width is several zhang, after crossing the stone bridge is a bamboo shoot-like stone forest, the clan land of the Youzu tribe is behind the stone forest.

It was a stone house made of stones, built along the cliffs on both sides, and in the center, outside the tallest stone house, stood a group of natives, all looking in worriedly, and there was a roar from the stone house, which was not at all like a human voice, but like a wild beast roaring inside.

"Dam, how is my Abba!huh?" As soon as he heard the voice, Yu Tan hurriedly ran over, and an old woman with white hair looked sideways, touched her head with a doting face, and then sighed: "The clan king's madness is getting worse and worse, well, Tan'er, have you found Wen Ray?"

Youtan shook his head: "No, Youhuo said that he saw it in Qianzhangtan, but we only brought out a monster when we went there, and Youyi and Youqi were eaten by monsters... ”

Danmu sighed: "Alas, no one has seen Wen Ray for many years, and it's normal to not find it... But it seems that the illness of the clan king cannot be delayed... ”

Yu Tan shook her hand for a moment, and then pointed in Xiang Yang's direction: "Danmu, I found a fairy brother!

"Immortals?" Dan Mu looked back, the wrinkles on his face twitched strangely, his face was full of surprise, Xiang Yang was also wearing animal skins, it turned out that he had made a beast skin vest and was washed away in the dark river, at this time, he was shirtless like the natives, the only difference was that the animal skin pants were longer than them, where did he look like a fairy?

"Danmu, Brother Fairy is amazing, such a big monster, he slaughtered it in a few clicks. So big one ... Yu Tan stretched out his arms and gestured, but he seemed to feel that he couldn't describe the size of the monster anyway, and he was a little frustrated.

"Really?" Like the ancient sacrifice, Danmu also held a bone staff in his hand, but there was no vitality fluctuation, obviously it was not a magic weapon, but the material of the bone staff was very special, exuding a dark green, it looked like it was made of some kind of gemstone, she held the bone staff, and slowly walked towards Xiang Yang, her mouth gurgled and made a strange sound, and her eyes were the same as the bone staff, exuding a green light.