Chapter 159: Mirage
Walking into the empty hall, the scorching breath came to his face, Zhou Yue used his true qi to dispel the heat slightly, and then looked around and carefully observed this strange hall.
Although Zhou Yue and the three of them followed the closed-eyed monk all the way to this hall, there was no trace of the closed-eyed monk in front of them, and even the residual breath of the person stopped abruptly here.
"Really...... Peculiar?" Nan Qianwang turned his head to look behind him with some curiosity, he took a few steps back and walked out of the hall, the burning sensation suddenly disappeared, the frost staircase looked cold and the temperature was actually normal, Nan Qianwang thought for a while, and walked into the hall again, and the feeling of burning flames followed, he said with some confusion: "It's as if there is an invisible wall blocking this temperature in the hall, but we can pass through that wall unimpeded?"
Zhou Yue didn't answer his sloquery, but looked into the depths of the hall.
In the hall, a pillar of fire would rise up to the sky at intervals, as if supporting the entire hall, with these pillars of fire as lighting, Zhou Yue could almost see the end of the hall at a glance, but he did not find any traces of the appearance of monks, and even the distribution of heaven and earth aura was very normal, normal and a little weird.
Zhou Yue frowned, he glanced around and found that there was no road to other places in the entire hall, the only exit was the frost staircase they had passed when they came, and he didn't know where the closed-eyed monk had gone.
"Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi ......" Zuo Zheng looked at those pillars of fire and fell into deep thought, and after a moment, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said: "There are so many flames in this hall, why is the fire spiritual energy only as strong as the outside world?"
Fire, cold, dust...... These are the manifestations of the operation of the aura of heaven and earth, maybe there is an extremely strong fire aura of heaven and earth in some specific places, but there is no trace of flame, but the flame cannot get rid of the aura of fire and heaven and earth and exist alone, and the flames in this hall have long exceeded the limit that the aura of fire and heaven and earth can carry!
Zhou Yue's eyes lit up when he heard this, he seemed to have grasped something, but he couldn't remember it for a while, so Zhou Yue sat down cross-legged on the spot, waved his sleeves and wrote a series of words in front of him, and said to himself: "At the beginning, the closed-eyed monk laid out a mixed formation, which killed a large number of monks in the underground dark river, and with the help of the corpses of those monks, opened or at least affected the snow hill passage. ”
Then the man rushed into the snow mound passage without hesitation, as if ...... He had known this passage for a long time. Nan Qianwang frowned slightly, and then Zhou Yue's words said: "It can be seen that the purpose of the closed-eyed monk from the beginning was to open this passage, so he arranged a mixed array, and the conditions for opening ...... It's quite possible to kill a sufficient number of monks!"
Sacrifice, an ancient method of evil path, the evil path monk by killing monks and demons to provide true qi for certain items, in order to make up for the lack of their own cultivation, through sacrifice, the evil path monk can use items that cross a large realm of their own, as long as they meet the 'other requirements', such as the strength of the divine consciousness, the strength of the physical body, etc.
Because the sacrifice must ensure that the target of the sacrifice still has enough true qi in his body, he chose to mix the large array, because under the crushing of this large array, the monk will be wiped out before he has time to mobilize the true qi in his body. Zhou Yue scratched the back of his head, and then said: "That person's divine consciousness strength can reach the foundation building realm in a short time, so this snow hill passage is likely to need the foundation building realm's divine consciousness to open." ”
"But why did he disappear here? No matter how good the concealment spell is, there will always be a trace of the place where he disappears, right?" Nan Qianwang glanced back at the frost staircase in confusion, the aura of the closed-eyed monk came to an abrupt halt at the entrance of the hall, and the concealment spell should have left a trace of artificially erasing the breath.
At this moment, Zuo Zheng suddenly asked, "Do you think he really didn't find us before?"
Zhou Yue was stunned when he heard this, and then reacted, when he first met the closed-eyed monk, that person had a way to lock him in the state of fog walking without his eyes, what if the closed-eyed monk was pretending not to find them just now on the top of the frost staircase?
"Let's go back and see the snow dunes at the entrance to the passage. Zhou Yue pondered for a moment, then pointed to the frost staircase behind him and said, "I suspect we can't go back now." ”
The three of them no longer hesitated, and quickly flew along the frost staircase towards the ground, but a strange situation appeared, Zhou Yue and the three of them had been flying for half a cup of tea but still didn't see the snow mound connected to the ground, they could only see the two stone walls that extended into the darkness, and the endless stairs!
Zhou Yue and the three of them immediately sensed that something was wrong, and immediately turned around and flew downward, they flew for a long time but never saw the hall full of flames again, the three of them gradually slowed down, and finally stopped on the frost staircase.
"Is it a maze?" Zhou Yue glanced back at Zuo Zheng and asked, "Senior Sister Zuo, do you think there's anything wrong?"
Sword cultivators have an innate advantage in the face of psychedelic spells and formations, because their sword qi and divine sense are pure to the extreme, so they are rarely confused, unless the monks who confuse them have a higher cultivation, at least the monks of the Qi Condensation Realm should not be able to confuse Zuo Zheng.
"I don't feel it, it's not like a maze...... Zuo Zheng pointed to the frost staircase under his feet, and continued, "Although I don't feel like anyone has used confusing methods on me, it's very strange that this ice is not cold. ”
Zhou Yue's heart moved when he heard this, and an ice gun instantly condensed in his hand as soon as he flipped his palm, and then he stabbed towards the frost staircase under his feet!
"Click!"
The staircase under Zhou Yue's feet made an overwhelmed sound, and it was directly pierced by the ice spear, and it suddenly shattered under the operation of Zhou Yue's true qi!
At the moment when the ice steps shattered, Zhou Yue suddenly noticed an extremely rich water spiritual aura, but he didn't have time to feel the water spiritual energy and disappeared without a trace, Zhou Yue looked around suspiciously, and finally refocused his attention on the crack of the frost staircase.
The originally perfect frost staircase had been pierced by Zhou Yue into a crack that could accommodate one person to pass through, and Zhou Yue cautiously looked down from the crack, but he could only see the smooth stone walls on both sides extending into the dark abyss.
Zhou Yue pointed to the crack that was blasted out and asked, "Shall we go down?"
Zuo Zheng and Nan Qianwang nodded, and then the three of them flew out of the crack in turn, flying towards the unfathomable darkness, just half a pillar of incense, Zhou Yue and the three of them found that a staircase appeared under their feet, a frost staircase exactly the same as the one above their heads!
"Look! That Hall of Flames!" Nan Qianwang's small shield in his hand emitted a dazzling light, illuminating the new frost staircase, and at the end of this staircase was a stone chamber clinging to the floor of the rift, exactly the same as the hall full of light and fire they had arrived at before!
Zhou Yue frowned and raised his head to look up, at this time they could no longer see the frost ladder before, but Zhou Yue had a faint feeling in his heart that the ladder had completely disappeared at this time.
Not invisible, but directly erased from this world.
He couldn't help but shudder, but then followed Zuo Zheng and the two into the stone chamber on the ground of the rift, as soon as he stepped into the entrance of the stone chamber, a damp feeling suddenly enveloped Zhou Yue's body, and the dark blue true qi in his body cheered with this damp feeling, and the speed of flow suddenly increased a few points.
There were no flames in this hall, but hundreds of fountains gushed out from the ground of the hall, and the empty hall was full of water vapor and dense fog, and Zhou Yue could only see the scene within a few feet around him.
Like that flame hall, the water in this hall is also very 'normal', the power of the five elements in the air has almost reached a balance, no kind of aura exceeds the standard, even if the entire hall is covered with water vapor, Zhou Yue did not find any excess water heaven and earth aura, the appearance of this sky mist seems to appear out of thin air, like a pavilion in the air, a tree without roots.
"It's a mirage. Zuo Zheng looked at the cheerful water column and said lightly: "There is a mythical beast in the legend, which is the son of the true dragon, named Mirage. ”
"The mirage eats powerful monsters, but its deity is too large, it loses its flexibility, and it does not have the ability to control the water of heaven and earth through the clouds, so it is difficult for the mirage to capture the flexible ancient demons. ”
So, the descendants of this dragon came up with a method, it spits smoke from its mouth to form a mirage, and turns the mirage into a cave heaven blessed land, a spiritual stone vein, to attract other demons, and when enough demons are gathered in the mirage, the mirage will open its mouth and swallow the prey in the mirage in one gulp, and feast on it. ”
Zuo Zheng stretched out her hand without hesitation and touched the churning water column, the turbulent water hit her hand, and it actually passed directly, and when she pulled her hand out, the hand was still dry, and it was not until a few breaths later that a layer of crystal water suddenly hung up!
"This mirage is not a mirage, but it seems to be restrained by the formation, although it will make changes, but the reaction speed is too slow, I have been pulling my hand out for so long to simulate a layer of water droplets for me. Zuo Zheng sighed lightly and said, "And the three of us have been fooled by this mirage for about an hour. ”
Zhou Yue scratched the back of his head and asked, "Since it's a mirage, then the closed-eyed monk ......?"
"Well, he must have been too far away from us at the time, so Mirage thought he wasn't with us and separated him elsewhere. Zuo Zheng pointed to the hall full of water in front of him, and said: "Since it is not a mirage spit out by a mirage, the scope of the simulation should not be large, as long as this hall is cracked, it will definitely change." ”