Chapter Twenty-Seven: Stepping into the Deadland
western regions
Long Fang, who has been doing ascetic for more than a year, finally broke into the legendary sea of sand, he stabilized his body, squinted his eyes and tried his best to look around, wondering in his heart, he had gone deep into the desert for dozens of miles, and he didn't let go of a place, how could he not even have a little bit of green, where did the drought-tolerant vegetation often mentioned in the book go, and the most common immortal thorns were also nowhere to be seen.
Long Fang frowned, staring ahead and not knowing what he was thinking, the wind in front of him was raging, rolling up sand and dust back and forth, colliding with each other, blowing bursts of yellow wind curtains in the sky, roaring one after another, like monsters hiding in it, as if they could choose people to devour at any time. Long Fang was wearing an earthy yellow tight-fitting trench coat with gauze covering his head, revealing only a pair of bright crystal eyes, his hands shrunk in his sleeves, thick leather boots on his feet, and a bag on his back. This outfit was specially paid by the dragon to find a skilled tailor in the town to tailor it for the desert environment.
According to Long Fang's original plan, he only brought water and dry food for ten days on this trip, according to his calculations, if he didn't stop, he should be able to find the Que Fengcao that the mysterious predecessor wanted if he went deep into the desert for three hundred miles, and it didn't seem to be a problem to walk about six hundred miles back and forth in ten days. But he had already entered dozens of miles and had not found even a trace of vegetation, which made Long Fang's heart sink suddenly, it seemed that what he wanted was going deeper, but wouldn't the food he brought in this way not enough?
Looking back, the road when I came has long been covered with yellow sand, although I am sober-minded, I don't have to worry about being trapped here, just in case, I still bought a spiritual pet that can guide people in the town - groundhog. Even in the heart of the desert, this pet can take its owner out of danger with its amazing sense of smell, which amazed Long Fang for a while.
"Forget it, eat less and drink a little, the food can last one more day, and it is not a big problem to walk another twenty miles a day with your own physique, as long as you can find a root with a wrist thickness, you can return immediately, and you will be done." Even if you encounter some ghostly beasts in the desert, you are not afraid with your magical powers, not to mention a few heavy treasures to defend yourself. Long Fang thought back to what he had just planned, and after feeling that there was nothing wrong, he strode forward without hesitation, and disappeared into the rolling yellow sand in a short time.
Just two hours after he left, in the midst of the rolling wind and sand, two men and a woman came from outside, the woman was dressed in green, holding a flute, and the man was wearing a Taoist robe and a yellow shirt and an ancient fan, which was Le Lan, Ding Qi, and Yan Yu who were on the edge half a year ago.
"The road in front of me, I don't know what the two of you have planned, if you follow the instructions of the master, a hundred miles ahead, it is the place where some low-level wind attribute materials appear, and then go inside, it is not impossible to come out of some desert dangerous beasts, we should also go to complete the master's entrustment, a junior sister specially asked me to catch a few 'sand foxes' for her to go back to be spiritual pets. After all, there is a strict time limit this time, and after a year, no matter whether or not you can fulfill your wish, you must return to the division to prepare for the 'Ning Zhen Dabi' once in 20 years, and Xiaomei does not want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The woman in green named Le Lan stopped her delicate body and asked in a tentative tone.
"How many more sand foxes do you want to catch? Senior sister Mo is not joking, don't say that the sand fox is smart and cunning, just the innate inheritance of the beast is not easy for us to deal with. Speaking of time, it is indeed very nervous, but if we are lucky enough to break into the central area, get some opportunities, and even find one or two strange treasures, even if we can't catch up with the 'Ning Zhen Dabi', it will be in vain, hahahaha!"
"Ding Daoyou really thinks well, if anyone can enter the central area, how can there be any eye-catching treasures, I am afraid that they have already been snatched up by the predecessors of the past generations. I heard that many of the demon beasts in the guardian center area have the same mid-stage cultivation of the Condensation Realm as you and me, and even a few of them have already reached the late-stage realm. Although I haven't seen it in the Jindan Realm, but after so much time, God knows what happened inside. Although the path of cultivation is against the heavens, but if the life is gone, even if there is a treasure of heaven in front of you, I am afraid that you will not be blessed to enjoy. After all, Yan Yu is older than the two, so it makes sense to speak.
Brother Yan Yu said that it is bad, since the practice is against the sky to change his life, its hardships and dangers do not need me to say more, as the so-called opportunity is in danger, if you blindly hide and sleep, how to create a thing, Ding is not talented, ask yourself how many skills, here is the first step, two, farewell. After speaking, he flicked his sleeves and disappeared proudly into the wind and sand.
"Senior Sister Le Lan, ............what do you see?" Yan Yu waited for Ding Qi to be gone, and then looked at the woman beside him meaningfully.
"This Illusory Desert Sand Sea has not been opened by countless monks who have fallen, this person is arrogant and uninhibited, there is no other person in his eyes, I don't know which demon beast will be cheaper? I hope he can save his life, otherwise Uncle Miao Heng really doesn't know how crazy he will be. Giggles, the little woman has something to do, and it's time to break up with Senior Brother Yan, hoping to see Senior Brother Yan's demeanor on the 'Ning Zhen Dabi'. After saying that, he bowed, and without waiting for Yan Yu to react, he went in the other direction. Yan Yu just hugged his fists, smiled faintly at Jiaorou's back, and then turned around and stepped into the rolling yellow sand.
Two days later, on a tall sand dune in the depths of the Phantom Sea Desert, a black dot sat motionless on it, and when it looked closely, it turned out to be a figure, letting the wind and sand beat the hem of the clothes to make a popping sound, a tired look can be between the eyebrows, the original white face was slightly dark at this time, and the wind and sand like a heat wave invaded back and forth, although it was the time when the storm was calming down, compared with the description in the book, it was different from the clouds and mud, but it was still not something that mortals could afford.
This person is none other than Long Fang, after two days of persistence, he has reached the depths of the desert for more than a hundred miles. It was still a long way from the center, but it was not his destination, and he had never heard of anyone or even a monk ever being there, and he was not even able to figure out what was there. Just a day ago, he finally saw the first decent vegetation in the desert, which was the most common shrub, about a foot high, and the enclosure was also three or four feet, which shocked his spirits, and then all kinds of drought-tolerant vegetation appeared in front of him one after another, but there was no expected Que Feng grass.
Of course, this did not knock down his confidence, after all, the Que Feng Grassland is a very rare and rare thing, even if it is not impossible to return. However, just three hours ago, he encountered the first small trouble in the Phantom Sea Desert, the attack of a group of sand ants, the sand ants themselves are very small, the largest is only an inch long, not terrible, the difficult thing is that the sand ants are social animals, thousands of them gathered together, like a small red wave rolling in, making people daunting. Fortunately, Long Fang has always been cautious and cautious, and he was finally discovered by him when the ant colony was still more than twenty or thirty zhang away from him, and several sword qi slashed, and the sand ants in the front whined and wailed, but the ones in the back ignored it, and after a rustling sound, they rushed over faster.