Chapter 44: The Valley of Horrors
Along the way, the map of Yandu, a topographical map of Horror Valley from ten years ago, is the latest that can be found. At each stage, the dialect is marked on the mountain wall to avoid getting lost.
Now Fang Yan is walking towards a place called the Sanbu Pavilion on the map, and from there, passing through a long and narrow valley, there will be a large cave, which was once inhabited by a large number of low-level Yin Spirits and monsters, which is the preferred place for Qi refining period cultivators. It is said that although it was not very lively in the past, there were many monks who came, but later Qingxuanzong opened up a training place called Ghost Valley, and the number of people who came gradually became scarce, so that few people now come here to hunt demons.
Half an hour later, Fang Yan came to the three-step pavilion, in fact, it was a mushroom-shaped boulder, standing under the boulder felt like being in a very small pavilion, but this pavilion was only about three steps wide. This is the only way to enter the cave, and monks can rest here for a while.
The dialect continued on his way, passing through a narrow valley to a tall cave. From here, there were ghosts and ghosts, and the dialect immediately drove the soul card to rise above his head, holding the golden spirit sword in his hand, although his divine sense was not enough to urge this magic weapon at the same time, it could also be used as a weapon.
As soon as I entered the cave, I encountered several geismans, and without the slightest intelligence, they sensed the vitality and surrounded them. Without waiting for him to speak, he sucked all the soul cards into them with a few light turns, and then quietly stopped above his head.
Continuing to move forward, there are more and more wandering spirits, but their strength is not strong, at most it is equivalent to the appearance of the first level of qi refining, and the dialect can be killed with a sword. The soul card is like a bottomless pit, greedily devouring a large number of geismans, and the speed is extremely fast, just sucking more than a dozen in an instant, and it looks like it is still unfinished.
The further you went, the more the number of spirits became, and the more dense they became, and the large flocks of spirits were like a flock of butterflies that had been alarmed, and they surrounded the mountains and fields, and they were densely circled and circled. Fang Yan hurriedly urged the soul card to move, only to see that at this time, the soul card slowly turned into a black stone tablet with a height of more than a foot, the ghost light flashed and flashed, and in an instant, a large number of spirits were sucked up, and after the time of a pillar of incense, there were almost wandering souls around.
Soon the artifact changed back to the appearance of the soul card, except that it was darker and brighter, and it didn't change much. Fang Yan is very satisfied with the power of this magic weapon, whether it is a single attack or a group siege, it can attack and defend freely, and there is no need to be afraid of idle ghosts. And the mana consumption is not large when urging, which is even more important for the dialect that is still only the third layer of qi refining, although the mana after the dialect forging body exceeds the same level a lot, but it is only the early stage of qi refining, and the mana is still thin and cannot withstand long-term consumption, if it encounters a large number of ghosts and beasts, and quickly consumes the mana, even the pill is difficult to replenish instantly, it will be a real tragedy.
There are a lot of wandering spirits in this cave, and I don't know how much is hidden in the light of the stars on the cave wall, and the dialect has only walked for a short while, and it has been besieged several times, but relying on the magic effect of the soul card, it didn't take much effort to kill it. Although this was the first time that Fang Yan went out to hunt demons alone, it went even more smoothly than expected.
I don't know if it's because no one has been here for a long time, or if it's some other reason, the geyses in this cave get denser and denser as they go, and the spirits that don't have the intelligence of the geysm moths fly out of the cave walls like fire, and their translucent bodies take on various shapes, and even some are just vague masses, flying straight to Fang Yan's side. Fang Yan simply found an open place, sat cross-legged on the ground, urged the soul card to protect his body, and let it devour the wandering souls in the sky like a giant whale sucking water, while he sat cross-legged on the ground and constantly recovered his mana, taking a pill or eating a spirit fruit from time to time.
In just one hour, the wandering souls within a radius of a hundred zhang were swept away, and with the soul card that had become smaller again, the dialect continued to move forward. Along the way, the various spirits did not decrease, but there were more and more types of forms, some of them were still humanoid, but the appearance of the limbs was a little similar, and the rest of the facial features were vague and uncertain.
Fang Yan didn't know how many geisman spirits the soul card devoured this time, anyway, no matter how many were devoured by it along the way, even the color of the cave wall became brighter. Before I knew it, I walked into the depths of the cave, and the cave began to become low and narrow, no longer as open as before, and after walking a short distance, two forks in the road appeared.
I took out the map I bought, and the information on the map became incomplete when I got there, and many places were not marked further on. Generally, the monks in the early stage of qi refining have been trained here, and they have already completed the task, and then they have to cultivate to a higher monk, Fang Yan thought about whether to continue, although the purpose of this time was not achieved, but he also tested the power of the soul card, and was familiar with the operation and drive of this magic weapon, but he didn't catch a magic pet, which still made him unwilling.
Fang Yan thought about it, and chose the fork on the right to drill in, since he was here, and the power of the soul card far exceeded Fang Yan's expectations, he simply took the risk to try the maximum power of this soul card, and made some preparations for going to other places where ghosts are everywhere in the future, such as the Valley of Ghosts.
This cave is a little different from the previous place, there is sparse vegetation on the ground, and from time to time there are a few weeds with curled leaves, growing on the edge of the rock and between the cracks in the cave wall, but the grass and trees that grow in this environment are like ghosts, and most of them are gray and white.
Only a few dozen feet away, a beast-shaped ghost creature rushed out of the ground and pounced on Fang Yan at an extremely fast speed. This ghost thing can no longer be called a ghost, the body is much more condensed than the ghost, the cultivation is equivalent to about three layers of qi training, and the attack is also sharper, it is a kind of ghost introduced on the jade slip, called a ghost.
When this ghost spirit attacked the top of Fang Yan's head, the golden spirit sword in Fang Yan's hand had already been swung out, and before Fang Yan could attack it, the soul card that had been floating on Fang Yan's head flashed, and the ghost spirit was gone. It was a little brighter, and it was bigger than the change that had devoured dozens of geistines before, and a small piece of inscription faintly appeared on the surface of the soul card, and it quickly disappeared.
This soul card also has a function that has not been discovered by dialects, if you master it all, I am afraid that it is a supreme weapon to deal with ghosts, and with this magic weapon in hand, you should be able to continue to move forward for a while. Further on, the cave slowly became dark and damp, and from time to time a small clump of weeds and moss could be seen on the ground, but the light dimmed, and Fang Yan took out a fist-sized fluorite at this time, illuminating the surroundings clearly and brightly.
There are a lot fewer ghosts here, almost every time I only encounter one or two, and it is rare to encounter several ghosts besieged at a time, but even if it is besieged, it is swallowed by the soul card in an instant, and the mana of the dialect is not consumed much. After these ghosts were absorbed, the changes in the soul cards were very obvious, and the original speckled rust had faded a lot, becoming pitch black and shiny, with a delicate luster.
The brave performance of the card, the dialect's heart settled down, this adventure to come alone is worth it, and the dialect also has a sharp weapon that can be used in the future. As we move on, the cave begins to become rugged, and from time to time there are forks in the winding caves, like a labyrinth, and the dialect is marked everywhere along the way, otherwise you will get lost in this intricate cave.
The further you go inside, the more you should move forward, there are no signs on the map for a long time, and the cultivator of this map is not very high. In the labyrinthine caves that extend in all directions, the appearance of ghosts is becoming more and more frequent, and the ghosts here are no longer surrounded by ghosts without intelligence, but they are like demon beasts that have just opened their minds, knowing how to dodge and sneak attack, and sometimes their dialects are a little embarrassed, and they can't help but raise their vigilance.
The walls of the cave became a little damp, and clumps of weeds grew in the corners, and from time to time water drippeds fell to the ground on the top of the cave, and a thin stream appeared, and the water was dirty black or red like blood, and it was seeping into people. Fang Yan felt that he was slowly walking towards the depths, and several times he wanted to turn around and walk out of the cave, he felt that this complicated cave was hiding danger, and he looked up and walked down firmly.
It is a long distance to go deep into this cave, in an inconspicuous pile of rubble, the dialect suddenly has a clump of blood velvet zhi, this is the main medicine for refining the blood qi pill, it can only grow in this kind of yin qi gathering place, this bush has more than ten plants, the longest year is more than a hundred years, the value is very high, it can already be used to refine the pill of the foundation building period.
Fang Yan carefully dug up these spiritual grasses and connected them to the soil, and sent them directly into the blue bead space, anyway, no one here went far ahead, and they arrived at a wide underground karst cave, the grass and trees in the cave were obviously luxuriant, and the stone pillars stood in the cave, and the surface was wet with white lava water, and the grass and trees under these pillars grew significantly more lush.
There should be an aura here, and Fang Yan felt it as soon as he arrived in this cave, and a trace of cool aura surrounded his body. The dialect guessed that there may be a yin spirit vein underground, nourishing and growing a lot of yin-loving plants and trees, among which there are also many spirit grasses, and the yin spirit veins are scarce, and the yin attribute spirit grass is very precious.
There are no ghosts in the wide cave, which Fang Yan didn't expect, but this is not a good thing, maybe there will be something more powerful than this, so be careful. Sure enough, most of the blood velvet mushroom that was bitten off in the dialect was soon bitten off, and there were clearly visible ghost beast footprints on the side.
Fang Yan's heart suddenly tightened, this cave is above the spiritual vein, the power that can occupy this place must be not small, if it is a ghost beast, there may be more than one, a group or even a clan is possible, it is really necessary to be cautious. When he was about to reach the middle of this cave, the purple pupil beast in the spirit beast bag suddenly sent out a news that the elixir had been discovered, and the dialect was a little strange in the direction it pointed, and found a large green leaf in a stone crevice, which made him very happy in his heart, this is the main medicine of the five-glycoside soup, no wonder it can't be found everywhere, it turns out to grow in the place where yin qi gathers.
Wait until Fang Yan happily picked a few plants and planted them into the space, and was about to come out and collect all the rest of the big green leaves, before he came out of the space, his divine sense habitually swept out, and suddenly found that a group of earth demon scorpions came out of the ground, and around this spiritual grass, he found that this is the territory of the scorpion group, this kind of ghost beast territory concept is the strongest, and any ghost thing that dares to enter their territory is considered a challenge, and it is not to die when encountered.
Seeing this scene, Fang Yan hurriedly stopped in the space, not daring to probe out his divine sense again, regretting in his heart that he did not use the animal skin that covered his divine sense to cover the beads, if he let the earth demon scorpion be picked up as a trophy, it would really be like crying without tears. Fortunately, after a while, when Fang Yan carefully poked out his divine sense again, the group of earth demon scorpions had retreated underground and disappeared, which made Fang Yan breathe a sigh of relief. The combat effectiveness of this scorpion group should not be low, and at that time, several of them were inadvertently mid-level, which was equivalent to the strength of a mid-stage Qi refining cultivator, and it would be difficult to get out if they were really surrounded.
And Fang Yan didn't dare to stay here anymore, he walked along the edge of the sparse grass and trees, and the spirit grass on the ground didn't dare to pick it carelessly, during which the purple pupil beast pointed him to find a few white jade mosses, and Fang Yan carefully picked them and ran, for fear of being blocked by the group of earth demon scorpions, so he could only hide in the blue bead space.
It took a long time for Fang Yan to escape from this cave, during which there was not a single ghost, it can be seen that the strength of this scorpion group is very amazing, what appeared just now may only be one of their patrols, if this scorpion group only has these earth demon scorpions, it is impossible to let this cave with spiritual veins fall into their hands, and it has long been occupied by other ghosts.
After leaving the cave, there were four caves intersecting with each other in front of him, which made Fang Yan feel big for a while, the distribution of the caves here was too complicated, even if there were no monsters and ghosts, it was difficult to explore thoroughly, let alone draw a complete map, no wonder he only bought the simplest map.
I chose the largest hole, marked it and walked in. After walking not far, the cave slowly meandered upward, and the Yin Spirit Qi in the air dispersed a lot, but there was a very uncomfortable aura wafting out.
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