Chapter 149: The Dam
It was just a pillar of incense, and the two of them rushed there, it turned out that they were very close to the position where Ji Ming and Fang Yan were just now, and they didn't leave too far.xshuotxt came here and looked at it, and the two of them immediately understood the reason, not to wait for them here, but to really can't make up their minds, and they don't dare to go there again to inform Ji Ming.
At this time, the monks were scattered on several protruding rocks in the river, and none of them stayed in the water. When the river arrived, it was divided into two, one was still full of 'yin' cold water, which slowly flowed downward, and it was only a few feet away from the top of the 'hole', and it was still necessary to search forward with the help of water avoidance charms.
On the other side, the water is much shallower, and many places are 'naked' and 'exposed' large areas of fine sand and rocks, and even the surroundings of this waterway have suddenly become open, and some places can fly up to a height of two or three feet above the water, without the need to use water avoidances to pass through the water. However, this seemingly unhindered shallow water flow was even more difficult for several people to pass through, because between the two waterways, a dam of rocks and sediment was separated by a 'touching' pile of sand, as if it had been built by man.
Whoever sees such a scene will not dare to go down rashly, who dares to say that this is not a dam deliberately built by those demon spirits, if they go all the way into the lair 'hole' of those demon spirits, wouldn't it be just sent to the 'door'. After thinking about it for a while, several people decided to summon Ji Ming and the others to discuss it again, not daring to go deeper inside.
The nearby shoals and rocks were full of potholes, needless to say, this place had already been searched by them, and some of the spiritual materials scattered everywhere had been looted by them, so they notified the two of them to come. Looking at the scene in front of him, Ji Ming was also annoyed in his heart, although he couldn't look down on these spiritual materials scattered on the ground, but the practices of these people were really ugly, if it weren't for two of them with some background, he would want to leave, and let them die or live.
Calling them in the dialect, in fact, there is another purpose, that is, they took out more than 20 water avoidance talismans when they saw the dialect, and Ji Ming pointed out that he made it himself, maybe there are still a lot of such talismans on his body, and then who knows if they will encounter a place where the water level is high again, then they will have to rely on the dialect to provide water avoidance talismans, they have already used two to come here, and the rest will be kept for the return trip.
It was easy for Ji Ming to suppress the anger in his heart, and he didn't bother to care about the little Jiujiu in the hearts of these people, just watching this shallow river, stretching all the way down the winding river and burrowing under a rock. I'm afraid it's not a good place here, and he's only heard of a creature like a demon spirit, but he hasn't seen it with his own eyes, so he still asks for the opinion of the dialect.
Everything here is in the eyes of the dialect, and the dialect is summed up in his heart between the silent 'color', this group of people is afraid that they will not be able to let go of the benefits here, and it is definitely impossible to stop them from going by themselves, but the water avoidance charm on his body can still be controlled, and from now on he will insist that there is no more on his body, so he is unwilling to follow them to continue to take risks.
Seeing Ji Ming looking at him, he didn't say much in dialect, but just ran to the front not far away and carefully checked to see if there were any traces of demon spirits, although he had faced a large number of demon spirits, but he didn't know much about these creatures, and he didn't find anything unusual after looking at them for a long time.
But Fang Yan didn't intend to tell the truth, but said solemnly: "Senior brothers, this waterway looks very strange, although there are no traces of these demons found nearby, but the junior brother thinks that this must be a haunt of demons, and everything should be careful." ”
When he had finished speaking in tongues, he stepped aside and said no more. After listening to Fang Yan's words, the other people were obviously a little unconvinced, a disciple who had only reached the fifth level of Qi refining pointed fingers in front of them, making them feel very uncomfortable, but Ji Ming was 'supporting' him behind him, no one wanted to offend Ji Ming at this time, so he glanced at Fang Yan with some disdain, and did not say a word.
"Let's talk about it all the junior brothers, this is the first time that the senior brother has come to this kind of place, and he doesn't know much about the situation here, and now he doesn't know where those demon spirits are hiding, so it's really better to be careful. Ji Ming seemed to say a few words impartially, but the words were still towards the dialect, and a fool could hear it.
"Senior brother has the heart to go to explore, but he is a little worried that the water avoidance charm is not enough, if he encounters a river surge in front, it will be troublesome, I don't know if Senior Brother Fang still has a water avoidance charm, how about selling two to Senior Brother?" A disciple didn't want to go around, so he directly said what he thought in his heart, and it seemed that he still had something to rely on in front of Ji Ming.
"This senior brother, I'm really sorry, this water amulet is very difficult to make, and it is a talisman with some 'chicken' ribs, and few people usually need it, so the junior brother has not made too much, and these are still backlogged for several years, and they have all been taken out. Fang Yan had already thought about it, and deliberately said apologetically, and a few people couldn't find the 'fault' in the dialect when they heard it, so they had to stand there a little depressed.
There are more water avoidances, and there is no good result from continuing the discussion, so it seems that there is no choice but to return here. Although several people are a little annoyed, but the situation here is unknown, no one dares to rush to the front, if there is a chance to get some gains, you can take some risks, but if you can't even go back safely, no one dares to hold on.
Although he said that he would return now, there were still some people who were unwilling, and the monk who wanted to avoid the water talisman just now said: "Senior Brother Ji, why don't we look around here, don't go too far, just find something and go back, can we not delay the return journey?"
Ji Ming calculated the time, it was only two or three hours before they came out, it was still early before it got dark, he nodded after thinking about it, and only gave everyone an hour, and returned as soon as the time came. When they heard this, they scattered in a hurry, and ran along the shallow river, long forgetting about the demon spirit.
Although this small river is still very cold, some of the 'exposed' rocks and sand piles can be used, and these people can crisscross in it, and they don't need to go deep into the surface of the water to find some spiritual materials. This place has been nourished by this 'yin' spiritual vein for many years, and a large amount of sand and gravel has been carried by the river, and the spiritual ore and spiritual materials in it have been scattered everywhere, plus no one has ever been here, and there can be a lot of harvest in an hour.
In the blink of an eye, everyone chased after me, and they all grabbed all kinds of items in front, for fear that the good things left behind were picked up by others, but they didn't snatch them openly. Fang Yan didn't have the interest to compete with them, so he followed behind and picked up some spiritual materials at random, and he picked up a lot of them in a short time, but they were all low-level materials, and they didn't add up to much spirit stones, so he just passed the time, and unconsciously fell far behind the others.
After walking a few miles along the shallow river, Fang Yan vaguely saw a slightly gentle sand dune in the distance, and the others scrambled to run to the dune. The river here is deeper than before, and if you go further, you will need a water avoidance charm, so everyone stopped here, and bent down on the sand dunes to pick up something called Lan Xibei, which is also said to be a kind of spiritual material for refining weapons, and the value is higher than that picked up before, and a group of people are busy there.
Walking all the way along the river dialect, he was standing by the river at this moment, and suddenly heard the faint sound of "gurgling" water in the river, which may be a little far away from here, or because it is deep underwater, it is very difficult to hear it, and he can't see anything down from the water. The underground is very quiet, otherwise it is impossible to hear such a small sound, and Fang Yan was startled, it could be that the demon spirit rushed over.
When Fang Yan was about to take a closer look, he saw that the shallow river had suddenly risen by more than a foot, and it was still rising rapidly, and on the surface of the river farther behind, a huge 'wave' several feet high had risen, as if it was slowly gathering momentum and ready to rush over at any time. Seeing this, the dialect immediately retreated, although he didn't know what was happening, but it didn't seem to be a good thing, and he didn't forget to shout "Run" loudly, as for whether they heard it, it was none of the matter.
Along the river when they came, the dialect spread its 'legs' and ran, but before it ran far from the dialect, it felt that something was wrong, because the river in front of it was also surging, and I don't know when the originally empty and wide mountain 'hole' was slowly filled with the rapidly surging river, leaving only a few feet of space at the top of the 'hole', and the eyes were full of river water gushing from all directions.
It is impossible to escape smoothly again, Fang Yan took out the water bead without thinking about it, now it is important to escape, how can he care about what other people think of him, and I don't know what happened to Ji Ming and the others at this moment.
The effect of the water beads is much better than the water avoidance talisman made by the dialect, and it easily blocks the oncoming water from the body, and even the cold air with bursts is lighter, it is really worthy of the things handed down from the 'gate' of the great sect, and it is much easier to use than the bargains bought on the market, and the dialect has disappeared into the 'tide' water in a short time.
Ji Ming didn't see what happened to Fang Yan, in fact, they also felt it when Fang Yan began to flee, the rapid rise in the water level made several people exclaim, plus the shouts of Fang Yan came vaguely from afar, although some were reluctant to bow down to the spiritual materials in front of them, a few people still packed up a few 'legs' in a panic and ran away, but they fell far behind Fang Yan.
But what made Fang Yan strange was that the expected demon spirit did not appear, which also made him breathe a sigh of relief, if the demon spirit also attacked at this moment, there was really no way to escape under this water. Relying on the miracle of avoiding the water droplets, Fang Yan quickly fled to the suspected dam, and was about to flee to the mountain 'cave' where he came, when the most fearful thing happened.
Even if he didn't use his divine sense, Fang Yan also saw the demon spirits flowing down the river in the distance through the water, and hundreds of demon spirits of different shapes didn't know what kind of spell they used, so they floated on the water like this, but they were free to move, unlike Fang Yan, they used a water avoidance charm and added a spell shield, which made Fang Yan even more suspicious, and he didn't dare to meet it like this, and after a little thought, he turned to slide into another waterway.
This is the place where the river I just passed by is deeper, and the dialect urges the water beads to go downstream along the river. But after all, he was not an aquatic demon beast, and he was in a hurry in the water but couldn't swim fast, and suddenly he had an idea and released the ichthyosaur that Qingluan 'handed over' to him when he left.
The ichthyosaurus that just came to the water was also frozen by the cold water flow here, but after all, it was a high-level aquatic demon beast, and it had dialect water-repellent beads to protect most of its body, and it quickly adapted to the cold here, under the command of the dialect, he easily dived into the bottom of the river with him, and slowly landed on the river bed of this underground river.
After walking along the river bed for a short distance, I found that there was not even a little silt at the bottom of the river below, and the river water several feet deep was not turbulent, but it did not leave much sediment at the bottom of the river, and the water was washed everywhere very dry, except for some larger gravel, walking on the bottom of the river was like walking in the rocks, but it felt extremely cold, and there was no other discomfort.
At this time, the dialect didn't care much, and it didn't seem that there were any demons nearby, but it was like an escape channel, and they drove the ichthyosaur beast on the riverbed. The effect of the water beads was also 'revealed' at this moment, and there was no trace of water within a few feet of Fang Yan's body, and the flowing water along the way was automatically separated by the water beads.
Following the direction of the flowing water, Fang Yan ran faster and faster under the river' bed, and in the blink of an eye, he ran out for a distance of several miles, and as for what was going on on the river, he didn't go out to check, just thinking about staying away from the siege of those demons. Just now he also saw that the demon spirits here seem to be quite useful to the 'yin' cold qi, standing on the water surface is like a leisurely stroll, if you really want to be surrounded by them, I am afraid that it will be more troublesome than the last time I was surrounded in the mountain 'cave'.
I don't know how far he ran, Fang Yan felt that his spiritual power was consumed too much, and he couldn't help it if he stayed at the bottom of the river, although he was lying on the ichthyosaur beast, and the protection of the water beads had reduced a lot of spiritual power consumption, but at the bottom of the cold river, he had to open the spiritual power shield all the time, so that his spiritual power was already insufficient, and he had to find a place to rest and recover for a while.