Chapter Twenty-Three: The Water House at the Bottom of the River
Shi Nian plunged into the river and dived directly to the bottom of the river and went down the water. He didn't dare to probe at all, for fear that as soon as he probed, he would be greeted by Suzaku True Fire.
He has a good water nature, and he has cultivated half-finished mana in his body, so he can hold his breath for a long time, but the leper dog is a descendant of a fire beast, and he is as afraid of water as the Vermilion Bird, and he has just plunged into the river, and the leper dog is desperately scratching his limbs, trying to break free from Shi Nian's embrace and rush out of the water.
"Goo...... Goo ......"
Shi Nian wanted to say that he wanted to call the leper dog to hold on for a while, and his mouth was cooing.
It is absolutely impossible to get out of the water, and the leper dog is afraid of water, so in desperation, Shi Nian has to cover the mouth and nose of the leper dog with one hand, no matter how hard it fights, he will not let go.
After the time of the small half-pillar incense, the leper dog suddenly stopped, so frightened that Shi Nian thought that it was suffocating, and he didn't care if the Suzaku was still on the riverbank, and swayed like a fish and rushed towards the water.
However, at this moment, a whirlpool suddenly appeared at the bottom of the river, and the powerful suction force pulled a man and a dog, and the two were pulled into the whirlpool without the slightest resistance. The world swirled for a while, and when Shi Nian came back to his senses, he found that the surrounding scene had changed greatly.
In front is a crystal palace, inlaid with gold and jade, jewels, extremely gorgeous. It's just that I don't know if it's too old, or if it's been destroyed by outsiders, and many places around this crystal palace are broken, leaving the world with regrets.
In front of the main entrance of the Crystal Palace, there are two white jade dragon pillars seven or eight zhang high, with mottled traces on them, missing a piece in the east and a piece in the west, as if they will collapse at any time.
At this time, Shi Nian was in the square in front of the palace gate, and what was strange was that it was supposed to be under the water here, but there was no water at all, and the long river was blocked on the top of the white jade dragon pillar.
"Huai...... Water...... Dragon...... Palace, Dragon Palace!"
Shi Nian stared at a plaque with mottled marks on the palace gate and recognized the words on it. This is actually an underwater dragon palace, so isn't its owner a dragon?
"Wang!"
At this time, the leper dog who had been lying in Shi Nian's arms suddenly struck a spirit, and his mouth and nose kept squirting water like a fountain. It was really drowned just now, but fortunately it came to this Dragon Palace, otherwise it would have been the first fire unicorn in history to be drowned.
After spitting out all the water in his nasal cavity, the leper dog finally got better, and a pair of small eyes stared at the gate of the Dragon Palace, making Shi Nian wonder if the reason why it was able to come back to life was because he heard himself say that this was the Dragon Palace.
"Wow!"
The leper dog barked at Shi Nian, who was thinking about whether he should go in or not, intending to urge him to hurry in.
This is the Dragon Palace, even if it is not the dwelling place of the real dragon, it should be a creature with dragon blood such as Jiaolong. The essence of this creature is of great help to the leper dog, making it easier for him to embark on the path of returning to his ancestors.
"The Dragon Palace is in ruins like this, there shouldn't be any powerful existence in it, right?"
Shi Nian comforted himself, and finally stepped forward with the leper dog in his arms.
The hidden palace door opened with a slight push, and the palace was foggy, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
"Anyone?"
Shi Nian shouted a few times in a hurry, and shouted a few more times after not responding. If there were really people in the Dragon Palace, he was shouting outside the palace like this, how could there be shrimp soldiers and crabs coming out to 'welcome', right? Now there is no movement, and it is almost certain that this is an empty city.
Determining that there was no one in the Dragon Palace, Shi Nian immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and then became extremely excited.
The treasure of the dragon is a well-known thing in the world, there is no one in this dragon palace, and there will definitely be treasures left behind!
"Spiritual water! There must be spiritual water!"
Shi Nian broke his thoughts while holding the leper dog and stepping into the mist in the palace.
In order to save him, the ochre whip beheaded three iron lions with divine energy, so that the already mutilated artifact completely lost its divine power, and the medicine spirit also fell into a deep sleep. As long as you find the spiritual water, you can awaken the medicine spirit, and then you can ask the medicine spirit how to repair this artifact.
This dragon palace doesn't look big from the outside, but there is a lot of space inside, as if it is boundless. The palace was so foggy that the visual range was less than a foot, and the eyes were full of ruined corals and broken orbs. Shi Nian walked for more than 100 zhang, and he didn't see a single intact thing, all of which were broken copper and iron.
"No, I think I've been here!"
After walking for more than half an hour, Shi Nian found some clues, and it seemed that he had been spinning in place. He immediately studied carefully, and in his mind, it was like a delicate machine running rapidly, and the Qiankun and Qiankun appeared one by one, and finally determined that there was really a forbidden formation here, covering up the way ahead.
Shi Nian has never systematically learned to arrange or break formations, but the principle of gossip includes formations, it can be said that people who understand gossip must understand formations, but those who understand formations do not necessarily understand gossip.
He had been deducing gossip for several months through the Divine Artifact River Diagram, and he had already started in this way. After understanding that there was indeed a formation here, he immediately stepped on the formation position while deducing the birth gate. The leper dog behaved very quietly, because he also felt that this place was extraordinary, and if he left the stone year, he was afraid that he would get lost here.
"What a wonderful formation! It's a pity that it has been damaged, and many of the formations are broken. ”
After deducing for a while, Shi Nian found that the formation here was extremely exquisite, and if it was intact, he would not be able to break it with his current ability. However, this formation is incomplete, and some important formations are incomplete due to their age or can be destroyed, so that this formation has lost most of its divine power.
His gaze fell on the brown coral that could be a foot tall on his side, which was a base of the formation, and it was relatively intact.
The brown coral is like a craggy strange rock, and it looks like a fierce beast with teeth and claws, even if there is a piece missing on the back, it still flows out of bursts of Dao rhyme, and there are spiritual power fluctuations in it, whether it is used as a medicine or a refining weapon, it has a certain effect.
Shi Nian circled around this coral a few times, seemingly stepping on it randomly, but in fact, it was secretly in line with the rhythm of this array. As he took his last step, the fog around him had lightened, and the coral had been stripped from his array.
He grabbed the huge coral in both hands and pulled it up with a pop. After carrying it on his shoulder, he muttered as he walked forward, "Can you give me a complete treasure......
Behind him, the leper dog followed his pace closely, not daring to take a wrong step. After hearing Shi Nian's words, it echoed with a few snorts, hoping to find the dragon's blood here.
One man and one dog continued to move forward, because they knew that there was a formation here, and after they could break it, they didn't get lost again. It's just that after a few miles of travel, not to mention the complete treasure, not even the coral on the shoulder, most of them are incomplete and spiritually lost.
"Is this the Dragon Palace? Why are they all corals, bead fragments and other things!"
has been walking along the Shengmen, and Shi Nian knows that he will be out of battle not far from the future. After walking for several miles, this place did not look like a palace at all, but more like a wasteland, which made him extremely disappointed, suspecting that this was not the Dragon Palace at all, but the Snake Palace. Its owner is in order to pretend to be thirteen, so it will be named 'Dragon Palace'.
When he reached the end and was about to go out of the formation one step further, Shi Nian stopped his steps, thinking about whether he should look in the formation again to see if anything was left behind by himself. Because he didn't know if he walked out in one step, whether he would get out of this formation or leave the Dragon Palace directly.
In the end, he decided to go back and look for it again, this time because he was familiar with the road, he walked every inch in half an hour, and he really found a ginseng plant, which looked slightly larger than the one found in the magic forest, and the year should be longer.
After most of the hard work, in addition to a spiritual coral that is larger than the size of the people, it is a ginseng that is three or four hundred years old. Shi Nian scolded a few times and stepped out of the formation.
The moment he walked out of the layers of mist, Shi Nian's mouth opened wide, and his face quickly flushed. It is certain that it is not yet out of the confines of the Dragon Palace, because directly in front of it is a complex of buildings, although still dilapidated, but it is magnificent, and it is conceivable that it must have been prosperous before the endless years.
It was as if there had been a great battle, and there were knives, guns, swords, clubs, halberds and other weapons scattered around the complex, as well as fragments of broken armor, and a sense of murder lingered in this place.
Shi Nian's whole body trembled with excitement, since there are broken weapons and magic weapons here, there is no guarantee that there will be intact weapons and magic weapons, and I wonder if there will be any magic elixir! Look at the palaces even if they have been ruined by the war, they still exude an eternal magnificent atmosphere, and the owner of this place is afraid that he is a great supernatural person, and he does not rule out the possibility of being a dragon king.
"Wow, Wow!"
In the excitement of Shi Nian, the leper dog barked wildly, pulling Shi Nian back to reality from his fantasy. He looked at the leper dog suspiciously, and saw that it was barking in one direction, and immediately looked up, only to see a gray-clothed man walking towards him a hundred feet away on the right.
Shi Nian's heart was weak for a while, thinking that the man in gray was the master here, and he was about to turn around and slip away, when he suddenly thought that this was the Dragon Palace, and it was a ruined Dragon Palace, how could there be anyone? Thinking of this, he turned around again, who wanted the man in gray to be elusive, he only turned back and forth twice, and the man in gray appeared in front of him. This turn almost hit the arms of the man in gray.
Shi Nian was startled, Teng Teng took a few steps back, and while caressing his chest to calm down, he looked at the man in gray. This person looks like he is in his early thirties, not handsome, not ugly, and always has a flat smile on his face, like the Maitreya Buddha in Buddhism. Of course, he was not as rich as Maitreya Buddha.
The man's gray clothes were wrinkled and tattered, and he was covered with things like green skin bags and rotten cloth bags, just like a beggar gang of nine bag elders.
The year of the stone is looking at the man in gray, and the man in gray is also looking at the year of stone. His smiling eyes swept over the unclothed boy, and naturally he couldn't help but see the little chirps that dangled from the rotten cloth strips from time to time. He smiled even more, waved at Shi Nian, and said, "Little brother......"
"You're a little brother!
Shi Nian didn't wait for the man in gray to finish speaking, and his whole face darkened. The man was so indebted that he stared at what he wasn't fully developed, and then he smiled and called himself 'little brother'. Isn't this a naked contempt?