Chapter Seventy-Three: The Shadow of the Ghost Cave
"Ji Daoyou is sure that the news of the candle fruit is true?" Li Mao, who was walking in the crowd, was the first to ask.
"There have been several groups of people coming here before, so you can't be wrong. ”
Before the female cultivator surnamed Ji could reply, the man surnamed Guo on the side couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart, and his eyes sparkled.
Li Daoyou, please rest assured, as Guo Daoyou said just now, so many people gathered here, presumably this news will not be groundless. Like this legendary spirit fruit, it is difficult to take a look at it on weekdays, but now that it is close at hand, how can you give up easily. Seeing that Li Mao was still a little hesitant, the female cultivator surnamed Ji couldn't help but take the words of the man surnamed Guo and said.
After all, Li Mao has the highest cultivation among the group, and he is also a bad talisman treasure. With such strong reinforcement, it is naturally worthy of the female cultivator surnamed Ji to deliberately woo him.
Counting up, it has been a while since the female cultivator surnamed Ji withdrew from the team of bald men. But I don't know if it's too bad luck, or if it's useless among the "allies" who seem to have good cultivation. During the trial for several days, he was either ambushed and gave up, or the people who formed the team died in danger.
Along the way, although with her own cleverness and means, the female cultivator surnamed Ji has escaped crises again and again, but she has gradually become alone.
If she hadn't heard about it, the legendary "Candle Fruit" appeared here, and she carefully followed the "rumors" along the way, and she would not have "reunited" with Li Mao and the others again.
Two-thirds of the time has passed since the entire trial, and Li Mao and the others can still stay here safely, so they are naturally people with outstanding strength.
In view of the fact that everyone came for the candle fruit, the two of them who were alone could only temporarily let go of the prejudice against the female cultivator surnamed Ji in their hearts.
As for a young man with a sallow face and a thin body behind the three of them, he was a new member who the three of them accidentally met halfway and joined in.
Now a group of four people, closely following the other three groups, kept mentioning the news of the surprise appearance of the candle fruit here. And Jin Yue, who was hiding behind the tree pole, swept between the four groups of people who rushed to hear the news.
Not long after, the group followed the mountain road to the stone platform under the cliff cave. At this time, the shouting and killing sound in the cave gradually became a lot more sparse, and it was obvious that the blood bats at the entrance of the cave had been killed by everyone.
On the stone platform below, the people who followed closely saw this, looked at each other in some surprise, and then climbed towards the cave on the cliff without hesitation.
Seeing Li Mao and others entering the caves of different sizes on the wall one after another, Jin Yue secretly felt comfortable on his side, sprinkled a handful of "wind detection insects" and followed closely behind Li Mao and others, and waited quietly behind the tree pole for a while, until there was no more shouting at the entrance of the cave, and then quietly walked out from behind the tree pole, and then crossed the stone platform and climbed into the cliff grotto.
Don't look at the steep rock wall, full of large and small grottoes, when Jin Yue climbed in along the entrance of the cave, only to find that the original connection with these large and small grottoes is actually a wide area of hollow mountain belly.
In the belly of the mountain, through the dim light, you can faintly see the scene of fighting in the cave before, a messy scene. Jin Yue touched his nose, didn't pay too much attention to the thick smell of blood wafting around, and moved his steps, relying on the weak sense of the wind probe insect and himself, he quickly stepped forward to follow.
The reason why Jin Yue did not appear in front of Li Mao and others was not because they were angry that they left him alone. After all, in that case, I am afraid that I would not jump into the bottom of the pool and fight with the strange toad.
Moreover, as far as the situation at that time was concerned, Jin Yue's chances of survival were extremely slim, and Li Mao and the others must have thought that they had died in Toad's mouth. Appearing rashly is not only very difficult to explain, but also causes a lot of unnecessary trouble.
It is precisely because of these reasons that Jin Yue is reluctant to show up. However, in this way, it also provides a lot of convenience for Jinyue.
There are many people in front of the road, which does reduce many unnecessary risks for Jin Yue. In addition, he released the wind probe insect in advance to follow behind everyone, but he was not afraid of losing the other party's traces.
In this way, Jin Yue followed behind everyone all the way, and due to the distance, no one found anything abnormal. Occasionally, I encountered a small group of blood bats, and under the joint efforts of everyone in front of me, the corpses were in different places.
Along the way, Jin Yue clearly felt that the cave in the belly of this mountain was not only vast in space, but also seemed to be faintly connected to other adjacent mountains.
Curious, Jin Yue also took out the map and compared it according to the general direction. This is not better, after careful comparison, Jin Yue faintly found that everyone had already entered the edge of the map through the tunnel in the inner ring of the mountain at this time.
Although there were some worries in his heart, when he thought of the miraculous effect of the candle fruit, this worry was quickly forgotten by Jin Yue. Come to think of it, among the crowd in front of you, there must be people who have the same thoughts as themselves, so they have been following everyone for so long, but they haven't found anyone returning along the road on the way.
After all, in today's situation, everyone wants to give it a go and see who this candle fruit will end up with.
In this way, walking and stopping along the way, after about three incense sticks, Jin Yue crossed an undercurrent in the belly of a mountain, and his steps gradually slowed down.
Just as Jin Yue crossed the undercurrent in the belly of the mountain, the wind probe insects sent to follow everyone in front suddenly stood still. This abnormal signal suddenly made Jin Yue, who followed closely, feel tightened, and his pace gradually slowed down.
"Could it be that something is happening ahead?"
Jin Yue's mind moved slightly, his eyes flickered for a long time, and finally, driven by strong curiosity, Jin Yue cautiously walked in the direction where the wind explorer stopped
On the other hand, Li Mao and others, along the way, most of them followed the shouts and killings in front of them, and they did not encounter any special dangers along the way. Occasionally, a few small number of blood bats that were defeated by Ouyang Xu and others were also wiped out under the combined attack of Li Mao's four groups.
In this way, Li Mao and his party walked most of the way in the tunnel very smoothly, and because of the wind detection insects, they never found Jin Yue who was far away from behind.
However, as time passed, the fierce shouts and killings of the people in front gradually became intense, and even after a while, there were bursts of exclamations and screams.
Not long after, under the curious eyes of Li Mao and others, a large number of frightened people poured out of the tunnel in front of them, and some of them were even covered in blood.
The strong sense of crisis prompted Li Mao and his party to be filled with a strong premonition of evacuating from this place. Without waiting for Li Mao and the others to pay attention, behind the crowd that fled back the same way in front of them, a large number of blood bats with red bodies and sharp fangs gushed out overwhelmingly.
I saw a blood bat the size of an adult's arm, flapping its wings while attacking the lone monks along the way. In the blink of an eye, there was only a few dozen zhang left from Li Mao and the others.
Frightened, everyone didn't care about any candle fruit, turned around and ran towards the entrance of the cave.
Who would have thought that at this moment, the ground under his feet made a crackling sound. It turned out that under this mountainside tunnel, there were hundreds of hollow caves scattered in all directions. Due to the dense number of people fleeing along the road, they actually trampled on a large area of this originally empty cave formation.
The underground rock formations here have been corroded by the perennial excrement of blood bats, and they have become extremely fragile, and now they have experienced it again. The stratum collapsed into an avalanche in an instant, and it was out of control. In the blink of an eye, the dense crowd completely disappeared into the darkness at the moment when a crisp sound came from the feet.
Jin Yue, who followed closely, was originally very curious about what was happening ahead. But when he heard the strong vibrations and the vast loud noises coming from front of him, his heart couldn't help but tighten. Barely hesitating to turn around and run out of the cave.
But with just a few breaths, the entire mountainside tunnel seemed to have suffered a strong chain reaction, and the surrounding earth and rocks were tumbling, Jin Yue only felt that his feet were empty, and then the whole person quickly fell down into the hollow cave below
(Chapter talk: I'm sorry, I've been busy with resumes, interviews, and updates in the past two days, and I've been through these two days, and I'm going to continue to recover two more!Thank you for your support!)