57. Peerless beauty
Tianshu slowly broke away from the "intimate contact" with the ground, not because he was reluctant, but because he really fell enough.
Looking up, there was a hole on the top, which should have been covered with a thick layer of flowers and plants, but now he had pierced it, and a pillar of white light penetrated it. He estimated it slightly, and the entrance of the cave was at least seventeen or eighteen zhang high. I wanted to try if I could vacate it, but I found that the prohibition here was much stronger than outside, and even the true qi in the body was extremely sluggish, if it weren't for the inheritance in the ancestral cave, even the physical body had been refined, and if I fell down from such a high place, I didn't fall to death on the spot, and I would already be regarded as burning high incense in my previous life.
"How can I get out here?" Tianshu took the opportunity to look at the mountain wall next to him, although it was not "smooth as a mirror", but there was not even a stone that could be grasped by hand! It's not big here, it's only about four or five steps horizontally and vertically, and with the light pillar above your head, it's easy to take in the scenery around you, which can be summed up in four words - nothing.
However, for Tianshu, who seems to be particularly related to the word "hole", what he has to do has just begun. The entire cave is divided into four areas, for nothing else, because an "all-round, carpet-style, three-dimensional" search is about to unfold, and every inch of the ground and mountain walls here will be subjected to "harsh" inspection!
Don't forget how he discovered Peach Blossom Valley!
Knocking and tapping with one hand, patting and touching with the other, Tianshu was so boring for most of the hour, it seems that although the inheritance did not give him a strong divine sense, it gave him extraordinary patience and perseverance. But unfortunately, not all good processes will bring good results, there are three areas that have been checked, and the fourth area has also been checked to more than half, and the result is no result, if there is no bottom, he will probably only have to hit his head against the wall.
When his hand touched the last piece of the mountain wall, he could be regarded as finding a different place - the surface layer of a certain position on the mountain wall was soft, and the earth and stone were peeled off with a light pick. Of course, Tianshu will not let go of this "last straw", and he picks hard along the soft place, and his fingers move quite flexibly.
The work was small and completed in a matter of moments, and finally five small holes appeared in the mountain wall, each marked with a confused symbol underneath.
Tianshu secretly rejoiced that he had read a lot of books when he was a child, and he had seen these symbols on a certain book, which was an ancient script, and even more fortunately, he knew these words - they meant metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.
After a moment's thought, Tianshu inserted his finger in. I don't know if it's because he pulled it out, or if the original design is like this, and the five fingers are inserted tightly. The stagnant true qi was forcibly operated, and the true qi of the arm was already sweating profusely before he could even reach half a week. What he wanted to do now was to finish running a small Zhou Tian so that he could release the corresponding Five Elements True Qi from his fingertips. But this little Zhou Tian is really too difficult, and the degree of prohibition here is far beyond his imagination!
I don't know how many times it was interrupted, the first few times, Tianshu only knew that every time he used all his strength to run his true qi a little farther than the last time, a little closer to completing Xiao Zhoutian. Finally, he succeeded. Five strands of thin true qi with different attributes came out of the fingertips. He wanted to hold on longer, but it only lasted three breaths. Pulling out his fingers with difficulty, he was shaking tiredly, panting heavily, sweating and feeling uncomfortable.
Just as he had just regained some strength and wanted to try again, a "miracle" happened very familiarly - on the ground in front of him, a neat crack slowly appeared, which was gradually widened and opened, and finally formed a hole in the shape of a "mouth". This time the hole was noticeably better, as Tenshu saw the staircase, stretching out in the darkness below.
His gaze lingered on the opening for a long time, and while he was attentively preparing for the unexpected situations that might occur, he seized the time to rest and regain his strength and spirit. Half an hour later, footsteps sounded, and the figure slowly disappeared into the darkness.
A tiny flame faltered in the darkness, so small and helpless, yet great and strong.
There's no wind, but the air quality is good. With a fire pleat in his hand, Tianshu kept walking along the steps. Don't ask him why he didn't use the glow-in-the-dark stone, he won't admit that he forgot to take it!
Although the faint light had been magnified by the darkness as much as possible, the energy was indeed limited, and Tianshu could only dimly recognize things within three steps of him. Fortunately, this passage is very narrow, only about one and a half people wide, and the situation around me is still relatively graspable.
The prohibition here is only stronger than the outside, not weak, and the divine consciousness is useless at all. In the end, Tianshu could only hold the fire fold in one hand and the earthen wall in the other, exploring and moving forward one by one.
Darkness seems to distort everything, including space, including time. Tianshu didn't know how long he had been walking, and when the passage finally came to an end, the fire folds were burning.
There was a door in front of me, and when I reached out and touched it, I found that the material of this door was different from the earthen wall, and it seemed to be jade, but I didn't know what kind of jade it was. Taking a few deep breaths, Tianshu was in no hurry to open it, the long groping in the dark once again consumed a lot of his energy and physical strength, and without knowing what was behind the door, what he needed was rest, just like he did before entering the passage.
It was another half an hour, and Tianshu was standing in front of the jade gate, which was slowly rising. This switch was much easier to find than the one at the entrance of the passage, and it was next to the door, with a lone stone protruding from the flat wall. He just pressed it gently.
Velvety white rays of light spilled from behind the door. In a moment, a white mist appeared in front of Tianshu's eyes. Stretching out a finger and touching it lightly, the white surface rippled like the surface of the water. Take a deep breath, no longer hesitate, and step into it.
There was no resistance on that layer of "water", which made Tianshu's hanging heart let go a little bit. The white light in front of me gradually receded, and the field of vision became clearer. A chill hit his face for the first time, and he couldn't help but sneeze a few times. Before he could look around, his eyes were firmly grasped.
In front of him, there was a wall of ice, crystal clear with all the focus of the gaze - a woman. The ice wall, the woman, as if it were amber. No, it should be far better than amber. Just because this woman is so beautiful!
Tianshu stood in front of the ice wall and watched infatuately, as if he had suddenly lost his mind and became a fool. You must know that around him, whether it is Ye Yanran, Qing'er or Su Su, each of them can be called a country and a city, a disaster for the country and the people, but compared with the woman in front of him, he still has to lose three points. She didn't laugh, Tianshu seemed to be able to see the coquettish charm, she didn't speak, Tianshu seemed to be able to hear the sound of the three days around the beam, she didn't even open her eyes, Tianshu seemed to be able to feel the clarity of water.
"Is she still alive?" it took for his brain to function again, and that was the first thought that came to his mind when he regained consciousness.
Reaching out and touching the ice, it was very cold. Tianshu tried to operate his true qi again, and if he succeeded, no matter how difficult it was, he would condense the flames to melt the ice. This was the only thought he had at this time, and it also gave him an urge to be desperate. It's a pity that it backfired, and the prohibition here can almost be described as a geometric multiple compared to the outside.
The unwilling gaze began to sweep around. The walls around this place are the source of light here. It's not that there's any luminous object embedded in it, it's that the wall itself is a complete source of light. Tianshu doesn't know much about things like jade, and I don't know if these are glow-in-the-dark stones, in terms of functionality, this thing should be more than that, as the so-called use value determines the price, such a large piece of luminescent crystal, placed outside must be priceless. However, at this time, Tianshu scoffed at it, because its smooth mirror-like walls did not allow him to find anything that could chisel ice.
Inexplicably, sadness, anger, and even despair rushed to his head, rushing to the ground, and finally he could only do it on the cold ground.
The cold air was constantly churning around him, as if it was shouting at him and provoking him. But Tianshu never reacted, just raised his head blankly, and looked at the dream-like woman in front of him motionlessly with empty and godless eyes.
I don't know how long it has been like this, and a very beautiful, obviously unfamiliar but familiar female voice sounded in Tianshu's ears: "Do you want to save me?"
Nodding, he didn't have any doubts, this voice was made by the "goddess" in front of him.
"Well, put your hands on the ice and don't leave anything that happens. ”
Tenshu moved his buttocks, approached the ice wall, and pressed his hands against it. The cold feeling instantly spread throughout the body, mixed with bursts of tingling pain. Suddenly, the stinging sensation suddenly magnified hundreds of times, causing him to have a spasm directly. Still, he gritted his teeth and pressed his hands against the ice.
The stinging pain flowed up his meridians, and soon the pain spread all over his body. This kind of pain is definitely unbearable for ordinary cultivators, but for Tianshu, this level is still a grade worse than what he experienced in the ancestral cave. So he didn't even make a superfluous sound, just closed his eyes and pressed against it, letting the corners of his mouth already hang with bright red blood.
And at this moment, the woman opposite opened her eyes. This is indeed an incomparable pair of eyes, they are incredibly beautiful, but at the same time they are as cold as ice pith, making people wonder if the source of this ice wall is these eyes. However, after only a few breaths, the calm sea in his eyes suddenly set off a monstrous wave! It was panic, a desperate panic!
"Stop!" the original natural sound had now turned into a hysterical scream.
With a "bang", the palm of the hand was forcibly separated from the ice wall, and Tianshu's whole person was slammed to the ground.
Taking a few deep breaths and not sitting up right away, he needed to slow down a little, both physically and mentally. Tianshu's eyes opened again, and the original emptiness had been replaced by a complex emotion, as if he had just had a beautiful dream.
With a muffled snort, he sat up with difficulty, and after looking inward, he found that several major meridians of the body had suffered a lot of damage, and he could not fully recover without a year and a half. And what is even more depressing is that many of the meridians are blocked with a lot of energy, like silt settling in a water pipe.
He silently thought back to the nine deaths he had just had.
The stinging sensation at that time was nothing else, it was entirely because a powerful and abnormal energy forcibly rushed into his meridians, rampage, and went up, if it weren't for the fact that Tianshu's meridians had been forged in the Peach Blossom Valley Ancestral Cave and were very tough, I am afraid that the veins would have burst and died. And that energy didn't care about his life or death, and followed the meridians and went towards a retrograde Great Zhoutian. Although Tianshu has only been practicing for a short time and is still a rookie, he is also very clear about the consequences of retrograde Great Zhou Tian - either death or waste!
When people face the unknown, they often have fear, and when they are unable to do anything about the known, they often have more negative emotions, such as helplessness, for example, despair.
At that moment, Tianshu had been completely defeated by this negative emotion. It's probably true that he has experienced too few things, and since he came out of Peach Blossom Valley, the feeling that he can control the world with a single gesture makes him a little fluttery. And at that moment, he Huo Ran found that he was still so weak, so weak that he didn't even have the slightest strength to resist.
Give up, close your eyes and let things unfold.
I have to say that some people are born to be taken care of by God sometimes, especially when they have the word "shu" in their name.
That energy was like a bamboo in Tianshu's body, rushing all the way into his heart.
It's just like the night I tried to practice for the first time, and my heart was touched.
The inheritance and exercises that Tianshu received from the ancestral cave are very different from the current world, and that exercise does not need to run the Great Zhou Tian like other people, but divides it into many small Zhou Tian, which part is used to run the small Zhou Tian of that part, such as the Xiao Zhou Tian of the hand when it is used. Therefore, the heart veins were never touched. There is a more anti-heaven aspect of this ingenious design, that is, there is no need to meditate and practice like ordinary people, because he can automatically absorb the aura of heaven and earth all the time, but the utilization rate may be low, but it is better than the quantity, and the overall calculation is still much stronger than that of ordinary cultivators. If it was known to cultivators who had been a little bit old, their first reaction would definitely be, this was a demon! Yes, this was exactly the cultivation method of those heaven and earth strange beasts in the ancient period when their spiritual wisdom was not opened, or more precisely, the way of survival.
In any case, the heavens have favored the heavens. This time the touched heart veins did not bring him a cone of pain, but like a bottomless pit frantically devouring this energy. When this energy is found to be wrong, it is too late, and it is difficult to recover. It can do only a strong man's broken wrist. As Tianshu's palm detached from the ice, the devouring also stopped, and the energy that was not devoured was precipitated in the meridians because of the prohibition.