Chapter Twenty-Nine: The River Styx
The Styx, famous in the Song Kingdom, is not a real river, but a place name, a dangerous area. There are many wild beasts here, and there are even rumors of demons infesting them, but although it is dangerous, it is also full of opportunities.
As we all know in the cultivation world, where there are desolate beasts, there are naturally many spiritual herbs and elixirs, and desolate beasts are full of treasures, regardless of their fur, flesh, and bones, they are all treasures for cultivators.
And the biggest treasure of the desolate beast is the desolate beast soul crystal, which is the essence of every desolate beast. It can improve cultivation, which is comparable to the elixir, and it can also be refined and integrated into the magic weapon to stimulate stronger strength.
All in all, although the secluded water Styx is extremely dangerous, the cultivators of the Song Kingdom have flocked one after another, and there are many people who are not afraid of life and death, which is the attraction of wealth.
Outside a huge barren mountain canyon, a red light fell here, and a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old appeared, who was Zhou Hao.
Zhou Hao's eyes were deep, the endless barren mountains were located, and when he looked from the canyon, he was full of gloom.
"This is the Styx, this trip seems to be a bit dangerous, these desolate beasts don't know what kind of strength they have. Zhou Hao was a little eager to try, from his cultivation to the present, he had never fought with all his might, and he didn't know how far his combat power had reached now.
"Hey, but you still need to be careful, after all, this place is too close to the Covering Rain Sect!" Zhou Hao sighed with a wry smile, the Youshui Styx River was only thirty miles away from the Covering Rain Sect, which was only half an hour's distance for cultivators. If it weren't for the danger of this place, there were many wild beasts, and even demons, otherwise this place could be said to be equivalent to the back garden of the Rain Covering Sect.
Zhou Hao breathed for a while, reached the peak of cultivation, and walked towards the canyon. Holding a medium magic weapon, he looked vigilant and took every step carefully.
After walking thousands of meters, through a forest, I have gradually entered the range of the dark water Styx. The ground beneath his feet turned black, and when he stepped on it, there was a cold aura rising.
During this period, I noticed that there were many disciples of the Covering Rain Sect, and the number was increasing. In this regard, Zhou Hao carefully bypassed, far away.
"What's going on, why do so many disciples of the Covering Rain Sect appear?" Zhou Hao's heart moved slightly, full of puzzlement.
Although there is a chance in the Dark Water Styx, it is usually only a group of three or five, how can there be such a large number of cultivators at the same time. Moreover, looking at the posture of the disciples of the Covering Rain Sect, it seems that they are gradually blocking the surroundings.
"Whatever he does, he has to hurry in. Zhou Hao couldn't figure it out, and he didn't pay attention to it anymore, and went around a long way before he gradually walked into it.
Just after Zhou Hao left, the disciples of the Covering Rain Sect completely blocked the entrance and exit of this canyon, full of dark whistles, and even two masters of the refining period in the middle, holding a compass and a forbidden cover.
At this moment, outside the canyon, there was a ray of light swept down, manifesting four or five hundred figures, the momentum was like a rainbow, and the scene was shocking.
The purple-clothed old man with his long beard at the head of the man, a powerful aura enveloped the four directions. All the cultivators looked at this purple-clothed old man with respectful eyes.
The two masters of the refining stage who had placed the prohibition before hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects: "See the Great Elder!"
The old man in purple is the great elder of the Covered Rain Sect, Gu Chengzi, who is extremely powerful, and he is not much more reckless than the sect master. Next to the Great Elder, there was another master of the Pulse Refining Period, wearing a turquoise robe and full of white hair, it was Liu Huaien.
"The prohibition has been laid, and it will be enforced below, blocking the Quartet, no one is allowed to enter, and those who dare to trespass will be killed! In addition, all the cultivators in the Dark Water Styx must die. Gu Chengzi said coldly.
"Yes, Great Elder!" The two Pulse Refining Stages held a compass in their hands, guarded the door, and arranged for the disciples of the Rain-Covered Sect to enter the Youshui Styx River to carry out the task of clearing the field.
"Senior brother, if it succeeds this time, my Covering Rain Sect will definitely be called the number one sect in the Song Kingdom!" Liu Huaien was very excited, he was one of the few people who knew about this operation, so he naturally knew what the sect was planning.
"Not to mention the Song Kingdom, in less than a hundred years, this Northern Plains will also have a place for my Rain-Destroying Sect! For this reason, this operation, just in case, even if it offends all the cultivation of the Song Kingdom, it will never care, it can only succeed!"
"Let's go!"
Hundreds of cultivators of the Covered Rain Sect stepped into this place.
At this time, Zhou Hao, who entered the Youshui Styx, crossed the first hill and came to the top of the second mountain, from here, he could see a vast land in the distance, and there was a black river in the center, quiet and unmoving, very wide, like a chasm cutting the entire road.
Suddenly, there was a sound of fighting in front of him, and when Zhou Hao was about to go, the sound disappeared.
After walking for a thousand meters, I came to the place of the fight, several large trees collapsed and turned into fragments, and on the ground fell a man dressed plainly, without special markings, obviously a loose cultivator. The man's aura dissipated, apparently dead.
The man's chest was pierced, his flesh was blurred, he died a miserable death, and his heart seemed to have been ripped out.
"Desolate beast!" Zhou Hao's eyes flashed, and he knew in his heart that he must have been killed by a desolate beast.
Zhou Hao picked up the person's storage bag, flashed the fire in his hand, lit it, and then left quickly. If this person dies, the smell of blood will attract more desolate beasts to come, and it will be difficult to deal with at that time.
The beast is ferocious, this is known to Zhou, Zhou Hao is the first time he has seen it, and he can't help but feel shocked. I have long heard that the desolate beast eats people, it is very ferocious, and it is almost impossible to deal with cultivators, and when they meet, they will start to kill.
Of course, there are no absolutes in everything, and if it is a domesticated desolate beast, it is the best partner and means for cultivators.
The area of the Dark Water Styx is vast, and it is not easy to find two elixirs from it. Walking forward slowly, occasionally seeing other cultivators, they all avoided it from afar, after all, this place was extremely dangerous, and Zhou Hao didn't want to have too much contact with other people for the time being.
At this moment, the disciples of the Covered Rain Sect entered the Youshui Styx River and carried out a clearing operation, almost all the way through, and many cultivators died one after another, and there was no life at all.
At first, other cultivators didn't know about this matter, and there were many deaths. After a long time, whether it was a loose cultivator or a family member of all the sects, they all came back to their senses, although they were unbelievable, they had to accept the fact that the Rain Sect wanted to kill them all.
Some of the power families of the Rain-Covering Sect Alliance didn't believe it at first, thinking that they must have made a mistake, but when they found the cultivators of the Rain-Covering Sect, they encountered a ruthless killing machine.
In the blink of an eye, as many as sixty percent of the cultivators of the entire Dark Water Styx died.
Although Zhou Hao didn't know exactly what happened, he vaguely sensed that something was wrong, because along the way, he occasionally found the corpses of disciples of the Covered Rain Sect, more of them were all kinds of power families, and there were also many corpses of scattered cultivators.
"Is there a fight here? Why are there corpses everywhere? ”
Zhou Hao felt uneasy, and along the way, there were hundreds of corpses of cultivators. Among them, only three or four people were killed by the wild beasts, and most of them were man-made.
"Who did it? Could it be the Rain-Covering Sect?" Zhou Hao not only guessed that there was only a sect with such strength in this vicinity, but only the Rain-Covering Sect, and after seeing the many disciples of the Rain-Covering Sect before, he was already seven or eight points sure.
"What does this Rain-Covering Sect want to do? Is it crazy?Is it going to be an enemy of the entire Song Kingdom?" Getting the whole inference, it was even more weird, Zhou Hao didn't believe that the big people of the Rain-Covering Sect had lost their minds and gone crazy,
"There must be a big secret in this!" Zhou Hao's eyes flashed, and he felt as if he was in the center of the whirlpool.
Gradually approaching the most central secluded river Styx, at the bottom of a mountain, there is a small lake, but a radius of several hundred meters. Outside the lake, there were five cultivators, who were fighting against a three-meter-tall desolate beast shaped like a cow.
The cow had two horns, red pupils, a pitch-black body, a strong body, and explosive limbs. In particular, a mouth can spray a pitch-black sticky substance, which is corrosive and can defile the magic weapon.
The battle was very difficult, and after a few minutes, the five cultivators wasted a lot of effort before they could slay this desolate beast.
"Huh, this black bull monster has really thick skin, if it weren't for the medium magic weapon, I'm afraid everyone would have to escape. ”
"Yes, it's fortunate that Senior Brother Sun is here, so I can get away with killing the second monster. ”
Two of them sighed with emotion, and their hearts were palpitating.
Suddenly, the young cultivator who was called Senior Brother Sun changed his face and looked at the other side: "It's not good, someone is coming!"
Hearing this, Zhou Hao thought that he had been discovered, and he was about to get out.
In the jungle on the other side, two figures walked out, wearing the special clothes of the disciples of the Covering Rain Sect, and the two of them sneered.
The five cultivators hurriedly bowed and said, "It's the senior brother of the Covering Rain Sect!
These five people are not cultivators in the two major alliances, but belong to a neutral sect, and now that the two alliances are at war, their neutral cultivation will not be easily offended, which is also the reason why the five are not in a hurry.
"Haha, it's a lucky meeting!" The two disciples of the Covering Rain Sect stepped forward with a big laugh, with some sneer and murderous intent in their eyes.
In this regard, the five cultivators did not notice it, but complimented: "If I can see Senior Brother of the Second Dimension, it is me..."
Suddenly, the face of the young man surnamed Sun changed greatly, and he was about to speak as the master of the words, a mouthful of blood appeared in his mouth, and a pair of eyes were full of unwillingness and confusion.
"It's your bad luck to meet us!" A disciple of the Covering Rain Sect suddenly sacrificed a flying sword in his hand and stabbed it into the opponent's chest, killing him.
"Ahh
This scene stunned the other four people, and at this time, another disciple of the Covering Rain Sect pinched the trick with both hands, and two water knives slashed down, slashing the two to death.
Seeing this, the remaining two were frightened, hurriedly knelt down, and kept kowtowing: "Two senior brothers, our things are given to you both, please let us go!"
"Senior brother, don't worry, we shouldn't have seen this incident.....
However, two rays of light awaited them, and the corpses separated in an instant.
"Hmph, only the dead are safest. The disciple of the Covering Rain Sect sneered, and killed five cultivators in an instant.