Chapter Eighty-Six: Nine Deaths and One Life
The scalper walked into the stone gate and entered the secret passage, and in front of him was a step of steps, sticking out to the bottom edge.
At the end of the steps, there is a circular space with ten stone gates distributed around the space.
The style of the stone gate is exactly the same, and it is impossible to discern the difference between them.
In the center of the empty direction, a stone monument was erected, on which there was an inscription.
The scalper cow leaned over to take a look, only to see that it was written: The first level of the secret store, "nine deaths and one life", there are ten portals here, and only one of them is the door of life, please choose carefully, and you are not sure to enter.
After reading it, the scalper observed them one by one, and deduced the possible surnames of each stone door.
I secretly thought in my heart: "Whenever this happens, there are generally two possibilities: first, there must be one of these ten stone gates that is different from the other nine, but this difference is very secret, it is difficult to notice, or it is clearly displayed in front of you, very ordinary, so ordinary that you are familiar with it; ”
The appearance of these ten portals is exactly the same, the texture is the same, there is no logo, and there are no moving objects in the space to make a reference.
I returned to the stele, hoping to find a clue between the lines.
"Nine deaths, nine deaths, one life......" The scalper kept silently reciting these four words, and suddenly his eyes lit up, as if he had found something, but he couldn't be sure.
"Is it as simple as that, the first gateway is the birth gate?" said the scalper.
Anyway, let's take a look first, the scalper cow is in trouble again, the ten portals are evenly distributed around the circular space, except for the passage where they entered, they can't tell which one is the first and which one is the tenth.
The scalper looked at it for a long time, and suddenly it occurred to him that the ancients generally started with the left, could it be that the first door on the left side of the entrance is the birth gate?
The scalper didn't dare to act rashly and wanted to observe further.
So, in the circular space, spread out the spiritual consciousness and want to see if there will be some changes over time.
Time passed minute by minute, and in the blink of an eye, a whole day of world acquisition, the entire space, as well as the ten stone gates, had been quiet, without the slightest change.
In the end, the scalper decided to choose the first door on the left hand side of the entrance to enter.
Gently pushing open the stone door, the scalper did not hesitate to step in.
As if passing through the barrier of the world, what is presented in front of the scalper is an endless desert.
Stepping on the soft yellow sand under his feet, the spicy wind blows in front of him, blowing his clothes fiercely and rolling up the yellow sand all over the sky.
The scalper squinted his eyes, and looked at the pergola from a distance, the yellow sand was rolling, and there was a way forward!
"Could it be that you entered the wrong stone gate?" said the scalper.
However, it has already come in, and it is too late to regret it, and the plan for now is how to get out of this desert!
The scalper bull rose into the air and flew in the air, wanting to fly across this desert, but when he stood in the air, he found that the heaven and earth were very tightly bound to this piece of heaven and earth, and he could not fly at all.
I had no choice but to land on the ground and walk forward, the wind in front of me was fierce, rolling up the streams, rolling forward.
The scalper carefully dodged the quicksand and headed in this direction, firmly believing that as long as he walked in one direction, he would definitely get out of this desert.
One day, two days, three days, the cattle have been walking non-stop, and ten days have passed in a blink of an eye, and the yellow sand is still covered in front of them, and there is no edge in sight.
Although the cattle are already in the Jindan stage of cultivation, they no longer rely on food to maintain the body's energy needs, but the lack of water has become the biggest problem that plagues the cattle and cattle.
Water is the source of life, and no life can survive forever when it lacks water.
The scalper cow already has chapped lips with white foam, and its throat is like roasting in a crater, and when you feel it, a raging fire will erupt when you open your mouth.
"The Black Emperor, a great emperor in charge of water, how could he create a desert? Is it just to highlight the important surname of water!"
Just as the scalper was thinking wildly, a black shadow suddenly burst out of the gravel and pounced on the scalper like lightning.
The scalper suddenly became aware of the danger, and without thinking, instinctively swung his broken sword and slashed towards the black shadow.
"Poof!"
The black shadow let out a terrible scream, and was split in half by the sword of the scalper ox and fell to the sand.
The scalper looked at it intently, and it turned out to be a huge sand scorpion, about a foot long, with a high cocked tail, still shaking.
"Rustling ......"
Suddenly, the rustling sound was incessant, and countless huge sand scorpions appeared on the whole sand, all about a foot long, with their tails glowing with blue light, and they pounced on the cattle one after another, like locusts crossing the border.
The scalper bull swung his broken sword and kept slashing, and the sand scorpions were split in half by the scalper and scattered all over the ground.
The green blood stained the yellow sand under his feet into a miserable green, and the foul smell was overwhelming and disgusting.
As if the blood and the evil smell had aroused the fierce surname of the sand scorpions, they screamed one by one, and pounced on the cattle one after another, and there were countless scorpions in the sky, which were gathering in this direction.
The sand scorpion kept spitting and eating the corpse of the scorpion that was hacked to death by the ox, making a sharp cry, surrounding the ox and the ox, and pounced on it without forgetting to die.
The sand scorpion kills more and more, and kills more and more fiercely, as if endless, killing the cattle and cattle are a little hairy.
"It's not a way to go on like this, if you don't get eaten like this, you have to be tired of talking here!"
"You can't kill anymore, the stronger the smell, the more scorpions you will get, but you can't let anyone slaughter them. "The scalper changed his way of fighting, and just used his sword to shoot the scorpion away.
Sure enough, the number of scorpions reinforced in the distance has decreased somewhat, but this is not a long-term solution, and if you don't get rid of these scorpions, you can't leave here at all!
The scalper cow fell into a dilemma, he didn't know what to do, and the situation did not allow him to calm down and think, so he could only resist while running his brain rapidly, and quickly summed up the corresponding methods.
"If you can't attack, can't you defend?" Scalper Niu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he ran the exercises, forming a protective light shield around his body, covering himself in between.
The scalper simply sat cross-legged on the ground and began to cultivate, ignoring the attack of the sand scorpion.
One by one, the sand scorpions pounced on the mask and were bounced off, and then attached to the mask, stabbing into the mask with their huge tail spines, but they could not pierce a single bit.
As the minutes passed, the yellow sand gradually covered the green blood on the ground, and the strong smell was blown away by the strong wind.
The manic mood of the sand scorpions seems to have eased a lot, and many scorpions began to burrow into the yellow sand and disappeared.
The position of the cattle is also slowly covered by yellow sand, like a small sand dune, and there are constantly quicksand gathering on it, more and more.
The scorpion swarm has all dispersed, but the dunes are still moving, slowly expanding.
After more than half an hour, suddenly, there were fine sand particles flowing on the sand dunes, and then, a big hand stretched out and flipped a few times in the air, seeing that there was no movement, there was a "boom" sound, the yellow sand scattered, and the cattle jumped out of it.
After observing for a while, he confirmed that the sand scorpion had dispersed, and then identified the direction and continued to walk.
Twenty days later, there was still yellow sand in sight, and there were no oases in sight, during which the cattle were attacked by several waves of desert creatures, such as huge man-eating ant colonies, sand mole colonies, and bat-like flying animals.
These things are all extremely vicious, and there are many of them, and they attack them in groups, so that the cattle and cattle are in danger, and they are dead for a lifetime, so that they can escape their encirclement and interception.
This time, the scalper really deeply understands the meaning of nine deaths and one life, this is not only about the ten stone gates, but also the test of entering the stone gate!
The scalper staggered and struggled forward, the whole person seemed to have lost his soul, and the negative factors brought about by the lack of water had interfered with his mind.
I began to hallucinate in front of me, and I always felt that there was a big river flowing in front of me, and when I rubbed my eyes and looked closely, it was still a piece of yellow sand.
This is not a mirage, it is the nerves of the scalper that begin to go out of sorts, and the subconscious desire for water produces a visual illusion.
The yellow sand is all over the sky, the wind is howling, and there is no end in sight, and the cattle are almost desperate, nine deaths, where is that glimmer of life! The yellow sand is rolling, but it cannot give the cattle an answer.
Gritting his teeth and mustering up the last fighting spirit, the scalper moved forward with difficulty, and he couldn't go far for half a day, and he was on the verge of collapse.
Suddenly, a green line appeared on the edge of the sky, an oasis!
The scalper suddenly seemed to have all his strength back in his body, and the desire for water made him no longer distinguish between truth and falsehood, and inspired himself to move in that direction.
The green line ahead is getting clearer and clearer, and the outline of a real oasis is already in front of you, the oasis is not large, there are no trees, just some low shrubs and wild grasses with great vitality, and in the middle of the oasis, there is a small lake.
The title of the small lake is a little inappropriate, just a pool of clear water, seeing the clear water in the distance, the eyes of the cattle and cattle are shining, and they are running towards the oasis.
Just when the ox cow ran up to the oasis, an accident appeared, the ox bull desperately picked up the bushes and ran towards the puddle, but unguarded, the branches of those shrubs seemed to be alive, and they came to the cattle and cows one after another.
The oxen were unprepared and physically and mentally exhausted, and were bound by the branches of the bush and went to the depths of the bush.
In the depths of the shrub, there is a huge white flower, like a huge lotus flower in full bloom, bewitching and gorgeous.
The ox was teleported by the shrub to the top of the white flower and thrown into the flower, which quickly closed and devoured it.