Chapter 276: Life and Death

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In the dark, Xiao Lu clinged to the courtyard wall and took a deep breath (www.)

It's silent. But looking at the thick clouds in the sky coming and going, there may be a heavy rain in a short time, or it may not be. Xiao Lu looked left and right vigilantly.

Now he was in the backyard of a mansion, in a deep alley, but the courtyard wall in front of him was about a foot low. Xiao Lu touched the cold dagger on his chest, and a glimmer of light flashed in his eyes.

I saw him take a deep breath, take two steps back, and then rush forward and leap forward. The high wall of Zhang Xu was grabbed by him by leaping, and then his body shrank and climbed up.

Xiao Lu touched the ground on tiptoes, fell lightly into the courtyard, stood under the wall, held his breath, and carefully looked at the situation in the courtyard. In front of me were a few low-rise bungalows, which were full of miscellaneous items.

The sound of silk pipes, accompanied by the sound of non-existent singing, came from the front. Xiao Lu followed the sound and walked forward little by little. I don't know how many courtyards I passed. Wait for him to step through a moon door.

The lights were brilliant in front of me, and the sound of laughter, singing, and silk pipe music came clearly from the small building on the other side of a small lake not far away.

"Gaba", Xiao Lu didn't pay attention to it. I'm stepping on a dead branch.

"Who?"

A cold cry came, and before the words fell, two guards appeared silently in front of them.

One of them, picking up a broken branch on the ground, looked around vigilantly, and looked up. I saw an ancient tree by the small lake in the courtyard, with a huge crown and many branches, all of which stretched high above the heads of the two people.

After a while, neither of them found anything, and then left one after another.

It was an artificial lake, with a radius of only a few tens of zhang. From a distance, there is nothing out of the ordinary. However, if you look closely, you will find that the water is not calm, but that there are tiny blisters in the middle of the small lake for some reason.

Below the surface of the water, Xiao Lu pinched his nose hard. It wasn't until it was confirmed that the two were gone that they relaxed.

In a hurry, he had nowhere to hide. But when I saw this small lake not far from the ancient tree, I couldn't take care of it and dived into the water.

The two men on the shore had already left, and his breath had endured to the extreme.

He wanted to surface. But suddenly I found that the small lake was bottomless, and the surrounding stone walls were as smooth as mirrors, and there was no place to climb and stand. What's even more terrifying is that it was only at this moment that he remembered that he was not watery at all.

He imagined he could climb up on his hands and feet. I don't know when he doesn't move. He was still able to get up and down in the suspended water, and once he moved, his body sank quickly.

For death, for the extreme fear of darkness, Huo Ran emerged, and Xiao Lu couldn't help but open his mouth.

He wanted to shout for help. But with one mouth, I regret it. The raging water rushed in like a poisonous snake. Ran through his throat. It was as if an iceberg hit his lungs all at once. The pain is like fire and smoke.

Xiao Lu intuitively felt a salty throat, and a mouthful of water accompanied by the only chaotic breath squirted out from his mouth and nose! .

He felt like his throat was on fire, his nostrils were full of spicy taste, and tears flowed from his eyes. However, the ubiquitous flow of water does not stop. Grunt, purr, and keep getting into his mouth. in the ears.

He clawed with his hands and feet, as if trying to break free of something. but they only felt that they were in the water. The touch of the limbs is like being bound by a layer of calluses, and the movement is extremely slow.

Out of the desire to survive, Xiao Lu moved more violently, but in exchange for his body to accelerate his fall!

The night is still quiet, and the Wenhua Marquis Mansion in a brilliant light is no different from the past at this moment.

Who knows, just under the small lake in front of the building, there is a person who is fighting for life and death!

I don't know how long it took for the clear lake to finally calm down completely, and there was not a single ripple.

Under the water, which no one knew, Xiao Lu's eyes widened, and the turbid water in front of him continued to wash his pupils, and the whole world began to blur, and the whole world left him.

His movements slowed down, and even stopped.

He was not breathing, at least his body had given up.

But for some reason, his mind was clear at the moment. Perhaps this is just a fleeting death before a person dies (www.)

In the depths of the water, a vague smile appeared at the corner of Xiao Lu's mouth, and no one could see it.

Perhaps it was the last smile of his life.

An inexplicable wave of anger struck, he wanted to shout, he wanted to roar out the unwillingness in his heart!

But his body remained motionless, and finally, he slowly closed his eyes.

The darkness in the water gradually overwhelmed and swallowed him.

Just as he was about to disappear completely, his eyes suddenly opened, as if he was crazy, and he shook his head and slammed into the stone wall next to him.

Listening to a muffled sound of "boom", those dark and dull stones, because of their decay over time, actually shattered and collapsed into a big gap under his collision, like a demon in the abyss opened its big mouth and swallowed Xiao Lu in one gulp.

"Ah!!!" let out an exclamation, Xiao Lu opened his eyes and looked at the darkness around him, it turned out to be another dream just now.

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The eastern sky was slightly bright, and the gloomy sky, dark clouds pressed against the mountains, and they were a little breathless.

Fuling Fairy Peak, perennial clouds and mist, the mountain is extremely high. There is a low peak adjacent to its west side, looking at it from a distance, it looks like a giant frog looking up at the sky, and the people of Fuling Peak call it the Sky Frog Peak.

The summit of Sky Frog Peak is not a "mountain top", but a mountain pass that collapses in the middle and I don't know how deep. Fuling Peak is humid and rainy all year round. At the top of the mountain pass of Tianwei Peak, I don't know when a pool of turquoise deep pools accumulated, clear and deep, smooth as a mirror. And because the south of Tianwei Peak Mountain is sloping, the soil and stone on the mountain are mainly black coke, and the soil is fertile.

Although the Sky Frog Peak is slightly low compared to Fuling Peak, the area in the south of the mountain is also vast. Although the spiritual grass and medicine planted in Fuling Peak can automatically absorb the spiritual energy in the mountain, there is no need to be particularly serious about controlling it. However, because it is on the slope, the water loss is extremely fast, so the daily irrigation has become the task of Fuling Peak.

As for the place where the water is drawn, it is a nameless stream in the depths of the Yin of the Heavenly Frog Peak, and after the disciples of Fuling Peak draw water, they climb to the top of the mountain and pour water into it. The water on the top of the mountain will slowly flow from below the surface to the south of the mountain under the spiritual herb medicine, but it is also convenient.

But when I saw the clouds in the sky, gray and gray, squirming slightly, like a stream of muddy water.

Xiao Lu sighed, carried two thick buckets around him, and walked from a small path to the back of the mountain.

Heavenly Frog Peak Shanyin. No sunlight all year round. As soon as I walked to the mountain shade, I felt a cold breath gathered together. There are many ancient trees in front of you. Towering and towering, obscuring the entire sky, vines and weeds, clumped and intertwined. There is only a vague path leading downward. From a distance, it looks like a dark and blurred cave, and I don't know how deep it leads.

Xiao Lu took a deep breath, touched the somewhat cold flat shoulder on his shoulder, and walked down.

It didn't take long to walk along the path. It was already pitch black all around, and Xiao Lu walked very slowly at first, but after a while he got used to the darkness in front of him, and slowly got faster.

The path slopes more and more, and then almost vertically downward. Fortunately, the stones were of different sizes, so people didn't slip and fall. The ancient wooden vines on both sides, twisted and coiled, stood silently in the darkness. Like an abyssal monster. Dancing minions.

The sound of sinking water came faintly from the front. Xiao Lu was overjoyed in his heart, and couldn't help but speed up his pace.

Soon after, the path turned, and a cold wind blew. The cold and damp have a faint fishy smell, which makes people's hairs stand on end.

A fountain in the darkness and blur. Appears not far away. Coo-goo rolled and rolled some white waves, waving and dancing like dark ghosts. It's horrible.

As soon as I got close to the spring, the cold was overwhelming, and it hurt to the bone. Crossing the tumbling water, I saw that behind the spring, the gangsters were dark and blurry, and I didn't know what was hidden there.

Legend has it that there are several disciples in Fuling Peak, who came here at night by chance, and heard the sound of crying for help, and then I don't know what happened, and several disciples disappeared together.

Xiao Lu took a deep breath and put the flat pole on the ground, as usual. Holding a bucket in one hand, he came to the water. But look at the water like ink, cooing and rolling.

This place is close to the ground, and birds and beasts rarely come here, so it is like dead branches and fallen leaves, but there is no one, and it is rare to be very clean. Xiao Lu swung the bucket in the water twice, and then used a little downward force, and the pitch-black water broke into the bucket, whirlpooling slightly.

With a bang, Xiao Lu carried the filled bucket onto the stone on the water. The other bucket, he also concocted the same method, and when the bucket was full, he used force to lift his wrist.

Seeing the barrel slowly pulling out of the water, the thumb-thick rope at the bottom of the barrel has also appeared a trace of edge.

Xiao Lu had already turned around and was about to pick up the flat burden, but then he felt that the bucket in his right hand sank, and he didn't even lift it. Xiao Lu was surprised, and when he turned around, he saw that the water surface was slightly turbulent, but there was nothing abnormal, and the bucket under his hand was also lying safely in the water.

He thought it was his own carelessness, and he couldn't help laughing at himself when he thought of this

I saw that the barrel was as black as ink, and it was slowly pulled out of the water, but just as the bottom of the bucket was about to leave the water, I felt a huge force coming from the water and pulling the bucket down.

Xiao Lu finally realized that something was wrong, and added three points to the strength in his hand. At this moment, the surface of the water, which had been gently rippling, began to slowly rotate, gradually forming a whirlpool and concave down. The sound of the water gradually sounded, and the strength of the bucket gradually increased, and the bucket not only did not get up, but pulled Xiao Lu towards the water little by little.

Seeing that Xiao Lu's feet were already close to the water, even the soles of his shoes were already wet. A chill of cold and biting chill passed through the soles of the feet and went straight to the top door from the bottom up.

Xiao Lu's heart was in a trance, and at this moment, the huge force from the bucket increased, and the next moment, the inexplicable strange force dragged half of him into the water.

At that moment, a loud thunderclap came from overhead.

Xiao Lu suddenly woke up, only to feel that the huge force on the bucket seemed to be frightened, and suddenly decreased, and he broke free. Xiao Lu took a few big steps, and withdrew from the range of the spring. Most of the water in that bucket was shaken out.

Xiao Lu secretly said that it was not good, so he quickly picked up the flat pole on the ground, picked up two buckets of water of different weights, and didn't care about seeing what ghosts were in the spring, and ran towards the way he came from without looking back.

Because I was in too much of a hurry, I didn't have time to choose a shoulder support point, and the two buckets of water were one in front of the other and one in the back, and the weight was very different. He ran up, crookedly, and even wolf. But it has come to this, and how can I manage so much?

The deep mountain road slopes upwards as if there is no end. Xiao Lu couldn't help but complain a little secretly, the way he came was so long.

At this moment, a suppressed and low roar came from behind him, followed by a gust of fishy wind that instantly caught up with Xiao Lu.

There was a "boom" in Xiao Lu's head, and the light in his eyes dimmed.

I saw that his footsteps slowed down, and finally stopped, and then his footsteps turned slightly, and he was about to turn back!

Suddenly, at this moment, a faint blood flowed from the corner of Xiao Lu's mouth, and his eyes were dazed. Suddenly, he opened his eyes. It turned out that at the time of the crisis, Xiao Lu bit the tip of his tongue and barely woke up. The true method of the Xuan Sutra in the body is running rapidly to the limit, and the footsteps are suddenly fixed.

He felt a chill in his back, and the pain was like a crack. It was as if there was a cold claw that grabbed him, and he wanted to pull himself back, and he used all his true strength, but it was a little unhelpful.

Xiao Lu was shocked and frightened. I tried to urge the true law of the Xuan Sutra in my body, but my footsteps did not listen to the call at all, and I couldn't take a single step.

At this moment, a terrible ghost cry came from behind. That strange huge force increased instantly, and Xiao Lu's slight insistence collapsed with one blow under this huge force. I can't hold it anymore.

Wow! Xiao Lu took a few big steps back. In the end, he was pulled into the air and flew backwards.

It's a little sad that he, who is frightened, doesn't notice it.

The next moment, I saw his figure flying, and his speed was three points faster than before, and he ran a distance of hundreds of zhang in the blink of an eye. At this moment, I saw a little light like a bean in front of me. If it's not an export, where is it?

Xiao Lu was overjoyed and plucked up Yu Yong. Finally ran to the intersection.

The moment he arrived at the intersection, the inexplicable strange power finally disappeared completely.

An unwilling strange roar came faintly from the ground behind for a long time.

Xiao Lu gasped for breath and ran a few steps forward before he dared to look back, only to see that the mountain road was deep and deep, extending downward, and it was no different from when he came. But the qiē just now made him feel a little creepy.

Looking down at the two buckets, there were two-thirds of the water left, and he didn't know if he was lazy to carry this water.

Although he had walked out of the narrow and dark road, he was still located in the shade of the mountain, but he saw countless tall trees high above his head, densely intertwined, and not a single ray of light could shine in.

Only the sound of thunder kept coming from the infinite height.

Xiao Lu, once again transported the Xuanjing True Method, the true qi in his body circulated, and a slight warmth spread throughout his body, he suddenly felt that his body was a little different, but he didn't think about it.

I can see the road under my feet through the light, and the light becomes brighter and brighter the further I go to the mountain, and my vision gradually becomes brighter.

Walking to the front of the mountain, he was blown by the wind, and he felt a chill all over his body, it turned out that he was shocked by the experience just now, and he was shocked into a cold sweat, and he only found out at this moment.

The thunder is like a drum, the sky is full of dark clouds towering high, hideous and terrifying like an ancient troll, thickly pressing on the top of the Tianwei Peak, looking down on all beings.

At some point, it got dark, like late at night.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew, and ink clouds rolled in the sky. I don't know who offended the gods in the underworld, and a bolt of lightning full of anger burst down. The twisted electric light stretched out a grid of tree roots, as if it was about to tear the entire sky apart.

The dazzling electric light pierced the endless darkness.

The pale Sky Frog Peak, under the lightning, was like a dying old man, looking up weakly, as if waiting for something.

Quiet, as death.

Finally, a burst of rain like thousands of troops and horses galloping, dragged by a violent wind, roared from far and near.

The wind blew through the treetops and caused a sharp roar, like a ghost crying, and the whole world seemed to be the end of the world.

The wind and rain were fierce, and the lightning flashed and thundered.

Through the endless rain curtain, I saw a turbidity between heaven and earth.

Under this storm, a small figure suddenly appeared on the mountainside of Tianwei Peak, and I saw that he was thin, carrying two rather large buckets, and in the wind and rain, he struggled to walk up.

His figure kept shaking, as if he would fall down the next moment.

The wind and rain are bleak, the heavens and the earth are solemn, and they are all looking at the little human being in front of them and moving forward.

The top of the Sky Frog Peak, the mouth of the pond with a radius of dozens of zhang, the water surface here is deep on weekdays, and it is often necessary to throw stones to hear the sound of water. At this moment, I saw that the water level in the pool was soaring at a speed visible to the naked eye, and after a while, it had come to the edge of the mountain pass, and it was about to overflow, fortunately, in the original mountain pass, Fu Ling Peak moved several huge stones weighing thousands of catties to build a rather large well.

As the rain intensified, the water surface was less than half a foot from the wellhead.

Suddenly, boom, boom, a thunderclap sounded in the depths of the sky, in the endless high ink clouds, a lightning bolt, piercing the sky, thick lightning, like a giant python born, twisted and circled, winding down, is splitting on the boulder on the top of the mountain pass on the top of the Sky Frog Peak.

There was a loud bang, and the top of the Sky Frog Peak was full of flames, and the entire mountain trembled slightly. Countless clear cracks, like swimming snakes, spread all around the top of the mountain.

The next moment, the anger that seemed to have been suppressed for thousands of years at the top of the Sky Frog Peak finally broke out.

With a loud bang, the entire top of the mountain burst and collapsed like a lotus flower, falling in all directions. The monstrous water waves, like a volcanic eruption, erupted upwards wildly, and were full of feet. The boulders around the mountain are flying, and the water accumulated in the mountain flows out of the sky, carrying the boulders and trees in the mountain, like a giant snake out of the hole, crazy down. Wherever the torrent passed, the gravel was like powder, the grass and trees were gone, and the momentum was like thunder, which was terrifying.

Under the strong wind and rain, Xiao Lu finally climbed over the mountainside, at this moment suddenly a lightning bolt, illuminating the sky and the earth as bright as day, Xiao Lu only felt a blur in front of him, almost fell, looked up and saw that the electric light flickered on the top of the peak, and the fire was everywhere.

Then there was a boom, a huge dull sound sounded, and the earth trembled slightly, as if countless ancient beasts that didn't know how tall and big they were, roaring and rushing down the mountain.

After a while, I saw a flood on the mountain, rushing in. There are also countless boulders, tumbling violently, constantly hitting and catapulting on the hillside, dozens of feet at every turn, faster than lightning, rushing towards themselves.

The torrent of rolling stones, innumerable, looks to cover the entire peak. (To be continued......) X