Chapter Seventy-Six: The Abyss of the Frozen Lake
In the dark cavern, the sound of dripping water was intermittent, echoing in the darkness that seemed to spread out of nowhere, and it was easy to stir up fear in people's hearts.
The place where the two of them stand is a cave formed by the erosion and erosion of the water current, which is extremely spacious, and the flowing water converges here into an underground lake, but the lake surface is covered with ice, which looks like a huge mirror, reflecting the darkness and depth, the lake water here is extremely clear, through the thick ice, you can see that there are many strange insects with hard shells in the depths of the lake swimming back and forth, like crabs and not crabs, like shrimps and not shrimps, and like jellyfish in the sea, exuding a misty glow, the ghost stood by the lake and said:" Below this ice is the border with the underworld, and these poisonous insects are all centipedes, but they have devoured too many evil spirits and become like this. ”
Zhang Qian sat quietly on a clean rock by the lake, having just taken a few grains of Gushou Pill, and was recovering the Yuan Essence he had consumed before.
After a few moments, open your eyes.
"It seems that it took a lot of effort to find such a remote place. Zhang Qian raised his head slightly, and saw that the surrounding caves were fluorescent like ripples, and there were many rare metals.
Cold iron, netherworld sand, ice tungsten, all are hard to find things, and then here can be seen everywhere, the most natural is the copper, there is not inferior to the size of the previous piece, obviously there is no one here for thousands of years, this underground cave is intricate, there are thousands of forks, and beyond the depths, the heavier the power of the earth's centric magnetism, the greater the divine consciousness, if it is not for this ghost to lead the way, I am afraid he will not be able to find here, it stands to reason that so many rare things, are refining magic weapons, The best material for the flying sword, but the ghost was not interested, and he didn't take a single sand or stone, which made him a little puzzled, so he asked: "The thing in the cave is not the thing with the owner, why don't you take it?"
"Heaven will take it, and it must be given first, like this kind of unearned wealth, taking it will not only damage my Dao heart, but also lead to natural disasters. "The ghost said.
"How can the way of heaven be saved by people's hearts, if you don't take advantage of him, won't he send you three calamities and nine tribulations?" Zhang Qian didn't agree with his reasoning, and said with a smile: "You are afraid of disasters from the sky, but I am not afraid, if you don't take it, I will take your share together, I practice a spell, but I need to grab a large amount of Gengjin Qi, these things can just be used by me." ”
The ghost has a different concept from him, but he also disdains to impose his "Dao" on others, and says: "If you want to take it, everything in this cave has nothing to do with me, but you have to wait for me to practice spells, but there is not so much time now, the Midyear Festival is approaching, don't stay here for too long." Then he stretched out his hand to the middle of the lake, "This is the crack in the earth, and if you regain your strength, go down with me." ”
"Zhongyuan Festival, what does it have to do with this?" Zhang Qian asked casually.
"July 14 Midyear Festival, for the weakest day of the underworld of the underworld, there are gods such as the city god and the land in the world, and the ghosts still dare to travel every day, this is bordered by the underworld, if you don't want to die, it is best to leave this place before the Midyear Festival. The ghost said, and then saw that Zhang Qian had stood up, so he didn't add any more words, gently shook the black flag, the cave suddenly had a dark wind, and then heard a strange scream, a gloomy cloud like dead ash condensed under his feet, take a closer look, you can see that there are many empty and godless pupils, extremely terrifying, holding him towards the center of the lake, the speed is extremely fast, and it will be out of the place for miles in an instant.
This underground frozen lake is dozens of miles in diameter, and it looks even more vast in the dark.
Because of the power of the geocentric elemental magnetism, it was extremely difficult to cast spells here, and Zhang Qian only relied on the power of his body to step on the ice and move towards the center of the lake.
In the middle of the lake, there is a crack several zhang wide, I don't know how deep it is, the lake hangs down like a waterfall, forming a thick icicle, the ghost is one step ahead, and has stepped on the hundred-eyed ghost cloud to descend into the abyss.
Zhang Qian had no choice but to follow closely, urging the Eagle Divine Dao to condense the power of Xunfeng, holding himself up and drifting towards the pitch-black abyss.
In the depths of the crack, there was a rumbling sound from time to time, like a landslide, and it seemed that there was a huge grinding disc in the depths, grinding the boulder that fell down from the landslide into powder, and the huge vibration made him fly quite hard, especially in this abyss crack, the air was stagnant, and the flight against the wind added many obstacles, at this moment he thought, if he could practice the blood refining black gold sword qi to a certain level, he could carry his own weight with the sword qi, which was more than a thousand times stronger than the means of flying against the wind, and it would not be so embarrassing, and it fell nearly a hundred zhang, Zhang Qian finally knew where the sound of the landslide came from, and he couldn't help but feel frightened。
It turned out that the icicles on both sides of the crack could not bear their own weight and kept breaking, and the cold air around them was extremely heavy, and the water under the icicles continued to condense, as if it was endless.
Icicles several feet thick cut off from here and fell into the abyss, like a divine sword falling from the sky, plunging into the darkness.
People walk through it, there is a feeling of fear, as if walking in the sword mountain and sword forest, if you are not careful, you will be crushed into pulp, the figure of the ghost appears in the confusion of icicles, he is surrounded by ghosts, the icicles that rub his body are pushed away by an invisible force, Zhang Qian immediately moved closer, those icicles shaped like swords can not affect him in the slightest, he is crushed by his hair, even if there is ice slag splashed on his body, but even the Eagle God Dao clothes are difficult to penetrate, let alone hurt his body. On the cliff not far below the ghost, I saw a dark hole, in which wisps of cold mist floated out.
The white mist seemed to be extremely corrosive, and the icicles turned into droplets of water when they fell into them, and from time to time a deformed centipede with wings flew out of the water curtain.
"The cave in front is where the centipede is entrenched. The ghost said.
Zhang Qian's eyes cast his eyes on, secretly looking at the surrounding environment, although this is an extremely cold place, but beyond the depths, it will be closer to the lungs, here is extremely abundant from the fire qi, but it is suppressed by the cold qi, there must be an extremely strong resonance with the fire qi, it can be driven, but it is not a problem for him, presumably the ghost is also well aware of this, otherwise he will not ask him to make a move, so he said: "You lure out that centipede." ”
The ghost nodded, shook the black flag, and saw a fat ghost flying out of the black flag, floating towards the black hole.
Suddenly, a buzzing sound echoed in the abyss, as if the locusts in the sky were coming, and the water curtain in front of the cave was suddenly shaken into a misty mist, and then I saw the deformed centipede with wings gushing out like a tide, rushing towards the obsessive evil ghost, the rustling sound of chewing sounded, and the evil ghost was torn to pieces in an instant, turning into a stream of green smoke and being devoured by the insect swarm, the whole process was just a few breaths of chatting, and it was terrifying to see The whole body was cold, but the ghost was unmoved, gently shaking the black flag, chanting words in his mouth, and then a cold wind suddenly poured out of the black flag, like a flock of crows covering the sky and the sun.
Strange laughter, pain wailing, all kinds of ghosts crying wolf howls suddenly sounded, and thousands of terrifying sounds converged into a torrent, sweeping towards the insect swarm, covering up the sound of flapping wings.
That cold wind turned out to be composed of thousands of evil ghosts, and I don't know how many unjust souls, lonely ghosts, fierce gods and evil spirits were smelted in it.
The swarm of insects was pounced on by ten thousand ghosts, and suddenly screams rang out, countless poisonous insects were torn apart, and severed limbs and insect slurry filled the entire space, completely slaughtering from one side.
In a matter of moments, the size of the swarm had shrunk by two-thirds.
At this moment, a sharp collision sound suddenly remembered, like iron tongs, a huge poisonous mist suddenly gushed out of the black hole, diffused into the ghost group, those ferocious ghosts were stained with a wisp and a half, and in an instant turned into green smoke and dispersed, only to see the black flag hunting in the hand of the ghost Xiang, as if there was an invisible giant hand tearing the banner again, his face suddenly became solemn, his eyes glanced at Zhang Qian, and reminded: "It's coming." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden silence in the noisy cavern.
The group of ghosts receded like a tide, and the ghosts were retracted into the flags, and the swarm of insects that fled for their lives took advantage of this opportunity to return to the cave.
In the silence, I only heard the sound of icicles breaking and falling into the abyss and falling into powder, and there was a sound of footsteps. The man came out of the darkness, covered with mud, unkempt, exuding a strong stench and the peculiar smell of insects, like a beggar on the street, his body was slightly burly, and the change was not complete, many places on his body were covered with hideous hard shells, around his waist, there were more than a dozen arms, all like newborn babies, extremely short, the expression on his face was constantly changing, sometimes sluggish, sometimes fierce, sometimes smirk, completely a madman, but a chilling madman.