Chapter 20: The River of Vanity
The Void River is a collection of various substances that can derive illusions, whether it is the creatures in the water, rock formations, plants, or the water quality itself, all of which have hallucinogenic terrifying powers, and these forces come together to become a terrifying place.
At that time, countless strong people tried to enter the depths of the stratum through this river to search for treasure, but they all went and never returned.
But Li Mo did not hesitate, glanced at the water surface, and jumped into the river.
Xiao Hei also jumped in, splashing a string of splashes.
As soon as you enter the water, it is as warm as a warm spring, and soaking in it makes every pore of the body open comfortably.
But what you see is a different story.
There are a large number of small linear insects in the water, which are invisible to the naked eye, and when the person jumps into the water, they rush over frantically, trying to enter the human body through the pores.
This small bug is one of the culprits of hallucinogenic in water: the ghost bug.
This insect is a sixth-rank low-level brute beast, which will not cause any harm to the human body, but it has a strong hallucinogenic power, and it will work for a period of time, when the person has gone deep into the depths of the river, once the illusion occurs and the body cannot be controlled, and finally it is drowned.
Li Mo had already prepared, his true qi filled his body, and the ghost insect was shocked and killed the moment it came into contact.
On the other side, Xiao Hei was swimming happily, and the dragon aura it exuded made the ghost worm dare not approach for half a minute.
A man and a beast swam forward along the river, and the river became wider and wider, and it was clearly felt that several other streams joined the ranks, making the volume of the river larger and larger.
At this time, the river suddenly became turbulent.
It's time to get to the waterfall!
Li Mo made a judgment, according to the records of the Void River, to reach the deepest part of the Void River, it was necessary to pass through seven waterfalls.
Each waterfall you experience becomes more likely to hallucinate.
The so-called record is actually a fragment of a piece of paper on which the words "Seven Waterfalls" were written with the last of the treasure hunter's strength.
The last page is known as it bubbles up in a nearby spring.
But even if someone breaks through to the last level, they still can't escape the fate of death.
Moreover, some people later judged that based on the scraps, its special paper named it as belonging to a first-line sect.
At that time, this first-line sect was led by three mid-stage elders of the Heavenly Dome Realm, and a team of three hundred people went deep into it, and in the end, no one survived.
The water was getting more and more turbulent, but Lingtong could clearly see the extension of the stratum at the moment, and when he was about to reach the waterfall, Li Mo jumped up and rushed out of the water.
People are in the air, sweeping the scene in front of them at a glance.
It's a huge underground river channel where there is no foothold except for a larger and longer river.
Since there was only one way to enter the river, Li Mo didn't think much about it and fell into the water.
As soon as they entered the water, the ghost bug disappeared, and there were no visions in the surrounding area.
But Li Mo did not relax his vigilance, even if he cultivated to the realm of refining the fire technique of Dao Heaven, he knew more that this kind of thing was a momentary distraction.
Continuing to swim forward, Li Mo was engrossed, but Xiao Hei seemed much more relaxed, and it was like playing in the water all the way.
At this time, the water was advancing very gently, and suddenly there were points of light in front of them, which gradually became larger, turning into a faint blue firelight.
It's small, but it's the size of your thumb, and because the water is blue, it's hard to see if you don't have good eyesight.
But naturally, this couldn't hide from Li Mo's eyes, and he fixed his eyes to see that it was not a simple firelight, but an almost transparent small fish.
A tentacle sticks out of the fish's head, and the tip of the tentacle glows with a faint blue fire.
Ghost Fish!
Li Mo recognized this object at a glance and immediately thought of countermeasures.
The so-called ghost fish is a kind of fish that feeds on ghost insects, and it grows in extremely deep and dangerous places, which is very rare.
This kind of low-level fish that does not have an inner dan and is made of water, even its body is made of water, and it is impossible to obtain any usable materials. However, this thing is an absolute nightmare for treasure hunters.
The ghost fish does not actively attack people, nor does it have any aggressiveness, but once it touches it, it will explode due to fright, and the explosion will produce extremely strong hallucinogens that will make it impossible for people to recover for a long time.
Affected by hallucinations in the water, the final result is drowning.
At this time, a white skeleton suddenly appeared under the bottom of the river, which looked shocking under the blue water.
In the face of ghost fish, there is only one way to deal with it, and that is to dodge.
But the problem is that there are a lot of ghost fish in front of you, and they float in the water as if they have no weight, going up and down, left and right, and it is difficult to catch the direction.
Just when Li Mo was thinking about dealing with the ghost fish, Xiao Hei had already swam up.
Seeing a group of ghost fish blocking the way, Xiao Hei's eyes widened sharply, and the surrounding ghost fish suddenly swam to both sides, making way for a passage. "Good boy!" Li Mo couldn't help but secretly praise, Xiao Hei was worthy of being a dragon clan, and he was able to use his powerful spiritual power to deter the ghost fish.
When the school of ghost fish retreats to both sides, there is no threat to speak of.
When Li Mo swam over, he took a look at the pile of white bones below, and shook his head slightly when he saw it.
Whether it is a mysterious vessel or a storage ring, it has long been gnawed by the ghost fish, and it has been slowly worn out for thousands of years, and it has long been almost destroyed.
The further I go, the more frightened I become.
The ghost fish school is actually ten miles long, and under this ten-mile long river, the pile of white bones has been piled up for ten miles, and it is not an exaggeration to say that tens of thousands of children are buried here.
Then, the second waterfall finally arrived.
Jumped a hundred feet along the current and fell into the river.
Swimming forward, but in a few moments, a dark shadow came from ahead.
Li Mo was carrying a blue-eyed water dragon for a thousand years, and when he entered the water as if he was on land, his eyesight was not affected in the slightest, and he could distinguish the coming object at a glance.
The Black Shadow was a black fish no more than a foot long, with a head that took up half of its body and a mouth full of tiny teeth.
From the outside, it seemed to be no different from an ordinary piranha, but Li Mo's eyesight was extraordinary, and when he saw that this black fish had ten holes side by side in its abdomen, his heart suddenly changed.
100 piranhas!
He made a decision immediately, and with his two fingers together, a sword qi broke through the water, shaking the black fish to death.
As soon as the black fish died, three black shadows appeared in front of it.
Li Mo flew up, and the sword qi erupted in his hand, killing two of them, and the other was swallowed by Xiao Hei in one gulp.
Li Mo looked dumbfounded, the ability of this little thing is really extraordinary, even a hundred piranhas can eat.
The piranha itself is not very aggressive, but it has hundreds of eggs in its body all year round, and it will expel the eggs from its body in a short period of time after discovering its prey.
Once the eggs are touched in the water, they will turn into adult fish within a few breaths.
This means that a piranha is actually a school of fish.
If you are surrounded by these things, you will be torn to pieces in an instant, and there will be no bones left.
Fortunately, Baizi piranhas do not have the habit of living in groups, and they have a very strong sense of territory, and the maximum number of people that appear at a time is only two or three.
But even so, it is a headache for ordinary Xuan Masters.
As a result, the speed of attacking in the water will be significantly reduced, but this is not a problem for Li Mo, who uses dragon qi to attack, and the speed is faster than on land.
As for Xiao Hei, he took the Baizi piranha as his prey, swam over like lightning, and swallowed it in one bite.
And the piranha seems to be suppressed by its power and is unable to spawn in its body, so it is not a threat to it.
Swimming forward all the way, from time to time a hundred piranhas popped up, but they were either killed by Li Mo or became Xiao Hei's food, and the road was unimpeded.
The sound of rushing water was heard again, and finally the third waterfall was reached, and almost half a day had passed.
As before, Li Mo jumped out of the water first to observe the situation below.
As before, it is also a huge underground canal, with wide rock formations above that create a large space, and a rushing river below, with no land routes.
Li Mo fell down, and suddenly sharp reefs appeared in his field of vision.
He dodged the reef pile and fell into the water.
I saw that the situation here was very different from before.
The river here is extremely deep, and the water depth is about ten zhang.
Although Lingtong's eyes can only see the situation within ten zhang, Li Mo's own eyesight has reached a thousand zhang, and the water depth of these ten zhang can be said to be clear.
Unlike the previous two waterfalls, the river is covered with a large number of reefs.
Most of them are under the surface of the water, but they are only a few feet high, but some are more than a dozen feet, and they are densely packed under the waterfall.
It is conceivable that if you can't see these sharp reefs, then you will be pierced through the cold as soon as you jump down, and I don't know how many people have died here.
Swimming forward slowly, the reef is also slowly undergoing subtle changes, and it seems to have a bit of a green feeling.
Li Mo gathered his eyes and looked at it, and immediately understood.
The green is a poisonous algae that covers the surface of the reef, which emits algae in the water that are dozens of times smaller than ghost bugs, and can also induce hallucinations if inhaled.
But this alone is only slightly more difficult than the river entrance of the ghost swarm, and the real difficulty is in the mud and sand of the river.
There was a slight tremor that was barely perceptible, and a small black shadow burst out of the mud and sand below, stabbing towards Li Mo at a rapid pace.
Li Mo grabbed the black shadow and pulled it violently, and suddenly a black black thing was pulled out of the mud and sand.
It was a round snail with a black carapace all over its body, but a large number of tentacles underneath, one of which was just now.
This is the danger of the Third Falls: the poisonous snail.
It feeds on poisonous algae and has a strong sense of territory, attacking any creature that enters its territory.
It has eighteen tentacles, each covered with tiny grubs that infuse the opponent's skin with poison.
It is not very toxic, but it can paralyze instantaneously for several days.
At this time, the highly venomous snail will burrow out of the surface of the sediment and burrow into the organism.