Chapter 38: Teaming Up
"What about you?" Lei Mu looked Liu Ao up and down, "Dressed like a wanted criminal, where are you coming from?"
Liu Ao's gaze was calm, "Liu Ming, a second-level hunter, an intermediate great martial artist. ”
Tong Ying was stunned, and subconsciously spoke, "You're not high..."
"The senior hunter is lying to you, I'm actually just a second-level hunter," Liu Ao's eyes lit up, "If you don't think it's appropriate, I'll go." ”
"It's suitable, how not suitable," Remu nodded impatiently, "Let's go." ”
Tong Ying watched Liu Ao register as a hunter, knowing that Liu Ao was a senior martial artist, and seeing that Liu Ao deliberately concealed his cultivation, she didn't have much to say.
However, the woman named Yunqiu glanced at Liu Ao more, obviously sensing something.
Tong Ying led the way, and the five of them hurried for ten miles, and then entered the mountain range.
By sunset, the five finally stopped at the entrance to a canyon.
The canyon is surrounded by steep cliffs on three sides, and the canyon is overgrown with shrubs, and few people come to see it.
As the four of them entered the canyon, they had to slow down and clear a passage through the bushes while being careful of possible poisonous insects, snakes and ants.
These bushes are also dense and tall, and the figures of the four people are completely obscured.
Lei Mu walked in the front, constantly swinging the axe in his hand, splitting the bushes that stood in his way.
Liu Ao walked at the back, keeping an eye on the bushes around him.
Suddenly, Liu Ao's eyes lit up, and he suddenly reached out and wiped it past Tong Ying's ear.
Tong Ying was startled and exclaimed, "What's wrong?"
Liu Ao's palms clenched, and he saw a gray-green poisonous snake being pulled out.
Tong Ying's body trembled, her face was covered with cold sweat, this poisonous snake was beside her just now, it was a highly poisonous green snake, a drop of venom could poison an ordinary martial artist.
"Thank you," Tong Ying wiped her cold sweat and hurriedly walked towards Liu Ao's side, obviously feeling more secure in this way.
Lei Mu split a bush and snorted coldly, "Aren't you able to sense danger? Why didn't you notice it just now?"
Tong Yingqiao's face flushed, "Sometimes I can feel it, and sometimes it doesn't work." ”
"Okay, let's go," Qi Guanyan smiled, "Tong Ying, have you arrived?"
Tong Ying nodded, pointed to the cliff in front of him, and whispered:
"There's a hole in the middle of the cliff, and the tomb is inside. ”
Liu Ao looked up, but he didn't see any holes.
Tong Ying hurriedly added:
"There was a formation to cover up the entrance of the cave, and I saw it when I went up after a while. ”
After speaking, Tong Ying used both hands and feet, grabbed the gap in the cliff wall and began to climb up.
Lei Mu was an impatient, and directly swung the big axe in his hand and slashed into the stone wall, climbed up with his right arm, and then swung the axe with one arm after grasping it, and it reached more than ten zhang in a moment.
Qi Guanyan smiled and pulled out a crystal clear thin line from his waist, and with a flick of his fingers, this thin line flew out and pierced into the cliff, he hugged Yunqiu, pulled the rope and began to climb.
Liu Ao stood on the ground and saw that the four of them were already approaching the middle of the cliff, so he began to move.
I saw Liu Ao take two steps back, rushed forward, kicked the ground hard, his body rose from the ground, and when he was close to the stone wall, his hands slammed into the crack of the stone, splashing a large piece of rubble.
Soon, Liu Ao surpassed the three of them and climbed to the front.
Lei Mu frowned, as if he was a little unconvinced, and the frequency of swinging the axe also increased.
After a while, Liu Ao came to a small platform in the middle of the cliff that could only accommodate three or five people.
Lei Mu and Qi Guanyan climbed up after him, but they didn't see any holes.
Tong Ying was still at the back at this time, and seeing her struggling appearance, Lei Mu couldn't help but complain:
"Can you hurry up?"
"Right away," Tong Ying smiled awkwardly, gritted her teeth and sped up, but her feet slipped and she almost fell.
By the time Tong Ying climbed onto the platform, she was already sweating, and a white dress was attached to her body, outlining her figure to the fullest.
Qi Guanyan looked away a little embarrassed, "Miss Tongying, where is the entrance?"
Tong Ying pointed to the stone wall in front of him, "This is it, but it is covered by the formation." ”
As she spoke, Tong Ying stretched out her hand and groped on the stone wall for a while, and suddenly her face was happy, and she stretched out her hand and pressed it somewhere.
I saw ripples on the stone wall, like the surface of the water.
"Do any of you know how to form?"
Seeing everyone shaking their heads, Tong Ying had no choice but to say:
"Then you can only forcibly break the formation. ”
Lei Mu's face was already full of anger at this time, "Stinky girl, are you lying to Lao Tzu, since you haven't been in, how do you know that this is the tomb of the Taurus and the half-demon?"
Tong Ying's body trembled, and he leaned towards Liu Ao with some fear, pointing to a place on the cliff, "Look." ”
Liu Ao looked at it, and there was actually an engraving the size of a fingernail on the stone wall, looking at the shape, it looked like a bull's head.
"I**" Lei Mu couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, "With such a small mark, you dare to say that this is the tomb of the Golden Bull?"
"Brother Lei Mu, don't be angry," Qi Guanyan said with a smile:
"Since there are traces of the formation here, it means that there must be something inside, whether it is the tomb of the golden bull or not, it is worth going in and exploring it. ”
Lei Mu snorted coldly, "I don't need you to remind me. ”
After speaking, he saw Lei Mu raise the big axe in his hand, and the spiritual power in his body began to surge.
"Open it for me!"
Lei Mu slashed at the formation with an axe, but the formation only rippled, but it regained its calm like the surface of the water.
"Let's come together," Qi Guanyan and his wife drew their long swords and mobilized their spiritual power to join the attack.
Liu Ao didn't make a move, but was observing Qi Guanyan's wife, Yunqiu.
She hadn't spoken since the beginning, and her expression hadn't even changed, and her whole person seemed too calm.
Seeing Liu Ao looking at him, Yun Qiu met Liu Ao's gaze and did not dodge.
On the contrary, Liu Ao was a little embarrassed and hurriedly looked away.
Qi Guanyan frowned and looked back, "It's still a little close, Brother Liu Ming, let's come together." ”
Liu Ao nodded, did not draw his sword, but concentrated his spiritual power on his fist and began to bombard the formation.
A moment later, a 'pop' was heard, and a ball of light exploded, and the formation was completely broken.
The stone wall instantly cracked into dense lines, and was smashed into gravel by Lei Mu's axe.
A swarthy and cold hole was exposed to the eyes of the five people.
"Lao Tzu has contributed the most, and you should do the things that explore the way," Lei Mu said, looking at Liu Ao, "Liu Ming, you come!"
Liu Ao didn't refuse, and walked in.
As soon as he entered, the cold air that came to his face made Liu Ao's face frost form a layer of white frost.
Tong Ying, who followed closely, was surprised:
"Why is it so cold?"
As they went deeper, the footsteps of the five became clearer and clearer, and even the sound of breathing seemed so dull.
Liu Ao could feel that this passage should be inclined downward, but it was pitch black all around, and Liu Ao couldn't see the surrounding environment clearly.
After walking for a while, Tong Ying suddenly grabbed the corner of Liu Ao's clothes and whispered:
"Wait. ”
"There's danger ahead!"
Liu Ao frowned, and subconsciously blocked the sword of Ao in front of his chest.
Qi Guanyan took out an illumination bead at this time and whispered:
"This illumination bead can only last for one hour, so hurry up. ”
Through the faint light of the lighting beads, Liu Ao vaguely saw that less than a zhang away in front of him was a huge deep pit!
This pit is pitch black, like a black hole that eats people, and there is constantly a biting cold air coming out from under the pit, which looks very weird.
Qi Guanyan stepped forward to check with the lighting bead, and suddenly pointed to the stone wall next to him, "Look, there are stone steps spiraling down. ”
"Then what are you waiting for, hurry up!" Lei Mu's face was happy, "It's really not easy here, maybe there are really treasures left by the Taurus Half-Demon below." ”
"I have a bad premonition," Tong Ying whispered:
"There seems to be something under this pit. ”
Lei Mu waved his hand and stepped on the stairs first, "I don't know how many years no one has been here, what can there be? ”
Seeing that Lei Mu began to walk down, Qi Guanyan and his wife also hurriedly followed.
Tong Ying looked at Liu Ao, as if asking Liu Ao's opinion.
"Let's go. ”
Liu Ao said a word and stepped on the stone steps.
The further down you go, the more cold it gets.
Tong Ying shivered as she walked, constantly rubbing her arms, obviously a little cold and unbearable.
"Click~"
"What a sound!"
Reimu let out a low roar, "Where did that sound come from?"
Before he could react, he saw the steps behind him, and they began to retract back into the stone wall.
Liu Ao's pupils shrank, "Run!"
As soon as the words fell, the steps under Tong Ying's feet suddenly shrank into the stone wall.
Tong Ying exclaimed, and her body fell sharply.
Fortunately, Liu Ao was quick-eyed, grabbed her wrist, lifted her up, and ran down with a step.
Raimu ran at the front, slashing at the darkness in front of him with his axe, apparently afraid that something would suddenly appear.
"Click~"
By the time Liu Ao and the others finished the last step, the stone steps behind them had all retracted back to the stone wall.
Several people were already at the bottom of the pit, and the ground was round, with a diameter of about five zhang.
Tong Ying patted his chest and said in a trembling voice, "What next?"
Still Qi Guanyan, he squatted down and observed on the ground for a while, and suddenly pointed to the middle of the ground, "Come and see, the cold air is coming from here." ”
The five people gathered around, and sure enough, they saw that there were dense circular holes on the ground in the middle, and a trace of cool air came out of the holes, making a thin layer of ice form on the five people, and even Liu Ao could feel that the speed of his spiritual power had slowed down a little.
"There is no way back," Qi Guanyan's expression began to become solemn, "If this is a tomb, below this, it should be the corpse of the Taurus Half-Demon." ”
"Then what are you hesitating about, just go down and see," Lei Mu raised his axe with excitement on his face, "If there is really a treasure, I want thirty percent!"
"Wait," Qi Guanyan suddenly frowned, "Think about it, who will build the tomb for the Taurus Half-Demon?"
"If it were itself, it wouldn't be easy to break into. ”
The axe in Lei Mu's hand paused, then fell sharply and slashed to the ground, "Look at it, there is no way out, if you don't go down, just wait here to die." ”
"Click~"
Unexpectedly, the solid ground was actually split out of a big hole by Lei Mu's axe.
Looking down from the entrance of the cave, you can see clusters of green light, like green flames.