Chapter 31: The Underground Labyrinth
The next night, it was time for the lake to be sucked away, and Liu Qinghuan, who had recovered, was already waiting in the deep pit in the lake. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Anyway, the maelstrom is about to be formed, why did Liu Qinghuan appear here at this time?
After a night of contemplation, he thought that since the lake water could take him out of the maze extremely quickly, when the lake water receded, it would naturally take him into the depths of the maze very quickly, and it was very likely that he would reach a certain end point!
Although the process will inevitably be "snapped", Liu Qinghuan can't think of a better and faster way to explore the maze than this.
"Goo-dong, goo-dong!" suddenly appeared in the center of the pit.
Liu Qinghuan cheered up.
With a clattering sound, the bubbles began to form in strings, and a round hole appeared in the center of the pit as the pit shook slightly. The hole swirled like a blooming flower, and it grew larger in circles, and then a large hole was formed, and the lake water poured madly into the hole.
Liu Qinghuan jumped in when the entrance of the cave could accommodate one person to pass, he didn't want to stay outside and be swept up by the whirlpool, it was safer to go into the cave first.
As soon as he entered the hole, the suction force appeared, and this time he was a little prepared, trying to keep his balance in the water. It's just that there are a lot of undercurrents in the water, and the maze passage is winding, and it still hits the wall from time to time.
An hour later, after I don't know how many impacts, he lay on the ground in a daze and slowed down for a long time, only to find that the suction had disappeared, the water was gone, and there was Venus rising in front of him, and the qi and blood were surging, and the spiritual power in his body was also disordered.
He didn't dare to be careless, and hurriedly meditated to channel spiritual power. He didn't expect the labyrinth to be so huge, he walked for an hour with the help of suction and water flow, and at this time he was afraid that he had gone deep into the depths of the Qu Yan Swamp.
Straightening out his spiritual power, Liu Qinghuan stood up and looked at where he was. Finally, it is no longer a labyrinth passage, but a square hall. The hall is still built of bluestone, about five or six zhang long, about three zhang wide, the ground is very dry, but there are traces of water flowing on the wall, the hall is clear at a glance, empty and nothing.
Unwilling, he searched carefully in the hall, and finally found a few remaining bone fragments in the cracks in the stone on the ground. The bone fragments seemed to have existed for many years, and the bones had turned white, with extremely subtle fluctuations in spiritual power on them.
This should have been left behind after the death of a spirit beast or demon beast a long time ago, and after so long, there was still spiritual power attached to it, thinking that the cultivation of this beast should not be low back then. With a gentle pinch of his spiritual power, the bone fragments shattered into powder and fell from between his fingers.
I searched the hall again, but there was no other outlet, no imaginary exit, no source of suction, and no idea where the lake went.
After walking out of the hall and walking along the bluestone passage, I finally found the existence of water stains again, and other forks in the road also reappeared here.
Liu Qinghuan touched his chin and fell into deep thought, and faintly had some ideas about this underground labyrinth, but it still needs to be verified.
For the next period of time, Liu Qinghuan rested and practiced during the day, and at night he took a hitchhiker and wandered tirelessly in the maze. Most of the time, he would be taken to stone halls similar to those of the previous halls, large and small, and nothing else was found, except for the occasional bone or two. But this is also very reasonable, after all, the suction in the maze is so strong, and it is washed by the lake all year round, even if there was something before, it will be sucked away one by one, and don't want to leave anything.
To say that there are harvests, after countless "pops", Liu Qinghuan is more and more able to control his body more and more freely in the turbulent rapids, and there are fewer and fewer cases of being glued to the cave wall. After getting used to the suction, he can now use the suction power to roam freely in the maze.
At the same time, although his cultivation was still in the early stage of the fourth layer of Qi cultivation, his spiritual power had been refined a lot, and the original pale cyan color had become more condensed. This can be regarded as an unexpected gain, because he has to constantly sort out the spiritual power that is disturbed by the terrifying suction every day, and he has to maintain the spiritual power output of the shield from time to time, which makes his control over his spiritual power a lot higher than before. Now every trace of spiritual power in his body has been restrained in a regular manner, and the use of spells has become smoother, and he has been able to achieve the level of his heart moving at will, and at the same time, the enhancement of his micro-control ability has also allowed him to save a lot of unnecessary spiritual power when using spells.
But even so, Liu Qinghuan's patience is about to run out. He had been here for more than two months, but he had not come to practice the technique of the white strip in the waves, and if he hadn't discovered anything today, he was ready not to waste any more time here.
Following the direction of the undercurrent, he kicked on the wall of the cave, and the whole person changed direction and slid out like a swimming fish. Ever since he was able to control his body in the water, he tried to choose the labyrinth passage he had never been to before.
However, this passage was very different from the previous ones, which used to take only an hour or so to reach the end of the passage, but this time he had been in the water for nearly two hours and had not yet seen his destination. Because there were so many forks in the road, he couldn't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, let alone memorize the route.
His heart lifted, and he looked forward more and more to what lay ahead.
After a few more forks, he no longer deliberately changed direction, and let his body be carried away by the current. Suddenly, the suction disappeared, and the lake also decreased sharply, Liu Qinghuan knew that this was the place.
After walking forward for a while, there was no trace of water on the ground, Liu Qinghuan leaned over and touched the ground, the ash in one hand. It must have never been affected by the scouring and suction of the current, otherwise it would not have accumulated such a thick layer of dust. There are not as many forks in the road ahead as before, and only one will appear far away, but the cyan stone is still the same.
One by one, after a pillar of incense, Liu Qinghuan suddenly stopped and stared ahead. The labyrinth is generally extremely dark because it is deep underground, and Liu Qinghuan has always been looking at it with his divine sense, but at this moment, he looked ahead with his naked eyes in confusion, and said to himself: "There is light ahead?"
If the darkness before was thick black ink, now it is like adding water and slowly thinning a layer. He couldn't help but lift his spirits, and quickened his pace, the passage in front of him became brighter and brighter, and a half-hidden stone door appeared in the hazy light.
One side of the stone door had fallen off completely, leaning against the wall crookedly, and there was only a narrow gap in the middle that allowed people to pass through, and the soft light came through it.
There are footprints on the ground!
Liu Qinghuan let out a "groan" in his heart, and he had already put on a purple cloud canopy between his backhands. He listened sideways, and only after hearing no unusual movement behind the stone gate did he slowly lean over.
I saw a few shallow footprints floating on the bluestone ground near the stone gate. Just like the person who had been walking with the clouds all the time, because the stone gate was narrow, he took the law and fell to the ground, so that he could pass through the gap in the stone gate.
However, these footprints have only shallow traces, and the person who left it should have been here a long time ago, only because the underground labyrinth is closed all year round, and there are no other factors to influence it, the footprints will stay here for a long time.
Judging by the size of the footprints, they should have been left by adult men. The gap in the stone gate is narrow compared to that of an adult man, but for a thin teenager, it can easily pass through. He didn't hesitate and walked directly through the stone gate.
In front of me is a square stone hall, about five zhang square, the high dome is inlaid with several moonstones, and the soft light shines brightly on the stone hall. The walls are still cyan striped stone, but the ground is neatly paved with green bricks, which is somewhat abnormal.
Squatting down and brushing away the dust with his sleeves, he saw that the green bricks were clear and clear, without impurities and flaws, and the pieces were square and straight, covering the entire hall. When he was in the world, he had seen the jade bracelets worn by the women of rich and noble families clear and delicate, but compared with the green bricks on the ground, they looked like rough stones.
But no matter how good-looking it is, for immortal cultivators, it is just ordinary jade without aura.
Liu Qinghuan stood up and turned to look around. There is no shelter in the hall, only some crumbling stones in the corners, which should be shaped like stone tables and stone benches, indicating that this place was once inhabited.
In addition to the stone gate that enters, there is a door on the other three walls. He advanced to the door on the left, which was a corridor, and after walking a dozen steps, he came to another stone hall.
It is still paved with green jade bricks like in the hall, and there is a stone platform in the middle, and the stone platform is crooked to one side, showing that someone has turned it here before. I don't know if the other party has gained anything, anyway, Liu Qinghuan doesn't. The inside of the door on the right is the same as it is on this side.
Liu Qinghuan looked at the last door of the main hall, and he didn't have much extravagance.