281 Deep in the cave and willows
(281 Deep Cave Mu Willow)
At this time, in a brightly lit stone hall, a slender young male cultivator looked in surprise at the hundreds of jade slips densely packed in front of him. One of them was dull in color, and the spiritual energy on it had completely disappeared.
He hesitated, and immediately realized that this was not a trivial matter. Hurriedly took off the jade slip and rushed all the way upstairs. In a few moments, he entered a larger hall. There is a jade slip fixed in the center of the hall, emitting a bright light, revealing a huge and complex cobweb-like cavern.
The cave is not fixed. There are still a lot of light spots flashing at the end of many blind ends. These blind ends are also slowly growing like plants.
An old man with gray hair and a face as dark as iron was sitting under this curtain of light, staring carefully at every part of the cave.
"Elder Xing, it seems that someone has invaded the bottom of the Hungry Immortal Lake......"
Elder Xing seemed to be concentrating on something, when he was suddenly interrupted by him, his eyes were horizontal, and he was in a rather unhappy mood. But if someone recklessly stumbles to the bottom of the lake, it will also be a big trouble for them.
The great lake in this cave is called the Lake of Hunger and Immortality. The name doesn't mean that you can't starve to death if you live in this lake. It's because there are countless hungry ghosts in the shape of fish in this lake. These hungry ghosts devour each other every day, but after being devoured, they immediately reappear in the lake. And so on and so on, they suffer from hunger all their lives, hence the name "starvation".
On the surface, this cave was only used to build that teleportation array, and it was operated by the Cloud Heaven Su family. But in fact, the direct forces of the Five Elements Sect have been lurking in this cave for hundreds of years.
Although it was said that this cave was the property of the Five Elements Sect, they had never disclosed the existence of this cave. Moreover, there are many cracks in the space around the cave, and no one even knows where there are many underground passages leading to this cave. Therefore, they still have to be on guard against the intrusion of foreign enemies at all times.
"Take a look at Yu Jian. Elder Xing stretched out his hand.
The most important thing for them in the Underworld is this lake of starvation. But this lake is vast, stretching for dozens of miles. Moreover, it is divided into many parts by underground rocks, many of which can only be navigated underwater. They had limited manpower and could not send people to fortify everywhere, so they set up a lot of magic weapons called "hanging eyes" at the bottom of the lake. These artifacts are set up like an eye, able to see the surrounding scene, and can sense the spirit of the enemy, and roughly know the strength of the incoming enemy.
Unexpectedly, the thin disciple hesitated for a moment, and did not hand over the jade slip, but said, "There is no image now." It seems that someone has taken it off. ”
"Bold! My Five Elements Sect's hanging eyes, some people dare to take it off? Could it be that the monks of the Wang family have no brains?" Elder Xing was furious.
There are bright and dark cloths in the hanging eyes. On each hanging eye of Mingbu, there is a sect's spiritual opportunity, like a emblem, marked here, which is equivalent to indicating that this place belongs to our sect, and outsiders are not allowed to enter. It's not expensive, and it's a disposable ritual that can't be rearranged once it's taken off. If someone takes it off, and it's not unintentional, it's a deliberate provocation.
In Elder Xing's consciousness, daring to directly provoke the existence of the Five Elements Sect was not found in this Cloud Sky City.
The bottom of this lake is controlled by them, but the patrol on the lake is in charge of the royal family of Cloud Sky City. After Wang Canghuang discovered the passage in and out of the Underworld, the Five Elements Sect allowed the Wang family to build an annex by the Hungry Immortal Lake, and used the Xuanyin Qi of the Underworld to condense the Xuanyin Pill as income.
And the price paid by the Wang family for this is that in addition to keeping absolutely secrets, they are also responsible for patrolling the surface of the starving and immortal lake, and once they find that outsiders have entered, they will be killed!
But in history, there have also been children of the Wang family, who strayed into the bottom of the lake when they were practicing in the cave, and the magic weapon they controlled ruined the suspense of the Five Elements Sect. The consequence, of course, was that the children of the Wang family were severely punished and the magic weapons were confiscated.
"It's not like the clothes of the Wang family......" What he saw in his eyes flashed at that time, and the young disciple didn't see it clearly. But he is definitely not the costume of the children of the Wang family, "It is a male cultivator who has built a double foundation, wearing a gray robe, but unfortunately the disciple can't see it very clearly, and the hanging eyes are taken off." ”
"Just built the foundation twice, how dare you come to this cave to trespass? Li Chongxiu, you go and take care of this matter yourself. As for your monitoring responsibility, I will let He Shuchun temporarily replace you for one day. ”
Hearing the other party's cultivation, Elder Xing no longer cared about it. From time to time, there are also some earth or water monks who practice underground, and they strayed into the caves along some caves or dark rivers.
If the Great Sect wanted to occupy a dark cave, it would never be possible to send some disciples with such lowly cultivation to die here. This kind of cultivation can't even withstand the siege of hungry ghosts underground, and he has to be divided within a few days of coming in.
For hundreds of years, this cave of the Five Elements Sect has never been known to outsiders, because these people who have strayed in have never returned. But he couldn't let it go. Since this man has gone to the bottom of the lake to starve and immortalize, what if he goes back alive if he does not die?
Li Chongxiu immediately received the order. This invading person is only a two-fold foundation, but he is an outer disciple of the Five Elements Sect Shuide Academy who has a five-fold foundation. For many years, I have been assigned to the bottom of this cave lake, and I am tired of staring at those images that are teleported by my eyes all day long.
Now he can easily kill someone, in exchange for credit, and if he can't get rid of the drudgery at the bottom of the lake, he will go back to Tongzhou Shuide Academy to practice comfortably. Thinking about it like this, he got excited.
He ran through a spiraling stone spiral staircase to the outside. Here is a huge blister under the starving lake, a radius of a hundred feet. Pitch-black water, like a dome, hung over his head. From time to time, you can hear the sound of huge strange fish swimming overhead with a strong fluorescence.
Stone slabs have already been laid on the ground here. In the middle is a huge altar. Below the altar is the entrance and exit of the underground stone palace. Above the altar is a water walking formation, which stretches out the water of the Wanjun Lake and supports this huge bubble.
Li Chongxiu walked to the edge and saw a wall of water erected. On the other side of the water wall, a giant toucan fish that was two tall and several feet long was lying on the bottom of the water boringly. Suddenly, when I saw him coming, I jumped excitedly a few times, and the water was so turbulent that even the smooth wall of water had several bulging traces of water.
Li Chongxiu walked into this water curtain, and immediately felt that his whole body was cold, and his body was light, and he floated. He gently crossed his legs on the back of the fish, touched the back of the big fish with his hand, and said with a smile: "Today I will take you out for a walk and eat some bloody food." ”
After Li Chongxiu left, Elder Xing tried to continue the plan.
Unlike the Jade Palace, the elders of the Five Elements Sect were not the masters of the First Courtyard. Rather, in the Five Elements Sect, anyone who can cultivate to the realm of the Purple Mansion can be called an elder.
Since he was promoted to elder, he didn't know what blood mold he had poured down, and he was transferred to the bottom of this cave lake, and he didn't see the light of day, and his life was extremely boring. He only had two or three days a month to go to Cloud Sky City to have a good time, and he had to be careful to hide his identity from time to time, which was quite uncomfortable.
If he wants to leave this place, he must first complete what he has been assigned here. But this matter, the Five Elements Sect has been trying here for four or five hundred years, and there is no result so far. But because of this, he often feels that he is much closer to success than his predecessors a hundred years ago. If it were to succeed in his hands, it would be a great achievement.
Fortunately, there was no shortage of all kinds of foreign things here, and it would not delay his cultivation.
Watching Li Chongxiu go out, he put away his turbulent mood. Just as he was about to continue the matter at hand, suddenly a sound transmission jade in his arms lit up.
During his entering, he saw that in the fireworks alley, in a place full of flowers, Gu Zhongyou, one of the three elders of the ancient family, gave him a fist salute, smiled and said: "There are some good things today, I want to talk to my old friends, the wine and beauty are ready, you can't live up to it!"
Gu Zhongyou once practiced with him in the Five Elements Sect and had known each other for a long time. But this dude hasn't been very proud lately. In particular, he originally had a grandson named Gu Wentian, with excellent qualifications, and was originally a strong contender for the young master of the Gu family. Recently, it was suddenly rumored that this person died in the Jade Palace.
I didn't expect this guy to still have the heart to be at ease in the fireworks willow alley?
Elder Xing's heart moved. It's not that he thinks Gu Zhongyu really has anything good to say to him. Instead, this person is his only old friend in Cloud Sky City, and the only person on the ground who knows his identity and can take him to eat, drink and enjoy himself without scruples. Moreover, the Gu family has a lot of industries in that area, and there are countless happy places of all kinds, which can be enjoyed as much as you want, without paying a penny. When did Gu Zhongyou call him and didn't he return happy?
He immediately threw what he was doing out of the clouds. Anyway, these things can't be done in a moment. Let it be.