After Hou Zi left for half a year, he returned to Crab Claw Island. The scenery was still the same, the island was still the same, and the stone houses were still the same.
Even Chiqu and her children are still the same, except there are a lot fewer of them.
Someone left a message at the stone house array. It was a return visit from one of the island owners he had visited, and a strange swordsman who passed by.
It looks calm.
As a cautious person, a person who always puts life safety first, and a person with very limited knowledge of battle tactics, he couldn't tell whether someone had laid a trap here waiting for him during this period.
A real expert will not leave any traces casually so that he can identify the clues and take precautions as soon as he comes back. This may be possible in the future, but not now.
But he also has his own unique methods, such as the Thousand Miles of Distance Map under the soil?
After checking Crab Claw Island and finding nothing unusual, he planned to make a final confirmation.
He casually picked up his body in a grassy area, and his body instantly submerged into the soil and disappeared. After several years of hard work, he got deeper and deeper into the soil walking skills. Now, if it were ordinary soil, he could penetrate three feet into the soil.
Deep, very powerful skills.
To dive into the soil, he needs to conduct a comprehensive review of the Thousand Miles of Geographical Map, mainly about a dozen nodes, and then he can determine whether any strange Qi machines have landed on Crab Island in the past six months, and whether there are any possible traps.
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The first node is unscathed; the second node seems to be somewhat displaced? But this may also be the influence of those earth beasts. On Crab Claw Island, there are many earth beasts that feed on long worms. Similar
This has happened before, so it's not surprising.
The third node, the Qi machine is wrong! It seems to have been reset by someone! But he is very familiar with his own methods, this is definitely not his handiwork!
When you realize something is wrong, your first reaction is to leave the earth layer; for Earth Escape, the safety lies in the fact that the opponent does not understand Earth Escape. If the opponent is also proficient in Earth Escape and is on such a narrow island, it will take a long time.
Arrangement means danger to him.
The trap is under the ground, you must get back to the ground and in the sky as soon as possible.
But a sudden change happened at this moment. When he wanted to escape from the soil, it seemed as if the soil above his head had a steel cover and he couldn't escape!
The art of earth escape is different from the method of earth beasts; it is not a hard cut, but a human-shaped passage must be left behind.
The practitioner's earth walking technique is to combine oneself with the earth of the five elements, so that one can move without hindrance; just like water and oil mixed together, they do not blend with each other, but they can pass through each other.
Therefore, he felt that adding an iron cover on top did not mean that someone really laid an iron plate on it or transformed the soil into an iron layer. It was just that someone changed the nature of the soil, causing it to no longer work according to his previous escape skills.
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The solution is actually very simple, just stop using earth escape, just learn the earth beast and dig in violently!
It is only over a foot deep, half soil and half gravel, and there is no breathing problem. This distance can be dug through with a dozen swords.
But he can't dig because he doesn't know what's waiting for him outside!
The danger is not under the soil, but in the blow to the head after rushing up! Or is it a barrier? Or a fire pit? He doesn't know.
Under the soil, it was difficult for a monk in the Third Realm of Tongtian to cast any effective spells, so Hou Zi chose to hibernate and escape quietly.
This was a very embarrassing situation for him. A swordsman was forced into the soil, but he got in by himself.
This is the nature of fighting. Everyone wants to do it in their own way. For a swordsman, the best way to deal with it is to pin him in the ground!
After escaping for more than ten feet, he felt the solid resistance again. It was not an iron cover, but an underground iron cage.
He still has a chance to give up Earth Escape and use his sword to dig through the iron wall, but the consequence will be to reveal his exact position. He will never be able to fly underground as well as someone else can fly on the ground, and it will be a dead end.
After many attempts, he finally determined his situation and was trapped in an underground cage with a radius of dozens of feet. This cage used some secret method to isolate the power of the earth element, making his earth escape no longer effective.
Moreover, this cage is still being closed!
It is conceivable that when the cage shrinks to a certain extent, he becomes a rat waiting to be slaughtered in the soil, with nowhere to escape.
It can't go up, it can't go to the side, it can't go down, it seems to be in a dead place.
Hou Zi realized that he had now reached a very critical juncture. If he made the slightest mistake and made the wrong choice, he would regret it for the rest of his life.
He didn't know how many opponents there were? What realm they were in? How many methods were left waiting for him? From the beginning, he fell into complete ignorance of the fighting situation, unable to see with his eyes and unable to transmit his spiritual consciousness.
He didn't want to force himself to make a choice until the end when there was no way out. In that case, there wouldn't be many ways left for him. What else could he do besides a dead end?
...On the ground, a Taoist priest floated thirty feet in the air, waiting leisurely for the changes below.
In Lizhihai, he has many identities, including the island owner, a member of the powerful forces, a pirate... and a very special identity, a whaler.
Whalers are not really whalers. Whales in the sea are huge in size and most of them live in the deep sea. Especially the whale beasts among them are at a very high level and cannot be dealt with by monks in the Third Realm of Tongtian.
The whaling mentioned here actually refers to the hunting of people; to put it bluntly, they are a group of killers responsible for bringing peace to people and eliminating disasters.
Some merchants in Mirage secretly maintain such a dark network system, relying on deep financial resources, extensive contacts, and well-informed information to quietly operate such an underground organization.
This is the real Lizhi Sea. Under the surface prosperity, there are factors of chaos everywhere.
For them, no one among the monks here is invincible, as long as you are willing to pay a price. Depending on the realm, strength, and power background of the target, everyone has such a price, the price of selling oneself.
Just like when he came to Crab Claw Island this time, the price was not low. Although he was just a Tongxuan monk, the foundation of the Quanzhen Sect made the price go up a notch.
He had been here for nearly a month. He originally thought it might be a fierce aerial battle, but he didn't expect it to turn into an underground crushing battle.
An accidental opportunity allowed him to discover the secret underground of Crab Claw Island. As an experienced killer, he immediately understood the significance of the existence of the map, so he took advantage of it.
As for killers, they are rarely willing to fight face to face. They prefer to use special hiding methods. This is the difference between warriors and killers.
Therefore, the less popular Earth Escape Technique is standard equipment for many people in this field, including him.
All that's left is waiting. For him, patience is the basic quality in this business.
