"We're here!" Gui Bugui's face was filled with joy. He lowered his head and fiddled with the compass for a while, and then took out a scroll: "The road to the southeast is poor, and we see a large rift valley with steep stone walls and ravines at the bottom of the cliff. It's hard to figure out what's going on.
Deep—it should be right here!”
"Is Old Man Tianji's cave located below?" Liu Qinghuan asked, glancing at the yellowed scroll of paper in his hand: "What is in the senior's hand, is it a diary?"
"That's right, but there are only a few records left by monks who have been here. The other party only knows that the cave is most likely down there, but we have to find the specific location ourselves."
Gui Bugui controlled Yunzhou to fly above the abyss. Yunzhou suddenly trembled and seemed to fall down. Liu Qinghuan also immediately felt something strange. The speed of spiritual power in his meridians suddenly dropped and became stagnant.
"Yes, this is it!" Gui Bugui hurriedly pulled Yunzhou back and landed on the edge of the cliff: "This rift valley has a natural forbidden spirit restriction. It is said that even Mahayana monks like us will have their magic power stagnated here.
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Liu Qinghuan's face became unhappy, and he walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down: "Forbidden Spirit?! How are we going to get down? The abyss is so deep, how can we climb down?"
Something suddenly happened to him: "The energy of death...and it's extremely pure!"
But the light in the bottomless rift valley is very dim, and thin strands of mist flow between the cliffs, dyeing the sparse dead trees and weeds black.
"Don't look at it. The old man was practicing the way of life and death that day. It's normal to have death energy here." Gui Bugui flew forward along the edge of the cliff, while exploring his head.
"Senior, what are you looking for?"
"There should be a stone step leading to the bottom of the cliff. Only on that stone step can spiritual power function normally."
The two flew hundreds of miles in one go, and sure enough they found protruding rocks on the cliff.
Liu Qinghuan said in astonishment: "This, is this considered a stone step?"
The first dozen or so steps were quite orderly, with one level going down, but starting from the thirteenth step, it was diagonally lower two or three feet away from the previous one, and then the stone steps seemed to suddenly break here, only
There is a protruding rock with an irregular shape about ten feet away, and there are a few more normal steps.
The entire stone steps were intermittent, barely in the shape of steps, extending all the way down into the cold darkness.
Spiritual power is banned here, and such stone steps will have a big impact on them.
But this wasn't the worst. Gui Bugui reached out and flicked his hand, and a strong wind blew by. The dirt and fallen leaves accumulated on the stone steps that had not been visited for many years were immediately swept away.
Liu Qinghuan was startled, looking at the green rock that revealed its true material, like a burning will-o'-the-wisp: "Huan Po Soul Jade!"
Chaos Soul Jade, a heaven-level spiritual material!
A small piece is enough to refine a top-quality evil or ghost weapon, but on this abyss cliff, large pieces are used as stone steps?
"Are we going to step on the Chaos Soul Jade?" Liu Qinghuan frowned deeply: "It's okay to come into contact with this kind of heaven-level spiritual material occasionally, but after being exposed to it for a long time, it will have strong effects just like its name.
The effect of chaos and soul-stirring."
"This is only the second thing." Gui Bugui said: "Look at that piece. Are there formation patterns painted on it?"
Liu Qinghuan looked along his fingers and saw that the complex formation pattern was faintly visible on the thirteenth level, while the next level was more than ten feet away.
He could imagine what would happen if the formation suddenly activated when he stepped on the stone steps. It was not easy to jump to the next step steadily when the air was restricted here.
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"It's so difficult to walk all the way down these stone steps!" Gui Bugui shook his head and said, "The person who wrote the note retreated halfway. It is said that the further you go down, the harder it is to walk. There are many illusions and many traps.
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He looked at Liu Qinghuan: "So do you still dare to go down?"
Liu Qinghuan was silent for a moment and said: "We are all here, isn't it already too late to back down?"
He smiled and said: "You have to give it a try first. If it doesn't work, then just go back."
"Okay!" Gui Bugui shouted, turned around and jumped down, landing on the first-level Chaos Soul Jade: "Then give it a try!"
He passed the twelve easy steps in front of him in a blink of an eye. When he stepped on the thirteenth step, he saw that something strange suddenly appeared under his feet. A ball of green fire burst into flames, and he was instantly drowned!
"Hahaha!" There was laughter in the firelight, and a ball of golden Yangshen virtual fire instantly extinguished the surging green fire. Gui Bugui jumped out, jumped more than ten feet away, and landed on the fourteenth step.
superior.
"Liu Xiaozi, are you watching? I'm scouting the way ahead for you!"
"Thank you very much, senior!" Liu Qinghuan replied with a smile and jumped to the first step.
There is a unique texture of jade under the feet, and a cold that is completely different from ice and snow lingers through a thin layer of boot soles, as if a ghost has climbed up the back against the thighs, exhaling an extremely cold breath from the back of the neck.
gas!
Liu Qinghuan did not release Yang Shen's virtual fire like Gui Bugui, but instead unfolded the Tao realm. The life and death sword intent flying out from the center of his eyebrows turned into black and white qi, spinning around his body like a yin and yang fish, and all the gathered chills disappeared.
Blanking is gone.
He has cultivated the way of life and death, and he is recognized by Heaven as an extraditer. Anything related to dead souls can hardly hurt him now.
I walked down the stairs unhurriedly and reached the thirteenth level. There was still residual green fire on the jade, which did not burst out suddenly like before.
Liu Qinghuan didn't take it seriously. He stepped forward and flew out into the air. Suddenly, a ghost hand stretched out from the chaotic soul jade and grabbed his ankle!
Just after leaving the stone steps, he already felt that his spiritual power had become somewhat blocked. If he was caught by the ghost hand in mid-air again...
Liu Qinghuan's eyes flashed sharply, and the black and white energy surrounding him turned back into a small sword in the blink of an eye, cutting off the ghost's hand!
After landing steadily on the fourteenth step, he looked back and saw that the chopped off ghost hand had turned into a ball of black mist and retracted into the Chaos Soul Jade.
Gui Bugui also saw this scene and shouted from below: "The traps on the stone steps are actually changing in various ways? It seems that my exploration in front is not very useful. You should be careful and don't stay too far away from me.
, so as not to be unable to rush to rescue."
Liu Qinghuan responded, speeding up a bit to keep up with Gui Bugui's footsteps.
All the way down, stone steps are scattered on the cliff, like an endless road leading to the Nine Netherworld, with no end in sight.
The skylight above the head gradually faded away, and the dead branches and leaves blocked the interior of the rift valley, which became darker and darker, and the aura of death became more intense.
The green fire and ghost hands are just the crudest traps, and they become less and less important as you go down. And the symptoms of having been on the Chaos Soul Jade for a long time have begun to appear. Although it is not yet to the point of shaking the soul, there are frequent hallucinations.
, and always comes suddenly at the most dangerous moment!