This teapot and teacup are the most common porcelain among the people. Xu Chen just bought a few of them in Nanyang City. He planned to brew some spiritual tea brought back from Yuqing Palace, but he rarely used them, mainly because he was usually lazy.
It's troublesome to boil water. Besides, he is young and has no hobby of drinking tea. If he has the skills to drink tea, he might as well study weapon refining and magic.
Looking at this strange and smooth ceramic teapot, the woman's eyes shone, she licked her lips and nodded: "This thing is so exquisite. The patriarch may like it. By the way, what is in this cup? It's such a pure color. I
Can I drink it?”
Xu Chen thought for a while and shook his head: "This thing is called water. I don't know if you can drink it. You can try it."
The woman was even more surprised and said: "Isn't the water all black? Is it the water in the mortal world?"
Xu Chen nodded and said: "Yes, this is the water of the mortal world. I specially brought it with me to quench my thirst. I dare not drink anything from the underworld, so I can only drink this."
The woman hesitated for a moment, put the cup to her mouth, took a small sip, her eyes suddenly brightened, then took another sip, then another sip, and finally raised her head and placed the cup on her face, draining the last drop of water.
Pour it into your mouth and swallow it, then let out a long, faint breath and say:
"What a pure breath. We have never drunk such delicious water. If you can give the elder a pot of water, I think he will take you to the ancestral temple and help you find your way back."
Xu Chen couldn't laugh or cry.
Unexpectedly, this worthless mountain spring water turned out to be a treasure in the underworld.
However, the woman's words also made him feel relieved. It seemed that today's rescue operation was not in vain. So far, the information he had obtained far exceeded his expectations.
Soon after, Xu Chen and the woman boarded a clamshell boat and left the cave. Under the woman's guidance, they plunged into the boundless black wind and disappeared.
Sitting in the clamshell boat, the woman was extremely shocked by this strange thing.
Xu Chen was also very curious. He encountered this clam shell in the so-called River Styx in the sky. Unexpectedly, the woman said that this was the first time she had seen it in her life.
She had seen a lot of clam shells, but she had never encountered one that was so big and capable of flying.
The two of them were talking while walking on the road.
Although this woman is tall and powerful, and has a casual and fiery personality, her name is quite normal, and even a little surprising, called Feng Feiyi.
After the two briefly announced their names, they told how they came in. Feng Feiyi also told a lot about what she knew about Minghuang.
Then Xu Chen gradually understood.
In fact, the so-called indigenous people here are not really people from the underworld. Their ancestors came here from the mortal world a long time ago, not because they got lost, but to guard the mortal world.
At that time, it was said that there was a fixed road connecting the mortal world and the underworld, and the two worlds could travel normally, and there were often wars between the two worlds. Therefore, the human race built cities here and arranged for powerful masters to garrison them.
What surprised Xu Chen even more was that Minghuang did not belong to the underworld at first, but belonged to the mortal world.
The River Styx is the boundary river between the mortal world and the underworld.
The current state of this place is caused by the erosion of the breath of the underworld.
The people who stayed here were gradually eroded by the underworld energy in the battle with the underworld beasts, and were eventually lost here. Passed down for thousands of years, they rarely have the aura of normal humans in their bodies, but their ancestors still remember the wishes of their ancestors for generations.
, guarding this underworld zone, taking the killing of underworld beasts as their own duty, it has been passed down for countless generations to this day, and the number of people is getting smaller and smaller.
Feng Feiyi said that their tribe currently has less than two hundred people.
Some other nearby human tribes also have fewer and fewer people.
In the past, humans had built many large cities here, but they had long been abandoned and turned into ruins after being eroded by the underworld. The clothes they wore and the magic weapons such as flying fork bows and arrows and storage crystals were actually passed down from ancient times.
Some superficial human skills, including a large number of techniques for making magic weapons, have been lost, and they can no longer even use spells.
Because the aura of the underworld makes it impossible for humans to practice.
However, they still accumulated a lot of new knowledge in the battle with the underworld beasts. They can use the underworld beasts and some items from the underworld to grow food, make weapons, and reproduce from generation to generation.
Xu Chen was shocked by these bizarre news.
Unexpectedly, he accidentally entered here and discovered a secret that the outside world had no idea about and had been buried for thousands of years.
If all this is true, doesn't it mean that the underworld has been constantly eroding the mortal world?
In this way, it is not difficult to understand that there are places like Black Wind Ridge and Donghuang Xuyuan.
However, it is also obvious that the high-ranking True Immortal class did not stand idly by in this situation, but have been preventing this situation from getting worse.
They captured the ancient ferocious beasts and used formations to imprison them in some places where the underworld energy was leaking, in order to suppress the speed of the underworld energy leaking.
However, this approach cannot solve the problem once and for all.
This may also be the reason why a black wind ravages the soul beasts and causes a cataclysm every few thousand years in the mortal world.
The Taiyuan Sect back then may have been destroyed because of changes in the restrictions on the passage to the underworld.
The black mist seemed boundless, but the descendants of the human race living here were already familiar with the environment here. Therefore, under the guidance of Feng Feiyi, Xu Chen pushed the clam shell boat to constantly adjust its direction. After flying for two hours, he entered
In a dark canyon.
The sides of the canyon are steep and narrow, as if they are a crack torn out of thin air. The further you go down, the narrower it becomes. Some places are only ten feet wide, and it is like a bottomless abyss. The more Xu Chen flies, the more he feels it.
Terrified, I flew back and forth for about a moment, and after passing through a door that was obviously man-made, a light suddenly appeared in front of me, and a relatively flat valley basin appeared.
What surprised Xu Chen the most was that most of the black fog in the valley had disappeared, and there were still faint flickering white lights on the surrounding mountain walls. Even without the use of spiritual consciousness, he could roughly see the situation of the entire canyon, except that it was still dark.
In addition to the lacquered rocks and soil, there are actually many strange plants planted in the canyon. They are like wild grass and vines, and the color is mainly black. However, Xu Chen did not feel any fluctuations in spiritual energy. They are obviously unique to the underworld.
species.
“This place is really nice!”
After wandering around in this boundless dark land for several days, Xu Chen couldn't help but be a little surprised when he suddenly saw such a clear environment with plants.
Feng Feiyi didn't know what Xu Chen was talking about, but he still used his spiritual consciousness to explain: "This is where we live, and it's called Fengxia City."
Xu Chen was stunned for a moment and asked with confusion: "I don't see anyone living here. Where is the city?"
The woman pointed to a place in the valley with the most obvious white light and said: "We all live in a cave, and that is the entrance. However, there was a real city in this valley, but it has been abandoned for a long time. If you look closely, you can still see some
trace."
After hearing this, Xu Chen let go of his consciousness and looked carefully in the valley. Sure enough, he could see some abandoned ruins among the black stone soil and strange plants growing there. However, it was just that they had been weathered and broken over the years. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't find them at all.
Clues.
"This city was very tall at first, with tens of thousands of people living in it. It is said that it was built all the way to the ground above. Later, it was destroyed by the attacks of the underworld beasts, and was rebuilt several times. In the end, it was completely abandoned. Later, with the underworld
The weather continued to erode, and the outside gradually became uninhabitable, so our ancestors dug up the mountains and now live in caves..."
While Feng Feiyi was explaining, Xu Chen had already controlled the clamshell boat to fly quickly across the valley and to the place where the white light was the brightest. Sure enough, he found a cave more than ten feet high, surrounded by huge stone bricks.
In the shape of the gate, the stone bricks are inlaid with many luminous stones, and there are a lot of red patterns on them, which look like some kind of runes.
Just when Xu Chen stopped to observe the cave, suddenly several powerful spiritual auras came one after another and hit the clam shell boat hard. At the same time, several figures emitting red light rushed out from the cave. In the blink of an eye, several figures wearing
A tall man in tight-fitting armor with a pair of red light wings hanging behind his back appeared in front of Xu Chen. He was holding a huge flying fork in his hand and looked very nervous.
As the clam shell opened, when Xu Chen and Feng Feiyi stood up from inside, several men became even more nervous and excited. They flew up and surrounded the clam shell, and looked at Feng Feiyi's gibbering with vigilance.
, seemed full of doubts and rebuke.
Xu Chen didn't speak, just stood in the clam shell with his hands behind his hands.
Feng Feiyi opened his wings of light and flew out. After communicating with several men, the men calmed down slightly. Several powerful divine auras fell on Xu Chen. After another round of observation,
One of the most powerful-looking guys jumped onto the clamshell boat, pointed a giant fork at Xu Chen, looked down at him, and roared like a threat.
Looking at this guy who was almost half taller than himself, Xu Chen's vitality slightly released to protect his body, and the same powerful spiritual consciousness blocked the man's unbridled soul pressure.
Xu Chen's resistance seemed to anger the man. The red patterns on his tight leather jacket began to flash, and groups of red halos began to flow. His thick arms suddenly exerted force, and the giant fork thrust forward half a foot, almost
It was about to stab Xu Chen in the body.
Feng Feiyi angrily came up and pushed the man away, and there was another burst of yelling. Finally, the man put away the giant fork and backed away, but still stared at Xu Chen with a vigilant face, obviously not interested in Xu Chen's weird costume and origin.
Unknown humans are very nervous.
Feng Feiyi looked at Xu Chen's voice apologetically and said, "Sorry, this guy's name is Feng Zhao. He doesn't mean any harm. It's just because your appearance and breath are so weird. He's worried about danger because there are many more in the cave."
Very weak children and the elderly.”
Xu Chen smiled and waved his hands: "I understand, don't worry, I have absolutely no ill intentions and will not threaten anyone. Just take me to see the clan leader and elders. As long as I find a way back, I will leave here soon."
.”
Feng Feiyi nodded and explained to Feng Zhao and the others for a while. Finally, Feng Zhao gave way with an ugly expression. Xu Chen walked out of the clamshell boat in one step, took a few steps in the air, and landed on the stone floor in front of the cave.