Chapter 289: Choking, you won’t know until you read it...
It was night, the moon was hazy, and the earth was slightly cool.
The rocky terracotta river bank and the boundless black river surface can be seen in the distance. The details in the distance are shrouded in a thin poisonous mist due to the black gas that continues to evaporate and gather upwards.
There are no shoals in the boundary river, and the water surface directly looks like an abyss away from the shore. Although there is sparse poisonous fog within a dozen feet, the river is dead, silent, motionless, and lifeless. It seems as if it has been cursed by a mysterious force.
In the dim night, the firelight of the military camp far behind reached the sky and dyed the small patch of sky red, which was quite eye-catching. It formed a sharp contrast with the dark foggy sky ahead.
At a certain moment, two figures, a man and a woman, came quietly and gently landed on a big rock near the shore.
"It's right here. It's far enough, and there are no hidden whistles."
He Gu smiled, squatted down and put one hand into the water.
Along with the biting coldness and feeling the strange soul-absorbing power from the river, he immediately had an idea in his mind.
Feeling confident, he stood up and made arrangements: "Sister Yun Ying will stay here. I will try to see if I can practice in the shallow area first. If it is feasible, I will go deeper to see if it is dangerous."
Yun Ying naturally had no need to object to the young master's thoughtful and prudent arrangement and nodded.
Seeing this, he didn't even care. He immediately mobilized his spiritual power to protect his body and stepped forward, slowly submerging his body into the water.
After a while, they were all submerged in the water, leaving only the vaguely distinguishable underwater figures from the shore.
Yun Ying immediately became more energetic and carefully observed the underwater situation, not missing every tiny change in light and shadow.
Except for the poisonous mist that accumulates and shrouds the water surface in the middle of the river all the year round, the Abyss Boundary River is dangerous. The underwater part is its most terrifying place. All water bodies have a strange effect of absorbing all the energy that comes into contact with them. Ordinary methods cannot do it at all.
avoid.
If she were to go into the water alone, even she could only last about a quarter of an hour, and that was on the premise that the depth of the dive was not too deep.
As the depth goes deeper, the strange and predatory power will gradually strengthen, until it reaches a terrifying point where even the Nine Realm experts cannot stay for a moment longer.
Only the quasi-fairyland master who built the prototype of the domain can not be affected by this river body!
She also saw that the young master said that the body-training technique was special and was enough to deal with the soul-absorbing power within one foot, so she did not insist on blocking it.
Seeing that the young master quickly stopped sinking as planned, and finally stayed very close to the water, Yun Ying breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn't dare to be careless, and continued to keep a close watch, always ready to rescue immediately if the situation went wrong.
On the other side, feeling the slow loss of body-protecting spiritual energy, He Gu quickly activated one of the fire spirit seals in his body while pretending to meditate.
By using the power of the spiritual seal to briefly borrow the fire-attributed spiritual energy from the surrounding world, he continuously replenishes it into the circular body-protecting spiritual energy. This back and forth quickly perfectly offsets the energy loss.
The two have reached a balance.
The fire-attribute spiritual energy plundered into his body by the Fire Spirit Seal also dissipated the biting coldness in the river from his body, making him feel quite comfortable.
Seeing that the effect was so good, I felt refreshed.
I pretended to try to practice for a long time, and then I sent a message to Yun Ying: "Sister Yun Ying, this method is indeed feasible. Now the river water has little impact on me, it is very safe!"
He pretended to be relaxed, waved his hand upward, and then said: "However, the effect of the water depth of half a foot is not enough. Now I will go directly to the depth of one foot and practice there. I will call you if something happens."
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This distance of one foot was deliberately made by He Gu. It was just enough to ensure that the people above him could vaguely see his figure. He was close to the water and could use his spiritual consciousness to conduct vague detection.
On the one hand, it maximizes the concealment effect as much as possible, and on the other hand, it also allows the people above to feel at ease as much as possible, so as not to worry about going into the water to have a closer look.
Looking at the meditating figure under the water that continued to sink slowly and finally stopped and became more blurry, Yun Ying released his spiritual consciousness and repeatedly confirmed his surroundings a dozen times.
Keeping her consciousness constant, her tone was concerned, and she just sent a message and replied: "Young master, you must be careful."
"I will!" After He Gu said that, his body stopped moving, and his back seemed to be gradually immersed in serious cultivation.
Unseen above, he quietly took out the escaping beads from his storage bag and placed them on his meditating hand. He communicated with his thoughts: "God, it's your turn."
"It's coming, it's coming..." The demon rat in the Shishi Pearl responded lazily.
After saying this, it restrained its breath and appeared secretly, standing on two feet, standing on He Gu's hands folded across his belly with an awesome look.
His small figure was completely blocked by He Gu's lowered head.
"Water Lotus Statue Formation!"
Standing next to He Gu's palm, leaving enough space in the middle, his two small black claws made a mysterious hook towards the surrounding water. Suddenly, a black and green water lotus appeared from the palm of He Gu's palm, slowly unfolding its lifelike petals.
Waves of cultivation fluctuations, ranging from weak to obvious, spread out around the water lotus, naturally covering up most of his aura, creating a realistic cultivation illusion that was difficult to distinguish.
"How to escape the golden cicada's shell..."
As the demon rat muttered to himself again in his ears, He Gu immediately noticed that a layer of transparent film-like things like cicada wings gradually appeared on his body, giving him the illusion that he was being recreated.
If it wasn't covering his body, he wouldn't be sure of its existence.
The next moment, as the demon rat said "Take off!", his vision blurred for a familiar moment.
When he looked around clearly again, he was already somewhere else, and everything was completely plunged into darkness.
Subconsciously, he raised his head and looked up. It was not until he saw the faint ripples caused by the fluctuations of cultivation not far away that he realized that he had sunk more than ten feet into the water and was far away from his previous position.
"Don't worry, as long as your 'little weakling' doesn't come down to check it out in person, you won't find that the body left there is just a skin with an empty interior and only exudes a specious aura. Besides, God, I personally arranged it
The phantom of practice below, unless it comes to a critical moment, she will not rashly come down to disturb 'your' practice when she sees it."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Seeing He Gu's face showing surprise, the demon rat standing in its usual position on He Gu's right shoulder was a little carried away.
My... little weakness...
Lies will never hurt, the truth is the real weapon.
He Gu suddenly had the urge to sew its little pointed mouth tightly so that it would never be able to talk as randomly as it did now for the rest of its life.
Afraid that what he said would make the demon rat say some "unnatural words" again, he resisted the thought of replying.
He decisively changed the subject and asked: "Where should we go now?"
When asked about serious matters, the demon rat immediately stopped joking, released his consciousness, and began to ponder seriously.
After a moment, he said: "Well... First, go as far down as possible to avoid those small demon fish that are not strong enough and can only wander around on the upper level. Then... go to the northwest. There seems to be a Tao that has fallen into a deep sleep and continues to absorb the world.
The fluctuations of spiritual energy are strangely not covered up very much."
He Gu couldn't help but ask: "Is it strong?"
"Choke, you won't know until you see it..." the demon rat's voice became a little softer and he said unsurely.
He Gu: "..."
"Don't look at me like this. Don't you humans have a saying? There is a sky beyond the sky, and there are rats beyond the rats!" Fortunately, the demon rat's rat face is covered with hair, otherwise people can see that its old face is now burning red.
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There is someone outside... He Gu is speechless.
"Forget it, since we don't have a clue, let's go there first, and take a look at all the recorded mineral spots on the way." He Gu took out the jade slips he had intercepted before and examined them carefully.
Although there are no shoals on both sides of the boundary river, the water bottom is still undulating. In comparison, the two sides are much shallower than the middle of the river. Due to the strength of the original owner of the jade slips, the mineral points recorded in the jade slips are only distributed along the river banks.
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And most of them are concentrated on the west side of the boundary river, and only a small area near Heishi Village on the east side has records. It seems that the devil took the opportunity to explore it when he crosses the river every six months to trade.
There are both small marked points and large marked points on the map, and the large marked points are located deeper than the small marked points. He Gu's target is them.
He speculated that those large marked points were mineral points that the original owner of the jade slips could see but could not mine, and the stock should be abundant.
Unless he can't dive that deep, he won't change to those smaller spots.
"That's a bit far. Going there directly might take a whole day to go back and forth, assuming everything goes well." Hearing He Gu say that he still wanted to dig the abyss stone, the demon rat reminded him with a smile.
Need a day?
He Gu was a little dumbfounded for a moment, and quickly reacted.
Wiping his palms, he asked with bright eyes: "God, don't you still have housekeeping skills?"
"No, no, the Five Spirits Holy Altar is hidden here. There might be an old guy from my clan here. It's hard to escape, and it's hard to get out. Absolutely not!" The demon rat didn't even think about it, and shook its little head like a rattle.
He Gu was a little disappointed when he heard this. After all, if the demon rat had the ability to travel, it wouldn't even take a day.
This is the boundary between the two realms, and the corresponding void realm is a turbulent and dangerous zone, which is even more dangerous and not suitable for shortening the distance at all.
He immediately gave up the idea of going to the place with suspicious fluctuations today to check.
When you go into the water for the first time, you don't want to take too many risks, lest you stay too long and cause the cloud shadows on the shore to worry too much.
Furthermore, he hasn't explained everything about the military camp yet, so his sudden disappearance makes people think too much.
He immediately expressed the idea.
After all the fun, the Demon Rat has always been very cautious when it comes to serious matters, and he immediately agreed.
Little Black paws trimmed the beard on both sides of his pointed mouth, and said leisurely: "Don't be in a hurry, you can dig mines in the next few days, and when the time is right, arrange to come out in a day or two.
During this period, I can just continue to observe the subsequent status of that thing, and maybe I can figure out what it is later, so that you won't have to make a futile trip later."
After discussing the matter, without thinking too much, we immediately took action and began to dive at an even speed with no time to prepare.
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On the shore, looking at the vague figure of An Ran who was immersed in cultivation, and the normal fluctuations of cultivation that appeared to be very regular around him, Yun Ying's heart gradually calmed down.
But she didn't dare to relax even a little bit. She just kept standing on the big rock so that she could take action immediately when a crisis occurred without wasting even a moment.
Occasionally, patrolling sentries would pass by, and only then would she move and hide in the darkness behind the rocks for a short while.
During this period, his bright eyes were still firmly fixed on the figure of the young man under the water.