"Don't you two think it's a little strange?" Ning Chen asked.
"What's weird?" Qiao Zhongqiu asked, stroking his beard.
"We didn't find the remains of the murderer, which means they didn't die with the giant wooden door. Then why didn't they clean up the battlefield? These Xuan-level elixirs and magic weapons are of some value, right?"
"Well, that's true." Qiao Zhongqiu nodded while thinking, "But what does this have to do with us? Everyone has searched this place, no matter what happened at that time, it has nothing to do with us, right? Why do we care?"
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Ning Chen was embarrassed. Then he turned to Duanmu Ling and asked, "You just said there is a waterfall behind the valley, so there should be a pool of water under the waterfall?"
"There is a pool of water." Duanmu Ling said without knowing why.
"But I didn't see any stream flowing out of the valley." Ning Chen touched his nose. He had just come in with Qiao Zhongqiu and Fei Ming. He could faintly hear the sound of rumbling water coming from behind the valley, but he didn't see the stream.
At that time, he had some doubts. Judging from his experience of traveling around the earth, this was very unreasonable. "Have you ever explored the bottom of the pool? Has all the water in the pool flowed away from the ground?"
Duanmu Ling said blankly, "No, it's just an ordinary small pool. We didn't pay attention to it, maybe because there is an underground river at the bottom of the pool?"
"Then let's go and have a look." Ning Chen shook his head and said, ignoring the people from Dongming Immortal Sect and Feixue Valley, and took the lead to walk to the back of the valley. Qiao Zhongqiu and Fei Ming also looked at each other and followed.
Anyway, there is nothing to do at this time, so it would be a good idea to go and have a look. If it is just an ordinary small pool, then if there is any discovery, they can also take part in it.
A quarter of an hour later, everyone arrived at the end of the valley. There was a mountain wall tens of feet high in the northeast. A stream no more than ten feet wide flowed down the mountain wall one after another, forming waterfalls one after another, and finally flowed into the valley.
In a small pond inside.
The small pool is only two or three feet in diameter. It is surrounded by rugged blue rocks and surrounded by pines and cypresses. The water in the pool is sparkling due to the shock waves of the waterfall. Although it seems clear, you can't see the bottom. The surrounding area is peaceful and quiet, with only the sound of the waterfall lapping continuously.
"Hey, it's so deep. I can't even reach the bottom with my spiritual consciousness." As soon as he arrived at the edge of the pond, Qiao Zhongqiu released his spiritual consciousness and looked down. Generally, the spiritual consciousness of a monk in the early stage of Condensation Yuan can be released at most twenty or thirty feet.
, although the density of the water in the pool is relatively high, it also means that the water in the pool is at least nearly twenty feet deep.
"The deeper the pool goes, the more peculiar it smells." Fei Ming said with a focused look, "There seems to be something at the bottom of the pool."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qiao Zhongqiu's eyes lit up, he turned around and smiled at Ning Chen, "It seems that Messenger Ning is still careful, otherwise we would have almost missed the most precious treasure."
Ning Chen smiled and said, "Elder Qiao is so polite, which means everyone is lucky."
"That's right, you're lucky, hahaha." Qiao Zhongqiu stretched out his hand to stroke his beard and said with a smile.
Looking at the unnatural expressions on the faces of Duan Muling, Tan Song and others, Ning Chen shook his head and knew what they were thinking. It was just that since the people from Dongming Immortal Sect and Feixue Valley didn't notice anything strange, why not wait until they left?
Turn around here, so that the treasure at the bottom of the pool belongs exclusively to the Qingyun Sect.
But Ning Chen didn't think so. Firstly, he was in the front hall before, and he didn't know if there was really a problem with the deep pool. Secondly, if there was really a problem, he would have to drag Qiao Zhongqiu and Fei Ming with him.
He has no sense of belonging to the Qingyun Sect, and all treasures are foreign objects, so for him, safety comes first in everything. It is obviously in line with his safety principles to have two masters from the Condensation Stage as backers.
"How about we send one person from each party to go down and have a look?" Qiao Zhongqiu suggested.
"No, this pool is extremely deep. If the disciples are in danger when they go down, we will definitely not be able to rescue them." Fei Ming shook his head and said, "It's better for you, me and Messenger Ning to go down."
Qiao Zhongqiu nodded and said, "Yes, let the three of us go down. I wonder if Ambassador Ning has any other suggestions?"
"No more." Ning Chen said, "The most direct way is to go down and take a look."
Seeing that Ning Chen agreed, Qiao Zhongqiu waved his hand and used the flying sword, Fei Ming used the ice beads, and Ning Chen also used the green rosy beads and released bursts of green clouds to protect the whole body. The three of them looked at each other and entered the water together.
Go down.
The three of them were so fast that they were more than a hundred feet deep within a moment of entering the water. At this time, the pool was still bottomless, but Ning Chen felt that there was an aura of wood in the pool that was getting deeper and deeper as it went deeper.
concentrated.
As the three of them went deeper and deeper, the water pressure became stronger and stronger. Qiao Zhongqiu's sword light and Fei Ming's ice mist became closer and closer. Ning Chen pressed the clouds released by Qingxiuzhu tightly against his side, and felt a lot of pressure.
, if he goes three to five hundred feet deeper, I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on.
Fortunately, when the depth reached almost a thousand feet, Qiao Zhongqiu's spiritual consciousness finally reached the bottom of the pool, and the wood-attribute aura in the pool was extremely strong.
But before a few people were looking for treasures at the bottom of the pond, they heard a gloomy voice echoing through the bottom of the pond, "Who disturbed my Qingxiu!"
Ning Chen's eyes narrowed, and he immediately took out the Luo Tian Umbrella and flew away. However, Qiao Zhongqiu and Fei Ming were much tougher. They stopped and their consciousness swept across the bottom of the pool.
Qiao Zhongqiu chuckled and said, "I wonder which fellow Taoist is doing the Qing Dynasty here. Why don't you come out and talk about it?"
Fei Ming didn't waste any time. He took out a folding fan as white as jade and waved it twice towards a boulder at the bottom of the pool. A sheet of snow mist emerged from the folding fan and rushed towards the boulder.
However, before the snow mist could get closer, the boulder exploded with a "boom", and a blue-gray light greeted the snow mist. As soon as the snow mist got close to the light, it was like ice and snow meeting the sun, and it melted and dissipated instantly.
Fei Ming flicked his five fingers in succession, and hexagonal snowflakes flew out and filled the space in front of him, which could be used to attack or defend. However, the blue-gray light dispersed the snow mist and then retracted, revealing huge rocks that exploded.
A figure was left behind.
The figure was sitting cross-legged at the bottom of the pool in an awkward posture. His face was ferocious and numb. His robes were in tatters, revealing blue-gray skin. He looked dry and stiff. There was a small plant similar to a bonsai growing a foot in front of him.
The tree, because the small tree has obviously taken shape, but it is less than a foot and a half tall. The leaves on the tree are only the size of fingertips, crystal clear, and look like a mini toy.
However, as the boulder exploded and the small tree was revealed, a wood-attribute aura that was so rich that it was almost atomized spread, making the Qi in the bodies of Ning Chen and the three of them more active.
"Zombies!" Ning Chen exclaimed.
"Zombie?" Qiao Zhongqiu and Fei Ming turned to look at Ning Chen, "What is a zombie?"
"Well, I think this person's body is stiff and his complexion is like a corpse, so he calls him that." Ning Chen touched his nose awkwardly, thinking that he was making a joke again. It seems that there is no such name as zombie in Bilanzhou, but in front of him
The figure looks too much like a zombie in Chinese legends.
"I see." Qiao Zhongqiu nodded and said, "That's right to call him that, but this person is not a corpse. He should be practicing some kind of evil technique, which has eliminated all the vitality of the body."
"Yes, there are some exercises that cultivate the power of life and death. If someone accidentally becomes obsessed with it, it is possible for his body to become like this. It seems that this person is like this." Fei Ming continued.