Chapter 100, clues to earth veins
At midnight on the second day, Qingshi arrived outside the west gate on time, and saw eight students who had accepted the mission waiting outside the door. Seeing Qingshi coming, the eight people came up to say hello and tell their names.
The eight of them were all first- and second-year students of the Martial Arts Academy, three girls and five boys. When they met Qingshi, they all called them seniors and were very respectful, and Qingshi returned the greeting one by one.
Qingshi waved his hand, and a ten-foot-long spaceship, the Pigeon, appeared out of thin air and floated a few feet above him.
"Get on the boat," Qingshi ordered, and then jumped onto the spaceship with a slight jump. Eight junior brothers and sisters also quickly jumped on the boat, and they all looked around and touched there with excitement.
The journey went smoothly. Near noon on the second day, Qingshi flew the spaceship and landed accurately in the town in the Jiufeng Mountain Canyon.
This town is also being renovated and will be used as dormitories and other non-teaching facilities for the Trial Branch in the future. Of course, work is now suspended and all the workers recruited have left.
Zhong Buqi saw the spaceship approaching and took two young elders with him. They were waiting at the edge of the square in the town early. Qingshi parked the spaceship and brought eight junior brothers and sisters down. Zhong Buqi saw that Qingshi was taking the lead and couldn't help but express his expression. strange.
However, Qingshi gave him enough face, took the lead to salute and say hello, explained his intention, and then took out Mo Sihai's approval slip and asked to enter the crypt. Zhong Buqi arranged the eight students' respective guard work and duty hours.
As for Qingshi, Zhong Buqi did not arrange specific work and allowed him to enter the cave to do his own thing, although he did not understand what Qingshi was going to do.
The access control of the Shimen Array was still there, and the formation order was in Zhong Buqi's hand. Qingshi asked him to get it, opened the Shimen Array and entered the crypt.
There was no one in the crypt. Except for the main tower, all the trial towers had been demolished. Some buildings had been built on the original site, and it was unclear what they were used for.
Qingshi entered the main tower and found that all the trial puppets had been dismantled, and the earth vein control hub had not been moved. This was exactly what Qingshi wanted, so Qingshi used the power of the earth veins every day to diligently practice the Great Huang Gong. Law.
A week passed in a flash. Qingshi mainly practiced exercises every day, and also practiced various other martial arts diligently. The power of the earth's veins has a very good effect on improving Qingshi's Qi. Qingshi can feel the progress of his Qi cultivation, but it is a very big leap to go from the Qi Condensation Realm to the Yuan Dan Realm. It requires an opportunity. Forcing it No, so Qingshi is not in a hurry and keeps a normal mind.
Every day, Qingshi would come out of the crypt to get some air, walk around the valley, look at the snow scenery, and sometimes chat casually with Zhong Buqi or a few junior brothers and sisters.
On this day, Qingshi finished his practice and walked out of the main trial tower. He suddenly wanted to see the beast-suppressing tower, so he walked in the direction of the beast-suppressing tower. Like the main trial tower, the beast-suppressing tower had not been demolished. The top of the tower The lighting weapon still shines brightly.
Qingshi walked over and used the array command to open the door at the bottom of the tower and enter the tower. From the outside, the beast-suppressing tower looked like it had seven floors. After entering, he discovered that there was actually only one underground floor and one above ground floor.
Underground is a huge underground palace, which is twice as big as the largest trial underground palace in the main trial tower. This is the place where the hell bat demon has been imprisoned for thousands of years.
Within the above-ground tower, there is only one floor two feet above the ground. You can walk up the spiral stone staircase inside the tower. The attic area of this floor is not large, only two or three square feet at most. The attic is empty. Nothing.
Qingshi walked up, looked at it briefly and was about to leave, but suddenly found some words and patterns on the walls of the attic. Qingshi became curious and couldn't help but stay and take a closer look.
The four walls of the attic are made of large stones without any decoration. The words and pictures are randomly carved on these stones.
Qingshi looked carefully and saw that the words and pictures were very sloppy, but the content was very clear. They were basically design sketches of the defensive arrays and buildings in the crypt and the entire valley.
Qingshi secretly guessed that this was probably left by Jie Yang at that time. Qingshi quickly saw the last picture and saw that it was a larger stone with some mountain peaks carved on it. Although it was not very accurate, it was You can tell by looking at the nine peaks of Jiufeng Mountain.
Under the outermost peak, an irregular circle is carved, which should represent the crypt, and a wavy line should represent the earth's veins. However, Qingshi discovered that there is another mountain peak, which is under the main peak. There is also a wavy line and a circle drawn on it, with the word 'main' written next to it.
Qingshi was stunned for a moment, then looked back at the wavy line that represented the earth vein in the cave where he was now. Sure enough, the word "branch" was written next to this line. Qingshi couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Qingshi knew that if his guess was correct, it meant that the earth vein in the cave where he was currently was just a branch of the Jiufeng Mountain earth vein, and there should be a main vein under the main peak.
If this is true, then this branch alone is even stronger than the earth vein of Tianlong Academy. Qingshi simply cannot imagine how powerful the spiritual power of the main vein will be. After all, the ground line in Chaoge Tianlong Academy is already at the top level in the entire continent.
Qingshi came back to his senses and carefully checked the entire floor space again, but found nothing related to this picture. After thinking about it, Qingshi raised his hand and erased the picture.
Early the next morning, Qingshi came out of the cave. It was still dark and there was no one around. Zhong Buqi and others lived in a town a few miles away, and they probably hadn't gotten up yet.
Qingshi waved his hand and released the Pigeon, quietly flying towards the main peak of Jiufeng Mountain in the west. The Jiufeng Mountain Range spans thousands of miles, with a maximum altitude of more than 2,000 feet. It is located in the north, so it is covered with white snow all year round.
After Qingshi flew the spaceship rapidly for an hour, the first ray of sunlight of the day shone on the main peak of Jiufeng Mountain. The main peak covered with ice and snow was dyed golden red by the rising sun, like a blood-red dagger piercing the blue sky.
Qingshi made a visual inspection and found that he was still dozens of miles away from the main peak, so he slowed down. As the spacecraft slowly approaches the main peak, the majestic mountain gradually becomes huge.
The maximum flight height of Qingshi's spaceship did not exceed 1,800 feet, and it could only rise to the mountainside of the main peak. Qingshi drove the Pigeon close to the mountain and flew around the main peak, carefully observing the situation of the mountain while flying.
Two-thirds of the main peak is covered with ice and snow, and the remaining one-third is made up of huge bare rocks, as well as steep slopes made of large amounts of gravel, without any vegetation or grass.
Qingshi kept the flying altitude roughly level with the snow line and flew around the mountain for a full hour and a half. Qingshi didn't find anything special.
It is naturally difficult to find a cave or gap that can enter the mountain on such a large mountain, especially since the cave or gap may be covered with ice and snow.
However, Qingshi is not impatient. Since Jieyang was able to discover this earth vein back then, there must be clues.
As time went by, the spacecraft slowly turned from the east side of the mountain to the north side. Almost all of this side was covered by thick ice and snow, and no possible passage could be seen.
Qingshi controlled the speed of the spacecraft, flying slowly while observing carefully. More than an hour later, the spacecraft flew out of the huge shadow cast by the mountain and was bathed in the warm sunshine. It was almost noon, and the spacecraft had arrived at the southwest of the mountain.
There is less ice and snow in the southwest, and the snow line is higher. Soon, the spacecraft flew into a huge mountain col, and saw an ice waterfall as high as a hundred feet hanging on a cliff in the mountain col. There seemed to be a larger space behind the ice waterfall under the cliff.
In fact, after several hours of aerial search, Qingshi saw countless ice waterfalls, but none were as big as this one. Qingshi had a feeling: If there is a passage to the underground, then the one behind this ice waterfall is undoubtedly the most likely one. Every place.
This feeling is very strange, as if there is something like telepathy, guiding him in the direction.
Qingshi piloted the spacecraft to slowly land next to the ice waterfall. When it was still a few feet above the ground, Qingshi jumped out of the spacecraft and landed on a relatively flat piece of ice next to the ice waterfall. At the same time, he collected the spacecraft.
There is indeed a small cave, or an ice cave, behind the icefall. Qingshi carefully walked around the clusters of icicles and slowly walked into the cave, which was not too big.
This cave is nearly two feet high and about ten feet wide. It is like a huge mouth opened by the mountain. When you walk into the cave, the ground is covered with large pieces of collapsed rocks. Both the ground and the walls are covered with a thick layer of The thick ice and bluestone would make it difficult for anyone not to be a monk with excellent body and martial arts skills.
Walking along the cave, Qingshi found that the cave was getting smaller and smaller, and the light quickly became dim. Qingshi took out a lighting instrument and suspended it in front of him, letting it move with his thoughts.
This is what Qingshi bought from the Chaoge Chamber of Commerce after seeing Shen Feiyun use this kind of lighting weapon last time. It is worth a lot of money.
While walking and observing carefully, Qingshi discovered that this cave was undoubtedly naturally formed. To be precise, it was a crack in the mountain. As Qingshi went deeper, the crack became smaller and smaller.
Soon, three forks appeared in front of Qingshi. Looking at the dark forks, Qingshi couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. In this dark and narrow underground, a person will naturally feel timid when facing an unknown fork in a cave. Even Qingshi is timid. Even if you are careful, you can't help but have the slightest idea of turning back.
Just when Qingshi was thinking about which path he should choose, or whether he should turn back, he seemed to feel a trace of earth energy. This spiritual energy is very weak, but it is undoubtedly the spiritual energy of the earth's veins.
If it weren't for Qingshi's ability to absorb the earth's aura for his own use and therefore be particularly sensitive to the earth's aura, he would never have been able to feel it.
Qingshi carefully identified it and found that the earth vein aura came from the passage on the left side in front. He immediately took a deep breath and stepped in.
The passage is very narrow, and in some places you even need to walk sideways, and the terrain is constantly decreasing. The lower you go, the higher the temperature becomes, and gradually there is no ice around.
After walking like this for more than an hour, there were several forks in the road ahead. The bluestones followed the aura of the earth's veins. The passage continued diagonally downward, and we didn't know when it would end.
After walking for nearly two hours, Qingshi couldn't help but want to give up several times, but there seemed to be a voice in the dark that kept telling him to keep going, so he gritted his teeth and continued to move forward.
Slowly, Qingshi finally felt that the passage no longer sloped downwards steeply, but became gentle, and the stone walls on both sides became less narrow and seemed more spacious.
After walking for another half an hour, the stone wall in front suddenly disappeared. The light from the lighting device dimmed and flew out of the passage. The bluestone finally walked out of the gap in the mountain and entered a huge underground space.
