Although he had already sensed the emptiness of spiritual power in his body, Tian Jihong still refused to give up the spiritual fruits that were readily available in front of him. This time, he did not have so much patience to select carefully, but swept all the fruits among the treetops like wind and clouds. Hold them together in my arms. Looking at the spiritual fruits that gradually piled up like a hill in the package, Tianjihong was indeed dazzled by the joy of the harvest again. At this time, he still ignored the center of the lake in the distance, where the original calm had been quietly broken. Now there are ripples spreading towards the shore.
Just as Tianjihong was looking at the almost filled package with satisfaction, a clear frog cry suddenly came from only ten meters away from him, finally bringing him back to reality. At this moment, he immediately realized that he had not noticed anything unusual during the journey just now. Such a clear cry must have been made by a spiritual beast hiding in the dark. At this moment, he is still in an extremely dangerous underground environment. His greedy behavior just now may have violated the bottom line of the guardian here. Now he may be firmly targeted by the other party.
Fortunately, he came back to his senses in time. Although he saw that there were still some fruits in front of him that he had not yet had time to pick, Tianjihong understood that his harvest during this trip had far exceeded his expectations. Now running away to ensure his own safety is the first priority. If you are blinded by greed at this time, the consequences may be disastrous.
At this time, under the glance of the peripheral vision, the lake on the right has changed from the previous calm. The lake surface seemed to boil in an instant, and began to roll with layers of waves. Tianjihong was not willing to wait for the guardian in the lake to launch a surprise attack on him. He had already stopped his attack in advance and quickly stood up and retreated, widening the distance between him and the magma lake. Just when his front legs had just withdrawn from the lake shore, a red toad the size of his own head jumped out from the center of the lake.
This frog-like spirit beast lurking in the lava is called a fire toad. Its body shape is no different from the toads in the outside world, except that it is a bit larger, and most of its habitats are in the hot magma underground, and it rarely appears in the outside environment. The fire toad's own strength is not too amazing. At most, it is similar to the fire spine sheep we met before. However, its body fluids and crystal cores are excellent materials for cultivating fire-attribute spiritual power. In addition, the fire toad is haunted by Because the location is at the center of the earth, these materials are quite rare on the market.
In addition to the remoteness of its habitat, the real reason why monks are turned off by this fire toad is that fire toads naturally like to live in groups. Unlike yesterday's rabbit and mouse, the fire toad does not need to recruit the group together to survive after a higher-level king appears. Fire toads are born with a strong attraction to the same kind. Regardless of whether they are old, weak, sick or young, as long as the fire toads are recognized as being of the same race, they will involuntarily join a larger group driven by their nature. They are basically There will be no such thing as acting alone.
Therefore, for the team of monks hunting fire toads, they will definitely face a unified attack from the entire fire toad group. Although the latter is not much stronger than the Rabbit and Rat in terms of strength, in terms of aggressiveness, the Fire Toad is far less gentle than the Rabbit and Rat. The latter is only exposed to bloodthirsty under the control of the Rabbit and Rat King. nature. Fire Toads show no mercy to outsiders who invade their territory. Even after the group reaches a certain number, it often happens that Fire Toads expand their territories and actively provoke other spiritual beasts.
At this time, Tianjihong picked the spiritual fruit guarded by the fire toad, which obviously touched their bottom line. Therefore, after the first fire toad landed, the next thing that appeared in front of Tianjihong was the same scene as yesterday's rabbit and mouse group. Thousands of red toads jumped from the bottom of the magma lake to the edge of the lake shore like a blanket. The lake there seemed to open its bloody mouth in an instant, setting off waves of red waves and swallowing them up towards the location of the elixir.
Fortunately, with the experience of yesterday's rat tide, today's Tianjihong is somewhat accustomed to the scene in front of him. Although today he also provoked these fire toads because of greed, he did not stay at the lake for too long after learning his lesson and being careful. Having already successfully escaped, he was not as passive as yesterday. He waited until he was surrounded by a wave of rats before he noticed it. Now that the fire toads behind him have not yet assembled, it should not be a problem for him to speed up and escape from the platform at his feet.
As a result, Tianjihong, with the wind at his feet, fled towards the passage from which he came. Although the noise coming from the direction of the magma lake was getting louder and louder at this time, and there were a few fire toads chasing him down behind him, Tianjihong was still confident that he could escape before the opponent could stop him.
Sure enough, when the swarms of fire toads caught up, Tianjihong had already climbed to the stone wall outside the platform in advance. After traveling upward for less than two meters, the fire toads behind him completely surrounded the platform where he settled. However, it is obvious that this fire toad does not have the ability to move on the rock wall like the Dong Yun Wolf, so at this time, the fire toads everywhere can only stay below, watching the Tianjihong going away and making angry noises.
Just when Tianjihong was happy that the mission of this trip was successfully completed, a strange sound suddenly came from the depths of the ground beneath his feet. This sudden squirming sound was incompatible with the noise of the toads behind him. Tianjihong was very sure that it was definitely not his own ears. Misheard. Sure enough, as the dull sound dissipated, a thick stream of steam gushes out from the soles of his feet.
The impact of this steam was unprecedented. Tianjihong had experienced the same type of heat wave outside the cave before, but it was nothing compared to this huge column of air. The nearly boiling fire spiritual energy mixed with it actually ignited the clothes on Tianjihong's body in an instant, and even partially broke through the spiritual barrier around Tianjihong's body, directly causing Tianjihong's body surface to seep out. Bloodstains. This scene frightened Tianjihong so much that he quickly held his breath and concentrated. After silently activating the body-nurturing technique to expel all the violent spiritual energy that had invaded his body, his body gradually returned to normal.
But what he didn't expect was that this was just the beginning of subsequent changes. As the boiling steam gradually roared toward the hole above his head, Tianjihong, who had not yet had time to feel lucky that he had escaped death, suddenly felt as if his head had been hit by a heavy hammer. The sudden dizziness almost prevented him from letting go of his hands, which were clinging to the rock wall, and falling into the abyss. Fortunately, he firmly protected the remaining trace of clarity in his mind, and relied on his strong will not to let go of his grip at this moment. Shibi's hand saved him from being shattered into pieces.
After shaking his head vigorously, Tianjihong finally woke up and realized that the heavy hammer just now was definitely not a collision from an external force, but the fluctuation of soul power released by an unknown existence underground, which affected his sanity. . The most obvious evidence is that at this moment, the fire toad under his feet, which was still unharmed in the boiling steam, immediately collapsed to the ground like a dumpling under the heavy blow of the soul consciousness.
Thousands of fire toads that had just stayed on the edge of the cliff slid down the slope to the depths of the valley in a state of fainting. The rest of the fire toads who were lucky enough to escape were covered in this attack that covered the entire cave. Under the soul power offensive, everyone also became confused and began to flee towards the deep lake as if fleeing for their lives, as if they were aware of the terrible changes that were about to happen next.
Before Tianjihong could react, another air column that surpassed the previous strength surged up from the darkness of the abyss. At this time, Tian Jihong, who was suppressing the redness all over his body, could no longer resist the steam. With quick eyes and quick hands, when he saw a gap in the stone wall not far away, he quickly jumped towards the gap in the stone wall. . The moment he turned around and hid in the crevice of the stone, the air wave behind him like a roaring beast almost knocked him to the ground. After exerting all his strength to resist the spreading high temperature, he did not appear again. Burn condition.
But at this moment, Tian Jihong finally recalled why he felt something was wrong with the air waves in the cave outside the cave. At this time, a terrible guess emerged from his mind. He realized that the steam whistling intermittently might not be caused by the fire or lava in the center of the earth at all. Now it seems very possible. It’s the breath expelled by some creature underground when it breathes!
Thinking of this, even Tian Jihong, who had an extraordinary mind, felt a chill spread from the depths of his bones. If his conjecture comes true, then the existence lurking in the darkness underground may not be at a level that a young monk like himself can touch. Once it is born, it may be the kind of world-destroying existence that the master said.
Tianjihong no longer dared to think about it anymore. After the second burst of steam passed by, he was about to get up and flee out of the cave immediately, but found that it was too late. Whether it was because he had rashly entered the underground world as an outsider, or because of the commotion caused by the swarms of fire toads in the lake, in short, the existence under the abyss was completely alarmed at this moment.
Before Tianjihong climbed out of the crack and took two steps upward, an unprecedented sense of crisis suddenly arose in his heart. A moment later, the unparalleled and powerful pressure from below shocked Tianjihong until his knees went weak, and he inadvertently stepped on the stone wall with his soles. If he hadn't relied on his extraordinary arm strength to barely support his body in mid-air, he might have died in the abyss with his feet off the ground.
