At this moment, a circle of waves suddenly appeared around the ruler, and suddenly a sharp claw stretched out from one of the waves. It probably didn't find anything to grab it, and it scratched in again. In waves.
This was like an omen, and soon after, some shadows appeared in other waves, some were ghost claws, some were sharp claws of monsters, and some even had no form and only felt the murderous intent on them.
Everyone looked at each other, and their speculation just now was indeed reasonable.
On the other side of this suppressed place, there are still many Nine Nether ghosts trying to get out.
Zhao Ning gave a slight signal, and two sword cultivators, Li Jing and Xiang Hongxuan, were standing beside the underworld guards, wielding swords and ready to face the enemy at any time.
Everyone did not stop watching, and waited with extreme vigilance.
As the underworld guardian drove the soul canoe deeper and closer to the ruler of heaven and earth, ten feet...five feet...three feet...until it reached the position of one foot, the soul canoe suddenly touched some barrier and was frozen for a moment. For a moment, and then it was as deep as walking on flat ground.
It's just that what goes deep is not the direction of the heaven and earth visible to the naked eye, but... a dark place.
It's like a night covering the whole world is slowly being unveiled in front of you. What you see at first is not light, but a deeper darkness. What you feel is not the silence of the new world, but a murderous intention everywhere. .
As soon as they reached half of the boat, Ming Wei, Xiang Hongxuan, and Li Jing from the first half had already entered it, and sword light flashed in an instant.
The brilliance penetrates the space through the extremely dark night, which is extremely dazzling, but at the same time, it is also extremely alert.
Sure enough, as the entire soul canoe entered the new world, in an instant, the soul canoe shook extremely.
But around them, several huge creatures were seen leaning over to peer at them.
At this moment, a deformed demonic beast stretched out its hand toward them.
First, two rays of spiritual light pierced into it without hesitation, and then everyone else on the boat cast spells. Under several rays of magic light, the deformed big hand retracted in pain.
When everyone had a chance to relax a little, they were shocked to see the situation around them.
They are not in the river, they are still on the black water. To put it simply, the black water here spurts out like a fountain, and then converges into a flat surface in the sky. Their soul wooden boat is currently sailing in the center of this flat surface. .
Around the plane, countless shadows that are neither soul nor spirit are struggling on it, constantly extending their palms to the outside, as if begging others to help them pull them out, or as if they are deliberately going crazy to pull them all out. Grab everything you touch.
The rocking of the soul boat was precisely because these palms clung to the outside of the soul boat.
In addition to the shadows that were neither souls nor spirits on the high-altitude plane of the black water, there were also several huge creatures higher than the black water level that were staring at them eagerly. In the bleak Jiuyou environment, the appearance of these things seemed to be blurred. Wrapped in layers of rich black air.
Zhao Ning understood that the black energy was the so-called Nine Netherworld's energy.
With the combined blow of everyone when they first entered, it was like killing a chicken to scare the monkeys. These big guys did not dare to act against them immediately.
As a result, everyone paid more attention to the shadows that were neither soul nor spirit around.
Zhan Xuexuan said, "Don't be fooled by them. They seem to be fine in the black water, but for us, this black water is a fatal place. Leaving the soul canoe together, our souls will sink directly into the black water, let alone teach us a lesson." These things are gone, so let’s die by ourselves first.”
Feng Qingjue was the best at controlling the wind. A magic spell flashed past, and a strong wind suddenly rose up, sweeping around the soul canoe. The shadow palms that pulled at the soul canoe were forcibly cut off, but it seemed as if they were only in the black water. , these shadow palms are constantly sticking out from the black water.
If this continues, before they have completely entered the Jiuyou area, the soul boat is caught and sunk by the claws of these shadows and dragged into the black water.
"You can't do it forcefully." Zhao Ning said, "It takes too much, and the big guys snooping around will not just be on guard and observe."
Everyone just knows the situation they are facing at the moment.
Xiang Hongxuan asked, "What can you do?"
"Reinforce the formation of the soul canoe and rush out directly." Zhao Ning suggested, "Only part of the entrance to Jiuyou is the black water area. If we leave this area, we will no longer be restricted by the black water."
The underworld guard immediately said, "I can ensure that the soul canoe does not deviate from the direction, but this reinforcement formation method."
"I can give it a try." Ting Lan suddenly said.
Everyone's eyes were on her. She had kept quiet all this time. Even when they came here from Yangzhou with Zhao Ning and the others, He Jie and Xiang Hongxuan almost ignored her presence.
But not everyone ignored her. Feng Qingjue's eyes fell on Ting Lan from time to time from the beginning.
Hearing this, he smiled and said, "I wonder if the fairy has any clever tricks?"
Tinglan didn't say anything more, but directly picked up the magic weapon. As the light cyan brilliance spread around her, the brilliance seemed to be alive, showing a strange sense of agility, but then something started to appear in it. There was a flash of lightning, and in an instant, a character pattern that gathered mysterious Taoist meaning from ancient times appeared around her body. The next moment, as the seal took shape, it was embedded in the light shield around the soul wooden boat.
Ancient thunder pattern.
Zhao Ning murmured in her heart that she indeed knew the ancient thunder pattern.
It's just that the meaning of these ancient thunder patterns is not clear. As the ancient thunder patterns wrap around the soul wooden boat in a string, wherever it spins, the shadow palms in the black water shrink away.
The others observed for a while, He Jie raised his eyebrows, and Zhan Xuexuan agreed, "You did retreat, hurry up, now."
"Okay." Hades Guard responded immediately.
With a shout, he turned to use the soul wooden boat even faster. In an instant, the soul wooden boat flew forward hundreds of feet.
Seeing that the soul canoe was about to fly to the edge, the big guys around them couldn't hold back anymore. Their huge shadows began to press towards the soul canoe. The entire soul canoe was shrouded in it, and even the speed was unconsciously slowed down. down.
"Uncle Ming, just go forward and don't worry about these big guys." Zhao Ning reminded in a loud voice.
"Yes." Feng Qingjue shouted, "These big guys have us."
As they spoke, the six Nascent Souls on the boat exchanged glances, nodded at the same time, and picked up the Dafa at the same time. Their fingertips were complicated, and weird and mysterious power was gathering in them as they flew around.
Until a certain critical point of power, everyone pushed the seal upward at the same time. At the critical moment, blocking the huge shadow that was recently pressing down was the palm of one of the huge monsters.
Other giant monsters did not sit back and watch the tiger fight, but also wanted to get a share of the action, and followed them to attack them.
For a moment, the seal formed by the combined efforts of the six people retreated three feet downward, and even the soul wooden boat sank a lot.
But even under such pressure, it did not have a substantial impact on the soul canoe's messenger. Seeing that the edge was approaching within a few breaths, the soul canoe was about to take off.
The six people signaled to each other, and they all understood. When they turned the spells in their hands at the same time, they saw that the huge seal resisting high in the sky rotated extremely strangely. The runes on the seal became more and more complicated, and the power condensed in it gradually became earth-shaking. trend.
At the moment when the soul wooden boat rushed out of the edge, the seal, under the combined efforts of the six people, rushed upwards, instantly breaking through the layers of oppressive shadows, and then split into four groups at high altitude, heading towards the four coveting giant monsters. Rush away.
The huge monsters were already huge in size. They were caught off guard by such a sudden attack. Two of them were directly seriously injured. They let out a shrill wail and fell backward with a loud crash, while the other two were directly injured. This person, probably with rough skin and thick flesh, was forced to take a few steps back. In order to prevent the seal from attacking the weak point of his head, he put his arms across the front to resist.
Only then did everyone notice that this huge monster was not some humanoid Nine Netherworld ghost.
Instead, they were four ten-foot-tall black monster monkeys, but their eyes were completely lifeless, red and bloodthirsty, and they were also covered in huge armor, as if they were generals on the battlefield in ancient times.
Everyone did not delve into the origin of these giant monster monkeys. They just sensed their momentum and knew that they were not weaker than the Nascent Soul realm.
They didn't want to waste too much mana on these monster monkeys, so they turned their hand and directed the magic to the soul canoe, further speeding up the speed of the soul canoe.
The soul wooden boat jumped into the air and was nearly several miles away. The distance of several miles was only a blink of an eye. Then, the soul wooden boat fell forward and landed steadily on the Blackwater River.
Although they were still on the Blackwater River, there was no longer the same crisis.
Everyone turned around and saw the inverted black water whirlpool like a fountain in the distance. The four giant demon monkeys nearby were almost all shrouded in black air, and they could no longer see the whole picture clearly.
The four huge monster monkeys and the anti-soul wooden boat also disappeared for a while. They took advantage of this time to move away from the black water whirlpool faster.
The atmosphere among everyone relaxed slightly, and the soul canoe headed towards the source of the Blackwater River.
Xiang Hongxuan said, "Why are there monsters deliberately guarding the entrance to Jiuyou?"
He wondered, "Could it be that I want to use this to get rid of everyone who comes in?"
"Hey, Brother Xiang can't say that." Zhan Xuexuan stopped him, "This search to Jiuyou is an opportunity specially arranged by Venerable Haochu. Since it was arranged by Venerable Haochu, he would not deliberately leave any traces at the entrance. If there is a hidden danger, if we don’t investigate it for a while, and we die because of it, wouldn’t it be a disgrace to Venerable Haochu, and even imply that Venerable Haochu intends to kill us. This is really impossible.”
"If you ask me, it must be that they sensed the fluctuations in Nether City, but couldn't leave Jiuyou directly like the two-headed hellhound, so they stayed here."
Li Jing said, "They are the creatures of the Nether City. Although they are not afraid of the black water, they are still afraid of the energy of the Nine Netherworlds."
He spread his hands and slightly felt the mana in his body. "Every time we consume a little mana, our danger here will increase. Looking at the strength of their mana, I am afraid they are waiting to intercept the creatures that accidentally fall into the netherworld." , devoured their mana, and when they were almost recovered, they quietly returned to Youdu."
Zhao Ning agreed with his statement. As soon as he entered Jiuyou, the description of Jiuyou's Qi in the ancient books became more intuitive and personal. The feeling that eroded the mind all the time, as if he would fall into endless negative emotions as long as his thoughts were distracted. Until it drags down one's mood.
Not to mention, less than half of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth can be sensed here. As long as you adjust your breath and meditate, more of the Nine Netherworld's energy will enter the body.
Xiang Hongxuan just looked in the direction of the time from a distance, and he didn't know if he would be able to resolve his doubts or put aside his doubts temporarily.
Just ask, "Venerable Haochu, can you tell you in detail where is the opportunity to come to this Nine Netherworld?"
"The remnant soul of the ancient god, or the remains of the tomb of the ancient god."
"Are they all mutilated?"
"We don't know this. Maybe it was affected by the Great Destruction. By the time we meet, maybe the question will be answered."
"Here, I always have an indescribable uneasiness in my heart, and there are thin and dense noises in my ears, as if there is something invisible whispering nearby." Zhan Xuexuan did not pick up their topic, and she frowned slightly. Look towards the front of the soul boat.
Someone immediately echoed her statement, "We also heard sounds. I'm afraid there is something ahead."
But what entered their perception first was not the actual sounds, but the scene of the Blackwater River intertwining with another river.
They finally left the Black Water area. The water flows in the two areas could not merge with each other, showing a clear dividing line.
The black water on one side is as dark as ink, but on the other side it is extremely clear. Even in this dim world, you can see at a glance the green water plants on the bottom of the river.
The face of Hunmu Zhoutou appeared actively for the first time. It looked ahead and murmured faintly, "We're here."
Zhao Ning was standing at the front, and she heard the murmur very clearly. She asked, "What are you referring to?"
The original place where Soul Wood was born was Jiuyou. From the illusion in the forest of Ming Yue Mansion, it was vaguely known that Soul Wood might be more familiar to them here than any of them.
It was probably entering a familiar place, and its frightened courage gradually grew stronger. It was not clear whether it was answering Zhao Ning or talking to itself.
"The faint yellow spring water is the long road of life."
Everyone paused and realized what it was referring to.
Huangquan.
There are rumors that the black water is the water of the underworld. Now it seems that the black water is connected to the water of the underworld and comes out from the underworld.
Leaving the black water area and following the boat into the underworld, the invisible pressure from the black water that was attached to the soul gradually disappeared, but the whispering and whining sound like maggots on the tarsal bones became increasingly clear.
Unknowingly, there seemed to be a little light in the surroundings, and we could faintly make out the weeds growing on both sides of the bank. Looking further away, there was no obstruction in the line of sight, and the view was unobstructed, as if everything was flat for hundreds of miles. The areas are all overgrown with weeds. Only this yellow spring water flows through it. It is just a yellow spring, but the weeds on these two banks are unusual.
Sure enough, when we drove out of the junction of the two rivers, we saw that all the weeds had leaves but no flowers, and flowers but no leaves.
On both sides of the Yellow Spring, there are red flowers without leaves, which is the other side.
Endless flowers of the other shore bloomed on both sides, with a blood-like color and the only color in the entire Jiuyou.
"It is rumored that every flower on the other side is pregnant with a new ghost." Ting Lan suddenly sighed.
"Oh, will these ghosts re-enter reincarnation and become creatures of Kyushu after they are born?" Zhan Xuexuan said with great interest.
Ting Lan shook her head, "No, they will live in Jiuyou forever and are the children of Jiuyou."
"I don't know whether there are new ghosts among these other shore flowers. I only know that we have quite a few old souls." Feng Qingjue said quietly, and then pointed forward.
Everyone stood up in unison and looked forward from the boat. They saw the yellow spring water a hundred feet away, slightly illuminated by the aura of the other shore flower lingering on the shore. Countless ghosts were pushing in the water, and each ghost was surrounded by ghosts. The rich black energy of the Nine Netherworld, and the disturbing screams they heard before came from their direction.
They were floating in the underworld water, moving forward strangely against the underworld water.
