Time returned to the afternoon, after Li Jian and Yun Xi had discussed.
Because the five people were heading all the way to Duansongya, they unexpectedly encountered Yunxi chasing Shangjie on the way, so they were delayed. After those people left, the five people took a short rest and continued towards Duansongya. go.
It is impossible to verify why the place Duansongya has this name. The name marked on the map and many monks in the sect also call it this place. After arriving here, Qian Chao thought that the terrain here was extremely high and the sky was so high. Thunder often fell and shattered the pine trees below. When we got here, we realized that was not the case at all. There was no big difference between this place and other mountains, except that the trees were taller and there were many birds. The child builds a nest in the tree.
It was Tang Ping's suggestion to come here. She was attracted by the monster that Chen Xian said she had never seen before. She wanted to find the strange and ferocious monster here, and then take it back and let her master help her. Recognize it.
As a result, the five people wandered around Broken Pine Cliff for a long time, but they didn't find any monsters.
Tang Ping kept looking at Li Jian's expression. Among the five, only Li Jian had the strongest sense. With him here, as long as there was a monster here, he would definitely be able to find it. As a result, after flying around for a few times, Li Jian kept shaking his head. , Tang Ping was disappointed.
It seems that the monster either ran away or was caught. This time it was a success.
Moreover, Chen Xian brought people here before, and Xie You also came here. Those people must have searched carefully here. Within the entire Broken Pine Cliff, even when the five people searched back and forth, there was no spiritual grass left.
Finally, Tang Ping sighed and said:
"It seems like we came here in vain. There is nothing. Qian boy, look at your map. Is there anywhere else we can go to near here?"
After hearing this, Qian Chao took out his map and read it. Finally, he pointed on it and said:
"Here, there is a place called Hongxia Valley. It's not far away. We can go and have a look."
…
This Hongxia Valley seems to have once been an underground river, probably the kind of underground river that flows close to the ground, flowing underground between two mountain ranges. But for some unknown reason, the water in the underground river was cut off, and the top collapsed again. It was a little bigger, so it was revealed on the ground. Of course, this should have happened a long time ago. When the five people arrived here, they found that the vegetation in the valley was lush. From the air, this canyon between the mountains was not eye-catching. It was a thin, It just meanders along the mountains on both sides, but when we actually fall into the valley, we realize that the valley is really quite big.
"Was this an underground river before?"
Tang Ping said, looking up at the thin strip of sky above her head, and then kicked an exposed stone with her toes. Not only this one, the stones visible to the eyes were all round, and the valley walls on both sides The protruding stones on the top are all rounded and have obviously been washed away by water for many years.
Qian Chao looked at the situation around him and said, "Probably."
"What good things could be here?"
"I read about this place in a book, saying that after night falls here, there will be red clouds shining in the valley. However, the person who left these words seems to have never been here, but only saw it from a distance, so he also I don’t know what’s in here.”
"The red clouds are shining, so strange!"
"They're all here, let's look for them."
In a strange place, the five of them followed the usual routine, with Li Jian leading the way and Lu Pingchuan behind.
The five people walked forward along the valley for less than a hundred feet. There were many weeds and connected shrubs, but no spiritual grass was seen. However, Tang Ping began to act suspicious.
"Don't move," Tang Ping said, "Stop first."
"What's wrong?" Yanxuan asked. Generally speaking, Brother Li should be the first to notice the danger, not Tang Ping. I don't know what this girl found wrong.
Tang Ping sniffed and looked carefully before saying:
"I seem to smell something good. Maybe there really is something ahead."
After hearing what Tang Ping said, Li Jian looked forward and said:
"It's quite quiet here. I didn't notice anything wrong in the front."
Moving forward, the five people came to what may be the most spacious place in the valley. It seemed to be the place where two underground rivers converged. From here, the valley divided into two branches and extended out, and the mountains on both sides also broke off here. A big opening was opened, and this part of the valley was like a big three-way intersection, and the good things Tang Ping mentioned were right here.
When several people came over, they did gradually smell a sweet smell. At the same time, they could also feel that the valley seemed to be slowly becoming cooler. When they arrived at the place where the valley bifurcated, they discovered that Right in the middle of this three-way intersection, there is a large pool. The water in the pool reflects the evening sky above the valley, and there is a tree growing between the valley wall and the pool.
This tree is as thick as a bowl, with a common gray-brown trunk, mottled and cracked, but the twigs above the crown show a bit of cherry red. The younger the branches, the more obvious the cherry red color, but the leaves are ordinary. It is emerald green, but it is precisely because of the cover-up of the color of these branches that people cannot easily discover the clusters and clusters of red berries hidden in the canopy.
Tang Ping got closer to the tree, raised her head to take a closer look, and then floated her body up again, almost burying her head into the crown of the tree. The more she looked, she didn't know whether her face was reflected by the branches and berries or not. Because he was excited, he looked unusually rosy, and there was already a surprise on his face.
She went to look at the things on the tree, and Yanxuan was beside her. However, the things on the tree must not be used as medicine. This Yanxuan was sure.
Qian Chao, Li Jian and Lu Pingchuan were at the edge of the pool looking inside.
When viewed from a distance, the pool reflects the skylight and is extremely clear. However, standing on the edge, one feels that the pool is overflowing with cold air. Moreover, the pool must be extremely deep. The skylight cannot reach the bottom of the pool, and the closer it gets to the bottom. It gets darker and darker as it goes down, and in the end you can only see the darkness in the pool, like a bottomless well.
Lu Pingchuan reached out and took a handful from the water and said:
"This water is so cold! It's so cold that it even freezes my hands!"
After hearing this, Qian Chao stretched out a finger to test the water, and it turned out to be extremely cold. Then he looked at Li Jian.
Li Jian said: "I can't feel any danger here. Well, this pool is also very deep. My senses can't sense that deep, but there is nothing where I can sense it."
"Is it that deep? And it shouldn't be stagnant water."
Just as he was talking, Tang Ping fell down and whispered:
"nice one!"
"What good stuff?" Lu Pingchuan asked loudly.
Tang Ping pointed to the tree with her hand and said:
"You can make good wine when you go back."
Lu Pingchuan immediately became happy when he heard the word "wine". He looked up at the tree. After looking for a while, he recognized the small fruits inside and asked:
"Since they are good for making wine, why don't you pick them off, Sister Tang?"
Tang Ping ran to the pool and stretched out her hand to test the water. Then she was shrunk back by the icy water. She waved her hand and said:
"The water is so cold! You can't pick it yet. It's not fully ripe. This kind of fruit is called crimson fruit, also called night red. It's a very good fruit. My sixth grandfather said that this fruit is rare, but once it grows, It takes many years for the fruit to grow once, and secondly, it only matures at midnight. We were lucky enough to catch it. Yesterday it was too early to pick the fruit. If we come tomorrow, we will miss the best time to pick the fruit, which is today. At midnight, this fruit begins to ripen, so it’s best to pick it before dawn. Go back and make some wine, and drink a glass of it during practice. It will be much better than the spiritual wine I gave you before!”
(Don’t ask me why it’s such a coincidence. These five people have the halo of the protagonists. Coincidences are the only way to tell a story. They have to meet to have a story, so it has to be such a coincidence!)
"Oh, that's right, then let's..."
"Wait, wait, pick them all and take them back at midnight, but we will have a lively show tonight. My sixth grandfather said that there will definitely be strange phenomena when such fruits are ripe, but I don't know what they look like. I don’t know anymore, I’ve only heard her talk about it, but I haven’t seen it with my own eyes.”
"lively?"
…
But the five people were worried about this pool.
The five people had encountered the good fruit for making wine before, that is, the cloud pearl fruit. There were two powerful monsters guarding it. All the methods the five people used to deal with the two monsters were used in the end. He killed the three An Zhen people, and also used the two monsters to kill two high-level Qi refining monks.
Now I heard Tang Ping say that the crimson fruit is much better than the cloud pearl fruit, but there is nothing unusual here except this pool, which is very abnormal.
Good things like the crimson fruit ripen at night. According to the usual practice, there should be a lot of movement, but there is only this bottomless pool nearby.
Naturally, a few people became extra cautious.
Several people were reluctant to stay away from the crimson fruit. It would be a pity if something jumped out of the pool and snatched the fruit away if they were too far away.
But to be cautious, they didn't want to get too close to the pool. They didn't know how deep the pool would be. If there was really something powerful lurking there, it would be dangerous if they got too close.
Fortunately, Lu Pingchuan was extremely powerful. He used the ore mining tools brought by Qian Chao to quickly dig out a medium-sized cave on one side of the valley wall. The entrance of the cave was more than ten feet away from the crimson fruit. The movement skills of several people at this distance can get there in an instant.
Then Qian Chao arranged the Hidden Spirit Array in the cave, and then he asked everyone to wear the small signs he had given them, and then arranged the Spirit Locking Array at the entrance of the cave.
After all, there is nothing wrong with being a little more careful. This arrangement is safe and will not miss the excitement that Tang Ping said.
The five people were chatting in the cave while looking outside the cave, quietly waiting for midnight to arrive.
…
In the night, a few people listened to Lu Pingchuan tell a lot of anecdotes about the country, and Qian Chao told some jokes from books. Li Jian also talked about some things about the previous war, and finally the time slowly came to Haishi.
Li Jian noticed something was different outside. A red stream of light slowly began to appear in the dark valley at night, and the source of the red stream of light was the tree covered with crimson fruit. At first, the color was very light. When Li Jian noticed it, he felt that there was a dark red color floating in the dark night, and the color gradually became brighter, as if someone had poured red oil paint into the stream. , the red color slowly flows with the gentle water surface.
"Miss Tang, what is that?"
As soon as Li Jian said this, several people also noticed the situation outside the cave.
"Red at night, this is the origin of the nickname of Crimson Fruit. I don't know where the red light comes from. The so-called vision of Crimson Fruit when ripe is probably like this. I don't know about the spiritual herbs, but some are very good. When the spiritual fruit matures, something different happens. It's strange and beautiful, but it's also dangerous. This kind of light may attract people nearby and far away, which is a bit troublesome."
"No wonder this place is called Hongxia Valley. Hongxia refers to this kind of red light." Yanxuan said while looking at the slowly flowing red light outside the cave.
"Is it possible that this red light allows us to watch a show?"
"Probably."
While several people were talking, the slowly flowing red light was getting brighter and brighter, and it was gradually drifting farther and farther away from the height of a tree in the sky. It was not floating along the night wind, but in these three places. The fork in the road divided into three streams and followed the direction of the valley. In less than a cup of tea, the entire Hongxia Valley was really filled with red clouds. Even the stars that could be seen above the valley were obscured by this red light. Now, such red light floated into the cave where the five of them were hiding. Yanxuan also stretched out his hand to try the red light, but it seemed to disturb a cloud of smoke, causing the red light to float in the cave. It's really beautiful when it's wrapped around.
"Something is coming." Li Jian said.
When several people heard what Li Jian said, they naturally became vigilant, but they didn't hear any sound in the dull red light outside the cave.
"Hey, there." Li Jian stretched out his finger and pointed in the red light.
Only then did a few people discover that there were many flying insects the size of ordinary dragonflies slowly wandering in the red light.
The wings of the flying insect were transparent and long, the body was slender, and the legs under it were as thin as silk threads. They seemed to be floating in the red light without weight, and they were not seen flapping their wings. They were floating as if in water. Moreover, he looked very enjoying and eager. The flying insects seemed to be absorbing the red light, and their originally translucent and slender belly began to look round, but what they were absorbing was the red light, and their belly also lit up red. In the stream of light, there are more and more red dots, making the red stream of light even brighter.
"What kind of bug is that?"
Such insects also drifted into the red light in the cave, and several people looked up at them carefully.
"Nocturnal larvae are a low-grade spiritual insect, even inferior. They pose no threat to us monks, and of course they are of no use. Their lifespan is very short. Hey, they are just waiting for this red light. It hatches and flies out when the time comes. As long as it can fly, it is probably about to die. If my guess is correct, the nocturnal larvae probably use this red light to reproduce their offspring. You see... …”
Sure enough, in the red light, countless insects called night larvae began to look for partners, and then the two of them got together. After a while, they saw the vastness in the flowing red light in the valley. The red dots everywhere in the stars are already in pairs.
Tang Ping continued: "The eggs they lay will take a long time to hatch underground, but the nocturnal larvae that have laid eggs will die soon, and after tonight, even if there are no nocturnal larvae that have laid eggs, They will also die. There is no way, their life span is so short, so they will reproduce as much as possible so that the group will not become extinct. But if the spiritual energy of the place where they lay their eggs is exhausted, just like Qian Xiaozi said, The spiritual veins will change their paths, and without the nourishment of spiritual energy, all the eggs will die."
Qian Chao said: "They look very similar to ordinary mayflies, except they are much larger, but they are all the same short-lived."
Tang Ping said: "Yes, some spiritual birds and beasts can live for thousands of years, or even longer. They are either flying in the sky or running on the ground. They are either looking for spiritual grass to eat or finding a good place to continue practicing. There are even some famous ones. No monk in the world dares to provoke it, but look at this night larvae. The only thing it has to do when it hatches from an egg is to rush to lay eggs again, and then it will die. Isn't it unfair?"
"However," Li Jian said, "their tribe has lived longer than thousands of years, right?"
"Well, Brother Li is right!"
