Chapter 356: A Landscape Travel Note
"Xifeng, what happened over there?"
In the past, Yi Xifeng might have just laughed and let it go, but now the relationship between them obviously can no longer be handled in that way. He doesn't want Zhong Lingxi to feel discouraged. So he replied:
"If nothing else happens, there should be a sacrifice being held in the town."
"Sacrifice?" Zhong Lingxi felt a little confused. Why do people here hold sacrifices in the middle of the night? Could it be their custom here?
Later, Yi Xifeng continued: "Remember that I met the old man before? This sacrifice may be related to the 'red smoke'."
"Is it the so-called Emperor of Heaven that they are offering sacrifices to?" Zhong Lingxi asked.
Yi Xifeng nodded, and then continued: "In the inn before, I heard the crackling sound of a bonfire burning, and the cry of a child. I doubt..."
At this point, his words stopped abruptly. Zhong Lingxi was not stupid either, so she could naturally guess what was coming next. She just couldn't believe it. The custom of sacrificing children was unethical and inhumane among the Seven Kingdoms. In the earth, except for those belonging to the Demon Kingdom and the Demon Cult, the other six countries have already banned it, but I didn't expect...
"We have to find a way to get out of here as soon as possible."
"Where are we going now?"
Just as Zhong Lingxi asked the question, a ray of jasper light suddenly lit up, and the Nanfeng Sword was unsheathed in the air, pointing towards a mountain in the distance.
Yi Xifeng felt helpless when he saw this. If his prediction was correct, that big mountain should be the place where the red smoke came out as the old man said yesterday. Originally, he wanted to avoid these strange places, but since it was Where Nanfeng Jian designated to go, he had no choice but to go there.
"It seems we have no choice." Yi Xifeng spread his hands.
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In the deep forest, Yi Xifeng kept shuttling back and forth with the bird eggs in his arms, while Zhong Lingxi followed closely. The two of them were very fast, and they arrived at the foot of the mountain in less than half a stick of incense. After arriving here, the Nanfeng Sword It stopped flashing with green light and fell into silence again.
"It should be right here." Zhong Lingxi walked to the Nanfeng Sword and inserted it back into the scabbard.
"Alas, there is no clear path in this wilderness." Yi Xifeng complained while walking around the foot of the mountain. He originally wanted to lighten the atmosphere, but he saw Zhong Lingxi was silent, and he knew she was Still thinking about human sacrifice.
Yi Xifeng didn't say anything. He just walked over and patted the girl's shoulder gently. Although he didn't say anything, Zhong Lingxi understood. She understood that now was not the time to think about these things.
"I don't blame you for not saving them. After all, we can't save ourselves."
Then, Yi Xifeng nodded, handed the bird egg in his hand to Zhong Lingxi, and said:
"You take the egg first, and I'll look for an entrance nearby."
After Zhong Lingxi said "Hmm", Yi Xifeng flew away in the sky with "Moon Steps to the Dragon".
This mountain is not high, but the mountain range is extremely vast. However, the strange thing is that the fair young man walked around for a long time without finding any entrance. When he walked to the back of the mountain, a burst of red light suddenly appeared in his chest. Yi Xifeng took a closer look and saw that it was the Blood Spirit Jade.
"Why do I feel that everything in this secret realm is related to this blood spirit jade? It seems that this practice is just one of the functions of this thing."
He took out the Blood Spirit Jade from his chest. At this time, the red light on the Blood Spirit Jade became even brighter.
"It seems that the entrance should be nearby."
Yi Xifeng put away the Blood Spirit Jade again, and then explored inside step by step. In less than a moment, he saw a dark hole looming among the weeds in front of him. The fair young man did not rush in, but Go and pick up Zhong Lingxi first.
"Is this the entrance?" Zhong Lingxi asked, holding the egg face in his arms and facing the entrance of the cave.
Yi Xifeng nodded first, then spread his hands and replied:
"I really don't know why Senior Nanfeng asked us to come here. Let's go and have a look."
"Follow me."
In the darkness, the blood jade on Yi Xifeng's chest shimmered more and more, casting a strange red color on the stone wall inside the cave.
The two walked to a corner and found two passages ahead.
"Which way should we go?" Zhong Lingxi looked at Yi Xifeng subconsciously, expecting the other party to make this important decision.
Yi Xifeng coughed twice, walked quickly to the two roads, then stretched out his white right hand and tapped forward lightly with his index finger:
"I will choose whoever the little rooster clicks... um... go to the right."
Zhong Lingxi: "..."
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Yi Xifeng didn't know what the hole on the left was like, but the one on the right was wet, and the two of them would step on a splash of water from time to time.
"Yi Xifeng, do you think there are bats in this cave?"
Zhong Lingxi followed behind with the giant egg in his arms, looking around warily, fearing that something might suddenly jump out.
Yi Xifeng raised the corners of his mouth slightly, then quickly pretended to be serious and replied:
"Bats are creatures that like to live in dark and humid environments. Well, there might actually be bats here."
After hearing this, Zhong Lingxi's delicate body trembled. For a moment, she forgot to tell whether Yi Xifeng's words were true or false. She saw a faint white stream of light surrounding her body, and she was obviously ready to take action at any time.
Yi Xifeng immediately turned around, smiled, and replied:
"Why are you so nervous? Can a little bat eat you?"
At this moment, Zhong Lingxi raised his right hand and pointed it at the top of his head and said "Ah" suddenly, and saw a flash of light. Yi Xifeng subconsciously lowered his head, and with a "bang", a falling rock hit the ground.
The fair young man couldn't laugh anymore. When he saw Zhong Lingxi breathing heavily and looking panicked, he knew there must be something behind him. When he looked back, he saw a thin wing trembling slightly under the gravel. .
"I'll go, there are really bats."
Yi Xifeng patted his shoulder, brushed off the dust on his body, and then kicked away the gravel that was pressed against the object.
"This doesn't seem to be a bat?"
Zhong Lingxi, who was nervous, was stunned when he heard it. He quickly moved his body over and saw that although the thing lying on the ground had a pair of wings like a bat, its body was more like a lizard, but this thing It's about the same size as a bat.
"Why does it look a bit like a Western dragon..." Yi Xifeng muttered subconsciously.
"Western dragon?"
This is the first time Zhong Lingxi has heard of this name. In her impression, a dragon is a strange beast that can go up to the sky and into the earth, and its body is covered with scales and looks like a snake. However, the image of the thing in front of her is seriously inconsistent with her memory.
"Well... the Western Dragon is actually just a lizard with wings, much worse than the senior Qinglong in the Holy Land of Beasts. I'm just curious, why is there such a thing in the Bloodstained Secret Realm?"
"lizard?"
"It's a four-legged snake."
"Is this kind of thing... very strange?" Since it was the first time he saw it, Zhong Lingxi was a little curious about how Yi Xifeng knew about it. I saw the other party subconsciously touched his nose after hearing this, and then said:
"I saw it before... when I was wandering around in the Holy Land of Ten Thousand Beasts."
There was no way he could lie. He couldn't just say he saw it on TV.
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They didn't know how long they had been walking, but apart from the "Western Dragon" they met at the beginning, they never saw it again. As they walked, they found that the road suddenly disappeared in front of them.
"dead end?"
At this time, they were in a cave surrounded by walls. There was no other exit except the way they came from behind.
"Okay, this is a waste of time." Just as Yi Xifeng was about to retreat, he suddenly saw the blood spirit jade on his chest shining brightly again, and then he took out the blood spirit jade with doubts.
At this time, the light of the Blood Spirit Jade suddenly became stronger, and this change made the two of them feel strange.
"Is there a way out here?" Zhong Lingxi asked doubtfully.
Yi Xifeng thought for a moment and then said:
"You stand aside first, and I'll try to see if I can break through this stone wall."
After Zhong Lingxi nodded, he said "Be careful" and stood aside holding the dome.
Yi Xifeng took a deep breath, stepped back with his right foot, and the Nine Yang Divine Demonic Art in his Dantian immediately began to circulate, constantly washing his Rendu and Du meridians. Then, he raised his right palm flat in front of his chest, with a hint of mystery. The Tao Yun quickly disappeared into the palm of the hand.
"God and Demon Power!"
With a low shout, Yi Xifeng blasted out with a palm, and in an instant, the stone wall in front suddenly shattered, revealing the dark hole inside.
"There really is a way out."
Yi Xifeng retracted his palm energy into his body. At this time, Zhong Lingxi also walked over slowly.
"Let's go in and have a look."
However, as soon as he stepped into it, he saw a dusty corpse lying quietly in a corner. Next to the corpse, a carving knife, a slender writing brush and a dirty... Wrapped in linen.
"Why is there still a corpse here?" As she said that, Zhong Lingxi wanted to lean over and take a look. At this time, a slender and strong arm suddenly stopped in front of her.
"Don't act rashly yet, there is something inside this corpse!"
Zhong Lingxi was so frightened that he took two steps back. Immediately afterwards, Yi Xifeng decisively pulled out the Hanxing Sword and pressed the tip of the sword against the skeleton's chest.
"Black Flame!"
With a low cry, endless black flames surged out and enveloped the sword in the blink of an eye.
Yi Xifeng gently opened two white ribs, and there were densely packed small lizards climbing slowly between them. After Yi Xifeng made such a move, the small lizards immediately dispersed as if they were frightened, trying to Fleeing in all directions.
But before they had time to run away, they saw the tip of Ye Jian Hanxing's sword trembling, and countless black flames clung to the little lizard like maggots on the tarsus. In the blink of an eye, the little lizard turned into mummies. .
Yi Xifeng breathed a long sigh of relief, then swung the long sword, and countless black flames were sucked into the body again by the long sword.
Although the little lizard was solved, Zhong Lingxi still did not choose to get close. It was obvious that the dense success just now disgusted her.
"I didn't expect you to have trypophobia."
"I...I just don't like flying four-legged snakes...that's all..."
With that said, Yi Xifeng slowly opened the linen package on the ground. Inside the package was a somewhat worn book. However, because of the humidity in the cave, the writing on the cover of the book had become a little blurry.
When I opened the page, I saw that although the text on it was somewhat blurred by the moisture, fortunately it was not too blurry and could still be vaguely legible.
"Celestial Calendar... In the year 241, it is Xiaoshu. The mountains are surrounded by red water, and the scenery is pleasant. I walk alone among the green bamboos, abandoning mundane trivial matters in exchange for peace and contentment. All the wonderful people in the world are like me."
"In the 241st year of the celestial calendar, it was a hot summer day. I saw the spring water on the north bank was clear and the rocks were blooming. With such beautiful scenery, a pavilion should be built for future generations to enjoy. What a pity, what a pity."
"It turns out this is a landscape travelogue." Yi Xifeng continued to flip through it. After reading half of it, he found that it was not much different from the previous content. They were all descriptions of green mountains and green waters, so he lost interest. But then, a New questions arose in his mind.
"It's strange. There's no exit here. How did this person get in?"
Not only the owner of the corpse, but also those "four-legged snakes" are still young. They have obviously just broken out of their shells. How did they get in? While he was wondering, the Blood Spirit Jade, which had been silent for a long time, suddenly glowed again.
"It seems there should be another exit here."
After Yi Xifeng put away the Shanshui Travel Notes, he released his soul to see if there was any other way out.
"How's it going?" Seeing that the other party was deep in thought, Zhong Lingxi took the initiative to hold the dome and move closer.
"The package is just a travel diary of mountains and rivers. It should not be what Senior Nanfeng is looking for."
As soon as he finished speaking, Yi Xifeng noticed that there was a pile of stone and soil on the left side of the corpse that was different from other places.
"God and Demon Power!" The white young man waved his palm again, shaking away the piece of stone and soil, revealing a small hole half a person's height behind. Recalling the earthquake that happened before, he immediately understood the reason.
"It must have been an earthquake when the female 'Four-Legged Snake' went out to look for food and buried the entrance of the cave."
Just as he was talking, a "four-legged snake" suddenly flew in from the other side of the hole and rushed toward Yi Xifeng.
With a "swish" sound, the sword shadow slipped down, and the four-legged snake was split into two in mid-air. Then, the fair young man put away his long sword and said to Zhong Lingxi:
"I'll go in and explore first." After saying that, he lowered his head and walked through the hole to the other side.
"Be careful."
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Three young men and a group of men in black followed closely behind a middle-aged man in yellow robes. They were the three brothers of the Zhang family and Ying Shan.
"Master Yingshan, where are we going?"
The person who spoke was the Second Young Master Zhang Miao. Although he tried to remain calm when speaking, he still could not conceal his inner impatience. His purpose was just to snatch the Blood Spirit Jade, and he was not here to enjoy the mountains.
After hearing this, Yingshan just glanced at Zhang Miao coldly, and was so shocked that the other party took two steps back, lowered his head and did not dare to say anything more.
Not long after, everyone arrived at the foot of a mountain.
(End of chapter)
