Yellow sand, endless yellow sand.
The wind blows gently and is warm, like a girl's catkin, kneading the golden sand dunes into full curves. Against the blue sky, they are like unshelled eggs scattered on the ground, shining brightly.
The clouds passed by and cast a faint shadow. From a distance, it looked like a beauty half lying on the beach.
The fine yellow sand was blown up by the warm morning wind, winding upward along the unobstructed waistline, over the full hills, and finally reached the top. The sun rubs the yellow sand, rendering it a meandering golden color. Against the half-covered shadows on the back of the dunes, it presents a moving style.
"Whirring whirring."
The wind suddenly intensified, and the yellow sand danced wildly, turning into a ribbon and blowing towards the cliff at the edge of the dune.
The yellow sand rolled and fell downward along with the gravel.
"I'll go, why have I been so unlucky recently? I always get stoned when I go out?" Ning Xiaotian breathed out the fragrance, backed away, and quickly swung his right hand to slap away the yellow sand and gravel blown into the cave entrance. .
After a while, the wind stopped.
Ning Xiaotian tilted his head forward slightly, confirmed that there was no sound, then jumped up and jumped out of the hole.
After a few seconds of free fall. "Poof" one-third of the calf was submerged in the sand. "What the hell." Ning Xiaotian resisted the urge to curse and pulled his legs out of the sand.
I have to say that he was very unlucky this month. He even lost his camel and almost all his people. He also walked in the desert for several days. How miserable!
In the western desert of the Star Luo Empire, the most terrifying thing is not the soul beasts that may emerge from the ground at any time, but the sand caves created by these soul beasts underground.
These sand caves can still be distinguished when they are first drilled, but after a gust of wind, they will be buried by the yellow sand. Once trapped, it will be difficult for any creature to escape, and it may even be dragged directly into the ground by the spirit beasts underneath, which is extremely dangerous.
Ning Xiaotian's camel was devoured by the soul beast under such circumstances. As for saving, it can only be said that there is intention but no power. Because the actual situation is that the more you dig, the more the camels struggle, and the faster the sand outside fills up.
As for camping in the wild, I would not dare to go camping. At night in the desert, all kinds of poisonous insect-like soul beasts begin to appear one after another. The most terrifying ones are those that live in groups, such as sand ants, which are extremely scary in groups.
Due to the windy night and the scattered yellow sand, self-protection methods such as placing animal repellent powder around the tent were no longer effective. The simplest and most effective way is to find a cave at a high place where you can take shelter from the wind.
For example, the cave he just jumped into was occupied after driving away a group of bat soul beasts. Poison powder to repel insects and beasts was placed in the sealed cave. The effect was obviously countless times more powerful. He actually slept peacefully last night.
"Hey, I've been searching for half a month, but I haven't found a suitable soul beast. This must be too difficult."
Ning Xiaotian patted the sand on his legs, his face full of helplessness. He looked up, and what he saw was no longer a desert, but an oasis full of vegetation, but most of these plants were moss, cacti and the like. Looking further away, there are patches of hardwood forests.
Behind the patches of hardwood forest, on the skyline more than ten kilometers away, are dark mountains with orange hues. The turbid dust shrouded the area, and nothing could be seen clearly except the faint light of the fire.
And between the two, white mist curled up, bent and blown away by the wind in the air.
"Do we have to go further inside and enter the volcanic area?" Ning Xiaotian touched his chin, feeling a little entangled in his heart.
He walked to a brown stone, sat on it, and then took out the map from the soul guide and spread it out.
"I am still in the eastern section of the canyon. Going further south is the volcanic belt. If you follow the volcanic belt to the west, you can go deep into the hinterland and enter the real active volcanic area. The possibility of encountering gem-like soul beasts there will be higher. It's higher, but also more dangerous. And many of them are unknown areas there, and you're likely to encounter high-level soul beasts, or even fire-type sub-dragon soul beasts."
"If you encounter something that can only fly, you will be in trouble." Ning Xiaotian couldn't help scratching his head, "If you follow the water source to the west section of the canyon, it will be much safer and you will encounter a lot of soil. Attribute soul beasts, but the probability of encountering gem-type soul beasts is not that high."
The southwest desert of the Star Luo Empire extends from the west coast to the northeast inland. It is cone-shaped as a whole and becomes narrower as you go east. In the north of the desert, there will be a gradual transition from desert and Gobi environments to towns where humans live.
Gengxin City is such a city.
To the south, going northeast from the south coast, is a large volcanic belt. The volcanoes become more active closer to the coast.
Only the strip canyons and plains located in the middle of the volcanic belt and desert are habitable areas for living creatures, and are also the main activity range of soul beasts. The canyon extends from northeast to southwest, straight into the hinterland of the desert, and its width becomes smaller and smaller until it is completely buried by yellow sand.
In addition, the environment in the canyon is also complex and changeable. From the southern volcanic belt to the north, the area closest to the volcanic area is a dead zone completely buried by volcanic rocks and ash. It is bare and only a small number of fire and earth attribute soul beasts can survive in it.
Going further north, there is an area full of large and small hot springs. It is unknown how it was formed.
However, Ning Xiaotian once learned from Lou Gao that many of the rare ores sold in the Blacksmith Association were ejected from these hot springs.
In addition, the amethyst crabs recorded in Wuhun Palace also crawled out of these hot springs.
This once made Ning Xiaotian wonder if there was a trench underneath that area.
Those rare ores were brought up by the heat currents erupted by submarine volcanoes. The nutrients produced after the eruption of submarine volcanoes also support many small sea soul beasts, and the amethyst crab is one of them. Maybe there are also amethyst shrimps, amethyst clams, etc. down there.
"Even if there is, I don't dare to swim in. Who knows what terrifying spirit beasts are down there." Ning Xiaotian felt his scalp numb just thinking about it. Human beings always have a certain sense of awe towards the unknown deep sea.
"Going further north, there are oases with water sources and the Gobi desert close to it." Ning Xiaotian recalled the heavy rain a few nights ago and thought to himself: "The oasis in this canyon should have been formed after the volcanic eruption. The updraft carries the moisture from the ocean current along the south coast and flows inland. The temperature drops sharply at night, and it happens to form a downwell in this area, forming rainfall."
"The miraculous workmanship of nature."
"So, how should I go?" Ning Xiaotian took back the map and fell into deep thought: "The age of the soul beasts in the area where I am now is still too low. The ten-thousand-year soul beasts I have encountered in the past few days are not A few."
Just like the mining brigades in Gengxin City, after Ning Xiaotian left Gengxin City, he crossed from the narrowest eastern section of the desert to the canyon, and then continued along the canyon to the west.
While searching for a suitable soul beast, you can also cultivate your soul power. And he broke through to level 40 in a cave five days ago, and now he is missing a soul ring.
“Perhaps it’s true that humans have been too active in the eastern section of the canyon in recent years.” Ning Xiaotian shook his head, “After a soul beast reaches a certain age, its wisdom is not low, and it also knows how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so collective migration is inevitable .”
"To find wealth in danger, you still have to fight for the gem soul beast. I have adapted to the environment here these days. As long as I am careful, I should be fine."
"I chose to go to the volcanic zone. To be safe, let's walk from east to west."
Ning Xiaotian stood up and muttered: "You still can't search for too long during the day. If you can't find a suitable cave to hide in, you will be in trouble at night."
"Fortunately, the spirit beasts here are all professional burrowers, so it shouldn't be difficult to find a cave to live in." After thinking about it, Ning Xiaotian walked faster.
(End of chapter)
