Chapter 23: Crossing the Poison Barrier
"The area recorded on the map is deeper in the ancient battlefield. The spirit horses there will be contaminated by evil spirits and cannot enter. Let's go, we have to dismount and walk!"
Luo Dongbao greeted, stood on the dividing line of the scorched area of the ancient battlefield, and loosened the reins of the spirit horse in his hand.
"Won't this horse get lost?"
Guan Lin reluctantly touched Lingma's neck and asked aloud.
"Of course you can't do this. After training, the spirit horses in Fengbo Market can return alone even if they travel thousands of miles. They are the most spiritual!"
Guanqiu stroked his sister's head and explained.
As the six of them walked forward, their expressions gradually became serious.
Strictly speaking, the level of danger has gradually increased since setting foot on this scorched land.
Luo Dongbao walked at the front to clear the way, with a calm expression. There were not many things on the outside of the ancient battlefield that could threaten a late-stage Qi-training monk.
The Guan family brothers and sisters walked in the middle, standing close to each other, holding a magic formula in their hands at all times, with alert expressions.
Liang Xiaoyun took up the ghost steps and walked on the left side of the team not far or near.
As for Qin Long, he held the flying sword and followed the team.
Yu Guang crouched slightly, an arm armor on his hand shone slightly, and walked at the end of the team, constantly alert to the movement behind him.
"Be careful!"
Liang Xiao suddenly focused his eyes and saw that the soil at Qin Long's feet had abnormal undulations.
As soon as he finished speaking, a big snake with a head like a spindle shot up and rushed towards Qin Long's neck at an unusually fast speed.
Whoa!
A slight sound of wind, accompanied by the incandescent sword light, flashed past.
The next moment, the snake's head flew into the air and fell to the ground together with the snake's body. A pair of venomous fangs were still instinctively spitting out venom.
Qin Long's palm holding the flying sword shook slightly, and a thin blood mist suddenly spread out from the sword, and then she put it back into the scabbard.
"What a fast swordsmanship!"
Liang Xiao was amazed. He was the closest and could see clearly that Qin Long did not spend much mana to drive the flying sword, but used the martial arts among mortals.
When encountering this poisonous snake, he was not surprised at all. He drew his sword and slashed it down, with extremely fast speed and steady force. It even had a special sense of simple and clean beauty.
"It's a black-scaled python, a half-demon beast that was common on ancient battlefields. Although it has not completely become a demon, it is good at ambushes and raids. Many cultivators will fall into this trap. Miss Qin's sword is really beautiful!"
Guanqiu picked up the snake carcass on the ground, looked at it, and then spoke to Qin Long with admiration.
However, Liang Xiao noticed Guanqiu, and his eyes flashed with a little light from time to time, especially when he looked at Qin Long.
"Take care of your eyes. If you continue to look, you may become blind!"
Qin Long spoke coldly, looking at Guanqiu with a pair of red phoenix eyes, with a hint of fear on his ordinary face.
"What a strange woman. My brother only complimented you a few times, but you still..."
Guan Lin looked dissatisfied and spoke angrily, but before she could finish speaking, Guan Qiu grabbed her and interrupted her words.
"Ah... Haha, don't worry, Miss Qin, Guan has no ill intentions."
After Guan Qiu finished speaking, he pulled Guan Lin to the other side, not daring to approach Qin Long again.
"Thank you for reminding me just now!"
Qin Long then turned his head and nodded slightly to Liang Xiao.
The latter waved his hand, but he had some guesses about the previous scene.
Is it a pupil technique? I wonder what I saw in Guanqiu...
After a brief interlude, a few people solved several monsters wandering around the ancient battlefield.
One of the more interesting ones is a bronze-armored zombie, which was probably transformed by a cultivator who died here before.
He actually has the fourth level of Qi training, and his defense power is amazing.
In the end, the Guan brothers and sisters used a combined attack spell to break through the defense, and Liang Xiao took the opportunity to chop off his head before he died.
It's a pity that due to the age, the storage bag on this zombie has been tattered into rags, and the contents inside have naturally disappeared.
Except that Liang Xiao took the opportunity to dig out the corpse core of the zombie, quietly threw it into a special corpse bag, and fed a wave of Pandora, the rest did not gain much.
Finally, the group of people came to several peaks covered by purple poison barriers. Luo Dongbao took out the map and compared it, with a smile on his face.
"Here we are, this is our destination!"
"But how are we going to get in? This poisonous barrier is not formed by the decay of common animals and plants. It is most likely the result of some residual formation, and it is not an ordinary thing!"
Although Yu Guang looked like a rough and arrogant black-faced man, his behavior along the way was very cautious.
"Hahaha, there is still some time, fellow Taoists, why not take a guess?"
Luo Dongbao glanced at the sky above his head, laughed, and then gave up.
Liang Xiao raised his eyebrows and first took a look at the surrounding terrain. It was a very common plain. There was a river nearby with a large flow of water, but it was still a little far away from where the few people were.
It is worth noting that the ground outside the mountain peak may be inhabited by some kind of monster, and there are caves everywhere, which made Liang Xiao feel moved.
However, before Luo Dongbao set off, he said that he could only enter with the help of heaven and earth, but Liang Xiao didn't understand it for a while.
Liang Xiao was obviously not the only one who noticed the abnormality in the cave. Guan Qiu first guessed:
"The remnants of the poison barrier enveloped the mountain peak, but I didn't expect that as time passed, a group of moles moved in and dug holes in the place. There must be passages leading directly to the inner area."
Luo Dongbao smiled when he heard this and said: "Fellow Taoist Guan is only half right. We really have to rely on this cave to get in, but going in now is courting death. The poisonous barrier has sunk into the cave!"
Liang Xiao lowered his head and looked into a hole in the ground, and sure enough he found traces of purple miasma floating in it. It must be that the closer you get, the higher the concentration.
Although it is unknown what the effects of inhaling the miasma will be, there are many incomplete bones piled up outside the mountain peak, some from humans and some from monsters.
Such a tragic situation must be death for low-level cultivators. It makes Liang Xiao not want to try it at all.
After a long while, several people really couldn't guess. Luo Dongbao saw that the time was almost up, and then he said proudly:
"It's through water. This poisonous barrier is insoluble in water. As long as the nearby river overflows and fills these holes, we can dive down and avoid the poisonous barrier."
After saying that, everyone saw a yellow and turbid flood peak rising in the upper reaches of the river. It seemed that it was caused by the recent large-scale rainfall in the upper reaches.
Luo Dongbao had already done some research, and took advantage of the flood season, which was the right time, to go inside to hunt for treasures.
"What an ingenious method. How did the so-called Tianji Sect member who sold the map know about it and drew the map? Did he discover it by coincidence?"
Chapter completed!