The blood-colored lake was boundless. After slowly approaching it, Long Chen was shocked to find that the water in the lake was not water at all. It was blood, and it was also terrifying blood essence.
There were terrifying energy fluctuations in the blood lake, which actually made Long Chen's scalp numb. Long Chen had only felt that terrifying power from the essence and blood of the monsters of the Moluo clan.
On the blood-colored lake, it was so dense that it was difficult to see the scene in the distance, but there was a piece of driftwood floating on the lake, forming a strange pontoon bridge.
It's just that this floating bridge is irregular, and the driftwood is scattered in various directions. People need to jump up and down on it to pass, which is very dangerous.
It must be that Qu Jianying waited for a long time and didn't see anyone else passing, so he had to move forward tentatively on his own to move forward.
Qu Jianying jumped onto a piece of driftwood. The driftwood was trembling up and down, swaying, and there was a danger of falling into the blood lake at any time.
Long Chen guessed that this area might not be flyable, otherwise it would be enough to just fly there.
His eyes moved forward, and suddenly the lake water surged, and a strange creature jumped high from the water and rushed towards Qu Jianying.
It was a monster with a human body and fish tail, and eight tentacles. It opened its huge mouth, exposed its deep teeth, and bit Qu Jianying.
"puff"
The monster just pounced, and Qu Jianying slashed out with his sword. However, this sword was not a real long sword, but an energy sword condensed by the power of the soul, and the monster was chopped into pieces with one sword.
The monster was killed, and in an instant, the entire blood lake was like a boiling pot. Countless blood-colored monsters came overwhelmingly to kill Qu Jianying.
Qu Jianying stepped forward quickly, backed up quickly, and quickly flew to the shore. The bloody monsters were unable to get ashore, and finally roared and retreated unwillingly.
"Good guy, what kind of monsters are these? Why are they so terrifying? They carry endless resentment. They don't look like any kind of race, but they are very similar to the legendary resentful spirits." Long Chen was secretly shocked.
Qu Jianying never dared to touch the lake water, fearing that the water was very strange and he should never touch it.
Although those monsters are not very powerful and cannot directly cause much harm to people, there are too many of them and there is a risk of being dragged into the water if they are not careful.
Qu Jianying no longer dared to be reckless and retreated directly to the shore, then found a place to hide.
I don't know how long it took, but a figure appeared. This was a human being, but his stature was extremely short. He looked only over three feet tall, like a dwarf.
But it was indeed an old man. He came to the lake and looked at it for a long time. He wondered if Qu Jianying had any secret method to disguise herself. The dwarf old man did not even notice her.
The dwarf old man carefully observed the bloody lake, slowly reached out and touched the water, and couldn't help but let out a shrill scream.
His fingers that touched the lake water turned into green smoke, burning very quickly as if on fire. In an instant, the entire hand turned into nothing, and it spread so fast that it was staggering.
"puff"
The dwarf old man waved his hand and tore off the arm at shoulder level. The moment he tore it off, the arm to the elbow had disappeared.
Half of his arm was thrown to the ground, and in less than half a breath, it completely turned into smoke. The old man's face was pale, and his eyes were full of fear.
He just tested the lake water with his fingers. If he hadn't been decisive enough, he might have died.
The old man adjusted his breathing by the lake for a long time. After his arms slowly recovered, he carefully jumped onto the driftwood and moved forward.
He went very smoothly at first. After walking for several miles, he was about to disappear into the curling smoke. Suddenly, a monster attacked him on the lake.
The old man, like Qu Jianying, smashed the monster into pieces with one punch. Long Chen made a rough estimate. Judging from the speed, strength and space fluctuation of the monster's attack, the cultivation level was roughly around the realm of transformation, not very high.
powerful.
For a strong man of Qu Jianying's level, he could kill him with just a wave of his hand, but just after the old man killed the monster, countless monsters shot out again and attacked the dwarf old man.
The dwarf old man tried his best to kill them, but there were so many monsters that they were so overwhelming that they enveloped him.
But Long Chen discovered a secret, that is, no matter how they attack, those monsters never touch the driftwood on the water.
"call"
The dwarf old man fought fiercely and wanted to retreat because he had entered too deep and his way back had been blocked, making him unable to come back. At this moment, a monster's tentacles wrapped around his ankle.
"Plop"
The dwarf old man was dragged into the water in an instant. The old man let out a shrill scream and struggled desperately, but in less than a breath, the sound disappeared, and the bloody lake gradually returned to calm.
Long Chen felt like he was sweating. Senior Qu Jianying was lucky. He had just jumped into the bloody lake and was attacked before he had time to retreat. If he was like this dwarf old man, he would probably perish.
Long Chen believed that Qu Jianying was probably in a cold sweat at that time. The lake was too terrifying. Even as powerful as Qu Jianying, she looked so weak here.
No wonder it is said that the process of advancing to the underworld will be an extremely thrilling process, with a very high mortality rate. There are crisis traps everywhere.
The screen remained on the lake, and Long Chen estimated that Qu Jianying was either waiting for someone to test it, or thinking of countermeasures.
In the end, Qu Jianying failed to wait for the others and took action on her own. She once again ran towards the bloody lake, jumped onto the driftwood, and moved forward step by step.
Although she knew that Qu Jianying had gone through the fantasy of life and death and successfully advanced to the underworld, it was still thrilling to replay the original scene from her perspective.
This time Qu Jianying moved forward all the way and walked very far. Looking back, he could no longer see the shore behind him. He was confused both before and after him. Long Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The road to the strong will always be so difficult. There is no way at all.
There are shortcuts, but they all require you to face life and death decisions.
In the face of that illusory fate, even though she was as powerful as Qu Jianying, she was still so helpless, but she chose to move forward firmly.
After walking for another distance, the monster finally appeared again, but this time Qu Jianying did not take the initiative to attack. Instead, he wrapped his body in runes to form a defensive shield.
Qu Jianying remained motionless, letting the monster keep biting her protective shield. Under the bite of the monster, the monster had some special power, and cracks appeared in the protective shield.
But Qu Jianying didn't take it seriously and slowly input power to strengthen the protective shield. It was just a monster and could not hurt her.
The monster bit him for a long time, but it didn't cause other monsters to move. Long Chen suddenly understood that this might be the same as the weird man before. As long as he didn't attack them, it might be fine.
Sure enough, Qu Jianying moved forward with that monster on his back, but it did not cause those monsters to become violent. As Qu Jianying moved forward, the calm lake water in front of him actually started to fluctuate.
The lake in the distance swelled high, and the blood-colored water splashed. As Qu Jianying moved forward slowly, Long Chen finally saw that it was a spring. Amidst the surging blood, there was a stone tablet with a crooked top.
There are three characters written on the ground. It doesn't look like ancient immortal writing. Anyway, Long Chen doesn't recognize it.
"Huangquan Road"
At this moment, Dragon Bone Evil Moon's voice came.
"No way, isn't the Underworld Road something in folk mythology? How could it really exist? Besides, shouldn't the Underworld be yellow?" Long Chen couldn't help but be surprised.
"I don't know either. I know these three words. Paralyzed Yun Shang gave me a complete memory." After talking about it, Dragon Bone Evil Moon became angry again. It became more and more certain that Yun Shang had lost part of its memory.
.
It knew these three words, but didn't know what they meant. It made Dragon Bone Evil Moon roar in anger.
Well, maybe this Yellow Spring is not the other Yellow Spring. Folk saying is that when digging a well, if the water in the well is yellow, don't continue digging. This well leads to the place where the dead live.
But isn’t this nonsense? People live on loess land, so how do they dig a well? The water that comes out of the spring at the beginning is all yellow, so the water from the well cannot come out?
Therefore, the folk sayings are not that trustworthy. Most of the time, they are just listened to as stories. But at this time, Dragon Bone Evil Moon said the inscription, which made Long Chen's heart skip a beat. He didn't know why, but he felt a little numb.
As Qu Jianying moved forward, pushing the monster forward all the way, nothing unusual happened. He couldn't feel the flow of time here. He didn't know how long it had passed before a huge vortex appeared in front of him.
At this time, Long Chen saw an extremely shocking picture. He saw nine huge lakes, divided into nine colors of water.
The water of nine lakes, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, purple, white and black, gathered together to form a whirlpool with a radius of thousands of miles. The picture was extremely shocking.
"This is the legendary Nine Springs? Under the Nine Springs, is the place where the dead stay?" Long Chen's scalp was numb. Could it be that the myths and stories spread among the people are not all false?
If this is true, then the legendary bull-headed horse-faced, black and white impermanence, and Shura purgatory are all true?
Long Chen felt that it was unacceptable. He had been able to look down on all living beings after practicing all the way, but now this story that was spread at the lowest level among the people could actually appear on the road of practice.
Qu Jianying stayed for a while at the gathering place of the nine springs. The nine springs were flowing, but the driftwood remained motionless. However, at this time, the monster that had been entangled had disappeared.
Long Chen looked at Jiuquan quietly. In the nine-color spring water, he seemed to have captured some mystery, but it felt specious and he got nothing.
"There is definitely some secret hidden in this Jiuquan." Long Chen thought to himself. This was an intuition in his heart, and it was very clear.
It's a pity that what he watched was only a part of the memory. Many things could only be observed through vision. Without the other five senses, it was difficult to capture the artistic conception. Now I feel that many of them came from Qu Jianying, not Long Chen.
Feel it yourself.
While Long Chen was still carefully observing Jiuquan, Qu Jianying had slowly moved forward, and a vertical ladder appeared in front of him, leading directly to the bottom of the whirlpool along the whirlpool waterfall.
Qu Jianying went all the way down. When he reached the bottom, Long Chen was shocked to find that the waterfall flowed here and flowed backwards, forming a strange cycle.
Walking along the path through the waterfall area, there is a majestic pass in front of you. The huge city gate tower goes straight into the sky. On the city gate tower, there are also three big characters written on it.
"gate of hell"
Dragon Bone Evil Moon recognized those three words, but it made Long Chen's heart beat wildly. Is this all true?