During the day's journey, although we encountered some dangers along the way, they were all easily resolved.
Starting from the morning, we successfully arrived at the ancient country of Xiye in the evening.
There is an oasis in front of you, but it has dried up long ago.
The surrounding vegetation is not green at all.
"This place used to be flooded with sand and dust. A sandstorm blew away the sand and dust here two days ago," Moraka said.
In the dry oasis, there are still many ruins, which are relatively well preserved and are all adobe houses.
This is the ancient country of Xiye, which is also the former Xiye.
The place where the collective disappeared.
Zhou Sheng got off his horse and entered the earthen house to take a look. There were some simple furniture inside, but they were already in tatters.
He came out of the earthen house and looked at a dry river nearby.
"This is also a branch of the Kongque River."
"Yes." Moraka nodded.
"Let's go along the river." After Zhou Sheng said, everyone walked along the river.
They arrived at the ancient kingdom of Xiye, but had not yet entered the ancient tomb.
This is at most the fringe area of the Ancient Xiye Kingdom, and the people living here are all the people of Xiye who built the Ancient Xiye Kingdom.
Their bodies are not outside either, so they are most likely buried with them.
"Huhuhu..."
The breeze blew slowly, and there was some wind and sand in the air.
Everyone covered their mouths and noses, lowered their heads and followed Zhou Sheng.
"Zhou Sheng." Liuli shouted softly.
"Um?"
"Look at the sun, is it in the south?" Liuli said, pointing in the direction of the sun.
"The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. It should be in the west now." After Zhou Shenggang finished speaking, he realized something was wrong.
If the direction of the sun is west, then the direction you are walking now is east.
Wrong go!
Following the map instructions, after entering the outskirts of Xiye Ancient Kingdom, the next step is to go north.
The direction they are walking now is with their backs to the sunset, and they are walking eastward.
"It's strange. The branch of Kongque River obviously runs north-south. How could it go the wrong way?" Zhou Sheng was a little puzzled.
But we still changed our direction and stopped walking along the river. We went ashore and headed north.
"Sir, wait." Moraka quickly stopped Zhou Sheng.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Sheng asked.
"We can't believe the sun, let's continue walking along the river." Moraka said.
After hearing this, Zhou Sheng hesitated for a moment, nodded slightly, and continued walking along the river.
After walking for a while, the sun had not yet set and appeared to the east of them again.
"The Peacock River is winding in different directions, and the direction of looking at the sun is also different, but the Peacock River can guide us to the center of the ancient country in the Western Regions, but the sun cannot." Moraka explained.
As people living in the desert, they do not engage in agriculture and generally focus on transportation.
They do not identify the road based on the direction of the sun, but follow the traces of the road they have walked.
"Indeed." Zhou Sheng nodded.
Everyone continued walking along the Kongque River, and by nightfall, they had gone much deeper.
Everyone camped in the river to rest.
"Woooooooo..."
Just after midnight, the sounds of ghosts crying and wolves howling came from all directions, which was very pervasive.
The cold wind gusts, making people shudder.
It was as if the place turned into a ghost overnight.
In all directions, there were will-o'-the-wisps burning, floating in the air like skeletons.
The sounds of ghosts crying and wolves howling kept ringing, disturbing everyone so they dared not sleep.
Zhou Sheng closed his eyes and heard a faint rustling sound.
Something is approaching.
Zhou Sheng stood up and pulled out Tai'a Sword, and the fire of guarding the mausoleum wrapped Tai'a Sword.
He held his sword and drew a fire ring around the place where everyone rested to prevent dirty things from approaching.
As for the will-o'-the-wisps floating in the air, Zhou Sheng could also see that they were formed by fire phosphorus insects.
"There are so many fire phosphorus bugs in the ancient Xiye Kingdom." Zhou Sheng couldn't help but say, looking at the business interface of his system, there was actually an insecticide spray, worth five points a bottle.
Every time Zhou Sheng goes to a place, the system mall and lottery interface will change.
However, Zhou Sheng has been saving points to no avail.
He wanted to accumulate enough points to redeem the Xuanyuan Sword in the system space.
Zhou Sheng looked at the approaching fire phosphorus, gritted his teeth and exchanged for three bottles of insecticide spray.
"This is an insecticidal watering can. Once the fire phosphorus flies over, just spray it on them."
Moraka picked up a bottle of insecticide spray, and the other two bottles were picked up by Zhang Xinshan and Hong Erye.
Zhou Sheng jumped out of the ring of fire to find the source of the sound.
He followed the sound and looked for it, using his night vision ability to see those things.
They are a group of venomous scorpions, all black in color, and the barbs on their tails contain venom.
They are small in size, no bigger than a palm, but there are many of them.
Zhou Sheng made a ball of fire and threw it over. The fireball exploded, but the group of poisonous scorpions were not affected at all.
"The fire of guarding the mausoleum is useless?"
Zhou Sheng was dumbfounded.
The fire of guarding the mausoleum is more powerful than ordinary flames, and is known as the nemesis of all evil spirits.
But it has no effect on these poisonous scorpions.
The poisonous scorpions were still approaching and soon crawled to Zhou Sheng's feet. Zhou Sheng raised his foot and trampled them to death.
Although they are not afraid of the fire of the tomb guard, they can still kill them.
Zhou Sheng swung the Tai'a sword, thrust out the sword, and strung them all on the Tai'a sword like skewers of candied haws.
But there are a lot of them, and most of them are approaching the ring of fire.
Zhou Sheng sacrificed a milky-white wind bead and moved it with Gang Qi.
"The wind is coming!"
A strong wind blew in, and the fire phosphorus flying in the air and the poisonous scorpions crawling on the ground were all swept up by the strong wind.
With a push from Zhou Sheng's palm, the strong wind blew away all the poisonous scorpions and fire phosphorus insects.
[Ding, congratulations to the host for solving the black gold poisonous scorpion and the fire phosphorus insect and gaining twenty points!]
The system's cold voice sounded in Zhou Sheng's mind.
When Zhou Sheng got the key, the process of guarding the dragon veins in the ancient kingdom of Xiye had already begun.
Zhou Sheng walked back and sat down. Although the sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling still sounded intermittently, everyone got used to it and quickly fell asleep.
Tonight is a fairly peaceful night.
The danger will begin tomorrow when we enter the tomb of the ancient Xiye Kingdom.
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in the channel.
The people of the Tianzun Society eliminated the fire phosphorus and poisonous scorpions along the way and moved forward quickly.
The passage they took was built by Hou Xiye. The passage leading directly to the ancient country of Xiye was a straight road with no twists and turns.
Apart from being a bit dangerous, there's nothing else about it.
Under the leadership of the Tianzunhui tombkeepers, everyone walked for a day and arrived outside the ancient tomb of Xiye Ancient Kingdom.
The ancient tomb of Xiye Ancient Kingdom has not yet been opened, and the entrance is buried by yellow sand.
Although they could go in directly, they didn't.
"Sir, we can go in and make arrangements in advance." The people from the Tianzun Association said.
"In the ancient country of the Western Region, once we enter, we will be in the game. Let's wait until the tomb guardians go in and break the trap, and then we can go in again." The tomb guardians of the Tianzun Association said.
As long as you step into the ancient country of Xiye, you will encounter danger.
Chapter 297 The Rat in the Passage
The next day, dawn.
The sun has not yet risen in the east, and only a faint ray of morning light shines in the darkness.
"Ready to go."
Zhou Sheng opened his eyes and shouted softly.
Everyone woke up from their sleep and immediately packed up and had breakfast.
Zhou Sheng sat on the horse and stretched out his hands to grasp the sand flowing through his fingers.
The wind was still harsh, and the sound of howling ghosts and wolves seemed to never stop.
It's around five o'clock in the morning and the temperature is still very low.
But for everyone, the temperature is secondary, and the main reason is not getting enough rest.
This time, Zhou Sheng waited an extra five minutes to give everyone time to eat.
Fifteen minutes later,
He rode in front and led the people to continue moving along the river.
The sky gradually brightens, and the further we go, the wetter the river becomes.
Zhou Sheng and others walked out of the river and continued walking along the river bank.
The geology ahead has changed, and it is all rocky cliffs.
The rock walls on both sides are made of earthy brown stone. There are many caves on the stone rock, and some of the caves still have flowing water.
But the water that flows out soon permeates, or evaporates, as soon as it enters the river.
The breeze blew through the cave, and the sound it made was like a ghost crying, which was exactly the sound Ye Kong and the others heard last night.
Moreover, the structure of houses here is no longer dominated by earth houses, but stone houses.
Built with stones, there are some solid and beautiful stone houses.
"This should be the central area. If you walk a little further, you can reach the tomb entrance of the Xiye Ancient Kingdom." Moraka said.
Those who can live here are either rich or noble people.
At least that's the case in the ancient country of Xiye.
As a desert country, the most important thing is water resources.
And the water here has not dried up even after thousands of years. You can imagine how much water there was here thousands of years ago.
After Zhou Sheng watched for a while, he continued along the river bank.
There are dangers in the outer world of Xiye Ancient Country, and as the central area, there must be a lot of dangers.
It's daytime now, and many things are afraid to come out, but it's hard to say at night.
"Speed up and get to the ancient Xiye Kingdom before dark." Zhou Sheng shouted, asking everyone to speed up.
Along the way, the houses got bigger and bigger.
In the ancient country of Xiye, the larger the place you live, the more noble your status is, or the greater your power.
Moreover, the higher the status, the closer one is to the center of Xiye Ancient Kingdom.
The Kongque River runs through most of the territory of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms of Xiye, including the main branch of the Ancient Xiye Kingdom, which is controlled by the royal family of the Ancient Xiye Kingdom.
They live in the upper reaches, at the intersections of branches.
Most of the ancient countries in the Western Regions controlled their citizens not by strong military force, but by water.
The higher you live, the more water resources you get.
"In the Western Region, water is more important than food." Moraka said, took the kettle to the cave with flowing water, and took some water.
The terrain here is relatively low and was once covered by desert, which has only now dissipated.
Everyone started walking in the morning and didn't arrive at the center until around four o'clock in the afternoon.
In front, there is a huge cave.
Inside the cave are the tombs of the ancient Xiye Kingdom.
Moreover, there is water flowing into the cave.
"Going in from here is the tomb of the Xiye Ancient Kingdom, where the entire Xiye Ancient Kingdom is buried." Moraka pointed to the cave and said.
Zhou Sheng reached out and touched it, and a cold feeling instantly hit his body.
He looked down and saw some messy footprints on the ground, but they were not close to the cave. It seemed like they were going back again.
It is a straight line coming from the passage of Houxiye ruins.
If it were the Tianzun Association, they would definitely not go to all the trouble to take a detour.
Although the passage is full of dangers, for the people of the Tianzun Association, the dangers are out of the question. They are all powerful people, and they are not afraid of death.
They arrived before me, but did not enter.
Zhou Sheng thought of this and took a few steps back.
"Moraka, if you come from the passage of Houxiye ruins, where would you be?" Zhou Sheng asked in a low voice.
Moraka pointed to the dust beneath his feet.
When Zhou Sheng heard this, he waved his hand to signal the people from the Eight Gates to stay away.
He squeezed out the golden beads and shouted: "Gold, thousands of arrows are fired!"
The golden beads soared into the sky and shone brightly in the sunlight.
The golden light emitted, like sharp arrows, quickly filled the sky.
Activating the golden beads will consume one-third of the Gang Qi. Under normal circumstances, Zhou Sheng will not use it.
"This is simply not something humans can do." Jie Jiu shook his head and said.
"If a person can do it, he only needs to reach the level of a master in cultivation." Zhang Xinshan explained.
"Grandmaster?"
"Yes, there have been martial arts practitioners in China since ancient times. However, in the Song Dynasty, knights used martial arts to violate the ban. The Song Dynasty emphasized culture and restrained martial arts, which resulted in the low status of martial arts. They were suppressed by the army a lot, so that martial arts did not flourish."
"The following Yuan Dynasty suppressed the Chinese warriors even more, and almost wiped out the Chinese warriors. In the following Ming and Qing dynasties, there were no warriors."
These are all Zhang Xinshan saw from family history books.
His Zhang family was originally from a martial arts family, but was later suppressed.
If it weren't for its strong bloodline inheritance, it might have been lost in history long ago.
"That's not right. The person who guards the mausoleum is so strong. If I try to escape, no one can catch me." Jie Jiu still didn't quite understand.
"It is said that all the masters have the ability to defeat thousands of others. One person can defeat thousands of troops." Wu Dabai continued, looking at the black-backed Liu Liu.
Although Heibei Laoliu is not a master, he still has such strength.
"The Grandmaster can serve as an army, but can he stop fifty thousand, one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand?" Zhang Xinshan couldn't help but say.
Everyone fell silent.
After all, human power is limited, even if you are a master.
If Zhou Sheng had not relied on the ability of the six-meridian mausoleum guardian, he would not have been able to perform such a dazzling move.
He raised the Tai'a sword and pointed it down, and countless golden arrows fell in the air like a violent storm.
"Whoosh whoosh..."
The golden arrow pierced the desert directly and penetrated into the passage.
"Bang bang bang..."
Some golden lights exploded directly, and dust flew all over the sky for a while.
Everyone quickly retreated and ran fifty meters away to prevent the people inside from rushing out to surround them.
The guardians of the tomb suddenly launched an attack on the underground passage, which proved that there must be someone there.
"Bang!"
As the last thick golden light fell, the entire underground passage was smashed out.
The golden light dissipated and the golden beads dimmed, flying back to Zhou Sheng's tomb guard armor.
The dust spread all over the sky, blown by the breeze.
Liuli raised the cat's paw, and the Yin-Yang Pearl turned into a Yin-Yang diagram and placed it under Zhou Sheng's feet, allowing Zhou Sheng to stand in the air.
Zhou Sheng kept holding his sword and pointed at the ground.
"Why haven't the rats in the passage come out yet?" Zhou Sheng said softly.