Chapter 354: Sky Collapse
While returning to the surface from the bottom of the water, Chen Ziyan and others also discovered that the water level in the pool had increased by no means a little bit.
However, thanks to the many cracks and caves of various shapes on the valley wall, the water level rose again, but it was not as serious as they expected.
After roughly understanding the situation, Chen Ziyan knew that he could not delay any longer, so he led a few people ashore from a plank road close to the water on the rock wall.
Although they have left the gloomy Xuan Gong Hades, the few people standing on the plank road have no feeling of seeing the sun again, because now not only the heavy rain is pouring down in the valley, creating a series of continuous visions The rain made everything difficult, and the sky above was densely covered with dark clouds. If it hadn't been for the weak light source in their hands, they would have experienced firsthand what it meant to be blind.
If you take into account the rumbling water waves of the surrounding waterfalls, it is even more depressing than the Hades Palace buried deep underground. At least there will be no feeling of stagnation of breath down there.
"There is rain on the plank road now. Everyone should be careful on the next road." After Chen Ziyan reminded him, he took the lead and started to go up along the plank road under his feet.
Although this cliff is not difficult to cross, it is definitely steep and dangerous. Especially when there are no safety measures, a slight mistake may cost a life.
Hu Bayi, who was following him, glanced at the gradually rising water level and couldn't help but ask: "Master Chen, should we go directly back to Lingyun Palace and make some repairs there to enter the Worm Valley, or should we go directly Go back to the Calabash Cave, and then back to the Worm Valley?”
This represents the two ways for them to return. If they go back to the Calabash Cave through the original route, then the corpse cave that they are chasing after them may be the only one. We can wait until we get out of the underground to solve it, but it will take time, and no one knows how far the corpse cave will grow after being fed by the things in the gourd cave.
And if they go directly to Minglou, then they can wait for the weather to clear tomorrow and then start dealing with the corpse cave chasing behind them. Although this is risky, Hu Bayi feels more confident.
Of course, if you don’t want to pursue him persistently in the Corpse Cave, then walking through the Calabash Cave is an excellent choice. The complicated space inside makes it easy to get rid of the pursuer.
"Let's go back to the Worm Valley directly through the Hulu Cave. We can just use the power of the Corpse Cave to clean up the mess in there." Chen Ziyan said in a calm voice when he heard this.
He must lead the corpse cave into the Calabash Cave, otherwise how will he get the reward of Huo's Undead Insect, and more importantly, they need to lead the corpse cave to the mouth of the valley and use the Feng Shui there. The terrain wiped it out, and it was definitely more appropriate to take a familiar path than an unfamiliar one.
Who knows what kind of trouble you will encounter when leading from above to the mouth of the valley!
"Mr. Chen, is that thing really the legendary corpse cave?" Upon hearing Chen Ziyan's words, Hu Bayi perked up and asked quickly.
Although he also judged that it was a corpse cave, after it was actually confirmed, he still found it a bit incredible.
The theory of the corpse cave is too vague to say. According to legend, there are extremely strict conditions for it to appear. This is why he can't believe his own judgment.
Actually, this question has been in his mind for a while, but he has been busy running away, so he didn't ask it until now.
"Yes, it's a corpse cave." Chen Ziyan nodded slightly and gave an affirmative answer.
If he hadn't already been familiar with the plot, he probably wouldn't have believed it so easily, so he understood Hu Bayi and the others' current mentality.
Shirley Yang suddenly raised a question at this time: "But even if it's a corpse cave, they won't chase us hard, right?"
It stands to reason that they came out of the water. , after such washing, even if there is any smell on the body, it will be washed away.
What's more, although she has never seen a corpse cave, a special evil between life and death, it doesn't mean that no one in her family has seen it. Her grandfather Qiu Shao had encountered it in France. I've lived there before, so I don't know anything about corpse caves.
According to Partridge Whistle’s post-incident records, strictly speaking, this corpse cave is a unique ‘gap’, a space between life and death, positive and negative, black and white. Countless corpses, once captured in the corpse cave, will become part of the corpse cave.
However, even though the Corpse Cave welcomes all comers, it is passive in most cases, which means it does not actively hunt. Therefore, Shirley Yang found it difficult to lead the Corpse Cave into the Calabash Cave.
Faced with her doubts, Chen Ziyan raised the corpse of King Xian in his hand: "Don't worry, as long as King Xian is in our hands, the corpse cave will keep chasing us."
Although he didn't know what was going on between King Xian's corpse and the corpse cave, there was no doubt that there was some unique connection between the two.
Maybe this corpse cave was created by King Xian for his personal bodyguard.
So Chen Ziyan was sure that as long as the corpse cave was not destroyed, he would always be chasing after them.
"Is this why you brought King Xian's body?" A flash of surprise flashed in Shirley Yang's eyes.
"That's not true." Chen Ziyan shook his head gently: "If it is just to attract the corpse cave, it only needs the head of the king. The reason why I brought this corpse is that I think if the corpse cave absorbs If you remove the corpse, the thing will become much stronger."
Chen Ziyan told his guess about King Xian's corpse.
But he didn’t have any exact reason, it was just an answer he came up with intuitively.
If he wanted to try, he could only feed the corpse in his hand to the corpse cave, but that would probably enhance the corpse cave as he thought, making it more difficult for them to escape.
"It's not impossible. If the corpse cave really keeps chasing King Xian's body, it means there must be something inside the corpse or the corpse itself that attracts it." Shirley Yang thought for a while and said. .
She felt that Chen Ziyan's idea was completely fine, which just explained why Corpse Cave was pursuing him so hard.
"After we enter the Hulu Cave, we will give this corpse to the Corpse Cave. The road there is familiar, and it can handle it even if it is strengthened." Chen Ziyan thought for a while and told his plan.
This was actually what he had thought of in the underground palace. Firstly, he wanted to see if his guess was correct, and secondly, he was afraid that the current corpse cave would not be able to deal with the Huo's Undead Worm.
Chen Ziyan actually doubted whether the old guy Xian Wang had deliberately created this corpse cave in order to prepare an escape route for himself. His corpse was the core of the corpse cave.
If this is the case, it means that after the Corpse Cave swallows the Muchen Bead, it will most likely turn into something else, something that does not have the obvious weaknesses of the Corpse Cave.
However, this possibility can only be a guess, because it is impossible for Chen Ziyan to experiment with Muchen Beads.
The others can naturally understand what Chen Ziyan wants to express. After thinking about the situation when he came before, they have no opinion on it.
They know the situation inside the Hulu Cave well enough, and even if the corpse cave really becomes stronger, the first ones to bear the brunt will not be outsiders like them, but the aboriginal people in the Hulu Cave. They have plenty of time to escape. .
If this is the case, then Chen Ziyan wants to do a small experiment, and they have no reason to refuse. Hu Bayi even felt that if the corpse cave swallowed up all the female corpses in the gourd cave, it might be a good thing for the locals.
After all, no one knows whether the countless female corpses inside will one day leave the mountain along the water flow and go to areas where humans live.
Not to mention the ferocious babies conceived in the corpses, the germs carried by the corpses alone are enough to contaminate clean water sources.
"Have you felt it, the bottom of the valley... seems to be windy?" At this moment, Ding Sitian said this very abruptly.
The wind is blowing at the bottom of the valley?
This is a somewhat contradictory word.
They all knew that the bottom of the valley was a pool, not land, and it was raining heavily. How could the wind rise from the bottom of the valley?
But Ding Sitian’s face told them that she did not mean to be joking, which forced everyone to pay attention.
You must know that the terrain here is doomed. There can be showers but not strong winds. If something goes wrong at this moment, there must be a monster.
Immediately, the group stopped and followed Ding Sitian’s instructions, each stretching out their hands to feel it.
After they got used to the feeling of falling raindrops, they soon felt the feeling of wind that Ding Sitian mentioned. Even though the heavy rain formed a dense curtain of water in the valley, everyone could still clearly feel the strong and powerful wisps of rain. Air currents are rising from the valley floor below.
After feeling this air flow, Chen Ziyan quickly figured out what was going on. When even his expression changed, he said to the others:
“We can’t continue walking. Let’s go first. Find a place to take shelter!”
After that, he looked back and forth on the nearby rock wall, and soon found a rock crevice that could accommodate everyone present, and took a few people to hide. Went inside.
"Master Chen, do you know what's going on?" Hu Bayi asked Chen Ziyan after entering the crevice.
From Chen Ziyan's performance just now, he could probably guess something.
Chen Ziyan was secretly rejoicing at this moment. If it weren't for Ding Sitian's reminder, he almost forgot about the air flow.
After hearing Hu Bayi's question, he replied: "The earth's energy is about to explode!"
The earth's energy is about to explode!
Hearing the answer given by Chen Ziyan, Hu Bayi suddenly felt a chill in his heart.
It's not like he hasn't imagined what's going on, but he really hasn't thought about it.
Thinking about it now, I realize that things are really like what Chen Ziyan said. This deep valley and deep pool can create wind out of thin air during heavy rains, and only the stagnant earth energy can explode.
Not long after they entered the crevice, they heard the howling wind outside getting louder and louder, like thousands of cavalry charging, drowning out the sound of falling rain. Pressed over.
Fortunately, Chen Ziyan and the others hid in the crevices in advance. Otherwise, they would have been caught in the middle and suffered. Even if they were not careful, they would have been involved. By then, all the injuries could only be described as minor. hurt.
But even so, they could not completely avoid the influence of this turmoil. Although the violent storm could not enter this small crevice, the noisy and harsh sounds were not affected. And because of the unique structure of the rock crevices, these sounds seemed to be intensified. Everyone was shocked by these messy sounds, and they felt that their eardrums were about to be burst, and their brains went blank.
I don’t know how long it took, but calm finally returned to the outside, which also allowed everyone who was in a daze to regain their composure.
The magic sound that filled their ears just now made them almost forget who they were!
After they calmed down a little, the group of people left the crevice to see what was going on outside. When Chen Ziyan saw what was going on outside clearly, he knew that the matter had just come to an end and was not considered complete. Finish.
In the center of the deep valley, the air currents that were raging throughout the circular valley had gathered together and turned into a waterspout that shot straight into the sky, tearing apart the heavy clouds in the sky. There was a gap.
Seeing the blood-red cracks in the dark sky, Chen Ziyan's heart moved and he subconsciously lowered his head to look at the pool below.
King Xian's arrangement was one ring after another. He didn't think that there would be no corresponding things below the appearance of this strange appearance.
It turned out that he was right. After searching for a while, Chen Ziyan saw traces of the corpse cave on the rock wall at the edge of the pool.
At this moment, the shape of the corpse cave has changed. It is much smaller overall. It looks like a box made of dark flesh and blood, crawling slowly and rhythmically on the rock wall.
Compared with the previous snarling appearance, the corpse hole is undoubtedly much more restrained now, but it also feels a bit more dangerous to Chen Ziyan.
It is estimated that this thing swallowed something on the way out, causing it to undergo unknown changes.
When Chen Ziyan saw the corpse cave, Wang Kaixuan looked up at the sky and asked dumbfounded: "Isn't this the collapse of the sky depicted in the mural?"
He thought it was the so-called collapse of the sky. It was just King Xian’s imagination, but he didn’t expect to actually see it!
Although the others were not as exaggerated as him, they all looked shocked. They did not expect that such a devastating scene would actually appear before their eyes.
When Chen Ziyan looked away, he saw everyone around him looking blankly at the sky, and he urged: "Don't worry about the sky for now. We should leave now. If we continue to watch here, , it’s time to be driven out of the corpse cave.”
When the others heard his words, they were a little confused at first, but after seeing the dark things that were coming upwards, they immediately became aware of it. Understand the current situation.
"Is that thing really catching up with you?" Wang Kaixuan didn't dare to look around, so he could only ask other people around him.
"We have indeed been chased out. Mr. Chen is right. If we don't leave, we will be caught up." Hu Ba nodded, then patted his shoulder: "Let's go, Fatty, listen. Mr. Chen, let’s leave here first.”
Although he doesn’t know much about corpse caves, just by looking at their appearance, he knows that this kind of evil thing will be very tenacious. It is difficult to eliminate it.
And more importantly, the corpse cave below is climbing up in a straight line, while they are spiraling around the mountain wall. Although they are traveling much faster than the corpse cave, they reach the same point. The time at altitude may not be much shorter.
(End of this chapter)