Chapter 373 The True and False Daughter, Star-Horse-Winged Snake
The huge mountain range covers half of the sky, like a giant beast lying on the earth, which can only be accommodated in vast and vast places like the northwest. of the next it.
The obsidian with dark red color is its body, and its mane rises from time to time, as if blown by the wind, but it burns the whole sky red. Take a closer look. It turned out to be fire all over the mountains and plains.
The fire was extinguished three times and lit up three nights.
The flames subsided again. In the center of the mountain, in a place where the flames were burning all the time, nine figures slowly walked out from the sea of hot fire that was so terrifying that it could turn rocks into gold.
They were naked, and their whole bodies were scorched black and smelly from the flames. The original ice-colored rings on their wrists and ankles also faded away from the cold white and turned red, like a soldering iron.
The nine people's steps were trembling, and with every step they took, some of the roasted black skin and flesh on their bodies peeled off like roasted sweet potato skins.
The blood seemed to have evaporated from their bodies, and the nine people walked out of this dangerous elemental holy land with only their will.
Seeing this scene, Bai Mo couldn't bear to look at it. He actually understood the pain of these nine people. He had listened to the suppressed roars for three days, but now he saw this miserable scene of dying, Even though I was mentally prepared, it still made me feel sad.
Staff Shao and Nan Yao also showed unbearable expressions. Staff Shao turned his head to the military commander, and the military commander immediately stepped forward and warned,
"Don't talk, don't move!"
At the same time, Yingying's healing light lit up on him, and healing bottles appeared one by one, sheltering the nine people in them.
It’s just that the nine people were injured too seriously, and even the healing vase had no effect, and the military commander’s healing system was only in the fourth level, which could not be said to be superb.
Obviously they were prepared, but not prepared enough.
However, they were suddenly cured, and the nine people also got a little better. At least they no longer walked with their charred bodies, and their red eyes also had a little more luster.
The leader of the researchers raised his hands tremblingly, and you could clearly see that his hands had long been carbonized. As he raised them, the carbon powder fell to the ground.
In the black dust, a silver brilliance slowly lit up. A space backpack was opened, and the contents inside fell out. They were nine boxes made of silver metal.
Dense red lines could be seen on the boxes that were bright and dark. Looking at the nine boxes, he opened his mouth and stared at Staff Officer Shao with a pair of dry and determined eyes. It took him a long time to squeeze out of his belly. Come out with four words.
“Fortunately, I did not disgrace my order!”
Advisor Shao took a deep breath, raised his head and glanced at Tina, and then turned to the military commander.
"Can it be cured?"
"Yes, but we must rest now and end the activities. It will take a long time to recover. If we take them back to Jiuquan Pass through a hundred kilometers now, we will probably escape death."
Escape from death! ?
Nan Yao opened his mouth, feeling that this statement was too light. They are all people who have been honed on the battlefield for a long time. They don't know how to treat, but their injuries can be identified at a glance.
The current injuries of these nine people can only be carried by Li Junsi. Not to mention walking a hundred kilometers with them, even if they go down to the Flame Mountain, they will probably lose their souls.
"I have some of Parthenon's healing medicine here."
Seeing that the atmosphere was getting heavy and the important things had been completed, Bai Mo suddenly spoke, and with a flip of his wrist, a dozen potions, about fifty tubes, appeared in his palm.
"It can be used externally or internally. Five for each of the nine of you should be enough."
Since clearing the Parthenon dungeon, these potions are just some small harvests from Ye Xinxia. Other potions came from another saint.
In short, there is still a lot of white ink, and I won’t be able to use it up in the future.
Because since Qin Yue studied with Ye Xinxia, the Bai family has established a partnership with her.
We are all partners, so it’s not too much to buy some healing potions at cost price.
As for the Parthenon potion worth thousands of gold, I’m sorry, we don’t need Parthenon’s name worth a thousand gold, what we want is the potion itself.
“Good guy, you have such a good thing, you are worthy of knocking off Parthenon.”
Nan Yao laughed loudly, not being polite to Bai Mo at such a critical moment , the big palm stretched out and took away the potion, and the short man poured it into the nine researchers.
The military commander was not idle either. He took some of the potion and used his water ability to control the potion and spread it evenly on the nine people.
Then Staff Hou Shao took out the new northwest camouflage and put it on the nine people. The nine people were touched, embarrassed, and embarrassed.
Parthenon's holy medicine worked well, and the injuries of the nine people were quickly controlled.
Bai Mo cast his gaze on the nine silver boxes on the ground. Although there were blazing red lines flashing on the surface of the boxes, he could not feel the slightest trace of blazing aura leaking from them.
Obviously, the sealing of this box is very good.
"With these nine boxes of fire sources, it is not a problem to support the nine Tarim Fortress cities."
At this moment, Staff Officer Shao was putting things into the space equipment one by one. Her brows did not relax because of this, but Said:
"Is there any way to take them with me?"
The nine researchers have sacrificed a lot, and she will not leave them alone. The problem is just to stay like this, even if Nine people used Parthenon's holy medicine to hang their lives, but they were still not intact enough to follow them for a hundred kilometers.
Her question also made Nan Yao and Li Junsi frown. Injuries are always the most deadly thing in the wild.
Many military mages perform field missions and often die due to serious injuries on their way home.
As for temporary first aid, Li Junsi's high-level healing bottle is actually enough to deal with most difficulties, but the current situation cannot be solved by the healing bottle.
"I can arrange a space teleportation array, but I need the spatial coordinates of Jiuquan City." Bai Mo said at this time
"Do you know the space teleportation array?" Hearing this, Staff Officer Shao raised his head in surprise. , she immediately took out a silver bracelet and handed it over.
"There is a set of space teleportation array materials here, which are specially used to teleport back to Jiuquan City. It's just that they were injured and couldn't move. I didn't think of this. You can see if you can lay it out."
Taking the bracelet, Bai Mo scanned it with his mind and found that it was not a unique teleportation formation. It was the same as what he had learned, so he nodded immediately.
"Yes, but it will take some time. In addition, we need to find a slightly open place. The fire attribute here is too strong, so it is not very suitable."
This is not difficult, a few The researchers can't leave, but Bai Mo can take them with him using teleportation. In the case of short distances, you only need to ask Staff Officer Shao and others to clear away the dust devils in the target area.
I saw golden light and thunder exploding a large vacuum area of Dust Storm Demon Grasshoppers at the flat foot of the Flame Mountain, and then a silver constellation fell in white ink. Nine researchers were sent into the space channel one after another and appeared at the foot of the mountain.
Then he disappeared and also appeared at the foot of the mountain. Before leaving, he left a space portal in place again and took away the three officers and staff.
The space array materials given by Staff Officer Shao are all processed semi-finished products, which means that they only need people who know how to build space arrays.
Although it can be done by anyone, it is a completely fool-proof operation, but for Bai Mo, who has never even formally arranged a space teleportation array, it is still easy.
Not only that, the core part of this array is directly synchronized with the space array in Jiuquan City.
If Bai Mo comes, he can only use his own magical modified version. He is not an array mage, so why would he carry space materials with him?
Therefore, we can only use willow branches from hollow willows. In addition, it is impossible to accurately position the formation at Jiuquan Pass.
The arrangement of the teleportation array was completed, and a group of people entered it one after another. Bai Mo immediately activated the array.
The space began to tremble, and silver streams of light covered everyone's figures, and they disappeared immediately.
In the space passage, Bai Mo exudes a thin silver brilliance. This brilliance seems to carry a strong will to suppress. The bumps, turbulence and other space impacts caused by long-distance space transmission are all there. He became calm under the suppression of Guanghua.
This is the reason why Counselor Shao was reassured by his idea of using space to teleport back to the city.
With the suppression of white ink, the discomfort caused by the teleportation will basically not occur to the nine researchers.
Time and space rotated in the blink of an eye, the light dispersed, and Bai Mo and others appeared in a corner of the ancient city gate.
Immediately a guard came to report and convey the instructions of Staff Officer Shao.
Bai Mo's duties have been completed. As a reinforcement, he has done enough. So he said hello, raised his feet and left.
As soon as he took two steps, he was held down by a big hand, "Boy, the things haven't been returned to me yet! That's my daughter's dowry, what, you want my daughter?"
< br>After a pause in his footsteps, Bai Mo spread out his palms, and the dual-use magic weapon immediately appeared in his palms. He stretched out his hand and handed his daughter back.
"Uncle, don't talk nonsense. Didn't I just forget it? How could I covet your magic weapon when I drink the Holy Potion of Tenon as water?"
"Hmph, you'd better Yes."
Nan Yao curled his lips, cursed and muttered, "You have a lustful heart, but you don't have the guts" and then ran away with the medical staff.
Bai Mo turned around, just in time to see the afterglow of the setting sun shining on a straight figure in khaki camouflage, and he grinned.
The fake daughter is sent away, and the real daughter is here.
"Why, I'm worried about your father."
He walked forward, reached out and patted Nan Jue on the shoulder as a greeting.
Nan Jue looked a little weird, always feeling that his words were somewhat ambiguous. He shook his head and said softly:
"I heard the news that you guys are back and that someone else was injured, so I Come and take a look."
"Oh. The nine researchers were seriously injured, and they had no hair left on their bodies when they came out." Bai Mo paused, glanced at her, and added. Fortunately you didn’t go.”
"I can't go either. Your and I have overlapping functions."
"Don't say that, it makes us look like a tool."
Nan Jue chuckled lightly and followed him Walking out, "Jiang Shaoxu contacted me and said that they found traces of the Winged Fire Snake and asked you to go there immediately after finishing the matter."
"Huh?!" Bai Mo nodded, and then was stunned again. .
"How did she contact you? She is still in the wild."
"The military long-distance communicator is not a direct call to me, but a signal, similar to Morse code, which was relayed by people in the Central Military Region after cracking it."
"That's it."< br>
Hearing this, Bai Mo remembered that Jiang Shaoxu in the original novel also asked for help in the Qinling Mountains, so he understood. "Are you looking for a totem?" Nan Jue suddenly asked, "It's still related to the stars."
"Yes."
Bai Mo was not surprised that she knew this. Nan Jue was also interested in and researched these ancient things. Whether it was speculation or asking Jiang Shaoxu in advance, he could know this.
“We got several Star Tokens, and using these as clues, we found three of the seven places of Canglong. We are currently looking for the Winged Fire Snake among the seven places of Suzaku.”
"Why don't you come to me? I remember I said that I have some research on these ancient things." Nan Jue said.
Bai Mo was slightly surprised. It was not that she said she had researched this, but judging from her expression, she seemed to know something about Suzaku Qisu.
"What do you know? About Suzaku Qisu. Don't trick me with fairy tales." He asked with some curiosity.
Nan Jue smiled mysteriously and did not answer, but asked, "You should have seen the totem patterns of the Star Totem, so what do you think of them?"
"How."
Hearing this, Bai Mo recalled the totem patterns of the Jiaomu Jiao, Fangri Rabbit, and Ditu Tapir that he had seen.
In fact, the three-sided tokens also have the patterns of the three totems, but they are not complete. The complete ones were only recorded when Bai Mo saw them themselves.
In general, the patterns of the three totems are very complicated in details, but in general they are relatively simple. It can be seen that they are the shapes of the three totems themselves.
However, the patterns and postures of the three totems are different from each other. If they were combined, they would just be the horns, chest and abdomen of the blue dragon.
When Ding Yumian carefully considered the lines on the wing in his hand, he found that they were very similar to the lines on the wings of birds.
“In general, the totem pattern of the Star Totem is very close to the image of the totem itself, and can also correspond to some parts of the Four Spirits.”
“Yes, look at it This, what does it look like?"
Nan Jue nodded, raised his hand and took out a round thing, like a badge.
The badge is not big, with a red background and brown lines, giving it the appearance of a galloping horse.
The horse does not appear occupying the center of the badge, but seems to be running on the surface of the inner circle of the badge. It is drawn a bit long, and the rings surrounding the inner circle of the badge are almost connected end to end, forming a lock up.
A horse's body is generally smooth and straight, but on this badge, it is twisted into a circle from the side. Therefore, it took Bai Mo a long time to recognize it.
In fact, when you first look at it, the pattern of this badge does not actually look like a horse. Instead, it has an overall feeling of big eyes.
The brown torso in the center surrounded by a circle is the pupil, and the slender limbs flying around are the blood vessels protruding towards the eyes.
At first glance, it looks like the eyes of a beast with split canthus!
“This is.”
The divine horse pattern and the external image of the eyeballs. Bai Mo's thoughts raced in his mind, and in a blink of an eye he thought of Xingrima, one of the seven constellations of Suzaku. Among the seven constellations in the south, the star is considered to be the eye of Suzaku.
"The totem pattern of the Star Sun Horse?"
He said with some uncertainty.
"It should be, but the real pattern may be far more complicated than this. This is the emblem of our family."
Nan Jue said slowly, "I love studying some ancient things, it's not that I didn't come here The original source of interest was the family emblem. "
"It is not only the symbol of the Nan family, it is also used on various types of utensils, and some of them even have similar patterns. It aroused my interest, and I started to study it, and also learned about the history of the Nan family, or the origin of these pattern seals."
The sun went down, and the two of them stood in a shadow, with no white ink. Break, continue to listen to her,
"It comes from an adventure that Taizu had a hundred years ago. Taizu didn't seem to get any specific artifacts, only these coats of arms and magic methods were left behind."
"But after so many years of searching, I have not found nothing. At least I know where Taizu got these things."
When Nan Jue said this, he paused, as if waiting for Bai Mo ask.
"Where?" As expected, Bai Mo still asked.
"In the Suzhou area in the south, it should not be far from Gusu City. According to a few words in Taizu's handwritten notes, he only had these things after walking out of the thousands of miles of bamboo sea."
said. After finishing, Nan Jue slowly walked towards his residence, only the sound came clearly.
"If you want to look for it, you can call me. I'm very interested in these."
Watching him leave, Bai Mo fell into deep thought. The news about Xingrima's location can help Lingling unite afterwards. Be precise in their approach.
However, based on past experience, to find traces of these star totems, it is not enough to rely on some information about scale claws, but also need key tokens.
There is no token. It is probably like the Yuwen family in Tianmen City, where there is only a trace of a totem device.
Even the Yuwen family only saw a totem device part in their hands.
Nanjue's Taizu returned empty-handed, leaving behind only some derivative technologies related to the Star Sun Horse, but no totem devices or other things. This was obviously because there was no token corresponding to the Star Sun Horse.
It was getting dark, so he simply stayed in the pass for one night, and set off the next day to where Ding Yumian and the others were.
It is far more convenient to travel alone than with a group of people. The scenery around you is constantly changing. Traveling under stars and nights, the sun rises and the moon sets, and you finally reach the flame mountains above the basin.
Bai Mo left a spatial mark on Ding Yumian's body, which can accurately help him find her location. It is easier to use than a spatial compass.
A few pieces of inconspicuous silver dust scattered on the thousands of miles of yellow sand, and a figure flashed one after another. In the blink of an eye, they appeared above the reddish-brown mountains.
The location where Ding Yumian and the others were located was not hidden. They set up a tent directly on the flat ground on the other side of the lava pool.
Jiang Shaoxu used plants to plant a fence around it, and Bai Mo noticed the fluctuations of spiritual magic on it.
This is a circle of psychological fear fence, which can make the creatures approaching feel the inner fear and subconsciously stay away.
Bai Mo even saw them having a barbecue, which was really arrogant.
Only when the mind is in the wild can you play so well. Other mages are not looking for a safe and hidden place to hide.
"I'm here."
His figure fell down and glanced at the meat on the fire. He didn't know what kind of demon it was. The three Linglings looked at him, and Ding Yumian asked:
"Have you eaten?"
"No." Bai Mo blinked, so leisurely.
“We haven’t eaten either.” Ding Yumian turned the barbecue in his hand and continued, “Let’s eat first. I’ll take you down after you finish.”
"What's going on?" Bai Mo looked at Lingling.
"The ruins of the Winged Fire Snake are in that lava pool. I asked Sister Yumian to tell you specifically that she went down." Lingling took a sip of juice and said.
“This entire lava spring was formed by the Winged Fire Snake. It was only when the spring water flowed upward that it merged with the lava and became the current lava pool.”
Before Bai Mo could ask any questions, Ding Yumian took the initiative to speak.
“The depth of the pool we saw last time was only about ten meters, but in fact the real pool is a hundred meters deep. The body of the Winged Fire Snake is at the bottom of the pool. There seems to be a special layer of identification restrictions at ten meters , Only with flames flowing from his body can he continue to dive."
"And if all the magma in the pool is consumed, the restriction will not appear, and you will not be able to enter it."
Bai Mo nodded slightly, and did not expect it to be so smooth, but smoothness is always good. Seeing that Ding Yumian had gone down, he asked:
"Besides the bones of the Winged Fire Snake, what else is there below?"
"There is a clear spring under the magma. No, it should be a hot spring. In that hot spring There is a special energy that can improve the quality of my fire soul seed. I absorbed more than half of it, and the fire soul seed has become a sub-celestial seed."
Ding Yumian said slowly and handed it over. Give him the roast meat and continue,
"I took out some hot springs and let Lingling and Jiang Shaoxu try it. Their physical fitness improved a little, as if impurities were driven away."
"Yumian, what you said is not very appropriate. "We are not dirty, how can we get rid of impurities?" Jiang Shaoxu couldn't help complaining.
"Just understand the meaning." He reached for a piece of meat and blocked her mouth. Ding Yumian continued to tell,
"In addition to the bones at the bottom of the pool, there is also a bow, which should be the totem device. I I tried to wake up the Winged Fire Snake, but it seems to have been sleeping for a long time and is most likely dead."
Bai Mo nodded again, but this time the totem device was another weapon, but it was not. Expected.
After eating, Bai Mo followed Ding Yumian to the edge of the lava pool.
The whirring platinum flames burned from her body. Compared with the previous soul-level flames that were so arrogant and domineering, as if they were going to burn the whole world to ashes, the catastrophic divine flames at this time But it became much calmer, like a sword hidden in a box.
"Protect yourself."
As she said this, she reached out and grabbed Bai Mo's hand. At the same time, the white-gold flames spread towards Bai Mo's body.
The surface of the white ink skin was instantly covered with a thin layer of silver light, and all the flames clung to the thin light, not his body.
The two of them got ready and jumped into the lava together.
The temperature in the lava is extraordinary, and it would be impossible for a fire mage to survive for a long time. But it doesn't take a few seconds to sink dozens of meters.
Wrapped in flames, he only felt that he had passed through a thin film. As he continued downward, the red color of the molten lava gradually faded, and the temperature dropped to that of normal warm water.
He could feel the strands of energy melting into his body from the crystal clear hot spring.
The two of them dived all the way to the bottom of the pool. The space here was far wider and more open than above. It was no longer a pool, but more like a small underground lake.
In the center of the lake floor, a giant snake with its whole body like a red gold and warm jade is lying in the coils. The huge snake body is as long as I don't know and is as thick as a pagoda. It is like a red gold sacred mountain, solemn and sacred.
The scales on the snake's body are lifelike and clear-cut, but they seem to be completely made of fire elements, emitting a bright but not dazzling shimmer.
If it came alive, it would probably be a creature like a totem black snake.
But even Bai Mo can feel the heavy death energy under that sacred body!
If it had dark power, the death energy would be enough to turn this place into a small land of the undead!
(End of this chapter)