Jiang Yuebai penetrated the upper layer of demonic energy and black fog and landed on a protruding rock at the edge of the rift. The gravel fell downwards, and there was no echo after more than ten breaths. The silence was so deep and terrifying.
The protective qi around Jiang Yuebai was corroded bit by bit by the dense demonic energy, and she needed to constantly circulate her spiritual energy to maintain it. Even her spiritual consciousness could not extend too far and would also be corroded by the demonic energy.
"Follow me."
Xing Chou sent a voice transmission, but Jiang Yuebai could only vaguely feel that she was below, but could not determine her exact location.
Jiang Yuebai frowned slightly and continued to go deeper into the rift valley.
The deeper you go, the thicker the demonic energy becomes. The air is also filled with a pungent smell mixed with blood and decay. Rustling sounds can be heard around the black fog. Centipedes and giant pythons as dark black as the mountain walls crawl by quietly, and there are also poisonous insects larger than humans, spewing poisonous gas in the demonic energy.
"Hold your breath, don't alarm them."
Xing Chou dodged nimbly, still familiar with the route, and carefully led Jiang Yuebai to avoid the nests of ferocious beasts and poisonous insects.
After continuing to go deeper than three thousand feet, Xing Chou grabbed a protruding rock on one side of the mountain wall with one hand, signaling Jiang Yuebai behind him to follow.
Jiang Yuebai landed beside her. Xingchou looked at Jiang Yuebai and saw that she looked normal, so he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
"Look down there."
Jiang Yuebai received the voice transmission and squinted his eyes to look carefully downwards. He only saw black fog surging like thick ink, and nothing else. However, it was indeed strange that the section above was full of poisonous insects, but there was nothing nearby.
Jiang Yuebai extended her spiritual sense again and immediately felt an extremely dangerous and murderous aura that made her shudder.
The cold wind from underground blew away the strands of hair on Jiang Yuebai's forehead. The black fog below surged and dissipated a little, revealing the body of a huge monster.
It was a white bone dragon, its huge body coiled and squeezed in the rift which was a bit narrow for it. Its body was covered with sharp and terrifying bone spurs. The two of them combined were not as big as one of the bone spurs on the bone dragon.
In the dragon head's empty eye sockets, two balls of black flames danced steadily, rising and falling with its breathing.
"A bone dragon in the late Nascent Soul stage." Xingchou sent a voice message and grabbed a rock. "I can see it clearly."
After saying that, Xingchou stretched out his arm and let go of the rock in his hand.
The rock fell straight down, passed through the gaps between the bones of the bone dragon, and was suddenly turned into powder by a strong force.
At that moment, Jiang Yuebai saw a fluctuation of air flow, faintly revealing a corner of the restriction pattern, and the bone dragon was pressing on the restriction.
"This bone dragon can definitely sense that there is something down there. I've been here several times, and it has never left. Others have explored here before, and other dragons came here, but they were all eaten by the bone dragon. So this place has not been exposed yet. If you have the ability, just go and explore it."
Dragons like to occupy and hoard treasures; it's their nature, so Jiang Yuebai believed what Xing Chou said. Just like when Ao Juan dominated the Dragon Palace, there must be treasures down there.
"I have done everything I promised you. Now you can complete the contract and give me the things, right?"
Jiang Yuebai looked up at Xingchou and said with a smile: "This place is not suitable. Take me out first, and I will give it to you when we are outside the rift valley."
Xingchou was a little surprised, "Aren't you going to go down and take a look?"
"I have my own plans."
Xing Chou looked at Jiang Yuebai deeply for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking, and finally nodded, "Follow me."
Under the leadership of Xingchou, the two quickly returned to the top of the rift and found a place where no ferocious beasts appeared. They each took out the contract jade talisman.
Once the jade talisman was activated, it hung in front of the two people, emitting a faint light.
This jade talisman comes from the Doumu Realm under the Northern Star Alliance. The master of this realm is the Immortal Lord Fatian, and the laws of the Doumu Realm are very strict.
The jade talismans of contracts made in this world also contain unshakable power. Once voluntarily signed, the contract will take effect unless the Immortal Lord Fatian dies.
Xing Chou took out a big-bellied porcelain bottle. Jiang Yuebai watched her open the cork and let out a stream of water. The water was turbid and yellowish-brown in color, which had a certain attraction to the soul.
After confirming that it was correct, Jiang Yuebai took out a mermaid pearl and hung it on the palm of his hand.
Xingchou was confused at first, but after scanning it with his spiritual sense for a long time, his pupils trembled, "Is this a mermaid pearl?! Where did you get it from? You don't even use a soul-sealing jade box to preserve such a precious thing. It's simply!!"
Xingchou was a little excited and almost swore.
"Since you know this item is precious, do you mind if I ask you another question?"
Xingchou swallowed his saliva, glanced at the contract jade talisman, and restrained his urge to snatch it, "You ask."
"Where did you get the 'Chaos Devouring Heaven Art'? I thought about it later. This technique cultivates the Taiyin demonic energy. If there is Taiyin, there should also be Taiyang. Only in this way can the chaos be combined. It seems that the technique you gave me is only half."
Xingchou's eyes immediately became alert, but Jiang Yuebai was not in a hurry and just played with the mermaid pearl.
In the end, Xingchou was defeated and glanced in the direction of the rift valley. "I only have this half, which I stole from the bone dragon after escaping death four years ago. If you want to find the other half, go find it yourself!"
Jiang Yuebai sighed inwardly, as expected, she was just lying, and she didn't expect that she really had a partner.
"Can you show me the original in your hand?" Jiang Yuebai said.
Xingchou struggled for a while, gritted his teeth and took out half a black iron plate from his belt. There were some magic words on the iron plate.
Jiang Yuebai swept her spiritual sense over it and couldn't help but be shocked. The material of the iron plate and the magic words written on it were very similar to the black tripod she got from the Iron Palm Realm.
Xingchou quickly put away half of the black iron plate and said angrily, "Can you give me the things now?"
"One more question."
"Are you done yet?"
"The last sentence, really, whose cave is this powerful demon cultivator's cave? Is he dead?"
"Huntian, one of the ten great demons of Hongmeng Heaven, was killed by a group of people in the outer part of the void when he was going through the great fusion catastrophe about thirty years ago. As long as you are not discovered by others, you don't have to worry about anyone targeting you. The demon Huntian is indeed dead."
Jiang Yuebai nodded slowly. The people in the Qinglong Realm called the upper realm Hongmeng Heaven, and she found that no matter where they were, these people liked to make rankings such as the top ten ghost generals and the top ten demons.
"Thank you. Go on."
Jiang Yuebai threw out the Mermaid Pearl, and Xingchou swept the water of the Sandu River in front of Jiang Yuebai with a palm wind. The two objects fell into each other's hands. The jade talismans in the air immediately came together to form a strange rune, and then dissipated like the wind along with the jade talismans, blowing on the eyebrows of the two people, dissipating the backlash of the contract.
Xing Chou was very cautious. He immediately took several steps back with the mermaid pearl in his hand and raised a shield to block in front of him.
Behind Jiang Yuebai, Xiaolu was also ready to go, and the atmosphere between the two was tense.
Xingchou thought that her father was still waiting for the mermaid pearl to save his life, so she was on full alert and evacuated first, quickly disappearing in the direction of Longgu Gorge.
Jiang Yuebai waited until she walked far away before his body turned into a white vine, carrying the water of the Sandu River and leaving with Xiaolu.
At the foot of the mountain in the distance, Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi hid in the formation and let out a long sigh.
"That Xingchou kept me on edge all the way, especially before when I was affected by the demonic energy. My real body and clone were only a hundred feet apart. I was so nervous following behind her, afraid that she would find me. Now I can finally relax."
Lu Nanzhi raised an eyebrow, "It's rare to find someone you find difficult to deal with."
Jiang Yuebai nodded, "Indeed, she must have grown up in a high-pressure environment. She is too alert. She has never taken action during this journey. Just looking at her body movements, I feel that she is not easy to deal with. However, she did not notice my real body following behind her, which means that her cultivation is not even at the Nascent Soul stage."
"What should we do next? Should we go down and investigate?" Lu Nanzhi asked.
Jiang Yuebai pondered for a moment and said, "Wait three days. If she doesn't come back, we can go down again. I still have a little Ao Juan's blood on me. I can lure the bone dragon away for a while, and then use the dragon clan's space restriction to bring you in. But after I use the space restriction, my soul will be weak for a while. Then it will all depend on you, Anan, to protect me."
On the way to Qinglong Realm, considering the possibility of meeting Ao Juan, Jiang Yuebai told Lu Nanzhi and Xie Jingshan in advance about his encounter with Ao Juan.
Lu Nanzhi laughed, "Don't worry, I'm here, and I won't let anything happen to you."
"Well, I'll use the flying sword to tell Xie Jingshan that I guess we'll have to stay here for a while."
(End of this chapter)