Arriving in front of an undersea gorge, “River-Flipping Tiger” Zhu Bo said, “The Crystal Palace is just beyond. We’d better take a rest here and build up our strength. It’s a bit dangerous inside the Crystal Palace.”
The others had no objections, so they sat down here.
During this time, Xianggu poured out the bottles and jars in her sack and checked them one by one. However, she was worried that the corks were not tightly inserted and moisture would seep into the bottles, affecting the little cuties inside.
The white-haired old man sat on a stone and ate something with the help of the young couple.
Shi Hao used the Sacred Heart Mirror Method to quietly circulate his profound energy, while dealing with Shui Xiuyan who was talking to him, and monitoring the movements around him.
Under the induction of the mysterious energy, he discovered that there was some invisible and mysterious airflow condensing in this area.
This airflow is like air, invisible and intangible, but it repels the surrounding water currents, creating a unique space in this underwater world.
At this moment, his thought moved slightly.
He sensed that a dozen feet away, among the piles of coral trees, there was a pair of eyes peering at them.
I originally thought it was some kind of creature living around the Crystal Palace, but those eyes were full of spirituality.
Suddenly, his mind moved again... He sensed that the white-haired, frail and sickly-looking old man raised his head and also glanced towards the coral tree.
The creature hiding among the coral trees was quite alert. It suddenly dived down and disappeared... There was actually a waterway hidden among the coral trees in the dense forest.
Shi Hao didn't raise his head to look at the coral bushes over there, but thought to himself: "Girl? No... She dove into the water, and something seemed to come out and shook... A fish tail?"
How many strange things are hidden in this crystal palace
Just then, there was a loud bang above them.
They looked up, but could see nothing.
There was a layer of ice crystals above, and above the ice crystals was darkness.
However, the vibration sound continued to occur, without stopping.
"What is this?" Shui Xiuyan frowned. "I've been to the Crystal Palace several times before, and I've never experienced this kind of vibration."
Zhu Bo frowned and said, "It's so noisy, it sounds like drilling... Like a wooden armor mechanism or something like that."
Xu Xiaoyan asked curiously: "Wooden armor mechanism?"
Zhu Bo said: "The wooden armor mechanism can be considered a traditional and ancient technology, but the Barbarian Court prohibits the public from studying this technology, and the martial artists do not take it seriously.
"I heard that the Hanhe family, one of the four great families of the royal family, has been recruiting famous artisans and craftsmen in the martial arts world for the past two or three hundred years to cultivate talents in this field. They have made achievements in this field that are unknown to the outside world."
Shi Hao and Xu Xiaoyan looked at each other.
They all remembered the mysterious wooden armor loaded on the Sea Shark Gang's fleet.
The Sea Shark Gang can basically be said to be the running dogs of the Hanhe family!
Zhu Bo stood up and said, "Let's go to the Crystal Palace first and do our own thing."
They quickly passed through the gorge and entered the Crystal Palace.
Shi Hao and Xu Xiaoyan looked over and saw ice crystals extending on both sides, a palace of cold jade in the front and an ice dome as the top. It was colorful and mysterious.
When walking in a place like this, they only need to exert a little effort and their whole body will float up.
It was as if an invisible current was supporting them, increasing their buoyancy.
As we continued forward, we saw more and more coral trees, various kinds of water plants, patches of seaweed hanging down from high above, and more fish swimming around.
The fish here are completely different from those in the outside world. In addition to scales and fins, many of them also have baby-like hands. While swimming, from time to time, two small hands grab the coral branches and swing their tails.
High up, an octopus-like creature swam over with its eight tentacles coiled.
These strange fish with baby-like hands scattered.
They also hid quietly, not wanting to be discovered by the octopus... They didn't know whether the octopus was really powerful, but they didn't dare to provoke the creatures in the Crystal Palace.
Of course, there are exceptions.
For example, shiitake mushrooms.
She seemed quite curious about the strange-looking octopus with eyes that darted around and emitted beams of light, and wanted to approach it quietly.
Shi Hao and Xu Xiaoyan had no choice but to grab her and pull her away.
Before entering the Crystal Palace, Shi Hao already knew that there were many unexplored mysterious areas deep inside the Crystal Palace.
In some places, people who entered in the past could no longer get out.
It would be best if he could find the Dream Grass he wanted on the top floor and then leave.
However, finding the dream grass is not an easy task.
Sister Ziyin introduced the Huaimeng grass to him, saying that it looked like a mimosa and emitted two-color light. The grass itself was covered in light blue, and the outside was surrounded by a layer of pink luster.
If you touch it with your hand, at that moment, you will feel like you are dreaming.
This kind of grass grows naturally and is not found everywhere, even in the Crystal Palace.
After leaving the Crystal Palace, it will wither in a short time. So Shi Hao brought both the Blue Sky Vermilion Fruit and the Huanhai Divine Ganoderma, put them on the boat, and asked Huan Tingting to help him prepare the furnace for alchemy in advance.
After obtaining three plants of Huaimeng Grass, he left the Crystal Palace, rushed back to the boat, and began to make elixirs.
There was a rumbling sound coming from far behind. It seemed that the wooden armor mechanisms were beginning to enter the Crystal Palace.
Shi Hao looked at Zhu Bo and said, "It looks like a large group of people are about to come in from outside. Why don't we separate now, each find what we want, and then leave separately?"
Zhu Bo glanced back uneasily and whispered, "Okay."
Shi Hao said, "Let's go!" Speaking in this crystal palace, every word he spoke felt like a large amount of air was pouring into his mouth, making it difficult to adapt.
Shi Hao, Yue Yaotai, Huan Tingting, Xu Xiaoyan and Xianggu swam to the other side together... They found that it was easier to half swim and half walk in this crystal palace.
After getting away from those people, Shi Hao looked around and saw water plants everywhere. Many of them were incredibly large, and the coral trees were like mountains, crisscrossing and overlapping.
He had a headache and said, "I don't know where to find the Dream Grass?"
Yueyaotai said: "If we go deeper, we should be able to find it."
The invisible buoyancy was so great that her pleated skirt fluttered and her particularly conspicuous lapels floated up and down, which was dizzying.
They were about to move forward when suddenly, Shi Hao and Yue Yaotai looked at each other.
Then, Shi Hao turned around and sneered, "Come out!"
Chapter 236 Crystal Palace: The Sun-Devouring Demonic Dragon!
As they were talking, five people came out. They were the "Two Heroes of Hunshan" He Jing and He Gang, as well as the "Nine Poisonous Ladies" Shui Xiuzhen and two other men.
Shui Xiuyan smiled and said, "What an alert little brother. Don't worry, little brother. We are just afraid that you will get lost here, so we came to check and help you."
Xu Xiaoyan said with a grin, "Why do you have to put it in such nice words? Don't you just want to know which road we came from, and then kill us so that you can monopolize us in the future?"
Shui Xiuyan snorted.
He Jing said with murderous intent, "If you tell us, we can still spare you and do business together in the future. Otherwise..."
He raised his sword and said, "Don't blame me for letting you die here now."
Whoosh, just as he finished speaking, a figure flashed in front of him, and it turned out to be the beautiful woman in a pleated skirt who looked the least powerful and quickly made a move.
He Jing only felt that the woman who originally had a kind face suddenly became cold and beautiful, and in an instant she was in front of him.
He Jing was shocked, and with a swipe of his sword, he emitted a terrifying sword energy filled with murderous intent.
Yue Yaotai pierced through with his hand, and with a bang, the sword energy dissipated.
He Jing was blown backwards, spurting blood along the way.
He Gang, Shui Xiuyan and others were all shocked.
He Jing was at least a sixth-rank expert, but he was knocked away by this woman's palm
When they looked again, they saw that the woman glanced at them lightly. After the gentle and peaceful expression was restrained, it was actually cold and filled with silent murderous intent.
They never imagined that this woman who seemed to be in the most need of protection actually had the strength of the fourth rank.
In the martial arts world, a fourth-rank strength is enough to qualify one to found a gang. Even the strongest members of many local gangs have not yet reached the fourth-rank strength.
This is the level of the Eight Martial Immortals of Chongxian Sect and the Four Kings of Detectives of Liushen Sect. Any one of the Eight Martial Immortals or the Four Kings of Detectives is qualified to rule a region.
Xu Xiaoyan stuck out her tongue behind Yueyaotai and said with a smile: "Didn't you say that you wanted us to die here? Come on if you have the guts!" It felt like a fox taking advantage of the power of another.
He Jing's sword broke and fell far away. He staggered to his feet and spat out another mouthful of blood.
Yueyaotai glanced at him indifferently, He Jing's face looked ugly, and he took three steps back.
The power of Yueyaotai alone frightened the five people so much that they dared not move.
He Jing, He Gang, and Shui Xiuyan were all of the sixth rank, and the other two men were of the seventh rank.
Three sixth-grade and two seventh-grade warriors against one fourth-grade warrior, it is not impossible to fight... but the chances of winning are slim.
What's more, they couldn't figure out the strength of Shi Hao and others, but as far as common sense was concerned, it was normal for a fourth-rank master to have a sixth or seventh-rank person around him.
At this moment, screams were heard from a distance.
The scream came so suddenly that everyone present subconsciously looked in the direction where the scream came from.
Especially He Jing, He Gang, Shui Xiuyan and the other five people... The direction from which the screams came was where Zhu Bo and the others were.
Immediately afterwards, there was another angry roar, which was the voice of "Flipping River Tiger" Zhu Bo.
He Jing and the others were shocked, suspicious, and somewhat at a loss. Shi Hao, however, made a quick decision and said, "It seems that there will be no fighting here. Let's go and see what happened over there."
He Jing and others had no intention of fighting any longer, so they quickly ran over there.
Shi Hao said: "Let's go too!" His figure flashed and he chased after him.
Yueyaotai, Huan Tingting, Xu Xiaoyan, Xianggu and others all caught up.
He Jing, He Gang, Shui Xiuyan and others were running while secretly surprised in their hearts, thinking that the woman was a fourth-rank master, so why was this young man giving orders to her
What is the origin of this young man
A man was stumbling and fleeing in front of him. It was Zhu Bo, the "Flipping Tiger".
He was covered in blood, with skin and flesh all over his body.
He Jing shouted: "Brother Zhu, what happened..."
"Ah—" Zhu Bo screamed.
His body fell to the ground and he struggled forward with his hands, but it seemed as if some unknown creature was dragging him backwards.
In an instant, he was dragged behind the coral peak, followed by the sound of chewing.
He Jing, He Gang, Shui Xiuyan and others felt their scalps tingling... Zhu Bo's strength was even higher than theirs.
But they couldn't escape. Having been in the underworld for a long time, they knew clearly that in this situation, the more they fled, the faster they would die.
"Everyone gather together, don't disperse!" He Gang shouted in a low voice.
Shui Xiuyan glanced at the five people over there, then quickly turned back, holding the Emei Spear, and walked forward vigilantly.
Shi Hao whispered, "Let's go and take a look... Be careful!"
They carefully went around the coral peak.
The colorful light around, one circle after another, intertwined with each other, originally seemed extremely beautiful, but now it became strange.
The moisture was so thick that their bodies inevitably floated while they walked, but they tried their best to keep their feet on solid ground, as if they would not feel at ease otherwise.
When we arrived at the back of the peak, there was a skeleton left in the overgrown algae. The skeleton was covered in blood and was disgusting.
The bloody skull, the pale ribs, and the arm bones, hand bones, leg bones, and foot bones that seemed to have been vomited out by something... They overlapped together, as if they had erected a bone monument for themselves.
The broken water walls scattered around made them know clearly that the dead person was Zhu Bo.
In just a short while, Zhu Bo was eaten until only his bones were left.
He Jing, He Gang, Shui Xiuzhen and others were immediately horrified.
"Where are the others?" a man asked in a trembling voice.
His voice was as hoarse as the scrape of a knife on the back of a jagged grindstone.
So much so that Shui Xiuyan had to glare at him fiercely... Such voices made the atmosphere here even more terrifying.
They walked among the towering peaks, a pile of bone tablets... and another pile of bone tablets.
Torn seaweed, bloodstained seaweed, and piled-up bones... their companions were piled up everywhere around them.