Vertically downward, a thousand meters in an instant. Ning Tao deliberately controlled his speed, otherwise he could move to a distance of seven or eight kilometers in an instant. In the Nascent Soul state, darkness does not exist due to the Heavenly Eye. The darkness that could not be penetrated by the refined tactical flashlight disappeared at this moment, and he saw a ground shrouded in black mist, with vague objects appearing, some like mountain peaks, and some like rivers, but they were too blurry to be sure.
The distance of seven or eight thousand meters passed in the blink of an eye. Yuanying began to become unstable, and his sense of the body became blurred. Ning Tao stopped and stopped falling. At this position, his Nascent Soul was already in the black mist. But when he arrived at this position, he finally saw the bottom of the abyss. According to the visual distance, he could reach the bottom in about three or four thousand meters.
The bottom of the abyss is in the shape of a trumpet, which becomes narrower as it goes up. The cliff behind it gradually slopes toward the edge, forming the shape of an inverted funnel. Its area can roughly accommodate a small town, with a stone mountain standing in the middle. There is a burning river around the mountain, and black crude oil can be vaguely seen surging and bubbling in the flames.
The source of the faint fire seen on the cliff was obviously the burning crude oil river.
From a high position, with a panoramic view of the entire bottom of the abyss, Ning Tao did not see any undead army, ferocious monsters or anything like that. Except for the stone mountain in the middle, the rest of the place is relatively flat. There are occasional piles of rocks, but there is nothing special about it.
Ning Tao felt strange in his heart: "Did Xerxes and Abshan encounter illusions that did not exist? But I also clearly saw that terrifying shadow..."
If he had been sitting facing the abyss, he would not have such confusion and trouble now.
After observing for a few more minutes, nothing unusual happened. Ning Tao's Nascent Soul returned to his body.
"It's strange. Thousands of troops are charging, screaming and shouting to kill. There is such a loud noise. The whole cliff is shaking. I can feel it. How could it be an illusion? But if it is not an illusion, then there really is some monster down there. Could it be that... it died under this abyss?" Suddenly thinking of this possibility, the tension in Ning Tao's heart relaxed a little.
For more than 2,000 years, countless creatures in this world have died. It is normal for a monster living here to die during this period.
There seemed to be no danger, but Ning Tao still did not make the decision to open a convenient door and bring in his three wives and a group of subordinates. That black mist is poisonous, that's one reason. Another reason is that the observations and judgments made before setting foot on the bottom of the abyss may change when setting foot on that land.
Ning Tao put away the Tianci Tiantian bed, and then took out the medicinal rope from the small medicine box. With a trace of spiritual power injected into him, the medicinal rope flew out of his hand and plunged into the rocky ground on the cliff. He grabbed the other end of the rope, sprinted in two steps, jumped, and jumped off the cliff in a whoosh.
This seemed like a reckless and very dangerous act, but everything was under Ning Tao's control. The medicinal rope is a magic weapon of Tiandao Medical Center. Since it is a magic weapon, it naturally has magic power. The speed at which it extends downward is actually not very fast, and when it is activated, it is equivalent to a part of Ning Tao's arm. If you let it stop, it will stop, and if you let it retract, it will retract.
A few minutes later, Ning Tao's feet finally landed on the ground after being left behind at a height of more than 10,000 meters.
Click!
There was a crisp sound under his feet, and Ning Tao hurriedly moved his feet, only to realize that what he stepped on was not the ground, but a skeleton covered by dust. He stepped down and broke the person's waist.
The dust stirred up, revealing a rusty Persian scimitar.
Looking at this badly weathered Persian scimitar, Ning Tao secretly said in his heart: "This is the bend of Xerxes's immortal bodyguard. He fell to death here. More than 2,000 years later, his bones are all gone." There is still no monster eating his body, which also means that there is no monster here, so what is the huge shadow I saw? "
Without seeing it with your own eyes, even your best guesses are meaningless.
After much deliberation with no result, Ning Tao took back the herb collection rope, holding a refined shell gun in one hand and a prescription with a blood lock on it in the other, and walked cautiously towards the stone mountain in the middle. Along the way, he found some more skeletons. Judging from the relics of the skeletons, they were all Xerxes' undead bodyguards.
It is not difficult to draw a conclusion from the identities of these skeletons, that is, in addition to Xerxes and Abshan, there were also the undead army guards and the girl in black who died here. During this period of more than 2,000 years, He was the first to set foot here.
Passing by a pile of rocks, Ning Tao stopped. The stones were of different sizes and looked like ordinary stones with no talismans or special patterns. There was nothing special about them.
There are many stone curbs like this scattered at the bottom of the abyss.
Ning Tao looked at it and lost interest in continuing to study. He left the stone tower and strode towards the stone mountain.
The earth and river surrounding Stone Mountain burned fiercely, but no smoke rose. Black crude oil was rolling and surging in the underground river. The fire did not increase or decrease, and it always maintained a height of tens of meters. From above, it was hard to see clearly through the black mist, and up close it was difficult to see clearly because of the wall of fire. However, in terms of the shape and scale of Stone Mountain, it was similar to the mound of Emperor Qin's mausoleum where he and Lin Qingyu completed important transactions.
Ning Tao got closer and closer, and the scorching air waves hit his face. The hair on the back of his hands and face actually turned to dust and fell off his skin.
Ning Tao then pulled the hood down to cover his face, and used the "elastic rope" woven from Tianbao silk in the hood to close the hood, completely protecting his face, leaving only a hole through which he could see. This design had been in place for a long time, but he had never used it even in a gun battle, but he had to use it if he wanted to get past the fire wall. After that, he retracted his hands into the sleeves of Tianbao's robe and hid them. In this way, although the heat wave released by the wall of fire was terrifying, it could not hurt even a single hair on his body.
After some distance, Ning Tao came to the Dihe River. His eyes fell on the Dihe River in front of him. The Dihe River was not wide, only a dozen meters wide. He could easily cross it by taking two steps with a ladder at his feet. But just when he was about to do so, his attention shifted to the crude oil in the ground river.
That's not ordinary crude oil.
Ordinary crude oil is viscous and contains a lot of impurities. When it burns, thick smoke billows. However, instead of being sticky, it gives people a clear texture. It burns so fiercely that there is not even a trace of thick flames in the tens of meters high. cigarette. More importantly, it releases a rich aura, and that aura is a typical aura that can only be found in heavenly materials and earthly treasures.
This is not crude oil, it is black oil.
The Middle East is rich in oil. As long as there is spiritual soil and crude oil, and some specific conditions can be met, spiritual materials such as black fire oil can be produced. There is so much black fire oil here, which means there is a lot of spiritual soil here! Ning Tao became excited. Even if there were no divine tombs or immortal torches here, as long as he found the spiritual soil here and took away some black fire oil, his adventure would be a great harvest!
He squatted beside the Dihe River and picked up a handful of soil with his hands wrapped in his sleeves. The soil on the surface was dug out, and a ball of blue spiritual soil was immediately exposed. He then changed his position and took a handful of it, then pulled away the dirt on the surface, and another piece of blue spiritual soil was exposed.
"Hahaha!" Ning Tao couldn't help laughing loudly. The reserves of spiritual soil here are amazing. Even if he turns all five warehouses in Tiandao Medical Center into spiritual fields, it won't be a problem!
The fire wall shook inexplicably, and it felt like it was blown by a strong wind, but this was a closed underground space, where did the wind come from
It was with this shaking that Ning Tao finally saw the scene behind the fire wall, and it was at this sight that he was stunned on the spot.
That's not a stone mountain at all, that's a stone temple.
An extremely special and magical stone temple. It is not piled up with stones, but a majestic temple carved out of a stone hill! The gate that is tens of meters high is like an archway. The stone pillars supporting the temple require several people to hug each other to surround it. The steps in front of the gate are all carved out of this single piece of stone. Not a trace of splicing is visible!
If this temple were moved to the ground, it would definitely be a world-shaking miracle, and the eight wonders of the world would be eclipsed in front of it!
Suddenly, the wall of fire swayed significantly again, and the flames dozens of meters high blocked Ning Tao's sight again. There were obvious signs of being blown by the wind, but he couldn't feel the slightest breath of wind.
"Could it be... Nascent Soul?" Ning Tao's mind suddenly froze. He himself had experienced many out-of-body experiences of Nascent Soul. Although Yuanying was invisible and intangible, there was still a trace of the rapid movement of energy, which was Yin Feng. .
However, after the fire wall shook twice, nothing strange happened. There was no Nascent Soul trying to invade his body, nor was it possessing any small animals, not to mention there were no small animals here. Every inch of the air here contains poison. If it weren't for the detoxification function of his blood and spiritual power, and the protection of the Tianbao magic robe, which makes him immune to all poisons, he would not be able to move here.
However, it was this suspected sign of Yuan Ying's movement that aroused Ning Tao's alert, and he gave up the idea of jumping directly across the Black Fire Oil River. He looked around, picked up a stone next to him and threw it into the wall of fire.
The stone entered the wall of fire, suddenly fell, and fell straight into the black fire oil river. In that process, in just a few seconds, it was burned into powder by the flames, and then rose with the flames, Fluttering and falling.
This must be where the dust all over the place comes from. Black fire oil is so pure, how could it contain impurities
A sneer appeared on the corner of Ning Tao's mouth: "Sure enough, there is a magic circle to protect me, but you can't do anything to me."
He reached out to open the small medicine box, took out the Tianci Tiansheng bed, and threw it into the ground river.
The void trembled, and the Tianci Tiansheng bed opened with a crash and fell into the black fire oil river. The four bed legs were submerged in the black fire oil, but the bed board was attached to the river and became a ready-made boat. As soon as it entered the underground river, the surrounding flames immediately dissipated, and a gap appeared in the fire wall.
Ning Tao jumped up onto the heavenly bed and shouted: "Let's go!"
The God-given bed made waves and sailed towards the other side.
In ancient times, Bodhidharma crossed the river with a reed, but now Dr. Ning crosses the river with a bed.