"Easy to say, easy to say." Zhou Xiang's attitude was unexpectedly good. Hearing the sound, he immediately released the sword in his hand.
"Thank you, little friend." Elder Gui smiled and said politely. After a pause, he continued: "You should also know that there are many dangers in the ancient tomb. One more person will give you more guarantee. I wonder if you are interested in traveling with us.
After all, we are all disciples of the ten sects, and we are all our own. "
"Of course we are happy." Zhou Xiang didn't wait for others to answer, and said first: "How can we refuse to go with an elder? However, it is best for me to lead the way for a while. After all, I am more interested in visiting tombs. good at."
"Oh?" A strange look flashed across Elder Gui's face, then he nodded and said, "In that case, I'll bother you little friend."
"You're welcome." Zhou Xiang waved his hand and walked to the front to lead the way.
Zheng Shiyi followed behind, looking at the innocent look on Zhou Xiang's face, and laughed secretly in his heart. Zhou Xiang was also able to pretend. It was obvious that Zhou Xiang was in trouble, and then he found that someone came to his door and treated these people as cannon fodder. .
Pity those people, I'm afraid they still think that they and others are their cannon fodder.
Among the crowd, Elder Tao Jinming and Elder Gui walked at the end. After looking around and finding that no one was paying attention, he quietly asked with confusion: "Elder, why are you letting them go so easily?"
"Stupid!" Upon hearing this, Elder Gui showed a look of dissatisfaction on his face, glared at Tao Jinming in front of him and said coldly: "Do you still think that the other party clamped your long sword because of luck
Do you think that because the other party is a disciple of the Xuanming Sect, you can do whatever you want? Those people are not as simple as you think, especially the dozen or so soldiers, they are clearly veterans in the army.
There are only a few of us, and if we forcefully fight against them, we will suffer even more losses. Don't forget that our purpose of entering here is to find treasures, not to fight against others.
Now we are short of cannon fodder to explore the front, so it is perfect for these people to be cannon fodder! "
"So that's it, the elder is wise!" Tao Jinming finally understood.
Everyone moved forward, and slowly, the temperature around them became higher and higher. The sand under their feet was like burning charcoal. After walking for a while, the soles of their shoes were almost completely burned.
The sky above the head was shrouded in thick black air, and the light between heaven and earth suddenly dimmed a lot. Blue lightning, like an iron whip, ravaged the entire sky.
The wind was raging all around, and the wails of ghosts from the abyss echoed in the distance.
"This...why did the weather suddenly become like this?"
"It's too hot. If we can't find water, we will all die!"
"Is this the right path?"
As everyone walked along, some people complained from time to time at first, but gradually, the corners of everyone's mouths became dry and cracked due to lack of water, and everyone felt as if their throats were smoking when they spoke. Slowly, no one Talk again.
Suddenly, a whine came from the distance, and slowly the sound became more and more loud. Everyone finally saw clearly that in the distance, a huge tornado appeared. This tornado seemed to be bordering the sky and the earth, as it rotated , yellow sand rolled up all over the sky.
In the distance, strange beasts several feet tall were suddenly drawn into the area where the tornado was. They were swept up high by the wind, followed by screams, and streams of red blood, liver, and minced meat were minced to the ground. Together, spinning with the wind.
"The alien beast that was several feet tall was sucked away as soon as it stepped into that area, and was minced into pulp in an instant."
"What a terrifying tornado. Fortunately, it seems that the tornado cannot move."
Everyone let out a long breath, turned their eyes, and looked to the other side. Their eyes suddenly widened!
In the golden desert, there is a green patch.
oasis!
"It's an oasis, we finally see an oasis!"
"Oasis, it's just those strange beasts..."
Around the oasis, strange beasts were gathering there quickly. The one rushing at the front was a strange beast that was more than ten feet long, with spikes all over its body and glowing purple.
As if he was afraid of being snatched by other alien beasts, he opened his mouth and spit out a stream of flames. In an instant, the sky was filled with a sea of fire. Around him, several alien beasts that seemed to be similar in size to him were instantly burned to ashes by the sea of fire.
"This... is this the legendary Purple Lightning Cloud Beast
"Just a random burst of flames, and the beast that was more than ten feet long was instantly burned to ashes!"
"It seems that we have no chance to drink water!"
The Purple Lightning Cloud Beast slowly walked to the river, opened its mouth, and the water in the river flew towards its mouth like a fountain. River water kept rushing into its body, but its belly did not It swelled a little, but shriveled up very quickly.
"There must be something wrong with the water from the river it drinks from!" Everyone quickly understood the reason.
The Purple Lightning Cloud Beast also seemed to understand the reason. It struggled to close its mouth, but found that its body was out of control. As the river water rushed into his body uncontrollably, its body shriveled up even faster. It accelerated, but within a moment, its originally huge body had turned into a shriveled skin.
Seeing this, the strange beasts all around turned around and wanted to leave, but suddenly a suction force came from the water, pulling the nearby strange beasts into the water.
The river water that originally seemed quite calm suddenly appeared with countless bubbles, like boiling water, rolling continuously.
Slowly, shriveled skin bags were thrown out of the river.
"This... this river will actively attract strange beasts!"
"These are all the strange beasts just now. After so much effort, they have all turned into skins!"
"What the hell is this place! It doesn't matter how powerful the tornado is, but now even an oasis is so scary! What the hell is this place!" Tao Jinming couldn't help but cursed.
All around, the disciples of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect heard the sound and began to curse.
Zhou Xiang frowned and quickly turned to look at Tao Jinming and said: "This is the tomb of the Martial Saint. There is a curse from the Martial Saint. If you don't want to die, just shut up."
"Curse? You kid is crazy. The Martial Saint has been dead for who knows how many years, so what if I scold him!" Tao Jinming glared at Zhou Xiang as if he were a fool, and then cursed loudly: "I am So what if you want to scold me? This is a stupid place.
You also cursed that dead bird martial saint. If you have the ability, you can curse me now! "
Zheng Shiyi looked at Tao Jinming who was yelling like a scoundrel. A cold light flashed in his eyes. Just when he was about to make a move, Zhou Xiang's hand stretched out and grabbed his hand.
"Old Shi, don't do anything. There is a curse here. It's even more troublesome to be infected with murderous intent." Zhou Xiang looked at Zheng Shiyi and shook his head vigorously. Although he also wanted to kill the barking dog, he couldn't, because that way The consequences are more serious.
"It's really troublesome. If I had known this, I might as well have given up on these cannon fodder." Zheng Shiyi sighed helplessly and walked away.
Although the surrounding environment seemed to be getting worse and worse, under the leadership of Zhou Xiang, they did not encounter any major dangers along the way. Everyone still followed Zhou Xiang consciously and continued to lead the way.
Walking here, you will always see endless mountains with no end in sight. Tornadoes and oases are always on their left and right. It feels like they are moving forward with them. They can never surpass them. Over time, it will even give them the feeling that they have been standing still.
Dead trees that had been struck by lightning and turned into charred black, cactus with a height of more than ten meters and covered with thorns, and gophers that jumped out of the sand and quickly dived into the ground, kept passing by their eyes.
Before their eyes, there was an endless stretch of flat sandy road that had not been trampled by anyone, and behind them were rows of footprints of varying depths left by their steps.
Tanlang Peak always stands in the clearest place, like a firelight in the dark night. Although they don’t know how long it will take to reach that place, everyone firmly believes that as long as they keep moving forward, they will reach there one day.
One day has passed and Tanlang Peak is still so far away from everyone. The difference is that the scenery changes back and forth.
Two days have passed, and everything is still the same. Even the scenery encountered is the same as before.
Three days have passed, and Tanlang Peak is still so far away, as if it would never be possible to reach that place. The only difference is that everyone has changed from holding their chests and heads high to bending down and holding weapons, walking forward step by step with difficulty.
But the complaints in the team have disappeared. Maybe one or two words will appear a day. It's not that they don't want to complain, but everyone understands that in this situation, the best way is to remain silent. Save your energy.
In three days, they had even become numb. They just knew to follow Zhou Xiang in front of them.
Slowly, while walking, Zhou Xiang suddenly stopped and stared blankly in front of him.
Footprints, there are footprints in front of me!
A few of them were the first to enter here. It was impossible for anyone to leave footprints here, and they were still in front of themselves and others.
What's more, why I didn't see any footprints before, but I only saw them today!
These footprints can only explain one reason. I and others are back to the starting point!
"Why did you stop suddenly? What happened?"
Everyone behind looked at Zhou Xiang who suddenly stopped. After a dull day, he finally made a sound.
"We seem to be walking back." Zhou Xiang stretched out his finger helplessly and pointed at the footprints in front of him.
"What? You're back!" Behind them, everyone in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect changed their faces when they heard the sound. They rushed over and looked in the direction pointed by Zhou Xiang.
Footprints... Really footprints, we ourselves are really back where we started.
I and others have walked here for so long and suffered so much, but in the end everything was in vain!
"You...boy, you are playing tricks on us!"
"You don't know the road, why are you leading the way! I'm still wondering why you haven't encountered any danger these days. It turns out that you have been walking in the same place!"
"If I had known earlier, I would have killed these guys. What's the use of keeping them? Just lead us where we are!"
All around, a group of disciples of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect surrounded Zhou Xiang. They drew their weapons and looked at Zhou Xiang with an angry expression.
(End of chapter)