This pass is wide on the outside and narrow on the inside. It is more than ten miles wide and two or three miles narrow. Except for the island in the center, the other areas are all lake water. The lake water is surrounded by steep stone walls, and the stone walls are covered with spiritual energy barriers.
"Check if there are any invisible gaps in the spiritual energy barrier." Wu Dongfang said to the three of them.
"I'll do it." Xun Shuang raised his energy and lifted up, and when he reached an altitude of tens of meters, he cast a weak water dragon spin, which brought the water column and moved forward close to the stone wall.
The stone wall is covered with a spiritual energy barrier. The water column cannot touch the stone wall. There is no drop of water on the stone wall wherever it touches. This is the fastest way to find it. If the stone wall is wet with water somewhere, it is an invisible gap in the spiritual energy barrier.
The rotating water column crushed the ice in the lake, and also brought many fish in the lake. The fish in the lake are mainly carp, crucian carp, catfish and large loaches.
Fei Xuan and Xin Tong followed Xun Shuang to search the stone wall from the outside. Wu Dongfang used his spiritual energy to reach the island in the lake. This island covers an area of dozens of acres and is very large. There is a beach on the outside. There are dots of fluorescent lights on the beach. Look down and take a closer look. There are many silver-gray pearls.
There are many tall plants on the island. Spider webs can be seen on the trees, and various insects can be seen under the trees. There is a wooden house in the middle of the island. There are three wooden houses. They are very crudely built. Except for a huge and simple bed, there are no other things in the room. As for other living utensils, there are a large number of round beads piled in the corner of the room. These beads are of different sizes, the big ones are as big as an arm and the small ones are as big as thumbs. The materials are also varied, including jade, pearls, and some wooden beads.
According to folklore, animals such as dragons and snakes have a special liking for beads. From this, legends such as the two dragons playing with beads and the giant dragon spitting beads are derived. It seems that the legend is not groundless. The one Fei Xuan and others call the pig-shaped dragon The strange dragon probably has a collecting habit, and these beads should be its collection. However, it is obvious that not all of these things were found by it itself. There are many wooden beads with red dye on them, which may have been brought in by foreign wizards. .
There is a joke called fooling ghosts. These foreign wizards are fooling dragons. Not all animals that become spirits are as cunning as the prince. Most animals do not have a qualitative improvement in their IQ after becoming spirits. These foreign wizards are likely to Use these rags to give gifts to strange dragons in exchange for wood and pearls in the pass.
The reason for this judgment is that there are some silver pearls and spices in the Qiankun bags of those foreign wizards. There are many sandalwood trees growing on the island. This kind of parasitic tree is very rare in the north. The four famous fragrances of sandalwood, dragon and musk were already in the Xia Dynasty. Very expensive.
There are also two small animals on the island. One is a short red-spotted lizard. Because it runs on the ground, it is called a lizard. In fact, it looks more like a gecko. There is also a small red mouse, which is more than ten centimeters long. It is not ugly and not very afraid of people.
Except for these two animals and a few insects, there are no other animals on the island. After walking around, I didn't see any snakes on the island.
Fei Xuan and others were looking for a gap in the spiritual energy barrier at this time. He couldn't intervene, so he came to the beach outside the island and sat down. Although the lake water was turbid, it had no peculiar smell. In today's terms, this water quality is considered to be fat water, suitable for fish. If the water is too clear, no fish will grow.
The whole pass does not have a scary feeling. If the surrounding stone walls were removed and the lake water was clearer, you could spend a vacation here.
Half an hour later, the three of them returned and shook their heads at Wu Dongfang.
"We'll look for it after a while." Wu Dongfang took out the water jar and handed it to Fei Xuan, but Fei Xuan waved it away. With the Qiankun Bag, the three of them could carry food and water by themselves.
"I'll go take a look underwater." Xun Shuang turned around and walked towards the lake.
Wu Dongfang did not stop Xun Shuang from going into the water. The strange dragon that originally lived here was dead and there was no danger in the water.
Ten minutes later, the lake suddenly surged and the beach was submerged. The three of them quickly retreated.
The reason why the lake water surged was because Xun Shuang used the water-dividing technique. The lake water in the due east area quickly surged to both sides. As the lake water separated, a stone road appeared at the bottom of the lake.
The three of them flew over and landed around Xunshuang. They lowered their heads and looked at the stone road under their feet. When the lake separated, it took away the mud on the stone road. It can be clearly seen that the stone road is composed of square bluestones five feet square. It is straight. leading to the cliff on the east side.
Wu Dongfang's Qi came out of the spring, and he stretched out his spiritual energy to explore downwards, and found that the bluestone paving the stone road was several feet thick. "This stone road should be able to protrude from the water. Go back and find the source of the stone road. There is the mechanism." Where.”
Xun Shuang led the way, and the three of them followed behind. After walking a few miles, the stone road turned north at a ninety-degree angle. After a few minutes, the four of them arrived at the end of the stone road. It was not anywhere else, but inside the stone gate.
The four people jumped out of the water and searched carefully from the left and right stone walls. They could not find the mechanism. They only found a small hole, the thickness of a dumpling rolling pin, located on the stone wall on the right side of the stone door. The outside was also covered by a spiritual energy barrier.
Xin Tong drew a flame from his palm and illuminated the inside, "This is a small mechanism with at least five latches inside."
"This is a lock, we don't have the key." Wu Dongfang smiled.
The three people looked at him in confusion when they heard this. There was no vocabulary of lock and key at this time, so they couldn't understand what Wu Dongfang was talking about.
"Brother Wu, what should we do now?" Xin Tong looked up at Wu Dongfang.
"You can't open the stone door without something that opens the mechanism. Wait, wait for the prince to help us open the door." Wu Dongfang smiled helplessly and insisted on his original idea of grabbing a few indigenous wizards to lead the way. The only one to blame is his own softness. The prince's words, 'They led those wizards there not to kill you, but to use your hands to kill the foreign wizards' made him give up the idea of capturing the indigenous wizards to lead the way.
"After half a month, is there any other way to think of?" Xun Shuang asked.
Wu Dongfang frowned and thought. After a moment, he remembered something and found the golden inner elixir from the Qiankun Bag. The owner of this inner elixir can break through the barrier here and enter and exit the pass at will. In theory, he can also cross with this inner elixir. Aura barrier.
He held the inner elixir with his left hand and touched the stone wall with his right hand. As expected, he passed through the barrier and touched the stone wall.
The three of them were overjoyed when they saw this, and they all tried the same method, all with the same effect.
"Shatter the stone door and go out to get someone to lead the way." Xun Shuang said.
Wu Dongfang was already familiar with Xun Shuang's work style. This guy just did what he said. Hearing this, he hurriedly stopped him, "Wait, wait, wait."
Xun Shuang frowned in confusion, and Wu Dongfang explained, "We don't know what impact destroying the Shimen will have on the entire Nine Palaces pattern."
"There is no other way but to break down the door and get out." Xun Shuang said. It had been almost half a month since she entered the mountain and she was still staying outside Lingshan. She was a little anxious.
"It's too risky to break through the door. You can consider passing through the wall," Wu Dongfang raised his hand and pointed eastward, "There must be a stone gate under the cliff to the east. The stone gate must not be too thick. We can break the stone gate to enter the next pass. .”
"That will also affect the Qi of the Nine Palaces." Fei Xuan said from the side.
"There's nothing we can do about the impact. The meat is still in the pot after it's stewed. Just don't spill it outside." Wu Dongfang made the final decision, "That's it. It's better to smash the wall than demolish the house. Go through the wall and go in. I will repair the stone gate later."
"Well, that's all we can do. I just don't know if destroying the stone gate in the pass will cause the aura to be disrupted." Fei Xuan said.
"Ignore him." Wu Dongfang kept the inner elixir close to his body. He finally found the source of the problem. During this period, he always asked Fei Xuan for his opinion out of politeness, and this guy had a bad habit of thinking through every detail. , following Fei Xuan’s train of thought, always looking forward and backward, which made things very unsmooth.
"The next pass is the Kun Palace, and the earth monsters stationed inside it." Fei Xuan reminded.
Wu Dongfang nodded, boosted his energy and swept eastward. He remembered the location of the underwater stone road. When he came to the stone wall on the east side, he quickly found a stone wall that looked like a stone gate. This stone wall that looked like a stone gate was taller than the stone gate outside. It is smaller, with a diameter of about three meters. No door pillars were found. It may be telescopic. A round hole was also found on the left side of the stone wall.
Wu Dongfang traced the approximate location, put his hand through the spiritual energy barrier, and extended his spiritual energy to test the thickness of the stone wall. He found that the stone wall was 80 centimeters thick. An ordinary mountain stone wall must be thicker than this. Needless to say, this location is the stone gate.
After testing the thickness of the stone door, Wu Dongfang tried to use spiritual energy to change the shape of the door. After a try, he found that the stone door was covered by a spiritual energy barrier all year round and was contaminated by a small amount of spiritual energy contained in the spiritual energy barrier. It was not controlled by ordinary earth spiritual energy.
There is a problem with wearing the golden inner elixir to pass through the barrier. The body has to go through first. If the spiritual energy goes first, it will still be blocked. However, pressing the palms against the stone wall will affect the condensation and explosion of the spiritual energy. The activation of spiritual energy is different from the inch strength in martial arts. There needs to be a distance to exhale.
There are currently two options, one is to use spiritual energy to slowly destroy the stone door, and the other is to use the sunset bow. He used ordinary arrows to shoot at the stone wall before, which could not pass through the spiritual energy barrier. The meteorite arrows have stronger The ability to break Qi may be able to penetrate the spiritual energy barrier.
Instead of hammering randomly, it's better to blast it with a cannon.
Having made up his mind, Wu Dongfang took off the sunset bow and drew out a meteorite arrow.
"The sunset bow will make a loud noise. If it cannot be broken in one fell swoop, the monsters in the pass will be alert." Fei Xuan said.
"I'll come." Xun Shuang raised the Black Ice Halberd.
"Use the Xuanbing Halberd as a hammer." Wu Dongfang pulled Xunshuang away. Xunshuang only had Taichu cultivation level. If he wanted to break through the spiritual energy barrier and destroy the eighty centimeter-thick stone wall, he would have to poke most of it.
"Be careful." Fei Xuan said.
"Get out of the way." Wu Dongfang retreated in the air, and the three of them hurriedly avoided it.
After retreating tens of meters, Wu Dongfang stopped, took a deep breath, bent his bow and gathered strength. When the meteorite arrow was filled with spiritual energy, he suddenly let go. With a loud noise, a huge gap appeared in the stone wall.
As soon as the stone wall was broken, Wu Dongfang could vaguely see a huge creature covered in yellow hair screaming and flying backwards. This unlucky guy was probably lying on the stone door listening to the sound before being knocked away by the meteorite arrow filled with spiritual energy.
Wu Dongfang shot in the air, caught the arrow, gathered strength and rushed forward. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to defeat the enemy.
Just as he was about to rush through the gap, he suddenly felt his hands being grabbed by someone. Before he could react, Xun Shuang and Xin Tong had already passed through the gap and entered Kun Palace.
"Leave one for me." Fei Xuan shouted from behind.
Wu Dongfang turned around hastily and saw Fei Xuan standing outside the gap, hesitating.
"Come in quickly." Wu Dongfang shouted.
While he was shouting, Xun Shuang and Xin Tong were already rushing eastward.
"Both men and women need to enter at the same time." Fei Xuan was extremely anxious.
"I brought both of them in. You're fine too. Come quickly." Wu Dongfang urged anxiously.
Fei Xuan hesitated for a moment, bowed in, and suddenly disappeared the moment he passed through the gap.
"Ah?" Wu Dongfang stared in shock.
"It's a giant rat, not a monster," Xun Shuang turned around and returned, "Where did Fei Xuan go?"
"God knows… "