The sun was scorching hot, and the golden sand was like gold all over the ground, refracting the sun's rays and hurting people's eyes.
A group of red crystal ants crawled out of the sand pit, like flames dotted on the golden sand.
"Hurr~~"
There was a long cry, and the camel beast kicked its hooves wildly, as if trying to avoid the red crystal ants crawling out of the sandpit.
However, the speed of the red crystal ants was too fast, and they crawled over densely. Frightened by the camel beast, they pouted their buttocks and wanted to run around to stay away from this danger.
Wen Qiao held the rein with one hand, let out a cry, and patted the camel beast's back, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, look at me, I'll get rid of them later!"
Under her comfort, the camel beast finally calmed down, turned its head and stared at her with those wet black bean eyes, as if it had great trust in her.
Wen Qiao also lived up to its trust, turned around and jumped off the back of the camel, beckoning with a long sword, and the long sword slashed at the group of red crystal ants that had come to its feet.
The long sword kicked up a burst of dust, and at the same time blocked the progress of the red crystal ants.
Accompanied by the flying sand, the red crystal ant rolled into the air, and then was cut in two by the long sword against the light, leaving its corpse lying on the ground.
After the camel beast found that the group of red crystal ants had been blocked, it did not continue to retreat, but stood there quietly, with wet black beans staring at the fighting figure in front of it.
Ning Yuzhou sat on the back of the camel beast, looking down at the battle below.
Wen Tutu and two yellow crystal ants were clinging to the camel's head, and the pair of antennae of the yellow crystal ants moved back and forth, as if they were feeling something.
Different from the docile and harmless yellow crystal ants, each of the red crystal ants is as big as an adult's fist. They are aggressive by nature and like to eat fresh flesh and blood. Monster beasts and practitioners are in their diet.
In the mobile desert, when monsters or cultivators are injured, the most fearful thing is to encounter swarms of red crystal ants. These desert predators can smell fresh blood hundreds of miles away, and then swarm Come to the ground and devour the injured person or monster.
The red crystal ants have a strong teamwork ability, one on top of the other to form a giant attack, even the practitioners in the Yuanling Realm will be terrified. However, it would be easy to deal with if they could disrupt their formation at the beginning and prevent them from uniting—provided that the number of red crystal ants would not be too large.
The number of red crystal ants that appeared at this time was not much. Wen Qiao killed the red crystal ants while checking the bunker, and when he found no red crystal ants crawled out, he knew that there were not many red crystal ants in this nest.
After they entered the desert, the nest of red crystal ants they encountered was the most numerous. Tens of thousands of red crystal ants surrounded them together, making the people in the Baolai caravan into a mess, so they almost missed the head.
Wen Qiao has great strength, every time she swings her sword, she can split the red crystal ant in two.
In addition to using swords, Wen Qiao also used talismans to fight, throwing flaming talismans, thunder talismans, blasting talismans and other powerful talismans over, injuring those red crystal ants half to death and losing their mobility.
After half an hour, Wen Qiao finally got rid of this nest of red crystal ants.
The corpses of red crystal ants are also a good material for refining tools. Wen Qiao picked up the intact corpses of red crystal ants and stuffed them into a storage bag, planning to buy them in the next cultivation city.
As for those tattered by fire and lightning strikes, their value was greatly reduced, Wen Qiao didn't pick them up, and let them be swallowed by the wind and sand.
After dealing with the group of red crystal ants blocking the way, Wen Qiao sat on the camel beast's back again, patted the camel beast's neck, and let it continue to set off.
Ning Yuzhou took a handkerchief, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and said softly, "Thank you, Auntie."
"It's okay, there are not many red crystal ants in this nest."
Wen Qiao said with a smile, took out the map from her arms, and studied it carefully again.
They have been wandering in the desert for a month since they left Shagu City.
During this month, because they deviated from the route of the caravan map, they could only grope in the desert by themselves. Although they had the map given by Senior Brother Chen, the mobile desert was too big, and the sand in the desert would flow by itself. It will make them deviate from the correct route and cause them a lot of trouble.
It is said that many travelers in the desert get lost in the desert in this way.
The sun gradually slanted to the west, and the running pace of the camel became restless.
As a monster walking in the desert, although the level of the camel beast is low, it also has a certain ability to perceive the dangers from nature. Whenever it is getting dark, if they do not reach a safe cave, the camels will become anxious. Unfortunately, because the camels are too gentle, even if they are anxious, they will not show it obviously, so they are ignored by humans.
Wen Qiao didn't ignore it, she has a natural ability to perceive the emotions of animals and plants. Although the camel beast's intelligence is not high and cannot clearly express its emotions, Wen Qiao can know some of its emotions.
Wen Qiao patted the camel beast's neck to comfort her, and looked at the vast desert ahead, feeling a little heavy in her heart.
She looked at the map again, and said in a deep voice, "Husband, we need to speed up."
Ning Yuzhou hugged her waist, his voice was still calm and soft, "Well, you don't need to be in a hurry."
How could Wen Qiao not be in a hurry, if they missed the safe cave, they would be swallowed by the sand and dust in the night, and they would be turned into a pulp, leaving no scum.
The sunset light disappeared bit by bit, and the wind brushed the ground, rolling up fine sand and dust.
Seeing the darkness falling, but still not finding any caves nearby, Wen Qiao's heart sank little by little, and her brows frowned violently.
She stroked the stone golden python whip at her waist, thinking that if she missed the cave, she would not know the possibility of building a safe shelter underground with stone golden python vines.
The wind and sand rolled up behind them, turning into a terrifying monster, wanting to choose people and devour them.
Ning Yuzhou supported her shoulders, and suddenly said, "Auntie, let's enter the space."
Wen Qiao was stunned.
Before she could react, the two of them disappeared into the space together with the camel beast.
It happened that the wind and sand rushed behind them, covering the sky and the sun, and the world was plunged into darkness and sand falls.
Suddenly changing the environment, the camel beast was stunned for a while, but after realizing that the danger had disappeared, it calmed down again and looked at the two humans silently.
Wen Qiao looked at the space and asked, "Is it okay if we come in like this?"
Space is a derivative of Ning Yuzhou's magical blood power. Wherever Ning Yuzhou is, it will be there, and it cannot move by itself. They directly entered the space in the desert, which is equivalent to the space still staying in the desert. Wen Qiao worried whether the power of the night in the flowing desert would hurt the space.
If there is an accident in space, Ning Yuzhou will also have an accident.
This is also the reason why Wen Qiao never thought of hiding in the space when she encountered danger. She never thought of putting him in danger.
"It's okay." Ning Yuzhou was very calm. "The danger of the mobile desert is only for the creatures that appear in it. The space can isolate our breath, and the danger of the desert will not involve space."
Like some mustard spaces, a remote space is incorporated into a selected carrier by a powerful being, and refined into a mustard space that can accommodate life. If a person with a mustard space is in a mobile desert, as long as he hides in the space, he will not be satisfied. Moving desert at night.
This was discovered by Ning Yuzhou after entering the desert.
After listening, Wen Qiao was finally relieved.
She sat on the vine branch of the stone golden python vine, fed some leaves to the hard-working camel beast, patted its head, and let it find a place to stay by itself.
After entering the space, Wen Tutu ran to the spiritual field to eat spiritual grass, and the two yellow crystal ants also calmly climbed up the Yixiangye tree to eat the leaves on it, so Wen Qiao didn't need to worry about them.
They are going to spend the night in the space tonight, there is nothing safer than this, Ning Yuzhou took out the pill stove and started to cook soup.
Wen Qiao sat aside, diligently checking the routes of the two maps, and frowned thinking about where they are now.
Ning Yuzhou couldn't bear to see her thinking hard, and comforted her with a smile, "Don't worry, Auntie, we have a lot of time to look for it, and we will find it sooner or later."
Wen Qiao glanced at him silently, understood what he meant, there was space, even if they missed Sutou, they didn't have to worry about the danger of the mobile desert at night, they were indeed much safer than those travelers on the desert.
In this way, there is no need to worry about the safety of the night, and you can run wild in the desert at will.
After drinking the soup, Wen Qiao went to check the Lingtian.
It's rare to enter the space, of course it doesn't waste time, she sat in the spiritual field, and spent several hours to germinate the spiritual grass in the space, even the ant fragrance leaf was ripened by her for a year, and it became more and more luxuriant. Enough for two yellow crystal ants to eat for a long time.
Ning Yuzhou refined several furnaces of pills.
Among them are not only detoxification pills, but also various poison pills.
It just so happened that this month, when they were walking in the desert, they harvested a lot of poisonous weeds in the mobile desert along the way. The toxicity was strong or weak. When Ning Yuzhou saw it, he did some research without discrimination. Dan comes out.
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In the early morning of the next day, after the dust receded, they came out of the space and continued to set off.
At noon, they passed a cave formed by sandstone. The cave was not large in size, but it was still a safe place of shelter.
It was only noon now, so they naturally wouldn't stop to rest in the cave.
Wen Qiao took out the fragrant leaves, sprinkled some in the cave, and said to the two yellow crystal ants: "You must remember the smell here, when we come back, we may pass by."
The two yellow crystal ants stretched out their antennae and moved, indicating that they had remembered it.
In the following days, they trekked in the desert again.
After traveling like this for a few days, Wen Qiao suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Husband, look over there, doesn't it look dark?" Wen Qiao pointed forward.
Ning Yuzhou looked over, and on the distant horizon, a black spot appeared on the golden desert. Because the distance was too far, he only knew that there was something there, but he didn't know what those black spots were.
"Go and have a look." Ning Yuzhou said, thinking of something, he warned again, "But be careful."
Wen Qiao responded and told the camel beast to go there.
Although the speed of the camel beast was not fast, it took nearly an hour to see what the black spot was.
It turned out to be a piece of black sandstone, standing in the golden desert, because the distance is too far, so the impression is only a black spot.
Seeing the cave formed by the black sandstone, Wen Qiao and Ning Yuzhou thought of a place at the same time: Heiyan Gorge!
Black Rock Gorge is notorious in the mobile desert. It is a sinful place where once you enter, you can't get out. The bandits in the Heiyan Gorge are even more evil. It is said that every bandit in the Heiyan Gorge has blood on their hands, and many practitioners died tragically in their hands.
After discovering that this is Heiyan Gorge, Wen Qiao hurriedly turned the camel beast around and left the place.
Although they left in time, they were still discovered by the bandits in Heiyan Gorge.
There was a rumbling sound, and a group of bandits came riding out of the black rock on camels, and some bandits were not stingy about wasting Yuan Lingli, even flying towards them with imperial weapons.
Xu Shi felt the strong killing intent behind him, and the camel beast ran forward numbly on its four hemp legs.
The cultivator's imperial weapon flew very fast, and it caught up to a hundred feet behind them in an instant.
The two people on the camel beast still looked unhurried, Wen Qiao turned his hand and took out an explosive bead, and threw it at the group of people who were about to fly over.
The Explosive Bead exploded in mid-air with a rumbling sound, setting off a burst of sand and waterfalls, which not only blasted the bandits who flew in with their imperial weapons to death, but also scared the bandits behind them who were riding camels. They shook off the back of the camel.
The camels ran around in fright.
When the Explosive Bead exploded, Wen Qiao and the others had already fled in a hurry.
This was the first time that Heiyan Gorge let the prey that came to the door escape, which caused a sensation among the bandits in Heiyan Gorge.
You must know that in the past, people who entered the mobile desert got lost near the Black Rock Gorge, and eventually became the prey of the bandits in the Black Rock Gorge.
The bandits in Heiyan Gorge naturally didn't allow them to escape, relying on their familiarity with the surrounding environment to catch up.
Half a day later, Wen Qiao and the others were far away from the range of Heiyan Gorge, and at the same time got rid of the pursuit of those bandits.
"It turns out that Heiyan Gorge is there." Wen Qiao said unhappily, "It's not good to get lost somewhere. It turned out to be Heiyan Gorge. Fortunately, we were alert and ran fast."
Ning Yuzhou hugged her waist, with a smile on his lips, "Next time if you pass by again, use explosive beads to blow up that piece of black rock."
Wen Qiao thought of something, and responded immediately.
After knowing the location of Heiyan Gorge, they changed their direction and continued to search for the abandoned Huangsha City.
After searching for a few days, they finally found a place.
From a distance, you can see the broken rocks and broken walls standing on the yellow sand, the collapsed city walls, overgrown with weeds, full of vicissitudes of history, and the wind and sand blowing over the abandoned city, bringing a desolate atmosphere.