Chapter 251 Dispute Resolution
Suddenly, the temperature in the entire mine dropped several degrees, causing tiny goosebumps to rise all over the body.
Before Su Ziyi could react, a burst of intense light suddenly erupted from the Binghuo Essence opposite him, sucking in a black shadow hiding in the corner, stuffing the opponent into his body as if he was devouring it, and then In the blink of an eye, it returned to its previous appearance.
The surrounding temperature has also returned to normal.
At this time, Su Ziyi was still a little stupid. But before he could think about it, there were panicked footsteps from behind, and two people rushed in. The leader even shouted: "Husband!" It was Bian Qing and Su Yulang
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Su Ziyi came to his senses completely. He turned back to look at Bian Qing and the two. After meeting their worried eyes, he subconsciously grinned: "Don't worry, I'm fine." After saying that, he looked towards them. The two walked over, stretched out their hands to hold Bian Qing's, and used their own warmth to help Bian Qing calm down.
Seeing that there was indeed nothing wrong with Su Ziyi, Bian Qing finally felt relieved, but he still had to say what he wanted to say. He glared and said, "Didn't you say you would leave after just one look? Why did you come in?" "It almost scared him and A-Lang to death.
"There's nothing we can do about it." Su Ziyi shook his head helplessly, and then moved his body, revealing the mess behind him.
Only then did Bian Qing and Su Yulang turn their attention away from Su Ziyi, and focused their attention on the black dust on the ground and the body that had changed beyond recognition.
To Su Ziyi's expectation, when the two of them saw these things, their expressions did not change and they looked very calm.
Bian Qing glanced at him and knew what he was thinking. He snorted and said, "What does this mean? When we were hunting in the Meteor Fairy Forest, we encountered corpses that died more tragically than this one." Meteor Fairy Forest There are dangers everywhere, but it is not just monsters that threaten hunters, but also people hiding in the dark.
Therefore, Bian Qing and Su Yulang's psychological endurance is much stronger than Su Ziyi thought.
Hearing this, Su Ziyi smiled coquettishly, and then told Bian Qing what he had just seen to change the subject. After listening to what Su Ziyi said, Bian Qing and Su Yulang no longer pursued Su Ziyi's slighting just now. They even revealed that Su Ziyi had violated the agreement and broke into the mine without permission.
"How can there be such a cultivation method?" Until this moment, Bian Qing and Su Yulang still regarded this matter as a rather evil cultivation method.
But Su Ziyi didn't think so. He shook his head, turned around and picked up the Binghuo Essence. The Essence of Binghuo at this moment was not as gloomy as when Su Ziyi first got the Essence of Jiamu. It felt warm to the touch and looked like he was full.
"I think that person is no longer a human being." Su Ziyi said.
"Although after so many years, there are countless cultivation classics that have been lost, there is no such cultivation method in the existing canon or unofficial history." What Su Ziyi is particularly concerned about is the one that was given by the spirit of Binghuo. The swallowed black shadow: "And the coldness that appeared inexplicably at the end reminded me of the black ghost I met last year. I strongly suspect that this is something similar to that." After hearing this, Bian Qing's heart rose.
After being frightened for a while, he ignored the matter and walked over with a fierce expression: "How dare you say that you agreed not to go in, but you just took a look, but you still went in." Su Ziyi choked and said
: I feel like I've shot myself in the foot.
But in the end, Bian Qing knew that Su Ziyi had an arrow ready to go and had no choice but to take action. If he had discovered such a strange situation at that time, he would definitely have whipped up the opponent and killed the opponent on the ground, lest the opponent would persecute them later through the recovery of the flesh and blood of the practitioners in the foundation building period. Therefore, he only muttered a few words and then stopped. Su Ziyi let out a breath quietly and exchanged a grimace with Su Yulang who happened to look at him, making Su Yulang smile.
The man with black eyebrows, oh, even now Su Ziyi is not sure whether he is a man with black eyebrows or not.
In short, as soon as the other party dies, all the other party's previous gains will fall into his hands. For the sake of caution, he did not check to see what was in it. Instead, he took a separate storage bag and collected the items together. Finally, he threw the Binghuo Essence in, and then put it in his arms, ready to wait until Let's go check it out after we leave this underground place.
Now, the three of them, the black-browed man, are dead, and the Binghuo Essence has fallen into their hands. It is basically certain that there is no one else in the underground, only the three of them.
Therefore, the only thing standing in front of them and the Gengjin Spirit was the monster beast hiding in the dark.
This mine was a dead end, so Su Ziyi and the three of them had to go back the way they came. When they passed the pile of stone ruins, they were still frightened and couldn't help but speculate how this cultivator and those monster beasts died. Fortunately, they remembered that time was urgent, so they only took a quick look and left immediately.
However, on the way out, they ended up encountering a monster that followed the smell of blood.
Fortunately, these monsters were not very powerful, so Su Ziyi defeated them one by one with one move. When cleaning up the battlefield, they even found a few golden-threaded cicadas in the opponent's scales. Such an unexpected harvest made the three of them a little happy. Then they hunted the monsters they bumped into along the way, while looking for another A mine tunnel leaves this area.
The aura of Gengjin Qi is already extremely strong.
The surroundings were like this, making it difficult to see the direction. Su Ziyi had to take out the Binghuo Essence to indicate the direction. With the instructions from the Binghuo Essence, they quickly found the correct direction.
But the further they walked in that direction, the intensity of Gengjin Qi almost doubled. Later, the thin layer of mud on their bodies could not support them at all. Looking back at the two people who were struggling, Su Ziyi pursed his lips and said: "Take out the essence of the Five Elements." After the first section of the road, they saw almost no trace of the monsters later
. The road is narrow and old. Apparently even the monsters can't stand the concentration of Gengjin Qi here.
Hearing what Su Ziyi said, Bian Qing and Su Yulang immediately took out the essence of the five elements from the storage bag. They didn't dare to take it out before because they were afraid of attracting monsters, but now the monsters are driven away by the Gengjin energy. After running away, they naturally don't have so many worries. As soon as the Five Elements Essence was acquired, the pressure caused by the surrounding Gengjin Qi dropped rapidly, making them feel relieved.
"Let's go." Holding the essence of armor wood in hand, Su Ziyi led the people forward.
Compared with the previous mines, the road leading to the Gengjin Essence was too narrow, and the surrounding rock walls were also eroded due to age. As soon as they passed by, they took the The sound of lime falling down makes people a little worried, as if the passage will collapse at any time.
In addition, there have been considerable changes in the surrounding area.
Originally, the entire underground was pitch black, making it difficult to see the road ahead. But now, I don’t know if it is because the Geng Jin Qi is too strong, which has caused many small golden sands to appear in the surrounding rock walls. They sparkle under the candlelight, just like stars, giving people a sense of being in a different world. The feeling of being in the universe.
"So beautiful." Su Yulang sighed with bright eyes.
"These are just the most common amethyst ores, but they have been changed by the essence of Gengjin." Out of his interest in refining weapons, Bian Qing has also done a lot of research on ores. When he first entered the passage, I subconsciously observed the surrounding situation, so I knew the reasons for these changes: "The energy of Gengjin is too domineering, and ordinary ores cannot resist its influence. If you walk further ahead, you will find that there are The amethyst ore looks nothing like the amethyst ore, and even its texture and function have changed."
Su Yulang looked at his mother with admiration.
Sure enough, as Bian Qing said, as you go to the back, there are more and more golden parts, but the original purple color of the amethyst mine decreases little by little until it completely disappears. However, at this point, they themselves can no longer stand the strong Gengjin energy, especially Bian Qing and Su Yulang, who are relatively low in strength. Even if they hold the essence of the Five Elements in their hands, their shoulders are slumped and their faces are pale. It's obviously not easy.
"I can't, I can't walk." The one who stopped recently was Su Yulang. He grabbed Su Ziyi's hem with one hand, lowered his head and panted heavily, making a "huffing, huffing" sound, which sounded very strenuous. He even started to roll his eyes when he raised his head to speak, which made Su Ziyi feel worried and helped him back away.
After retreating to where Su Yulang's breath was smooth, Su Ziyi stopped. He carried Su Yulang to sit on the rock next to him, then turned back to look at Bian Qing, who was also sweating, and asked with concern: "How do you feel?" Bian Qing shook his head. He shook his head and took a deep breath before saying: "It's okay." With Su Ziyi's help, he sat down next to Su Yulang, sighed and said: "But if I continue to walk inside, I probably won't be able to hold on much longer. Far away."
Then this would be troublesome.
From Su Ziyi's point of view, when their family entered this watery realm, they wanted to advance and retreat together. It was absolutely impossible to leave the two of them here and go in by themselves. He still remembered the anxious feeling in his heart when Bian Qing and Su Yulang fell into the pothole first. He didn't want to try that feeling again.
So, what method should be used to bring two people in?
Bian Qing could guess what Su Ziyi was thinking by looking at his expression, but he was not as optimistic as Su Ziyi. Whether it was magic weapons or cultivation resources, Su Ziyi had never hid it from him. He naturally knew that none of the things they had on hand could allow them, as Qi Refining Stage practitioners, to safely survive the siege of Gengjin Qi.
If Su Ziyi insists on being with them, then there is only one choice - to give up the Gengjin Essence.
But is it possible?
Even if Su Ziyi is willing to give up, Bian Qing is unwilling to do so.
Every Five Elements Essence is a rare treasure, and you don't know what kind of power it will produce after you collect them all. But now they only have one Gengjin Essence on hand, and they are standing at the doorway to victory. How can they be able to swallow the breath of giving up the treasure at their fingertips like this?
After taking a few deep breaths, Bian Qing finally calmed down his breathing, his eyes filled with calmness. He stretched out his hand and pulled Su Ziyi's sleeve, waking him up from his deep thoughts.
"What's wrong?"
"How about I and A Lang wait for you here, and you go in and get the essence of Geng Jin." When he said this, Bian Qing's mind was very clear, and he clearly knew that there was something in his chest. There is a sense of depression. But what's the use of being depressed? Who said he was too weak to keep up with Su Ziyi's pace?
So, after taking a few deep breaths, Bian Qing suppressed the unhappiness in his heart and looked at Su Ziyi with a forced smile.
But faced with this only decision, Su Ziyi refused: "No." There are dangers in this mine. Even though they have not encountered any monsters along the way, and they can't see any danger now, there is no danger. The representative did not exist, so how could he safely leave the two of them here and go in alone? So, he refused without thinking.
Suddenly, the situation came to a standstill.
The two people looked at each other, neither giving in to the other. In the end, Bian Qing was too exhausted mentally and physically these past few days. He was defeated and rested on the rock behind him with his head hanging down.
Seeing this, Su Ziyi's face froze, he also sat down, leaned against Bian Qing, pulled the person on his shoulder and leaned on him: "I didn't think carefully, let's rest here for a while, these days You are also tired. We will discuss this matter when you wake up." Thinking about what happened in the past few days, it was probably the most exciting thing that Bian Qing and the others had ever encountered in their lives.
"Yeah." Bian Qing was indeed tired, and fell asleep soon after leaning on Su Ziyi. Su Yulang also fell asleep like this after being pulled into Su Ziyi's arms, thinking only of Su Ziyi watching with his eyes open. In front of me, I don’t know what I’m thinking about.
Bian Qing's proposal is indeed their only choice now.
After Bian Qing and Su Yulang woke up, they discussed this issue again, but this time Su Ziyi bowed to their strong request. After settling the two of them, one of them went in with a long sword. Go. However, before leaving, he was still a little worried and looked back three times.
"Go ahead, we will wait for you here." Standing behind, Bian Qing followed Su Ziyi's look back and smiled.
"Wait until I come back." Su Ziyi took a deep look at them, took a breath, and turned forward. Behind him, Bian Qing smiled and touched Su Yulang's head, and said to the confused Su Yulang: "Let's just wait here for your father."
Chapter 252 Golden Thread Cicada
Very hard.
With two essences of the Five Elements in mind, Su Ziyi has the energy to evaluate the ground he walks on.
He just felt like he was dancing on the iron ore ground. Although the soles of the shoes were soft and thick, he could still feel the hard outline of the stones under his feet with every step he took. The dust scattered on the ground was like sharpened iron sand. No matter how lightly one stepped, there was still a "rustling" sound.
Walking to the edge of the mine wall, he stretched out his hand to hold a raised golden ore. He used eight points of spiritual power, but he could only shake it into a few large pieces of gravel, but not into powder.
This shows how seriously the Gengjin Qi overflowed in this place.
Such a place is obviously not suitable for any living creature to survive, including those monster beasts that live on ores. But even so, Su Ziyi did not let down his guard, and still focused most of his attention on guarding against accidents around him. It's just that everything in this piece seems to be turned into a hard ball like this ore, without any sense of flow.
This kind of deathly silence undoubtedly caused a lot of psychological pressure on people.
Keeping in mind Bian Qing and Su Yulang who were still waiting for him to return, Su Ziyi inevitably walked a little hastily, making a "rustling" sound along the way. When he reached the place where the sand and stones were dense, the sound was even more pronounced in this empty passage. It was uninterrupted, like an early summer shower falling on an awning, and it was annoying to hear.
It's not that Su Ziyi can't fly away with his sword.
But on the one hand, considering that he may encounter problems in the future, it is better to preserve more spiritual power; on the other hand, he hopes to use this method to find out all the unstable factors hidden on the road, so as not to wait for him to go deeper. After that, he was surrounded by troubles in front and hidden dangers in the back. That was the real trouble.
But I don't know if he was really lucky. Until he reached the bottom of the passage, he didn't encounter any obstacles.
This is interesting.
Su Ziyi stopped in front of a mine wall that shone with gold.
He turned around and looked around, only to find that there was no other way except the way he came from behind him, but the Binghuo Essence in his hand pointed the black line towards the wall in front of him. So, is the essence of Gengjin hidden behind this rock wall? As soon as this idea came into his mind, Su Ziyi couldn't help but frown.
He reached out his free hand and touched the mine wall in front of him.
It's very hard, with a sharpness unique to minerals.
Push again, still the same.
Spiritual power surged into his five fingers. Su Ziyi suddenly grabbed the palm that was placed on the mine wall. In an instant, five shallow finger prints were left on the golden mine wall. It seemed that it was indeed infected by the essence of Geng Jin. of ore. Su Ziyi withdrew his hand and thought calmly, but there was a faint tingling sensation on the skin on the sides of his five fingers.
Without using his spiritual sense, Su Ziyi didn't know how thick the rock wall in front of him was, but in order to get the Gengjin Essence, it was imperative to break the rock wall.
He first touched the entire rock wall with his hands. After discovering that there was no mechanism or anything left on it, he knew that he really had the only way to break through the rock. Therefore, he stopped being vague and threw all the Binghuo Essence and Jiamu Essence into his arms, took a few steps back, held the sword in both hands and made moves, swinging them out like this.
"Boom——" b★☆y★y
The sword energy collided with the ore, and a huge concussion sound was immediately made. The broken stones splashed on the ground with huge force, and the sharp edges and wrinkles were on the ground. There were scratches left on the rock wall, which looked a little scary. But Su Ziyi didn't pay attention to this at all, because the move he just made did not break through the rock wall, but only opened an inch-deep hole in the rock wall, and underneath the hole was harder ore.
It seemed that this road was more difficult to get through than he thought.
It was impossible to spend time on this because he had no idea how thick the rock wall was. If there is a few feet or even dozens of feet, then even if he spends twenty days on it, he may not be able to get through it. Therefore, after a sword energy failed to penetrate the rock wall, Su Ziyi decided to try three more times. If he still could not penetrate the rock wall after three times, then he would give up and go back to find another way.
In addition -
the hilt of the sword was clasped in his right hand, and the Binghuo Essence appeared in the palm of his left hand. While wielding the sword, a very fine spiritual power rushed into the Binghuo Essence, and he immediately This caused a small wave of Binghuo Qi to erupt in the Binghuo Essence. Under Su Ziyi's conscious guidance, it merged with the sword Qi and turned into a second attack that hit the hole made before!
"Boom!" More rock fragments shattered, and the inch-deep hole was pushed to nearly a foot deep.
"Boom——" the third one.
"Boom——" the fourth one.
These three sword lights were stronger than each other, and contained more power of Binghuo, so more and more rocks were broken apart. But because the rock inside becomes harder as you go inward, it becomes more difficult, but even so, the three sword rays opened up a distance of nearly a foot deep.
Su Ziyi walked to the rock wall. At this time, he had carved out a trumpet-shaped hole that was half a person's height in the newly intact rock wall. The innermost part was also the size of a human head.
He put the sword back. This didn't mean that he decided to give up and leave, but that he saw -
a dazzling golden light shining from the other end of the hole he had punched.
——Incomparably pure Gengjin Qi.
——That is the essence of Gengjin.
The target was in sight, and Su Ziyi didn't lose sight of it. He approached the head-sized hole and looked inside. It's just that because of the angle of the cave entrance, he couldn't see the Gengjin Essence directly, but through the hole, he could see the light of the Gengjin Essence filling the cave of unknown size inside, and he could feel the Binghuo in his arms. The feeling of joy that almost made him jump.
He wants the essence of Gengjin.
Once a hole is punched through the solid cave wall, no matter how big the hole is, the next thing will be easier to handle. In order to avoid long nights and dreams, he did not use his sword to clear the way like before, but directly threw out two thunder talismans, and used the energy explosion of the thunder talismans to blow open the hole at once, creating a hole that could be used by one person. The opening to enter with a bow.
During this period, he also swallowed a snowmelt pill and seized every moment to restore his spiritual power.
When the smoke from the thunder talisman cleared, Su Ziyi took a deep breath. The long sword was taken back into his hand. His whole figure was like a sharp sword. He rushed into the cave with a bold and sharp momentum. He adjusted his posture at the first moment and followed the stone platform with full vigilance. The floating spirit of Gengjin came face to face.
Just like the original Wutu essence.
Su Ziyi's eyes moved rapidly, and in a very short period of time, he looked over the cave where Geng Jin's spirit was located.
Unlike the closed space where the spirit of Wutu was originally, the place where the spirit of Gengjin is located is also closed, but the entire cave is made of golden, solid ore without a trace of softness, and looks like the domineering Geng The essence of gold is very similar. Especially the shining lights on the rock walls look more like living creatures and are very gorgeous.
Let’s look at Gengjin’s Essence again.
Like the Wutu Essence, it is also held up on a gray-white stone platform, and looks a little out of place with the surrounding golden glitter. There are some mysterious lines carved on it, the meaning of which is difficult to understand. However, Su Ziyi was no longer the young man from the countryside who had never seen much of the world. He knew that these things contained some secrets that he didn't even know, so he took out the paper and ink from his storage bag without thinking. I stamped these things.
Last year, he really suffered a big loss because he didn't bring paper and ink.
After carefully drying the rubbings with spiritual power and placing them in the wooden box, Su Ziyi turned his attention to the Gengjin Essence. At this moment, the Gengjin Essence looks like a lofty king, proudly exuding its light and arrogant.
But Su Ziyi knew that this was an illusion.
Although he carried two essences of the Five Elements, the energy of Gengjin along the way also made him feel quite uncomfortable. Therefore, using common sense, he should feel a little bit hard to breathe when he is standing under Geng Jin's energy. But in fact, not at all. On the contrary, he was several times more relaxed than when he just passed through the hole.
He stood up, stretched out his right hand, and took the Gengjin Essence into his palm, and then threw it into the storage bag. In an instant, the entire cave became dark.
However, when he took out the candle and lit it, the entire cave became golden again, looking no different from before.
Sure enough -
after seeing this scene and combining it with the gloomy appearance of the Gengjin Essence that his consciousness saw in the storage bag, Su Ziyi understood everything.
He didn't know how many years this Gengjin spirit had been buried underground. But even if the energy in the Gengjin Essence is sufficient when it is put in, it will be consumed little by little after so many years. And where does the consumed energy go? Isn’t it the gas that transformed into Gengjin and seeped into the surrounding rock walls?
The golden surroundings have become so magnificent precisely because of the nurturing of Gengjin Essence, and now even if they lose their adoptive mother, they can still maintain their brilliance and look extremely beautiful under the illumination of any light source.
This is really touching.
Now that the Gengjin Essence is obtained, Su Ziyi has no reason to stay here anymore.
The moment he threw the things into the storage bag, he turned around and prepared to leave. But at the moment when he lifted his legs, a continuous "rustling" sound sounded, just like before when he was walking on dust that was like iron sand. But in fact it's not, because the ground here is very clean without a trace of dust, and Su Ziyi hasn't had time to leave yet.
Immediately, Su Ziyi's whole body collapsed tightly, and he kicked off his feet and bounced towards the entrance of the hole.
However, he is fast, but there is something else faster than him!
He only had time to catch a golden shadow with the corner of his eye, and his whole body was instantly knocked back to the stone platform by a strong force. His lower back hit the edge of the stone platform, which was even more painful. The candle he had placed on the stone table was also extinguished. But Su Ziyi was not in the mood to pay any attention to the pain. He swung the long sword in his hand and scattered the golden shadow in front of him.
Broken up?
No, it shouldn't be said that it was scattered. It should be said that the golden shadow immediately dispersed into several groups after seeing the sword light emitted by Su Ziyi. It avoided Su Ziyi's blow with extreme agility and after the blow. , quickly formed into a ball again, and with a rustling sound, rushed towards Su Ziyi from top to bottom!
Su Ziyi's whole body was trembling. Without thinking, he bent down and rolled on the spot, avoiding the opponent's impact. The moment he got up from the ground, he quickly took the Binghuo Essence from his arms and swung a sharp sword move with a strong Binghuo aura just like he had done before.
Suddenly, the golden shadow became chaotic.
Even though it was very fast, it separated immediately. But the aura of Binghuo was too overbearing for them. Just a little bit of the aura made them immediately weak and slowed down. They were killed by Su Ziyi's sword. They originally had a face. The golden shadow the size of a basin immediately lost a portion as big as a sea bowl, like a sesame seed cake that had been bitten.
The missing part fell directly from the sky, making a "pang" sound like hail hitting the ground.
After suffering such a big loss, the golden shadow instantly became a little scared. It hovered high on the top of the cave, making an annoying rustling sound, confronting Su Ziyi. Su Ziyi also took advantage of this opportunity to relight the candle he had placed on the stone table, and was immediately shocked by what he saw in front of him.
Originally, in his impression, countless tiny black holes appeared on the solid rock wall at some point. They were each no bigger than a date, but they were densely packed throughout the cave and looked very scary. And as the golden shadow above the head buzzed, more small black holes appeared, because there were golden shadows flying up from the rock wall, blending into the golden light group above the head, revealing what was underneath. of black holes.
It turns out that this cave has always been like this, but those small black holes were covered up by these golden shadows!
No wonder Su Ziyi was shocked.
Glancing at the golden shadow corpses scattered on the ground, Su Ziyi had an incomprehensible look in his eyes, and then looked up with a cautious look at the growing golden shadow above his head.
At this moment, Su Ziyi felt very complicated.
Although it was just a glance, Su Ziyi immediately recognized the identity of this golden shadow. He had no idea that the opponent he was confronting at this moment was actually what all cultivators wanted - one of the main spiritual materials for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill - Golden Thread Singing Cicada.