Qeng Ho Mage

Chapter 479 Molten Gold Ants and Poison Pond

"Is this the place where poisonous spirits lurk?"

Fang Dushu and the other two stood side by side at the foot of the mountain. When looking at the mountain, Grandma Wudu asked.

"This mountain is just the entrance to the Poison Spirit Secret Cave." Li Danhui raised his hand and pointed forward while introducing: "The Iron Scale Mountains are rich in weapon refining treasures. Since ancient times, deer slayers have dug mines in the mountains to collect gold and iron spirit minerals. There is a mine below this mountain. The cave spreads for dozens of miles, with tunnels extending in all directions and numerous caves, making it very suitable for seclusion and hiding, so it was taken advantage of by the poisonous spirit."

"The Deer Slaughterer's mine?" Grandma Wudu glanced at her eyebrows: "Princess Danhui, why didn't you reveal before we came that we were going to set foot in the Deer Slaughterer's territory? You only said that the Poison Spirit is hidden in the barren mountains!"

Grandma Wu Du was obviously unwilling to come into contact with the Deer Slaughterer, because the reward she received was only to capture poisonous spirits. If it involved fighting with the Deer Slaughterer, it would definitely cost more.

"Grandma, please don't worry!" Li Danhui explained patiently: "The spiritual mines in this mine have been excavated long ago and have been abandoned by the Deer Slayers. There are no Deer Slaughter Cavalry stationed at all, and there are no traces of Deer Slaughter monks within a few hundred miles. , we can explore the cave with peace of mind!”

After speaking, he pointed to Patriarch Makino: "Fellow Taoist Makino has been exploring here several times alone. He knows the terrain well. If grandma still has concerns, you can ask Friend Makino for confirmation."

Patriarch Makino chuckled: "Not only are the mines here abandoned, but the mines in the entire Iron Scale Mountains have basically been abandoned. In the past, the Deer Slayers camped in the mountains and dug everywhere, digging year after year, every month, and every day. The Mining Lingzhen was dug out thousands of years ago, and now there is no Deer Slaughterer at all!"

He glanced at Grandma Wudu and thought that this old woman would go all the way from Shenzhou to Hexi to accept employment in order to earn some hard work. He expected that this old woman was not doing well in the Wushan realm. She was definitely not from a famous family. Just a casual cultivator.

He secretly glanced at Xiong Gang again. The Xiong family was a high-ranking family in Shenzhou, but the Longhu mirror in Xiong Gang's hometown was all in the swamps and wasteland. His daily life must have been miserable. Just judging from the animal skin Xiong Gang was wearing, You can see how shabby this person is, and no wonder this person wants to come to the frontier to serve.

"Since Princess Danhui and Fellow Taoist Makino said so, I must believe it!" Grandma Wudu said: "I'm not actually afraid of the Deer Slayer. I just want to ask questions in advance to avoid being in a hurry when encountering a strong enemy. I hope Princess Danhui understands my habits!"

"Of course I understand!" Li Danhui said with a smile: "Grandma is cautious in doing things, which makes me trust her more!"

She gestured to Patriarch Makino again: "Fellow Taoist Makino, you can remove the restrictions on the cave door at the bottom of the mountain. Let's enter now."

She and Patriarch Makino once explored the mine, and sealed the door before leaving.

Patriarch Makino immediately moved to the cave door, quickly broke the restrictions, and then flicked his sleeves, revealing a stone door about ten feet high: "Okay, fellow Taoists, you can enter the cave!"

At this time, the sky was getting dark and night began to fall.

Fang Dushu looked around and found that within a radius of more than ten miles, there were scattered light spots flickering among the iron mountains, which looked like fireflies clinging to the mountains.

When he first came, the sun was still there, and the light spots were not obvious. As night came, the light spots began to shine.

"what is that?"

Fang Dushu asked with his finger pointing.

"Those are light-absorbing stones. They can absorb moonlight and transmit it into the mountain, but that's all." Li Danhui replied: "For us monks, light-absorbing stones can only provide lighting and are not helpful for practice. , it was regarded as useless by the deer-slaughterers and was not taken away during mining!"

"The body of the poisonous spirit is the Moon Gu Lotus. It is said that the Moon Gu Lotus can increase magical powers through moonlight. The poisonous spirit should also be able to absorb the moonlight essence to improve its cultivation." Xiong Gang, who had not spoken during the whole journey, suddenly spoke: "Poison Spirit Is it because the light-absorbing stone can assist it in its cultivation that it chooses to live in seclusion here?"

"Brother Xiong is really well-informed. It's true. The light-absorbing stone can directly transmit moonlight into the Poison Spirit's Secret Cave!" Li Danhui gave him a thumbs up and praised him.

Fang Dushu had a sudden idea and asked: "If the light-absorbing stone is dug up, will the poisonous spirit appear?"

While he was talking, he accompanied Li Danhui to the cave entrance and happened to pass by Patriarch Makino.

He only listened to Patriarch Makino explain his doubts: "Light-absorbing stones are miscellaneous minerals. They are not only distributed on the surface of the mountain, but also have mineral sources throughout the mountain and even underground. It is impossible to dig them all. Even if the light-absorbing stones on the surface are dug away, it will not affect it at all. The moonlight shines into the mine inside the mountain!"

After entering the cave door, there is a tunnel extending downward.

Fang Dushu discovered that there were light-absorbing stones all over the tunnel. The moonlight came in through the spiritual stones, reflecting a vast white light, and also illuminated the criss-crossing roads in the mine.

As Grandmaster Makino said, the five of them could walk through the mine with an unobstructed view without using any lighting instruments.

Most of an hour passed, and the five people turned left and right in the mine, marching continuously for more than ten miles. After passing through dozens of tunnels, Patriarch Makino, who was leading the way, suddenly raised his arm and shouted: "Stop!"

The four people behind immediately stopped.

Li Danhui and Grandma Wudu walked in the middle, followed by Fang Dushu and Xiong Gang. They all looked at the tunnel several feet high in front of them, and they all heard a slight crawling sound in their ears.

"Have you arrived at the Poison Spirit Secret Cave?" Grandma Wudu asked in a low voice.

"Not yet!" Li Danhui looked solemn: "When the poisonous spirit is practicing in its lair, it will release poisonous gas and spread it into several tunnels near the lair. The poisonous insects at the bottom of the habitat are often attracted and rush into the poisonous area to guard it. Gate, the last time I came here with fellow Taoist Makino, we encountered a swarm of locusts, and we fought them for a long time before we were able to wipe them out!"

"Now that it has been wiped out, what kind of demonic insect is crawling in front of you?" Grandma Wudu not only showed no fear, but showed a fiery gaze. She was nicknamed "Five Poison" and was best at taming poisonous insects.

Soon, I saw a dense group of yellow-armored giant ants rushing towards the end of the tunnel.

Fang Dushu stood at the end of the team and looked forward carefully. He found that these giant ants were as thick as a finger, and their demon power was generally between the foundation building stage and the pill forming stage. He immediately felt relieved and felt that several Nascent Soul monks had joined forces to destroy them. Ant should be a piece of cake.

When Patriarch Makino saw the ants appearing, he probably felt that the demonic power was not strong, so he took the lead to attack them. He threw a flying knife and aimed at the yellow ant leader who was charging forward and slashed at it.

The flying knife fell straight on the ant's head. With this blow, the huge ant's body was directly divided into two. The killing was extremely easy, but the flying knife was also stained with a large amount of ant blood.

This kind of ant blood is not dark red in color, but has a strange yellow light with a blazing wave of fire, just like karst. As soon as it sticks to the blade, corrosive black smoke will appear.

Patriarch Makino noticed that the flying knife was damaged and seemed very distressed: "These evil beasts dared to poison my magic knife!"

He was secretly surprised. The poisonous power of the ant blood was beyond his expectation. He did not dare to launch an offensive rashly anymore and immediately put away his sword and returned.

"These are molten gold ants!" Granny Five Poison recognized the giant ants and reminded her loudly: "Their ant blood is hot and poisonous, and can corrode even real treasures. Do not let them get close to bite. Their mouths can be sprayed." For heat poison, it’s best to use ice and snow techniques, it’s safest to freeze them directly!”

She actually has selfish motives and wants a few people to help suppress the ant colony so that she can tame it for her own use.

Patriarch Makino heard that she was calm and composed, and quickly turned around to see a silver demon scorpion squatting in front of her. When the scorpion's tail was raised high, it was almost at the same level as an ordinary person. The demonic power revealed by the scorpion body had already faintly possessed the Nascent Soul. period of heat.

Patriarch Makino immediately turned around and complimented loudly: "Grandma's silver scorpion is really majestic. It must be able to sweep across the ant colony! Let's see how grandma can show off her skills!"

After speaking, his body swayed, and he walked around behind Li Danhui and Grandma Wudu, and landed between Fang Dushu and Xiong Gang. He obviously did not intend to continue to be the forward, but let Grandma Wudu's Silver Scorpion take the lead.

But the ants were like a tide. When they approached the silver scorpion, they sensed the biting chill emanating from the scorpion's body. They immediately dispersed and swarmed towards the left and right tunnels and the top of the tunnel, attacking Fang Dushu and the five men from all directions.

The Grandma of Five Poisons forced Silver Scorpion to sit at the front, but the pressure she endured was not great.

Li Danhui was very close to her, standing in the cold circle released by the silver scorpion, and had no difficulty resisting the siege of the ants.

Fang Dushu held the Dongyun Sword with one hand, and with a slight stroke outside his body, a snow ring formed. The ants charged forward and bumped into the snow ring. In the blink of an eye, they were frozen into ice sculptures, unable to get any closer to his body.

When Xiong Gang faced the swarm of ants, he did not dodge or use magic to protect himself. He actually fought with the swarm with his bare hands. He grabbed a molten gold ant with his five fingers and grasped it fiercely. He crushed the ant's body to burst, then spread his palms, showing a trace of bloodthirsty pleasure at the corner of his mouth, letting the ant's blood flow in his palms.

His whole body seemed to be made of iron and copper, and the intense corrosive toxicity of the ant blood was unable to cause any damage to his physical body.

Fang Dushu accidentally glanced at him while wielding his sword, and couldn't help but secretly praise him, this man is really ruthless, and his body is tempered hard enough.

Then he turned to look at Patriarch Muye. Compared with Xiong Gang's immovable state, Patriarch Muye looked quite embarrassed. He kept jumping around in the tunnel, hitting an ice palm with his left hand and a cold strike with his right hand. He punched and tried to distance himself from the ant colony.

After such a stalemate for a while, the ant colony gradually became silent. Either the ant body was frozen by the cold air, or it was directly caught to death by Xiong Gang.

Grandma Wu Du looked at the ice ants on the ground and rolled them into her sleeves calmly.

Seeing her monopolizing the ant colony, Patriarch Makino didn't say anything to fight for it, but he made a suggestion: "Grandma's Silver Scorpion is very adaptable to the mine environment, why not put it in front to explore the way!"

The Grandma of the Five Poisons got hundreds of complete demon ants. As long as she carefully cultivates them after she returns, she will be able to form an ant army in the future. She didn't seem to care so much if Silver Scorpion took the risk, and immediately agreed to Grandmaster Makino's request.

In this way, several people continued to march in the tunnel.

After walking for more than ten miles, the tunnel suddenly disappeared and they were suddenly in an open space.

Looking around, the entire space was filled with gray-white fog. Silver Scorpion was the first to set foot in the fog area. After taking a few breaths of the fog, the scorpion's body shook uncontrollably, apparently affected by the poison of the fog.

Seeing this situation, Fang Dushu and the other five people all stood at the edge of the fog area and did not venture deep into the area to explore.

Although the fog zone contains highly toxic substances, it does not interfere with the monk's spiritual detection.

Fang Dushu looked around intently and found that this was a mine cavern that stretched for several miles. There were only gravels scattered on the ground and no buildings in the cave.

However, in the center of the cave, there is a strange crescent-moon mining pool with a diameter of about a hundred feet. The pool is filled with mercury-like fluid. The fog in the entire cave is the gas released by the mercury.

"Everyone must have seen that mining pool!" Li Danhui said: "That's the Moon Pond, the lair of the poison spirit. The silver water venom in the pool is essentially a poisonous ban, and the poisonous power of this poison is spread out. Later, the poisonous mist formed in this cave. The last time I came to explore with Taoist Makino, we couldn’t even break through the poisonous mist, so the poison ban became even more helpless!”

She explained the situation first, and then looked at Fang Dushu and Grandma Wudu: "Next, how to break the drug ban and force the poisonous spirit to reveal its true form depends on the magical powers of these two!"

After the poisonous spirit appears, Xiong Gang and Patriarch Muye will take on the important task of suppressing the poisonous spirit.

The division of labor among several people is very clear.

Grandma Wudu raised an objection: "Princess Danhui, how can you prove that the poisonous spirit must be hiding in the Moon Gu Pond?"

Li Danhui didn't reply, just waved his hand towards Patriarch Muye.

I saw Patriarch Makino holding up a silver lotus leaf with his hand, and he cast a spell to inject the silver leaf, and suddenly it turned into a moon-shaped true text: "In the past, the Yuelong Realm became a sea of ​​fire, and the "Moon Gu Dao" also followed. Buried in the sea, the ancestors of Wan Gu Sect luckily found the broken Moon Gu script in the sea of ​​fire, which was later inherited by me. I used the Moon Gu script to trace the hiding place of the poisonous spirit. It must be sealed in the Moon Gu Pond. As long as it is broken Dropping the poison ban in the pond is when it reveals its true form!"

The true text of Moon Gu and the poisonous spirit are one and the same. It is impossible to make mistakes when tracking the traces of the poisonous spirit with the true text.

After hearing this, Grandma Wu Po threw up her five-pole formation flags, which flew outside the Moon Gu Pond and hung down on the edge of the pond to form a pentagonal formation. The flags each revealed patterns of snakes, scorpions, toads, centipedes and geckos. , it looks like a poison formation at first glance.

Grandma Wudu said: "My Five Poison Formation can lead back to the source and make all the poisonous mist in the entire cave flow back into the Moon Gu Pond. Let's empty the cave first. After the environment is safe, we can rush to the pond to think about it." What do you think of the method to crack the drug ban?"

Li Danhui replied: "That's fine, just ask grandma to cast the formation first!"

Grandma Five Poisons immediately activated the formation, but this formation required the cooperation of the Silver Scorpion, which required the Silver Scorpion to first drive the poisonous mist of the cave around the Moon Pond, so that the formation could absorb the poison into the pool.

Patriarch Makino saw that the Silver Scorpion was staggering while walking and needed to fight against the corrosion of the poisonous mist while performing demonic magic, so he asked: "It's not convenient for Grandma's Spirit Scorpion to walk in the poisonous mist. The entire cave has several miles of space. I want to I’m afraid it will take a long time to drive all the poisonous mist to the edge of the pool, right?”

Grandma Wudu said: "It doesn't take long, just half a day!"

Upon hearing this, Fang Dushu took out the silver trophies collected at the Yuelong Relics and scolded the skeleton, "I'm here to help grandma."

This skull can release silver swirling light, which can speed up the expulsion of poisonous mist.

(End of this chapter)