After the world collapsed

Chapter 6
Hearing that Wen Yang actually greeted him in the way of a cultivator, Qi Mo quickly replied:
"Qi Mo in the Izumo country, it seems that the princess's intention is not only to wait here, but is it possible to go under this cliff for a while?"

Princess Wenyang is wearing light clothes at this time, and her hair is also tied up. It can be seen that her outfit is only a short of armor from the battlefield.

At the banquet, although Princess Wenyang didn't directly say whether she was a cultivator or not, she only mentioned the existence of her master who was a cultivator.

Looking at what she means now, if she goes there in person and picks two Earth Yang fruits, it will prove that these young talents are not as good as hers, and it may not be so easy to propose a marriage.

"I'm just here to have a look."

Princess Wenyang obviously didn't want to get entangled with a few people. After Shi Li said goodbye, she went to the direction of the secret path that the old Taoist told her.

To be precise, the cliff is not a cliff, but a gap formed by the cracking of the ground for unknown reasons.However, this gap is really surprising. The crack is about tens of feet wide. Previously, there were often gravels falling down on the broken walls, but looking down, there was only darkness.

And the path leading to the bottom of the cliff is not so much a path as it is a dislocation section formed by the movement of the mountain.

Soon, Wen Yang followed the old way to let her remember the route and came to this secret trail. She clearly saw a part of the rocks falling off in pieces in the cliff, forming a dent, about two feet wide, which gradually disappeared downward on the slope. In the darkness under the cliff.

Almost no one knows this "road" or how long the fault will last downward. If the fault disappears between the rock walls halfway through, it will be nothing but return.

Zhang Sheng had been waiting here for a long time, and when he saw Princess Wenyang approaching, he handed her a talisman, which was exactly the spirit talisman he had learned from his master on the way to Ningcheng.

Looking at the "small road" behind Zhang Sheng, Princess Wenyang asked with a worried expression:

"Junior brother, does this talisman really work, or we should go back and use the sling." It turned out that Princess Wenyang's indifference in front of Qi Mo and others just now was just pretending.

She didn't use the sling because she didn't want to enter the cliff under the eyes of everyone, so it was naturally the best choice to enter quietly through this unknown path.

Zhang Sheng rolled his eyes when he heard the words. The sling looked safe on the surface, but it was the easiest to manipulate.And since the old Taoist said that this road can be walked, there should be no problem.

He took out a Spiritual Wind Talisman from his bosom, and shouted in a low voice: "Spiritual Wind Talisman, Qi!"

Seeing that there was a flash of light above the talisman, Zhang Sheng quickly put the talisman back on his chest and covered it with his clothes, and motioned Princess Wenyang to do the same.

Princess Wenyang had seen the old Taoist help her activate the heart-confusing talisman before, and it was almost the same as before. After taking another spiritual wind talisman from Zhang Sheng and sticking it on her body, she suddenly felt light and light.

She followed behind Zhang Sheng, and the two stepped onto the protruding path on the edge of the cliff one after another, walking down the edge.

With the existence of the Spiritual Wind Talisman, the two Zhang Sheng and Zhang Sheng, who had greatly improved their control over their body shape, went fast all the way, and soon the steps were only less than one shoulder wide, and they had to turn sideways.

Zhang Sheng faced the wall, with his right foot in front and his left foot behind. It's pitch black with no end in sight.

Since Princess Wenyang was a little smaller than Zhang Sheng, she followed behind very leisurely at first, but after a while, she also took the same posture as the latter.

After walking for a while, the light above the head gradually disappeared. Princess Wenyang took out a necklace with a circle of small beads from the edge of her neck to wear, and soon the small beads shone brightly, even shining in front of Zhang Sheng.

"Night Pearl?"

Zhang Sheng forgot where he heard that there seemed to be such a thing, but it was the first time he saw it with his own eyes.

"This is the Ye Mingzhu given to me by my grandmother when I was a child. I usually don't want to wear it. Before I came here, I felt that I might need it so I wore it."

"This thing should be expensive, right?" Zhang Sheng asked as he walked forward.

The two walked and chatted without saying a word. It is quite effective to talk more in this unknown environment. After walking for an unknown amount of time, Princess Wenyang seemed to suddenly remember something, and asked in front of her:

"By the way, Master, did he go to pick those two Earth Yang fruits? Why do you want the two of us to come too?"

Wen Yang thought that the old man came in advance to take away the Diyang fruit in his mouth, but he couldn't figure out why he had to call the two of them.

"It seems that the main purpose of Master's going down the cliff is not the two fruits, but for another reason. He may have asked us to come for other things."

The old man didn't say anything to Zhang Sheng before he left, but he just told them to go to the cliff to find him in the next few days, so Zhang Sheng couldn't figure out the reason.

"But have you noticed that there are more grasses around?" Zhang Sheng then asked.

From the occasional green moss at the beginning, to now under the illumination of the night pearl, Zhang Sheng saw what looked like dark green turf popping up on the walls and even on the steps.

"Yeah, and the humidity seems to be a little heavier, and breathing is not as difficult as before." Princess Wenyang's tired voice came from behind.

"There was a section of the road just now. It may be because the air is very dry in the middle of the entire cliff, and it will be difficult to breathe, but it is better now." Zhang Sheng analyzed it, and he probably had a bottom line in his heart. .

"It means that we are almost at the bottom of the valley, and there should be an underground river there."

Despite what he said, Zhang Sheng's vigilance did not decrease but increased. If there are rivers, plants and humid air, there may be life. Life does not refer to flowers and plants, but to another kind. kind.

But it's not good to say, before seeing it with my own eyes, any speculation is just a fantasy.The further they went down, Zhang Sheng found that there was light between the bottom, which surprised the two of them.Because here is not known how deep underground, it is impossible for sunlight to come in.Since there is light, it means that there is a light source below.

"There seems to be a whole forest below, do those trees glow?" Princess Wenyang said while putting away the Ye Mingzhu around her neck.At this time, the light gradually no longer needs the night pearl.

"It should be almost there, let's go to the end first." Zhang Sheng saw that the road under his feet gradually became wider, so he couldn't help speeding up his pace.

Soon, the two saw the flat land, and Zhang Sheng jumped down, stepping on the flat land again. This down-to-earth feeling made Zhang Sheng and the two of them heave a sigh of relief.

And when they got closer and closer to the glowing forest, they realized that the glowing trees were not trees, and countless light spots were scattered around each tree.

"Is this a firefly?" Princess Wenyang stretched out her hand towards the surrounding light spots, and sure enough, the light spots avoided it.

Zhang Sheng didn't pay much attention to the fireflies, but found several slings not far away, and placed them there along the slope from top to bottom.

He observed the general situation of this space. The mountain walls on both sides rose from the ground, not vertically.And the space below is obviously much larger than the crack above the cliff.

Zhang Sheng raised his head and looked up, but he did not see a trace of sunlight. Combined with the state of the sling, he probably figured out the structure of the cliff.

The rock walls on both sides of the cliff are actually inclined in one direction. The rock wall on the side they came down happened to be a slope extending downward, and the rock wall on the opposite side was a steep slope that gradually shrunk into the rock body.

It's like a piece of wood, cut into three points by an ax obliquely, and after being pulled out, the gap left by the ax on the wood is like this cliff.

"Go this way." Zhang Sheng pointed to the footprints around the sling.As soon as he got here, he used the Qi Wang technique to look at it, and there was nothing in this place except the breath of fireflies.

If the direction of these people is a dead end, maybe they will turn back, if it is not a dead end, that is the best.

"Is Diyang fruit a spiritual fruit grown on a tree? There shouldn't be such a broken place, right?" Wen Yang felt that something was wrong the more he looked at this place.

"It's also the first time I've heard of this kind of fruit. But since it's beneficial to people with fire-type spiritual roots, it should have something to do with sunlight or earth fire veins. This place is damp and dark, and the earth sun fruit is probably not there." Here it is."

Zhang Sheng didn't say that he had seen it with the qi-watching technique, but he could only give a similar reasoning.

"Besides, Master said that there is a secret valley under this cliff, obviously he didn't mean here."

Wen Yang nodded. The terrain below the cliff is relatively flat, except for the unfamiliar trees and fireflies. It is obviously not the secret valley that Lao Daokou mentioned.

She walked towards a tree and wanted to take a closer look, only to find that there was not a single leaf on the tree, and a dark red glow was faintly emitting from the top and bottom of the bark.

"This tree is also very strange."

"Don't touch it randomly. The landform here is not simple. Don't touch the plants here before you figure it out." Zhang Sheng hurriedly stopped Wenyang who wanted to touch the nameless tree.

Continuing to walk forward, the road ahead seems to be getting narrower and narrower, because they can clearly see that the cliff faces on both sides are getting closer to the middle.

Zhang Sheng remembered most of the terrain here. He remembered that the place where he saw the sling was probably in the middle of the cliff, where the distance between the rock walls on both sides was almost the farthest, and now the closer to the edge, the narrower it became. .

"By the way, Junior Brother, are you an immortal cultivator?" Wen Yang was obviously a little nervous in this strange and unknown environment, always looking for some topics to dilute this unknown fear.

Hearing such a sentence suddenly, Zhang Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then said:

"How could I be an immortal cultivator? Master, an old man, tested my aptitude, and he shook his head at that time."

"Oh, that's right. It's okay. After the senior sister gets the Diyang Fruit and becomes a monk in the Qi Refining Realm, the senior sister will protect you from now on." Princess Wenyang patted Zhang Sheng on the shoulder and said.

Zhang Sheng could only smile wryly.

After walking for a short time, they came to a cave covered by leaves.

"It seems right, it's here."

Just as Zhang Sheng was about to go in, Princess Wenyang grabbed him and said, "I'll come first, there may be some danger here, it's the responsibility of the senior sister to protect the younger brother."

Before, Princess Wenyang thought that Zhang Sheng, as a veteran apprentice, was also a cultivator who could use talismans, but after asking just now, she found out that he was just an ordinary person, and looking at his thin body, he didn't even look like a martial arts practitioner. man of.

No matter what I say, I can be regarded as a martial arts practitioner, and as a senior sister, it is only natural to walk in the front.

Zhang Sheng made a gesture of please, and then followed her into the cave.The cave is very long, and there are countless turns to turn. When Wen Yang was about to dig the wall in anger, he finally saw the light ahead.

The two who walked out of the cave quickly were still a little unaccustomed to the sudden strong light. They squinted their eyes and looked around. It was foggy. This should be the secret valley under the cliff that the old Taoist said.

After walking more than ten steps and looking back at the place where they walked out just now, it turned out to be a cave at the foot of the mountain.

"No, why is there sunshine here?" Princess Wenyang asked suddenly.

Although you can't see the sun in the sky from under the cliff, but here is obviously extending from under the cliff, how can you see the sun?
"Let's go, look for a high place." Zhang Sheng pointed to a small hillside not far away and said.

……

In Ningcheng's imperial palace, a figure soared into the sky and flew westward at an extremely fast speed. Many people in the city also saw this scene and immediately caused an uproar.

A moment later, this figure arrived on a hill outside the city, dressed in a white robe, standing with his hands behind his back.

At this time, there was actually one person on the hill, who had obviously been waiting for a long time.

"Wang Daoyou, haven't been out for a long time, have you forgotten that there are so many mortals in the city? Or is that little princess Wenyang really your apprentice?"

The person opposite joked.

Apparently he also saw the white-robed old man flying out of Ningcheng just now, which is tantamount to telling everyone that what Princess Wenyang said is not wrong, there are indeed immortal cultivators, and they are still on the side of the Dongyang royal family .

"Old Taoist Xu, stop talking nonsense, what's the matter with me?" The old man in white robe didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did just now, because he already roughly knew what he was going to say next.

"Wang Daoyou promised that he hadn't been out of Ningcheng for decades, and Xu admired it. But now that ordinary people know about the cultivator, I'm afraid..."

Seeing the gradually impatient expression of the white-robed old man, the monk known as Xu Laodao changed the subject again, and continued to say with a straight face:
"I don't know if Wang Daoyou has felt something abnormal recently?"

The white-robed old man's expression eased a little when he heard this, knowing that this was the real topic.

Abnormal, of course, monks like them who have reached the alchemy state, especially him in the late stage of the alchemy state, have a sense of this world between heaven and earth.

In the past few days, he felt more and more uneasy, as if the sky would collapse at any time.It was something he hadn't felt in years.He suddenly thought of something and asked: "Has Daoist Yu made any progress?"

Xu Laodao shook his head and said:

"There is still no news, and the fog that fills the sky has not changed in the slightest. It seems that it has nothing to do with the formation. Could it be that there are some strange treasures that are about to appear?"

The old man in white robe said with a sneer: "You Luoyunzong have searched for all the treasures, what does it have to do with the old man?"

Xu Laodao cleared his throat in embarrassment, and was about to speak, suddenly a huge lightning flashed between the sky and the earth, and then there was a loud click.

The two people on the top of the mountain were very close to the lightning, and at that moment just now, they seemed to have the illusion that the lightning would hit them.

The white-robed old man was okay, but Xu Laodao scratched his back secretly. If the white-robed old man knew that he was frightened by the lightning and broke into a cold sweat, it would be a shame.

With the rumbling thunder, it actually began to rain. You must know that there are no dark clouds in the sky at this time, and it is still sunny.

The old man in white robe narrowed his eyes and looked towards the direction where the lightning disappeared in the clear sky just now and murmured:

"There is a vision in the sky. It seems that you and I are right."

……

In the secret valley, Zhang and Sheng didn't know the phenomenon of heaven and earth that happened on the surface just now. At this time, they found a relatively high rock and began to surround it. Mountain streams, rocks, pine forests, creeks, and even A waterfall can be seen in the distance.

"Where can I find Diyang fruit here?"

Princess Wenyang looked at the scenery in her eyes and couldn't help asking.

"The Diyang fruit should be a good rare fruit, and it must have been formed in some peculiar geographical structure. Let's start with the ore veins first." Zhang Sheng thought for a while and said.

Zhang Sheng guessed that the Diyang Fruit should emit a blue aura similar to that of a monk in the Qi Refining Realm, but it would be difficult to find if the distance was too far.

But there was nothing he could do, Zhang Sheng could only use his qi-watching technique, and looked around, which yielded a lot of information.

(End of this chapter)