Six Paths Nightmare Palace

Chapter 20 Statues
Zhong Chen looked around for a while, and after confirming that there was indeed no danger in the vicinity, he approached the statue cautiously and looked at it carefully.

The surface of this statue is faintly glowing with a grayish-white luster. It should not be carved from ordinary stones. The materials used are somewhat similar to the statues of ancestors that must be worshipped in the Zhongjia Holy Land once a year.

Zhong Chen's eyes swept from top to bottom, and when he saw the waist of the statue, he suddenly felt a burst of heat from his left wrist.

Startled, he hurriedly lowered his head and glanced at the silver bracer, only to see a faint layer of blood on the bracer, and the flickering flickering and flickering.

Zhong Chen's heart sank slightly, and after hesitating for a while, he finally grabbed the silver wrist guard with his other hand and carefully removed it.

I saw that his left hand was originally covered by the wristband, and there was a tattoo-like rune mark, which was composed of blood-colored thin lines, which were densely distributed all over the wrist, which was extremely complicated.

This rune mark is flashing a dazzling blood light, the intensity is almost several times more than that on the previous bracer.

Zhong Chen's face was a little ugly, and he touched the rune mark on his wrist with his fingers, but there was only a warm feeling, which was very different from the hot feeling on his wrist.

He glanced at the statue again, and his expression changed again.

I remembered clearly before that the waist of the statue was completely empty, but at this moment there was an extra gray-white stone print, the size of a fist.

He blinked his eyes hard, and when he stared at it carefully, a more bizarre scene appeared.

The gray-white lithograph unexpectedly disappeared under his gaze.

Zhong Chen was really startled.

Suddenly, he felt something again, raised his head suddenly, and his heart was cold.

The Confucian scholar statue, which was supposed to look up at the sky, unexpectedly lowered its head to look down at him at some point, and his eyes flashed like a living thing.

Zhong Chen felt that the hairs all over his body stood on end, and the rune mark on his wrist became tinglingly hot, and an indescribably dangerous feeling enveloped his whole body.

With a "whoosh" sound, his figure shot back instantly, and after a few flashes, he returned to the edge of the foggy sea before stopping.

At this time, he looked at the statue with a gloomy expression on his face. After a while, he stomped his feet, took a big circle, and plunged into the forest far away from the statue.

This thing is so strange, and it feels so dangerous, so naturally it is better not to provoke it.

As soon as the other party entered the forest, the hot feeling of the rune mark on his wrist disappeared without a trace.

Zhong Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and put the silver wristband on his left hand again, covering the rune mark again.

This blood-colored rune mark is exactly the nine-headed ghost dove bloodline mark that he has worked hard to extract. After trying it a little, he feels that it is extremely useful, and it is also the biggest trump card for him to enter the Nightmare Palace this time.

A pair of blue water wheels appeared again under Zhong Shen's feet. He held up his body several meters above the ground steadily, and took out a disc from his arms. After pointing a few times in the void with one hand, it immediately became white. The misty miniature map emerged. Although the area is not large, the miniature mountains, rivers and other forms are readily available.

After he glanced at the map, his brows were wrinkled.

The map on the disc was the area that the disciples of the Zhong family had explored after entering the Nightmare Palace, and it was refined into a special magic weapon by the master of the Zhong family's weapon refiner. As long as they were in these areas, they would naturally show their location.

But since it is not shown now, in all likelihood, this forest is an area that has not yet been explored.In terms of the vastness of the Nightmare Palace, this is a common thing, but as long as you search for the center, you can always find an area that the map can display.

The main goal of his Nightmare Palace this time was naturally the Shending Peak that gave birth to the Taiyi Pill, as well as all other spiritual medicines that could improve the rank and success rate of the pill formation.Zhong Chen thought about it like this, and without any hesitation, he made a gesture with one hand, rolled the water wheel with one step, and flew into the depths of the forest.

But what Zhong Chen didn't know was that not long after he entered the forest, the Confucian scholar statue in the clearing turned his head slowly and stared at the direction where Zhong Chen disappeared for a long time before a vague, silent mystery disappeared.

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After a meal, Zhong Chen realized that he underestimated this seemingly ordinary forest. At this moment, he was surrounded by four giant gray wolves that jumped out of the ground.

The backs of these four demon wolves are slightly raised, with a touch of black and shiny fur, but there are strands of white silk lingering in their four claws.

The back of this wolf beast is as hard as iron. Not only can it fly at low altitude by virtue of the innate power of its claws, but it is also good at the art of closing and attacking. Often monsters with a strength higher than them will also become the belly of such a wolf beast. thing.Of course, the claws of these wolf beasts are also good materials for immortal cultivators to refine wind attribute instruments.

When Zhong Chen was thinking this way, the largest of the four wolf beasts let out a low growl in his throat, shrank back, and rushed up with a fishy wind.

The other three jumped up one by one, and they grasped the timing and rhythm extremely precisely, just right, so that the prey surrounded by the depths had no chance to breathe.

Zhong Chen raised his brows, and suddenly a crisp bell came from his sleeves, and the four wolves that rushed towards him suddenly froze in mid-air, stagnant for half a beat.

Cold light flashed.

A azure light shot out from Zhong Chen's other sleeve, instantly cutting the four wolf beasts into eight pieces, and a large amount of blood splattered down.

After a cup of tea, only the remains of the wolf beast missing eight claws were left on the forest floor, attracting a pangolin-like monster for a long time to eat.

After more than half an hour, a huge mantis that was completely trapped in the blue water polo finally took its last breath, and the corpse was covered with sword marks.

Zhong Chen scattered the magic in his hand, and flew past the corpse with a solemn expression.

After half a day, Zhong Chen and a one-horned python that was more than ten feet long were inextricably fighting.

A thick blue water ring swirled and danced around him, and his figure appeared and disappeared like a ghost. A yellow bell above his head made a crisp sound of "clang clap clang" from time to time. From time to time, wounds are left on the huge body of the giant python.

……

A day later, Zhong Chen was in a tree hole, playing with the giant horn of a giant python in his hand, and muttered to himself: "The Nightmare Palace lives up to its reputation, and it's really dangerous. I almost ran out of mana first. It seems that the road below must be more careful, think of a way, and can't be so reckless."

He looked at the single horn in his hand and fell into deep thought.

The next morning, after meditating for a long time, Zhong Shen, who had regained his mana, set off on the road again.

But this time, there was a simple leather bag on his waist, and there was a slight fishy smell inside, which was vaguely the smell of the beheaded giant python.

As a result, in the following period of time, he was not attacked by other monsters again, which made Zhong Chen overjoyed.

It seems that he was right, the black giant python is not weak, and the monster breath made temporarily using its unicorn as a material can really keep ordinary monsters far away.

In this way, he will save a lot of trouble in passing through this forest next.

……

In a desolate desert, a large cloud of khaki sand and mist billows, and from time to time there is a sound of explosion.

Suddenly, a thunderbolt came from the blue sky, and a dozen silver arcs shot out from the fog, instantly sweeping away all the sand and fog, revealing several figures.

One of them was tall and slender, with an ugly face, holding a crescent-shaped strange blade in his hand, with Ziz's lightning flashing on it.

There were three people standing next to them, and on the ground lay the corpse of a man whose head had been bitten off in half, and the corpse of another monster that was charred inside and out.

The corpse of the monster was two to three feet long, but its body was extremely flat, like a huge gecko magnified countless times, but its tail had a scorpion-like barb that gleamed coldly, making people feel chills all over.

"I didn't expect that Zhong Tian fell here. However, we killed this sand beast, which is considered to be revenge for it." Zhong Jinlong flipped one hand and the strange blade in his hand disappeared, he said slowly.

"I didn't expect this Nightmare Palace to be so dangerous. If we act together with the power of the five of us, there are still people who will encounter accidents." A young man with yellowish hair said gloomily.

"That's right, if it weren't for Jinlong's infinite power and restraint of this beast, I'm afraid we would have to lie down for two more people." Another thin middle-aged man said.

"This is something that can't be helped. Speaking of which, Zhong Tian is also careless. This sand beast is already at the level of the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, and it is even more difficult to prevent it from attacking in the desert home field." The last one had dark skin. The disciple of the Zhong family also sighed.

"Okay, now that we have entered the Nightmare Palace, life and death have already been ignored. We will bury the remains of Brother Zhong Tian, ​​and we must be 120 points more careful in the following journey." Zhong Jinlong took a deep breath and waved his hand. speak.

The other three did not disagree, and immediately began to clean up the bodies of their companions on the ground.

Not long after, Zhong Jinlong took the three to continue to fly away at a low altitude in a certain direction.

(End of this chapter)