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Chapter 23 Blood Sculpture

Shaking his head, driving this absurd idea out of his mind, Yu Ci's mind settled into the Illuminating Diagram, carefully observing the vast world within fifty miles below the cliff.

Generally speaking, the brightness of the Tianrift Valley shows a decreasing trend from top to bottom, covered by layers of clouds and fog, no matter how strong the sun is, it cannot reach the depths of the valley as deep as seven or eight thousand feet.So from the depth of about [-] miles, a relatively strong contrast between light and dark has appeared on the Illuminating Map, and when it reaches forty miles down, it is a dark area with no skylight. So far, the canyon has not yet bottomed out.

Yu Ci scanned it briefly, and then focused on the details.With the changes in his thoughts, in his eyes, the small world expanded rapidly, and soon, a point in the diagram he had set at will clearly appeared before his eyes.

He was facing an eye that was as huge as a copper bell and had a golden glow like a knife.

Yu Ci almost punched him, but managed to control it in time, only then did he realize that the angle of his gaze was wrong.After a little adjustment, he saw clearly that it was actually a giant bird with a wingspan of several feet, and what he saw just now were the eyes of the giant bird.The dark red thin feathers on the giant bird's head were messily covered, but they couldn't block the typical eagle's sharp eyes and iron hook-like beak.The more the thin feathers spread toward the body, the brighter the color became, until finally it seemed to be stained with a layer of blood, and when the feathers were shaken a little, a layer of blood light spread in the clouds.

What is this thing called?Blood sculpture?

Yu Ci's gaze turned around the fierce bird several times, and using it as a reference, it extended in all directions.The sky rift valley in the clouds became clearer and clearer.

He soon discovered that the idea of ​​naming the giant bird was really meaningless. At this moment, the wonder of the valley was only revealed to him the most insignificant corner.

The blood eagle swooped down in the wind and mist, and within reach of its sharp claws was a huge lizard, but this lizard not only had horns on its head, but also had two huge wings with fleshy membranes under its ribs.Seeing the blood eagle attacking, it croaked, its membranous wings blew, and it glides obliquely. Immediately, the two monsters fought in the clouds and mist, and the blood feathers and broken scales flew all over the sky.

Changing the angle of view, Yu Ci saw a huge frog-like monster, spitting out venom, walking up and down the cliffs like walking on the ground; he saw a three-person-tall giant ape, pulling trees and flying stones, resembling a demon god; but he also I saw that such a monster was knocked down by a green snake that was as thin as a bamboo chopstick and only two feet long, and was poisoned to death; in the depths of the lower clouds, there were thick arms that were tens of feet long. The gigantic creature, like the legendary Teng Snake, looms and floats among them.

Too much surprise, the taste fades away, replaced by uncontrollable excitement: it turns out that there is such a world in the universe, so mysterious and majestic, it seems that God specially created it to break the common sense of human beings. As set up!

Of course Yu Ci also saw the dangers involved, but the endless crises are more like big ingredients splashed in boiling oil. After being rolled in the oil once, the fragrance overflows, hooking his soul, and crashing into him. In the bottomless abyss.

Then, he actually jumped.

The cloud and mist rushed towards his face, filled with a breath that he had never had before, and crashed into his heart, burning his heart hot:

"Before I didn't know the foundation, so I didn't go deep into it. Now that I have the map of God, how can I miss it again!"

With the God Map to guide the way, Yu Ci quickly slid to a place a hundred feet below the top of the valley, where the light was a little dim.This is already the deepest place he went to when picking 'medicine' some time ago, but compared to the canyon itself, such a distance is meaningless!

And the more you descend, the more novel and bizarre the world shown on the Illuminating Map will be, challenging Yu Ci's imagination all the time.The ever-changing and wonderful ecology made him dizzy, and gave birth to a great attraction, pulling him to continue down.

Before I knew it, it was ten miles deep.During the ten-mile journey, there were many difficult and dangerous places. After reaching this place, Yu Ci finally found a platform where he could barely land and take a breather.

As his position deepened, the temperature in the Sky Rift Valley dropped very quickly, the chill was biting, and there was actually a bit of a winter atmosphere.

But for Yu Ci, the most difficult thing is not the temperature, but the chaotic sense of space.In his position, no matter up, down, left, or right, he couldn't see anything except the mist, only the cliff behind him could rely on.After staying for a long time, he feels that the world is upside down, or that the earth is bent at an angle. If he continues to be in a trance, he may really regard the cliff as the ground. From "lying" to "standing", he will step into the bottomless abyss and fall. A broken body.

Fortunately, he has a map of the gods, and he can always pay attention to the changes in the pictures on the map of the gods, and use this small world centered on himself to adjust his feelings.

In addition, the endless emergence of ferocious beasts and strange birds is also a great threat.For example, the blood sculpture that just flew past his eyes.

This big guy looked very familiar, as if it was the one he had observed through the God Map just now.It seemed to have won a complete victory in the previous battle, and it had another full meal. It flew over the cliff proudly, and the violent wind whipped by its blood wings almost blew Yu Ci off.

Yu Ci wasn't angry, instead, he observed the big guy's flight trajectory with great interest through the map of the gods.Prepare to take advantage of the rest time to understand the living habits of such creatures.

The blood eagle hovered in the clouds and mist of the canyon, but its flight altitude kept dropping, from ten miles to twenty miles, and then to a depth of thirty miles before climbing up again.Yu Ci knew that this interval of twenty miles or so was the main area where the blood sculptures lived.

Originally, he wanted to learn more about it, but his attention was pulled away from the blood sculpture by something.

It is a slope, located in a dark area about twenty miles deep and three thousand feet deep in the canyon.

The top of the slope is extremely steep, while the bottom is slightly gentle. It stretches out along the cliff for about tens of feet. Yu Ci originally thought that the sky rift valley would gradually narrow. , and below is the bottomless abyss.

There is no conspicuous vegetation on the slope, which is normal. The place is hidden under dense fog all year round, without sunlight, and except for some bryophytes, it is difficult for plants to survive.However, Yu Ci was very sure of the function of the God-Illumination Map, and believed in his own eyes even more. He clearly saw that when the blood eagle spread its wings just now, the wind carried by it blew up countless hair-thin grass leaves. .

Shrimp grass!

That must be the shrimp grass.Although he didn't understand why the shrimp grass could grow in a place without trees, Yu Ci believed in his own eyes, and also believed in the efficacy of the diagram of the gods.

Now the shrimp grass is not an important thing to him, but it is an extremely clear goal, Yu Ci cheers up immediately, regards that slope as the end of today's adventure, and continues to start the climbing journey.

This is not an easy task.Not every cliff in the Tianrift Valley is suitable for climbing. Some places are as smooth as a mirror. Even the mountain monkeys who are best at climbing can only fall to their deaths.

Thanks to the map of the gods, Yu Ci was able to avoid the dangerous place in time by capturing all the surrounding terrain. Even so, it took him a full three hours to find a path through the slope.By the time he stepped on the soft soil on the slope, it was completely dark.

The sky rift valley is too vast, and the seven or eight mu of land slanting down, placed on the entire cliff plane, is just an inconspicuous bump, completely out of scale.And Yu Ci here is just a small insect on the bump, not worth mentioning.

But this does not affect Yu Ci's huge harvest. Facts have proved that there is no problem with the map of the gods, and there is no problem with his vision. This is indeed the exclusive "medicine" garden bestowed by God on the shrimp whiskers.

There are no big trees on the slope, but there is a remnant root system of a big tree.It can be clearly seen in the photo of the gods that most of the twisted root system is buried under the earth and rocks, stretching in all directions, occupying the entire slope and even spreading to the surrounding cliffs.Yu Ci couldn't imagine how such a huge tree could grow in this kind of place, and if the big tree with such a root system still remained, what kind of colossal monster it would be!

For unknown reasons, the big tree has been broken, and it is likely to have fallen into a deep valley. Most of the remaining root system has died, but a small part has survived, becoming a unique parasite, helping thousands of people around. The counted asparagus obtains nutrients.

This is the reason for the existence of shrimp grass.

Yu Ci resolved his little doubts, and what awaited him was a bigger surprise.Because the surrounding cliffs were omitted, the number of shrimp grasses far exceeded his initial estimate.Just by visual inspection, there are at least two to three thousand trees near the slope, which is quite an astonishing number.These shrimp silk grasses, together with his existing stock, are more than enough to exchange for four Sanyang Talisman Swords.

The deal in Cliff City was destined to be a one-shot deal, and Yu Ci didn't have the intention to keep it flowing. Except for some locations that were too dangerous, he was going to wipe out the shrimp grass around the slope.

Of course, that's tomorrow too.

After nightfall, the sky rift valley can be regarded as really invisible. The dense fog almost obscures all light. Even specially trained night eyes can hardly see beyond Zhang Xu.Yu Ci didn't want to come to Baoshan, but stumbled and fell to his death. He found a leeward place on the slope, sat down cross-legged, and spent the long night like that.

This was the first time for Yu Ci to spend the night in the Sky Rift Valley.After seeing the blood eagle and other raptors and beasts, it is absolutely impossible to ask him to sleep or practice.Bored, he simply opened the map of the gods to see what the sky rift valley looked like in the night.

At this moment, the Illuminating Figure presents a nearly perfect hemisphere shape. The hemisphere is upright, and the cliff behind him can only go a hundred feet deep. Compared to the fifty-mile range of the boundless void, it can only be said to be a shallow layer, which can be completely ignored Excluding.

The color of the hemisphere has also changed, and it is also affected by the skylight. The overall color is gray and black, with a slight light blue light, which is not too conspicuous in the night, and Yu Ci's shading is omitted. Ray's trouble.

Fifty miles... No, how could it be fifty miles?Yu Ci suddenly discovered a problem.

He is now located in the sky rift valley at a depth of about twenty miles. From here to the limit of the sky that can be shown on the map of the gods, it is only thirty miles.It is very clearly displayed on the map of the gods, the height of the sky has not changed, but such and such, it is absolutely impossible for this complete hemisphere to appear.

Now that it has appeared, it only means one thing, for some reason, the scope of the heaven and earth displayed according to the divine map has been reduced.Now, the diameter of the territory he can control is not fifty miles, but thirty miles.It seems that there is an invisible giant beast, opening its mouth to swallow the surrounding space.

Is it the natural attenuation of the supernatural power of Zhaoshentu, or is it related to the night?Yu Ci is more inclined to the latter, but it still needs time to verify whether this is caused by the unique environment of the Rift Valley or whether it is universal.

Of course, for now, thirty miles is fine, it is enough for Yu Ci to use.

He found that the sky rift valley at night is much more lively than during the day, and the number of creatures swimming in the mist is at least [-]% more than that during the day, and there are some huge creatures wandering in the deeper clouds and mist, slightly "exposed" A small scale and half a claw can make him, a bystander, hold his breath.

In fact, Yu Ci had already consciously slowed down his breathing, the sky rift valley at this time was more dangerous, bloodier and more elusive.The ferocious beasts here don't seem to have a strong sense of territory like they do on the ground. They are always swimming around, causing frequent conflicts.

Within the range of [-] miles that Yu Ci could detect, in just two hours, three extremely brutal fights took place, each of which ended in the tragic death of one party, or even both parties, and the smell of blood permeated the air. In the canyon, mixed into the clouds and mist, become part of its unique atmosphere.

While holding his breath, the fire in Yu Ci's heart burned even more intensely.This is the world that a monk should come into contact with. There are endless ferocious beasts, rising power, bloody life collisions, and more importantly, different stimuli from time to time. These things refresh his existing experience every moment. This moment is absolutely different from the previous moment.

Yu Ci felt like a toad jumping out of a dry well, dizzy because of the boundless and vast world outside, that was stunned by happiness.