Half-life immortal

Chapter 156 Desert Sandworm
Although this kind of coercion is old-fashioned, it still works against Feng Yutian, he was speechless immediately, or rather, he didn't dare to pinch her.After all, Xue Qinglan always likes to do unexpected things, and he doesn't want to lose her again.

So he had no choice but to accommodate and said: "Okay, let's go. How about going in the opposite direction of Baizhou? I received a message from my brother yesterday that he is in an ancient city thousands of miles north of here. Let's go find him?"

"Brother Xi?" Xue Qinglan blinked her eyes, she hadn't heard from Xiqiuzhi for a long time, and she hadn't seen him since Yongchang left, and she didn't know how he was doing after a few months.

She said obediently: "Okay, it's fine to go anywhere, as long as I don't see that smelly old man again!"

The two quickly decided on the itinerary. Now that they had decided, there was nothing to delay, and they didn't have much to pack up. After reaching an agreement, they checked their bags a little, left a note for Shen Jiarou and set off up.Even in order to avoid the old man Fu Lin downstairs, they didn't go through the main entrance and jumped out of the window directly.

Less than a stick of incense after they left, Situ Xiu was threatened by Fu Lin and came to Xue Qinglan's room as a lobbyist, but when he saw no one in the room, he knew something was wrong, so he hurriedly informed Fu Lin.After Fu Lin found out, he was even more straightforward, and without blinking, he dragged Situ Xiu to chase him.

Half a day later, Shen Jiarou, who was belatedly aware of it, felt that everyone seemed to be too quiet, and searched everywhere, but there was no trace of him, and finally found the note left by Feng Yutian in Xue Qinglan's room.

It reads very concisely: "Qing'er and I will leave for now, don't read it. Feng Yutian."

At that time, he left the letter considering that Fu Lin might see it, so he deliberately did not disclose his and Xue Qinglan's whereabouts. However, when Shen Jiarou saw this extremely concise letter, he almost went crazy.

She searched for Situ Xiu everywhere again to no avail, and finally asked the innkeeper to find out that Situ Xiu had been taken away by an old man.There is no doubt that Fu Lin must have captured him!

Shen Jiarou was speechless for a moment, thinking that she just had a beauty sleep, why did everyone disappear?It's embarrassing for these guys to leave her alone in the deserted city!
But things have come to this point, she can't think of anything other than complaining to herself in front of the bronze mirror.

Going thousands of miles north from the small frontier town, there is an endless desert. Although Xue Qinglan and Feng Yutian are immortal cultivators, they have no experience of walking in the desert. They have heard a little about the dangers of the desert. Even if they are not afraid, But in order to save a little trouble, under Feng Yutian's suggestion, they found a desert brigade to travel together and travel across the desert.

The desert was extremely windy and sandy. They put on windproof cloaks and followed the brigade to trek slowly in the desert.

"Are you tired?" After all, walking in the desert is no better than in the Central Plains, Feng Yutian asked with concern because he was afraid that she would be tired.

"It's okay." Although she is a woman, she is also an immortal cultivator, and her physical strength is much stronger than that of ordinary people.

The big businessman in the brigade was easy to talk, and said: "The little girl is so young, she is no more than us men, it will be good if she is exhausted, or go to the camel to rest?"

Xue Qinglan was grateful for his kindness, but still refused: "Thank you, uncle, no need, the camels should be used to carry goods. You are all walking, and I can do it too."

Da Shang gave her a thumbs up and said, "Young girl is not bad! You are doing well! But where are you going? The desert is far away, and it doesn't look like you are going to cross the desert."

Feng Yutian said: "We are going to the ancient city of Mogao in Mobei, have you heard?"

"I've heard of it!" Da Shang repeatedly said: "It used to be a famous big city, which of the foot traders who walk here doesn't know!"

But he turned to be puzzled and said: "However, young man! The ancient city of Mogao was buried by yellow sand more than a hundred years ago. If you look for it now, you may not even find a few ruins. Are you sure you want to go to Mogao Ancient City?"

Feng Yutian asked: "You mean that the ancient city of Mogao has been submerged by yellow sand? Really?"

Da Shang affirmed: "Of course! We walk here all the year round, how can we remember wrongly? When you arrive, you will know that the place has long been turned into a desert, that is, the tallest beacon tower in the ancient city of Mogao still remains. A few walls, you can still see Mogao's ancient writings on the walls, but you can't find anything else!"

As he spoke, he began to sigh with emotion: "Speaking of which, the ancient city of Mogao was once glorious more than a thousand years ago! It's a pity that no matter how glorious the dynasty is, it can't match the changing stars. No, the water veins of the ancient city of Mogao changed, and the whole The ancient city has also become a dead city. Year after year, the wind and sand have finally completely obliterated the glory of history, and now there are still young people who know that Mogao once existed. It’s not bad! Not bad!”

Xue Qinglan secretly asked Feng Yutian, "Hey, you said that Senior Brother Xi is in Mogao, is that true? Could it be that he is waiting for us in the middle of the desert? Is it a mistake?"

Feng Yutian was also puzzled, and said: "No, it shouldn't be wrong. The message that my senior brother gave me pointed out the ancient city of Mogao in this desert. He also said that he couldn't get away from some things and waited for the matter to be resolved." Come find us later."

"Oh..." Xue Qinglan nodded, indicating that she knew, but she still couldn't figure it out, if the ancient city of Mogao didn't exist, where would Xiqiuzhi be now?And if it is said that the ancient city of Mogao is still fine, then the brigade businessman is lying?But is it necessary for the brigade merchant to lie to them?

Naturally, there were more than one person in the brigade. Seeing that the big merchant was chatting vigorously, the second merchant also came to join in the fun and said, "Brother, haven't you heard the rumor?"

"Oh, you mean that rumor? Oh, it's unbelievable! It's unbelievable!"

Feng Yutian was very interested in the rumors in his mouth, and said: "May I ask what the rumors are?"

The second merchant also seemed to be chattering, and he started talking endlessly: "It's weird to talk about this! I have a brother in another caravan. He also messed around on this trade road in the early years. Once he Passing by the Mogao ruins, it happened to be dark at that time, so they spent the night beside the beacon tower, and guess what they saw?"

As he was talking, he was playing tricks, but Feng Yutian's stupid nature definitely didn't have that kind of eyesight to strike up a conversation, so Xue Qinglan said with a smile on her face, "What did you see?"

Er Shang said in a serious manner: "Hey, you must have never imagined it! They actually saw a Mogao imperial city standing in front of them like a thousand years ago! It is a real imperial city! It is extremely magnificent! The moment they saw it, they wanted to worship it."

After hearing his words, Feng Yutian not only thought about it, but Xue Qinglan just listened to the story and said with a smile: "Then what? Did they go in?"

Er Shang said with a dry smile: "No, my brother is very timid. With such a good opportunity, he didn't dare to step forward when the miracle happened before him. He left the goods and fled back. He quit from now on."

Da Shang snorted, and said, "What a miracle! It's just a daydream when you sleep in a daze at night! You are so scared by a dream, you have the nerve to come out and show it off to others."

The second merchant retorted: "Brother, what you said is wrong! If it is a dream, a dozen or so people in a caravan can't possibly have the same dream! Could it be a ghost possessed? In my opinion, it must be The miracle of Mogao thousands of years ago!"

Seeing that the two of them were about to quarrel, Xue Qinglan changed the subject and said, "Hey, you just mentioned the Mogao Imperial City. Could it be that there used to be the imperial capital of a certain dynasty?"

Er Shang listened to her question, chatting with a little girl is of course better than arguing with a big man, so he ignored the big business and said with a smile: "Yes! Mogao Kingdom was a famous powerful country back then, and Mogao King was even rarer in a thousand years. The Ming Jun I met at first sight is not much different from the current emperor of Da Luo!"

This place has already left the border of Daluo, and these business travelers are not from Daluo strictly speaking, so they naturally talk freely.

"Ming Jun?" Xue Qinglan rubbed her nose, thinking that the Emperor Da Luo is not much better!I heard that he is about to die. I don't know if he has been buried now, or is he dying?But no matter how much he hates that guy, he is Senior Brother Xu's father. If he dies, will Senior Brother Xu be sad?

She didn't continue to think about it. She originally hid in such a remote place to avoid these troublesome things, so she naturally had no reason to ask for trouble.

The big merchant suspected that the second merchant had robbed him of his position, and said angrily, "King Mogao has been dead for 1000 years. No matter how hard he tried to govern, he would have been turned into ashes by now. We small merchants, let's focus on the present." ! I heard that this desert is not peaceful recently, it seems that there are all kinds of monsters infesting."

"Demon?" Xue Qinglan became nervous when she heard about the demon.

Er Shang explained: "It is a kind of sand worm that lives in the desert. It was originally only the size of a finger, and it is a very inconspicuous little worm. It's just recently that these sand worms have mutated and become extremely huge. They can swallow a piece in one bite." People, many caravans have been attacked."

It was the first time for Xue Qinglan to come to the desert, so she had never seen the sandworm they mentioned before, so she couldn't help being vigilant out of curiosity, and said to Feng Yutian: "Could the giant sandworm they're talking about be a demon race?" ?”

Feng Yutian didn't see it with his own eyes and couldn't be sure, he said: "Maybe, anyway, we'd better be careful!"

Not long after they finished chatting, a huge disgusting bug suddenly sprang out from the sand in front of the brigade!

"Sandworm—!"

The people in the brigade suddenly screamed in panic, because the sandworm came so fast and so suddenly that people were not prepared for it at all.

"Is this a sandworm?" Xue Qinglan was also dumbfounded.In her imagination, the gigantic sandworm is similar to a giant python, right?How can a small insect with long fingers be so huge?Who would have thought otherwise!
This sandworm is not only ugly, but also surprisingly big!The body is bloated, the body is as wide as the mouth of the well, most of the body is buried in the sand, and the exposed part is more than ten feet long!Not to mention swallowing one person in one gulp, even Xue Qinglan thinks it is very possible to swallow three in one gulp!

The sandworm took advantage of the situation, and the brigade fled in a hurry, but the heavy camels carrying the goods were not so lucky.The sandworm has no fangs, but it has a huge mouth, and layers of fine teeth exposed when the pharynx is everted. After the camel was swallowed by it, it still spurted blood in its mouth. It was the blood that was slowly ground by the teeth in its pharynx and spewed out.

The people in the brigade were so frightened that they couldn't care less about the goods, and they all fled in a hurry crying for their fathers and mothers!Among them, Dashang and Ershang fled quickly. The two of them were very energetic when they made sarcastic remarks just now, but when things came to an end, their performance was not much better than others.

Only Xue Qinglan and Feng Yutian did not escape.

Feng Yutian was also observing the sandworm, and said, "It's not a demon."

Xue Qinglan could also tell that the bug was huge, but it didn't have any monster aura, which showed that it wasn't a monster, at least not yet.As for the possibility of this ugly bug being promoted to a demon, that is not something Xue Qinglan needs to consider, because it would be considered unlucky for this ugly bug to meet them.

Since it's not a demon, it's just a bigger meat bug in their eyes!
Feng Yutian raised his hand to call out Ningjian, and the three blood-red Ningjian pierced Sandworm's body in a blink of an eye. Although Sandworm couldn't make a sound, he could understand that it felt pain through its squirming limbs.

But this was beyond Feng Yutian's expectation. Although he didn't use all his strength, this tentative blow failed to penetrate the sandworm's body?What a bug with rough skin and thick flesh!
With the power of Ningjian, if the sandworm is really just an ordinary fleshy insect, Feng Yutian can easily pierce the sandworm with a light blow, but the fact is not, he has to doubt that the sandworm Worms have certain powers, or mutations caused by a certain powerful aura.

The sandworm probably also felt threatened, and retreated back to the ground, leaving only a big sand pit in place.

"Have you retreated?" Feng Yutian secretly observed the surroundings, but found no movement, only the whistling wind in the desert.

Xue Qinglan was also vigilant around her with her sword, and she suddenly realized where the sandworm was difficult to entangle, because this was a desert, and the sandworm could come and go freely in the sand, and no one could predict where it would emerge from. Come out, maybe at the moment you just relax, the sandworm will come from under your feet——

Just now when Xue Qinglan had such a thought, she felt a slight shock under her feet, she felt bad, and before she could yell out, a huge sandworm sprang out from the sand and swallowed her in one gulp!

"Qing'er—?!"

The change was so fast at that moment, so fast that even Feng Yutian had no time to rescue him, just as he drew his sword, the sandworm quickly crawled back into the ground and disappeared without a trace!

"Damn it!" He couldn't help gnashing his teeth angrily. This vast desert is the home field of Sandworm. Under the sand, no one is stronger than Sandworm. Too careless!

But at this time, Fu Lin and Situ Xiu, who had been following behind him, hurried over when they saw this. In fact, they had caught up with Xue Qinglan and Feng Yutian long before.It's just that Fu Lin knew Xue Qinglan's purpose of avoiding him, and he also needed time to sort out his thoughts, so he didn't show up immediately. Impossible to still hide behind and watch leisurely, rushing over.

But before Fu Lin put up the airs of an elder to reprimand Feng Yutian for not protecting him well, Feng Yutian went away with his sword in the distance.

Seeing that he left in a hurry, he obviously saw Fu Lin and the two but didn't have time to pay attention to them at all, so there is only one possibility, that is, he found the trace of Xue Qinglan or that sandworm!

"Uncle Fu, let's catch up too!" Walking in the desert is inconvenient, of course it's no better than Yujian.Situ Xiu was also worried about Xue Qinglan's safety, seeing that Feng Yutian had already used Yujian, he also wanted to take Fu Lin Yujian to rush there, otherwise they would lose Feng Yutian's shadow again in a while!
Naturally, Fu Lin wouldn't refuse. The skill of controlling the sword is the unique sword skill of the Xian family, and Fu Lin wouldn't know it either, so he had to rely on Situ Xiu.

And was Xue Qinglan really eaten by the sandworm?The answer is of course no!

At the moment when the sandworm attacked from under her feet, she was already on alert, and at the very moment, she inserted the sword into the sandworm's mouth, resisting the terrible big mouth, so that she would not pour out the sandworm. Worm's disgusting stomach, but Sandworm's strength is too great, she is still led by the nose by Sandworm, and she can't break free for a while!

The feeling of being stabbed in the mouth by a sword is not pleasant even thinking about it. The sandworm desperately struggled and ran in the sand, writhing its body constantly, trying to swallow the prey near its mouth into its mouth, but how could Xue Qinglan? So easy to be eaten by it?She doesn't want to be the first immortal cultivator in history to be eaten by sandworms!
The sandworm moved too violently, Xue Qinglan had been waiting for the moment to counterattack, but it was difficult for her to use it even if she had a monstrous ability underground, so she was waiting, waiting for the moment when the sandworm re-burrowed out of the sand!
After an unknown amount of time, the sandworm came out of the sand again and soared into the sky, probably wanting to rely on momentum to do the final battle of trapped beasts and swallow Xue Qinglan.However, Xue Qinglan has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time, and naturally she will not let it go easily. Although the sandworm has rough skin and thick flesh, it is only a mutated bug after all. If she can't kill even one bug, then she is really sorry for herself I have worked hard for so long!
The moment Sandworm soared to the highest point, her aura exploded instantly, and the extreme cold froze Sandworm's head in a short time, and at the moment the cold air was aroused, her sword also moved!

A sword dance that no one appreciates!
Instantly tear the head of the sandworm!

Xue Qinglan also broke free at this moment and fell back onto the sand.

She stood firm and retracted her sword. After doing all this, the huge body of the sandworm fell back to the ground, splashing a lot of dust with a bang.

The head had been destroyed, so the sandworm naturally couldn't survive, but Xue Qinglan had no interest in searching for materials from this disgusting insect, so she turned around and wanted to leave in a hurry.

But when she turned around, she realized that there was a high sand wall in front of her. The sand was so dense that it was impossible to climb up it with both feet. That is to say, this place cannot be entered or exited except for flying down from the sky and drilling out of the sand, like a nest of sandworms.

(End of this chapter)