Mortal Bones

One month later.

Immortal Burial Ruins.

Hongling Town, Gu Yu's mud-walled courtyard.

"Yuejian, Xuanzhi, this time we go down the well just to explore the way, go as far as you can."

The crescent moon was in the sky, and everything was silent. Xu Taiping, who was standing next to the old well, looked at Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi opposite with a serious expression.

They both nodded.

During this period of time, in addition to teaching Gu Yu swordsmanship, Xu Taiping spent the rest of his time discussing with Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi to see how to explore the opportunities in the old well.

"Brother Taiping, Master Xuanzhi."

At this time, Dongfang Yuejian took out six yellow paper talismans and handed two to Xu Taiping and Xuanzhi respectively:

"These two talismans, one is a water-avoiding talisman, and the other is a soil-moving talisman."

"However, because the talisman paper and ink used are too poor, and my soul power is sealed again, so just like last time, whether it is the water-avoiding talisman or the soil-moving talisman, the effect is only a few dozen times, and the spiritual power can only be activated four times, just enough for us to go back and forth."

Xu Taiping and Xuanzhi nodded together.

Xuanzhi put on his cassock and took out the Eight-tone Dead Wood Fish. Then he reminded the two of them solemnly:

"Brother Taiping, Miss Yuejian, the mana I can use now can only maintain the Golden Bell Cover for a cup of tea."

"At the same time, my Eight-tone Dead Wood Fish can only barely improve your cultivation to the Great Perfection of the Kaimen Realm."

Dongfang Yuejian and Xu Taiping also nodded.

Although this was the third time the three of them tried to go down the well to explore the Eye of the Earth Vein this month, they still had to remind each other of the things they should pay attention to.

Then, Xu Taiping put the two yellow talismans on his chest, stretched out his hand to press the handle of the ordinary long sword at his waist, and then said to the two of them with a serious face:

"Just like last time, this time it's still the leader."

Dongfang Yuejian nodded, and then reminded:

"Brother Taiping, our ancestor's notes said that there are very likely to be powerful rat monsters and snake monsters in the dark river where the eye of the earth vein is located."

"Although the monsters in this world cannot open their spiritual consciousness and cannot practice, their monster bodies will not be restricted by this."

"So we still have to be careful!"

Xu Taiping nodded, and then shook the Tongzhou Chain in his hand and said:

"Old rules, once it is confirmed that there is no danger below, I will crush a bead on the Tongzhou Chain."

The beads on the Tongzhou Chain, once one of the strings is broken, the beads on the Tongzhou Chain with the same pair will also be broken.

After explaining to Dongfang Yuejian and Xuanzhi, Xu Taiping jumped directly into the old well without saying a word.

Almost at the same time as he entered the water, the water-repellent talisman on his chest lit up, turning into a light blue halo that enveloped Xu Taiping's entire body.

In an instant, the cold well water in the old well was blocked by this layer of light blue halo.

"Pah!"

Soon, Xu Taiping's feet touched the bottom and stood at the bottom of the old well.

But almost at the same time, the earth-yellow halo emitted by the earth-walking talisman also enveloped Xu Taiping's body.

The next moment, the originally hard soil at the bottom of the well suddenly became as "soft" as water.

Xu Taiping's body then disappeared into the soil and sank rapidly.

"Plop..."

In less than four or five breaths, Xu Taiping's body disappeared hundreds of feet underground and finally fell into a dark river.

In an instant, the icy cold water of the dark river once again enveloped Xu Taiping's body.

But fortunately, Dongfang Yuejian's water-repellent talisman lit up again at this time, helping Xu Taiping avoid the cold water in the dark river.

"Hiss... Huh..."

Although Xu Taiping's clothes were almost completely soaked because the water-repellent talisman failed to activate in time.

But he was very grateful that the water-repellent talisman could light up again.

After all, the failure of the last exploration of the Eye of the Earth Vein was because the water-repellent talisman failed to light up, which almost caused the three of them to drown in the dark river.

"Huh..."

After a long breath, Xu Taiping took out a glowing gem from his sleeve while holding his breath.

This gem was picked up by him in Danxiao Lingpu. It has no spiritual power, but it will emit a light that is no less bright than the moonlight at night.

Xu Taiping then threw a gem out.

After seeing the gem sink to the bottom of the dark river dozens of feet deep, Xu Taiping began to paddle quickly towards the light in front of him.

According to Dongfang Yuecan's inference when he went down the well last time, that light should be the nearest exit to the dark river.

"The spiritual power of the water-repellent talisman can only last for a few dozen breaths, so I have to hurry up!"

Thinking this way, Xu Taiping crushed a bead on the wrist chain and swam quickly towards the direction of the light.

With the help of the water-repellent talisman, Xu Taiping's swimming speed in the water was even faster than when he was running on land.

In just one or two breaths, he had swum hundreds of feet away.

After swimming hundreds of feet away, Xu Taiping took out another gem from his sleeve and threw it to the bottom of the river.

These glowing gems left behind were naturally to guide Dongfang Yuecan and the others.

"Hua La La..."

After swimming forward for nearly a thousand feet, Xu Taiping finally swam through the narrow passage of the dark river and could stick his head out of the water.

Although the spiritual power of the water-avoiding talisman was almost exhausted when the water-avoiding talisman was turned on at the final distance of more than a hundred feet, in the end Xu Taiping still swam out with the help of his powerful body.

"Hoo, ho, ho!..."

After a sharp and rapid breathing, Mrs. Xu looked back and could vaguely see a bright light coming from the narrow passage from the water surface.

Obviously, that should be the light emitted by the gem he threw at the bottom of the dark river.

After reaching out to wipe the water drops on his face, Xu Taiping looked at the passage and murmured:

"Yue Yu and Xuan Zhi should have no problem crossing the last hundred feet or so on their own."

He is still very confident in the strength of Dongfang Yueyu and Xuanzhi.

With this thought in mind, Xu Taiping turned around and began to swim towards the shore while looking at the relatively wide and open underground river surface.

"This should... be a cave eroded by an underground river, right?"

After looking around, Xu Taiping murmured.

However, because the surroundings were too dark, and his vision could not see very far at the moment, he could only vaguely make out an outline.

Fortunately, the bank of the underground river in the cave was not very far away from him.

"Crack!"

A moment later, Xu Taiping, who was all wet, had already grabbed a piece of lava and climbed over to the river bank.

"Crash..."

Not long after Xu Taiping landed, there was suddenly another sound of water flowing behind him,

Taking a closer look, I saw two figures suddenly swimming out of the narrow passage, their heads sticking out of the water.

If they weren't Xuan Zhi and Yue Yu, who could they be?

After seeing Xuan Zhi and Dongfang Yue Cocoon also swimming out, Xu Taiping finally felt relieved.

Then, Dongfang Yueyu seemed to have noticed Xu Taiping who had already landed, so she waved to him and said:

"Brother Taiping!"

Xu Taiping also waved to Dongfang Yueyu and Xuanzhi:

"There should be another exit in this cave, swim to me first!"

While saying this, Xu Taiping took out another gem from his sleeve.

In an instant, the originally dark cave was suddenly illuminated.

But almost at the moment when he took out the gem to illuminate the cave, Dongfang Yueyu and Xuanzhi, who were about to swim towards Xu Taiping, suddenly froze in place.

Immediately afterwards, Dongfang Yueyu shouted with panic in his tone:

"Brother Taiping, be careful behind you!"

When Xu Taiping heard this, he almost instinctively drew his sword out of its sheath with a "clop" sound, and while twisting and rolling to one side, he looked behind him with the corner of his feet.

As a result, he saw a pair of glowing yellow eyes like huge lanterns behind him, looking down at him from the top of the cave.

"boom!"

And almost at the same time that he looked at the pair of huge yellow eyes, a huge snake head opened its huge mouth and suddenly leaned down to bite him.

It was only then that Xu Taiping discovered that there was a giant snake with a body as thick as five or six people hugging him in the depths of this huge cave! !