Chapter 40: Black Water Basilisk
At this time, that young girl also saw Zhang Xiaofan and the two Lu Xueqi who were lying beside him, still unconscious, and obviously did not expect that there were actually living people under this Necropolis Abyss, and her face changed, and she was also taken aback.
Immediately, she saw Zhang Xiaofan's face and froze for a moment, a trace of surprise swept across her face before revealing a smile.
"What a life!" She walked over gracefully like a beautiful and blooming lily in the darkness.
Zhang Xiaofan stood up and intentionally or unintentionally blocked Lu Xueqi's body, after all, the one who came under this Deadly Spirit Abyss infested with Yin Spirit Demon Beasts would not be any ordinary person.
The young girl approached, Zhang Xiaofan only then saw, in her right hand onion jade finger, clamped a small white flower, will actually emit light white light, illuminated the land near the woman, also do not know what this is a foreign species.
However, Zhang Xiaofan did not have the time to care about this flower right now, although he was still a little wary in his heart towards this strange woman, but no matter what, seeing her under this dark and lonely and quiet Necropolis Abyss, he immediately felt a little bit more close to her.
"Hello." Zhang Xiaofan had wanted to say some polite words of greeting, but when they came out of his mouth, only these two words remained.
The young girl glanced at him and smiled, "Isn't this Young Scholar Zhang Xiaofan Zhang of Qing Yun Mountain? How come you've come to this ghostly place? This is not a place where you should come."
Zhang Xiaofan was stunned and said, "How do you know that I am under the Green Cloud Sect?"
The young girl laughed without answering.
Zhang Xiaofan frowned, only to feel that this young girl was greatly uncomplicated, and as he was searching for a place to think, he heard that young girl laugh softly and said, "May I ask young warrior Zhang, how long has it been since you have arrived here, and can you find the 'Cave of Dripping Blood'?"
Zhang Xiaofan froze for a moment and said, "What Dripping Blood Cave?"
That young girl hummed, the smile on her face gradually faded, but still calmly said, "Young warrior Zhang is so good at pretending to be confused, you so-called righteous people, if it is not for the things in the Blood Dripping Cave, how would you come to this dark and dirty place?"
Zhang Xiaofan was confused by her words, but vaguely understood that there is a blood dripping cave here, and there are some important things in the cave, but he never heard his master and the master's uncle before he came down from the mountain, but what he was thinking about at the moment wasn't that, but he heard the meaning of that young girl's words, and said in a deep voice: "You say that we are hypocrites of the righteous path, then who are you?"
That young girl a pop on the body of water green clothing, clip in the fingers of the flowers along with her jade-like hand in the air through an arc, that white light in the air to leave a residual trace, as if also fond of this darkness, residual for a long time, before slowly dissipate.
"I, am not the demoness of the Devil Sect that you hate so much?" She smiled coquettishly.
Zhang Xiaofan's heart sank, and he suddenly had a feeling of loss, but this thought only flickered, leaving no traces, and then he hummed and stared at his guard.
Since he entered the Qingyun Mountain, he has heard all the masters and brothers teach how the demonic sect demons for the scourge of mankind, cruelty, the Qingyun Sect rules are strictly prohibited to associate with the demonic path, each other for the life and death of the enemy, do not share the same sky.
However, that young girl did not seem to have a deep hatred, immediately move the intention, the eye instead aimed at the back of Zhang Xiaofan, looked at, suddenly laughed: "This sister seems to be waking up, right?"
Zhang Xiaofan turned around and saw Lu Xueqi slightly rolled over, the corner of her mouth moved twice and slowly opened her eyes. Zhang Xiaofan was overjoyed and returned, "You're awake!"
Unexpectedly, Lu Xueqi suddenly appeared shocked, struggling to say: "Be careful..."
Zhang Xiaofan has not yet reacted, he only felt the surrounding suddenly fragrance, white light flash, a white flower appeared in front of the eyes.
In the darkness, under the Abyss of the Dead, where would there be any flowers? Zhang Xiaofan was shocked and took a step back, but he saw that the flower was windless, as if it was slightly showing a smile to him in mid-air, nodding its head, and in an instant, a flower was in pieces, its petals were white and lovely, but the edges were flashing up with a ghostly green light, and it flew towards him.
Even if he didn't know the identity of that young girl's demonic religion, just by looking at this foreign flower, he also knew that it wasn't right, Zhang Xiaofan was attacked steeply, his hands were busy, he retreated a few steps, and in the midst of the chaos, he lifted up his hand's Burning Stick in front of his body to block, and those petals that shot rapidly came in contact with the Burning Stick's metaphysical green light, most of which were blocked, but among them there were still several pieces of which swept through narrowly, and almost hurt Zhang Xiaofan.
Zhang Xiaofan was shocked, in his heart, he cursed that these demonic sect demons were really treacherous and deceitful, and the words of his master, his mother, and his brothers were really true, not a single word was wrong. However, at this moment, he swept his eyes and saw that the young girl's figure moved, but she flew over to Lu Xueqi.
Zhang Xiaofan was shocked, after seeing Lu Xueqi seriously injured, a few can not come back, his distance was pulled away, hastily hand wave will burn the fire stick sacrifice up, rushed to the green-clothed girl.
Hear the sound of the wind, the girl in green smiled serenely, right hand in mid-air to meet, in an instant all the petals are like lightning generally flew back, gathered to the flower buds above, between the fingers of the small flower emitting a faint white light to meet up, the white shimmering light and the burning stick Xuanqing color light just contact, the two against each other in mid-air, stalemate for a few moments, seemingly indistinguishable from each other, each flew back.
In the darkness, suddenly sounded a light cry of surprise.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Xiaofan on the one hand, then the burning stick, one side rushed back to Lu Xueqi's body, blocked in front of her, so that this bizarre and treacherous demonic sect demoness again trick.
However, that "weird and treacherous" demoness suddenly stopped, no longer advancing, let Zhang Xiaofan back to Lu Xueqi's side, looking at Zhang Xiaofan's eyes with a great sense of consternation.
Just now that hand-to-hand, she thought that in her hands "sad" flowers, easy to Zhang Xiaofan can be cured, unexpectedly "sad flowers" and the burning stick in mid-air against, originally can borrow things to go straight to the heart, people immediately paralyzed by the fragrance, was actually offset! The fragrance was actually resisted back, and there was also a hidden intention of backlash, which made her surprised.
Zhang Xiaofan blocked in front of Lu Xueqi, helped her stand up, and asked in a low voice, "Are you alright! Senior Sister Lu?"
Lu Xueqi shook her head slightly, and only then did Zhang Xiaofan put his heart down and turned his head to say hatefully, "Shameless demon, only sneak attacks!"
The surprise in that young girl's eyes immediately disappeared, replaced by a thinly veiled anger, hummed and said, "Good, wait a while and I'll let you see the power of a demon!"
Between the words she will have to make a move, Zhang Xiaofan hastened to guard, but the heart is bitter, Lu Xueqi at the moment leaning on him, weak, obviously very seriously injured, most likely is the poison has not been cleared, and in front of the devil's demoness bizarre and unpredictable, move to the hands of the only difficult to take into account the Lu Sister.
Unfortunately, the world often can not be perfect, Zhang Xiaofan here in the brain thoughts turn rapidly, but suddenly realized that things are getting worse.
In the darkness, another bit of light was lit up, this light however was different from that of the green-clothed maiden, although it was light, it was dark in color, and in the darkness one would almost think that it was black light. In the light, a ghostly silhouette stepped out and stopped beside the green-clothed maiden, this was a tall woman, dressed in black, with a veil over her face, it was the companion who had traveled with this maiden in the Mountain and Sea Garden that day.
Subsequently, in Zhang Xiaofan's astonished gaze, the darkness lit up one light after another, probably another five people appeared, dressed in yellow, it was that day in the Mountain and Sea Court in the young girl's entourage, at this moment actually all arrived here.
Zhang Xiaofan only felt his throat drying up, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his body under the gaze of these many eyes. Right at this moment, he suddenly heard Lu Xueqi's slight and feeble words coming from his ears, "You quickly leave, these people's Dao is not below you and me, we can't fight them!"
Zhang Xiaofan turned his head, only to see that pale and beautiful face right beside him, but there was no worry or fear on his face, as if he was just talking about something normal. Zhang Xiaofan froze for a moment, shook his head, pursed his lips, and once again turned his head to those people from the Devil Cult who had mysteriously appeared.
"Bi Yao, be careful," the masked woman looked at those two people in front of her, her gaze finally landing on the burning stick in Zhang Xiaofan's hand as she whispered, "There's something odd about that black stick."
Baguio, the green-clothed girl, said, "Aunt Pixie, what do you see?"
The masked woman she called Aunt Yui couldn't make out any expression, but a hint of confusion could be heard in her words, "It seems like... That fierce aura just now is too similar, but how could the righteous people have this thing, they wouldn't be able to manipulate the beads, and this, this is a short stick, what's going on?"
Baguio hummed and said, "I'd like to see how powerful this thing is!" Saying that, she took a step forward, followed by the yellow-robed person behind her who also stepped forward at the same time. Zhang Xiaofan saw that it was not right, although he had the intention to fight against the enemy, but the difference between the enemy and us was too great, so he could only help Lu Xueqi to retreat backward.
That black-robed masked woman looked ghostly, the whole person floated straight forward in the darkness, following beside Baguio, a few like a shadowy spirit, with a voice that only the two of them could hear, "The short stick in the hands of that teenager is extremely heavy with ferocious aura, do you feel it out?"
Bi Yao glanced at Zhang Xiaofan, who was on tense alert in front of her, and nodded.
The masked woman paused for a moment and said, "Although this is the case, I feel that the ferocious power in this short stick has not yet been fully released, it seems to have been suppressed by something, in my opinion, I'm afraid that this short stick is most likely to have some relationship with our Sacred Sect, the identity of this teenager is highly suspicious, you should think twice."
Baguio frowned and said, "Aunt Yui, what do you say?"
The masked woman's voice turned flat and said, "Capture it, bring it back to your father, the Patriarch is wise to the heavens and earth, he will surely know about this!"
Bi Yao thought for a moment and said, "Good."
Speaking, but their feet did not stop, has been forcing forward, without the consent of the two of them, next to the yellow-robed people naturally will not do it, both sides of one into a retreat in this talk will be out of a road.
Zhang Xiaofan holding Lu Xueqi, the mood is getting more and more nervous, but gradually heard the sound of water waves in the ear, it seems to be walking back to the beginning of the bay of water.
Baguio was stunned for a moment and turned her head to the masked woman, "Aunt Yui, is this the 'Emotionless Sea'?"
The masked woman was silent for a moment, but sighed in a low voice and said, "Infatuation is only bitter for Emotionlessness! Not bad, this is the most mysterious of the five seas, the 'Emotionless Sea'."
"Ah!" As if it was due to her youth, Baguio didn't even care about the bitter meaning in the words of the masked woman she called Aunt Yui, and was greatly excited, saying, "I've heard my father say since I was a child that the Sea of Emotionlessness is deep under the earth and is the Sea of the Nine Specters, and I've heard him say that the Blood Dripping Cave under the Deadly Spirit Abyss is right next to the Sea of Emotionlessness, so it seems that we've been searching for three days, and we're finally close to finding it."
The masked woman however fell into silence, not saying a word.
Baguio was a bit strange and looked at her, then she didn't pay attention to it and turned her head, "Good, now I'll capture you guys before we go find that Blood Dripping Cave!"
Saying that, she waved her hand, and the five yellow-robed men stepped on together, ready to strike. Behind Zhang Xiaofan was the endless Emotionless Sea in the darkness, and in front of him was surrounded by these people of the Devil Cult, truly there was no way forward, no way back, and he was in the middle of a Jedi.
Lu Xueqi felt behind the merciless sea, blew a burst of cold wind, cold into the heart, and their body is weak and weak, more hidden dizziness and nausea feeling, I'm afraid that the remaining poison is not clear.
She is how smart, do not need to think also know that this scenario, Zhang Xiaofan to take care of her can only be two people die together.
She turned her head and looked towards Zhang Xiaofan, this teenager still seemed to be a little nervous at the moment, his body was tense, even the hand that was holding her up was also hard due to nervousness, even in his eyes, there was still the desire for life and the fear of death.
Yet, he clearly did not, even for a single moment, flinch.
"Senior Brother Zhang." She gently called out, and Zhang Xiaofan heard it, and his shoulders moved, as if he was about to turn back, but somehow, he finally did not look back at her.
"Senior Sister Lu, on top of the platform, even just now you saved me and protected me, I... I... I'm not leaving." Zhang Xiaofan mood stirring, was about to say some lofty words or something, but the words to the mouth, but it seems to be lost, and finally had to dryly say "do not go" two words.
Lu Xueqi did not speak.
Zhang Xiaofan heart suddenly some uneasiness, is not his own words on the impact of her? I do not know why, from the time he met Lu Xueqi, he was a little afraid of this cold as ice woman.
Emotionless sea blew a cold wind, blowing up the silent woman behind him a few long hair, gently swept across his neck and cheeks.
The waves of the Emotionless Sea seemed to suddenly surge.
In the depths of the darkness, as if it was like a sigh, a wind swept by, as if the Emotionless Sea was revealing a hideous smile, sneering at the people of the world.
Bi Yao revealed a smile and surrounded with five yellow-robed men.
Zhang Xiaofan took a step back, but he only felt a coldness under his feet, and actually stepped into the cold and bone-chilling seawater.
Just at this time, gradually raging merciless sea, suddenly, a huge wave high up, the sound of the sea waves deafening, the eyes of the past is actually a few feet high, the gusty wind on the face, the people on the shore of the people do not change color, almost can not stand steady footsteps.
Standing at the end of the masked woman suddenly changed color, shouted: "Baguio, quickly retreat!"
Baguio was shocked in her heart, knowing that this Aunt Yui was very knowledgeable, even her father had always respected her, so she didn't think too much and retreated back.
She moved, five yellow people also followed backward, only stood in the seashore nearest Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi two people, caught off guard, was hit by this huge wave head on, the whole body wet not to mention that the cold into the bone marrow of the cold but it is really difficult to extreme.
Then, the crowd to this sudden huge changes in the merciless sea look, only to see in a dark sea, slowly lit up two flashing green light of the huge lamp, but looked at the past, this lamp is really strange, actually do not do the ordinary round, but instead is from the top to the bottom of the long and thin shape, especially in the middle, it is pitch black two thin slits, through the cold ferociousness.
"It is it, it is it." The masked woman's body trembled, "This beast is surprisingly still alive!"
Baguio was shocked, "Animal? Aunt Yui, what is this thing?"
The masked woman looked at the two circles of light that were getting closer and closer to the coast on the rough and unforgiving sea, there was a slight fear in her voice as she said, "This is the 'Black Water Xuan Snake'."
Baguio was shocked, a few did not dare to believe, surprised: "Isn't this demonic creature killed by the divine beast Yellow Bird in the western great swamp a thousand years ago?"
The masked woman snapped, "That's the rumor, but today it appeared here, I don't know why. Baguio, this Black Water Xuan Snake is an ancient magical beast, it's ferocious and unrivaled, non-its natural enemy, the Yellow Bird, can't get rid of it, let's quickly retreat."
Baguio took two steps backward, but suddenly turned her head again and said, "But that kid..."
The masked woman shook her head and said, "Don't worry about that, just go."
Baguio is still hesitant, but standing on the seashore drenched by the waves of the Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi two people, but in the blink of an eye, almost holding their breath.
As they got closer, the two of them could see that the two huge bright lights that were almost two people high were actually a pair of giant eyes. Speaking of which, from the beginning of the ancient cave of ten thousand bats, Zhang Xiaofan had constantly seen strange and huge eyes, from the red devil eyes of the year old boss to the huge eyes of the pig-headed demon beast, but no matter which one compared to this pair in front of him, it was like a mustard seed compared to the Sumeru.
The sea breeze was sharp and pounced on the face, but what it brought was not the slightly salty flavor, but the fishy smell that covered the sky and choked people's noses.
An incomparably huge black snake slowly surfaced in front of them. Its lower body coiled, snake body immersed in seawater, the crowd actually less than that huge snake body thickness of three, and just black water basilisk snake standing in mid-air of the upper body and snake head, actually has been tens of feet from the ground of the height of the snake, emitting a ghostly green aura of the snake's eyes, at the moment is looking down from the top, looking at it for the ants such as the general of the crowd. (Note 1)
Zhang Xiaofan had never known that there were such huge creatures in this world, and he had even thought that the Spirit Dignity Water Qilin on the Tongtian Peak of Qingyun Mountain was the biggest spirit beast in this world. But compared to the black water basilisk, the water unicorn in body size is no different from a puppy.
Needless to say he, that is, next to him Lu Xueqi, and even the devil's Baguio and so on, and have never seen such a huge beast, a time are frozen in the ground, can not make a sound.
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"Note 1: The Classic of the Mountains and Seas - the Great Desert South Classic: South of the Blackwater, there is a serpent, eating stag. There is Wushan, west of the yellow bird. Emperor medicine, eight fasting. The Yellow Bird is located on Mount Wushan, and is responsible for this basilisk serpent.
Another note: "Divine and Demonic Zhiyi - Demonic Beasts" Black Water Xuan Snake: giant snake, black body, white belly, green eyes, snake body thicker than four zhang, more than a hundred feet long. It eats the medicine of the immortals and does not die; its life span is more than ten thousand years; it resides in the great marsh in the west. It is also rumored to reside in the sea.
