40,000 Years of Cultivation

With an indescribable complex expression on Li Jialing's face, he murmured: "It makes sense, but... why every time I listen to Brother Yao, it makes sense, but when I turn around and listen to Sister Long, it makes sense. , Even occasionally thinking about Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi’s actions, it seems quite reasonable? You are all right, I, I am completely confused!"

"So, you are still too young, you still need a lot of experience!"

Li Yao said, "What's more, in many cases, just talking on paper and boasting, all kinds of weird principles can be packaged to be flawless, but the key lies in how to do it and how to practice it.

"I admit that the situation in the center of Xinghai is chaotic, and Cultivation Avenue seems to be very declining, but because of the chaotic situation, Black Star Great, the four major election emperors, and the holy ally are all checking and balancing each other, which makes it convenient for us to fish in troubled waters. , Rise in the chaos!

"If we go back five hundred years, and the real human empire is relatively stable and monolithic, it will be completely hopeless!

"So, give Yao brother a little confidence, give me a little confidence in Xiuzhen Dadao, believe me, this kind of tricks of fishing and stealing in troubled waters is my specialty!"

Li Jialing hesitated for a long time, still nodded slightly, and said noncommittal: "I will keep Brother Yao's words in my heart. In any case, I am by no means a coward, and I will never be a coward!"

At this moment, the two suddenly heard intermittent but very rhythmic tones coming from the depths of the town, as if someone was singing a weirdly tuned song.

The two were slightly startled, looked at each other and listened quietly, only to find that the immature and lively voices were the children who had just seen them crawling on the main control crystal brain to play.

Children have never breathed such fresh air. The performance of "Drunk Oxygen" is more intense than that of adults. They giggled and laughed while clapping their hands and singing ancient nursery rhymes—maybe it was born at that time in the Xinghai Empire 10,000 years ago. The children of now, the ancestors of all people, once sang exactly the same children's songs in a moment of joy, right?

Li Yao squinted his eyes, listened for a while, and said, "It's so nice, right?"

"Yes."

Li Jialing was a little melancholy and dazed, and whispered, "When I was a child, every second was spent practicing and fighting, and I never sang any nursery rhymes."

Li Yao said: "One day, you will also have offspring, one by one, cute little guys, do you want them to live in a world without light and no children's songs?"

Li Jialing was silent for a long time, and gradually clenched his fists: "Brother Yao, let's go, let's go deeper underground and see what the savages living in the'dark death zone' look like."

After inspecting some of the materials brought underground, and finally confirming the intricate crevice map, Li Yao and Li Jialing passed through a long corridor and opened the rust under the gaze of several heavily armed underground people. The door to the shelter came to the wild.

As soon as they left the ancient refuge, the outside temperature suddenly increased by dozens of degrees, and the air became more muggy and stagnant, making them seem to be in an invisible magma, melting at any time and solidifying into various forms, Part of a colorful rock formation.

The shelter extends in all directions, and there are countless tunnels leading up, down, left, right, east, west, north and south. Li Yao rubbed the rock walls of these tunnels with his hands, and found that the starting point was smooth and there were traces of artificial polishing. Spiral pattern, we know that all tunnels were drilled a long time ago, perhaps 10,000 years ago, using large drilling vehicles and tunneling machines.

Li Jialing told Li Yao that when the Monster Beast Dynasty and Xinghai Empire collapsed, countless monsters and cultivators fled to the ground. At the beginning, they naturally carried countless large-scale magic weapons dedicated to the ground. The drilling vehicle and the tunnel boring machine were the top priority. weight.

At that time, no one wanted to be lonely and trapped in a shelter. The exiles all had ambitious plans. They wanted to open up countless tunnels extending in all directions with a drilling vehicle and a tunnel boring machine, and all the shelters were covered. Connected together, and even rebuilt a vast "underground empire".

Perhaps in the beginning, they achieved partial success. Hundreds of refuges formed a huge force, able to exchange materials and information to the greatest extent, so that the civilization on the ground could continue.

But the good times did not last long. Soon, the "underground empire" established by the Yaozu and the "underground empire" established by the cultivators discovered each other and immediately launched a bloody, never-ending underground war. Soon after breaking free from the "Thirty Thousand Years of the Great Dark Age", there is still an unforgettable hatred for the Yaozu, and the Yaozu is also indulged in the pain of subjugation and extinction, and there is absolutely no possibility of compromise or reconciliation.

The fierceness of that war was definitely a hundred times more cruel than the strangulation of the "Starlight Organization" in the Wuying world. In the depths of the earth lacking all resources such as sunlight and drinking water, this war is destined to have no victor.

The tunnels of the monster race and the human race were entangled with each other and collapsed together; the drilling vehicles on both sides pierced the enemy’s head, and the crawler crushed the enemy’s bones; the super-large tunneling system with hundreds of gear wheels could have been drilled. A bright future was created, but in the end it crushed the enemy and crushed its own civilization.

Today, ten thousand years later, the civilization of the past is almost wiped out. Only these twisted tunnels and deserted shelters are left, as well as the decayed corpses at the end of the tunnels and the corners of the shelters, quietly telling the tragedy and hatred of war. The cruelty.

Li Jialing told Li Yao that with the 10,000 years of earthquakes and magma eruptions, most of the tunnels were fragmented and twisted, turning them into dead ends.

There are still many abandoned shelters at the end of the tunnels, with nothing but corpses and ashes—all the slightly valuable things have been picked up long ago.

Only a handful of tunnels can lead to some caves deep in the ground that are barely suitable for the existence of living things. Most of these caves are super large artificially excavated bases. The super towns that were originally used to house the exiled civilization have now become savages and monsters. Habitat.

Long Yangjun stayed here for a long time. He explored the tunnels and natural cracks in the area of ​​10084 clearly. He also carefully drew a three-dimensional map and imported it into Li Jialing’s portable crystal brain. In addition, it can be real-time. The positioning chip that locks her coordinates is not afraid of going the wrong way.

These tunnels were originally "underground roads" connecting various shelters. Naturally, they are not too small. They are at least three to five meters in diameter, enough to accommodate a fully armed soldier in crystal armor to pass through. It's stuffy.

Li Yao and Li Jialing are both people with magical powers. Even if there is no light at all, the air is sultry and difficult to handle, they are still moving like flying.

Even if the tunnel was torn apart by an earthquake, leaving only crooked narrow gaps, they could barely change the structure of bones and muscles and squeeze through them forcibly-since savages can pass through these gaps, it is impossible to be too narrow. And twisted.

After a short time, the lights in the 10084 area disappeared into the darkness. They seemed to have entered a rocky abyss that no one had set foot in since the prehistoric times. There was no sound around them, and it was an absolute silence. Instead, the human organs were squirming and moving. The rush of blood became exceptionally clear, and every breath became deafening.

This is the dark death area where savages often move.

The two released their psychic energy, perceiving carefully in the cracks of each rock formation, and discovered many creatures that can only be found tens of thousands of meters deep underground.

There is a kind of creature that looks like a fungus blanket and moss, and even grows a bunch of small fungus umbrellas. It grows in the hottest place in the crevices of the rocks. What's strange is that when they grow fungus umbrellas and slowly open up, The mushroom umbrella emits an orange light, like a small lantern.

Li Jialing told Li Yao that this kind of creatures similar to fungus blankets and moss, called "flaming flowers" by underground people, can be traced back to the primitive era hundreds of thousands of years ago, and it is most likely made by the Pangu or Nuwa civilization. Experimental life—because naturally formed life forms rarely have such weird traits.

The "flaming flower" feeds on the heat from the ground, and even gathers together in large clumps to form a blanket of fungus that can move forward, chasing magma like cattle and sheep grazing.

Naturally, their body structure is not strong enough to be undamaged in the magma, but as long as the magma cools and solidifies a little, it becomes their most fertile "grass", and a large group of "flaming flowers" will wrap the slightly cooled lava. , Sucking up the heat in a trickle.

The "flaming flowers" themselves are located at the bottom of the underground ecosystem. They are the food of countless insects and reptiles, which support the entire intricate food chain building; and they can absorb a lot of heat energy and greatly reduce the temperature of the underground. Savage can barely survive; more importantly, after absorbing enough heat energy, the "flaming flower" can also release a large amount of visible light, which is a miraculous reaction similar to "photosynthesis" by countless underground plants. There are few conditions, and only these wonderful reactions similar to "photosynthesis" can swallow carbon dioxide and convert it into essential oxygen.

No matter how the savages evolve, it is impossible to evolve into anaerobic life that does not need oxygen at all. In other words, without the "flaming flower", the entire underground ecosystem would collapse.

It is said that there are many top scholars in the real human empire who want to clarify the mystery of the "flaming flower"-this primitive fungus with a simple structure and an ancient form seems to be a transitional form between life and non-life. After being modulated by ancient civilizations such as Pangu and Nuwa, the mystery contained therein is really beyond the grasp of human beings at this moment.