40,000 Years of Cultivation

In addition to the "flaming flower", Li Yao and Li Jialing also discovered all kinds of strange underground life. The biodiversity reminded Li Yao of the experience of exploring in the silver lake beneath the Bone Dragon Star.

However, almost all the lives deep underground are like colorful variants of life on the ground, rather than naturally occurring. It seems that they have also accepted the genetic modulation and artificial intervention of generations of intelligent life since the Pangu and Nuwa civilizations. , In order to survive in such a harsh environment.

Most of the habitats of underground life are refuges that have collapsed, buried and abandoned in hundreds of thousands of years.

In just half a day, Li Yao and Li Jialing passed three deserted shelters, or ancient ruins.

The ancient ruins sounded quite mysterious, containing infinite treasures, where the powerful from all walks of life were flocking to them—just like the Kunlun Secret Realm once discovered by the Star Federation, and the women in the depths of the Evernight Ice Field near the North Pole of the Ancient Sacred World. Wa battleship is like Pangu Underground Palace.

However, there are very few relics that have a special maintenance system, or are frozen deep in the Arctic, so they can be intact.

Most of the ruins have experienced erosion from 10,000 to hundreds of thousands of years. The slightly valuable magic weapons and corpses have long been annihilated. They are either wiped out in ashes or mixed with lava, losing any possibility of excavation and restoration.

This is the case with these three ruins near the 10084 area.

The crystal brain system that used to be excellent in computing power has long been turned into a rusty, twisted and deformed empty shell; the runes used to purify the air and cool the temperature are also covered by moss and vines; most of the channels are broken The rock and the gushing magma are blocked, and the traces of the last victims' painful struggle before death can be vaguely seen-these traces have all turned into fossils, clearly imprinted on the uneven rock wall.

Whether the owner of these ruins is the Pangu or Nuwa tribe who controlled the Xinghai hundreds of thousands of years ago, or the ancient repairs who inherited a large number of prehistoric treasures even though they were ignorant tens of thousands of years ago, or the demons of the 30,000-year dark age The nobles of the clan, even the first batch of modern cultivators in the Xinghai Empire era... There is no difference. Their glory and civilization have been dissipated, their corpses are not restored, and the dim light of the "flaming flower" passes over them. The moss-covered traces, even the lizards and snakes that hurriedly crawled by, dismissed their ashes—there was really nothing to **** and swallow in there.

However, finding the ruins means that the savages are not far away.

Because most savages are the descendants of the people in these ruins.

Li Yao and Li Jialing both wrapped strands of divine thoughts with psychic energy, rippling around like ripples, and as expected, several traces of savages were found in the depths of the darkness not long after.

The two enjoyed a wonderful ambush.

In the beginning, it was a red ring man hunting a black armored man.

The body of the red ring person is a little thinner than ordinary people, and the height is about 1.5 meters, but the whole body is a bunch of slender and powerful muscles, like the ropes tightly tied together, containing astonishing explosive power.

They are as light as a cheetah underground, elegant and extremely ferocious. The upper and lower rows of canine teeth protruding like daggers can just bite a human head from behind, plunge into the eye sockets, and instantly destroy the brain tissue—— Deep underground, there are no other large mammals besides humans. This kind of tooth structure only shows that they are accustomed to feeding on the same kind.

Li Yao paid special attention to the eyes of the red-ringed person, and found that, as Li Jialing described, the pupils were scarlet ring-shaped, spreading out in circles, all shining in the dark, if they were illuminated by the "flaming flower" When it is time, it is even more shining, full of inspiring power.

It seems that in addition to "night vision", there is also a certain natural mental attack, which is similar to "deterrence" and "shock". Although extremely weak, it is more than enough to deal with ordinary prey.

Their ears are also large and flat, criss-crossed with folds. It is said that the depths of the folds are covered with extremely keen sensory organs, which can sense the surrounding terrain, as well as the breathing and heartbeat of the prey through the feedback of sound waves.

With such a sharp search and offensive weapon, the Red Ring Man has become the number one hunter in the dark death zone, and is at the top of the food chain.

When Li Yao perceives the red-ringed man, he was hanging upside down above a cave and crawling towards another black-clad man who was gnawing at the lizard.

Li Yao originally thought that the black armor was wide and flat, like a tortoise. When he saw it with his own eyes, he discovered that the black armor was also very thin. The black armor around his body was not a single piece of iron, but a structure that was as thin as a fish-scale armor. More like an armadillo.

Except for a black armor, they did not evolve more offensive weapons, and they naturally fell inferior in the duel with the red ring people.

Seeing that this lonely and ignorant black-clad man was about to die in the hands of the red ring man, Li Yao was thinking about whether to stop the two savages from fighting.

Suddenly, when the red-ringed man leaped towards the black-clad man, a tuft of something that looked like a stalagmite violently moved, smashing a tuft of black shadows at the red-ringed man, and suddenly smashed the red-ringed man. Fell to the ground.

Surprisingly a night wing man disguised as a rock!

Li Yao was taken aback by the subtlety of the Nightwing Man’s "mimicry". Although he was seriously injured and only aroused one-tenth of the spirit to detect him, the Nightwingman was able to escape his scanning. , The racial talents that evolved deep underground are quite sharp.

Moreover, this is obviously a pre-set trap, with the black armor as the bait, and the nightwing as the main attacker. Let's hunt this careless red ring man together-they can set such a careful trap, which shows that the light of wisdom has not yet been Completely annihilated, it is still a "human" category, not just a beast in human skin.

The dark shadow that the Nightwing Man smashed out seemed to be a super alloy component on a certain magic weapon, and with sharp edges and corners, it was swung like a mace. After all, the Red Ring Man was a flesh and blood body. Without cultivating psychic energy, after taking this heavy blow, he fell to the ground, blood flowed like a note.

Seeing the black armor and the night winged "Aoao" screaming to come forward and bite the throat of the prey, Li Yao stood up from the depths of the darkness, and slightly increased the agitation of the whole body's psychic energy.

The underground residents were extremely vigilant against danger. The Black Armored Man and Nightwing Man did not hesitate for half a second, threw away their prey, retracted into the dark depths, and fled.

Li Yao did not stop them, but stepped forward to check the status of the red ring man.

His head suffered a serious injury, and the skull was deeply sunken from the left temple, only inhaling but not exhaling, and it seemed that he could not survive.

Li Yao carefully observed the body of the red ring man, and found that although he was not wispy, there was a beetle chewing on his chest, an uneven tattoo, and a rubber band tied to his right arm with two sharp bone blades strung on it— —Li Jialing told Li Yao that the Red Ring people used the teeth of their deceased relatives to polish their bone blades. They believed that the soul of the deceased was attached to the sharp canine teeth of a dagger. Such a bone blade would bring good luck and blessing to the living. The safety of the living.

It seems that today's closest relative of the red ring person did not bring him good luck.

However, the intricate tattoos and unique customs also prove that the red ring man is not a beast slandered by the cultivator, but a member of the human family.

Li Yao can even accept monster races with teeth and claws and weird shapes. Naturally, there is no reason to reject these subterranean races that still retain most of the human appearance.

The peculiar eyes of the red ring man gradually faded from the dim light and turned into a rock-like ashes, and his chest stopped undulating completely. The tight muscles slackened, but the tendons contracted and stiffened, causing him to pose. A very distorted posture.

Li Yao sighed, crossed the red ring man's hands on his chest, put him in the corner of the cave, and slammed the rock down to bury the corpse—for the time being, there was nothing he could do. There is only so much.

Li Jialing had been watching silently by the side, hesitated and stopped several times, but finally did not raise any doubts in his heart.

After the red ring man was buried, the two moved on.

The caves and cracks in the front are more rugged and hidden. If it weren’t for the map and coordinate guidance, and Long Yangjun sprayed huge arrows with special fluorescent potions when he went deep into the ground, Li Yao and Li Jialing would never have thought of it. In the depths of the earth, where the mountains and rivers are exhausted, there are still bright roads.

I walked down again and climbed, crawling away for half a day. Suddenly, the front suddenly opened up, and a tunnel with a diameter of 30 to 40 meters appeared for no reason. The spiral pattern on the wall of the cave must be some kind of super giant drill. The magic weapon was developed.

"I'm afraid it was not developed by the Pangu or Nuwa people hundreds of thousands of years ago!"

Li Yao observed the surrounding environment and said, "Originally it should lead to... the ground? But then, the vicissitudes of life, geological changes, the first half of this tunnel to the ground collapsed and buried, nothing left, only the back half. , It becomes a form of no head and tail."

At the end of the tunnel, there was a faint light.

Moreover, the oxygen content and pressure of the air in front are different from here, so that the air flow similar to the draught wind is born.

The positioning chip shows that Long Yangjun's coordinates are right in front, at the end of the giant tunnel.

Li Yao and Li Jialing looked at each other. Since they are here, naturally there is no hesitation. Long Yangjun is really unpredictable, there is no need to rescue them from Black Star Emperor Wu Yingqi. I really want to do something against Li Yao. The past ten days have been opportunities, and there is no need to deceive them here before doing anything else.

"Let's go and see what the **** this lady is doing!" Li Yao waved his hand and strode towards the end of the tunnel.