Cultivation Of Coders

Chapter 614 Discovery [Add more 72 days, ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass]

After a while, the figures paused again, and two forked roads appeared in front of them.

"Right!" Li Shifan said without waiting for Zhang Deming to ask this time.

Hearing this, Zhang Deming floated to the right without stopping.

With the opening of the first fork, it seems that the switch has been turned on, and there are more and more forks. Zhang Deming gradually discovered that there seemed to be an extremely well-developed pipeline network underneath.

It is even very possible that the various openings are connected, forming a network-like maze of pipes. The cave walls became smoother and smoother, and gradually, mucous-like coverings appeared on the cave walls.

However, the Bat Demon that I saw before did not appear again, not even one.

"Zi Liu..."

Suddenly, a very different creeping sound sounded, and the three people who were on full alert stopped at the same time. The blisters on Qu Qingxian's body spread, and the transfer directly enveloped the three of them. The smoke in front of Zhang Deming also spread, filling the three of them.

Li Shifan held his sword, and after seeing the reaction of the two, he stopped his movements. He was not good at other methods, so he didn't rashly make a fool of himself.

"Zi Liu..."

In front of them, the cave was originally divided into three parts and became a four-way intersection.

When the three of them were on alert, they found that the entrance on the far right of the cave expanded slightly. Accompanied by extremely regular movements, the intersection on the far right suddenly expanded rapidly.

While the three were horrified, a mollusk much larger than the cave wriggled out of it.

The other party looked like a huge earthworm, its body was much bigger than the hole, and it was its wriggling that made the hole bigger.

After it drilled out of the hole on the right, it didn't seem to find the hidden three people, and immediately drilled into the leftmost passage.

As it drilled in, the smooth opening was like an intestine, slightly expanded and enlarged, allowing soft organisms to pass through like swallowing.

The other party squirmed and quickly disappeared from sight. And the four-forked intersection in front of them, which was originally divided into three, also became a crossroad because of the shuttle of this thing.

As the openings on both sides shrank slightly, they returned to normal size in an instant. The orientation of the entrance of the cave has not changed back to the original, and the layout of the intersection has been maintained.

"What kind of Five Elements monster was that just now?" Qu Qingxian swallowed and asked after the monster left for a long time.

Li Shifan shook his head and said, "I don't know, what I'm more worried about is that we really seem to have entered something in the gut!"

As he spoke, he reached out and poked the cave. The walls of the cave here shrink slightly, and the feeling from it is obviously no longer a cave.

‘Yeah, not only does it look like intestines, it also looks like roundworms just now! '

Zhang Deming's complexion was also a little dark. Such a cave and such a ghostly thing reminded him of some bad experiences.

"You'd better pray that there are really good things in it, otherwise, I will let you know what a senior brother is!" Zhang Deming suddenly turned his head to look at Li Shifan, and said so.

Li Shifan froze, completely caught off guard by this unexpected threat.

"Why?" He was stunned for a moment before replying.

Zhang Deming glanced at him, turned around and continued to move forward, without looking back, "Because I am your senior brother!"

Qu Qingxian: “·······”

Li Shifan: "······"

The three continued to move forward. After discovering the wriggling mollusk, the three found that the cave had changed significantly again.

The spikes above the cave didn't disappear, but turned into fleshy tentacles. The falling liquid also changed from being as clear as water to gradually turning red, slowly approaching bloody water.

If rocky caves were counted first, and then the stiff guts of dead creatures, they are now guts of living creatures.

To describe it vividly, it is equivalent to the fact that the surface of a biological body has been completely fossilized, but the body is still active. The three of Zhang Deming and the others have almost experienced the entire process from the initial fossil cave to the activation of the intestinal tract.

And that thing just now, like an internal parasite, also represents a stage of activation in the cave. If Zhang Deming didn't feel the obvious living and conscious of the whole cave, he would have turned around and left.

"How long?" Zhang Deming couldn't help frowning and asked after two more sudden worm body shuttles.

Because he didn't know if his perception was too sensitive and suspicious when he was stimulated by this place, he always felt that something was wrong with the parasite-like monsters that shuttled around, but because he didn't dare to touch it rashly, he didn't know why it felt wrong.

"Soon!" Li Shifan also replied with a serious expression.

"That's what you said at the last hole!"

Qu Qingxian didn't even care about whether he was a big boss or not. Even though his black dragon became more and more active, and the strange aura around him was more and more helpful to his cultivation, he still wanted to leave early.

Without it, he could clearly feel that his vest was getting cold at this moment!

Li Shifan paused, and said: "The farthest is only one or two holes, and I can already clearly feel this call!"

Zhang Deming glanced at him and said, "Then speed up!"

The three of them looked at each other, no longer groping forward cautiously, but perceiving the full opening, endured the feeling of being jittery, and suddenly accelerated forward.

After rushing through another fork in the road, the three of them paused at the same speed. Not far ahead, it seemed that they had reached the end, and a clearly visible hole appeared not far away.

The three of them looked at each other, slowed down, fully opened the concealment technique, and touched it carefully.

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I quietly arrived at the entrance of the cave, and my field of vision suddenly became empty.

They seem to be in mid-air at this moment, a huge rather regular hemispherical dome covering the entire area.

On the dome, there are densely packed caves of different sizes. The cave where Zhang Deming and his team are located is located in the middle and upper layers of the hemispherical dome, towards the top.

So much so that the entrance to their cave had begun to tilt slightly downward.

Looking down, there is a huge mucus pool, the liquid is like paste, black and red in color, brighter than the seabed that Zhang Deming saw before.

At this moment, the entire liquid is like heated asphalt, constantly bubbling as it rolls. At the same time, there was also a bit of poisonous miasma-like aura rising up.

This space is very huge. It is better to say it is a lake than a pond.

At the bottom of the cave wall, along the shore of the lake, there are three huge caves, like huge semicircular arches, standing in three directions on the edge of the lake, forming a triangle.

Looking at the appearance of these arches, and thinking about the four forked roads at the entrance just now, it is extremely possible that there is more than one dome cave, there should be four, or at least two or more. Because there are countless bat demons moving in one of the huge arches at the moment.

Well, calling them bat demons here is actually a bit inappropriate. They already have the appearance of a third Shura clan, which is much more advanced than those at the entrance of the cave. But judging from his appearance, he still has no wisdom.

It's just that they are no longer as brainless as outside. The bat demons here begin to move like worker bees, carrying giant eggs one after another.

The bat demon was originally only the size of a normal human being, and the giant egg they were carrying was only one person tall, so they all carried it in pairs and carried it to the slime pool.

Then carefully start from the edge and move densely towards the center. At this moment, the edge of the pool near the arch area has been blocked by the dome.

Although the dome was large, it did not sink into the viscous pool. Instead, it floated quietly on the pool, with only about half of the egg's body submerged in the liquid.

Therefore, looking around, the densely packed white dome is extremely spectacular. This kind of work has obviously been going on for a long time.

Because at the very edge, the giant eggs began to crack from time to time, but nothing came out of the eggs, as if the eggs were all empty.

But the worker-bee-like bat demon didn't care about this, or in other words, he didn't have the wisdom to care at all. They continued to carry the giant eggs and put them side by side into the pool.

Whenever a dome shook on the edge and broke inexplicably, they would immediately move a new egg to fill it. If there was no space, they would continue to line it up in the center. Extremely regular, like a patient with late-stage obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The liquid in the pool is thicker and darker red toward the edge, and toward the center, the color is brighter and it rolls faster. He looked past the dome area at the edge of the pool and came to the center of the slime lake.

The liquid here is already as bright red as blood. Although it is still a little viscous, it is already like plasma.

The most attractive thing is that in the center of the pool, there are two objects floating at the moment. A bead of blood, a short stick of who knows what.

At this moment, the movement of the blood beads was a bit loud, and there were countless red streams of light flowing around the body. During the scrolling, most of them poured into the blood pool.

All the changes in the blood pool seemed to be due to these streams of light. Every time there is a stream of light blending in, the bright blood plasma will become more abundant; around the pool, the black-red, asphalt-like paste liquid will become less abundant.

It seems that the floating blood beads are activating the entire pool, and the pool is incubating hollow strange eggs with nothing in them.

Look at the speed at which the blood beads transformed the pool, and the volume of plasma in the center of the pool was already less than half. This bead has been working here for thousands of years if not ten thousand years.

As a result, the blood beads had been consumed only to the size of two peanuts. Although I don't know the original volume, it is definitely more than what is in front of me.

The addition of the dome may not be long, otherwise with the diligence of these monsters, the entire slime lake should have been filled long ago.

Zhang Deming looked at the blood bead and frowned slightly. He felt a familiar smell.

This is······

While he was thinking, he turned over his hands and took out a jade box. There was an empty jade bottle with a narrow mouth in the jade box. It was an object obtained from the secret door of the Dragon Gate Trial. It originally contained some kind of liquid, but later became an empty jade bottle.

Zhang Deming sensed it carefully for a moment, and his eyes flashed. If he didn't perceive the mistake correctly, what was originally contained in this jade bottle was the blood bead, the so-called 'ancestral blood' in the inheritance of the Zhang family's divine master? .

Zhang Deming's actions attracted Qu Qingxian's attention. He looked at the jade bottle that suddenly appeared in Zhang Deming's hand, and then at the pool of blood in the center, his eyes also shimmered slightly.

Li Shifan didn't have the time to pay attention to the two of them at all. All his attention was attracted by the palm-length stick next to the blood drop in the center of the pool.

The shape of the short stick is a bit strange, slightly smaller at both ends and slightly larger in the middle, showing a flat oval shape, which can be held with one hand.

It looks like a part of something, but it is so damaged that the main body can't be seen at all.

Li Shifan looked at the short stick, as if in a daze, his whole mind was attracted by it. Under such a strange environment, he can be in such a state, which shows how strong the attraction or call of the short stick is to him.

"Come back to your senses!" Zhang Deming touched the other party lightly, and whispered through the sound transmission.

Li Shifan turned his head in a daze, and after looking at Zhang Deming, his eyes gradually recovered.

For a moment, when he came to his senses, his eyes were full of light, and he looked at the thing again, but this time he was no longer dull. But his eyes were shining, and his expression was burning like fire.

Zhang Deming looked at Li Shifan, then turned his head to look at the blood beads in the distance, subconsciously clenched the jade bottle with his right hand, and whispered through voice transmission: "Want to do it?"

Li Shifan nodded, then turned to look at Zhang Deming and Qu Qingxian, and said, "Senior brother, why don't you and Shui Long retreat first? No matter how dangerous the stick is, I will get it. It seems to be related to my Tao."

Zhang Deming raised the jade bottle in his hand, and said, "It just so happened, I also found something lost by my clan!"

Qu Qingxian had a genuine expression, Li Shifan paused, sensed the jade bottle, and said dumbly: "Brother, are you here to find the blood-colored bead?"

Zhang Deming nodded, shook his head again, and said, "It's not counted, it can only be counted incidentally, my mission is mainly to investigate this world."

Li Shifan nodded, and then the two looked at Qu Qingxian in a very tacit understanding.

Under the gazes of the two people, Qu Qingxian pondered for a moment and said, "I'll withdraw first. With my level of cultivation, I can only hold you back. The following situation is obviously not something I can interfere with. "

Zhang Deming nodded and said, "Alright, you go out and guard the entrance of the cave, and be ready for our retreat at any time!"

Qu Qingxian nodded, bowed to the two, turned around resolutely, and flew outside.

In fact, he didn't gain anything this time. Along the way, he absorbed a lot of strange atmospheres from the caves. Judging from the activity and solidification of the black dragon on his body, it was definitely of great benefit to him.

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After watching Qu Qingxian leave, the two looked at each other, and Li Shifan said, "Let's rush over in a blitzkrieg, or try our luck and touch?"

Zhang Deming thought for a moment, and said, "Wait a minute, I'll use a secret method!"

Immediately, under Li Shifan's suspicious gaze, Zhang Deming closed his eyes. Looking at the storage energy, half a year of energy storage has gained more than 500 points of luck and more than 40 points of merit.

Adding the remaining before, now the warehouse energy: merit: 175.2, luck: 1108.2, karma: 30.7.

Look at the mounted spell list: Stealth Lv4 (0/100)

Although it is said that he should keep more than 800 luck in reserve, but the year of the breakthrough is not yet known, so it is okay to exceed the standard.

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(End of chapter)