Merchant of the Underworld

The two of us looked at the stone wall and didn't hear any noise. We checked the surroundings carefully and found no mechanism.

Snap.

At this moment, another drop of water fell on my head.

Within a few minutes, dozens of drops of water were falling down one after another. I didn’t pay much attention to it at first, but now when I took a closer look at the stone wall, I felt something was wrong!

This place is far away from the waterfall, and the valley in the middle is also very deep. It is more than ten meters away from the stone wall, and it will never splash down here. But the entire stone wall in front of me was dripping with water, and water was constantly seeping out of the cracks in the stone.

What's even more strange is that except for this stone wall, which is three to four meters in radius, everything is dry as usual.

Han Laoliu saw me in a daze and immediately discovered the problem.

After staring at the stone wall for a long time, he suddenly shouted: "I know, this is a water barrier!"

"Water barrier?"

"right!"

"It's almost like a ghost hitting a wall. This is a trick commonly used by Japanese Yin Yang masters, but the water barrier designed by this person is very confusing! We all just knew that a long time ago, this entire cave was originally a vast area. Water channels and water barriers are built in deep water, so it’s no wonder it’s difficult to be discovered! If it hadn’t been for a long time, the water level had dropped so much that we wouldn’t have been able to discover it even if we were exhausted.” Han Laoliu explained.

"So that's it!" When I heard this, I took out a magic talisman and was about to throw it away. Han Laoliu stopped me and said, "Don't move. Although the water barrier looks similar to a ghost hitting a wall, it also serves to confuse people." Yes, but you must not force it. Water becomes stronger when it is strong. No matter how hard you hit it, it will be dissolved, and it will even recoil back."

"What should I do?" I asked.

"Let me do it." Han Laoliu waved his hand back, with a small bud on his finger, and slowly pointed it toward the water on the stone wall.

As soon as the small buds came into contact with the water droplets on the stone wall, they immediately grew wildly. They grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, they turned into a vine as thick as an arm, and it continued to grow...

Water produces wood, which grows and grows.

Han Laoliu borrowed the relationship between the five elements and their restraints.

A large amount of water spiritual energy gathered on the ivy, and the spiritual power on the formation was naturally weakened a lot.

When I looked at it again, it was indeed the case. The water droplets on the stone wall slowly became transparent, and the pitch-black stone wall had long since disappeared, replaced by a huge milky white bubble.

Han Laoliu's body and face became extremely swollen, and he suddenly gained a lot of weight. His dark skin became thinner and brighter like an inflated balloon, as if it would burst immediately with just a flick of his finger!

This is the sudden absorption of a large amount of water vapor, well beyond the saturation level.

"Quickly, get in quickly!" Han Laoliu shouted urgently, his tongue became a little swollen, and he couldn't speak lightly.

I no longer hesitated and took a step forward.

The bubbles didn't burst, and there was no change or sound at all. I just walked through it easily.

Just a short while ago, this was clearly a bluestone wall!

As soon as I entered, Han Laoliu also stepped in immediately.

At the same time, the ivy on his fingers quickly withered, and Han Laoliu also suddenly lost weight in a few seconds and returned to his original appearance. But his face was obviously paler, as if he was recovering from a serious illness.

"Lao Liu, are you okay?"

"It's okay." Han Laoliu shook his head and stared forward: "Although Xiao Bailong is not very good at fighting, he is extremely sensitive to water spirit energy after all, so he discovered this place early before us. He is very He may have discovered some big secret, so he didn't hesitate to borrow the power of the source to leave a mark on the water formation, insisting on leading us here, let's go! Hurry up and catch up to see what he found."

The passage after the water formation is still narrow, and there are many traces of manual carvings remaining on the stone walls on both sides, which were obviously left by the builders of the ancient tomb.

The air in the passage was extremely humid, and patches of strange-looking moss grew on the edges of the stone crevices.

These moss are all black, with a layer of thin and long hair hanging on the top.

"Be careful, there is probably something alive here!" Han Laoliu pointed at a patch of black moss.

There was an obvious sign of being chewed on the moss.

The further you go, the more similar traces you find, crooked and densely packed, like the wet land after the rain, full of traces of earthworms and earthworms crawling through.

After walking for another ten minutes, some vine-like plants appeared on the stone walls and the ground on both sides. They had no leaves or flowers, and their roots and vines were extremely developed. The thinnest one is as thick as a little finger, and it is completely black. To the naked eye, it looks like a group of disgusting maggots tightly entwined together.

"What is this?" I asked curiously.

I encountered this thing last time in the Wusuli River. In the entire black forest, all the plants were surprisingly large, and they were all black. At that time, I thought, if only Han Laoliu were here, he would definitely know what this is.

"I don't know." Unexpectedly, Han Laoliu shook his head.

"I have never seen this kind of thing. I just tried to sense them, but this thing is very strange. Not only does it not respond at all, it is even a little repulsive. This feeling is a bit like... a variant of Cordyceps Sinensis."

"Cordyceps sinensis?" I asked.

"Yes! Cordyceps sinensis is a species of the Cordyceps family, and there are many similar species, such as Cordyceps sinensis, Liangshan Cordyceps, Sanye Vine, etc. Although these things are not completely plants, I still feel it, but right now These... I'm afraid they contain more animal ingredients."

"This type of thing has a characteristic. It will change its form with changes in its life cycle and surrounding environment. But this place should be like this all year round. I don't know if it will come back to life again. Generally speaking, even if it survives They are all low-level creatures that come here and are not aggressive at all." Han Laoliu explained.

After walking along the passage for a while, small holes as thick as pencils were slightly poked out of the gaps on both sides of the stone wall. When I shined a flashlight in, I saw that it was completely dark and there was nothing there.

Not far away, there was a slightly thicker hole the size of a fist. A white light faintly glowed from inside this thick hole, but there was nothing there.

Obviously, these are ancient tomb mechanisms.

Judging from the shape of the hole and the surrounding marks, it should have never been triggered.

I just don’t know if these mechanisms have expired due to their age or were destroyed by someone.

Forty or fifty meters later, the passage turned a corner. The stone gate in front was smashed into pieces, and the broken stones were scattered on the ground.

Judging from the marks on the door, this must have been done by Xiao Bailong!

Snapped!

The two of us had just passed through the stone gate when a crisp sound came from ahead.

The sound was not loud, like a small medicine bottle falling to the ground.

The two of us immediately stopped and waited quietly for a while. When we saw nothing unusual, we continued forward.

Bang, bang, bang...

The crackling sounds suddenly started ringing continuously again. At first, you could still hear a few clearly, but then, like raindrops, the crackling sounds became a continuous one!

What was even more shocking was that the voice came from behind us.