Immortal Formula

   Chapter 471 Breaking the ban

Gu Yan whispered: "There are so many fog poisonous insects here, it can be seen that there must be a lot of monsters haunting, there are still hundreds of miles from where we are going, we must be very careful before moving forward. Monster beasts, maybe they will attract people from the Danyang faction, then it will not be worth the loss."

Lan Xiang nodded, and Bi Zhenzhen told them that the place where she was besieged that day was on the southeast side of the river valley, while Taniguchi was on the northwest side of the entire mountain range, starting from the forbidden area designated by the Danyang faction, and at least there They had to walk 300 miles. In this hidden place, they didn't dare to use the magic weapon to fly. They could only walk forward slowly. Once the people of the Danyang faction were disturbed, the trip would be considered a failure. Among the two, Gu Yan was the leader, and at the rear of Lanxiang Hall, she walked forward and asked Gu Yan, "What kind of poisonous insects are we going to look for this time?"

Gu Yan said ponderingly: "I saw in the classics that the one that can restrain the hundred-sounding silkworm is a kind of monster called the red-refined spider, but I am not sure if there is one here. But the land where the hundred-sounding silkworm grows, There should also be Cordyceps that can restrain it. If you can find it, you can also use it to make alchemy. But if this is the case, it is inevitable that Master Bi’s cultivation will go backwards by a level.”

Lan Xiang sighed, "This Danxia sect has now withered to such a degree that it is entirely up to her to support the facade. If her cultivation is going to fall back to the foundation-building stage, then she won't be able to use the Danyang faction, and she won't be able to pass next year's class. This level of the Jian Conference will soon be swallowed up by the surrounding sects."

Thinking of this, Gu Yan couldn't help but sigh, although Bixia Sect was also troubled by internal and external troubles, but at least there are capable talents like Gan Biwu, Lan Xiang and himself are sitting on the top, and the younger generation is outstanding. Disciple, but Danxiazong, the head of the sect was seriously injured, and there are no talents among the disciples. Except for the girl next to Bi Zhenzhen who is considered a talent, the rest are mediocre people. No wonder Bi Zhen It really looks so haggard, and it is really exhausting to support such a large sect alone. It's just that this is the internal affairs of other sects. Although they sigh, they are not good at interfering. After all, this kind of direct interference in the internal affairs of other sects is a very taboo thing in the world of cultivating immortals.

They walked along the rugged valley, turned a few turns, and found that many places on the surrounding mountain walls had been hollowed out and turned into small hills, in which were planted pieces of The dense forest is full of very strange fruit trees. It is not tall. Only one person is tall and short, like a tall bush. The leaves on the top are wide at the back and narrow at the front, exposing the pointed front edge, like a handful of The dagger with the handle grows on the branch, like a sharp sword, the color is crimson red like fire. There are not many planted in each mountain, there are only about a hundred or ten trees. Looking around, there is a large and small mountain, which stretches endlessly. Planted all of these dwarf trees.

Lan Xiang said a little strangely: "What kind of tree is this, I don't seem to have seen it before?" As an alchemist, identifying spirit grass is the most basic skill. She can recognize one or two grasses at all, but she can't remember what kind of dwarf tree it belongs to.

  It was the first time for Gu Yan to see it, but the body of this kind of tree is very inconspicuous, but the leaves are very bright. She pondered: "Maybe it is a poisonous fruit, it would be better for us to hang around less."

While she was talking, Lan Xiang had already reached out to pick a leaf out of curiosity, and wanted to take it over and look at it carefully. Suddenly, she exclaimed and threw the leaf away at once, and then looked at her fingertips, which had been A small red blister was scalded, and Lan Xiang said with lingering fear: "What kind of leaf is this, it's amazing!"

   As an alchemy cultivator, even if the fire burns her body, she can't hurt her. It is really unimaginable that this small leaf can burn her finger. Gu Yan twisted the leaf with two fingers, the little sparks at the fingertips lit up, she quietly released ice spirit flames, and then made a hissing sound, the red on the surface of the leaf was strange. Receded, the entire blade became very smooth. Gu Yan pondered: "This should be a kind of parasitic tree!" She had seen the description of this kind of tree in the classics of Bixia Sect.

   After she said this, Lan Xiang also remembered, "Is it the kind of tree species that is not poisonous in itself, but attracts poisonous insects to live in, and the two provide nutrients to each other and live in symbiosis?"

Gu Yan nodded, "Usually this kind of parasitic tree grows with extremely powerful poisonous insects, these red leaves are probably attached to the very small poisonous insects, so it will burn your finger just now. , This kind of bug looks smaller than a gnat, and there are thousands of them on a leaf. Although the power of a single one is almost negligible, it is still very scary when so many are gathered together." She carefully tore off a leaf from the tree, then took out a jade box and put it in it, and carefully put it into the Qiankun bag.

   Lan Xiang said oddly, "What's the use of you taking it?"

Gu Yan smiled, "Go back and study it carefully. What kind of insect species is this? Maybe it can be used for alchemy." Lan Xiang didn't care, she pointed forward with her hand, "The front is full of There are at least a few thousand of this kind of trees, so, such bugs are only in the hundreds of millions?"

  Gu Yan nodded, "If I guess correctly, the lifespan of this bug should be very short, but its reproductive ability should be very strong, so it is able to support the survival of so many tree species."

   At this time, the sky was getting dark, and they were talking when they all stopped talking at the same time and looked up at the sky.

The sun has gradually set in the west, and the setting sun is still stubbornly showing half of its head from the sky. At this time, the whole valley is transpired with a red smoke, which almost shrouded the sky over the entire river valley, like a large swath of fire clouds falling from the sky. , Under the reflection of the setting sun, the incomparably dazzling rosy color comes, which is really a rare beauty.

But Gu Yan and Lan Xiang were both incomparably horrified. The red mist that was rising over the valley was not real mist, but small insects flying from the dwarf trees, hundreds of millions of small insects. At the same time, they gathered together, like layers of red mist, and the tree in front of them had turned green!

   And they almost watched helplessly as the countless flying insects on the tree rose into the sky and flew into the sky, becoming those gorgeous burning clouds.

   The red mist in the sky gathered at Taniguchi, and then slowly swam in one direction, as if they had fallen into a very high cave. The two of them stood at a low place and could not see the situation there.

It wasn't until a while later that the red fog slowly faded away, and the sky had turned pitch black at this time. The dwarf trees in front of them glowed green in the night, and the sharp leaves were like the dark night. One of the green eyes looks very penetrating. If it is an ordinary young girl, she must be scared and scream.

   These two are naturally not like those ignorant girls, they are just contemplating the occurrence of such a miracle. Gu Yan tore off the leaf again, looked carefully in front of him, and said, "Look, there are tiny white marks on it, these should be the eggs laid by those flying insects. Sure enough, my mad victory is not bad, They are born at sunrise and die at sunset. Before they die, they leave eggs on the leaves. These eggs absorb nutrients from the leaves, and then grow into adults at dawn, and the cycle repeats day after day. , endlessly."

Lan Xiang couldn't help taking a breath, "I once heard that before the ancient times, there was a big river called the Ganges. At the bottom of the Ganges, there was fine sand accumulated over hundreds of millions of years. It is the corpse of a kind of spiritual insect on the bank of the Ganges. They are born at sunrise and die at sunset. You can only see the sun once in your life. I just take it as a legend, is there really such a species in the world?"

Gu Yan smiled, "I've heard that legend before, but these worms are so demonic that they definitely won't belong to the ancient spirit worms." She took off another leaf and was going to take those worm eggs back. Do some research.

   At this moment, she was suddenly a little alert, she turned her head quickly, and looked behind the mountain wall with sharp eyes, "Who?"

With a    swipe, a yellow shadow rushed out of the stone wall and slammed towards the middle of the two. Gu Yan blinked, and she could already see that what rushed out of the stone wall was a monster the size of an ordinary hound. The speed was extremely fast, like lightning, she reached out to grab it, and all of a sudden it was empty.

  Lan Xiang was caught off guard and was almost bitten by it. She dodged and avoided it. She already took out half of the crystal clear jade in her hand and smashed it at the monster beast.

The monster's movements were extremely fast. After dodging and dodging, he turned his head and rushed towards the mountain wall. Lan Xiang was about to smash again. Gu Yan had already quickly grabbed her hand. It quickly rushed into the mountain wall. The pale golden fur, small body, rushed towards the stone wall, twisted the body, and disappeared in an instant, a faint shadow wandered in the mountain wall, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Gu Yan said in a low voice: "We are in a dangerous place, be careful to show our traces!" Lan Xiang put away the jade bi in a huff, her white as Haoyu wrist was just accidentally grabbed by the front claws of the monster beast. At once, a faint bloodstain was pulled out. She whispered: "What kind of monster is this, actually able to walk through the mountain walls, across the stone walls, like walking on the ground?"

   Although Lan Xiang is an alchemist, he is quite knowledgeable about identifying spirit grass, but he does not have as much knowledge as Gu Yan when it comes to monsters. Gu Yan said: "This seems to be a kind of earth spirit beast, they are born with five elements and spiritual roots, they can use the five elements escape method without human beings, especially in the deep mountains, freely traverse the rock walls and underground soil layers in the mountains, and move freely. Hurry up, ordinary monks can't catch up with it. This monster is arranged here, probably to guard this col, if I estimate correctly, there is probably one such beast in every col. To guard."

  Lan Xiang stomped, "Then you won't let me chase it? If it goes back to report, we will be exposed!"

  Gu Yan smiled, "It's okay, I have a way to grab it out silently!"

   In the short moment when the two were talking, the pale golden shadow quickly disappeared into the mountain wall, and after a few turns, the shadow was almost invisible. Gu Yan's shoulders shook slightly and said, "Little Jiang, come out!"

  Xiao Jiang quickly appeared on her shoulder, her big tail like a hairball swayed lazily, as if she was complaining about why the owner didn't let it out for so long.

Lan Xiang looked at Xiao Jiang, and said with some jaw-dropping expressions: "This one you raised is a cloud-swallowing beast? God, I have never seen such a big cloud-swallowing beast. I heard that Cangwu's real Zimei also raised it. There is one, but not as big and beautiful as yours."

  Xiao Jiang heard Lan Xiang praise it for being beautiful, so he shook his tail with joy, and the little head kept ticking, as if praising Lan Xiang for being right. Gu Yan smiled and tapped its head, "You caught that little monster from the mountain wall for me!"

   Little Jiang squeaked twice and flew to the ground. Its eyes suddenly shone with dazzling brilliance, and the purple-gold pupils shot out two lines of purple light, which quickly sank into the mountain wall. Where it looked, the entire mountain wall almost turned transparent, and the two of them could clearly see that in the mountain wall, the earth spirit beast was quickly passing through the gap in the stone, while Little Jiang The purple light emitted by the two eyes has turned into thousands of threads in the mountain wall, entangled in the past, tied the earth spirit beast in a blink of an eye, and then dragged it back upside down, abruptly. Ripped it out of the mountain wall. When it was pulled to the ground, the earth spirit beast was already dripping with blood, wounds were scratched by the stones in the mountain wall, the fur was torn to half, and it seemed that there was no breath.

  Gu Yan knocked on its head angrily and funny, "I only asked you to catch it back, who made you kill it?"

  Xiao Jiang squeaked twice and rubbed against the edge where Lan Xiang was. He seemed a little embarrassed. He hadn't fought the enemy for a long time, but this time he made a move and was a little bit refrained.

Lan Xiang really liked Xiao Jiang, so he picked it up, put it on his shoulder, and said, "Anyway, we don't expect to ask anything about this earth spirit beast, just kill it." She While talking, he curiously touched Xiao Jiang's tail and rubbed it on his face, feeling very comfortable.

Gu Yan put the body of the earth spirit beast into the spirit beast bag, and ignored Xiao Jiang's coquettishness on others, and said, "Look at the direction where the red mist is submerged, it should be in a canyon in the distance. Inside, the location of that place…”

  Lan Xiang also thought of this at the same time, and said: "The location where he and Bi Zhenzhen met and was besieged seemed very close!"

  Gu Yan nodded, "I estimate that those two places should be the same, and there must be some secrets hidden there. This is probably one of the reasons why the Danyang faction blocked this valley and prevented outsiders from entering."

She pointed to the outside and said, "There are so many fog poisonous insects here, but we have not seen the corpses of monsters along the way. This is very abnormal. If there are not many monsters here, then these fog poisonous insects How to survive? They eat the flesh and skin of the corpses of the monsters, and the skeletons will be left. According to the number of these poisonous mist insects, there must be at least tens of thousands of corpses. Where are they now?"

Lan Xiang said: "It seems that we have to go to that canyon to find the answer! It's just that since it is a mysterious place, the Danyang faction must be guarded by heavy troops, and there will definitely be restrictions on the formation. If we want to go there, we must be very careful. , don't disturb the other party." She didn't think about the safety issue, after all, with the cultivation of the two of them, as long as they didn't get caught in a big formation that couldn't escape, at least there was no problem in protecting themselves. With the strength of the Danyang faction, the two of them could not be killed here. When they reached their cultivation level, it was easy to tell the difference between victory and defeat, but it was not an easy task to really decide between life and death.

Gu Yan took out the five flag gates, inserted them on the ground, carefully observed the direction of the surrounding spiritual energy, and then said: "According to the terrain here, the so-called "hundred birds return to their nests and hundreds of spirits gather, that canyon should be the gathering of spiritual energy here. The place, according to the arrangement here, look at these cols..." She stood up and pointed at the small cols around her, "There should be all the outer circles here, so many circles together form the outer circle. For protection, if you want to enter the canyon, you must first break the formation eye here. Now we are in a formation eye. In order to prevent the formation eye from being broken, they use earth spirit beasts to guard the door. We just killed it. One, I don't know if they will find out, so if you want to act, you have to be fast!"

She waved her hand, and the five flag gates flew out to the sky, forming a pentagon in the air. The flags were shining brightly, Gu Yan said: "I use the flag gate to temporarily hold the spiritual energy here, and we follow here. Sneak in, then you won’t be disturbed by the arrangement for the time being, this time we have to make a quick decision, and it’s best to come out before dawn!”

  Lan Xiang watched her orderly arranging everything, and couldn't help admiring: "It's no wonder that you can be famous at such a young age, it's really amazing, I'm not as good!"

Gu Yan smiled without saying much. She raised the Zhu Yanjing mirror with her left hand. The mirror was blue and had no light. There were occasional shimmers around, which were also sucked in by the Zhu Yanjing. , like a strange lack of light. As they moved forward, the flag gate in the air was also moving on its own, Lan Xiang said worriedly: "Will the flag gate you placed in the air not be discovered by them?"

Gu Yan said: "I use the method of moving the five elements to fix the flag gate, which is independent of the space here, and can avoid their aura perception. These five flag gates fix the four directions of the sky for us, as long as The flag gate is still there, so we don't have to worry about getting lost in the illusion."

  Lan Xiang nodded in understanding, but Xiao Jiang stood on her shoulder and wailed twice, as if she felt that Gu Yan's technique was a little disdainful.

The two of them walked forward quietly. Along the way, they could clearly see the surrounding mountains passing by one by one. The size of each mountain was about the same. It was obviously dug out by hand. Gu Yan counted the dwarf trees carefully. There were ninety-nine trees in each valley, no more and no less. Under the shadow of the night, the blue and green dwarf trees look very strange. The white insect eggs on the leaves shine dimly under the shimmering light, making the leaves look like green eyes in the night. Blinking non-stop.

  Gu Yan secretly calculated the positions of these cols, and suddenly exclaimed: "There are a total of 108 cols here, this is the tendency of the stars to swallow the moon!"

  Lan Xiang asked inexplicably: "What is a star swallowing the moon?"

Gu Yan said: "Tianxing swallowing the moon is an extremely dangerous terrain in the formation. It uses the spiritual energy of the heavens and the earth for its own use. If it exists, it will not come out. It will not only have an irreversible impact on the earth's veins when the spell is cast, but even on the recipient. Personally speaking, the lonely yin does not grow, the lonely yang does not grow, and the qi of yin and yang cannot be balanced, which has a great impact on the meridians in the body. I originally thought that someone here was using the terrain to cultivate, but now it seems that if this is the case, Then, within a few years of this person's cultivation, his meridians will burst due to the skyrocketing yang energy, and he will definitely not survive."

  Lan Xiang pondered and said, "You said that this is where the stars swallow the moon, so could it be these dwarf trees that have been planted to dissolve the irreversible yang energy?"

Gu Yan shook her head, "No, this kind of parasitic tree itself does not produce yang energy, they should be born to feed these monsters. No wonder it is dark here at night, and even the light of the stars cannot penetrate. Come in. According to Sect Master Bi, this situation has been going on for a few years. If it continues for another five or six years, I am afraid that all the spiritual veins here will be sucked up by this terrain, and the entire Danxia Mountain will become a wasteland! "

Lan Xiang frowned and said: "Let's hurry up to the canyon, the truth will probably be told there. In any case, these should not be arranged by the Danyang faction, they regard Danxia Mountain as their own sect, and they will definitely not let it go. waste."

After walking for about half an hour, the two slowly approached the canyon, with Gu Yan leading the way, walking more and more slowly, almost every few steps she took, she had to raise her head to adjust the flag gate above her head. position. The canyon in the distance is hidden in the deep night, and the mountain walls towering on all sides tightly wrap the mouth of the valley. You can't see anything from the outside, just know that there is a deep mountain inside.

   Only a crack emerged from one corner, like a monster hidden in the depths, with a big mouth, waiting to devour all the people who came in. Gu Yan pointed at the crack and said, "There should be the entrance, let's go in there!"

   (end of this chapter)