Vol 2 Chapter 212: Small valley

Chapter 212 The Little Valley
After walking for a while, Shen Shi's face was calm but his eyes were always a little cautious, scanning the surrounding woods. ＋◆It's just that the forest has been very quiet, the trees, thorns and weeds are full of greenery, and occasionally the mountain breeze will swing with the wind. It seems to be a very comfortable place.
It's just that Shen Shi always feels that something is wrong.
He frowned slightly, he continued to walk forward after hesitating for a moment, but the palm of his right hand was already slightly hanging down to his side, not far from the Ruyi bag tied around his waist.
Judging from the speed of the floating immortal boat flying along the periphery of Hei Ya Ling and the frequency of its release, Shen Shi recalled it in his heart and felt that every disciple of the Ning Yuan realm who entered Hei Ya Ling would be at least one distance apart from each other. If there are valleys and gullies in some places, the distance between them will be even further.
In other words, at the beginning of this paragraph, unless there are some wealthy trial disciples who directly use the flying magic weapon, of course, such a move is undoubtedly not a smart way in this unfamiliar place. Otherwise, it should be At least for the first half of the day, most people are alone and will not meet others.
The weird smell wafted faintly in the air, which made people uncomfortable but still bearable. Shen Shi seemed to have thought of something. He turned his head and glanced at Xiao Hei, only to find that the little black pig seemed completely absent. The feeling of being affected has been trotting in the forest with excitement from the beginning to the present.
It stands to reason that Xiao Hei's sense of smell is much sharper than that of ordinary people. It is impossible not to feel the weird aura of Hei Crow Ridge, and the reaction should be stronger. Why does it look completely nonchalant? After thinking about it, Shen Shi was still a little puzzled. In the end, it could only be attributed to the weirdness of this pig. Perhaps he was born with only the fragrance of spiritual herbs and ignored other disgusting auras.
But thinking of this, Shen Shi remembered an important thing, beckoned to call Xiao Hei over, then squatted down and touched his head, and said with a gentle expression: "Xiao Hei, this time I can come to Hei Ya Ling. It's different for us to go out and explore on weekdays. If we can find more spiritual grass and spiritual materials, we can also make a business relationship. Don't be lazy, okay?"
Xiao Hei raised his head and glanced at him, nodded the pig's head, unexpectedly speaking easily, but shocked Shen Shi, and gave the little black pig a little more surprised.
However, after thinking about it, Shen Shi still felt a little uneasy, thinking that this pig is usually cunning, and maybe he has become a bit smarter recently, in case he learns to face a set of this The rogue/law would be bad. As the saying goes, it is necessary to guard against people, prevent pigs from being lazy... Hey, there seems to be no good way.
Shen Shi scratched his head and patted Xiao Hei's head lightly. He said: "Xiao Hei, according to past practice, it is also to motivate the disciples. Every time in such a trial, Zongmen will get the final result. After coming out, I will give rewards to the five people with the highest gains. Those things are very good and I want them very much. If I can really squeeze into the top five by that time, I will give you..." He thought about it and decided to bleed once. Orthodox against the little underworld,
"If you can find more spiritual grass and spiritual materials, we are in the top five, I will give you fifty spiritual crystals at once, okay?"
Xiao Hei's body was clever, showing a bit of excitement, but he seemed to be a bit confused. Shen Shi glanced at it, rolled his eyes, and then woke up, laughed, and stretched out his hand on the Ruyi bag for a moment. Immediately afterwards, I saw the precious light flickering, the crystal light dangled, and a bunch of bright crystals appeared in his hand.
Xiao Hei opened his mouth slightly, staring at the handful of spirit crystals in Shen Shi's hand, his eyes glowing, and a trace of saliva came down.
Shen Shi smiled, thinking that this little black is not good at logarithmic numbers, just using the fifty stars is useless, and showing it to him, this dazzling and eye-catching lot of spirits The crystal is placed in front of you, and it has a miraculous effect immediately.
"A total of fifty!" Shen Shi touched Xiao Hei's head with a righteous look, and said, "Have you seen it, such a big pile, you can buy a whole mountain of spiritual grass! This time it's cheaper for you Now, let's find the spirit grass, okay?"
The little black pig nodded desperately with his mouth open, then turned around like an arrow from the string, and rushed out at once, full of energy, full of energy.
Shen Shi stood up with a smile, and walked forward. At the same time, as if thinking of something, he shouted to the back of the black pig:
"Xiao Hei, close your mouth and stop drooling."
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Hei Ya Ling is a vast mountain range covering a very large area. The topography of the mountains is very complicated. There are dangerous peaks and deep valleys, and there are various dangerous places. At the same time, many places are covered with a thick layer of purple and black. When people look at the strange soil from a distance, they will feel that most of the entire mountain is black, and the name Hei Crow Mountain is also derived from this.
This layer of unusual black soil is the blood-sucking soil confirmed by Shen Shi after careful identification. According to the record that Shen Shi has seen in a certain ancient scroll, this kind of soil is very rare. It is said that it had been raging for a period of time in the ancient times, but then it perished for some reason, and later in the Hongmeng world. There were only sporadic news about the blood-sucking soil, but it was unexpected that there was such a large-scale blood-sucking soil in the Hundred Mountains Realm.
The blood-sucking soil is cold in nature, with blood in the mud. It looks no different on weekdays. At most, if the body of a living beast dies on this soil, it will quickly be corroded out. The essence and blood are sucked by the soil, but it has no effect on the trees and plants growing on it.
However, the small piece of blood-sucking soil is not a big problem. If the number of blood-sucking soils expands beyond a very huge limit, it will become another extremely dangerous place, where countless yin qi gathers together with an unknown number of spirits and blood. The very weird things between the world and the earth will gradually become the place where the world is from the dark to the cold. At this time, the central area of ​​this large blood-sucking soil will often become a natural ghost that is most suitable for ghosts, and then born beyond humans. Imagined evil ghosts.
According to legend, the land in the Jiuyoudi Mansion under the Yellow Spring is a blood-sucking soil that has gone through endless years, where ghosts are rampant in darkness and eternity. It is the most terrifying place in the world for millions of years.
On the Black Crow Ridge in front of you, the blood-sucking soil is of course impossible to have that terrifying scale. In fact, the Black Crow Ridge is all black from a distance, but when you walk in the nearby mountains, you will find that the patches of purple and black are actually not They are completely connected together, but separated into areas of varying sizes. It seems that there is also an invisible force restricting these blood-sucking soils and preventing them from merging and expanding.
Such a large but small-scale blood-sucking soil does not have much impact on the monk’s bright face, but Shen Shi did not take it lightly. After all, the blood-sucking soil is the most yin thing. From here, some ghosts that cannot be guarded against can jump out. Not too surprising.
It's just that, for the Ling Xiaozong disciples who participated in the trial, the difficulty of this trial felt a little too difficult. Shen Shi was a little confused, but he didn't think about those problems, anyway, thinking about it was useless.
Compared with the many thoughts in his mind, the little black pig looks more enthusiastic and simple. At this moment, the black pig seems to have become a little black crow ridge little mad dog, full of energy in the surrounding woods. Flying, smelling and sniffing for the spirit grass, this energy also made Shen Shi feel a little bit more emotional, and wondered how long it has been since I saw this product so hard.
But even so, but for some reason, Shen Shi and Xiao Hei's gains were not good. They had been trekking in this mountain forest for about an hour, but they found only three spirit grasses, of which two were the most common first-rank spirit grasses, and only one was the second-rank spirit grass that was barely visible.
This situation was obviously not quite right. Shen Shi looked around the surrounding forest, thinking that no matter what, under Xiao Hei's extremely sensitive sense of smell, there shouldn't be so few spirit grasses found here. And Xiao Hei also ran back to him at this time, seeing that even it was a little confused, and he hummed twice at Shen Shi.
Shen Shi shook his head and whispered to Xiao Hei: "I don't know either."
Xiao Hei looked a little frustrated. He stretched out his pig's feet and shoveled the soil under his feet at random. The black soil layer spread out, and a slightly stronger breath came out.
Xiao Hei snorted, looking a bit disgusted, jumped up and walked to the other side of Shen Shi. Shen Shi frowned slightly, glanced at the dirt on the ground, his eyes thoughtful.
Perhaps... the breath of this blood-sucking soil is not completely harmless to Xiao Hei as it seems on the surface?
This kind of weird soil in the legend is really weird, Shen Shi shook his head, and after a moment of indulgence, he said: "Let's go, go ahead and take a look."
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This time, Shen Shi did not stay for too long on the way, but took Xiao Hei straight forward. On the road, Xiao Hei still wanted to run out to find out if there was any spirit grass on the way, but he was all caught by Shen Shi. Called back.
The spiritual grass harvest in this mountain forest is so small, not because the blood-sucking soil has a secretive influence on Xiao Hei's sense of smell, or because the former Lingxiaozong disciples came to sweep this place before, so the number of spiritual grasses is not much. No matter what it is, it is not a good way to continue to search for spiritual grass in this mountain forest, so Shen Shi decisively abandoned this relatively safe mountain forest, and continued to walk into the depths of Black Crow Ridge.
There should be bigger and more dangerous places ahead, but there should be more to gain.
After walking in this way for another half an hour, Shen Shi found that he had walked out of the mountain forest. The edge of the blood-sucking soil seemed to only extend to the edge of the mountain forest before he walked out. Shen Shi suddenly felt his body suddenly loosened. , As if there was always a rock on my heart during the previous period, it was suddenly removed.
By his side, Xiao Hei also seemed to be suddenly happy, shaking his body subconsciously, and screamed twice with a coaxing laugh.
However, when Shen Shi entered the mountain from the floating immortal boat, it was almost noon, and then he was delayed for a long time in that mountain forest. At this moment, it seemed that the sky was already a little dim, and it looked close to dusk.
Shen Shi turned his head and looked around, and saw that behind was the mountain forest that had just come out, and in front was a hill, and on the left was a valley that was sunken down, not very deep, sparsely. Some vegetation has grown.
However, by the light of the sky, Shen Shi clearly saw that the hill was halfway up the mountainside, and some familiar purple-black spots had already appeared, which was exactly the appearance of a blood-sucking soil, but the valley below was cleaner.
He pondered for a moment, then took Xiao Hei to the valley.
Going down the mountain, the valley is not too deep, but it is actually very long and deep. When it reaches the bottom of the valley and walks forward, until the sky gets dark, neither Shen Shi nor Xiao Hei can see the end of the valley. .
The call of the mountain breeze blew, the darkness fell, and above the sky, the first star showed its head.
And on Black Crow Ridge, under the darkness of night, this first mysterious and dangerous night also descended here.