Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 164 Blood Chain Around the Waist

Before we came in, Grandma Xun and the others described this place as a "garden in a deep lake". When we were there, we felt that the scene was exactly as its name suggests, as if it was a dense underground forest inside a meteorite.

Thousands of exotic and colorful plants gather here.

The garden is lush and green, and the land is full of verdant scenery.

From the ground to the ceiling, which is fifty or six feet high, there are thick branches everywhere and ancient trees are towering.

The evenly-lit water flows among the vegetation, shaped like various waterfalls.

There are also many natural ditches on the ground formed by the flow of underground lakes, in which small luminous fish swim.

"The secret realm at the bottom of the lake is a circle as a whole, divided into six fan-shaped areas by stone walls. Each area has several stone doors for entry. The place is not very big, but it is a little winding." Grandma Axun led them further in.

Behind the outermost vegetation and trees, there is a huge underground crack that looks like a bottomless abyss.

Grandma Axun said to the abyss crack: "If you go down the twenty-first realm, you will enter from here."

"Is there still room to explore down there?!" Pei Nai said in astonishment.

Grandma Xun nodded. "And the depth is unknown. Some people have gone down before, but no one came up alive. We only heard screams from below, and the rescuers never came back. Therefore, no one dares to go deeper."

"It goes straight to the ground, it's too mysterious and terrifying." Pei Nai said, looking at the darkness below the crack.

Just then, they heard some noise coming from the rear entrance, including the sound of water and voices.

Grandma Axun gestured for them to be quiet, walked around the trees, looked far ahead, and then said, "Our helpers are here."

Pei Nai looked over and saw that it was one of Grandma Axun's maids, who had just come up from the waterway with Qu Mufeng, Zhou Yuliang and two others.

When they returned, the maid anxiously reported to Grandma Axun: "Grandma, all the monsters at the bottom of the lake disappeared today. This is very abnormal."

"It's not that they disappeared, but a creature that completely suppressed them appeared, so they hid themselves." Grandma Xun was talking about the "Chiwen", which Pei Nai and the others had just experienced personally.

But she did not say it explicitly, probably because she did not want too many people to know about the "Chiwen".

Grandma Xun's maid suddenly realized, "So that's how it is."

"You came at the right time. Do you still have the bag of herbs with you?" asked Grandma Axun.

The maid took out the special fish skin bag from her waist bag and said, "Yes, mother-in-law, I have six more bags here."

Herbal medicines cannot be soaked in lake water, so they are also transported in large waterproof fish skin bags.

Grandma Axun nodded and said, "I have a few here too, which should be enough. You can take everyone to pick the tail black flowers quickly."

The maid bowed and received the order, then took Qu Mufeng and the others to the areas where the tail flower grew.

Qu Mufeng nodded and smiled at Pei Nai as a greeting.

Zhou Yuliang waved to Pei Nai.

Because the time for picking herbs for rescue was limited, everyone did not dare to exchange pleasantries so as not to waste time, and they went in different directions.

Da Xian and his guards also each held a fish skin bag and went to the next section to help pick the tail black flowers.

Grandma Axun took Pei Nai to look for the tree fragments left by Zhang Licheng, the former king of the Valley Kingdom.

The plants and flowers in the secret realm were all types that Pei Nai had almost never seen before, and they were lush and verdant.

The internal roads are complex and winding, making it difficult to tell where you are currently.

On the way, they passed a place where the rocks on the mountain wall were broken and cracked, and many stones were crumbling above their heads. It was obvious that it had been artificially reinforced with many support plates.

Grandma Xun and Pei Nai passed through three divisions and reached the other side of the mountain wall opposite the entrance.

"There are also tail-bearing black flowers here," Grandma Axun pointed to a few clusters of fine-stamen flowers that looked like golden lanterns and said to Pei Nai, "This is it."

The flower stamens are stretched out, dotted with crimson and red, bright and gorgeous.

However, at the bottom of each petal, there is a dark blue line shaped like a woman's eyebrow, hence the name "Weidaihua".

However, Pei Nai noticed that there was another strange gray-black grass with blue edges growing on the same land as the tail flower.

She asked, "What is this? Why is it growing intertwined with the tail-flowered lily?"

"Mingxuan grass is also a rare plant, but it cannot be used as medicine and its use has never been found." Grandma Axun explained.

Pei Nai nodded in understanding.

Grandma Xun looked around and said, "Prince Zhang usually puts things here or in that area. Let's split up. You look for it here, and I'll go back there. If you find it, call me."

Pei Nai nodded, "Okay, what will he use to pack the mud tree slices?"

"It's usually a wooden box with a mechanism. By the way, don't touch the plants here, many of them are poisonous." Grandma Xun reminded her and turned away. Pei Nai explored the area along the road.

About an incense stick of time later, she saw a familiar-looking wooden box placed high up on a branch of an ancient tree.

She climbed up the tree with ease, took down the wooden box, and examined it in her hands.

The reason why it looked familiar was because Zhang Licheng was an old friend of her father. When she was young, Zhang Licheng once gave her a similar wooden box with a mechanism.

At that time, she had not been able to figure out how to open the mechanism, so she left it there until now.

Until now, she was still at a loss as to what to do with the wooden box in front of her.

I don't have the brains for this, so I won't waste my time.

She put the wooden box on the ground, raised her spear and chopped it down, and the wooden box suddenly broke into two halves, revealing the whole tree piece and an ancient bell inside.

Presumably, this is the gift that Zhang Sheng and the others mentioned, the "Mysterious Bell of Heavenly Sound", which the "Pure Enlightenment Monk" family once gave to the Kingdom of the Valley.

Get it!

Pei Nai put away the Hun Shu piece and Tian Yin Xuan Ling and returned to inform Grandma Xun.

She just walked back to the previous area and called out Grandma Axun's name, but got no response.

Pei Nai suddenly felt something was wrong, and she hurried back.

After passing through another area, she vaguely heard the woman sobbing and panting with her mouth blocked.

Walking in the direction of the sound, he saw Da Xian's weapon being cut off by the man in cinnabar-colored clothes.

The man took advantage of the situation and flicked his sleeves. Two sharp arrows, tied with a chain, flew out at a close distance, piercing into both sides of Da Xian's waist at a speed that Da Xian had no way of dodging, and passed through his body.

The man's figure flashed and moved behind Daxian.

He used the hand holding the short fork to catch the two bloody arrows and tightened the chain.

At the same time, he stepped on the sharp iron rod under his feet, grabbed it with his right hand, and turned it around, with the sharp corner of the iron rod pressing against Da Xian's back.

He then tied up Daxian as his hostage.

This man's name was Chu Rang. He did not have Hongmeng Qi in his body, but his martial arts skills were unfathomable, which was why he aroused their suspicion when he was in the fourth domain.

Pei Nai was so angry that she used her Qing Kung to jump in front of them under Chu Rang's gaze.

Daxian's guards were knocked down before Daxian, but their injuries were not serious. They stood up with the help of their weapons.

Both of Grandma Axun's maids were here, with cloth balls stuffed in their mouths. They stood on either side, with a huge rock above their heads that had cracked and was about to fall.

Both of them were sweating and trembling, with tears in their eyes, but they did not move even a bit in fear.

Judging from their condition, I think Chu Rang had pressed some acupoints on them.

Above their heads, there was a fixed wooden board, which was positioned very well and stabilized the shaking boulder.

But at this time, ropes were tied to the wooden boards, and the other ends of the two ropes were held in the hands of Grandma Axun in front of Chu Rang.

Grandma Axun held a rope in each hand, as if she was holding the lives of the two maids in her hands.

She was obviously also acupunctured and stood there unable to move.

Chu Rang looked at Pei Nai while pressing the tip of the short fork against Grandma Xun's face.

The hand holding the short fork was also holding the chain that pierced Daxian's body. As a result, with this movement, Daxian's waist and abdomen were tightened by the chain, and blood gushed out.

Da Xian groaned as the tip of the stick pressed against his back. It might have penetrated him, but he endured it and didn't cry out in pain.

Chu Rang was alone, but he held the lives of four people in his hands at the same time and was in a confrontation with Pei Nai.

"Pei Nai.?"

Chu Rang chewed on her name word by word, and smiled, "I have heard of your name for a long time, and finally met you in person."

Pei Nai's tone was slightly angry, "You are not from Tianyao Yinzhou?"

"Yes, it was several hundred years ago." Chu Rang still chuckled, his smile gentle and elegant.

Hearing this, Pei Nai's heart was greatly shocked.

Grandma Axun reminded her: "Pei Nai, he is Yue Cang."

(End of this chapter)