Yefutidaolu

Chapter 140 Underworld
The poisonous gas spreads out!
A yellow poisonous cloud is surrounding this area.

Gao Jian clearly realized that these poisonous clouds were plundering the vitality from his body, as if they wanted to take away all his remaining energy and turn him into a pile of bones.

However, he was a third-level warrior after all, and his Yang energy was stable. Although the bones in his joints were broken, it did not affect his Yang energy, so the impact was not that great.

"Do you know what this thing is?" Zou Shu pointed at the yellow poisonous gas and asked.

Gao Jian looked at his expression and it was obvious that he knew the answer and just wanted to show off his knowledge. The expression on his face seemed like he was expecting Gao Jian to say that he didn't know, and then he would jump out and explain it.

Sima seems to have done this before...

Do these warriors all have the desire to become intellectuals?

The less you have, the more you want, right?

"Let me take a look." Gao Jian didn't know what to say, but he still looked inside. He didn't know what it was for a while. Wasn't this just ordinary poison gas?
For some reason, Gao Jian didn't want Zou Shu to be satisfied, so he began to investigate carefully.

Seeing Gao Jian's careful observation, Zou Shu couldn't help but say proudly, "Let me give you a hint. This thing in front of you... if you were a child, it would definitely kill you. If you were an old person, it would also kill you. Only people like us in our prime years will be less affected."

After hearing this, Gao Jian suddenly realized something.

"It plunders Yang energy, and is particularly effective on the elderly and children. Only adults will be less affected. This poisonous gas is 'Yellow Cloud'?" Gao Jian suddenly realized something and his expression became unbelievable.

The Book of the Beginning of the River Map says: "The dust from the Yellow Spring turns into yellow clouds; the dust from the Green Spring turns into blue clouds; the dust from the Red Spring turns into red clouds; the dust from the White Spring turns into white clouds; the dust from the Black Spring turns into black clouds."

The dust floating above the Yellow Springs is the yellow clouds.

According to the nature of Huangquan, a newborn has just been reincarnated and has not yet gotten rid of the attraction of Huangquan, while an elderly person is already half buried in the ground and is also easily submerged by Huangquan.

Only a complete adult, with strong yang energy in his body, who has shed the influence of the underworld in his childhood and is not like the elderly who are still haunted by the death energy, can be resistant to this kind of yellow cloud.

But... there is a problem. This is the surface, so there shouldn't be yellow clouds here.

Gao Jian's face was full of disbelief.

Zou Shu next to him was even more stunned, and the expression on his face was even more exaggerated than Gao Jian's.

"Hey, how do you know?! Are you secretly reading during your martial arts practice?!" Zou Shu stepped forward and grabbed Gao Jian: "You have no martial arts ethics!"

Gao Jian rolled his eyes. "That's enough. So this is really a yellow cloud? Is there a Yellow Spring passing through this place?"

"You said that adults might be able to resist. Is that why?"

Zou Shu still found it hard to accept, but it seemed like Gao Jian really knew it.

After hearing Gao Jian's words, he let go of Gao Jian and said uncomfortably: "Well... there is a Yellow Spring below."

"Why is there Yellow Spring here?" Gao Jian asked.

"This is an ancient battlefield. You know how strong the negative energy is in this ancient battlefield." Zou Shu curled his lips.

"The Yin energy lies in the underworld, while the Yang energy goes up to the sky... Wait, the Yin energy during the Autumnal Equinox is so intense that it causes the underworld to float up?!" Gao Jian was stunned.

There is such a thing?!
Yin Qi lies in the Yellow Spring, which means that as long as Yin Qi is too close to the ground, the Yellow Spring will naturally be attracted to the ground.

Although it looks like the Yellow Spring has not really surged to the surface of the earth, but only exists in the underground cave, this is enough to shock Gao Jian.

This kind of thing is really... unbelievable.

That’s Huangquan!

The river of the dead that spans the underworld is surprisingly close to the ground...

Is this the ancient battlefield? Is this the result of the stagnation of heaven and earth?
Seeing Gao Jian so surprised, Zou Shu seemed much happier. It seemed that Gao Jian still didn't know something.

He patted his chest and assured himself, "Don't worry. The government has already had the Yin-Yang experts from Shendu look at it. This section is just a small tributary of the Yellow Springs. It has only risen a little due to the influence of the Yin energy of the Autumnal Equinox. The main body of the Yellow Springs is thirty miles underground. There's no chance of it emerging. They've also built reinforcements."

"So this section has no effect on us at all. It's just that the Yellow Spring brought a lot of earth energy. Do you understand? The sky and earth are dark yellow, and the universe is vast and wild. Dark refers to the sky, and yellow refers to the earth. The earth energy brought by the Yellow Spring underground nourishes those things that can still live underground, such as the three thousand year old cicada and the one thousand five hundred year old cicada that I told you about before. They all rely on the earth energy brought by the Yellow Spring to survive in this ancient battlefield."

After listening to Zou Shu's explanation, Gao Jian's shock subsided.

He looked at the cave in front of him with some surprise.

The River of the Dead, representing the underworld, nurtures a world of life beneath the earth...

This is really...

"Is this the principle of the mixing of yin and yang? There is life in death and death in life. The underworld can also bring vitality. This is truly the wonder of nature." Gao Jian said with some emotion.

Gao Jian had a vague feeling that this transformation seemed familiar.

This is actually also a matter of manpower.

According to Gao Jian's understanding, after the gods left, the Yellow Springs actually gradually dried up.

The Yellow Springs today seems to be maintained by the "celestial beings", who are the blue bald man "Feixiang" that Gao Jian saw in Cangzhou before. It is they who maintain the operation of the Yellow Springs and the earth's energy. Therefore, although the number of celestial beings is small, I heard that their status is not low. There are many bald men who are chanting Buddha's name, which can be regarded as a current school of practice.

"Okay, stop lamenting about that. It's time to go down. But don't be afraid, it won't take too long. I'll take you down to see the 1,500-year-old cicada, and then we can discuss how to use it."

"Okay." Gao Jian nodded.

The two of them held their breath and walked down into the dungeon.

As soon as he entered, Gao Jian saw a permanent fortification inside where people from the Demon Suppression Division were stationed.

“These places are also guarded.” Gao Jian exclaimed.

"There are some everywhere. Otherwise, what would the Demon Suppression Division be doing here? On vacation?" Zou Shu said, gesturing towards the fortifications.

A flag officer from the Demon Suppression Division came out from the fortifications and bowed, “Greetings to Captain Zou and… General Gao.”

When he shouted out his opinion, he obviously hesitated, but the hesitation did not last too long.

Gao Jian didn't care and just stood there waiting.

"We need to go downstairs, please let us go." Zou Shu ordered.

The rank of a flag officer is lower than that of a lieutenant. In addition, this place seems to be under the jurisdiction of Zou Shu, and he is the direct commander. Therefore, the other party did not hesitate and nodded immediately: "Yes, sir."

Then, a hole was opened in the fortifications. The two walked in and saw that there were about dozens of people stationed there. They should have just been rotated in.

Zou Shu greeted everyone around him and then walked downstairs with Gao Jian.

Gao Jian was injured, so he walked very slowly, which gave many monsters opportunities.

Therefore, we also saw many creatures that depended on the earth's energy, although they all wanted to eat Gao Jian.

Underground, Gao Jian had only taken two steps when he saw some hundred-year-old cicada monkeys coming towards him.

Zou Shu killed him with two casual blows. Before Gao Jian could stand firm, a ground dragon emerged from behind him.

"Wow... a ten-meter-long earthworm." Gao Jian exclaimed, and then he saw that the earth dragon was chopped into five pieces.

Immediately afterwards, the five body halves healed quickly, each turning into a smaller earth dragon that looked no different from the original body, and ran away in five directions.

Earthworms eat dry soil above and drink water from the Yellow Springs below. Seeing these earthworms means that this place is indeed very close to the Yellow Springs.

The two continued to go down.

Gao Jian clearly felt that the ground's energy had become more intense.

"How far down?"

"It's not far, only about ten miles if we walk diagonally. We'll be there soon." Zou Shu said, "Don't worry, there's no danger. The powerful monsters around Huangquan have long been eliminated. Seventy percent of the Demon Suppression Bureau's forces are stationed here, and with the addition of the various aristocratic families, they're no joke. The ancient battlefield has been cleared out over and over again. Even the most powerful three-thousand-year-old cicada can only hide and dare not show its head."

"I'm not worried." Gao Jian replied.

He was just looking around at the situation underground and found it a little strange. Gao Jian had never seen such an environment in a cave before.

At the same time, his eyes also looked at Zou Shu's jade pendant.

It was quite dark underground, but with Zou Shu's jade pendant there, one could still see things.

The jade pendant was activated by the internal energy of martial arts, emitting a faint light in the darkness, and the word "Zou" engraved on it was extremely conspicuous.

"Huh? Are you envious? Haha, I told you not to buy a jade pendant. A gentleman wears jade, do you understand?" Zou Shu twisted his waist and stomped his feet to show off.

Gao Jian was both angry and amused, and turned his head away: "That's enough, Peacock, you just show off when you have something."

Zou Shu said with a smug look on his face: "Hey, you don't understand, men have to make themselves look good, otherwise how can they attract women?"

"Are you married?" Gao Jian asked.

"No." Zou Shu shook his head.

"So you have a garden full of flowers? Amidst thousands of flowers?"

"No." Zou Shu lowered his head.

"Then you say hammer, get out!" Gao Jian said disdainfully.

Zou Shu was anxious: "You know shit! How can a man like me lack women?! I just don't like mediocre women!"

"Yeah, you look down on vulgar women, but the good women you like don't look down on you, right? I've seen too many people like you." Gao Jian sneered.

Zou Shu was furious and killed an earth monster that was manifested by the earth's energy without saying anything more to Gao Jian.

The two continued down.

After a while, we arrived at the place.

He walked ten miles along the slope of the cave, hacked a dozen monsters to death on the way, and jumped into six or seven deep pits.

Gao Jian estimated that he was currently about five miles underground.

Here, the environment feels much hotter and stuffier.

The influence of the Yin energy of the Autumnal Equinox on the ground here is obviously much smaller. The earth energy from the Yellow Springs brings temperature, and many more fungi and mosses have appeared in this place.

"Mushrooms, this place...it actually relies on mushrooms to maintain its ecology." Gao Jian looked at the scene in front of him and felt that his eyes had been opened again.

At this depth, the golden energy of the autumnal equinox above is almost completely blocked by the earth's energy. There are no rivers in this place, but it is incredibly humid. The water vapor in the air is almost saturated and turns into water droplets hanging on the walls.

This moisture gave rise to a large amount of moss that lived on it.

The stone walls of the cave are all covered with soft and moist moss, forming a brown carpet.

In this mysterious forest, giant carpets of fungi cover the ground, creating a unique canopy of vegetation.

The light from the jade pendant radiated outwards and refracted on the small water droplets around it. This refraction brought a faint glow, like stars dotted on a moss blanket. Just a little bit of light seemed to illuminate the entire cave.

Zou Shu said as he walked: "The Yellow Spring is underground, how could there be no moisture? Be careful, the Yin Qi of the Yellow Spring is no worse than the Yin Qi of the Autumnal Equinox in the sky, it can kill people just the same."

"Yes, the Autumnal Equinox Yin Energy controls the killing, while the Yellow Springs Yin Energy controls the death. As a result, the two collided and formed a buffer layer underground, allowing things underground to survive in this place. The affairs of heaven and earth are truly eye-opening." Gao Jian was amazed and even moved closer to Zou Shu, using the light from his jade pendant to see his surroundings more clearly.

On the moss-covered ground, lush small mushrooms form a miniature ecosystem.

Some insects can be seen moving between the moss and trees. The "black cloud" blown away by the wind that Gao Jian saw outside before was the corpse of such insects.

I think that as long as the autumn wind outside blows here, these insects will die immediately and be blown away by the wind, turning into the black clouds like before.

The floating spores drifted in the air, scattering the light emitted by the mutton-fat jade. The white light was divided into seven colors, forming dreamy spots of light, making the surroundings a little mysterious.

"We're almost there. Just one mile ahead at most, and that's where the 1,500-year-old cicada is hiding. The most important thing is that it can't move. That's why I said this thing might be useful," Zou Shu introduced.

"Can't move?" Gao Jian asked curiously.

"You'll know the reason soon." Zou Shu kept it a secret.

Gao Jian suppressed his curiosity and continued walking down.

But after a while, we arrived at the place.

There... is a Yellow Spring Waterfall!

No one knows where the Yellow Spring Waterfall came from, it seems to appear here out of thin air. The Yellow Spring, the underground, is flowing silently without any movement.

You can see a huge cicada monkey, probably tens of meters long, being covered by the Yellow Springs Waterfall and unable to cross it at all.

It's trapped in it!

At this moment, Gao Jian felt like he was struck by lightning!

A terrifying aura came over me!

That is the charm from the underworld!

He never expected that he would see a small tributary of Huangquan here!

In just a moment, Gao Jian made the decision.

Under Zou Shu's astonished eyes, Gao Jian rushed forward ten steps!

(End of this chapter)