Chapter 286 288 Entering the Underground Palace
When the apocalypse first arrived, Huo Ye and his companions were conducting training in the wild. There was no one living nearby, and they didn't even have a shelter to hide their bodies. They could only use their flesh and blood bodies to resist the attacks of the monsters.
Fortunately, they worked as a team, and although they suffered some injuries, they finally survived wave after wave of monster attacks. The team reaped a rich harvest, obtaining many high-quality martial arts books, weapons, and protective gear.
In the early days of the apocalypse, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was abundant. The cultivation level of Huo Ye's team, who survived in an open-air environment, was always one step ahead of ordinary people.
The four people sent by Huo Ye to find Ning Qingyun, Zhang Shouyi, Wang Yang, Tian Zhen, and Yang Ping are all very capable people in the team. Before entering the Yunwu Secret Realm, they were already cultivators at the peak of the Chongmai Realm. After entering the secret realm, with the help of the rich spiritual energy in the secret realm, the four of them broke through the realm one after another and entered the Qiqiao Realm, and their strength was further improved.
Ning Qingyun rescued Wang Yang and others back to the tree hole maze. Except for Wang Yang who was seriously injured by snake venom and had relatively severe physical damage, the injuries of the others were relatively minor and they would recover after resting for a day or two.
While the four were recuperating, Ning Qingyun went to the territory of the nine-headed monster snake several times to investigate the situation. The quagmire in the territory of the nine-headed monster snake would only appear when the monster snake was fighting the enemy, and was used as a trap to assist in the attack. This also made it easier for the nine-headed monster snake to lure some prey into the trap, thereby achieving the purpose of hunting.
But this time the quagmire did not disappear. Ning Qingyun observed it several times and found that the quagmire was still there.
Does this mean that the monster snake is seriously injured and needs to use this quagmire to prevent the enemy from approaching?
He recalled the rumbling sound coming from under the stone statues when he was escaping that day. At that time, he sensed that danger was approaching and ran away in a hurry. Now he thought that it might be that the underground palace he had been looking for was opened. According to his previous speculation, the underground palace should be in that area.
That nine-headed monster snake should usually be hiding in the underground palace. After this fight, the nine-headed monster snake was seriously injured and it probably won't be able to recover in a short period of time. This is the best time to explore the underground palace.
Somehow, Ning Qingyun always felt that there was something very important to him in the underground palace, and he had to go there no matter what.
As soon as Ning Qingyun mentioned his plan to explore the underground palace, Wang Yang was the first to raise objections, believing that it was not advisable to take the risk.
Ning Qingyun was determined to go, and his attitude was firm and would not tolerate any objection. However, as to whether the four of them wanted to go or not, Ning Qingyun let them make their own choice and would not force them.
The purpose of the four of them coming in was to protect Ning Qingyun, so how could they let him take the risk alone?
Although the four of them wanted to go with Ning Qingyun, Wang Yang's body had not yet fully recovered, so Ning Qingyun forced him to stay, and the other three accompanied him to explore the underground palace.
Arriving at the territory of the nine-headed monster snake, each of the four of them held a bamboo raft in their hands. This time, the quagmire had always existed, rather than appearing suddenly. Ning Qingyun and his team had made sufficient preparations before coming. There was a kind of spotted bamboo growing in the secret realm, which was hollow and light, strong and tough, and very suitable for making bamboo rafts.
Ning Qingyun and his three companions each held a bamboo raft, and after some hard work, they finally arrived at the area with the stone statues.
The tall stone statues had turned upside down and sank into the mud, leaving only their stone pillars exposed.
In the center of the stone statue area, there is a square hole in the ground, like a deep well, which looks mysterious and dangerous.
Ning Qingyun and his men hid the bamboo raft under the mud, and then stepped on the stone pillars and came to the cave step by step.
Ning Qingyun set up a formation around the cave. With the cover of this formation, the cave would not be easily discovered.
There were some steps under the cave that were almost vertical to the ground. They were narrow and steep. The four people exchanged glances with each other, and then they decided to slide down with the help of a rope.
The landing process was relatively smooth and there was no attack.
The rope was thirty meters long. They descended two-thirds of the length and reached the bottom. Below was a hard, flat stone ground surrounded by solid walls, forming a square, narrow space. There were many messy, protruding stones on the west wall.
"Could these stones be some kind of mechanism?" Zhang Shouyi guessed.
"Well, this is indeed a mechanism. You all move back a little." Ning Qingyun pushed the other three people aside and began to study the location of these stones.
Ning Qingyun had the formation book in his hand, and after some deduction, he quickly opened the hidden stone door.
"If nothing unexpected happens, the nine-headed monster snake is hiding here. After you go in, everyone should be careful and follow the main group closely. Don't get separated." Ning Qingyun warned.
Several people nodded in agreement.
"Click, click." On the western wall, there was a sound of a heavy stone door moving, and a stone door as tall as a person opened.
Four people walked in one after another. Behind the stone door were stairs leading to the underground. The stairs were wide and gentle. After walking up about a hundred steps, they came to an open place.
"Wow, what is this place? This stone pillar is so tall. What kind of creature is carved on it? It looks so strange!" Tian Zhen said in amazement as he looked at the scene in front of him.
This place looks like a parade ground, with a flat and open space in the middle and many round stone pillars around it. Some peculiarly shaped biological patterns are carved on the pillars, which are vivid and lifelike.
"Don't move." Ning Qingyun saw Tian Zhen curiously reaching out to touch the pattern carved on the stone pillar, and quickly stopped him.
"Don't touch the things here. Let me study them first. It's better not to..." Ning Qingyun was speaking when his foot slipped and a stone on the ground suddenly sank. "Ah", Ning Qingyun exclaimed unconsciously and fell straight down.
"Seventh Young Master!" "Boss!" Ning Qingyun could still hear the shouts of Tian Zhen and others. He hurriedly urged the spiritual energy in his body and used the light body skills he had practiced to adjust his descending posture. When he was about to hit the bottom, he curled his body into a ball, then flipped in the air and immediately landed his feet steadily on the ground.
"I told you to follow me down quickly, but you insisted on waiting. What are you waiting for? Look, there is no entrance to the cave now, and we can't pry it open. What should we do?" Zhang Shouyi was so anxious that he was spinning around like an ant on a hot pan, complaining to Yang Ping.
"I didn't expect that the hole would disappear so quickly. If you had jumped in just now, the boss might not have been able to stand firmly. You had to fall on the boss. What if you crushed the boss? Can you afford the compensation?" Yang Ping said aggrieved and annoyed.
(End of this chapter)
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