Its eyes were blood red, and one could vaguely see the dark green scales under its eyes in the darkness. The dark green scales flickered above the abyss, and under the cover of darkness, they swam up and down, crisscrossed, entangled and surged. It was difficult to see how many there were, but judging by the size of its eyes and what it revealed, this thing was enough to fill the entire abyss and more.

I was trembling slightly, having heard that there lived a horrifying creature under the abyss. This creature had nine heads, and its body was entangled and huge. It was said in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas: Great Wilderness North Classic" that "Gonggong's minister was named Xiangyao, with a nine-headed snake body that coiled itself around it and fed on the nine lands." This monster was recorded here. It was called Xiangliu in ancient China, and Hydra in Western mythology, or the Nine-headed Hydra.

I didn't expect to encounter a monster with nine heads coexisting and which was so huge that it could eat food on nine mountains at the same time here. I vaguely saw the snake head spitting out its tongue and I hurriedly retreated, thinking that the monster before might still have the strength to fight, either because the size was almost the same, or there was a chance of survival. But now with such a big size difference, there was no hope of survival.

I clutched the Golden Palace tightly, trembling as I retreated, as if I had already met my own death.

The nine heads moved in a circle, shrouded in darkness. I could see the huge snake head gradually breaking through the darkness. At this moment, it quickly retracted its head and was about to lean over to attack me. I was basically giving up resistance and just had to close my eyes and wait for death.

So I really closed my eyes to avoid seeing myself being brutally bitten into a pulp!

"I am not even enough to fill your teeth, how about giving up?" These were my last words.

However, I don't know if it really worked or what, I closed my eyes for a long time and was not attacked. So I opened my eyes, but saw that the Hydra was lurking in the darkness again, and it seemed to have just noticed me. It started to replay the horrifying scene just now, and began to move in a complex manner, preparing to attack me.

"Projection? Damn it, I was wondering why there was such a big monster but the sound seemed to be muted. Turns out it's just a projection and doesn't exist at all." I cursed angrily.

It occurred to me that my ears, nose, and mouth were basically isolated by the cloth, cloak, and hood that I had soaked in spring water, except for my eyes, which was why I was deceived by the poisonous miasma and had hallucinations. When I took out a military kettle and poured some spring water on my eyelids, I looked up again, but everything was just a fleeting shadow, there was nothing.

Alas, I should have listened to my mother when I was a child and not read so many myths and weird stories. These knowledge contents would be used by bad people when stored in the brain and used to scare me. I was scared to death just now.

Fortunately, everything is just a passing cloud, and it's time for me to leave and go back. I breathed a sigh of relief and was about to leave, but I saw that the direction of the wooden man's gestures had changed. It was completely different from when I first came. Its movements were now single, which was a circle of arms, until it stopped pointing to its six o'clock direction. After about three seconds, it repeated the circle and finally stopped at its six o'clock direction.

Out of curiosity, I once again transformed the energy in my body into light energy for the Golden Que Sword, illuminating the heavy fog in front of me, and headed towards the direction pointed by the wooden man. After getting a little closer, I discovered that near the underground river with trickling water, there were many purple moss-like things growing on the surrounding earth walls, and there were actually many flowers growing on the moss, all shaped like black ghost claws.

These ghost claw flowers released a kind of purple powder when they opened, floating in the air, and the pollen just closed the pistil for a moment and then immediately became transparent, hiding in the darkness.

There is a bunch of huge ghost claw flowers around here, with their petals wide open, constantly spewing pollen. The pollen on the ground around it has accumulated and is barely visible. It is said that flowers spread pollen to reproduce offspring, and this flower must be no exception. I don't know how long it has lived, but it looks like a small tree here, so it must be quite old.

The rest are not as big as it. I observed them for a long time and found that these flowers have a very obvious characteristic: they are all near water sources. They are densely packed closer to the water, but there is no flower at a distance of about ten steps away from the water. Many of them grow in the water, but they do not affect the color of the water source.

I suddenly remembered the words in the secret book fragment that I accidentally saw when I came in, "Tao can give birth to one, and one is also born from Tao." Applied here, this flower is fed by river water, and the underground river is its mother. Therefore, even if it is poisonous to all things, it has developed a momentum to be non-toxic to water. Otherwise, if the water source changes, wouldn't it be "mother-killing"? Without a mother, there will be no child, and it and its descendants will certainly not survive.

And I smiled coldly, this is the antidote, the pollen of a flower is non-toxic to water but toxic to humans, which shows that the pollen has been selected by nature for a long time, and at the same time it is wind-pollinated, and the pollination method is heterogamous, that is, males and females are different, males produce poison, and females must have a detoxification system, and if I guessed correctly, those growing in the water must be female flowers.

The males produce poison, and the females live on water surfaces. Their roots absorb spring water to detoxify the male pollen, so there must be an antidote in these female flowers.

The female flowers are the antidote to this poisonous miasma, and also the antidote to the toxicity emitted by the Yin-Shi Pot!

I couldn't help but sigh: "Every flower is a different world. I've learned a lot."

Then I picked up a few female flowers in the water. Although they were all devil's claw flowers, the petals of the female flowers were much softer, like the delicate hands of a young girl, and they were not ink-black, but lavender, giving a feeling of floating in the air. The roots were net-like, and the rhizomes were slightly thicker. Including the roots, they were about twenty centimeters long.

I put it in my backpack, thinking that it could be used as medicine to cure the poison, but I was a little confused. If the antidote is here, why did the wooden man say that we have to go to the west camp in the canyon to cure it, but his gestures reminded us where the real antidote is? A wooden man is actually playing schizophrenia?

But I couldn't care less. We had been down here for so long, it must be getting dark above. If it got dark, the Song sisters would feel cold and would definitely not want to stay in the water any longer. Once they got ashore, their minds would be affected by the poisonous powder of the ghost claw flower, and they would start to become confused and crazy again. Yunwen had already been beaten to a bloody pulp during the day, and if it happened again, I'm afraid something serious would happen.

So I hurried up, but just before I went up, I suddenly felt like there was a foreign object behind me, and the feeling was the same as what I felt after setting off the fireworks last night, eerie and cold, as if my throat was strangled in the water.

No, my nerves are completely unaffected by the poisonous miasma here. This can't be an illusion. When I turned my head, I heard a splash. Something jumped into the underground river. Judging from the sound, it was quite loud, so it must be quite big.

At the same time, the wooden man's head was suddenly twisted off, revealing the human throat, which was chilling. If this hand twisted my neck, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to react.

I swallowed, protected my throat, and quickly returned the way I came.

When I left the abyss, walked out of the tunnel, and returned to the courtyard of the post station, it was already dark. I heard Yunwen's screams echoing throughout the mountains, and the horses were neighing and becoming restless.

"Help! Zhou Bo! Help..." Yunwen's heart-wrenching cry was heard.

There was also the sound of a blunt object hitting a person's body, which pierced my ears in the courtyard.

My eyes widened and I yelled, “Not good!”

Then I ran towards the house where the noise came from. After entering the house, I found that the noise was coming from the second floor. Just as I was about to go up, I heard Bai Lu coldly say, "Zhang Yunwen, you instigated Zhou Bo to kill my sister, right? I heard it all! You are such a bad person. In order to protect my sister, I can only kill you."

"Stop talking too much nonsense, get started!" Yingchun stomped her feet and shouted.

My heart almost jumped out of my throat when I heard this!