Chapter 121

Light curtains flashing with various colorful colors cut off the underground passage.

Shang Xia was stunned, and after realizing that there was no danger, he also slowly walked up to the light curtain.

After pondering for a while, he bent his finger and shot the light curtain in the air.

A wisp of finger wind flew out, only slightly splashed a little ripple on the light curtain, and then disappeared.

Seeing this, Shang Xia immediately slapped the light curtain with a volley of palms, but the light curtain only swayed a little, and the force was dissipated.

"It's not like a ban, it's more like an array! Could it be that the entire coral forest is really guarded by an array? But that's not right. Although it is said that the coral forest is like a big maze, I have never heard of the coral forest ban." In and out!"

Shang Xia thought to himself, but the Yuhe Sword had already cleaved out a beam of light.

The sword light cut a depression on the formation, but it recovered in an instant.

But this time the movement was obviously a bit loud, and a circle of ripples spread to the surroundings, causing all kinds of colorful brilliance to twist and shake.

Shang Xia understood that it was no longer feasible to forcefully break through this formation, at least with his own cultivation.

However, thinking of the sudden disappearance of the water in the pool at the bottom of the Yuanqi Stone Pit, Shang Xia suddenly speculated that maybe this light curtain might open on its own, and then the water inside would vent out again, filling the bottom of the Yuanqi Stone Pit. Maybe I can take the opportunity to pass through the screen.

It's just that I don't know how long the interval will be, and these are only based on my own guesses. Whether this formation will open is still unknown.

However, thinking of the third-level corpse, Shang Xia can be sure that it must have come out of here.

At this moment, Shang Xia's heart suddenly moved, and he took out a red nameplate three inches long and one inch wide from his cuff, the red nameplate obtained from the third-order walking corpse!

Shang Xia played with the vermilion card in his hands a few times, and after hesitating for a while, he still held one end of the vermilion card, and then swiped the other end on the screen!

Originally, the formation that even the Yuhe sword could not cut through was cut open by the Zhu card like paper paste.

But before Shang Xia showed such an expression, a torrent had already opened the opening of the curtain, and sprayed directly towards Shang Xia's face.

Fortunately, Shang Xia was well prepared, and while avoiding it in time, he took a few steps back one after another, and the Zhu Pai in his hand also broke away from the contact with the formation.

The opening that Zhu Pai made on the screen just now was about a foot long, but now it has been propped into a circle by the rushing water, and the ground began to accumulate water in a short while.

However, the formation curtain is also slowly repairing itself. Although the water flow is extremely turbulent, the gaps in the formation curtain are slowly shrinking until it finally closes and the water flow is cut off.

"From this point of view, there should also be a pool of water behind this formation, and it looks quite big!"

Shang Xia thought for a while, then swiped fiercely on the formation with the Zhu card again, and this time directly broke a hole several feet long in it.

The turbulent water flowed out instantly like a dike burst, but at this moment, Shang Xia, withstood the pressure of the water flow, went upstream and got in through the broken gap.

The downward-swirling water flow still spewed out from the gap, but the gap in the broken formation was still slowly closing. After the water flow calmed down completely, one end of the underground passage and the formation had been submerged by the water flow.

This underground passage connecting the Yuanqi Stone Mine is not smooth, but slopes slowly upward from the screen to the bottom of the Yuanqi Stone Mine.

At this time, behind the formation screen, Shang Xia ventured through the formation screen, with quick eyes and quick hands, surrounded a rock with the Yuhe sword to stabilize his body, and then held his breath to resist the downward swirling water until the formation behind him gradually closed. The water calmed down again.

Fortunately, the water flow here is quite clear, and there are not many silt and water plants at the bottom of the water. After the water flow calms down, Shang Xia can roughly see the surrounding situation clearly.

However, judging from the situation at the bottom of the water, the pool where Shang Xia is at this time may be quite large.

And he was located under a large rock, Shang Xia glanced up, but found that the rock seemed so high that he couldn't even see the end.

Could it be that the top of this rock has already stood above the water?

This made Shang Xia instantly think of the origin of the name "Coral Forest".

Withdrawing the Yuhe sword, Shang Xia stood up while supporting the rock like a stone pillar, but suddenly found that there seemed to be a spiraling staircase behind the stone pillar!

Although the steps appearing along the edge of the mountain rock look very rough and uneven, they are undoubtedly dug by hand.

As an extraordinary warrior, Shang Xia can hold his breath for a long time, but it doesn't mean he can stay underwater forever.

He glanced up, instead of directly floating up to the surface of the water, he might as well walk up this underground stone step to see what is mysterious.

Shang Xia floated up the stone steps at a very fast speed, and after a while, he had already risen more than ten feet from the bottom of the water, but when he looked up at the faint light coming from the surface of the water, it was obvious that there was still a long way to go.

After going up several feet again, Shang Xia suddenly discovered that the stone steps that were cut along the edge of the rock suddenly extended into a secret passage inside the rock.

Shang Xia looked at the light shining on the water surface, estimated the distance, and it was probably more than ten feet away from the water surface, so he turned around and walked along the stone steps into the secret passage inside the mountain rock.

"Clatter——"

Sure enough, after climbing nearly twenty feet along the stone steps of the secret passage, Shang Xia finally got out of the water.

Shang Xia looked around vigilantly on the surface of the water, but what he saw was only a stone room with a square meter. Several fluorescent stones were inlaid on the surrounding stone walls, providing a weak light.

In the center of the stone room is a small pool of three feet square, and Shang Xia walked out of this small pool.

Stimulating the anode vitality in his body, Shang Xia's body surface was suddenly steamed with heat, and he dried his clothes in a short while.

The stone chamber is not too big, and it can be seen at a glance when it is empty.

This is not a retreat for high-level warriors, nor is it like a storage room or the like. Instead, there are some axes, chisels, steel drills and other utensils, and many of them have been damaged.

Reminiscent of the stone steps under the water pool and the underground passage behind the formation light curtain, Shang Xia felt that this place was more like an unfinished secret passage, nothing more.

But if this is the case, the appearance of the third-tier walking corpse is somewhat unclear.

The walking corpse on the other end will not always be in this sealed stone room, right?

Maybe it fell into the bottom of the water from other places, and accidentally broke through the curtain through the Zhupai on the waist, and entered the underground passage?

This is not impossible, after all, Shang Xia just came up from the bottom of the water, but he knows that this pool is definitely huge, and he can still see the light shining from the water surface.

After looking through the randomly placed tools, Shang Xia straightened up in disappointment, and began to look for the exit of this secret room.

When he got out from under the pool, Shang Xia already felt that although the inside of this secret room was slightly damp, the air was not dirty, and there was obviously a passage leading to the outside.

After surveying bit by bit along the stone wall, Shang Xia soon focused on the only animal relief on a stone wall.

After brushing off the damp dust above, the two eyeballs of the embossed gleamed smoothly, looking more like two gemstones.

Just as Shang Xia pressed his finger up, suddenly a faint shout came into the stone room through the barrier of the stone wall.

"who?"

Shang Xia's fingers stiffened, the voice came from outside the stone chamber.

Immediately afterwards, there was the faint scream of weapons piercing through the air, followed by the sound of gold and iron colliding.

"No, it's a member of the Rose Society, let's go... ah—"

The screams stopped abruptly, and the speaker was obviously killed.

"Brother Lao—"

Someone exclaimed, but it was quickly replaced by a cry of pain.

"Boom—"

The place where he started should be right outside the stone room, the aftermath of the fight spread, and the muffled sound echoed in the stone room.

"Run away—"

Someone shouted again.

"Hey, want to escape? No one can leave!"

The sinister sneer was clearly heard in the stone chamber, and it was obvious that the person who spoke was of extraordinary cultivation.

Immediately afterwards, there was another scream, and it was obvious that someone had been killed.

"Don't kill them all, keep them alive, and ask the exact location of Zhu's old house!"

There was another steady voice, even though it came in through the stone wall, the voice still sounded in his ears, which made Shang Xia's heart sink slightly, and the fingers that were about to press on the two eyeballs of the relief sculpture were also put down. .

"...Three people, two dead, this one is still alive!"

The previous sinister voice came again, followed by a "plop" and a painful grunt, as if a person had been thrown to the ground.

"Well, let's have a trial first. I'll go to other places to have a look, and follow up as soon as possible after cleaning up. The situation is very urgent. I just received the news that the beast tide outside the Coral Forest has receded. May appear."

The steady voice from before came again, followed by the voice of the clothes being ripped away, and it was obvious that they had already left.

"Brother Yuwen asked him to stay alive, but he didn't seem to care."

Another voice came, and continued: "The people in Tongyou Peak are also weird, why are all the shrimps wandering in the coral forest now are small shrimps in the Wuyuan realm?"

The stern voice from before said with a sneer: "It's just that they are abandoned sons, used for waste, and exiled in this coral forest to disturb our sight, otherwise Brother Yuwen would not leave."

"So I'm afraid this kid doesn't know anything? Then why leave him alive?"

The sinister voice said with a strange smile: "Isn't it because I'm afraid that this kid knows something?"

As he said that, the sinister voice said again: "Boy, what's the matter, do you understand? You have all been abandoned by Liu Jitang, and you still think you are a student of Tongyou College? Hurry up and let yourself know Tell me everything, and it will save your grandfather Ouyang a lot of trouble, and make you suffer a lot before he dies."

"I...what...don't know!"

An indistinct sound came into the stone room, followed by a life-long howl.

"Yo? The bones are still quite hard! Brother Dongfang, step back a little bit, a certain ice-poison Dao Dacheng, happened to let you taste a certain newly trained wandering soul needle!"

Shang Xia made a decisive decision, and pressed two fingers on the two eyeballs of the animal-shaped relief.

"Rumble——"

There was a muffled trembling sound, and the stone wall in front of Shang Xia suddenly opened.

A martial artist who was facing away from Shang Xia turned his head in astonishment, but his gaze was overwhelmed by a waterfall of sword light.

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