Chapter 1204: Labyrinth and Yellow Light
The Wuzhang formed by 10,000 five-poison soul-devouring insects is so powerful that it can easily force the surrounding beasts and demons to retreat. Wu Yan and others were led by Wuzhang and went down to the bottom of the abyss without any danger.
At the bottom of the abyss is a deep and dark cave with a diameter of only a few feet. Fortunately, Wuzhang can change his shape at will, and led everyone to sneak down for about a hundred miles, and finally reached the end.
At the end of the cave is a stone chamber, and connected to the stone chamber are underground caves that are densely packed like spider webs. If there is no map, you will definitely get lost here.
The stone chamber in front of you is about a few hundred feet in radius, and it can be seen that it was opened up by humans. There are cave entrances on all sides of the stone chamber. If you count carefully, there are more than a hundred of them.
When everyone just entered this stone chamber, they were really shocked by the scene in the stone chamber.
Because, in the stone chamber, there are one or more corpses at almost every cave entrance. Some corpses have completely decayed, leaving only white bones, while others have not decayed and look like they have just died.
However, no matter what kind of corpses they are, they all have one thing in common. Their souls have all disintegrated and disappeared, without any vitality. What is even more bizarre is that some of the things on these corpses have been searched away, while others are still well preserved.
When everyone saw this scene, they suddenly felt a little creepy. They all sacrificed their treasures and self-defense methods, carefully probed their spiritual senses, and carefully checked everything in the stone chamber.
After a while, everyone's faces showed horror again. Many people turned pale, gasping for breath, calming down their shocked emotions.
All those who probed their spiritual senses to check discovered an extremely terrifying fact. They found that after their spiritual senses probed into the cave, after probing about a hundred miles, a similar stone chamber would appear, and in the newly appeared stone chamber, there were also hundreds of entrance caves.
Regardless of the level of cultivation, the divine consciousness can only explore the hundred stone chambers connected to this stone chamber at most, and can no longer peek down.
There seems to be some extremely strange power in the maze in front of us. Once the divine consciousness explores the scattered caves, it will be dispersed and consumed by these caves.
Everyone looked at each other, as if they had never expected that this Houtu Ruins was such an underground maze.
At this moment, everyone looked at the hundreds of corpses in the stone chamber again, and suddenly realized where these corpses came from. And it was precisely when they realized this that everyone looked at each other, and their faces became even uglier.
Obviously, these people were trapped to death in this underground maze. In order to verify their guesses, several people looked through the things on the corpses in the stone chamber, and completely confirmed this terrible fact.
The magic weapons, talismans and other things on the corpses were still there, but all the food, elixirs, spiritual water, spiritual stones, anything that could maintain cultivation and life, were all exhausted.
What is truly tragic is not the people who died in other stone chambers, but the monks who were trapped and died in this stone chamber.
They had clearly returned to the way they came from, but because the settings of all the stone chambers were exactly the same, the people who walked into this stone chamber thought they were trapped in a maze and could not find the way back up, and eventually died here.
Everyone felt extremely heavy in their hearts, and several people suddenly had the idea of retreating, which was revealed on their faces. However, without Wu Yan's five-colored witch barrier, none of them dared to pass through the cave and return to the top.
Several people barely calmed down and looked at Wu Yan in silence to see what choice he would make. After all, only his witch barrier could force those ferocious beasts and demons away.
"Brother Wu, this is a bit troublesome. We don't have a map. In such a complicated underground maze, we can't find the origin of the earth spirit and the place where the divine soil is derived." Yuan Lie only explored for a moment, and then he felt dizzy and his soul was shaken. It was difficult to hold on. He took a breath and smiled bitterly to Wu Yan.
"No wonder Dugu Shouque insisted on following Fu Qingshan. Without a map, it's really difficult to move forward. If you are not careful, you will be trapped and die in this Houtu Ruins. That would be really unjust." Mu Feng also smiled bitterly.
Wu Yan's face moved slightly, and he said: "Everyone, please be patient, I may have a way to solve this problem."
As he said, he took the opportunity to sit cross-legged, summoned the five poisonous soul-eating insects to the top of his head, and at the same time sacrificed the five Kui spirit witch kings. When everyone saw this scene, except Yuan Lie, Mu Feng and Wu Xiaohu, everyone else was shocked and didn't know what Wu Yan was going to do.
Wu Yan had no interest in explaining to others. He slapped his head, and the Nascent Soul Void God escaped from the ancestral orifice, holding a few treasures in his hands. In a flash, he entered the Five Elements Divine Sea of Wu Kui Spiritual Witch King.
A moment later, the Nascent Soul Void God escaped back from the Five Elements Divine Sea of Wu Kui Spiritual Witch King, sank into Wu Yan's head, and returned to his original body.
Seeing that Wu Yan's Nascent Soul Void God did not seem to have changed after this, everyone looked at Wu Yan with strange expressions, wondering what tricks he had.
The next moment, Wu Kui Spiritual Witch King, who had been motionless, suddenly emitted a terrifying aura of divine power, as if a virtual immortal had descended, shaking everyone's hearts and minds.
However, that feeling only lasted for a few breaths and then disappeared. After another moment, the five huge mouths of Wu Kui Spiritual Witch King suddenly opened, and the ten thousand five-poison spirit-eating insects floating in the air rolled back and returned to the Five Elements Divine Sea through the five huge mouths.
They go in fast and come out fast.
Everyone was not sure what happened, but Wu Yan knew it clearly. In the Five Elements Sea of Wu Kui Spiritual Witch King, the spiritual clone that Wu Yan had hidden in the cave, which had condensed the seeds of the Chaos Yuan Fu, was now floating quietly in the center of the Five Elements Sea of Wu Kui Spiritual Witch King like Wu Yan's second soul, becoming the main god of Wu Kui Spiritual Witch King.
After 10,000 Five Poison Devouring Soul Gu entered the Five Elements Sea of Wu Kui Spiritual Witch King, they passed through the hands of this spiritual clone, took away a wisp of spiritual consciousness, and then rushed out of Wu Kui Spiritual Witch King, and drilled towards the corresponding cave entrance according to Wu Yan's command.
After a few minutes, all 10,000 spiritual Gu escaped into the stone chambers leading to different caves, making the underground caves within a radius of 10,000 miles, as complicated as a spider web, appear in Wu Yan's spiritual sense in a three-dimensional form, with incomparable clarity.
Although there are many caves here, Wu Yan's 10,000 Five Poison Devouring Soul Gu are scattered in 10,000 different stone chambers. Each of the Five Poison Soul Devouring Gu had a sense of divine awareness, so the entire underground cave appeared in Wu Yan's perception.
This underground cave was indeed complicated enough, with 9,999 stone chambers, each of which had 100 cave entrances. In this way, an extremely large and complex underground maze was constructed.
The entrance to the real Hou Tu Ruins was in this intricate cave passage. Without a map, it would be impossible to get out of this underground maze, let alone find the entrance to Hou Tu Ruins.
"Follow me."
After carefully sensing for a moment, Wu Yan rose up, and the Five Kui Spiritual Witch King shrank to the size of an ordinary human head and floated above Wu Yan's head, making it look extremely strange now.
Everyone dared not say much, and followed Wu Yan to enter one of the 100 cave entrances.
Wu Yan did not say much, and led everyone along a cave, moving forward continuously. After walking a hundred miles, they would appear in another similar stone chamber with 100 cave entrances.
They walked through caves and stone chambers one by one. Later, they felt dizzy and lost their way. If Wu Yan hadn't led them, they would have lost their way.
What frightened everyone was that there were more or less corpses in all the stone chambers they passed through. There were hundreds of corpses in some stone chambers, and there were more than 100 corpses in some stone chambers.
Some corpses located near the entrance of the stone chamber cave were even tampered with by magic weapons or other things, and their heads were chopped off, or their bones were disassembled piece by piece and appeared in different caves and stone chambers.
Obviously, someone wanted to use bones to mark the caves and stone chambers so that they would not get lost as much as possible and could return to the ground and the Divine Soil Tempering Hall.
After half a day, when everyone thought they were completely trapped in the maze and felt that they might become one of the countless corpses, they suddenly found that there was a strong yellow light at the exit of the cave they were walking in front of, which was very different from the countless stone chambers they had passed before.
"Is it possible that the exit of the maze is in front?" Seeing the yellow light, everyone was excited and asked Wu Yan.
Wu Yan nodded and said, "Yes, that is the entrance to Hou Tuxu. However, there is something strange in that stone chamber, so it is better to be careful."
"Is there a fierce beast or demon spirit in the stone chamber? Or are there other monks exploring?" Yuan Lie whispered.
"No. There should be another world in this maze, and there should be no fierce beasts or demon spirits here. In all the passages and stone chambers we came to just now, we didn't see any corpses of fierce beasts or demon spirits. I guess the maze has another deterrent to fierce beasts and demon spirits." Mu Feng said.
"Don't guess. The danger does not come from beasts and demons, but from traps set by humans and the original restrictions in Houtu Ruins. That yellow light is strange. It can turn a person's body into blood and turn his soul into smoke. Don't get too close." Wu Yan frowned.
Just a moment ago, Wu Yan had actually sent a Five Poison Soul Devouring Gu into the stone room with the yellow light. As a result, the Five Poison Soul Devouring Gu, which had always been successful, was directly melted by the yellow light, and the spiritual consciousness attached to the Five Poison Soul Devouring Gu was also directly refined into smoke.
"Who knows the origin of the yellow light?"
About a hundred feet away from the exit of the cave, no one dared to move forward. Wu Yan glanced at the others and asked.
Everyone could clearly see the yellow light at the exit at this moment. They looked carefully and tried to find the origin of the light, but after a moment, everyone shook their heads and said they didn't know.
Even Mu Feng, who was always cautious and knowledgeable, had no idea.
Some people thought Wu Yan was exaggerating, so they took out a powerful magic weapon, attached his spiritual consciousness to it, and sent it into the stone chamber. As expected, the magic weapon was melted directly, and the spiritual consciousness attached to the magic weapon was also refined into smoke and disappeared.
After witnessing this scene, naturally no one dared to act rashly.
"It's strange. It's so dangerous. How did Fu Qingshan and the others get in? Did they know that there would be such a strange yellow light here?" Tian Yu said with a depressed look.