Autumn

The Jinse who was dyed red really scared Meng Yue and Yueying a lot.Meng Yue even thought she was possessed by a long snake, and kept yelling for Lu Li to use a talisman to drive her away.

"Meng Yue, that's just the blood of the snake." Lu Li frowned and comforted him, "Jinse, let's find a way to wash off the blood."

"How do I wash it? Could it be that I went to the swamp to wash it?"

Jinse looked at the blood on her body, and there was indeed a lot of blood. If this continues, the enemy will not be scared away, but her own people will probably go crazy.

"I have a way."

Lu Li really couldn't stand the strong smell of blood, so he took out a talisman from his wide sleeve and threw it at Jinse.The talisman stopped in front of Jinse, and the golden light emitted surrounded Jinse's body like silk threads.When the light dissipated, the blood on Jinse's body also disappeared without a trace.

"It's amazing, my son. In this way, I won't need to wash clothes in the future."

"This spell is only for emergency use."

Lu Li refuted it unceremoniously, causing Meng Yue to show a dejected expression.

"Although the first obstacle has been lifted, the obstacle under the swamp may be more dangerous."

"If you don't enter the tiger's lair, how can you find tiger cubs."

Lu Li smiled calmly, as if any danger was nothing to fear.But only Jinse knew how scared Lu Li was, because he was trembling while holding his hand.

"Promise me, don't take any more risks."

In the previous battle with the long snake, Lu Li once thought that Jinse might not come back.Until she appeared in front of him with blood all over her body, he was still so worried because he couldn't tell whose blood belonged to it.He was even afraid that Jinse would fall at his feet the next moment.

"it is good."

Jinse actually wanted to say that for him, she would do her best to survive.But seeing his worried expression, he swallowed back the words when he reached his lips, and only responded lightly.

The cave guarded by the snake was indeed the entrance to the swamp, and they slid down the vertical cave wall quickly.Because of the protection of the enchantment, even though the speed of the slide was extremely fast, it did not suffer any damage, especially when it landed.

"Pfft! What are these?"

Meng Yue poked his head out of the water with great difficulty, and spat a big mouthful towards the surface of the water with an ugly face.

"This is the water in the depths of the swamp." Luo Honglian tugged at Meng Yue's arm and said, "It's very clean, it doesn't matter if you drink it."

"Why am I the only one in the water?"

Meng Yue looked at the others, they were all intact, not even a drop of water on their bodies.

"That..." Luo Honglian looked away in embarrassment, "Just now I failed to catch you and made you fall."

When they came down the cave wall, Luo Honglian was distracted and put away the barrier. When he realized, Meng Yue had already fallen into the water.

"Luo Honglian, you must have done it on purpose."

Meng Yue said almost through gritted teeth.

"Forget it, if Honglian hadn't caught you in time, you might have been swallowed by the swamp."

Yin Danlu grabbed Meng Yue who was about to rush forward.

"Didn't it say that this is the depths of the swamp?"

Hearing Yin Danlu's words, Meng Yue suddenly changed the subject.

"That's right, but there is a problem with the water. If I'm not mistaken, there is a swamp under the water, and that swamp should be another space."

"This is just speculation. If the problem can be solved at this level, I don't think we need to take the risk to explore further."

Jinse said thoughtfully.

"Most of the water here should be groundwater, that is, water that seeps from the ground. And some of it should be rainwater, that is, water that seeps from the upper swamp."

Yin Danlu glanced at the water that had no sense of flow.

"But the water doesn't show any signs of flowing. Could it be stagnant water?"

"It can't be stagnant water." Lu Li's left ear moved slightly, "I heard the sound of water flowing."

"You mean..."

Yin Danlu only started, but was interrupted by Lu Li.Jinse saw Lu Li's left ear move a few more times, and then watched him slowly turn to the left.Looking in his direction, it was dark and nothing special.

The world under the swamp was shrouded in darkness. Even with Jinse's fox fire and Yue Ying's green flame, they could only illuminate less than one meter around them.Even such a faint light still had an impact on another life in the depths of the darkness.

He can't remember the last time he saw light, at least now he only knows what darkness looks like.And that cluster of faint light seems to be flickering in a place far away from him, but it seems to be very close.He suddenly had the desire to stretch his limbs, but the next second he realized that he was trapped in a small space.He was sober that he could even hear the sound of the water flowing above him clearly, but he couldn't open his eyes.The one who only allowed my mind to be free.he thought silently.

"Let's go in that direction."

Following the direction of Lu Li's finger, they still couldn't see what was there.But the long time of living together gave them absolute trust in Lu Li.

They didn't know how long they had been walking, they only knew they were walking along the bank of the underground river in the direction Lu Li pointed.Finally, they were blocked by a cut-off road.Under the weak light of the fox fire, Jinse could vaguely see that there was still a road on the opposite side, but the gap between the two roads was beyond the reach of ordinary people.Meng Yue looked at the water flowing at his feet in disbelief with the help of Yueying's green flame.The water was indeed running water, and Lu Li was right.But the water flow here is backwards!That's right, it's backflowing water!Everyone watched the water flow from the bottomless abyss below them into the underground river around them.

"How can the water flow backwards? This... this is unreasonable."

Meng Yue frowned, unable to figure out what was going on anyway.

"The things here have gone beyond our imagination, and we can't deduce them with common sense. If it weren't for Lu Li's keen senses, we wouldn't have been able to find this place."

Yin Danlu crossed her arms and kept her eyes on the abyss, as if she could see the bottom if she kept looking like this.

"Then what should we do now? There is no road here, but there should be no problem going there."

Luo Honglian used the weak light to roughly measure the distance between the broken roads. As an ancient monster, it is indeed not difficult to cross.

"The disconnection here is not acquired, but set from the beginning."

Yin Danlu squatted down and touched the edge of the broken road.Those fractures are very flat, because they have been washed by water all year round, they have become extremely smooth.Such a flat fracture was definitely not formed by some accident.

"But, why create such a circuit breaker?"

Lu Li asked with a frown.

"I don't know." Yin Danlu shook his head, and he couldn't figure out the reason, "Or is the secret we want to know under the abyss?"

"Under the abyss?"

Jinse looked at the bottomless abyss with her head. To be honest, she couldn't feel anything here except for the unique smell of water.

"There is no water in this world that can flow backwards," Lu Li said in a low voice, but he could hear it clearly in such a quiet place, "Unless it is affected by external forces. Why can't we assume that there is enough water below the abyss to affect the flow of water?" The existence of things, maybe this abyss itself is a cover-up."

"Whether it's a blindfold or not, try it and you'll know."

A mass of Samadhi real fire flew towards the depths of the abyss rapidly, but hit an invisible barrier halfway, sparks flew everywhere, and the flame was blasted due to the impact.The surrounding area was shaken by the violent explosion, and the invisible barrier also showed its true colors in the slight shaking, and soon disappeared.

"That's a door, a door with a totem on it."

Apart from his swordsmanship, Meng Yue is most proud of his eyesight.Although he was raised as Lu Li's follower, Sang Yu never let go of his teaching.Especially after discovering that Meng Yue has excellent eyesight, he conducted rigorous training on it.Therefore, Meng Yue can see everything clearly no matter how fast and swift the things he sees are.

"Totem?" Lu Li asked in surprise. He believed that Meng Yue had indeed seen the door and the totem on the door. "What is it like?"

"Like...like..."

Meng Yue hesitated, because the pattern of the totem came from Wuweiju, if he remembered correctly.

"Meng Yue, is that pattern from Wuweiju?"

It is true that Meng Yue has good eyesight, but Yin Danlu and others, who are ancient monsters, naturally have better eyesight than a mortal like him.What's more, Yin Danlu's stay in Wuweiju is not short, and he has seen the whole Wuweiju inside and out.Although it was only for a moment just now, he clearly recognized that the pattern came from Wuweiju.

When he noticed Meng Yue's hesitation, Lu Li had already guessed most of it. When Yin Danlu pointed it out directly, Lu Li only felt that it was difficult to breathe.Although Wuweiju is not big, it is bigger than the yards of ordinary people's homes.But in this huge courtyard, there is no trace of decoration, everything is extremely simple.The only place with decorations is the stone room where the master meditates.The stone room is 20 meters away from Liushui Pavilion, and the entrance is hidden in a rockery.There is a bronze door at the entrance, and a fierce face is carved on the door. The master has never told himself what it is, only saying that it comes from ancient times.

"Master never revealed the identity of that totem, only that it came from ancient times."

Lu Li frowned in response.Jinse frowned and thought for a while, but she couldn't think of any one in the ancient times that resembled this totem.Regardless of the identity of the totem, since it has been confirmed that it came from Wuweiju, then this barrier should be set up by Sang Yu.Everyone turned their attention to Lu Li, who was standing still.

"It seems that this barrier is very difficult to break through. The barriers and barriers set up by Master and his old man are famous for their strength." After a long silence, Lu Li said slowly, "If you want to break through, you have to use his old man's blood."

"With his blood? It's impossible."

Yin Danlu shook her head and said.

"That means there is no way to break through?"

Meng Yue frowned, his voice weak.

"Maybe try this."

Everyone looked suspiciously at Lu Li's outstretched right hand.

"This...could it be Mr...."

"Master gave this to me a year before he disappeared. He said that I would be useful one day, but he didn't tell me what it was. Now, I seem to understand what Master intends."

Meng Yue looked at the small white porcelain bottle, and from Lu Li's words, he roughly deduced what was in it.In other words, Sang Yu had already predicted what would happen next, and perhaps what he predicted had far exceeded their imagination.

"Then try."

Jinse was still a little suspicious, but it was undeniable that Sang Yu's enchantment was very special, and she could know a little bit from Luo Honglian's Samadhi True Fire just now.

Lu Li tilted the small white porcelain bottle slightly, and the red liquid fell vertically, flowing quickly on the invisible barrier until the entire barrier was bright red.Finally, a strange enchantment like a ghost mask appeared, that mask had eyes as big as copper bells, maybe even bigger.There is also a pair of huge and sharp fangs, and the huge mouth is open, extending to the ears.A pair of ears that looked like a leopard and a dragon stood upright.All the muscles are swollen, and the tongue can be vaguely seen from the wide open mouth.Now these horrific features are stained red with blood, making them even more frightening.This unnamed totem, or the beast face.It seems to be like a dragon, it seems to be like a unicorn, and it seems to be like Qiongqi.According to Meng Yue, this is a four-alike.

The last drop of blood dripped from the small porcelain bottle, and the barrier didn't seem to respond.Frowning for a long time, Yin Danlu even began to think about whether there is a better way to remove that barrier.However, Luo Honglian's exclamation drew everyone's attention back to the barrier.

"Look at that blood!"

"how can that be?"

Meng Yue's eyes were as big as copper bells.

The original shape of the barrier was a huge bronze door, and the bronze color that was originally stained red by blood gradually revealed its real body at this time.Blood poured into the beast face's grinning mouth in an instant, as if the beast face had sucked the blood.While everyone was still in shock, the huge door gradually dissipated in front of them, turning into drops of water and merging into the backflowing water.

"This, this is too abnormal..."

Luo Honglian looked at the scene in front of her in astonishment.At this moment, the broken circuit on the opposite side looks like a ceiling.And what was originally a bottomless abyss in their eyes turned into a bottomless tunnel at this moment.And the running water at their feet is slowly flowing from the entrance of the corridor to the underground river behind them.

"The whole underground world is turned upside down."

"So it seems that the copper door is the lock of this upside-down world, once it is unlocked, it will return to normal order."

Jinse looked at the flowing water that entered the underground river. The river bank they walked through before was still there, and it had become a new abyss.

"In short, let's move on, there is no way out now."

Yin Danlu was the first to walk into the corridor, and the others followed suit.The darkness in the tunnel is still unfathomable, and the light of the fox fire and blue flame can still only see about one meter away.The only difference is that the water in the tunnel is relatively shallow, only reaching the ankles.And there is no place to walk around, everyone can only wade through.

They didn't know how long they had walked, but they only knew that when they saw the first ray of light, they couldn't open their eyes, although the light was so weak that it could almost be ignored.

The world outside the corridor was beyond what they could have imagined. It was like a huge fish tank, but this fish tank was made of enchantment.There is a cocoon-like white ball in the middle of the fish tank, but the volume of this ball is obviously enough to be worth hundreds of cocoons.The giant white cocoon floated in the center of the tank, a milky orb that obscured all curious eyes from what was inside.But the water in the fish tank attracted their attention.

"This water is part of the enchantment, and it looks like it should lead to the outside."

Following the direction Jin Se pointed, they saw a small sky.

"A frog at the bottom of a well should feel like this."

Luo Honglian crossed her arms and looked at the rippling blue sky above her head.

"Looks like there's no other way in or out."

While they were observing the barrier and the sky, Yin Danlu had already circled the entire barrier.There is a circle of stone steps around the enchantment, but only one person can pass through.Through the water in the enchantment, Yin Danlu also saw the sky.

"Where does the water here lead to?"

Yin Danlu looked up for a while, because he noticed that the water in the enchantment seemed to lead to a certain place, and perhaps they were all familiar with this place.

"Is there a lotus leaf on it?... There are koi!"

Meng Yue saw a few plate-sized lotus leaves through the sparkling water.Those lotus leaves are swaying slightly with the water waves.And several smaller koi are leisurely swimming past under the lotus leaves.There were one or two with their tails down, as if they were looking for something at the bottom of the water, but they quickly swam towards the surface.

"The water here should not lead to the outside, it just looks like that." Jinse deduced, "If the water in the barrier is connected to the outside, those koi should enter the barrier."

"So, this enchantment is just an illusion. The only truth should be the real location of the enchantment."

Luo Honglian nodded, as if she had found some clues.

"That's right, this enchantment was built under a certain water surface."

Jinse said after careful observation.

"We don't know what's in that ball yet?"

Meng Yue's attention shifted from the water to the huge white cocoon, but the barrier surrounding the cocoon seemed very special, at least so far no one of them could see through it.

"I thought maybe that was supposed to be a chrysalis."

Lu Li lowered his eyelids, because the lotus leaves and koi mentioned by Meng Yue just reminded him of a certain place.

"Pupa...it is indeed possible. But, how do we confirm it?" Yin Danlu reached out and touched the barrier in front of him, and there was a tingling pain from his fingertips. Although it was very slight, it was enough to make him back quickly, " It seems that there is no way to get close."

"I'll try."

Yueying carefully stretched out her palm wrapped in blue flames, and when she touched the barrier, she passed through without hindrance.

"Why can your hand go through the barrier?"

"If this enchantment was also built by Master, then it is understandable."

"What do you mean?"

Jinse looked at Lu Li puzzled.

"Master has a weird personality, which is well-known in Kyushu. The barriers he created are always grotesque. I remember that when I was young, my master showed me a barrier he created."

"Lu Li, you have to remember, no matter if it's a human, a demon or a god, the first reaction when seeing a barrier is always to break it, so they will be aggressive."

"Then if they attack forcefully, won't the barrier be breached?"

"That's right, so the enchantment you set must have the strongest defensive and offensive properties at the same time. Of course, such an enchantment will lose its effect on opponents who are not aggressive."

"Master, I understand. You mean same-sex fusion." Although Lu Li couldn't see it, he could still quickly understand Sang Yu's meaning, "But wouldn't such a barrier lose its effect?"

"Of course not. Since it is same-sex fusion, after entering the barrier, the opponent cannot use aggressive methods. In that case, he himself cannot leave the barrier."

"Same-sex fusion?"

There was surprise on Yin Danlu's face.

"That's right. The stronger the barrier's defensiveness, the number of attacks it can resist will increase exponentially. In other words, the stronger your offensiveness, the harder it is to break through. On the contrary, if you don't have the slightest offensiveness, instead Can blend with the enchantment."

"Yueying's ability has never been in attack, but in defense. So she is a zero-aggressive identity for this enchantment."

Bai Jinse suddenly understood what Lu Li meant, and said the conclusion straightforwardly.

"That's right, because her defensiveness has been recognized by the enchantment."

Yueying looked at her hand that had just passed through the barrier in disbelief, then looked at Lu Li and the others.

"Yueying, it looks like it's up to you this time."

Jinse patted Yueying on the shoulder, and gestured to the pupa with her eyes.

"But what do I do when I go in?"

"Yueying, although my master set up the barrier, I don't think my master did that pupa. You just need to find out what's in the pupa, and we'll make plans for the rest."

"Lu Li is right, if there is something dangerous inside the chrysalis, releasing it will be bad for us."

Yin Danlu's gaze never left Yueying's profile, he was most worried about that pupa of unknown origin.Who knows what's hidden there, the attack power of the Qingque clan is the weakest in the eight wildernesses, but their defense is the best.Although I don't worry about how much damage she will suffer, if the opponents who appear are too powerful and they cannot help in time, it is difficult to imagine whether Yueying will be safe and sound.

"I see, I will get out in time after I confirm."

When Yueying turned around and entered the barrier, she held Yin Danlu's hand without any trace.But just when Yin Danlu wanted to hold her tightly, she quietly pulled away.

Yueying entered the barrier very smoothly, and as for the water in the barrier, it seemed to be just ordinary water.Everyone watched as she slowly swam close to the white chrysalis.

It seemed that someone was approaching, he frowned, but still couldn't open his eyes as he wished.In this small and closed space, he could only feel a slight breath of water.Suddenly, his fingertips seemed to touch something.That feeling is very strange, that thing seems to have temperature, I have never felt this kind of warmth, at least after being put into this space, I never have it again.There seemed to be a sound in my ear, and after careful identification, I was sure that it was the sound of water, and it seemed that something was swimming past me.The warmth felt by the fingertips seemed to be wandering.Now it appeared on the arm, now on the top of his head.The sound of water flowing along with the warmth surrounds him, and it seems that he can hear it in every corner.Gradually, the warmth and sound disappeared, he felt the speed and direction of the water, he knew that someone had left, and he would fall into a lonely deep sleep again.

"Yueying, how are you doing?"

"Well, it's okay. Nothing strange happened." Yueying stepped out of the barrier wearily, "It seems to be a person in that chrysalis, but I can't see it clearly. But I vaguely feel that it is a person."

"Human? Why put a human in a chrysalis?"

Meng Yue looked back at the white chrysalis for no reason.

"I don't know, and I can be sure that he is alive. The pupa is also very strange. I touched it, and it feels like the ice silk of the ice worm."

"Ice worms live in the extreme north of Kyushu. The ice silk they spit out is tough and cold. It is difficult for this kind of worms to survive in the south. As long as they cross the northern limit, they will die."

Lu Li frowned and pondered. He really couldn't figure out why he brought the ice worm's ice silk to Yunzhang, and what was even more strange was why this person could survive in the ice silk chrysalis.

"What's the temperature of the water?"

"If a mortal enters, it is likely to freeze to death."

"That's right, he is nourishing the pupa with the temperature of the water. As for the person in the pupa..." Lu Li resumed his silence, "Unless we destroy the pupa."

"Even if the chrysalis is destroyed, the barrier will still not be broken." Jinse shook her head and objected, "I think we can just quit like this, and we can discuss things later."

"The long snake is gone, and the problem that needs to be solved now can be regarded as solved."

"Could it be that the long snake is for this pupa?"

Meng Yue frowned and asked.

"Put the alienated long snake into the cloud swamp, and rain down to form an enchantment, covering the original barrier. The purpose is obvious. Some people don't want others to get close here, so that the long snake can come and go freely in the swamp, And look for the chrysalis."

"What if the long snake finds this pupa, destroy it?"

"That's not the case. With this enchantment, even without this underground world, it is not easy to destroy it."

Lu Li said slowly.

"The long snake is dead, and the rain will definitely subside. But to stop the rain, I'm afraid the only way to find the source of the problem."

Yin Danlu frowned, the current situation cannot be resolved by a fight.

"It would be easier if we knew who was inside." Lu Li raised his eyes. Although he couldn't see anything, he could feel that the person inside the chrysalis was still alive. "Maybe he can help us."

He felt something unleashed from that chrysalis, though he hadn't been near it.He seemed to feel some anxiety and some sadness.He frowned, trying to feel more clearly, but there was no more.Those feelings seem to be getting away from me gradually.Those anxieties, those sorrows, all emotions also dissipated.But for some reason, a strange voice kept lingering in my ears.It seems to say it's raining...

Why is it raining?I don't like rain, there is enough water here.He thought about this to himself, and gradually, he felt a little tired, and he knew that he would fall into a deep sleep again.But he is still looking forward to the return of the warmth, maybe he can save himself from this disgusting deep sleep, maybe it’s just to warm himself... So tired... The deep sleep took away his remaining consciousness, and everything returned to silence I don't know when I will be awakened again...