Inquiry about immortality

Chapter 2158 Mirror Magic

The two men divided the spoils equally and quietly moved towards the beast's lair.

The traces left by the evildoer were very obvious, and they could sense the deathly aura lingering there from afar. They didn't need to risk getting close, and could find the evildoer's lair by following the traces.

There are many mountains and rivers here.

Qin Sang and the young master did not approach the nest rashly. Instead, they landed on a mountain in the distance and looked out from afar.

Even though they were far away, they could still see the gray air there, which exuded a smell of decay and decay. The gray air must have been there for a long time, and even if the evil left, it would not dissipate in a short time.

Wherever a great evil hides, there are often similar strange phenomena, and the monks can avoid them when they see them from afar.

"This fierce beast..."

When the young master saw the gray fog, his eyes flashed, as if he remembered something and fell into deep thought.

Qin Sang stared at the direction where the big beast left. The big beast had disappeared and his pressure could no longer be sensed, but the big beast might return to its nest at any time, so they still had to be careful.

They stopped here, not only to observe the movements of the evil beast, but also to see if there were any competitors who could help explore the way.

After thinking for a long time, the young master shook his head slightly and said, "The previous lair of this beast should not be here. Someone has seen a similar vision in the holy land, but unfortunately there is no detailed information. I don't know if it is the same beast."

After waiting for a long time, everything was normal, so the two decided not to wait any longer and set off immediately, going and coming back quickly.

They left the mountain and quietly approached the nest. When they were halfway there, the young master summoned the Wuding Baji Diagram.

The treasure map slowly unfolded, and strands of dark yellow energy seeped into the earth. A subtle wave spread across the surrounding mountains and rivers, and soon returned to normal. The treasure map was placed here in advance, just in case, and the two then rushed to the nest of the great evil.

When you get close to the gray gas, you will be hit by a foul smell. In the gray gas are black dead mountains, and at the foot of the mountains are rotten swamps that emit a foul smell. No signs of life can be found here.

They stopped at the edge of the gray gas and looked around. The fog blocked their sight and perception. They saw a broken peak between the mountains and then they dodged into the fog.

Surrounded by gray fog, they immediately sensed something strange, looked at each other, and began to circulate their true energy to resist.

Just now, the moment they came into contact with the gray fog, it seemed to have life and tried to invade their bodies. The fog was not made up of dust or water droplets, but rather like strands of extremely fine hair, looking for a fertile land to take root and sprout.

The gray fog carries a powerful force of aggression and corrosion. Once the gray fog enters the body and gains the upper hand, it will take away everything of the host, turning them into furry monsters until they die and decay.

"Not alive."

The young master transmitted the message.

Qin Sang nodded. He also realized that the fluff was not alive, or even real. When they tried to reach out and grab it, they could not grab anything. This was a power they had never seen before, and the fluff was the manifestation of this power.

'Shuh! '

Qin Sang summoned the Gray Oriole Sword and slashed out with the sword light silently. The sword light opened a gap in the gray fog and closed it in an instant.

In his perception, some fluff disappeared under the sword light, but the effect was not as good as expected. You have to know that this is only the residual power of the great evil in the fusion stage.

With their strength, it was difficult to completely clear the gray fog here, and they didn't have that much time to waste here, so they could only focus on defense. However, since they had to resist the invasion of the gray fog all the time, they couldn't hide their aura perfectly like they did just now.

Fortunately, there were no other cultivators around, so Qin Sang and the young master used their secret self-defense techniques, and Qin Sang even summoned the Mingshan Armor.

They continued to move forward. The gray fog became more powerful, which was all within their expectations and could not stop them.

The scene around the broken mountain gradually became clear, but Qin Sang had already seen it in advance with the help of his divine power of clairvoyance. Deeper in the broken mountain, the ground was in a mess, with traces of mountain collapse everywhere, and the mud was full of rocks. It can be imagined that a major accident had occurred here.

Qin Sang and the young master concluded that this might not be the lair of the evil spirit. They continued to go deeper and when they reached the deepest part, the scene before them made them tense up.

This is a vast black mud swamp. There are no mountains inside the swamp. I don’t know if it was flattened by the monster, but there are some traces that the swamp cannot cover up.

They found a deep pit beneath the swamp, the bottom of the pit was covered with bottomless gullies, crisscrossing and tearing the earth apart.

All signs indicate that the lair of the evil spirit should be nearby, but it must have been completely changed, with all the deep pits and gullies being new.

"This should be the source of the glow," the young master inferred based on Ji Jing's description. He looked around and couldn't help but sigh, "It looks like a battlefield!"

Qin Sang showed approval.

He discovered that the ground under the swamp was different. There was a kind of spiritual object called turtle back stone everywhere. Once the turtle back stone formed a vein, it was extremely hard. There were probably several turtle back stone mountains here. It was so hard that even the Void Refining Monks could hardly destroy these stone mountains.

“The only aura we can find here is that of the great beast,” Qin Sang said.

The young master nodded. "Unless the great beast suddenly went crazy, there is another possibility that it had a fight with a non-existent enemy."

This speculation was a little unbelievable, and the young master explained: "Things that go against common sense often happen in the holy land, and there is no rule. This is also part of the trial. If those rays of light are the content of this trial, we must be careful in the future."

The rosy glow can drive the beast out of its lair, so how dare they be so arrogant?

Qin Sang and the young master searched the swamp carefully inside and out, but did not find anything unusual. All signs pointed to the fact that the beast had suddenly gone mad, destroyed its own nest, and moved elsewhere.

"The glow left no trace, and its source is unknown," Qin Sang frowned.

"If it is related to the secret of the trial, it cannot be easily solved by us. If we want to know the whole story, we probably need to find the beast, or even kill it, to see if it took away anything special."

The young master said that he also knew that this was impossible to do, and changed his tone and said, "There is another possibility. There is a passage to leave the holy land hidden here, but the time has not come yet, and it has not yet appeared."

They searched in vain and made various guesses, but none of them could be verified. After some discussion, they decided to follow the route the villain took to see if they could find other clues, otherwise they would have to give up.

Qin Sang and the young master left the quagmire, followed the traces, and soon arrived at the edge of the gray fog.

Just as he was about to fly out of the gray fog, Qin Sang seemed to sense something. His expression changed slightly, and he suddenly looked towards a mountain in front of him, while sending a voice warning: "There is an ambush!"

The young master also noticed the abnormality immediately, but he was a step slower than Qin Sang. If Qin Sang had not reminded him, he might have had to get closer to the top of the mountain before he discovered it.

The two figures suddenly stopped, and then a silver bell-like laughter was heard.

"You two have such sharp perceptions!"

The next moment, the void above the mountain top distorted and an oval mirror appeared. The mirror surface was made of water, and a steady stream of clear water flowed in the mirror, just like a water curtain cave.

The young master said in a deep voice: "Mirror magic! It's a mermaid!"

Qin Sang's heart trembled. He didn't expect to encounter a mermaid master as soon as he entered the holy land.

During the time in Yuanjiaohai City, he had a clearer understanding of the strength of the Feathered People. As the king of the Water Tribe, the Mermaids were as powerful as the Feathered People!

This mirror magic is also quite mysterious. Only when it got closer did Tianmu Die discover something unusual.

I saw a vague shadow emerging behind the water curtain, and a slender jade hand lifted the water curtain, revealing a person with a human body and a fish tail swimming out from behind the curtain. His movements were elegant and delicate, which was pleasing to the eye, as if he was welcoming guests.

The mermaids respect women as their superiors, while men are merely their vassals and have a low status. It is said that the reason for this custom is that the mermaids' natural talents and magical powers are more suitable for women, so most of the strong people in the tribe are women.

The person in front of him was none other than a mermaid, with a long slender fish tail in the lower body and blue scales reflecting the rippling water. Her upper body was no different from that of a human woman, but her skin was unusually white, her face was absolutely beautiful, with blue hair and blue eyes. Her eyes moved like rippling water, sometimes charming and alluring, sometimes pitiful.

Qin Sang and Shao Shi were both men of strong minds and would not be tempted by her appearance. As soon as the mermaid appeared, they both felt warning signs in their hearts.

'Zheng! '

Qin Sang never let his guard down and immediately activated his sword technique, and a sword light suddenly appeared in front of him.

At the same time, Qin Sang and the young master both felt that the atmosphere around them changed drastically, and the sky and the earth became blue.

In the blink of an eye, the void turned into a body of water, and they fell to the bottom of the sea unknowingly. The water was very strange, and the ups and downs looked like balls of blue flames.

"Master Qin, be careful! This is the magical eternal fire of the mermaids! This fire is said to last for ten thousand years. Once you are infected with it, it will be like a cancer attached to your bones. It is difficult to remove and will burn through your bones."

The young master quickly transmitted the message and at the same time threw out a silver light from his right hand. The silver light split into small silver circles. There was a strong aura inside each small circle, but they were all different.

These auras all came from his companion beast, which was obviously an exquisite method of utilizing the power of the companion beast.

The small circle spun around, surrounding the young master in the middle. Waves spread out, causing the blue flame to roll back, unable to hurt the young master.

Seeing the serious tone of the young master, Qin Sang did not dare to be careless and gave up the idea of ​​trapping the mermaid with the sword formation. The Grey Oriole Sword suddenly slashed out a sword light.

The sword light was like a rainbow, and the eternal flames retreated one after another.

Qin Sang took advantage of the situation and slashed at the mermaid with his sword. The young master also reacted quickly. Four beasts jumped out of the silver ring, roaring like thunder and pounced on the top of the mountain.

'Snapped! '

The mermaid let the sword light pierce through her, and her whole body exploded like a ball of clear water.

Then, a sweet laugh came from another mountain behind the mermaid, and a ball of clear water condensed and transformed into the appearance of the mermaid.

The mermaid smiled widely, her beautiful eyes fell on Qin Sang, and she asked in surprise, "Are you a human cultivator?"

Then she scolded the young master in a tender voice: "You are the young master under the throne of the emperor, right? How dare you bring foreigners into the holy land without permission? What crime should you be punished for!"

The young master sneered, not wanting to argue with her, and said, "Which princess of the mermaid tribe are you? How dare you ambush me!"

The mermaids have a queen who is the supreme ruler of the tribe. Whenever a talented young person appears in the tribe and is recognized by the queen, she will be named a princess. If a princess passes the queen's test, she can obtain a fiefdom and be crowned a king.

Now, all the kings and young masters of the mermaid tribe know her name. Although the mermaid in front of them is not well-known, she is also a powerful warrior in the late stage. Her strength is not weaker than that of the kings, and she is at least as strong as a princess.

The merwoman said disdainfully: "Do I need a reason to ambush and kill your people? It's a pity that this princess underestimated you. If you leave the things you got from inside, this princess will let you go! Otherwise, you don't think that you can be a match for this princess with a cultivator in the middle stage of the refining void, right?"

When the young master and the mermaid were arguing with each other, Qin Sang was always nervous.

He sensed that a strange aura was locking onto him, looking for an opportunity. There was a master lurking beside the mermaid!

This person's breath was erratic, and Tianmu Die was unable to judge it accurately. Qin Sang suspected that the other party had also used the mirror magic, and became more cautious.

"I think it's not appropriate to get too involved with them. What do you think, Brother Qin?"

The young master sent a message.

Fleeing without a fight would be embarrassing, but face is secondary. It is not in their interest to continue to fight with the mermaid.

They thought there was a great opportunity here, but after searching for a while they found nothing.

Once they faced the mermaid, it would be difficult to determine the winner in a short period of time, and it would be even more difficult to get a chance, and they were not sure of winning. Si Huang's affairs were more important, and they did not have that much time to waste here.

It was a pity to give up the nest of the great beast, but in the opinion of Qin Sang and Shao Shi, they might not find anything if they continued searching, and it might even be a waste of energy.

The pros and cons are clear, and it is not difficult to make a choice.

In fact, even if there was no mermaid to interfere, they would have given up after searching for a while without success.

Qin Sang was about to speak when a gleam of light suddenly appeared in his eyes and he looked outside the battlefield.

I saw a wisp of red smoke rising in the distant sky, the color was extremely bright, and it was moving towards here.

Wherever the red smoke passed, the ground was covered with red mushrooms of all sizes. The large ones had their fans spread out like a small hill, while the small ones were as small as ants. They were densely packed and countless.

The young master's expression changed slightly, "It's a fungus man!"

The Fungus People are one of the upper tribes of the Water Tribe. It is said that their size is smaller than that of the Jiao Yao Tribe. They are a small tribe in the Water Tribe and have very special magical powers. Where they are, one can often only see various mushrooms but not their real bodies.

The speed of the red smoke increased greatly, and it seemed as if a fungal carpet was spread on the ground, spreading towards them rapidly. All they could see were countless red mushrooms growing wildly, and they had no idea where the fungus man was hiding.

I didn't expect to encounter three waves of water department masters here in succession, and didn't see any sky department masters, so there was no reason to stay.

Qin Sang memorized the location of the nest and the direction in which the evil beast left, and immediately joined forces with the young master, and the beast shadows and sword lights rushed out.

The Eternal Fire became turbulent, and immediately launched a bigger counterattack.

The mermaid discovered that the fungus people had arrived, and she felt that her side had the upper hand, so she tried to keep the young master and Qin Sang. However, Qin Sang and the young master cooperated closely, and never gave the people in the dark a chance to attack. They fought and retreated, and successfully retreated to the vicinity of the Wuding Bajitu. (End of this chapter)