The two mountains are close together. From a certain angle, they look like a couple cuddling together.

Local monks call it the Hermaphrodite Mountain.

Entering the basin from the pass of the Hermitage Mountain is one of the safe paths that local monks have explored over countless years. A group of low-level monks gathered on the mountain.

The miasma in the basin is very regular, rising at night and falling back during the day.

Night is the most dangerous.

As soon as the sun sets, they will escape from the basin and wait for the next day's sunrise at the Hermitage Mountain. Those with higher cultivation levels may prepare antidote elixirs and persist in the miasma for a longer time, but stay for a while.

You also need to come out and take a breather.

The Hermitage Mountain was originally very glorious, and once formed a small and medium-sized market. As the resources in this area were exhausted, it gradually declined, and those chambers of commerce also moved to other places.

Now only these low-level monks continue to stay here, barely surviving.

The old scenery is gone.

They entered the dilapidated market, randomly found a few empty houses, took out various bottles, jars, and medicinal herbs, and boiled them into a decoction. Everyone ate a bowl and immediately sweated like pulp to dispel the miasma in their bodies.

I have done this similar move countless times, and I am very skillful.

Everyone regained their energy, talked and laughed, and sorted out the harvest of this trip.

"Alas! There are fewer and fewer medicinal herbs in the area of ​​Nanxiong Mountain. The harvest this time is only 80% of the last time. If this continues, in which year and month will I be able to change to a pair of Hualing Powder?"

The leader was a muscular man with a depressed expression.

"Hey, with the Hua Ling Powder, I can break through to the tenth level of the Qi Refining Stage, and I still have to collect spirit stones to buy a Foundation Establishment Pill. One pill may not be enough to break through. Boss, if it's so difficult for you, we don't even dare to think about it. Make some money.

If you have a good family, you can go back and marry ten or eight wives, and if you are lucky enough to have a child with good talents, you will be satisfied," someone joked.

"That's not easy. We found a spiritual flower and distributed it, including a few foundation-building pills. There is a legend that a guy got a top-quality spiritual flower seed, and it is said that the chamber of commerce that took over turned around and

The price increased dozens of times when it was sold to a big shot. Even so, the guy made a fortune and moved his family directly." When the second person in the team talked about this, he looked envious.

The person next to him made a sound, "Second brother just said something irrelevant. The spiritual flower is precious, but it only appears when the miasma is at its most violent. With our little cultivation,

I don’t know how I died when I went in..."

The words have not yet fallen.

The door suddenly creaked and was pushed open from the outside, and two people walked in.

Everyone was shocked and picked up their magic weapons as if facing a formidable enemy.

The leading strong man stared at the two uninvited guests. The more he looked at them, the more frightened he became. He held his companion down and stepped forward, cupping his hands and saying: "Meeting each other means we are destined. It is windy and cold at night. If the two friends are looking for a place to stay, I will ask my brother to share it."

A friend’s room.”

The visitors were none other than Qin Sang and Lu Zhang.

Lu Zhang was eager to find traces of the stone toad, and was too lazy to talk nonsense. He just released a ray of true energy, and the group of people screamed and collapsed, leaving only the strong man with a frightened face.

"Where do the spiritual flowers you just mentioned appear?"

The strong man's legs were weak and his voice was trembling, "Senior Qi, we all heard it from hearsay. I heard it is not fixed every time, but it is probably in the center of the basin. If you want to get accurate information, senior, go west.

There is a market eight hundred miles away, and someone must know about it..."

Lu Zhang nodded slightly, threw a few spiritual stones to the strong man, and turned to leave.

Qin Sang remembered something and interjected: "Do you know what kind of gods are believed in in the nearby village?"

The strong man thought for a while and said cautiously: "Senior, are you talking about the Gu God Cult? The younger generation has heard that they are all things used by businessmen to make money and fool mortals. They spread the Gu God Cult everywhere, using the name of the Gu God Cult

, selling herbs containing psychedelic effects to those villages at high prices... We all don't believe it."

No wonder those mortals are so fanatical.

Taking psychedelic herbal medicines, the body has been affected by the medicine for many years, and coupled with psychological suggestions, the simplest talisman water can also have a certain effect.

If one took this kind of medicine all day long, a mortal's body would collapse long ago.

It only spreads in the mortal world, but the upper level is protected by the Nascent Soul.

Is it really the same force despite such separation?

Qin Sang felt strange secretly.

The two left the Male and Female Mountains and entered Fangshi. After a brief exploration, they braved the heavy miasma and entered the basin without stopping.

The interval between stone toads coming out to absorb the purple gas sometimes lasts for decades.

Moreover, Lu Zhang judged that this stone toad was close to maturity and could transform and escape at any time, so it could not wait outside.

There is a certain area where the stone toad spreads spores, and the main body must be hidden in this area. However, the area is not small, and they need to search for a while, and they are not sure whether it is on the surface or underground.

It is said that there are tunnels underneath the basin, extending in all directions, which are the source of miasma and are very dangerous.

'Huhu...'

Qin Sang and Lu Zhang fell straight to the ground, and the miasma hit their faces, stimulating their true energy to form a protective shield. Looking up again, the rich miasma blocked the moonlight.

Vision and spiritual awareness are affected.

Based on the information collected, Lu Zhang drew a rough range, flew through the miasma for a while, and took out the Baose Bell when he reached the target.

'Ring ring ring...'

In the open basin, the ringing sounds became clearer and crisper.

The precious light formed a halo and spread far away.

Lu Zhang could isolate the sound of the bell nearby, but he could not conceal the fluctuation of the treasure light, otherwise the treasure-colored bell would lose its effect of breaking the illusion.

Ordinary treasures cannot see through the camouflage of the stone toad.

They contacted several chambers of commerce on the way, but did not find a magic weapon that satisfied them, so they could only rely on the Baose Bell. There was no need to separate, one person controlled the Baose Bell, and the other person was on guard, and they took turns.

Lu Zhang held the treasure bell in his palm, nodded to Qin Sang, and began to search.

Qin Sang kept a few feet away from Lu Zhang. When Lu Zhang wasn't paying attention, he let go of the true energy shield and actively induced a wisp of miasma into his body.

The miasma circulated in the body, and Qin Sang did not feel any obvious discomfort.

Obviously, this miasma causes the most damage to the physical body, and the incarnation is the body of the spiritual tree, which can be immune to this damage to a certain extent.

This is a great benefit for subsequent actions.

Qin Sang estimated that it was unlikely to find stone toads on the ground, and they would definitely have to go deep underground.

The cramped underground environment is the source of miasma. It is a big burden to defend against miasma while maintaining the treasure-colored bells. Not to mention the poisonous beasts and insects hidden underground will also be attracted by the fluctuations of the treasure-colored bells and attack them.

Except for them, few people dared to enter the depths of the basin at this time.

I searched all night and didn't find a third person.

As expected, a lot of poisons were attracted during this period, but Qin Sang easily eliminated them all.

By the early morning of the next day, the miasma began to subside. Even if it reached its lowest point, there was still a layer on the ground, and their pressure would not be reduced.

However, their actions were more cautious than at night.

They have found out clearly that although this is not a major repair monastery, there is no lack of Nascent Soul forces in Nanzhou. Too much movement will attract the attention of local snakes and cause trouble.

The two took turns several times before searching the surface. As expected, no stone toads were found, and finally came to the entrance of an underground passage.

There are such entrances everywhere in the entire basin. They are covered with humus. You can see them if you open them. The small ones are as narrow as stone cracks, and the large ones can accommodate dozens of people to enter.

Every entrance is filled with miasma, and at night it will spurt out continuously.

"Get down from here."

Lu Zhang said.

Qin Sang nodded, handed the treasure bell in his hand to Lu Zhang, took out the spirit stone and held it in his hand to restore his true energy.

The road they chose is neither wide nor narrow. It is said that the underground is connected, and there are rarely dead ends, no matter where you enter.

Even during the day, there were only a few monks who dared to go underground.

How deep the underground passage is is still unclear.

Qin Sang and the others were going to measure it themselves.

They decided on a direction, passed through a series of dark passages, and kept going downwards. They couldn't tell how far they went, and finally arrived at a dark passage that they didn't know whether it was the end or not.

The miasma here is as thick as water, like an underground river formed by miasma.

Qin Sang was okay, but Lu Zhang had to spend more real energy to resist the miasma.

"hiss!"

Qin Sang had a headache. "It would probably take two or three months to search this area. I hope the stone toad hasn't moved around."

Lu Zhang did not expect that it would be so troublesome, and said helplessly: "The stone toad before maturity can only move by instinct, and is not very fast. It generally will not leave the nest where it was born... It will delay the Taoist priest for a while."

Qin Sang shook his head, "Since I promised fellow Taoist Lu, I must have a beginning and an end."

The two of them stopped talking and took action silently.

Underground passages crisscross.
To be continued...