Chapter 293: Silver Sand, Northern Lights
If you want to get to the fire toad beast and the remains of the ancient monk, you must first enter the inner valley.
The so-called inner valley is actually a place where a large area in the center of the Demon Valley is enclosed by more powerful ancient restrictions.
The truly precious treasures in the Demon Valley are basically in the inner valley. Generally speaking, if a Nascent Soul cultivator does not enter the inner valley, it is relatively safe.
Just strolling in the outer valley, the survival rate is not low. The reason why people could only enter the Demon Valley but not exit in the past was that most of those who came in coveted treasures and wanted to take a look at the inner valley. As a result, most of them died as soon as they entered.
There is not just one passage to the inner valley. If you go around the outer valley, you can easily find more than ten passages of different sizes.
However, these passages are all heavily restricted. If you want to pass through them, apart from breaking the restrictions bit by bit, relying on brute force to force your way through is simply asking for trouble.
When Master Cangkun first came here, he was confident of his attainments in formation and wanted to break through the restrictions to enter the inner valley. However, after studying it alone for several days, he gave up completely.
It’s not that it can’t be solved, but it would take too long for him to solve it alone.
Later, Master Cangkun took great pains and, by chance, found this secret path covered with the Northern Lights.
This passage is very secretive and will not be easily discovered, but the Arctic Yuan Light in the passage is enough to kill any monk who unknowingly breaks in.
But now with the Liang Yi Ring, entering the inner valley should be an extremely easy thing.
After everyone gathered here, they immediately flew towards the inner valley.
At the same time, Nan Longhou said to Han Li: "Brother Han, it's time to take out the sensor bell. The closer we get to the inner valley, the more space cracks there will be, and many of them are invisible to the naked eye. Our safe arrival at the inner valley depends entirely on the sensor bell!"
Upon hearing this, Han Li reached out to his storage bag and took out several bells of different colors, several inches in size, and then hung them around his waist.
Seeing this scene, Nan Longhou's face lit up and said, "Okay, although this sensor bell cannot sense all the space cracks, it can still sense most of them for us to avoid!"
Xuanjizi's face also lit up with joy. Now that all the necessary conditions for entering the inner valley were met, they should be able to get there without any obstacles.
Moreover, with Ye Changsheng around, it would not be a problem to get rid of the fire toad beast.
Four beams of light left the hill and flew all the way to the center of the valley. Those copper bells were really effective.
Once a space crack appears, the bell will immediately emit a crisp jingling sound, allowing everyone to pay attention in time to avoid crashing into it.
However, most of these cracks are traceable, or the cracks are relatively dim. This bell cannot warn of truly invisible space cracks.
Only Ye Changsheng and Han Li's hidden clear and bright spiritual eyes can truly see through all the space cracks.
However, both of them remained silent and did not show any abnormality. Nanlong Hou and the other man had no idea that the pair of brothers they invited did not need any sensor bells at all.
However, with this sensing bell, everyone's speed of travel was indeed much faster, and Nanlong Hou and Xuanjizi could also fly freely.
After most of the day, they appeared outside the inner valley, in front of an unfamiliar mountain range.
This mountain range is composed of more than ten small peaks, forming a miniature mountain range of dozens of miles in size. Behind this mountain range, a blood-red light covers the sky, looking extremely strange.
"That's the inner valley. Those blood lights are extremely powerful restrictions. Don't provoke them, or you will be seriously injured if you don't die."
Although it was the first time that Nanlong Hou saw the blood, he immediately warned as if he was an old horse who knew the way.
Ye Changsheng and Han Li remained silent. They certainly couldn't be stupid enough to touch these restrictions. Even if Nanlong Hou didn't say it, they were aware of it.
Nanlong Hou led everyone to a narrow rift valley between two mountains. Looking forward, they saw green grass, rocks, giant trees and vines. Everything seemed normal and there seemed to be nothing wrong.
"It's here. There is an illusion left by Master Cangkun that covers the real entrance. Let's break the illusion first!" Nanlong Hou showed a hint of excitement on his face, but spoke calmly.
Then he flicked his sleeves, and a white jade pendant flew out from his sleeves, circled and stopped above his head.
After a spell was chanted, white light emanated from the jade pendant, shining in front. Then, the space in front changed, and the illusions disappeared, revealing the real situation inside.
All the lush vegetation was gone, replaced by a gray and eerie scene.
The mountains on both sides formed a canyon, which was full of white stones. Looking into the distance, there was a large area of gray fog, which was so blurry that it was impossible to see clearly what was happening in the fog.
However, the gray fog was always confined to the middle area of 100 meters wide, while the two sides were filled with blood-red light, like a tide, constantly sweeping and squeezing the middle. But once it reached the sides of the fog, it was like hitting a embankment, unable to move forward.
Seeing the appearance of this passage, everyone's faces showed solemn expressions, and they all used their methods to test it out.
"It seems that there is a giant python guarding this passage!" After a moment, Nanlong Hou looked at Ye Changsheng and said tentatively.
Han Li and Xuan Jizi's eyes flickered slightly, and they also used their methods to test that there was a strange beast in the passage, which looked like a giant python.
"It is indeed a giant python. Although it is very strong, it is unlucky to face so many of us!"
Ye Changsheng said with a slight smile.
"Brother Ye is right. Let's quickly kill this giant python and enter the inner valley!" Nanlong Hou said with a smile.
So, everyone started to use their means to disperse the fog in the canyon ahead, and a giant python covered with black scales emerged from it.
This was a three-headed black snake, and its appearance immediately caused exclamations from Nanlong Hou and others.
The beast looked at the humans in front of it with cold eyes, and suddenly rushed over, wanting to eat all the people here.
Nanlong Hou snorted coldly and attacked immediately, followed by Xuanjizi and Han Li.
If they were facing this wild and strange beast alone, they might be afraid, but now there are so many people around, and Ye Changsheng is by their side, how could they be afraid of this beast?
As a result, with the joint efforts of everyone, this wild beast was killed not long after.
From the body of the beast, everyone took out three inner elixirs. After looking at the three inner elixirs with different properties, Nanlong Hou and others wisely handed them to Ye Changsheng.
Then, they stepped forward and cut off some of the more precious materials from the three-headed black snake and put them away.
According to the previous distribution plan, Ye Changsheng would get 70% of the harvest, but now that all three inner pills have been given, it will definitely be more than 70%.
However, Han Li and the other two were very wise and did not raise any objections, tacitly allowing Ye Changsheng to take all these things away.
When Ye Changsheng saw their actions, he smiled and accepted the three inner pills without any hesitation.
Then, everyone continued to walk inside.
After walking along the stone road for about a hundred feet, a stone wall appeared in front of us. There was a dark hole on the wall, about seven or eight feet wide.
"It's here. After passing through this cave, you can enter the inner valley. But in this cave, there is the Beiji Yuanguang land which is more than ten miles long!" Nanlong Hou said with a sigh of relief.
Everyone looked at Ye Changsheng. Ye Changsheng smiled slightly and took out a black ring from his storage bag.
"Since we know that there is the Northern Light in the cave, can't we pass through the stone wall from other places? Do we have to go through this cave?" Xuan Jizi touched his chin and said with a twinkling eye.
"This method simply won't work. If you use your magic weapon to randomly attack this stone wall, you will understand the reason." Nanlong Hou shook his head and said calmly.
"Oh, let me try." Obviously the old man did not give up. He flicked his sleeves and a beam of white light shot out and slashed fiercely on the stone wall.
After Xuan Jizi's magic weapon hit the stone wall, a brilliant white light burst out immediately, and then the magic weapon was bounced back.
When everyone looked carefully, they saw that a faint mark about an inch deep appeared at the place where the magic weapon attacked, and there was a faint silver light shining from the mark.
"This is..." A look of surprise flashed across the old man's face. He hurriedly took a few steps forward, walked to the place where the knife marks were, and began to observe it carefully.
"Gan Yinsha! There is actually Gang Yinsha ore in this stone wall?" The old man only observed for a short while and immediately screamed in surprise.
Upon hearing the three words "Gang Yinsha", Han Li's expression changed drastically. He also walked forward and began to examine it carefully.
Everyone has heard of the material Gangyinsha, because it is one of the few materials that can make magic weapons more solid. In terms of effect, it is a rare material second only to Lianjing.
Ye Changsheng had seen refined crystals in the Xutian Palace before, and now he saw Gangyinsha here. These two materials are almost on the verge of extinction in today's world of immortal cultivation.
Ye Changsheng looked at the silver sand in front of him with a flicker in his eyes, and recalled what Han Li did in the original novel.
Use the gold-eating bugs to devour the rocks here and take out all the silver sand.
He was also quite interested in the material called Gangyinsha and planned to release the gold-eating bugs later to help him mine.
Han Li, who had been looking at the silver-glittering rock, suddenly raised his hand silently, and more than a dozen small swords shining with green light flew out from his sleeves, turning into more than a dozen green rays of light that shot directly into various parts of the stone wall.
There was a burst of "ding-ding-dang-dang" sounds, and more than ten sword holes several inches deep appeared on the stone wall, with silver light shining from each hole.
"It is indeed good Gangyin Sand, and the entire stone wall is mixed with Gangyin Sand, but the density is not uniform. It seems that it is not caused by human beings, but the stone wall itself contains a Gangyin Sand vein." Han Li showed a trace of surprise on his face, but spoke slowly.
After hearing this, Xuanjizi's eyes became full of greed. He stared at the stone wall, as if he wanted to dig out all the ore from it.
Nan Longhou sighed and said, "There may be a whole vein of Gangyinsha ore here, but a fist-sized piece of raw ore can only produce a tiny amount of Gangyinsha the size of a grain of rice."
"Given the hardness of this stone wall, I don't know how much time and energy it will take to dig out enough Gangyin Sand. It's not worth it!"
"Brother Nanlong is right. Let's not waste time here. Let's go into the inner valley and take the treasures there first!" Ye Changsheng said lightly.
Hearing what the two said, the fiery look in Xuan Jizi's eyes gradually faded, and Han Li also took a deep look at the stone wall and stepped back.
Although this silver sand is very useful to him, in refining the puppet developed by Lord Dayan that is comparable to a cultivator in the late Nascent Soul stage, this material can play a big role.
However, as Nanlong Hou said , there are simply not enough means to obtain a large amount of Gangyinsha. In this case, there is no need to waste time here.
"Let's go, the North Pole Yuanguang is ahead!" Nanlong Hou said lightly, and took the lead to walk forward.
A trace of reluctance flashed in Han Li and Xuan Jizi's eyes, but they followed closely, with Ye Changsheng walking behind.
Before he knew it, the spirit beast bag on his waist disappeared.
In a place where no one noticed, a group of gold-eating bugs quietly drilled into the Gangyinsha mine.
After walking for a while, the view in front suddenly opened up and the passage became wider. Strange rocks like stalactites were everywhere, emitting strands of silver-white light, illuminating the entire passage.
These silver threads are extremely strange. Although they are obviously invisible, each thread of light is unusually clear, as if it were tangible.
"This is the Arctic Yuanguang. In the Arctic Yuanguang, except for the Yin-Yang Ring, we must not use any spiritual power or magic weapon rashly. Once the spiritual power leaked from our bodies is sensed by the Arctic Yuanguang, we will definitely die." Nanlong Hou said solemnly.
Ye Changsheng chuckled, took out the Liang Yi Ring, and said, "Everyone come closer, we are going in!"
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Not long after, four people, enveloped in the light of a huge black ring, walked out of a cave.
"Is this the Inner Valley?" There was a soft murmur, and Ye Changsheng and the other four looked at the colorful world in front of them with shining eyes.
Ahead, whether in the sky or on the ground, there were patches of faint glow floating everywhere. These glows were of different colors and extremely gorgeous.
Near these rays of light, a large number of space cracks were slowly floating. Seeing this scene, Nanlong Hou and others' faces suddenly changed.
"How come there are so many space cracks, and they are moving on their own?!" Xuan Jizi shouted in surprise.
"The density of space cracks here is at least ten times that of the outside. It is worthy of being the place where ancient cultivators fought!" Han Li said with a grin.
"Let's go, we just need to be careful. Let's go to where the fire toad is now!" Ye Changsheng said lightly.
