Chapter 354 Spiral Valley
Chapter 354 Spiral Valley
After many twists and turns, Ivan and his party finally arrived at their destination, the Spiral Valley, at noon of a new day.
The Spiral Valley can be regarded as a "pit within a pit" of the Nine-Colored Tiankeng. The entire terrain looks like a valley created by a huge meteorite falling to the ground.
The valley is vast, with circles of spiral passages all around it, which are interconnected and ultimately lead to the bottom of the valley.
Of course, this is just the spiral valley depicted on the fish skin scroll map.
In fact, they only saw an area covered by gray dust. The dust connected to the sky and turned into a huge vortex, which kept spinning.
"Boom!"
Following the path shown on the map, Ivan led a few people and jumped down from the steep cliff on the side. In mid-air, they were pulled downward by a brutal force and accelerated until they fell heavily to the ground.
"What power is this?"
"Gravity, similar to the domain aura."
With full vigilance, they came to a wide avenue, which seemed to be a road paved with "black gems", and all the black gems were integrated into one.
In fact, the so-called "black gem" is just a rock that was melted by fire. It is still hot and contains abundant fire power.
"Don't let your guard down."
Ivan reminded the two clones who were muttering in front.
He looked around carefully. On one side of the road was a mountain wall, also covered with black gems; on the other side was a drifting and swirling sandstorm, which was obviously rotating along the valley.
What was surprising was that the entire sandstorm seemed to be frozen and its speed was greatly reduced.
As Jenny said, the culprit that causes the sandstorm to rotate at a "turtle crawling" speed is a gravitational force field.
Under the influence of this inexplicable gravitational field, most of the sand and dust gathered in the middle of the valley, but there was not much on the road where they were. There was only a thin layer that did not affect their vision at all.
"Look, there are quite a few medium and high-quality elemental crystals in the sandstorm, including earth-type crystals of all sizes." Locke said in amazement, pointing to the middle of the valley.
Sandstorms are full of earth power, and crystals are condensed during the collisions. Large clumps of them are not uncommon, and their value is undoubtedly very high.
"Unless you are thrown out by the sandstorm, don't expect to use any means to pick it up. Once you move rashly, you may be dragged into the sandstorm, and you will be in a dilemma of life and death." Ivan warned in a deep voice.
"Boss, please rest assured. I'm not the kind of person who likes to act rashly." Locke quickly assured.
For them, the middle of the valley is a special area and a forbidden area that cannot be touched at all.
There is also a forbidden area on the mountain wall. There is a deep slanted hole on the mountain wall, which seems to have been smashed out by something.
Not long after Ivan walked along the road, he came across such a deep hole.
The entrance of the cave is more than three meters wide, which is equivalent to one-sixth or one-seventh of the road. The cave is green and covered with thatch, vines, short trees, etc., which is completely different from the bare mountain walls and roads.
At first glance, it looks peaceful inside.
However, the map clearly indicates that it is a special area with an extremely high degree of danger.
He knew in his heart that it was because so many strange things were intertwined together that an area combining the elements of earth, wood, and fire was created.
"Swish swish."
They only took a look at the entrance of the cave, and suddenly the cave became restless, as if thousands of arrows were shot at once.
These are not grass, leaves or vines. Most of them have turned into small animals and insects. They look strange, move very fast, and attack with great force.
"retreat!"
As Ivan retreated, he used one hand to control the ant king's empty shield and the other hand transformed into the black devil's hand and struck out.
With the help of others, it only took one round to eliminate this sudden wave of intensive attacks, leaving only a pile of animal corpses.
"These guys are so good at disguising themselves that I couldn't detect any clues at all." Locke sighed with lingering fear.
"Don't use common sense to judge the creatures here." Ivan said casually. He paid more attention to the perception of strength. These creatures actually have control over gravity and can use gravity to accelerate.
It can be concluded that they combine the elemental powers of earth and wood.
Before they could breathe a sigh of relief, a rustling sound was heard from the cave, indicating that things were not over yet. This time it seemed like some beast cave had been poked.
"Back off again."
The entrance of the cave was two meters above the road. Under Ivan's command, several people simply retreated a distance.
As expected, the first to fly out of the cave were a group of green-haired bats, followed by dark green feathered snakes, and plant life made of vines, etc. Most of these creatures were at the second level.
In a short while, several people slaughtered all these crazy creatures.
After the second wave of attacks, the verdant cave finally returned to its previous peace.
Ivan collected some corpses for research and waved silently to the others, indicating that they should continue along the spiral passage.
Afterwards, they frequently encountered more deep holes. In addition to the lush greenery inside, there were also flames and intermittent disordered gravity and repulsion.
Facts have proved that no matter whether it is a wood cave, a fire cave or an earth cave, they are all beast caves without exception.
These beasts looked strange and bizarre, as if they were synthesized through experiments, but the elemental forces in their bodies were highly harmonious. Moreover, the deeper one went along the spiral passage, the stronger the beasts in the cave became.
Ivan confirmed one thing: the target creature he was looking for was hidden in a deep cave.
The biggest problem at present is how to find it accurately among so many animals. Killing it several times in each deep hole is definitely not feasible. Excessive killing will easily attract things that you cannot afford to offend.
"Boss, don't you have any secret method of exploration?" Locke asked in surprise.
"Yes, it's in front of me. When I see it with my own eyes, I can sense whether it fits." Of course, Ivan deduced the corresponding means of perception, but it was not sophisticated and was far inferior to the Bailey family's.
"Well - then we can only look for it slowly." Locke was stunned for a moment and said indifferently.
"It's not good to be slow. We can't stay here for long." Ivan shook his head.
He actually had some doubts in his heart. He suspected that the sandstorm frozen in the middle of the valley would suddenly accelerate at some point and then clean up the entire spiral valley.
Otherwise, why would these creatures hide in deep caves and only come out when there is any movement?
But this item is not recorded on the fish skin roll map.
"How about I go down and look for it?" Jenny volunteered.
"Don't even think about it." Ivan looked at her with a frown. Once they went to a place like this, no one knew what would happen. There was a high possibility that they would never come back.
The secret clone was not easy to come by, and it may not be destroyed like this.
Comparing the current situation, he thought again and again and decided to use a stupid method, which was to use bait.
Of course it wasn't the earth-type tricolor bead, there was only one of that thing, and he would definitely not use it before determining the target creature. Instead, he refined a new bait on the spot, using the element ratio he needed.
"Come on, everyone come and help. Janeze Ant will provide the earth power, Queen Silkworm Butterfly will provide the wood power, and I will provide the fire power myself. Hurry, hurry." After Ivan made the decision, he instructed the others to start working.
"What about me?" Locke didn't hear his name.
"Be alert and pay attention to the movements around you." Ivan said.
"Okay." Locke glanced at the empty black gem road and agreed helplessly.
With Ivan's race against time to refine, soon, the slightly rough power crystals were completed. Since the power providers were dedicated, the quality of the bait was actually not bad.
Then, they started the 'fishing' operation.
The first choice was the 'Earth Cave'. Ivan personally threw a power crystal into the middle of the road, and picked up a pen to carve rune lines around it. The lines extended from the road to the cave entrance.
After he activated the rune lines, he stepped back and watched a trace of shallow power in the crystal being drawn into the deep cave.
The next second, there was a lot of noise coming from the deep cave.
"withdraw."
Ivan understood that all the animals in the deep cave had been lured out and the bait had failed.
He was not discouraged, but kept trying and adjusting.
The second time he chose the 'Earth Hole' again. He adjusted the traction force and lowered it one level to increase its concealment. As a result, he still caught a lot of animals.
The third time, the Earth Cave, I lowered the bar again and the fishing failed.
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The eighth time, in the Cave of Fire, the bait was refined again, the crystal power was further purified, and the fishing failed.
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The fourteenth time, in the Wood Cave, the bait was refined again, the characteristics of the wood energy were changed, and fishing failed.
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The thirty-ninth time, in the Earth Cave, he refined the bait, combined it with a strand of power from the three-colored earth bead, and intermittently pulled an extremely obscure weak force into the deep cave. After waiting for a long time, he finally caught a big fish.
A strange python floated out of the deep cave slowly.
The body of this giant python is made up of dust and burnt smoke, and its huge head is made of rock. Its pair of snake pupils reflect flickering flames, and on the top of its head grows a strange green grass, like a pigtail.
Ivan took a quick glance and confirmed that this was the target he was looking for.
(End of this chapter)