The dark night in the forbidden area, Xu Qing is not very unfamiliar.
Whether it is the ruins of the city or this jungle.
The former he lived for more than ten days, and the latter he also experienced several nights.
At this moment, he was hiding in the cracks of a giant tree, half-squinting his eyes, and silently breathed out the rich and heterogeneous spiritual energy mixed in the forbidden area in his sleep.
After these spiritual energies entered the body, they were separated by the Haishan Technique, the pure part nourished the whole body, and the heterogeneous part merged into the shadow.
Xu Qing was used to this change.
He even faintly felt that practicing in this forbidden area might be because of the shadow, or perhaps because of the danger here, and he was strongly vigilant anytime and anywhere.
With a high degree of mental concentration, the speed of cultivation has also increased a lot.
Now it is not far from the fourth layer of the Haishan Technique.
"It's like sharpening a knife...... Xu Qing murmured.
He didn't understand any big truths, but he remembered that the blacksmith in the slums once said to people that a good knife needs a better millstone to fully reveal its edge.
At this moment, the dangerous forbidden area seemed to have become Xu Qing's whetstone.
In this tempering practice, Xu Qing, who had finished a week for a long time, opened his eyes silently.
He raised his head and stared at the darkness of the outside world along the cracks in the trees, and at night in the forbidden area, the roar of filial piety from strange beasts rose and fell from afar, echoing through the jungle like a god and demon whispering.
The cold meaning was even more ubiquitous, and all living beings who invaded here also got into the cracks of the trees where Xu Qing was hiding and permeated his body.
It's cold.
This scene made him feel like he had returned to the ruined city, and slowly a wisp of loneliness permeated him.
But Xu Qing is already very familiar with loneliness. After a while, he closed his eyes again and continued to practice.
In this way, time passed.
Because the resting place he found was correct, it was safe that night, but in the middle of the night, Xu Qing, who was practicing, heard footsteps from the outside world in his ears.
It was very messy, as if many people were lining up and moving forward.
Xu Qing's expression was slightly condensed, his eyes narrowed, and he looked outside, but it was pitch black outside the cracks in the trees, and there was nothing.
But Xu Qing's heart sank, because at the moment when the footsteps came, the roar of the strange beasts in the nearby jungle disappeared instantly, which made Xu Qing's vigilance suddenly increase.
He remembered the singing footsteps he had encountered last time, but the feeling he felt at this moment was a little different.
"It's not like the footsteps of the singing that day, and there is no singing."
Xu Qing quickly analyzed, did not act rashly, but forcibly calmed himself down, held his breath, and stared at the dark night outside.
Gradually, the footsteps became clearer and clearer, and it seemed that a group of people were lining up and gradually approaching.
At the same time, bursts of cold, as if it could freeze the body, also invaded fiercely at this moment.
This kind of cold, Xu Qing is no stranger, whether it is the singing of the day, or the strange beings that haunt the city at night, it is this kind of temperature that exudes.
But the degree is different, the singing of that day can freeze his soul, but the current cold only makes him unwell, not to the point of losing action.
"It's the kind of existence that resembles the ruins!" After Xu Qing made a judgment, he grabbed the iron stick, took a deep breath, restrained the fluctuations in his heart, and forcibly closed his eyes without opening them.
Don't look, don't touch, don't encounter.
After Xu Qing closed his eyes, the footsteps suddenly became rapid and getting closer and closer, as if countless people were circling around the big tree where he was.
Xu Qing's heart was shaken, and he tried to resist his urge to open his eyes and see what the other party was like.
Until a long time...... When the first sun rose in the sky, the chaotic footsteps finally stopped lingering and slowly faded away.
The sky is bright.
Xu Qing didn't open his eyes at the first time, he waited for a while before slowly opening and closing his eyes, and saw the crack of the tree where he was, where there was a thick layer of ice, and his whole person was sealed in ice.
Through the ice, the sun shone on Xu Qing, he exhaled, pressed his left hand on the ice, and pushed hard, the ice shattered with a clicking sound and fell to the ground.
Xu Qing slowly got out, first observed the surroundings, and saw that in the jungle, the wolf corpses that were still there yesterday were all gone, and on the ground...... There are a large number of footprints.
It is a human footprint.
It was densely packed, as if hundreds of people had walked by.
Xu Qing had never heard of hundreds of people entering the restricted area together.
Especially ...... These footprints are really footprints, not shoe prints.
Xu Qing was silent, retracted his gaze for a long time, he felt the weirdness of the forbidden area a little deeper, at this moment, taking advantage of the dawn and the danger of the forbidden area was less than at night, Xu Qing did not give up exploring and left in a flash.
A few hours later, Xu Qing finally reached the farthest point where their group had gone last time, the small canyon where the Thunder Squad was picking horse chestnuts.
In the canyon, just like when they left, the sunlight fell on the ground along the top of the canopy of the vines above, and the fragrance of flowers filled the air, isolating the dangers of the outside world, like a paradise.
At this point, Xu Qing breathed a slight sigh of relief and looked up at the other end of the canyon, the temple group that existed further away.
After staring for a moment, Xu Qing withdrew his gaze, took a simple rest, and his body galloped straight to the temple group.
The jungle outside the canyon is more lush, and there is less and less sunlight here.
I don't know if this ancient temple complex still exudes the glory and coercion of their time, so when they get out of the canyon and approach, there are very few dangers.
The lush jungle seemed to be much gentler in terms of breath.
Even in the jungle closest to the temple complex, it was not much different from the trees Xu Qing saw in the outside world, no longer ferocious, no longer pitch black.
And there are also some horse chestnuts here, which were picked away by Xu Qing.
Everything here surprised Xu Qing a little, but his vigilance did not diminish, and he approached carefully.
Until another hour passed, when dusk was approaching, he walked out of the jungle and came to the front of this temple complex.
There were very few trees here, and the sunlight was shining over a wide area, making Xu Qing's eyes a little dazed.
What caught his eye was a huge domed building dozens of feet high.
Even if it collapsed, even if it was broken, even if it was covered with moss, the temple piled up with neat stones much larger than his body was full of a sense of vastness.
Walking in it, stepping on the giant bricks on the ground shattered, it was like Xu Qing had come to the kingdom of giants.
The ruins that can be seen everywhere, each piece exudes the meaning of ancient years, as if telling Xu Qing about their experiences.
Further ahead, there is a collapsed statue.
The lower body of this withered statue was gone, turning into countless pieces that were difficult to piece together, and the head was still intact, but it looked like a lake.
Despite this, it was also more than thirty feet high, and it was conceivable that it was at least two hundred feet before the collapse.
Standing in front of it, Xu Qing's existence was very inconspicuous.
At this moment, the wind blows, like the sound of the Qiang flute, the desolate whirlwind, and as if isolating time and space, making the former glory only the gaze of future generations.
Xu Qing looked at the statue quietly and was silent for a long time.
He thought of the ruins of the city outside the slums, and he wondered if in a few years, people of that era would enter the forbidden area as carefully as he does now, as if they were looking at history, to see that city.
After a while, Xu Qing retracted his gaze and searched in this temple group, but did not find the special stone that Team Lei said.
When he came, he had already inquired about this special stone that would emit colorful light.
It seems to grow naturally, and the time of appearance is irregular.
After the search failed, Xu Qing felt a little regretful, his body jumped up smartly, and several undulated to the top of a temple, where he stood and looked in all directions.
Behind him, there is the outer area of the jungle in the forbidden area, although there is no end in sight, but you can also see the part, and counting the time, today is the fourth day that the bone knife who bought insurance here said.
Yesterday Xu Qing was in the jungle and didn't see the fog, and today there is still none, so he doesn't need to save him.
So he turned his head to look at another direction of the temple complex, where ...... It is the depths of the forbidden jungle.
He was going to explore a small area in the depths, rush back before dark, rest here tonight, and return early tomorrow morning.
After having a plan, Xu Qing's body immediately moved, jumped off the temple and walked towards the depths.
The moment he stepped into the depths of the jungle, his nerves tensed strongly, and his vigilance and caution increased.
Because he knew that the danger here was much greater than the periphery.
In fact, this is indeed the case, but after half an hour, Xu Qing's figure reappeared within the temple area.
His face was gloomy, and Yu Ji remained in his eyes.
But the leather bag bulged up, as if it was full.
He had only walked less than a mile before, and he saw a lot of vintage buckeyes, which seemed to have not been picked for a long time, which surprised Xu Qing, because this kind of vintage buckeyes were very valuable.
But when he was picking, he clearly felt the richness of the heterogeneity multiplied, if it weren't for his shadow being able to absorb it, it would be difficult for others to move forward.
And he also saw the strange jellyfish he had seen in the forbidden land last time from a distance......
And there are more than ten such jellyfish here, but they are much smaller, but the cold aura on their bodies is still obvious.
Fortunately, most of these jellyfish were sleeping on the trees, and Xu Qing carefully avoided them when he saw them.
But as he moved forward, he had a very strong feeling, it seemed that in the depths of this jungle, there were countless eyes, like substance, with greedy intentions from unknown directions, falling on him one after another.
All this made Xu Qing have a needle on his back.
And here, it was just the edge of the depths of this forbidden area, and the scope within it was even larger, and it was impossible to imagine how much horror existed.
Xu Qing didn't dare to move forward and retreated without danger.
It wasn't until he retreated to the temple that the feeling of needles in his back dissipated.
It was as if this temple was a boundary that prevented malice from the depths of the forbidden area.
Xu Qing took a deep breath, taking advantage of the sunset that was about to set, in the last afterglow, he found a barely complete temple and stepped in.
I found a stone crevice and got in, ready to spend the night.
The Thunder Team said that this place can be temporarily avoided from danger.
Whether it is a stone statue with a knife enshrined in the main seat, or the many statues carved into the surrounding walls, they are all in the quicksand of time, turning into a lake of mold.
At the same time, there are not many exotic beast feces and traces in the temple.
If there are not all of them, or if there are a lot of them, Xu Qing will not choose.
Because this is not normal, only if there are traces but the number is not large, it is relatively safe.
After all, although the temple is in the jungle, there are very few trees here, so it is reasonable that strange beasts accustomed to jungle life do not come often.
Soon night came.
As the roar of the outside world emerged, Xu Qing exhaled silently.
Time passed, consistent with his judgment, there were very few strange beasts in the temple group at night, and although the roar was there, most of them came from afar.
But just like yesterday, when Xu Qing breathed in the middle of the night, strange and chaotic footsteps reappeared!
The location that appeared this time was outside the temple.
"Here we go again?"
Xu Qing's brows furrowed, he didn't know why these footsteps appeared in his place twice, faintly uneasy, and after thinking about it, he didn't open his eyes as he did yesterday.
It's just that this time the footsteps did not gradually fade away like yesterday, but became more and more.
Constantly converging, bursts of cold meaning permeated, as if countless strange things had gathered outside the temple at this moment, wanting to invade the temple.
Xu Qing's heart sank, and he held his iron stick hard, quickly constructing the environment of this temple and how to deal with it in case of danger.
And at this moment, the sound of footsteps outside suddenly disappeared, and it became extremely silent.
This kind of silence, instead of making Xu Qing breathe a sigh of relief, made him feel like before the storm came, and the hair on his body was about to explode.
In the next moment, in this silence, the weirdness outside finally chose to step into the temple, and Xu Qing heard the footsteps stepping into the temple and stepping on the stone bricks.
Syllable.
This sound was like a boulder, falling into Xu Qing's mind, causing Xu Qing's heart to sink, but at this moment, bursts of whispering sounds suddenly echoed in the temple, with incomparable sacredness.
There were also wisps of golden light that suddenly spread out from the temple wall, reflecting the entire temple and also permeating Xu Qing's place, causing the world under his eyelids to close his eyes, and the light shone from the original darkness in an instant.
And under this golden light, Xu Qing's eyes stinged, and for the first time, when he encountered this kind of weirdness, he opened his eyes.
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