Chapter 99: Insect Valley Couple’s Banyan, Midnight Ghost Signal
While the few people were chatting and laughing, the bamboo raft quickly drifted out of the waterway along the current.
Outside the cave, it was suddenly open and bright, with flower trees of yellow, white, pink, and green everywhere down the hillside, many butterflies the size of palms flying and lingering among the flower bush, the scenery looking enchanting.
Xue Li Yang couldn’t help but exclaim:
“The scenery here is so beautiful, all original ecology, with so many butterfly orchids and rare golden thread big colorful butterflies!”
Su Mo nodded, glanced at the surrounding scenery, then cast his gaze into the distance, using the Zi Wei Guan Xiang Fa and Dragon Seeking Technique to search for traces of the Tomb of King Xian.
Although he as a transmigrator had read the original work, the original work did not describe the route to the Tomb of King Xian in detail one by one, and Chen Xia Zi’s human skin map also seemed somewhat abstract, plus with the passage of time the patterns on it had blurred, so after entering Insect Valley, Su Mo still needed to use his own abilities to search.
The Tomb of King Xian was in Insect Valley, this point was beyond doubt!
This King Xian left many suspended stone figurines on the waterway, the figurines contained water pig bee eggs, and when the larvae hatched and their weight increased, plus the iron chains corroded over a long time in the water vapor, in the end the stone figurines would fall into the water, feeding those tooth-blade viperfish in the water.
And the tooth-blade viperfish in the water became particularly huge after eating these water pig bees, and were then devoured by the green scaled giant python.
In other words, King Xian set up a thousand-year ecological formation in the waterway, ultimately raising a green scaled giant python that nurtured a dragon snake gall and was extremely huge in size, becoming the first barrier guarding Insect Valley.
If a few more years passed, this green scaled giant python might absorb the heaven and earth essence in Insect Valley, plus the flesh and blood essence of the tooth-blade viperfish, and finally transform into a flood dragon!
Ancient imperial tombs must follow dragon vein spiritual energy to determine the acupoint, this She Pa River is a tributary of the Lancang River, a section of the river hidden under Zhelong Mountain, from the form it looks just like a hidden dragon, plus the “Zhe” in Zhelong Mountain, forming exactly the aspect of a hidden dragon borrowing momentum.
It is said hidden dragon do not act, but dragon lurking in the abyss is brewing power, which is consistent with King Xian’s idea of using a mortal life, utilizing the tomb to defy heaven and ascend to immortality.
Therefore, the entire Tomb of King Xian is a Hidden Dragon Formation, which uses various things to hide its own dragon vein acupoint, and utilizes the tomb structure to absorb heaven and earth essence, helping King Xian fly and become an immortal!
Su Mo used the Zi Wei Guan Xiang Fa, and soon saw a strange magnetic field deep in Insect Valley, where the power appeared extremely chaotic, like a huge vortex, continuously absorbing the power of heaven and earth.
He looked carefully for a while, then determined that was exactly where the acupoint of the Tomb of King Xian was located!
The group then followed Su Mo through the jungle, heading toward the direction of the Tomb of King Xian’s acupoint, which was much faster than blindly groping in the original work, although vines and chaotic trees grew in the primitive jungle, but Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi used machetes and entrenching tools in front to forcefully clear a path, finally arriving under the husband and wife banyan tree before the sun set.
Seeing that it was getting late, the five people then found two flat bluestones under the husband and wife banyan tree, and set up tents and lit a bonfire there.
While Hu Ba Yi and the others were busy, Su Mo’s gaze was on this husband and wife banyan tree.
These two husband and wife banyan trees were very spectacular, the trunks alone had several feet in diameter, twisted and entangled together like a twist, the crowns of the two trees also completely intertwined and overlapped, covering the nearby tens of meters, with many unknown flowers and parasitic vines growing on the tree, resembling a giant flower basket.
The vortex-like magnetic field that Su Mo had seen from afar before was right at this husband and wife banyan tree.
At this time from close up, these two husband and wife banyan trees were exactly where the acupoint of the Tomb of King Xian was located, an extremely dark power was condensing in the acupoint!
However, at this time the sky had already turned dark, and Su Mo did not want to act in the dark, so he decided to set these two trees aside for now.
Hu Ba Yi and the others soon cooked some food over the bonfire, and the five people, with the brought white wine and dried beef, ate the cooked instant noodles, and soon were full of food and drink.
Su Mo had Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi take turns on night watch, Xue Li Yang and Zhang Qiling entered the tent to rest, while he himself sat cross-legged on the bluestone, using the Devour and Transform Method to silently breathe and nascent qi absorption.
Unknowingly it was already the latter half of the night, Wang Pang Zi who was on night watch suddenly heard a tick-tock sound, which seemed like the radio wave sound of the military radio commonly used in the past, and he couldn’t help but jump up in fright, quickly waking Hu Ba Yi.
“Old Hu, listen to what this noise is?”
Hu Ba Yi listened carefully, and couldn’t help but be very shocked.
“This sound is three short three long three short, how does it sound like the distress signal sent by radio using Morse code!”
“It sounds like this noise is coming from inside the banyan tree, could there be a ghost inside?”
Hu Ba Yi scolded:
“Commander Wang, after all you are a proletarian revolutionary who received patriotic education, how could you believe in ghost signals and such things, not to mention there aren’t any, even if there really were, we’d smash their dog heads!”
Wang Pang Zi nodded:
“You’re right, let’s go up and take a look right now, to see what thing is playing tricks!”
After speaking, the two actually climbed up along the trunk of the husband and wife banyan tree, and soon discovered the wreckage of a crashed airplane in the middle of the crown, the tail fin behind the airplane was gone, the fuselage also had many large holes broken, covered with vines, and at the nose position, a pilot’s remains were crookedly lying in the pilot seat.
Wang Pang Zi couldn’t help but exclaim in shock:
“Old Hu, there really is a zombie, could it be this guy sending ghost signals?”
Hu Ba Yi frowned:
“Never mind what it is, eliminate it first!”
After speaking, Hu Ba Yi took out a black donkey hoof, and stabbed toward the pilot remains, thinking if it really was a zombie, use the black donkey hoof to subdue it first.
The black donkey hoof had just stabbed over, but the pilot helmet moved, and suddenly two golden lights appeared from under the helmet!
Wang Pang Zi screamed in fright:
“Oh no, it’s come back to life!”
Before the words fell, suddenly there was a flapping sound, and from behind the pilot’s corpse, a huge fierce bird rushed out, this thing was extremely huge, with a tree lizard still in its iron-sharp beak, it rushed out from behind the pilot and pounced toward Hu Ba Yi with claws open.
Hu Ba Yi was startled but not panicked, he picked up the entrenching tool and used a move from the Golden Crow Saber Technique called Opening the Door to Invite the Thief, slashing the shovel fiercely down on the head of this strange bird.
The strange bird was instantly smashed by his entrenching tool, let out a strange cry, turned its head and spread its wings flying out of the treetop, circled in the air once, then emitted bursts of strange calls.
As the calls rang out, suddenly another strange bird of the same huge size flew over from the sky not far away, circling in the air with this strange bird and calling nonstop, seeming ready to pounce down and attack Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi at any time.
Wang Pang Zi couldn’t help but cry out:
“Old Hu, this is a couple, you hit his wife, the husband is coming over!”
