Killing God - Chapter 375

Chapter 375 Small Valley
After walking forward for a while, Shen Shi’s expression was calm, but his gaze had always been somewhat cautious as he swept his gaze around the surroundings of the forest. However, the forest had always been very quiet. Trees, thorns, weeds, and trees were full of green. Occasionally, a mountain breeze would blow and lightly swing along with the wind. It was a very comfortable place to look at.

However, Shen Shi always felt that something was wrong.

He frowned slightly. After pondering for a moment, he continued to walk forward. However, his right hand was already hanging gently by his side, not far from the Ruyi bag tied to his waist.

Judging from the speed and frequency of the floating immortal boat flying along the periphery of Black Crow Ridge, Shen Shi recalled from the bottom of his heart that every Origin Condensation Realm disciple who entered Black Crow Ridge would be at least a mile or two apart from each other. In some places, if there were some valleys or streams, the distance would be even farther.

In other words, in the beginning, unless some wealthy trial disciples used flying magic treasures directly, but of course, such a move was undoubtedly not a smart method in this unfamiliar place. Otherwise, most people should be alone for the first half of the day and would not meet anyone else.

The strange smell floated in the air. It was uncomfortable but tolerable. Shen Shixiang thought of something and turned to look at Little Hei. He found that the Little Hei pig didn’t seem to be affected at all. From the beginning until now, it had been trotting in the forest excitedly and sniffing.

Logically speaking, Little Hei’s sense of smell was much sharper than that of ordinary people. It was impossible not to sense the strange aura of Black Crow Ridge. Moreover, his reaction should be even stronger. Why did he look completely indifferent? Shen Shi thought about it and was still puzzled. In the end, it could only be attributed to the strange nature of this pig. Perhaps it was born to only smell the fragrance of spirit herbs and ignore the other disgusting auras.

However, when he thought of this, Shen Shi remembered something important. He waved his hand and called Little Hei over. Then, he squatted down and touched his head. “Little Hei, this trip to Black Crow Ridge is different from our usual adventure. If we can find more spirit herbs and spirit materials, we can deal with each other. Don’t be lazy, okay?”

Little Hei raised his head and looked at him. He nodded his head. He was surprised to hear that. On the contrary, he shocked Shen Shi and looked at the Little Hei pig in surprise.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Shen Shi still felt a little worried. He thought to himself that this pig was used to being cunning. Perhaps it had become smarter recently. It would be bad if it learned to use such a rascal technique in front of others. As the saying goes, it was necessary to guard against others, and prevent the pig from being lazy … Hiss, there seemed to be no good way.

Shen Shi scratched his head and gently patted Little Hei’s head. “Little Hei, according to the past practice, it was also to motivate the disciples of the sect. Every time in this kind of trial, the sect would take the five people who obtained the highest rewards after the final results were released. Those things are very good, and I really want them,” he said. “If you can really make it into the top five, I’ll give it to you …” He thought for a moment and decided to bleed heavily.

“If you can find more spirit herbs and spirit materials, I’ll give you fifty spirit crystals once we enter the top five, okay?”

Little Hei’s body was quick-witted, revealing a somewhat excited expression. However, there seemed to be some doubt in his eyes. Shen Shi looked at it and rolled his eyes. Then, he came to his senses. He laughed and reached out to wipe his Ruyi bag. A moment later, he saw a precious light flickering, crystals flickering, and a pile of bright, translucent spirit crystals appearing in his hand.

Little Hei opened his mouth slightly and stared at the large handful of spirit crystals in Shen Shi’s hand. His eyes shone and a trace of saliva immediately fell down.

Shen Shi chuckled. He thought to himself that Little Hei was indeed not good at logarithm. It was useless to just say fifty spirit crystals. He took them out and showed them to him. This dazzling pile of spirit crystals was placed in front of him and immediately had a miraculous effect.

“Fifty pills!” Shen Shi rubbed Little Hei’s head with a righteous expression and said, “Do you see that? With such a large pile, you can buy an entire mountain of spiritual herbs! This time, it’s your turn. Let’s go find the spiritual herbs, okay?”

The little black pig opened its mouth and nodded desperately. Then, it turned around and rushed out like an arrow that had left its string. It was full of energy and impetus.

Shen Shi stood up with a smile and walked forward. At the same time, he seemed to recall something and shouted at the back of the black pig,

“Little Hei, shut your mouth. Stop drooling.”

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Black Crow Ridge is a vast mountain range that covers a very large area, As the mountains rose and fell, the terrain within the mountain was extremely complicated. The dangerous peaks, deep valleys, poisonous mist, miasma, and various dangerous places were present. At the same time, many places were covered with a thick layer of purple-black soil. When one looked from afar, one would feel that most of the entire mountain was black. This was also why the name Black Crow Ridge came from this.

This unusual layer of black soil was the vampire soil that Shen Shi had confirmed after careful identification. According to the records Shen Shi had read in an ancient scroll in the past, This kind of soil was extremely rare. It was said that it had ravaged for a period of time during the ancient era, but then it disappeared for some reason. In the future, there would only be sporadic news of vampiric soil being discovered in the Primordial Chaos Realm. However, he never imagined that there would actually be such a large-scale vampiric soil in the Hundred Mountains Realm.

Blood-sucking soil was cold and had blood in it. Normally, there was nothing unusual about it. At most, if a living creature fell onto the soil after its death, it would quickly be corroded. Blood essence was absorbed by the soil, but it had no effect on the trees and plants growing on it.

But the small vampiric soil wasn’t a problem, If the amount of vampiric soil were to expand beyond an extremely large limit, It’s going to be another dangerous place, Countless Yin Qi gathered together and countless blood essence vengeful souls gathered together. This kind of extremely strange thing in the world would gradually turn into the most cold and gloomy place in the world. At this time, the central region of this large vampiric soil would often become the ghost that was most suitable for ghosts by nature, and then a vicious ghost that surpassed the imagination of humans would be born.

Legend has it that the earth beneath the Yellow Springs was a vampiric soil that had passed through countless years. Ghosts traveled through darkness and eternity there, and it was the most terrifying place in the world for millions of years.

On the Black Crow Ridge in front of him, The Vampiric Soil couldn’t possibly have such a terrifying scale, Actually, the Black Crow Ridge was black from afar. However, when one walked to the nearby mountain, one would discover that the purple-black patches were not completely connected. Instead, they were separated into regions of varying sizes. It seemed that there was an invisible force restraining the vampiric soil from fusing with it and magnifying it.

Such a large number of small-scale vampiric soils didn’t have much of an impact on cultivators on the surface. However, Shen Shi didn’t take it lightly. After all, vampiric soils were extremely dark things. It wasn’t too surprising for them to jump out of this place with ghosts that couldn’t be guarded against.

However, in this way, for the disciples of Lingxiao Sect who participated in the trial, the difficulty of this trial was a little too high. Shen Shi was slightly puzzled, but he didn’t think about those questions. It was useless to think about them anyway.

Compared to the many thoughts in his heart, The Little Hei pig looked much warmer and purer. At this moment, the black pig seemed to have split into a few Black Crow Ridge mad dogs and was running around the surrounding woods full of energy. Sniffing, sniffing, and searching for spiritual herbs made Shen Shi sigh with emotion. He wondered how long it had been since he had seen this guy work so hard.

Even so, for some reason, Shen Shi and Little Hei’s harvests weren’t good. They had trekked for about two hours in this mountain forest, but they had only found three spirit herbs. Among them, two were the most ordinary first-grade spirit herbs, and only one was a second-grade spirit herb that could barely be seen.

There was something wrong with this situation. Shen Shi looked around the surrounding forest and thought that no matter what, under Little Hei’s exceptionally sensitive sense of smell, there shouldn’t be so few spiritual herbs found here. At this moment, Little Hei also ran back to his side. Seeing that even he was a little confused, he snorted at Shen Shi twice.

Shen Shi shook his head and whispered to Little Hei, “I don’t know either.”

Little Black looked a little depressed. He stretched out his pig trotters and casually dug through the dirt beneath his feet. The black soil spread out, and a slightly stronger aura was emitted.

Little Hei snorted, looking a little disgusted. He jumped up and walked to the other side of Shen Shi. Shen Shi frowned slightly and looked at the soil on the ground, his eyes thoughtful.

Perhaps the aura of the vampiric soil wasn’t as harmless to Little Hei as it seemed on the surface?

This kind of strange soil in the legends was truly too strange. Shen Shi shook his head. After pondering for a moment, he said, “Let’s go and take a look ahead.”

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This time, Shen Shi did not stay on the way for too long. Instead, he led Little Hei straight ahead. On the way, Little Hei was still intentionally trying to run out to find out if there were any spiritual herbs on the way, but Shen Shi had called them back.

The reason why there were so few spiritual herbs in this mountain forest was because the vampiric soil had a great effect on Little Hei’s sense of smell, or because this place had been swept away by former Lingxiao Sect disciples, so there weren’t many spiritual herbs left. No matter what, it was not a good method to continue searching for spiritual herbs in this mountain forest. Therefore, Shen Shi decisively abandoned this relatively safe mountain forest and continued to walk deeper into Black Crow Ridge.

There should be a bigger and more dangerous place ahead, but I think there should be more harvests.

After walking for another half an hour, Shen Shi discovered that he had walked out of the mountain forest. The edge of the vampiric soil seemed to only extend to the edge of the mountain forest. Only then did he walk out. Shen Shi suddenly felt his body loosen. It was as if there had always been a stone pressing on his heart during the previous period of time. He was suddenly moved away.

Beside him, Little Hei also seemed to be suddenly happy. He subconsciously shook his body and laughed twice.

However, when Shen Shi entered the mountain from the Floating Immortal Ark, it was almost noon. Afterwards, he stayed in the forest for a long time. At this moment, the sky seemed to have darkened, and it was almost dusk.

Shen Shi turned around and looked around. Behind him was the forest that had just emerged. In front of him was a hill. On the left was a valley that was sunken down. It was not very deep, and there were sparsely growing vegetation.

However, borrowing the skylight, Shen Shi could clearly see that the hill was halfway up the mountain. A familiar purple-black color had already appeared. It was precisely the appearance of the vampiric soil. On the contrary, the valley below was cleaner.

After pondering for a moment, he took Xiao Hei to the valley.

As they walked down the mountain, the valley wasn’t too deep, but it was actually very long and deep. When they reached the bottom of the valley, they walked forward. When the sky darkened, neither Shen Shi nor Xiao Hei saw the end of the valley.

The howl of the mountain wind blew past, and darkness sank down. The first star in the sky revealed its head.

On the Black Crow Ridge, under the cover of night, this first mysterious and dangerous night also descended.