Chapter 562: Mist Island
Song Wen found a monk's hotel and stayed for one night.
However, by the next day, he still had not received any reply from Jingkai.
Song Wen went to the entrance of Corpse King Valley again, but still saw no sign of Jing Kai.
He didn't want to wait any longer, so he walked forward directly and came to a foundation-building guard.
"Fellow Taoist, please excuse me for a moment. Why don't you see fellow Taoist Jingkai?"
The guard glanced at Song Wen and said in a rather unkind tone.
"Who are you? What do you want from Jing Kai?"
"I am a casual cultivator. I was favored by fellow Taoist Jingkai a few years ago. This time when I passed by Wuji Island, I wanted to come and see him to repay my kindness in the past. He once said that he was the guard of the Corpse King Valley. I am here I waited for two days but didn't see him; I sent him a message but he didn't reply." Song Wendao.
The guard's lips curved into a sneer, "I'm afraid you won't be able to repay this kindness."
Song Wen looked slightly startled, "Why?"
Unexpectedly, the guard waved his hand and sounded extremely impatient.
"Let's go, let's go, I'm on duty and I don't have time to chat with you."
Song Wen turned his hand and stuffed a cloth bag into the opponent's hand without leaving any trace.
"Fellow Taoist, please do it for your convenience."
The guard scanned the spirit stones in the bag with his spiritual sense, his expression suddenly softened, and he lowered his voice and spoke.
"Jingkai is in trouble."
"What trouble?"
"He was greedy for rewards and overestimated his ability to take over the task of exterminating demons from the Tang family on Hidden Hidden Island. As a result, the task was not completed and instead he was trapped deep in the mine by the monsters."
The Tang family on Wuji Island is a foundation-building family affiliated with Wuji Island. The Wuyin Island where the Tang family is located is rich in rotten bones and stones.
Rotten bone stone is a commonly used spiritual material for refining and cultivating corpse puppets.
"This matter involves the sect's property, won't your sect send someone to rescue it?"
The guard said with some gloating on his face.
"The sect will naturally carry out rescue. But the problem is that the monsters entrenched in the mines of Wuyin Island are Yin fire ants. They are huge in number. Not only are they highly poisonous, but they can also spray Yin fire. It is even more troublesome. What’s more, there are also second-order king ants lurking among them.”
"If we want to completely eradicate this group of Yin Fire Ants, no one is completely sure unless there is a golden elixir elder who is willing to take action. Half a month ago, the mission hall issued a mission to eradicate the Yin Fire Ants. But there is no golden elixir yet. The elders are willing to take over.”
Song Wen frowned and asked in confusion.
"If no one takes over this task, will the fire ants be allowed to occupy Kirigakure Island?"
The guard said, "That won't happen. If no one takes over the task for a long time, the mission hall will consider increasing the reward for the task, or directly assign a Jindan elder to handle it. However, I don't know if Jing Kai can survive until that time. ”
"Since we know that fire ants are so dangerous, why did Jing Kai take on this demon-eliminating mission in the first place?" Song Wen asked.
The guard said, "At that time, the Tang family did not know that the Yin fire ants had given birth to a large number of second-order king ants. The Tang family mistakenly thought that it was just a huge nest of first-order Yin fire ants."
"That's it. Thank you fellow Taoist for clarifying my doubts. Farewell."
Song Wen cupped his hands, turned and left.
Jing Kai is not only related to Lingzhuguo, but Song Wen also wants to use him to find out some current information on Wuji Island. Therefore, Song Wen decided to go to Kirigakure Island to take a look.
If there is no need to take too much risk, Song Wen plans to help him get out of trouble.
Wuyin Island is hundreds of thousands of miles away from Wuji Island, and it took Song Wen most of the day to arrive.
Kirigakure Island has a radius of thousands of miles and is named because it is shrouded in fog all year round.
The aura on the island is not strong, the vegetation is sparse, and exposed black rocks can be seen everywhere.
The Tang family's residence is located in the southwest of the island, on a high mountain near the coast. This is the place with the strongest aura on the island.
Two hundred miles north of the Tang family's residence, there is a small basin, and the saprolite vein is located in the basin.
The basin is about a hundred miles wide and is shrouded in fog all year round, making it extremely humid, as if water can condense in the air at any time.
In the southeast corner of the basin, a large number of shacks were built, in which tens of thousands of ragged mortals lived.
These mortals were slaves captured by the Tang family to mine rotten bones.
Since the rotten bones and stones contain the energy of the infernal corpse, these mortal mine slaves have been exposed to the rotten bones and stones for many years. As a result, most of them were invaded by the infernal corpse's energy, and their bodies were stooped and emaciated.
No matter how old the mine slaves were, they all looked old and dying.
No matter how strong and healthy the mining slaves who enter this place are, no one can survive more than ten years.
In the middle of the basin, there is a deep pit with a diameter of dozens of feet.
This pit is thousands of feet deep, like a bloody mouth of a monster, mercilessly devouring the lives of those mining slaves.
At the bottom of the deep pit, there are criss-crossing mine holes.
Perhaps due to the infestation of fire ants, there are no slaves working in the mine. In a stone house only a few miles away, there were two foundation-building monks from the Tang family, monitoring the movements of the fire ants.
It was dark when Song Wen arrived at Kirigakure Island. Wearing a black cloak, he gathered his aura and used the night and fog to easily avoid the guards and reach the edge of the pit.
A shadow Gu flapped its wings and flew into the pit.
As soon as Shadow Gu entered the deep pit, a transparent barrier suddenly appeared in front of him.
The barrier appeared without warning, and Shadow Gu ran straight into it.
Song Wen secretly thought something bad.
This barrier is a warning formation. The moment Shadow Gu hit him, the formation was triggered, which meant that Song Wen had been exposed.
However, to Song Wen's surprise, the warning formation was triggered, but no obvious abnormal phenomenon broke out.
It was as if the person who set up the formation did not want people to know that a warning formation was set up here.
Or, he did not want the people of the Tang family to know that there was a warning formation here. After all, this Mist Hidden Island was managed by the Tang family.
Song Wen was alert and recalled the Shadow Gu.
His figure soared into the air, and he flew high into the sky until he rose more than 30 miles into the air before stopping.
Then, a figure flew out from the pit below.
Like Song Wen, he was covered in a black cloak, and his face and figure could not be seen clearly. His breath was restrained, and he obviously did not want others to know his existence.
The man in black was suspended above the pit, several miles away from Song Wen.
Both of them looked at each other vigilantly, and neither of them acted rashly.
Neither of them could fly in the air without the help of any magic weapon. Therefore, both sides could easily judge that the other party was at least a Jindan-stage cultivator.
"Daoyou, this is a mine belonging to our Wuji Island. Please do not trespass."
The black-clothed man on the opposite side said in a kind tone.
"Since you are a cultivator from Wuji Island, why do you let the Yin Fire Ants wreak havoc here instead of destroying them?" Song Wen asked.
"This is an internal matter of our Wuji Island and has nothing to do with you. Please leave quickly and do not interfere." The black-clothed man said.