C685 Paleolithic cycad tree!
C685 Paleolithic cycad tree!
After some discussion, they came to the conclusion that the Ancient Crocodile Snake had been lying by the river since the beginning. Then, its nest should be at the bottom of the river, and if they wanted to find it, they would have to look for it from the bottom of the river.
Indeed, during the three days of Su Ye's closed door cultivation, they had gone deeper into the river to look for him. However, they had managed to find a place with a high suspicion of a Ancient Crocodile Snake's lair three hundred kilometers away at the bottom of the river.
Su Ye followed Zhu Ye and the others into the riverbed, and was shocked, that this river was deeper than they had expected, and was actually filled with dense water spirit energy.
The first time he came out of the passageway, Su Ye had already discovered that this world wasn't simple. It contained an extremely abundant amount of spirit energy and the purity and quality of the spirit energy was even better than the two provinces' Immortal Cultivation World.
The Immortal Cultivation World of the two prefectures could only contain the peak of the Sky Immortal Realm, and every movement beyond that would easily cause spatial rifts. In this world, it was different. It would be difficult for even the Xuan Immortal to tear open space, and this could be seen from the battle between the Ancient Crocodile Snake and the Golden-winged Great Peng.
The most important thing was that its spirit energy was comprehensive, it was not as unbalanced as the Fire God Continent.
Previously, when the Ancient Crocodile Snake was lying on the ground beside the river, it was a hard and golden land. Su Ye could already tell that the land was filled with rich, metal-attributed spiritual energy, and normally speaking, this place was a spiritual land rich in metal-type spiritual stones.
It was just that Su Ye and the rest wanted to find the Ancient Crocodile Snake's lair even more so, so they did not dig.
After reaching the riverbed, he discovered that there was a dense water-type spiritual energy. He could even see a few water-type spiritual veins along the way. They could definitely be used to mine quite a few water-type spiritual stones.
Su Ye was extremely envious, if not for him wanting to confirm the location of the Ancient Crocodile Snake's nest as soon as possible, he would have stopped to seize the spirit vein already.
Bringing all these spirit veins back, his Southern Abyss Immortal Sect would definitely benefit greatly.
While enduring the enormous water pressure as they ran, other than some of the more troublesome underwater currents, Su Ye and his group did not run into any living things underwater, not even a small fish could be seen.
Su Ye already had an idea in his heart.
The place Zhu Ye and the rest discovered was most likely the Ancient Crocodile Snake's lair.
The reason was simple, it was because of the territory.
In ancient times, between berserk beasts and those berserk beasts, there was actually a very strong sense of territory. Where there were berserk beasts, there were basically no other berserk beasts within a certain radius. It was even more impossible for some creatures with lower life than them to exist. They only needed to smell the scent of the berserk beasts and they would naturally flee.
There was not even a small fish to be seen in the river bottom. It was obvious that the existence of the Ancient Crocodile Snake in this area was because its naturally savage aura scared away all the life in the river.
When they arrived at that place, Su Ye was even more certain that even the soil at the bottom of the water was still alive with the aura of Ancient Crocodile Snake and it was quite dense. If not for the Ancient Crocodile Snake that stayed there frequently, how could this have happened?
It's just a little troublesome.
There was actually a natural ancient array in the Ancient Crocodile Snake's nest.
There were all sorts of reefs here, and their sizes varied. There were at least 90,000 of them, and they were distributed in different locations, forming a pure natural formation that separated the bottom of the lake from the rest of the world.
When Zhu Ye and the others found this place, they had tried all kinds of methods. However, they were still unable to pass through this ancient array.
One had to admit that the people of the Skyblaze Temple weren't very skilled in the Dao of formations.
Until Su Ye arrived, only then did he have a sliver of hope. In the eyes of Zhu Ye and the others, Su Ye was a mysterious existence.
Su Ye's original array dao cultivation could not be considered strong, as he had studied everything from the ancient texts of Qing-Yun Sect and Qing-Yun Sect. These two sects were not experts in array dao, so the knowledge he had gained on array dao could only be considered as knowledge on array dao.
It was only until Su Ye had comprehended a part of the Circulatory Star Diagram in his Mystery Clearing Realm that his array dao cultivation had a violent rise, and then, when he had obtained the mysterious crystal, that the vast map of the starry sky was hidden within the crystal.
If one were to look at the ancient array under the water with this amount of knowledge, it would be no problem at all.
From Su Ye's perspective, this ancient array that was extremely complicated in the eyes of Zhu Ye and the others was actually not complicated at all. He had only spent a little time, and was able to accurately find the 770,000 variations of the formation's principles that were contained within the ancient array.
Compared to the Universal Array, which used tens of millions of stars as its foundation, this could only be considered a small array.
However, Su Ye saw something very interesting from it. This ancient array had almost no flaws.
Yes, that's right.
This ancient array was practically a perfect array. The invisible array formation that it formed was almost perfect, with almost no gaps. At least, Su Ye's current Divine Vision could not find any flaws.
It could only be said that tomorrow's Dao was naturally supernatural and possessed boundless good fortune.
Su Ye had to be full of praise for this, and he became very interested in this ancient array. He spent three days to understand this naturally formed ancient array, until every detail and structure of this array was completely imprinted in his soul as the starry sky.
After comprehending this ancient array, not only could Su Ye easily bring people in and out, he could also consciously expand his knowledge of this ancient array. In the future, if he had his own immortal cave, he could set it up and ensure its safety.
As a result, this ancient array was named the Nine Directions Stone Formation by Su Ye himself!
Under Su Ye's lead, everyone stepped into the Nine Directions Stone Formation, and as the water pressure on their bodies disappeared, a very dense beast aura assaulted them. Including Su Ye, all of them instinctively shivered, thinking that there was a Ancient Crocodile Snake within the Nine Directions Stone Formation.
Fortunately, it was just an aura, but it was just an illusion.
Everyone calmed down and started to examine everything within the stone array.
This was a rather spacious area, but other than the various reefs and rocks, everyone only saw a black, leafless tree.
"What's going on? This is a natural ancient formation, and also the nest of Ancient Crocodile Snake!? Why is it so empty?! There isn't even a cave here!"
White Fish was a little confused. It felt that searching for the Ancient Crocodile Snake's nest after so much effort was simply a waste of time.
The others felt that it wasn't worth it.
"This is really depressing. I was hoping to find the Ancient Crocodile Snake's lair and get some clues. If I knew it would be so empty, why would we still be looking for it?"
"Haha, you can't put it like that. Isn't there still another tree?"
"Pui, what's the use of a tree? Furthermore, this is also called a tree, it's pitch black, is extremely thin, and doesn't even have a single leaf.
Everyone kept talking and venting their dissatisfaction.
However, she didn't join them. She was staring at the withered black tree with knitted eyebrows. She seemed to be thinking about something.
Suddenly, Xuelin walked over.
From his body, he took out a long sword. The sword was like a clear spring, and its edge was as sharp as the stars. This was actually a high-grade magic treasure.
Su Ye could not help but be shocked, there were actually a lot of good things on Xue Lin's body.
He saw that Xue Lin was slashing her sword towards the withered black tree.
This strange action immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"Tch!"
When the longsword hit the black tree trunk, it actually let out an exceptionally crisp sound of metal clanging, reverberating in the entire space.
However, the high-grade magic treasure that was Xue Lin's longsword had been cleanly broken. Like a piece of glass that had been struck by a steel, it was quickly broken into several pieces. Only the hilt was left in her hand.
"Big Sister Xuelin, what are you doing?"
Upon seeing this scene, White Fish hurriedly caught up. Looking at the ground littered with broken sword fragments, he said in heartache, "How did your White Star Sword break?"
Everyone was stunned as they looked at each other before surrounding him. Their eyes looked back and forth several times on the withered black tree. The more they looked, the more shocked they became. The more they looked, the more incredulous they felt.
They were all knowledgeable people.
Xue Lin's White Star Sword was extremely sharp. Although it might not be as sharp as the blade that Su Ye had taken out, but it was definitely as sharp as mud. How could it not leave a single mark on a withered tree, let alone when the White Star Sword was shattered?
Just how hard was this withered black tree?
All of a sudden, everyone's eyes burned. Could this unremarkable tree that looked like it had been burned by fire be some kind of treasure?
Su Ye's eyes also lit up. He suddenly took out the blade piece that Xue Lin gave him and threw it towards the withered black tree from afar.
The blade hit the tree trunk like a knife.
The crisp sound of metal clanging was heard again. It was sharp and chilling.
Everyone's eyes were fixated on the blade. Sure enough, the blade also followed in the footsteps of Bai Xingjian. After it hit the tree trunk, it directly shattered, turning into dozens of tiny pieces that fell to the ground.
"Impossible!"
Zhu Ye cried out involuntarily, "Just what kind of tree is this? How can it be so tough, this is too inconceivable!"
Everyone was shocked as well. They all looked at Su Ye, hoping that he would say something. But this time, Su Ye could only shrug his shoulders, he had not reached the stage where he knew everything in the world.
Su Ye looked at Xue Lin and laughed: "Xue Lin, you are the first one to swing your sword towards this tree, I presume you already have your suspicions?"
Xue Lin took a deep breath, as if trying to suppress the traces of shock and excitement in her heart. "If I'm not wrong, it's most likely a Paleolithic cycad tree!"