nycdaug Chapter 423 The Round Hole Inside the Abyss
Chapter 423 The Round Hole Inside the Abyss
Nowadays, the smell of alcohol that Xu Ning exudes is no longer the kind of "bring in the wine" that was only enough to get one person drunk.
Having become accustomed to controlling the Heart of the Wind God, Xu Ning wrapped the wind pillar around his right arm the instant he threw a punch, releasing the dragon-shaped aura of alcohol in an instant.
The dragon-shaped wine aura traveled on the wind, and the howling wind it brought along was like the roar of a dragon and the howl of a tiger. How could these beast wolves withstand the strong wine aura spread by the wind element? The moment Xu Ning landed, a cone-shaped blank area appeared in front of him.
In just two breaths, the empty space was once again filled by the fearless pack of beast wolves.
However, Xu Ning's move deeply shocked the Thousand Rock Army guarding the exit, and strengthened their determination to defend it to the end.
After all, the burly man who just went in wielded a long spear that was both beautiful and ferocious, and almost instantly shattered the enemy formation with lightning.
The commander of the Thousand Rock Army had not expected that Xu Ning would possess such power in a single move.
Upon seeing this, he immediately shouted, "Young man, there are also my Thousand Rock Army comrades stationed below the Abyss to prevent those miners from being harmed by unknown forces. If you see them, please help them out."
Xu Ning raised his arm to indicate that he had heard.
Then, with a snap of his fingers, several sparks flew, igniting the gushing aroma of alcohol, "Fiery Breath of Gale!"
The move that Captain Jean used in Mondstadt, which she did unintentionally, was especially effective in such a dense group of enemies.
The wind fanned the flames, and wherever Xu Ning went, red lotuses bloomed everywhere, and countless black mists rose from them, only to be burned away into nothingness.
Xu Ning kept spewing flames outwards as he rapidly approached the burly man wielding a long spear.
"Yingda, you've come at just the right time..."
The burly man, who was splitting a giant wolf in two with a single spear thrust, felt the scorching heat behind him and spoke without turning his head.
However, after saying this, the big man himself was stunned for a moment, and then turned around to look at Xu Ning who was walking out of the flames.
"It is you……"
Xu Ning dodged a sharp claw that was clawing at his neck, and the Dust Concealment Gourd suddenly shot out from his left hand, smashing the giant wolf's head.
"You just called me Yingda?"
The burly man, expressionless, brandished his spear once more. "I don't know why I thought of that name. I've forgotten everything from before, I don't even remember who I am."
But do you still remember Yingda? Xu Ning thought to himself.
Yingda, the "Fire Rat General" of the Immortal Yakshas, is most skilled at manipulating the power of fire element.
Xu Ning understood that in that instant, the big man must have mistaken him for the Fire Rat General.
But now the big man's face is as calm as still water, perhaps he really has forgotten a lot.
However, Xu Ning noticed that on the shoulders and back of the burly man's unclothed upper body, patches of cloud patterns had appeared at some point.
The color of this cloud pattern was an unusual purple, which I had never seen before, otherwise I would have noticed it.
"Is it because power is gradually awakening?"
Xu Ning didn't remind the big man to pay attention to his strange appearance. Instead, he said, "According to the information from the Thousand Rock Army, there might still be people surviving down there. I wonder if you would be willing to come down with me to investigate?"
The burly man did not respond, but instead turned his spear and pointed it directly at the mouth of the abyss, charging straight towards it.
Even though the bowl-shaped abyss was now crawling with beast wolves, Xu Ning and the big man moved as if they were in an empty place, charging towards the abyss almost non-stop.
"My next move is a bit indiscriminate, so let me go down first!"
When the two arrived at the mouth of the abyss, they could clearly see that countless beast wolves were rushing out from there.
However, due to the excessive density of monsters here, which seem to burst forth like a dam breaking, it would be difficult to enter without using a powerful special move.
Xu Ning greeted the big man, and then without hesitation unleashed a "Gale and Flame Breath" attack from the cave entrance downwards. Before the monsters below could refill the gap, Xu Ning jumped straight in.
"Drunken madness!"
Just as Xu Ning landed and barely made contact with the demon, he suddenly unleashed this deadly move.
The flames on Xu Ning's right arm from the previous Fierce Wind Breath attack hadn't even died down yet. Now, as he descended, he unleashed Drunken Frenzy, like setting off a string of firecrackers in a dark cave. Continuous bursts of fire, accompanied by the screams of the demons, exploded all the way down from the top.
Just as Xu Ning was about to land, even though he was mentally prepared, he still almost fell.
The dark monsters in the darkness attacked and entangled Xu Ning with unbridled ferocity. The monsters' dark colors blended perfectly with the environment of the abyss, which made Xu Ning dare not extinguish the flames in his hands. He simply unleashed "Gale Breath" again and again.
Then, they could use this opportunity to get a clear view of their surroundings and also let the survivors hiding in the abyss know that someone had entered.
A moment later, a tremendous thunderclap resounded.
A streak of purple light exploded and fell from the mouth of the abyss, piercing through the throng of monsters.
The burly man, wielding a long spear, also descended from above.
"Which way to go?"
Xu Ning didn't know which way to go at the moment, but he had just taken a look by the firelight and the terrain here was basically the same as it would be five hundred years later. Since that was the case, he might as well walk the same path he had taken the day before.
"Let's go this way!"
Searching for someone in such darkness is extremely difficult, completely different from rescuing someone in a crisis on a normal day.
On any other day, those survivors would probably have already lit a fire, or even cooked a soup and sat down to wait calmly for the Thousand Rock Army to come to their rescue.
In the current situation, within this dark cave teeming with monsters, rashly lighting a fire would be tantamount to pointing the monsters up a target to attack.
Therefore, Xu Ning could only become the torch himself, hoping that they would see it and move closer to him.
Unlike the vast mining areas that will be developed in the future, the current mining area is just a slightly wider passage.
Moreover, judging from the appearance, the mining here has not been going on for long and should not go too deep.
However, as Xu Ning explored further in, he was surprised to find that in the unexplored area, there were many huge round holes of similar size distributed on the walls of the rock strata.
Some of the round holes even appeared on the rock face at a height of more than ten meters above the ground, which was not the work of the miners who worked here.
"No one would bother to dig a hole halfway up a mountain to mine, but with so many holes here, could there be some giant insects or rock-breaking beasts underground?"
Before Xu Ning could think further, he suddenly saw flickering lights in a cave.