Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 220 Shocking Change
Wei Xi's move was quick and decisive, and the water hit the rock wall without any change.

Instead, the sea fish with a bad temper swam towards Wei Xi, looking very eager.

"Look here!" Qin Feng found some clues by scraping away the layers of moss on the rock wall with a machete.

Wei Xi leaned over to take a look and found that it was an exquisite mural with dynamic lines and a reasonable composition, but the content was a little obscure and difficult to understand.

However, Wei Xi could tell at a glance that the murals here were vastly different in technique from the stone paintings found in the beast's nest.

"What's drawn on this?" Qin Feng said with a bitter face, "It vaguely looks like a narrative?"

Qin Feng's condition has not improved. Although this is a mural, it is very old and the narrative style is weird. She feels dizzy and has no idea about the content.

"These paintings..." Wei Xi tilted his head and looked at them for a quarter of an hour. The decorative patterns looked more and more like water ripples. "... They don't look like they belong on land..."

Qin Feng pressed Wei Xi's shoulder and said, "Didn't you just say that this thing grew up in the sea? Of course it's not painting things on land!"

As she was talking, another possibility suddenly popped up in Qin Feng's mind. She stuttered a little, "At least...it can't be that the Qing-Swallowing Beast drew it on its own when it had nothing better to do, right?"

Wei Xi shook his head. "Although this skill isn't as good as Lian Gou's, it's not something a monster can imitate casually!"

"If you are really so clever and skillful, why would you be a monster? You should just find a sect to draw talismans!"

Wei Xi said this while carefully observing the contents on the mural.

The patterns on each mural are not complicated, but it is precisely because of their simplicity that they are prone to misinterpretation.

Wei Xi looked at the incomplete murals in front of him for a long time, and after guessing and guessing, he roughly figured out what they meant.

"...I don't know where these people in the painting came from. It looks like something happened at sea. They split into two groups. One group disappeared with the waves, and the other group...are they rowing?"

The Weixi people were almost sticking to the rock wall. Looking at the mottled murals, they frowned and said, "This group of people rowing are rowing upwards... They want to leave this sea!"

"Look here!" Wei Xi pointed to the upper left corner of a fragment of the painting. "The color here is obviously darker than the rest... It's like they deliberately painted it over multiple times with dye."

Lian Gouyue had drawn many diagrams for Qin Feng, and through his influence, Wei Xi had learned a little about painting. At least the mural before her was definitely not created by chance. She boldly speculated that the mural depicted the destruction of an ancient city.

What a coincidence, the Dead Water City that the mermaids are so secretive about is an ancient city under the sea.

Wei Xi took a deep breath and rubbed her fingers together. She felt like fate had woven a large web, and she had been caught right in the center.

I roughly talked about my guess with Qin Feng, and took this opportunity to sort out my thoughts.

"...The Bone Reef Sea, where the mermaids live, is in Dongyi. The Sea-Suppressing and Clear-Swallowing Beast has lived for so long, perhaps it's seen that ancient city... So much so that even after being imprisoned in the Trial Field, it still managed to relive its memories..."

Wei Xi's voice became quieter and quieter, as if he was attracted by the mural.

Qin Feng was about to throw water at Wei Xi to wake him up, but the latter blinked as if waking from a dream. "Tell me, what are the abilities of the Qing-Swallowing Beast?"

"An ancient demonic beast that can summon wind and rain, move mountains and fill the sea," Qin Feng said without hesitation: "That's about it?"

Wei Xi felt that the answer was right at the tip of her tongue, but she just couldn't say it. The inexplicable anxiety made her start to pull her hair.

Seeing her like this, Qin Feng grabbed Wei Xi's hand and saved the girl's hair which had finally turned black and shiny.

"What's wrong with you? You're usually the most patient person!" Qin Feng paused, quickly calculating the time in his head, "...your period is coming?"

Wei Xi snorted, his eyes fixed on the mural, his heart felt like it was in a frying pan, and he was extremely anxious.

"You've been injured so many times recently, and you haven't had a moment's rest," Qin Feng, feeling sorry for his friend, began to soothe Wei Xi. "Think about it slowly. Those people from the Ten Thousand Swords Sect wouldn't die so quickly!"

Wei Xi's irritability eased a little, and he picked up his machete and "attacked" the surrounding rock walls, scraping off the weathered skin and revealing the dilapidated murals.

Unfortunately, most of these murals have been distorted by geological movements, and many have been eroded to the point where very little remains, making it impossible to extract any useful information.

Wei and Qin's attention returned to the few fragments of the paintings they had discovered at the beginning.

"...Why do these two teams look more and more like us?" Qin Feng inevitably thought of the separation of the teams, and his tone was a little puzzled.

Whether it was the arrangement of the Devouring Beast itself or the result of everyone's efforts, the monks did split into several groups just like the ancient people in the murals. Such a hint really makes people feel uncomfortable.

It was almost dawn at this time, and I guess Liu Yi had already led his men to continue walking towards the top of the mountain.

Wei Xi hopes that fellow Taoists can persist for a little longer, so that his own pressure will be much less.

The light in the valley gradually brightened, and the layers of the murals became apparent.

"This town is called Taotie Town..." Wei Xi muttered to himself, "These look like ordinary rocks..."

There were faint glints of light in certain areas of the mural. Qin Feng quickly knocked off a piece of stone from the blank space and compared the cross-section. There was no glint at all. "It must have been specially treated," Qin Feng showed the cross-section to Wei Xi. "Perhaps these people have special identities and used special pigments to mark them?"

Looking at these shining points, Wei Xi felt very familiar. Soon her expression changed suddenly, "These are metal! The residents of Taotie Town are the survivors in the murals!"

Wei Xi took out the metal components he had collected and said, "I found that the positions of these components are exactly the same as those marked on the drawing!"

"But those wandering corpses in Taotie Town... aren't they saying these metals are a blessing from auspicious beasts?"

After hearing Qin Feng's words, Wei Xi closed his eyes, his face full of regret: he was really influenced by the Qing-Swallowing Beast, and he didn't realize that something was wrong when hearing such outrageous words.

"Why is the Qing-Swallowing Beast doing all this?" Wei Xi opened his eyes and played with the components in his hand.

"These components are made with exquisite craftsmanship. You've seen the mermaids on the seabed, and they don't recognize them. Does the Qing-Swallowing Beast understand?"

Xizhou is poor because of its barren land, but this does not prevent it from being rich in various minerals. Most of the male men in every household serve as miners in labor service, and many ores are smelted on site, which makes the people of Xizhou quite knowledgeable about smelting.

Although Wei Xi is young, he can still roughly judge the quality of craftsmanship.

"The memories of these townspeople must have been affected, and they have forgotten that they are the masters of this place." Looking around, Wei Xi felt a sense of inexplicable sadness in his heart.

Although the murals are obscure and difficult to understand, it is not difficult to see that the city is very magnificent. These people left their homes and are now neither human nor ghost, which is really sad.

Wei Xi calmed down and asked Qin Feng to help him copy the murals. His eyes caught sight of the upper left corner of a mural and he stopped.

Sometimes looking at a problem from a different angle can lead to new problems.

The damn dark part is the mouth!

"Something swallowed the people who were fleeing by boat!" Wei Xi was afraid that it was not vivid enough, so he opened his mouth wide and moved closer to serve as a reference for Qin Feng.

"Now that you mention it, it does look a bit like it," Qin Feng said with some disdain, "Where did you find this artist? They didn't even draw the teeth! How could anyone understand?"

"Maybe it's not that it has no painted teeth," Wei Xi looked at Qin Feng and replied calmly: "This thing has no teeth to begin with."

"what?"

Wei Xi tapped his head. "We turned over a lot of bones in the beast's nest. Did you see any tooth marks?"

Qin Feng's eyes were already wide, and now they widened even more. "Now that you mention it, it seems that you didn't see any teeth marks..."

"The Qing-Swallowing Beast, it turns out it's named after the word 'swallow'..." Wei Xi paused, "It has quite the appetite, eating people and the land together!"

Wei Xi's dry humor didn't make Qin Feng relax. "Please stop talking. I feel a chill down my spine. Are we inside its belly?"

"I don't know." Wei Xi answered very straightforwardly, "If it's in its stomach, it's easy to tell."

"Is it okay in its belly? Xiaoxi, don't be mad..."

Wei Xi was a little surprised. "It's inside its belly. I can just find a way to gut it. It's probably better than fighting it outside. At least there are no scales inside to protect it! If I'm lucky, I can find Xiao Qingqing's heart, liver, spleen, and lungs and stab her a few times. Let's see how she can play tricks on me!"

As Wei Xi spoke, she began to copy the mural. Qin Feng thought about it and felt that what she said made sense. He began to look forward to everyone being in the belly of the Swallowing Beast.

Fortunately, Qin Feng had all the pens and ink in his Qiankun bag, so it was not difficult to make a temporary copy.

Just then, there was a loud noise from the top of the mountain, and the two men subconsciously looked up.

A pair of ridiculously large fins grew on the perfectly shaped mountain top, and the membrane was covered with distinct thick blood vessels, which even Wei Qin and his companions could see from a distance.

The fish's fins trembled a few times, and accompanied by a series of dull roars, the diamond-shaped animal head was raised, and then two other completely different animal heads emerged from the neck, roaring at the top of the mountain, with a very penetrating sound.

Wei Xi endured the severe pain and crushed the sound insulation note. Fortunately, the Qing-Swallowing Beast just had a loud voice and could not penetrate the sound insulation note to cause any harm.

As the Qing-Swallowing Beast awakened, Wei Xi also realized that the Qing-Swallowing Beast was not a random drawing, and the stone painting in the beast's nest was indeed a realistic work.

This mountain is cut off, and there is a beast lying around it.

Qin Feng released his hands from covering his ears and heard Wei Xi's rather regretful voice, "What a pity, we are not in its belly!"

　Getting a job interview is really about luck. The first place candidate on the written exam gave up, and I came in second, but lost by 0.66 points to third place on the written exam. The third place candidate even forgot to bring their ID and went to the wrong exam room, only to have it delivered after the interviews started... I was a complete clown... Not to mention the money I spent on hotel rooms and classes, I probably finished all the professional courses I'd studied in that month...

　　Then I'll take the postgraduate entrance exam. At least there's less luck involved...

　　My luck is not as good as Wei Xi's...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)