Chapter 137: Tiankeng
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Ji Jing was bold and kept chasing after him.
They came to a grassland. A gust of wind blew from the other end of the spacious grassland to this end. The knee-high grass swayed with the wind, emitting an indescribable coldness in the darkness.
Ji Jing’s gaze followed the figures of the mountain demons. After they arrived at the empty grassland, they seemed to have forgotten that there were two people following behind them. They all bounced towards the center of the grassland.
No, not just them.
Ji Jing was surprised to see the little mountain demons jumping over from all directions. They bounced and bounced, drawing a semicircle in the air, then bounced into the center of the grass and disappeared.
It was still daytime, but the center of the grassland seemed gloomy, like a huge monster lurking in the dark, waiting for the prey to arrive with its mouth open, and the mountain goblins would never come out after jumping in.
A cold wind blew, and Ji Jing suddenly felt her scalp go numb.” What is there?” Ming Ze wasn’t sure, but he wasn’t afraid. Ji Jing went over to take a look, but what she saw stunned the two of them.
A huge sinkhole appeared in front of them.
The sinkhole wasn’t deep, and it was filled with reed-like plants. As the mountain demons jumped up and down, they were smashed to the ground, but they quickly returned to their original state.
In the center of the crater, there was a circle of broken walls. A bright orange was sitting next to a broken wall. It was extremely eye-catching in the vast green.
For the first time, Ji Jing was glad that Bai Wang’s rebellious disguise had provided too much help in the process of finding the person.
“Is he unconscious? Are we going over?” Ji Jing considered carefully.
From her point of view, this circle of broken walls was obviously some kind of man-made building. In ancient times, most of the arrays were arranged in circles. Even if the buildings on top were eroded and collapsed after hundreds of years of wind and rain, the array inside might not be damaged.
Therefore, they could not rashly enter this unknown area.
Ming Ze looked around. They weren’t sure where the ruins were, but those who had lived here for a long time would definitely know.
“Let’s ask someone first.” Ming Ze took out a bone flute from his sleeve pocket and gently blew it. The desolate sound spread exceptionally far.
Not long after, rustling sounds and collisions came from the forest. Ji Jing saw a black and white ball rolling down the hill from afar.
“What is it?” The black and white dumplings’s voice echoed in the forest.
After much difficulty, he managed to knock away the little mountain demon that was blocking his way and rolled straight in front of the two of them. When it patted the soil and got up, it turned out to be a panda. However, he was cursing inelegantly in his heart. Damn it! Why is there a sinkhole here? I didn’t see the cliff beside the sinkhole just now. I almost broke my tailbone!
Ji Jing couldn’t tell what the panda looked like, but she had a feeling that it wasn’t the same one she had seen in the villa yesterday.
“Pan Bao, the owner of the Thousand Treasures Manor.” Ming Ze gave a simple introduction to Ji Jing, gesturing for him to look at the ruins in the sinkhole.” What is that place?”
“Huh?” Pan Bao rubbed his butt and looked over.” How would I know? When did this happen?”
Ji Jing looked at Pan Bao curiously and found that he was indeed still the same as when he was a panda. He was at his softest and cutest. It was hard to imagine that this was the owner of such a huge villa.
“You don’t know either?” Ming Ze was a little surprised. The Thousand Treasures Manor had been open for hundreds of years, and Pan Bao had lived here for hundreds of years. How could he not know that there was a sinkhole and an area similar to an array formation here?
“This…” Pan Bao looked around carefully and did not find anything special. However, when he combined it with the mountainside where the sinkhole was located, he suddenly had a bold idea.
“Oh!” Pan Bao suddenly understood.” This is the residence of the old mountain god, right?”
The old mountain god had left too early. After hundreds of years, he could not even recognize Pan Bao.
“Old Mountain God?” Ji Jing retracted her curious gaze and looked back at the center of the pit.
This seemed to make sense. If it was the old mountain god’s residence, it was no wonder that the little mountain demon was so eager to jump into the pit.
However, the old Mountain God had obviously passed away long ago, and this array that was maintained by the Mountain God’s spiritual power would also lose its effectiveness. It was not a big problem to enter directly..
