Since the unknown raccoon next to him obviously has bad intentions towards him, there is absolutely no need to conflict with him when he has nothing to gain. The footprints at the front are still clearly traceable. As long as Tianjihong takes a slight detour and then turns back, he can perfectly avoid the range of the coyotito and save the trouble of fighting with it.
So Tianjihong kept his sight on the tree stump, fearing that the raccoon would launch a sneak attack on him unexpectedly; at the same time, he slowly retreated and walked around the open space on the left. After the distance between the two sides gradually widened, the coyotito in the distance slowly calmed down from its rage, and its screams also eased. After Tianjihong retreated a hundred meters away, the coypu rushed back with a fierce force. Inside the stump, the two sides finally avoided a head-on conflict.
This naturally made Tianjihong breathe a sigh of relief. Compared with the raccoon rats that lived here all year round, he was more unwilling to easily take action in this unfamiliar area. At present, he has successfully avoided a potential threat, but there are still many similar or stronger spiritual beasts waiting for him ahead. Tianjihong also slowed down and decided to be more cautious. Now he could only rely on vision and other senses to predict danger, and his opponents were mostly soul-conscious beings. He was determined not to move at full speed like he had just done in the valley.
This encounter with the raccoon was quite safe. Although this was the first time that Tianjihong left the guidance of the footprints in front, at least he did not detour too far. After a few minutes, he successfully found it again. On the road where the footprints extended, this gave him a little more confidence.
He thought that as long as he concentrated, he should be able to observe the traces of spiritual beasts from a distance in advance every time before entering a dangerous area and choose to take a detour to avoid them. In this dangerous area, the opponent is an equally intelligent spiritual beast and should be as unwilling to fight easily as he is. As long as he is not unlucky enough to actively provoke the overlord of this area, he can still ensure his own safety along the way. .
It's a pity that things went counterproductive. The dangers in this basin were far more than the attacks from the spiritual beasts that Tianjihong was wary of. At first, his method was successful. Following the direction of the footprints, he passed three or four spiritual beasts' lairs, but he discovered them all in advance and successfully circumvented them. Tianjihong also understood that although the spirit beasts in the surrounding lairs were not very powerful, the strength of the three people leading the way could definitely be easily solved; but it was obvious that those few people had the same rational choice as him to accept the attack. Hands, thinking about it, I don't want to make too much noise in the basin and cause other troubles.
But ten minutes later, when Tianjihong passed by a giant bird's nest ten feet high, something unexpected happened. This bird's nest nestled among the branches of a cedar tree should be obscured by the dense branches and leaves, making it difficult to see clearly from below. However, its size is quite astonishing, and Tianjihong was standing hundreds of meters away. Everyone has noticed the unexpected nest among the leaves.
The base of the nest in the distance is more than ten meters in diameter. From the appearance, it does not look like a bowl-shaped structure like an ordinary bird's nest. It actually has the appearance of some human buildings: its upper end is covered by a thick layer of leaves. Rainwater was surrounded by three simple walls built with fences, leaving only a gap at the entrance. From Tianjihong's perspective, it looked basically the same as a thatched hut.
Coincidentally, like the Fire Ridge Sheep, the owner of the bird's nest in front of him happens to be one of the spiritual beasts that Tianjihong can recognize. Judging from the feathers scattered around, he vaguely recalled a large bird called the Purple Lightning Eagle that his father had mentioned to him when he was young. This creature has a strong affinity for thunder and lightning since birth, and can absorb thunder aura more easily. When it reaches adulthood, it can usually grow to a height of five meters away. Its whole body is a brilliant blue-purple color, with only its claws and bird The beak is dark gray in color.
Because it is an eagle-like beast, its combat power mainly comes from its barb-like claws, which can easily lift prey several times larger than its own body size. It can also use its eagle claws to perform powerful thunder-type beast skills, easily tearing apart the opponent's defense. . Tianjihong clearly remembers that once the Purple Lightning Eagle reaches adulthood, it will at least have the combat power of [Yi Jin Realm]. The current nest must also be made of the adult Purple Lightning Eagle. Such a powerful existence is obviously not What you can provoke yourself.
Therefore, he chose to repeat the same trick and was already ready to take a detour a few hundred meters away. When he was young, accompanied by his father, he had seen the power of this Purple Lightning Eagle from a distance. At that time, his father warned him that this Purple Lightning Eagle has a very strong sense of territory. If it is placed in a wilderness area without natural enemies, its nest will be surrounded by A mile or two may be within the range of its surveillance. In order to ensure his own safety, Tianjihong thought about making a big circle and left the direction of the footprints early, heading towards a stagnant pool in the low-lying area on the left.
But after walking about a hundred steps, Tianjihong gradually felt something was wrong. Originally, the water pool that was only a hundred meters wide could be seen from the outside. At this time, it seemed that there was no end. At the same time, I looked to the side and looked at the barren mire in the past. At this time, as I gradually went deeper into the water pool, it began to become a little... Get hazy.
At first, Tianjihong didn't pay much attention to the changes in the environment. He kept focusing on whether there was any movement from the spiritual beasts around him. However, the silence along the way remained as before. Therefore, he initially attributed the blurred vision to the fact that he had worked hard all day, and may have had some delusions due to mental exhaustion. He thought that the fog in the pool was mostly caused by the evaporation of water vapor.
However, after advancing for a hundred meters, the fog around him began to become thicker and thicker, and the scenery in the distance became increasingly blurry. At this moment, except for the endless water under his feet, the environment within a radius of five meters was completely invisible. Tianjihong finally realized that he might have stepped into an illusion, and he suddenly panicked. .
Of course, he had also heard that there were various desperate areas spread deep in Dongyun Mountain, and there were many reports of explorers who strayed into the illusion and never came out. But these rumors only stayed in the villagers' word-of-mouth. Even when the master mentioned the dangers in the mountains to him, he just brushed it off. Tianjihong and Li Ming probably never dreamed that he would actually encounter something like this. dilemma.
At this moment, Tianjihong felt that his mind was completely blank. Like all survivors trapped in an illusion, his first thought was to try to turn back along the original path. But if the illusion could be broken so easily, there wouldn't be so many rumors of missing people. At this moment, Tianjihong no longer cared about the many worries he had before, and ran at full speed in the direction he came from; but the water under his feet seemed to stretch forward endlessly. After traveling at high speed for more than ten minutes, Tianjihong was still panting. He was unable to get out of the pool area, and in the end he was so exhausted that he had to stop and rest.
According to his calculations, with the way he was traveling at full speed just now, it would never take more than a minute to cross the road he came from and return to the original place. However, the facts were before his eyes. After ten minutes of running wildly, he had not even found the footprints he had followed before, and he had not even walked out of the puddle in front of him.
At this moment, Tianjihong had the illusion that he had always stayed at the starting point. What he was now certain of was that this place was by no means as barren as what he had seen in the distance before. There is probably interference from the field that distorts one's vision, which results in the situation where no matter which direction one goes in, they are spinning in place like a headless fly.
He just didn't know anything about battle tactics, so he couldn't tell whether this field was naturally formed or man-made. Now I will definitely not be able to find a way out by just relying on brute force. Although at present, the surrounding fog has not caused any harm to Tianjihong, and I have not noticed any signs of other spiritual beasts’ activities around me. I am currently in the He was safe in the illusion for the time being; but if he couldn't find a way out, sooner or later he would be trapped alive in this illusion.
Thinking of this, Tian Jihong took a deep breath to calm down the anxiety in his heart. Since there is nothing that can directly threaten him at the moment, his first priority now is to stabilize his emotions, and then think about countermeasures. Now the fact that he is trapped is doomed, and he who does not understand the layout of the formation is obviously unable to break through the formation and escape from its structure; however, he still understands that formations are common sense at the core of existence, and the only way he can get out of the predicament is The only way is to find the center of the formation, wait there and then see if other means can be used to forcibly destroy the formation from the core point.
After some thinking, Tianjihong finally thought of a more feasible method. Now that I am in an illusion, since my senses such as vision cannot play any role, the only thing I can rely on is my own spiritual power. Although it was difficult for Tianjihong to see the complete structure of this formation through his field of vision without being able to determine the direction, he could still sense the flow of spiritual energy in this area. Regardless of whether the illusion here is innate or acquired, the flow of spiritual energy in its core location must be fundamentally different from that in the surrounding areas. You may be able to find the correct direction by relying on the difference in spiritual energy absorption.
At this point, Tianjihong was once again sincerely grateful that he had learned how to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth last night. If he had been trapped here a few days ago, he would have been really helpless. After running the health-nurturing technique with all his strength, Tianjihong slowed down again this time and kept moving his position in this area; now that he had just entered the practice, his understanding of spiritual energy only remained at the most preliminary perception, so he We can only use this stupid method, stay in different positions and continuously absorb spiritual energy to compare repeatedly to determine the difference in the surrounding environment.
