The Yinwind Realm, somewhere in the south.
Zhao Lin, Wei Shi, and Li Zhi walked through a fern forest. There were many giant ferns growing here, covering the sky and the earth, making people feel like they were in ancient times.
The environment here has a strong shielding effect on spiritual consciousness, which is conducive to hiding one's whereabouts.
You only need to spend seven or eight hours peacefully before you can go to Zhongyin Mountain and return to the outside world.
Zhao Lin has made up his mind to find a way to find out the fat monk's roots when he leaves the Yinfeng Realm. If this person is still entangled, sooner or later he will find an opportunity to teach him a lesson.
As long as you break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining, you can master Dacheng-level spells, and when you reach the fifth level of Qi Refining, you can even use Perfection-level spells.
At that time, unless they encounter a magic master like Miao Kefa, most monks in the late stage of Qi refining will not be their opponents.
"Brother Zhao, I have something to say to you alone."
Li Zhi suddenly said.
"What's the matter? You can't say it in front of Brother Wei?"
Zhao Lin said calmly, he was also curious in his heart, but he couldn't agree directly in front of Wei Shi to avoid any suspicion.
"Hey, it's okay, you guys are chatting. I'll go over there and see if there's any wind grass."
Wei Shi laughed and found a reason to leave.
Li Zhe waited for Wei Shi to go away and whispered: "I know where there is star peony."
Zhao Lin was slightly startled, "Didn't you say you didn't come here? How did you know about Star Peony?"
Li Zhi explained calmly: "I have never been here before. This is the territory of another thousand-year-old ghost. We can communicate with our spiritual consciousness. It was what it told me."
"Where is it?"
Zhao Lin looked around and remembered that the range of Yinhun's consciousness could reach a thousand feet, so he must have been hiding long ago, so he asked again: "What did it say?"
"It asked me what I was doing here, and I said I was just passing by so that it didn't need to worry."
"I knew that you wanted to collect Yinfeng grass and star peony, so I asked it if there were these two kinds of spiritual grass here. It told me a place where there were a lot of star peony."
"Many star peonies?"
Zhao Lin's heart moved when he heard this, and he stroked his chin and began to think.
Star peony can be worth ten spiritual stones and five good deeds, which is much more valuable than Yinfeng grass.
I originally planned to leave the small world tomorrow, but I was somewhat reluctant to do so, but if I could collect star peony, then this mission would be truly worthwhile.
Zhao Lin thought for a while and asked, "Is it credible?"
Li Zing scratched the umbrella cover with his tentacles and said: "It should be credible. The ghost does not need star peony. It will not do any good to lie to me."
"But...it told me that where the Star Peony is, there is a Soul Eater."
All things are mutually reinforcing and interfering with each other, and Yinhun is not without its natural enemies in the Yinfeng Realm.
The Eater Soul is a kind of monster in the Yin Wind Realm. It lives by eating corpses and carrion. It likes to eat Yin Souls the most. Even thousand-year-old Yin Souls would not dare to provoke it.
The Soul Eater is the nemesis of the Yin Soul, but to the human monks it is nothing, just an ordinary mid-level demon.
"You told me this, are you afraid that Wei Shi will get a piece of the pie?"
"right!"
"I didn't expect you to have such thoughts, but there's no need for that."
Zhao Lin smiled and thought that since he had rescued Wei Shi, he might as well be more upright and go find Xing Shao Cao together.
At present, it seems that Wei Shi is a person worthy of close friendship. If he is left alone, if he encounters the fat monk again on the way back to Zhongyin Mountain, he will not even have a helper.
Zhao Lin still had some doubts about Li Zhi.
This ghost is very different. Apart from trying to absorb his own soul at the beginning, everything he does later is to help himself, which is very puzzling.
If it harbors resentment and uses any means to reveal its whereabouts to the fat monk, it will be very troublesome.
"Brother Wei, let me tell you something."
Zhao Lin found Wei Shi and told him about the star peony.
"It's such a good thing!"
Wei Shi glanced at Li Zheng in surprise and said: "We just have time, so we went to pick the star peony. But we agreed in advance that if we don't take any of the star peony we get, it will all belong to Brother Zhao." "
Zhao Lin waved his hand and said: "That's not necessary. The rule of the world of immortality is that everyone who sees it has a share."
Then he looked at Li Zhi and said, "Thank you, Fellow Daoist Li, for leading the way."
"Okay, okay."
Li Zhi seemed to be very happy with this title, and his tentacles were so excited that they floated up.
In this way, Li Zheng led the way, and Zhao Lin and Wei Shi followed behind. They left the fern forest and walked to a "Big Belly Mountain" not far away.
"It's right here."
Arriving around a hillside on the west side of Dadu Mountain, Li Zhi floated for a while and suddenly shouted: "Here!"
Zhao Lin and Wei Shi stepped forward quickly and saw a hidden cave.
The entrance to the cave is almost completely obscured by vines and shrubs, making it impossible to spot it unless you look carefully.
Zhao Lin used an iron ruler to spread the vines and released ultrasonic waves into the hole.
Li Zhi and Wei Shi didn't know why, but they both kept silent and waited quietly.
The cave is very deep, and ultrasonic waves entered it and did not return for a long time.
After more than ten breaths, Zhao Lin had a general understanding of the situation in the cave.
The space inside the cave is quite open. There is a spherical cave not far from the entrance. After passing through a passage, there seems to be a larger cave inside.
The entire cave is shaped like a gourd.
"Let's go!"
Zhao Lin stepped into the cave, followed by Li Zhi and Wei Shi.
I originally thought that the cave was pitch black, but to my surprise, there were many palm-sized stones on the cave wall that emitted light blue phosphorescence, and the light was brighter and more transparent than the outside.
After walking a hundred or so steps, our eyes suddenly opened up and we walked into a cave with a radius of dozens of feet.
Directly opposite the cave, there is a conspicuous pear-shaped cave.
Zhao Lin detected again and found that until the ultrasonic wave attenuated to the end, the end of the cave inside could not be detected. It was estimated that the size of the cave would not be less than a hundred feet.
"Did that ghost tell you the exact location of Star Peony in the cave?"
Hearing Zhao Lin's words, Li Zheng raised a tentacle and pointed forward, "It told me to go through the first cave and into the larger cave inside."
"Then we won't waste time here."
"Okay, let's go!"
Zhao Lin and Wei Shi discussed it and walked quickly towards the pear-shaped cave.
When I came to the cave, I suddenly heard the sound of footsteps and a monster jumped out from inside.
This monster looks like an old ape, with yellow hair, a big mouth, and two eyes that glow green.
It was the soul-eating that Li Zhi mentioned before.
Zhao Lin and Wei Shi both stood still, but Li Zhi was so frightened that he stepped back several feet.
"Squeak!"
Xihun bared his teeth and danced his claws twice, then suddenly turned around and ran away, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Zhao Lin and Wei Shi were not surprised. The higher the level of the monster, the more aware it was of the interests and dangers of human monks.
The pear-shaped cave is like a tunnel, less than ten feet long. After passing through the tunnel, a huge ring-shaped cave appears in front of you.
This cave is larger, with a radius of four to five hundred feet. What's even more peculiar is that there are countless large pillar-shaped rocks standing on the ground.
Some of these big rocks are several feet high, and some are more than ten feet high. Looking around, it seems like entering a stone jungle.
Zhao Lin and Wei Shi didn't say anything, and both looked at Li Zing.
Searching for spiritual grass in such a large place may take a lot of time if you don't know the specific location.
Li Zhi understood and said: "Go left for four hundred knots and then forward for a thousand knots."
"What festival?"
Zhao Lin and Wei Shi both looked puzzled.
Li Zhi quickly explained: "Our ghosts feed on the juice of Canghuan Bamboo, so we often use Canghuan Bamboo as an example when communicating."
"The section I'm talking about is the length of the bamboo section of Canghuan Bamboo."
As he spoke, he stretched out two tentacles and gestured, "One section is about this long."
"Almost two feet, basically the same as my stride length."
Zhao Lin nodded and said with a smile: "Then walk four hundred steps to the left, and then walk a thousand steps forward."
After saying that, he raised his head and looked around, and saw a large rock over ten feet high next to him. He quickly ran a few steps, jumped up to the large rock, and looked down from a high place.
After patrolling for a while and finding nothing unusual, he jumped down and walked to the left with Wei Shi and Li Zhi.
"Everyone, be careful and don't go out of sight."
The boulder stood quietly, like a tall silent giant. Zhao Lin felt a little frightened in his heart for no reason, and couldn't help but remind him.
"Indeed, these stones all look similar, and it is difficult for spiritual consciousness to penetrate them."
Wei Shi also agreed.
After about a cup of tea, I walked four hundred steps to the left, one thousand steps forward, and the steps were measured.
"If the news is accurate, it should be nearby. Let's split up..."
Zhao Lin was just halfway through his words when he suddenly realized that it was inappropriate to do so, so he immediately changed his words: "It's better to go together, it's safer."
In a strange place, it’s best to be careful. Maybe I’m overthinking it, and I always feel that these stones look a little weird.
Zhao Lin climbed up a tall stone again, and Wei Shi and Li Zhe followed.
The stone forest is alternately high and low, and there are many places that cannot be seen. Zhao Lin changed a few big rocks and finally found something.
"Look, there really is star peony!"
Zhao Lin and Wei Shi saw at the same time that in a depression ten feet away, there were patches of star peony, as many as one or two hundred plants, and there were almost no weeds.
Wei Shi looked happy and said sincerely: "Brother Zhao, you have made a lot of money with so many star peonies!"
Zhao Lin smiled slightly, "No, we made money."
After saying that, he jumped down from the stone and walked to the depression with Wei Shi and Li Zhi.
"Let me pick it faster."
Li Zhi raised his tentacles and volunteered.
"Thank you very much."
Zhao Lin thanked him and looked at the star peony on the ground. He suddenly frowned and felt something was wrong.
Why are these star peonies so neat?
It doesn't look like it grew naturally, but it looks like it was planted by someone.
Thinking of this, my heart skipped a beat, and she said quickly: "Li Zhi, don't move yet!"
"how?"
Li Zheng paused and asked in surprise.
Wei Shi also wondered: "Brother Zhao, what's wrong?"
At this moment, there was a sudden bang, and a wave of mana surged around him!
"There is a magic circle!"
Zhao Lin's expression changed. His first reaction was that Yinhun Li Zheng was up to something, but he immediately overturned this idea. To control the magic circle, you need a formation disk and a formation flag, but Yinhun could not do such a thing.
Wei Shi and Li Zhi also felt it and became panicked for a moment.
"what to do?"
"Where to go?"
Zhao Lin shouted in a deep voice: "Go back the way you came!"
"I want to leave, but it's too late!"
In a corner of the stone forest, a slovenly-dressed monk hiding behind a boulder smiled sinisterly.
This person is not tall, wearing a tattered Taoist robe, with long hair covering his face. If you look closely, you will find that his face is pale, his eyes are empty, and he looks lifeless.
The sloppy monk turned his hand, and a blue formation flag appeared in his hand. He muttered a few spells in a low voice, pointed the flag forward, and a green light flew out and merged into the formation.
In an instant, the scene in front of Zhao Lin changed, and Wei Shi and Li Zhi disappeared!
Instead, towering mountains appeared all around, and at the feet was a bottomless abyss.
"Illusion array?"
The Taoist art that Zhao Lin practices is formation. Although he has not practiced for a long time, he still has a basic understanding of the basic principles of formation.
It was obvious that he was in a magic circle, and it was an illusion.
"Is it a natural magic circle?"
Zhao Lin thought in his mind.
The arrangement of the magic circle must be based on the principles of Yin Yang, Five Elements, Bagua and Guangxiang, and most of them are set up manually.
However, the heaven and earth are miraculous in their creation, and some terrains just conform to the rules of the formation and become natural formations.
Just like a natural stone, it may be more exquisite than a vessel carefully carved by a craftsman. This is the miraculous power of heaven and earth.
But soon, Zhao Lin shook his head.
"If it's a natural magic circle, there must be fluctuations in spiritual power. But when we came just now, we didn't feel any fluctuations at all."
"In other words, there has been a magic circle here for a long time, but it has not been activated. When we stepped into it, it suddenly activated!"
So there is only one explanation, it is man-made!
Thinking of this, Zhao Lin's heart sank.
This is a small world, and monks usually stay here for no more than a month. Who would set up a magic circle here?
The more I think about this, the more strange it becomes, but now is not the time to get to the bottom of it, finding a way out is the top priority.
"By the way, there are spiritual pictures."
Zhao Lin quickly looked inside his mind and saw five words appearing in the sixth grid of the spiritual cultivation map: Three Yin Fantasy Killing Formation!
Three Yins, phantom killing?
Although I have never heard of this formation, I can get some clues from the name.
In the formation, Sanyin refers to Qi, earth, and stone. It is a formation set up according to the time and place.
The cave is full of Yin Qi, has a strange terrain, and is full of strange rocks, which just meets this condition.
The word "phantom kill" is easier to understand, which is to trap and kill the enemy in the formation with the help of illusion.
While he was thinking about it, the scene in front of him changed again.
The sky darkened, the wind suddenly picked up, ghosts cried and wolves howled, and the surrounding mountains fell over like drunkards.
Suddenly a huge pressure hit his body.
Zhao Lin knew that this was the pressure exerted by the magic circle and coincided with the illusion, so he gritted his teeth and forced himself to calm down.
The first step in the illusion formation is to create an illusion. The real killing move is hidden in the illusion. The more panicked you are, the more dangerous it is.
The mountains were falling more and more violently, and the pressure on Zhao Lin was also increasing, and he had no choice but to fight with his luck martial arts turtle strength.
In order to save spiritual energy, he did not use magic. At the critical moment, martial arts helped a lot.
The sloppy monk outside the magic circle frowned, unfolded the formation flag in his hand, and injected another spiritual power into the formation. (End of chapter)
