(Thinking to myself: This is probably the last time I will do a relatively large-scale foreshadowing of the setting. To be honest, the setting is not attractive. This is not the last time, because there will be more in the future, but the length will be much smaller. , and what will be there in the future is the foreshadowing of the plot. After allowing the five Qian Tangyan, Li and Lu to live freely for so long, it is time for them to suffer some hardships later. They will be put into one conspiracy after another, so that They live and die in thrills, ha! Who allows them to live in a world that I also want to go to!)
The early morning sun shines on the mountains, making the layer of mist covering the mountains become thinner and thinner. As the outline of the mountains becomes more and more visible in the morning fog, the surrounding scenery becomes brighter and brighter.
Breathing in the cool morning air, Qian Chao and the five of them flew towards the place that was never named on the map according to what they had agreed upon yesterday.
There was no delay during the flight except for a few times when Yanxuan found spiritual grass in the forest. About an hour later, according to the calculation in Qian Chao's mind, the five people were already close to the edge of the place. , here, the five of them also found that the mountain became lower and gentler in the direction they were flying. When they flew forward, there was already a low and flat place below that they didn't know how open it was, but there was no water vapor here. Therefore, it seems that there are no lakes or rivers ahead.
It is indeed a bit unusual. It is not easy to find such a large area similar to the plain outside the sect, Qian Chao secretly thought.
After Qian Chao said they had arrived, the five of them all slowed down because it was their first time here, and because this place had never been named on the map and was even deliberately hidden. Therefore, Li Jian kept flying at the front. If something was wrong, he would always be the first to notice it and give an early warning.
Below the five people is an open grassland, and there is a vast expanse of green as far as the eye can see. Occasionally, there are a few small shrub-like trees dotted in the grassland. In addition, at this time, the morning fog has already set in elsewhere. It was completely steaming under the sun, but here, it seemed that it was covered with a layer of lingering mist even if you didn't want to look forward.
After flying forward for nearly two cups of tea, the five of them finally saw the outline of the mountain faintly in the distant mist.
Li Jian stopped in the air and said to several companions: "You can see the mountains in front of you. They are probably the black spots that Brother Qian marked on the map. They are exactly where we are going this time. Although there is nothing unusual when we come all the way, for safety reasons, we might as well fly higher first, take a look at it from a distance after passing by, and then make plans, how about that?"
After hearing this, several people nodded in agreement, and then followed Li Jian as he continued to fly high into the clouds, before continuing to fly forward.
Under the five people, five peaks gradually appeared.
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These five peaks are arranged in a very orderly manner. They are not lined up in a row, but stand at random according to the five directions. The distance between the five green peaks seems to Qian Chao. They are all the same. I have to sigh at this natural creation. Seeing this, Qian Chao was moved in his heart. He felt that these five peaks were very similar to the arrangement of the gates of the five master sects in the Wuling Sect. It was just that the arrangement of each peak was different. The size is much smaller than the peaks occupied by the five master sects, but it still looks larger than the five peaks around the Little Lotus Lake in Youming Valley.
Thinking of this, Qian Chao's heart couldn't help but move again. Why did he think of the Little Lotus Lake again?
With this doubt, Qian Chao looked down carefully and discovered the clue: beneath them, in the center of the five peaks, there was an inconspicuous hill!
So that's it, no wonder it looks so familiar, Qian Chao secretly thought, in the Wuling Sect, each of the five master sects occupies a towering mountain. Surrounded by the five mountains is the vast Tianshui Lake, and above the Tianshui Lake. In the sea of clouds, there is the mysterious and suspended Yuhu Mountain. Based on the location alone, Yuhu Mountain is located in the center of the five surrounding mountains. There are also five peaks around the Little Lotus Lake in Youming Valley. Although they are smaller than the five peaks in front of you, the five mountains around the Little Lotus Lake are evenly arranged now, and the lotus islands in the lake are evenly spaced. , Qian Chao remembered that when he was playing in Xiaolianhua Lake, he looked down from the mountain. It was also in the center, and it was said to be an island, but in fact it was just a hill in the lake. The five of him were plotted and trapped in the lake. In the small five spirit formation in the heart of the mountain.
When Qian Chao first obtained the Blue Eyes Technique, he briefly saw the strange sight of the spiritual veins in the sect. Later, he always guessed that there should be an unimaginably huge formation in the Five Spirit Sect, and it was not a place where the spiritual veins gathered. So simple, but later on, his Blue Eyes Technique could no longer see the wonder of the spiritual veins, and it was a pity that he could not further explore the truth. As for the Little Lotus Lake and the five peaks around the lake, Tang Ping once said when we first visited that it was once a heaven and earth prison, used to seal an extremely powerful monster, but later the monster escaped. Yes, the small Five Spirit Formation in the belly of the mountain on Lianpeng Island is just the remnant of the original heaven and earth cage.
Now, with these five peaks in front of me and the hill in the center...could it be possible that this formation is also hidden here?
If this is true, is this also a prison of heaven and earth?
Or some other strange formation that I have never heard of or seen before?
Thinking of this, Qian Chao felt a little hot in his heart, and a desire to find out more emerged in his heart.
But it was an unknown land after all. Under the leadership of Li Jian, the five people carefully circled around the five peaks and found nothing unusual.
"I'm going down first," Li Jian said after stopping on top of a mountain peak. "I'm going to see if there is anything weird about this mountain first. If there is anything weird, let's leave quickly. If there is nothing, I will inform everyone."
"Brother Li, I'll go down with you." Qian Chao said.
"No," Li Jian refused, "Among the five of us, I have the fastest movement. And you also know that if there is any danger, I can predict it in advance, so I'll go down first and you guys wait for me."
After saying that, Li Jian sank down and flew towards the nearby mountain peak.
If this place is really a cage of heaven and earth, Qian Chao is not worried about Li Jian's safety, nor is he worried that Li Jian's actions will trigger the backlash of the formation. Naturally, such a large-scale formation is not comparable to his Soul Locking Formation. It's like an iron cage containing a lion and a tiger. A small insect folds its wings and lands on the iron fence of the cage to crawl quietly. It has no obstacle to the firmness of the iron cage. Even the trapped beast in the cage can't even look at it. The little bug had no interest at all.
It is no exaggeration to say that the five of them are just five little bugs to the various mysterious and powerful beings in the world of practice, and they are still the most inconspicuous ones. Similarly, regarding the achievements of the five people in the future, the current situation of the five of them is like a little baby lifting its feet to tentatively take the first step in life with the support of an adult, and the little feet have just been lifted and still have not fallen down. that stage.
Seeing Li Jian flying towards the mountain peak, Tang Ping glanced at Qian Chao. Qian Chao understood the questioning meaning in his eyes. He gently shook his head, signaling that Tang Ping could rest assured. At the same time, he also saw Yan Xuan, her five white jade-like fingers clenched into fists, seemed to be worried about Li Jian.
Li Jian's figure flew to the top of the mountain peak, and slowly fell towards the mountain peak at a height of more than 20 feet away from the peak. Then he stopped at a height of 23 feet away from the top of the mountain, and hung there for a while. As if he was sensing whether there was any danger around him, after a while, his figure started to move again, and began to draw a circle around the entire mountain peak, starting from the top of the mountain and circling to the foot of the mountain, and then turned to the other side of the mountain. I personally lost sight of Li Jian, and then looked at him turning around again. Li Jian was not flying very fast, and seemed to be searching the entire mountain peak very carefully.
All the way to the foot of the mountain, Li Jian didn't seem to notice anything wrong. Then he flew up from the foot of the mountain, circling in circles, and finally fell down and landed among the rocks and trees on the top of the mountain. , walked there for a few steps, looked around for a while, then turned around and waved to the four friends who were still hanging in the air, signaling that they were safe.
"Let's go there." Qian Chao said. Among the remaining four, he was the first to fly towards Li Jian. Brother Li had already found the way without fear of risks. He could not let the remaining companions go first. You have to go there first.
After taking a firm step while staring at the mountain, Qian Chao, who was still a little worried at first, relaxed and took two steps back and forth. At this time, Tang Ping, Yan Xuan and other talents behind him fell down one after another.
However, Li Jian's first words after seeing several companions approaching were: "There's something weird!"
Something weird! ?
What could be weird? It's obviously okay!
"What's weird?" Qian Chao asked. Several people around him looked a little nervous after listening to Li Jian's words.
"Here," Li Jian gestured with his hands, pointing to the mountain peak, "Do you think this place is full of spiritual energy?"
"Yeah" Qian Chao nodded, and he discovered this as soon as it fell.
"Also," Li Jian pointed with her hand, "Although I don't know anything about spiritual herbs, I have been out there many times and I can see some clues. Miss Yan, is there some spiritual grass there?"
Following Li Jian's fingers, everyone looked over and found a unique grass. It was soft and green, and it should be a spiritual grass of good quality.
"Ah!" Yanxuan exclaimed in surprise, "Xiu Yanzhi, you are so well born!"
Then, regardless of what Li Jian said was weird, Yanxuan took a few steps to the spiritual grass and squatted down to examine it carefully.
"This is the weird thing. This place is full of spiritual energy, and even a layman like me can easily identify spiritual grasses. It can be seen that there are so many spiritual grasses, and it should be a place where monsters and beasts roam. However, I walked around this mountain twice, and the details After careful inspection, I didn’t find any scent of monsters on this mountain...Do you think it’s weird?”
After listening to Li Jian's words, several people understood. Even Yanxuan, who was squatting beside the spiritual grass, also understood that the fine-quality spiritual grass in front of him was definitely extraordinary. Based on his past experience of going out, such spiritual grass There must be some monsters found near the grass. It would be strange if they couldn't be found. Therefore, she suppressed the urge to pick this spiritual grass and got up again and walked back to her companions.
Before anyone could speak, Li Jian added, "Also, although I didn't find anything wrong with this mountain, there is a place here that makes me feel very dangerous..."
Danger? This sentence made several people look at Li Jian again.
Li Jian walked a few steps on the top of the mountain, approached a cliff, pointed down, and said, "That's it."
What Li Jian was pointing to was the small hill that was located in the center of the five peaks.
Behind him, Qian Chao and others followed and looked at Li Jian's hand.
"It's just a hill there. What danger could there be? Why don't we go take a look?" Lu Pingchuan said.
Tang Ping felt something was inappropriate and shook her head. She wanted to ask but didn't know how to ask. After all, Li Jian's induction was a very mysterious thing. She had never experienced it personally, so she could only ask:
"Brother Li, how dangerous is it there?"
"This feeling is very strange. I have never had such an experience before," Li Jian said. "To be honest, with my current cultivation level, I can't sense it that far. But since I can sense it from such a distance, it means that there is something hidden there." The thing is definitely much more powerful than we thought, but I also noticed that the thing is very weak, as weak as an old man lingering on in his dying years, it seems..."
Li Jian shook his head when he said this. He wanted to say that he seemed to be able to kill the thing with one sword due to its weakness, but he felt that it was always inappropriate to say so. After all, the feeling always made him feel heart-beating.
"This kind of feeling that is both extremely powerful and extremely weak is what surprises me the most. I don't know what is there."
Having said this, Li Jian looked at Qian Chao. After all, Qian Chao was the smartest among the five. He was the one who suggested coming here again. He must have some insights.
"Both extremely powerful and extremely weak." Qian Chao stood on the cliff and looked at the hill below from a distance.
If this is true, it seems to be not far from his own vision of the heaven and earth cage.
"Come on," Qian Chao turned around and picked up a few stones at random from the ground. He placed them on a flatter rock. He placed five larger stones around it, and then placed a small one in the center. Shizi, then said:
"Take a look, what does this look like?"
The companions who gathered around looked at the stones and were a little confused.
Seeing that his companions didn't understand what he meant, Qian Chao drew a circle on the stone with his finger and said: "The five sects in the sect..."
"Oh," Tang Ping said, "I understand. If these five stones represent the five sects of the sect, then the stone in the middle is Yuhu Mountain on Tianshui Lake, right?"
After saying this, the rest of the companions understood it, but what does this have to do with the matter in front of them, and it seems to have nothing to do with the feeling that is both extremely powerful and extremely weak that Li Jian said!
"Also, what if the middle stone is regarded as the lotus island in the center of Little Lotus Lake?" Qian Chao said.
The five people will never forget their encounter with Little Lotus Lake. When Qian Chao said this, everyone immediately understood that if the stone in the middle was the Lotus Island, then the five surrounding stones could be regarded as... There are five low peaks surrounding Xiaolianhua Lake.
"But..." Tang Ping looked at Qian Chao, "What does this have to do with what Brother Li feels?"
"Of course," Qian Chao said with a chuckle, "Don't forget, you once said by that lake that Little Lotus Lake was once a prison of heaven and earth a long time ago, but the monsters were imprisoned in it later. Escaped..."
After saying this, everyone present except Lu Pingchuan understood what Qian Chao meant!
Cage of heaven and earth!
Could it be that the weird and frightening aura that I feel now is the monster in the cage! Li Jian frowned. If this were true, how powerful and dangerous the things imprisoned or hidden under the hill would be! He couldn't help but look back in the direction of the hill.
The expressions on Tang Ping and Yan Xuan's faces also changed drastically. They looked at each other and then looked at Qian Chao. Unexpectedly, they found a real heaven and earth cage, and inside it was imprisoned an unknown how terrible animal. The monster!
"Is this...is this...possible?" Tang Ping thought this was really unbelievable. She instinctively did not believe that she and the others would have such an adventure. She wanted to overturn Qian Chao's statement, but she didn't know where to start. After thinking about it, he said, "You said that, apart from Brother Li's induction of that place, is there any other evidence?"
Qian Chao said: "If you want to find evidence, you can only go there and take a look."
Several people fell silent and looked at Qian Chao.
Of course, Lu Pingchuan didn't speak because he never understood what Brother Qian meant.
