Night came as expected. Zhang Yan sat cross-legged on the skylark shuttle with his eyes closed and meditated. The clouds and mist around him were undulating, making him appear looming.
The Skylark Shuttle's position is dozens of feet higher than Xuanshi Mountain, and it can no longer be seen from the ground at this height. But Zhang Yan's perception allows him to clearly grasp all the subtle changes around Xuanshi Mountain.
In the evening, another group of monsters gathered at the foot of Chaoxuanshi Mountain. Could it be that they wanted to climb up again?
The demon race is obviously more willing than the human race to sacrifice their lives. The lives of dozens or hundreds of monsters are nothing in the eyes of the decision-makers of the monsters. They are just miscellaneous soldiers. If they die, they will die. They don’t feel bad at all.
However, the demon clan is not the focus of Zhang Yan's attention. He is concerned about the large number of spirit clans that gradually begin to emerge from the ground as night falls and gather under Xuanshi Mountain.
It was the same as what Zhang Yan had guessed before. Among the spirit tribes gathered here are not only the human spirit tribe, but also the demon spirit tribe, and the number of the demon spirit tribe is even larger. They were also clearly distinguished from each other, and their hostility to each other was obvious, but they did not fight, and they roared and screamed at each other a few times.
This is not the first time Zhang Yan has seen a ghost with such discipline. When he was blocking the dead roads in Nanyuan Kingdom, he had experienced these ghosts playing tricks to trick him into a trap.
Now it seems that these ghosts at the foot of Xuanshi Mountain should be waiting for the late night when the Yin Qi is the strongest.
They didn't even pay attention to the monsters who were not far away from them. The leaders are the two ghost kings.
Not only was the excitement brewing at the foot of Xuanshi Mountain, Xuanshi Mountain itself also had some different movements in Zhang Yan's perception. Xuanshi Mountain was completely silent during the day when Zhang Yan was wandering around, but after nightfall there were indeed "horse legs" exposed.
In Zhang Yan's perception, there was movement in the dense network of holes almost all over Xuanshi Mountain. But it was very strange. The movement was clearly within his perception, but it had no resemblance to the "existence" that Zhang Yan knew.
First of all, it is not a living thing, because it has no breath, no vitality, and no entity. Secondly, it is not a dead thing like a ghost, because there is no soul fluctuation.
So why use "movement" to speculate? It's because the surges of energy that Zhang Yan felt in his perception were not a hasty advance or retreat, but a probing head that seemed to be carefully testing before extending outward.
Like tentacles that are disembodied and in the form of pure energy.
Are these tentacles separate limbs from a whole body, or do each tentacles belong to an independent individual? After careful observation, Zhang Yan thought that these tentacle-like things should be a whole. Because although there is no breath or soul fluctuation in this thing, the nature of the energy is the same and the strength is the same. If it is an individual, there should be some subtle differences.
"Could this thing be the ball hidden in the center of Xuanshi Mountain?" Zhang Yan guessed.
In addition to being surprised, there is another thought in Zhang Yan's mind: is this thing a kind of living thing? In other words, although it is completely different from the creatures in Zhang Yan's cognitive system, who in the world stipulates that there cannot be a creature that does not even have a soul and exists purely in the form of energy?
Aliens, they have to be a little different, right?
Zhang Yan continued to pay attention to the changes in the situation on Xuanshi Mountain below while turning his thoughts in his mind. The ones who moved first were not the spirit clan, but the demon clan. They don't seem to be determined to give up, but they aren't rushing around either. Instead, they all took out a strange-looking fruit and swallowed it. After waiting for a short while, he started to enter the area of influence of Xuanshi Mountain.
Zhang Yan was dumbfounded when he was on the Skylark Shuttle. In his perception, the monsters who had swallowed that strange fruit suddenly seemed to have their vitality taken away and turned into "walking zombies"? !
Of course, it is not that they have truly turned into walking zombies, nor that they have really lost their vitality, but that the vitality of these monsters has been extremely concealed. From a sensory perspective, although they are still alive and kicking at this time, they have no vitality at all. , belongs to "death".
The changes in these monsters obviously come from the fruits they eat. Moreover, in Zhang Yan's opinion, this kind of preparedness would definitely not be the result of the demon clan's calculations. It should be thanks to Baronca's guidance.
Zhang Yan had previously met with Baronka in the Haoyue Demon Kingdom. He remembered that Baronka had said that it was the monsters from the Haoyue Demon Kingdom who "came after" it, and that was why it attacked Zhang Yan. In other words, there is a means of contact between the demon clan and the demon god Baronka.
Just like the martial arts academy that every country in the human race has and enjoys a very high status. Zhang Yan believed that it must be the liaison method for Martial Saint Xu Fengyang to stay with the human race.
However, compared to Baronka, it seems that Xu Fengyang rarely reveals anything to the human race. Otherwise, the human race would not have been as passive as they are now from the beginning to the end of the sudden change in Xiyuan County.
While he was thinking wildly, Zhang Yan saw these monsters stepping into the area of influence of Xuanshi Mountain. The effect of the fruit was outstanding. It not only hid the vitality of these monsters, but also wrapped it up, leaving no special properties of the black stone to disturb those monsters who should have died soon after stepping into the range of the black stone. The clan was not affected for the time being, and the search array spread out all the way and began to climb up.
But it can also be seen that although these monsters have found a way to resist the influence of Xuanshi Mountain, they have no other understanding. From the foot of the mountain, everything was meticulous. Each demon clan even picked up a few broken black stones and put them in their pockets.
The demon clan did not climb up very fast. Almost half a stick of incense after they climbed the mountain, the nearly a thousand spirit clan who had gathered at the foot of Xuanshi Mountain also started to move.
Like the demon clan, the spirit clan also looked like they were searching, even deliberately keeping a distance from the demon clan while keeping a close eye on them.
And the holes hidden in the cracks or depressions in the black stone mountains are the focus of searches by the demon clan and the spirit clan.
But even the Spirit Race cannot sneak into the black stone. Facing those holes, even if they can get in with the advantage of the retractable soul body, they are still wary of whether there is any danger inside, so no one has tried it yet.
Zhang Yan could see clearly with his senses at high altitude. Whether it's the demon clan or the spirit clan, they should be in the state of "I don't know what's here, but I know it's dangerous here."
The shooting-like things inside Xuanshi Mountain were also testing, but they did not drill out. They just swung their tips twice when they were close to the entrance of the hole, and then retracted.
As the demon clan and the spirit clan gradually climbed higher, tentacles stretched out and curled up in the holes that they had searched just now, and they seemed to be entangled with each other purposefully, and soon they were like It forms an invisible network wall.
(End of chapter)
