Walking on the streets of Hebai Town, although the crowds are not as crowded as the city, there is a unique vitality.
Strictly speaking, this vitality is more like the breath of nature, which is incomparable to the somewhat busy and anxious life in Wushen City.
After briefly wandering around a few shops, I realized that the shops in this village and town all have their own particularities.
For example, the main source of income of the elixir shop is mostly simple healing medicines or cold medicines, etc. On the contrary, elixirs are relatively rare. The highest-level items that can be mined in the weapon refiner shop are magic weapons, and the ones that can be mined the most are ordinary agricultural tools such as hoes and shovels.
However, there was a very simple mechanism puppet that aroused the interest of Jiang Yun and others.
This mechanism puppet is not a magic weapon. It does not have any combat functions or artificial intelligence. The only thing it can do is execute orders. Simple operations such as guarding gates and farming.
And only a small piece of Yu stone filled with spiritual energy can drive the puppet to run for many days.
After wandering around for about an hour, it was dusk and the six of them left with unfinished business.
Standing at the foot of the mountain, they looked at the rugged mountain road in front of them leading to the mountainside above, and they couldn't help but wonder if they had reached the wrong meeting point. From the mouths of the people around them, they learned that the mountain in front of them was the 'Fairy Mountain' where the old Taoist Sanmang lived.
The reason why this mountain is so magical in their eyes is that the Sanmang Taoist protects the surrounding villages.
Second, you can only live below the mountainside. You cannot enter above the mountainside. There is a fog barrier covering the mountainside. In the fog is an irregular stone forest. Only practitioners can find a way to get through. The stone forest continues to move upward.
Ordinary people, after trying many things to no avail, are usually sent out by the mysteriously appearing 'fog beast'.
"Let's go, we'll find out how to get up there."
Tuoba Jinghuan was the first to walk in front. As a child of a large clan, he did not like to get along with those children of the big family. He preferred to be friends with ordinary casual cultivators such as Jiang Yun and Li Yankun.
Perhaps it has a lot to do with his childhood circumstances.
The group walked halfway up the mountain and saw the stone forest that the villagers longed for and feared.
Looking from a distance, clouds and mist spread in front, blocking all views from behind and on the top of the mountain. When you get closer, you can see the stone forest under the clouds and mist.
"There must be something strange in this stone forest. Everyone, please come closer and try not to disperse later."
There was something strange ahead. Tuoba Jinghuan wanted to use his soul to investigate. Unexpectedly, when the soul entered the stone forest, it was as if his eyes were blocked. He also couldn't get too far away from his body to investigate.
There is a rule somewhere that limits the distance between the power of the soul and the body of the soul.
"There must be traces of the formation in this misty stone forest. Jiang Yun, you are the formation master, walking in the middle."
Before Tuoba Jinghuan could finish speaking, Jiang Yun nodded. As a formation master, if he couldn't see that this formation was covered by formations, it would be better to hit him to death.
Six people gathered into a small group and stepped inside.
Tuoba Jinghuan was in front, Liu Jing and Li Yankun were on the left and right, Liu Yiyi and Huo Xiaoyu were walking behind, and Jiang Yun was surrounded by them.
As soon as I stepped into the misty stone forest, I realized that it was far more mysterious and unpredictable than what the outside world said and thought. The visibility was almost only three meters, and it became a little hazy after three meters. It was impossible to see anything beyond five meters. .
The most important thing is that after the six people came in, there were forks everywhere and they had no idea where to go.
Even if Jiang Yun wanted to use the star orientation in the formation to make calculations, he was unable to do so due to the limitations of his vision and soul intelligence.
Not waiting for them to leave for a while.
There was just a "swish" sound, and it seemed that someone was coming near them at an extremely fast speed. Unfortunately, they couldn't hear the direction from which the sound came, and there was no way to identify it.
"You six are here to report on bloodthirsty?"
The sound was erratic, as if it was far away in the sky and yet close to my ears.
The quicksand around Li Yankun has already quietly flowed down, and he can defend or attack at any time. He snapped, "Who are you?"
The other party didn't answer.
The next second, the people in the cloud seemed to move, a sharp attack sound came, and something hit them above their heads!
The six people hurriedly dodged, and the formation was immediately dispersed.
"Bang!"
The smashed object hit the ground hard, and there was a deafening roar. At the same time, the ground began to tremble.
Even though the six people dodged, they were still shaky due to their unsteady stance.
Jiang Yun subconsciously took out the Eight Formations Diagram with his left hand and controlled the Green Willow Sword Umbrella with his right hand.
"Everyone, come towards me! Don't scatter!"
As he shouted, the Eight Formation Diagrams took the lead in setting up protective formations. At the same time, the five scabbards of the sword umbrella formed a shield in front of him.
The other five people who heard the call were about to get closer, but who would have thought that five black shadows were lying in front of them, and they were forced to retreat with rapid and sharp attacks.
In an instant, the five people were forced to stay away from Jiang Yun.
Jiang Yun waited left and right until no one came closer. Instead, he heard the sound of fighting from all directions, and he bit his lip. They were separated and defeated one by one so quickly, and we didn't even know who our opponent was.
Before he had time to think, a sharp and fast black shadow was approaching him.
"Bang!"
The black shadow that struck down fell heavily on the protective formation around Jiang Yun. Only then did Jiang Yun see the appearance of the black shadow clearly.
This is a dark and thick snake tail with sharp barbs at the end.
With just one strike from the snake's tail, the protective formation light curtain composed of five hundred formations in front of Jiang Yun began to shake violently, which showed that the strike from the snake's tail was at least at the level of the foundation building realm.
Jiang Yun was surprised.
From the mouths of the villagers, they have never heard that pythons appear in this stone forest, and they have never heard of ferocious beasts attacking people.
"What the hell is this!"
As the python attacked for the second time, there was obviously an extra layer of spiritual energy on its tail. The snake's tail fell menacingly and hit the light screen hard.
"Bang!"
Just hearing a bang, the formation light curtain shattered.
Jiang Yun was frightened and angry and hurriedly used his shield to block him, trying to retreat.
But he didn't expect the snake's tail in front of him to mysteriously disappear without a trace, and at that second, there was a sound of breaking wind behind him.
"It's over."
Jiang Yun had no time to react and could only protect his head in a hurry.
The huge snake's tail instantly turned into a sharp whip shadow at an extremely fast speed, hitting Jiang Yun's back violently. Jiang Yun spit out a mouthful of old blood and flew several meters away. After struggling for a while, he rolled his eyes and fainted. .
I do not know how long it has been.
Jiang Yun woke up leisurely, opened his eyes in a daze, and then closed them unbearably because of the pain in his back.
After a moment of silence, he suddenly remembered that he was still fighting just now, and then he struggled to open his eyes.
The vast starry sky came into view, and the bright night sky made him couldn't help but take another look.
"Um?"
A clever little head suddenly entered his field of vision.
The little head was round, with two big eyes looking at Jiang Yun curiously, and the slender body stretched back. The snake letter in his mouth flickered.
"Sisi"
This thing is actually a small black python!
Jiang Yun was shocked. Could it be that the snake that had just attacked him had entered its lair?
Just when he was about to struggle to get up, the little black snake on the side seemed to think that he was being slow and actually used its tail to push Jiang Yun behind, causing him to sit up quickly.
"Hiss~~~"
But who knew that the position it pushed was exactly where Jiang Yun was injured, which caused Jiang Yun to gasp in pain.
"Sisi~"
The little black python looked at Jiang Yun, who was in great pain, at a loss. His little head was full of doubts. How could the human in front of him be so weak? Can't you just push him casually?
Jiang Yun didn't care about confronting the little snake and looked around hurriedly.
Only then did he really see the situation around him. He was actually lying in a large square. Apart from himself, there were densely packed people around him. Liu Yiyi, Huo Xiaoyu, Tuoba Jinghuan and others were among them.
There were nearly a hundred or so people lying in the huge square.
However, none of them made any movement, and he was the only one in the square who woke up at this time!
The most creepy thing is that in addition to the little black python with a tiger-like head next to him, there are dozens of pythons that are densely scattered in the square, swimming among the crowd.
These pythons appear to be the same species, but differ in size and temperament.
Around the square, there were several silent shadows standing. Jiang Yun was secretly wondering what was going on and why such a thing happened at the bloodthirsty gathering point.
Unexpectedly, those dark figures also turned their attention to Jiang Yun, who woke up alone.
Jiang Yun, who was full of vigilance, suddenly saw the face of a person among the standing shadows. He didn't know why he felt familiar.
He vaguely remembered that the last time he saw this person, it seemed that he was behind... Wan Xiaohan?
"Then he is... an instructor?"
