Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Zhang Yuanjing hadn't forgotten his earlier conjecture: Hao San was determined to steer the flying boat into Bishi Mountain to deliver him into the ambush set by the forces behind the Heavenly Devil Abyss.

Therefore, besides the transformed great demon in Bishi Mountain, there was likely a Nascent Soul cultivator, and this person could probably move freely within the mountain.

He had to find a way out as soon as possible, return to the place where he entered the valley, and reunite with Fire Crow Taoist.

The path down the mountain quickly came to an end, and the six people and two beasts entered the valley again, but they didn't know if it was the same valley as before. Moreover, they couldn't tell which direction was out and which direction was in.

Zhang Yuanjing chose a direction and had the Suanni beast lead the way. The valley was winding and twisting, with cliffs on both sides.

Almost every few miles, they would encounter a fork in the road, with three, five, seven, or nine branches, all odd numbers, which made Zhang Yuanjing suspicious. If this Bishi Mountain was formed naturally, such changes would be too coincidental.

In the stone valley, there were only scattered gravel and no vegetation, which seemed quite monotonous. However, there was no lack of spiritual energy in the air, and some places were very rich.

After walking for an unknown number of miles, a towering stone mountain appeared in front of them, completely blocking the valley road, and there were no visible passages on either side.

Zhang Yuanjing scanned upward with his divine sense for twenty feet and saw that the rock wall of the stone mountain was smooth and there was no way to climb it. He turned his head to look at the Blue-Eyed Suanni beast, which shook its head and squeaked many times.

"Yuanjing, the Suanni beast says the area above is rather strange, it's hard to say if it's dangerous or something else, it can't see through it either," Yuan Shisan transmitted.

Zhang Yuanjing pondered for a moment, recalled the scene on the way back, weighed it several times, and made a decision.

"Go, let's go back and take a look."

The Blue-Eyed Suanni beast heard this and, without any objection, turned its head and walked back.

Yuan Zhilin talked the most and immediately asked, puzzled, "Senior Brother Zhang, are we going back to take the other forks?"

"Sort of."

"What do you mean 'sort of'?" Yuan Zhilin was stunned.

"If we can find the fork we encountered before, we can try another path," Zhang Yuanjing said with a solemn expression.

"Can't find the way back?" Yuan Zhilin was shocked. "Is this place haunted or something!"

The others were also confused, but when they heard his words, they couldn't help but laugh.

Zhang Yuanjing shook his head and stopped speaking, just quickening his pace to catch up with the Blue-Eyed Suanni beast.

The mountain on both sides was no different from the way they came, or rather, it was hard to say it was exactly the same, after all, the divine sense was limited, and what they saw was only a small area.

After walking for several miles, the Blue-Eyed Suanni beast suddenly stopped.

Zhang Yuanjing walked to its side. The front was a vast expanse of white, and he couldn't see anything. He walked forward for a while before he saw a fork in the road, with two branches.

His heart trembled, and he immediately made a judgment: this place was strange and definitely not formed naturally, but was tampered with. The only difficulty was in judging whether this place was originally strange and later used by someone, or whether someone had deliberately laid out the situation from the beginning.

If it was the latter, it wouldn't be a big deal. There were such places everywhere, mostly relics left by senior experts. If it was the former, then they needed to be careful, because it was likely the work of the forces behind the Heavenly Devil Abyss.

"Senior Brother Zhang, this, this isn't the way we came!"

At this time, Yuan Zhilin and the others and the two beasts had all arrived behind him. Yuan Zhilin's expression looked a little exaggerated, but a rare look of fear appeared in his eyes.

"This place should have been used by someone proficient in formations, using the natural conditions to guide the situation and set up a maze formation," Zhang Yuanjing said in a deep voice. "The person who set up the formation may be outside the mountain, and will quickly enter the formation once they receive the news. This formation covers a very large area, but if it's a temporary means, it shouldn't be too strong."

He turned to the Blue-Eyed Suanni beast and asked, "Suanni beast, if I let you find your own scent and go back, can you find the direction?"

The Blue-Eyed Suanni beast nodded and squeaked twice at a stone mountain on its side.

"The scent you left is on the stone mountain?" Zhang Yuanjing asked.

The Blue-Eyed Suanni beast nodded again.

Zhang Yuanjing pointed to the two directions in front and behind: "Can't you find it on either of these two roads?"

A trace of doubt flashed in the green eyes of the Blue-Eyed Suanni beast, it did not deny it, but it did not confirm it either. After a few breaths, it made a squeaking sound.

"It says that it can only smell the scattered scent at the previous forks. However, the direction is not fixed, sometimes on the left, sometimes on the right."

"Left and right?" Zhang Yuanjing asked in confusion. "Wouldn't that still be on the stone mountain?"

The Blue-Eyed Suanni beast shook its head and squeaked twice.

"The Suanni beast says that the scent captured from the forks is not above, but on the ground. Every time it passes a fork, it thinks there is still a road there, but it can't find it."

Zhang Yuanjing pondered for a moment and immediately said, "Go, let's go to another fork!"

He randomly chose a branch and strode forward, and the two beasts and five people quickly followed. Not long after, a fork appeared in front, and sure enough, there were four forks. Before he could ask, the Blue-Eyed Suanni beast had already started yelling at the rock wall on the right.

Zhang Yuanjing immediately sacrificed the Lianyang Umbrella, communicating with the umbrella with his divine sense: "Zhang Umbrella, what's behind that stone wall? Can you see through it?"

Zhang Umbrella said: "Master, this needs to be tested once."

"Then test it!"

The black umbrella spun up, and a round of red sun condensed from the umbrella surface and crashed into the rock wall.

"Rumble!"

In the loud noise, the mountain rocks shattered and fell to the ground. The stone mountain collapsed for a small part, but it was still strong, indeed a real object.

Just as Zhang Yuanjing was about to ask, he suddenly heard a crashing sound coming from behind the mountain, one after another, unhurriedly, resounding continuously. This sound was exactly the same as the sound of the transformed great demon crashing into the mountain wall when they first fled into the valley.

"Master, do you still want Zhang Umbrella to strike the stone?"

Zhang Yuanjing's expression froze, but he said decisively, "Strike again!"

Zhang Umbrella drove the Lianyang Umbrella, once again condensing a blazing red sun, and blasted it at the damaged part of the mountain.

"Boom!"

The middle of the stone mountain broke, and the whole thing tilted downward, making a rumbling sound.

The six people and two beasts quickly retreated, and thick dust mixed with rolling mist enveloped them.

Zhang Yuanjing protected his eyes with magic power, and when the dust and mist cleared slightly, he strode forward and probed forward with his divine sense, but saw that after the collapse of the hundreds of feet of stone mountain, only a pile of rubble of seven or eight feet in diameter remained, and behind the original stone mountain, a patch of green was revealed.

This was a corner of a hillside. Looking up, there were still clouds and mist obscuring it, but the suppression of the divine sense was much smaller. He only slightly unfolded it, and his divine sense extended to ten miles away.

The mountain was very high and occupied a large area, and the divine sense could not see its full appearance. But judging from the breath of green branches and tender leaves, this was a real earth mountain, and the flow of spiritual power was normal, without any strange features.

And the rhythmic sound of hitting the wall earlier had completely disappeared at some point.

Zhang Yuanjing stared at the green, carpet-like hillside, somewhat unable to believe that he had broken through the mist in Bishi Mountain so easily. However, even if he had doubts in his heart, since he had already opened the passage, he always had to follow it and explore it.

He turned around and glanced at the Blue-Eyed Suanni beast. The beast roared softly, darted forward, and plunged into the grass on the hillside, running swiftly and secretly towards the top of the mountain.