Chapter 220: Mutian Canyon

"Hehe! What you said is indeed reasonable, old brother. Better listen to you!" Hu Longhai nodded in sudden realization after listening to Huang Shengxin's words.

The remaining Huang Shengyue and Song Qingming also nodded in agreement and did not object. They basically listened to Huang Shengxin's arrangements after entering the secret realm and had not put forward any other opinions.

When the few people were sitting under the tree to rest for a while, Song Qingming touched the colorful feather on his body and could not help but think to himself.

"It has already been five days since entering the secret realm, and Hearing Huo Feng still hasn't contacted me. I don't know if she has actually managed to sneak in."

Since entering the secret realm, Song Qingming had been waiting for Hearing Huo Feng to give him a signal. Following Huang Shengxin and them was just to have a few more points of self-preservation. As for which direction to go, he did not care. Anyway, where he would eventually go would have to wait until Hearing Huo Feng told him before he would know.

Fortunately, the entire Taiyue Secret Realm was only this big. No matter where Hearing Huo Feng wanted him to go, rushing with all his might should take at most a few days.

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At the very north of the entire Taiyue Secret Realm, there was a huge canyon spanning half the secret realm, named Mutian Canyon. The canyon was filled with white fog that blocked the sky and was bottomless. From time to time, bursts of sounds like thunder would emerge from the white fog, which made people feel very terrifying inside.

The area within a hundred miles around Mutian Canyon was silent and also white, wrapped in slightly lighter white fog. Generally, after cultivators arrived here and took a look, they would basically leave immediately and did not dare to walk into this unknown fog. Even if the bold ones rushed in rashly, they basically could not find any spirit items inside.

After the secret realm opened, although many cultivators passed by here, no one dared to enter it, until three days later, when a young woman dressed in red arrived here.

The woman in red looked at the dense white fog ahead and did not reveal any surprised expression, directly lifting her leg to move forward, walking into the dangerous fog without hesitation, as if she had been here before.

After walking for dozens of miles, the woman in red finally appeared at the edge of the canyon. Looking at the white fog surging from the deep valley, she took out a copper mirror from her body with a calm expression and placed it on the mountain wall on one side of the canyon.

With the surge of spiritual power in the woman's hand, the copper mirror stuck on the cliff wall emitted a burst of dazzling red light before slowly sinking into the cliff wall, merging with the surrounding mountain stones.

After finishing all this, the woman in red nodded in satisfaction with a smile, turned around and left the canyon, and walked out from the original path.

After walking out of the fog, the woman in red then walked toward a high mountain not far away. Just after walking not far, a rustling sound suddenly came from the grass on one side ahead. The woman hurriedly stopped her steps and turned her head to look. Only then did she see a triangular head emerging from the grass. It was a second-tier giant lizard demon beast that had been circling nearby for a long time.

What was somewhat strange was that this second-tier giant lizard demon beast, after seeing the woman in red not far ahead, did not choose to attack her immediately, but just stared at her blankly for two glances. After a while, its huge head shrank back slowly, and it soon disappeared directly into the grass.

Until that giant lizard demon beast slowly left this place, the woman in red turned around and continued to walk forward. After seeing that demon beast, she did not bother with it and just left here on her own.

If this shocking scene just now had been seen by other cultivators who entered the secret realm, they would certainly have been greatly surprised. The cultivators who arrived here basically felt that the native demon beasts in the secret realm were extremely aggressive and basically would attack as soon as they saw living people. I don't know what special ability this woman in red had to actually startle a second-tier giant lizard away directly.

After the woman in red left from here, the surroundings of Mutian Canyon soon fell into silence again, until a few days later, when a group of people suddenly arrived here again.

This group of people was uniformly dressed in white attire, and everyone looked very young. They were the Xingchen Sect cultivators from the Wu State.

These Xingchen Sect cultivators, just like the woman in red a few days ago, rushed directly into the white fog and arrived at the edge of the canyon.

Liu Zongping, standing above the canyon, frowned and looked at the white fog in the canyon before taking out a few spirit paper talismans with somewhat special appearances from his storage bag.

After Liu Zongping injected spiritual power, these few paper talismans in his hand slowly flew into the air, turning into a few small paper cranes dancing and flying, flying directly toward the bottom of the canyon.

This spell was a special secret method unique to the Xingchen Sect, the "Thousand Things Transformation Spirit Technique".

After learning this technique, one could instantly turn some ordinary dead objects refined in advance into living things with spirits. It was a very easy-to-use exploration secret method, and not everyone in the Xingchen Sect was qualified to cultivate it. 【

Several small paper cranes slowly descended, and when they reached a position about a hundred zhang below the canyon, several sounds of thunder and lightning suddenly rang out, and the paper cranes below instantly turned into a flash of fire and disappeared into the canyon.

At the same time, a puff of black smoke suddenly rose from the hands of Liu Zongping, who was sitting on the ground above the canyon controlling the paper cranes, and slowly vanished into the air.

Liu Zongping slowly stood up and said calmly, "The barrier below has not yet loosened in the slightest; it is not yet time to go down. Next, I will trouble everyone to take turns performing the secret technique, scouting once every hour, and striving for us to be the first to enter the inner valley."

"Do not concern yourselves with the herbs in the outer valley; the inner valley has everything the outside has. Moreover, the Elder already made his stance clear when we came: as long as we can successfully obtain that spiritual object inside this time, everyone will receive a generous reward after returning to the sect."

Upon hearing Liu Zongping's words, the disciples of the Star Sect nodded one after another and stood guard tightly around this canyon.

The bottom of this Mutian Canyon is actually the entrance to the inner valley of the Taiyue Secret Realm. The reason Liu Zongping and the others dared not go down yet was that there was a very powerful barrier below the canyon, separating this place from the inner valley. Going down rashly would basically result in being struck to ashes by the thunder and lightning above the barrier, just like those paper cranes earlier. They must wait until the power of this barrier weakens somewhat before they can use external force to break through.

The weakening of the barrier's power generally occurs about ten days after the secret realm opens. From this time until the secret realm closes a month later, as long as one carries a few magic treasures to resist thunder and lightning, one can basically pass through the barrier successfully. This is the experience summarized by the senior cultivators of several sects after thousands of years of exploration and countless sacrifices.

After the Star Sect disciples arrived here, not long after, the cultivators of the Lingyin Sect also arrived on the other side of Mutian Canyon. Like the Star Sect, after exploring the barrier in the canyon, they also chose to stay by the side of the canyon.

(End of chapter)