Chapter 325: Strange Mount Caolu

Sun Jingya had seen with his own eyes that Song Qingming fell into this valley. He knew that it was impossible for the opponent to have time to set up such a large illusion formation so quickly. It looked like the illusion formation here should have been set up here by some fellow Daoist or senior in the past, and Song Qingming just happened to flee in when he was fleeing for his life.

Setting up an illusion formation in this inconspicuous small valley, he did not know whether the owner here had placed his cave dwelling here or was hiding something here. Looking at the spiritual energy nearby, it was not very high, so he thought it should not be a cultivation spiritual land of any expert.

After Sun Jingya thought about it for a moment on the spot, he still did not figure out what kind of person would set up a set of illusion formations in this kind of place. He now only wanted to kill Song Qingming, but was temporarily blocked by this illusion formation, and could not help but feel somewhat angry in his heart.

After walking back and forth in this illusion formation for half an hour, Sun Jingya stopped again and observed for a long time, but still did not see what kind of illusion formation this was. Although his formation level was average and he was not a cultivator who specialized in formation techniques, he had also come into contact with some ordinary illusion formations after cultivating for so many years.

The illusion formation in front of him was indeed somewhat not simple. Sun Jingya had already tried several methods of breaking the formation but all failed, so he could only give up the idea of breaking the formation and planned to leave first to see outside the formation before talking.

By the time he wanted to go out, Sun Jingya suddenly discovered that he could no longer find the correct direction. No matter which side he walked, he could not walk out directly. Wanting to ride a sword and fly out from the sky, he discovered that the scene in the sky was also the same. No matter how far he flew, after a while, he returned to this white fog. Obviously, he had already been trapped in the formation by now.

After tossing and turning for half a day, he still could not walk out of the illusion formation, which also made Sun Jingya begin to panic somewhat. Could it be that today was truly his tribulation, and this cultivation base was not going to be trapped to death in the illusion formation in this nameless valley?

Although Sun Jingya's cultivation strength was much stronger than Song Qingming's, regarding the formation path, he was far inferior to Song Qingming, who had fallen into the valley earlier. Coming into this illusion formation, he was like having his hands and feet bound, possessing a cultivation base but having no way to walk out from here.

By the time Sun Jingya walked out of this illusion formation, it was already three days later. Sun Jingya, who had been tossed by this illusion formation for several days, looked at the valley behind him with a full body of exhaustion, and a trace of horror could not help but emerge in his heart.

Trapped here for several days, having tried all methods but still having no way to walk out of the illusion formation, made him also begin to have a trace of despair. Just when he was at his wit's end, he stumbled and walked out, which made him still somewhat confused until now.

He did not know whether Song Qingming, who had entered the formation earlier, had already escaped from here or was still trapped in the formation until now. Sun Jingya now could not care about these. He had been trapped here for several days and had lost contact with other partners. For him, this place was no longer suitable for staying long. After recovering some magic power, Sun Jingya looked at the valley with some reluctance and hurried away from here.

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In a small thatched cottage built by the cliff edge deep in the illusion formation, Song Qingming was looking at every small object placed in the thatched cottage with a look of surprise.

A few days ago, after Song Qingming was caught up by Sun Jingya, he could only look for a place to hide below. After approaching this valley, Song Qingming actually had already discovered in advance that the scene here was somewhat not quite right.

In order to escape for his life under Sun Jingya's pursuit, Song Qingming could not care about these at this time and directly broke into this illusion formation. No matter how dangerous it was here, as long as he could temporarily avoid the pursuit of the fierce star behind, Song Qingming had to take the risk to come in and hide.

After falling into the formation in this valley, Song Qingming also knew that Sun Jingya would definitely break in as well. He did not know what the opponent's formation level was like. In order to be able to walk out one step in advance, he could only begin to try to explore this strange formation that he had also never seen before.

Compared to Sun Jingya, whose formation level was average, Song Qingming, who was a formation master by origin, had already raised his formation level to the second tier a few years ago. Although he did not know the origin of this formation all at once, he could still see some clues of this formation from it.

Being able to set up an ordinary illusion formation so exquisitely, the person who could do this was absolutely not an ordinary cultivator, but must be a formation master whose level was one step higher than his. Fortunately, there seemed to be no one controlling this formation inside; otherwise, just relying on Song Qingming's level, it was easy to come in, but wanting to go out would not be simple.

The result was that after studying for several days, Song Qingming truly found a trace of a flaw in this illusion formation. He passed through the illusion formation outside and came to this thatched cottage that was hidden by the formation.

This thatched cottage had a total of three small rooms. The first two rooms were full of all kinds of daily objects, as well as some small gadgets commonly used by Qi Refining cultivators and some low-tier magic tools. Looking at it, it seemed like the owner here had made them at will when he was in the mood, and they did not have much value. After Song Qingming came in and searched, he only saw a few spirit items that were slightly useful to him, and he did not look at other things now.

These spirit items were completely not a level of things compared to the mysterious illusion formation outside, which made Song Qingming truly somewhat unable to understand. Looking at the environment and the placement of items here, the owner should have left for a long time, and it did not look like anyone else had been here, so he also could not figure out why there were all these small gadgets of Qi Refining cultivators here.

Until entering this last thatched cottage, Song Qingming was suddenly stunned by everything in front of him. Inside this inconspicuous room, it was actually full of rare treasures, not only colorful spirit stones piled up like a mountain, but also various spirit items of second-tier or above that were emitting spiritual light.

These spirit items were overflowing with rosy light, and some were even difficult for the current Song Qingming to see the grade. Just taking any one of them and placing it in the market would absolutely be a priceless treasure. Song Qingming, who was seeing so many spirit items for the first time in his life, was not only full of excitement on his face, but even his eyes were almost dazzled. For a time, he did not know what spirit item to take first.

"Not right! How could there be so many rare spirit items hidden here? Could it still be an illusion formation!"

Song Qingming, who had taken a step forward and was just about to collect these priceless spirit items, suddenly flashed a trace of cool meaning in his brain at this moment, making his excitement, which had already been somewhat uncontrollable, calm down all at once.

After looking up and scanning these colorful rare treasures that had been emitting spiritual light, the more Song Qingming looked, the more he felt that the situation was somewhat not right. The things in front of him were displayed too conspicuously, as if they were deliberately placed outside to attract greedy people.

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