Chapter 181: Bailin Valley

Walking for two days in this mysterious ancient secret realm, Song Qingming had also seen all kinds of dangers existing inside.

In the secret realm, not only are there strange demon beasts and puppets that attack when they see people, but some places also hide array restrictions that trap enemies, and there are also natural barriers like the river with poisonous mist spreading in front of him that block the footsteps of visitors.

The demon beasts and puppets encountered were fine, and none above Level 2 appeared. Although his cultivation was suppressed by more than half inside, he was still half a Foundation Establishment cultivator, so it was not a big problem to deal with some Level 1 demon beasts.

The array restrictions encountered on the road, although there were many, were not particularly powerful. In front of Song Qingming, an array master, he only needed more time to get out smoothly.

Only the most primitive barriers like poisonous mist, miasma, and wind and sand were the most headache-inducing for Song Qingming. Except for hard breaking, there was almost no clever way to get through, and every time he encountered them, he would add some new injuries to his body.

The small river full of green poisonous gas in front of him was no more than a dozen zhang wide, as if some demon beast was hiding in it and swallowing poisonous mist. The river surface was full of bulging bubbles. After these bubbles burst, they would immediately turn into a poisonous mist and float into the air, forming this barrier that blocked Song Qingming's progress.

Many restrictions in the secret realm almost prohibit cultivators from flying. Wanting to fly over from the air is naturally impossible. In case of encountering restrictions and falling into the river, then you can basically just wait for death.

Song Qingming could only look upstream along the river to see if there were other ways to cross the river. Finally, he found a very ancient huge stone bridge responsible for connecting the two banks not far ahead.

This stone bridge was in the small river where poisonous gas spread, and it had already turned half green, and it was also covered with poisonous mist floating up from the river.

Looking at the map, the location where he was, wanting to go to that valley, this stone bridge should be the only way.

"Since there is no other choice, then no matter what, I can only rush forward directly."

Standing at the bridgehead, Song Qingming took a deep breath, released the Xuanguang Armor and body-protecting gangqi in his body, and then took an antidote pill he had on him in advance just in case.

After being prepared, Song Qingming ran fast toward the opposite bank of the bridge, wanting to rely on his own speed to quickly pass through the poisonous mist on the bridge.

Just after running to the middle of the bridge, Song Qingming felt that he had already infiltrated some poisonous gas. Because his own magic power was suppressed, the power of the Xuanguang Armor on Song Qingming was also reduced a lot here, and it could not fully guard against these poisonous gases.

Fortunately, he ran fast enough and struggled to run to the opposite bank before the poisoning deepened. Song Qingming, who took the antidote pill, felt that his brain was still a bit heavy. This poisonous mist was indeed different from the common poison outside, and even the effect of the commonly used antidote pill on it was very limited.

Fortunately, the Xuanguang Armor technique just now helped him block most of the poisonous mist, otherwise, it would be very difficult for him to persist in walking to that valley before the time stipulated by Fire Phoenix.

After resting for a while, Song Qingming set off again. This last stretch of road, except for encountering a few demon beasts, finally did not appear any other danger. He finally arrived at the Bailin Valley marked on the map, outside a small golden valley about a hundred zhang in size, before the stipulated time.

Just approaching the valley, Song Qingming saw from afar that a red spiritual light was flashing non-stop in the valley. It seems that Long Feng was right. The strength of the spiritual energy in this red light should be the Fire Scale Fruit in Fire Phoenix's mouth.

Seeing that the thing he had been looking for with great difficulty was right in front of him, Song Qingming couldn't help but feel a little happy. He finally had a glimmer of hope for survival.

This Bailin Valley was not large, and there was only one valley entrance to enter. Song Qingming came to the valley entrance and found that there was actually a wind wall blocking his progress in this narrow passage entering the valley.

He released the giant ape puppet beast from the storage bag and manipulated it to slowly enter the wind wall. At first, it was nothing. As the giant ape puppet gradually went deeper, a burst of strong wind began to blow inside. Finally, only in the crisp sound of sword and sword collision, he suddenly lost control of this puppet.

A moment later, with a burst of residual limb fragments made of spirit wood, it flew out from the wind wall just now, which startled Song Qingming outside.

Unexpectedly, this giant ape puppet beast he had just repaired not long ago was completely scrapped like this.

Song Qingming knew the defensive ability of this Level 1 high-grade puppet beast in his heart. Being able to beat it into fragments so quickly, it was at least the power of the Foundation Establishment level or above.

With Song Qingming, who had already been suppressed for most of his cultivation, he really didn't have much confidence to withstand this level of powerful attack. Song Qingming looked around and decided to find a way to take a detour to see if he could enter the valley from another direction.

Soon, Song Qingming turned around the valley and finally returned to the valley entrance just now helplessly.

This valley was set up with a very powerful illusion array. No matter from which direction Song Qingming wanted to enter the valley, he would eventually walk out from the same direction for no reason.

This illusion array was set up very cleverly, neither hurting people nor trapping you in it. It was far from being comparable to the array restrictions he encountered earlier. With Song Qingming's current array formation level, he couldn't break it by force at all.

Besides, he didn't have much time to waste on this now. There was only half an hour left before the time Fire Phoenix gave him. By then, no matter what, he had to leave here.

"No matter what, I've already walked here, I can only gamble and fight."

After making up his mind, Song Qingming gritted his teeth, raised the only defensive magic treasure on his body, the Sky Net Umbrella, and stepped into this wind wall in big strides.

As soon as he walked in, Song Qingming immediately felt a burst of cool wind blowing beside him. The Sky Net Umbrella he held in front instantly felt a trace of resistance. Every time he wanted to move forward, it became more and more difficult. Song Qingming could only increase the magic power in his body and inject it into the Sky Net Umbrella.

After walking ten steps, only a small distance, Song Qingming felt that the resistance borne by the Sky Net Umbrella in front was so great that he was about to be unable to hold on. Seeing this situation, he could no longer continue to move forward, so he could only retreat from the wind wall along the original path helplessly.

"That's not right. My giant ape puppet beast just now clearly walked a distance before being destroyed. How come I couldn't walk after walking such a small distance after going in? This is clearly not right."

After thinking hard for a while, Song Qingming suddenly patted his head and realized. It turned out that the problem was still with him.