Chapter 371: Cave Dwelling Entrance

The four took turns controlling the flying boat to head north. Because they were all cultivators with similar cultivation, and it was rare for them to have the opportunity to sit together, they naturally exchanged some cultivation insights, and the few soon became familiar with each other.

Compared to Gao Yuyao and Duan Xueyi, the two Carefree Sect disciples with higher status in the sect, Fang Wuqian was about the same as Song Qingming, both being ordinary immortal cultivation family cultivators of the State of Wei. His speech was more straightforward than the two of them, which made Song Qingming have more favor for him.

The reason Fang Wuqian was invited by Duan Xueyi was also because Duan Xueyi had once done him a great favor in the past. Plus, this was also a rare great opportunity for him, so Fang Wuqian naturally didn't want to miss it.

After traveling north for about a thousand miles, the flying boat had already gone deep into the Floating Cloud Mountain Range. Along the way, they would occasionally encounter harassment from low-level demon beasts like flying birds. In order not to alarm those high-level second-tier demon beasts, the group did not choose to kill these demon beasts but tried their best to drive them away and not let them approach the flying boat.

After the flying boat went deep into the Floating Cloud Mountain Range for about three thousand miles, there were many high-level demon beasts of the second tier and above, and few cultivators would set foot here. In order to avoid the attention of those high-level demon beasts, the group could only slowly lower the speed of the flying boat and carefully pass through the territories of these high-level demon beasts.

After traveling for another four or five days like this, after the flying boat crossed several high mountains, a big river ten-odd zhang wide appeared before their eyes.

Gao Yuyao, standing on the flying boat, saw this river and hurriedly said loudly, "Senior Sister Duan, wait a moment. The place recorded in the hairpin seems to be near here."

Hearing Gao Yuyao say this, the few on the flying boat stood up instantly and looked at the big river below.

"According to the records, this cave dwelling is under a water pool on the north side of the Jinshui River. After we go forward for a distance, let's go down together and see if there is any place that looks unusual."

After crossing the Jinshui River mentioned by Gao Yuyao, the flying boat arrived at a swampy area full of water pits everywhere. The range of this swamp was very large, totaling about several dozen miles in radius.

After the group got off the flying boat, each chose a direction and began to disperse to the surroundings to look for the water pool mentioned by Gao Yuyao.

Somewhat strangely, the group searched for a circle, and until they gathered at night, they didn't even find a large water pool; they were all small water pits only one or two zhang in radius.

Although some of these water pits were bottomless, compared to the large water pool ten-odd zhang wide mentioned by Gao Yuyao, the gap was truly too far, and it was impossible to regard it as a water pool at all.

"Fellow Daoist Song, could it be that the senior has set up a concealment array nearby, which is why we can't find that water pool?" Seeing that the few returned without success, Duan Xueyi hurriedly asked Song Qingming on the side.

Song Qingming shook his head and replied, "At present, I haven't seen anything unusual. However, there are many magic arrays in the world of immortal cultivation. Whether there is truly such a brilliant array that can deceive all of us is hard to say. We still need to check carefully. Fairy Duan, rest assured, if there is truly a concealment array covering that water pool, searching a few more times will reveal the anomaly."

After deep night, the swampy area near the river began to drift with pervasive white mist, which soon blurred the scene around the group. Song Qingming, who was closing his eyes to rest, suddenly felt a trace of unusual movement in the mist with his external spiritual sense, so he hurriedly opened his eyes.

Song Qingming just wanted to look around, but found that Duan Xueyi, who was sitting opposite him, had actually discovered this trace of unusual movement a step earlier than him. At this moment, she had also opened a pair of bright eyes and was carefully observing the mist beside her.

Ever since he practiced the Soul-Devouring Technique given to him by Feng He, Song Qingming's spiritual sense had become about twice as powerful as that of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators. For so many years, he had never seen a Foundation Establishment cultivator whose spiritual sense could be on par with his current one. He had more curiosity about this Duan Xueyi in his heart, wondering what kind of spiritual sense cultivation technique this woman had practiced.

The movement in the mist was getting closer and closer to the group. Before long, Gao Yuyao and Fang Wuqian, whose spiritual sense was weaker, also discovered the movement in the mist one after another and were awakened from their meditation.

Just as the group was carefully observing the surroundings, a hissing sound suddenly rang out in the mist, followed by several huge red eyeballs suddenly appearing in the mist. Two giant demon crocodiles opened their huge heads from the mist and pounced toward the four.

These two demon crocodiles were huge, several zhang long, and were clearly demon beasts of the second tier and above. Behind them, there were more than a dozen blood-red eyes following, only these eyes looked smaller than the two giant crocodiles in front.

Seeing that the two second-tier demon crocodiles were not well-intentioned, Song Qingming and Fang Wuqian, who had already been prepared, looked at each other and immediately blocked the two crocodiles on the left and right.

Although these two demon crocodiles were huge, they were only second-tier low-grade demon beasts. In front of Song Qingming and Fang Wuqian, two late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, they couldn't pose any threat at all and were soon suppressed to the side by the two.

After the dozen or so demon crocodiles followed up, before they could start attacking, they were turned upside down by Gao Yuyao using a purple ribbon magic tool and couldn't approach the surroundings of the few at all.

Seeing that the three who had already made a move didn't need his help at all, Duan Xueyi used a feather fan to fan directly toward the front, immediately fanning away most of the mist that affected the vision of the group, revealing the low-level demon crocodiles that were still at a loss in the mist.

Seeing that these people were not easy to provoke, the demon crocodiles that hadn't approached hesitated for a moment, then slowly retreated and began to flee in all directions.

The two second-tier demon crocodiles soon also couldn't defeat Song Qingming and his companion and died unwillingly in the hands of the few.

After killing the last demon crocodile, the sky had gradually brightened. Fang Wuqian looked at the corpses all over the ground and said somewhat puzzled, "Strange, when searching during the day, these demon beasts were not discovered. Where did they suddenly pop out from?"

"It doesn't look like they came from elsewhere. Their lair should be in those water pits. We will know when we go over to see together in a while." Duan Xueyi looked at the water pits in the distance and replied to him thoughtfully.

After the group packed up the corpses of the two second-tier demon crocodiles, they followed the footprints of the low-level demon crocodiles and soon arrived beside a bottomless water pit.

Duan Xueyi looked at the surroundings carefully and said with a smile, "I finally know why we couldn't find that water pool before. It turns out the entrance to this cave dwelling is under these water pits."