Chapter 44: The Foggy Palm
Early in the morning, before dawn, Ji Fan got up from the guest room on the third floor of the Xuanling Building, sorted out his clothes and left the inn.
There are still few pedestrians on the street, but some mortals who sell food have already set up their stalls.
Looking for an inconspicuous corner that people couldn't find, Ji Fan just took the medicine basket out of the storage bag.
"Childe~~~ What are you looking at?"
In a porridge shop in the east of the city, a maidservant girl found the master in front of the table, looked at a young man carrying a medicine basket walking on the road outside, and couldn't help but ask.
"Nothing. ”
Wearing a white robe, the young man who looked very beautiful shook his head puzzled, I don't know why he felt that Ji Fan, who was in the medicine basket, had a sense of heaviness.
Different from the brief glimpse of the seemingly beautiful young man, Ji Fan, who was barefoot, walked from the Xuanling Tower in the east of the city to the south gate for a full hour.
As the morning sun rose, Ji Fan observed the open south gate and found that some people had already entered and exited through the city gate, and he followed calmly and calmly.
The reckless Hundred Tombs Mountain Range came into view, and Ji Fan, who was out of the city, couldn't help but sigh at the vastness of the mountain range in the fog in the distance.
"The stone book was confiscated, but I wrote it down in advance, and it was not a loss. "It's still far from the south gate to enter the mountains and forests, and the direction that Ji Fan is walking is southeast.
Ji Fan, who was heading towards the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range, also saw Wangtomb Mountain on the way, a big mountain towering into the sky, which was the place where the disciples of the Ten Demon Dao Dabi were located, there were already a lot of people, and there was even a small market at the foot of the mountain.
Ji Fan, who was carrying the medicine basket on his back, just looked at the tomb mountain, and felt that the competition between the ten demon sects for glory had nothing to do with him, a shabby wild boy who couldn't even join the sect.
On the Tomb Mountain, there is a flying point of Ling Gangzong, which makes Ji Fan pay more attention.
The flight point is a place to pay a certain fee to take a flying monster or flying magic weapon, and then achieve the purpose of long-distance flight.
In fact, the Ten Demon Dao, not only the Ling Gang Sect has a flying point, but other sects also have it on the mountains around the Hundred Tomb City, and most of the beast chariots are in the city.
At noon, Ji Fan entered the woods in the southeast and found a hidden bush to spit out the Imperial Beast Stone.
"Buzz~~~"
As Ji Fan injected true elements into the oval-shaped, complex-textured Imperial Beast Stone, it took a while for the texture of the Imperial Beast Stone to brighten and loosen.
"It's too slow!"
Seeing that the loose side of the texture of the Imperial Beast Stone released light and sent out the fleshy little hedgehog, Ji Fan secretly sighed that it was really difficult to control the treasure with True Yuan.
"Squeak!"
The little hedgehog twisted his body, quite adapting to the five-zhang square space in the Imperial Beast Stone.
Different from the storage bag, the space in the beast stone has a moonflower tree, a small lawn, and a small pool, which can be inhabited by living beings.
Put away the beast stone, Ji Fan changed into an animal skin pouch and tied it around his waist.
"Now that we have reached the edge of the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range, I have to take you with me to sense the danger in advance, and there is one more thing, the entire spirit stone has been spent, and we have to find some income, so I plan to try to dig the grave, can you give guidance by distinguishing between the aura and the danger?" Ji Fan asked the little hedgehog as he put it in a leather bag.
"Squeak!"
The little hedgehog peeked out through the gap in the lid of the leather bag and agreed to Ji Fan's proposal, after all, where it can be used, it can play its strengths.
"I'll walk along the edge of the eastern forest of the Hundred Tombs Mountains, little one, raise your attention and alert me if you feel an opportunity to enter the Hundred Tombs Mountains. Ji Fan thought that in the Tianji Pavilion before, the tall girl said that the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range was the ancient array, and she didn't dare to be careless.
In Ji Fan's mind, if it is a formation, there must be a great danger, there is a difference between the door of life and the door of death, and the trial time chosen by the Ten Demon Dao is likely to be to deal with the changes in the ancient formation.
However, now that the big competition of the Ten Demon Dao List has not yet begun, Ji Fan feels that he still has a certain amount of leeway in time.
In the afternoon, Ji Fan walked in the forest with a medicine basket on his back, picking some herbs by the way, even if it was difficult to obtain the spiritual essence, for him, the medicine picker could hide his actions and purpose.
There are many graves in the forest at the edge of the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range, and you can always touch the grave bag, which makes people panic at night.
"Quack!quack~~~"
There is also a kind of black crow in the forest sea, which is a small demon beast, which is quite fierce in groups, not only screaming loudly, but also touching them to flutter constantly if they are not careful.
It is difficult to determine whether the graves in the forest are all buried dead people, and they have to avoid black crows, Ji Fan has no choice but to walk away almost in the fog of the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range.
The black crow did not dare to approach the dense fog of the mountain range, and if he encountered a strong person, Ji Fan still had the opportunity to fight into the dense fog of the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range and escape, the danger was dangerous, it was better than sitting still.
The little hedgehog in the animal skin bag was also extremely frightened, and secretly looked out in the animal skin bag all the time.
"Pay attention to the nearby tombs, it's not a way for us to go on like this, we have to find a relatively safe path into the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range, the girl said before that the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range is an ancient formation, you also heard it, even if we can get in, we have to get in." Ji Fan was almost stepping on the dense fog boundary of the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range, and he was also chilling.
At this time, Ji Fan was even thinking that if he could get something in the tomb bag outside, he wouldn't have to venture into the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range.
In fact, compared to the dead, Ji Fan was more afraid of the living, and he was not sure if there was a strong person who would live in such a strange place.
If it was for the sake of hiding, Ji Fan didn't mind lying in the grave.
Ji Fan chose to visit the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range, one was to take advantage of the unique situation here to find opportunities, and the other was to avoid the chaos of the Hundred Tombs City and find a place to hide for a while.
After understanding a few days ago, Ji Fan found that not only the Ten Demon Dao Alliance, but also other forces that came to Hundred Tomb City were also led by division commanders, and the elders of these cultivation forces were quite terrifying.
"Puff~~~"
Without the little hedgehog signaling, Ji Fan was startled when he saw a group of black crows in the distance, and he also realized that it was abnormal, so he hurriedly squatted into the dense fog and used the fog to hide his figure.
"锃~~~"
The sound of the sword groan sounded, and a sword qi mass erupted in the woods on one side, and the sword qi of the Dao Dao was vertical and horizontal, shooting out wisps of blood light from the black crow like a devastating one.
"What a terrible sword qi mass!"
Ji Fan, who was squatting in the thick fog, couldn't help but swallow his saliva when he saw a cloud of sword qi surging out, and the black crows fluttering in the distant woods fell one after another.
As the sword light faded, a green butterfly flew up in the night, giving people a strange sense of vitality.
Finding the green butterfly in the distance, flying along the dense fog of the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range, Ji Fan's heart tightened, and he faintly realized that someone might also be looking for the life gate of the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range.
Fortunately, the direction in which the butterfly flies is also along the arc of the mountain range in the southeast, not towards Ji Fan.
Ji Fan really didn't expect that there would be fellow travelers who paid the same attention to him in the middle of the night.
"Little one, are you okay?"
Ji Fan showed his head slightly, and found that the speed of butterflies flying and searching for the dense fog was obviously much faster than him, and there were four monks following Qingdie.
Ji Fan, who was covered by a little mist, after not getting a reply from the little hedgehog, had already gotten up to follow the people in the distance in front of him.
The time of the night passed slowly, and just when Ji Fan felt that once the sky was bright, he could no longer secretly follow the group, the four people in the distance obviously stopped at a place on the edge of the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range.
"Those four people seem to have discovered something. ”
Ji Fan slightly moved his figure to the side of the dense fog, hiding it well.
While Ji Fan was waiting, the four people in the distance, who seemed to be guided by Qingdie, tested the place where they stayed, and finally entered the dense fog.
Although Ji Fan found out that the four people were missing, he still hid and endured silently, and had no intention of moving the place at all.
Half an hour passed, and the moon and stars in the sky began to fade, and after Ji Fan didn't notice anything unusual, he went to the place where the four disappeared.
"Squeak!"
When it came to the place where the four people disappeared, at least Ji Fan couldn't see any difference, but the little hedgehog began to call, I don't know if it was because the four people disappeared here, or if it also found a safe path in the thick fog.
"Can you enter the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range in this dense fog area?" Ji Fan looked at the dense fog and confirmed in a low voice.
"Squeak!"
The little hedgehog poked out its claws from the leather pouch and pointed in one direction.
Ji Fan took a deep breath, but he didn't hesitate too much, followed the little hedgehog's point, and tried to enter the dense fog.
Unlike at the edge of the dense fog, after going deep into the dense fog, Ji Fan's vision and perception were greatly affected, and he couldn't even see a foot away.
"This Hundred Tombs Mountain Range is also known as the Wuzhang Mountain Range, the fog fills the entire mountain range, containing danger at the same time, it is not without favorable factors for me, and then walking in the mountain range, I am afraid that I will have to face the situation of the fog all the time!" Ji Fan walked cautiously while making mental preparations.
Ji Fan stepped on a stone, dived into his hand and picked it up, tossed it into the impenetrable fog barrier, and listened intently.
"Knock~~~"
What made Ji Fan's heart dark was that when the stone was thrown into a place that could not be seen in the fog, there was a slight sound.
"I can't see it, but I can hear it, it seems that you have to be careful when you act in this Hundred Tombs Mountain Range. Ji Fan listened for a while, but didn't move for a long time.
Ji Fan could think that in addition to the disciples of the Ten Demon Dao, the disciples of various forces would not be less likely to enter the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range, and the disciples of these forces would gang up, but he was alone and obviously in a disadvantageous situation.
Just like the four people who entered the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range before, Ji Fan guessed that they must all have proud talents, and in the face of only one, he is afraid that he will not be able to defeat them, if they encounter four together, they will not be able to escape, then they will die.
"The ninety-nine mountains of the Hundred Tombs Mountain Range have become the circle of Phoenix Nirvana, and there should be woods and valleys between the mountains. Ji Fan secretly thought about it, and went the deepest to the area of the first layer of the mountain on the periphery.
"Little guy, have your sense of smell and perception been affected here?" Ji Fan asked the little hedgehog in advance in a relatively safe situation.
"Squeak!"
The little hedgehog screamed, and there was some confidence in it.
"I'm going to go to the mountains, don't call anymore, if there is any situation, use your claws to pick up the mouth of the animal skin bag, although this mountain range is called a hundred tombs, but the number of real tombs may be in the thousands, I hope we can find some benefits as soon as possible, I don't know why, I have some bad feelings." Ji Fan whispered.
The little hedgehog trembled slightly in the animal skin pouch, obviously agreeing with Ji Fan's statement.