Tang Chen galloped all the way, and in less than a quarter of an hour, he reached the foot of the mountain, and his soul sense stretched twenty kilometers deep into the mountain range.

However, this distance still did not envelop the entire mountain range, and he judged according to the trend and shape of the mountain range in his soul consciousness that twenty kilometers was only about one-third of this mountain range.

If you want to explore the whole mountain range, you have to go deep into the mountains.

It's already here, and there's no reason to be discouraged.

Tang Chen beckoned the disciples of the Mountain and River Sect to move closer to the foot of the mountain with his soul sense, and after seeing them pull out, he plunged into the mountains and forests.

He walked all the way, climbing over one mountain range after another, and when he had advanced nearly twenty thousand meters, he once again told the disciples of the Mountain and River Sect to follow in his footsteps, so that they could always be within the range of his soul consciousness.

And just like that, they went deeper and deeper in the mountains.

After about half an hour, Tang Chen finally arrived at the highest peak of this mountain range, and at this point, he had penetrated more than a hundred miles into the mountain range, but he did not find any trace of the desolate crystal deposit.

"It's time for the daily rest again, so why don't you stop here today for the time being, and then continue the search after a night's rest. ”

Tang Chen stopped advancing, and immediately notified the disciples of the Mountain and River Sect to rush over to meet.

When everyone gathered, they began to camp in place.

This is a flat place that Tang Chen deliberately found, with ancient trees towering to the sky, but there are not many shrubs under the trees, and even weeds are relatively scarce, just scattered everywhere.

The shade of the trees was so thick that it obscured the sky, so that the multicolored light could not be transmitted, and there was hardly a trace of light in the forest, and everything was black, making the whole forest as dark as night.

According to the prior arrangement, everyone cultivated, rested, and guarded in an orderly manner.

Tang Chen had something in his heart, and his mind was quite restless, and he couldn't fall asleep for a long time, so he took out a nine-sided desolate crystal and studied it carefully.

He guessed that the reason why the barren crystals recorded in the data were three-sided was probably because those barren crystals were taken from the "barren eggs", and the "barren eggs" were most likely formed by human changes, that is, the barren crystals mentioned in the data were actually changed by people.

And these desolate crystals in his hands were obtained from those monsters.

It can be inferred from this that the monster should not have been transformed by a human, because there is no indication that the three-sided desolate crystal will become a monster, and if the desolate crystal becomes a monster, then how can the monster still have a nine-sided desolate crystal?

"Where did the monster come from, and why did man become a desolate crystal?"

Tang Chen held the desolate crystal and fell into deep thought, but he didn't have a clue, there were too few clues.

"By the way, only those people in the Snow Domain Gate have become desolate crystals, and our hundred people have not changed, why? Do you need any special inducement?"

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind for this obvious but easily overlooked question.

Thinking of this, his heart relaxed a little, since he needed external inducements, and only then would he become desolate crystals, then it meant that the fellow disciples of the Mountain and River Sect were not as fragile as he had expected.

"What is the trigger?"

Tang Chen frowned and pondered, and his mind flashed over the dozen or so Snow Domain Sect disciples who were turning into desolate crystals, from the first time he met them, to the time they finally lost consciousness and were wrapped in black mist, every detail was replayed in his mind......

"Their bodies are illusory! If you want to find the cause of becoming desolate, you must first find the reason why their bodies become illusory. ”

Tang Chen's eyes couldn't help but light up, he felt that this was a very important clue.

"But what can make a person's body illusory? If it is illusory, is it still a human being? Can a person survive without a physical body?"

One question after another flashed in his heart, and when this question popped up, he couldn't help but be stunned, and a tall figure immediately appeared in his mind, it was his father, Tang Tian.

"Isn't the father the one who lost his body but is still alive?......

However, he quickly vetoed it again, his father's situation was obviously different from the dozen or so disciples of the Snow Domain Gate, if his father's star soul was not protected by him with the Soul Star Lock Spirit Array, he would not be able to survive at all, while those disciples of the Snow Domain Gate could move outside like normal people.

"It can be seen that those people are not in the state of star souls, and it is difficult for star souls to survive without the physical body. ”

Tang Chen secretly thought, this is common sense, and there is nothing to doubt.

"How did they come into being in such an illusory state?"

After thinking about it for a while, eventually, he came back to the question.

He rubbed his temples and felt a little headache, and with his current knowledge, for a moment, he couldn't find any explanation at all, not even a little far-fetched reason.

However, at this moment, a figure suddenly walked in from the door of the tent, causing Tang Chen to stand on end.

Within a radius of twenty kilometers, it has always been shrouded in his soul sense, and all the movements in it cannot escape his surveillance, but this person did not notice it until he walked into his tent, which was too terrifying!

Tang Chen's current soul power realm has reached the second-order Star Emperor level, if he wants to escape his soul sense perception, then at least he has to be a Star Emperor powerhouse!

In other words, the person who came in now was definitely a Star Emperor powerhouse, the strongest level star in the entire Star God Continent!

The person who came was a handsome young man, who looked to be less than thirty years old, and was extremely well-dressed, although not luxurious, but exuded an incomparably noble atmosphere, and at first glance he was an extraordinary person.

The man's expression was neither happy nor sad, or rather a little indifferent, he walked straight up to Tang Chen, looked at the nine-sided desolate crystal in Tang Chen's hand, and said, "I'm here for it." ”

Tang Chen looked at this person vigilantly, secretly had all kinds of means ready, and asked pretending to be calm, "Who are you?"

The man probably didn't expect that Tang Chen would not be in the slightest mess after seeing him, so he raised his eyebrows, looked at Tang Chen in a little surprise, and replied, "Who am I, you are not qualified to know." ”

Tang Chen looked at him fearlessly, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, and said, "You seem to be a little rude." ”

He thought very thoroughly, at this time, there is no point in fear, how to do it or how to be, others will not pity you because you are afraid, if he wants to kill, he will not let you go because you are afraid.

The man obviously didn't expect Tang Chen to talk to him like this, so he couldn't help but smile, looked at Tang Chen again, and said, "You are not small, a mere sixth-order star general, you dare to talk to me like this, I don't know if you are ignorant, or are you really fearless?"

Tang Chen didn't answer, but stretched out his hand and made a gesture of "please sit".

Seeing this, the man glanced at Tang Chen deeply, and there was no nonsense, so he sat down directly opposite Tang Chen, his eyes were locked on Tang Chen, as if he was waiting for Tang Chen's reply.