The second group of the Cangling Academy cadet team flew low close to the west side of the mountain range, carefully searching each peak. [Ran^Text^Library] The entire team followed closely behind Lei Xi, lined up in a straight line, and every three students formed a small triangular battle formation.

Lei Xi frowned and slowed down his flight. She felt a hint of unease. In just a few minutes, she and her entire team had searched most of the western side of the entire central Sarin Mountain Range, but they had not found any large enough crypts or tunnels, let alone sensed any spiritual power fluctuations belonging to other humans or spiritual power fluctuations from large energy circles. Could it be that the nest of the Five Beasts is only at the north and south ends? But in this case, wouldn't it be too easy to be cut off and surrounded? The most important thing is that the enemy has never moved...... Did they already run away without a sound, or did they already know that we were going to surround them, and they didn't care at all? It sounds terrifying......

Ji Chengdong, who was following closely behind Lei Xi, noticed that her demeanor was not quite right, and waved his hand to signal the second group to slow down. A completely colorless, transparent stream of water appeared around his body out of thin air, swirling around his body at high speed without making a sound. He also sensed that something was wrong in the mountains. But he couldn't say anything was wrong.

Lei Xi stopped, hovered beside a steep mountain wall with a slope of nearly forty-five degrees, flattened his body, and quietly felt the fluctuations of spiritual power around him. Within a radius of a few miles, there was no sign of any other life except for the fluctuations of the entire second group's own spiritual power. She also felt General Bai's sense of resonance, but this sense of resonance was very weak and not strong. This indicates that the commanders of the Security Office and the permanent forces are moving here, but not at a rapid pace. Other than that, there is no other signal.

"Miss Spirit Envoy, is there something wrong?" Ji Chengdong asked in a low voice.

Lei Xi didn't answer immediately. She was tasked with searching for the entrance to the Five Beasts' lair before the command gave the order, and relaying the exact location of the entrance back to the headquarters. She felt it now that uneasiness seemed to grow stronger. Her sixth sense reminded her that there must be something important hidden in this area. It could be the entrance to the lair of the Five Beasts, or it could be something dangerous.

"Isn't it time to go to the east to search?" asked a male student flying behind, "there is no movement here......

Lei Xi didn't let him continue, just nodded, and waved his hand to signal everyone to go to the east side to continue the search. She noticed a faint mist rising from the middle of several small hills on the east side, slowly spreading outward, slowly encircling the slightly higher peaks around her. In general, it is difficult to produce fog in the mountains and forests in winter, especially in the mountains and forests of the northwest region. What's even more strange is that this pale white mist completely revolves around the peaks and mountains on the east side, only spreading to the north and south, and not drifting to the west at all. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this fog is by no means a natural phenomenon.

"This fog can be poisonous in it. Everyone took out the antidote pill and ate one. Hold one's breath. Don't gasp for air. ”

Ji Chengdong finished the string of words in a voice as fast as fried beans, and quickly took out a white pill the size of a finger belly from his uniform pocket and stuffed it into his mouth. All the other trainees did the same in the shortest possible time.

Lei Xi nodded in satisfaction. She knew Ji Chengdong's personal abilities better than Ji Chengdong, a student who was famous for his gossip and poor mouth, but she didn't know much about his command and improvisation. From this point of view, he is still relatively reliable when he is serious.

The second group followed closely behind Lei Xi and rushed headlong to the east side of the mountain range. Lei Xi released a faint purple-red radio wave, covering every student with a net-like protective film. In the blink of an eye, the students released their body protection spiritual power one after another, plunging into the pale white mist one after another. At the moment when all the students were immersed in the mist, the pale white mist suddenly thinned out and spread to the east and west, instantly filling most of the mountain paths and covering more than half of the parts that were completely roadless.

"Don't panic. Lei Xi just said two words lightly. These two words poured into the ears of the students like a tranquilizer. Several trainees who had never performed an internship mission were stunned and regained their composure. Every student found that this pale white mist was not poisonous, nor did it have adverse effects such as paralysis and vertigo, and it was almost no different from ordinary natural mist. No student can judge in the first place what it does to the human body. It stands to reason that this should not be the case with artificially created fog.

"Keep searching!" Ji Chengdong waved his hand.

The whole second group turned around and flew in the direction of the eastern side of the mountain. The flight speed of each cadet was much slower, and the distance between each triangular battle formation was also much shorter. All of them unleashed their sensing spiritual power to the maximum, and did their best to perceive the changes that might occur at any time.

Outwardly, the eastern mountain range is noticeably colder than the western mountain range, with depressions one after another, and potholes of various sizes are continuous. Even through the white mist, the students could see many irregular strange-shaped pits facing them like the mouths of various large spirit beasts. But everyone can see that the bottom of these large pits is at most a few small holes a few meters deep, which are not called crypts or underground palaces at all.

"Huh?" a female student in the center of the line suddenly let out a surprised voice.

Lei Xi, who was flying at the front, immediately stopped and waved his hand to signal the students behind him to stop. Including Ji Chengdong, several students turned around at the same time and looked at her. None of them perceived any anomalous phenomena.

"Look over there!" the thin female student with a ponytail raised her hand and pointed directly to the summit of the tallest mountain in front of the group to the right.

All the students immediately turned around. In just an instant, they understood what the female trainee was talking about. The tallest, steepest mountain was the most bewildered in the misty pale white mist, and was blurred from all the other scenery around it. Everyone saw that the peak seemed to split into two ghosts, swaying back and forth in everyone's sight, and the large irregular cylindrical stone that had collapsed half down at the top of the peak was divided into five or six ghosts of different shades, sometimes separate and sometimes overlapping. The two trainees, who had never performed a mission, thought they had been given psychedelics or paralyzing powder at the same time, shook their heads vigorously, and reached out to pat their faces.

Lei Xi raised his right arm vigilantly, silently unleashed his phoenix-patterned thunder gun, and turned his head to look around at the surrounding scene. She found that every mountain peak, every hill in her sight, began to blur, as if it had been given life, either as if it were fluttering or shaking.

The pale white mist suddenly began to thicken, and the visibility around the entire tall mountain peak rapidly decreased, and everyone's spiritual power perception range instantly shrank by more than half.

"Oh no! It's a fantasy! Everyone is ready to fight!"

Lei Xi let out a coquettish shout, jumped upward, jumped above the entire student team, and released his own micro spirit core and spirit circle. Four dark purple spirit circles came out of her body, surrounding her graceful body, flickering at each other, releasing a dazzling purple-red light. The explosive thunder elemental energy flew in all directions, forcing the pale white mist surrounding the cadet clan back several steps.

At the same time, Ji Chengdong also released his martial spirit and spirit circle. Compared to half a year ago, the size of the holy water bowl in his hand was at least one circle larger, and the ancient patterns engraved on the bottom of the bowl had become clearer. The transparent water ring around his body suddenly split, splitting into five identical water rings and beginning to spin at a faster speed. Five transparent water rings emit snow-white hot steam at the same time, making a "bang-la-la" sound. The water in the bowl is no longer dark blue, but colorless, and looks indistinguishable from water in nature. Twenty white points of light emerged from each of his three spirit circles, flickering in turn like a roulette wheel.

All the students successively released their own martial spirits and spirit circles, and gathered together, forming a circular battle formation with Lei Xi at the top and Ji Chengdong at the center as the core. Each student has three spirit circles, and there are at least seventeen light spots on the spirit ring. More than a dozen spiritual power fluctuations instantly condensed into a whole, releasing a powerful aura. No one dared to be careless, because no one could confirm the location of the enemy, as well as their numbers and strength. In general, the unknown enemy is often the most terrifying. Judging from the size of the mountain range shrouded in illusion and the concealment of this illusion, the caster's cultivation is definitely not low. If it was just one person, it would definitely be a middle-level spirit master who had cultivated to the fourth order or above or above, or even the fifth order or so.

Just as the cadets entered the combat state, the fog around them became thick again. Whether it is the mountain peaks, the mountain bags, or the bushes and stones scattered on both sides of the mountain road, they all begin to sway and shake from side to side, turning into overlapping shadows. The gray sky gradually turned a mist-like pale white, blending in with the tops of one mountain peak after another. The entire area silently turned into a large, enclosed space.

"Click! Click!"

"Click! Click!"

"Boom-boom-"

Countless cracking and cracking sounds sounded from all directions, constantly stimulating the auditory nerves of the trainees. Hundreds of gray-white rocks fell from the peaks, mixed with snow and dust from the summits. Hundreds of milky white humanoid phantoms appeared out of thin air, spinning back and forth in the air. At the same time, dozens of large thick columns like giant trees drilled out from between the mountain roads and ridges around the mountain peaks like giant bamboo shoots, making another loud "boom" sound, surrounding the two groups of cadet teams in the air. The fog obscured their surface, but it could not obscure their form. In the blink of an eye, they grew arms that resembled human beings, and at the end of the arms grew large five-fingered hands larger than the entire body of an ordinary person. Each pair of large hands was iron-gray, and it emitted a silver glow that the mist could not obscure