At night, the sky is lit with stars, and the faint starlight shines through the translucent dome of the spiritual curtain into the valley.

Zhang Mu watched the dead village in the grass pavilion intently, and there was still no change in the village until the morning sun rose after the night passed.

So, I couldn't help but say to myself.

"Could it be that I guessed wrong, this is an ordinary village?"

"If it's an ordinary village, the villagers there seem to have disappeared out of thin air, how can you explain it?"

When Zhang Mu was thinking, he looked up and saw the towering ancient tree behind the village, and muttered: "Could it be that what is hidden here is not this village, but the ancient tree?" ”

Thinking of this, Zhang Mu took another look at the village and decided to go to the ancient tree to explore and see if he could find the answer he wanted.

After half a day's trek, Zhang Mu came to the foot of the towering ancient tree.

Looking up, the straight trunk of the tree reaches into the sky, like a pillar supporting the sky.

At eye level, the roots of the trees are tangled and intertwined, like low ridges, lying horizontally on the earth.

Zhang Mu jumped onto the extremely strong roots, and began to climb upwards with the help of the cracked and rough bark, and it took nearly an hour to finally climb to the top of the towering ancient tree, and jumped to a branch with a raised crown.

Looking down, you can see the surrounding scenery.

The first thing that catches your eye is the innermost of the three majestic spiritual curtains, like an upside-down transparent giant bowl, covering a range of hundreds of miles.

Then, in front of the towering ancient tree, there was a majestic ridge about the same height, rising above the earth, and its shape resembled a huge beast lying on all fours.

From afar, it's daunting.

Zhang Mu observed the canopy of the towering ancient tree for a long time, and except for the ridge that resembled a huge beast, he didn't notice any other abnormalities here.

As he descended the cracked trunk and was about to reach the surface, he suddenly found an entrance to a cavern not far behind him.

Zhang Mu came to the cave, and its opening was only a dozen zhang square.

When I went down, I found that there was a hole in it, which was in the shape of an inverted funnel, and the further down it went, the wider it became.

Zhang Mu took advantage of an almost vertical stone step on the cliff of the cave and fell three or four hundred zhang to the ground of the cave.

Through the cracks in the stone inside, clusters of glowing moss, I looked up and realized that the space inside was huge.

Zhang Mu stepped on the gravel on the ground and slowly walked towards the depths of the room, walking a distance of four or five hundred zhang.

Suddenly.

With a bang, Zhang Mu hit a spiritual curtain headlong.

With an angry "oops", he took two steps back while covering his forehead.

Surprised, he looked at the bright halos flickering on the spiritual curtain in front of him, and said to himself: "This magic circle is so cleverly hidden, I didn't even notice it when I walked to it. ”

Then, Zhang Mu rubbed his forehead while carefully observing this magic circle.

A moment later.

Zhang Mu praised sincerely: "This arrangement is really ingenious! ”

This is a sealed magic circle, and monks who are not very high, even if they stand a few steps away from this magic circle, they will not be able to find it, and only by touching the magic circle will they discover its existence.

It was precisely because of this that Zhang Mu, who only had the Qi Refining Realm, was full of arms.

Zhang Mu looked back and forth around the circle and found that this circle completely blocked the way down the cave, and if he wanted to continue to advance, he had to pass through this circle.

However, this magic circle is not like the outer majestic shore spirit curtain that only has the effect of blocking the inside and outside, but has the ability to counterattack, if it is forcibly broken through, it will definitely suffer from the counterattack of the entire magic circle.

According to the estimation of the size of this magic circle, the power of the counterattack is not at all something that Zhang Mu can resist.

Zhang Mu looked at the magic circle in front of him and suddenly thought that the three spiritual curtains outside might not be to hide the village in the valley, but to hide this cave, otherwise, such a magic circle would not have been set up to intercept it on the way into the cave.

After Zhang Mu figured out all kinds of doubts, he continued to guess that there must be an extremely rare treasure hidden here.

Otherwise, how could anyone spend a huge amount of money laying a magic circle to hide such a location in the depths of this inaccessible Zongzhou.

So, Zhang Mu immediately made a decision in his heart, first stop his plan to go back to Qingzhou, and directly stationed here for a period of time, crack this magic circle, and find the hidden treasure inside.

If an ordinary monk with the same cultivation as Zhang Mu broke into here, after seeing these extravagant arrangements, he would definitely not dare to think of cracking the magic circle to search for the treasures in it, but would think about leaving this place as soon as possible, so as not to cause trouble and bury his life.

But Zhang Mu is different, except for the jade slip in the dantian, which gives him infinite confidence.

There is another reason why he stayed, that is, he saw that the magic circle here was extremely cleverly arranged, and he also wanted to further improve his formation level by cracking the magic circle to confirm his magic circle skills.

In order to concentrate on cracking the magic circle, Zhang Mu decided to return to the cave first, search for some food, and then return to the cave to station.

Even if a Qi Realm cultivator doesn't eat or drink for a few days, it doesn't matter.

But most of them will still retain some daily eating habits to satisfy their appetites, and Zhang Mu is the same.

In the cave, when Zhang Mu turned around and returned to the ground, the girl's phantom suddenly appeared behind him again, looking at his distant figure, a look of contemplation appeared on his face.

A few days later.

Zhang Mu, who lives here, does not feel bored and lonely, but because he is the only one here, it is rare to leave behind the noise of the mundane, and live a pure and fulfilling life in this valley like a paradise.

Zhang Mu divided the time of the day into four equal parts, three hours in the morning, climbed the towering ancient tree to face the rising sun and worked hard to improve his cultivation, three hours in the afternoon was used to study and crack the magic circle in the cave, and in the evening he returned to the ground, using the array to rub the ever-changing Ganges Jinsha array, and finally the remaining time was used to rest.

In this uneventful life, Zhang Mu spent more than a month finally cracking the magic circle of the cave, and immediately happily passed through the gap in the spiritual curtain supported by the cracking magic circle and entered the back.

But after moving forward for hundreds of zhang, another magic circle appeared in front of him, which was very similar to the one he had just cracked, but its power was a little greater than the previous one.

When he saw this magic circle, Zhang Mu did not have a depressed look on his face, but a look of excitement.

The reason was that Zhang Mu saw that there were so many magic circles blocking ahead, and he was even more determined in his heart to guess that there were treasures buried in the depths of the cave.

On the other hand, in the process of cracking the magic circle behind him, he really got a lot of inspiration from the formation skills and improved a lot of levels.

If the one in front of him is also cracked, it will definitely make his formation skills go further.

The combination of the two reasons made Zhang Mu so excited in his heart.

During this time, the girl's phantom appeared intermittently a few times, but they were all quietly observed on the side, and they never showed their figure.

It wasn't until Zhang Mu was about to crack the second magic circle in the cave that the girl's phantom directly raised her arm and stretched out a finger, pointing at Zhang Mu's forehead.

However, when her fingers were about to touch Zhang Mu's eyebrows, after seeing the serious and resolute look in Zhang Mu's dark eyes, she stopped inexplicably, and at the same time, a trace of curiosity rose in her heart, wanting to see if this young man who only had the Qi Refining Realm could crack this magic circle.

So, the girl's phantom continued to float beside Zhang Mu with her hands, quietly watching Zhang Mu deduce various combinations of formation patterns used to break the formation on the ground.

In this way, Zhang Mu returned to the previous days, and every day was practice, breaking the formation, and rubbing the sub-array.

During this period, Zhang Mu tried to use a gate in the village to summon the Wuding Gate, but I don't know if it was too far away, or because of the blockade of the three great shore spirit curtains outside, he couldn't summon it.

The sun sets and the moon rises, and the cycle repeats.

Unconsciously, Zhang Mu has been staying here for more than five months.

In the early morning of this day, Zhang Mu sat cross-legged on a branch of a towering ancient tree, slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity, and suddenly a wave of joy appeared on his face.

Just now, Zhang Mu relied on the continuous supply of spiritual energy in the dantian, coupled with the assistance of Aoki spiritual liquid, and finally broke through to the ninth level of qi refining.

Saw.

Zhang Mu got up to meet the golden morning glory, looked at the brilliant clouds dyed crimson, and first let out a long roar.

Then, jump straight from the towering ancient tree.

When it was nearly 100 zhang away from the ground, the aura of the whole body erupted violently with the momentum of swallowing mountains and rivers, and slapped it directly at the ground, showing a palm technique that fell from the sky.

Boom!!!

The ground trembled, and dust and smoke rose everywhere!

The majestic aura instantly pressed out a palm-shaped pit nearly a hundred zhang in size on the ground, and the dents at the joints were clearly visible.

Then, with a dashing excuse of strength, he turned around and fell to the side of the palm print pit, nodded with satisfaction, turned around and went to the cave in a good mood, and began to continue to crack the magic circle.

In the caverns.

The third circle is much more complicated than the first and second ones that have been cracked before.

Therefore, it took nearly three months to deduce the method of cracking the show.

After Zhang Mu had an idea, he began to depict and crack the magic circle on the ground.

After the engraving is completed, the sub-array that stores the aura in the dantian is immediately unraveled, and a large amount of aura is injected into it.

After filling.

I saw that the nine formations next to the third magic circle, like nine spirit snakes lying on the ground, slowly poked their heads out, climbed on top of the third magic circle spirit curtain, and slowly stabbed towards the spirit curtain.

When he had just pierced a minute or two deep, the spiritual curtain suddenly shone brightly, and there were signs of a counterattack at any time.

However, under Zhang Mu's precise control, it has not been allowed to reach the critical point of counterattack.

As the cracking circle continued to operate, the nine spiritual snake-like formations were entangled like twisted flowers, and finally pierced the third magic circle.

Then it slowly expanded and bounced open, opening a hole on the spiritual curtain for one person to pass through.

Then.

The girl's phantom floating on Zhang Mu's side showed a look of surprise on her face, she didn't expect that Zhang Mu would crack this magic circle in just a few months.

Watching Zhang Mu cross over, his face once again showed a thoughtful look.

Inside the third circle.

Zhang Mu watched the cracking array behind him slowly fall silent, and did not collapse, and immediately relieved himself.

Begin to walk deeply.

After walking a few steps, Zhang Mu noticed that there was a vague aura in here, and tried to distinguish it, but he didn't have any clue, but he felt that this breath would make people feel an inexplicable sense of restlessness in their hearts!