After passing through the forest area, the group successfully ascended to the high ground, and Shi Cheng successfully confirmed his guess by standing on the high ground in the direction of the waterfall in the distance.

Even though there was still a little mist around, because the distance was not too far, everyone could clearly see the movement in the direction of the waterfall from the high ground, that is to say, the vision that Du Heng noticed in the forbidden area at that time was not his illusion.

The two most important questions at the moment are, what did Du Heng see at that time? It didn't take long to walk from the river valley to the wooded area and the upper plateau, and how did the people Du Heng saw disappear into the open land near the waterhole in a short period of time?

Shi Cheng lowered his eyebrows and pondered, always feeling as if he had missed something very important, and after thinking and meditating, he couldn't come to a conclusion for the time being, so he had to put aside the doubts in his mind first, and followed Duke and the others to continue to the area where the Du family had camped before.

They walked through a dense and low wood, carefully avoiding a multicolored mountain peak that was dozing in the treetops, and pushed aside the last bushes that stood in front of them.

Everyone's eyes suddenly brightened.

The first to come out of the bushes was a somewhat bookish disciple of the Du family, named Du Yuxuan, and after leaving the small pool, he was the one who opened the way for everyone in front of the team.

As soon as he pushed aside the bushes, he saw the beautiful scenery on the sunny slope behind the high ground.

The dense clouds that enveloped the entire Kenbin exclusion zone made an accident on this hillside, and the brilliant sunlight melted the heavy dark clouds over the hillside, and gently sprinkled on the grassy sunny slope, and sprinkled on the sparkling and glowing stream below the hillside.

Although he had admired it countless times in the previous exploration of the forbidden area, Du Yuxuan, who had just passed through the woods at this time, still couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion, and unconsciously groaned in his mouth: "The grass is long, and the shallow water is singing." Thousands of sparkling waves, on the sunny slope, a quick drape. ”

The second one to come out of the bushes was Xu Fengshi, who had just escaped from the branches and vines, and as soon as he came out, he involuntarily froze in place, and his eyes became round at once, obviously, he entered the forbidden area for the first time, and after walking through a long and dim mountain road, he was also shocked by the scenery in front of him.

Xu Fengshi couldn't help but be poetic. Looking at the soft "pillar of light" that spread down from the "gap" in the clouds that was melted by the sun, and the glittering hillside under the "pillar of light", Xu Fengshi praised in an emotional tone: "The bottom of the water wind leaves is shallow. Slim green leaf red makeup. [Note 1] I really didn't expect that Xu would be able to see such a superb scene in this strange and oppressive forbidden area! ”

The bushes behind Du Yuxuan and Xu Fengshi shook for a while, and someone was about to come out again.

Shi Cheng was the third to come out, and as soon as he got out of the bushes, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, and muttered in his heart: "Oh, I'll go, there is still such a spacious and bright place in this forbidden area?" ”

Shi Cheng carefully looked at the sunny slope in front of him, this hillside is really as the Du family said, the fog is very thin, in this foggy and cloudy Kenbin forbidden area, it is indeed a rare good place to camp and settle down.

The others also came out of the bushes one after another, and when they saw the beautiful scenery in front of them, they couldn't help but express their admiration.

Du Yang said to Shi Cheng: "Mr. Shi, the day Senior Brother Heng took us into the forbidden area for the last time, we camped here. ”

Shi Cheng looked at the empty sunny slope, and had some doubts in his heart, "Du Yang Daoyou, Shi has heard that this sunny slope is a rare place suitable for camping in the forbidden area, with sufficient lighting and sparse fog, why did you come here today and not see other teams that entered the forbidden area to camp here?" ”

"Oh, that's Mr. Shi, if you had come to the forbidden area a few days ago, you would definitely have found fellow Taoists camping here, but in recent days, the monks who have entered the forbidden area to explore are concentrated on the west side of the forbidden area, so there are very few people here here in Xiangyangpo."

Shi Cheng raised his head and followed Du Yang's fingers to look at the western part of the forbidden area shrouded in fog in the distance.

As if he saw some thoughts in Shi Cheng's heart, Duke said to Shi Cheng: "Shi Daoyou, the valley where Du Heng disappeared that we will go to check later is just west of Xiangyang Slope, if you are interested in the west of the forbidden area, we can take a look at the area further west after exploring the valley." ”

Shi Cheng nodded, not objecting to this proposal, he thought for a moment, and asked Duke, "Elder Du, are the explorers gathering to the west because there are some new visions on the west side of the forbidden area?" ”

Duke didn't hide it, explaining, "It's not that the strange treasure sent out some vision, but ...... Recently, some very strange things have happened in the west side of the exclusion zone, some people have heard strange noises coming from the ground in some places on the west side of the exclusion zone, and there are people who always feel that someone is watching them from behind when they are probing, these visions have never happened before. ”

"Later, there were rumors in Kenbin City that this was a sign that the strange treasure in the forbidden area had given birth to a spiritual sign, and it did not want to be found by the monks, so it made all kinds of strange things to try to scare away the monks who entered the forbidden area."

"There are still such rumors...... Shi Cheng secretly blamed himself in his heart, he obviously did not do enough to collect all kinds of news in Kenbin City.

"Is this rumor credible?" Shi Cheng still has reservations about the truth of the rumors in Duke's mouth, after all, it is too appalling to be able to give birth to a strange treasure of spiritual wisdom.

Duke spread his hands, "It's not clear below, rumors and rumors, and those that are completely credible are not called rumors." Although many people who have heard this rumor have doubts in their hearts, several well-known news brokers in the city agree with this rumor in a clear manner, and in the end, everyone still flocked to the west to try their luck during this time. ”

Duke had some doubts about Shi Cheng in his heart, because Shi Cheng's performance after entering the penalty area made him feel that Shi Cheng was coming to this forbidden area for the first time.

"This Mr. Shi doesn't seem to know anything about the things in the Kenbin penalty area...... Can he really help us recover the family treasures......" Duke was suspicious of Shi Chengyue in his heart, but after thinking about Shi Cheng's unfathomable cultivation, he finally forcibly suppressed the doubts in his heart, anyway, Shi Cheng did not make any excessive demands to the Du family for the time being, and the Du family did not have any losses.

Shi Cheng called Wu Neng and Tie Mian, who were enjoying the scenery not far away, and then took his companions to survey on the sunny slope, and after confirming that there were no high-value clues worth paying attention to, Shi Cheng ordered the disciples of the Du family to lead the way in front, and the group rushed to the place where Du Heng disappeared.

"[Note 1]: Excerpt from Zhao Shixia's work in the Song Dynasty "Bodhisattva Barbarian: Water Wind Leaves Shallow Bottom"