Since the unknown tanuki rat beside him obviously has bad intentions towards him, there is no need for him to contradict him when he has no interests to be gained. At the moment, the footprints at the front end are still clear and traceable, and Tianjihong only needs to make a slight detour for a distance and then turn back again, which can perfectly avoid the range of this raccoon rat's activity and save the trouble of fighting with it.

So Tian Jihong stayed on the stump of the tree while keeping his eyes on it, for fear that the raccoon rat would launch a sneak attack on him by surprise; On the other hand, he slowly retreated and walked around the clearing on his left. After the distance between the two sides gradually widened, the tanuki rat in the distance really slowly calmed down from its rage, and the screams also eased somewhat; After Jihong retreated to a distance of 100 meters, the tanuki rat plunged back into the stump, and the two sides finally avoided a head-on confrontation.

This naturally made Tianjihong breathe a sigh of relief, compared to the raccoon rats that lived here all year round, he was more reluctant to do it easily in this unfamiliar area. At the moment, he had successfully avoided a potential threat, but there were many similar or stronger spirit beasts waiting for him in front of him. Tian Jihong also slowed down and decided to be more cautious, now he can only rely on his vision and other senses to predict danger, while his opponents are most likely beings with soul sense, and he must not be able to travel at full speed as he did in the valley just now.

Although this was the first time that Tian Jihong had left the guidance of the footprints in front of him, at least he didn't take a detour too far, and after a few minutes, he successfully found the road extended by the footprints again, which made him feel a little more sure in his heart.

He thought to himself that as long as he concentrated, every time before stepping into the danger area, he should be able to observe the traces of the spirit beast from a distance in advance and choose to take a detour to avoid it. In this dangerous area, the other party, as a spirit beast with the same intelligence, should also be as reluctant to fight as easily, as long as he does not take the initiative to provoke the overlord of this area, he can still ensure his own safety along the way.

It's a pity that it backfired, and the danger in this basin was far more than the spirit beast attack that Tianjihong was guarding against. At first, he tried this method repeatedly, and along the way in the direction of the footprints, he passed through the nests of three or four spirit beasts, but he found them in advance and successfully bypassed them. Tian Jihong also understood that although the strength of the spirit beasts in the several nests on the periphery was not very high, the strength of the three people who led the way in front would definitely be able to solve it easily; But it was obvious that those people chose to stop as sensibly as themselves, and they didn't want to make too much movement in the basin to provoke other rights and wrongs.

But ten minutes later, when Tianjihong passed by a giant bird's nest ten feet high, something happened about it. The bird's nest, which sits among the branches of the cedar tree, should be obscured by dense foliage, making it difficult to see from below. However, its size was really quite amazing, and Tian Jihong was already aware of the abrupt nest among the leaves when he stood hundreds of meters away from him.

The base of the nest in the distance is more than ten meters in diameter, and from the appearance it is not simply a bowl-shaped structure like an ordinary bird's nest, but also has the appearance of some human buildings: its upper end is paved with a thick layer of leaves to block the rain, and the surrounding is also built with a fence to form three simple walls, leaving only a vacancy at the entrance, which is basically the same thatched hut from the perspective of Tianjihong.

And coincidentally, like the fire-spine sheep, the owner of the bird's nest in front of him happened to be one of the spirit beasts that Tianjihong could identify. Judging from the feathers scattered around, he vaguely recalled a large bird called the Purple Electric Eagle that his father had mentioned to him when he was a child. This creature is born with a strong affinity for thunder and lightning, and it is easier to absorb the aura of thunder, and when it reaches adulthood, it can generally grow to a height of five meters, and its body is a brilliant blue-purple color, only the claws and beak are dark gray.

Because it is an eagle-like beast, its combat power mainly comes from barb-like claws, which can easily lift prey that exceeds its own body size by several times, and can use its eagle claws to perform powerful thunder beast skills to easily tear through the opponent's defenses. Tian Jihong clearly remembered that once the Purple Electric Eagle reached adulthood, it would at least have the combat power of the [Yi Tendon Realm], and now this nest must also be made of an adult Purple Electric Eagle, and such a powerful existence was obviously not something he could provoke.

Therefore, he chose to repeat the old trick, and he was already ready to make a detour a few hundred meters away. When he was a child, accompanied by his father, he had seen the power of this purple electric eagle from a distance; At that time, his father warned him that this purple lightning eagle was very strong in its territorial awareness, and if it was placed in a wilderness area where there were no natural enemies, a radius of one or two miles around its nest might be within its monitoring range. In order to ensure his own safety, Tian Jihong thought about making a big circle and left the direction of the footprints early, and walked towards a backwater pool in the low-lying place on the left.

But after walking about 100 steps, Tian Jihong gradually felt that something was wrong. Originally, the waterhole that was only 100 meters wide from the periphery seemed to be endless; At the same time, he looked at the barren mire in the distance, and now it began to become a little hazy as he gradually went deeper into the waterhole.

At first, Tian Jihong didn't pay much attention to the changes in the environment, and his attention was always focused on whether there was any movement from the spirit beast around him, but it was always silent along the way. Therefore, at first, he only attributed the blurred vision to his exhaustion all day, and he may have some illusions under mental exhaustion, thinking that most of the fog in the waterhole was caused by the evaporation of water vapor.

However, after continuing to advance for a hundred meters, the fog around him began to thicken, and the scenery in the distance became more and more blurred. At this moment, except for the water that can't walk to the end of the soles of his feet, the environment within a radius of five meters is completely unclear, and Tian Jihong finally reacted that he was likely to have stepped into a fantasy realm, and his heart suddenly panicked.

Of course, he had also heard that there were all kinds of desperate areas in the depths of Dongyun Mountain, and there were many news that explorers had strayed into the illusion and never been able to come out. But these rumors are nothing more than the word of mouth of the people in the village, and even when the master mentions the danger in the mountains to him, it is just a passing mention, Tian Jihong and Li Ming are afraid that they never dreamed that now they really let him encounter such a predicament.

Tian Jihong only felt that his mind was blank at this time, and like all survivors trapped in the illusion, his first thought was to try to turn back along the same path. But if the illusion could be cracked so easily, there wouldn't be so many rumors of missing people. At present, Tian Jihong couldn't care about many worries before, and ran directly at full speed in the direction he came; However, the water under his feet seemed to stretch forward endlessly, and after more than ten minutes of rapid travel, the panting Tianjihong still could not get out of the area of the pool, and in the end, he had to stop and rest in place when he was physically exhausted.

According to his calculations, it would never take him more than a minute to cross the path he had taken to get back to the same place as he had just traveled at full speed. However, the facts are in front of me, after ten minutes of wild running, let alone finding the footprints I followed before, I haven't even walked out of the waterhole in front of me.

At this moment, Tianjihong gave birth to the illusion that he always stayed at the starting point. He was now certain that this place was not as barren as it had been seen in the distance. Most of the distractions here distort their vision, which leads to a situation where no matter what direction they go, they are spinning in place like headless flies.

It's just that he doesn't know anything about formation, and at this time he can't tell whether this kind of field is naturally formed or artificially created. Now that he only relies on brute force, he will definitely not be able to find a way out, although at present, the surrounding fog has not caused any harm to Tianjihong, and he has not noticed any signs of other spirit beast activities around him, and he is still safe in the illusion for the time being; But if you can't find a way out like this, sooner or later you will be trapped alive in this illusion.

Thinking of this, Tian Jihong took a deep breath to calm the anxiety in his heart, since there is nothing that can directly threaten him at the moment, now his first priority is to stabilize his emotions, and then think about countermeasures. Now the fact that he is trapped is doomed, and he who does not understand the layout of the formation is obviously impossible to break the formation and escape from its structure; However, he still understands that the formation is the core of the common sense, and the only way he can get out of the predicament is to find the center of the formation, and wait there to see if he can forcibly destroy the formation from the core point through other means.

After thinking about it, Tian Jihong finally came up with a more feasible way. Now that I am in an illusion, since my senses such as vision cannot play any role, the only thing I can rely on is my own spiritual power. Although it was difficult for Tianjihong to get a glimpse of the complete structure of this formation through his vision under the premise of not being able to determine the direction, he could still sense the flow of spiritual energy in this area. Regardless of whether the illusion here is congenital or acquired, the flow of spiritual power in its core location must be fundamentally different from the surrounding area, and if you locate it by virtue of the difference in spiritual energy absorption, you may be able to find the correct direction.

At this point, Tian Jihong was once again sincerely glad that he had learned the method of absorbing the aura of heaven and earth last night, if he had been trapped here a few days ago, I am afraid that he would have really been helpless. After running the health cultivation technique with all his might, this time Tian Jihong slowed down his pace again and kept moving his position in this area; Now that he has just stepped into the cultivation, his understanding of the aura is only at the most preliminary perception, so he can only use such a stupid method, staying in different positions and constantly absorbing the aura to repeatedly compare and determine the differences in the surrounding environment.