The port covers a large area, but the two ends and the largest part in the middle have been abandoned, and at this time there is only one ship in the entire port, and the shore is focused on a dozen carriages and a bunch of people, but it is still sparse compared to the wide port.

As soon as the ship landed, the people who had been holding on the ship for eleven days rushed to the land like chickens and ducks out of the nest.

Xu Mo walked forward with the flow of people, because of the night on the boat, no one squeezed him.

Passing through a potholed field and over a gentle slope, a sandy beach that should have appeared by the sea appeared in front of you, and a short distance further on, you saw a very scattered small village, the most obvious of which was an inn with a two-story façade with a dozen bungalows and a few small courtyards.

At this time, it was just after noon, the sun was shining brightly overhead, and under the reflection of the beach, it was even more scorching, so almost most people ran to the inn.

With the arrival of this group of guests, the original empty inn suddenly filled up like the mouth of a hamster stealing peanuts.

Xu Mo easily booked a small courtyard, and when it was time to pay, he understood why everyone grabbed the room so hard when they booked the room just now, but the price here was almost more than three times that of other places, except for him, there was only one businessman with a convoy who booked a separate courtyard.

The small courtyard alone is actually very simple, but fortunately there is a deep well in the yard, and the water is cool and clean, which is really the best enjoyment in such a hot weather.

In addition, the door of the house is large, and before entering the house, the shopkeeper sprinkled it with well water again, and then went in, and almost didn't feel the heat.

The room is divided into two rooms, inside and outside, the furnishings are also simple, a long one, a table, a set of tea sets are placed on the table, a copper mirror is placed on the table, and a stone cup shaped like a lotus bud is placed on the side of the copper mirror, there is a trace of oblique downward, lining it as if it is blooming.

Seeing the stone cup, Xu Mo's heart moved, and asked, "Your store has been open for a long time, right?"

The shopkeeper was just about to leave, but he stopped when he heard the words and replied: "It's been a long time, I heard our shopkeeper say that it's been forty or fifty years!"

"Isn't that right?"

Xu Mo pointed to the stone cup and said, "I see that this cup looks like it has been around for some years, at least more than a hundred years, right?"

The shopkeeper followed his gesture and looked over, and then said with some amusement: "Guest officer, you said this-it was washed down from the mountains over there by a flood a few years ago, and our shopkeeper looked rare, so he used it as decoration!"

Xu Mo smiled: "Your shopkeeper is quite good at doing business." ”

After the shopkeeper left, he took the stone cup in his hand and observed it carefully, the trace was obviously different from other places, but it penetrated into it and fused it perfectly, when he used the depth visualization, he could still feel the subtle inexplicable rhythm -

After observing for a long time, he exhaled and finally determined that this was the formation!

He had seen the patterns formed by the roots of the peach trees under the peach orchard, and although the lines on the stone cups were only partially due to the defects of the stone cups, there were many similarities between them, and the more he looked at them, the more he felt that there was an indescribable mystery in them.

Dian Xiaoer said that it was washed down from the mountain over there, and that there was the Ash Basin, according to Wang Dazhuang, the Ash Basin used to be the place where the Shengyun Sect's alchemy was made, which also confirmed his guess.

So, why not explore it?

Xu Mo made a decision almost instantaneously to go.

He came to Yunli Prefecture this time, not only to temporarily avoid trouble, but also to find an opportunity to increase his strength, in a short period of time, the magic circle may be able to do this - there are still array mages, which means that learning it should not trigger the possible "Immortal Cultivation Curse", and also, if he can gain something, it may also help him open the Wang family's secret box, he has always been very interested in the contents inside.

Furthermore, the fact that the stone cup was washed down by the flood means that it does not go too deep, so there is not much danger.

When it was time for dinner, while the shopkeeper was delivering food, he expressed his curiosity about the stone cups, and learned from the other party where they were most likely to appear: Black Wind Canyon.

The location was determined, and early the next morning, he asked the inn to prepare a large bag of dry food, and then set off.

The shopkeeper said that the stone cup was washed down by the flood, so he deliberately chose to go along the river, as a second-grade martial artist, any waterfalls and dangers along the way almost did not cause him much trouble, the only regret is that he was in a hurry, so he did not find any items with formation patterns.

Four hours later, I saw the other side of the mountain in front of me, and there was a faint layer of fog-like aura swirling and flowing above.

Xu Mo observed for a while, although he didn't feel the so-called ominous aura mentioned in the novel, he was still a little stunned.

There were still two or three hours until noon, and this time was the most suitable time for observation from any point of view, and he no longer hesitated, and immediately began to go up the mountain.

The mountain was six or seven hundred meters high, and it took him nearly an hour to go up the mountain in order to observe the environment and leave a way out.

Then he found that the plants along the way, the higher they went, the denser they became, but the color gradually deepened, and when they reached the back, they were so blue and black, and the soil under his feet was the same color.

At this point, Xu Mo guessed that they might have been caused by the black wind on the opposite side, so he also became cautious, put on goggles and a simple breath filter device, and then continued on his way.

When he stood on the top of the mountain, he couldn't help but breathe, only to see the black wind in front of him, filling the entire valley, and there were almost two worlds in front of him and behind him!

What's even more strange is that the valley is not all natural features, there are obviously carved stones on both sides, and some of the intact parts that appear to be walls, and then look more and more like a very wide street!

If it's a street, where does it lead?

Could it be a workshop somewhere for refining elixir utensils?

Thinking of this, Xu Mo's heart fluttered.

But he naturally didn't get dizzy, but scraped a piece of cloth, hung it on a branch and carefully put it in the black wind for a while, and when he got it back, it was already covered with very light things, and after observing it for a while, he found that they were very much like ashes particles after burning......

Although this vast area is called the Ash Basin, the main reason seems to be that there have been many volcanoes erupting in the middle, and there are obvious traces of human activity in the place below, and these ashes are more like the products of burning fuel when refining utensils, but it has been more than 800 years since the disappearance of the Ascending Cloud Sect, how many ashes can be scraped for so long?

There is also the wind inside, there is also weird, there is less wind in this season, but the wind here has been blowing along the canyon to the south, Xu Mo observed for more than an hour, almost never stopped.

However, the wind never stopped, but the ashes that filled it were faint, and for a moment, the middle of the flying ashes in the valley became a little lighter, and as it was close to noon, under the strong sunlight, he finally saw a small part of the situation below, and saw a certain complete stone pile together, with dark golden lines on it!

Formation!

It is definitely a formation, because when those fluttering ashes pass near it, it seems that the manic fierce horse has been straightened out by its owner, and it suddenly becomes a little tame, and there are obvious changes before and after, and the lines on the stone have not changed much, it does not look complicated, but it is extremely harmonious, as if it coexists with the stones, and it feels more exquisite than the root pattern of the peach orchard.

With this discovery, he was eager to get closer and figure it out, but when he saw the black wind in the valley, he wisely dismissed this idea.

Still, he tried to walk into the valley.

When he descended thirty meters, the gray smoke was blocked by a mask and eyes, and he could bear it, but there was something wrong with the wind inside, which was obviously much stronger than what he observed outside, and when he went down another ten meters, not only was the wind much stronger, but his vision also became extremely poor.

Then, after forcibly descending another twenty meters, his eyes were almost completely dark, and the wind was stronger than he could have imagined, and he could barely stand on his feet in that position!

At this point, he had no choice but to return to the top of the mountain.

If he only relied on the fading of the black wind to observe the formation patterns on the stones, he could not guarantee that he could do it once or twice an hour, and the sunlight should be strong enough, so it would be too slow, he thought for a while, and simply went against the direction of the wind and explored backwards.

After walking four or five hundred meters, we saw a broken mountain that seemed to have been cut in half by a sharp blade, more than half of which stood in place, and the other half fell down to block the valley.

In the midst of the rocks, billowing black smoke was rising, forming a black wind.

Xu Mo carefully bypassed the smoking rocks, and walked for nearly half an hour before he completely walked out, behind them was an abyss with no bottom in sight, and he could feel the cold air when he stood on the side.

This cold air was so cold that it could hardly stay for a moment, and Xu Mo hurriedly retreated.

At this time, he found that on the other side of the valley, there were still a few exposed stones, and he carefully walked over to clean up the surrounding dirt and rubble, and when he opened it, he revealed a formation of earthworm-like curves!

Xu Mo's heart was greatly excited, there were obviously more stones nearby and below!