Nameless boundary, woods by the lake.

Yue Chen stood on a sharp rock, staring at the surface of this lake without ripples, no one would have thought that just ten days ago, this was still a frozen lake. For three days, I couldn't bear to leave like this, I just wanted to wait quietly and explore what was going on in this lake. However, returning to one's own situation, stagnation is not a long-term solution.

There are only two paths in front of you, one is to cross this mysterious lake to the other end, and the other is the labyrinth where you are. Facing the boundless labyrinth, Yue Chen's heart will always be cold, and the fear hidden in his heart will appear from time to time. Therefore, when Yue Chen decided to leave, he resolutely chose the first path, although he did not know anything about the situation on the other side of the lake.

After a while, Yue Chen took a long breath, beckoned the three little guys, and prepared to go on the road. Who knows, only two little tigers ran over under the beckoning, but there was no trace of the dragon ants. In desperation, I had to look for it, and said in my heart: "If it leaves like this, it will also be a good thing." Who called it an unknown coming, and it didn't go in vain!"

After entering the maze forest for a hundred steps, I saw the figure of the dragon ant, and saw it hovering impatiently on a pile of leaves. When he saw Yue Chen coming, he flew to Yue Chen's nose first, and then quickly left and returned to the sky over that area. Yue Chen was very puzzled, he didn't know what this little guy was going to do.

Then he called: "Xiaolong, don't make trouble, go quickly." ”

The dragon ant seemed to understand Yue Chen's words, flew over and stopped on his nose again, stroked the bridge of his nose a few times with his horns, and then returned to the sky above that area.

Yue Chen's heart moved, he walked to the pile of leaves, and asked in a deep voice, "Xiaolong, there is a treasure down here?"

The dragon ant hissed and made a strange flying posture, as if to say, "You pig's head, you are quite knowledgeable!"

Yue Chen hesitated for a moment, then took out a delicate shovel from the Ruyi bag, and first carefully removed the rotten leaves. These rotten leaves appear to be very dry, except for the top three layers, the lower six layers of leaves, different shapes and sizes, are stacked on top of each other. Yue Chen picked up a piece casually and sniffed it, and felt a fresh fragrance entering his nose, like the taste of old wine, and the two sides of the leaves were very smooth, full of spiritual power.

He said: "Could it be, this is the treasure that Xiaolong has found!" Whether it is or not, but this kind of strange leaves are indeed rare, bring them back and talk about it." ”

In fact, Yue Chen's understanding of spiritual materials is mainly limited to the range of fourth-grade spiritual materials, and even if fifth-grade and above spiritual materials appear in front of him, they are unrecognizable. Perhaps, when someone says the name, he can know that there is indeed such a spiritual material. Therefore, the treatment of these leaves is very simple, take them all away, including the top three layers of rotten leaves.

This matter is not a difficult thing for Yue Chen, after all, there are four middle-level Ruyi bags, one high-level Ruyi bag, and several low-level Ruyi bags, and the space seems to be very spacious.

After cleaning up, get up and beckon the dragon ants to go back. Unexpectedly, the little guy didn't give up, he still hovered here, sometimes glaring at Yue Chen.

Yue Chen tentatively pointed to the ground and said, "Is there still underground?"

The dragon ant hissed the same sound again.

"Stinky guy, if you lie to me, see how I clean you up!" Yue Chen said scoldingly, his hands were not idle, and he dug down the range of leaves piled up. After digging three feet, he was a little unable to hold his breath and glared at the earth dragon ants. The earth dragon ants were still the same, but they showed their dissatisfaction with Yue Chen. Yue Chen shook his head and said in his heart: "What treasure did this guy find, do you have to keep digging it!"

Yue Chen dug nine zhang deep in one go, and this bit of labor was an easy task for the monks of the Nine Layers of the Qing Realm. But with a crisp sound of gold and stone, Yue Chen's eyes lit up, and he slowly squatted down to dig the soil with his hands. A familiar chill came through the soil.

I exclaimed inwardly, "Lapis lazuli?"

Then there was a burst of ecstasy, and he could no longer hold back his excitement and quickly shoveled the layer of soil. In front of him are two pieces of lapis lazuli that are easy to move and overflow with spiritual power, and on this kind of lapis lazuli block, there are wisps of cyan spiritual power flowing under the golden light, just like blood in human veins.

After Yue Chen woke up from the surprise, he first carefully took out the piece that was about three feet long and wide, the edges of this piece were neat, and in comparison, it was only about one-ninth of the large one. Yue Chen thought about it for a while, and put this piece into his high-grade Ruyi bag, which also meant that this piece only belonged to himself.

Then take out the larger one, this one is gear-shaped, much larger, but the weight is not much different from the small one. Yue Chen put it into an empty middle-level Ruyi bag, which Yue Chen had already set up to carry the spiritual materials handed over to the sect. After all, after the sect is evaluated according to the spiritual materials handed in, the rewards for the disciples are also extraordinary, and the value often exceeds the effect of the spiritual materials on the disciples.

And under this large lapis lazuli there are two more pieces, both of which are white velvet patches. When Yue Chen picked up these two things, he looked at them repeatedly, but he couldn't see a clear eye, and after thinking about it for a while, he still put a small piece of income into a high-level Ruyi bag, and a large piece into a Ruyi bag containing lapis lazuli. There was nothing to do in the nine-zhang deep pit, and as soon as Yue Chen looked up, he realized that he needed Edgeworth to return to the ground.

As soon as it landed on the ground, the dragon ant enthusiastically landed on the bridge of its nose and kept touching it with its horns. A pair of little tigers next to him let out a "bluff" and looked nervously into the depths of the maze forest. Yue Chen couldn't help but look, only to see dust rising from the depths of the forest, and the wind was howling. Xin said: "It's not good! Could it be that this treasure attracts some high-level demon beasts!"

Thinking of this, he dared to delay, put the three spirit beasts into the beast cage, and flew towards the lake. Yue Chen didn't dare to look back, because he had had enough of the torture in his heart, so he had to see out of sight.

After flying in the sky for nearly an hour, Yue Chen saw the situation on the other side of the lake, which was a flat river, a winding and winding smooth avenue, and on both sides of the road were whole and neatly growing plants. From a distance, it seems that someone takes care of it. Yue Chen picked a position that was easy to hide, and then gradually landed, using the prepared elixir to continue.

After resting for a while, he said: "With this lapis lazuli, the only opportunity for a big trial in my life is not wasted. Now, just find a place to hide and wait until the trial period is over. So he thought about it, and did the same.

Unconsciously, Yue Chen cultivated quietly here for three days.

"It's been fourteen days! There are still twenty-two days!" Yue Chen got up and swayed while counting the time. Let's see if there is really no one to take care of this area, and he said to himself: "It stands to reason that such a good plant growing place should be taken care of, why haven't anyone come in the past three days? Could it be that this plant grows like this?"

Looking around, there was a figure. It seems that there is only him and three spirit beasts left in the life here. After Yue Chen relaxed his vigilance a little, he recalled the three spirit beasts that were running wild, and Edgeworth inspected the surrounding situation. After two hours of flight inspection, Yue Chen affirmed: "This place, no one really cares. Within a radius of thousands of miles, there is no trace of human life. ”

When Yue Chen turned around again, the situation changed a little, and he wanted to see what these unattended and neatly grown plants were. Yue Chen pretended to look at the plants in a few areas, but he didn't know any of them, at least none of them were within the range of spiritual materials he knew.

Then he wondered: "Could it be that so many plants are all spiritual materials above the fifth grade, or are they not spiritual materials at all?"

For a while, Yue Chen was also at a loss and fell into deep thought. After resting for an hour, Yue Chen made a decision, he decided to take away all the plants that grew in this area that were different from the surrounding ones.

These so-called different plants are plants that grow in the most central part of a fixed area, and are always different from the rest of the surrounding area. They may be different in shape or color, but they cannot tell whether they are the same or not.

In this way, it took Yue Chen two days to get those peculiar "spiritual materials" in his pocket. Looking at the "spiritual materials" that occupied nearly half of the space of the middle-level Ruyi bag, Yue Chen smiled bitterly and said in his heart: "If it weren't for the spiritual materials, even if I was busy in vain! And those nameless fruit cores, I really don't know what the hell it is." After a pause, he asked himself, "There are still twenty days left, should I be bold enough to go around, otherwise, I won't have a chance in the future." The idea of getting by like me has to be changed. But in that direction?"

Yue Chen frowned and smiled, and beckoned to the dragon ant, who spread its wings and landed in the palm of his hand. "Xiaolong, which direction should we go from, is it the most advantageous?"

The dragon ant also seemed to be trying to think, and after a while, he spun around and looked to the right.

"Well, anyway, it's the same road whether it's left or right! Let's go to the right and see what is going on, and it's not in vain. "So, fly away with three spirit beasts.

Yue Chen faintly sensed that his Jade Mansion spiritual power seemed to be enough to allow him to fly in the sky for six hours. But under normal circumstances, only a monk with a cultivation level of five or more in the Divine Evolution Realm could fly for such a long time. Then I thought of my own situation, and I didn't have too many doubts, and I flew in the uninhabited realm wantonly.

Four hours after flying out, Yue Chen's eyes lit up. On the mountain peak towering into the clouds in front of him, puffs of smoke were generated, and it seemed that all kinds of strange cries were heard. I couldn't decide for a while, so I had to find a hidden place to land, take the spirit pill first, and then release the three spirit beasts out of the cage.

Who knows, as soon as the three spirit beasts came out of the cage, they ran towards the mountain peak like a flying wild. Yue Chen, who was stunned, reacted for a long time, and at this time, he could no longer see the figures of the three spirit beasts. Yue Chen called a few times, what was the reaction. He exclaimed: "These three spirit beasts, at most, have reached the path of fourth-order demon beasts, why can they find abnormalities from such a distance?, but no matter what, I have to look for it, in case of any danger, it will not be good." ”

In front of the sword, Yue Chen was still listening carefully, and found that those strange cries were gradually disappearing, and he seemed to retreat in an orderly manner. After a long time, a golden black sword slid out and headed towards the mountain peak.

When he came to the middle of the mountain, the first thing Yue Chen saw was countless "dead people". These people are completely different from the people on the Hongmeng Continent, or compared to the people on the Hongmeng Continent, they are not people, but a group of monsters. But with their influence, these people are not the same as the image of the demon clan on the Hongmeng Continent recorded in ancient books.

On the Hongmeng Continent, the history of the demon clan has long been turned over. When the current Terran monks talk about the demon race, they have a completely dismissive attitude. Even if the once glorious Demon Emperor ruled, there are only all kinds of legends left. In addition, Yue Chen had never seen the real demon clan at all, so when he faced these "people", he didn't know whether to be a demon clan or a human race.

In short, only these corpses remained on this peak. The skulls of some of the corpses were removed, while the hearts of others were removed. Yue Chen looked at these strange phenomena and concluded that this was not the work of the human race, and said in his heart: "What kind of alien race is this, with such a cruel post-war ritual?"

Fortunately, Yue Chen had already experienced a similar situation, and he did not have any unnecessary fear. After coming back to his senses, Yue Chen thought of the three spirit beasts, and no longer looked at these corpses, but continued to walk towards the peak. Because only at the top of the peak, there are only a few buildings. As for whether the three little guys were in it, Yue Chen didn't have a score in his heart.

In less than a moment, Yue Chen had already come to the front of the three pavilions. This strange and somewhat indescribable architecture gives people a cursed sense of discomfort. Yue Chen shouted a few times, there were traces of three spirit beasts, and he couldn't help but shake his head and said, "It's still gone!"

This strange pavilion is extremely uncomfortable, and when you get closer, you feel like you're running for your life. When Yue Chen was about to leave, his heart moved, and he heard a hissing sound, and secretly exclaimed: "Xiaolong?" Hearing the sound and identifying the position, Yue Chen quickly rushed into the pavilion in the middle with a golden black sword in his hand.

The pavilion was clean, and although there were signs of someone coming, it was obvious that no one dared to touch anything in the room. The three spirit beasts kept licking their mouths, as if they had just eaten something delicious, and the most obvious change was the earth dragon ant, in such a short period of time, it suddenly grew to three feet three inches long, the scales on its wings were shining, its body was more robust and powerful, and its four legs also grew sharp thorns.

Yue Chen approached, slapped the dragon ant, and asked, "What dirty things have you eaten?"

Like a naughty child, the Earth Dragon Ant touched Yue Chen's cheek with its two horns, and then pointed at the dark corners of the three of them with its two horns. Yue Chen looked inside and saw that it was an ordinary wooden box, but the surface was coated with a thick layer of red sand.

He said, "When others came, they didn't touch the things in this house, and if I did, wouldn't I incur a great disaster!" and then beckoned: "Don't move the things here, let's leave as soon as possible." ”

The two little tigers were still able to speak, and went directly into the cage and began to sleep lazily, but the earth dragon ants stopped doing it. Flapping its wings violently, it kept hissing, and kept looking at the wooden box.

Yue Chen thought of the two lapis lazuli from this, and said in his heart: "Xiaolong, this guy seems to have a special ability to sense high-grade things. Besides, even if there is a curse or something else, I am not from this foreign land, and it should be okay to leave then. ”

After a little hesitation, he reached out and took out the red box, Yue Chen didn't have time to check the wooden box, he heard the sound of boiling water steaming from the place where the wooden box was placed, and the smell of blood came from the red bubbles that gradually surfaced. There were more and more bubbles, and gradually, strands of Yin Hong's blood came out of the ground.

Suddenly, Yue Chen's sword swept up and shot outward.