Zhong Shen looked left and right for a while, and after making sure that there was indeed no danger nearby, he cautiously approached the statue and looked at it carefully.

The surface of this statue is faintly covered with a layer of gray-white luster, which should not be carved from ordinary stones, and the materials used are somewhat similar to the statues of ancestors that must be worshiped in the Zhongjia Holy Land once a year.

Zhong Shen's gaze swept from top to bottom, and when his gaze saw the waist of the statue, he suddenly felt a burst of heat from his left wrist.

He was startled, and hurriedly glanced down at the silver bracer, only to see that the bracer was faintly glowing with a layer of blood, and it flickered in the dark.

Zhong Shen's heart sank slightly, and after a little hesitation, he finally grabbed the silver bracer with his other hand and carefully faded it.

I saw that where his left hand was originally covered by a bracer, there was a tattoo-like rune mark, composed of blood-colored thin threads, densely spread all over the entire wrist, extremely complicated.

The runic mark was flashing with a dazzling blood light, almost several times more intense than the previous bracer.

Zhong Shen's face was a little ugly, and he touched the rune mark on his wrist with his fingers, but he only felt a little warm, which was very different from the heat he felt on his wrist.

He glanced at the statue again, and his face changed again.

I remember clearly that there was nothing at the waist of the statue, but now there was an extra gray-white stone mark hanging from it, the size of a fist.

He blinked vigorously, and when he looked closer, an even more strange scene appeared.

The gray-white stone seal disappeared again and again under his gaze.

Zhong Shen was really a little stunned.

Suddenly, he felt something again, and he raised his head suddenly, and a chill broke in his heart.

The statue of Confucianism, who was supposed to look up at the sky, looked down at him at some point, his eyes flashing, as if he was a living thing.

Zhong Shen only felt that the hairs on his body stood on end, and the rune marks on his wrists became even more tingling, and an indescribable feeling of extreme danger enveloped his whole body.

With a "whoosh", his figure shot out in an instant, and after a few flashes, he returned to the edge of the sea of fog before stopping.

At this time, he looked at the statue with a cloudy face, and after a while he stomped his foot, made a big circle, and plunged into the forest far away from the statue.

This thing is so weird, and it feels so dangerous, so it's better not to provoke it.

As soon as the other party entered the forest, the scorching sensation of the rune mark on his wrist disappeared without a trace.

Zhong Shen breathed a sigh of relief, and put the silver bracer back on his left hand, covering the rune mark again.

This blood-colored rune mark is the nine ghost dove bloodline marks that he has worked hard to refine, and after a little attempt, he feels that it is infinitely useful, and it is also the biggest hole card he has entered the Nightmare Palace this time.

A pair of blue water wheels appeared under Zhong Shen's feet again, holding up his body several feet from the ground, and took out a disc from his arms, and pointed a few times in the void with one hand, and immediately a white miniature map appeared above, although the area is not large, but the miniature mountains, rivers and other forms are readily available.

He glanced at the map a few times, but his brow furrowed.

The map on the disc is the area that the Zhong family's disciples have explored after entering the Nightmare Palace in the past, and has been refined into a special magic weapon by the Zhong family's refining master, as long as they are in these areas, they will naturally show their location.

But now that it isn't shown, there's a good chance that this forest is an unexplored area. This is a common occurrence given the size of the Nightmare Palace, but if you look in the center, you will always find an area that can be shown on the map.

His main target in the Nightmare Palace this time was naturally the Divine Peak that gave birth to the Taiyi Pill, as well as all the other elixir magic weapons that could increase the level and success rate of the Pill. Zhong Shen thought about it like this, and without hesitation, he pinched the trick with one hand, and the water wheel rolled under his feet, and his body flew into the depths of the forest.

But what Zhong Shen didn't know was that not long after he submerged into the forest, the Confucian statue in the clearing slowly turned his head and stared at the direction in which Zhong Shen disappeared for a long time before a vague and silent mystery disappeared.

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After a meal, Zhong Shen found himself underestimating this seemingly ordinary forest, and at this moment he was surrounded by four gray giant wolves that sprang out of the ground.

These four demon wolves have a slight bulge on their backs, a touch of black and shiny fur, and their four claws have wisps of white silk that are uncertain, and they are the iron leeward wolves who are also quite famous among demon wolves.

This kind of wolf beast has a hard back like iron, not only can it fly at low altitude with the natural power of its claws, but it is also good at the technique of encirclement and sneak attack, and often the demon beast whose strength is one head higher than them will also become the belly of this kind of wolf beast. Of course, in the same way, the claws of these wolf beasts are also good materials for immortal cultivators to refine wind attribute magic weapons.

When Zhong Shen was thinking like this, the largest of the four wolf beasts let out a low roar in his throat, and his body shrank back, and he pounced on him with a fishy wind.

The other three bounced up one by one, and the timing and rhythm were extremely precise and just right, so that the prey surrounded in the depths had no respite at all.

Zhong Shen raised his eyebrows, and suddenly there was a crisp ringing sound in his sleeve, and the four wolf beasts that pounced suddenly froze in mid-air and stagnated for half a beat.

A flash of cold light.

A blue light shot out from Zhong Shen's other sleeve, instantly cutting the four wolf beasts into eight pieces, and a large amount of blood flew down.

After a cup of tea, the remains of the corpse of a wolfbeast with eight claws missing were left on the forest floor, attracting a pangolin-like monster to feast for a while.

More than half an hour later, a huge praying mantis completely trapped in the blue water balloon finally swallowed its last breath, and its corpse was covered with sword marks.

Zhong Shen dispersed the Dharma in his hand, and flew past the corpse with a solemn expression.

Half a day later, Zhong Shen and a one-horned python more than ten zhang long fought inextricably.

A thick blue water ring circled and flew around him, his body seemed to be like a ghost, and a yellow bell above his head made a crisp sound of "bell long" from time to time, and a long blue light was hovering and flying up and down in front of him, leaving wounds on the giant python's huge body from time to time.

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A day later, Zhong Shen was in a tree hollow, playing with the huge horn of the giant python in his hand, and muttered to himself: "The Nightmare Palace is worthy of its name, and it is really dangerous, and it has not even walked out of this forest in a day, but almost consumed the mana first." It seems that the road below must be more cautious, and we must find a way not to break through so recklessly. ”

He looked at the horn in his hand and fell into deep thought.

On the morning of the second day, after meditating for a long time, Zhong Shen, who had regained his mana, went on the road again.

But this time, there was a simple skin bag around his waist, and there was a faint fishy smell emanating from it, vaguely the breath of the slain python.

As a result, for the next period of time, he was not attacked by other demon beasts, which made Zhong Shen overjoyed.

It seems that he is right, the strength of the black giant python is not weak, and the demon dispersion made temporarily with its single horn as a material can really make ordinary demon beasts stay away.

In this way, it will be much easier for him to pass through this forest next.

......

In a desolate desert, a large cloud of earthy yellow sand and mist rolled and surged, and from time to time there was a cracking roar

Suddenly, a thunderbolt came out from the sunny sky, and more than a dozen silver arcs burst out from the fog, instantly sweeping away all the sand and mist, revealing several figures.

One of them was slender and ugly, and in his hand he held a crescent-shaped blade with the thunder of Ziz flickering on it.

There were three people standing next to it, and on the ground lay the corpse of a man with half of his head bitten off, and another carcass of a demon beast that was charred black inside and out.

The corpse of the demon beast was two or three zhang long, but its body was unusually flat, like a huge gecko magnified countless times, and its tail had a scorpion-like barb with a flickering cold light, which made people feel chills all over their bodies.

"Unexpectedly, Zhong Tian fell here. However, we have avenged the sand beast by killing it. Zhong Jinlong flipped with one hand, and the strange blade in his hand disappeared, and said slowly.

"I didn't expect this Nightmare Palace to be so dangerous, with the strength of the five of us acting together, there will be some accidents. A young man with yellowish hair said gloomily.

"That is, if it weren't for the infinite power of the golden dragon's thunder tooth blade, which happened to restrain this beast, I'm afraid we would have to lie down one or two more. Another thin, middle-aged man asked.

"This is also something that can't be helped, speaking of which, Zhong Tian is also careless. This sand beast is already at the level of foundation building, and it is even more unguardable to attack in the desert home. The last dark-skinned disciple of the Zhong family also sighed.

"Okay, since we have entered the Nightmare Palace, we have put life and death aside, we will bury the remains of the Zhong Tian brothers, and the next distance must be one hundred and twenty points of caution. Zhong Jinlong took a deep breath and waved his hand.

The other three disagreed, and immediately began to clean up the corpses of their companions on the ground.

Not long after, Zhong Jinlong took the three of them and continued to fly away at low altitude in a certain direction.