After Cao Bin's hand completely eliminated the last obstacle, Meng Zhou calmed down and did not do anything extra.

Ten days later.

Meng Zhou had turned into a wolf demon and stayed quietly in a beast bag.

The owner of this beast bag, a monk in the middle stage of alchemy formation, had already arrived at another nearby spiritual island under the guidance of two alchemy formation masters from the Observation Hall.

After it stands at the designated position, the formation starts.

Starting from the edge of the spirit island, faint space ripples converge towards the center of the spirit island, where the monks stand in the middle stage of forming the pill.

In the process of gathering, the faint space ripples continue to merge with each other, and the space ripples become more and more obvious.

Finally, when this space ripple approached the monk in the middle stage of pill formation, it had turned into a space bubble, completely enveloping him in it.

This space bubble enveloped the monks in the middle stage of elixir formation and did not stop changing.

Driven by the subsequent space ripples, the space bubble quickly became smaller, and even the mid-stage elixir-forming monks wrapped in it seemed to be compressed.

In the process, its traces are becoming increasingly faint.

At a certain moment, when the space bubble enveloping the monk in the middle stage of pill formation became smaller than a fist, its traces became too faint to be detected.

Completely disappeared.

With such changes, subsequent space ripples become smaller and smaller.

Finally, this spiritual island regained its calm.

And just half a day later, space ripples appeared again on Lingdao, which had been calm for a while.

However, this time the space ripples no longer surge from the edge of the island to the center, but continue to spread in all directions from the center of the island.

As wave after wave of space ripples surged out from the center of Spirit Island, a space bubble appeared in the very center of the space ripples.

Initially, this space bubble was very small and had a very weak sense of existence. The outline of a human figure standing in the center of this small space bubble looked even more faint, like an illusory outline drawn by a light ink outline.

But as the space ripples from the inside out continued to pour out one after another, the space bubble quickly grew in size, and the originally extremely pale and tiny humanoid outline inside also grew in size and quickly became substantial.

When the space bubble disappeared along with the space ripples, a monk looked outside in confusion, as if he hadn't fully adapted yet.

The alchemy monks at the Observation Hall did not wait for him to adapt slowly, and immediately took him to the Heart-Questing Array according to the procedure to make sure that this person did not get any "dirty" things on his body while leaving Xingxiu Sea.

…

Meng Zhou, who was inside the beast bag, could not feel any space ripples or bubbles.

He didn't even feel that his body had changed in any way. From the perspective of the observer, as the space bubble rapidly became smaller and changed from solid to virtual, he didn't notice anything special.

Although, he had already known this kind of perspective very clearly through Cao Bin's memory.

As if in just an instant, the surrounding environment had changed drastically, from a spiritual island to a cave hall.

As the "Hitchhiker Master", the mid-stage pill-forming monks, after entering this cave in the third-level spiritual veins somewhere in the wilderness of the Flooding River from the Xingxiu Sea, first completed the task handover with the original guarding pill-forming here as usual.

Half a day later, as the original guarding pill disappeared and left, he became the new owner of the cave.

The newly arrived Guarding Pill seemed to be quite curious about this new environment. After roughly turning around the area covered by the formation, he came to the core area of ​​the third-level top-notch guarding formation.

He sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes and took in the experience. After a while, he was about to take out the formation flag that the previous guard Jie Dan gave him when the task was handed over, so as to speed up his familiarity and control of this formation.

This was related to his personal safety during his guard duty, so he couldn't help but ignore it.

What he didn't know was that just when he wanted to take out the formation flag but failed to do so, his eyes that were originally closed slowly opened.

The eyes are still the same, but the charm contained in them is fundamentally different.

He stretched out his hand and patted the beast bag on his waist, and a sleeping wolf demon flew out of the beast bag.

The moment the "wolf demon" flew out of the beast bag, there was a smooth and silky change, and the wolf demon turned into a human being.

This person is none other than Meng Zhou.

As soon as Meng Zhou thought about it, a wolf demon that had been prepared in the spirit gourd space and had exactly the same transformation as him appeared in front of him.

——During the ten-day waiting period, Meng Zhou not only forged a body of Tai Sui in the form of a wolf, but also used the heart essence and blood of the original wolf demon to complete the transformation of Tai Sui's body into flesh and blood in advance.

I had made a "backup" early, and now when I needed it, he called me out immediately.

When a blood-colored meatball that had just come out of Meng Zhou's body and was still squirming slightly was shot into the body of the wolf demon, Meng Zhou's hitchhiking into the wilderness of Hongze came to an end.

Then, Meng Zhou skillfully dealt with all the abnormal time traces left by him during this period, re-editing what should be re-edited, and directly erasing what should be erased.

After clearing away everything, Meng Zhou's figure had skillfully escaped into the interlayer between the real world and the real world, drifting away without any nostalgia for this cave.

…

"This is the wilderness of Hongze."

Not long after leaving the cave, Meng Zhou entered a vast body of water.

Now, Meng Zhou's knowledge and experience are far different from those before he left the "Juye Wilderness".

Not only did he know about the eight wilderness areas in the outer world, but they actually meant eight different wilderness areas.

In addition to the Juye wilderness where he was originally and the Hongze wilderness where he is now, there are six other wilderness areas named "Wansong", "Lingyue", "Tianyun", ",

"Smelting Furnace", "Ishihara" and "Ancient Cui".

Every wilderness has its own characteristics.

In comparison, the Juye wilderness where he was originally located was one of the many wilderness areas with less outstanding features.

The Hongze Wasteland where he is now is the one with the largest proportion of water among the eight wastelands.

Nearly 80% of the entire flooded wasteland is covered by vast waters, and these vast waters are almost connected into one body, forming an endless ocean with a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles.

About 20% of the land is dotted in the form of islands on this vast ocean.

In this flooded wilderness, most of the dangerous places and desperate places are also located in the water.

Because of the fluidity of the water, many dangerous places are no longer fixed in one place, but move around with the changes in the ocean currents.

For example, the famous third-level evil sea of ​​mist.

It is a land with a radius of tens of thousands of miles and is covered with thick evil mist. Not only is its appearance and outline constantly changing, without a fixed form, but its location has also been moving slowly and irregularly.

If it unfortunately approaches a human-inhabited area, a massive migration of families and people will be inevitable.

This natural environment, which is very different from the Juye wilderness, has created a natural ecology and human activities that are very different from the Juye wilderness.

The "human activities" here include not only the spiritual world composed of monks, but also the cornerstone of monks, the secular world of mortals.

Generally speaking, in this vast wilderness, the secular world of mortals and the world of practitioners are not as distinct as in the vast wilderness.

In the Juye Wilderness, when mortals embark on the path of spiritual practice, it basically means saying goodbye to the secular world. Everyone basically lives their own lives without disturbing each other.

But in the wilderness of Hongze, the lines are not so clear-cut. A large number of middle- and low-level monks who are still practicing Qi and in the foundation-building realm even exist as guardians of mortal settlements.

A large settlement not only has a large number of mortals as its cornerstone, but also a large number of qi-training and foundation-building monks as its nerves and skeleton, and even powerful and long-lived elixir-forming monks as its core.

It is different from both the practicing sects in the Juye wilderness and the mortal kingdom in the Juye wilderness. It is a more complex and diverse "monster".

The practitioners in Hongze Wilderness take such "careful care" of mortals, not because they are more kind-hearted, but because they have to do so.

Because the mortals in Hongze Wasteland are very vulnerable without the protection of practitioners, and their ability to resist risks is almost zero.

Sea monsters, tsunamis, fog, strong winds...

There are too many forces that can destroy them.

But no matter how weak a mortal is, it is still an indispensable cornerstone.

If there were no sufficient number of mortals, the world of spiritual practice would gradually "wither" due to the source being cut off.

Therefore, the closer integration between mortals and practitioners in the wilderness of Hongze has nothing to do with good or evil, but is actually a special creation of the natural environment.

It is precisely for this reason that it is self-evident how important a spiritual island is, a spiritual island with a large enough area and sufficient spiritual energy quality.

Three of the six third-level spiritual veins in Hongze Wasteland are such spiritual islands.

The other three places, although one is also on the sea, are pure waters, with only scattered coral reefs emerging from the water and dotted among them;

The other two places are simply on the bottom of the sea, both of which are unsuitable for mortals to thrive on a large scale.

Meng Zhou compared the changes brought to the wilderness of Hongze after Xingxiu Palace came out of the mountain, and sighed in his heart:

"The Xingxiu Palace's methods in the Juye Wilderness are really gentle."

From the perspective of the monks in Juye Wilderness, the changes brought about by the arrival of Xingxiu Palace in the Five Realms are simply catastrophic.

During the chaos that lasted for several years and was completely disordered, an unknown number of monks died unexpectedly and were disintegrated in the soil of an unknown area. It is impossible to count them specifically.

But if they knew about the changes in Hongze Wasteland, they would know that "disaster" is also a contrast.

Compared with the Hongze Wilderness, the changes in the Juye Wilderness can only be regarded as "scarcely affected".

In the nearly two hundred years since the Xingxiu Palace was closed, the biggest change in the Hongze Wasteland was that the three third-level spiritual islands that were originally guarded by the Xingxiu Palace and were not allowed to enter, suddenly experienced explosive development.

Not only has the number of practitioners practicing Qi, building foundations, and forming elixirs increased rapidly, but the number of mortals has also expanded even faster.

In the beginning, the number of mortals was not that terrifying.

But just like a green grassland with no natural enemies and extremely rich resources, what will happen when the first nest of rabbits comes here and reproduces for more than ten generations?

The entire grassland will be filled with rabbits until the number of rabbits reaches the limit that the grassland can carry!
To be continued...