"What's wrong?" Xiao Han and I walked to Lu Xiaohong and stood next to him, looking up at the cliff and asked.
"Hu Ling, do you still remember when you almost fell from that top?" Lu Xiaohong asked me.
"I was on top. I only remember there was a cliff, but I didn't know the full picture of the cliff." I said, looking at the cliff.
There is a wisteria on the cliff. It has already passed the flowering season, but the leaves are very lush and the vines are winding up the cliff.
"This is the cliff you almost fell off, but I remember there is a path on the left side that can go up. Now that path is gone!" Lu Xiaohong also said, his eyes falling on the wisteria.
"The mountain topography cannot be easily changed, not to mention that this is a protected forest area. Let's look to the left." Xiao Han heard what Lu Xiaohong said and walked to the left of the cliff.
Lu Xiaohong and I followed behind Xiao Han.
The mountain road in front of the cliff is relatively flat, with no tall trees, only calf-high weeds and some rose shrubs.
After walking about three hundred meters, another cliff appeared at our feet. The cliff was rugged with strange rocks, the vegetation was sparse, and it was covered with thick water vapor. There was a loud sound of waves hitting the rocky shore from the bottom of the cliff.
The Mulan Mountain area is far away from the river. There should not be a river under the cliff, but a big river.
"Dad, what kind of river is down here?" I asked Xiao Han with some confusion.
"There is a reservoir to the west of Mulan Mountain. There should be a river leading to the reservoir below, but there is something wrong with the sound. If it hadn't been for a long period of heavy rain, the water flow would not be so fast." Xiao Han looked at the bottom of the cliff, frowned, and took out something from his body.
He lit a cigarette and smoked it.
After smoking a cigarette, Xiao Han threw down the cigarette butt in his hand and said, "Look to the right again. You must be looking in the wrong direction."
As he spoke, Xiao Han looked up at Lu Xiaohong and asked, "Xiaohong, what do you think?"
Lu Xiaohong's face was also a little solemn, and he hesitated for a moment before saying, "The cliff I took Hu Ling away from last time was not so wide. Let's take a look again. Maybe we really looked in the wrong direction."
Xiao Han nodded, turned around and walked in the opposite direction first.
The night was getting darker, and due to the heavy water vapor in the river under the cliff on the left, clouds of mist began to rise.
After walking about 600 meters this time, a cliff appeared again at our feet. The difference was that the vegetation on the cliff was thick and there were no strange rocks. The same thing was that the sound of rushing water came from the bottom of the cliff.
"Is this river surrounding this mountain peak?" Xiao Han asked doubtfully.
Hearing what he said, I also felt a little strange, so I took a few steps forward, stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down.
The humidity is very heavy, and you can feel the moisture rushing towards your face as you approach the cliff.
There are cliffs in front and on both sides. Going back is the way down the mountain. There is really no clue. Maybe we are looking in the wrong direction.
Just as I was about to lift my foot to walk back, I felt something soft on my foot.
He moved his feet and looked down, and saw that it was a cigarette butt.
I frowned, bent down and picked up the cigarette butt and looked at it carefully.
The cigarette butt was still dry and slightly moist at the edge, as if someone had smoked it not long ago and threw it away.
Suddenly there was a flash of lightning in my heart, and I looked down at the sneakers on my feet. The canvas uppers were also dry.
We immediately understood what was going on. Someone had set up a formation here. What we saw before our eyes was not real. There was so much moisture on the edge of the cliff that the canvas shoes on my feet could not still be dry.
Another point is that if there were other people smoking here just now, the cultivation level of the three of us is not low. Even if the other person's cultivation level is higher than ours, it is impossible for us to not notice it at all, so the cigarette butt I picked up was the one Xiao Xiao just made.
Han was on the edge of the cliff on the left.
We have been walking in circles all the time, and it is only because we touched the formation by moving back and forth that the scenery on the cliffside has changed.
I held the cigarette butt in my hand, turned to look at Xiao Han and Lu Xiaohong standing aside, and said, "Dad, Lu Xiaohong, look at this."
Xiao Han and Lu Xiaohong turned to look at me at the same time.
Lu Xiaohong frowned slightly as he looked at the cigarette butt in my hand, not quite understanding what I meant.
Xiao Han's expression changed instantly.
He walked up to me in two steps, took the cigarette butt from my hand, looked at it and said, "I smoked it just now. Someone has set up a formation in this place. What we see in front of us is probably an illusion."
Lu Xiaohong also reacted, looked around and said: "The formation method is very clever. We have been trapped here for so long and we didn't even see any clues."
"Since it's an array, it shouldn't be difficult. The eye of the array must be near the road you walked on. Xiaohong, do you still remember the specific location?" Xiao Han turned to look at Lu Xiaohong and asked.
"There was a wisteria on the cliff. It was just when I saw that wisteria that I confirmed that this is the same cliff as before. Come on, let's go over and have a look." Lu Xiaohong said and strode back.
We stopped beneath the wisteria.
Sean had already run back and forth several times, so he didn't follow us when we left. Instead, he sat on the same spot and looked up at the mountain wall in confusion.
Seeing us coming, Sean turned to me and snorted a few times, then turned to continue staring at the cliff.
We didn't pay much attention to Sean's actions and started looking around.
Time passed by minute by second. Calculating the time, it should have been two hours since we walked to this place, but there was no progress at all.
"Xiaohong, I don't know much about formations. How do you think this formation should be broken?" Xiao Han frowned and looked at Lu Xiaohong as a matter of course.
Lu Xiaohong also shook his head, raised his eyes and looked at me and said, "I don't know much, Hu Ling, have you ever learned formations?"
Xiao Han also looked at me expectantly after hearing this.
I don’t know if they really didn’t know much or if they were deliberately giving me a chance to practice, but since they all said that, I had no choice but to nod my head and said, “The arrangement of some formations is mentioned in the Holy Yuan Heavenly Book.
I haven’t learned much, but I can give it a try.”
Xiao Han's eyes showed approval, he nodded and looked at me with a smile: "Nanny, it's up to you to find her as soon as possible."
I smiled at him and Lu Xiaohong with some embarrassment.
After looking around again for a moment, I said, "Since it is a formation, the cliffs and rivers we see should be illusions. The water vapor is heavy, which means that the formation eye of this formation should be at the water level."
Xiao Han nodded, pointed to the cliff in front of us and said, "This is a good idea, it's the water level, but I just looked carefully and there is nothing wrong with the cliff."
I followed his hand and turned my gaze towards the towering cliff.
Sean suddenly stood up, roared several times at the cliff, and rushed over.
"Sean!" I quickly stopped him.
Most of the things he saw in the Five Elements Formation were illusions. I don't know what Sean saw, but with the momentum of its current rush, if it didn't stop, it would definitely hit the stone wall. This chapter has been completed!