The scenery of Wulingyuan is very beautiful. The lush green trees are dotted with beautiful peaks. These peaks are more like strange rocks than mountains. They have various shapes, some like human figures, some like beasts, some like plants.
Or just like utensils, and so on. Together with the clouds and mist that can be seen everywhere and the gurgling spring water, from time to time when you turn around a forest, you can see strange peaks and waterfalls... It is really as beautiful as a picture painted by heavenly craftsmanship.
When people walk among the green trees and peaks, the surrounding scenery is constantly changing, and it really feels like walking in a scroll.
If it were another time, Cheng Peng and the others would definitely be happy to have some fun, but not now.
The group of people hurriedly ran through the mountains and woods, following the traces left by the people in Qingfeng Palace.
Those people in Qingfeng Palace obviously had some experience and used some methods to cover up the traces of their progress after leaving. If they were ordinary people, they might not be able to find those already inconspicuous traces at all. They can only find them in the vast Wulingyuan.
They were running around like headless flies, trying to catch the enemy purely by luck. Fortunately, Cheng Peng and his team had two highly skilled scouts, so they were able to keep chasing them.
Gu Feng is a famous scout, so he is naturally good at this; while Wang Hu has been following Batman, a famous detective expert in American comics, for a long time and has learned a lot of criminal investigation methods. With the cooperation of the two, even if
The scouts from Qingfeng Palace have erased most of the traces, but the few remaining clues are enough for them to determine the enemy's whereabouts.
"There are at least fifteen of them." Wang Hu said, "But this does not include some special members who will not leave traces when walking - such as ghosts and other incorporeal bodies. And at least three of them are heavy equipment.
Yes, because we found the footprints left by three different metal boots one after another. They were very heavy, and they were probably figures similar to human shields."
"Not only that, there are mages among them, and their level is not low." He added, "There are traces of using short-distance portals to cross certain obstacles on the road."
"They have scouts." Lone Feng, who didn't speak much, added.
"Well, they have very powerful scouts, and we almost lost their clues several times."
Along the way, we heard all these worrying news, and everyone's faces gradually became heavy.
But Cheng Peng didn't pay attention to these, and instead focused on exploring the surroundings - from just now, he had always felt that someone was spying secretly, but he could not determine the specific location of the enemy.
"What's wrong with you?" Shen Qi saw that he was a little distracted and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"I didn't think about anything... I just felt that someone was watching us, but I couldn't find it..."
"Oh?" Xu Tu quickly asked, "When did you start feeling this way? Is it strong? Do you feel any danger?"
"It's been like this since entering Wulingyuan, but it suddenly became stronger when I turned the corner of the mountain - but fortunately I didn't feel any danger." Cheng Peng answered truthfully.
Xu Tu and Shen Qi discussed it for a while and asked everyone to use the team channel to communicate instead and stop talking.
After a while, Cheng Peng's feeling of "being spied on" became stronger and stronger, making him a little uneasy.
"That's almost it..." Xu Tu smiled and asked, "Who has a way to emit strong light?"
"I have a flash bomb." Wang Hu replied, "It can temporarily make the enemy blind for about a minute."
"I know the flash spell, which has a certain chance of causing blindness and an additional shock effect." Chen Wumian replied.
"Very good, you all start getting ready. Wait a minute and I will count one, two, three, and you will start working together!"
Wang Hu and Chen Wumian nodded. Wang Hu took out a black cylinder the size of a thumb, while Chen Wumian closed his eyes, waved his wand and started chanting a spell.
After about three seconds, Chen Wumian stopped chanting the incantation, opened his eyes, kept his wand slightly raised, and at the same time expressed in the team channel that he was ready.
"Where's Wang Hu?"
"I can do it at any time, there is no need to prepare flash bombs at all."
"Then let's count down now. Everyone remember to cover your eyes and squat down when you count to three." Xu Tu explained, and then started counting, "One...two...three!"
Before he finished speaking, Wang Hu threw up the black cylinder in his hand, and Chen Wumian pointed his wand into the air.
Dazzling rays of light erupted from the tops of the black cylinder and the wand. In an instant, it seemed as if countless suns suddenly appeared in the sky. The dazzling light made everyone feel their eyes turning white even if they covered their eyes.
At the same time, on a stone platform deep in Wulingyuan, a magician who was leaning against the stone wall in meditation screamed and fell to the ground, covering his eyes and rolling around.
"What's wrong with you?" his companion exclaimed.
"My eyes...my eyes! Those bastards who worked for the Ming Dynasty used flash bombs! They blinded my eyes!"
"Fuck! Those guys are so bad!"
"What should we do now? The sixth man won't be really blinded, right?"
"It won't happen if he is blind. After all, there is an upper limit to the transmission of strong light by the mage's eyes... But after doing this, do we still dare to let him use the mage's eyes to spy? If he flashes twice, even if he can bear it, it will be too much.
It will leave a psychological shadow."
"It's so abominable! How come those guys are chasing me so fast!"
"Rather than thinking about this, it's better to hurry up. Thirteen Princesses are waiting for us at Liuhou's tomb."
As for Cheng Peng... "Is this what spied on us before?" Cheng Peng held the glass bead painted with magic patterns between his thumb and index finger and asked curiously, "It looks like an ordinary glass ball."
"Originally...it is a medium for casting the Mage's Eye. Just now we overloaded the Mage's Eye with strong light, and the magician lost control of it. The magic dissipated and it changed back to its original state."
When it comes to spells, Chen Wumian is naturally an expert. "I guess he is covering his eyes and screaming... It's a pity that the Mage's Eye has a transmission limit, otherwise this blow will definitely blind him!"
"That's good." Shen Qi sneered and put away the other glass bead, "We found a total of three Mage Eyes. Assuming that guy is a four-star mid-level mage, his spellcasting level is only fifteen or sixteen.
Level, Mage's Eye is a level 4 spell, and you can only create one per cast... He can't prepare too many spell slots for this spell, so I believe these three are the limit."
After solving this little trouble, everyone quickened their pace and continued to follow the traces left by those in Qingfeng Palace.
Strange to say, there are some roads in Wulingyuan, but those people did not follow the roads, but took twists and turns, twisting and turning between the woods and strange peaks, and sometimes they even made a special turn on a
A big circle, but in the end it only progressed a short distance.
"What are they playing at?" Yun Yu asked in confusion, "Isn't this a waste of time?"
"Go upstream." The cloaked Gu Feng replied expressionlessly.
"Although I don't know why, they are obviously moving along this stream." Wang Hu added, "The reason why they went around several times is that they are moving along the current... I don't understand why.
."
"Maybe it's some kind of restriction..." Shen Qi was well-informed and guessed, "Since Zhang Liang has become an immortal, his tomb is probably protected by immortal magic. Perhaps we can only reach him by following this stream.
's cemetery."
This guess was quite convincing, so everyone gave up the idea of taking shortcuts and followed the current honestly.
After a while, the stream suddenly widened, from a shallow trickle that was easy to wade through to a small river big enough for a small boat to travel.
At the same time, Wang Hu and Gu Feng, who were walking at the front, ran back - they lost the clue of their target, but found traces of mooring a boat by the river.
Obviously, everyone from Qingfeng Palace got on the boat here and took the waterway.
"What should we do?" Everyone was dumbfounded for a moment.
They never imagined that they would need a boat! Although they brought a lot of supplies on this trip, they didn't bring a boat!
"Let's make a temporary raft." Xu Tu suggested. "Although it is not easy to make a raft that can carry so many people, if everyone works together, it can be done in about half an hour."
Everyone looked at each other, sighed, rolled up their sleeves and started to work.
"Who can swim? You can catch up first." Wang Hu said, "Anyway, I believe we can just keep going upstream, and we can still communicate through the team channel, so we don't have to worry about getting separated - but be careful not to walk through the air, I guess
The restriction may be that you must proceed by water."
Cheng Peng nodded and jumped into the water.
He did not rush to set off alone, but summoned the pet he had just received not long ago - the dragon fish.
This arowana is actually only a juvenile, but with a length of five meters, even if most of its body is submerged in the water, its exposed back can still accommodate two or three people.
Of course Cheng Peng himself has to sit on it, otherwise the dragon fish will not be obedient, so only one or two people can sit in the remaining seats, and in order to ensure that it is easy to use when encountering a battle, it is best not to crowd.
It was too tight, so after discussion, it was decided to let Shen Qi go with him.
Cheng Peng himself is a first-rate martial arts master, so it is best for his companion to be from the spellcasting system; and in order to improve tracking efficiency, it is best for this companion to have scouting skills or have high intelligence.
Those who meet the first requirement are Xiao Moran, Chen Wumian, Shen Qi, Mo Lili and Liu Xueji, those who meet the second condition are Gu Feng, Wang Hu, Xu Tu and Shen Qi; those who meet both conditions will naturally win.
There is only Shen Qi.
And unlike the general spellcasting system, Shen Qi, who has the Jade Star Mirror for protection, is not a fragile mage in the usual sense. If he encounters an enemy or is attacked by a sniper, his chances of survival are much higher.
So half a minute later, Cheng Peng and Shen Qi stood on the blue back of the dragon fish and quickly chased it against the gentle stream.
