There are not many differences between the Hengduan Mountains in the central part of the continent and those in the east. If we had to single out some differences, it would probably just be that there were more human monks invading the former, and the scope of their advance into the interior was wider.
However, even if there are many monks who choose to enter the mountains after leaving Shuangjiao City, compared to the vast Hengduan Mountains, once you go a little deeper into the mountains, the probability of meeting other monks becomes much lower.
Usually the only things monks can encounter are various monsters.
Of course, some specific places are excluded from this list.
For example, there is a canyon where Zhengda is now located.
This canyon is called Linyuan. There are ravines and ravines in the canyon, and there is an abyss of ten thousand feet in the deepest part.
There is a third-level spiritual plant called Jinyanghua that often grows everywhere in Linyuan Valley. Although it is a spiritual plant that cannot be advanced, it has strange effects. It is a spiritual plant that the Yuling Sect is eager to buy from the market.
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Because of the high price, some monks in the foundation-building stage often come here to explore, trying their luck to see if they can be lucky enough to encounter such a plant.
Among these monks, most are casual cultivators with Shuangjiao City as the center of their activities, while the remaining small number come from some nearby monk forces. These monks may have taken over tasks within the sect or clan.
, or your own experience.
Zhengda learned about this place from other monks about half a year ago. At first, he didn't care much. After all, the task given to him by His Majesty was to collect a large number of items with spiritual energy left in the mountains, such as monster bones, spiritual energy, etc.
Plant residues, etc.
Collecting spiritual plants is secondary.
But by chance, he was searching for the bones of monsters and found them near Linyuan Valley. After he looked at the map and noticed this, he chose to stop by and take a look.
He flew among various ravines, actively avoiding all the monks he met. Finally, at the corner of a ravine, he unexpectedly encountered a golden sun flower.
There is no doubt that this Golden Sun Flower was brought back to the Jieyuan Space by him.
At first, Zheng Da wanted to plant this golden sun flower near the three Juyuan bamboos, but what he didn't expect was that this third-order spiritual flower seemed to have a special effect on the jade bees in the space.
Attraction.
The Golden Sun Flower had just regained a little bit of vitality under his Spiritual Rain Technique, when a swarm of Jade Bees swarmed over from all over the space. Zhengda cast spells to disperse them several times, but every time when he left, this group of bees
The swarm of Jade Bees immediately surrounded the Golden Sunflower.
They flew around the pale golden flower and made a cheerful buzzing sound.
This was repeated several times, and Zhengda finally chose to give up the expulsion.
He stood a little further away, quietly looking at the Golden Sun Flower and the group of Jade Bees who were obviously in a strange mood.
Zhengda didn't have to wait long before more Yuluo bees appeared from the hive.
In the center of them, clustered around was the even larger Queen Bee, which had not been seen for a long time.
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In the end, this golden sun flower failed to survive in the boundary source space.
After the Jade Bee queen arrived, the other Jade Bees took the initiative to make way for a passage.
The former passed through this passage, and his fat body fell from the air and lay on the flowers of the Golden Sunflower. An invisible golden aura filled the air.
In just a quarter of an hour, this third-level spiritual plant withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The aura around the Jade Bee Queen Bee became more intense, its entire body became more crystal clear, and the stripes on its abdomen also deepened.
During the whole process of the Golden Sun Flower being absorbed, Zhengda didn't react at all and just watched quietly from a short distance away.
It wasn't until the golden sun flower withered completely and the queen bee staggered into the air again that he stretched out his palm.
Feeling the call from Zombie Da's consciousness, the Queen Bee flew over obediently and stopped in his palm.
The round body rolled several times, the tentacles on the head shook up and down, left and right, Qi Er raised his head and opened his jaw, as if he had burped.
Zhengda observed the Jade Bee Queen Bee in his hand for a moment, but found nothing unusual.
Then he gently held it and took it out of the Jieyuan space, and came to Li Xuangang who was sitting cross-legged in the cave outside.
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There is a thick fog that persists all year round in Linyuan Valley, so as soon as you enter the canyon, the surrounding light immediately dims.
Zhengda, shrouded in a black robe, walked through the ravines in the canyon and quickly disappeared into the thick fog.
When he appeared again, he was already directly above the abyss.
In the past six months, under Li Xuangang's arrangement, Zheng Da came to Linyuan Valley five times in total.
But these five times all failed.
"I wonder if I can find a mature golden sunflower again this time."
"According to your Majesty's estimation, one more bee should be enough for the Yuluo Bee Queen to break the bottleneck and enter the third level."
With these thoughts in mind, the next moment, he ignored the thick white mist lingering over the abyss and flew directly into the abyss.
The body sank rapidly, and soon arrived at a place about a hundred feet deep in the abyss. It was even darker here, with only some weak, unknown lights dimly shining everywhere.
Stopped in mid-air, hanging in the middle of the abyss.
The face covered by the black hood was slightly raised, and the next moment a pair of scarlet eyes were revealed.
There was a gloomy and evil spirit permeating the abyss. Being here, Zhengda felt an inexplicable sense of comfort.
He moved his eyes left and right, extending his consciousness along both sides of the abyss.
After making sure that there was no strange smell around him, Zhengda slowly approached the cliff in front of him.
The abyss is like a huge mouth. The cliffs on both sides are extremely rugged, with jagged rocks and bulges and depressions from time to time.
Pay special attention to those sunken places, because there may be some monsters hiding in them.
He had been ambushed once before by a centipede-shaped third-level low-grade monster.
It took a long time to subdue him.
Fortunately, Zangda was on guard at that time, and the venom of the centipede-shaped monster had no effect on him, so he did not suffer any injuries.
Be vigilant and move slowly along the cliff, guarding against possible sudden dangers while searching for traces of Jinyanghua.
In this way, Zheng Da searched for a long distance. After about five or six hours, he finally stopped at a sunken place that looked like a cave.
He stretched out his palm to explore forward, and his eyes were fixed on the dark hole.
His nostrils were flaring, and finally there was a trace of fluctuation on his originally extremely calm face, which was a hint of surprise.
Quietly stimulating his spiritual power within his body, he summoned the black thunderbolt from the storage bag and held it in his hand.
The body moved forward, then slowly fell, and finally stood at the outermost edge of the cave.
The cave is two feet high and three feet wide. Looking inside, it seems that the space inside is getting smaller and smaller, giving people a slightly confined feeling.
Zheng Da was on higher alert at this time. Although his eyes and consciousness could not detect anything unusual inside, no matter how well prepared he was in Linyuan Valley, it was never too much.
Linyuan Valley is huge in scale, and there are countless kinds of monsters in it. The hiding abilities of some monsters are even more astonishing.
There was a faint wind blowing out of the cave. He stood stiffly at the entrance of the cave, with a corner of his black robe lifted up from time to time.
The wind blowing out of the cave is very refreshing. Not only does it not feel turbid at all, it even feels a kind of tranquility unique to the mountains and forests.
"It seems that this cave is connected to another place."
Thinking about this silently in his heart, the next moment, Zhengda stepped into the cave with the black thunderbolt in his hand.
It was pitch black as far as the eye could see, and the rock walls on both sides of the body were uneven and there were many protruding rocks.
This cave should be naturally formed. Zhengda turned his head and looked behind him. There was a row of footprints left by his own walking.
He reached out and touched a rock on the left side of his body, and immediately felt a delicate touch on his hand.
This is the fine flying dust that has accumulated over the years after the rocks in the cave have been naturally worn away.
Zhengda wondered in his mind how many years this cave had not been visited by anyone before, and continued to move forward while searching for the aura he had felt before.
But the deeper you go in, the smaller the space becomes.
Finally, after walking a distance of only twenty or thirty feet, the cave came to an end.
At the bottom of the cave, which could only accommodate two people, a trace of confusion appeared on Zongda's face.
Because he searched all the way from the entrance of the cave, his spiritual sense was very careful, but he did not see any trace of Jinyanghua.
This made him doubt. Could it be that his previous feelings were wrong?
Stopping where he was, he once again paid attention to the faint aura in the surrounding space. About a quarter of an hour later, Zangda suddenly opened his eyes, turned sideways and stared at a huge rock in front of him.
Half-crouching, he discovered that there was an extremely long and slender crack on the surface of the rock.
So he stretched out his palm and pressed it against it, feeling it with the softest palm.
After a while, he stood up and understood.
From the cracks in this huge rock, there was a faint sound of wind.
But after discovering this oddity, Zhengda did not take immediate action. Instead, he turned his head and glanced in the direction outside the cave.
After making sure that no other monks' auras were found outside, he immediately waved his hand and took out the Three Talents Spirit Separation Array given to him by Li Xuangang.
Cast a spell to activate the magic circle, and a light curtain falls, thus isolating this space from the outside world.
After making sure that the movement and breath here would not be felt by the monks who might be passing by outside, Zhengda decisively raised the black thunderbolt in his hand.
And his right hand shriveled up quickly, taking on a shiny black metallic texture.
Immediately afterwards, countless black arcs were generated on the black thunderbolt.
Raising his hand and waving it out, this ordinary boulder had no resistance at all under such an attack.
After Zombie Royal Envoy Black Thunder launched his attack, it was immediately completely torn into pieces and turned into countless broken stones.
When these broken stones fell, the next moment, the white dust in the sky was kicked up, and a larger air flow surged out from behind the boulders, making the black robe on Zheng Da's body whistle.
Before everything calmed down, and before Zhengda could react, he just felt a sudden bright light, and a black shadow suddenly sprang out from behind the rock, rushing towards Zhengda at an incredible speed.
A punch in front of you.
In a hurry, the latter could only lift the black thunderbolt to block it, and immediately collapsed the flesh and blood on his chest, transforming it into the body of a corpse.
"Bang bang bang."
Dozens of fighting sounds occurred in an instant, but ended very quickly.
Before the white dust had completely fallen, Zhengda had already walked out of the dust carrying the corpse of a second-level high-grade lizard monster.