After returning to the village, start chasing the mountain from binding Emei

Chapter 967 This is unscientific, a powerful water monkey!
The fog has cleared.

However, the situation does not seem to be improving.

The radar detected that the gravel path beneath their feet led straight ahead, with no end in sight.

Looking back, the same scene unfolds behind us.

The man and the mouse seemed to be on a road with no end.

There were still cliffs on both sides. If it weren't for the location of the Bailong River on the water map in his mind, Chen Yang wouldn't even be able to tell which side was in front and which side was behind.

"The power of the restriction is very strong; we're trapped." Mo Yuan's voice was somewhat deep.

Chen Yang's face turned ashen. "Have you ever encountered this situation before?"

Mo Yuan said, "Some trapping formations can do this. If it's a formation, you only need to find the core of the formation to break it. What I'm afraid of is a law barrier. The methods of a Celestial Realm cultivator are beyond the comprehension of us mortals..."

"Then do you think this is an array or a law-based barrier?" Chen Yang asked.

“The activation of the formation will cause a large energy fluctuation, while the law barrier can be done without anyone noticing. I didn’t feel any obvious energy fluctuation just now, so I feel that the latter is more likely…” Mo Yuan said.

Chen Yang frowned even more deeply.

Mo Yuan said, "I don't know much about law barriers. After all, that's a technique only those at the Celestial Realm can use. I just don't know if there's some kind of entity behind it. If there is, that's better. They've trapped us but haven't attacked us yet, so at least there's still room for negotiation..."

"You mean, there are Celestial Realm beings on this mountain?" Chen Yang asked.

He remembered what Xuan Tong had told him before he came in: Could there be a Celestial Realm expert in this secret realm?
Mo Yuan shook his head. "The Heavenly Path is severed, so it's impossible for any Celestial Realm cultivators to survive in this world. However, the law barriers left behind by Celestial Realm cultivators are also a kind of inheritance. It doesn't mean that others can't use the power of the barriers..."

"We'd better pray that someone is playing a joke on us. Otherwise, if the law barrier is triggered naturally, we might be trapped here for life, and we don't know when we'll be able to leave."

……

Hearing Mo Yuan say this, Chen Yang felt a chill run down his spine.

I was just doing a simple hike, and now I'm being detained here?
Chen Yang pondered for a moment.

He released three bone-eating beetles.

One went forward, one went backward, and then another climbed up the cliff face.

They wanted to use this to probe for some clues about this place.

However, to Chen Yang's surprise, all three bone-eating beetles quickly emerged from the rift.

Chen Yang quickly got up and walked forward.

However, after walking for half a day, he was still in the rift valley.

"It's weird!"

Chen Yang felt like he was trapped in a maze, and almost peed on the ground.

Bone-eating beetles can fly out, but they themselves cannot get out.

Why?

Is this barrier specifically targeting me and Mo Yuan?

"I don't know which senior was joking with me. I was just passing by and had no ill intentions."

Chen Yang cupped his hands towards the void, his clear voice breaking the silence of the night.

The sound echoed back and forth in the valley, reverberating for a long time without subsiding.

However, there was no response.

The valley was eerily quiet.

They could neither move forward nor backward, and they could not even go up.

This man and this rat seemed to have truly been abandoned by the world on this road.

"What should we do?"

Mo Yuan slumped to the ground, too lazy to move.

I have to admit, we are indeed trapped.

Even with its limited knowledge, it was unable to fathom the mysteries of this place and was completely at a loss.

It looked at Chen Yang.

Chen Yang pondered for a moment, then sat down on the ground and took out two boxed lunches. "Don't rush, let's eat first and then think of a solution. Maybe this barrier will let us go on its own in a little while."

"You have a good attitude."

Mo Yuan gave a wry smile, but didn't say anything more.

Since it was already there, it decided to make the best of it. It didn't eat Chen Yang's food, but took a white crocodile's inner core and some white crocodile flesh and blood, and ate it by itself.

For it, these things are what are useful for increasing its cultivation level.

……

-

The night is dark and windy.

A figure gracefully arrived, stepping on the light of a sword, and hovered on the surface of the Bailong River.

"Fellow Daoist Bai, come out and talk."

Above the sword light, the old man's robes fluttered in the river wind, and his aged voice boomed out, like a bomb dropped into the river.

However, even after the sound had been heard for a long time, there was still no reaction from beneath the river surface.

The old man frowned slightly, as if he had sensed something was wrong.

Just as they were about to take action, the water surface rippled, and a spotted crocodile emerged from underwater.

"Roar!"

The spotted crocodile roared, and a mental wave emanated from it, as if it were accusing the old man on the sword-light.

"what?"

The old man seemed to have heard some incredible news. His expression changed drastically, and a glint of light flashed in his eyes, as if he wanted to devour someone.

With a flash of sword light, the old man dashed directly into the river.

There was a crash.

The water splashed, and the old man quickly submerged to the bottom.

……

Half an hour later, the old man who had just gone into the water emerged from the water and stood steadily on the shore.

Immediately, a spotted crocodile crawled out.

This crocodile, only at the mid-stage of the Spirit Realm, lay trembling and fearful at the old man's feet.

"Ho ho..."

It made a hoarse sound from its throat, communicating telepathically, and it was unclear what it was saying to the old man.

The old man's face was ashen.

His gaze was fixed on the mountains ahead, yet he seemed to feel a sense of apprehension.

"You can't even protect a single herb, you're useless!"

The old man cursed and slammed his palm down.

"Oh!"

The powerful force slammed the spotted crocodile directly into the ground.

The spotted crocodile didn't even have time to utter a sound before its flesh and blood were torn apart.

Even in death, it probably never imagined that the old man would kill it.

The old man, however, seemed to have swatted a fly, his fists clenched, his gaze fixed on Mount Bei'e ahead, his eyes filled with hesitation.

In the end, he did not head towards Bei'e Mountain, but instead flew downstream of the Bailong River, riding on the light of his sword.

After flying more than thirty miles, the old man stopped the sword light.

"Fellow Daoist Hong Li, come out and have a chat!"

The sound was deafening, looming high above, and even made the surface of the river tremble.

"Oh!"

A dark shadow burst out of the water.

It traced a parabola through the air and landed heavily on the riverbank.

A humanoid monster, nearly two meters tall, covered in black, with long hair, stood hunched over on the shore.

Its enormous arms hung down past its knees, and its face was hidden under black hair, making it impossible to see its features. Only two eyes with only the whites showing were visible, making it look like a demon, extremely terrifying.

"Roar!"

The monster roared at the old man in the air.

The sound was so harsh it made your liver hurt.

The old man's sword flashed, landing only a dozen meters away from the monster.

"Fellow Daoist White Crocodile was killed, and Water Bodhi was stolen. Are you aware of this?" the old man asked directly.

"Roar!"

The monster roared.

The old man said, "That person has entered the sealed area of ​​Bei'e Mountain, and it is inconvenient for me to enter the mountain. I would like to trouble you, fellow Daoist, to go up the mountain and retrieve the Water Bodhi for me..."

"Roar!"

The monster roared again, seemingly expressing its dissatisfaction.

If you're not going yourself, why should I go?

"The Ten-Leaf Water Bodhi is very important to me. That person took two, and I only want one. You can do with the other one as you see fit. In addition, after the matter is settled, I can also give you a Divine Fiend Pill to help you break through to the Dao True Realm..."

The old man flicked his whisk, and a jet-black pill appeared in his palm, sealed with beeswax.

As the old man removed the outer layer of the amber, a strong aura of malevolence was suddenly released.

"Ho!"

Sensing this aura, the monster immediately took a step forward, clearly very excited.

The old man smiled slightly, "This pill contains a massive amount of divine and evil energy. I only have one in my possession. The energy within is enough to help you advance to the Dao True Realm. Moreover, I can protect you when you break through. What do you think?"

"Roar!"

The monster roared again, seemingly confirming with the old man whether it was true.

……

-

Now let's talk about Chen Yang.

He was feeling a bit sleepy after eating, but after taking a short break, he regained his energy and continued to think about the current countermeasures.

It seems that this barrier has no intention of letting them go.

If I use the Moon Concealment Technique to completely hide my aura, will the barrier be unable to sense me, thus opening a door for me to enter?

Chen Yang immediately tried it out with the Moon Shadow Technique. However, the result was not as expected.

He even took out the inner core of the White Crocodile King and tried to simulate its aura, but the result was still zero.

I tried using bone-eating beetles again.

A bone-eating beetle can easily pass through this barrier when acting alone, but if you follow behind it, the path will never end.

This unscientific!

Chen Yang began to have doubts. For so long, the barrier had only trapped him without harming him in any way. It seemed that there was no one controlling it behind the scenes.

In other words, this was a trap left by someone before him, and he was unlucky enough to get trapped in it.

The mouse got into the rice jar, unsure if there was an opening, which way it opened, or if it could get out.

Why can the bone-eating beetle get out, but I can't?

What's the difference between myself and a bone-eating beetle?
One person, and one who is not a person.

Mo Yuan isn't human either, so why can't it get out either?
One is large, and the other is small?

Or do insects have special privileges?
Thinking of this, Chen Yang paused slightly, as if he had realized something.

Could it be because bone-eating beetles have low intelligence?
The intelligence of bone-eating beetles is very low, but the intelligence of Chen Yang and Mo Yuan is clearly incomparable to that of bone-eating beetles.

So, is it possible that this barrier is trapping intelligent life forms?

"Mo Yuan..."

Chen Yang woke up Mo Yuan, who was engrossed in meditation, and shared his guess.

Mo Yuan listened to Chen Yang's story in a daze, and after a moment of stunned silence, he came to his senses and realized what Chen Yang was talking about.

"It's not impossible."

Mo Yuan thought for a moment, "But even if that's the case, there's nothing we can do. Master, you can't possibly beat yourself into a brain-damaged state before going out, can you?"

Chen Yang's face twitched.

Mo Yuan's words, though crude, are not without reason.

Even if this barrier truly only works on intelligent beings, how would you break free? Would you lose your intelligence? Become brain-dead?

That's a bit too funny.

Mo Yuan said, "Master, I've just thought about it, and perhaps we don't need to do anything."

"Oh?"

“Since this path is so strange, it’s impossible that it hasn’t trapped other beings before. We’re not the first, and we certainly won’t be the last. But Master, look at this path, are there any corpses or skeletons?”

When Chen Yang looked around, he saw that the road was very clean, and everything looked the same. There were no corpses or skeletons anywhere.
"In other words, if everyone else can go out, there's no reason why we can't. Maybe tomorrow morning, the barrier will open by itself..."

Mo Yuan offered these words of comfort.

Chen Yang listened and found it made some sense.

But he couldn't just wait like this. Who knew how long it would take for the barrier to open? He couldn't afford to wait ten days or half a month.

We still need to hurry up and come up with a solution.

"If I had known, I would have taken a detour. I thought going over the mountain would be shorter, but who would have thought I'd end up here in jail without even knowing why..."

Chen Yang shook his head.

When Xuan Tong and his group came in back then, I wonder if they passed through this area or encountered similar situations?

Chen Yang thought to himself that this was the thought.

The map Xuantong provided marked the Bei'e Mountains, but it didn't mark any special areas.

Maybe I've never been here before, otherwise I would have told myself that already.

After so many years, this map is really not very useful for reference.

In fact, for Chen Yang, it sometimes had the opposite effect, making him less wary of areas without danger signs.

More than a hundred years, not just a hundred days.

The changes are so dramatic that they can only be described as a complete transformation.

Some dangerous places may no longer be dangerous, but many places that were originally safe may now hide great dangers.

It's even uncertain whether the Udumbara flower that Xuantong asked him to find is still in the same place.

It might have already been picked by someone else.

After all, although the secret realm has been closed for more than a hundred years, there are still so many spiritual beasts and plants inside, and even beings like Danyangzi.

Some people say that when you see one cockroach, there are actually cockroaches all over the house in places you can't see.

He only saw one Danyangzi, but who knows how many more Danyangzi there are in this vast secret realm?

After considering it for a while, Chen Yang decided to try shutting down his five senses and six consciousnesses.

Unfortunately, as the owner of the Azure Profound Pearl, he was unable to enter the Azure Profound Pearl's space.

Otherwise, they could simply hide inside the bead and let the bone-eating beetle swarm carry them out.

Now, I'll just give myself a needle to make myself faint, shut down my five senses and six consciousnesses, and put myself into a state of emptiness of the five aggregates, then let the bone-eating beetle swarm take me out.

The barrier cannot sense his intelligence, so it might let him pass.

As for Mo Yuan, he could be hidden inside the Azure Pearl.

Thinking of this, Chen Yang took out the Medicine King Divine Needle.

He couldn't help but smile bitterly, realizing for the first time that wisdom was a burden to him.

The silver needles gleamed coldly.

When it came time to actually do it, Chen Yang hesitated.

Although he can control the recovery time through acupuncture, his five senses and six consciousnesses are sealed off, which would be truly dangerous if he encounters danger.

Mo Yuan is unreliable; let's put him into the Azure Pearl first.

Chen Yang was about to make a move when he suddenly stopped.

A tremendous sense of crisis suddenly overwhelmed me.

Within the radar's detection range, a dark figure suddenly appeared, climbing up the black rock cliff and rapidly approaching him.

"Oh!"

The dark figure leaped down from the cliff face, and under the immense pressure, the ground trembled violently as if it had been bombarded.

"Roar!"

Standing more than ten feet away from Chen Yang, it roared at him, its fangs bared and its face ferocious.

It carried a large iron rod on its shoulder and was covered in long, pure black fur. Although it looked like a human, its arms and legs were long, making it clearly a beast rather than a human.

Under the watchful eye of heaven, the beast was surrounded by black mist, ten times darker than the surrounding night, and its blood-red eyes were filled with undisguised ferocity and madness.

"Mandrill?"

Chen Yang was momentarily stunned.

He was familiar with the aura emanating from this beast.

The aura of divine evil.

Its appearance was also very similar to the mandrills he had seen.

"It's not a mandrill, it's a water demon!"

Mo Yuanteng jumped up, his fur standing on end.

"Water demon?"

Chen Yang was taken aback.

Mo Yuan said, "The water monkey, also known as the water demon, possesses the body of a divine demon. Like the mountain demon, it has immense strength, excellent swimming skills, and a strong ability to control water-attribute energy..."

Mo Yuan's spirit was extremely tense as he spoke, even more so than when he was facing the White Crocodile King.

If it were at its peak, it certainly wouldn't have taken such a water demon seriously, but it is no longer the same as it was back then, and it feels a great threat from this water demon.

"Roar!"

Without giving it any more time to speak, the water demon roared at Chen Yang as a greeting, and then charged straight at him without another word.

They really are ruthless and taciturn; they just get to work without giving anyone a chance to communicate.

……

"Ding! S-rank Divine Fiend [Water Demon] detected. Encyclopedia unlocked. Reward: [Heart-Seeking Pill] *5. Items have been placed in the system warehouse and can be retrieved at any time."

……

"Ding, mission issued."

"Mission: Hunt the S-rank Divine Fiend [Water Demon], progress (0/1)."

"Reward: Divine Fiend Pill *5"

……

Item: Divine Fiend Pill.

"Description: This pill contains a large amount of divine and demonic energy. (Note: It can be taken by those with a divine and demonic constitution; other constitutions should use it with caution, as they may suffer a backlash from the divine and demonic energy.)"

……

A series of prompts suddenly appeared.

Chen Yang dared not be negligent towards an S-level divine being.

He had dealt with the Divine Fiend Body many times. Once this thing went berserk, it could fight against a Dao True Realm cultivator while only being at the Creation Realm, as easily as eating and drinking.

For Shen Sha, taking on challenges beyond his level is just commonplace.

Chen Yang didn't care where this thing came from or what its purpose was. Since it dared to attack him, he had no reason to sit idly by and wait to die.

"Whoosh!"

With twin hammers appearing in his hands, Chen Yang gave his opponent no chance to go berserk, and with a flash, he went straight to meet him.

"boom!"

With a sudden slam, the hammer clashed with the iron rod in the water demon's hand.

Electric light and flint.

Although the water demon was powerful, it was clearly underestimating its opponent and had not yet entered a berserk state.

With a loud bang, he was sent flying by Chen Yang's hammer.

Like a missile, it crashed heavily into the mountainside.

The mountainside shook, and rocks rained down.

It was clearly a little confused, and let out an angry roar, its fur quickly turning red.

However, at that moment, a red thread silently wrapped around it.

(End of this chapter)