The boundary loosened, and the gap would last for an hour. After a month, this gap would open again. This pattern has always been like this, it has never changed in the past thousands years, therefore, the people of the seven big sects entered in the Dangerous Boundary feeling at ease. While the gap was slowly forming, the seven big sects and some scattered cultivators (not belonging to a sect) who were waiting for a long time quickly mounted their Spiritual Beasts and Spiritual tools. One after another, they began to rush in the Dangerous Boundary.
“Zézé. So anxious to throw their lives away!” a Tianyin Immortal Palace disciple refined like a banished mortal was wearing flowery brocade clothes. Shaking lightly the folding fan in his hand, he spoke words filled of sneer while smiling: “Good. The ferocious beasts in the boundary are also hungry, they can eat now”
The last person heard the Tianyin Immortal Palace disciple’s words and laughed. A ghost mask was hanging on his head, he was wearing a black armor and two daggers were hanging on his waist. The man laughed sardonically, and then moved closer to that disciple: “Then Your Excellency, how much time they have to eat, so we can safely enter inside?”
“Not urgent, not urgent. Let’s walk slowly”
“Haha – -“
Huo Zaiyuan, Long Zhanye and Lu were following after everyone, and were calmly entering in the gap of the boundary.
“It feels like strolling” hearing the laughter and chatting of the people in front, Huo Zaiyuan left an extremely pertinent comment.
He thought that there would be an intense scene, he would never have expected that…
“In this situation, it’s like what senior brother has said. Walking fast, dying fast. Look, the last people are trying to live till they can and enter in the boundary after those ones who want to quickly get in” Lu was waving his feather fan with a faint smile.
“Why?” facing this kind of situation, Huo Zaiyuan didn’t have enough experience so couldn’t match other people.
“Because the group of people who have rushed in will draw away the greater part of rare animals. Naturally not all the beasts would be that stupid. Some would continue to guard their territories and wait for the right opportunity to act. All the sisters {?} who have entered in the boundary will have to separate, if not they are going to be surrounded” Long Zhanye stretched his hand to hug Huo Zaiyuan, and then said: “Wait for your memory to recover and those people won’t be able to stop you”
“En, I will work hard” Huo Zaiyuan vigorously nodded his head.
“Good”
Everyone reaching the boundary, called their Spiritual Beasts and tools out and left.
Huo Zaiyuan and Long Zhanye called out Wind Speed Cat from the space, Lu summoned a two meters long purple jade flute, jumped on it and turned north.
They didn’t completely realize that, when they called out the Wind Speed Cat, a glittering and translucent small mouse suddenly erected his tail and let out a creaking sound.
“Senior brother, the mouse has reacted and discovered a target!!”
“What?”
“Although we don’t know what it is, but the mouse must have felt our prey, chase it!!”
Seven, eight people turned their head and ran towards the direction where the mouse was going.
The Wind Speed Cat stretched its four limbs and nimbly ran among the trees, following after Lu who was sitting on the jade flute. After the three people have distanced from the gap of the boundary, they ascertained that nobody was around and looked for a place to stop.
“Let’s begin from here” Long Zhanye held Huo Zaiyuan and jumped down from the Wind Speed Cat. And then he put the Wind Speed Cat in the space.
Lu was still sitting on the jade flute. He softly nodded his head: “Your Excellency, Sir… The things you said before entering were true? This place seems normal, but the hidden danger is extreme”
“The most dangerous place is at the same time the safest. If we continued to stay in the Taoist Sect, Huo Zaiyuan’s skills would be discovered and attract troubles… you also know, no matter if it’s the Immortal World or Cultivation Boundary, they all don’t stand me. Tianqi was involved because of me, and we died at the bottom of the snow peak… we are people who shouldn’t exist” Long Zhanye tightly grasped Huo Zaiyuan’s hand.
“Lu, I know that you and Fan Yin really care about me. Even without my memory, I know that by choosing him, I won’t ever have regrets” holding Long Zhanye’s hand, Huo Zaiyuan’s expression was extremely firm.
“Ai, since you are talking like this, then I won’t persuade you anymore. Palace Master knew what you were going to do, so he sent me here. And, also for fetching Spiritual Grass” his hand flashed and a parchment appeared.
“What is that?”
“This is a handwritten Spirit Elixir recipe” Lu handed the parchment over to Huo Zaiyuan.
Huo Zaiyuan looked at his mysterious look, and then at the parchment, dumbfounded.
“This is… Xianping Elixir prescription. Fan Yin is a well-known writer, he unexpectedly found this thing. But the Spiritual Grass is demanding” Huo Zaiyuan very carefully counted the number of Spiritual Grasses on the prescription, pursing bis brows.
“What is… Spirit Elixir?” although Long Zhanye was acquainted with many things of the Cultivation Boundary, but he had no idea on what Spirit Elixir was because he never needed it.
“This thing, if I want to break through the Yuan phase, I will get twice the result with half the effort” Huo Zaiyuan turned his face and gave a kiss on Long Zhanye’s cheek. Sure enough, looking at Long Zhanye’s frown made him wild with joy.
“Let’s go and find them!” holding Huo Zaiyuan’s thin waist, Long Zhanye’s eyes glistened.
Lu was following behind and smiled while looking at the two lovey-dovey couple before him.
It was like the Palace Master has said: as long as sir was there, this Dragon wouldn’t bring trouble. Just only that matter…
En. Maybe staying in this place and hiding from other people could be a good thing for them. After all, his Palace Master, because of the folk recipe, has sold… him out.
Except for the ferocious beasts and the precipitous terrain in this boundary, there were also some other characteristics: Three Natures Fire and Ice. One third was dry desert and lava, one third ice and snow and the last part a densely wooded place.
“Don’t you feel much colder now?” Huo Zaiyuan’s whole body was covered by goosebumps.
In this journey, Long Zhanye was here to protect him, so all the ferocious beasts were easily dealt with. They didn’t meet any other people in the forest, therefore Huo Zaiyuan has plundered and put many Spiritual Grasses in the space; as for the Spiritual Grasses Lu needed, he only fetched the seeds.
After several millenniums, the boundary would open only once. The Spiritual Grasses’ ranks and age were extremely high: the lowest Spiritual Grass they saw was of 2000 years old, so Huo Zaiyuan was smiling very happily.
“We are getting near to the Bingtian-xuedi {ice and snow}. According to what’s written on the folk recipe, Snow Lotus, Icy Snow Crystal and Spiritual Crystal Flower all grow where the snow is present, so we must take a look around” Lu already put his flute away and right now was walking. Even though he was protecting his body through gong ti, but the more he walked, the colder it was, so much that his body was trembling.
“The Spiritual qi contained in this Elixir is extremely great. Even if the materials weren’t sufficient, but the semi-finished products would probably be enough for the ranking. Snow Lotus, Cotton Rose and Fire Lotus are all Soul Grasses, so they complement and balance each other” Huo Zaiyuan said while recalling the folk recipe’s description.
“This place isn’t only cold, but the power here is strong too; you two, be careful” Long Zhanye’s expression was unchanged as before, as if he didn’t feel cold at all.
“En” the other two people nodded their heads.
The three people continued to walk forward. After not long, they stepped inside a snowy place. The wind was whistling like a sharp knife cutting through people’s clothes. By good fortune, they all weren’t ordinary people, or else their flesh would be already split by the whistling wind.
“Stay behind me and be careful. The wind is a little strange” Long Zhanye’s face was faintly covered by Dragon Scales, and his clothes were also dragon-scale like, therefore he wasn’t hurt by the wind.
“En” Huo Zaiyuan was following behind him. In order to resist the whistling wind, his body was emitting silver lights.
Among the three, Long Zhanye was the most powerful, followed by Lu and Huo Zaiyuan was the weakest. That’s why he was staying between them.
Lu’s body was surrounded by a halo. His feather fan has been changed into a guqin, his fingers softly plucked on the strings and a nice warming sound came out.
This was the Tianyin Immortal Palace’s ability to manipulate the Five Elements through tuning.
Even though the ice was very smooth, the three walked deeper in the snow-land without any problems. However, a transparent blue figure flashed by and Long Zhanye abruptly extended his hand.
“A- -“
A transparent figure of a woman screamed harshly, while falling on the ground and fragmenting into pieces. At the same time, the three people were surrounded by numerous snowy monsters.