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On a small mountain path, a thin figure was slowly walking forward.

This was Mu Xuan, who had left the village for the Cloud Sky Pit. He had walked for a day and had passed by the borders of the territories of powerful beasts, which had helped him avoid many dangers. He had also learned that Liu Rong had been kind to him.

Liu Rong had personally investigated this road before confirming the truth.

However, every time he walked a certain distance, he would stop and carefully observe the area behind him. This was not only because he had encountered an unimaginable number of demonic beasts, but also because he had the feeling that someone was following him.

With regards to this, Mu Xuan had initially thought that it was his mother, Liu Rong, who was worried and protecting him in the dark.

Only then did he confirm that it wasn't his mother who was following him, but someone else.

But what he did not understand was, who was it? What was his goal?

He kept guessing and he kept shortening the distance between him and the target.

After walking out of the dense forest, Mu Xuan found that there was no way out.

There was a small hill in front of him, which blocked his path. However, the mountain was extremely desolate and there was no path at all. This was something that had never happened before on the map Liu Rong gave him!

Unresigned, he took out the map again and carefully compared it to find out where he was. The weird thing was, the map Liu Rong gave him didn't have any records about the hill.

"That's impossible? I've always been following the path that my mother gave me! This will not happen, something definitely must have gone wrong. "

Mu Xuan didn't understand what was going on, but since there were no roads on the mountain, he might as well take a path himself.

With one step, Mu Xuan walked towards the hill and prepared to cross it.

What he did not notice was that when he stepped onto the hill, his figure suddenly disappeared, as if he had never appeared before. And where he was standing just now, an old man appeared and smiled brightly, "This kid's luck is really good. He actually found some things on the path that others have taken, it seems he can't get everything according to his original plan."

After that, he followed Mu Xuan's footsteps.

When Mu Xuan stepped onto the hill, he realized that something wasn't right. The mountain had quieted down and there wasn't even the sound of insects.

However, since he had already left, he might as well continue walking. He drew back the bow without looking back at the arrow.

Without any hesitation, Mu Xuan climbed up the mountain quickly, preparing to go down directly from the top. This would save him a lot of time.

Arriving at the top of the mountain, Mu Xuan looked down into nothingness. He could not see anything except for a faint patch of nothingness. He also had a feeling that he was at the edge of a cliff that was tens of thousands of feet deep.

This made Mu Xuan nervous. He understood why the mountain was so desolate, and why there was not even the sound of insects anymore. This was because he had entered the array and everything in front of him was just an illusion.

However, thinking back to what his mother had said, that there wouldn't be a place where a Nirvana Realm expert died in Immortal Ancient Forest, and that the formation array wouldn't be that strong, Mu Xuanxin finally let it go.

Formations were a special kind of method that allowed one to use the power of heaven and earth. One needed to slowly comprehend it, and those with talent in formations could even use the formation to contend with, or even kill, those at the Nirvana stage before they reached the Nirvana stage!

From this, one could see how impressive the formation was.

Since he was sure it was a formation, Mu Xuan didn't dare to walk around lightly. Instead, he thought about what his mother had told him about the formation and how to break it.

Formations were a special way of using the power of the world. It was similar to martial skills and had different classification standards: Common, Spirit, Earth, and Heaven.

However, Liu Rong wasn't clear on this, so she had no way of explaining it to Mu Xuan. However, if it was someone of a higher level, they would definitely be a grandmaster, because even among Heaven level formation masters, there were only two in the Great Song Empire. They belonged to the royal family, the Liu family, and the Longling Mei family.

However, these two were the founders of the Great Song Empire. One had become the first king of the Great Song, and the other had become the first duke of the Great Song.

It was because of the existence of these two Heaven level formation masters that the Song Dynasty was able to survive the war for a thousand years in this cruel world. It was because back then, they had set up a Heaven level formation to protect the Royal City and Langling Mei Family's ancestral lands.

Those two great formations were the foundation of the Song Dynasty. Even a Nirvana stage practitioner would not be able to break through them.

In particular, formations were divided into defensive formation and offensive formation.

Defense formations, as the name implies, focused on defense, while offensive formations focused on offense.

Liu Rong hadn't told Mu Xuan about the specific details, but she had said that formations were like humans, they had their own core.

As long as the core of the formation was destroyed, the formation would be broken.

As for what he had encountered, his level was not very high. Otherwise, the moment he touched the array, he would be attacked.

But how to break the formation? Where was the core of the formation? How to find it? And what would he gain after breaking the array? Was it worth it to break through this formation?

This all fell into the scope of Mu Xuan's thoughts.

After all, he had a purpose. He didn't really come out to gain experience. To retrieve his reward from the crater and the Hanging Sky Cliff, he had to arrange for these people to gather together in the Immortal Ancient Forest.

If the delay was too long, the gains would not make up for the losses.

Just as Mu Xuan was thinking about these questions, he realized that there was fog all around him, and there seemed to be something squirming.

Mu Xuan became cautious. After all, the formation had already been activated. If it was an offensive formation, he could be attacked at any time. The mist and wiggling things might both be attacking him.

Before Mu Xuan could realize what the fog and the moving body on the ground meant, everything before him had disappeared. The desolate mountain in front of him was also gone, as if nothing had happened at all.

Just when Mu Xuan was curious as to why this was so, he suddenly discovered a thousand-year-old ancient tree in front of him. It was over ten meters thick and a hidden door appeared on top of the tree.

"From the experience just now, it should be something inside the tree right? Maybe it is a place where an expert passed away in meditation. "

After hesitating for a moment, Mu Xuan was still unable to suppress his curiosity. He decided to go over there and see for himself why such a miraculous sight had occurred.

Mu Xuan walked out of the room very quickly, but he kept cursing and complaining about the lack of anything.

However, he was certain that the array formation really did exist. It had been broken for some reason. Moreover, there was quite a bit of space behind the tree; he didn't know what rank of expert had left that space.

However, he didn't get anything from it, which made Mu Xuan depressed.

However, Mu Xuan was curious as to whether it was just swept away a moment ago.

No matter how depressed he was, he couldn't afford to delay the trip. Time was of the essence, and mother gave him half a month's time to return from the Hanging Sky Cliff, regardless of whether or not he could find the treasure.

Soon, Mu Xuan left. He continued walking according to the map Liu Rong gave him.

An hour later, Mu Xuan came back and checked the space inside the tree again. He didn't find any changes and could only leave unwillingly.

Half an incense's time after Mu Xuan left, a figure appeared on top of the thousand-year-old ancient tree.

That figure was the one who went to the hill after Mu Xuan. After seeing Mu Xuan walk far away, he smiled and said, "What a careful little guy. If I didn't hide fast enough, I would have been discovered!"

Afterwards, he looked at Mu Xuan with a profound gaze and said to himself, "I don't know if what he is looking for is what we are looking for, but if it isn't, then we would be at a huge disadvantage this time. However, this harvest is quite a good legacy from an alchemist, there are dozens of Earth level medicinal pills, and there is also the inheritance of an Earth level intermediate alchemist."

He stroked a ring on his finger contentedly, then disappeared once again.

"How could this happen!?" There are no demonic beasts here! Mother clearly indicated it, but why is there such a poisonous Rank 3 Demonic Beast? "

He carefully lied on top of a tree with thick leaves. Mu Xuan was speechless as he looked at the group of Level 3 demon beasts that were searching for something ten zhang away.

Even if the map fish my mother gave me would have some differences in real life, it shouldn't have had such a big difference! There were at least seven Rank 3 Demonic Beasts here, and they kept moving forward. If it weren't for their alertness and their ability to hide in trees, they would have already run into this group of Demonic Beasts.

Mu Xuan held his breath and watched the beasts leave. He breathed a sigh of relief, but felt hot air blowing around his neck. Without turning his head or hesitating, he stood up, kicked his feet off the tree as fast as he could and jumped onto another tree.

Ruthlessness!

A sharp bird cry came from the tree where Mu Xuan had been standing just now, attracting the seven Rank 3 Demonic Beasts not far away.

With just a glance, Mu Xuan found a huge gray bird, the size of a human head, staring at him menacingly from where he had been standing.

This was a Rank 2 Demonic Beast, a bird of prey. It was very good at hiding itself. If it wasn't for Mu Xuan being alert, it would have been bitten. If it had been bitten on the neck, it might have lost its life.

However, the bird could sense that it couldn't handle Mu Xuan. It immediately lured the Rank 3 Demonic Beast back after its sneak attack had failed.

He didn't want to stay any longer, so he immediately jumped up and down on the tree to escape.

Mu Xuan knew that seven Rank 3 Demonic Beasts and one Rank 2 Flying Demonic Beast were not something he could handle, so he decided to escape.

Mu Xuan, who had escaped, could clearly feel the ground trembling. It was the vibration of a Class 3 demonic beast chasing after him.

Roar!

Angry roars kept coming out from the beasts' mouths, scaring Mu Xuan even faster.

After Mu Xuan had escaped, the old man who had been following Mu Xuan appeared again. He stared at the bird and sneered, "You've just committed a grave mistake. What's the use of keeping you alive?"

Sparrow wanted to use his own words to defend himself, but found that his body was starting to disintegrate.

Looking at the pieces of meat scattered all over the ground, the old man frowned and said, "I've lost control of myself now. What if he runs into one of that guy's men? What should I do?" "No, I have to hurry, that thing is still more important."

He ignored those shivering Rank 3 Demonic Beasts on the ground and immediately disappeared.

After the elder disappeared, the seven Rank 3 Demonic Beasts stopped chasing Mu Xuan and fled. Their speed was even faster than Mu Xuan's.

After running for who knows how long, Mu Xuan finally stopped and turned his head to see if the beasts had caught up.

"Fortunately, I ran fast. Otherwise, I would have been left with seven Rank 3 Demonic Beasts!" I won't be able to do it no matter how hard I try! "

He hid in a nearby place for a while and only after discovering that there were no demonic beasts chasing him, did he finally relax.

However, he immediately discovered that something wasn't right. This time, he was completely lost, because he really hadn't seen this place in the map Liu Rong gave him, nor had he felt the aura of the formation.

Calming down immediately, Mu Xuan looked up at the sky and prepared to use the sun to determine the direction so that he could return to his original path.

When he looked up, it was already night.

Helpless, Mu Xuan could only choose a safe place to spend the night.