C62

Early in the morning, everyone ate their breakfast. Lu Que, Zhuge Yan, Lin Qingyu, and the others entered the mountain to search for the herbs, while the rest continued to build the newly formed camp. The lumber had already been cut down a lot yesterday, and there weren't many things that needed to be done.

Duanmu Ye had helped his father build a stable in the past, so this naturally wasn't too difficult for him. Even though there weren't any nails currently, he still understood the simple mortise structure. Moreover, there were many mountain vines in the mountain, which could also be used to strengthen it. Besides, they only wanted to survive the rest of the time, so they didn't need to build the camp in an exquisite manner. As long as they could resist the wild beasts' sneak attacks, they could have a place to rest.

Second Brother, Lu Que, we have already found Spirit Accumulating Flowers, Channel Opening Grass, Deer Heart Vine, and Mysterious Sun Ginseng. The ages of these medicinal herbs are not bad, as long as we can find another Mysterious Heart Lotus or a Blood Drop Fruit, it won't be a problem to wait a little longer.

The three of them followed the direction that Zhuge Yan remembered and walked through the mountain forest for the entire morning. It was unknown if Zhuge Yan had been chased by that leopard until he was at a loss for what to do, or if the beast tide had caused the traces in the mountain to become chaotic.

"Although these medicinal ingredients are hard to come by, they're actually supplementary. The Profound Heart Lotus and the Blood Drop Fruit are the main ingredients." Lu Que sighed and said, "Blood Drop Fruits are considered treasures of heaven and earth. As long as you can find a few, it will be sufficient for you to concoct the medicine. But if it's a Mysterious Heart Lotus, it would be best if you could obtain it for 500 years."

"You're right." He turned and looked at Zhuge Yan, who was constantly sizing up the surrounding forest, and said, "Second Brother, the mountains are so dense here that even the sun cannot be seen. Are you sure you found that Spirit Core Fruit in this direction? Could he be lost? "

"This …" Zhuge Yan pondered for a moment. At that time, he was indeed confused and disoriented by the leopard's chase, and all he wanted to do was to escape. Now, he only knew a general direction. Moreover, this forest was dense, isolated from the daylight, and the ground was covered with fallen leaves and weeds. It seemed to be the same everywhere.

At that time, he did not find a Spirit Core Tree nearby. According to his calculations at that time, if he had chosen the right direction, then he should not be far from where he had found the Spirit Core Fruit. However, he had already been standing here looking at it for a long time.

"It should be in the right direction." At this moment, Lu Que spoke up. He took more than ten steps to the right and pulled out a water bag that was partially covered by leaves. The water bag was about the same color as the leaves and was mostly covered up.

"Zhuge, this is your water bag, right?" Lu Que threw the water bag to Zhuge Yan and said.

"Right, right. This is my water bag." "Look, there's a scratch on this water bag. It was left behind when I was attacked by a lynx when I entered this place. Afterwards, I was chased by a leopard and accidentally lost it."

"Then do you still remember where you lost the water bag? How far is it from where you picked up the Spirit Core Fruit?" Lin Qingyu asked.

"This, I can't remember. It seems that ~ it was less than an hour ago." Zhuge Yan said somewhat embarrassedly. Her tone was filled with uncertainty. He had been chased by the leopard until there was no path to heaven and no way to escape. All he wanted was to escape, so how could he still remember this. In the end, he was able to throw the leopard off.

"However …" Zhuge Yan knitted her brows for a moment as she recalled, "I remember that leopard jumping down from the tree to ambush me. At that time, it captured the cloth bag with my spare clothes; I just found the Spiritual Core Fruit, and if we can find that bag, we won't be far from where we found it."

"But which way are we going?" Lin Qingyu looked at Lu Que. Compared to the unreliable Zhuge Yan, he believed in Lu Que more.

Lu Que stepped on the ground and found that the soil was softer where the water bag fell. He quickly used the spear shaft to lightly brush away the fallen leaves on the ground and even though there was a beast tide that had shaken down quite a few leaves, the three of them could still see a few footprints in the moist soil that were not filled with fallen leaves.

Lu Que squatted down and picked up a piece of soil from the ground to sniff at it. His sense of smell had improved a lot since he had broken through the [Gold and Blood Meridians]. Although it had been a few days, he could still smell a scent that did not belong to the earth.

Under Lin Qingyu and Zhuge Yan's anticipating gazes, Lu Que walked a few steps northwest and repeated the same action. But this time, he shook his head, thought for a long time, then finally said, "It's been too long, the forest is full of animals, the smell is very chaotic, Zhuge was running for his life at that time, his pace would be very fast, so let's first walk in the northwest direction for two hours, if not, then come back here."

"Alright then." Zhuge Yan returned the water bag to his waist and nodded his head. He could no longer remember the way back. This was the only solution he could come up with.

The three of them walked northwest for another hour. Along the way, Zhuge Yan, who had been constantly reminiscing about the scene from a few days ago, suddenly shouted, "It's this direction. Look at those tree branches, I used my sword to cut them off." He remembered that when he was chased by the leopard, he was blocked by the branches. In a moment of desperation, he took out his sword and cut off the branches that were blocking the path, causing the leopard that was in hot pursuit to jump in fright.

Lu Que and Lin Qingyu raised their heads to look. Sure enough, there were a few branches on the right hand side that had been cut evenly. Knowing that they were heading in the right direction, the three of them immediately became spirited. At this moment, Zhuge Yan also remembered something, because he had picked up the Spirit Core Fruit not long after he had entered.

When Lu Que and Lin Qingyu saw Zhuge Yan stop to observe, they guessed that he must have thought of something and did not disturb him.

"Over there." After staring at it for a long time, Zhuge Yan's eyes lit up as he pointed to the nest on the tree. "The direction of the tree, just go over that hill."

"Let's go." Lu Que and Lin Qingyu were overjoyed to hear this. They had already wandered around the forest for three to four hours. If they still could not find it, they would not be able to make it back to the camp before nightfall.

After the three of them climbed over the hill mentioned by Zhuge Yan, they spent another hour traveling through the forest for half a day. They only drank a few mouthfuls of water at noon. At this moment, the three of them felt tired and their breathing became heavier.

When the three of them climbed over the hill, they were pleasantly surprised to discover that several miles away from them, in a valley, there was a tree with lush green leaves and white bark. There were no other trees within a few hundred meters of the tree, and on the white tree, there was a blood-red vine wrapped around it. Even though the three of them were still quite a distance away from the cove, the White Tree Red Vine, even though it was a few miles away, was still very eye-catching.

"The Spirit Core Tree."

"Blood Drop Vine."

Although the three of them knew about these two profound rank heavenly treasures, they did not read about them in books, but they heard about them from their teachers. This was the first time they had seen any physical objects, especially in this dense forest, where the Spirit Heart Tree and Blood Drop Vine were actually completely barren, which made the three even more amazed.

The trio thought that where these two types of heavenly materials existed, the spiritual energy in the surrounding sky and the moisture in the soil would be absorbed by the higher ranked plants. Naturally, there were no other living conditions.

"What's that?" Just when Lu Que and Lin Qingyu were discussing how to use these two heavenly resources to purchase medicine, Zhuge Yan, who had no interest in the way of medicine, suddenly focused his eyes. He saw four silver-white leopards on a white rock not far from the Spirit Heart Tree and the Blood Drop Vine.

"Is that … a Silver-Spirit Leopard?" Lin Qingyu could not help but laugh. If he was not mistaken, three of the four Silver-Spirit Panthers were chasing after him and Duanmu Ye during the beast tide.

"That's right, it's a Silver-Spirit Panther." If they were to fight face to face, these four low-rank yellow-rank Silver Spirit Leopards would not be a threat to him. However, this was still a yellow-rank spirit beast after all. The fact that they were able to decisively leave during the beast tide and preserve their lives showed just how intelligent these Silver Spirit Leopards were. If the four leopards ambushed them, it would be troublesome. The dense mountain forest was unlike the vast valley, which was the natural habitat of the leopards. In a place like this, even Lu Que could only protect himself with his current cultivation.

"What should we do?" Both Zhuge Yan and Lin Qingyu looked towards Lu Que. Among the three of them, Lu Que had the highest cultivation and the most experience in the forest. Naturally, it was up to him to make the decision.

"One step, one step." "Brother Yun and the rest are still waiting for our ingredients. Even if there are four Silver-Spirit Panthers guarding this place, we still need to get the Blood Drop Fruit. Even if there are no Blood Drop Fruits on the vines, it's still fine to get a Blood Drop Vine."

"That's the only way." Zhuge Yan and Lin Qingyu nodded.

Lu Que thought about it and said, "There must be some strange beasts guarding the treasure. I guess these four Silver-Spirit Panthers are here to protect the Spirit Core Tree and the Blood Drop Vine. I hope they can be as friendly as the White Wolf King.

Since they had made their decision, the three of them gripped their weapons tightly and walked in the direction of the Spirit Core Tree and the Blood Drop Vine. But what surprised them was that they were only five hundred meters away from the White Tree Red Vine, and the four leopards did not even look in their direction.

At this moment, whether it was Lu Que, Zhuge Yan, or Lin Qingyu, they all had a puzzled look on their faces. This was because the four leopards were still lazily crawling on the white rock. The three of them could clearly see that under one of the leopards was a hunting outfit similar to the one that Zhuge Yan had dropped earlier. The three of them could even see one of the leopards flip over, taking a posture of turning its legs upside down, facing its silver belly towards the sun, closing its eyes and dozing off.

"What's going on?" The three looked at each other in dismay. They didn't understand what was going on. Even though Lu Que had killed the Savage Worldbear in front of their eyes and scared them away, they were still wary of him. However, this was their home ground, and beside it was the heavenly resource that they were protecting. They had no reason to let the three of them get so close, not even giving a warning.

However, the lazier the four leopards appeared, the more nervous they became. Their palms, which held their weapons, were covered in sweat. While the three of them were taking precautions and walking forward slowly, they suddenly felt as if they had encountered water resistance when they took a step forward. When the resistance disappeared, the scenery around them instantly changed and what appeared before their eyes was no longer the valley.

"Hm?" Yun Shu, Le Ye, and Mei Zhang, who had been busy searching for traces of the Great Illusory Heart Array, were shocked to find that the auras of Lu Que, Zhuge Yan, and Lin Qingyu had disappeared within the cove at the same time.

This was especially true for Yunshu. The reason why the three of them went into the mountains to gather herbs was to heal Yunxian and the others' injuries. Yunshu purposely sent a sliver of her divine sense to the three of them.

"Yun-jie, what's going on? Could it be the Great Illusory Heart Array?" The two discovered that something was amiss. It took less than a breath of time for the two to arrive in the air above the cove. They turned to look at Yun Shu, who had arrived earlier than the two of them.

At this moment, Yun Shu's expression was unsettled as he looked at the valley. After a while, he opened his mouth and said, "It should be the Great Illusion Formation. I didn't expect it to be here. This is going to be troublesome." That was because she had picked a few Blood Drop Fruits yesterday, but at that time there was nothing out of the ordinary about this place. She did not expect the Illusory Heart Array, which they had been searching for for for for a long time, to appear here less than a day ago.

"This Great Illusory Heart Array is actually this mystical? I don't feel any difference at all. " Plum Blossom House was also surprised as they looked at the valley. This was because he noticed that even though he investigated his opponent's cultivation base, he didn't notice anything strange about the valley. Regardless of whether it was his eyes or his spiritual sense, there was a col with a Spirit Core Tree and a Blood Drop Vine. Beside the col were four Silver-Spirit Panthers. There was nothing out of the ordinary about them, and he couldn't feel the aura of the formation at all.

"This is the right place." Ye Yin once again took out the cyan zither, and with a gentle flick of her delicate hand, ten over meter long blades of air appeared in the air, shooting towards the cove like meteorites falling from the sky. But when the blades of air reached the cove, they disappeared in the blink of an eye, as if they never appeared.

He sucked in a breath of cold air. With his cultivation level, it would take a lot of effort for him to deal with the blades, but they still disappeared without a trace.

This time, she had already used seventy percent of her power, and even had a strand of spiritual sense attached to the sound wave. However, just like before, the sound wave disappeared once again in the air above the cove. She felt a sharp pain in her sea of consciousness. Even the spiritual sense that she had attached to it disappeared at the same time as the sound wave disappeared.

"It is indeed a little troublesome." "It's nothing, it's just a small matter." Ye Ci rubbed her sore temples, then turned to look at Yunshu. Sister Yun, is there any other way? " Amongst the three of them, the one who had the deepest understanding of the Great Illusory Heart Array was Yun Shu who had entered the Great Array more than a hundred years ago.

"The Illusory Heart Array cannot be broken with our cultivation." Yun Shu stared at the col and said, "According to the usual practice, the power of the Heart Illusion Formation increases with the cultivation of those who enter. With the three of them, there shouldn't be any problems entering, it's just that …"

"But what? Now that the formation is so calm, could something unexpected have happened? " Zhang Ye asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"It's just that this formation hasn't been activated for over a hundred years. I wonder just how powerful it is right now." This time, when His Majesty, the Grand Princess, and I were discussing how to restart the Great Illusory Heart Array, we had seen some information from the royal family's library. The reason why this Great Illusory Heart Array is difficult to restore right now is partly because of the lack of the formation map that the Grand Ancestor left behind, but partly because of the core of the Great Illusory Heart Array.

"Array core?" It was the first time that the two of them had heard about this, so they asked curiously.

The reason why this Heart Illusion Formation is called this is because the material of the formation is the skeleton of a sea serpent dragon, and at the heart of the formation is the heart of a sea serpent dragon." The reason why this is called the Heart Illusion Formation is that the material of the formation is the skeleton of a sea serpent dragon, and at the heart of the formation is the heart of a sea serpent dragon.

So that's how it is." "It was at this point that the master of the music and the master of the plum tree realized the origins of the Great Array of Fantasy.

One had to know that even the weakest adult Sea Serpent Dragon was a heaven-step strange beast, and it was even one level higher than the beasts guarding this small world. As for the outstanding mirage dragons, they weren't inferior to the dragon kings of the three dragons. Moreover, since the sea serpent dragon could control illusions, it was sometimes more difficult to deal with than a powerful dragon king.

At this time, the three of them discovered that a portal had suddenly appeared in the mountain valley. As the portal appeared, the array formation's power was constantly increasing, and even the three of them felt a trace of sea serpent gas leak out from the array formation.

"Not good ~" The three all turned pale with fright.