Since the cave is not large, the blue light mask almost fills the entire space.

The blue sky that turned out to be as big as a palm has disappeared, and everything has turned into a mask of light.

Zhou Yang stared at the mask for a moment, then withdrew his fingers, the blue sky returned to its original size.

There was no way to test the defensive ability here. He could only find an opportunity to try again later.

However, I have seen Xiao Daoyi use this treasure before, and it didn't react even if he hit it with a top-quality magic weapon. I believe it will be fine when he uses it.

After collecting the blue sky, Zhou Yang released his spiritual consciousness to investigate. It was almost sunset, so he simply continued to practice.

Late at night, bursts of wailing sounds suddenly came out. The sounds were sad and shrill, and hearing them made people involuntarily sad.

However, the wailing sound had only one tone, and it was high above the head.

Zhou Yang was startled and stood up suddenly, thinking to himself that someone might have come here?

Listening to this voice, it doesn't sound like it's a disciple of the three sects of Dingbei, nor is it from Baizong Mountain. Could it be that it is an aborigine in the secret realm?

The wailing sound lasted for half a stick of incense and then gradually faded away.

Zhou Yang didn't dare to make a mistake, and listened quietly for a while. After he was sure that there was no sound, he dared to use his consciousness to check again.

Due to the suppressive effect of the secret realm, his spiritual consciousness can only travel a few tens of feet, which is less than 10% of the outer range.

"This place is really strange!" After his exploration failed, Zhou Yang shook his head and meditated again to recover.

Early on the next morning, Zhou Yang woke up, came out of the cave, put away the formation flags, and then looked around.

This place has long been far away from the confrontation with the giant python, and it is not the place where we first went up the mountain. It should be on the other side of the hillside.

Convinced that there were no high-level monsters nearby, he returned to the previous mountain peak and continued climbing up.

Perhaps it was because of his bad luck that he didn't encounter high-level monsters all the way to the top of the mountain and successfully reached the top.

However, this is only the first step into the secret realm. There should be many unknown dangers behind.

Standing on the top of the mountain, Zhou Yang looked far into the distance. Everywhere he could see were endless mountains, and even further away there was a dense forest with no end in sight.

There are still white lights flickering vaguely, which are rivers and waterfalls in the mountains.

It's a cloudy day today, so it's not too far as far as the eye can see.

Zhou Yang looked up and saw patches of dark clouds moving with the wind, as if there was going to be heavy rain in the mountains.

We didn't encounter any trouble when we were going down the mountain. Only the blind Level 4 blocked the way, and Zhou Yang, who was holding his breath, blasted him to pieces.

There is a small river at the foot of the mountain, more than ten feet wide, flowing from west to east.

The water in the river was crystal clear and not very deep. The water plants on the bottom of the river flowed and the water flowed all the way to the east, but there was not a single small fish in sight.

Across the river is a vast forest. The forest is full of tall and sturdy trees, most of which are over a hundred feet high. The smallest ones are five or six feet in diameter, and the larger ones are dozens of feet tall.

Zhou Yang was a little stunned. He had never seen such a thick tree in the outside world, and after the strong wind blew, only the leaves swayed, and even the branches did not move much.

He came to the small river, looked at the clear water, and for a moment he became more playful, and then he randomly surged out a stream of spiritual power and rolled it towards the water plants at the bottom of the river.

In his opinion, the river, whose bottom he could see at a glance, was not very deep.

However, he thought wrongly. The spiritual power penetrated two feet into the water, but the water plants did not move at all. Judging from the fluctuations of the spiritual power, it was still far away from the water plants.

"Oh, so deep!" Zhou Yang was a little surprised, and once again rolled his spiritual power deeper into the water.

Three feet, five feet, seven feet, ten feet, ten feet is the limit here.

But unfortunately, he still hasn't come into contact with those water plants.

"This, this is a phantom!" Zhou Yang suddenly understood.

Those water plants that are within reach should not exist, or in other words, they do not exist here, but are the phantoms of water plants in other places.

In order to test his conjecture, Zhou Yang picked up a pebble from the river and threw it into the water.

The pebbles sank to the bottom of the river with a splash, right where the few water plants were swaying.

A wave of ripples spread around, but the water plants disappeared, leaving only the small pebble lying quietly at the bottom of the river.

Zhou Yang picked up a few more stones and threw them into the river. The result was the same: they all fell into the water and disappeared, and some fish swimming in the water were also found.

"This is actually a formation?" Zhou Yang was secretly surprised.

The water and grass in the river are everywhere. Could it be that they are all phantoms? If that is the case, this is a very large phantom formation, and the person who set up the phantom formation is definitely very accomplished in the formation.

He had memorized the First Interpretation of Qimen in his heart. The First Interpretation of Qimen also had many introductions to the illusion array, and there were also several simple ways to arrange the illusion array, but they were all entry-level. They were different from the illusion array in the river.

It's incomparable, but anyone with a higher level of cultivation can see through it.

Zhou Yang stared at the water, recalling the introduction of the phantom formation in Qimen's first solution, and quickly fell into deep thought.

After a long time, he took out a formation diagram from his storage bag and studied it carefully.

This formation diagram is a simple phantom formation. He had only drawn it briefly before and did not think about it in depth. Now inspired by the phantom in the river, he couldn't help but have some inspiration, so he took out the materials and started playing with it.

This activity lasted for several hours. Zhou Yang was immersed in it, completely unaware that it was getting dark, the sky was filled with dark clouds, and a gentle breeze was blowing up.

It wasn't until a muffled thunder exploded that Zhou Yang, who was immersed in the illusion array, woke up.

As soon as his mind was distracted, the small phantom array he had just set up disintegrated.

Zhou Yang looked up at the sky and felt the moisture in the air.

After a while, he felt a slight chill on his forehead and couldn't help but blink his eyes.

The next moment, raindrops continued to fall on his head, and he suddenly stood up, followed by heavy raindrops hitting his body one after another.

He hurriedly put away the materials for the formation, jumped across the river, and ran directly into the forest.

Zhou Yang sat cross-legged under a big tree. The thick branches and leaves blocked the rain in the air, and there was still dry soil under the tree.

He was not affected by the rain and continued to set up the formation under the tree.

Occasionally when he encountered a problem, he would close his eyes and think about the textual explanations in Qimen's First Interpretation, and then verify them one by one with the formations he had set up.

It wasn't until more than an hour later that Zhou Yang's eyes lit up with joy, it was finally done!

The open space under the tree originally had many pebbles and some lush green grass, but now it was empty, with only a small patch of light mist.

After a while, Zhou Yang shook his head again and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Because when his spiritual consciousness penetrated into the small illusion array, he rediscovered everything before it.

And when his consciousness was withdrawn again, what appeared in front of him was still a small piece of mist.

The formation was successful, but it could not block the spiritual consciousness of the cultivators at the peak of the Lingtai.

Depending on the situation, it is estimated that it can limit the spiritual consciousness of cultivators in the middle stage of Lingtai at most, and can be seen through at higher levels.

But this is already very good for Zhou Yang. He has not been exposed to formations for a long time, and it is already a big improvement to be able to deploy protective formations and small magic formations.

The heavy rain continued for two hours, and the area under the tree that was not wet became less and less. At the end, there was only a small area left, and a few drops of rain fell from time to time above the head.

Zhou Yang sat cross-legged, pondering over and over again the contents of Qi Men's First Interpretation. When he thought of the wonderful points, he casually drew shapes on the ground.

As time went by, the rain gradually became lighter, but the branches and leaves of the big trees also reached the limit of their ability to withstand it. Instead, it rained more than before, making Zhou Yang wet all over.

Waves of coolness interrupted Zhou Yang's thoughts again, and he had to find a bigger tree for shelter.

Suddenly, a shrill wail came from the forest, abruptly breaking the silence of the forest.

Zhou Yang was startled, Red God was in hand instantly, and he was on full alert.

The wailing sound went from far to near, which made people's hair stand on end. It became more and more harsh, affecting Zhou Yang's consciousness, greatly weakening his detection range.

"Ah, uh uh uh..." After a while, the syllables of the voice were clearly heard. They were neither male nor female, and they were filled with sorrow and sadness. It seemed that they were being wronged greatly. Zhou Yang felt chills running down his spine.

"Ah..." Suddenly, another person's miserable howl came from the distance, and the sound seemed to be running towards him.

In the quiet and dark forest, first there was the wailing sound from yesterday night, and then there was the scream of human beings. Both of these sounds were very frightening. If you were timid, you would have been frightened out of your mind.

Zhou Yang was also frightened. With the howls and screams, could something terrible happen in the forest?

The hand holding his sword was stained with sweat.

After dozens of breaths, a figure gradually appeared in his sight. The figure was completely red, and red liquid fell on the ground from time to time. He stumbled all the way, screaming from time to time.

"Help..." As we got closer, the figure actually made a weak voice. It was actually a person!

The man also saw Zhou Yang, but he was exhausted and fell to the ground. At the same time, he uttered two words intermittently.

At this time, Zhou Yang finally saw the person coming clearly. It was not accurate to say that he was a person, because the person had no skin at all, and was covered in blood from head to toe. His facial features could not be seen clearly, or in other words, there were no facial features at all. It was very scary.

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"This!" Zhou Yang couldn't help but be horrified after taking a closer look. It was indeed a person, but a person whose skin had been skinned!

It is too terrifying to completely peel off a person's skin and keep him alive!

Zhou Yang raised his sword and looked around, trying his best to explore the distance with his spiritual consciousness, but no other figures were found, and the wailing sound gradually faded away.

He leaned down and stared at the bloody man who fell to the ground for a while. The man's whole body was blood red, his two eyeballs were long gone, and his scalp had been peeled off.

He calmed down and tried to ask: "You, who are you?"

The bloody man's mouth was moving and his voice was very weak. It seemed that he had lost too much blood and was dying.

After a moment of hesitation, Zhou Yang took out the Blood Transforming Pill and the Qi-Building Pill, and said to the man: "Open your mouth!"
Chapter completed!