The biological clock developed through a long-term regular life can accurately wake up Gao Yuan from his trance.
After a night of meditation practice, the fatigue caused by yesterday's rush has been wiped away. At this time, he only feels refreshed.
He ate some barbecued meat with the water he brought with him, and after he was full, he left the temporary underground residence.
In order to avoid unnecessary complications, he did not pass directly through Jinyan City, but took a slight detour.
After flying all the way down, by the time he arrived at the outskirts of Sunset Canyon, it was already two hours later.
By this time it was already bright.
In addition, it is a sunny day again today. Under the bright sunshine, the visibility is very good.
Standing high in the sky, he could clearly see the majestic and huge canyon with strange rocks at the end of his field of vision from hundreds of miles away.
As the gateway to the Northern Territory adjacent to the Rimu Desert to the west, the scenery of the Sunset Canyon is completely different from that of other areas in the Northern Territory such as the Qifeng Mountains.
Although there are many strange peaks in its territory, it is completely deserted.
Except for the scattered distribution of plants that are all yellow and covered with thorns, there is almost no green at all.
Everywhere you look, you can see Huang Dandan's exposed rock formations with no end in sight.
"Why does this so-called 'Deacon of Feilong City' have to stay in a place where birds don't poop?"
While flying slowly, Gao Yuan quietly looked at the 'Sunset Canyon' in the distance, and suddenly muttered to himself in wonder.
At the same time, he was also thinking about how to find the target of this mission.
The map information around Cordy Rock City suddenly appeared in his mind, including the 'Sunset Canyon' in front of him.
This is a strip canyon that spans from east to west and is distributed in a serpentine shape.
Its entire territory stretches for hundreds of miles, with hundreds of giant peaks up to a thousand meters high, and countless small hills scattered among them!
"With such a large area, trying to find a 'Feilong City Deacon' who doesn't know where the cat is is like looking for a needle in a haystack!"
"And I have only fourteen days left to complete my mission!"
After pondering for a long time but still having no clue, he couldn't help but mutter to himself in pain.
"There is no other way. We can only try to use the second-level breath-seeing technique together with spiritual detection to try our luck in finding it bit by bit!"
"If you really can't find it, then consider making some noise and see if you can alert the opponent and blow him up!"
As soon as he thought of this, he no longer delayed, activated the Wind Curse and quickly flew towards the Sunset Canyon.
…
Eleven days flew by.
At noon.
Standing hundreds of meters above the ground, Gao Yuan quickly carefully explored the space within a few miles with the help of the dual detection of Qi-gazing and the power of spiritual thoughts.
After confirming that nothing was missing, he lowered the height with some relief and found a sheltered place to stop in a relatively flat area.
Sitting on a huge weathered stratified rock, Gao Yuan casually took off the Exile mask on his head.
At this time, his appearance has been greatly changed with the help of the disguise technique, so there is no need to worry about being recognized by others.
I saw him gnawing the dried meat with some water, and muttering vaguely with some pain in his balls:
"The Exiles Alliance jointly sent people to chase him three times. Could this guy just run away with the bucket?"
No wonder he had such thoughts. After more than ten days of continuous searching, he had basically visited the entire "Sunset Canyon", but he didn't find even a single unusual clue.
And this 'Sunset Canyon' is really like a biological forbidden zone. Not to mention the so-called 'Flying Dragon City Deacon', not even a decent monster beast was encountered.
For the past few days, what he saw around him was the dry yellow mottled rocks covered with weathering marks.
Even if the second-level Qi-gazing technique is turned on, it is rare to see a slightly more unique color.
This lifeless and unchangeable yellowish color almost made him vomit.
Coupled with the foggy halo produced by the reflection of sunlight from these rocks, he had an extreme feeling similar to 'snow blindness'!
"If that doesn't work, we can only make some noise and see if we can draw the other party out!"
Whispering to himself, he reached into his storage bag and took out a copper gourd filled with water.
While he was drinking water, his eyes were wandering towards a mountain peak not far away.
When his eyes flashed across a clearly undulating fracture line on the side of the mountain, his eyes suddenly froze.
"Um?"
His heart moved, and his eyes narrowed subconsciously.
"Although mountain cracks of this size are very common in canyons, the traces in front of you look very fresh!"
"Although the width of the crack is not small, there are no honeycomb-shaped weathering marks around it. It looks like it just broke not long ago!"
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but stand up and look at it carefully for a while, but he became more and more certain of his conclusion.
This huge mountain fissure was indeed created not long ago!
"A crack of this size will not form easily unless there is an earthquake."
"The current landform of the entire Sunset Canyon has obviously not changed for a long time. This can also rule out the possibility of an earthquake occurring recently."
"Besides, are there any human factors involved?"
"Well, it's not impossible if we use physical attack 'talisman' to bombard us!"
As his thoughts turned around, Gao Yuan suddenly couldn't sit still.
He turned over his hands and put away all the things in his hands. After putting on the Exile mask, he quickly activated the breathing technique.
Then he activated the second level Qi Watching Technique and at the same time explored the power of his spiritual thoughts.
While carefully monitoring every detail ahead, he activated the Wind Curse and slid against the ground towards the mountaintop opposite.
It didn't take long for him to arrive at the foot of this mountain with a height of more than 100 meters.
As the distance continued to get closer, various details that he had not noticed during his previous exploration gradually became richer.
And he became more and more convinced of his previous guess. Not long ago, there was a fierce battle near this mountain. Various broken stones and broken rock walls could be seen everywhere.
As he moved forward, he even discovered a shallow pit with a diameter of several meters. The inside of the pit was full of scorched black marks. At first glance, it seemed that he had been hit by the explosive impact of some kind of fire-attribute spell.
Gao Yuan was more cautious at this time. While the second-level Qi Watching Technique was being activated with all his strength, the power of his spiritual thoughts was also condensed into threads, which were constantly sweeping through the surrounding space, trying not to let go of any suspicious details.
At this moment, his movement suddenly stopped.
With the help of the thread of spiritual thought he found, he suddenly felt an illusory but tough blocking force from the edge of a nearly vertical mountain wall not far from the front left!
"This is?"
Gao Yuan was suddenly shocked, because in his second-level Qi-gazing vision, everything on the mountain wall was normal, and no abnormal energy color patches were revealed.
But ordinary mountain walls can never block his spiritual exploration. Since the thread of his spiritual thoughts is blocked here, it can only mean that there is something wrong with this mountain wall!
As his thoughts turned, Gao Yuan immediately differentiated more threads of spiritual thoughts and sensed them one by one along the mountain wall.
It didn't take long for his investigation to yield results. Not all of the mountain walls were abnormal.
Near the ground on its lower left side, there is a square area with a side length of about one foot.
Only when the thread of spiritual thought comes into contact with this area will it be unable to pass through the surface of the stone wall under the influence of the invisible blocking force.
Apart from this, everything is normal in other areas, and the thread of spiritual thought can pass through normally.
As soon as he thought of this, Gao Yuan immediately separated out a few strands of spiritual thoughts and followed the edge of this square area to explore into the mountain wall.
But inside the mountain wall, the magical barrier still existed, and it continued to extend toward the inside of the mountain, faintly forming a square underground passage diagonally downwards!
"I see!"
"I said no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find it. It turned out that he was hiding in a turtle shell like this that can isolate him from visitors!"
Slowly withdrawing the power of his spiritual thoughts, Gao Yuan couldn't help but mutter in his heart.
…
There is a deep underground cave somewhere somewhere an unknown number of meters deep under the Sunset Canyon.
The scale of this cave is not small. Not to mention the boundaries hidden in the endless darkness, the dome supported by countless stalactite pillars has a drop of more than twelve meters from the ground.
In a relatively open area in the center of the cave, dozens of spherical crystals the size of bowling balls are suspended in the air, projecting countless blazing white lights, making the space around them brightly lit.
Under the light, a square house covering an area of several hundred square meters is very eye-catching.
Although its scale is small, every detail of the decoration is extremely exquisite, showing a unique kind of luxury.
Tens of meters away from the front door of the house is a small altar less than ten meters in diameter.
Whether it is the tall stone pillars erected on the periphery or the gray stone that forms the main body of the altar, their surfaces are all engraved with densely packed mysterious inscriptions.
I saw streaks of misty yellow light flowing on the surface of these inscriptions, constantly converging towards the center of the altar, where a circular altar with faint divine light was arranged.
And in the center of the altar, there is a miraculous plant that is about two feet tall and is in bud.
The yellow halos that gathered from below the altar were swarming at the roots of the plant, and were constantly being transformed and absorbed by it.
At the same time, streaks of intense yellow light began to circulate on the surface of the plant.
"Boom!"
Accompanied by a dull sound of machine operation, the stone door of the house not far away rumbled open.
A moment later, an extremely tall, bald man came out from behind the stone gate and came to the entrance of the courtyard.
I saw him walking out, and soon he was in front of the altar.
He glanced at the plant in the center of the altar, and a look of satisfaction suddenly appeared on his rough cheeks.
"This 'Sunset Canyon' is truly the dojo of that person back then. The energy of the earth attribute is really abundant. In just over a year, it was able to ripen the 'Blue Dragon Fruit' to such an extent."
"Based on this progress, it will take another half a month at most before it can fully bloom, and it will produce mature 'Canglong Fruit' within this year!"
Looking at the slightly split flower buds on the top of the plant, the bald man Xi couldn't help but murmured a few words to himself.
At this moment, a somewhat illusory buzzing sound came from his waist.
After hearing this, the latter's expression changed slightly. He touched his left hand on his waist, and a round bronze mirror the size of a palm appeared in his hand.
I saw the bald man reciting a few words in a low voice, suddenly reaching out his right hand, holding the magic formula and pointing it towards the bronze mirror.
The surface of the latter suddenly fluctuated rapidly like water, and after a moment, a lifelike image appeared on the surface of the bronze mirror.
In the center of the picture is a short, fat figure wearing a cloak and a mask. He is standing in front of a stone wall with his head peeping out, as if he is studying something.
"Hmph! These bugs from the Exile Alliance are truly endless and endless to kill!"
His eyes lingered on the mask in the center of the picture for a moment, and the bald man cursed in a cold tone.
Then, as if he remembered something, a cruel smile suddenly appeared on his face and he said:
"But that's fine. We will be cultivating other spiritual fruits later on. It's not a bad thing to have a stable source of fertilizer!"
After muttering to himself in a low voice, the bald man stopped staying and turned around quickly back to the courtyard not far away.
Not long after, a flash of yellow-orange light and shadow emerged from the stone gate of the courtyard.
I saw this orange light hovering in the air for a while, then suddenly rising into the sky, and soon it reached the top of the cave, and finally entered without any obstruction.
…
Sunset Canyon.
Gao Yuan stood silently in front of the stone wall covered by an invisible barrier, wondering whether to escape underground along the barrier passage and launch a surprise attack, or to bombard the stone wall here to lure out the 'Feilong City Deacon'.
Take action.
"Speaking of which, with this layer of barrier, no matter whether it is the power of qi gazing or spiritual thoughts, it can penetrate in and detect the situation inside."
"If we go down rashly, we may not be able to do a sneak attack. If there are any strange restrictions down here, it will be detrimental to the battle!"
After some detection, although he has not yet figured out the origin of this barrier that isolates detection, he is basically certain that this should be a restriction formed by a set of formations.
Before he understood the specific situation, he was still a little confused.
After all, less than a month had passed since the Laiyuan Town incident, and the powerful 'no air' restriction that enveloped the entire city at that time was still fresh in his memory.
In addition, there is a more important point. Not long after he discovered the abnormality of this stone wall, he felt an indescribable strange feeling.
Practical experience time and time again made him very confident in his spiritual sense.
When he felt something was slightly wrong, he became more cautious.
After much thought, it would be safer to smash the door on the ground!
First of all, since the opponent did not choose to retreat even after killing three exiles, he obviously has full confidence in his own strength. There is no reason for him to be scared away by his door-smashing action before there is a fight, right?
In addition, even if the opponent's strength is really stronger than expected, fighting on the open ground will not only make it easier for you to launch attacks, but also you can escape in time when you are at a disadvantage!
As his mind turned, Gao Yuan quickly made a decision.
However, just when he was about to condense an explosive spell to bombard the stone wall, the sense of crisis that had been lingering in his heart from the beginning to now suddenly became stronger.
"not good!"
He shouted in his heart. Although he had not noticed the specific source of the crisis, it did not affect his reaction at all.
Almost instinctively, he pushed his feet hard on the ground, and his body instantly rose into the sky under the dual effects of the anti-shock force and the wind curse.
The moment his body just jumped up, through the corner of his eye, he noticed that the surface of the abnormal stone wall fluctuated rapidly.
At the same time, a huge figure shot out from the stone wall like a cannonball.
Accompanied by a loud buzzing sound, a streak of orange light and shadow like a horse was seen, striking down towards the position where Gao Yuan was standing just now.
"boom!"
"Wow~ la la!"
Amidst the huge explosion, countless rubbles mixed with dust scattered all over the sky.
At the same time, Gao Yuan also saw clearly the figure rushing out of the stone wall.
Bald head, male, two meters tall, aged between thirty and forty years old, with strong muscles...
Everything is exactly the same as the image of the ‘Flying Dragon City Deacon’ who was the mission target of his trip!