The whispering forest was shrouded in light mist, and it was as quiet as a dead land. Only the occasional rustling of the trees by the wind could be heard.
The three people's consciousness spread out and they walked vigilantly in the forest.
Flying is not allowed in this secret realm. It is said that if you fly at low altitude, you will incur unknown dangers, and if you fly higher, you will simply be torn apart by the storm in the nine heavens. Even the powerful ones in the Cave Heaven Realm will not be exempted.
Therefore, the three of them could only walk on foot in the complex surface environment and could not go very fast.
Many places in the Whispering Forest are filled with blood-red exotic flowers, and some even bear fruits, which look valuable.
However, those flowers and fruits were not on the path of the three of them. They suppressed the thought of picking and hurried past.
This was very painful for Bai Yuan. He lay on Gu Chen's shoulder all the way and drooled while looking at the strange flowers and fruits, but he couldn't even touch a leaf.
"Woo——"
When they were about to leave the Whispering Forest, the surrounding fog suddenly thickened. There were strange shadows swaying in the fog, coming from all directions, as if they were going to surround Gu Chen and the others.
Under heavy ghost shadows, the three of them felt like they were facing a formidable enemy.
"Don't pay attention to those unknown existences, they won't really get close. Our ancestors said that such things just want to scare us and make us run around in panic."
"If we stray from the correct route because of this, we will be lost in the forest of gibbering forever."
Gu Ziyan reminded nervously, obviously she had done a lot of homework before entering the secret realm.
Just knowing that it is the same thing, seeing those ghosts seem so close at hand, with their teeth and claws showing, people still can't help but have the urge to run away.
Fortunately, the three of them were talented people and brave enough to bravely move forward surrounded by many ghosts. After a while, they finally walked out of the murmuring forest.
Ahead was a flat and open grassland, and the ghost figures in the mist behind them receded one after another and no longer followed them, making the three of them heave a sigh of relief.
It’s just a forest at the starting point, but it’s so evil!
"There is a huge rock to the east, and we are heading straight towards it."
Gu Shenming took out the map, pointed at a mountain-like stone in the distance and said.
At this time, the night has gradually passed, and it is dawn, and the east is white.
Gu Chen's purple pupils lit up out of habit, absorbing the purple energy coming from the east as the morning sun rose.
Strangely, the purple energy absorbed in this place is much stronger than usual.
"Where exactly is this place located? It's different from other secret realms."
Gu Chen murmured that whether it was Kunlun Continent or Fairy Continent, gravity and celestial phenomena would not give him such a sense of difference.
Similar to this place is the world of Nine Suns and Nine Moons in the Time Stone. The power of the celestial phenomena there is also abnormal, but there are obvious differences between the two.
The three of them started to move forward on the grassland facing the rising sun. It was getting brighter and Gu Chen's eyesight was so strong that he could easily see scenes hundreds of miles away.
He looked to the north and discovered a huge black skeleton of an alien beast. The skeleton was probably ten thousand feet long. It looked like a strange building sitting on the grassland.
I don’t know how long the skeleton has been there, and many places have weathered. There are nests built under the pelvis, and there are countless killer bees swarming inside, so densely packed that it makes people shudder.
The scenery to the north was frightening. Gu Chen looked to the south again. There were huge pits there. He didn't know how they were formed, making the grassland riddled with holes.
If he looked carefully, he could find many rusty and damaged weapons along the way, and there were also many knife marks and arrow holes left on the surface of the earth. It was unknown how many thousands of years had passed, but they still existed, which made people look at them for a long time.
, I felt inexplicably sad.
"This place is like an ancient battlefield."
Gu Chen murmured that he originally thought that the Gu Clan's ancestral land was just the Gu Clan's own ancestral land, but looking at the various situations in this secret realm, it was probably more than that.
"Squeak! Squeak!"
The white ape's distressed cry often sounds. The little guy has the uncanny ability to recognize treasures and seems to sense that there are some treasures everywhere in the grassland.
However, it can also sense some unknown dangers, and can only stare longingly in the distant direction, with its two arms hanging on Gu Chen's back, its body swaying, looking as if it is hopeless.
Several hours later, the three finally arrived at the boulder and discovered that it turned out to be a strange giant statue.
There is a human face carved on the stone, which looks lifelike and chilling. The eyes of this stone statue are bleeding all the time.
The blood was dark red and thick, dripping continuously on the ground. Over time, a dark red blood river was formed around the huge stone statue, and the evil energy was overwhelming.
"The stone actually bleeds. Could it be that it is alive? Now I no longer have any doubts about the pill growing legs and running away."
Gu Shenming saw this and smiled bitterly.
Along the way, there are many things in this secret realm that they cannot understand.
"With this stone statue as the center, if you go south for about two days, you will see the Hengduan Mountains. The location of the elixir we are looking for is in the Hengduan Mountains. After passing through the Hengduan Mountains, we will reach the ancestral land of our clan.
"
Gu Ziyan looked at the map and analyzed it. Because the stone statue was really weird and the blood river was even more uncomfortable, the three of them did not stop and continued to move forward.
Two days passed quickly. Along the way, the three of them witnessed many bizarre and incomprehensible phenomena, and they also forcibly resisted the greed that arose many times along the way.
They saw a lot of treasures, some of which were rare ores in the Fairy Continent, and some of which were medicinal herbs that had grown for tens of thousands of years or even longer.
But these things were not as important as the elixir and the chance of the ancestral land, so the three of them gave up the adventure after calming down.
"I've been walking for two days. Where is the Hengduan Mountains?"
The three of them walked for two days and were still in the endless flat area. Logically speaking, if there were mountains ahead, they would be able to see them by now, but the fact was that there was not a single ghost in front of them.
This made all three of them wonder if they had gone the wrong way. If so, there would be a big problem!
"Let's go ahead and take a look."
Gu Chen said solemnly, and the three of them sped up.
Not long after, there was a huge sound of water flowing from the front, and Gu Chen thought. "That's..."
His pupils shrank, his pace accelerated again, and he soon saw a scene he would never forget.
I saw that the grassland suddenly broke at the end, and there turned out to be a huge waterfall below!
They were just upstream of the waterfall, which seemed to cut off the sky and flow down three thousand feet.
Below the waterfall is a huge mountain range with lush vegetation, roaring tigers and apes, and even huge strange birds soaring in the sky!
"No wonder it's called the Hengduan Mountains! The terrain here is too weird!"
Gu Shenming clicked his tongue. Who would have thought that the mountain is not at the top but at the bottom. This Jiutian Waterfall is so spectacular.
"There! The gourd-shaped mountain below is our destination, where the elixir is located!"
Gu Ziyan's slender fingers pointed to a certain location below and said excitedly.
