When Tengshe received her telepathic message, he was standing on a human face. He tilted his head and thought for a moment before saying, "I'm currently on the central island of the Boundless Sea. Where are you? Do you need me to come pick you up?"

Central island?

Shu Jianyue hesitated for a moment and then said, "No need, just tell me the direction."

[Direction?] Tengshe looked around, but really couldn't tell where it was.

Looking down at his face, which was almost deformed from being stomped on, he asked, "In which direction is this central island in the Boundless Sea?"

The man wanted to speak, but his mouth was being stepped on, so he couldn't make a sound.

Seeing this, Tengshe moved its foot away. The man cupped his face in his hands and gently rubbed it. After glancing at Tengshe, he said, "When you can't tell which way is which, look at the sun and the moon."

The Teng Snake looked up and asked, "What sun?"

He hasn't seen the sun since he came out.

He slapped the man on the head and yelled, "Don't you have eyes? Where did you see the sun?"

The man rubbed the back of his head where he had been slapped, looked up, and realized he had forgotten that the sun hadn't come out for a long time.

"Then, when he gets to the Sea of ​​Nothingness, he'll head straight for the center. I don't know where he is, so how am I supposed to tell him where to go?"

"Bullshit, are you an idiot? No matter where he is, his direction won't change. It's just the four directions: east, west, south, and north." Tengshe said, about to hit him again.

The man immediately shrank his neck, picked up a twig and started drawing on the ground: "East, West, South, North, the Boundless Sea is located in the southern part of the Eight Desolations."

"The central island is located in the northwest. If they came from the central city of the Eight Desolations, then they need to go in the southwest direction."

Tengshe stared at it for a long time without understanding, then directly transmitted what he had said to Shu Jianyue and then ignored it.

Shu Jianyue waited for a long time before receiving his reply. She couldn't understand why it had taken so long for just a general direction.

After reaching the conclusion, I looked southwest, which was exactly to their left.

What comes into view is a towering peak that reaches into the clouds.

Seeing the subtle expression on her face, Chong Jiu couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

“The Tengshe said to go southwest, and look, that’s the southwest.” Shu Jianyue said, gesturing with her chin toward the mountain.

If she had known this would happen, she would have preferred to use her mental powers to find it herself.

Chong Jiu looked at the mountain, frowned, and said, "That mountain should be a barrier; it's fake."

"Huh?" Shu Jianyue looked over. With her cultivation level, she could easily see the small animals on the mountain from this distance.

Is this also fake?

Chong Jiu chuckled and said, "The formation cannot directly conjure such a large mountain; it merely projects the shadow of a mountain from elsewhere."

"I've been smelling a faint scent of seawater, so I suppose this place isn't more than two hundred miles from the Boundless Sea, maybe only a few dozen miles at most."

"Ordinary spirit beasts like squirrels need to cross this mountain and travel in another direction, which is why it feels like such a long distance."

Shu Jianyue was stunned. Wow, that's awesome!

This formation is like a projector!

She became even more interested in formations and was determined to have Chongjiu teach her properly when she got back.

"So if we go through here, will we be able to see the Sea of ​​Nothingness?"

Chong Jiu shook his head and said, "We cannot destroy this formation. This formation serves two purposes: first, it restrains the spirit beasts and humans on this side, and second, it restrains the spirit beasts in the Boundless Sea on the other side."

"As we all know, sea creatures are more ferocious than land creatures, and they are also stronger at the same level."

Shu Jianyue understood.

If the spirit beasts of the Boundless Sea were to come ashore, the spirit beasts and people in the vicinity would be in trouble.

"Can this mountain really stop the spirit beasts of the Boundless Sea?"

“Ordinary mountains can’t do it, but this mountain can.” Chong Jiu raised his hand and slapped the mountain, and the spiritual energy bounced back directly.

Chong Jiu helped Shu Jianyue avoid the rebounding spiritual energy, while the little squirrel hiding not far away was unlucky, its fur standing on end.

"Squeak...you guys..." Seeing Chong Jiu's gaze coming over, the little squirrel picked up a fallen green jujube and ran away in a flash.

Shu Jianyue looked at the mountain with great interest, but then thought better of it and decided to wait until she got back to see it. She wanted to find Chen Xin first.

"Then we'll just have to take a detour."

"By the way, why has the spiritual energy fluctuation disappeared again?"

Chongjiu glanced in the direction of the mountain and said, "They must have sensed our arrival."

"Let's go, let's go over there first." With that, he took Shu Jianyue's arm and flew towards the right side of the mountain.

As Shu Jianyue crossed the mountain, she took a closer look and couldn't help but marvel at how realistic it was, not at all like a fake.

"Chongjiu, do you think we can go up the mountain?"

Chong Jiu nodded, "Yes, what you see and feel is both real and illusory."

Shu Jianyue looked at the spiritual herb on the mountain and said, "That means all the spiritual herbs I picked on this mountain are unusable."

Chong Jiu shook his head and said, "If you leave this mountain, everything you've gathered will disappear with you."

"But the pills you refine on the mountain are usable."

That's why it's said that it's both true and false.

Chongjiu quickened his pace, carrying her across the barrier. "We're almost at the Boundless Sea."

However, the spiritual energy fluctuation had disappeared, so they didn't know the exact location.

Shu Jianyue used her spiritual power to look around and saw the central island that Tengshe had mentioned, but there was nothing unusual about it. The only unusual thing was that Tengshe was carrying someone and swinging them around there.

Shu Jianyue glanced at it once and then looked away, but didn't notice anything unusual.

He looked at Chong Jiu and asked, "Did you sense anything?"

Chong Jiu shook his head. "Let's go find Tengshe first. Since we're here, if we don't look for him, he'll come looking for us sooner or later."

Shu Jianyue nodded. "The central island is over there."

Just as Chong Jiu was about to head in the direction Shu Jianyue had indicated, that surge of spiritual energy returned.

The two exchanged a glance; this was truly interesting.

But it's also annoying, after all, who likes being watched like that all the time?

"Come on, let's go take a look." Chong Jiu put his arm around her and walked over there.

Shu Jianyue then realized where the spiritual energy fluctuation was coming from: a cave not far away on the opposite side.

Looking at the dark, deep cave, he pulled Zhongjiu aside, indicating that he was inside the cave.

Chong Jiu looked towards the cave and asked telepathically, "Can your spiritual power probe inside?"

Shu Jianyue tried it, nodded, and peeked inside.

When he saw those exposed high-grade spirit stones, his eyelids twitched.

Could this be a spirit stone mine?

I probed back further and found that my mental energy could no longer penetrate.

After Shu Jianyue told Chong Jiu what she had seen, she couldn't help but say, "How come no one noticed this spirit stone mine that was so obviously displayed outside?"

Leaving aside humans, spirit stones have the same effect on spirit beasts. This place is sparsely populated by humans, so how could there be no spirit beasts here?

Chong Jiu pulled her hand and led her towards the cave. "There must be a hidden formation. If he hadn't been looking for us, we might not have been able to find this cave."

However, he still couldn't sense Chen Xin's presence.