In the endless forest.

Li Mu wanted to obtain the magical treasure, the Flat Gourd.

He stood before the sea of ​​demonic flowers, waiting for the poisonous miasma within to dissipate.

He had already conducted multiple simulations of the isolation formation within his mind.

Setting up this isolation formation is not difficult. Just find the right location, place the formation flags, and activate it with spirit stones.

The key point is that the Demon Spirit Flower possesses sentience, and the spirit stone will be devoured extremely quickly after it lands on the ground.

If you put spirit stones in one place at a time, you won't be able to activate the formation at all.

Then, he stepped onto his flying sword and ascended into the air to determine the location for setting up the formation.

After determining the location in the air, they quickly took out dozens of array flags and hundreds of spirit stones to set up the array.

He needed to arrange the array flags and spirit stones in the air according to their positions, then deploy them all at once and activate them quickly.

According to his calculations, it would take at least three to five breaths to pick the gourd.

Li Mu used his spiritual energy to control dozens of array flags to float in the air, and scattered hundreds of spirit stones around the array flags.

Then, he pinched his fingers together and pressed both hands down.

"Activate the formation!"

Following his gesture, all the array flags instantly disappeared into the sea of ​​demonic flowers according to their positions.

As the array flags were deployed and fell, the spirit stones were activated, and mist rose throughout the array, completing the isolation formation.

Li Mu scattered hundreds more spirit stones out of the air towards the outside of the formation to distract the demonic flower from consuming them.

In a flash, Li Mu landed in the isolation formation from the air and rushed towards the flat cattail vines.

Before he even got close to Bianpu, he took out the Golden Pearl World and conjured up an entrance.

"call out!"

The flying sword instantly severed the flat vine in half.

Li Mu stepped forward and casually tossed the flat cattail vine and the four gourds growing on it into the Golden Pearl World.

Before he could make his next move, all the vines sprouting from the Demon Spirit Flower converged and extended towards Flat Cattail.

"boom!"

"call out!"

As he launched the fireball, his flying sword returned to defend and severed the vines that were binding him.

In an instant, Li Mu soared dozens of meters into the air, with a plume of smoke rising and chasing after him beneath his feet.

The poisonous miasma spread into the air, rising higher and higher in the direction Li Muteng was heading.

As he continued to rise, he saw the spread of the poisonous miasma slow down and swooped down directly towards the stunned Moon Spirit.

When Yue Ling got close, he grabbed her and ran away.

It wasn't until he had run several hundred meters that Li Mu turned around to look behind him.

In his consciousness, the flat vines and gourds in the Demon Spirit Flower Sea had vanished without a trace.

The remaining four gourds and vines were probably devoured by the Demon Spirit Flower.

He thought his calculations were very accurate, but he hadn't expected the Demon Spirit Flower to react so quickly.

He was given less than three breaths to react.

He had to give himself a pat on the back for changing his mind at the last minute.

If I wait any longer, not only will I not get the gourd, but I might also suffer a loss.

He originally intended to pick the flat gourd, but then he realized that even if he risked picking just one, the others would probably be swallowed up.

So, he changed his mind and cut the cattail vine in half, then collected it with gold beads.

Now he not only got the gourd, but he got four of them at once.

Three red ones and one purple one, they really hit the jackpot.

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After obtaining the Flat Gourd, Li Mu and Yue Ling fled without looking back, heading east.

Two days later, the two left the Endless Forest.

The snow spirit fox in Yue Ling's arms was unconscious for two days before it woke up, and it had lost its previous liveliness and become dazed and cute.

A few hours later, the two arrived at Dongyue City.

This is the territory of the Ziyang Pavilion, one of the four major sects.

Li Mu came here to investigate the barrier, hoping to find a way out of it.

Having spent nearly a month in the Endless Forest, the two stayed overnight at an inn after entering Dongyue City.

The next day.

After checking out of the hotel, Li Mu and his companion stopped two police officers on the street.

"Greetings, fellow Daoists. I am Li Mu. I have heard that there is a barrier in the east, so I have come to investigate. I wonder if you could tell me the location?"

The two police officers were stopped and looked very unhappy.

Hearing that it was an outsider asking about the barrier, he casually pointed in a direction and turned to leave.

Li Mu wasn't angry about their rudeness; he just felt that their way of giving directions seemed too casual.

As he was about to ask someone for directions, his divine sense inadvertently drifted toward the direction the two men had pointed.

There were quite a few people walking forward in that direction, and they were all martial artists.

Could the barrier really be located in that direction?

Puzzled, Li Mu followed the crowd with Yue Ling. After asking around again, they confirmed that the barrier was indeed in this location.

After determining their location, he led Yue Ling onto the flying sword.

Two hours later, several hundred martial artists appeared in his divine sense.

These martial artists gathered sparsely at the edge of a misty area, waiting for something.

After landing his flying sword, Li Mu joined the gathered crowd.

After they stopped, they heard one of the bearded men say loudly:

"Brother Luya, I heard that someone found some ore here yesterday, is that true?"

Someone answered:

"What do you mean by real or fake? I saw what that person found; it was just a piece of Gengjin iron about the size of a finger."

"What's so special about Geng metal? A few days ago, someone even saw a dog-head gold inside."

Hearing these people's comments, Li Mu was puzzled.

He wondered if these people were waiting for the fog to clear so they could go in and collect the treasure.

Thinking of this, he immediately released his divine sense and scanned into the mist.

Strangely, his divine sense could only see a few meters into the fog; beyond that, it turned into white smog.

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To test whether his divine sense could see through the mist, Li Mu moved closer to it.

Upon closer inspection, he could confirm that the fog was neither miasma nor poisonous.

After standing still, I scanned inside with my divine sense again. Just like before, my divine sense could only penetrate a few meters after entering the mist.

Upon discovering this strange phenomenon, Li Mu was very puzzled. Could this place be a barrier?

He wanted to ask the people around him, but in the end he didn't speak. Instead, he kept trying to penetrate the fog with his divine sense.

After trying a few times, he began to focus his divine sense into a straight line and look towards the mist.

Unexpectedly, this method allowed his divine sense to penetrate dozens of meters through the fog.

Within his divine sense, there were indeed some fragments of spirit stones and some uncommon small mineral particles within the mist several tens of meters high.

Soon, he discovered another strange thing.

The distance he could see when his divine sense was focused into a straight line did not decrease when his divine sense dispersed.

So he began to try to focus his divine sense more precisely, and then release it, and found that he could observe a greater distance.

He kept trying this method until he was finally able to see distances of several thousand meters in the fog.

To his even greater surprise, a teleportation array appeared several kilometers away.

To determine whether what he was seeing was an illusion, he observed it from several angles and finally confirmed that the teleportation array really existed.

He could sense that the teleportation array could be activated, but he didn't know where he would be teleported to.