Huang Fugui only caught Xiao Lingfeng's scent when he reached a dense forest.

"We passed by here, but it must have been three days ago. What are you looking for? Why are you splitting up? There's nothing out of this deep mountain forest. You're just making things difficult for us."

"Stop talking so much nonsense and hurry up and find them." Jian Ning was anxious, but she didn't care about her bad tone. She grabbed the Ruoshui Sword and rushed in.

Ordinary dangers here certainly wouldn't be able to trap Xiao Lingfeng; he's not someone without depth or skill. It's the unknown that makes her so worried.

However, Xiao Lingfeng also had quite a few talismans on him, and he was at least at the Foundation Establishment stage.

There aren't many wild animals here that could harm him; the most likely explanation is that he's trapped by something. Otherwise, there would have been a complete lack of information.

Huang Fugui sighed, flapped his little wings, and flew to Jian Ning's side.

"Go this way, you don't know where you are, why are you running around like that?" Jian Ning quickly changed direction and followed behind Huang Fugui. The two of them were moving extremely fast.

In less than ten minutes, they had passed through the mountain forest. Along the way, they saw trampled grass and wild animal droppings, proving that Xiao Lingfeng had indeed passed through this area.

However, even after walking out of the dense forest, they still couldn't find any trace of Xiao Lingfeng.

"There's a cliff right ahead, and he had nowhere else to go, so he flew up there?" Jian Ning walked to the edge of the mountain, glanced at the river below, then looked up at the mountaintop and asked uncertainly.

"Not here, over there," Huang Fugui said, pointing to the snow-covered mountain peaks on the opposite side.

"Let's go take a look."

Jian Ning had never been here before and didn't know what kind of mountain it was, but from here it looked quite high and steep. It didn't look like anyone lived here.

When she was looking for herbs, she told Xiao Lingfeng it was a dark and damp place, but she didn't mention a cold, snowy place. So what did he encounter that made him run to the other side? She was completely baffled and could only find him and ask.

He grabbed Huang Fugui and flew over on his sword.

Jian Ning was much faster than Huang Fugui could fly by flapping his wings. He was also in a hurry, so fast that only a blur could be seen.

"That way. Turn right."

Huang Fugui, nestled in Jian Ning's arms, kept pointing out directions, and soon they arrived at a waterfall. This mountain was quite interesting; snow fell from above, yet hot springs flowed down below, forming a waterfall.

Hot spring water cascaded down the cliff halfway up the mountain, splashing onto the rocks and steaming, creating a scene like a fairyland. The scenery was absolutely beautiful. But Xiao Lingfeng was still nowhere to be seen.

"Is it around here? Or somewhere else?"

Jian Ning stopped wielding her sword, looked down at Huang Fugui, and asked.

"Inside the cave inside the waterfall. That one, it looks like there's a formation, a trapping formation, that's captured people?" Huang Fugui pointed his little paw at a waterfall with rushing water diagonally in front of him. He spoke without hesitation.

"Go back to your immortal abode first. If I don't come out in two days, call Xiao Wuyu to come out and break the formation."

Jian Ning left herself a way out. After all, her knowledge of formations was rather limited; she wasn't exactly an expert.

There's a trapping formation inside; it definitely wasn't set up by modern people. Regardless, we have to go in and check it out. We can't just leave Xiao Lingfeng inside like this.

"I understand. Be careful. Should we go and call Xiao Wuyu out now?" Huang Fugui was genuinely worried that Jian Ning wouldn't be able to handle things on her own. He had been about to leave, but then stopped and asked.

"No need, I'll go check first, I'll be careful." After saying that, Jian Ning sent Huang Fugui back to the Immortal Abode, and then flew off on her sword into the waterfall that Huang Fugui had pointed to.

Upon entering, the cave entrance is only wide enough for one person to pass through. It deepens as you go in, forming a naturally occurring cave. Jian Ning took out a powerful flashlight and shone it around.

After searching around, I couldn't find any formation.

But Huang Fugui is definitely not wrong; if he says Xiao Lingfeng is here, then he must be here.

If not on the ground, then in the sky? Jian Ning shone her flashlight upwards.

I was startled out of the blue.

The cave ceiling was carved with various blood-soaked human figures. They looked like figures from ancient times, dressed in animal skins and holding homemade weapons.

In the very center was a red and black Bagua diagram. Under the beam of the flashlight, it flickered with an eerie light.

Jian Ning gasped; such strange and ancient patterns were hidden inside this cave.

The Bagua diagram represents eight natural elements: heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountain, and marsh, symbolizing the operation and changes of all things in the universe.

And here, in the mysterious Miao region, it seems to hold an even deeper secret.

Jian Ning cautiously approached the Bagua diagram, carefully shining a flashlight on it and examining it intently.

In the center of the image, a red traditional Chinese character for "yang" intertwines with a black character for "yin."

This pattern likely symbolizes the harmony of Yin and Yang, and the growth of all things.

It is an ancient totem, or an ancient script, used to record and convey certain information.

Jian Ning thought for a moment, but still had no clue. She knew nothing about Miao culture and wasn't a history student. She could only look for other methods.

Standing on the Ruoshui Sword, he flew to the bottom of the graphic and gently pressed the raised part between the two characters "Yin Yang" with his hand.

With a loud bang, the shape was split in two.

It generated a huge suction force, which directly sucked Jian Ning in.

She hadn't expected that her casual press would trigger the mechanism. She guessed that Xiao Lingfeng was probably in the same unknown space as her.

I wasn't so anxious anymore. My body relaxed, and I followed the suction force, spinning around in the air a few times before landing safely in the sky.

Yes, it's in the sky. Here, everything is upside down. There's absolutely no Earth's gravity.

Beneath my feet are white clouds in the sky, and above me is black earth. Even the river flows from the sky. Little fish can swim in the river.

What kind of place is this? Is this what "yin and yang reversed" means?

Moreover, Jian Ning discovered that it was impossible to fly on a sword here; one could only walk. With each step, one could easily cover a distance of five or six meters.

Everything was abnormal and contrary to the norm.

"Xiao Lingfeng, are you there?" Jian Ning took a few steps and shouted loudly.

I could hear the echoes coming from afar.

"Ling Feng, are you there? Are you there? No?"

After a while, no one answered, as if she were the only person in this strange space.

However, Jian Ning was not discouraged. She was almost certain that Xiao Lingfeng was there, so she chose a direction based on her intuition and strode over.