Lin Wu looked at Cheng Wenwei.

Cheng Wenwei nodded. "That's in the Qinghai-Gansu region in the northwest. When I led people there, we found that it was specifically in a place called Blackback Mountain. The black mountain stretches for miles, with no grass growing on it. It's extremely hard. Logically, no one would go there. After we arrived, we searched there for a long time, but we really didn't find anyone."

"But the energy guided by the life lamp is in Blackback Mountain."

"So we didn't give up and tried to find a way to get under the Blackback Mountain, but we searched everywhere but to no avail. We even thought about using equipment to make a path, but the mountain there was too hard for machines to work."

At this point, they began to doubt whether the information guided by the life lamp was true.

If it was true, how could it be in Blackback Mountain? They had no way to get in; if it was not true, how could the Life Lamp light up? This was their unique method of Xuanmen, and they would not admit their mistake.

With this mentality in mind, Cheng Wenwei did not leave at that time. He decided to camp at the foot of Blackback Mountain for a few more days to think about whether there were other solutions.

But what I never expected was that an accident would happen on the first night of my stay.

"That night, I was discussing a solution with someone, while everyone else was asleep," Cheng Wenwei recalled. "Not long after, I think it was around twelve o'clock, a strong wind suddenly blew outside the tent, almost blowing it away."

They went out immediately and found that there was something like a sandstorm outside.

At this time, everyone else woke up.

They gathered together and took emergency precautions.

Cheng Wenwei reacted quickly and remembered that they had used explosives at a place at the foot of Blackback Mountain during the day. Although they used a lot of explosives and didn't blow up anything, at least there was a concave hole where they could hide temporarily. So he led his men to go against the wind. Fortunately, there were only five of them left at that time, so they could all squeeze in, and then use the tent cloth to cover the entrance of the cave, which could barely be regarded as a safe place.

"And that fierce storm lasted for a long time. It was very difficult for us to hide inside. Even two of our companions who were at the entrance of the cave were unfortunately blown away and we don't know whether they were dead or alive." Cheng Wenwei said in a deep voice.

In that extremely dangerous disaster, the remaining people dared not move. After an unknown amount of time, when they were all frozen and unable to move, the storm outside finally stopped.

They immediately went out to look for their companions, but at this moment, something strange happened.

"A dozen lights suddenly appeared on the Blackback Mountain," Cheng Wenwei said. "The dim yellow lights were swaying and coming down."

When this was mentioned, Cheng Wenwei's face froze, with a hint of fear in his eyes.

"We hid immediately. Later we were glad we did because we heard footsteps approaching us. We didn't know what was going on so we huddled inside the cave and waited. Not long after, we saw a very strange scene - more than a dozen people holding lanterns passed by outside our cave."

In fact, that cannot be called a human being.

Each of the creatures in that team was as big as a child, wearing tattered pale robes. The exposed skin on their bodies was festering black and purple, and they also had a pungent stench of decay.

At that time, they suspected that they might be hallucinating.

At this moment, something at the end of the team suddenly turned around as if it had sensed something and headed towards their direction.

They saw immediately that the thing had an extremely horrible face! Its skin was as pale as a dead person's, and it had no facial features. It was just a soft ball of flesh. In the middle, where the nose should be, there was a huge blood-red eye, which was vertical, slender, and covered with a layer of white film. There was a small circle of sharp teeth on the edge of the eyelid.

Facing them, the eyes opened and closed as if breathing! The three people's hearts seemed to stop beating at that moment.

They weren't sure if the thing noticed them, but it only turned its head for a second and then kept going.

Cheng Wenwei shook his head. "No, we never knew what kind of creature it was. After we came back, we looked up many books and couldn't find any records about it. In fact, we haven't seen it since then."

Lin Wu heard this and asked, "What else happened to you at that time? Did you leave after seeing that thing?"

"No, we didn't leave. We followed them. But..." Cheng Wenwei said, sighing, "But if we knew what we would find out later, we would rather not have followed them at that time."

Lin Wu was surprised: "Why?"

Cheng Wenwei said: "At that time, we felt that the group of things appeared too suddenly, and we felt something was wrong, so we followed them after they walked away."

It was this that led Cheng Wenwei and the others to discover that they had finally entered Blackback Mountain! They had looked for the cave entrance before, but there was no cave entrance at all. Therefore, they did not know how the cave entrance appeared, so they had to follow it in quickly.

Unexpectedly, the team walked very fast and they lost it. The roads inside were complicated and they got lost in a short time the first time they walked. They were stuck in circles and couldn't get out. They were trapped for three whole days! "I know this." Yuan Fengrong said slowly, "There has been no news from you for a long time. I thought you were in an accident like the people before and your life or death was unknown, so I immediately took people to look for you. As a result, when I led people there, I found that you were actually in the rescue station near Blackback Mountain. The people there said that they found you in the no-man's land. When they saw you, you had already fallen into shock and coma, and almost couldn't be saved."

Upon hearing this, Cheng Wenwei turned his head to look at Yuan Fengrong.

After a while, he said, "That's right. We were trapped for too long. We didn't expect to be able to enter Blackback Mountain, and we didn't have enough supplies to last long. I don't know why, but we were particularly tired inside. It seemed like we had been walking for many days, longer than we thought. In the end, we didn't even know what we were doing until we completely fainted and lost consciousness."

"Do you remember anything else?" Yuan Fengrong asked eagerly.

Cheng Wenwei twitched the corner of his mouth, "No more. Didn't I already tell you everything about the situation at that time?"

"Yes, you were still young at that time. I was worried that you would be traumatized by something like that. I also asked the other two people, and they said the same thing as you did." Yuan Fengrong said, raising his hand to pat Cheng Wenwei's shoulder, "Fortunately you are okay. Otherwise, if Xuanmen had killed you again, I would have really lost my left and right arms, and I would be so sorry that Master did not take good care of you."

"That's not right, senior brother. Master won't blame you." Cheng Wenwei said.

Lin Wu, who was standing aside, looked back and forth between them as they spoke.

"Is there really nothing else?" Lin Wu suddenly asked.

Cheng Wenwei paused.

Yuan Fengrong retracted his hand, looked at Lin Wu, and said in a gentle voice: "That's all. Daosheng, is it possible that you have found out something else that I don't know?"

“Yes…”

Lin Wu was about to talk about the murals when he suddenly paused.

After a moment, she said, "Indeed, no. But I see that Deputy Sect Master Cheng's experience was so thrilling, but the gains were so little, it's a bit too regrettable."

Yuan Fengrong sighed helplessly, "I think so too, but unfortunately... Later, regarding those disciples who suddenly appeared with news, my Xuanmen sent people to look for them several times, but to no avail. Daosheng, you said you would help us find them, so I'll trouble you. If you have any news, remember to tell Uncle Yuan in time."

Lin Wu hummed in response, then said, "Deputy Sect Leader Cheng, has Cheng Man recovered from his injury? I want to see him."

Cheng Wenwei said, "He is still lying in bed, so it would be okay to meet him. If Miss Daosheng is free, you can go back with me now."