After entering the cave, the first thing you see is a long, vertical tunnel going downwards.

After sinking for about a quarter of an hour, the terrain gradually turned downward until it split into two roads.

Take the one on the right.

"Wait." Shi Liuli saw that he was going to the right and couldn't help asking, "Didn't father give me the jade slip with the map? Don't you want to confirm it first?"

"Senior Sister." Luo Yan said helplessly, "Didn't we agree to listen to me?"

"I'm listening to you." Shi Liuli smiled sweetly, "If you say you must go right, I will follow you, but this doesn't stop me from asking before you make a decision, right?"

"My answer is this." Luo Yan threw the jade slip to her and said confidently, "The path-finding steps of the entire map are all recorded in my mind, so there is no need to confirm."

Shi Liuli immersed his spiritual consciousness into the jade slip and took a closer look, and found that he was indeed taking the path on the right.

She returned the jade slip to Luo Yan obediently, with a slightly embarrassed expression, and whispered:

"I just subconsciously felt that I should take the left path..."

"We brought a map this time, so don't play with your metaphysical inspiration." Luo Yan said firmly.

Shi Liuli said nothing and followed Luo Yan obediently.

Go forward to the next three-way intersection and take the middle passage;

Go forward to a pot-shaped cave, descend to the bottom of the pot, and take the melon-seed-shaped entrance passage.

Go forward to a slope, but don't go up it. Go around the slope and go through the secret cave next to the rubble.

Luo Yan followed the instructions on the map and led Shi Liuli along the route, while he couldn't help but complain in his heart again:

Although I already knew this, what on earth was this map about? Couldn't they just measure and draw the path?

After about a day, Shi Liuli felt a little exhausted - it wasn't because she was tired, but because she felt extremely bored and uninterested in crawling around in the cave tunnels with stone walls.

Luo Yan considerately stopped to rest. Anyway, at the current speed of travel, he would be able to reach the Chao Yuan Qi meridian deep in the cave in about twenty-four days, which was more than enough time.

Shi Liuli cheered, then found an open space nearby, took out the ingredients on the grill, and started preparing to cook, which left Luo Yan dumbfounded.

The underwater barbecue is pretty good. It’s really amazing that you, Miss Shi, could have come up with this idea!

"If I hadn't accompanied you out this time, you wouldn't have been able to eat such delicious meat!" Shi Liuli was still feeling proud.

Luo Yan said helplessly:

"Sister, eating is really not necessary for a cultivator."

"Put down my skewers before you speak!" Shi Liuli said angrily.

The two of them slowly finished eating the barbecue skewers, and Miss Shi took out a few strangely shaped fish from somewhere and continued to grill them on the grill.

"What kind of fish is this?" Luo Yan frowned and asked, "Why haven't I seen it before?"

"I caught it just now near the rubble pile." Miss Shi said.

How dare you eat a fish you just caught... Luo Yan quickly grabbed one and examined it carefully with his spiritual sense.

Well, there is no toxin in the fish meat, and apparently there are no predators in these deep-sea caves that would require them to evolve the ability to produce toxins.

The only problem is that it contains too much foul gas, the content of which is much higher than that of ordinary meat.

In the past, the universe was round like an egg. Later, Pangu created the world, and clear air rose while turbid air sank. To put it simply, the lower the altitude, the higher the turbid air content of living things.

You will definitely have diarrhea if you eat it...

Well, there is no need to stop Miss Shi, it would be better to let her learn a lesson.

Luo Yan ate the barbecue calmly, watching Miss Shi grill the white-eyed fish with deteriorating eyesight, and then enjoying them with relish.

She kindly handed one to him, but Luo Yan declined it on the grounds that he "didn't want to try new food."

"Junior brother, you are too timid." Shi Liuli covered her mouth and laughed, "I have already checked with my spiritual sense, these fish are not poisonous at all."

Does it mean it's edible if it's not poisonous? Luo Yan smiled secretly and pretended to turn his attention to observing his surroundings.

Um?

His expression suddenly changed and he silently took out the jade slip that recorded the map.

Something is wrong!

"A Jing." Luo Yan asked in his heart, "Something is wrong."

"What's wrong?" Kunlun Jing asked in confusion, "Isn't it exactly the same as what's recorded on the map?"

"It's because they are exactly the same that there is a problem." Luo Yan frowned, looking worried. "The first edition of the map jade slip was left by ancient monks, and later it was passed down in Penglai Yuqing Temple. Each generation of monks will modify and supplement the map according to their actual exploration situation."

"In fact, since the time interval between each exploration is basically much longer than the period of submarine earthquakes, the terrain of each exploration and the route recorded on the map jade slip are roughly the same on the outer layer, but the deep route will be different - this is why we can't rely entirely on the map and must remember the route we took."

"But you see, we have come so deep into this place, and there is no discrepancy between what is recorded on the map and the jade slip. Isn't this very strange?"

"If you say so, it is true." Kunlun Mirror thought, "Could it be because there happened to be no undersea earthquake between the last exploration and this time? So the terrain here has not changed?"

"The so-called undersea earthquake that changed the topography of Wuqi Chaoyuan Cave is just speculation within the temple, and there is no actual evidence." Luo Yan sighed worriedly, "If this is some kind of secret realm, and the secret realm prohibition changed the topography, then why didn't it suddenly change this time? Thinking about it this way, it's even more disturbing."

"Secret realm restriction?" Kunlun Jing thought for a moment, "Wait a minute, let me use more spiritual power to scan the surroundings."

After a while, she suddenly said in amazement:

“No way…”

"What's wrong?" Luo Yan asked hurriedly.

"I'm right below..." Kunlun Mirror said hesitantly, "Although it's very weak, I did detect the fluctuations in space."

"That fluctuation frequency seems to be... a characteristic of my body fragments."

"A piece of your body fragment fell into this cave?" Luo Yan suddenly realized, "In other words, it is actually your body fragment that has been constantly changing the terrain of Wuqi Chaoyuan Cave since ancient times and trapped many cultivators to death here?"

"Ahem." Kunlun Jing said awkwardly, "After all, I have the power of time and space."

"Then let's look for your body while we're searching for the Chaoyuan Qi channel." Luo Yan had just made up his mind when he saw Miss Shi holding her stomach and saying, "Junior brother, my stomach feels a little uncomfortable."

"Then Senior Sister, can you go to the next cave to relieve yourself?" Luo Yan laughed in his heart, "As expected, she came," and pretended to show concern.

[Hypocritical personality, synchronization value +1. ]

"Yeah." Shi Liuli nodded awkwardly, "But Junior Brother, you must not take this opportunity to leave me here and run away alone."

"How could that be!" Luo Yan immediately sneered.