Luozhou, Beimang Mountain.

It was already night, and the cold moonlight shining on the earth brought a sense of desolation and loneliness to the mountains before one's eyes.

Shen Yuan walked slowly into the forest, with Gong Buyu and Xue Mingzhi following behind him.

After hearing the news about the ancient forbidden land from Xue Mingzhi, Shen Yuan immediately took Gong Buyu and Xue Mingzhi to the Beimang Mountain.

Xue Mingzhi, who has the lowest level among the three, has already entered the realm of Qi training and can control the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth to complete long-distance flights.

However, it is thousands of kilometers from Yunzhou to Luozhou, and Xue Mingzhi may not be able to hold on.

In the end, Shen Yuan used his Nine Breaths to subdue the Qi and controlled the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth to assist him in increasing Xue Mingzhi's escape speed to the extreme. In just five hours, he traveled thousands of kilometers and arrived at the Beimang Mountain area.

The reason why Shen Yuan rushed to Beimang Mountain in such a hurry was actually because of the answer he had deduced with his star-number magic in the courtyard before.

As one of the seven forbidden areas in Xuanhuang Realm, the Ancient Forbidden Land has an extremely high status and cannot be deduced by ordinary means. In addition, the Lord of Beimang Mountain, the world's number one ghost immortal, is suspected to be involved with the Ancient Forbidden Land, which makes the deduction even more difficult.

Even though Shen Yuan possessed the magical power of counting stars, he could only deduce a vague result in the end.

If we delay the matter of Beimang Mountain, changes will occur.

Shen Yuan naturally believed in the results of the deduction of the star number magic, so he rushed to Beimang Mountain as soon as possible. In order to speed up, he did not even choose to use any means of transportation, but instead used escape techniques to arrive as quickly as possible.

On the way here, Shen Yuan was thinking about why the star number magic power gave the deduction results.

It has been more than a year since the spiritual tide returned, but Beimang Mountain has been calm so far. Why would the Star Number Divine Power give such an answer?

Finally, Shen Yuan suddenly thought of a big event that happened today.

The rules of heaven and earth have been restored, and the world is now able to support the arrival of powerful gods.

Shen Yuan immediately realized that the changes in Beimang Mountain were likely related to the restoration of the rules of heaven and earth today.

And according to Xue Mingzhi, the ancient forbidden land suddenly showed abnormalities some time ago, which attracted the children of the imperial capital's noble families to break in.

Combined with the restoration of the rules of heaven and earth today, the abnormality in the ancient forbidden land some time ago was most likely a precursor.

Of course, all this is just Shen Yuan’s guess. He still needs to go deeper into Beimang Mountain to find out the specific situation.

Walking in the barren mountains, Shen Yuan's spiritual consciousness spread in all directions without hesitation.

With the nourishment of the seed of the Disha sword technique and more than ten years of tempering in the small world of the Xuanhuang Linglong Tower, Shen Yuan's Yin Spirit has already become so powerful that even ordinary sunlight can hardly hurt it.

The powerful Yin God also created a powerful divine consciousness. The area within a radius of nearly a hundred miles was almost shrouded in Shen Yuan's divine consciousness perception, which was almost comparable to that of a true god.

Shen Yuan's divine sense gradually condensed and narrowed the scope of coverage, but after condensing, the divine sense was able to penetrate the earth. The tombs buried underground and a large number of corpses were clearly visible in the divine sense.

Most of the bodies were hastily buried without even a proper coffin, and most of the graves had been excavated, with only a small number of small tombs preserved.

Shen Yuan checked carefully and found that everything was as Xue Mingzhi said. There were many corpses in Beimang Mountain, but there were not many ghosts.

Even in the old city of Wencheng, there are more wandering ghosts than in Beimang Mountain.

“It’s so peaceful.”

Shen Yuan walked among the mountains and spoke slowly.

Xue Mingzhi, who was following behind him, was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then his eyes swept across the Beimang Mountain in front of him.

This is the outer boundary of Beimang Mountain. Due to extensive development over thousands of years, some small villages and scenic spots have been formed in the outer boundary.

The three of them entered Beimang Mountain and avoided the main road of the scenic area, but they could still see the night lights and noisy crowds of tourists in the distance. It was definitely not peaceful.

"What do you mean, sir?" Xue Mingzhi asked cautiously.

Shen Yuan did not reply, but Gong Buyu, who was holding Bai Xue, took the initiative to speak:

“Beimang Mountain is one of the famous mountains and rivers, and there is also a spiritual vein among the mountains, so the concentration of spiritual energy is not low.

Nowadays, due to the sharp increase in the concentration of spiritual energy in various parts of Daxia, a large number of small monsters with spiritual intelligence have been born, and there are even many areas where evil spirits are wreaking havoc, even in places as barren as Wencheng. "

His cold eyes swept across the seemingly peaceful Beimang Mountain in front of him, and Gong Buyu's voice became solemn.

"Beimang Mountain is located in the spiritual vein. I have not found any little demons with spiritual intelligence along the way. Even in the wild mountains and graves, no wandering ghosts have been born. This is absolutely abnormal.

Even though these tombs are too old and the remaining souls in them have all dissipated completely during the period of spiritual energy depletion, the negative energy in the tombs will not dissipate during the period of spiritual energy depletion.

There are many villages around, and in recent decades, there should be new tombs built in Beimang Mountain. It is inevitable that wandering ghosts will be born under the gathering of a large amount of yin energy and spiritual energy."

You Gong started to explain, and Xue Mingzhi immediately discovered the problem.

Before, he always believed that the lack of ghosts in the entire Beimang Mountain was caused by the depletion of spiritual energy, but the truth was far from as simple as he imagined.

This made Xue Mingzhi gradually become alert.

Shen Yuan still walked towards the top of the mountain. He did not choose to rush to the core area of ​​Beimang Mountain as quickly as possible, but instead carefully observed all the details of the surrounding area with his divine sense.

When they arrive at certain places, they will even stop and use the mysterious energy to probe into the earth to spy on the direction of the veins there.

The more he observed, the more surprised Shen Yuan became.

Apart from those tombs that have never given birth to wandering souls, the little monsters that have given birth to intelligence on Mount Beimang are almost extinct, and even the spiritual creatures that are born under the spiritual energy are very few.

For Beimang Mountain, which has spiritual veins, this is absolutely an abnormal phenomenon.

It was as if something had invisibly drained the spiritual essence of the entire Beimang Mountain, causing all the spiritual creatures and demons to almost become extinct.

This is also one of the reasons why no sect or family came to occupy Beimang Mountain.

For these sects and families, the role of spiritual veins is definitely not just for cultivation. Their greater role lies in the spiritual creatures that are born on them and the subsequent development of spiritual fields to plant spiritual creatures.

If a spiritual vein cannot grow spiritual objects, then it is not worth it for these sects and families to spend energy to develop it. After all, spiritual veins are reviving every day in Daxia nowadays. Wouldn't it be better to compete for those spiritual veins?

"Is it the backup plan of the Lord of Beimang Mountain?"

A gleam of interest flashed in Shen Yuan's eyes.

Extracting the spiritual essence of a famous mountain or river is no small feat, and the causes and effects involved in such an action are too broad.

Beimang Mountain is not just a mountain, but a mountain range covering hundreds of miles in radius. How many monsters and spiritual creatures can be born there?

If one rashly extracts spiritual essence and causes the extinction of monsters and spiritual creatures, one will inevitably bear a large amount of causal karma. Even the devil would not dare to do so.

“Even if the Lord of Beimang Mountain is the world’s number one ghost immortal, he must have paid a huge price to achieve this.

And paying a huge price to extract the spiritual essence further proves that the Lord of Beimang Mountain is definitely not in a good condition now. "

Walking all the way to the core area of ​​Beimang Mountain, the closer Shen Yuan got to the core area, the more obvious the signs of spiritual essence being extracted became.

When he arrived less than a hundred miles away from the core area, Shen Yuan could even feel a strange sense of deathly silence.

Although the concentration of spiritual energy in the surrounding area is not low and the trees are lush and vibrant, there is a strange smell of death spreading.

These lush plants and animals running in the mountains and forests are more like walking corpses than living beings.

For some unknown reason, Xue Mingzhi, who was walking behind, suddenly felt a chill.

Bai Xue in Gong Buyu's arms was originally looking around curiously at the mountains and forests in front of her along the way, but as they got closer to the core area, Bai Xue seemed to sense something, and she curled up into a small ball and buried herself tightly in Gong Buyu's chest, not daring to even look at the surrounding environment.

As the night deepened, the graves around us became denser and denser as we walked further, and the feeling of lack of spiritual energy became stronger.

Finally, less than twenty miles away from the core area, Shen Yuan's face changed and he stopped.

In this desolate mountain, within the range covered by Shen Yuan's spiritual consciousness, he could actually sense wisps of ghostly energy surging.

During the short few breaths of stopping, the concentration of ghost energy in the range of his spiritual consciousness began to increase rapidly and spread to the outside world.

The place shrouded by ghost energy actually began to transform into a ghost den, and even Shen Yuan's spiritual thoughts were isolated by the ghost den.

At this speed, it would only take a few days to cover the entire Beimang Mountain.

At that time, Beimang Mountain will turn back into the ghost den it was ten thousand years ago, becoming a paradise for countless ghosts and evil spirits, and all living things within a radius of hundreds of miles will be destroyed. "Is this the "delay will lead to change" in the astrological magic?"

Shen Yuan was shocked.

If Beimang Mountain turns into a den of ghosts again in a few days at night, the master of Beimang Mountain can completely separate the den of ghosts and bring it back to the world with his background.

By then, the weirdness of Beimang Mountain can completely avoid the restrictions of the rules of the world, allowing the master of Beimang Mountain to take action in the ghost den.

A ghost immortal sitting in the ghost den is definitely a dead end for the current Xuanhuang world.

Thinking of this, Shen Yuan couldn't help feeling a little relieved.

“Thanks to the reminder from the Star Divine Ability, I realized in advance that the Lord of Beimang Mountain might take some actions as the rules of heaven and earth were further restored.

Otherwise, once he gains power, even if we throw all our resources at the Great Xia court, we may not be able to suppress the evil spirits."

With this thought in mind, Shen Yuan turned to Gong Buyu and Xue Mingzhi behind him and reminded them:

"Follow me closely and pay attention to your surroundings."

After finishing speaking, Shen Yuan did not choose to measure Beimang Mountain with his feet, but directly controlled the Yuan Qi of heaven and earth to fly in the direction of the ghost energy.

Gong Buyu and Xue Mingzhi did not dare to relax at all and quickly caught up with Shen Yuan.

The ten-kilometer distance was reached in just a few minutes, but during these few minutes, the ghost den in Shen Yuan's sight had spread dozens of meters forward, and the gray ghost fog engulfed large tracts of mountains and forests.

From a distance, it looked as if an extremely huge ghost had opened its mouth wide and was about to swallow the entire forest into its stomach.

There were starlight twinkling in Shen Yuan's eyes. With the help of the star-number magical power, he easily penetrated the ghost den in front of him and saw the scene inside the ghost den.

A large number of trees that had their spiritual essence extracted began to decay, and their dry trunks and branches turned into monsters. The living beings inside them also had their vitality drained away by the ghost den, and the fragile ghosts were devoured by the ghost den as soon as they appeared in it.

In fact, normally, this newly born ghost den will not cause the effect of corruption so quickly, but because the spiritual essence of the entire Beimang Mountain has long been drained, those creatures whose spiritual essence has been drained are simply unable to resist the erosion of the ghost den, which is why the ghost den expands so quickly.

His eyes turned to the core area where the evil spirits were spreading. It was a huge canyon surrounded by mountains on three sides with only one narrow entrance.

Around the canyon, there are broken ancient stone tablets standing here, with vague Taoist words appearing from time to time on them.

This den of evil spread from the ancient forbidden area at the core of Beimang Mountain.

"The Lord of Beimang Mountain is indeed related to the ancient forbidden land!"

Shen Yuan understood it in his mind, but the current situation did not allow him to think too much, so he flew straight into the ghost den.

Gong Buyu and Xue Mingzhi followed closely behind. As soon as the three of them entered the ghost den, they immediately felt a cold breath constantly corroding their bodies, trying to drain the vitality from their bodies.

"roll!"

Shen Yuan scolded softly. With the blessing of his supernatural power of exorcising gods, which had already entered a new realm, the effect of the mantra edict was no longer what it used to be. Even this invisible thing would be affected by the mantra edict.

A large amount of ghost fog suddenly dissipated, and all the ghost fog within a hundred meters around Shen Yuan disappeared. The ubiquitous cold aura did not even dare to approach Shen Yuan anymore, but deliberately avoided Shen Yuan and the other two.

Xue Mingzhi watched all this in shock, but Shen Yuan said casually as if he had done something insignificant:

"Let's go."

Walking among the ghost den, besides the large areas of dry trees and barren land, there are also some newly born wandering souls wandering around.

The effect of the True Word Edict still remained, and these wandering souls did not dare to get close to Shen Yuan and the other two. As they got closer to the ancient forbidden land, more and more wandering souls appeared around them.

"What on earth is going on?"

Xue Mingzhi finally couldn't contain his surprise and asked out loud.

Before heading to the secret realm of the courtyard, he also retrieved the latest relevant information about Beimang Mountain and confirmed that the abnormality only occurred within the ancient forbidden land, and there was nothing unusual outside the ancient forbidden land.

But anyone who is not blind can see that there is something unusual about the ghost den covering the forest.

"Could it be that all these ghosts appeared in one day?"

Before Shen Yuan could respond, a frightened voice suddenly sounded from the front.

"Help! Someone save us!"

“Run!”

Shen Yuan's eyes fixed, somewhat surprised that there were still living creatures in this den of ghosts.

With starlight condensed in his eyes, Shen Yuan saw two young men in mountaineering clothes fleeing hurriedly in the woods hundreds of meters away. Behind them, several wandering souls and a fierce ghost in the Qi Transformation Realm were chasing the two men.

Neither of the two young men had any cultivation, and the evil spirit in the Qi Transformation Realm could have killed them both long ago, but their ferocious faces showed a playful expression of a cat playing with a mouse, and they allowed several wandering spirits to chase them.

The wandering soul is only the lowest level ghost. Although it is comparable to the realm of refining essence, it cannot interfere with the physical body. It can only use its soul to collide with the bodies of the two young men and take away the yang energy and vitality in their bodies.

The two young men had obviously been trained and were able to withstand the pursuit of wandering spirits, but at this point they were already at the end of their strength.

Zhang Jiang, who had been running for his life since noon, finally couldn't hold on any longer. His legs went soft and his body fell heavily to the ground.

Cheng Hu on the side wanted to pull him up, but his body, which had also reached its limit, was unable to exert any strength.

Zhang Jiang said with a pale face: "Let's go! Don't save me, I have no strength left.

Even if we escape the ghost fog, we can’t escape from Beimang Mountain, not to mention there’s a big guy behind us staring at us.”

Zhang Jiang's words seemed to drain Cheng Hu's energy. He gave up trying to pull Zhang Jiang up and instead sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.

"You're right. Rather than being fooled by these ghosts, it's better to die here. Then you'll have someone to accompany you on your way to the underworld!"

The wandering soul has stopped chasing, and a fierce ghost with evil spirit all over its body walks out from behind the wandering soul.

The evil ghost maintained his human form, and even wore the same mountaineering clothes as the two men. There was a huge scratch on his face that almost split his entire face in two. He showed a ferocious smile and said:

"Run! Aren't you good at running?"

Cheng Hu looked at the evil spirit in front of him without fear, spitting on the ground and said coldly:

"Jiang Cheng, you are just a dog under that monster, why are you so arrogant here?"

The evil spirit called Jiang Cheng did not get angry at all, but sneered:

"What's wrong with becoming a dog? On the contrary, your souls will soon be shattered and become food for this ghost den."

Zhang Jiang cursed: "It was because you colluded with the monsters in that area that other people were killed.

If it weren't for you, none of us would have died!"

Jiang Cheng's smile became increasingly gloomy:

"Do you think I was the only one who betrayed you? In that situation, surrendering to the adults was the only way out. Those guys had already thought of it, but they were just a step slower than me, so they were the ones who were terrified instead of me.

What's more, these words are no longer of any value. I have already received the promise from the adults that as long as I wait for the ghost den to spread to Beimang Mountain, I can become a vicious ghost.

In the future, he may even be able to become a ghost king, or even be granted the method of corpse transformation to become a ghost immortal.

You are nothing more than a group of ants providing nutrients for the demons."

"Have a nice journey!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Cheng rushed towards the two men, with the ghost energy surging in his right hand as if he wanted to tear them to pieces.

Zhang Jiang's face was full of despair, and Cheng Hu's eyes were full of unwillingness.

At this moment, a ray of white light crossed an area of ​​hundreds of meters, and the surrounding ghost fog seemed to be split in two by an invisible sword, revealing a dust-free land in the forest covered by ghost fog.

Before the sword light even fell, the seemingly ferocious ghost and several wandering souls were scared to death under the sword.