In winter, Heini Lake is desolate.
The calm lake surface occasionally ripples.
After catching a small fish, a waterbird rests on a strange rock protruding from the lake to feed.
Soon, a small crack appeared on the strange rock, which slowly grew larger.
The next moment, the gap shrank to the size of a goose egg, and a vertical pupil appeared inside.
The bird, which was feeding, seemed to sense the danger. Just as it spread its wings, a spiritual attack caused it to fall into the water and lose consciousness.
The lake surface rippled slightly, then slowly returned to calm.
A group of three-eyed crocodiles, classified as level one or two monsters, live in Black Mud Lake.
They possess high intelligence and do not easily come ashore to attack humans, yet they are the tyrants of the lake.
In the center of Black Mud Lake, Li Mu was teleported here and landed, causing a disturbance with the Three-Eyed Crocodile.
If he hadn't been quick enough to enter the Golden Pearl World, he would have become the Three-Eyed Crocodile's snack long ago.
Unexpectedly, he obtained the Breath Soil at the bottom of the lake by sheer chance, adding a breath of life to the Golden Pearl World.
After marveling at the world of gold and pearls, it slowly rose from the ground, struggling against the silt, towards the surface of the lake.
Until I felt the pressure on my body lessen and I got closer and closer to the lake.
He knew he was about to emerge from the mud and float to the surface.
After taking a breath, he used all his strength to burst out of the mud and soar into the sky.
The moment Li Mu burst out of the water, a group of lurking three-eyed crocodiles sensed it.
However, the two-legged creatures leaped out of the muddy water too quickly, leaving them no time to catch them.
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Black Mud Lake has returned to calm.
Li Mu, standing on the shore, had finished cleaning up his disheveled state.
Only then did he have time to think about the teleportation array.
Because the teleportation array was activated temporarily, he was teleported to Black Mud Lake.
The array that was originally designed for directional teleportation now seems to have become non-directional.
Fortunately, the transmission deviation wasn't too large.
After calming himself down, he entered a small grove of trees not far away. His spiritual energy was insufficient, and he needed to regulate his breathing to replenish it.
A day later, instead of going to the Northern Cold Palace, he went directly to Fuxing City.
When I met Xu Shiheng, I learned that Yue Ling had already been teleported away.
He shook his head helplessly as he left the Treasure Pavilion, lamenting the impermanence of life.
They went to each other, but in the end, they missed each other.
He did not linger in Fuxing City, nor did he go to Beihan Palace again.
After stepping onto the flying sword, he arrived directly at the barrier in the east.
If he didn't want to miss seeing Yue Ling again, he had to get back outside as soon as possible.
Compared to a few years ago, there has been no change at the barrier.
There were quite a few martial artists who collected various small ores here, but things have changed.
In his consciousness, the teleportation array was still there, while countless groups of people searching for treasure outside had come and gone.
As he recklessly approached the mist, he once again drew surprise and discussion from the martial artists.
After taking three steps through the fog, the murmurs behind him were cut off, and he felt that pulling force again.
His cultivation level has improved considerably since then, and he can withstand this level of pulling force.
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After taking more than ten steps forward, he felt he was getting closer and closer to the teleportation array.
To his surprise, the path he had taken before did not appear on the other side of the teleportation array.
He walked several dozen steps forward, but the path still didn't appear.
He knew he had made assumptions.
The fact that the path that used to be part of the barrier is no longer there means he needs to find a new way to get out.
The good mood I had just received from the Breath of Earth vanished in an instant.
When he turned around, the mist behind him had vanished without a trace, and what he saw was a wide open space, without a single person in sight.
If he hadn't been able to see the teleportation array, he would have thought he had stepped into a new barrier.
He stopped and looked around again. Apart from the teleportation array, there were no other living beings.
There wasn't a single blade of grass on the ground, only sand and gravel.
It seems that the only way to leave this place now is through the teleportation array.
Li Mu shook his head and walked towards the teleportation array. After only a few steps, the pulling force on his body disappeared.
He felt a sense of familiarity with this feeling, just like when the pulling force on his body disappeared when he decided to take the shortcut.
However, as he got closer to the teleportation array, a bad feeling slowly began to grow in his heart.
This feeling isn't one of danger, but rather of the unknown.
The unknown is the most terrifying thing.
This sense of the unknown forced him to slow down.
When he got within tens of meters of the teleportation array, he could tell that it definitely didn't lead to China.
As for where the teleportation array leads, he didn't know either, which was the source of that feeling of the unknown.
At this point, he had to stop and observe again.
His divine sense returned to normal here, but within a range of over 20,000 meters, he could no longer see anything.
There was nothing here but gray sand and gravel; it was like a vast, barren desert.
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After observing for several hours, he sat down on the ground.
He had already scanned the area within a radius of 20,000 meters with his divine sense and finally confirmed that he was trapped.
This place seems open, yet it has an eerie atmosphere.
Unlike Earth, unlike China, and unlike the cultivation world of my previous life.
There seems to be no day or night here; it's always shrouded in a hazy mist.
Apart from a teleportation array that occasionally sprays out some sand, nothing else changes.
It seems the only way to get out of here is to enter that teleportation array.
Once you enter that teleportation array, there's a 99% chance you won't be able to come back.
He seems to have entered a vicious cycle.
Realizing the dire situation he faced, Li Mu had no choice but to get up and find a way out.
To avoid getting lost in the desert, he continuously scattered battle flags during his search.
Once he had used up all his battle flags, he began to walk back.
He went through this process repeatedly for a whole month, exploring every possible direction, but he couldn't find a way out.
Predicaments are not terrible; what is despairing is being unable to escape them.
What made him even more desperate was that the battle flag in his hand, after being used and recycled many times, had begun to rot and rust.
Several of the flags were so badly rusted that they rotted away and turned into gravel during the recovery process.
These banners were all made by him from various metals, so how could they have rotted?
Here, there is no wind or rain, no distinction between day and night, and the entire environment remains unchanged, yet it can corrode metal.
He immediately released his divine sense and soon noticed the difference.
It's truly a case of the blind being right under your nose!
He kept looking into the distance, searching for a way out, but neglected what was under his feet.
He wandered around in the desert for a month, and didn't even leave a single footprint.
He lifted his foot, and not a single grain of sand stuck to the sole of his shoe.
He looked at the teleportation array again, where minerals and gravel were constantly spewing out, yet no sand piles had formed.
What puzzled him even more was that
The gravel contained a large number of spirit stone fragments, so the spiritual energy here should be very rich, but he could not sense its presence.
This is also why he has been searching for a way out and has not been practicing cultivation.
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