The ship departed from Whale Falls City and sailed on the sea for two days before arriving at Shenhua Mountain, or Shenhua Island.
From a long distance away, someone stood on the bow, pointing at the tall mountain in the sea and shouted, "Shenhua Mountain!!!" His excited tone and hopeful eyes made it seem as if the Shenhua immortal on Shenhua Mountain was waving to him.
Then someone couldn't wait for the ship to dock, so he took off and flew directly from the deck to Shenhua Mountain. When one person took off, countless others followed. The deck looked like a flock of birds. Birds flew up one after another, covering the sky and the sun. More than a hundred people flew towards Shenhua Mountain.
Qin Ran had already relied on the uniqueness of his water clone to transform into another body shape and face.
He stood on the deck and waited for a while. Seeing that the first group of people who flew to the island were not attacked or encountered any danger, he used his skills to blend in with the equally cautious group of monks and flew to the island.
Shenhua Mountain is really a mountain. It is not a small hill that sticks out from the sea, but a mountain that rises thousands of meters above the sea level and reaches into the sky.
The mountain's waistline is also very large. From this end, you can see that the tangent of the mountain extends to the sea and sky. More than a hundred people flew from the ship and landed on the island, not noticeable at all. If you want to find these people, you have to pay attention to find them.
This ship was obviously not the first one to arrive at Shenhua Mountain. There were already more than a dozen large ships parked at the foot of the mountain and on the coast.
Not all cultivators who come to Shenhua Mountain to seek opportunities come by boat; many fly or swim.
So in addition to the hundreds of people on this ship, there are already quite a few people on the island mountain.
Qin Ran took a veiled glance from the air and saw people on the island, on the mountainside, and on the top of the mountain. He conservatively estimated that from what he saw, there were more than a thousand people.
The reputation of Shenhua Mountain, the inheritance of Shenhua Old Demon, and the power of Shenhua Xianning are all evident. Many people come here even if they can't break the seal... What if someone breaks the seal? Maybe they can get a chance.
Qin Ran searched for a while before he found a remote and deserted location. After landing, he carefully looked around the area before coming back and pulling out a bubble to wrap himself in.
In his bubble, he took out a map from his Qiankun bag.
This map was the one he got from Tie Ruonan. When he was on the ship, he was afraid of the presence of the soul mark and so on, so he kept it sealed and didn't dare to look at it. It was the first time he opened it now.
Although he had no idea what this map was for, it was the map Tie Ruonan brought with him when he came to Shenhua Island. It must have something to do with Shenhua Island.
So instead of studying the seal of Shenhua Island from scratch like a headless fly, he might as well take Tie Ruonan's map and follow the map. Maybe he would gain something.
Qin Ran removed the seal on his soul and checked the map again. After confirming that everything was OK, he opened the map.
He opened his eyes and saw an extremely simple map. It looked like a child's scribble, a line drawing. One could barely tell that the waves he drew were water, and the triangles in the water were mountains. As for what the red dots on the mountains were, no one knew.
This map requires a bold guess to guess that it depicts the Shenhua Mountain in front of us, and it also requires a little brainpower to see that its destination is the red dot on the mountain.
But that’s all.
To be honest, this painting is a bit abstract.
Even if Qin Ran compared it with the Shenhua Mountain in front of him, he couldn't tell what was painted on the painting.
He frowned and looked at the map for a long time, but he still couldn't see any mystery in it.
“It originally said there was a starting anchor point, but I couldn’t understand the map.”
Qin Ran laughed at himself, shook his head, sealed the map again, and threw it into his Qiankun bag.
It’s better to be honest and study the seal of Shenhua Mountain from scratch.
But just as he put the map into his Qiankun bag, he suddenly realized something... It was not that he discriminated against Tie Ruonan, but if he couldn't understand this map, how could Tie Ruonan understand it?
Unless there is something else behind this map!
Unless this is a map that only Tie Ruonan can understand!
Thinking of this, his hair suddenly stood on end! If this map is a map that only Tie Ruonan can understand, then there must be marks on it that are unique to Tie Ruonan and can only be discovered by Tie Ruonan.
He hurriedly used the Mirror Flower and Water Moon technique. His body flashed and a figure jumped out of his body, went straight out of the bubble, and plunged into the ground.
Qin Ran took out the map and continued to study it in his original position.
Not long after the study, a knife light came from a distance. Perhaps the power of the knife light was too overbearing. It cut the bubble in one stroke, and Qin Ran inside the bubble was also split in half, leaving him with no power to resist.
The knife flashed down, and a crack appeared on the rocky ground. Following the knife flash, a sturdy woman flew over. She landed on the ground with a "thump", holding a sword in her hand, and her tiger eyes were as cold as ice, staring at Qin Ran who was split in half on the ground.
"You dare to lie to me?"
She approached with her sword in hand and used the tip of the sword to poke the two halves of Qin Ran's body to confirm that he was dead. Then she picked up the map on the ground.
She sensed it briefly to confirm that it was her map, then opened it, raised her finger, and forced a drop of blood onto the map.
As this drop of her blood fell, the map with sticky sketches instantly changed into a landscape painting with clear brushstrokes. The mountains and rivers in the painting were distinct, and every blade of grass, tree, stone and two birds all looked real.
And that landscape is not some other place, but the Shenhua Mountain in front of us. There is also a red dot on this map, but this red dot is clear and clearly marked, marking a platform groove somewhere halfway up the mountain, which also corresponds to the Shenhua Mountain in front of us.
This was exactly her map, and the strong woman Tie Ruonan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. If this map was lost from her, she would die ten thousand times.
At this time, several monks flew behind her. She noticed it and promptly restored the map in her hand to the doodle shape, rolled it up, and held it in her hand.
After several people landed on the ground, a man in blood-red clothes looked at the corpse on the ground, then squinted at Tie Ruonan and asked in a hoarse voice, "Is it him?"
Tie Ruonan replied: "It was him, and I killed him."
As she spoke, she swung the knife again, and the knife light seemed to spin, and the two halves of the corpse on the ground suddenly turned into countless halves.
She fulfilled her promise and cut the painting thief into pieces.
"I hope you didn't leak it." The man in red sneered.
"It's none of your business!" Tie Ruonan turned around, flew up and flew towards the mountain.
The man in red smiled sinisterly, said nothing more, stretched out his body, and flew away with Tie Ruonan along with a few others.
After Tie Ruonan and his companions flew away, the body fragments on the ground slowly turned into water, which flowed in all directions and soaked the ground.
Soon there was nothing else except the wet ground.
And on this wet ground, a figure slowly emerged.
He looked up at the direction where Tie Ruonan was going and chuckled, "Throw a stone... to ask for directions."
He closed his eyes, and his mind became extremely clear.
At night, somewhere on the mountainside of Shenhua Mountain, there are flowers, trees, birds, animals and insects. It looks no different from other places. When the wind blows, the flowers, trees and insects sway, and the birds and insects stop chirping for a while.
Tie Ruonan and the man in red flew from a distance and landed under an old pine tree. After landing, they continued to move forward, but as they walked, their figures disappeared in the open space in front of them. It was as if they had entered another dimension, and it was as if their figures disappeared and faded.
"The soul mark is gone?" Qin Ran frowned and quickened his pace to approach the place where Tie Ruonan disappeared.
He squatted on the branch of a big tree and looked at the open space from a distance.
"Discovered?" He thought, "Impossible, why would Tie Ruonan show the map to others? Those people don't have a Spiritual Refiner."
"Formation?" He looked at the empty space and faintly sensed the aura of the formation runes. "Trapping formation? Illusion formation? Killing formation? Or a simple concealment formation?"
Because it was too far away, he couldn't check what kind of formation it was.
“Wait, wait…” Qin Ran rubbed his brows and sorted out his thoughts. “The owner of Dragon Whale Island has a map. The direction pointed by the map is a place on Shenhua Mountain. This place is specially set up with a formation to cover it.”
"So what's inside this formation?"
An island owner would definitely not use a formation in such a long distance to relax and entertain himself.
What is it used for? It's easy to guess.
What is there in Shenhua Mountain? The inheritance of the old demon Shenhua, the deification of the immortals.
"Ah!" Qin Ran couldn't help but pat his head when he thought of this. "I'm such an idiot! I only knew that the seal of the old demon Shenhua was difficult to open, and that collecting seven elixirs was simply impossible, but I didn't even think deeply about how much influence the things inside would have on cultivators.
"I actually forgot that when the devil is big enough, the oppressors can do anything."
Will these island owners leave this mountain of treasures here, where they can just look at it but not use it?
Obviously not!
Unable to collect all seven elixirs?
Ok, then we won't gather them. There are more than 3,600 unorthodox methods. There must be one that can break the seal of your Shenhua Mountain!
"This is obviously the arrangement made by the owner of Longjing Island for Shenhua Mountain." He reacted, "If the owner of Longjing Island can make arrangements, then other forces in the Tianlan Sea can definitely make arrangements. In fact, all forces have not given up the inheritance of the Shenhua old demon."
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but take a breath. Wouldn't that mean he was once again stepping into the arena where these major forces were fighting?
And this time, he had a feeling that it was him who caused the Shenhua Mountain incident. He was the butterfly that flapped its wings.
He wanted to find Shenhua Xian Ning, so he had to ask Mr. Zhai for information, so he knew that Mr. Zhai, the old bastard, would sabotage him from behind. But now it seems that as soon as Mr. Zhai made a move, the owner of Longjing Island noticed something unusual and immediately took advantage of it, pushing the incident to ferment, and then other islands... other forces also followed suit.
This led to the Shenhua Mountain incident.
"There is one more thing..." Qin Ran pondered, "They have been seeking the inheritance of the old demon Shenhua, and have been making arrangements in Shenhua Mountain. But! Why did they let so many people come to Shenhua Mountain? This obviously has an impact on their arrangements. Unless..."
He thought of a possibility, "Someone among them has a plan that requires these independent cultivators. But what can independent cultivators do? How can independent cultivators help?"
At this moment, Tie Ruonan came out of nowhere in the woods holding a sword. Her eyes were bloodshot and she was murderous. Behind her, there were more than a dozen monks dressed in black, holding swords and with murderous intent.
Qin Ran's heart sank. He looked up and saw that it was getting dark.
He suddenly remembered a piece of news that he had subconsciously ignored, that is, every incident in Shenhua Mountain would be accompanied by killings and many people would die. He thought that when there was a crisis in the inheritance land, there would be cultivators gathering and fighting for treasures, and it was normal for people to die.
You can try it soon. 】
But now it seems...
There is something wrong with this. At least there is no crisis in the inheritance land of Shenhua Mountain.
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