Chapter 276 The Third Valley (1)
The outermost peaks of the Zhongqu Mountains can be seen with the naked eye on the horizon. Liaobao, not far away, gives off an aura of being on high alert, but Luo Xuanyi doesn't care.
Gathering the scattered death energy into a human form, Luo Xuanyi looked at the formation that only she could see with great interest, sensing that the Soul-Falling Formation of the Inter-World was functioning as usual.
To be honest, Luo Xuanyi originally just wanted to give it a try, but she didn't expect that a formation could actually accommodate the souls of three people at the same time.
It was worth her effort to guide them, deliberately exposing her flaws to lure the two men into attacking.
Luo Xuanyi checked to make sure the three hadn't left her with any aftereffects. Of the three Nascent Soul cultivators, the poison cultivator and the weapon cultivator were all ignored by Luo Xuanyi, but Zhou Kui, a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Midie Sect, proved a bit more problematic. The purple smoke Zhou Kui emitted was surprisingly disruptive to Luo Xuanyi's thinking, so, just to be safe, she quickly knocked him out.
Now, it's time to test the formation.
Luo Xuanyi's main flag had been imbued with formation properties, allowing it to be manipulated from a distance. Now that her prey had been trapped within the formation, there was no need for her to stand there idly. If the three of them had been more cautious, news of her attack on Fang Hui City might have spread to the six major alliances. Regardless, she needed to find a quiet place to think.
Several strands of deathly energy swept up the bodies of the three people. Just as Luo Xuanyi was about to move away, he suddenly stopped and felt something rubbing against his feet.
It felt rough to the touch. She lowered her head. There seemed to be nothing on the ground, but Luo Xuanyi wasn't seeing with her "eyes." The dead energy she used to sense gathered around this invisible object, outlining a shape.
It looked like the toad Luo Xuanyi saw in the fields of Guhu Town, but it was magnified many times.
As if sensing Luo Xuanyi had "seen" it, the five-eyed toad proactively digested the elixir Hua Fu had fed it, revealing its form. Its khaki body and sturdy, fleshy limbs—its forelimbs alone were probably as long as Luo Xuanyi's—needed to lie flat on the ground to rub its head against her feet. Its five eyes opened a fraction, and it squinted at Luo Xuanyi's expression, uttering a flattering sound.
"Quack."
It's a toad.
This toad must have been the poison cultivator's mount. Luo Xuanyi's understanding of spiritual beasts wasn't as straightforward as her understanding of spiritual herbs and plants. After careful reflection, she finally found the name of the five-eyed toad from her memories of reading the "Compendium of the Four Directions Heavenly Spirits."
The Five-Eyed Toad is said to be violent and difficult to tame, submitting only to the powerful. Taming a Five-Eyed Toad requires starting with a cub and subjecting it to harsh torture until it reluctantly obeys. However, once it matures, it becomes rebellious and requires further taming.
Luo Xuanyi lowered her head, somewhat puzzled, to look at the five-eyed toad. It lay motionless on the ground, obediently still. The man and the beast stared at each other. Luo Xuanyi didn't sense any murderous intent or hostility from it; it seemed it had no desire to avenge its master.
This was her first time coming into such close contact with a living demon beast. She could even feel a hint of warmth from her feet. Before this, Luo Xuanyi had only touched the corpses of demon beasts. Seeing the Five-Eyed Toad so well-behaved, Luo Xuanyi simply used her death energy to wrap it up and take it away first.
As the fake stars shone in the sky, a black cloud rose from the earth and quickly drifted to the south. Under the vigilant gaze of Liaobao, it fell into the Zhongqu Mountains.
As soon as she entered the Zhongqu Mountains, even after just passing a few of the outer hills, Luo Xuanyi gradually noticed that the temperature around her began to drop. But it didn't drop to freezing temperatures, but remained at a slightly humid warmth. It was spring.
Luo Xuanyi looked down at the endless, uneven mountain peaks, dotted with colorful patterns. Some peaks seemed to be covered in a layer of white snow. The scorching sun, often called a natural disaster, seemed to have no effect here.
From this point alone, we can conclude that this mountain range is magical.
The Zhongqu Mountains were largely unknown to Luo Xuanyi. Her flight was too conspicuous, so she immediately located a low mountain on the outermost edge and landed there. She carefully sent out her Death Qi to investigate, confirming there was nothing strange about the mountain. Only then did Luo Xuanyi finally land beside a waterfall and abandon the three of them, along with the Five-Eyed Toad, down below.
The three of them rolled slightly on the ground, unconsciously. The five-eyed toad landed nimbly, leaping back toward Luo Xuanyi a few times before crawling to her feet. Seeing that it didn't seem to have any intention of escaping, Luo Xuanyi couldn't think of what to do with it for a moment, so she simply ignored it for the time being and turned her attention back to the test formation.
Thanks to her connection with the fake stars in the sky, Luo Xuanyi could clearly sense the operation of the formation even from a distance of a hundred miles. However, she had not yet immersed herself in the "scene" and "story", and the formation was still a chaotic mess.
Of course, there was a reason for not immediately immersing herself in the story. Luo Xuanyi casually took out a red bead-like magical instrument and threw it towards Lu Yanyan, who was lying on the ground.
Lu Yanyan was caught off guard, but the magic weapon was slightly blurred and distorted, and did not touch his body, but directly embedded into the ground, causing a flame.
The flames spread, enveloping the three men, but not even their clothes, and instead burned a hole in the ground before extinguishing. Their bodies fell to the bottom of the hole as the ground collapsed, but they remained unscathed.
Luo Xuanyi took out a few more daggers and threw them at the three people. The daggers became fuzzy and distorted for a moment when they passed through them before falling to the ground, without leaving any wounds on them.
It seemed impossible to kill them directly. Luo Xuanyi stared at the three people and wrote down the results of the experiment.
The Soul-Falling Formation could capture souls without hindrance, leaving the captured soul's body defenseless outside the formation. The Observer Dao hadn't mentioned not harming the body of those who entered the formation, so Luo Xuanyi couldn't help but give it a try.
If it were feasible, then the details of the formation wouldn't matter anymore; all that was needed was to absorb their souls and then kill their bodies. Unfortunately, because the formation seemed to distort reality, their bodies were caught between the two. Luo Xuanyi could touch them but couldn't inflict any harm.
After the additional experiments were completed, Luo Xuanyi began to conceive the operation of this formation.
From reading some of their memories through the Soul-Falling Formation in the Interstellar World, it can be known that Hua Fu, Lu Yanyan and Zhou Kui all came from a small branch of a family of immortal cultivators. They started practicing since childhood, and their Tao hearts are stronger than those of ordinary cultivators, and are difficult to shake with simple reasons.
But in contrast, their thoughts and emotions are simpler and more straightforward, unlike the complexities of ordinary people. Good and evil, likes and dislikes, are all black and white. In this light, the overall overly benevolent town of Guhu seems unsuitable for this setting.
But besides Guhu Town, she had tried Fuji Town, but she didn't understand it well enough to build a complete one. Even if she did build it, the overall atmosphere would be similar to Guhu Town...
That’s right.
After much thought, Luo Xuanyi finally reacted.
The place she knew so well, filled with deadly malice, lay hidden in her memory.
The Third Valley, the place where she was created.
First update~ Sister Yi didn't react before because she subconsciously hated life in the Third Valley
P.S. This is where I got stuck, the Third Valley, where Sister Yi lived for ten years, shaped her, and influenced her life. The story in this formation is quite long, and it can't be solved in one or two chapters. I am struggling with whether the pace should be fast or slow.
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