Qi Zhiheng gazed at the somewhat obscured sea ahead, now shrouded in mist.
His soul power probed into the mist, but he quickly lost his way within it.
After searching unsuccessfully, Qi Zhiheng withdrew his divine sense: "There's something strange ahead; my soul power can't detect the situation."
"Let's try a different direction?" Yang Yitian thought. Since the road ahead was unclear, it might not be the real road.
Qi Zhiheng said, "It's possible that this is the correct path. Can you tell if there are any formations in this sea area?"
Yang Yitian shook his head and said, "My array skills are just average. I can't really tell whether there's an array here."
Qi Zhiheng thought for a moment and said, "In that case, let's go to the side first. If we can find another road, that would be best." After saying that, he immediately turned around and drove in the opposite direction. After driving for three days, Qi Zhiheng once again encountered thick fog ahead.
"There's also thick fog in this direction that's impossible to see through." Qi Zhiheng frowned slightly, indicating that this direction was not the right one.
However, going back seems like a waste of time.
Yang Yitian said, "How about we go and take a look on the other side?"
Qi Zhiheng had some guesses in his mind: "The route we took here might also be like this."
However, he decided to turn back and see how things went before making a decision.
The spirit boat turned around and headed back in the direction it had set off in three days earlier.
Less than three days later, Qi Zhiheng discovered that a fog had appeared ahead.
Qi Zhiheng discerned something from the current situation: "This fog can move."
However, Qi Zhiheng was not entirely clear about the specific patterns of movement.
It wouldn't be right to say it was due to the wind direction, because he could clearly feel that the wind wasn't blowing from the direction of the dense fog. If it were a wind factor, the more likely scenario would be that the fog in front of him was being blown away.
Qi Zhiheng said, "I have a feeling that the direction we came from is also blocked by this fog."
"Then we have no choice but to go in." Yang Yitian wasn't in a panic. Since there was no way out, he could only face the challenge head-on.
Qi Zhiheng used his soul power to check the direction they came from, and sure enough, it was also shrouded in thick fog: "We are already surrounded by this fog, it's hard not to enter it."
As the fog drew ever closer, the two men's spirit boats were forced to sail into it.
Qi Zhiheng examined the mist, but unfortunately, it didn't contain any spiritual energy. Otherwise, he could have thrown out the Spirit-Devouring Insects, which might have been able to devour the mist.
After traveling through the fog for two days, Qi Zhiheng glanced at the sea and asked, "Do you think there's anything strange about this sea?"
Since he couldn't understand the formation, he naturally wanted Yang Yitian to take a look.
Yang Yitian stared at the sea for a while, then slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "There are no fish in the sea!"
Qi Zhiheng: "..." What's the point of this?
Qi Zhiheng said, "Whether there are fish or not is secondary. What's important is whether there are any formations or restrictions in the sea."
Yang Yitian took a look and said, "I can't tell, it's all water..."
After receiving the answer, Qi Zhiheng looked up at the sky again, and Yang Yitian followed suit: "Are there birds in the sky?"
Qi Zhiheng: "..."
"There are no birds in the sky, not even clouds." Qi Zhiheng sat down and asked again, "Do you see any barriers or formations in the sky?"
Yang Yitian shook his head: "There isn't even a cloud in the sky, how can we see the formation?"
Qi Zhiheng fell into deep thought: "The sect leader said that there is a restriction before entering the Central Continent. I'm afraid the fog here is where the restriction is located."
Unable to find any clues, Yang Yitian suggested, "Why don't we go underwater and take a look? The only place I can think of where the formation could be set up is underwater."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go down and take a look!" Qi Zhiheng immediately erected a spiritual energy shield and told Yang Yitian, "I'm going to put the spirit boat away."
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The two men stowed the spirit boat and leaped out of the water.
Just as Yang Yitian said, there were no fish in the water. Not to mention fish, even the sea beasts that were commonly seen at the beginning were nowhere to be found in this area.
This area of the sea is about six or seven hundred meters below the ground. They were moving quite fast and quickly reached the bottom of the water.
The seabed is covered with corals and reefs, and there are no other visible creatures.
After wandering around for a while, Yang Yitian discovered some anomalies.
“This place looks like a natural formation,” Yang Yitian said after surveying the surroundings.
"Is there a way to crack this?" Qi Zhiheng simply looked at it without offering any opinion.
Yang Yitian nodded and said, "I think this should be a large-scale encirclement formation."
He pointed to several locations and said, "Look here, here, and here. The arrangement of these rocks and corals makes them hard to distinguish, and it's easy to get the locations wrong."
Qi Zhiheng carefully examined the area. The coral reefs here were very dense, and there were only a few types of corals moving back and forth. If one was not careful, it would be easy to misjudge one's location and get lost, which is what is commonly known as being lost in a maze.
"Since you have a way, then give it a try." Qi Zhiheng was quite confident in Yang Yitian.
After Yang Yitian dealt with a few rocks and cut down a few corals, the ground shook a bit!
Qi Zhiheng quickly grabbed Yang Yitian's hand to prevent the two from getting separated due to an accident.
However, the supposed earthquake did not occur. Just as the two clasped hands tightly, a huge whirlpool appeared in the water, followed immediately by a spatial passage with a diameter of three meters.
Before Yang Yitian and Qi Zhiheng could hesitate or think, the spatial passage they had just opened trembled twice and seemed to be closing.
Yang Yitian quickly said, "The passage is about to close! Let's go!"
Qi Zhiheng also felt that time was of the essence, so he pulled Yang Yitian and jumped into the spatial passage. The entrance behind them closed within two seconds after the two entered.
Both of them breathed a sigh of relief.
Yang Yitian said with relief, "Thank goodness, the entrance closed so quickly. If it had been someone who was slower, they would have made a wasted trip."
After listening to Yang Yitian's words, Qi Zhiheng fell into an unusual silence.
An invisible force within the spatial passage carried them forward without them having to exert much effort.
Seeing that Qi Zhiheng remained silent, Yang Yitian asked, "Why aren't you saying anything?"
After hesitating for a moment, Qi Zhiheng said, "I'm thinking about the problem of a spatial passage."
"What's the problem?" Yang Yitian listened attentively.
Qi Zhiheng voiced his doubts: "Don't you think the size of this spatial opening is too small? And the time it appears is also very short."
Yang Yitian nodded: "That's true, but we're already here, so there's no need to think about it so much."
Qi Zhiheng shook his head and asked another question: "If we release the spirit boat, do you think it can pass through this spatial passage?"
“Of course not,” Yang Yitian replied without hesitation.
Qi Zhiheng: "Since even our spirit boats can't pass through this spatial passage, do you think the vehicles used by the Central Continent envoys can?"
"..." Yang Yitian suddenly felt a heart attack: "No."
“If they brought so many people to the Central Continent, then their spirit ships would only be larger than ours, and there would be at least three spirit ships.” Qi Zhiheng expressed his doubts. “In other words, given their size and the short time they appeared in the spatial passage with such a small entrance, they shouldn’t have been able to get in. So I suspect that they might not have taken this route to enter the Central Continent.”
Of course, it's also possible that the size and opening time of this spatial passage might be redesigned according to the number of people, but this is just speculation. If there's no evidence for the speculation, then it means they might be on the wrong path!
Yang Yitian felt as if he had been struck by lightning! If they had really taken the wrong path, wouldn't they be doomed?
Before the two could even consider any further possibilities, the force that was supporting them gently tossed them away.
The two were dumped on a grassy field.
As soon as it appeared, the surrounding spiritual energy pressed down, frantically drilling into their pores, trying to enter their spiritual roots and dantian!
Qi Zhiheng immediately sensed something was wrong and said, "Immediately prevent spiritual energy from entering the body."
Yang Yitian didn't have time to think too much before doing as Qi Zhiheng instructed, thus preventing more spiritual energy from entering his body.
However, even when the meridians are balanced, some spiritual energy still remains.
These spiritual energies were clearly extraordinary. Even a small amount of them caused Yang Yitian's meridians to sting. He immediately used his original spiritual power to force all of these spiritual energies out of his body.
Qi Zhiheng did not act immediately, but carefully sensed the strangeness of these spiritual energies. He channeled all the spiritual energy into his left hand and observed it closely.
The purity of this spiritual energy goes without saying; it surpasses even the spiritual energy quality in the Southern Continent. However, in addition to the pure spiritual energy, it also contains some explosive energy. This energy is intertwined with the spiritual artifact, making them inseparable!
If they hadn't stopped the explosive spiritual energy from entering their bodies, they might have been killed by their bodies exploding.
After understanding the situation, Qi Zhiheng forced the spiritual energy out of his body.
Looking around at the lush vegetation, Yang Yitian asked curiously, "Could this be Zhongzhou?"
The richness of spiritual energy here is undeniable, far surpassing anything found in the Southern Continent. But whether this place is the Central Continent or not, Qi Zhiheng couldn't make a definitive conclusion.
Would the people of Zhongzhou live in such an environment filled with explosive spiritual energy? In that case, let alone cultivating, even if they let the spiritual energy enter their bodies on its own, it would cause the cultivators to explode and die.
Qi Zhiheng said, "Let's go check the spiritual energy situation in other places first." If this situation only occurs in some places, then there is still a high possibility that this is the Central Continent.
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