The two boarded the flying artifact and began to fly in other directions.
The spiritual energy here is explosive, so one cannot maintain spiritual power by absorbing spiritual energy from the air; one can only rely on taking pills or using spirit stones to recover.
After they moved a distance away, the bursting of spiritual energy did not decrease at all; on the contrary, it became even more intense!
Qi Zhiheng immediately stopped moving forward and changed direction.
Even after the flying spirit boat had been traveling for a day, the air was still filled with bursting spiritual energy.
Yang Yitian said somewhat dejectedly, "There's not a single person here? It seems this really isn't Zhongzhou. How could Zhongzhou be deserted?"
Qi Zhiheng said, "The situation is still unclear, so don't jump to conclusions so quickly."
Just then, a figure appeared within the range of Qi Zhiheng's soul power. He grabbed Yang Yitian's hand and said, "Someone's here!"
"Where?" Yang Yitian's Hungry Soul Power's field of vision wasn't as far as Qi Zhiheng's, so he could only glance around.
Qi Zhiheng pointed in a direction: "It's over there, let's go take a look."
Qi Zhiheng didn't fly over in his spirit boat because he saw that the other party wasn't using a spirit boat or flying on a sword either, but was simply walking. He completely sealed off any leakage of his spiritual energy; if he hadn't been able to sense the other party's power as a Nascent Soul cultivator, he would have almost thought the other party was just an ordinary person.
Because he didn't use spiritual power or create a spiritual aura shield around his body, he was as simple and unassuming as an ordinary person.
Qi Zhiheng also made Yang Yitian follow his example and seal his spiritual power to avoid being seen as an outcast.
Yang Yitian and Qi Zhiheng walked on the ground. Since they didn't know how far the other's soul power perception range was, they walked quite a distance for safety reasons.
Soon, the man noticed Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian approaching and immediately became wary.
Qi Zhiheng noticed the other party's wariness, so he carefully examined the other party's condition. The other party was holding a bow and arrow, and there were some bloodstains in the bag behind him.
Qi Zhiheng immediately guessed that the other party might be there to hunt.
This sounds a bit funny; cultivators actually hunting with bows and arrows?
However, once Qi Zhiheng realized that he couldn't absorb spiritual energy from the air to recover himself here, he could understand why the other party would do this.
Qi Zhiheng, with Yang Yitian by his side, soon encountered the other party.
"Who goes there!" The other person exuded hostility.
Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian clearly hadn't taken any action, yet they were met with hostility from the other party. From this, he had three guesses about this person:
1. This person is doing something shady.
Second, this person has a grudge against someone! He is worried that he is his enemy.
Third, the people here are instinctively wary of others!
There's no need to mention the first one; this person is hunting, which shouldn't be considered a secret.
Secondly, he couldn't be sure. Thirdly, he hadn't encountered anyone other than this person in the Out-of-Body stage, so he could only suppress his doubts for now.
Qi Zhiheng stepped forward very politely and said, "Senior, we apologize for disturbing you. We have no ill intentions."
The Nascent Soul cultivator did not immediately lower his guard, but instead asked from the same distance, "Quickly state your purpose."
Qi Zhiheng asked a question that subtly shifted the focus: "Senior, how do we get out of here? We got lost for a moment." He didn't specify whether they wanted to leave this forest or the area encompassed by the explosive spiritual energy, so he wanted to know what this Nascent Soul stage cultivator subconsciously "thought."
The other party didn't notice the trap in his words. Seeing that the two of them wisely didn't approach, he didn't intend to make things difficult for them. He pointed in a direction and said, "Over there, walk about five kilometers in this direction, and you'll see a stream. Follow the downstream of the stream, and you'll be able to get out of this forest."
Qi Zhiheng quickly thanked him, but his heart sank.
Qi Zhiheng could see the other party's wariness, so he didn't linger and left with Yang Yitian.
After walking some distance, and when the other party's soul power could no longer detect them, Yang Yitian asked, "Will there be spiritual energy after we leave the forest?"
Qi Zhiheng shook his head and said, "I don't know yet, but I do know one thing."
"What is it?" Yang Yitian tilted his head curiously.
Qi Zhiheng sighed and said, "If the spiritual energy continues to explode like this, except in the grove, then it can basically prove that this is not Zhongzhou."
He just made a mark, without specifying the location, but it would generally be in the area of dividing lines.
If there is normal spiritual energy here, then when he asks this question, the other person should subconsciously think that he wants to know how to get out of this area with violent spiritual energy.
The other party directly stated that if the spiritual energy outside the forest was abnormal, it could only mean that this area was a region with violent spiritual energy, and therefore could not be Zhongzhou.
After hearing the explanation, Yang Yitian became a little nervous and asked, "What if this isn't Zhongzhou?"
Qi Zhiheng said calmly, "There's nothing we can do. Just find a way out. Anyway, I have my own space. Even if you can't cultivate outside, I can send you into my space to recover your spiritual energy. Even if you want to cultivate, there's no problem."
Indeed, while the spiritual energy here may have some influence on them, it cannot hinder their cultivation.
The two of them left the woods. Unfortunately, there was also violent spiritual energy in the air outside the woods.
The two moved a distance apart again, but the situation remained the same.
Upon learning that this was not Zhongzhou, Yang Yitian said somewhat exasperatedly, "This is not Zhongzhou." At the same time, he also realized the key to everything.
Qi Zhiheng patted his head to comfort him.
Yang Yitian said, "Half of that formation is a trap!" The seabed is indeed the location of the maze, but the opened spatial passage is a trap!
The spatial passage was not the right path at all; they should have returned to the sea, where the fog should have dissipated.
However, the spatial passage appeared and disappeared too quickly, leaving them no time to consider whether it was the correct exit before they jumped in. After all, if they missed this passage, who knew if they would ever have another chance to leave?
By exploiting their anxiety, they were able to lure them into a trap! In this way, they did leave the misty seabed, but the place they arrived at was no longer the same space.
Qi Zhiheng nodded, which was considered as agreeing with Yang Yitian's statement.
Yang Yitian said with some guilt, "Hey! It's all my fault for giving you the wrong directions! I've brought you to this place where you can't cultivate."
Qi Zhiheng replied, "It's not that I can't cultivate." As he spoke, he absorbed some spiritual energy into his body.
Yang Yitian interrupted him somewhat angrily, "What are you doing?"
Qi Zhiheng smiled slightly, pinched his cheek and said, "Don't worry too much. I tried it out, and the spiritual energy here isn't unsuitable for cultivation. Do you remember the Five Elements Body Tempering Technique that I practiced?"
"I remember, it's a body-tempering technique that requires burning a lot of spirit stones, of course I remember." Yang Yitian didn't know what Qi Zhiheng meant by bringing up this technique now.
Qi Zhiheng said, "I discovered that the Five Elements Body Tempering Technique can handle the violence in this spiritual energy and achieve the effect of body tempering. I can even save a lot of spirit stones from this spiritual energy."
"Really?" Yang Yitian recovered somewhat from his dejection and looked up at Qi Zhiheng expectantly.
He felt genuinely guilty for leading Qi Zhiheng astray. He would be most grateful if he could help Qi Zhiheng in any way he could.
"It's true." Qi Zhiheng confirmed the fact. "Although we can't absorb too much at once, it can indeed have a certain effect on our physique."
After Qi Zhiheng said that, Yang Yitian felt much more at ease.
The two began to explore this unknown world.
There are no demonic beasts or spirit beasts here, probably because the spiritual energy is so intense that even demonic beasts and spirit beasts cannot survive here.
The creatures that can still move around here, apart from humans, are all ordinary wild beasts without any spiritual energy.
In the absence of spiritual energy, one does indeed need the meat of wild beasts to prolong life. However, the meat of these ordinary wild beasts will produce impurities in the body. But for cultivators, life is more important.
Unlike the mythical beasts and monsters, the plants here are different.
Unlike the animals here, the plants here are perfectly adapted to grow, and even grow very lushly.
However, those spiritual herbs cannot be eaten because they are also rich in violent energy, and eating them is no different from absorbing spiritual energy from the air.
Fortunately, there are also common plants here, so providing food for humans and animals is not a problem at all.
Not only are there spiritual herbs here, but they are also growing exceptionally well! Qi Zhiheng and Yang Yitian were practically drooling as they looked at those thousand-year-old and ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herbs!
Yang Yitian wailed, "Why can't these spiritual herbs be used!"
Qi Zhiheng came to his senses and comforted her, "You have to understand, if these spiritual herbs were edible, they wouldn't grow to this age."
Yang Yitian nodded somewhat dejectedly. He understood the reasoning, but he just couldn't control his feelings for Shoushan!
"Is there any way to remove the violent factors from these spiritual herbs?" Yang Yitian wondered, somewhat fancifully.
Qi Zhiheng shook his head and said, "If the spiritual energy in the spiritual herbs could be separated, then the spiritual energy in the air could also be purified, but I really can't do that."
Yang Yitian said with some interest, "Why don't I give it a try! Maybe I can create a talisman that can separate spiritual energy!"
Qi Zhiheng nodded and said, "Perhaps you can do it, but let's find a place to settle down first."
Since there were people in the woods, and they only showed some wariness when they saw them without finding anything strange, it meant that there must be other people here.
The fact that people could move around in this forest, and that they probably came on foot, proves that the human settlement is not too far away, at least within walking distance.
Qi Zhiheng extended his soul power further to investigate the situation.
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