Chapter 23: A Preliminary Exploration of the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts
At the entrance of the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts, the air was damp, mixed with the smell of rotten leaves and soil, as thick as a wet cloth stuck to your face.
Zheng Qiuyu stepped in with the sleeping Shaohuo on his back.
The ground beneath my feet was abnormally soft, and every step felt like stepping on swollen, rotting flesh.
The surrounding fog was so thick that it could not be dispersed. Three steps away, only the vague outlines of trees remained.
The restriction set by Elder Wang was indeed vicious. It was intended to make her become a headless fly as soon as she entered.
But there was no panic on Zheng Qiuyu's face.
She stopped, closed her eyes, and her nostrils twitched slightly.
Modern geographical knowledge told her that the air in the valley should have a direction, no matter how weak it was.
But here, the air is dead.
[System prompt: Within 300 meters ahead, there are seven low-level hidden formations that disrupt the flow of spiritual energy and distort spatial perception.]
really.
She opened her eyes and looked down at the sleeping man in her arms.
His scorching brows were still furrowed, and even in deep sleep, the power in his body was restless.
Zheng Qiuyu leaned close to his ear, his voice so soft that only he could hear it.
"The power in your body is not right. Follow my rhythm and don't act recklessly."
As she finished speaking, she clearly felt that the chaotic aura on her back, which was about to get out of control, had actually tamed down a little.
Just like a giant beast about to break out of its cage, it was patted on the head by its owner, neither too light nor too heavy, and it calmed down temporarily.
She bypassed the first trap marked by the system and walked towards the dense forest on the left.
The forest became darker, and the light was completely filtered out by the layers of treetops.
A few suppressed wolf howls came from a distance, eerie and hungry.
Soon, more than a dozen pairs of green eyes lit up in the darkness and silently surrounded her.
Low-level bloodthirsty spirit wolves win in numbers and ferocity.
Zheng Qiuyu carefully placed the burning fire under a big tree and quickly scanned the surrounding terrain.
A few protruding rocks, a natural slope, and some seemingly fragile vines.
A simple blueprint of "trap engineering" instantly took shape in my mind.
Instead of retreating, she took two steps towards the wolves, then turned around and ran up the slope.
This completely enraged the wolves.
“Ouch!”
More than a dozen spirit wolves chased after them, roaring.
Zheng Qiuyu ran to the top of the slope, pulled out a dagger, and quickly cut off a thick vine that he had been eyeing.
The other end of the vine was connected to a huge rock that she had previously pried loose with a dagger.
Rumble!
The huge rock rolled down and blocked the only narrow path for the wolves to pursue.
But that’s not all.
She went around to the other side and stuck a few sharpened branches diagonally into the ground, camouflaging them with weeds and fallen leaves.
A simple chain of traps is completed.
She patted the dirt off her hands and whispered to herself:
"Luckily I took wilderness survival as an elective, so this wave is worth it."
The spirit wolves, whose way was blocked by the huge rocks, dug the soil anxiously. A few of them impatiently tried to go around from the bushes on both sides, and stepped into the spike traps she had set.
For a moment, wailing sounds were heard everywhere.
Just when Zheng Qiuyu thought she could breathe a sigh of relief, a strong sense of crisis made her hair stand on end.
Deep in the bushes, a leopard, much larger than the wolf, slowly walked out.
Its entire body was covered with green scales, and with every breath it took, tiny wind blades came out of its nostrils, cutting the surrounding grass leaves.
A Wind-Splitting Leopard in the Foundation Establishment Stage.
The eyes of the Wind-Splitting Leopard were cold and cruel. It was obviously attracted by the screams of the Spirit Wolf, but at this moment, its target was only Zheng Qiuyu, the "culprit".
Too fast.
Zheng Qiuyu only saw a green shadow flash by, and a fishy wind blew in his face.
At this moment, the burning fire under the tree, and the Wenshen Jade between the eyebrows suddenly lit up without warning.
A terrifying aura that could not be described in words flashed from his body.
That aura did not carry any murderous intent, but was filled with the most primitive and purest sense of destruction, as if it was the chaos itself before the creation of heaven and earth.
Time seemed to be frozen.
The Wind-Splitting Leopard, which was about to pounce, froze in mid-air. The cruelty in its eyes was instantly replaced by an endless fear that came from deep in its blood.
“Ouch—”
With a shrill and out-of-tune wail, the Wind-Splitting Leopard's huge body twisted violently in mid-air. After landing, it rolled and crawled away into the depths of the dense forest, its speed more than ten times faster than when it came.
…
In a hidden cave far outside the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts.
Elder Wang's trusted disciple was staring intently at a bronze mirror in front of him.
The image in the mirror was blurry, and only a human figure and chaotic aura could be seen.
Suddenly, the mirror shook violently, and a green shadow fled from the screen in panic.
"Brother, that... that looks like a Wind-Splitting Leopard?" A disciple next to him said in a trembling voice.
The trusted disciple's face looked extremely ugly.
"Go back and report to Master, and tell him... that woman's methods were strange, and the Wind-Splitting Leopard was scared away."
Inside Elder Wang’s cave.
After listening to the report, Elder Wang crushed the teacup in his hand into powder with a "bang".
"waste!"
He cursed, but an indescribable uneasiness surged in his heart.
A mortal at the third level of Qi Refining scared off a monster at the Foundation Establishment stage?
This is impossible!
"Pass my order, have 'Shadow' prepare." Elder Wang's voice darkened, a fierce glint in his eyes. "This time, I will make sure she dies without a burial place."
…
After the Wind-Splitting Leopard escaped, Zheng Qiuyu's back was soaked with cold sweat.
She immediately ran to Zhuo Huo, patted his shoulder gently, and said in a calm tone:
"Your built-in deterrence buff is quite useful, thank you."
She used her spiritual power to perfectly package this unconscious outburst as a preview of the awakening of the "divine fetus".
The chaotic power in Zhuo Huo's body that was about to get out of control calmed down again after being comforted by these words.
Zheng Qiuyu silently gave this crisis public relations a full score in his heart.
The KPI completion rate of the project of the trip to the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts has been greatly improved.
She opened the system map and based on the location where the Wind-Splitting Leopard had just appeared and the system's analysis of the fluctuations in spiritual energy in the valley, she quickly narrowed down the area where ambergris might be present to a swamp deep in the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts.
The goal is clear, keep moving forward.
She put Scorchblade on her back again and headed towards the swamp.
She muttered to herself as she walked.
"There are rare spiritual herbs here that can help the divine fetus awaken."
This sentence is not completely empty talk.
She could clearly feel that as she spoke, the chaotic aura emanating from Shaohuo's body was subtly changing the surrounding environment.
Some ordinary plants seem to grow more lushly.
The spiritual energy in the air also seemed to become more active.
Night falls.
Zheng Qiuyu found a dry cave to rest temporarily.
As soon as she sat down, her heart suddenly skipped a beat and an inexplicable throbbing rose from the bottom of her heart.
From the deepest part of the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts, an extremely faint resonance came.
That resonance and the scorching chaotic aura came from the same source.
【Warning: Unknown high-dimensional resonance source detected.】
The resonant frequency and the host's constructed "Miracle Trial" script are resonating synchronously. Warning! The script is being completed by an unknown force!
Zheng Qiuyu's heart sank suddenly.
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