Chapter 194 – The Secret of the Center District
However, Han Li was not in a hurry! Because the center area of this forbidden land was really quite different from the outside area.
Outside the center area of the other regions, the spirit of the grass and fruits, most of them are irregular arbitrary growth, in any corner of the region, it is possible to find their traces, generally first come first served, and the person who gets it will also immediately disappear. Therefore, in these places, not many conflicts really erupted because of the elixir, but because of other people’s great cleansing and some people’s murderous actions to seize the treasure, more people were buried.
But when it came to the center area, it was a different story! According to the disciples who had returned by chance before, this central area was huge, almost taking up more than a third of the entire forbidden land, and was surrounded by stone walls to form a large circle. And counting inward from the perimeter of the four copper gates, the entire area was divided into three major outer layers, as if it were the skin, flesh and core of an ordinary fruit, with distinct and peculiar levels.
The beautifully picturesque place Han Li was currently in was the outermost layer of the central area.
According to the information, the lot from here to the next layer was not large, and should only be a mile or so wide. The flowers, plants, and trees that grew within this area were rare and precious, though they were all rare and precious in the world. But the ones that can be used as elixirs and have practical effects on Immortal Cultivators are few and far between, and most of them can only be used for ornamental purposes.
Many people of the seven sects have speculated that this layer of the area should be the owner of the forbidden land deliberately so, is to take this layer as a garden-like location, those who compete, extremely eye-catching flowers, plants, fruits and trees, originally is to let the owner of the forbidden land to enjoy the use of the eye. If you want to find something useful from it. That is not as good as to the other areas of the forbidden land to find, more save point it!
The top-grade elixirs that are truly useful to Immortal cultivators are still produced in the second layer of the center area. Most of the disciples of the various sects who entered this place came here for this layer. The three main medicines for refining the Foundation Establishment Pill were also present, so they were naturally their biggest target. Han Li was equally determined to obtain these elixirs!
Speaking of this second layer area, it really left Han Li, who had just seen the relevant information, stunned for half a day.
Because this second layer is completely a huge ring-shaped mountain range, all year round are unable to reach the fingers of the fog blocked tightly. And in this mountain, there are both caves, dense valleys, crags and other natural spiritual places, as well as stone houses, stone halls and other artificial buildings, and all kinds of heaven and earth spirit medicines grow in these places.
That ugly man and Han Li exchange of information, mainly is the location of these medicinal plants distribution map, because who can not guarantee that they enter this place, the existing information will certainly contain their own area, so this aspect of the distribution map of course, the more the better, so that it will be easier to be seated, according to the map to find.
However, the mists of this mountain were too big and too thick! Immortal cultivators usually enter this mountain, simply walk a few steps outside will be completely lost in the fog, can only be a foot deep and shallow slowly groping to move forward, as for whether they can walk out again, can rely on their own luck.
But even more headache is, in the ring-shaped mountain there are countless demonic beasts, from the lower level of the flame rat, chasing the wind rabbit, to the top of the level of the golden light python, ice and fire wolves, almost contains all of the seven sects have heard of or have not heard of the first level of the types of demonic beasts.
Their strength is low, six or seven layers of Immortal Cultivators can deal with seven or eight of them without any problem, but if the top of the high order, even if it is the seven sects of the elite disciples encountered, there is only the part of the fleeing.
But fortunately, the last category of demonic beasts in this mountain is very rare, and most of them have become specialized in guarding some kind of spiritual medicine guardian beast, easily outside will not meet!
Therefore, most of the hot-handed demonic beasts were still mostly of the first grade and upper rank. However, after several elite disciples join hands, they can easily solve them. Of course, if they were to encounter them alone, a bloody battle would be inevitable. A bloody battle was inevitable.
Whether it’s the mist on the mountain, or the demonic beasts entrenched in the mountain, if only one of them is encountered alone, these high-minded and proud elite disciples may still be able to reluctantly give it a try and risk sneaking into the mountain to collect medicines, but now that the two are encountered at the same time, these disciples can only look at each other in dismay. Going up the mountain in this situation was definitely a no-go!
Therefore, the first few batches of disciples who entered the forbidden land back then were just picking up some ordinary medicinal herbs outside of the center area, and didn’t enter the ring-shaped mountain at all.
But a few times later, there is a cover the moon sect of cultivators, took great pains to refine a magic treasure called “moon sun pearl”. This thing can neither attack the enemy nor defense, the only role, is can release the strange light, can restrain all kinds of fog and poisonous miasma, is this person specially for the forbidden land trip and specially prepared.
Sure enough, get this treasure cover the moon sect disciples, in the next open forbidden land shine.
After dispelling most of the mists on the backs of the rest of the sects, they returned on the Ringed Mountain with a full load. And with this harvest, they refined a large number of Foundation Establishment Pills, and then recruited disciples widely, allowing the sect’s strength to soar by leaps and bounds, and henceforth establishing the Mooncovering Sect’s position as the No. 1 Immortal Cultivation Sect in the Yue Country.
However, as the saying goes, there is no impermeable wall in the world. The news that the Moon Hiding Sect utilized the “Moon Sun Pearl” to obtain a large amount of heaven and earth spirit medicine in the forbidden land still spread. Soon after, let not willing to eat its own six factions to find the door.
Not willing to commit public anger, but also unwilling to hand over the treasure pearl of the Hidden Moon Sect, and the other six factions after a lot of tug of war and bargaining, and finally offered the treasure pearl, into the seven factions of the common things.
Then this treasure, by the seven factions take turns in charge, after each trip to the forbidden land, the original faction in charge of the treasure beads will be handed over this treasure, replaced by another faction to take over the preservation.
But no matter what sect holds the treasure pearl, once to the forbidden land, its disciples must be in the other sects under the supervision of the disciples, in the pre-determined time to use this treasure, never intentionally preempt or delay the time to dispel the mist.
In this way, all disciples who arrived at the center area in time would be able to enter the ring-shaped mountain at the same time to collect spiritual herbs, which seemed to be extremely fair.
With such conditions, it appeared that the Moon Hiding Sect had suffered a great loss and had to put off its dream of monopolizing the forbidden spirit medicine, but in reality, it also gave the Moon Hiding Sect the opportunity to avoid the disaster of extinction and leave behind the opportunity to gradually become stronger.
By now, the Moon Hiding Sect has become a leader among the seven major sects, and its strength is unfathomable! The rest of the sects would not be able to fight against it at all if they did not join forces two by two!
And Han Li did not get anxious, and the ugly man in front of him has not been panicked, the reason for the mouth is not the heart, also lies in this!
This time, the seven factions had already made an appointment to dispel the mists before entering, on the morning of the third day.
Han Li had previously been rushing to the center area without a break, just for fear of being blocked by someone on the way, delaying the time to enter the mountain. Now that he had already entered the central area, he didn’t need to be in a hurry instead! Now it was just a matter of rushing to the second layer, and it would just be a dry eye at the mists there!
As for the third layer in the center of the forbidden land, it was even more mysterious!
As long as stood at the top of the ring-shaped mountain, can clearly see, in the second layer surrounded by a large area, there is a hundred feet high giant pagoda towers in the center, while the pagoda is surrounded by a large area of green forest, the pagoda will be surrounded by the water. This was the so-called third layer, the very core of the forbidden land!
After hearing the descriptions of the disciples of their sects, the seven sects’ high ranking people immediately knew that this was the original residence of the owner of the forbidden land, and they were really keen on the things within this pagoda!
But at the junction of the second and third levels, there was a layer of unknown and powerful forbidding system still in operation, blocking all the disciples who tried to break in. This prohibition was simply not something that a mere Qi Refining Stage disciple could break through, but cultivators above the Foundation Establishment Stage were unable to enter the forbidden area. So what exactly this pagoda had was still an unsolved mystery!
Han Li was not at all interested in the giant tower within this third layer! To him, if he could find enough heaven and earth spirit medicines in the second layer and then retreat in one piece, this would be considered thanking the gods and God and Buddha for blessing him.
Han Li and the ugly man in front of him had patiently dealt with the situation for a quarter of an hour before getting rid of the man’s pestering and stepping into the grass and trees to the side! Pro disappeared, he looked back at the other side, see that Zhong Wu is still lazy stay in place, and not the slightest intention to leave!
It seems that these “masters”, until the other disciples who want to fish in the water, clear out a nine out of ten, will not stop! It is estimated that the remaining three sects should all have people doing the same thing!
As Han Li pondered, he searched around for something far away from the Copper Gate.
Under a large sky-high tree, Han Li found an inconspicuous tree hole, which brought joy to his heart. After burrowing in headfirst, he did a little protective maneuvering at the hole’s entrance, and then huffed and puffed as he stopped thinking about anything.
Han Li could use a good rest, God knows what else would happen when he broke through the mists of the Ringed Mountain early tomorrow morning! He first had to restore his state to its peak before it was a complete solution.
However, he believed that there would never be too many disciples from various sects who could stand in front of the Ringed Mountain tomorrow, waiting to break the mist! And none of them would be much better to deal with than that Feng Yue.
This sleep, Han Li slept extremely sweet, until the early morning of the next day, he slowly woke up. The most important day of the trip to the forbidden land, finally came!