It seems that Old Master Dong is a man of his word. He does what he says and starts to do more good deeds to accumulate blessings for his descendants.
The Death Valley has a dangerous terrain and rugged mountain roads. Ye Feng is an ancient martial artist, and even the steep cliffs are as easy to walk on as flat ground. He doesn't feel anything about this kind of mountain road.
Four people from Lu Dayou are professional miners. They often climb mountains and wade through water to cut stones, and they are very experienced in walking on mountain roads. However, they are still out of breath climbing the mountain roads in Kunlun Death Valley, and sweat is oozing from everyone's forehead.
It snowed yesterday, and the sky, earth, mountains and fields were all covered with a layer of silver. Ye Feng walked in front and asked everyone to follow him and move forward in his footsteps, which would be safer this way.
Except for Lu Dayou, the other three didn't know Ye Feng very well. Seeing that Ye Feng didn't even have a mountain exploration stick and was walking on the snow-covered mountain road as if it were flat ground, they were very curious.
But the path Ye Feng led was indeed very easy to walk on, and as long as you followed his footsteps you would not fall into the snow pit.
After walking on the mountain road for an hour, we finally arrived outside Death Valley.
Looking at the notorious Death Valley, except Ye Feng, Lu Dayou and the other three looked nervous.
Before coming here, everyone had heard of the legend of the Death Valley in the Kunlun Mountains. Old Sun smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Ye, humans and animals cannot enter this Death Valley. Once you enter, you can never return. The herdsmen nearby all know about it. Are we going in?"
Lu Dayou also looked at Ye Feng nervously. He thought that Ye Feng did not know the legend of Death Valley. He hoped that Ye Feng could understand what Lao Sun said, that it was not allowed to enter Death Valley.
He agreed to help Ye Feng open a mine, but he couldn't let everyone die because of it.
The other two companions, Lao Chen and Lao Zhou, also looked at Ye Feng nervously.
Ye Feng smiled and said, "That's right. You can't enter this Death Valley. If people or animals go in, they will be struck by lightning, hail and other disasters, and their bodies will be hard to keep."
Lu Dayou and the other three were relieved to see that Ye Feng knew the dangers of Death Valley. They were really worried that young man Ye Feng would not listen to their advice and insist on doing it on his own, which would be dangerous.
However, Ye Feng changed the subject: "But we still have to go in."
Old Zhou was impatient and immediately said, "Didn't you say..."
Ye Feng smiled and said, "Listen to me first. We must go into the Death Valley, but before we go in, we have to do one thing. You wait for me outside the valley for an hour. I will go in first to scout the way for everyone. After an hour, I will come out and we can go in again. There will be no danger."
Lu Dayou knew Ye Feng's abilities. Since Ye Feng said he could get in, then he could definitely get in. He nodded with confidence.
"Brother Ye, you have to be careful. We will wait for you to come out here."
When he first entered the Death Valley last year, Ye Feng did not have a thorough understanding of the secret formations left by Master Tianzhen. After the Huashan Ancient Martial Arts Competition, he broke through the Taiyi Sect's Five Elements Stone Formation, the Shangqing Sect's Four Symbols Sword Formation, the Bingxin Valley's Nine Palaces Ice and Snow Formation, and countless other formations, and gained more experience in breaking formations.
Old Chou once pointed out that the formation in the Death Valley was based on the Four Symbols, creating four extreme weather conditions: wind, snow, lightning, and hail. Once one entered, the formation would be triggered and the person would be killed by the extreme weather.
Only Ye Feng knew that by finding the exit of the weather formation and entering the center of the formation, he could control the terrifying natural force in the formation.
More than a year later, Death Valley is still as dead silent as before, without any signs of life, and animal skeletons are everywhere.
Death Valley has not changed, but Ye Feng has changed.
Ye Feng is no longer the rookie boy who first came to Death Valley last year. Instead, he has been tempered by the flames of dragon's breath, forged with the blood of the ancient gods, and possesses powerful divine powers.
The cold wind blew, ruffling Ye Feng's hair, and his divine eyes swept into the valley.
Maybe it was because he possessed the blood of the ancient gods, in addition to seeing the mysteries of the formation clearly, Ye Feng also saw some special things.
Twenty-eight shining rays of light fell from the sky in the formation. Looking closely, I realized that these rays were the vital energy connecting the formation with the stars in the sky. They were as thick as a wrist and emitted a faint halo in the sunlight.
The twenty-eight energies are secretly connected to the twenty-eight constellations, and are assigned to the four directions of east wood, west metal, north water and south fire. Each direction contains seven constellations.
The life gate in the meteorological formation is not static. It changes with the movement of the stars. Today's life gate has deviated a lot from the direction that Ye Feng entered more than a year ago.
Ye Feng calculated silently in his mind and soon found the life gate at the west gold direction. He entered from the west life gate, stepped on the west seven star direction, then turned to the north seven star direction, and smoothly entered the center of the formation.
The divine eyes of destiny saw twenty-eight rays of vital energy, which completely matched the twenty-eight constellations in the sky. Last year, Ye Feng was still worried that he would take the wrong step. Now, it was like walking on Yangguan Avenue. As long as he followed the twenty-eight rays of vital energy, he would not go wrong.
Ye Feng injected a ray of divine power into the dirt in the center of the formation. An energy wave that was invisible to the naked eye flashed by, and the twenty-eight energy light pillars in the air disappeared. The Four Symbols Formation was shut down by Ye Feng.
Because of the change in energy, the scene in the Death Valley suddenly changed. Some hidden mounds of earth appeared. Ye Feng's heart was surging. Those mounds contained high-quality Yuanqi Stones that were as crystal clear as jade.
At this time, Death Valley, without the protection of the meteorological array, has become an ordinary valley.
At the entrance of the valley, Lu Dayou and the others were still waiting. Lu Dayou saw Ye Feng. One moment he was walking into the valley, and the next moment he disappeared.
How could he know that the valley was filled with energies connected to the stars in the sky and earth. The changes in these energies are invisible to the human eye. Ye Feng was actually still in the valley, right in front of them, but the light had been changed by these mysterious energies, so they could not see Ye Feng walking into the depths of the valley. They could only see the scene a short distance in front of the valley entrance.
When Old Sun saw Ye Feng disappear in the Death Valley, he was a little worried: "Captain, I have a relative who is a herdsman nearby. His entire tribe doesn't dare to come here, not even passing by. They always take a long detour. They say this is a cursed place, a death restricted area. Do we really want to go in with him?"
Old Zhou is a bald, slightly fat man. He is a very down-to-earth person. He said in a low voice, "I will listen to the captain. The captain said to follow him in. Even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire, I, Old Zhou, will not even frown."
Old Chen watched quietly from the side without saying a word, his eyes fixed on Lu Dayou. His meaning was very clear, to follow Lu Dayou's lead.
Lu Dayou knew that everyone was full of doubts, so he smiled faintly and said, "This is your first time meeting Brother Ye, so you don't know him. My Brother Ye has great magical powers, and his abilities can be described as great. Most importantly, he is a kind-hearted and loyal person who will never hurt his friends. If he says he can get in, he will definitely get in, and I, Lu Dayou, will not doubt it."
(End of this chapter)