After asking this question, Zheng Kai saw Xu Ran smiling and saying nothing. He was stunned for a moment, and then he suddenly realized and said with a smile: "Haha, I asked too much, Brother Xu just pretended that I didn't say anything."
The rumors that it is difficult to determine the direction in the Black Cloud Valley are definitely true, and the people of the Netherworld Sect have a way to freely enter and exit the Black Cloud Valley. Needless to say, this is naturally a huge secret. How can they tell outsiders casually? .
Everyone continued to move forward for a while. Because it was impossible to judge the time based on the sky in the valley, Bai Yunfei could only roughly estimate that he had walked more than a hundred miles. To everyone, this distance was nothing. He would feel tired, but he didn't know how long he would have to walk like this, because the environment was so monotonous and the surrounding scenery remained unchanged, he almost thought he was standing still.
Finally, after walking about two hundred miles, the scene in front of me finally changed.
The surrounding black fog seems to have faded a little, and the visibility has reached about two hundred meters. The ground under the feet is no longer desolate earth and rocks, but gradually has sparse weeds, and even one or two trees can be seen occasionally. The shadows of the trees, but I don't know if it is affected by the surrounding black fog, but even the color of these plants looks black.
Xu Ran told Bai Yunfei that starting from here is the real range of Black Cloud Valley, and reminded him not to follow him for a hundred meters, otherwise he would easily get lost.
Bai Yunfei took this reminder seriously, because from just now, he had discovered something unusual here. Although the environment here seemed better than before, he felt that the inexplicable The feeling of depression is several times stronger than before.
This oppression comes from the induction of his soul consciousness. When he releases his soul consciousness to explore the surroundings, he always feels that there is an invisible force in the air crowding out his soul consciousness, and it seems like there are countless hands stirring in the water. Likewise, his soul consciousness always had an 'unreal' feeling, which felt very uncomfortable.
Speaking of which, this feeling is somewhat similar to the situation when you were in the enemy's phantom array, but the difference is that the phantom array constructed with illusion stones has obvious artificial control of the atmosphere, but at this moment, the surrounding depressive power , completely 'natural', just like ordinary people who have difficulty breathing due to the influence of air pressure at high places, it exists all the time, and there is no way to get rid of it, they can only adapt to it.
Bai Yunfei and Zheng Kai, who looked equally uncomfortable, looked at each other, and then looked at Xu Ran and Han Yue in front of them, who looked normal. Both of them felt surprised in their hearts - Could it be that this person from the Netherworld Sect is under this black cloud? In the valley, it was not affected
"Tsk, this place feels really uncomfortable. Hey, Xiaolan, why don't you seem to feel anything at all?"
"Feeling? What does it feel like?"
"Don't you feel uncomfortable?"
"No, what's wrong?"
At this time, the conversation between Xiao Qi and Long Lan came from behind. Bai Yunfei was stunned, looked back at Long Lan, and asked curiously: "Long Lan, don't you feel any discomfort?"
Long Lan glanced at him doubtfully, shook his head and said, "I feel nothing."
Bai Yunfei's eyes flickered, and he thought to himself: "So... is it because of the cultivation of dark energy? Dark soul masters and soul beasts will not be affected?"
In front, Han Yue slightly turned back to glance at Xiao Qi and Long Lan. There was still unconcealed surprise and a hint of envy in her eyes. She still didn't believe it. These two were both seventh-level soul beasts, and there was one. It's just Bai Yunfei's contracted soul beast.
It was incredible to her that a soul master owned a seventh-level contracted soul beast.
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To Bai Yunfei's surprise, the further he walked in, the surrounding environment became clearer and clearer. The black fog that filled the surrounding area gradually dissipated. There were more and more plants on the ground, and traces of small animals and insects began to appear. After arriving, the scene in front of me became completely like an 'ordinary' valley.
The shadows of the mountains could be seen in the distance on both sides, and large trees began to appear around them. There were overgrown weeds at the feet. Everything seemed to be 'normal' - except for the black clouds that always covered the top of the head.
Of course, although the scene in front of me is 'normal', the feeling of oppression between heaven and earth has not diminished at all, and it is gradually getting deeper as we go deeper.
When they arrived at this place, Mu Chen, who was leading the way, obviously accelerated his pace. After traveling for about a hundred miles, the surrounding situation changed again - Bai Yunfei began to feel the breath of the soul beast.
Moreover, they are extremely powerful soul beasts, most of which are level five or even six. They all live on the mountains on both sides, and they all seem to be lurking in their own 'territory'. Although they should also feel the aura of everyone, But no soul beast rushed out to attack.
When everyone reached the edge of a cliff tens of meters high, Mu Chen turned to Bai Yunfei and the others and said, "From here on, we will pass through the air. Please follow me carefully and try not to disturb me." The soul beasts below, so as not to cause trouble."
Bai Yunfei nodded and said: "Senior Mu, don't worry, we will pay attention."
Mu Chen nodded and took the lead to fly out. Xu Ran and Han Yue also released their flying swords. Following closely behind, Bai Yunfei took out the Storm Flying Sword. Zheng Kai also had his own flying sword. The two followed. Flying up, Xiao Qi and Long Lan flew at the back.
There is a vast sea of trees at his feet. He can't even see the end of it. There is such a large forest in the Black Cloud Valley. This once again surprised Bai Yunfei. And the most important thing is that in this forest, there are actually a large number of trees. The spirit beast!
They may dominate a domain alone, or live in groups, and their levels vary, but there are not many that are too weak, and they are all probably just cubs. There are quite a few powerful fifth-level soul beasts, and there are even some early sixth-level soul beasts. , as for those in the middle or late sixth level, I have not encountered them yet.
Everyone was flying quickly under the dark sky. Bai Yunfei looked up and saw the shadow of the moon vaguely in the gaps between the black clouds. It seemed that it was already night.
"grumble!!!"
While Bai Yunfei was curiously observing the black clouds above his head, a piercing cry suddenly came from the right side, and at the same time, a violent and powerful aura rushed straight towards him!
I saw a strange spirit beast that looked like a roc, but had a black snake head, suddenly flew out from a giant tree thirty meters to the right of everyone, its whole body glowed with black light, and it flew over twenty meters in the blink of an eye. At such a distance, he opened the snake's mouth that could almost swallow Bai Yunfei's head, and bit him!
I don’t know how this soul beast was dormant before, but in short, there was no sign before it exploded!
"Yunfei be careful!"
Zheng Kai's exclamation came from beside him. Bai Yunfei's pupils shrank slightly. Although he was startled in his heart, he didn't show much panic and didn't even make any dodge movements.
Mu Chen, who was at the front, frowned slightly and was about to take action when he heard a clear roar piercing through the clouds. Two black curved blades flew out from behind Bai Yunfei, arriving first, five meters in front of Bai Yunfei. Intercepted the incoming soul beast.
But it was Xiao Qi who reacted first!
Then in the shocked eyes of Xu Ran and Han Yue, the soul beast was cut into two by one of the curved blades as if it were made of paper!
A rain of blood sprinkled in the air, and the two halves of the corpse fell. However, a black soul crystal the size of a fist flew out from half of the corpse, and was caught by Long Lan in his hand.
"Tsk, tsk, I've never seen such an ugly bird. It actually has a snake head. It's really disgusting."
As if Xiao Qi had done something insignificant, she flapped her wings and flew back to Long Lan's shoulder, saying to him: "It seems to be a dark soul crystal, Xiao Lan, it should be helpful to your cultivation." Bar?"
Long Lan clenched his right fist, and the soul crystal exploded into a ball of black energy and was inhaled into his body. He said casually: "It's better than nothing."
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In front, Xu Ran and Han Yue were already dumbfounded. The snake eagle beast at the late sixth level just now was the strongest soul beast in this area, and it was killed inexplicably like this
Bai Yunfei glanced at the soul beast corpse that fell into the forest below, and said to Xiao Qi: "Xiao Qi, don't kill casually, this is not a soul beast forest..."
Then he turned to look at Mu Chen in front of him, and said slightly apologetically: "Senior Mu, Xiao Qi does not know what to do, please forgive me."
He felt that this was the territory of Netherworld Sect and it would not be good to just hunt the soul beasts here casually.
Mu Chen glanced at Xiao Qi in surprise, then shook his head and said, "Haha, it doesn't matter, let's continue on our way."
Although the soul beasts in the Black Cloud Forest are not kept in captivity by the Netherworld Sect, they are actually regarded as their own 'property'. The disciples within the sect also gain experience or choose contracted soul beasts here. Generally speaking, the Netherworld Sect has There are also regulations for the hunting of these soul beasts, but of course I don't blame Bai Yunfei for this. In fact, with Mu Chen's strength and familiarity with this place, he had discovered the attack of the snake eagle beast in advance, but he also He held a hint of 'test' in his heart but did not take action in advance. He wanted to see Bai Yunfei's reaction, but he did not expect that Xiao Qi would solve it so easily. And he was really surprised by Xiao Qi's space cracking blade. , couldn't help but think more highly of Bai Yunfei's contracted soul beast.
The rest of the trip was not hindered. After everyone flew quickly for nearly two hours, Xu Ran, who was flying in front, finally turned around and said, "Brother Bai, Brother Zheng, we are almost there."
As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed in front of him.
"arrive?"
Bai Yunfei was stunned, and looked forward along the direction he was pointing, but he had a strange look on his face - because there was still a sea of trees in front of him and nothing else!