269: Yin-Yang trapped, surrounded by people

“The sanlun flower is located to the south, but it’s very dangerous there, so you need to be careful.”

The System was still very reliable.

It quickly gave him the direction.

“South!”

“OK!”

Mu Feng nodded.

He took the seven Little Lizards and headed south.

Although the weather here was gloomy,

it didn't affect his vision or Divine Sense.

This was good news for Mu Feng.

After this Breakthrough to the Dan Formation, his Divine Sense had also increased significantly.

He could anticipate the enemy earlier.

“Hiss! Hiss!”

After Devouring the flesh and blood of the Illusory Flame Moth, the Flying Purple Patterned Scorpion grew a bit bigger.

However, it still hadn't broken through to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.

Mu Feng estimated that to cultivate them to their complete form,

he would still need to refine the Ten Absolute Poisons.

Otherwise, at his current growth rate,

the Little Lizards would have a hard time keeping up with him.

“Be careful, there’s an old fellow in seclusion ahead; you’d best go around him.”

Mu Feng had only walked twenty or thirty kilometers.

A red alert popped up, warning him of danger ahead.

Seeing this,

Mu Feng obediently took a detour.

His main purpose for coming this time was to pick the sanlun flower.

It was better not to stir up trouble if he could avoid it.

“Hmm, Little Zi, Little Yue, you two come in too.”

After some thought,

Mu Feng decided to put the seven Little Lizards into his spirit beast bag.

This way, it would be more convenient for him to move around.

“Ying ying ying!”

The little fox was a bit unwilling,

but Mu Feng still forcibly put her away.

Without the seven Little Lizards, Mu Feng directly pulled out the spirit concealing poison wall sheath, put it on, and began to move forward invisibly.

Just like that,

Mu Feng followed the direction given by the prompt.

All the way south.

This Forbidden Ground of the Ephemera race was very strange.

Mu Feng had walked all this way and hardly seen any living creatures.

He hadn't seen any Spiritual Plant or Spiritual Plant either.

All there was was a hazy mist.

This made him think of the mist outside the gate of his Immortal Cave after it had been upgraded.

The two looked somewhat similar.

He just didn't know if they were related.

“Forget it, who cares, I'll get my sanlun flower first!”

Shaking his head,

Mu Feng decided not to think any further.

He hurried on his way.

Just like that,

after Mu Feng walked with his head down for over an hour, he finally emerged from that hazy space.

“Be careful, you have entered the Ephemera race’s Forbidden Ground; don’t let them discover you.”

“It seems I’ve already reached the central area of this Secret Realm space.”

Seeing the prompt,

Mu Feng understood that he was close to the sanlun flower.

This made him both nervous and excited.

“Found it!”

After a sweep with his Divine Sense,

Mu Feng discovered the three-colored flowers blooming more than twenty kilometers away.

The flowers were somewhat hexagonal in shape.

The center of the pistil was composed of layers of petals.

From its appearance,

it should be the sanlun flower he was looking for.

This made Mu Feng excited.

Most importantly, within the range of his Divine Sense, there was no guardian visible where the sanlun flowers grew.

In other words, if he was lucky,

he could secretly pick these sanlun flowers without attracting the attention of the Ephemera race’s powerhouses.

This discovery made Mu Feng very happy.

His steps became much lighter.

A distance of twenty-odd kilometers wasn't too far for Mu Feng now.

Before long,

he found the location of the sanlun flower.

This was a desolate place, filled with Death Qi.

The area around the flowers was barren.

Only a few three-colored flowers grew there.

Seeing this, Mu Feng didn't rush to pick them directly.

Instead, he first investigated them.

Based on his experience, places where such spiritual plant grew usually had exotic beasts guarding them.

Moreover, the feeling this place gave him wasn't very good.

“Name: sanlun flower”

“Age: Thousand Years”

“Description: Grows at the intersection of Yin and Yang, hexagonal in appearance, with three colors, accompanied by a unique fragrance. The place where it grows is usually guarded by evil spirits.”

“Effect: A heaven-defying treasure for refining various Divine Soul Medicinal Pills.”

....

“It’s indeed the sanlun flower!”

“Guarded by evil spirits?”

“As expected!”

His feeling was correct.

However, what puzzled him was that he had just used his Divine Sense and Spiritual Eye Divine Power to investigate this entire area.

He hadn't seen any so-called evil spirits.

This made Mu Feng even more vigilant.

Things that hid deeper tended to attack more unexpectedly.

“Where on earth is it hiding?”

Mu Feng poured a large amount of true essence into his eyes and scanned the area again.

The result was still nothing.

This left him in a dilemma.

Whether to continue waiting for the opponent to reveal themselves or go directly to pick them was a big problem.

If he continued to wait, this place was, after all, the Forbidden Ground of the Ephemera race, and the longer he stayed, the greater the probability of being discovered.

If he went directly, not knowing the opponent's hiding direction, he could easily suffer a heavy blow.

.....

“Forget it, if I can’t see it, I can’t see it!”

After hesitating for a while, Mu Feng still decided to charge directly.

Firstly, he had many defensive Magic Treasures on him, and most importantly, he had the Golden Lightning Arrow protecting him.

No matter how powerful an evil spirit was, it was still a malevolent entity.

The Evil-warding Divine Lightning of the Golden Lightning Arrow specifically countered demons and evil spirits.

Thinking this, Mu Feng boldly walked towards the few sanlun flowers.

The two ancient treasures in his hands were already clutched, and the Golden Lightning Arrow within him was also eager to move.

One step, two steps, one step, two steps.

Soon,

he reached the location of the sanlun flower.

The imagined evil spirit did not appear.

However, Mu Feng still didn't dare to relax his vigilance in the slightest.

In full alert,

Mu Feng squatted down and began to pick them.

However, at this moment,

a shrill scream suddenly appeared in Mu Feng's mind!

“Jie~”

This sound appeared extremely suddenly.

It instantly exploded in his head.

As soon as the sound appeared,

a black Qi skull flew out from the petals of the sanlun flower and bit towards Mu Feng's head, which was in a daze!

This move was truly insidious to the extreme.

Relying on this method, this evil spirit had killed countless Cultivators who wanted to covet these sanlun flowers.

However,

just as the skull was about to bite Mu Feng's head,

Mu Feng, who had been dazed by the shrill scream, actually showed a strange smile on his face.

This made the skull feel a bad premonition.

But the distance between them was too close, and turning back was no longer possible.

It could only brace itself, open its mouth wide, and Devour the handsome face in front of it!

“Humph!”

Just as it was about to succeed, Mu Feng let out a cold snort.

Immediately after,

a hand covered in golden electric arcs reached out towards the black Qi skull.

Sizzle! Sizzle!

When the two touched, the black Qi on the skull sizzled as if oil had been poured into clear water.

“Ah ah ah…”

“Evil-warding Divine Lightning!”

“This is Evil-warding Divine Lightning, no, impossible!”

The skull's face was filled with terror, its entire face contorted with fear and dread.

It was extremely hideous.

It wanted to escape.

However, Evil-warding Divine Lightning specifically countered evil spirits.

How could it allow an evil spirit to escape?

Moreover, to capture it in one fell swoop, Mu Feng also sacrificed the ancient treasure Five Elements Ring the moment the Evil-warding Divine Lightning struck, locking the entire skull.

Escaping was simply impossible.

“Die!”

Mu Feng had no hesitation in dealing with such a ghost.

He directly increased the power of the lightning in his hand.

Accompanied by a series of crackling sounds and the evil spirit's shrill screams,

before long,

the black Qi skull was completely annihilated by the Evil-warding Divine Lightning.

“Thud!”

With the demise of the skull,

a red crystal fell down.

It seemed to be an item left behind by the skull.

Mu Feng quickly picked it up.

The red crystal felt somewhat cold in his hand.

Mu Feng was about to examine it closely when his expression suddenly changed.

Because he discovered that within the range of his Divine Sense, several figures were rapidly approaching him!

From the looks of it,

it was probably because his battle with the evil spirit had alarmed the people in this space.

Seeing this situation,

he dared not waste any time.

While putting the red crystal into his Storage Ring, he also stuffed the few sanlun flowers in front of him into the Storage Ring.

Having done everything,

Mu Feng didn't even think.

He just ran!

“Bang!”

However, just as he started to move,

a huge light shield enveloped him.

A Formation had been set up in front of him at some unknown time.

“Yin Yang Trapping Formation!”

Mu Feng had been recently studying the book “Array Secrets,” so he recognized at a glance that the Formation before him was one recorded in the Array Secrets.

He immediately recalled the Formation's effects and methods of breaking it in his mind.

Yin Yang Trapping Formation.

A Formation whose sole function was to trap enemies.

Its pros and cons were very obvious.

The advantage was its hidden deployment.

Before entering the Formation, it was impossible to tell that a Formation existed ahead.

This was why he hadn't discovered this Formation earlier, even after thoroughly searching the surroundings with his Spiritual Eye Divine Power.

Its disadvantage was that the Formation was not difficult to break, and it didn't even need to be broken; it would automatically dissipate after about a minute once it was activated.

Normally,

Mu Feng wouldn't have cared about this Formation.

But at the moment, it was somewhat fatal.

As he became trapped in the Formation, the speed of the figures approaching him from afar noticeably increased.

Without a doubt,

this Formation was probably set up by them.

Mu Feng's face alternated between cloudy and clear.

After releasing his Divine Sense towards the direction they were coming from once more, his expression became startled.

Initially, he thought the pursuers were from the Ephemera race of this Forbidden Ground.

After all, he knew it was their race's Forbidden Ground before entering.

But after he carefully observed them, he found that the approaching people were not Immortal Cave creatures.

Instead, they were Cultivators, just like him.

There were three of them.

Two men and one woman.

Among the three, only the leading man was a Nascent Soul Late Stage Cultivator; the remaining man and woman, like him, were both Dan Formation Cultivators.

This discovery made Mu Feng feel a little more at ease.

As long as the ones coming weren't Nascent Soul Cultivators,

then he had nothing to fear.

Moreover, looking at the situation of these few people, it seemed they had planned this long ago.

Their hiding spot was precisely where a typical Nascent Soul Late Stage Cultivator’s Divine Sense couldn't detect.

And their travel speed was such that they could arrive within a minute after the Formation took effect.

Such a premeditated action didn't look like their first time doing something like this.

This made Mu Feng wonder if the other party was the client for this mission.

First, lure people over with a mission.

Then, kill them to silence them and seize their treasures.

This also explained why, when the mission was released, the map was also sent to him.

Initially, Mu Feng thought it was because the other party feared the danger of this Forbidden Ground.

Now it seemed,

it was very likely specifically targeting people like him who took on missions.

No wonder the Changqing Clan earlier said that Human Race Cultivators were insidious and wouldn't trade with them.

Looking at this situation,

the Cultivators in this central area must have done this kind of thing often.

This made Mu Feng's gaze towards the three approaching individuals grow increasingly hostile.

Since this Formation didn't need to be broken,

he was too lazy to waste any more true essence on it.

Instead, he simply closed his eyes and rested, awaiting their arrival.

Mu Feng's action slightly surprised the three people who were chasing him.

As Mu Feng had guessed,

this wasn't their first time doing something like this.

Each time, they used this method to trick people over, then attacked.

Most people, upon realizing they were trapped in the Formation, would panic and attack the Formation, waiting for the person inside to exhaust their true essence, then they would leisurely come over.

They would easily kill the person in the Formation.

This was the first time they had encountered someone as calm as Mu Feng.

If they hadn't seen that Mu Feng's cultivation was only at the Dan Formation, they would have thought a Nascent Soul Cultivator was inside.

The few people were very fast.

Before long, they appeared in Mu Feng's line of sight.

As soon as they arrived, they surrounded him from three sides.

Seeing this posture, Mu Feng immediately understood their intentions.

However, after the three surrounded him, they didn't rush to attack.

Instead, they kept scrutinizing him.

They seemed to be looking for something.

“Are you looking for it?”

Mu Feng raised his arm and took out the red crystal that had dropped after he killed the evil spirit from his Storage Ring.

The moment the red crystal appeared, the three people's expressions changed.

“Blood-red Ghost Crystal? Impossible! You’re only at the Dan Formation; how could you kill Old Ghost Xiang in such a short time?!”

“Hmph, nothing’s impossible.” Mu Feng snorted coldly.

“If you leave now, I’ll pretend this never happened.”

It wasn't that Mu Feng was afraid of them.

It was just that this place was the Forbidden Ground of the Ephemera race.

He didn't want to cause more trouble.

However, seeing him say this, the few people thought he was scared,

and they actually started laughing.

As if they had heard the biggest joke in the world.

“Let you go? Do you think that’s possible?”

“Even if you can kill Old Ghost Xiang, so what?!”

“Facing our encirclement of three, you have no chance of winning!”

“If you know what’s good for you, obediently hand over your treasures, and if we’re in a good mood, we might even spare your life!”

They naturally wouldn't let Mu Feng go.

Saying this was merely to scare him; the moment Mu Feng handed over his treasures would be the moment he died.

Of course, they also didn't believe Mu Feng would be that foolish.

“You really will let me go?”

Unexpectedly, when Mu Feng heard them say they would let him go, a hint of temptation appeared on his face.

He seemed to be swayed by their words.

This made the few people pause.

They hadn't expected Mu Feng to be so agreeable.

After exchanging glances, joy was difficult to conceal on the faces of the three.

“Of course!”

“As long as you’re willing to hand over your treasures, letting you go isn’t impossible!”

The leading man spoke.

“That’s truly wonderful!”

Mu Feng's face showed a surprised expression, looking as if he had been convinced.

Saying that,

he was about to take off the things on his body.

However, just as the three thought they could easily take him down,

Mu Feng suddenly formed a hand seal.

The copper ring he had been holding in his hand instantly appeared on the leading man's body the next second!