"Ha, that's what you're asking?" Maoguang laughed, "You're still suspecting me of lying to you? But I can tell you that I knew about this a long time ago, but I didn't have any spirit stones! The four of us are in the same team, and we usually advance and retreat together. It wasn't easy for us to gather ten spirit stones, so we only managed to gather them a few days ago. That's why it took a few days to collect all of them. It also cost a lot. Now Wulin is also buying Spirit Stones. Spirit Stones are priceless. The reason why we let you join us is that we want to save two Spirit Stones, which is also a lot of money. "
Xiao Chen came to a realization after hearing that. It was easy for him to obtain Spirit Stones, but the same could not be said for others. Those Desert Parasitic Scorpions could not be touched at all. Once they were provoked, there would be endless trouble and they might even lose their lives.
They could only rely on themselves to search for spirit stones buried in the desert, and that was a difficult task. It was already quite a feat for Maoguang to gather ten of them.
"That's right- I got these spirit stones by chance, and they're indeed hard to find!" Xiao Chen nodded.
The five of them walked together, and Xiao Chen followed behind them. They didn't run into anything on the way, save for the occasional cultivator or two, but they were all in a hurry and had their own business to attend to.
Maoguang, on the other hand, had already found a partner in Xiao Chen, so naturally he wouldn't look for anyone else.
After a day and night of traveling, the five of them arrived at a naturally formed valley. Xiao Chen couldn't help but sigh at the miraculousness of nature. There was actually a desert valley here, and the nearby desert didn't fall in and fill it up.
"This is Enlightenment Sand Valley, I heard that in the ancient times, someone with great godlike powers carved out a training ground with a long blade!" Maoguang's words were directed at Xiao Chen, because everyone else already knew about Dao Enlightenment Sand Valley. Only he didn't.
"Oh? It's actually … man-made?! " Xiao Chen was a bit surprised- he'd thought that it was naturally formed. Just how powerful would it take to create something like this? It simply had the power to split the mountains and split the seas.
"Yeah, this technique is amazing! If we can learn a thing or two from it, we'll become the cream of the crop in the martial world!" Maoguang's eyes were bright- he was excited to be here.
"Then how do we get in? This valley … it can't be that we're jumping down, right? " Xiao Chen looked at the endless valley of sand. He seemed to feel that there was something in the valley calling out to him. It was fascinating.
"Just follow me!" Maoguang smiled as he took out a map and started walking along the edge of the valley. Finally, they saw something that looked like an altar not too far away. Maoguang pointed. "Do you see that? That's it, that's the Sand Valley's Teleportation Array! If you don't know and recklessly jump into the Sand Valley, you will definitely die! "
This altar seemed to be very ancient. However, there was no sand on it. Its surface was very smooth.
"I'm going to activate the formation now. Please follow my instructions and stand at the five corners of the formation, then take out your spirit stones and place them in the holes in front of the corners!" Maoguang said.
Like the others, Xiao Chen chose a corner and stood on it. Then, he took out two spirit stones and placed them into a small round hole in front of his feet. Two crisp "click" sounds rang out.
After doing all of this, Xiao Chen could vaguely feel a ripple of energy coming from the altar. Maoguang called out, "The formation is about to activate! Everyone, don't move! Stand still and don't leave the corners, or you won't be teleported in!"
Xiao Chen took a deep breath. He had an ominous premonition in his heart. It was as though he wouldn't be able to come out once he entered. However, in order to find out whether his father was here or not, Xiao Chen could only brace himself and enter.
All of a sudden, a white light flashed across the formation, and Xiao Chen and the others' vision went black. With another flash of light, they were in a different place!
But, what surprised Xiao Chen was the fact that he was in a long valley of sand. He couldn't see the sky!
It was all gray above, and he couldn't see the sun, moon, or stars. All he could see was some faint light, and he didn't know what it was. As expected, this wasn't an area that could be reached just by jumping off the edge of Sand Valley. This was a new, unknown place.
Xiao Chen took a deep breath and turned around. Maoguang and the others were looking around curiously as well, but they couldn't tell what was going on.
"This is Sand Valley?" Xiao Chen asked uncertainly, "How come there's no one here? Shouldn't there be a lot of people here? "
As he said this, Xiao Chen's heart sank. Had he been tricked by this Maoguang? But looking at him now, he was confused as well. Could it be that he was thinking too much?
"Um … It's my first time here as well …" Maoguang started to panic after hearing Xiao Chen's question. "This place … What's going on? Why isn't there anyone here? "
When Xiao Chen heard this, he was a little speechless. It turned out that this guy didn't know either. Looking at him earlier, he thought he knew a lot!
But there was indeed a strange area here, and Xiao Chen wanted to explore it. He wasn't in a rush, and instead, he looked into the distance quietly. His senses were sharp, and he hoped to see something.
However, it was a pity that even though Xiao Chen was a cultivator, he could not see into the distance. The light here was dim, and everything in front of him was gray. Xiao Chen's Divine Sense was also in vain, as if there was something blocking it.
Maoguang's uncertainty made Shao Xiaobai and the others a little panicky. They'd thought that there would be a lot of people here studying techniques together, but there was no one else other than them. Wasn't this a little too strange?
"Let's … walk around?" Maoguang suggested after a pause.
"Um … This place is so weird. Sun Bro, will there be trouble if we just walk around? Maybe we should just go out, I don't want to study anymore … "His passion from before was gone, and Shao Xiaobai was backing off.
"Go out?" Maoguang smiled bitterly. "It's easy to get in, but I don't know how to get out!"
"Ah? Then even if we learn the techniques, we can't get out? "Shao Xiaobai said worriedly.
"I thought there would be a lot of people here, and we'd know everything if we asked them, but …" Maoguang didn't know what to do.
"There's no point in not going. Who knows, we might find something if we walk around." Xiao Chen had calmed down by now. The spiritual qi here was quite abundant, and it should be a good place. It wouldn't be as fast as cultivating with spirit stones, but it'd be much faster than outside.
Places like this usually had treasures of some sort, just like the ancient ruins. Logically speaking, if they could get in, they should be able to get out. Even if he couldn't, there was still the Elder Heaven Ancestor.
"You're right, let's just walk around!" Maoguang agreed.
Shao Xiaobai had no choice but to follow along, choosing a direction and walking forward … …
Time passed quickly. Xiao Chen and the others had already been walking in this quiet, empty, and uninhabited sand valley for three hours. Apart from the yellow sand, there was nothing else around them. They were far away, and they couldn't see the end.
This kind of repeated scene was the easiest to panic. Shao Xiaobai's face was pale. "Sun Bro, Master Xiao … Are we going the right way?"
"We have to keep going. What difference does it make?" Xiao Chen said faintly as he looked at him.
In the boundless Sand Valley, there were no paths on either side. There were no other paths except to go forward or backward. What else could they do but go forward?
"Sigh!" Shao Xiaobai sighed. "If there's no end, will we all die here one day?"
Xiao Chen didn't reply, because he didn't know if that was a possibility. But at least there was some hope, and he had to keep going.
One day, two days, three days! After ten days, even Xiao Chen wasn't feeling confident anymore. Were they going the right way? Could this Sand Valley be a circular cycle? Were they just going around in circles?
At the thought of this, Xiao Chen wanted to use his hand to make a mark on both sides of the sand valley. However, to his disappointment, although the sand on both sides did not fall, no matter what Xiao Chen made, it would be covered by the quicksand in the next moment and return to its original state.
There were no marks left under their feet, either. Their footprints would be covered up by the quicksand the moment they stepped on them. It was an unchanging pattern.
Now, even if there was a giant circle, they wouldn't be able to feel it! Xiao Chen's heart sank, feeling like something wasn't right. This place was too strange, and no matter how big it was, it was impossible to not even see a feather after walking for so long!
According to Maoguang, many cultivators had been here before, so where did they go? What did they leave behind? At that thought, Xiao Chen took off a foot from his shirt and threw it on the ground, wanting to make a mark.
But something even stranger happened. The corner of his shirt sank into the quicksand and disappeared, like a ginseng fruit falling to the ground. There was no sound, as if it had never been there.
At this point, everyone was starting to panic. Xiao Chen had tried to leave a mark, and they all understood how strange this situation was. Even Maoguang was hesitating. "I think … we might be going in circles in Dune Valley. We can't see too far in the fog, and we can't tell if we're going straight or not."
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