"Now is not the time for you to fool around. If you continue to be so reckless, I will throw you off …" Bai Xiaotian was anxious as he threatened the madman with furrowed brows.
After saying that, he steered the flying boat and flew towards the southeast.
Shen Luo was about to fly towards the northeast when he heard a cry of surprise. When he turned his head to look, he realized that the madman had actually jumped off Bai Xiaotian's flying boat and was falling towards the ground.
He hurriedly steered the flying sword and flew at an extreme speed. Just as the madman was about to hit the ground, he grabbed him by the waist and pulled him up.
"You … Are you really crazy?" Bai Xiaotian was a little late, but he had also caught up to him.
After he finished cursing, he realized that he had cursed nonsense and was immediately angry and annoyed.
"He is so determined to go west. Perhaps there is really something there?" Shen Luo said hesitantly.
"He is a madman. Do you really want to believe him?" Bai Xiaotian was puzzled.
Shen Luo paused. Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly felt that there was something wrong with the ground under his feet. He hurriedly stomped down hard.
With this stomp, the yellow sand around his feet flowed down, revealing a solid black rock underneath.
Shen Luo's line of sight extended to the west. Only then did he realize that the black mountain rock under his feet extended all the way into the distance. Under the cover of the yellow sand, there was a protruding mountain ridge. If one did not observe carefully, they would not have noticed it at all.
"Let's go over there and take a look," Shen Luo said.
"Alright." Bai Xiao Tian nodded and followed him, walking briskly towards the west.
The madman fell behind the two of them. After pausing for a moment, he chuckled and ran up after them.
The few of them ran for hundreds of feet and arrived at the end of the "mountain ridge". In front of them was a basin with a radius of several hundred feet. The scenery inside was completely different from the outside. It was a wetland with lush aquatic plants.
In the middle of the wetland, there was a small pool of spring water in the shape of a crescent moon. It was like a mirror that reflected the shadows of the clouds in the sky.
On the other side of the wetland, there was a tall sand dune. In the middle of the sand dune, there was a black rock that was about ten feet tall. It was half hidden in the sand dune and looked very out of place.
"Illusion …"
Shen Luo had some worries in his heart, so he didn't rush into this area. Instead, he focused his eyes and carefully sized up the scene before him. Unfortunately, even with his eye ability, he was unable to see anything unusual after observing for a long time.
On the other side, Bai Xiaotian did not see anything strange, but he still felt that something was amiss when he looked at the dark green basin.
After a moment of hesitation, he put his hand into his sleeve and fumbled for a while. Soon, he took out a palm-sized wooden puppet. It had a bald head and a round head. Its facial features were blurry, and it wore a monk's robe made of coarse cloth. It looked like a small wooden monk.
Bai Xiaotian took out a talisman and pasted it on the back of the wooden sculpture. He held it with both hands and pressed his forehead against the center of his forehead. After a series of chants, he threw the wooden puppet forward.
In the air, the talisman burned fiercely, releasing a large amount of smoke. A four-foot-tall figure descended from the hazy smoke, turning into a small monk wearing a gray robe.
After the small monk landed, he turned his head and looked at Shen Luo and the other two expressionlessly. Then, he lifted his foot and walked toward the wetland under the sand dune.
Shen Luo saw that the small monk's steps were very strange. When he lifted his left foot, his left hand would follow. When he lifted his right foot, his right hand would follow. It was a comical posture of walking with the same hands and feet.
Just as he was about to remind Bai Xiaotian, he found that the latter was making gestures with his hands and his eyes closed. It seemed that he was controlling the small monk's movements with all his strength.
At this moment, the small monk suddenly fell forward and rolled down the sand dune, landing at the edge of the wetland.
The small monk struggled to get up from the wetland. His clothes were already wet from the water. After taking a few steps forward, he seemed to have sunk into the mud and could not move an inch.
At this moment, Bai Xiaotian stopped making gestures with his hands and slowly opened his eyes. The small monk in the wetland instantly lost all of his Spiritual Qi and began to shrink rapidly, returning to the size of a palm.
"I used a substitute to check. The wetland below seems to be real. It doesn't look like an illusion," Bai Xiaoyun said.
As they were talking, a black bird slowly descended from the sky and stood on the shoulder of the puppet monk. It used its sharp beak to peck at his bald head.
"Since it's not an illusion, we can only try to break through it," Shen Luo said with a frown.
After saying that, he immediately made gestures with his hands and waved downward. The Crescent Lake in the middle of the wetland was suddenly filled with the sound of splashing water. Streams of clear lake water rolled over and over.
"Hu", a sound was heard.
A crystal-clear water dragon as thick as a water urn poked its head out of the lake and extended toward Shen Luo.
Shen Luo leaped up and landed on the top of the water dragon. He controlled the water dragon to move across the wetland and send him to the opposite side of the lake.
Just as his body reached the top of the lake, a whistling sound suddenly came from below him.
Shen Luo abruptly lowered his head to look and saw the waves in the lake below him suddenly surging up violently. They surged toward him in a reverse manner, and it looked as if they were about to drown his body.
He focused his gaze and stepped heavily on the back of the water dragon with the tip of his foot. His whole body soared into the air and after dodging the waves, he landed steadily on the head of the water dragon.
When the tip of his foot touched the water dragon, the water dragon's head suddenly caved in, revealing a whirlpool that sucked in his ankle. A powerful strangling force immediately locked his calf.
While Shen Luo was still in shock, the scene in front of him changed again. There were no longer any traces of the wetland around him. It was all yellow sand.
The wooden doll from before was stuck in the sand not far from him, and his calf was also deeply buried in a sand whirlpool, and it was still sinking in.
"Shen Luo, what's wrong?" Bai Xiaotian called out.
In his sight, nothing had changed. Shen Luo was standing on the opposite side of the lake, on the top of the water dragon, motionless.
"Don't come over."
Shen Luo shouted loudly. Then, he formed a spell again and slammed his hand down. Clouds of water vapor condensed in his palm and turned into water arrows that shot into the sand beside his feet.
The water arrows had a strong penetrating power, but when they met the flowing sand, although they could pierce through it, they could not stop the sand from sinking. Half of Shen Luo's body was already buried in the sand dune.
Bai Xiaotian also felt that something was wrong, but he did not rush up immediately. Instead, he went along the edge of the basin to the other side. Then, he leaped up and flew toward Shen Luo.
However, just as he flew up, the blades of grass on the ground all stood up and shot out like countless flying daggers, attacking Bai Xiaotian like a storm.
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