"Why do you ask?" Li Mobai was a clever person. When he heard Zhou Wen's question, he immediately had some unpleasant thoughts.
"I heard that Dugu Ge, Zhang Chunqiu, and company discovered a Guardian cocoon somewhere in the South District. Furthermore, they have successfully contracted it," Zhou Wen said half-truthfully.
Li Mobai heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that. "I know what you're talking about. The two aren't in the same place. Up to now, no one has entered the place I discovered. It's surrounded by extremely dangerous dimensional zones. The most famous dimensional zone is called the Valley of No Return. Even the Dugu family doesn't dare venture deep into it. Back then, I only saw the Guardian cocoon by chance. The chances of others seeing it are extremely low. "
To be honest, Zhou Wen was somewhat tempted. There were too few Guardians. The two Guardians he could come into contact with were too powerful. It was difficult for him to lay his hands on them.
If Zhou Wen had time to slowly develop, it would only be a matter of time before he killed them. However, now that Jing Daoxian had come knocking on his door, Zhou Wen felt the pressure.
Just as Xia Jiuhuang had said, if one didn't enter the Mythical stage, they were ultimately mortal. As their foundation was too poor, it was easy for them to be treated as a weakness when facing a Mythical opponent. It was useless even if they had Mythical Companion Beasts.
"According to the agreement, if you can't contract a Guardian, the Guardian will belong to me, right?" Zhou Wen said to Li Mobai.
"Of course. It's a pleasure working with you." Li Mobai smiled and extended his hand.
Zhou Wen extended his hand and shook Li Mobai's hand. They had reached an agreement. Such matters were useless in black and white, so there was no need to sign a contract.
"When can you leave?" Li Mobai asked Zhou Wen.
"Anytime," Zhou Wen answered.
"Pack your things. We'll set off tonight. After we reach the South District, we have to make a trip to Mong Hsat and find a friend with the surname Gu for help. With him leading the way, we can safely reach the Valley of No Return," Li Mobai said.
"Is there any trouble we can't resolve on the way?" Zhou Wen asked with a frown.
Li Mobai said, "The South District is very different from the other districts. The other districts are all about strength. Most of them determine victory or defeat based on strength. However, in the South District, there were all sorts of small, evil dimensional creatures. There were even places where the small was king. The smaller the dimensional creature, the greater the destructive power it could cause. For example, the Fairy Undying Gu on the ranking was only the size of an ant, but its destructive power wasn't weaker than any dimensional creature on the ranking. In the South District, there are many evil and microscopic dimensional creatures. If you aren't familiar with the local situation, you might not even know how you died. Although I know a little about the area, I'm not a local after all. It'll be much safer with a local leading the way. "
"Alright." Zhou Wen nodded and asked, "Do you know that Li Xuan went to the South District?"
"Where he goes has nothing to do with me." Li Mobai left after saying that.
Zhou Wen went back to prepare and told a few people close to him that he was going to the South District.
At night, Zhou Wen set off for Mong Hsat with Li Mobai.
Li Mobai brought two people with him. One of them was Butterfly, whom Zhou Wen had seen before. The other was a mute. His name was Mute.
The two of them took care of Li Mobai's food and lodging along the way, as though they were servants.
Zhou Wen was still wary of Li Mobai. He was careful along the way, but nothing happened.
As the air route had long been severed, the road to Mong Hsat wasn't easy to traverse. After the dimensional storms, it became even more difficult.
Thankfully, with Mute leading the way, he was very familiar with the jungle. Along the way, he traversed mountains and ridges, relying on him to scout ahead. Only then could he avoid danger and avoid danger.
Occasionally, he would encounter some dimensional creatures that broke out of the seal, which was easy to deal with.
The current Mong Hsat was like an isolated island on land. There were too few people who could reach this place. Only some of the nearby natives and people who wanted to develop in Mong Hsat, like the Gu family, would continue to stay in this area of Mong Hsat.
On the streets of Mong Hsat, there were many men and women wearing monk robes. The men's monk robes were purplish-red, while the women's clothes were pink.
The locals originally believed in Buddhism. After the dimensional storms, faith became even more important. Be it the natives or foreign families, as long as they settled in Mong Hsat, they would believe in Buddhism. Otherwise, it would be difficult for them to integrate into the local society.
The friend Li Mobai was looking for was called Gu Shanshui. Although he wasn't a monk, he believed in Buddhism. However, Zhou Wen saw many chains on him. They didn't look like items from Mong Hsat, but the Buddha plaques he had obtained from Xiao Si.
Apart from the Buddha plaques, there were many tattoos on Gu Shanshui's body. The tattoos were clearly not formed by Companion Beasts, but man-made.
"Li, my friend, I'm afraid there's no way to go to the Valley of No Return," Gu Shanshui said.
"Master Gu, what happened?" Li Mobai knew that something must have happened. Otherwise, with Gu Shanshui's personality, as long as he agreed, he would make a trip to the Valley of No Return no matter how dangerous it was.
"There's only one way to go to the Valley of No Return now. However, there's a large-scale break-in at the Flower River that we have to pass through. There are already many people who want to travel between Mong Hsat and Chiang Rai through the Flower River. After entering the Flower River, they disappeared without a trace. There's no lack of Epic experts among them." Gu Shanshui explained the situation in detail.
The Flower River wasn't a real river. Instead, after the dimensional storms, a type of flower appeared in a large area between Chiang Rai and Mong Hsat. The flower grew in patches like an endless river, so it was called the Flower River by the locals.
Due to the dimensional zones, the traffic between Mong Hsat and Chiang Rai had basically been cut off. Only by taking the Flower River could one avoid all the dimensional zones.
However, in the past half a month, there had been an anomaly at the Flower River. Many people who entered the Flower River disappeared without a trace. No one dared to enter the Flower River again.
Previously, an Epic expert from the Gu family had led people into the Flower River, but there was no news of them after they left. Even many of the people the Gu family had sent to the Flower River to investigate had disappeared, but they failed to find anything.
"Is the Flower River the only way to the Valley of No Return?" Li Mobai asked after some thought.
"There's a section of the way that we have to pass through the Flower River. We have to walk at least fifty to sixty kilometers in the Flower River," Gu Shanshui said.
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