Half an hour later, a loud boom echoed from the mountainside, sending a large amount of earth and rocks flying. Zhang Ling and the Xuan Turtle emerged from the dust.
"Finally out!"
Zhang Ling muttered, looking around. He was standing on the mountainside of a hundred-zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) high peak. The surroundings were filled with rubble and weeds, along with many crooked black and blue strange trees.
The sound of rushing water entered his ears. Next to the cliff wall, a waterfall a zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) wide cascaded down. Looking into the distance, the sky was still a hazy gray, and several tall peaks could be seen. The air still carried a musty, stale smell.
Zhang Ling turned his head to look at the place where they came out, which was an ordinary stone wall. The passage was forcibly broken open from inside the mountain.
Most of the space inside the small mountain's belly had been developed into ancient cultivator ruins, which still contained some array restrictions. Fortunately, they weren't too powerful. With his and the Xuan Turtle's strength, it took them some effort, wandering around for half an hour, to get out.
Zhang Ling flipped his hand, and a broken flying knife appeared in his hand.
This was a three-chi(尺: chi, a unit of length) long blue flying knife, covered in cracks. The front half of the blade was missing, but the handle of the flying knife was inlaid with a black-red round bead, emitting a strange red light.
This was a magical treasure, the only thing of any value found in the mountain's belly. Although broken, the blood-red gem on it was extraordinary, a material called Bloodlight Bead, often used to refine some blood-fiend treasures.
The flying knife was also engraved with black spiritual patterns, faintly emitting a bloody glow.
With Zhang Ling's knowledge and experience in refining many magical treasures, he could tell at a glance that the blade of the flying knife was also refined from a rather hard blue crystal jade. The black spiritual patterns engraved on it, and the technique was also unusual, a magical treasure refined by a method similar to the demonic Blood Refinement Technique.
In other words, the flying knife was a magical treasure used by demonic cultivators. This proved that demonic cultivators had been here before, but the flying knife was broken, its spirituality greatly lost, and judging from the marks on it, they were not newly made, but at least hundreds of years old.
Naturally, he could not judge where he was now.
Zhang Ling pondered for a moment, put away the flying knife, and flew towards the distance. He didn't fly far, and he and the Xuan Turtle constantly released their divine senses to scan the surrounding peaks.
Soon he flew to another mountain peak more than ten miles away and landed on a yellow stone square. The surroundings were still a scene of ruin, so he thought there wouldn't be much to gain.
Zhang Ling didn't care about any gains, but clarifying where he was was the most important thing. Checking these ruins, maybe he could find some clues.
He instructed the Xuan Turtle and quickly searched the dilapidated ruins on the mountain.
Wasting a quarter of an hour, Zhang Ling left with the Xuan Turtle in disappointment. Apart from finding a dozen or so two or three hundred-year-old spiritual medicines in a certain place on the back mountain, there were no relics or textual information with any marks.
He probed into more distant areas. Before long, he searched the nearby hundred-mile area and gained little, still not knowing where he was.
There were not many places where cultivators were active in this area, and there were only three places similar to ancient cultivator ruins.
Zhang Ling only roughly checked the area on the surface of the mountain. He did not check the depths of the mountain where the teleportation array was located too carefully.
After tossing around like this, Zhang Ling felt extremely depressed and could only probe into more distant areas.
An hour later, Zhang Ling and Xuan Turtle stood side by side in the sky above a solitary peak, looking at the front in some astonishment.
The strange sound of wind, like ghosts crying and wolves howling, entered his ears.
In front of him was a storm area. Countless tornadoes and wind clusters of different sizes kept rotating and colliding with each other, forming an extremely chaotic scene.
The endless wind clusters were like the Gang Wind Layer outside the Tian Que Palace that he had passed through before. Seeing this scene, Zhang Ling almost thought that he had not been teleported far away and was still in the Tian Que Palace Secret Realm.
Soon he denied this idea.
The Gang Wind Layer outside Tian Que Palace was much more violent than the Gang Wind in front of him. Moreover, there were many space cracks in the Gang Wind Layer of Tian Que Palace Secret Realm, and the heaven and earth spiritual energy was more chaotic.
Zhang Ling circled around the Gang Wind in front of him for most of the circle, and the Ying Kong Bell on his waist did not transmit any sound, indicating that the nearby space was very stable and there were no space cracks.
It took him a little more effort to circle around the wind layer and make a judgment.
This was just a wind wall formed by Gang Wind, like a huge wind mass, encompassing the hundreds of miles area he had just explored.
Since there was not much to gain in this area, Zhang Ling and Xuan Turtle entered the wind layer, intending to pass through the wind wall to see what was outside.
Entering the wind layer, he was trapped in a storm vortex. Densely packed wind blades swept over. It seemed dangerous, but it did not cause any harm to him.
Xuan Turtle just released a black-silver light curtain and covered Zhang Ling, easily blocking it.
Although the Gang Wind was violent, there was no dangerous environment like space cracks. For Yuanying cultivators, it only consumed some spiritual power at most.
However, there were still some troubles. The divine sense was greatly affected when entering it, and he could not explore too large an area.
Fortunately, the wind layer was not thick. In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Zhang Ling passed through a certain position of the wind wall and arrived outside. As soon as he arrived outside, he heard a huge roar.
He quickly looked around and found that the outside of the wind mass was an even more chaotic place.
The sky was dark and heavy, and the thick dark clouds were very low. The loud noise came from the sky. He saw countless lightning lights traveling through the clouds, which looked very powerful.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning more than ten zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) thick fell from the sky and hit a place not far away, splashing a large amount of water.
Zhang Ling looked down and saw a turbulent wave below. He released his divine sense and explored that the surrounding hundred-mile area was such an environment. "The power of wind and thunder is so violent, and there is so much water vapor. Could it be that I was teleported to a water area."
He was surprised in his heart.
This area seemed to be experiencing a storm, and it was not an ordinary storm. The entire water surface from time to time set off water waves of more than ten zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) and hundreds of zhang(丈: zhang, a unit of length) high, and countless strange water tornadoes were constantly rotating.
The wind layer that he had just passed through was a huge wind mass that enveloped hundreds of miles of area. Unexpectedly, it was quite quiet inside, but the outside was such a harsh environment.
This environment was too harsh.
This situation was definitely not unusual. Zhang Ling could sense that the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy was also extremely chaotic, especially the power of wind and thunder was abnormally violent. Often, this kind of special area was some dangerous place, or some ancient secret realm.
After pondering for a moment, he recalled the similar environment in the Liuyun Sea, but he did not find a place that matched this area. There were a few similar places, but they were also very different from the environment he was in now.
Zhang Ling shook his head and could not judge for a while. He took Xuan Turtle and traveled through the storm, intending to leave this area first.
……
One day later, Zhang Ling sat cross-legged on a reef to meditate and recuperate.
He had left the storm area. Although the sky was still dark, it was no longer as harsh as lightning and thunder, and the water surface was much calmer.
The area of the storm area was not small. He traveled in one direction and traveled through five or six thousand miles of area, wasting a whole day before leaving the area.
That area might be wider than he thought, at least ten thousand miles.
In fact, with his escape technique, he could pass through five or six thousand miles in half a day at most. It took a whole day because he also explored the area.
That area was not only harsh, but also quite strange. Many wind masses formed on the water surface, some large and some small. Some of them were empty, which was a vortex formed by wind power.
But some wind masses were extremely fixed and rotated regularly. The center of the wind masses mostly encompassed land areas, forming several strange wind islands.
The mountains where the teleportation array was located were an island in the wind mass.
Zhang Ling also explored four or five such islands along the way, with different sizes. Most of them had one or two dilapidated ruins, but there were not many valuable things, but there was still a discovery.
On an island, he saw a broken stone tablet, on which were engraved the three characters "Demon Wind Island" in ancient immortal writing.
It's just that Zhang Ling thought about it several times in his heart, but he still didn't know where Demon Wind Island was.
For this reason, he also checked the several complete Liuyun Sea maps in his hand several times, and even found an ancient map of Liuyun Sea ten thousand years ago from the storage ring left by the Xumo Zhenjun(虚魔真君: Lord Xumo) who was killed by him.
But in Liuyun Sea, there is no place called Demon Wind Island. It seems that this place does not exist at all.
Zhang Ling guessed in his heart that maybe the maps in his hand were not complete, or this was a special secret realm.
However, the probability of this guess was not high. He had been in the Liuyun Sea cultivation world for nearly two hundred years, and he often checked some classics and notes. He didn't dare to say that he knew all the areas of Liuyun Sea, but he had some impressions of some secret realms or special fierce places, or blessed lands.
But Demon Wind Island, I have never heard of this place.
In addition to this guess, Zhang Ling also had a bold guess that he was no longer in the Liuyun Sea cultivation world, and was teleported to a place outside the Liuyun Sea through a super-distance teleportation array.
Demon Wind Island is not in the Liuyun Sea cultivation world at all, so naturally it is in the Liuyun Sea map, so how can he find this place.
Although Zhang Ling didn't believe this guess, he had these premonitions in his heart. After all, he used a super-long-distance teleportation array, and it was really possible that he was no longer in Liuyun Sea.
He was not originally a cultivator from Liuyun Sea, but inexplicably encountered strange things in the sea, and was brought to Liuyun Sea by the big mountain that resembled a true spirit.
The Liuyun Sea and the Beiyuan cultivation world are not the entire areas of the human world. The ancient books on both sides record that there are other cultivation worlds, but the records are not detailed.
If he is really not in Liuyun Sea and is teleported to an unfamiliar area, it is not impossible.
Soon after, after Zhang Ling recuperated, he flew forward again. He hoped to search for some iconic things, or textual books such as jade slips and ancient books, to confirm where he was.
Of course, it would be great if he could meet other cultivators.
