The Path to Immortality

After getting rid of the Purple Cloud Eagle, it was almost half a day later.

After crossing a green tornado that was thousands of feet high and swept across the sky, the front suddenly became quiet.

The originally dark and raging wind with flying sand and rocks turned into a gentle breeze.

Fang Ping slowly lowered his altitude and looked down at the earth.

On the earth, there were five hundreds of feet high mountains standing in a staggered manner.

Between the five mountains, there seemed to be misty clouds and large areas of bare mountains, but in fact they were different.

If it was an ordinary cultivator who didn't know that there was a cave of the Tianfeng Patriarch here in advance, even if he stayed here for a year, he might not find anything.

But in the eyes of Fang Ping, who came prepared, had a strong spiritual sense, and had a good attainment in formation, the obscure formation fluctuations in the clouds were quite obvious.

"If I'm not mistaken, somewhere in the air between the five peaks is the entrance to the cave of Tianfeng Patriarch."

The information left by the owner of the Canglan River Water Mansion was limited. Apart from the map marking the location of the cave, there was no mention of the situation inside Tianfeng Patriarch's cave, nor how to enter.

Fortunately, the entrance can be found by Qigong cultivators. With Fang Ping's current strength, it will be easier to find a way in and out.

He put away the escape light and landed on one of the peaks.

Fang Ping opened the spiritual eye technique and silently observed the changes in the clouds.

His expression first showed a brief confusion, but he soon figured out something and relaxed again.

"The location of the entrance to the cave seems to be constantly changing, implying some kind of law... It should be related to the two major factors of the operation of the formation and the time of day."

If you are not proficient in the formation, it is not easy to find the cave entrance.

But with Fang Ping's current attainments in the formation, Tianfeng Patriarch's casual arrangement is naturally not difficult for him.

But on second thought, Fang Ping felt a little strange again.

Ancestor Tianfeng is a Jindan cultivator, and also a second-level formation cultivator.

As for Fang Ping, after obtaining his formation inheritance, he has been trying to figure it out for so many years, but he is still stuck at the threshold of the first-level formation cultivator and has not been able to enter.

With his own formation cultivation, he can still easily find clues. Compared with the true level of Ancestor Tianfeng, the formation restriction at the entrance of the cave is a bit too simple.

Even if it is explained by casual arrangement, the power has weakened after hundreds of years, and the formation has been destroyed by the cultivators who have broken into it, it is still too far-fetched!

"Unless..."

Fang Ping suddenly thought of a possibility, but it is not certain yet.

But no matter whether the truth is as he guessed, after determining the general pattern of the appearance of the cave entrance, what remains is more detailed observation and deduction.

In the next few days.

He temporarily lived on the top of the mountain and continued to explore the operation pattern of the formation.

After just the first day, he noticed that the fluctuations of the formation in the clouds would occasionally become slightly more obvious at midnight and noon every day.

This anomaly provided him with more clues and clues to crack the rules of the cave formation.

At noon on the fourth day, Fang Ping basically figured out the way to enter the cave.

To be safe, Fang Ping stayed here for another two days to verify.

After finding nothing wrong, he no longer hesitated and flew to a void in the clouds.

"It's noon now, the entrance should be here!"

Standing somewhere in the void between the five peaks, Fang Ping used the spiritual eye technique to observe again for a moment, and then raised his hand to cast a spell.

The magic power of the Purple Yang Sutra turned into a ball of flame, but just after flying a few steps away, it suddenly exploded as if it had suddenly hit a transparent barrier.

Affected by this attack, a formation barrier faintly lit up in the originally empty void.

Through the barrier, you can vaguely see a dark passage behind.

But the barrier only appeared for a few breaths, then disappeared again, leaving no trace, as if it had never existed.

"Sure enough, my calculation is correct!"

After the test, Fang Ping no longer had any doubts in his heart.

He didn't know how the owner of the Water Palace broke through the formation and broke into it. But at least for now, this barrier blocking the way is not difficult for him.

Fang Ping stretched out his hand and the Yuanhe ruler appeared in front of him again, smashing into the position of the previous blue barrier.

Accompanied by the sound of the invisible object cracking, the Yuanhe ruler effortlessly broke through the barrier formed by the formation, revealing a passage for one person to enter and exit.

However, under the operation of the formation, the passage is closing rapidly, and it will be closed again after a few breaths.

Fang Ping was not in a hurry, and urged the Yuanhe ruler to temporarily freeze the passage. At the same time, he released his spiritual consciousness to explore the situation in the passage.

What disappointed him was that his consciousness seemed to have entered a bottomless black hole and detected nothing.

After a moment of hesitation, Fang Ping made a decision.

He took back the Yuanhe ruler and flew into the passage like a young swallow.

In a blink of an eye, the barrier closed again and disappeared into the void, as if it had never appeared.

………

After a short period of dizziness.

Fang Ping felt a strong wind spinning and tearing his body.

Fortunately, he had already pushed his defense to the extreme before entering. Moreover, the pulling force was not strong. Even a Qi training cultivator would have a great chance of holding on as long as he was not too careless.

After ten breaths.

The turbulent airflow and the force pulling the body suddenly disappeared, and Fang Ping felt like he was stepping on solid ground.

The original deep darkness also receded, and his vision gradually recovered.

He looked around vigilantly and found that he was in a vast cave.

This cave, which seemed like a paradise, was not as dilapidated as imagined after being abandoned for hundreds of years. Instead, it gave people a sense of nature in the quiet mountains and forests.

Above his head, the sun was blazing in the sky and the air was clear.

Under his feet was a green grassland with various spiritual plants and herbs growing in clusters.

Listening carefully, he could even hear the sound of a stream in the distance.

"Is this in the cave?"

For a moment, Fang Ping couldn't help but wonder where he was.

If it was a Qi training cultivator, such as the owner of the Canglan River Water Mansion who had explored this place before, even if he was suspicious, he would never be able to see through the truth.

But Fang Ping was a foundation-building cultivator after all. He had practiced the Taiwei Yangshen Pian and drank a lot of Kongming Lingcha. His resistance to illusion-type spells was far superior to that of ordinary people.

Under the dual investigation of his spiritual vision and divine consciousness, the scorching sun above his head and the mountains, forests and streams around him gradually revealed their true colors and turned into illusory mirages that did not exist.

"It should be some kind of advanced illusion array!"

Fang Ping observed for a moment and soon found subtle traces of the array operation.

Since he could see it, the grade of this illusion array should not be too high. But the range of the illusion array is extremely wide, far exceeding the dry bone illusion array and the small illusion light array.

This is something Fang Ping cannot do at all now.

Just when his mind was clear and no longer affected by the illusion array, a strong force of displacement suddenly emerged under his feet.

Fang Ping was slightly startled and was about to resist, but suddenly thought of something, so he let the force of displacement sweep him away.

A moment later.

Fang Ping found himself in front of an empty and silent green desert.

Looking back, behind him was the illusion of the mountains and forests he saw when he first entered the cave.