ninety thousand miles

Chapter 505 Hot Soup
"The upper left corner, which specific location do you mean? How do you turn back?" Yao Shuang asked immediately.

Li Chuan had just come out of his state. When he heard Yao Shuang's series of questions, he was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Wait a minute, let me sort it out." He raised his head, rubbed his eyes, and looked towards the light again. The picture in his eyes was superimposed on the path in his memory.

Everyone was silent, waiting for him to sort out his thoughts.

After a while, Li Chuan spoke again and said, "The upper left corner is right there." He stretched out his hand and pointed to a spot in the light. "Look, there is actually a wisp of black smoke floating in the light. In the upper left corner, there is a wisp that makes two bends. That's right there. We need to go there first, and then walk towards the black spot in the middle. If we turn back, we have to walk layer by layer. When we reach the deepest point, we will be able to pass through."

After he finished speaking, he added, "I think this formation may also have consciousness, and it sensed our arrival. So I thought, maybe it's because I borrowed its light. Then I took out the butterfly spirit and tried it again, and the result was the same."

Yao Shuang said: "When I looked at the structure of the formation, I planned to walk out from the position of Dui Gua, which is the upper left corner you mentioned."

"Then let's go." Wen Guying said.

"What if it's a trap?" Li Chuan asked.

"We have to go and take a look, otherwise we won't be able to make sense even if we talk here for a long time. Brother Li, please show us the way, and then Senior Sister Yao, thank you for your hard work again." Wen Guying said.

"Okay." After Yao Shuang finished speaking, Li Chuan felt the black shovel flash past him, and then they stood in the bubble again. But this time, the bubble was very small, barely covering the four of them.

Yao Shuang said, "Friend Li, how do we go now?"

"Wait, wait a minute," Li Chuan quickly got into the state, the scene in his vision kept changing, he said: "Let's go forward first, keep going, through the building complex, we can only go straight, go in a straight line... to the tallest building, we go up..."

Before he finished speaking, the scenery on both sides began to recede rapidly.

Li Chuan said, "Slow down, Senior Sister Yao, slow down first, let me get used to it first."

The pace slowed down.

"Okay, keep going straight..."

After entering the building complex and reaching the location Li Chuan mentioned, the bubbles began to float upward into the sky, and then they passed through a layer of light and entered the formation.

Li Chuan felt the bubbles sink a little, and then began to rise and fall, and bursts of hot air blew on his face, and he seemed to smell some kind of fragrance.

It was like being in a pot of hot soup. The boiling soup surged and rushed through the arches formed by the hot steam.

And under his command, Bubble also went in and out of these doors.

"Keep going forward?" Yao Shuang's voice sounded in his ears.

"Well, go forward and then turn left, and you'll be there. Then you have to turn back." Li Chuan said.

"Stop there for a while." Wen Guying said.

"I understand." Yao Shuang said.

Soon, they arrived at the upper left corner that Li Chuan mentioned.

After arriving, Li Chuan discovered that all the soups were pouring down from here. After passing through the arches formed by hot air, the soups would be divided into many tributaries and go in different directions. In the end, they would converge into one, return here, and then fall down again, repeating the cycle.

"Shall we continue?" Li Chuan asked.

"Wait a minute, let me take another look." Yao Shuang said.

"Yeah." Li Chuan was not in a hurry. He looked along the main flow of the soup, watching the path it traveled, and kept comparing it. Finally, he said, "Only the main flow. The path I saw is the path of the main flow." He breathed a sigh of relief, "It's not something. It found us here and deliberately lured us into a trap."

"It may be more troublesome." Wen Guying said.

"What's wrong?" Li Chuan asked. Wen Guying said, "This formation is constantly drawing spiritual energy from the secret realm."

"Where did you draw it?" Li Chuan asked.

"Behind the formation is the place where the clouds gathered that Jiang Mei and the others had arrived at before." Wen Guying said.

"Ah? So this formation was just set up? That's unlikely?" Li Chuan said.

"It was arranged by the evil spirit in order to open the ferry, with the purpose of extracting the spiritual energy in the secret realm. Therefore, opening the ferry requires a lot of spiritual energy." Wen Guying stated his inference.

"I have seen fragments of another formation in a relic, which has some similarities with this one. That formation will temporarily hide after three cycles. Senior Brother Jiang should have encountered it when it was hidden." Yao Shuang said.

"Why do you want to hide?" Li Chuan asked.

"I haven't figured out the principle yet," said Yao Shuang.

"The black stone outside stabilizes this secret realm, but...if the spiritual energy is drained away, the secret realm will quickly decay and even affect the surroundings." Wen Guying made a decision and said, "The ferry must be destroyed, and this formation must also be destroyed. Li Chuan, show the way, Senior Sister Yao, take us there."

Li Chuan nodded, and just as he was about to continue giving directions, Jiang Bai, who had been quiet the whole time, spoke up and said, "Wait a moment."

"What did you find?" Wen Guying asked.

Jiang Bai said: "There is something else in the spiritual fluid here."

Wen Guying said: "I also noticed that there are impurities in it. Can you tell me what it is?"

Jiang Bai said: "It's not impurities... but some insect eggs."

"The secret technique of Qing Sect?" Wen Guying asked.

"Yes." Jiang Bai said.

"What are the uses of insect eggs?" Li Chuan asked.

Jiang Bai said: "I don't know, I only learned the basics... Later I was forced to learn more. Anyway, this must have been done by Jiang Lei, and it was definitely not a good thing."

"Jiang Lei has also been here." Yao Shuang said.

"Of course." Wen Guying said.

"Could he be..." Yao Shuang looked around, trying to find Jiang Lei's figure among the flowing soup and the misty hot air, "Could he be here right now?"

"We can only keep going down." Wen Guying said, and then looked at Li Chuan, "Brother Li, go on."

"Okay." Li Chuan also continued to concentrate and said, "Turn right, and then keep walking until you reach the center of the formation."

As he spoke, the bubbles started to move again. Following the scorching hot liquid, they turned back five times in a row, and then a force burst out from the liquid, lifted them up, and took them to the center of the formation, the black spot deep in the vortex.

The speed was getting faster and faster, and all the dots and horizontal lines in Li Chuan's eyes became mixed together, and his eyeballs began to hurt.

As a last resort, he closed his eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, the shaking stopped and the heat dissipated. Li Chuan opened his eyes and saw a ferry looming in the white clouds.

(End of this chapter)