ninety thousand miles

Chapter 639 Collapse
After walking a few steps, Wen Guying stopped and said, "Wait a moment."

The spiritual master stopped, turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"

"There's no need for so many people to go there." Wen Guying looked at Jiang Mei and said, "There must be someone on the ground. You also need to keep in touch with Xuanmen."

Jiang Mei said, "Okay, I'll watch it."

Wen Guying nodded, then turned to Luo Xueli and said, "Take a look at Songdu."

"Do you suspect something will happen to Song?" asked the spiritual master.

Wen Guying said: "Yes, the first breach appeared in Songdu. And now Songdu's defense should be the weakest, right?"

"Every necessary place is guarded. One of my people also stayed there." said the spiritual master.

"I'm going to Songdu too." Lao laughed and said, "I can't do much here with you, but I can do something in Songdu."

"What can you do?" Gong Er asked.

Lao laughed and said, "You are worried about the worm tribe, right?"

"Then go ahead." Li Chuan said.

Wen Guying glanced at Gong Er and Pang San and said, "You two can go together."

"What if my eldest brother can't walk fast?" asked Gong Er.

"I can still walk a few steps." Li Chuan defended himself and then reminded Gong Erpang San, "You are in Songdu, be smart. If you find anything wrong, run away and find Brother Luo. Do you understand?"

"Don't worry, brother." Pang San said.

Gong Er said, “I know.”

Then, they split into three groups and headed towards their respective destinations.

Under the guidance of the spiritual master, Li Chuan and his companions squeezed in through the gap beside a cliff cypress tree. After moving sideways for five or six steps, they walked into the spacious tunnel.

It was dark in the tunnel.

Li Chuan found that he seemed to have the ability of night vision. He could see the puddles on the ground, the bumps on the walls, and the texture on the top clearly.

The spiritualist's voice rang out in the tunnel, "We are already in the tunnel. I am familiar with this section of the tunnel, but I don't know how to find the peeper you mentioned."

Hearing this, Elder Li took the Sky Survey Silk, walked forward a few steps, and said, "Let's go down first. He's in a relatively deep place. Once we get deep enough, we can get closer to him."

"Okay." The spiritualist agreed, "Then go this way."

After walking through another winding corridor, the road became narrower and steeper.

Li Chuan accidentally stepped on empty air, but he reacted quickly, supporting himself against the wall with his right hand to steady his body. Then he felt someone supporting him, it was Zhu Qingyun.

"Be careful." Zhu Qingyun said.

"Yeah." Li Chuan said.

He felt Zhu Qingyun loosen his hand.

"Is the crack above close?" Li Chuan asked softly.

"Not close. Looking from a high place, they are densely packed. But the distance between each crack, the shortest I have seen, is six or seven miles." Zhu Qingyun also answered softly.

"Will we just walk under them?" Li Chuan raised his head and said, "Those cracks may have grown out of the tunnel."

"Yes." Wen Guying answered him, "The rift, the secret realm, the tunnel, the blood pool, and maybe other things, they are all part of an illusory whole. This whole is illusory, but it does not non-existent. And we are now, also in this illusory whole." "Original consciousness?" Li Chuan asked.

"I just thought about it. The part of consciousness we encountered may be just a part of this huge consciousness. It may have some goodwill towards you and us because of some expectations, but the entire consciousness should be chaotic, distorted, and uncontrollable." Wen Guying said.

"I was confused by what I heard." said Li Chuan.

"We overlooked one thing before." Wen Guying said.

"What was overlooked?" Li Chuan asked.

"The relationship between the half-demon and the blood pool." Wen Guying said.

When the spiritual master heard Wen Guying mention half-demons, he turned around and glanced at them.

"What's the relationship?" Li Chuan asked.

"That entire consciousness includes half-demons. The reincarnation of half-demons relies on the blood pool, so all half-demons are also in that consciousness." Wen Guying further explained, "So, one of the questions has an answer, why can't half-demons leave the Cangwu Wilderness? In addition to the power of the promise and curse, the consciousness of half-demons is connected to this consciousness. So, another question has an answer."

Wen Guying looked back at Yu Chen and said, "This is also the reason why half-demons cannot practice."

"Look, is there a spell engraved there?" Zhu Qingyun raised his hand and pointed at the stone wall in front.

Li Chuan looked in the direction of her hand and saw some blurry symbols engraved on it.

"It's a spell." Yu Chen recognized it and said, "This spell has too many flaws. It's probably lost its effectiveness. Do you know what spell it is?"

"It should represent a spell that imprisons power." Zhu Qingyun answered, and she explained: "Among the spells I know, there is one that is very similar to this one."

"Can you use it?" Yu Chen asked.

"No, this is not the ancient times," Zhu Qingyun sighed and said, "My master said that I can try to cooperate with some illusions. But at present, I have not practiced illusions, and my talent in illusions is average. I plan to try and see if I can integrate it into my swordsmanship in the future."

"You are indeed suitable for using a sword." Wen Guying said.

They continued walking forward. After walking for a while, Li Chuan felt something was wrong and said, "Stop for a moment."

Several people stopped and looked at him.

Li Chuan said, "We have walked this road twice," and he provided evidence, "Ten steps further, there will be a semicircular collapse on the ground."

They walked forward, and after ten steps, they saw the collapse that Li Chuan had mentioned.

They all looked towards the spiritual master.

The spiritual master looked solemn and said, "I have walked this road many times. Now that I think about it, there is indeed something wrong, but I didn't notice it at all before... It's so strange."

"I've walked through this tunnel several times and have never seen this collapse pattern," said Yu Chen.

"I didn't find it either," Wen Guying asked Elder Li: "Elder Li, are you still targeting the peeper?"

"It's locked, and I can feel that we are getting closer to him." Elder Li looked at the semicircular collapse on the ground and said, "I think it's better to let her lead the way and keep going."

"Let's keep going." Wen Gu responded to the spiritual master.

The spiritual master hesitated.

Li Chuan remembered Elder Li's "characteristics" and said, "Let's keep going. We should all be more vigilant and wait until we encounter something else before we deal with it."

"Okay." The spiritual master led them through the tunnel again.

(End of this chapter)