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Hearing Xu Qingfeng's words, Ling Mo Xie was not surprised; he had long been accustomed to this kind of Cultivation World. He just shook his head and said, "Don't waste time arguing over these trivial matters. Our main priority now is to gain control of the Demon Tomb. Once we do, everything inside the Demon Tomb will belong to us. If we fail, our lives will be at stake, and these arguments will be meaningless."
Upon hearing Ling Mo Xie's response, Xu Qingfeng was taken aback for a moment, then nodded; the current situation was indeed as he said.
"So what should we do now..." Xu Qingfeng asked Ling Mo Xie again.
Ling Mo Xie glanced at the two still engaged in battle. "Let's not disturb them and create more complications. We should continue on our way. I wonder where the Evil Ridge Sect Leader has been taken by Luo Yan."
"Okay!" Xu Qingfeng nodded. The three of them did not disturb the two who were still locked in a fierce fight and instead bypassed the Rockery, continuing along the path that Luo Yan had originally planned to take them.
Perhaps because many people had already entered, they could see traces of formations that had been broken along the way. Thus, their journey was relatively safe; they did not encounter any formation traps. However, they did come across some people—those they could avoid did so, while those they couldn't were quickly dealt with since their goal was the Central Hall mentioned by Luo Yan.
After walking for a while, they arrived at a fork in the road. At this point, they were unsure which way to go next.
"What do we do now?" Xu Qingfeng asked Ling Mo Xie, completely at a loss in this situation.
Ling Mo Xie also felt somewhat helpless; after all, he could not predict which path led to the Central Hall. Moreover, the Demon Tomb was vast. If they chose incorrectly, it would not only risk getting lost but also waste a significant amount of time. Right now, time was their most precious resource. If the Evil Ridge Sect Leader reached the Central Hall before them, everything would be over.
"Wait a moment; Luo Yan probably doesn't want the Evil Ridge Sect Leader to gain control of the Demon Tomb either. Let's see if he left us any clues," Ling Mo Xie muttered to himself as his consciousness began searching through his Storage Ring. These were items that Luo Yan had instructed them to prepare; perhaps there was some hidden clue among them.
"Ah!" Suddenly, Ling Mo Xie exclaimed with surprise, causing Xu Qingfeng and Hong Chi to look at him in confusion. "What is it? Did you find something?"
"Look at this; Luo Yan indeed left us a clue." Ling Mo Xie took out a crystal-like stone. This type of crystal was used for recording information and could be considered equivalent to a book. The crystal contained a map of the Evil Path.
"This is..." Xu Qingfeng paused for a moment. "This is a map of the Evil Path! When I saw this among the items Luo Yan told us to prepare, I was puzzled because we are going to the Demon Tomb, and this map of the Evil Path seemed useless. I thought that since he asked us to prepare it, it might have some other purpose, so I put it into my Storage Ring. What about this map?"
Hearing Xu Qingfeng's words, Ling Mo Xie smiled and said to him, "Fortunately you put it into your Storage Ring; if we hadn't prepared this, we would have been at the mercy of fate."
"Is it really that important? I didn't realize how useful this Evil Path map could be in the Demon Tomb," Xu Qingfeng said in surprise and disbelief as he looked at Ling Mo Xie.
"Take another look," Ling Mo Xie handed the crystal stone over to Xu Qingfeng with a smile.
Xu Qingfeng took it with skepticism and probed it with his spiritual energy. As he looked closer, he exclaimed in surprise, "Why does this look somewhat familiar? This... isn't this..."
Xu Qingfeng withdrew his probing spiritual energy and looked at Ling Mo Xie, his eyes filled with surprise.
Hong Chi, listening to their inexplicable conversation, couldn't help but shout, "What kind of riddle are you two talking about? What is going on?"
Xu Qingfeng handed the Evil Path Map to Hong Chi and said, "So that's it. This Demon Tomb is actually built as a replica of the entire Evil Path map. I thought it was strange before, but now that I see this Evil Path Map, the paths we've walked before are becoming familiar. Comparing it with the Evil Path map, we should be able to clear up the general layout of the entire Demon Tomb and roughly guess its location."
"Exactly. Regardless of whether Luo Yan anticipated this or not, we still have to thank him!" Ling Mo Xie smiled and added.
"Looking at this Evil Path Map, if I'm not mistaken, this Central Hall should be where the Heavenly Demon Sect is located on the map. The path Luo Yan took us on was a shortcut; we are not far from there now. The fact that we haven't encountered any issues means that the Evil Ridge Sect Leader has not yet gained control over the Demon Tomb. Let's hurry!" Ling Mo Xie took the map back from Hong Chi, put it away, and said to the two.
The two nodded and followed Ling Mo Xie, quickening their pace toward the Central Hall.
Now they essentially had the entire map of the Demon Tomb, so they proceeded directly toward the Central Hall without hesitation.
Soon, they noticed a strange phenomenon: as they got closer to the Central Hall, the traces left by people on the road became fewer. This indicated that even though there were already many people in the Demon Tomb, very few had come this way.
While they felt fortunate about this, they also became somewhat cautious. The paths they had previously traversed had many signs of human passage; formations had been broken, and traps revealed themselves. However, on this path they were currently walking, there were no recent traces left by anyone. This suggested that the formations along this route were still intact. They were not adept at formations; even Xu Qingfeng, as a Daoist Disciple, only had a rudimentary understanding of them and was not proficient.
"Could it be that Luo Yan and the others didn't pass through here? Why are all the formations on this road intact?" Hong Chi asked Ling Mo Xie with some confusion.
Ling Mo Xie paused for a moment before saying, "I believe Brother Luo is not foolish. If he allowed the Evil Ridge Sect Leader to obtain what was left by the Heavenly Demon Sect, then there would be no place for the Heavenly Demon Sect in the Evil Path. He wouldn't be foolish enough to lead the Heavenly Demon Sect directly to the Central Hall; he must have taken a detour with the Evil Ridge Sect Leader."
"Let's hope so!" Xu Qingfeng and Hong Chi nodded in agreement and became more cautious in their steps.
However, breaking through the formations in the Demon Tomb was not so simple. Despite their carefulness, they inadvertently fell into a formation.
The three felt a blur before their eyes as their surroundings changed completely.
They seemed to have suddenly been transported into a misty area where everything was shrouded in gray; it felt as if there was nothing else in existence besides them.
Xu Qingfeng's expression changed dramatically as he said, "This... truly lives up to its reputation as part of the Heavenly Demon Sect. Although I don't understand this formation well, I can still analyze it roughly. This formation has reached an extremely high level; it has created its own spatial formation. If we cannot break this formation, we will be trapped here forever."
"Moreover, this is just on the surface. In theory, any formation can create a spatial formation as long as its caster has sufficient cultivation and understanding of formations. Therefore, I cannot determine what kind of formation we are trapped in just from this spatial formation alone; it cannot be merely a spatial formation—there must be other dangers involved."
"In short, we are in big trouble, aren't we?" Ling Mo Xie said somewhat helplessly to Xu Qingfeng. As soon as he spoke, he was taken aback himself; how... how could this happen?
Xu Qingfeng's expression also changed drastically as he looked at Ling Mo Xie in surprise, saying, "It seems that the formation set up by the Heavenly Demon Sect is indeed extraordinary."
It turned out that when Ling Mo Xie spoke just now, his voice sounded like that of an elderly man on the verge of death. When Xu Qingfeng looked toward Ling Mo Xie in astonishment, he saw a face full of wrinkles staring back at him.
"Wow!" At that moment, a sound resembling a baby's cry echoed through the air. Xu Qingfeng and Ling Mo Xie felt their minds go blank; how could there possibly be a baby within the formation of the Heavenly Demon Sect?
Looking in the direction of the sound, they found it was coming from where Hong Chi had been standing just moments ago, but Hong Chi had already vanished without a trace.
"This... this can't be..." Xu Qingfeng stammered as he pointed at the baby on the ground who was flailing its arms and legs.
"It should be Hong Chi," Ling Mo Xie said gravely. He was also quite disgusted by his own elderly voice but felt utterly helpless. He even feared that he might die at any moment; this formation was truly terrifying. If it had been some kind of attack spell, he wouldn't have been so anxious.
However, this sudden and bizarre occurrence was genuinely frightening—suddenly aging or turning into a baby was something no spell could achieve. At least throughout history, there had been no reports of anyone in the Cultivation World being able to do such a thing.
"Brother Xu, you come from a Taoist Sect and have seen much; do you have any recollection of this strange formation?" Ling Mo Xie could only helplessly address Xu Qingfeng with his aged voice.
Just as Xu Qingfeng was about to respond, he suddenly felt discomfort in his body. Looking down at himself, he realized that he was shrinking rapidly until he became a small child. When he opened his mouth to speak, his voice came out high-pitched and childish, which made him feel quite embarrassed.
"This formation seems to manipulate time to alter our states. Such formations that embody the laws of time in the world are renowned in the Cultivation World. However, I have never heard of a formation that can both age us and make us younger," Xu Qingfeng explained in a childish voice, looking somewhat comical.
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