Eighty miles,

A hundred miles,

...

The group took only an hour to easily walk two hundred miles.

Along the way, not to mention danger, they didn't even find a single hair. Everything of any value in the ruins had long been taken away by those before them.

The farther the team went, the closer they got to the skeleton of the giant beast.

As they got closer, the group could better appreciate the terrifying size of this giant beast and the imposing aura it constantly emanated.

Looking up, they saw the skeleton of the beast towering into the clouds, making its full appearance indistinct, leaving only a sense of the giant bones crossing the Heavenly Vault, imbued with infinite mystery, akin to a series of sky-reaching thoroughfares, luring one to climb upwards, directly into the Immortal Realm.

As time went on, Zhao Sheng gradually became entranced, his Spirit unknowingly completely absorbed by it. The surrounding ruins seemed to blur and disappear as his entire focus and mind were occupied by this sky-reaching giant beast.

In a daze, he vaguely saw a silver-white giant wolf, unimaginably large, coming from afar, treading on earth, water, wind, and fire while howling at the sky.

In front of it, an enormous and perilous giant peak, emitting boundless auspicious light, slowly emerged from the unknown Void...

Just as the giant peak appeared, Zhao Sheng suddenly snapped awake.

At this moment, he realized that his chest felt hot to the touch, and the corner of the apricot-yellow talisman on his chest seemed burned, turning scorched black.

Zhao Sheng glanced over the entire team, and what he saw secretly shocked him.

At this moment, he saw many people in the crowd silently igniting into clusters of pale flames, instantly turning into human torches.

Even more terrifying was that these people seemed oblivious, continuing to walk forward, their gaze fixed unwaveringly on the giant beast skeleton, their souls already completely captivated.

People around hurriedly backed away, leaving a large open space, fearing they might catch a wisp of the pale flames.

No one dared to step forward to awaken them, nor did anyone try to extinguish the flames!

Even the three at the front, Fengfengzi and the others, stood idly by, showing no intention to help.

After walking a bit further and passing by a human-shaped torch, Zhao Sheng couldn't help but glance sideways.

"Infinite Immortals and Buddhas, these people have been bewitched by an evil spirit, too deeply entranced, beyond saving. Baimei Tan Yue, do not look too much, lest you entangle yourself in Cause and Effect."

Hearing this, Zhao Sheng turned his head towards the Black Monk, who smiled kindly, slowly raising his palms in a gesture of prayer.

"Thank you for the reminder, Master!" Zhao Sheng bowed respectfully, simultaneously scanning Chang Jiutong and the others, immediately noticing the three were clear-headed, with their talismans intact, as if they already knew the secret of the giant beast skeleton.

A few breaths later, the human-shaped torches burned out, turning into patches of pale haze that rose into the high cloud sea.

After this Tribulation, the team was reduced by a full twenty percent, leaving less than five hundred people.

Before even reaching Gray Mountain, so many people had been lost halfway. Seeing the situation worsening, many secretly thought of retreat.

Just when people's hearts were uneasy, Fengfengzi suddenly stepped forward to calm them, and issued the recruitment order in advance.

The Tokens were small, made of some sky blue spirit gold, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with an Immortal Seal Characters engraved on the surface.

Others didn't recognize the Immortal Seal, but Zhao Sheng recognized this character as the word "wind."

Even so, nearly fifty people still did not take the recruitment order and chose to withdraw.

Fengfengzi was surprisingly agreeable, allowing them to leave at will.

Seeing this, everyone's heart was greatly at ease, and morale became high again.

Four hours later, the group smoothly arrived at the foot of Gray Mountain, completing hundreds of miles.

Fengfengzi did not let the group rest for a moment, directly leading them to climb Gray Mountain.

As the name suggests, Gray Mountain was covered with a thick layer of ash similar to volcanic ash. Often, just stepping on it would leave a foot-deep pit.

Because the road had been opened by predecessors, after countless treads, a winding "mountain path" over three yards wide had formed on the mountain.

Only a thin layer of "ash" covered the path, with countless scattered footprints clearly visible.

Zhao Sheng followed along in the team, slowly climbing the mountain.

However, the large group soon fell back into an unusual silence, leaving only the sound of footsteps, thud after thud.

Gray Mountain wasn't steep, its slope gentle, but its body was so unimaginably vast that looking to either side, the ash layer seemed flat and endless, with no sight of the mountain's curve.

In the deathly silent atmosphere, time slowly passed!

Unknowingly, they had climbed a long time, reaching an altitude of over ten thousand feet, nearing the waist of Gray Mountain, with the vast pale fog above almost within reach.

At this moment, Zhao Sheng saw the front of the team suddenly disappearing into the mountain body.

He turned his thoughts instantly, realizing it was a cave, and their destination lay deep within it.

Suddenly, the pace of the ascent quickened significantly, with those ahead leaping like Star Pills, their forms flickering repeatedly before disappearing out of sight.

Soon, a huge rift in the ground appeared before Zhao Sheng.

The edge of the rift bore evident signs of excavation, and its deepest part revealed a bottomless Big Hole, into which people were jumping in succession.

Chang Jiutong and the others also hurriedly jumped down, and seeing this, Zhao Sheng drew the Thunder Wood Sword from his back and leaped after them, gripping the sword with his right hand.

Falling only a few dozen feet, he saw a vast soft white light appear below.

Bang!

Zhao Sheng passed through the white light, crashing suddenly onto the ground, twisting his foot and kicking off, his body shooting seven or eight yards away, easily dissipating all the falling force.

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