Chapter 382 Prison? Shield?

Try it?

Try it and you will die.

This thought only went through Meng Zhou's mind for a while before he suppressed it.

If the upgrade of Qinglin Peak and his breakthrough in cultivation happened at the same time and in an extremely short time, he could create a time difference if he planned it well.

Before the Yuanying of Xingxiu Palace reacted and descended, he had already completed the breakthrough.

If so, this plan is worth a try.

But unfortunately, whether it is the upgrade of the third-level spiritual vein to the fourth-level spiritual land, or his retreat and sprint, so that his cultivation can break through from Jindan to Yuanying, it is not something that can be completed in a short time.

If he really follows this plan, he may be able to take advantage of Xingxiu Palace's unpreparedness and successfully complete the upgrade of Qinglin Peak.

But if he still wants to continue to use the upgraded Qinglin Peak to break through, unless the people of Xingxiu Palace are all crazy!

Meng Zhou shook his head.

Moreover, according to his original intention, after another field investigation of the Death Realm and understanding the true situation of the Five Realms, he also had great doubts about breaking through in such an environment.

"With the real situation of the Five Realms, do they really have the foundation to break through and form a Nascent Soul?"

"Even if they really cultivate a Nascent Soul... Will the Nascent Soul cultivated in the Five Realms leave some innate hidden dangers due to the imperfections of heaven and earth?"

Although this is just Meng Zhou's guess, what if?

Even if there is only one in ten thousand chance, it is worth treating with the most cautious attitude regarding one's own future.

So, unless there is absolutely no way out, otherwise...

Let's change our thinking.

Are there any other ideas?

Of course there are.

But no matter which one, they can't get around the behemoth of the Xingxiu Palace.

Although there are great risks, after Meng Zhou's careful calculations, as long as he acts more carefully and plans more carefully, the movement he caused is much more reliable than directly upgrading Qinglin Peak and breaking through.

...

Having made up his mind, Meng Zhou, who left the Death Realm, did not go directly to implement any new plan, but came to the "gap area" in the center of the Five Realms.

This irregular "gap zone" is located between Qingxuan Domain, Danqi Domain, Jinding Domain, Yuling Domain, and Hehuan Domain. It covers a very vast area. Compared with the five domains, its most notable feature is that the rules of heaven and earth are more unstable in this area.

Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, wind disasters, snow disasters...

The climate change that seems to be crazy, from extreme heat to extreme cold, may just be a gust of wind, full of uncertainty and no rules at all.

The tetrahedron altar hidden deep in the volcano that Meng Zhou discovered at Yaya's reminder exists somewhere in such a "gap zone".

At the beginning, after leaving the crater with an unexpected harvest, Meng Zhou had such a thought in his mind-

"Is there only one such magical and strange altar, or are there many?"

Although there is no more evidence, Meng Zhou has already tended to the latter possibility in his heart.

He even speculated that other craters, and even other areas where the rules of heaven and earth are unstable, may hide more similar altars.

However, in order to avoid unnecessary complications and prevent the established practice plan from being affected by any unexpected twists and turns, Meng Zhou suppressed his curiosity at the time and did not follow up on this doubt.

The current situation is that Meng Zhou needs to eliminate as many "unknown factors" as possible within the five domains before formally taking action.

For Meng Zhou, the mysterious tetrahedron altar is the last "unknown factor" and may also be the "unknown factor" that interferes with his plan the most.

So, it is necessary to spend some time to do some carpet-style search and investigation.

For Meng Zhou, as long as he has this idea, the difficulty of implementation is not too great.

After the "Tongming Dao Body" is completely completed, the maximum observation radius of the "Tongming Moon Mirror" reaches 2,000 miles.

In other words, he only needs to explore once, which is a "transparent zone" with a width of 4,000 miles.

In addition, although the detection ability of the "Tongming Round Mirror" is much weaker than that of the "Tongming Moon Mirror", after years of accumulation, most of the area has been eliminated.

When he made up his mind to conduct a comprehensive "mine clearance" operation, key areas were directly generated in the "interpretation world", and continued to emit flashing red light.

With such thorough preparation, Meng Zhou only took about a month to go through the five domains.

Without anyone noticing, he conducted a "thorough investigation" of the five domains.

The result shocked Meng Zhou.

In addition to the altar hidden deep in the volcano that he had discovered long ago, Meng Zhou discovered four regular tetrahedron altars.

And as he had originally guessed, all of them existed in the "gap zone", the area where the rules of heaven and earth were the most unstable and the changes were the most active.

Two of the four newly discovered altars were hidden deep in the earth's magma -

One of them was also a crater, and the other was a strange lake.

Above the lake was a black, viscous, high-temperature fluid that exuded a strange pungent stench.

The deeper you go, the higher the temperature becomes, and finally it naturally turns into red lava, with a tetrahedron altar hovering motionlessly in the red lava.

There are two more, one hidden deep underground in a core area with frequent earthquakes, and merged with a piece of black rock that forms a huge mountain range under the earth.

The black rock greatly interferes with the exploration of divine consciousness. Even if this is overcome, it is easy to mix the black tetrahedron altar with the black continuous mountains.

There is another one, deep underground in a huge desert, surrounded by frequent storms and various meteorological disasters.

If only these four altars were found, Meng Zhou, who was much more nervous than other monks and had been mentally prepared, would be surprised, but not shocked.

But when he found a new tetrahedron altar in the magma sea deep in another volcano, he almost couldn't hold it at first sight.

The reason is very simple. This newly discovered tetrahedron altar is very "clean".

There is no special material that Lian Ziling called "Tianchi Star Mud" that covers the entire altar in the form of a thin film.

Unreasonable!

Very, very unreasonable!

Soon, Meng Zhou used the means of time travel to find the reason why he felt it was inconsistent and unreasonable at first sight.

When time went back to about nine years ago, in the lava sea where everything seemed to remain unchanged, the outline of a human-shaped flame appeared.

Meng Zhou even saw some familiar traces from the outline of the human-shaped flame. Because of its orange flame flow, Meng Zhou easily thought of the discovery many years ago.

At that time, Meng Zhou was at the first tetrahedron altar, with the help of the huge amount of soul power stored in the soul armor, and time went back to before the Xingxiu Palace closed.

At that time, he found a human-shaped flame in the form of an orange flame flow.

Unlike the human-shaped flame in the form of a white flame flow that appeared regularly, this orange flame flow human-shaped flame appeared just before the Xingxiu Palace was about to close the mountain.

The time was so accurate that it was hard for Meng Zhou not to think too much.

This orange flame flow human-shaped flame was also labeled as "sneaky" and "theft" in his mind.

Now, the same orange flame flow human-shaped flame appeared again in the lava sea, and the time point was just shortly after the Xingxiu Palace came out again.

Meng Zhou naturally equated the two "orange humanoid flames" as one.

The time was so accurate, and the temperament was so similar!

The hateful thing was that this time, the "thief" succeeded.

In the traces of time that were traced back, Meng Zhou watched the orange flame appear, and then took away all the "Tianchi Star Mud" that had accumulated on the altar for more than a hundred years, and then left decisively.

Because of this discovery, Meng Zhou specially returned to the place where the first altar was found, which was also the magma sea where he set a trap to deceive Lian Ziling.

Meng Zhou went back to the same time point, which was nine years ago.

This time point is actually very strange.

On the one hand, Lian Ziling had sneaked in, and Xingxiu Palace had re-emerged, occupying five third-level spiritual veins;

On the other hand, I had already been practicing in the Lotus Space, and all the arrangements for Lian Ziling had been completed, including the whole process of "editing" a pale green cold flame figure out of thin air in this magma sea and taking away the "Tianchi Star Mud".

Nine years ago, Lian Ziling was still carefully circling around the five domains, and there was still a long exploration process before discovering this final secret.

"If this existence really appeared here nine years ago, doesn't it mean that before Lian Ziling found the traces of my arrangement, he would find the traces of this existence first?"

"But looking at his performance at the time, it doesn't seem like this...

Or, is Lian Ziling actually an actor? At that time, he had realized something and deliberately played me there?"

Because of the appearance of the orange flame flow, Meng Zhou suddenly had many doubts in his heart, and his thoughts were a little messy for a while, and he even had great doubts about Lian Ziling's performance at the time.

Soon, Meng Zhou turned back the time to nine years ago.

He used the time when the orange flame appeared in the magma sea as a reference and searched carefully.

There was no trace of its appearance around the tetrahedron altar.

Meng Zhou's first reaction was to breathe a sigh of relief, which meant that his guess about Lian Ziling just now was just scaring himself.

But then new doubts came to his mind.

Xingxiu Palace appeared here before it was closed, which means that this place is not a secret to that mysterious existence.

After Xingxiu Palace came out again, its traces appeared again in the five domains, but it avoided this place.

Does this make sense?

It makes no sense at all!

Could he know in advance which altar had harvest and which altar had no harvest?

But this is not right!

The time he appeared here before Xingxiu Palace was closed, he took nothing away.

He came empty-handed and left empty-handed.

Unless, these two orange flames are not the same person, or even have nothing to do with each other.

With such doubts, Meng Zhou expanded the scope of time travel and sorted it out more carefully.

Suddenly, a slight abnormality in a magma sea some distance away from the regular tetrahedron altar attracted Meng Zhou's attention.

In the surging magma sea, a little orange light appeared.

This orange light is not too bright. Against the background of red magma, it is easy to blend into the grand background and make people ignore its existence.

From the appearance to the disappearance of this orange light, it took about a cup of tea, and it was flickering slightly during the period.

Across nine years of time, Meng Zhou's eyes seemed to flicker as he watched the flickering orange light.

"It appeared, but it didn't show up completely?"

"Because someone got there first after discovering the 'Tianchi Star Mud' here?"

"But if it's just to confirm this, do you need to stay so long?"

If it's just to confirm whether the "Tianchi Star Mud" is there or not, you can tell with just one glance.

There must be another reason for staying so long.

And that reason doesn't seem difficult to guess.

"So, will the arrangement I used to deceive Lian Ziling also be seen by this person?" Meng Zhou guessed in his heart.

With such a guess, Meng Zhou felt a little inexplicable.

Leaving this crater, Meng Zhou continued to "find out the details".

After discovering three other tetrahedral altars one after another, it was no surprise that he saw the existence of the "orange humanoid" again.

However, in the third magma sea, this existence was still a humanoid flame of orange flame flow.

Near the other two tetrahedron altars hidden deep under the earth, the "orange flame flow" turned into a human-shaped outline of "orange light", and no longer showed the characteristics of burning flames.

Its existence form seems to change due to different environments.

Except for the one that Meng Zhou got there first, the "Tianchi Star Mud" that had accumulated for more than a hundred years on the other four tetrahedron altars was all drained away by this non-existence.

According to the different time sequences of the appearance of this "orange human figure" at the five altars, Meng Zhou restored a more specific trajectory of action of this special existence in his mind.

At the same time, its different existence forms adjusted and changed due to the environment when it appeared at the five altars reminded Meng Zhou of the situation where the statue of Lihen appeared on the Lihen altar and made different reactions according to the actual situation.

Meng Zhou felt that there was a certain principle in the way these two appeared in the five domains.

"They all ignored the barrier outside the Death Domain through some special means and appeared directly inside the Five Domains. After completing the task, they left directly."

"However, the barrier still clearly restricted them. Otherwise, they would never behave so well... They really focused on picking resources and ignored everything else."

So, the barrier that he regarded as a cage is actually a kind of protection for the Five Domains? !

If not, wouldn't the shadow of the Lihen statue, or this "orange humanoid", and more similar beings be able to enter and exit this domain more freely?

Thinking of this, Meng Zhou's mood suddenly became a little complicated. (End of this chapter)