As these insects paused momentarily, Mo Wuji poured almost all of his Yuan Force into his feet, darting towards the outside of the weeds like a streak of light.

The insects were only startled for a moment by Mo Wuji's lightning strike, and then they rushed towards him again with renewed frenzy. Mo Wuji threw out a few more Void Thunderbolts. Faced with death, his potential was fully unleashed, and this time he crossed a distance of several zhang.

"Boom!" With a thud, Mo Wuji, having exhausted his strength, finally crashed onto a pile of rubble.

Without even caring how much it hurt, Mo Wuji scrambled to his feet and continued running. In fact, this area of rubble was already outside the desolate weed patch.

Mo Wuji only ran for about a dozen meters before stopping. His spiritual will scanned behind him and found that no insects were chasing him. The insects seemed to only exist within the weeds, not venturing out even half a step.

This was strange. Mo Wuji turned back to examine the broken walls and ruins within the weeds, scanning them with his spiritual will for a long time. He finally concluded that the insects' reluctance to leave was not accidental. If it wasn't accidental, then someone must have restricted them.

The only thing that could restrict these insects was an array. Unfortunately, Mo Wuji's array skills were too low to tell what kind of array it was.

Even though Mo Wuji's array skills were lacking, his reaction wasn't slow. Someone using a trapping array to keep so many disgusting insects here meant that either there was a great treasure, or there was some other scheme.

Thinking of this, Mo Wuji shook his head. What could he do even if he knew? His strength and skill were not enough to seek answers. Even if there were good things, it wouldn't be his turn to get them.

Thinking of his strength, Mo Wuji didn't want to delay any longer and quickly turned to leave.

……

In Qi Laoshi's general store, after making a deal with Mo Wuji, Qi Laoshi returned to his usual honest and slovenly appearance, sitting in the corner of the store, hammering away at something.

Without any warning, he suddenly threw everything in his hands away and abruptly stood up.

Almost at the same time as Qi Laoshi stood up, a ghostly woman suddenly appeared. "What's the problem?"

Qi Laoshi excitedly pointed towards the Lost Heaven Ruins. "That kid... the thing he's looking for is actually Immortal Sunflower Gold, and he's even found it..."

"Are you sure?" The woman's voice trembled with excitement as she grabbed Qi Laoshi. "The booklet we gave him doesn't even mention Immortal Sunflower Gold!"

Qi Laoshi's hand was still shaking. "I'm sure, I'm one hundred percent sure. The spiritual will imprint I left behind clearly sensed the aura of Immortal Sunflower Gold. There's only a tiny bit of Immortal Sunflower Gold in the entire Zhen Mo Continent. I saw it with my own eyes many years ago. I'll never forget that powerful aura. I never thought there would be such a thing in the Lost Heaven Ruins..."

"It really exists, it really exists..." The woman muttered to herself a few times before saying in a trembling voice, "Qi Sang, we need to go to the Lost Heaven Ruins immediately. As long as we find Immortal Sunflower Gold, we won't have to fear their pursuit anymore..."

In fact, even before the woman said they should go to the Lost Heaven Ruins, Qi Laoshi was already packing. He took out the map and the location of treasures in the Lost Heaven Ruins not to find Immortal Sunflower Gold. Even though Immortal Sunflower Gold was what they wanted most, they knew it was impossible to find it in the Lost Heaven Ruins.

But now the most impossible thing had happened. The thing they dared not believe would exist had appeared in the Lost Heaven Ruins.

……

The three people who had obtained the map and booklet from Mo Wuji were now gathered in the depths of a muddy swamp, underground.

In front of them was a large piece of black, shiny ore that looked like a complete sunflower. However, it was many times larger than a sunflower, with a diameter of at least ten feet.

"What is this stuff? It feels a bit cool and seems very hard," the woman said, touching the sunflower-like ore with her hand, her voice filled with doubt.

The other two also reached out to touch it, but they both shook their heads, not knowing what it was.

"This thing is growing in the middle of a spirit vein and looks incredibly hard. It probably isn't bad. It might even be a top-grade refining treasure," the slightly thin man said.

"But we can't take it with us right now. Even if we don't put anything else in our storage bags, we still can't fit this thing," the woman said.

The other two fell silent. The sunflower-like ore was over ten feet in diameter, and their storage bags really couldn't hold it.

Finally, the slightly taller male cultivator said, "How about this? Let's cut off a small piece first and then find a place to bury this thing. We'll wait until we get out and ask around to find out what it is. If it's really a good thing, we can come back."

The tall male cultivator seemed to be the leader of the three. After he made his suggestion, the other man and woman immediately agreed.

When the three of them tried to cut a piece off the huge ore, they ran into trouble. They couldn't cut the ore at all.

"Forget it, let's just bury it here. We need to hurry up and find the Nether Soul Crystals. We've wasted seven or eight days here for a few Heavenly Grade spirit stones. That kid has a diagram, he might make a move before us," the slightly taller male cultivator immediately decided.

The three of them immediately started digging a huge hole at the bottom of the spirit stone mine, intending to bury the large ore. The three of them had no idea that the thing they were about to bury was many times more valuable than the thing they were looking for.

……

Of course, Mo Wuji didn't know any of this, and even if he did, there was nothing he could do. Just diverting Qi Laoshi's attention away from him was already a success for him.

It had been four days since Mo Wuji had passed through the area with the disgusting insects, and now he was standing outside a misty canyon. Although it was called a canyon, it still had all sorts of broken buildings, indicating that people had lived in this canyon a long time ago.

Perhaps due to countless years of erosion, many of the buildings had weathered into features of the canyon. Mo Wuji could only vaguely discern the shape of these buildings and tell that they had once been built by humans.

He took out the Heavenly Machine Staff and carefully walked into the misty canyon. The booklet that Qi Laoshi had given him mentioned a misty canyon, and he had actually found it. The booklet also mentioned that the canyon was formed by the weathering of numerous ancient buildings and mud over countless years. In fact, this wasn't wrong either.

It seemed that the treasure locations marked by Qi Laoshi were basically correct. So, since the Lost Heaven Ruins spiritual object location introduction said that there were Heavenly Network Flowers here, Mo Wuji firmly believed it. The only thing Mo Wuji was worried about was whether anyone had been here before.

After all, countless cultivators went to the Lost Heaven Ruins every year, so it wouldn't be surprising if someone had come here.

Mo Wuji carefully entered the canyon. Because the canyon was formed by the weathering of various ancient buildings, Mo Wuji could even see some stones that looked like chairs. After about half an incense stick of time, Mo Wuji stopped because he could no longer see anything.

His eyes were starting to hurt, and all he could see was a hazy mist.

Qi Laoshi hadn't been wrong about one thing: the Lost Heaven Ruins were full of toxins. The mist was also poisonous, and the poison had made it impossible for him to see anything.

Knowing that the mist was poisonous, Mo Wuji wasn't alarmed, but rather happy. He casually took out a few detoxification pills and swallowed them, then closed his eyes tightly.

The fact that the mist was poisonous meant that ordinary cultivators wouldn't come here. Even True Lake Realm cultivators only had spiritual will at the stage of refining magical treasures. Only Virtual God Realm cultivators could freely use their spiritual will to examine their surroundings like him.

Of course, Virtual God Realm cultivators had much more flexible spiritual will usage and much stronger spiritual will than him. He didn't mind, he didn't expect his spiritual will to be comparable to that of a Virtual God Realm cultivator. He just needed his spiritual will to be able to clearly see his surroundings in this kind of place.

Perhaps because this canyon was weathered from an ancient castle, there were hardly any straight passages in the canyon, almost all of them were twisting and turning.

Several hours passed, and Mo Wuji still hadn't seen any trace of Heavenly Network Flowers. The booklet he had bought only said that there were Heavenly Network Flowers here, but it didn't mention where they were located.

Mo Wuji patiently searched everywhere. He only had one goal in coming to the Lost Heaven Ruins, and that was to find Heavenly Network Flowers. Even if he had to search here for a year, he would search.

A suddenly appearing figure startled Mo Wuji. Fortunately, Mo Wuji quickly realized that this person, like the surrounding canyon scenery, was formed by weathering over time.

Mo Wuji walked up to the figure and examined it carefully. He found that the person was half a head taller than him and had a ring on his hand. Mo Wuji suspected that the ring was a storage ring.

However, the storage ring was useless to him now because both the person and the ring had weathered into stone.

That's not right. Mo Wuji suddenly remembered something. He quickly turned around and found several pillar-like weathered objects. He soon discovered that these weren't stone pillars, but people who had died and then weathered.

In other places, people who died would be turned into bones, and after a long time, they would disappear from this world. But here, people who died weathered into stone pillars or complete human-shaped stones. The only possibility was because of the mist here.

Perhaps it was psychological, but at this moment, Mo Wuji suddenly felt a stinging pain all over his body.

Has the poisonous mist taken effect? Mo Wuji thought with a shock. His first reaction was to get out quickly. No matter how good the Heavenly Network Flower was, what was the use of it if he died?

Mo Wuji suddenly turned around and was about to run when his spiritual will saw a purple flower. The purple flower bloomed like a rose in the misty void, without roots or leaves, just floating and growing in the void.

Heavenly Network Flower! Mo Wuji recognized it immediately. This was the Heavenly Network Flower.

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