"This stone bridge has a problem."
Nangong Luo looked at the stone bridge before him. Although it was an ordinary stone bridge, spiritual springs could emerge from it.
The water from the spiritual spring flowed onto the stone bridge, and within a breath, it quickly disappeared from the stone bridge.
"This stone bridge is so cold," Huan Mao jumped onto the stone bridge, and its small body quickly retreated. Even the water inside Wei Wei's space wasn't this cold.
"Second Senior Brother, it seems there are people here."
Chu Lingwei sent out her divine sense, but it was blocked by a powerful aura.
Su Yan quickly came behind Chu Lingwei. "Second Senior Brother, be careful."
Chu Lingwei quickly flipped through the map given to them by Suoya. This stone bridge was in the center of the map. No matter which sect they entered from, they couldn't reach the center of the Chengtian Grand Hall in one step.
The Chengtian Grand Hall was the inheritance hall left behind by a Supremacy Realm powerhouse after his breakthrough. If he wanted to choose a successor who was good in all aspects, he would definitely examine the successor's abilities in all aspects.
It was even more impossible to teleport them directly to the center of the hall at once.
"Second Senior Brother, Third Senior Brother, could we have entered an illusion?"
Chu Lingwei trusted Suoya more. He had no reason to give them a fake map.
"It's possible, it's just that this place is too real." Su Yan frowned. Spiritual lights kept shooting towards his eyes. "Did you guys see the spiritual lights?"
"I didn't see anything."
Chu Lingwei summoned her Ice Jade Cold Frost Sword. The spiritual energy from the sword was unleashed, and the surroundings were silent, without even a ripple.
"It seems we are indeed in an illusion," Nangong Luo snorted lightly. He took out a pill from his waist and threw it into the air, scattering the spiritual energy.
Suddenly, a white light flashed before their eyes. The few of them were now standing on the back of a ninth-tier spirit turtle.
Seeing them wake up, the spirit turtle flipped its body, throwing them off, and was about to crush Chu Lingwei and the others with its hard shell.
"Damn, such a huge spirit turtle."
Nangong Luo unleashed his Warm Jade Haotian Fan, quickly retreating with Chu Lingwei. "This is the right place, we are just at the first trial."
Chu Lingwei aimed at the spirit turtle's eyes and leaped up, stabbing towards its eyes.
The spirit turtle reacted quickly. As Chu Lingwei leaped up, its tail swung towards her.
"Watch this!"
Feng Ming's body instantly grew several times larger, and the Xuan Tian Ming Fire from its mouth was sprayed towards the spirit turtle.
Chu Lingwei quickly flipped over, dodging the spirit turtle's attack, and jumped again. With the help of Feng Ming, she stabbed her sword directly into the spirit turtle's eyes.
Su Yan was not to be outdone. Over a thousand spirit bees flew out, surrounding the spirit turtle. Spiritual energy heavily struck its shell, causing it to flip over and giving others better attack opportunities.
They surged forward.
The spirit turtle could not resist. It feigned an attack and turned, disappearing from sight.
"It ran pretty fast," Nangong Luo wanted to pursue, but was stopped by Su Yan.
"Second Senior Brother, don't chase. Even if we catch up, we might not be its match." This was a ninth-tier spirit beast, about to transform. Their combined efforts were not enough to subdue it.
"Don't you guys feel that this spirit turtle isn't as strong as we imagined?" This spirit turtle was much weaker than Suoya.
"Let's leave here first."
Su Yan nodded. This spirit turtle was indeed weaker than the spirit beasts they had encountered before. While they were talking, the ground beneath their feet began to shake violently.
Chu Lingwei, with Feng Ming, followed Su Yan and entered another secret chamber.
As they stepped into this secret chamber, the shaking outside immediately stopped.
"This place is not on the map," Nangong Luo walked to the stone wall, and the murals on it caught their attention. "These people are not cultivators, nor demons, nor beasts."
Chu Lingwei walked closer and looked at the characteristics of the figures on the wall. "Shouldn't they be cultivators?"
"No, the spiritual energy around them is different from ours," Nangong Luo shook his head. Cultivators should be surrounded by spiritual energy, while these should not be spiritual energy.
"On the Xuanyuan Continent, there is only spiritual energy." Chu Lingwei thought of the spatial power in her space. Could it be that the entire Xuanyuan Continent had other forms of spiritual energy?
"There are many things on the Xuanyuan Continent that we don't know about," Nangong Luo stared at the spiritual energy around the figures, his eyes full of confusion.
Chu Lingwei slowly looked at the murals. The paintings above could not be connected, as if each painting conveyed a separate meaning.
The murals depicted beasts, demons, ghost cultivators, and cultivators.
That's right, the spiritual energy next to the cultivators in the back was indeed spiritual energy, so what the second senior brother said earlier was correct.
"Second Senior Brother, have you not heard that besides cultivating spiritual energy, cultivators can also improve their cultivation in other ways?" Chu Lingwei recorded all the murals she saw. Being able to see them here indicated that these things recorded something, but they just didn't know it yet.
"I don't know," Nangong Luo replied decisively. "Just like you, I grew up on the Xuanyuan Continent. What you don't know, I don't know either."
Nangong tapped his fan, then thought, "However, Master should know."
"Will Master tell you?" Chu Lingwei suddenly thought of Leng Xingzhi's face. He should know, but he didn't say anything.
"Probably not."
Nangong Luo sighed, and suddenly moved Chu Lingwei to the side. A flying sword shot towards them.
"Who is it?" Su Yan looked at the spiritual sword that fell to the ground. The moment it landed, it transformed into spiritual energy and dissipated.
"This is a very powerful cultivator," Chu Lingwei secretly guessed. She hadn't expected to encounter a cultivator so soon after entering the grand hall.
Before Su Yan could speak again, a dark figure appeared before them.
"So it's people from the Cultivation Academy?"
"I was wondering who it was, but it's Fellow Daoist Cheng." Nangong Luo recognized the person and walked to Su Yan. "Fellow Daoist Cheng, I didn't expect you to be in here so early?"
"I've been here for three days and can't get out. This place is poisonous." Cheng Tianming took off his mask, revealing a face that had already turned green.
Nangong Luo stepped forward and carefully examined the poison in Cheng Tianming's body. This poison was very strange, as if it had a life of its own, constantly moving within his body.
"Are you sure you were poisoned here?"
"Of course I'm sure." Cheng Tianming was a cultivator in the Hua Tian Realm and had more experience than the three of them. "In another hour, this place will change. Be careful."
"This poison cannot be removed at the moment." Nangong Luo took out a homemade detoxification pill. "Fellow Daoist Cheng, take this detoxification pill first."
"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Nangong."
Cheng Tianming took the detoxification pill and felt a wave of comfort throughout his body, but his complexion did not change.