Chapter 206: Evolved Dark Flame Wild Lion? (1/2)
The next day, before the sun had even risen, Cheng Yu had already left the city. The reason was simple: Cheng Yu did not wish to attract anyone’s attention. Everyone knew that when cultivators went out for training, not only would they have to be cautious about beasts, they would also need to guard against humans, especially places cultivators would gather.
There were countless people entering the Death Forest for training, but they were all in groups. Naturally, they were not worried about others having ideas about them. However, Cheng Yu was different. He was entering alone. It would easily attract others’ attention and if he were to meet other cultivators, most of them would want to fish up some profits. Therefore, Cheng Yu had to be on guard. It would be better for him to leave earlier to not attract any attention.
Luminous City was not far away from Death Forest. The distance between them was around 200 kilometers. Cheng Yu used his flying sword and arrived at the outskirts of the Death Forest very quickly. Cheng Yu did not stop there, but continued flying on. Previously, when Cheng Yu was staying in the inn at Luminous City, he had already studied the map he bought. Death Forest was huge. It was separated into exploration and known areas. The known area was made up of three big regions: Death Swamp, Death Bone Grave and Death Fantasy Ocean.
It was rumored that in the Death forest, there was a Death Shrine. It was built by an extremely mysterious sect. Formerly, this sect had occupied the whole Death Forest and in the shrine, more than half of their resources were stashed. It was also because of these rumors that a lot of cultivators would come to Death Forest for training frequently. Most of them had basically come here because of that shrine.
Long ago, there were a lot of supreme experts who had come over for an expedition. In this huge forest, other than the shrine, there were a lot of other formidable demonic beasts. In the depths of the Death Forest, there were some beings so strong to the point where no experts would dare to risk it and enter. Even so, they had already explored most of the region, but still did not manage to find the shrine. Over here, other than killing demonic beasts and finding some pill concocting or blacksmithing ingredients, there were no other particular treasures.
Therefore, there were very few experts here. To have some Golden Core Realm experts appearing here was already overstating this place. Otherwise, most of them would usually be Pill Masters or Blacksmithing Masters who would come to collect some ingredients. According to this map, Death Swamp, Death Bone Grave and Death Fantasy Ocean were the main areas because the entrance to enter the Death Forest was not limited to Luminous City. The reason why Cheng Yu chose to enter here was because Luminous City was the closest to him.
Regardless of the entrance those cultivators entered from, they would still be far away from these three areas. From this, it could be seen that these three areas should be the a ring that encircle the heart of the forest. According to the situation, if the Death Shrine really existed, the greatest possible location for it would be the heart of the forest. However, what puzzled everyone was that those experts in the Cultivation World were unable to reach that location. They truly had no idea who in this Cultivation World would be able to enter in. Could it be immortals? But in this world, there were no immortals.
However, no one was willing to give up on the exploration of Death Forest. With their Foundation Establishment Realm cultivation, they did not have any better place for training. So they might as well try their luck here. The Cultivation World had always talked about fortuitous encounters. Perhaps it was because of destiny. Perhaps, the destined one had yet to arrive, therefore there was no appearance of Death Shrine, but everyone continued to have this mindset as they went into Death Forest for training.
Cheng Yu stood on his flying sword and flew for hundreds kilometers before he no longer dared to continue flying because the map recorded that in this area, there were Foundation Establishment Realm flying demonic beasts. Once he attracted their attention, it would be hard for him to escape because flying demonic beasts usually hang out in groups.
The past few days of journeying in Death Forest, Cheng Yu had been researching the blacksmithing jade slip the sloppy old man had given him because the Death Forest was a good place to harvest blacksmithing and pill ingredients. Cheng Yu knew pill concocting like the back of his hand, but when it came to blacksmithing, he knew nothing at all. Therefore, Cheng Yu had memorized the information in the jade bamboo slip very seriously. Such an opportunity was hard to come by, so he did not wish to miss any good ingredients.
Cheng Yu travelled around while paying close attention to demonic beasts as he looked for those ingredients he needed. Therefore, the whole journey was quite slow. However, Cheng Yu was not in a hurry, as travelling through Death Forest would not take just a day or two. If possible, Cheng Yu might stay here for two months. With Cheng Yu’s current situation, only by constantly facing dangers would he be able to breakthrough straight from Foundation Establishment late stage to Golden Core Realm.
Cheng Yu had no idea what Kunlun’s situation was currently and did not know what kind of experts they had sent out to deal with him. However, now that he was in Death Forest, there was no longer a need for him to worry about Kunlun’s people.
Thinking about Kunlun’s people, it caused Cheng Yu to remember the mysterious black gowned man he saw yesterday. Cheng Yu felt that he was familiar, but could not recognize him. The people Cheng Yu was most familiar with were Kunlun’s people. However, no matter how he looked at it, that person did not seem to be from Kunlun. This kind of familiarity was so sudden, it had caused Cheng Yu to feel extremely puzzled.
The sky had long brightened up. The plants in Death Forest were all overgrown lushly. Large amounts of sunlight shone into the forest while crickets and bird sang through the forest. This kind of scene made it seem like this place was not Death Forest at all. People expected it to be a sinister and terrifying forest. Instead, it gave one a feeling of tranquility and harmony. However, Cheng Yu did not relax because of this. On the contrary, he became even more alert because he knew that since this place was called Death Forest, there was naturally a reason for it. Furthermore, there was always a calm before the storm. Every day, there were a lot of people entering the Death Forest. However, the vegetation here seemed to not have any traces of people.
“Zhenyuan Grass!” Suddenly, Cheng Yu saw a stem of a herb under a big tree.
Zhenyuan Grass was the main ingredient needed to concoct a high-rank pill: Zhenyuan Pill. The Zhenyuan Pill belonged to a branch of pills that helped to increase one’s cultivation. What does a cultivator pursue? It was precisely cultivation! This grass was essentially a heaven sent gift. Pills were divided into different types: primary-rank, mid-rank, high-rank, spiritual-rank, immortal-rank, saint-rank, and god-rank. However, in this current world, pills that were above spiritual-rank did not exist anymore.