Chapter 744 What's the Fun?
Zhang Zhiwen walked along the road leading to the mountains. This was his first time to leave the village.
He roughly estimated that the secret book was roughly divided into several parts. One was the temple where the secret book was first entered. That place should be south of Wangfeng Ridge. Then he walked north along the mountain road and arrived at Wangfeng Ridge.
Further north of Wangfeng Ridge, that should be the target location he was looking for, which was Lushan.
Soon, Zhang Zhiwen heard a sound of water flowing from a distance. Not long after, he saw a river flowing east along the road. Across the river was a large valley.
Obviously, this should be Dinghe Valley.
Seeing Dinghe Valley, Zhang Zhiwen was slightly relieved. He had heard Chen Jifeng talk about some places before, such as Dinghe Valley to the north of Wangfeng Ridge, and entering the Red River Corridor after crossing Dinghe Valley. The Red River Corridor continued all the way north to the Yanyun Mountains.
Zhang Zhiwen probably had to cross the Yanyun Mountains to finally reach Qingbi Lake, and Qingbi Lake was probably where Lushan was located.
He wanted to find Lushan and the Soul Bead, which might be the key to his demon soul's breakthrough.
Of course, Zhang Zhiwen was just guessing now and was not very sure.
And now he had to cross the Ding River before he could enter the Ding River Valley.
This Ding River was extremely wide. Zhang Zhiwen came to the river and looked at the turbulent river. He tried to fly, but soon he found that this was not feasible, because once he sacrificed the power of the Dao Soul Yuanshen, he would be pulled into the illusory realm of the secret realm.
And now he has been relying on demon power to maintain the real world all the way. If he doesn't want to be pulled into the illusory realm, he can only use demon power to cross the river.
His ancient demon power was still not enough for him to fly with the wind, and he didn't even know how to fly with the wind. Therefore, the only way for him to cross the river was to find a boat to cross the river.
Zhang Zhiwen walked east along the river bank for a while, and he saw the ferry.
The ferry was deserted, without a single ghost. Obviously, there were not many humans in the real world of the secret realm, or even just a few humans. It was hard to see any normal people except for the monsters bred in the secret realm.
Zhang Zhiwen was also a little strange. If there were almost no normal people in the secret realm, how did these monsters survive? How did the secret realm nourish them?
If the secret realm could nourish these monsters, this secret realm would really be a very powerful existence. It should be some kind of mysterious plane, similar to a polluted land.
I don’t know how many such secret realms there are, but this secret realm alone is very powerful. There are also sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers and rivers in the secret realm, which is equivalent to an independent world.
And this world is divided into the surface world and the inner world. The surface world is a false world, and the inner world is the real secret world.
At present, Zhang Zhiwen has stepped into the inner world, but the world here is not stable. Zhang Zhiwen may return to the surface world at any time, which is indeed a bit troublesome.
Zhang Zhiwen just wanted to get to Lushan as soon as possible, but to get to Lushan, he had to walk step by step, and he couldn't fly with the wind. If he returned to the state of Dao Soul Yuanshen, he could fly, and even if he returned to the state of Beast Soul Yuanshen, he could transform and speed up.
But only the Demon Soul Yuanshen couldn't do it, which was a very strange thing. Logically speaking, the Demon Soul Yuanshen reached the ancient realm, which was also very good. Under normal circumstances, how could it not fly? But this is not a normal situation.
The constraints on the Dao Soul Yuanshen here are not the constraints of power, but the constraints of the world plane, and the same is true for the Beast Soul Yuanshen.
But the constraints on the Demon Soul Yuanshen are the constraints of power, which is no surprise. In addition, if Zhang Zhiwen's cultivation reaches the level of Yuanying, the power of the Dharma can fight against the secret realm, and directly use brute force to break the false realm of the secret realm, then he can also use the power of the Dao Soul Yuanshen to fight against the level here.
Zhang Zhiwen naturally couldn't do this. He was using the demon soul, which was restricted here. Under the suppression of the power of the Dharma, he couldn't fly.
In fact, the state of the Dao soul and the beast soul couldn't fly either, but in the state of the Dao soul, Zhang Zhiwen didn't know that he couldn't fly, because he was flying in the realm of illusion, but in fact he didn't fly at all, and it was even possible to stay still.
It's just that the realm of illusion gave him the feeling that he was flying, just like the Taoist attack, which was actually invalid and had no effect at all, but it looked to Zhang Zhiwen as if the Taoist attack was blasted out.
The same is true for the beast soul. In the final analysis, it was the suppression of the Dharma that made Zhang Zhiwen unable to really sacrifice any Taoist power and beast soul power.
Only the demon power can be sacrificed, because this is the territory of the monster, and the monster can't be unable to use the demon power itself, so Zhang Zhiwen actually took advantage of the loophole and got the help of the monster. If there were no monsters here, things would be troublesome.
Zhang Zhiwen couldn't use any demonic power, whether it was the power of Tao or the power of the beast soul.
It must be said that the power of the Dharma phase really restrained Zhang Zhiwen's actions. Zhang Zhiwen also felt that the power of the Dharma phase seemed to be energy within a certain domain. Within this domain, the caster is almost the maker of the rules of this domain, and can do whatever he wants.
This may be the freedom of the Dharma phase.
Of course, both sides are Yuanying, so it depends on whose Dharma power is stronger and more durable. This is something that needs no further explanation.
And now this eighteen-layer secret realm is an extremely powerful existence for Zhang Zhiwen. He doesn't know whether it is a secret realm born from the formation or something else, but it is definitely not something that a monster can create.
This secret realm is so huge, and the Dharma power consumed is also extremely amazing. The internal energy source must be astonishing.
However, Zhang Zhiwen didn't think about this problem very much. He just had to cross the river first.
He walked towards the ferry, and soon he came to the ferry, but there was no one here. In this case, Zhang Zhiwen didn't care. If there was no boatman, he could also ferry the boat over.
So he got on the boat. The boat was shaking, but fortunately Zhang Zhiwen's body was strong enough to stabilize it. Ordinary people would probably fall into the river if they got on it.
After getting on the boat, Zhang Zhiwen stabilized his body, then picked up the oar on one side, and began to row the boat to the other side of the river.
The river was extremely turbulent, and the waves kept hitting the side of the boat, causing the boat to shake violently. If Zhang Zhiwen's body was not solid, these bumps alone would have caused him to fall into the river.
But fortunately, there was no danger. Zhang Zhiwen had rowed the boat to the center of the river. The water here was even more turbulent, and it was almost difficult for the boat to cross the river. Zhang Zhiwen also knew that he could not get through like this, so he could only use his demon power.
It was not that Zhang Zhiwen did not intend to use his demon power at the beginning, but this demon power actually had no boosting effect, and it was even more impossible to split the river water. If it could, he would have split the river water into a road, and he could walk across comfortably.
But the demon power was very limited here. It could only work to kill those monsters. It would be extremely difficult to work on other places, such as the river water, such as his own flight. How heavy was his body? He was unable to support the flight.
Another thing is that if you use the magic power, it will inevitably attract monsters. This is also a consideration for Zhang Zhiwen, otherwise he would have used the magic power early.
Therefore, the magic power is not very effective and it is easy to alarm the monsters, so Zhang Zhiwen simply does not use it, but now he can't move forward or backward, so he can only use the magic power to assist.
He slapped the water surface with one palm, and with a bang, a magic power hit the water surface, hitting a group of waves on the water surface, but it was submerged in an instant.
This is almost useless, but Zhang Zhiwen still slapped several palms in a row, and the magic power continued to hit the river surface, and Zhang Zhiwen took advantage of the fact that the river surface was not so stalemate, and he rowed the boat to move forward quickly.
This back and forth did make him move forward a little, but Zhang Zhiwen was a little surprised that the river was so wide, and there was not even a fish in the river, which meant that this river was a dead river. Although it was very turbulent, it was lifeless!
If that's the case, if Zhang Zhiwen falls, he will fall into a dead river. Just thinking about it makes people's scalps numb. There is no life in the river water. If he is drowned, I'm afraid his soul will not be able to reincarnate.
It seems that this Dinghe River is really dangerous. Zhang Zhiwen naturally knows this, so he will row the boat to the other side more carefully.
Fortunately, Zhang Zhiwen's little efforts did work. The boat did slowly approach the other side of the river. Seeing that the boat was about to land, the crisis came at this time.
Zhang Zhiwen immediately felt a demonic power coming from the water. He was also a little surprised. He didn't expect that there were monsters hidden in this dead river. So, this dead river is not a real dead river.
But the demonic power disappeared soon, and Zhang Zhiwen felt a flash in front of his eyes, and then he was a little dizzy. When he woke up, he was shocked to find that he had returned to the ferry!
Zhang Zhiwen almost couldn't believe it. What happened?
He looked down at the boat, which was still floating on the river, and he was still holding the oars, as if everything had just happened, but why did he suddenly come back?
It must be some kind of monster!
Zhang Zhiwen guessed it without thinking too much, and since it was a monster, he also found out the monster's true form.
Just now, he was about to cross the river successfully, but unexpectedly, a demonic force suddenly came. The demonic force came quickly and went away quickly, which made it impossible for him to find the other party for a while.
It seems that he has to do it again. This time, he is prepared. He believes that he should be able to find the other party.
So, Zhang Zhiwen continued to row the boat to the other side. This time seemed to be the same as the last time. The boat quickly came to the center of the river. The river here was extremely turbulent, but Zhang Zhiwen used the same trick again. With the help of the demonic force, he moved the boat to the other side of the river little by little, and at this time, the mysterious demonic force appeared again.
"Come on!"
Zhang Zhiwen was waiting for it.
He slapped out with his palm and hit the place where the demonic power appeared.
But soon, the demonic power disappeared in an instant, and then Zhang Zhiwen found that his eyes were blurred again, and the whole person was a little dizzy, and then he returned to the ferry again.
This time, Zhang Zhiwen was a little surprised.
He clearly hit the other party. Although he didn't know what kind of monster was here to make trouble and intercept him, he was 100% sure that he hit the other party.
It is impossible for the other party to be uninjured. You know, his current demonic power is the demonic power brought by the ancient level of the Yuanshen. If it were not for the secret realm restricting his strength, the power of his palm would be extremely terrifying.
He can even affect the river water, which is enough to show that his demonic power can compete with the power of the secret realm.
In time, if he steps into the reincarnated demon soul, his demonic power will be enough to break the shackles of the power of the Dharma and directly break the secret realm.
But in such a situation, the other party actually ran away again.
Zhang Zhiwen was a little unconvinced, he gritted his teeth and continued to plan to do it again.
But at this time, some people came not far away, no, to be precise, some monsters came not far away.
The leader was an old man, he was leaning on a cane, walking with a bent waist, very slowly, and followed by a few big men, these big men were wearing straw raincoats and hats, and they looked like fishermen.
The big men followed the old man and walked slowly towards the ferry.
Seeing this, Zhang Zhiwen naturally couldn't continue to row the boat to the other side. He knew that the monster was probably coming for him.
He immediately stared at the monsters vigilantly, but the monsters seemed to ignore Zhang Zhiwen and walked all the way, finally coming to Zhang Zhiwen.
"Donor, are you going to cross the river?"
The old man came closer, put his hands together, and bowed slightly.
Zhang Zhiwen glanced at him. The old man was in his original form and had no demonic power to transform. He didn't know what the old man was going to do, but he actually came to talk to him.
But Zhang Zhiwen knew that the level of the monsters would definitely be improved at each level of this secret realm. At present, this monster was definitely not lower than the Jindan cultivation level, and the same was true for the big men behind him.
If he could avoid taking action, Zhang Zhiwen didn't want to cause trouble here, he just wanted to cross the river.
Therefore, he nodded and said, "Yes, I am about to cross the river."
"Hey..."
The old man grinned, and his fangs appeared.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Zhiwen didn't need to think much, he took action directly.
He had known about these monsters for a long time. These monsters would not come to the temple for no reason. They were either here to eat human flesh or on their way to eat human flesh.
In addition, he could also enhance the power of the monster soul by killing the monster. If he couldn't beat them, he could just hide in the realm of illusion, and come back to recover and continue.
And he was already in trouble crossing the river, and a group of monsters came to give him heads, why not?