The disciple who practiced the Fengxing Qianli body method received the order and departed.

Mr. Xun, old with white hair, sat calmly at the table, his gaze peaceful, his heart like a stone falling into a lake, creating ripples.

He always felt as if he was about to uncover some earth-shattering secrets.

But what exactly were these secrets?

Mr. Xun still had no clues…

Yinhua was in a great mood after receiving Mr. Xun’s permission, and his steps were much lighter.

Upon returning to the disciples’ residence, he began to plan what exactly he should do when entering Lianyao Mountain.

Planning leads to success, while not planning leads to failure.

This was the principle of a demon hunter.

Several days later, right at the ten-day break, he set out alone for Lianyao Mountain.

Lianyao Mountain is located in the northern border of Qianxuezhou, a mountain range that is undulating, with deep forests and dangerous mountains, winding clouds and mist, and heavy miasma.

Yinhua arrived at the entrance of Lianyao Mountain, looked up, and saw the thick demonic energy on the mountain, and the mountain form was unfathomable.

Occasionally, demon roars and fierce beast howls could be heard, a faint smell of blood permeated the air, emanating a dangerous aura.

Some new disciples around, looking at Lianyao Mountain crouching like a giant fierce beast, mostly had uneasy expressions, with fear in their eyes.

Even experienced cultivators had solemn faces and did not dare to be careless.

Only Yinhua had a relaxed expression, his gaze slightly bright.

Looking at Lianyao Mountain, which was similar to Dahei Mountain with its deep clouds, winding mist, and demonic energy, for a moment, he actually felt a sense of intimacy as if he had “returned home”.

He even felt a mix of nervousness and excitement, like approaching his hometown.

When he was learning array methods, Yinhua was an array master.

But now, Yinhua felt that his demon hunter bloodline had already begun to awaken.

He lifted his head and chest, swaggered towards the mountain, and when he reached the entrance, he was stopped by someone:

“One hundred merits, one Lianyao Token.”

Yinhua could afford one hundred merits, but he still couldn’t help but say:

“So expensive?”

The gate-guarding disciple had a late Foundation Establishment cultivation and belonged to an unknown sect.

He seemed to have already graduated and successfully entered the inner sect. Guarding the gate here was to earn sect merits.

He said with a plain face: “If you think it’s expensive, you don’t have to buy it.”

Yinhua had no choice but to take out the Taixu Token, transfer one hundred merits, and buy an entry “Lianyao Token”.

The merits of various sects are equivalent and can generally only be used within one’s own sect.

However, to enter some public places that are beneficial for disciples of Qianxuezhou to cultivate, compete, and hunt demons, merits can also be consumed.

Lianyao Mountain was such a place.

Moreover, Lianyao Mountain was more special, only inner sect disciples from Qianxuezhou, holding sect disciple tokens and consuming merits, were allowed to enter.

Outer cultivators from Qianxuezhou were all prohibited from entering.

This was done to prevent outsiders from mixing in and creating chaos;

Or someone with malicious intentions and harboring ill will;

Also to prevent some rare demon beasts in Lianyao Mountain from being stolen and hunted by outer cultivators.

Yinhua bought a Lianyao Token and walked alone into the mountain.

The gate-guarding disciple was startled when he saw this and shouted to stop Yinhua, “Are you alone?”

Yinhua said in confusion, “Can one Lianyao Token allow many people to enter?”

The gate-guarding disciple was startled and shook his head:

“What are you thinking? How could there be such a good thing…”

Yinhua was speechless.

Then why are you asking such a meaningless question?

The gate-guarding disciple paused, looked at Yinhua again, and frowned, “Your blood energy is so weak, you’re not a body cultivator, and your spiritual power is not good. You’re going up the mountain alone without a companion like this?”

“I’m just going to take a look, one person is enough,” Yinhua said.

The gate-guarding disciple had a solemn expression and reminded:

“Lianyao Mountain is fierce, even if you’re just going to take a look, it’s very dangerous.”

“Okay,” Yinhua nodded.

Seeing that Yinhua wasn’t listening at all, the gate-guarding disciple helplessly said: “Alright, pretend I didn’t say anything.”

With the Lianyao Token, he could enter the mountain.

Yinhua insisted on entering the mountain alone, and he couldn’t stop him, only sighing in his heart:

“These young disciples nowadays really don’t know the immensity of heaven and earth…”

Thus, Yinhua stepped into the mountain gate of Lianyao Mountain.

After a moment, a handsome man with a somewhat leisurely demeanor walked over.

The gate-guarding disciple saw him and immediately bowed and saluted:

“Elder Xun.”

The man called “Elder Xun” nodded slightly and said casually: “I’ll go into the mountain to take a look.”

“Yes.”

The gate-guarding disciple respectfully let him pass.

Elder Xun walked into the mountain gate and looked up at the winding mountain path.

At this time, on the mountain path, a young man wearing a Taixu Dao robe was walking vigorously towards the mountain.

Elder Xun shook his head slightly.

“The ancestor is really something, since he’s worried about his safety, just keep him in the sect, don’t let him out…”

“Even if you let him out, don’t put him in this Lianyao Mountain, giving yourself a lot of trouble…”

“This child is also something, he doesn’t know how much cultivation he has, how much strength he has. Running into Lianyao Mountain alone to wander, he’s really not afraid of death…”

Elder Xun was muttering in his heart when he suddenly saw Yinhua’s figure in the distance pause, his footsteps stopped, he turned around, and looked down the mountain.

Elder Xun was startled and instinctively flashed and hid to the side.

Yinhua stood on the mountain path looking down.

But after looking for a long time, he didn’t see any suspicious figure, tilted his head, his gaze puzzled, and he silently said in his heart:

“Did I perceive wrong?”

“Just now, someone was clearly looking at me, and even using divine sense to spy on me, and seemed to be saying bad things about me in their heart…”

“How in the blink of an eye, there’s not even a person’s shadow?”

Yinhua looked around slightly again, looked around, then shook his head, and muttered: “It must be an illusion.”

After that, he turned around and continued to go up the mountain.

After Yinhua left, Elder Xun slowly appeared, looking at Yinhua, who had already disappeared on the mountain path, his gaze trembling slightly.

Could this little brat have discovered him…

How old is he? How strong is his divine sense? How could he possibly detect the spying of this dignified late Golden Core stage cultivator like himself?

It can’t be that demonic…

Elder Xun frowned.

A moment later, he raised his head again and walked up the mountain path, continuing to follow behind Yinhua.

But this time, he learned his lesson and no longer dared to follow openly, but walked in the woods, concealing his figure, and at the same time used a secret method to hide his aura, and also didn’t dare to get too close, but followed from a distance.

He had to obey the ancestor’s command and secretly watch this young man, whose single hair was more important than his own arm.

After all, his own arm was broken if it was broken.

If this child lost a single hair, he didn’t know how the ancestor would “refine” him.

Elder Xun helplessly sighed.

Thus, Yinhua walked in front, and Elder Xun followed behind.

Yinhua still didn’t know that as soon as he entered the mountain, he already had a “bodyguard”.

He was concentrating on implementing his own plan.

Getting familiar with the environment first in unfamiliar places is a basic skill of a demon hunter.

It was the same in Dahei Mountain.

Arriving at Lianyao Mountain, it was no exception.

Yinhua took out a map of Lianyao Mountain.

He bought this map from a small immortal city below the mountain for two spirit stones.

The map simply marked the mountains, rivers, vegetation, and streams of Lianyao Mountain, but it was very rough and crude, only showing some general mountain trends.

This was definitely not good.

Yinhua began to personally measure the terrain of Lianyao Mountain according to his habit, using this simple map as a base, and drawing his own exclusive map of Lianyao Mountain.

Lianyao Mountain is very large, and there are many demon beasts.

The outer areas are mostly inhabited by second-grade demon beasts, but in the deep mountains, it is said that there are even third-grade and fourth-grade demon beasts.

However, these demon beasts above the third-grade were trapped in the deep mountains by arrays.

Disciples could not enter the deep mountains.

Similarly, the high-grade demon beasts in the deep mountains could not descend the mountain.

Yinhua only planned to move around in the outer mountain areas.

The more experienced a demon hunter is, the more cautious he is, the more self-aware he is, the longer he can live, and the more demon beasts he can hunt.

This is what his father, Yinshan, told him.

Yinhua deeply agreed.

Although he was not “old”, his methods were skilled, and he could barely be considered an “experienced” demon hunter.

On the mountain path of Lianyao Mountain.

Yinhua found a large stone to sit on, unfolded the simple map, looked at it carefully, and memorized every mountain peak in his heart.

Then he looked into the distance, taking in all the outer mountains, reflecting this with the map in his heart, to get a clear idea.

After looking, he chose a route, and Yinhua set off up the mountain.

He walked while observing and recording.

Behind Yinhua, in the distant grass, Elder Xun followed silently, his expression somewhat surprised.

He realized that he had underestimated this child a bit.

Sharpening the knife does not delay chopping wood.

Entering Lianyao Mountain and first getting familiar with the mountain form is not something ordinary disciples can do, or even think of.

Sect disciples only care about whether their realm is high, whether their cultivation is deep, whether their Dao methods are strong, and whether their knives, swords, and spiritual tools are sharp.

When they enter the mountain, they only think about quickly going to kill demon beasts.

They fundamentally do not consider getting familiar with the environment first.

The outcome of a battle between cultivators is not always determined by strength.

Favorable timing, geographical advantage, and human harmony are all necessary.

The environment is “geographical advantage”.

This point is at least something that experienced demon hunters or experienced old cultivators can realize.

But this young man did it with a kind of ease that was engraved in his bones.

Elder Xun nodded slightly.

He truly is the little guy that the ancestor values, although his aptitude looks ordinary, he does things in a certain way…

Then Elder Xun just watched Yinhua walk around Lianyao Mountain alone for a day.

When he encountered special terrain, minerals, herbs, or dangerous swamps, mud pits, miasma, demon dens, etc., Yinhua would record them all.

If there were demon beasts, he would know the situation ahead with a sweep of his divine sense and avoid them early.

Occasionally, if he was a bit unlucky and blocked by demon beasts, with no way to avoid them, he would use concealment techniques to hide.

Some demon beasts are blind and rely on aura to identify people.

Concealment techniques cannot hide from them.

Yinhua would then rely on his body method to entangle with them, lure them to the edge of a cliff, then rely on his extremely fast hands, instantly form ever-changing techniques, strike the demon beasts down the cliff, and then calmly retreat.

The more Elder Xun watched, the more startled he became.

If Yinhua wasn’t just at the Foundation Establishment stage, with a pure aura, and undoubtedly a human cultivator.

He would have suspected that Yinhua was a terrifying old demon who could transform into a human form.

He was experienced and his methods were skillful.

In a mountain where danger was everywhere, even late Foundation Establishment stage disciples had to be careful and fully alert, he was as relaxed as if he were in a courtyard, at ease with everything.

Just like walking in his own courtyard.

So young, truly extraordinary…

The more Elder Xun watched, the more he admired him, and his reverence for Mr. Xun naturally arose.

He truly is the ancestor!

He could actually see the extraordinary in this child through the surface of his middle and lower grade spirit root.

Elder Xun thought again…

Perhaps the ancestor asked him to come and watch this child just to let him see these things personally.

Let him know that although this child’s spirit root is not good, his means and mind are all superior, and he can be of great use, which is why he cares so much about this child.

“The ancestor is indeed painstaking…”

Elder Xun sighed in his heart.

He was pondering when he suddenly saw the sky gradually getting late, the sun setting behind the mountain, the evening glow staining half the sky red, and in less than half an hour, the sky would be dark.

“Should go back…”

Elder Xun squatted on the tree, moved his shoulders, thinking that he should also return to the sect, but when he looked down, Yinhua was still oblivious, burying his head in walking in the mountain, not having the slightest intention of going back.

Elder Xun was startled, his brows furrowed slightly.

This boy, doesn’t he want to stay overnight in the mountain…

But as long as demon beasts inhabit mountains and forests, once night falls, it is very dangerous.

The night is pitch black, the sun sets and the moon rises, yin energy is dense, and most demon beasts become bloodthirsty and restless.

Some yin and strange demon beasts that are inconvenient to move in the daytime under the sunlight will swarm out at night, lurking and rampaging in the darkness, hunting living beings.

Lianyao Mountain was also like this.

Therefore, there is generally an unwritten rule in the mountain:

Unless it is a late Foundation Establishment stage, five-person team, who are truly forced to chase and hunt demon beasts, otherwise, they are not allowed to stay overnight in the mountain.

Staying overnight in Lianyao Mountain at night is inherently dangerous.

In the evening, the strength of the on-duty elders is not enough, and even if something happens, they may not be able to rescue in time.

Even a five-person team of late Foundation Establishment stage heaven’s pride disciples staying overnight in the mountain is full of danger.

Let alone this mere mid-Foundation Establishment stage, weak and fragile, young man alone.

Elder Xun’s head hurt a bit.

“This child is too brave…”

But Yinhua had an indifferent expression.

His idea was actually simple.

Going back now, he would have to come again tomorrow, and still spend one hundred merits, which was too much of a loss.

Merits are better the more you have, save what you can save.

Yinhua was still concentrating on observing the terrain and recording important places on the map.

Until late at night, the sky was dark, there were no stars, and he could barely see his fingers.

Yinhua then considered the problem of staying overnight.

And at this time, the demonic energy in the mountain appeared even denser in the clear night.

The low roars of demon beasts also came one after another.

In the darkness, many strange demon beasts were stirring.

Even the late Golden Core stage Elder Xun felt a faint chill in his heart.

He turned his head again, looked at Yinhua, and saw Yinhua standing in place looking around, seemingly looking for a foothold, he couldn’t help but curl his lips, feeling a little speechless in his heart:

“Since you want to stay overnight in the demon mountain, just prepare early. It’s already this time, and it’s too late to ask for Buddha’s help temporarily. Where is there still a place to stay…”

There was really no other way, he could only show himself and take this child down the mountain.

But this point seemed not to conform to the ancestor’s instructions.

The ancestor said to let him watch secretly.

Elder Xun was just pondering when he suddenly discovered that Yinhua had moved.

He seemed to have found a foothold.

Elder Xun was a little puzzled and opened his eyes to look in the dim night.

He saw Yinhua’s figure light, climbing up a big tree, then jumping onto a mountain peak, climbing halfway up the mountain peak, leaping towards the opposite side, jumping to another cliff, using shrubs as cover, walking for a while, and finding a very concealed cave that was not easy to be detected.

Yinhua walked towards the cave.

Elder Xun was startled, then suddenly inhaled a cold breath.

Demon beast nest!

No, this is not a place for people to live!

This is the nest where fierce demon beasts inhabit! And judging from the remaining demonic energy, it is still a nest of at least a late second-grade demon beast!

You silly child, don’t you want to live?

Elder Xun immediately wanted to act and pull Yinhua out of the cave, but with a sweep of his divine sense, he was suddenly startled again.

“No demon beast?”

He swept again, and his heart settled down a bit.

It seemed that the demon beast had gone hunting.

Or perhaps it was a “cunning rabbit has three burrows”, this was just one of the nests of a second-grade demon beast. Although the demonic energy was thick, it would not be living here tonight, at least.

Elder Xun slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he just watched with wide eyes as Yinhua “usurped the nest” and rightfully walked into this nest of a late second-grade demon beast that could possibly swallow him in one bite without even spitting out bones.

Yinhua entered the demon beast nest, first took out some fresh herbs, sprinkled them around, except for the strange smell of the demon beast.

Then he found a safe corner and set up layers of arrays.

First was a warning array, then a concealment array, followed by an earth-stone array for defense, and a ground killing array that automatically counterattacked outside.

After setting up the arrays, Yinhua took out dried meat and filled his stomach.

He then took out fruit wine and gulped down a few mouthfuls.

After eating and drinking his fill, he took out a soft blanket, wrapped himself up like a zongzi, and quietly and obediently lay down and slept soundly…

Outside, Elder Xun was dumbfounded.

No…

This is a demon beast nest! How can you treat it as your own home?

How can you sleep in this environment?!

His heart was too big…

Elder Xun sighed deeply, not knowing what to say, and finally only resigned to fate, silently waiting at the entrance of the cave.

He also did not dare to rest, only closed his eyes to nourish his spirit.

He was afraid that if a demon beast really returned to its nest, and this boy with a heart bigger than the sky was swallowed in one bite, then it would be a big mess.

The ancestor would definitely strip his skin…

The night was deep, and the mountain wind was cool and阴凉.

Yinhua was sleeping sweetly inside.

Elder Xun was guarding outside on tenterhooks.

Thus, a night passed, until dawn broke, the eastern sky was white, Yinhua opened his eyes, slowly sat up, stretched languidly, then his gaze was burning and he was full of spirit.

Outside the cave, Elder Xun’s gaze was wooden, and his expression was somewhat haggard.

It was getting late.

Yinhua got up, packed the blanket, erased the arrays, and marked the location of this nest on his map with a “small bonfire” pattern.

Thinking that if he needed to stay overnight in the mountain later, he would come here again next time.

Yinhua simply ate something and then set out fully equipped again.

Time was tight, and he wanted to draw at least another quarter of the map in one day.

Elder Xun rubbed his eyebrows, sighed helplessly, and started silently following behind Yinhua again.

Thus, Yinhua ran around in Lianyao Mountain for another day.

Elder Xun also diligently followed for another day.

But Yinhua had no idea.

He drew a small half of his exclusive map of Lianyao Mountain again, which was considered to have reached the expected goal.

After the ten-day break ended, Yinhua returned to Taixu Gate.

After cultivating for eight days, it was another ten-day break.

Yinhua went to Lianyao Mountain again, spent one hundred merits, bought a Lianyao Token, and entered Lianyao Mountain.

This time, re-entering the mountain, Yinhua was already familiar with the road.

The general terrain, threatening demon beasts, miasma, poisons, etc., Yinhua was all familiar with them, and re-surveying was much faster.

Two days later, Yinhua’s map was already finished.

Next, he just wanted to formally start, combine arrays and spiritual tools, and formulate a complete set of demon hunting tactics.

In order to be able to bring Cheng Mo and this group of “little junior brothers” to Lianyao Mountain to play next time.

(End of this chapter)