Ding Ling couldn't go to where he was right now, after some thought, Ding Yan decided to go to Dayan Mountain first.
For him, the mortal world is full of too much unknown.
Originally, this should have been a world belonging to mortals, but now it seems that it's not just that. Perhaps, behind that terrifying Dao Fan Great Array, there are still some unknown secrets.
Standing in the void, Ding Yan looked down at the terrain, looking for the location of Dayan Mountain.
The Jiulong Mountain Range, as the name suggests, looks like nine giant dragons from above. The heads of the dragons are all gathered together, separated by a mountain in the middle, forming a situation where nine dragons arch together, and the mountain in the middle is Dayan Mountain!
Within the range of Dayan Mountain, there are no living creatures for a hundred miles, it can be called a desolate place.
Even the Jiulong Mountain Range is rarely stepped into by people, even the mortal countries dare not include the Jiulong Mountain Range in their territory, so now, the area of the Jiulong Mountain Range belongs to a void territory, except for a few cultivators, there are only venomous insects and fierce beasts living there.
"There's a miasma layer near the Jiulong Mountain Range."
Taking a few steps in the void, Ding Yan walked to the sky above the Jiulong Mountain Range and took in a breath.
The breath was gray-white, twisted and unpredictable. Upon contact, it produced a strong burning sensation, as if holding a ball of fire in his hand. Ding Yan could see that this gas contained a strong poison, even the Immortal Monarchs would be affected, and if inhaled in large quantities, they might even be poisoned to death.
"It looks like I can only go on foot." Dispelling the mist, Ding Yan slowly descended onto the mountains below.
There were no roads on the mountain.
The ground was covered with dry grass and thorny bushes, with some venomous snakes wandering around, making a rustling sound. In a place like this, for ordinary people, let alone entering the mountains, they would probably be bitten to death by those snakes and ants before taking a few steps.
Ding Yan frowned, and with a thought, a faint elemental force appeared around him, causing the dry grass and thorny bushes around him to automatically part.
This is a technique called Drivemancy.
In Ding Yan's memory, many Dao techniques and techniques cannot be used, but Drivemancy is not affected at all. After researching for a long time, Ding Yan was unable to find an answer, and ultimately concluded that the power of Drivemancy is too weak to generate a repulsive force.
After using Drivemancy, Ding Yan slowly walked through the thorny bushes.
While in the air, Ding Yan had observed that his current location should be the southern part of the Jiulong Mountain Range. To reach Dayan Mountain, he just needed to keep heading north.
Thud...
A clear air flashed over Ding Yan's index finger and a python as thick as a bowl was cut in half in front of him, filling the air with a bloody smell.
"Another toxic python!" Ding Yan waved his sleeve, scattering the python's corpse.
This was the sixteenth poisonous python he had slain.
The pythons that are rarely seen outside are as worthless here as they can be. There are even some black mosquitoes and fiery red ants, which are unusually large, about the size of a baby's fist, gathering together, and their momentum is astonishing. Even Ding Yan bypassed them when he saw them.
After about half an incense stick worth of time, he finally passed through the thorny bushes.
In their place was a bare stone mountain.
Ding Yan recalled that this place seemed to be the neck of a giant dragon.
"We should be close to Dayan Mountain." Ding Yan continued on.
After a while, he came to a low-lying area where he saw a pond.
The water was clear and transparent. Drifting on the surface was a lotus leaf, and strangely, there was a fruit resembling a wrapped peach on the lotus leaf. It looked crystal clear and emitted an enticing fragrance.
"This is!! Lotus Leaf Wrapped Peach!" Ding Yan was pleasantly surprised.
The Lotus Leaf Wrapped Peach is a rare fruit that is only encountered every thousand years. It has the effect of increasing one's lifespan, and for many old monsters approaching their limit, the Lotus Leaf Wrapped Peach is a priceless treasure! However, this alone wasn't what made Ding Yan so surprised. It was because, in Ding Yan's memory, the Lotus Leaf Wrapped Peach can help someone comprehend the heavens and the earth. For those practicing the Qiankun Scripture, the Lotus Leaf Wrapped Peach is a divine pill!
Since arriving in this world, Ding Yan has been unable to practice the Qiankun Scripture. Except for a few successful attempts in the illusory Nine Heavens, he has been unable to practice it after coming out. He later found out that the main reason was the inability to sense the elemental energy of heaven and earth. If Ding Yan could swallow this Lotus Leaf Wrapped Peach and gain a comprehension of heaven and earth, it could possibly solve this problem and therefore resolve the problem of practicing techniques.
"I didn't expect to find something like this here."
Although he was pleasantly surprised, Ding Yan did not blindly approach to pick it, but slowly dispersed his spiritual sense and began searching.
Where there are treasures, there are bound to be monster guardians! Recklessly taking it would surely lead to disaster.
This was the accumulation of Ding Yan's experience from his past life of cultivation. This experience may seem trivial, but sometimes it plays a very important role. If it were another Immortal who had not cultivated for less than a hundred years, after seeing this scene, they would most certainly be overwhelmed with excitement and blindly want to pick up the treasure, which could potentially lead to death.
Sure enough, as Ding Yan spread his spiritual sense, a loud roar came from the bottom of the pond.
Ripples began to appear on the mirror-like surface of the lake, and it became more and more intense. After a while, the lake surface began to churn like it was boiling, and the lotus leaf on the surface kept swaying. The wrapped peach on it seemed like it could fall into the water at any time.
Roar!!
A gigantic white python sprang up from the bottom of the lake, and a strong fishy smell came from it.
Ding Yan's right hand emitted a strong elemental force, mixed with a bit of immortal energy, and patted its head.
Bang!!
The strong rebound made Ding Yan retreat dozens of steps, and his entire arm felt numb. The fierce aura kept seeping into his meridians through the acupoints on his palm. The white python was patted back into the water by Ding Yan. After a while, it emerged from the water again and roared to the sky.
The demonic aura was overflowing, stirring up a whirlwind here.
"The strength of this white python is probably already at the late stage of the Immortal realm!" Ding Yan's expression changed.
He finally understood why so many cultivators had come here but none of them took the Lotus Leaf Wrapped Peach. It was not for any other reason but because of this terrifying white python.
The Immortal realm is not like the Qi Refining realm. There are only five major stages: early-stage, mid-stage, late-stage, peak, and consummate. Advancing through these five stages is extremely difficult. Ding Yan's current cultivation is at the early-stage of the Immortal realm, but due to many means left over from his previous life, many mid-stage Immortals are not his opponents.
Of course, the cultivation of scattered immortals is not as simple as following a set pattern of cultivation.
For a scattered immortal, once their cultivation reaches perfection, the scattered immortal calamity will be triggered, and they will then cross the calamity. However, the scattered immortal calamity does not only appear after reaching a certain level of cultivation. If a scattered immortal has only reached the early stages of cultivation but has lived for five hundred years, the calamity can occur.
The scattered immortal calamity, occurring after five hundred years!
Five hundred years later, regardless of one's cultivation level, the scattered immortal calamity will appear, even if the individual has only reached the early stages of cultivation. In such a situation, a scattered immortal with early-stage cultivation is basically doomed, with no choice but to perish, except for dispersing into dust and smoke.