Cultivating with Top Enlightenment

Chapter 1177 - 518: The Burial Grounds

Ning Qi watched Medicine Spirit walk off into the distance, then picked out a mountain gate and continued speeding toward it.

He quickly arrived beneath the mountain gate.

Raising his head to look at this mountain gate that still had a Mountain Protection Array, he didn’t show much fear.

With the Ruo Shui Three Thousand Array, he could practically destroy all Restrictions and Arrays.

This made Ning Qi directly choose to activate the Ruo Shui Three Thousand Array.

He smoothly arrived in front of the mountain gate.

However, after he entered, he felt something was off.

With just a glance, he saw that there were fresh footprints under his feet.

"Oh? Someone even got here earlier than me?"

Ning Qi chuckled and continued forward to take a look.

He discovered there weren’t many footprints, only one set.

In other words, only one person had come in.

If there were many people, it would be troublesome; just one was manageable.

Even if that person searched, they wouldn’t be able to find too much.

Ning Qi had no intention of giving up on this place and going to another mountain gate; on the contrary, he was curious who this person was.

Someone whose thoughts coincided with his, and who could so easily break the Mountain Protection Array here.

Thus, he directly skipped the caves midway up the mountain and went straight to the main hall at the summit.

Under his Divine Sense probing, he didn’t find anything suspicious.

"Gone?"

He didn’t find anyone and assumed the person had already left.

He then landed on the plaza in front of the main hall and glanced at the hall.

Without the slightest pause—his Divine Sense had already found nothing of value here—

he headed straight for the back mountain.

Once there, he felt as if he had arrived in a hidden paradise.

Immortal herbs and strange flowers grew everywhere, and there were quite a few thatched huts.

Clearly, the Sect Leader in those years had been someone who liked this kind of life.

Further ahead, there was a bamboo building constructed entirely from bamboo.

Ning Qi, quite interested, walked over to the bamboo building.

In the main room, he saw ancestral tablets, but it was obvious they had just been moved.

He could still see some fingerprints on them.

On the ground as well, he could see footprints overlapping those marks.

So, he went to the backyard, where he also saw footprints in the courtyard.

Finally, he entered a study.

Here he found nothing, because the ancient books had already been taken.

Clearly, that person who arrived a step earlier than him had taken them away.

Ning Qi looked around again and discovered, in the side room, a place where someone could rest.

On the ground beside it, there was also an entrance to a secret chamber.

To be precise, an entrance leading to an underground secret chamber.

Ning Qi sent his Divine Sense down to explore, but found nothing unusual.

So he simply walked down.

He discovered that this so-called secret chamber was just a spacious entrance; further down, there was still a passage.

Only, in this section of the passage, there was an Array.

Moreover, this Array had already been activated.

"Another Teleportation Array?"

"Where does this lead?"

Ning Qi stood by the Array without rushing to trigger it.

Instead, he began considering where this Array led.

If he just transmitted blindly, that would be a bit risky.

However, the person just now had clearly used this Teleportation to leave.

No wonder he had been unable to detect anyone earlier; turned out they had lured him here and then teleported themselves away.

Ning Qi thought for a moment, then simply stepped onto the Array.

"Since he can transmit through it, what do I have to be afraid of?"

In the end, he likewise chose to teleport himself away.

Fortune is found amid danger; he would just have to see where he’d be sent.

With that in mind, Ning Qi felt the Teleportation begin.

"Whoosh!"

A tearing sensation of space washed over him.

Immediately after, he felt the world spinning.

"Splosh!"

The next instant, his vision went black, and he was abruptly teleported away.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in a space shrouded in mist.

Mist filled the surroundings, but it wasn’t the gray fog of the Sea of Realms.

Although this mist also felt uncomfortable, it was clearly not the kind of gray fog in the Sea of Realms that could slowly erode a person.

So Ning Qi wasn’t worried.

Instead, he turned his gaze around, examining the surroundings to figure out where he was.

Soon, he noticed a problem.

This place looked like some kind of corpse-storage ground.

There were bones everywhere under his feet, most already dried out and rotted.

If he accidentally stepped on one, it would crumble into nothing.

"Damn, I thought I’d end up somewhere good, but it’s actually a hellhole like this!"

Ning Qi cursed, "I need to find a way out. I can’t waste time here."

Having made up his mind, he began looking for a way to leave.

Thus, he started searching through this mist-filled space.

When he reached a place where a stretch of forest grew, he finally felt a trace of hope.

Here, the mist gradually thinned, and he could roughly make out the surroundings.

It was at the foot of a mountain; by the time he reached this point, there were fewer bones underfoot, and the deeper he went, the more they seemed to vanish.

"Hoo!"

But after he ventured deeper for a while, he suddenly heard a faint breathing sound.

This sound was not far from him.

Obviously, someone was hiding in the forest.

Ning Qi pretended not to notice and continued walking inward.

"Swish!"

After a short while, that figure could no longer hold back and launched a sneak attack at him.

Using the forest and the lingering mist as cover, the attacker successfully approached Ning Qi’s back.

If Ning Qi didn’t move, his life would be taken.