The further you go in, the more stressful it becomes.

Tang Zheng didn't know how far he had gone, he only knew that if the original pressure was still hazy, then as he went all the way deeper, this pressure had become more and more real, and even ignorant mortals could clearly perceive it.

Stepping on the thick grass and mud in the mountains, Tang Zheng only felt a heaviness on his body, and it felt a little like the trip to the peak of the Water Moon Cave, and his steps were difficult.

Strange forces are like air, omnipresent, and pervade the mountains.

Tang Zheng tried to run his body and breath, and he could feel that his current strength had been suppressed to the point of first enlightenment.

And with that invisible coercion, there is a danger everywhere in the mountains.

Strike!

Out of nowhere, a gray line flew past Tang Zheng's face, hitting a big tree not far away.

Gray-black rotten water flowed out of the tree, and the tree was quickly corroded and rotted.

"It's gray snake liquid. Tang Zheng only glanced at it and was sure that this snake is highly venomous, and it likes to hide in the grass to release venom, its poison is very fierce, and it is directly related to the realm. Look at this moment just now, the entire tree was rotted with just one blow, at least it was also a gray line snake of the wisdom level, in terms of its toxicity, even if Tang Tribulation was hit, even if he didn't die, he would have to be stripped of his skin.

And that's just the periphery!

Tang Zheng didn't catch the gray line snake, this thing is a famous assassin among monsters, and he missed a blow and escaped thousands of miles.

He shook his head and said, "Be careful, Yiyi. ”

"Yes!" replied Iyi, looking around cautiously with wide eyes, though she couldn't see anything. Losing her ability to sense plants, the little girl seemed to be blind and deaf, unable to perceive many things.

Yi Yi hated this feeling, she looked at Tang Zheng and said, "Can't we fly? ”

Tang Zheng looked up, and a goshawk was passing overhead.

He muttered, "That will be rejected and even attacked by the mountains." ”

"Attack?" Iyi asked softly.

"Yes, attack. Tang Zheng replied affirmatively: "Besides, only here do we have a chance to fight back against them." ”

He didn't say anything more, but continued to walk deeper and shallower.

It's dangerous, but it's not deadly. If he can deal with it, then Nan Ningjiang and the others will definitely be able to deal with it.

It is necessary to keep going inward.

It's a chase, but it's also a race of patience, perseverance and courage.

Before direct confrontation, the first thing to compare is who can and who dares to go deeper and farther.

With the help of the harsh environment in the mountains, it is Tang Zheng's plan to naturally eliminate a group of people.

But for Nan Ningjiang, this qiē was expected by him, and he was fully prepared for it.

On the outskirts of the jungle, a group of people was marching.

At the head of the group were several old men wearing robes, rattan hats, and bamboo canes, followed by some young men in cloth clothes with simple faces, all carrying bamboo baskets.

After that, there are Nan Ningjiang and others.

Every time they walked, the young people would take some white powder from the bamboo and sprinkle it on the ground, and then kneel on the ground and silently chant something. They speak the local dialect, which is difficult to understand.

"What are they talking about?" Zhou Fanghua asked the fifth brother. The fifth brother used to be from this area, although he was not a mountain person, he could understand the local dialect in this area.

"I worship the mountain god and ask for forgiveness. The fifth brother replied: "This is a custom of the local mountain people to enter the mountains. ”

"Mountain gods, do they think there are gods in this mountain?" Erying Tian Zhong sneered: "What a joke, don't they know that cultivators are gods!"

The little eagle next to him also said: "That is, the gods are not worshipped, let alone born and grown, but cultivated by my generation of cultivators." It's ridiculous to put the true god in front of you and not worship it, but worship the mountain god of Naraushzi. ”

Nan Ningjiang smiled: "What are you competing with a group of ignorant people." What people worship is always what they imagine. Once it is true, it has no value to worship. It is because they don't know what God is, that they worship God. And like us, it is precisely because we know that God is just a threshold on our way to cultivating immortals, an inevitability, a pursuit, and a direction, so we will not worship God. Even if this mountain really has a god, in our eyes, it is just a more powerful monster. ”

"Then do you think they are so useful?" Zhou Fanghua pointed with his chin at the mountain guides.

Nan Ningjiang replied: "I don't know." But all we need to know is that they are the people in the whole of Moqiu who know the mountains best. His gaze shrank slightly: "With them, plus us, we can go deeper, farther, and safer than Tang Zheng...... If he wants to use the mountain to kill us, hmph, he is destined to be a dream!"

At this moment, the worshippers stood up and walked back to the mountain.

Instead of going straight along the mountain road, they detoured through the path on one side.

"Little Wu, ask them why they are detouring?" Xuan Zhongzi said.

The fifth brother shouted a few words to the mountain people, and then replied: "They say that there is no mountain road in the Tongling Mountain Area, and the so-called mountain road is actually a snake road, and there is a big snake in front of it. In the Tongling Mountains, the first lesson is not to take the road of formation. ”

"Then you tell them, with us, don't be afraid of monsters. Someone laughed.

The fifth brother shouted a few times, shook his head and said, "No, the second experience, don't get blood in the mountains." ”

"Joke, haven't they been hunting in this mountain all the time?"

The fifth brother's face turned pale: "It's light, don't! Killing an innocent snake for the sake of passing through is not the same as killing for survival." And they don't hunt either, they just pick up some dead monster corpses or some precious materials to sell in the mountains. ”

"Materials?" Nan Ningjiang looked up: "You said they know where there are precious materials in this mountain?"

"Of course. Lao Wu replied, "They live on this." They know the mountain, they know where they can pick materials and where they can't, and they have paid countless lives for it. ”

"Is there anything else that can't be picked?" Zhou Fanghua was curious.

"Yes. Some places may seem harmless, but they are actually dangerous. The fifth brother replied: "If you accidentally pick the wrong one, you will bring trouble to yourself......

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Brush!

Tang Zheng retreated sharply, and with a flash of the knife in his hand, he had already cut off the flower that rushed towards him like a fanged giant mouth.

The giant mouth flower fell to the ground, and instantly twisted into a huge strange face, letting out a crazy howl.

The next moment, I saw countless flowers swishing out of the ground, opening their fangs one by one, making a sky-high roaring sound, and then a large bee colony appeared in the distance, buzzing towards Tang Zheng.

"Damn!" Tang Zheng cursed, turned his head and ran.

He just found that the purple pole grass that had grown in this area for more than hundreds of years, so he planned to pick some of it as the material for the later array, but he didn't expect the purple pole grass to arrive before it arrived, but it alarmed the strange man-eating flower next to it.

These cannibal flowers had never heard of them, and he didn't know what they were, but their ferocity was shocking, not to mention that they could summon swarms of bees, and he would have to run if he didn't want to go on a killing spree in the mountains.

This time, he hugged his head and flew away, and he ran very far, until the bee swarm couldn't catch up with Tang Zheng and automatically turned back.

Stopping, Tang Zheng looked around.

There are clumps of trees everywhere.

Yi Yi was a little surprised: "Where are we now?"

"I don't know. Tang Zai shook his head.

It is difficult to distinguish the direction in the mountains, and this chaotic running makes them completely lost, and they no longer know where they are.

"It's a problem. Yi Yi touched his chin and said.

"Trouble? I don't think so. Tang Zai smiled: "Don't forget that we don't need to find someone, as the fleeing party, we don't know where we are, as long as we don't run into them." Those who are looking for people need to establish their orientation and identify their own position. ”

"Can they?"

"Of course, they have guides. Tang Zheng smiled.

"Guides, that means they're more familiar with the mountain than we are, doesn't that mean you can't rely on the mountains to deal with your opponents?"

Tang Zai smiled: "It's not easy, it's true, but who said that the guide is omnipotent? Don't forget that this is the Tongling Mountain, the most changeable mountainous area, all experience is affected by time and terrain, and they are destined to replace all with experience." What's more, experience is the accumulation of experience, and as long as we experience it for a long time, we will also have experience. ”

"How long has it been?" Yi Yi looked at Tang Zheng in surprise.

"Yes, it's going to be a long fight, and I'm not going to settle my opponent in a few days. Tang Zheng replied meaningfully.

As he spoke, he turned his head and continued towards the mountain.

As Tang Zheng said, his battle with the Heavenly God Palace was a tug-of-war in which you chased after me, and any opponent who lacked patience and tried to solve the problem in a short period of time was doomed to failure.

Patience is the key product in this matchup, and whoever is more calm and persistent will be more likely to be the winner.

Interestingly, Tang Zheng and Nan Ningjiang are both talents in this regard.

Nan Ningjiang also seemed to be fully prepared, no matter how Tang Zheng hid, he was like a dedicated hound, persevering to chase behind. The traces obtained by the Tang Tribulation in the mountains cannot be hidden for a long time, and every time they are discovered, the pursuit of Nanning River will approach once.

Once, Nan Ningjiang's team was only a few hundred meters away from Tang Zheng, and it was in the dark forest at that time, Tang Zheng relied on Tianmu to find Nan Ningjiang and the others first, and was able to avoid it in time.

In fact, this has become the most important means for him to avoid Nanning River, relying on the stone clothes, he is not afraid of divine search, but in terms of insight into the distance, no one in the Heavenly God Palace can match him.

Of course, Tang Zheng also knew that such an advantage could only be maintained for a while, or it wouldn't be long before Nan Ningjiang realized the problem, and at that time he would definitely transfer a new master to make up for this shortcoming. This is also Nanningjiang's biggest advantage, no matter what kind of talent he needs, he can always find it as soon as possible.

At the same time, the news that Tang Zheng was trapped in Tongling Mountain gradually spread.

Countless sects in Moqiu surged towards the side of Tongling Mountain.

Some of them were for huge bounties, some were for the old people who were killed by Tang Zheng, and some were simply the original victims, such as the real people of the Peerless Sword Pavilion.

A large number of cultivators gathered here from all directions.

Tang Zheng was scurrying in the mountains as always.

Tongling Mountain is large and has plenty of living space. Even if he doesn't go inward, Tang Zheng can live freely. And as he lived in the mountains day by day, his understanding of the mountains gradually deepened.

He gradually became familiar with the terrain of this area, knew where there were nasty monsters in this area, where there were traps around the materials, where there were secret mountain paths, and most importantly, he knew what to do and what not to do in this big mountain.

He learned quickly, the knowledge that the mountain people had passed down for thousands of years, and the experience accumulated by countless human lives, Tang Zheng only took dozens of days to master.

This is not surprising.

He is a cultivator.

The experience that the mountain people get at the cost of their lives can be obtained by him with a drop of blood and a trivial wound; as for time, it is not a problem, the mountain people aim to survive and profit, but he aims to survive for a long time, so when the mountain people get a little benefit, they will give up exploration, but Tang Zheng will not.

This made Tang Zheng's learning progress far faster than anyone could have imagined, and he was improving and understanding every day.

As Tang Zheng said, after a long period of experience, there is naturally experience.

Of course, since it is experience, it is indispensable to learn lessons.

Once, Tang Zheng saw a kind of ice epiphany by a small pool, which was a real elixir, but when he went up to pick it, a group of ice pythons emerged from the pool. It was a group of ice pythons at the peak of enlightenment, only one step away from being able to transform into shape, and under the pressure of the mountain, their strength had improved a lot, forcing Tang Zheng to flee.

Another time Tang Zheng was walking, and suddenly he fell into a hole as soon as his feet were loosened, and there were countless spider demons inside, and the spider silk he spit out was sticky and firm, even with Tang Zheng's peak physique, it was extremely difficult to tear it off, but fortunately, the golden blade was the nemesis of this spider silk. On that day, Tang Zheng finally made an exception and killed hundreds of spider demons in one go. Fortunately, the mountain didn't seem to be angry.

As a result of encountering the spider demon, Tang Zheng obtained a large amount of spider silk, which is an extremely rare material, which can be used to make suò magic weapon-level bundle fairy ropes, golden silkworm clothes, incense sachets, and so on.

The worst thing is that once Tang Zheng was dealing with an ape demon beast, that ape was a violent temper, and when he saw that he couldn't win, he roared and screamed, causing a lot of movement, and the most terrible thing was that the people from the Heavenly God Palace were actually nearby.

If it weren't for Tang Zheng's quick opportunity and sneaking away first, he might have been discovered by the Heavenly God Palace.

In this way, all kinds of dangers were staged in turn on Tang Zheng.

Although Tang Zheng and Nan Ningjiang had never officially met each other, they had both deeply remembered each other.

They left their footprints in various places in this mountain, sometimes the last moment Tang Zheng was still stopping on a certain boulder, and the next moment Nanning River would appear by the boulder, locking his eyebrows and thinking deeply.

Because of the boiling spirit, the Heavenly God Palace would never lose the position of Tang Tribulation, and because of the Heavenly Purpose, Tang Tribulation could always detect the crisis first.

The two sides are engaged in an invisible contest in the pursuit of each other, and the first thing that is staged is such an invisible war.

In this reconnaissance-based war, the two sides did not leave a drop of blood, but there were countless thrilling battles.

Unfortunately, this thrilling sensation may not even be perceptible to both parties involved.

Nan Ningjiang wouldn't know how many times he had rubbed shoulders with Tang Tribulation, and Tang Tribulation was also missing great opportunities again and again.

In the battle in the mountains, both sides are actually novices and have made mistakes.

They also learned from experience and grew rapidly, although Tang Zheng was using his own advantages to make continuous progress, Nanningjiang was also hungry to learn from those mountain people, because he knew that it would not be long before these mountain people would really be useless.

There is always a time when the sentinel battle is over, and Tang Zheng can evade the pursuit of the Heavenly God Palace a hundred times, but it is impossible to dodge for a lifetime.

Nanningjiang is not in a hurry.

Because he knew that as long as he was discovered once, the Tang Tribulation would be completely over - as the party being hunted down, he may have countless advantages, but he also has a fatal disadvantage, that is, he can't lose even once.

So Nanningjiang is very patient.

They are like a group of cats, slowly looking for the mouse of Tang Zheng in this big mountain.

It took three months to look for it.

During these three months, the entire mountainous area based on the blockade line left the shadow of the Tang Tribulation everywhere. As Nan Ningjiang predicted, he didn't try to escape from the blockade area, nor did he try to go deeper, but just walked around the area.

In the eyes of others, this was because Tang Zheng knew that no matter how far he fled, it was useless, and it was better to use the terrain to weaken the effect of Boiling Lingsan. After all, although Boiling Lingsan can point out the direction, it cannot be used at all times, and second, it is difficult to give a specific location in the absence of a specific map.

Only Nan Ningjiang knew that the purpose of the Tang Tribulation was definitely not limited to this.

The purpose of his stay here is to familiarize himself with this place, master this place, control it here, and then ...... Take advantage of here.

He wants to fight back, not run away!

Just as Tang Zheng knew what Nan Ningjiang thought, Nan Ningjiang also knew what Tang Zheng thought.

Although these two people have never met, they know each other's thoughts so clearly.

Deep in the mountains.

On a small hillside.

A group of bean seedlings is thriving.

No one knew that the seedlings had been planted three months earlier.

No one knows what these things mean.

When Tang Zheng knew that the monsters living in the Tongling Mountains were not affected by the mountains, he knew where his chances of victory were.

That's the heart of the procrastination plan.

For this, he endured a full three months, and at the same time fought a long outpost battle with the Celestial God Palace.

On this day, Tang Zheng finally reappeared in the field full of beans.

Looking at the large swaths of growing beans, Tang Zai smiled with satisfaction.

With the maturity of the bean seeds, Tang Zheng knew that this outpost battle that could not see the smoke of gunpowder was finally over, and after the most difficult time in the early stage, Tang Zheng was finally about to usher in his own counterattack moment.

He gently picked up a bean seed and muttered, "Next, it's up to you." ”

On this day, outside the mountainous area, several figures also appeared one after another.

They entered the Tongling Mountains from different directions and then disappeared into the forest.