I am doing meritorious deeds in Liaozhai

Chapter 308 Hongxia Mountain

In this way, in the ninth year of entering the desert, they finally arrived at the central area of ​​the desert.

The feet are no longer soft yellow sand, but desolate red soil wasteland.

After entering the wilderness, the wild animals disappeared and there were no sandstorms at night.

After nine years, Song Yushan saw the full moon for the first time in a long time and practiced heartily all night.

Suddenly I felt relaxed all over my body.

Two months later, at the end of the field of vision, the dark shadow of the mountains faintly appeared.

A day later, I could see it more clearly.

It is a ring-shaped rock mountain, which looks ocher red in the sun, like a red cloud.

"That should be Hongxia Mountain." Bian Yigua said: "Climb over Hongxia Mountain and you will find the basin where Jiuzhou City appears."

"It's finally here!"

Everyone felt relieved.

However, Wangshan is not just talk. After seeing Hongxia Mountain, it took them a full month to reach the foot of the mountain.

After crossing Hongxia Mountain, there is a vast circular basin.

Eight months later, on the first day of the first lunar month, Jiuzhou City will appear in the center of the basin with the sunrise.

They stationed themselves on the hillside of Hongxia Mountain, waiting for the appearance of Jiuzhou City.

Someone arrived earlier than them.

From a distance, you can see several cultivator camps around the basin.

However, there is no intention of contact between them.

As time goes by, Hongxia Mountain gradually becomes lively.

Before June, all serious teams with quotas from Kyushu have arrived.

They all built their own camps and used formations to protect the camps.

Those monks who had no quota and came to the desert to look for opportunities and compete for quota gradually gathered in Hongxia Mountain.

After arriving, I walked around frequently, and my thoughts were clearly revealed.

However, they were not able to break through the eighth-level defensive spiritual formations in the nine major camps, and they were never able to succeed.

Gradually, many people stopped thinking about taking action now and instead waited for the appearance of Jiuzhou City.

On the night of August [-]th, Song Yushan used the moonlight to practice. At dawn, as soon as he stopped and stood up, he heard some noise outside the camp.

She put away the formation disk and happened to bump into Qian Duobao who came to see her.

Qian Duobao pulled her and walked out: "Yushan, let's go! Jiuzhou City has appeared in advance!"

They all climbed up to the copper observation tower in the middle of the camp.

Everyone else is on the tower.

Under the morning sun, a fairy city shrouded in clouds and mist appeared in the center of the basin.

Many people without jade orders have already gone to the basin.

Luo Dongdong took a picture scroll and compared it: "It is exactly the same as the picture, it is indeed Jiuzhou City!"

"It's only August [-]th, why did you show up early?" Sikong Qian said with a frown.

The time when Jiuzhou City appeared has never changed for tens of thousands of years.

"Look! Someone has gone in!" Long Tianqi exclaimed.

Two people had already arrived at the city gate and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"It's not a team from other states! Did someone grab the jade order?" Lu Shanqing said doubtfully: "Looking at the campsites from other states, it doesn't look like they lost the jade order!"

"No!" Song Yushan said, "Look, those three people are the ones we have met before, and they don't have the jade order! With their strength, it is difficult for them to grab the jade order."

The three people also disappeared outside the city gate.

Bian Yi made a prediction: "Big bad news!" "It should be a mirage." Lin Yaojun said.

Everyone immediately remembered the records about mirages in the "Desert Beast Illustrated Book".

Mirage is a kind of invisible and elusive strange beast.

The breath it exhales can turn into illusions such as pavilions and pavilions, desert oasis, etc.

If you enter accidentally, you will become food for mirages, and there will be no possibility of escape.

The illusion of mirages is quite easy for monks to see through.

You only need to use your spiritual sense to find out.

They used their spiritual sense to explore it, and sure enough, there was only an empty basin. How could there be any city?
  It's really just an illusion.

"What a coincidence that this mirage appeared!" Qian Duobao said.

The others nodded.

It appeared exactly where Kyushu City appeared.

I should have seen Jiuzhou City, the illusion is enough to be confused with reality.

Many monks who had not been properly taught by the Immortal Alliance did not know enough about Jiuzhou City and were suddenly deceived.

Unlike them, after seeing Jiuzhou City, the first reaction was how it suddenly appeared in advance.

Some people probably don't even know the exact time when Kyushu City appeared.

As soon as I saw Kyushu City appearing, I wanted to get closer and see what this legendary fairy city was about. I didn't think of using my spiritual sense to explore it, let alone the existence of mirages.

Now that I think about it carefully, those monks just disappeared before they even had time to enter the city gate.

Outside the city gate, there is probably an illusion of a mirage.

The team in Qingzhou did not move, and the same was true for the teams in other states.

The delay in their actions allowed others to calm down.

But there are still some people who don't give up and go to the basin.

At this time, someone in the Jizhou camp couldn't stand it any longer and used the thunder method to summon a large thundercloud, covering the sky and the sun.

Mirages only appear on sunny days with good lighting, and the illusion they create also requires light. When thunderclouds appear, the illusion cannot be maintained.

"Why has the fairy city disappeared? The person holding the jade order hasn't entered yet!"

Others who didn't know about mirages only saw the clues at this time.

If it was the real Jiuzhou City, how could it disappear because of a thundercloud?
  If this is the real Jiuzhou City, why is there no movement from the people in the various camps?
  But those who just entered the illusion will never come back.

Once the illusion disappears, no one can find any trace of the mirage.

The appearance of mirages is just a small episode in the Hongxia Mountain Basin.

But it was precisely because of this incident that in the early morning of the first day of the first lunar month, when the real Jiuzhou City appeared, those who did not have a quota did not dare to act rashly.

They all learned wisely and observed the activities in the camps in various states.

But there are protective formations in the camps in various states, and the situation inside cannot be seen at all.

When Song Yushan and the others saw Jiuzhou City appearing, they did not go in immediately.

Instead, use your spiritual sense to detect it first, and then set off after confirming that it is not a mirage.

The teams from other states were similar to them. After confirming that it was the real Jiuzhou City, they all put away their formations and rushed towards Jiuzhou City.

At this time, those who saw their actions could not catch up with them.

Indirectly, those who planned to attack Jiuzhou City when it appeared lost their last chance.

This time, the people with the jade order successfully entered Jiuzhou City, while those without the jade order were blocked by the city gate.

Those who rashly touch the city gate will be pushed hundreds of feet away by an invisible force and pressed to the ground, unable to get up.

An hour later, Jiuzhou City disappeared again.

(End of this chapter)