Peerless Divine Eyes
Chapter 169: Mountains Without End, Roads Inescapable!

Chapter 169: Chapter 169: Mountains Without End, Roads Inescapable!

"I wonder if that woman could have escaped to this mountain!"

Lu Chen still didn’t know Liu Ruyan’s name, his gaze following the trail up the mountain. Even with the Hateful Heaven Pupil Technique, he couldn’t see the end.

"Just how tall is this mountain?"

The mining mountain reached straight into the clouds, to Lu Chen’s amazement.

Withdrawing his gaze, he now had experience and first checked the Spiritual Qi Attributes of the place.

"It’s roughly the same, just lacking Fire Spiritual Power!"

Lu Chen discerned this at a glance.

Thinking back to what Chen Tanzhi had told him, the last time warriors from their Zhou nation had come here, nine out of ten had perished.

Presumably, it was due to the influence of Spiritual Power on the landscape.

But Lu Chen didn’t know.

The forbidden area unlocked by the Night Spirit Pearl made this place even more mysterious and unpredictable.

Sometimes mountains aren’t mountains, waters aren’t waters.

It was utterly unforeseeable.

And here, the reason he thought this was a mining mountain,

Was that there was not a patch of green on the entire mountain; wherever the eyes could see, there were caves that seemed to have been artificially excavated, one connected to another.

"A mining mountain, yet devoid of Fire Spiritual Power. What exactly is this forbidden area?"

Lu Chen inwardly sighed, carefully ascending along the trail.

Putting himself in Liu Ruyan’s shoes, if he were her, he would definitely cross over this mining mountain, fleeing as far as possible.

Because the purpose was not to hide, but to seek someone!

The trail snaked upwards, and because there were no trees for cover, Lu Chen could see clearly, which is why he moved at a swift pace.

With Fire Spiritual Power as his confidence, he wasn’t worried about any sudden dangers cropping up.

Yet after running for a long distance, Lu Chen realized he still couldn’t see the summit and couldn’t resist looking back, his expression immediately tightening!

He couldn’t see the foot of the mountain either!

No sight of the sky above, no glimpse of the ground below!

This sudden situation made Lu Chen sense that something was not quite right.

To say before that the mountain was so tall that the Hateful Heaven Pupil Technique was ineffective, Lu Chen could understand in his heart.

But having dashed all the way up without any incidents, and yet not being able to see behind him, naturally made him suspicious.

"I can’t keep running blindly," Lu Chen’s gaze slightly congealed, remembering how he had previously fallen into a pit. What if this mining mountain held other surprises? Wouldn’t that be a waste of even more time?

He was confident facing Liu Ruyan alone, but not against a group of female cultivators in the Qi Refinement Realm!

He was very clear about his own capabilities. Even though he possessed the strength of someone in the Qi Refinement Realm, his vision and experience in the Cultivation World were still lacking by a great deal.

"Should I go back and check?"

Lu Chen glanced again at the still unseen summit, deciding to return to the starting point by following the mountain path back down!

He had already remembered that when he first arrived at the foot of the mountain, his attention was drawn by this trail and then by the mining caves. And so, quite naturally, he had headed up the mountain path.

"Perhaps, this mountain is nothing but an Illusion Array. Senior Totem was right; I really should focus on cultivating my Pupil Skill..."

With a calmer mind, Lu Chen immediately realized the crux of the issue and began reflecting on his own problems.

He hadn’t run into cultivators until now. Even if there had been any, they were "beginners," just transitioning from Martial Artists into the Qi Refinement Realm, no different from himself.

That’s why he had managed to secure a victory by relying on the uniqueness of his Spiritual Power and the advantage of his spear!

Especially in the battle with Liu Ruyan, although he had won and forced her to sever her arm, if it weren’t for his Heaven-Breaking Spiritual Method, he likely would have died by her hands!

"I’ve actually become somewhat complacent!"

This was somewhat unbelievable to Lu Chen.

Steadying his emotions forcibly, Lu Chen stepped forward to return to the foot of the mountain!

It took him roughly an hour to travel from the mountain’s base to his current position.

And now, after running for two hours, he still couldn’t see the base!

A chill rose from within, unbidden.

"Am I... trapped in this mining mountain?"

Lu Chen forcibly steadied his emotions and stopped rushing downwards, instead looking at the nearby mining caves.

Previously, he had only glanced at them casually.

But now, he suddenly noticed that there was a certain pattern to the arrangement of these caves.

"Could these be the eyes of an array?"

Lu Chen vaguely remembered someone mentioning it, but he couldn’t recall it at the moment, and he didn’t understand arrays.

"Continuing to walk down like this will lead nowhere; might as well make a mark and see!"

He remembered the tales of ghost hitting the wall from the mundane world and, with a thought, took out his spear, wielded Spiritual Power to make several marks near the caves, and then he continued downwards.

After a while, which was yet another hour.

Lu Chen was horrified to discover that he had come across the marks he had made an hour before!