**Chapter 368: Let Me Send a Few Puppets to Scout the Road**
Bai Feng stared at the sea of flowers filled with white bones, his face taking on a more serious expression. He noticed that some tattered clothes were draped over those bones, and a few storage bags lay nearby, suggesting they belonged to a group of cultivators who had come along with them.
Based on the remaining clothes, these people were likely from the Demon Path, but whether they triggered a trap or were ambushed by some demonic creature remained a mystery, leaving behind only a pile of bones.
“Master, what should we do?”
Zuo Qiu looked at the bones in the valley with a serious expression as well. She sensed the swirling Demon Energy throughout the valley, especially from the flowers on the ground, each one radiating a constant stream of it.
“Don’t worry, let me send a few puppets to scout ahead.”
Bai Feng pulled a few puppets from his storage ring and then controlled them to charge forward.
Suddenly, the next second, those seemingly beautiful and harmless flowers erupted from the ground! Thick thorny vines hiding beneath the surface quickly wrapped around the puppets, and the poorer quality wooden puppets were instantly pierced, turning into a heap of wood chips in no time.
“Looks like these flowers are siphoning something.”
Bai Feng squatted down near the entrance, examining the thorns that had emerged. Unfortunately, since he was using puppets, no matter how hard those flowers tried to s*ck, they couldn’t extract anything from them.
The remaining metal puppets launched a counterattack, their blades slicing through the thick thorny vines, causing the wounds to ooze out a red substance that looked suspiciously like bl**d.
But this retaliation seemed to anger the flowers in the valley, and more and more thorny vines surged up from below to attack the metal puppets.
“Zuo Qiu,” Bai Feng glanced at Zuo Qiu, who was watching the flowers cautiously. “Get ready to set them on fire.”
Dealing with such strange plants was best accomplished with a good ol’ fireball.
“Got it!”
Zuo Qiu quickly nodded, her hair turning crimson as fiery flames flared around her.
At the same time, Bai Feng summoned Immortal Fire and hurled it at the flowers in the valley.
Once the flames connected with the flowers and vines, they spread rapidly, turning the entire valley into a sea of fire in an instant.
Some flowers attempted to burrow back underground after being ignited, but Immortal Fire was not so easily extinguished. Even if they managed to retreat, the flames continued to chase down the vines as if they had a vendetta, burning all the way down.
Before long, what was once an aesthetically pleasing valley filled with flowers turned into a charred wasteland.
“Looks like we’ve burned everything clean.”
Bai Feng used his divine consciousness to probe underground. With the flowers and vines gone, the suppression on his consciousness lessened considerably, though it still didn’t compare to the outside. He could now scan around a three or four dozen-meter radius.
“Let’s go, and see what we find inside.”
Bai Feng headed into the valley, with Zuo Qiu hurrying along to keep up. She maintained her divine body form, ever vigilant of their surroundings.
As he arrived at the spot where the bones once lay, they had completely vanished in the flames, along with the storage bags that were turned to ash, along with most of their contents.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t control the Immortal Fire; rather, it was best not to touch storage bags that had fallen among those bizarre flowers. Who knew what kind of nasty surprises might be hidden in there?
Besides, when the bags burned and their contents erupted, he had taken a glance and found nothing useful. The deceased were likely just disciples of a small sect or rogue cultivators.
Walking across the scorched earth, Bai Feng and Zuo Qiu made their way deeper into the valley.
However, deep within, there wasn’t the grand demon infected by Demon Energy he had expected, nor were there any fragments of an immortal’s soul or finger bones left behind. Instead, there was just a broken array.
Bai Feng squatted down to examine the remnants of the array. After a moment, he rubbed his forehead—this array was no simple matter, its complexity rivaled that of the Extermination Sword Array, presumably another celestial array.
But now that it was damaged, this was likely what allowed the Demon Energy to seep in constantly.
“However, this celestial array doesn’t seem designed for sealing anything…”
Bai Feng stroked his chin. From his understanding of formations, this celestial array appeared more like an illusion array meant to conceal something.
Just as he was analyzing the incomplete array, suddenly, one of the nodes lit up.
“Uh-oh.”
A sense of foreboding flashed through his mind. He quickly stood up, grabbing Zuo Qiu’s wrist and dashing toward the entrance of the valley.
But as one node lit up, the others seemed to sense something and lit up in unison. Soon, the remaining array began to activate.
In an instant, the once-bright sky darkened. While the surroundings didn’t change, Bai Feng could feel they had entered another space.
“This is troubling.”
Bai Feng came to a halt, surprised that a broken array could still operate. If he had known, he would have simply left or thoroughly destroyed it at the first sight.
Zuo Qiu looked at her wrist where he held tight, and it seemed that due to her anxiety, he was gripping a bit harder, causing her to feel a slight pinch.
However, she didn’t say a word, and a faint blush appeared on her cheeks.
“Zuo Qiu?”
Bai Feng’s voice broke through her thoughts. She quickly shook off her distractions and looked around, “Master, where on earth are we?”
He glanced at her but didn’t ask any questions. Instead, he continued, “We seem to be in a special space similar to a legacy area.”
At the same time, he pondered how the array had been activated—was it because he destroyed the flowers in the valley that triggered the countermeasure, or did his probing of the array stimulate it with his divine consciousness and spirit power, or was it an actual trap?
“Master, look over there!”
Zuo Qiu’s voice interrupted his thoughts. Following her finger to where the array used to be, he saw a large door had appeared in its place.
‘Could this really be a legacy space?’
Bai Feng couldn’t help but murmur internally. If it was a legacy, perhaps it was left behind by the immortals who created the Divine Monarch?
It felt dubious, and certainly not something innocent.
He didn’t approach the door right away but instead checked out the entrance of the valley. However, it had vanished, leaving only thick rock walls, as if an entrance had never existed.
Moreover, these rock walls seemed to have some kind of enchantment, as even raising his long sword and striking them hard left no trace. It could be charred black with his Immortal Fire, but they remained unbroken.
“Looks like we’ll have to check out that big door.” Bai Feng sheathed his sword and casually asked Zuo Qiu, the Child of Destiny, “By the way, have you noticed anything?”
Zuo Qiu shook her head, “No, I just feel the Demon Energy here is extremely thick, thick enough to make one a bit uncomfortable.”
