Divine Beast Creator

Chapter 2212 - 2213: Yunhuo Village

"The overly concentrated fire energy will cause severe erosion to the rock layers. However, within it, more robust composite rocks will be born. It’s just that the overly active fire energy in this area has already suppressed the possibility of new formations."

Agunas said lightly, the environment of this place can’t be considered particularly special. It can only be said to be similar to Yunhuo Village. This area also presents a unique landscape due to the unusually active energy. As for more details, Agunas didn’t plan to explain. As long as Feng Yuan walks to the highway, he’ll know.

Scratching his head, Feng Yuan felt that Agunas seemed to be leaving something unsaid, but he wasn’t in a hurry. After all, this place shouldn’t pose any problems.

Walking down the mountain trail, when he saw the parking lot close at hand, Feng Yuan was stunned. It wasn’t that there was anything wrong with the parking lot, but the surrounding environment was problematic.

This area looked like a battlefield, with deep gorges everywhere, as if they were cleaved out by a Sword Immortal’s Sword Qi. Of course, Feng Yuan understood this was impossible. These gorges were likely naturally formed. Even the road passed over these intersecting gorges via bridges.

As for the direction of the Beast Path, it was not as dangerous. Of course, it was simple why the road didn’t pass where the Beast Path was located. The terrain there wasn’t very smooth, with several steep slopes along the way. Compared to Spirit Beasts, human vehicles obviously didn’t have as strong passability.

Moreover, the area near the exit of the Beast Path didn’t have enough wide flat land. There was a considerable gap between this parking lot and the Beast Path.

"Is that the place selling food? It looks decent."

Pointing to the row of wooden houses at the edge of the parking lot, Feng Yuan said. Although he didn’t know how skilled they were, it was definitely much better than roadside stalls.

Although the wooden houses didn’t have a bad environment, unfortunately, because this place was specially prepared for tourists, the flavors didn’t quite satisfy Feng Yuan. After everyone finished their lunch, Qi Chen looked at Feng Yuan and asked,

"Where should we go next?"

The recommended tourist route ended here, and the resource competition was a few days away. If they went to another place now, it seemed a bit late, but heading over right now didn’t seem appropriate either.

In Qi Chen’s view, arriving a day early would be sufficient since they weren’t certain whether they might get caught up in any troubles along the way.

Feng Yuan thought for a moment and said,

"Let’s go to Yunhuo Village. Isn’t there a sacred ritual there? Just as the ceremony concludes, the resource competition formally starts. We can just wait there."

He was quite curious about the real situation of this formation. No way around it, both Yintian and Bi Ri Strongholds were somewhat unusual, especially Yintian Stronghold. This kind of long-standing misty formation doesn’t quite seem like an enhancement one.

It couldn’t possibly be some kind of Heaven-Confounding Great Formation, could it?

Not to mention whether such a thing exists, if they really created such a bizarre contraption, Feng Yuan thought the most likely outcome would be the Divine Beasts stepping in to solve them unceremoniously.

You’re joking, the heavens might not manage them, but the so-called Heaven-Confounding techniques, which one isn’t trying to hide from the Divine Beasts to do mischief? In their view, anyone using such means isn’t up to anything good.

The Tea Wood Town Area itself was quite unique. Occasionally, Divine Beasts would pass through. Creating such things here had an almost one hundred percent probability of being spotted by Divine Beasts.

But if it wasn’t some peculiar thing, Feng Yuan also couldn’t understand why these formations seemed as if they were afraid of something watching from the sky.

This curiosity is precisely why Feng Yuan wanted to go and see what’s going on with this formation. Naturally, he wasn’t worried about the formation having issues, since Agunas had already investigated this matter and surely understood the real situation of the formation.

Upon hearing Feng Yuan’s response, Qi Chen sighed inwardly. As expected, they were going there, but after serious consideration, he found this seemed to be the most appropriate course of action, after all. They had to wait for people from the Tea Wood Town Area to depart to follow along for the Xu Family Town duel.

And the sacred ritual at Yunhuo Village was the final preparation for the resource competition, so waiting there was just right.

"How do you plan to go to Yunhuo Village?"

Dou Yanlan looked at Feng Yuan and asked. She wasn’t asking randomly. Yunhuo Village was different from the villages they passed through. Or rather, only the villages on specific tourist routes have high-speed Beast Paths passing by, whereas Yunhuo Village can be found on the map, but only ordinary roads lead there.

"Well, I’ll just ride the White Shadow Wolf over. Although the road isn’t passable, Yunhuo Village isn’t far. We can also look around while we’re at it."

Scratching his head, Feng Yuan said. You could reach Yunhuo Village by following the road, but Spirit Beasts weren’t allowed to step directly onto the road, after all, that was for vehicles, not to mention the road conditions near Yunhuo Village weren’t good. Riding a Spirit Beast on that path was prone to accidents.

Instead, the mountainous areas were a bit easier to travel through, since the mountains wouldn’t suddenly have vehicles appearing. Moreover, for the White Shadow Wolves, mountain terrain was as manageable as flat ground.

While Feng Yuan and his companions were heading to Yunhuo Village, He Nanqing also arrived there. Though the spectacle at Mist River was important, the matters here couldn’t be neglected either.

Not to mention the formation’s boon to the team, the ceremony had become a tradition. Not conducting it or if an accident happened would be a huge blow to the morale of the whole Tea Wood Town Area.

As for Feng Yuan’s presence to observe the ceremony, it surprised her. Considering Yunhuo Village’s distance from the end of the tourist route at Yintian Stronghold, combined with the difficult mountain path, tourists typically couldn’t make it here without a special reason.

Moreover, Yunhuo Village wasn’t particularly entertaining. According to her information, judging by Feng Yuan’s personality, if he were to visit Yunhuo Village, it would likely be on the ceremony day. Otherwise, he wouldn’t find anything entertaining here.

Unfortunately, He Nanqing wasn’t aware that Feng Yuan was currently heading toward Yunhuo Village.

"Could Yunhuo Village really be on fire?"

On the way to Yunhuo Village, the ground fissures became increasingly severe. Even in this place, roads frequently used bridges to connect. If Agunas hadn’t said that except for the fissures, the overall structure was stable, Feng Yuan would be skeptical about whether this place was fit for habitation.

Mainly because some of these cracks were emitting flames, evidently a result of excess fire energy. As for the clouds, they were exceedingly abundant in this area.

The clouds containing fire energy and these fiery ground crevices made Feng Yuan feel this region was a bit bizarre. However, considering the formation’s presence, perhaps the environment’s uniqueness wasn’t surprising.

Although the White Shadow Wolves were affiliates of the White Wolf Deity, they weren’t Divine Beasts. This environment inevitably still had a notable impact on them.

The group that set off in the afternoon didn’t reach Yunhuo Village until nightfall.

Like Hidden Cloud Stronghold, Yunhuo Village was also built atop a mountain, or rather, only the mountain top had relatively complete land in this area. Other regions, especially the mountain’s lower regions, despite having forests, intermittently revealed large and small fissures.

Some of these cracks were still spewing flames, while others couldn’t be crossed without aiding the White Shadow Wolves’ abilities.

On the mountainside where Yunhuo Village was located, reddish clouds hovered, and at night they emitted a faint red glow, appearing somewhat eerie.

Due to the darkness, Feng Yuan and his group didn’t see the great tree standing in the village’s center. Although this giant tree wasn’t as big as the sky-covering tree in Bi Ri Stronghold, it was still much taller than ordinary trees.

Agunas flicked its tail and said,

"He Nanqing is already here."

It didn’t sense people, but the tiny Yognot always stayed by He Nanqing’s side, making it easy for Agunas to determine her location, unless the little Yognot wasn’t with He Nanqing. Otherwise, just through the little Yognot, He Nanqing’s location was already exposed.

Feng Yuan glanced at Agunas and said,

"She arrived so early? Well, that’s expected. This kind of ceremony should be taken seriously."

"But, I’m not sure if we’ll be able to get in."

Looking at the dark mountains, Feng Yuan was a bit conflicted. Given the ceremony’s importance, as outsiders, they might not be able to easily blend in.