On the second day of arriving in the desert, Zhao Di finally had a clue about the thing he had been thinking about painfully.

  Before that, he had been puzzled. Here is a vast desert with nothing in sight, how could it be connected to the legendary Dragon Valley which has strange mountains and rivers, heavenly materials and earthly treasures as well as various monsters?

  But Mr. Chen simply instructed them to sit down and then walked independently two or three hundred feet away, sitting silently without speaking.

  Although he had a hundred doubts in his mind, Zhao Di didn't ask any more questions. Anyway, when the time came to enter the valley, he would naturally understand.

  The seven major sects' cultivators sat silently for the entire night. The desert's temperature difference between day and night was extremely large, with scorching sun during the day and icy cold at night. However, to these cultivators who had spiritual energy protecting their bodies, this was nothing.

  On the second day at noon, when the sun was at its most intense point in the year, a Chen surname Taoist who had been sitting quietly not far away suddenly stood up and said lightly: "The time has come!" As he spoke, his right hand moved, and a red crystal jade plate about 7-8 inches in size appeared in his palm.

  Immediately afterwards, one Jīdì period cultivator from each of the six major sects stood out, also holding a yùpán-shaped magical instrument in their hands, only with different colors.

  Seven people looked at each other, then they all took out the jade plates in their hands and simultaneously cast a series of spells into the jade plates.

  On these seven jade plates, seven columns of light of various colors, as thick as a fist, suddenly emerged. The seven-colored light columns converged into a white light group dozens of meters above the desert, shining brightly and daring not to gaze directly, like another sun in the sky.

  A moment later, the light cluster suddenly fell directly into the desert and disappeared.

  Just as Zhao Di was feeling amazed, a violent vibration suddenly transmitted from the soles of his feet, and the ground within hundreds of meters around him was shaking violently. Then he saw a jade stone platform tens of meters in size slowly rising from the desert.

  "Transmission Array!" As soon as the jade stone platform rose completely above the sand surface, Zhao Di recognized its origin at a glance.

  This teleportation formation is a peculiar shape with seven corners and seven sides. On each corner stands a jade-made mythical beast, in the likeness of the legendary Qilin beast. The seven jade Qilins have different colors and shapes, but they all have large mouths and vivid expressions.

  Including Chen Xing Shi, the seven sects' foundation period disciples each inserted the jade discs in their hands into the horns on the heads of the seven jade qilins, and simultaneously took out a mid-grade spirit stone of different colors and placed it in the mouths of the jade qilins.

  The teleportation array immediately burst forth with a dazzling seven-colored light, forming a rainbow-colored canopy that covered the entire spell formation.

  "Ten men in a group, hurry up!" Chen surname Shushi ordered Taixu Men disciples briefly.

  The ten disciples of the Refining Qi stage who were preparing on one side immediately walked out of the team and stepped onto the transmission platform. The rainbow light curtain flashed, and these ten people disappeared.

  Another ten disciples immediately boarded the transmission platform...

  After all the disciples of Tai Xuan Men were sent away, the disciples of the other six sects also boarded the transmission array one by one.

  After a brief moment, all the Qi Refining stage disciples had already entered the Dragon Subduing Valley through the transmission array. In the desert, apart from this dazzling seven-colored formation, there were only about twenty Foundation Building cultivators left.

  "Song Zhendao, friend, we'll have to wait here for another month. Why don't we make a bet instead?" said the fat monk Dingyuan with a smile, addressing an old man dressed as a Taoist priest who was narrowing his eyes.

  The old man did not open his eyes, and replied faintly: "What are you betting on? Is it which family has more people surviving or what? This time your Jingming Sect sent out over 40 disciples, seven or eight more than our Yuqing Gate. How can we compare?"

  "The fellow daoist's words also make sense. How about this: our Jingming Sect will concede two people, and we'll gamble again?" the monk continued to say without giving up.

  The Taoist opened his eyes into a thin line, looked at the monk with several eyes, and said: "If you gamble, then gamble. Let's see what you use as a bet this time?"

  "This poor monk has a third-grade demon beast's Fire Fox Demon Dan! I'd like to make a bet with fellow Taoist's Jade Green Bamboo Talisman Treasure!"

  "You actually dare to make a bet with Qingyu's Poverty Token, and you're even willing to put up a third-grade Yao Dan as the stake. It seems that Fellow Daoist Dingyuan is confident of winning!"

  "Master Tianyou, would you like to join our wager as well? I've heard that your own betting nature is not small either!"

  "Hehe, no need, I don't have much confidence in the disciples of our sect anyway." said Wan Xing, a cultivator from Tianyou Sect with a smile.

  "How could this be? I think that the disciple your sect sent out this time is much stronger than in previous years!"

  ……

  Zhao Di only felt a dizziness and blurred vision before disappearing into the transmission array.

  The smell of rotting leaves, the soft and slippery mud, the sparse rays of light filtering through the forest, the towering trees that several people can't encircle, and the occasional sounds of birds chirping and insects calling, these are the series of sensations transmitted by Zhao Di.

  His consciousness circulated in his body for a cycle and he immediately became much clearer. Judging from the surrounding environment, he determined that he was currently located in a dense forest.

  "Not too bad luck!" Zhao muttered to himself.

  Before that, he had learned from the Jade Annals that once these disciples entered the Dragon Suppressing Valley, they would be randomly teleported to various places in the valley by the restrictions within. Some cultivators were extremely lucky and appeared near places where treasures were concentrated, easily finding a batch of heavenly materials and earthly treasures; others were extremely unlucky, encountering several high-level demon beasts as soon as they came out, and those who could not resist would be killed by the demon beasts; most cases were like Zhao Di's, being teleported to some remote corner of the valley.

  "You must first figure out your own position in the valley before considering where to go treasure hunting." Zhao Di thought.

  They, the Qi Refining stage cultivators, had a month of treasure hunting time in the valley. After a month, the weakest point of the seal in the valley, which they called "Peaceful Valley", would be opened by the Foundation Building stage cultivators outside the valley to create a temporary one-way passage. This passage could only exit the valley and not enter it, and was also the only way for Zhao Di and his group to leave the Dragon Descending Valley.

  If one month later, can't arrive at Ping'an Valley on time and leave from the passage, then will be trapped in Xiānglóng Valley. And ten years later, when Xiānglóng Valley reopens again, the next batch of cultivators will find that the cultivators from ten years ago mysteriously disappeared in the valley, even their corpses can't be found.

  Zhao Di swallowed a "Bihu Dan", which was issued by the sect, and could go without drinking or eating for a month. In just one month of treasure hunting time, if he still spent some time searching for food every three to five days, it would be a waste of time. Moreover, this Bihu Dan is not a rare and precious medicine, I believe that not only the Taixu Sect, but also other six sects will issue such a dan.

  Zhao Di extended his spiritual awareness to the fullest, carefully scouting out everything in the dense forest. He confirmed that there were no demonic beasts or other cultivators nearby. The densely foliaged forest was not suitable for flying feather artifacts, so he chose a giant tree with many branches and began to climb up using both hands and feet.

  As he approached the top of the tree, Zhao Di confirmed with his divine sense that there were no flying creatures or beasts in the air above. He then took out the Flying Feather artifact and flew to a height of about 20-30 feet above the forest, looking around in all directions. The sky was filled with thick, grey clouds, and the ground below was covered by the dense forest for over ten miles. In the distance, there were some mountain peaks and lakes.

  "That's Jingyu Peak!" Zhao Di looked at a mountain peak over 100 miles away in the east, which was shining with dazzling light. The entire mountain peak was made of a smooth and transparent crystal stone, distinct from other peaks, and was one of the landmarks in Xianglong Valley.

  There is a material called Fa Jing Shi on this mountain peak, which is hidden in the crystal stones all over the mountain.

  Fa Jing Shi, as its name suggests, has fine lines within the crystal that resemble hair. These fine lines are actually the manifestation of refined spiritual energy.

  Generally speaking, the denser and more regular the silk threads in a crystal stone are, the more spiritual energy it contains and the higher its value is. Based on this, cultivators also divide crystal stones into lower-grade and middle-grade crystal stones.

  Low-grade crystal, its internal spiritual threads are disjointed and disorderly, of little use.

  Medium-grade crystal stone, its internal spiritual silk is fine and dense, neatly arranged in a spiral shape, can be used to refine high-grade magic equipment.

  There is also a rare superior grade of hair crystal, whose internal hairs are not only neat and dense, but have also turned red, also known as blood crystal, which is a rare and precious material for refining magical artifacts.

  In this time's Dragon Descent Valley mission, there is an item that exchanges top-grade hair crystal stone for foundation elixir.

  Moreover, this place only occasionally has some first-class and lower-level demon beasts appearing, equivalent to the human Qi Refining stage of ten layers or below, with a danger coefficient in the Descending Dragon Valley being the lowest third level.

  Since Jingyu Peak was not far from him and the danger was relatively small, it did not conflict with his original plan, so Zhao Di chose to go to this peak first to try his luck and see if he could find this rare Blood Jade.

  (Third update, there's still one more tonight! New author and new book, please support and help spread the word!)