The place where Mo Zi Chen wanted to go was called Ying Zhou, which was also the location of the Taihua Mountains' entrance, and it was separated from this land by ten thousand miles. The journey was long and arduous, and she had originally estimated that it would take several months to get there. This time, she had joined forces with Ji You Fei and others, mainly to obtain a few pieces of spiritual stone, so they could go to the big cities and ride the transmission arrays, which would greatly increase their speed. Who knew they would encounter so many things?

  It wasn't until later, after she had formally entered the cultivation world and gradually gained an understanding of its common sense, that she realized just how bold her actions had been at the time. A small cultivator who had just begun to refine their qi dared to get involved in such matters, truly not knowing how they would die.

  However, she hasn't had time to think about these things yet. Under Xuanzun's full-force flight, the distance of ten thousand miles seemed like just a few feet. She only felt herself being enveloped by a white light, and countless clouds and wind sounds flew past her ears. She didn't know how long it took before she felt her feet touch solid ground again. By her ear, she still heard Bai Jiezi's loud voice: "Alright, the mountain in front is Yingzhou, I'm going back now. If you have time, don't forget to visit my Feibai Peak!" It seemed like she could still faintly hear Ren Gengxin and her saying their goodbyes. When she opened her eyes, she found that there was already no one around her.

  Mo Zi Chen couldn't help but click his tongue, this was tens of thousands of miles away, yet he had flown over so easily. He also didn't know when he would be able to possess such great divine powers himself.

  She raised her head and looked forward, still with some small excitement in her heart. This was the Xuanzhou, from now on, she could officially enter the Immortal Cultivation world.

  Huh? That's wrong! The front is bald and empty, where are the mountains?

  Yu Jianli told her that Yingzhou was a fairy mountain and also the mountain gate of Taihua, covering an area of about a thousand miles in circumference, far larger than the Lingjingshan she had seen before. Inside, there were countless rare flowers and strange grasses, divine birds and sacred beasts. It was a genuine immortal's cave mansion, a holy land for cultivation.

  Mo Zi Chen had made many romantic conjectures before coming, but she didn't expect that what was in front of her eyes would be like this.

  Large tracts of earth mounds, like big steamed buns, bulging out on the ground. In many places, stones have already fallen off, exposing large areas of yellow soil, and when blown by the wind, sand and dust fill the sky. There are also many pits and ditches filled with murky water. As soon as you step on it, half of your pants leg will get wet. The surrounding lawns don't know what animals have been gnawed clean, leaving only a few patches, sparse like moss.

  Mo Zi Chen couldn't help but be tongue-tied: Is this really the Xianjia Cave Mansion, a sacred place for cultivation? I'm afraid ordinary people wouldn't even want to come here!

  At least she was around and didn't see a few people, so it wouldn't be Bai Jiezi getting lost, would it?

  At this time, she suddenly heard a "moooo" sound coming from afar, followed by the loud cracking of a whip. Mo Zi Chen looked up to see a young shepherd, who appeared to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, riding backwards on an ox's backside, swinging his whip and softly singing a mountain song.

  Mo Zi Chen hurried forward two steps, waving at him and calling out: "Young fellow!"

  The shepherd boy looked at her with some confusion and asked, "Who are you?"

  Mo Zi Chen said: "I am from the south, I heard that there is a mountain here, called Penglai, it is a scenic and sacred place, specially came to visit, may I ask, did I take the wrong road?"

  "Yanzhou?" The shepherd boy shook the whip in his hand, and the lash coiled around his arm. "You've taken a wrong turn, I've never heard of any Yanzhou."

  He pointed north with his hand and said, "A hundred miles further north, there is indeed a big mountain, but I don't know if it's called Penglai, nor are there any scenic spots worth seeing. You can go take a look."

  Mo Zi Chen bowed his hands and said: "Thank you!" After finishing speaking, he turned around and left.

  The shepherd boy saw that she had walked far away, so he took the whip and hit the cow's buttocks again. He walked to the back of a small hill, where suddenly a head popped up from behind the hill. The person was a little girl with a childish face, still braiding two pigtails, but her expression was very calm and cold. She said in a low voice: "Who has come?"

  She held a hoe in her hand, only two or three times smaller in shape, and it looked like the kind of herbal hoe used by mountain people when they went up the mountain to pick herbs.

  The shepherd boy shook his head and said, "I don't know! As soon as she opened her mouth, she asked about Penglai Island. She doesn't seem to be a formidable figure, maybe she took the wrong road or heard some legend and wanted to come and find immortals and learn Taoism. I sent her away."

  The little girl pouted, "Don't be so reckless. I'm asking you, didn't you notice that the woman is a person with spiritual roots?"

  The shepherd boy was taken aback for a moment, "So you saw it too, and yet you still ask me!"

  The little girl hummed: "I'm just not at ease with you, so I've been secretly taking care of you. Qin Shixiong went to Lingnan and hasn't returned yet, and Big Sister Shifu told us to guard the gate tightly. And you know it's not like you don't know what these few days are, there are outsiders snooping around, we have to investigate clearly."

  The shepherd boy said discontentedly: "Then what did you see?"

  The little girl said: "I see that this woman is strange. I ask you, she has a spiritual root, can you see her cultivation?"

  The young shepherd subconsciously bit the whip tip, "You say that, I also feel a little strange, it seems I really can't see through her, could she already be a Golden Elixir cultivator, just pretending to be an ordinary person?"

  The little girl also supported her cheek and said curiously: "It is said that those Jindan cultivators, we should not recognize them, and it is unlikely that a new face will appear. However, maybe they invited external aid, who knows? In this case, you stay here to guard, I'll go back to report to the senior sister." After finishing speaking, her head was submerged into the soil mound, and she disappeared in a flash.

  Mo Zi Chen did not hear the conversation between the two people. In fact, even if she had stood still, it would have been impossible for her to see the existence of this little girl, because with her cultivation level, she could not penetrate the forbidden law hidden here. She followed the instructions of that shepherd boy and headed north, walking tens of miles, but all she saw was a vast expanse of mountains and fields, with greenery gradually becoming denser, but there were no signs of human habitation, nor did she see the large mountain he had mentioned earlier.

  That little kid, isn't he teasing me?

  She had thought that once she arrived at Yingzhou, she would naturally meet a Daoist practitioner, then take out the jade tablet to reveal her identity, and everything should go smoothly. But now she realized that things were not as simple as she had imagined.

  After walking for about two or three hours, there was still no end in sight. Mo Zi Chen had achieved success in his Qi refinement and was full of energy, so he wouldn't get tired easily. However, he hadn't reached the stage where he could go without food yet, so he took a few sips from the creek water and found a large rock to sit on. He opened his package and took out some dry rations to eat.