A hidden world within.
Before him stretched an extremely broad bamboo forest, so green it seemed ready to drip, pleasing to the eye.
If such a bamboo forest appeared on flat ground, it would naturally be perfectly normal, but one must not forget that this was more than a hundred zhang underground. To cultivate such a vast bamboo forest here—Seven Absolutes Heaven truly had a grand hand.
But Lin Xuan was also a man of wide experience. Only a trace of surprise flashed through his eyes before he returned to normal.
"Senior, this way, please."
Lin Xuan nodded, took long strides, and walked forward. At this point, he no longer needed the girl to lead the way. There was only one little path paved with gravel before him, so there was no way he could take a wrong turn.
The path was not long, only a few hundred meters or so, and although the green bamboo around him seemed disorderly, Lin Xuan possessed Xuanji Insights. Though he had never had much time to study it, he had at least skimmed it roughly.
As for the Dao of formations, he had gained a little understanding. He still could not refine formation plates or formation flags, but his eye was already far beyond what ordinary cultivators could compare to. The bamboo forest before him held deep principles of the Five Elements in its layout and secretly conformed to the yin and yang of heaven and earth; clearly, it was also a formation of considerable power.
Lin Xuan immediately paid attention, but his feet did not stop. Very soon, he turned two more corners, and a small hut built of green bamboo and thatch appeared ahead.
Beside the hut stood a middle-aged cultivator. It was none other than Lie Haipeng, who had just