Map, Daoist Temple, Marker

The Fire Hell is not devoid of plants; it's just that the plants here have long since evolved into unique forms to adapt to the extremely high temperatures.

The plants here are mostly hard like metal, and dark green to black in color, with sparse and broad branches and leaves and well-developed root systems.

The plants in front of us, however, are all low shrubs with lush foliage and a vibrant green hue, resembling delicate, quaint plants found only in humid, warm water towns.

Li Nian also poked her head out of the carriage.

"Wow, this place is practically a paradise! I feel like we're bound to find something amazing inside!"

Three Suns drove the caravan closer, and when they stepped a certain distance into the vicinity of the Daoist temple, it was as if they suddenly passed through an invisible barrier!

A refreshing coolness, needing no comparison, washed over me.

"This place... is so mysterious. I have been an escort for many years, but I have never heard of such a place."

Yue Zhenqiao couldn't help but murmur to himself.

Chen Yuanye shook his head. "This place isn't on the main road, and very few people pass through here. Besides, there were maze formations and trapping arrays in earlier years... they only stopped working in the last few years."

"If my family hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known such a wonderful place existed."

The group disembarked from the caravan and slowly approached the Daoist temple.

The bluestone slabs in front of the Daoist temple were spotless, with only a few withered branches lying on them, making a slight rustling sound when stepped on.

Lin Yu looked up and saw that the walls of the Daoist temple had almost no trace of time, with only moss covering the base of the walls and a few collapsed gaps indicating that the place had been abandoned.

The inscription on the plaque above the door was blurred and illegible; only the words "Place for Layman Cultivation" could be vaguely discerned, but the prefix "Layman" was illegible.

Although Chen Yuanye had been here before, Lin Yu still couldn't help but be somewhat cautious.

Just as Lin Yu was carefully observing, he saw Li Nian approaching with Little Fire Dragon and several other Player.

"What's wrong?"

Lin Yu looked at Li Nian and asked.

Li Nian's voice boomed, "He said this place is where they first entered the Instance!"

Lin Yu raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"That's not right, isn't that Daoist temple outside of Double Saw Mountain? That's how it's depicted on the Map!"

Li Nian stepped aside, and the Little Fire Dragon spoke with certainty, "But the Daoist temple we entered at the beginning is exactly the same as this one... Either the Daoist temple was moved, or there are two completely identical Daoist temple."

"Of course, since we got lost along the way, it's possible that we made a mistake... but like you said... that's how the Map was drawn!"

Hearing what the Little Fire Dragon said, Lin Yu frowned slightly.

"Let's take another look at the Map."

He unfolded the Map again and looked at it. The location of the Daoist Daoist temple marked on the tattered Map should indeed be some distance away from Double Saw Mountain.

Their current location is not marked on the Map.

Lin Yu let out a sigh of relief.

"It's really strange... According to Chen Yuanye, this Daoist temple should have been here for quite some time—yet you saw another Daoist temple that looked exactly the same half a day's journey away."

"Something's definitely fishy about this!"

Deadshot, who had come closer, also spoke up and expressed his opinion.

"Should we still go in?"

Fei Dao asked cautiously.

"Of course we have to go in. This monster has its eyes on us. If we don't deal with it proactively, do you expect it to just let us leave for Willow Town?" Lin Yu said calmly. "I'm not used to leaving my back exposed to an enemy."

"Since those three over there say they've seen this Daoist temple before, then we should definitely go in and take a look... and figure out its layout now."

With that, Lin Yu pushed open the creaking wooden door and stepped inside.

After all... his Mental Power perception didn't detect anything amiss.

The courtyard of this Daoist temple was overgrown with weeds and full of life, with even a few white flowers growing in the soil between the bluestone slabs.

The roof tiles of the main hall were incomplete, and the sunlight, which was much softer than outside, shone through the gaps, casting dappled shadows on the ground.

The Incense Burner in front of the hall was overturned, and incense ash was scattered all over the ground. Only the broken statue of the god inside the hall still stood, but it was covered with dense, old cobwebs, just like the beams and tiles of the hall.

Chen Yuanye and his group of bodyguards went inside and rested and caught their breath in the Daoist temple, where the climate was normal.

Although the crisis is not yet over, this place with its pleasant temperature is indeed perfect for relaxing and taking a break.

Lin Yu looked at Deadshot, Little Fire Dragon, and Squirtle.

"So, is this place the same as the places you've seen before?"

Deadshot nodded. "Yes... all the furnishings are basically the same."

"If you go to the backyard now, you can still find a skeleton dressed in a tattered Daoist robe."

As he spoke, Lin Yu nodded and walked directly through the back door of the main hall to the backyard of the Daoist temple.

And just as Deadshot had said, a withered skeleton sat in the backyard of the Daoist temple.

Apart from that, there's nothing particularly special about the backyard.

Lin Yu stepped back and fell into deep thought.

"Hmm... that's indeed strange. They're so similar that they can't be two identical Daoist temple; they must be the same one."

"The question is... why could it teleport hundreds of miles in just a few hours?"

Lin Yu wasn't concerned about how the Daoist temple managed to do it. In this Prison Mountain Realm, it wasn't impossible for a building to be suddenly moved a distance by some kind of magic or supernatural power by a Daoist Mage.

Moreover, this building already has many Magic Array, so it might just be able to move around on its own—in any case, its design style makes it seem like it was suddenly placed here.

Therefore, the key issue is not how things happened, but why things are the way they are.

Lin Yu pondered this newly emerged anomaly carefully.

There have been far too many inexplicable and bizarre occurrences since entering the Prison Mountain Realm...

This reminded Lin Yu of his Senior Sister's information—logically speaking, the Prison Mountain Realm is mostly filled with [confrontation] and [battle] Instance, so there shouldn't be much need for intrigue and backstabbing.

After all, although the Yaomo here are cunning and treacherous, their methods are certainly not as strange as those of Mist Island and Night Valley.

Thinking of this, Lin Yu looked at the Map he had taken from the Little Fire Dragon.

"Speaking of this... Senior Brother Chen, was this the Yaomo you were ordered to slay that day?"

Lin Yu pointed to the markings on the Map and asked.

Chen Yuanye casually replied, "The Yaomo I'm here to exterminate is rumored to be a Vampire Bat Demon. Your Map... huh?"

Chen Yuanye was somewhat surprised. "Using skulls to identify Yaomo? This is a method of identification that the Daoist Sect stopped using a long time ago. However, my master taught me that one skull is Six-Guans... two skulls are Twelve-Guans. Because this method of identification is too crude, the Daoist Daoist Sect and the Daoist Mage later unified with us Martial Artists and all use the same method, calling them 'strings of cash'."

"But what's with these three skulls? Were they drawn incorrectly?"