The Second Mountain in the Spirit Realm

"The growth rate of these plants is too astonishing!"

"There's been no change in the soil composition!"

"The air environment index is also a normal data fluctuation caused by the appearance of the plants."

"What about the water? Have the nearby water sources been tested?"

An old professor, accompanied by his students and assistants, hacked through the tangled bushes to clear a path and entered the deep Yellow Goat Mountain. Every time they entered Yellow Goat Mountain, they had to repeat this action, because the path they cleared that day would be covered again by the wildly growing plants the next day.

"Xiao Ming, remember to test the nearby water sources next time!"

"Have you noticed? The growth rate of the plants! It seems... to have slowed down?" The old professor walked along the mountain path, struggling to move forward, but he keenly noticed that some traces of the path cleared yesterday still remained today, unlike usual when it would be completely covered.

Zhou Yang, who was following the team, looked around and said, "Indeed! What does this mean?"

The old professor's expression was solemn: "This might mean that the factors causing the plants to grow wildly are stabilizing, or are gradually disappearing!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he became somewhat anxious and agitated: "No, we must quicken our pace. We must explore every corner of Yellow Goat Mountain as soon as possible."

The changes originated from the main peak of Yellow Goat Mountain, so their main objective was to collect samples of various plants to take back for testing.

Everyone once again ascended to the summit of the main peak. Here, it faced the sea on one side and a cliff on the other. On the cliff, dense green vines grew. On the summit, there were clusters of giant trees reaching dozens of meters high.

Someone immediately noticed the vines on the cliff: "What kind of plant is this!"

The old professor gathered everyone: "Everyone, come and take a look. Have any of you seen this kind of plant?"

A bespectacled assistant in his early thirties carefully identified it and said, "It should be a dicotyledonous plant, a vine, but I've never seen this type before? Could it be a new species that appeared in the special environment of Yellow Goat Mountain?"

"This should be very valuable for research!"

The assistant became excited, put on gloves, and wanted to cut off a section of the vine to preserve as a sample and take back.

But as soon as his hand touched the vine and he extended the scissors, the vine was as hard as steel. Cutting it with the large scissors was like cutting a steel cable. Even with all his strength, he only managed to make a small cut, from which green sap flowed out.

And the scene that followed completely exceeded everyone's imagination.

Immediately, the vine, which had been like a dead object, came alive like a snake, shaking violently. The movement of this single vine was like a chain reaction, spreading to all the vines on the cliff.

"Not good!" Zhou Yang was the first to react, grabbing the professor and a female graduate student closest to the edge of the cliff and immediately retreating.

"No! No! I'm going to fall!"

The researcher who was collecting plant samples was immediately swept by the frantic vines and was directly pulled down towards the bottom of the cliff by the constantly tightening and rising vines.

"Help me! Help me!" The researcher kept pulling and grabbing the vines, completely terrified, letting out sharp screams.

At this moment, Lin Shu, who was standing behind, rushed out, taking large strides towards the other person.

By this time, the other person had already slipped down the cliff, inevitably falling towards the abyss below. Lin Shu's agile body slid down, grabbing the rock face with one hand, and at the critical moment, grabbed the other person.

Then, with a strong pull, she actually swung the male researcher's weight of over a hundred pounds upwards and threw him up, then with a leap, she jumped straight up.

The series of movements was incredibly smooth, looking extremely agile and full of the beauty of movement, health, and strength.

But at this moment, what everyone was exclaiming about was not Lin Shu's strength and heroic posture, but rather their wide-open mouths as they looked at the cliff above, their gaze fixed on the cliff and the sky.

They saw the vines climbing on the cliff dancing wildly, like mad snakes writhing on the cliff, the vines extending thousands of meters into the sky, covering the sky and the sun.

This scene was like the appearance of a terrifying great demon king and a doomsday monster in a movie.

"Rumble!"

A stationed personnel at the foot of the mountain also looked towards the mountaintop at this moment. He saw several whips, like steel cables, directly lashing from the mountaintop to the foot of the mountain. The violent movement raised large clouds of dust, like a chaotic dance of demons.

From a distance, it looked as if the entire mountain peak was going mad.

"Clatter!"

The cup held by the stationed personnel directly fell to the ground. Not long after, he immediately heard the sound of police sirens from the foot of the mountain.

"What kind of monster is this? Its size already exceeds all currently known plants!" The professor's teeth were chattering as he spoke, feeling weak in his hands and feet.

"Carnivorous plant? This might be some kind of mutated carnivorous plant! It might be hunting! We've startled it!" The researcher who had just been rescued was now covered in cold sweat, looking completely terrified.

"Run quickly!" Seeing the vines waving down from the sky, densely intertwined and covering all sight, Zhou Yang immediately let out a loud roar.

The professor and several students standing on the cliff were so scared their faces turned pale, and they collapsed to the ground, scrambling backwards, not even daring to look back. The only fortunate thing was that the vines on the mountain did not pursue them, but instead thrashed wildly as if stimulated.

After a long time, the startled Mountain God Vine calmed down and retracted back to the ground. Most of its main body shrank back underground, and the surface part hung down along the cliff, adhering to the rocks.

Even Zhou Yang and Lin Shu were startled by the scene just now. Everyone fled down the main peak along the path they had previously cleared.

While running, many people's clothes were torn, and in their panic, they had scratches on their arms and faces.

At this moment, vehicles drove up at the foot of the mountain, and drones hovered in the sky. The commotion just now had alerted the stationed personnel at the foot of Yellow Goat Mountain, and a team preparing to go up the mountain to rescue the research team was about to set off, but they happened to encounter them fleeing down the mountain.

"What was that?" With the sound of police sirens at the foot of the mountain, the professor and his assistant students, wrapped in blankets, shivered and drank water, still looking shaken.

Zhou Yang and Lin Shu, however, stood among the crowd and looked towards the mountaintop. The scene just now made them suddenly think of the Mist God Tree on Yellow Goat Mountain.

"First, monsters and Sword Immortals appeared, then the drastic changes in Yellow Goat Mountain, and this time it's Yellow Goat Mountain!"

"Could it be that this world is really undergoing changes that we don't know about?"

Within the Spirit Realm, Fang Xiu stood on the Qinghua Palace. The palace was brightly lit, and on the corridor of the top-level palace, which was like the Star-Picking Pavilion, hung ancient wooden paper lanterns. There were no candles inside, but rather strange fireballs floating in the lanterns, emitting a dark red light outwards.

He stood on the covered walkway, looking out at the deep sea surface in the distance of the Spirit Realm, a place tens of thousands of miles away from Qinghua Palace.

There, the originally calm sea surface, which had a hint of unreality, suddenly developed a massive vortex, as if some change had occurred deep beneath the sea.

The vortex spun violently, continuously expanding, a hundred meters, a thousand meters, ten thousand meters, a vortex that seemed to lead all the way to the depths of the sea, looking deep and dark.

Then, from the depths of the sea, from within the vortex, a mountain peak gradually emerged.

It slowly poked out its tip, appearing from the vortex, rising little by little from the great sea, but in the end, only the upper half of the mountain emerged before it stopped.

"The second mountain within the Spirit Realm has finally appeared!" Fang Xiu stood under the lanterns of Qinghua Palace and nodded with satisfaction.

"In the future, there will be a third, a fourth!"

"Then the mountains will connect into a continent, the great sea will also transform into a Spirit Sea, and this world will also become a truly vast Spirit Realm world!"

Fang Xiu stepped out of Qinghua Palace. The sea stretching for tens of thousands of miles was illusory and non-existent; Fang Xiu currently did not have the ability to transform this vast sea into a Spirit Sea.

So Fang Xiu appeared to have crossed tens of thousands of miles of space, but in reality, in his eyes, he had only taken one step, and that single step brought him to the half-submerged mountain peak that had emerged from the seabed.

This mountain peak was gradually formed by the Mountain God Vine drawing in nearby spirits. As the Mountain God Vine continuously drew in dead spirits, this mountain peak would slowly rise from the seabed and then gradually transform into a range of mountains.

At this moment, the entire mountain suddenly shook violently. Fang Xiu looked up at the sky of the Spirit Realm, as if he could directly see the activity on Lord Finger Mountain.

"Have they discovered it?"

"The Mountain God Vine has grown to maturity, and the effect of the Spring God Art has basically ended. After this, it should immediately bear the first batch of Spirit Fruits!"

Fang Xiu calculated that it was almost the scheduled time. As for the Mountain God Vine being discovered, it was something Fang Xiu had anticipated early on, or rather, his choice to place it on Lord Finger Mountain was precisely because he hoped someone would be able to discover it.