Now, Ao Tu sent out an incarnation and descended to the lower realm, hurrying ahead of Tang Sanzang and his disciples.
[Entered Mission Area] [Current Side Quest: Entangled on Thorn Ridge] [Mission Requirements: Detain the Pilgrim within the Thorn Ridge area. Rewards will be calculated according to the length of the delay.] [Mission Rewards: three days/jade marrow, seven days/kunsteel, half a month/Water-Repelling Pearl, one month/Houtian Spiritual Treasure · Demon-Gathering Banner, one season/Supernatural Ability · Heavenly Eye, half a year/Ancient Buddha Lineage, one year/Formation Diagram of the Twelve Divine Fiends Formation of the Twelve Capitals, three years/Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree, twelve years/Chaos Bell, sixty years...] [Current Progress: one hundred and thirty-two days]
Ao Tu looked down and saw a vast green expanse of brambles spreading over the mountains, dense and thick, climbing, coiling, and intertwining. Looking toward its distant end, he saw it stretched a full eight hundred li, joining the horizon. This was Thorn Ridge.
This place was not quite as bad as he had imagined. Leaving everything else aside, these eight hundred li of thorny brambles alone would take Tang Sanzang and his disciples quite some time to cross.
If he laid some formations inside later, he could delay them considerably longer.
Ao Tu carefully searched the place where the brambles and grasses met, and saw a rocky cliff. It was where the natural forces of this eight-hundred-li landscape converged. Bathed in the essence of sun and moon and nourished by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, several plants there had become spirits.
There was an old juniper, an old cypress, an old pine, and an old bamboo. Behind the bamboo stood a red maple, while on the other side stood a lovely apricot tree, two wintersweets, and two red-flowered osmanthus trees.
A couple of glances