"What's that?" Xiao Ying pointed at a blood pool ahead and asked.
Feng Yuqin stepped forward, frowned and said, "There's a smell of blood."
Xiao Jin ran to the pool and took a look. "This should be a blood pool formed by the deaths of those who accidentally wandered in here," it said.
Feng Yuqin pointed at the blood pool in disbelief and asked, "Are you sure? Such a large blood pool is all stained red. How many people must have died?"
"Previously I heard that few people who came to this northern area ever returned alive. It's even more ruthless than my Life - Snatching Mountain. Fewer people came here than to the Life - Snatching Mountain, but the mortality rate is extremely high," Xiao Jin said while looking at the blood pool.
"Could it be that these people were all forcefully sucked in here just like me?" Feng Yuqin frowned and asked.
"That's not certain," Xiao Jin said. Then it looked ahead and said to Feng Yuqin, "Master, I sense that the treasure is just ahead."
"Then let's go and take a look," Feng Yuqin said. After that, Xiao Jin trotted ahead to lead the way.
Seeing Xiao Jin like this, Feng Yuqin always felt as if she was watching a little kitten running ahead.
Xiao Ying flew above Xiao Jin. The scene was quite harmonious.
When Feng Yuqin caught up, she saw Xiao Jin circling in front of a circular terrain.
"What's going on?" Feng Yuqin stepped forward and asked in confusion.
"Master, the treasure is right below here, but there should be a barrier here," Xiao Jin pointed at the circular pattern in front of it with its paw.
"Can it be opened?" Feng Yuqin asked.
"I don't know. Master, why don't you give it a try?" Xiao Jin looked at Feng Yuqin and said.
Feng Yuqin nodded, stepped forward and carefully observed the circular pattern on the ground.
It didn't seem anything special from afar, but when she got closer, she found that the pattern was more complicated than she had expected.
Feng Yuqin squatted on the ground for quite a while before she got a bit of a clue. "I wonder who set up such a complicated pattern here. It's a bit mind - boggling," she said.
"With a pattern like this, ordinary people probably won't be able to figure it out. Does it mean that if they can't figure it out, they can't get out? And after they die, how did the blood end up in that blood pool behind?" Xiao Ying asked in confusion.
Feng Yuqin looked at the pattern and said, "There should be a formation here that leads the blood in."
Xiao Jin and Xiao Ying both quite agreed with her inference.
So if they couldn't solve the circular pattern on the ground and find the eye of the formation, they might also be trapped here.
Feng Yuqin squatted on the ground to study the pattern, while Xiao Jin and Xiao Ying, her two beast pets, checked the surrounding environment.
Just when Feng Yuqin was almost done with her study, Xiao Jin made a new discovery. "Master, this should be the eye of a formation," it said.
Feng Yuqin walked over to take a look. Sure enough, it was a formation.
If Mo Xuanye were here, it would be great. He was quite proficient in formations. She wondered how he was doing outside.
"I'll crack that circular pattern first and then figure out how to study this formation," Feng Yuqin said. Then she turned around and continued to study the pattern.
Seeing this, Xiao Jin and Xiao Ying tried to study the formation to see if they could open it.
On the other side, Mo Xuanye also reached the bottom of the cliff.
However, on the way down, he encountered all kinds of dangers.
There were killing formations, illusory formations and poisonous fog down here.
For an ordinary person, any one of these could be fatal, but Mo Xuanye only suffered some injuries before he appeared outside the cave where Feng Yuqin was.
Just like Feng Yuqin before, he stood outside and reached out to touch the barrier. After finding that there was no danger, he also entered the cave.
At the same time, Feng Yuqin felt a slight fluctuation around her. She suddenly turned around and asked Xiao Jin and Xiao Ying, "Did you feel that?"
Xiao Jin nodded. "It should be the fluctuation of the barrier," it said.
Xiao Ying said, "It's like someone is touching the barrier."
"Could it be an attack from a demonic beast?" Feng Yuqin said.
She never thought that it was Mo Xuanye who had come.
After Mo Xuanye entered, he didn't walk far before he found traces of something being picked on the wall. He quickened his pace and walked deeper in.
Although his expression was calm, his hasty steps betrayed his anxious mood.
"Demonic beasts probably can't get in. There seemed to be the bones of demonic beasts outside before, but we haven't seen any demonic beasts since we came in," Xiao Ying said.
Feng Yuqin recalled and indeed it was the case. "I'll break this pattern first and then study the formation. Since Xiao Jin said there's a treasure inside, we must solve this pattern first. Otherwise, if we trigger the formation, this pattern might disappear," she said.
"Yeah, you can focus on your study with peace of mind. If there's any danger, the two of us can hold them off first," Xiao Ying said.
A quarter of an hour later, there was a noise from outside. Feng Yuqin, Xiao Jin and Xiao Ying all noticed it.
Just as they were about to go and check if it was an attack from a demonic beast, they saw a figure walk in.
"Mo Xuanye?" A look of surprise flashed across Feng Yuqin's eyes. "Why did you come?"
Shock was written all over Xiao Jin and Xiao Ying's eyes. They never expected that Mo Xuanye would come.
However, after the shock, the two beast pets quietly returned to their positions and continued to study the formation.
When the man saw that she was safe and sound, he suddenly strode forward and hugged her tightly in his arms.
Feng Yuqin didn't like being touched by others. She instinctively wanted to struggle, but then she felt his trembling hands. The feeling of fear surrounded her, so she stopped struggling. Smelling the smell of blood, she immediately asked, "Are you injured?"
Hearing her concerned voice, Mo Xuanye let her go and stared at her with his deep and profound eyes. "It's just a minor injury. As long as you're okay," he said.
Feng Yuqin looked at him with a complicated look in her eyes and asked, "Did you encounter a lot of dangers on the way here?"
Otherwise, with his strength, how could he possibly be injured?
"I was worried about you, so I took a shortcut," Mo Xuanye said. He knew there was another way down, and he had just seen the blood pool on the way here.
So those people might have entered from the other way and then lost their lives here.
The way he took was the closest, but also the most dangerous.
Feng Yuqin didn't know what words to use to describe her mood at the moment.
However, the relationship between the two of them had advanced greatly because of this trip to the cloud - top.
"Did you feel anything strange after you came in?" Feng Yuqin asked.
"There are some formations and barriers here. If we want to get out, we shouldn't break all the barriers. I can try to figure out the formations," Mo Xuanye said. At this moment, there was also a trace of fear in his heart.
Because he could feel that the formations here were very complicated. If he hadn't come, he didn't know how long his little woman would have been trapped here.
"Then go and study that formation?" Feng Yuqin pointed at the place where Xiao Jin and Xiao Ying were. "They found the eye of the formation, but they couldn't make any further progress. You're familiar with formations. Go and give it a try."