88: Ancient Teleportation Array

Lin Feng's figure flickered like a ghost, leaving behind trails of afterimages as he dodged the dense wind blades.

The sharp wind blades grazed his hem, carving deep marks into the stone wall behind him.

Fang Lingyao also instantly formed hand seals, her movement technique erratic, as a water-blue barrier unfolded before her, neutralizing the wind blades shooting toward her.

Clang, clang, clang.

As the wind blades collided with the barrier, producing a harsh, screeching sound, Fang Lingyao's figure swayed slightly; her consumption of Spiritual Qi was significant.

"Attack the base of its wings to break its wind vortex." While dodging, Lin Feng had captured the fluctuation of Spiritual Qi at the base of the Fierce Wind Green Ibis's wings when it exerted force.

"Alright!" Without hesitation, Fang Lingyao changed her sword seal. Taking advantage of the moment when the Fierce Wind Green Ibis's attack paused and it was about to flap its wings to gather strength, she thrust directly toward the base of its left wing.

The Fierce Wind Green Ibis seemed to sense danger; it shrieked and suddenly turned its body, its right claw sweeping toward Fang Lingyao with a sharp whistling sound.

Just at this moment, Lin Feng closed in on the Fierce Wind Green Ibis and unleashed a "Heavy Mountain Talisman" he had been holding in his hand.

A force of earth-elemental confinement acted upon the Fierce Wind Green Ibis, which was fatal for a speed-type Yao Beast.

Puchi!

Fang Lingyao's emerald long rainbow had already pierced into it.

"Screech!" The Fierce Wind Green Ibis let out a mournful cry, its left wing's wind vortex dissipated, and its massive body lost balance, plummeting downward at an angle.

How could Lin Feng let such an opportunity slip by? He unleashed a strike of Sword Qi, directly piercing through the Yao Beast's skull.

The Fierce Wind Green Ibis struggled for a few moments before completely losing its vitality, slamming heavily onto the ground.

"Collect the treasure." After extracting the Yao Beast's Yao core, Lin Feng turned to Fang Lingyao and said.

The two flew toward the bodhi tree. Lin Feng's movements were extremely fast; with a flash of his jade knife, he harvested the only two mature bodhi seeds on the tree and placed them into a jade box.

At the same time, he quickly snapped off several branches and leaves from the bodhi tree and collected them as well.

After succeeding, Lin Feng did not linger for a second, his gaze sweeping toward an inconspicuous corner of the cavern.

"Let's go. Over there." He grabbed Fang Lingyao by the wrist.

Fang Lingyao was slightly stunned. She followed his gaze, only to see what looked like an ordinary stone wall and a few collapsed stone pillars; there was nothing unusual.

However, she already had considerable trust in Lin Feng's judgment, so she didn't ask any more questions and immediately followed him.

"Boom!!"

Just then, a violent shattering sound came from the distance behind them. Two streaks of Escaping Light charged in with astonishing speed.

"You little bastard! Leave the bodhi seeds behind!" Li Feiyu, with disheveled hair and blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, roared with bloodshot eyes.

Flower Without Shadow's figure also appeared, her face looking slightly pale; she had clearly paid a significant price as well.

The two had burned their essence blood and utilized secret Sect techniques, forcibly and briefly increasing their strength to break through the Restriction.

Lin Feng didn't even look back, quickly explaining, "While dealing with the Fierce Wind Green Ibis just now, I discovered residual spatial fluctuations beneath that stone wall. That couldn't have formed naturally; it must be an ancient teleportation Formation."

Fang Lingyao understood instantly. To be able to split his focus to investigate the environment during such intense combat, and to make such an accurate judgment in an instant—Lin Feng's keen Divine Sense and calm Heart-Nature surprised her once again.

The two rushed to the stone wall in an instant. Sensing it from close range, Fang Lingyao also perceived that faint, elusive spatial fluctuation.

"It's a one-way teleportation Formation, but it requires a massive amount of Spiritual Qi to activate."

"Where are you running to?" The angry roars and attacks from Li Feiyu and Flower Without Shadow were closing in from behind.

"Senior Sister, help me." Lin Feng shouted, taking out a few Mid-Grade Spirit Stones and precisely pressing them into several key grooves on the stone platform. At the same time, he pressed both hands onto the position suspected to be the Formation eye, pouring in his Spiritual Qi with all his might.

Fang Lingyao also immediately pressed her palms onto the stone platform.

Upon receiving the infusion of Spiritual Qi, those ancient runes gradually lit up, emitting a dazzling white light as a violently operating teleportation light array quickly outlined itself beneath their feet.

"Don't even think about it." Li Feiyu and Flower Without Shadow had already arrived.

"Go!" Just a moment before the attacks could reach them, Lin Feng felt the suction of the Formation and pulled Fang Lingyao into the center of the light array.

Swoosh!

The dazzling white light erupted violently, completely swallowing their figures.

The next moment, the white light dissipated, and the stone platform was empty, leaving behind only the residue of Spirit Stones that had exhausted their Spiritual Qi and turned to dust.

Li Feiyu and Flower Without Shadow's attacks smashed fiercely into empty space, sending stone shards flying from the impact on the platform.

"Ah!!! Bastards. It was actually a teleportation Formation." Watching the bodhi seeds he had almost obtained fly away, Li Feiyu roared at the sky in rage, looking like a madman.

Flower Without Shadow's expression was terrifyingly gloomy, cold light flickering in her beautiful eyes: "...They actually found such a discarded Formation? They really got lucky."

The two had spent a huge price, only to fail at the last step; they could only pour their endless rage into the cavern, yet they were helpless.

On the other side, that veiled woman from the Illusory Moon Sect swept her gaze calmly over the bodhi tree, and seeing the empty branches, she shook her head.

Her gaze subsequently landed on the teleportation Formation, which still held residual spatial fluctuations but was now ineffective, and a trace of inquiry and contemplation flashed deep within her eyes.

"Formation mastery... Heart-Nature... both are extraordinary." She suddenly whispered to herself, her voice so low that almost only she could hear it.

She had come to this Secret Realm not to fight for the bodhi seeds in the first place. Her interference in stopping Li Feiyu and Flower Without Shadow's sneak attack earlier was less about helping Lin Feng and more about following the Sect's principles of conduct.

As for the bodhi seeds being taken... to her, it was of no consequence.

She turned around, her moon-white flowing immortal skirt brushing against the ground without kicking up a speck of dust, and said to the four Disciples behind her in a cold voice: "Since the 'Illusory Moon Mirror' has been found, there is nothing else here that our Sect requires. Let's go."

Before her words had finished, a soft moonlight shone from a Magical Artifact in her hand, enveloping the five people from the Illusory Moon Sect.

The next moment, the moonlight dissipated, and the figures of the five had vanished from the spot, leaving this core of the Secret Realm in some unknown way, appearing even more composed than Lin Feng and the other person who had used the teleportation Formation.

At this moment, Lin Feng and Fang Lingyao were experiencing intense spatial teleportation, the world spinning around them...

Lin Feng broke free from the violent sensation of spatial tearing and landed unsteadily, his internal Spiritual Qi in utter disarray. Fang Lingyao was not far from his side, a rare trace of paleness showing on her cold face as she tried her best to regulate her breathing and stabilize her own Spiritual Qi.

He quickly surveyed his surroundings. Beneath his feet was coarse gravel mixed with some dark shells he had never seen before. Before him lay a dead, ink-colored sea, rising and falling silently, boundless and endless.

What was most unsettling was the surrounding environment. The air was filled with thick gray-white fog, which not only completely obscured the distance but also seemed to wrap around them like a living thing.

Lin Feng habitually probed outward with his Divine Sense, but the fog was like a wall; his Divine Sense could not extend more than a few zhang before feeling as if it were stuck in a quagmire, becoming sluggish, distorted, and finally completely swallowed, feeding back only an unsettling void.

"Where... is this place?" Fang Lingyao's voice came, a bit lower than usual. She had clearly also discovered the strangeness of the fog.

Lin Feng shook his head, his gaze sweeping over the coastline and the strange forest behind them: "I don't know where this teleportation Formation has sent us. This fog... it seems to be able to devour Divine Sense."

Fang Lingyao slightly furrowed her brows, flipped her fair hand, and a jade communication talisman appeared at her fingertips. She whispered an incantation and activated it.

The communication talisman turned into a faint streak of light, vanishing instantly into the thick fog.

However, after flying no more than ten zhang, that point of light instantly extinguished, and the connection with her mind also ceased abruptly.

"The communication talisman... is also ineffective."