Chapter Thirteen Slope Land

  Shaking her head, she drove out the absurd idea and focused on the Divine Map, carefully examining the vast world within a 50-mile radius below the cliff.

  Overall, the brightness of the Sky Crack Valley decreases from top to bottom, with layered clouds and fog blocking even the strongest sunlight from reaching the depths of the valley, which is as deep as 7,000 or 8,000 meters. Therefore, starting from a depth of about 20 miles, the Shengu Tu already shows a strong contrast between light and dark, and at 40 miles down, it becomes a vast and dark region without any sunlight, yet the bottom of the valley is still not visible.

  Yu Ji roughly scanned it again, and then shifted his attention to the details. As his mind changed, in his eyes, the small world quickly expanded, and soon, a point he randomly set on the divine map appeared clearly before his eyes.

  He was staring at a giant eye as big as a bronze bell, with golden pupils like knives.

  Yu Ci was about to throw a punch, but fortunately controlled himself in time. It was only then that he realized the angle of his line of sight was off. After making some slight adjustments, he saw clearly that it was actually a giant bird with a wingspan of several meters. What he had seen earlier was actually the bird's eyeball. The dark red feathers on the bird's head were disheveled and messy, but couldn't hide its typical hawk-like sharp eyes and iron hook-like beak. As the feathers spread down to its body, their color became increasingly bright, until they seemed to have been stained with a layer of fresh blood. When it shook its plumage, a layer of bloody light would spread out in the clouds and fog.

  What's this thing called? Blood carving?

  Yu Ci's gaze swept across the fierce bird a few times, and with it as a reference, extended in all directions. The Heaven Rift Valley in the clouds and mist became increasingly clear.

  He soon discovered that the idea of naming the giant bird was meaningless, and at this moment, the wonder of the valley had only revealed its most insignificant corner to him.

  A blood-red shape swooped down, shrouded in mist and wind, its sharp claws outstretched. It was a gigantic lizard, but this lizard had not only horns on its head, but also two huge membrane-like wings folded under its ribs. Seeing the blood eagle's attack, it let out a loud cry, flapped its wings to create a gust of wind, and slid away at an angle. Immediately, the two monsters began to fight fiercely in the clouds and mist, with feathers and scales scattering everywhere.

  Yu Ji shifted his gaze and saw a gigantic toad-like monster spitting toxic liquid, climbing up and down the steep cliff as if it were flat ground; he saw a giant ape three men tall, uprooting trees and flying rocks, like a demon god. But he also saw that such monsters were knocked down by a single strike from a green snake no thicker than a bamboo chopstick and only two feet long, dying from poisoning. In the deeper layers of cloud and fog, there existed even more enormous creatures, as thick as an arm and dozens of meters long, seemingly like the legendary basilisk, appearing and disappearing, floating in the air.

  Too much astonishment, the aftertaste is bland, replaced by an uncontrollable excitement: originally, there is such a world in the universe, so mysterious and magnificent, as if it was specially set up by God to break human common sense!

  Yu Ci naturally saw the danger in it, but this layer of endless crisis was more like a large ingredient sprinkled into boiling oil, after rolling around in the oil, it became fragrant and enticing, hooking his soul, and rushing straight into the bottomless abyss.

  Then he really jumped down.

  A thick fog rolled in, filled with an aura he had never felt before, crashing into his heart and setting it ablaze.

  "I didn't know the root of it before, so I couldn't delve deeper. Now that I have the divine map, how can I miss it again?!"

  With the guidance of the divine map, Yu Cijun quickly slid down to a place more than 100 zhang below the valley top. The light was slightly dimmer here. This was already the deepest position he had reached when collecting medicine some time ago, but compared to the canyon itself, such a distance was meaningless!

  The more he descended, the stranger and newer the world shown on the divine map became, constantly challenging Yu Ci's imagination. The ever-changing and wondrous ecosystem made him unable to take his eyes off it, and an immense attraction drew him in, pulling him further down.

  Unconsciously, they had already gone deep into the mountains for over ten miles. Along the ten-mile journey, there were many treacherous places. After arriving at this place, Yu Cihao finally found a platform that could barely accommodate him with great difficulty, and he took a temporary breath.

  As he went deeper into his position, the temperature in the Sky Crack Valley dropped extremely quickly, and the chill was biting to the bone, with a hint of winter.

  But for Yu Ji, the most difficult thing was not the temperature, but the disordered sense of space. In his position, whether up or down, left or right, except for the vast fog, nothing could be seen, and only the steep cliff behind him could be relied on. After staying there for a long time, he felt that the sky and earth were upside down, or the ground had folded at an angle, and if he was dizzy again, he might really take the cliff as the ground, from "lying" to "standing", one step towards the bottomless abyss, smashing into pieces.

  It's okay, he has a divine map, he can pay attention to the changes in the picture on the divine map at any time, and with this small world that is opened up with himself as the center, adjust his feelings.

  Apart from this, the endless ferocious beasts and strange birds are also a huge threat. For example, the blood eagle that just flew in front of his eyes.

  This big guy looks very familiar, it seems to be the one he observed through the divine map just now. It seemed to have won a great victory in the previous battle and had a good meal, flying over with its head held high, the wind from its bloody wings almost blowing Yu Ci away.

  Yu Ci didn't get angry, instead she used the Divine Sight Diagram to observe with great interest the flight trajectories of everyone. She planned to take advantage of the break time to understand the living habits of this kind of creature.

  The blood eagle soared in the valley cloud and fog, but its flight altitude kept falling, from ten miles to twenty miles, then to thirty miles deep, before climbing up again. Yu Ci knew that this section of twenty miles high and low interval was the main living area of the blood eagle.

  He originally wanted to know more details, but his attention was diverted from Xuejiao by something.

  It was a slope in the canyon about twenty miles away, or deep into the dark region of three thousand feet.

  The slope above is extremely steep, while the lower part is slightly gentler. It extends out from the cliff for dozens of zhang, and Yu Cai initially thought that the Tianlie Valley would gradually narrow down from here. After exploring further, he realized that this was a solitary piece of land jutting out, with an endless abyss below.

  There was nothing remarkable about the vegetation on the slope, which was normal since it was shrouded in thick fog all year round and never saw sunlight. Except for some mosses and fungi, it would be difficult for plants to survive here. However, Yu Ci was very sure of the function of the divine map and trusted his own eyes - he had clearly seen that when the Blood Bird spread its wings and flew away just now, the wind it brought with it blew up countless fine grass leaves as thin as hair.

  Seaweed!

  That must be the shrimp whisker grass. Although he didn't understand why the shrimp whisker grass could grow in places without trees, Yu Ci believed his own eyes and the effectiveness of the divine map.

  Now the shrimp whisker grass is not something important to him, but it is an extremely clear goal. Yu Ci was excited again and took the slope as the end point of today's adventure, continuing his climbing journey.

  It's not an easy thing to do. The Sky Crack Valley isn't a place where every cliff is suitable for climbing, some places are as smooth as mirrors from top to bottom, even the most skilled mountain monkeys would only get smashed to death.

  Thanks to the map, he was able to take in the surrounding terrain and avoid danger in time. Even so, it took him a full three hours of effort to find a path through the slope. By the time he stepped onto the soft soil on the incline, the sky had already completely darkened.

  The Heaven Split Valley was too vast, and the seven or eight acres of land that sloped down from it were just an insignificant bulge on the entire cliff surface, completely out of scale. And Yu Ci was just a small insect on this bulge, not even worth mentioning.

  But this did not affect Yu Ji's great harvest. The fact proved that the divine map was fine, his vision was also fine, and this was indeed a special medicine garden given by God to Xiaoxucao.

  On the slope, there are no large trees, but a remnant of a large tree root system remains. In the Shengshen diagram, it can be seen that most of the twisted roots are buried under the soil and rocks, extending in all directions, occupying the entire slope, and even spreading to the surrounding cliffs. Yu Ci couldn't imagine how such a huge tree could grow in this place, and what kind of enormous creature would remain if a tree with such a root system still existed.

  For some reason, the big tree has broken off and probably fell into a deep valley. Most of the remaining root system has withered and died, but a small part remains, becoming a unique parasitic body that helps thousands of Carex meadows obtain nutrients.

  This is the reason why seaweed exists.

  Yu Ji resolved the small doubt, and what awaited him was an even greater surprise. Because he had miscalculated the surrounding cliffs, the number of shrimp whisker grass far exceeded his initial estimate. By visual inspection alone, near the slope, there were at least two to three thousand plants, a truly astonishing number. These shrimp whisker grass, combined with his existing stock, would be enough to exchange for four Three Yang Swords and still have some left over.

  In the transaction of the Absolute Wall City, it was destined to be a one-time deal. Yu Ci didn't have any intention of dragging things out either. Except for some areas that were too dangerous to consider, he planned to sweep away all the shrimp whisker grass around the slope.

  Of course, that's also tomorrow's business.

  After nightfall, the Tianlie Valley was truly pitch-black, with thick fog blocking almost all light. Even for those who had trained their night vision, it was hard to see more than a few feet away. Yu Cixuan didn't want to risk falling and dying on his way to Treasure Mountain, so he found a spot on the slope that was sheltered from the wind, sat down cross-legged, and endured the long, dark night.

  Yu Ci was still spending his first night in the Sky Crack Valley. After witnessing the ferocity of the Blood Carvings and other fierce beasts, it was impossible for him to sleep or cultivate. Out of boredom, he simply opened the Divine Map, taking a look at what the Sky Crack Valley looked like under the cover of night.

  At this moment, the divine diagram presents a nearly perfect hemispherical shape, with the hemisphere standing upright and the cliff wall behind it only extending hundreds of feet deep. Compared to the boundless and endless void within a range of 50 miles, it can be said that it is just a shallow layer, which can be completely ignored.

  The color of the hemisphere has also changed, also affected by the sky light, overall presenting a grayish black color, with a faint cyan glow, which is not too eye-catching in the night, and saves the trouble of covering up the light.

  Fifty miles... no, how could it be fifty miles? Yu Ji suddenly discovered the problem.

  He is now about twenty miles deep in the Sky Crack Valley, and from here to the limit of the sky that the Shengu Tu can display, it's only thirty miles. The height of the sky on the Shengu Tu has not changed at all, but this is absolutely impossible for a complete hemisphere to appear.

  Since it has appeared, that only explains one thing. For some reason, the scope of the divine map's display has been reduced. Now, the diameter of the region he can grasp is not fifty miles, but thirty miles. It seems like a giant invisible beast has opened its mouth to swallow up the surrounding space.

  Is it the natural decay of divine power, or is it related to night? Yu Cijin tends towards the latter, but whether this is due to the unique environment of Tianlie Valley or applies universally, still requires time to verify.

  Of course, for now, thirty li is no problem, enough for Yu Ji to use.

  He found that the Night Crack Valley was much more lively at night than during the day. The number of creatures wandering in the fog was at least 50% more than during the day, and some enormous beings were swimming in the deeper layers of cloud and mist, revealing just a scale or a claw would make him, an onlooker, hold his breath.

  In fact, Yu Ji had already unconsciously slowed down his breathing. The Sky Crack Valley was now more dangerous, bloodier and harder to grasp. The ferocious beasts here seemed to have no strong territorial awareness like those on the ground, constantly roaming around, resulting in frequent conflicts.

  Within the thirty-mile range that Yu Ji could perceive, three extremely brutal killings occurred within a short span of two hours, each ending with one or both parties dying miserably. The bloody aura spread throughout the valley, mixing into the clouds and fog, becoming part of its unique atmosphere.

  At the same time as he was holding his breath, Yu Ji's heart was burning with an even fiercer fire. This is the world that a cultivator should come into contact with - endless ferocious beasts, power that rises by the minute, bloody collisions of life and death, and what's more important, different stimuli at all times, these things, every moment refreshing his existing understanding, this moment absolutely different from the last.

  Yu Cui felt like a toad that had jumped out of a dry well, dazed by the vast sky and earth outside, which was being stunned by happiness.

  Brother Fishbone is a toad that has jumped out of the well, while I'm still gazing up at the narrow sky. Click, collect and red envelope, brothers and sisters, give me a hand!