Avenue Stowaway

The passage through Huoyan Mountain is a very important route, so even though there are many bandits and it is very dangerous, there are still many monks and caravans coming here every day. After arriving here, all the monks will stop for a while.

The caravan invited those monks who looked like they had no problems to join in and improve the caravan's strength. The monks would also look for a team to join. If they couldn't find any, they would eventually form a loose team and cross the passage in the Flame Mountain together.

Although this passage is occupied by bandits and is very dangerous, it is still a good idea to encounter them. This passage is hundreds of miles wide, and there are strange peaks, canyons, gullies, and caves everywhere. Various routes crisscross and are as complicated as a huge maze. The number of bandit gangs is limited, and it is impossible to arrange people to watch every place in this passage that is hundreds of miles wide.

Seven days later, the number of people in the Jinhai caravan where Kong Fang was located increased to 61, and the number of monks who joined the Jinhai caravan also reached 16. Among them, there were monks in the early stage of the Hualing realm like Kong Fang, as well as monks in the middle and late stages of the Hualing realm, and even a monk at the peak of the Hualing realm. However, this monk at the peak of the Hualing realm joined earlier than Kong Fang, and was one of the first monks to join the Jinhai caravan.

Except for the monks in the caravan, the other monks came from all over the place. Their attire and personalities were very different. In order to let everyone play their strength, the captain of the caravan, a spiritual transformation realm monk named Mo Liubai, arranged a position in the caravan for the monks who joined later, Kong Fang and others, and formed a defensive formation with the caravan members, so that everyone could play a role.

However, this defensive formation was a very simple one, and did not increase the strength of each monk. It was just that when someone was attacked, the companions nearby could lend a helping hand in time to fight against the invading enemy together.

This kind of formation, in the end, still depends on personal strength.

Just like when Qi Zong and Qianlonghu attacked Jinyang Zong together, all the half-blood demon dragons in the Spiritualization Realm formed a very powerful formation, which made the attack and defense of all the half-blood demon dragons form a whole. And there was also an amplification. That kind of formation was extremely advanced, and ordinary forces simply could not have it.

Even in the Weapon Sect there is no formation that advanced.

During these seven days, occasionally a caravan or a group of people with enough people would enter the passage and begin to cross the Flame Mountain.

And today, the Jinhai Caravan that Kong Fang is in has gathered the required number of people and is ready to set off to cross the Flaming Mountain.

Sixty-one cultivators, all of whom were at least in the early stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, formed a huge sphere and flew into the huge passage in the middle of the Flame Mountain, which was hundreds of miles wide.

The captain of the caravan, Mo Liubai, a cultivator at the highest level of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, chose as his first route a canyon several miles wide. They flew along the winding canyon into the depths of the Flaming Mountain.

The passage in the middle of the Flame Mountain is very wide, and the terrain is very complex. In addition, the thousands of feet high sky is completely covered by the blazing flames floating from both sides of the passage. Therefore, the monks can only fly in this passage and dare not fly too high. You know, the closer you are to those flames, the higher the temperature, even the monks in the Spiritual Transformation Realm dare not get too close. Moreover, the flames are constantly churning, and sometimes the flames can instantly sweep hundreds of feet. If the monks get too close, they may be swallowed up directly.

In this passage, there is a possibility of being attacked by bandits at any time, so the caravan's flying speed is not very fast.

They flew along this canyon for three days and then turned into an underground cave. It was pitch black in the underground cave. They couldn't see anything. Fortunately, they were all spiritual cultivators and could use their soul power to see around. They didn't have to worry about taking the wrong road or being attacked by bandits.

Because the underground passage was not big enough, the caravan could only change its formation and formed a long snake formation. Kong Fang's cultivation was only at the initial stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm, so he and other cultivators at the initial stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm flew at the back.

The route in the Huoyan Mountain passage is too complicated, and each caravan takes a different route each time, which means that the bandit gangs active in the Huoyan Mountain do not have a fixed place. They plunder everywhere, and sometimes, when the bandit gangs meet each other, they will fight and rob each other.

The journey was uneventful, and Kong Fang and his team finally flew out of this underground passage after six days. They had not encountered any bandit gangs in the past ten days, which made everyone in the caravan feel relieved. However, they did not dare to relax too much, after all, they had only walked half of the way.

Next, the route chosen by Mo Liubai changed again, and everyone flew along a long and narrow mountain.

This mountain is extremely high, but it is long and narrow. Kong Fang and his companions were flying halfway up the mountain. When they looked up, they could only see the steep peak but not the top. It felt like they were flying in an abyss. Fortunately, on the other side of Kong Fang and his companions was a plain that was more than ten miles wide and stretched for hundreds of miles, so this feeling was not so prominent.

Flying forward along the mountain that undulated like waves, no one noticed that at a higher place on the mountain, in a sunken area, there was a group of more than seventy bandits staring at Kong Fang and his group covetously.

"Leader, although there are quite a few independent cultivators in this team, judging from their familiarity with the terrain and some unintentional tacit movements, they should be a merchant caravan." A short and strong cultivator with a full beard said with a slightly raised corner of his mouth, very happily, his eyes full of greed.

In fact, before entering the passage, everyone in the caravan changed their clothes and dressed differently in order to reduce the possibility of being targeted by robbers. After all, a caravan is generally much wealthier than a team of individual cultivators.

The leader mentioned by the monk actually looked like a pale-faced scholar with fair and clean skin. He didn't look like a vicious robber at all, except for his narrow eyes that looked particularly evil.

"It is indeed a caravan!" The pale-faced scholar nodded with a faint smile. Suddenly, he turned his eyes slightly and looked at the short and strong monk beside him. "But the number of their number is not much less than ours. If you attack rashly, you will make my men bleed and fight. What is your intention in saying this?"

The pale-faced scholar still had a smile on his face when he said this, as if he was joking. However, the short and strong monk was so frightened when he heard this that his body trembled suddenly and his face immediately turned pale. He immediately knelt on one knee and explained in a trembling voice: "Chief, I have absolutely no second thoughts about you. I said this just to let the brothers gain more. I have absolutely no other thoughts."

The short and strong monk had cold sweat on his forehead. The others also looked serious at this time, quietly looking at the pale-faced scholar and the short and strong monk.

"Haha!" The pale-faced scholar smiled and reached out to help the short and strong monk up from the ground. "Look at what you said. I didn't say you have two hearts towards me."

"Absolutely not!" The short and strong monk shook his head and denied it. The fear of this leader was deep in everyone's bones. Because their leader was too moody, if they did something wrong, they would face punishment. If they said something that would touch the bottom line of this leader or did something similar, their lives would be in danger!

However, this leader also has his merits, that is, he is generous enough, otherwise his subordinates would have long ago not been able to stand his character and would have run away.

"My fellows!" The scholar in white suddenly looked at all the monks and said loudly, "This is a merchant caravan. They must have a lot of wealth and treasures. Although their number is not much less than ours, what are we?"

"Hungry Wolf!"

The pale-faced scholar raised his arms and shouted, "We are a group of hungry wolves, and they are just a group of sheep. How can wolves be afraid of sheep?"

The pale-faced scholar raised his lips slightly, and his eyes became more evil. "My fellow men, do you dare to follow me to slaughter this caravan and rob their treasures?"

"Dare!" everyone answered immediately.

The short and strong monk also answered loudly, but he felt a little uncomfortable. Just now, he proposed to rob the treasure of the caravan, but the leader asked him what his intention was. But now, the leader took the initiative to take everyone to rob. Isn't he afraid of bloodshed and risking his life?

Although he was dissatisfied, the short and strong monk did not dare to say it out loud, otherwise he would have no chance to snatch the treasure, because he would have been a corpse by then.

"My boys, follow me!"

More than seventy bandits immediately flew forward quickly along the upper part of the narrow mountain and chased after the caravan where Kong Fang was.

On the narrow mountain, two teams, one high and one low, were flying forward, but the bandits were faster. The bandits were not worried about sneak attacks from others, as this was their base camp. Generally, no one dared to provoke them except for other stronger bandit gangs. And there were not many bandit gangs stronger than them.

More than 20 minutes later, the bandits had quietly flown to the front from the mountain above Kong Fang and his team. After passing Kong Fang and his team, the bandits did not stop but continued on their way.

After leaving Kong Fang and his men far behind, these bandits flew down from the top of the mountain quickly and came to the mountainside. Then, they dug their holes in the ground and hid.

The pale-faced scholar stood on a stone at the back, watching his men quickly hide in the ground, with a satisfied smile on his face. The pale-faced scholar waved his hand, and green wind magic surged out, wiping out all the traces left by his men on the ground.

Then the pale-faced scholar jumped down from the stone and stood behind it. Looking up at the raging flames in the sky, the pale-faced scholar once again showed an evil smile on his face.

Mo Liubai was flying in the front with two peak Spirit Transformation Realm cultivators. One of them was a member of the original caravan, and the other was invited to the edge of the Flame Mountain. His name was Quiro!

Behind the three of them were cultivators in the late and middle stages of the Spirit Transformation Realm. At the end of the team were cultivators in the early stages of the Spirit Transformation Realm such as Kong Fang.

The sixty-one men flew along the side of the mountain, completely unaware that bandits were lying in ambush ahead.