After rebirth, the eldest sister voluntarily abdicated and gave way to the wise.

She flew up again uncertainly to look at the route, then flew back.

"Over there, that rock that looks like a big rooster, go around it and keep going."

Jiang Li nodded slightly, took two steps, then stopped hesitantly and looked back.

Sure enough, the stones behind him turned into the "big rooster" in Xinxin's mouth!

Looking around, all the stones turned into majestic roosters.

She frowned, worried about taking Xu Youan with her, and decided to explore the way on her own first. Anyway, as long as she had the Zhenlingzhu, she would be able to find it back.

She asked her senior brothers and sisters what kind of formation they could set up with her current abilities to temporarily protect Xu Youan. The jade token was silent for a while and quickly replied with three words.

[Soul protection formation.]

A diagram of the formation layout is also attached.

Jiang Liqian took a closer look and poured out thirty-six medium-grade spirit stones from the storage bag and placed them around Xu Youan according to the directions on the drawing.

Then, according to the formula on the drawing, he stimulated the spiritual power in the spirit stone and drew a spirit-protecting talisman on the ground.

Since it was her first time drawing a formation, her technique was not very skilled and she failed three times in a row before finally succeeding.

But this also almost exhausted her.

My cultivation level at the first level of Qi Refining is too weak. It seems that I will have to practice more if I want to get out of here.

"Xinxin, help me guard him. I'll be back in an incense stick."

Xinxin was reluctant to leave her master and whined, not wanting to stay, but Jiang Liqian pleaded in her eyes, so she could only agree reluctantly.

Jiang Liqian searched her storage ring and bag for a long time but couldn't find any elixirs. However, she found a spiritual herb that could nourish the heart meridian. She didn't know why her junior brother was unconscious, but with this herb protecting his heart meridian, he could hold on no matter what the situation was.

She crushed the spiritual herbs and fed all the juice to Xu Youan.

After doing all this, she reminded Xinxin again that if her life was in danger, she must tell her.

The two of them are one and can sense each other's minds. With her around, Jiang Liqian feels at ease.

Seeing Xinxin nodded in agreement, she walked in the direction Xinxin had just pointed.

Along the way, the stones they saw had lost their original appearance. Even the giant rooster-like boulder had changed its shape. Jiang Liqian wasn't sure if Master Zhai had deliberately changed the original appearance of this place to target her, but for now, she could only take it one step at a time.

Holding the Zhenlingzhu in her hand, she was on high alert and tried her best to remember the path she had taken.

It was going smoothly at first. After passing the stone that Xinxin pointed to, there was a small path behind it leading straight into the distance.

But as she walked, she suddenly discovered that at fixed intervals, there would be a huge rock with a strange shape standing beside the path. After walking past more than a hundred such rocks, she was dizzy with the path and these rocks.

If she followed the route she remembered in her mind, she should be walking south at this moment, but intuitively, she vaguely felt that she was going in a big circle.

Was it her memory that was wrong, or was it her feeling that was wrong?

Jiang Liqian was a little discouraged.

If she had a sword in her past life, she could have swept it all away with one blow, revealing the true form of all the evil spirits under her sword. But now, she was only a new disciple at the first level of Qi Refining, who had not yet learned any immortal arts or formations. If she were to be taken outside, she would be a corner that others would not even hesitate to step on.

But when she thought that Xu Youan was still waiting for her to take him out, she couldn't help but pat her cheeks to cheer herself up.

To calm her restless heart, she stopped and looked at the layers of rocks around her, trying to recall the path she had just walked.

If she guessed correctly, she, with her photographic memory, would not have made a mistake in remembering the route she had taken. However, cultivators are very sensitive to certain aspects, especially danger, and she did not think that her intuition was wrong.

However, sometimes the eyes are a very magical sense that can deceive the memory and conceal the truth.

Commonly known as illusion.

If she continued walking like this, she might never be able to get out of this stone forest. She had to think of other ways.

But what should I do?

Jiang Liqian frowned and thought about it. Suddenly, a gust of wind came from nowhere and blew towards her, bringing with it a cloud of sand that covered the sky and the ground.

Jiang Liqian quickly used the Soul-Suppressing Pearl to form a spiritual shield to block the sand.

But in that instant, she thought of a solution.

Since her eyes can deceive her, why doesn't she just close them and not see?

Although this place is inside the Thousand Faces Box, it is still full of spiritual energy. She has a top-grade spiritual root and an extraordinary perception of spiritual energy. The broken stones in this stone forest are very huge. As long as she can calm down and feel the thunder spiritual power in them, she can feel which huge stones are blocking them and where they are unobstructed, just like this gust of wind, forming a picture of the flow of spiritual energy in her sea of ​​consciousness.

This way you can tell if you're going in circles, and if you're lucky, you might be able to find a way out.

Thinking of this, Jiang Liqian no longer cared whether the surroundings were safe or not. She immediately sat down cross-legged, closed her eyes, concentrated her mind, and practiced her mental skills to feel the thunder spiritual power coming towards her from all directions.

While thinking about it was one thing, actually doing it was another. She could sense the spiritual energy rushing towards her bit by bit, but because there was so much lightning spiritual energy around her, all surging together, it was difficult to sense from which direction it was coming or which obstacles it was bypassing.

But she did not give up. She continued to absorb spiritual power, tempering it into her spiritual veins and pouring it into her dantian. At the same time, she tried again and again to resonate with the thunder spiritual power, amplifying her perception, amplifying it, and amplifying it again, until she completely merged with the thunder spiritual power.

But even though the top-grade spiritual roots were very popular with spiritual energy, when they resonated with them, their sea of ​​consciousness was still cruelly ejected, once, twice, three times...

After countless attempts, Jiang Liqian finally had a rough topographical map of the stone forest in his sea of ​​consciousness. Only a shadow in the southwest corner had not been explored.

Beads of sweat rolled down her forehead one after another. Jiang Liqian couldn't hold on any longer. She opened her eyes from her meditation and half-supported herself on the ground, as if all her strength was gone.

After taking several deep breaths and continuously absorbing the spiritual energy around her, her physical fatigue finally eased, but her mental fatigue could not be eliminated for a while.

But this is normal. People who practice immortal cultivation are most afraid of having their sea of ​​consciousness damaged. Once the sea of ​​consciousness is attacked, it will be difficult to recover. Not to mention that the elixirs and herbs that can repair the sea of ​​consciousness are extremely precious, even if they are available, it will take a lot of time and spiritual energy. Some great immortal cultivators have to stop here for their entire lives because of the damage to their sea of ​​consciousness, and they can no longer ascend to immortality and achieve the great way.