Watch out! Something's wrong with this guard.

The night was still. In a garden, a figure flickered and arrived. Lu Yunshi looked around at the scene and was very calm. If it weren't for the few skeletons not far away, he might have been interested in sitting here and having a drink.

"It looks pretty safe." Lu Yunshi turned around and said to Lu Yunxi and the others, but when he looked at the empty space behind him, his eyes widened immediately.

"Eh? Where is the person?"

Before Lu Yunshi could figure out the reason, several powerful auras broke through the air. Lu Yunshi immediately focused his attention and looked over. They turned out to be two strange spirits with eerie smiles on their faces.

"A high-level alien spirit!" Seeing that the other party looked no different from a human, and that its aura was significantly stronger, Lu Yunshi immediately made a judgment, turned around and ran wildly out of the garden. The two alien spirits saw this and their pupils flashed, and they quickly followed.

A few breaths later, Lu Yunshi stepped out of the garden gate. The strange spirit behind him suddenly disappeared, and the scene in front of him suddenly changed. Just now, he saw a path paved with stone bricks outside the garden gate, but now he was in a dilapidated house.

Suddenly, Lu Yunshi heard the sound of fighting outside. He immediately pushed open the door and looked out. In the courtyard, Li Hu was fighting with two alien spirits.

Just like the one Lu Yunshi had just encountered, it was also a high-level alien spirit.

"Senior Brother Li, I'm here to help you!"

Lu Yunshi roared and immediately drew his longsword, preparing to rush forward. However, he saw one of the high-level alien spirits suddenly shift its gaze to him. The hot blood that had just surged up instantly cooled down. He transformed his longsword into a bow and shouted.

"Senior Brother Li, cooperate with me!"

Upon hearing Lu Yunshi's voice, Li Hu let out a low roar, gathered his energy, and charged forward. Despite the damage from the alien spirits, he grabbed the arms of the two alien spirits and flung them into the air. At the same time, two arrows flew in and pierced through the heads of the two alien spirits.

Of course, this wouldn't cause much damage to the alien spirit, but upon closer inspection, two talismans were found wrapped around the arrow.

The next second, the two alien spirits fell to the ground, but the two talismans pressed them down like a boulder, preventing them from getting up for the time being.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Li Hu shouted and rushed in front of the alien spirits. With his spiritual energy surging, he smashed down with both fists, instantly shattering the bodies of the two alien spirits.

"Hoo~ho~ho~"

Seeing the two strange spirits dissipate before his eyes, Li Hu felt a sense of relief and immediately knelt down on the ground, his face extremely pale.

"Senior Brother!" Lu Yunshi rushed forward upon seeing this, his expression tense. "Senior Brother, are you alright? If something really happens, could you give me your storage ring?"

Li Hu, who had been limp as a board, suddenly perked up upon hearing this. He glared at Lu Yunshi, then his ring flickered slightly as he took out two pills and swallowed them.

After a few seconds, Li Hu slowly stood up and slammed his fist into Lu Yunshi's shoulder with a fierce look. "You brat, I'm not dead yet."

"Haha~" The fist was big, but it had little power. Lu Yunshi laughed along, then his expression turned serious. "Senior brother, this place is so strange. I was just in the garden, but when I left the garden, I came here."

“An array.” Li Hu replied solemnly. “This should be the Iron Mountain Sect, but now the Iron Mountain Sect is mostly surrounded by an array. This array affects every place, forcing us to leave according to the path we see. We can only keep going around in circles within the sect. It should be a special array used to seal off alien spirits.”

"Then what should we do? We still don't know where Senior Sister Lin and the others are." Lu Yunshi frowned slightly. If they could only wander around aimlessly, they would die here sooner or later.

Those two high-level alien spirits weren't strong, at most only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm. They were easily dealt with thanks to Lu Yunshi's cooperation and Li Hu's fearlessness. But if they encountered stronger alien spirits, it wouldn't be so simple.

"Believe me, I want to leave this hellhole even more than you do right now." Li Hu looked down at all the injuries he had sustained from fighting the alien spirits, his face extremely grim.

"Senior Brother Li, this..." Lu Yunshi looked at the injuries all over his body and didn't know what to say.

"Don't be afraid. I can't turn into those ghosts yet. If I can leave the outside sooner and take a couple more pills, along with my own spiritual energy, it will be enough to support me back to the academy. The problem is that I can't leave for a long time. Sigh~" Li Hu sighed, then seemed to think of something and suddenly took out five light golden pills and handed them to Lu Yun.

"I didn't realize the situation was so urgent and forgot about it. Take this. If you are injured by the evil spirit or its aura enters your body, remember to swallow the pill immediately. It can help you suppress it for a while. In the worst case, it might give you time to commit suicide as a human."

At this moment, Li Hu was extremely depressed and really didn't know what to do.

They are unfamiliar with formations, yet they are now trapped by them.

Having escaped the encirclement of the strange spirits in Lijia Village, they never expected that although the strange spirits of the Iron Mountain Sect were few in number, each one was of exceptional quality.

Lu Yunshi silently accepted the pills. Whether it was because he saw Li Hu's dejection and knew that he couldn't be relied on, or for some other reason, his gaze became much sharper at this moment.

This place is like a maze now; everyone who comes from the same area and exits through the same exit will end up in a different place.

But Lu Yunshi didn't believe it was such a dead end; he was sure he could find a way to lead them onto the right path.

Lu Yunshi frowned, but looking at the exit of the courtyard, he had no intention of trying. At least he was still with Li Hu here, but if he stepped out, he probably wouldn't know how to get back. Lu Yunshi would not try to go out until he could come up with a solution.

"Cough cough!"

More than ten minutes passed, and Lu Yunshi had gained nothing. He couldn't even see a single rune that made up the formation. Li Hu, who was standing next to him, also coughed lightly, and his face didn't look too good.

Lu Yunshi could even sense the increasingly dense alien aura within the other party's body. This aura was affecting Li Hu's recovery and making him gradually weaker and less able to resist its erosion.

There must be a way, and that way... Lu Yunshi seemed to be trying to grasp something, but the longer it went on, the more impatient he became.

It felt like it was in my hand, but I just couldn't grasp it.

"Wait, what about our hands?" Lu Yunshi suddenly had a flash of inspiration and turned to look at Li Hu. "Senior Brother Li, do you remember how we got in?"

"Of course I remember, I paved a path with Moonflowers." Li Hu coughed twice before replying, then paused, as if realizing something, and quickly said, "You mean, Moonflowers are the key to breaking the deadlock?"

At this point, Li Hu's face fell again. "But I've already used up all the Moonflowers. Do you still have any, Junior Brother?"

"No?" Lu Yunshi shook his head, then added, "But..."