When system cheat becomes rampant!-Chapter 674 - 497: Compass

Xiang Beifei stood in a forest, with grotesque rocks on the ground and lush trees growing all around. These trees were tremendously tall, reaching hundreds of meters high, making it impossible to see their tops when he looked up.

He did not know where he was, but it definitely was not Chou Hou, because logically, Chou Hou should have been shattered and not recovered this quickly; it would not have grown here so soon.

The surroundings were a dripping green with plants intermingling wildly, growing very vigorously. Only the patch of grass where Xiang Beifei stood at the entrance of the cave looked withered, with yellowed, gray leaves drooping to the ground, seemingly affected by the altar of blood inside the cave.

The cave entrance extended from underground, with a steep incline. Xiang Beifei hadn't noticed it when he ran out, but now he saw that water was flowing along the ground toward the entrance, seemingly heading for that altar of blood.

At the moment, the cave entrance was covered by withered vines. Xiang Beifei parted these withered vines and stepped onto another rock at the entrance. There was no path ahead, probably because the area was seldom visited, and the weeds here grew as tall as his waist, very unruly.

"So, what could be swallowing Spiritual Power here?" Xiang Beifei pondered.

He still did not know which Hou this place was, but it was likely Yin Hou. If his grandfather had told him to go down, he should also understand what the method of proceeding was. So, he needed to search this mountain for something that could swallow Spiritual Power.

Xiang Beifei leaped towards the waist-high weeds. Flying around here was pointless; he had to search thoroughly. However, just as he landed on the grass, the lush weeds suddenly withered as if they had met the god of plague, deteriorating rapidly!

In the blink of an eye, the weeds within two meters of where Xiang Beifei stood had all died!

Xiang Beifei was stunned too. The situation was very unusual since the surrounding trees were growing very lushly, only the spot he was standing on had withered, creating a stark contrast.

He immediately stood up and leaped onto the big tree in front of him, landing on a branch two meters high.

The birch tree had been very lush, but when Xiang Beifei stepped on it, the sturdy trunk suddenly shriveled, turning dry, and even the branches drooped, with the leaves curling up.

Xiang Beifei looked back at where he had been standing and was surprised to find the previously dead grass was slowly regaining life. The patch of grass became lush again, as if nothing had happened.

"Ao wu ao wu?" Erha scratched Xiang Beifei's ears with its tail in bewilderment.

"How could I possibly be a human herbicide! What are you even thinking?"

Xiang Beifei squatted on the branch, pondering the situation, but he hadn't stood long when there was a "crack" sound. The branch under his foot broke, over-dried, turning into rotten wood.

He paused, hovering in midair, but the branch had already fallen to the ground, shattering into fragments as if it had been corroding for hundreds of years.

"Woof woof!" Xiaohei was quite smart, recognizing the place at once.

"That's right," Xiang Beifei frowned. "This isn't Yin Hou; it's Mao Hou!"

He realized then that when he had come out of the cave, the withering of the surrounding plants was not due to the cave but because of him.

The scenery in Mao Hou was very strange. In the withered forest at the foot of the mountain, trees would rejuvenate as people passed by, becoming vibrant with life, and would wither again once people left.

But it was just the opposite for the trees above Mao Hou. Vibrant trees would wither as people passed by and rejuvenate when they left, completely the opposite of the withered forest below.

To verify this, Xiang Beifei immediately flew upwards. It took him a hundred meters before he left the forest and reached midair, where the fog was dense, but looking down, he could see a mountain peak. ƒrēenovelkiss.com

It indeed was Mao Hou!

The mountain of Mao Hou was very high, probably several thousand meters, with a summit spread like a volcanic crater. During their last visit, they had also tried to climb to the summit here. The stream water flowed from the foot of the mountain upwards, continuously pouring into the crater.

When Xiang Beifei had come here before, he had not seen what was inside the volcanic crater because they had encountered terrifying forces as soon as they reached the summit, which had blown them away, leaving no chance to get closer.

Now he realized that the top of Mao Hou mountain was the teleportation entrance of the altar of blood, and those streams seemed to flow from the foot of the mountain up to the crater before flowing into the altar.

The trees hundreds of meters tall that he had just seen were all growing in the volcanic crater.

"Ao wu?"

Erha also recognized the place; last time in the crater, a segment of blackwood had provoked it, and it was Erha, that naive one, who had suddenly slapped it out from the Spirit Gathering Book, dragging that force out from the summit and extinguishing it.

The power here had now vanished, with no sense of oppression, almost unrecognizable to it.

In fact, even if that power was still present, it would not matter to Xiang Beifei. During his last visit here, he was only at the Meridian Opening stage, and the blackwood had the power of God Refining. Now, he was at the Orifice Transforming stage, able to extinguish the blackwood with just a breath.

But this information was not particularly good news to Xiang Beifei.

"Grandpa sent me to Mao Hou?"

Xiang Beifei was very surprised.

Although he did not know how his grandfather managed it, it was clear that jumping straight from Chou Hou to Mao Hou without going through Yin Hou wasn't good news.

Because Xiang Tianxing had said that to continue the journey, one must visit each Hou in order, obtain some things from the Hou, and then one could proceed smoothly.

Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai.

Xiang Beifei had obtained the chilly air from Zi Hou, the soil from Chou Hou, and next should have been Yin Hou.

However, he had never seen what Yin Hou looked like, and even didn't know what was on it; his grandfather had skipped Yin Hou and sent him directly to Mao Hou.

Although this saved quite some trouble, as comrade Xiang Tianxing said, would there be difficulties in continuing without something from Yin Hou?

"Do I need to go back and look for Yin Hou?"

Xiang Beifei looked around and discovered a clump of soil near him.

This clump of soil, no bigger than a thumb, was slowly rotating. Xiang Beifei poked the soil with his finger, and it quickly turned into a small cone. The sharp end of the cone rotated twice and then pointed in one direction.

Xiang Beifei wasn't sure what this direction was, but clearly, the soil was left by his grandfather, meaning it came from Chou Hou. Following this soil's direction could lead him to Yin Hou.

Xiang Beifei thought about going to find Yin Hou; he just needed to follow the direction indicated by this clump of soil.

But soon, he became thoughtful again, feeling that things might not be so simple.

Normally speaking, if one were to search for a Hou, Grandpa would surely know more about these Hous than comrade Xiang Tianxing!

After all, comrade Xiang Tianxing had no understanding of Grandpa's matters. Xiang Tianxing didn't even know why his own father had amnesia; he just noticed his father's odd behavior and then went to look for some answers.

From the current situation, Grandpa possessed more accurate information than comrade Xiang Tianxing, since Grandpa could control the Hous and even directly transported Xiang Beifei here.

This fact alone demonstrated that Grandpa was more formidable than comrade Xiang Tianxing.

"Since Grandpa directly brought me to Mao Hou, there must be a reason for it."

Xiang Beifei stroked his chin, contemplating the current situation.

If Grandpa really agreed with Xiang Beifei continuing the search for answers, logically he would have transported Xiang Beifei directly to Chen Hou, Si Hou, or even further Hous to save him a lot of trouble.

But he didn't do that; he just sent him to Mao Hou and left.

Mao Hou, precisely the place Xiang Beifei had visited before, and he also carried water from Mao Hou on him.

Was it because Xiang Beifei hadn't obtained the token from Chen Hou, so he couldn't be transported to Chen Hou?

"Xiaohei, bring out the stream water you saved last time for me to see," Xiang Beifei said.

Xiaohei immediately wagged his tail, spat out several bubbles, and pushed a cluster of bubbles towards Xiang Beifei. Upon closer inspection, Xiang Beifei found that the water inside the bubbles had already gathered together, forming a small whirlpool.

He poked the cluster of water, and it started turning, forming a shape resembling a small tadpole and pointing in one direction.

The direction it pointed was different from Chou Hou's soil cone and Zi Hou's air spiral.

Zi Hou's air spiral's tail tip pointed towards Chou Hou, Chou Hou's soil cone pointed towards Yin Hou.

Clearly, this water served as the compass for Mao Hou and thus should point towards the next Chen Hou.

"Grandpa has arranged the compasses for Mao Hou and Chou Hou for me, but he didn't tell me to look for Yin Hou, which doesn't quite add up."

Xiang Beifei analyzed Grandpa's handling logic—he knew the Hous so well, he surely wouldn't have let Xiang Beifei miss the token from Yin Hou.

"If it's said that one needs to get one specific item from each Hou, could it be because—he discovered that not only do I have the stream water from Mao Hou on me, but I have also obtained and transformed something from Yin Hou without realizing it?"

Xiang Beifei speculated inwardly.

"But where would I have gotten something from Yin Hou?"

Xiang Beifei carefully examined every item on him; he indeed had many system items, but these were from other people and had no connection to Yin Hou.

And since Xiang Beifei had never been to Yin Hou, when had he obtained something from there?

Xiang Beifei checked all his belongings again, but still found nothing related to Yin Hou.

Could his speculation be wrong?

Xiang Beifei was puzzled; at this moment, Xiaohei suddenly barked twice, sensing something wrong at the foot of the mountain.