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Outside, Yuan Country, Fire Beak Mountain.

Bang!

Suddenly, within Fire Beak Mountain, a flame as thick as a water barrel shot up into the sky, accompanied by a figure treading on a Flower Fox Mink, soaring through the skies.

In the hands of this young man in a white robe, at this moment, was a weapon, continually transforming its appearance as it absorbed the flames from the Fire Beak Pot in the youth's hand.

It first appeared as a rod, entirely black and yellow, with dragons coiling both ends. Then, as the fire fed it, one end of the rod extended, shape-shifting into a long-handled Mo Blade, double-edged, one zhang long...

Finally, as the flames continued to pour in, the one zhang double-edged Mo Blade's ends transformed once again into a stringless large bow with a gold-backed dragon coil.

Er Lang murmured softly, "A month of forging, not only did this Ruyi Divine Weapon take form, but my cultivation has also smoothly stepped into the Fourth Realm tier."

This body of his had originally coalesced from the Evil Qi of Fourth Realm Experts like Xie Qingfeng and Xie Qi, initially constrained at the Third Realm embryonic stage, causing his cultivation to linger at the Third Realm Peak.

Now, during this month-long weapon forging process, he was almost forging weapons every moment, using the hammer technique from the Firewood Iron Shop originally aimed at body refinement through weapon forging, successfully opening a meridian, and entered the Meridian-Opening stage.

At the very moment he crafted this Ruyi Divine Weapon,

he received a transmission from the Diagram Master.

Er Lang stood on the back of the Flower Fox Mink, murmuring to himself:

"They want me to participate in the martial arts examination as well? This way, I can visit the Five Elements Valley one more time? Unexpectedly, I didn't catch up with delivering a weapon to the Diagram Master but stumbled upon such an opportunity."

Immediately, stepping on the Flower Fox Mink, heading towards Baojiao County.

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Martial Arts Heaven and Earth.

In another place, known as Bamboo Road.

Guan Hongluan watched as the Five-colored Peacock attempted to fly into the sky but was knocked down by a prohibition, couldn't help but step forward to pet the Five-colored Peacock, laughing uncontrollably:

"My mistake, forgot to remind you that flying is forbidden within Martial Arts Heaven and Earth, mainly to prevent anyone from bringing flying Spirit Pets inside and skipping over many mountain forest checkpoints and demons directly to some arenas, unfair to other Military Scholars, hence the anti-flight formation was set."

The Five-colored Peacock rolled its eyes, this could have been mentioned earlier.

Thinking again:

"The Diagram Master, presumably, can't fly either."

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Martial Arts Heaven and Earth, at the foot of Qiu Dragon Mountain.

Chen Ku followed the location direction to the Five Elements Valley provided by his senior brother Qin Yuxian, roughly five hundred li north of Qiu Dragon Mountain, planning to transform into a Flower Fox Mink and fly directly north.

Unexpectedly, he had just flown three zhang into the air, as though he hit an invisible ceiling.

He felt quite strange:

"What the heck? Flying's not allowed in Martial Arts Heaven and Earth?"

Immediately he looked up at that invisible aerial barrier, murmuring to himself:

"Is it that I'm not allowed to fly? Or is there some prohibition against flying formations in Martial Arts Heaven and Earth?"

Thinking over and over, he seemingly got an answer:

"This is forcibly making all the Military Scholars obediently undergo trials on the ground, passing each checkpoint one by one."

No choice.

He could only first walk out of the Qingyun Path on foot.

In the forest, seemingly to verify Chen Ku's hypothesis, he noticed even the birds couldn't fly more than three zhang high, could only skim along the ground.

Making the birds' calls particularly clear.

Chen Ku noticed quite a few sparrows among the birds, directly invoked Beast Language Mastery and King's Aura, summoning some sparrows over, saying:

"You are the birds here, should know the terrain well, tell me how to walk out of the Qingyun Path the fastest way?"

He anticipated, though the people behind this Martial Temple Heaven had considered the prohibition of flight when designing the formations, they certainly didn't account for Chen Ku having such a skill as Beast Language, allowing him to always gather intelligence from 'the crowd.'

"Chirp chirp chirp..."

The sparrows chirped noisily around him.

Soon, Chen Ku acquired the correct path from their Sparrow Language, to proceed straight for ten li, then turn left, see a large rock, circle around it, and you'll enter the next stele's position.

Furthermore, from the sparrows' words, there's also an Iron-Backed Rhinoceros there, with many other human Military Scholars opting to go around it.

Chen Ku from the Storage Bag that Flower Fox Mink returned to him, took out an ordinary Fasting Pill, crushed it, fed it to the sparrows, yet also didn't forget to have them assist in another task.

"You likely have quite a few fellow friends, can help me spread a message, if encountering a Dragon Horse, must report the news to me."

"Chirp chirp chirp"

After consuming the pill fragments, the sparrows all flew away.

Chen Ku also followed the sparrows' directions, heading towards the Iron Armor Rhinoceros's location.

With his current speed, even without flying capability, utilizing the Swallow-Treading Horse transformation, with a brisk walk, he covered ten li within the time of a tea's brew, indeed seeing that large rock.

But before he even located that Iron Armor Rhinoceros, he heard 'ding ding dang dang' sounds resembling iron forging coming from the front.

Chen Ku's nose twitched.

"Someone?"

He had once tried to employ the Hundred Li Tracking Technique back at Qingyun Path but hadn't found Guan Hongluan and the others' location, speculating, in this approximated hundred thousand li in radius Martial Arts Heaven and Earth, they should have been transmitted to quite distant locations, so he hadn't used the Hundred Li Tracking Technique anymore.

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