Chapter 1597

"Here you go!"

During the flight, Xiaoying thrust the lantern in her hand forward and instantly sank into the void. In less than a blink of an eye, the lantern was pulled back by her again.

She stretched out her other hand, as if ignoring the outer shell of the lantern, and went straight into it, took out two red fruits that looked like apples, and threw one directly to Xingcai and Gu Zheng.

"We didn't pay much attention to this blood mist at all because there was nothing unusual, but when we found it, it was too late. Fortunately, as long as it wasn't too deep, there were still things that could be prevented, not just this." Duan Chen said to them.

Gu Zheng looked at the red fruit in his hand. It seemed like blood was slowly flowing under the peel, and there was a sweet smell coming from it, which looked a little weird.

But he still swallowed it in a few bites. It was not as unpalatable as imagined. Instead, it was indescribably refreshing, and there was even no core.

After eating, a coolness slowly surrounded the body with the blood, and the red on the body quickly disappeared.

"How long can this one last? Is it enough?" Only then did Gu Zheng realize the situation. If he and Xingcai rushed in rashly, the blood poison would penetrate into his body and he would probably be transformed into a ghost.

"One can last at least one hour. As for how many there are, you don't have to worry about it for at least a month." Xiaoying hummed aside.

"Xiaoying is right. That is something unique to the scroll where she lives. Although the time is a little shorter, the number is sufficient. If we are lucky, we can reach the vicinity of the gym in two days at most. We just need to find a way to sneak in." Duan Chen said to Gu Zheng.

"That means these things will also exist in these places?" Xingcai looked at the fading marks on her body and suddenly thought of this question.

"Yes, in fact, this thing is also useful for some ghosts. It can greatly purify the ghost energy in the body and remove some impurities, especially when they want to improve their strength. They can only devour their own kind, but there will always be some things that do not belong to them left behind, and after such a long time of devouring, each one left now is very powerful."

The four people did not stop at all and continued to fly forward quickly.

Under Duan Chen's leadership, they began to move forward irregularly in the air, and sometimes even had to retreat.

"I once tried to go back, but the risk was too great, and going back would not help much, but only make things worse. So I stayed outside, so I knew a lot about these situations. Bypassing some existing dangers can speed up our speed. You know, once those ghosts get entangled, they will lose their rationality. After all, your human bodies are too attractive to them."

Duan Chen explained everything here to them on the way, so that Gu Zheng could understand it well.

"There is a forest there." Xingcai suddenly pointed to one side during the flight.

Gu Zheng and the others looked over and saw a forest that looked a little green in the distance. It was really obvious in this bloody place.

"Don't go. It's just an illusion. I've been to this place. If you get lost in it and don't get out in time, you might get stuck here directly." Duan Chen on the side immediately said, stopping Gu Zheng and Xingcai from going over.

"It's so scary, but I feel it's just an ordinary forest. There are even some strange fruits growing in it. It looks like the smell is similar to red fruit." Xingcai said with a guilty conscience.

"It's just an imitation. There is such a forest not far ahead. Let's rest there for a while. This is the outermost part. This phenomenon is very low-level. The closer you get to it, the more it can confuse your heart. Please be vigilant at all times.

Flying in it requires several times more energy and mana than usual. Duan Chen doesn't say it, and Gu Zheng has to ask about it. Maintaining your best combat power is the best way to face the unknown.

Soon, the forest that Duan Chen mentioned appeared not far ahead. It was very similar to the illusionary smell he had seen before, but the environment was a little different.

Walking into this forest that was out of place here, a pure aura came to my face. It was surrounded by lush and dense forests, as if I had come to another place. Looking around, some of the trees were still hanging with a kind of green fruit.

"There is also a lake here. It's incredible! "After they went deeper, a very clear lake with ripples appeared in front of them, Xingcai couldn't help but be surprised.

"Everything here is no different from the outside world, or better. Those ghosts also hate this place, so except when the fruits are ripe, most of them are very safe."

The ghosts he mentioned also included himself, who looked at the lake with disgust and didn't approach it at all. He naturally hated it.

But Xiaoying beside him didn't think so. She cheered and rushed up, jumped into the lake with a somersault, and played happily in it.

There is no danger in the lake, so don't worry about it.

This place is like a temporary rest stop. Gu Zheng and Xingcai took a simple rest here and recovered their best condition.

After resting, they set off again and went deeper into it. So far, under the leadership of Duan Chen, at least they haven't encountered any enemies.

But luck will always run out. The last time Duan Chen came here, I don't know when, except for some geographical features that have not changed, other things have changed.

As they were flying in the air, the forest below disappeared, and there was a red soil plain in front of them. Several creatures that were sleeping underground suddenly lit up with a red light, squirming, allowing the red soil on the surface to cover themselves perfectly. body, hiding one's figure.

Only a pair of empty eyes, through the gaps in the soil, and the special breath, sensing the other party's traces.

But all this was unknown to the four people in Gu Zheng in the air, and they were still moving forward.

Two rays of consciousness, one in front and one behind, swept across the ground near the four people. Even if they swept over the sleeping creatures, no difference was found.

Four figures were approaching here quickly in the sky, and Duan Chen above was still talking to Gu Zheng.

"There once was a great war here. Some people who were transformed into ghosts but still had their own consciousness died together with those powerful ghosts, which resulted in the birth of this plain."

Gu Zheng looked into the distance, and only then did the shadows of the woods reappear on the extremely distant boundary, which showed the tragic situation here.

"簌猌"

Just when Gu Zheng was reminiscing about the past, four screams suddenly sounded in the air, accompanied by four extremely fast white lights, which burst out from below and stabbed at the four of them respectively.

"There are enemies!"

Here Gu Zheng shouted immediately, and at the same time, he turned around and rushed downwards.

Although Gu Zheng is fast, there is one person who is faster.

Duan Chen, who had always been alert to his surroundings, flew downwards almost at the same time as the dust rolled below.

Just when the warning sounded and the person fell down, he only heard four crisp sounds, and the four white lights were shot down by Duan Chen.

At the same time, the four ghosts ambush below also appeared from the ground and flew into the air at high speed.

"What the hell is this! Puppetry?" Gu Zheng couldn't help but be surprised when he saw the four ghosts.

The four ghosts were surrounding them in a square shape, and they slowly surrounded them to prevent the prey from escaping. However, their eyes were more focused on Xingcai and Gu Zheng.

Because these two are the most attractive people to them.

The clusters of red light in his eyes flickered more intensely, and he could clearly feel the other party's excitement.

The entire body is made of bones as white as jade, but most of the bones in the body are basically missing. The entire thigh is only supported by two bones. Apart from the upper waist bones, there are only a few ribs that are simply held together. An arm the size of a normal human arm, with a skull on top, and two red lights flashing in the eye sockets.

The opponent's frame looks extremely weak, but the powerful aura on his body should not be underestimated.

In particular, the opponent had a sharp dagger made of white bones in each hand, and he also carried two spare ones behind his back.

"It's not the puppet technique, it's the bones of those dead warriors. Under the influence of that weird magic weapon, they became like this." Duan Chen said in a silent tone.

"Then what should we do? The other party is not good at all!" Xingcai looked at them and said quickly as they were about to make a move.

At this time, little golden lights on their bodies rose from the surface of the bones, and they seemed to have better defense and attack.

However, the other party is already like this, and he doesn’t know what his strength is. He can’t see his aura among the pile of skeletons.

"Don't worry, the opponent is just a brainless skeleton. His strength is only about the same as that of the middle stage Golden Immortal. But the opponent's bones are extremely strong, which means he is extremely powerful. Just be careful."

Duan Chen's words made Xingcai feel a little more relieved. As for Gu Zheng, as long as the other party was not Da Luo, he could handle everything and he didn't have any worries from the beginning.

When Duan Chen finished speaking, Gu Zheng rushed forward. As long as the other party didn't mind eliminating the resistance, there would be no problem.

"No matter who the opponent is, I will tear him into pieces."

Gu Zheng's move seemed to trigger a chain reaction. The four puppets on the opposite side all shook their bodies in unison. The two bone swords behind them flew out instantly, stayed above the shoulders, and then rushed towards one of them.

Gu Zheng directly held the weapon and slashed vertically at the opponent. Unexpectedly, the opponent's posture was the same as his. One of the two bone swords struck at his weapon, while the bone sword in the other hand stabbed straight at Gu Zheng. .

Unable to help but do so, even the bone swords on both swords flew up from the side at the same time, attacking Gu Zheng's back.

Even if there was only one enemy, Gu Zheng would cause him to be surrounded by the opponent.

Even so, Gu Zheng has no fear. Those attacks must fall on him first.

"clang"

With a powerful blow, there was an explosion in the air, and a ball of golden light flashed continuously on the opponent's bone sword. The two bone swords only supported it for a moment, and the entire skeleton was directly knocked away by this huge force. He went out and flew hundreds of meters before barely stopping.

But the weapon in his hand has become two pieces.

As for the previous fancy attack, Gu Zheng just put up a defense and directly blocked the two flying bone swords.

The opponent was too weak. As soon as he took over, Gu Zheng understood that they were not on the same level as him at all.

When facing them, just use absolute strength to crush them.

However, apart from Gu Zheng being able to deal with it easily, at the moment of contact, before he had time to pursue him, he heard two exclamations in the air.

He turned his head and saw that Xingcai and Xiaoying were blown away by the opponent's huge force, while Duan Chen and the opponent were stuck in the air.

Compared to Xingcai who had stabilized her body in the air, Xiaoying was still flying in the air in a daze.

Gu Zheng dodged and came directly to Xiaoying's side. While the opponent's skeleton was paying attention to her, he kicked the puppet that wanted to chase her directly into the opponent's ribs.

There was a light "click" sound. Gu Zheng kicked without holding back, leaving only a white bone crack under the opponent's ribs. The opponent's bones were too hard.

After being blown away, Xingcai did not panic. While the opponent was chasing her, a stream of cold air spurted out of her mouth, forming a ball of blue ice mist in the air, and rushed towards the opponent.

Blue frost appeared on the bones rushing towards Xingcai, greatly slowing down the speed of the skeleton. Xingcai took the opportunity to cut down an ice sword from the air, and when the opponent did not dodge, he smashed one of the opponent's arms in the air.

A one-armed skeleton appeared in the air, and his figure was also surged by more cold air, and his speed became slower and slower. After only a few steps forward, a blue ice crystal appeared in the air.

The whole puppet's eyes were full of red light, and it could only be regarded as a statue.

After just a moment of fighting, everyone found that the opponent was a little fearless in addition to his terrifying physical strength, but other than that, he was almost a target.

Xiaoying, who was rescued by Gu Zheng in time, finally woke up from the shock just now. Her small and tender face was full of anger, but after seeing Gu Zheng intercept the opponent for her, her eyes looked at the puppet that was knocked away by Gu Zheng.

He turned around and flew towards the other party. Halfway through, his face was green, his small mouth opened, and a green flame spurted out of his mouth, forming a line of fire in the air, burning straight towards the puppet.

Facing the extremely cold green flame, the puppet was so stupid that he didn't know how much it was. He stretched out the broken bone sword, which was surrounded by white light. It was slowly recovering and wanted to rush over directly.

"Boom"

A ball of green flames rose in the air. The light on the skeleton became the best nutrient for the green flames, which doubled the power of the green flames. Before rushing through this short distance, the puppet disappeared in the air.

The remaining green flames condensed into a ball and merged into the lantern in her hand.

After doing all this, she looked back triumphantly, wanting to know if she was the first to eliminate the other party, but found that three people had already stopped in the air, waiting for her.

The three puppets had already disappeared without a trace, and only some white bone residue could be barely seen from the air below.

This made her feel quite disappointed, but she still came back.

"Next, we can't be so arrogant in the air anymore, we must be more careful." Duan Fei saw Xiaoying coming back and said to Gu Zheng and the others in a deep voice.

Originally, they wanted to be more cautious when they were really close to taking out the core. After all, those ghosts would basically linger nearby, waiting for the arrival of the blood moon under the call of the last dead Daluo.

Now it seems that this short fight is easy to alarm the distant, so it is safer to hide.

Gu Zheng also understood that the four people landed on the ground and began to move forward carefully. They also restrained all their breath and had to observe whether there was such a skeleton ambush at all times.

Therefore, their speed was much slower.

"Actually, you are great. Only you completely destroyed the skeleton. We just beat them into bone slag. Speaking of which, although we are a little faster, we still give the other party enough time to regenerate." Halfway, Xingcai, who was a little behind, said to Xiaoying next to him.

She had noticed some distress in Xiaoying's eyes before. She was not tired all the way. Thinking of the other party's childish temper, she knew where the problem was.

She didn't lie. That little bit of bone residue still retained the other party's breath. If there was no accident, it would be completely dissipated if millions of them were placed here.

"Really?" Xiaoying asked with her eyes wide open.

"Of course, didn't your grandfather praise you?" Xingcai nodded affirmatively.

"No, my grandfather forbade me to find any enemies, so I feel that I have never beaten anyone except bullying these bones." Hearing Xingcai's words, Xiaoying began to feel happy unconsciously. When she heard Xingcai asked, she started chatting with Xingcai.

After half a day, Gu Zheng and his group had arrived at the edge of the forest, and Xiaoying and Xingcai became good friends who talked about everything, and the relationship between the two people heated up.

However, when they arrived here, countless solemn breaths came from the forest, which made Xingcai and Xiaoying shut their mouths.

Gu Zheng looked back at them, and then walked in with Duan Chen first.

This forest was no different from the previous one. It was completely dead but strangely survived. On the branches, there were long blood-red marks and some drops of blood hanging on them, which looked even weirder.

Accompanied by almost no footsteps, the four people slowly moved out. Here, there was no absolute safe area and they could encounter enemies at any time.

Perhaps because there had been no external invasion for too long, the vigilance of these ghosts did not seem to be high at all.

Several blue figures were floating in the air, wandering around in front in disorder, covered in blue robes, only two scarlet eyes were clearly visible, and the face was shrouded in black mist, so nothing could be seen.

There were two or three ghost fires floating around them, just like Xiaoying, with no thighs from the waist down, and only empty robes floating in the air.

"These are some broken souls that have not completely dissipated, and finally transformed into this. According to their strength in life, the lowest is one ghost fire, and the highest is three ghost fires, corresponding to different cultivations. Three ghost fires are as high as the peak of the Golden Immortal. For the time being, there are no ghosts above the Daluo level. We call them lonely ghosts, also known as wild ghosts."

Duan Chen, who was on the side, said to them.