Chapter 117 The Impossible
Inside the Wheel of Life and Death, a tall tower reaches straight into the clouds. The tower is copper-colored and has numerous small windows. The sky is gloomy and it seems to be raining, which makes people feel depressed. From a distance, there is a stairway outside the tower that spirals upward from the bottom. At this time, a group of people are rushing down from the top of the tower. Behind them, a black shadow is spreading down along the stairs around the tower. The group of people look back from time to time and see that the huge black shadow is only about a mile away in a straight line. Fortunately, it is just along the stairway outside the tower, which is a little farther away.
As the group ran along, they gathered their magic power to attack the air, and at the same time they had to resist the various flocks of birds that kept flying out of the countless small windows on the tower, the huge blood-shadow eagles, the dense black abyss bats, the blood-thirsty red mosquitoes that came out in groups, the five-color and six-color spiritual lights flashed continuously, and the explosions continued. The birds seemed endless, desperately rushing towards the monks on the path in groups. Under the desperate resistance of the monks, batches of them died, one after another, fearless of death.
The monks did not rush down quickly, they were almost surrounded by enemies. Although all the birds came from inside the tower, they scattered after flying out, everywhere in all directions.
A cultivator in the Qi Condensation Stage, wearing a Taoist robe of the Taixuan Sect, was attacked by three huge Sky-Winged Birds at the same time. The man sacrificed a lantern-shaped magic treasure, from which large patches of scarlet candlelight would occasionally shine through the body. When the scarlet candlelight shone on the Sky-Winged Birds, bursts of green smoke came out of the purple feathers of the Sky-Winged Birds. Several Sky-Winged Birds let out sharp screams, but the red light in their eyes became stronger. After a few breaths of attack from the lantern magic treasure, most of the originally bright purple feathers on one of the Sky-Winged Birds fell off, and it was obvious that it could not even fly. The Sky-Winged Bird let out a long cry, and its huge meatball-like body ignored the red light of the lantern and pounced on it in an embrace. Suddenly, streams of black smoke came out of its body. The smell of burning filled the air, and it was obvious that it was dead, but its action actually blocked a large part of the red candlelight in the lantern magic treasure. Seeing this, the other two Sky Wing Birds flew over quickly. The Taixuan Sect monk had never thought that these monsters were so smart and would cover the attacks of other beasts regardless of life and death. He was shocked for a moment. Just as he was unstable, two huge gusts of wind brought by the wings had already blown on his body, and an unmatched tearing force had already fallen on him. The monks next to him had no time to rescue him. The Taixuan Sect monk was pulled out of the path with a scream, and fell directly into the clouds and mist on the side of the path outside the tower. The screams were getting farther and farther away.
At this time, the two people in the front looked back. One of them resisted the air attack and said with a gloomy face, "Brother Wang, even if we don't wait to meet the Wuliang Sect or the monsters, we have already lost most of our lives."
"Brother Quan, although we have obtained the secret here, it is only the guess of the Jindan senior. Although we are now combined, the attacks seem to be more intensive than on one road. But now it has been more than six or seven miles. I think there should be more than 50 people left by the time. Even so, it is a sure win against the Wuliang Sect and the monsters." Another refined man in his thirties said
, while he said, he waved his hand casually, and several sword lights crisscrossed and flew into the air, slashing more than a dozen black abyss bats into a bloody mist. It turned out to be a sword cultivator in the Ten-Step Courtyard.
"Brother Wang, that being said, only two foundation-building cultivators can fight at the same time on one road, and it will still be one-on-one. Unless one of us is killed or one of us comes out, the other can enter to fight him. It would be great if we could reach 72 people like the Condensation disciples." The cultivator glanced at the inner sword cultivator beside him, but he was wearing the Taoist robe of Taixuan Sect.
And these two people actually exuded the aura of the foundation-building period. What was strange was that they actually appeared on the same road outside the purple copper tower in the wheel of life and death at the same time. There were as many as 60 cultivators scattered on the small road behind them, and the number of people on one road was higher than 37, and they were all people from two sects. After the two sides did not fight, the small road in front seemed to have not found anything wrong, and it kept extending forward. This scene that should not have appeared actually appeared in the wheel of life and death...
In a space in the center of the ball of the wheel of life and death, the earthy yellow air was diffused and floating, and there was an old voice in the empty space At this moment, he was muttering to himself, "Haha, I didn't expect someone to see through this five-element space and use it to do something. I didn't expect to find so many Qi Condensation cultivators with the same attributes, but the two foundation-building cultivators relied on blue diamond crystals to stay together at the same time. I slept for too long, and I don't know how many years have passed. If it weren't for the opening of the wheel of life and death this time, I would have continued to sleep. But why does a cultivator with mixed spiritual roots exude a familiar smell? What's going on? This breath is very familiar, very familiar." The old voice slowly sank, and finally there was silence here.
This is a desolate ancient road, with endless deserts on both sides of the road. An ancient road winds to the end of the desert under the setting sun. I don't know where the end is?
Under the blood-red sunset, a group of people stood on the ancient road. Ancient buildings collapsed in the desert on both sides, some far away and some near. Many huge Buddha statues with broken limbs and arms fell in the ruins, some showing a Buddha head looking up at the blood-red sky, some with half of the broken limbs buried in the sand, revealing mottled arms. Several sand scorpions quickly crawled out from under the sea buckthorn, leaving faint traces on the sand under the sunset and stretching to the distance of the desert...
"Recover for half an hour, no matter how much spiritual power you have recovered, set off immediately, don't move forward during this period, don't touch anything." After Gong Chenying came out last, she saw that everyone was standing or sitting. Those standing were basically those who retained more spiritual power. Many people had already meditated and recovered immediately after coming out. She nodded.
After they had gone through the first level of the shopping street, although they had not had time to discuss, all of them were excellent disciples in the Condensation Stage selected by the Wuliang Sect. They were not stupid people. They probably guessed that when they just reached the first level, as long as they did not move or touch randomly, it seemed that the restriction would not be triggered immediately, but everyone also understood that this kind of thing was not absolute. There was also the possibility that the black shadow would appear immediately when the time came.
Li Yan found a place and saw that it was still a little distance from the roadside. He immediately took out the spirit stone and meditated, but he did not completely immerse himself in it. Instead, he kept an eye on the surrounding situation. He believed that others were the same. No one dared to completely enter the meditation to practice here. At most, they just tried to absorb as much spiritual energy as possible.
Li Yan understood Gong Chenying's helplessness. In fact, it was not appropriate to recover here, but most of them had consumed nearly 70% of their spiritual power. Only a few people still retained about half of their spiritual power. Just like him, his spiritual power was at least about 80% now. This was due to the running of the five elements of the Guishui Sutra in his body, which was replenished endlessly.
The few who retained more than half of their spiritual power were not powerful in magic or magic. Although they had a little more spiritual power than other Qi Condensation disciples, or used more advanced skills, it was based on the fact that Gong Chenying had taken nearly 70% or 80% of the attacks, and almost exhausted all of her spiritual power in the final fight with the other side's foundation building master. If we move forward now, once we encounter something beyond the ability of Qi Condensation cultivators, everyone here will die here.
In desperation, Gong Chenying had to choose the worst option and let everyone take the risk to recover their spiritual power here. In fact, there is another way, which is to recover while holding the spiritual stone in hand while moving forward, but this absorption effect is extremely poor. It can't recover one or two percent of spiritual power in half an hour, and the prohibition here must have been triggered at that time. While resisting the attack, it is thought that the spiritual power will be exhausted before walking a few miles.
At the ancient road, a group of people sat cross-legged in meditation. Half an hour felt like a few breaths for cultivation. Gong Chenying opened her beautiful eyes and was stunned, because at this time someone stood up on the side of the road, and it was Li Yan. The spiritual energy here is extremely rich, and with the help of spiritual stones, although the recovery is extremely fast, Gong Chenying has recovered to about 30%. With the improvement of cultivation, the total amount of spiritual power is getting larger and larger. If it was in the Qingshanai Valley where Li Yan used to stay, Gong Chenying estimated that she could not even recover half of 10%. Even in Xiaozhu Peak, it is estimated that it is only 10% at most. This secret realm is strange. It seems that this recovery is not only due to the rich spiritual energy.
Seeing Li Yan standing there, looking into the distance, as if observing something, Gong Chenying thought, "Could it be that his spiritual power loss is not much? But the junior brother didn't seem to be lazy in the previous battle. His physique is really weird." Now she knew that Li Yan had fully recovered his physical strength with a glance of her spiritual sense. When she just came out of the ball just now, her spiritual power had run out. She was anxious to recover, but she just observed the surrounding environment and hurriedly began to recover without carefully confirming everyone's condition.
At this time, the rest of the people had opened their eyes. She scanned them with her spiritual sense and sighed in her heart, "Half an hour seems not enough. If we set out like this now, the combat power we can exert will probably be less than 40% of what we had when we first arrived." Just as she was thinking, a voice broke the silence here.
"Sixth Senior Sister, Junior Brother has a few words to say. First, we have already set out half an hour late. If we move forward now, even if we reach the end, how many people will be left with our remaining combat power? In addition, if we intersect with another road, our situation will be like the Pure Land Sect just now, with few people and little combat power. Second, the recovery of spiritual power in this wheel of life and death is very strange, several times faster than the outside world, so did the person who designed it at the beginning have a recovery time in each level? Third, since it is possible to give a recovery time, where is the safe place to recover? How long is the recovery time? Fourth, Junior Brother, I have almost recovered now, so I can be on temporary alert. If there is a problem, I will warn you in advance." Everyone looked for the voice and saw Li Yan standing on the side of the road. At this moment, he had retracted his gaze from the desert, turned his head to look at everyone, and looked at Gong Chenying with a serious face.
Everyone was stunned, not knowing why Li Yan would say such words at this time. However, after thinking about it for a moment, they felt relieved, because the only person here who could talk to Gong Chenying was Li Yan, and everyone understood the meaning of Li Yan's words and nodded unconsciously. People like Wu Shixi, Yu Yiyong and others felt a little relieved. Their spiritual power had been consumed greatly in the fierce battle just now, and in fact, it had only recovered to a little more than 50%. If they continued to kill their way forward like last time, it was hard to say whether they could survive.
Gong Chenying saw that Li Yan had spoken to her first. She listened quietly, looked at Li Yan with her beautiful eyes, thought for a moment, and reached out to tidy up the short hair beside her ears. "Okay, we will do our best to recover. Junior brother, you should pay more attention." After saying that, she closed her eyes first without any hesitation.
She was very smart. Li Yan said it in a short way because he didn't want to waste time. Of course, she understood what Li Yan meant.
One is that if they reach the end in their current state, there will be casualties. How much spiritual power can they retain by then? If another passerby reaches the end earlier, the situation will be just like when they welcomed the Pure Land Sect after resting in the yellow sphere for a while. She didn't give the Pure Land Sect any time to recover just now, and even so, they barely saved all the members and walked out.
Secondly, the difficulty of the level in the Wheel of Life and Death is very high. During the period, the cultivators are almost always in a fight. If there is no recovery place and recovery time, then even if they are able to kill the weaker party on the other road, how can they pass the next level? This is unreasonable. In this way, there must be a place to rest and recover in each level, and there will be a certain recovery time. Now it seems that the recovery place in each level should be the end point, and the end point must be reached first. As for the recovery time, Li Yan is right. Instead of recovering in such a timid and fearful way, it is better to open the recovery this time and see what the maximum recovery time is? In this way, we will be fully prepared for the next level.
Thirdly, Li Yan meant that he would be the one to be on guard. Many people have noticed that Li Yan's reminders in the Wheel of Life and Death may not be much worse than her, a foundation-building cultivator, so this gives her the bargaining chip for decision.
In a flash of thought, Gong Chenying has made the most correct judgment at present.