Chapter 121 Adventure
Gong Chenying also felt something was wrong here. Without any hesitation, she waved her hand and the team stopped moving forward. Then she looked at the ancient road a few hundred meters away and immediately turned around, but it was too late. In an instant, the sand under her feet had rolled up a storm. The sunset glow immediately became extremely dim. Countless stone statues slowly rose from the ground, like bamboo shoots in the sand, and like the hands of wronged ghosts from hell. There were all kinds of sounds coming from afar, high or low. Through the gaps in the sandstorm, Li Yan and his team could vaguely see that under the bloody sunset, the overwhelming black was like dark clouds dyeing the sky, and the black shadows hundreds of meters away from their ancient road responded to each other from a distance, like two cold blades of scissors, twisting diagonally in two directions. This situation scared Li Yan and his team to death, and what made them even more frightened was that a layer of red waves came from the horizon like waves, red layers, shaking one after another, approaching them rapidly. Upon closer inspection, it was exactly that kind of red lizard.
Even Gong Chenying's face turned pale at this moment. She had no chance of winning here. It was estimated that she would be left with nothing in the face. Seeing this, everyone burst out with unprecedented potential. While only the remains of the statues rising from the ground were attacking them, they used all their immortal arts and magic treasures and rushed back more than 70 meters in two breaths. However, the black and red clouds in the sky and on the ground behind them had already caught up with them less than 100 meters behind them like a plague of insects. Just when everyone desperately advanced another 30 meters towards the ancient road, the cloud of insects had barely caught up with them. Many people screamed in shock, thinking that they were going to die here. But at this moment, the black and red clouds of insects and the remains of the statues rising from the ground suddenly stopped. Only a few attacked them, especially those clouds of insects, which seemed to have encountered something to stop them. The speed began to slow down. After everyone was frightened and sweating, they slowly calmed down.
But the insect clouds slowed down, but they continued to move forward. The speed of the surrounding sandstorms also gradually slowed down. The broken limbs of the statues in the sand under their feet also rose up awkwardly. How could everyone not understand at this time that the closer they were to the ancient road, the smaller the attack. They took the opportunity to quickly retreat to the ancient road. The black and red insect clouds that covered the sky also did not move forward at all after a few meters away from the ancient road. In the fear of Li Yan and others, the insect clouds unwillingly made a deafening buzzing sound, and slowly sank into the sand together with the broken limbs of the statues, as if nothing had happened.
Gong Chenying thought of the previous incident. After waving her hands to resist another round of attacks on both sides of the ancient road, she couldn't help but secretly feel lucky that they didn't go too deep into the desert, otherwise no one would be alive here just now. Everyone looked at the two sides of the ancient road with lingering fear. Now, even if they had a hundred courages, they would not dare to take a step out of the ancient road. Although they speculated that it might be possible that only after going a certain distance
would a large-scale insect cloud erupt, no one dared to try it anymore. No one blamed Gong Chenying. First, they knew that Gong Chenying was also trying with good intentions. Second, even if they had complaints in their hearts, they dared not show them in front of a strong foundation-building cultivator.
However, after this battle, everyone's fear was broken. When facing the attacks on the two sides of the desolate ancient road again, they felt much more relaxed. Anyone who has seen the black and red insect cloud covering the ground and the soul-catching hands that kept reaching out from the underworld underground would think that these attacks were just a drizzle.
In the process of advancing, the monks simply gave up active defense and began to counterattack on a large scale. This counterattack was much better than pure defense, and the speed of advancement was also much faster. They killed thirteen red lizards one after another, and killed tens of thousands of black insect clouds. However, the consequence of this attack was that the spiritual power was rapidly consumed. After more than six miles, the spiritual power was consumed by about 30%, which made everyone feel bad. If this continues, when the next three miles are completed, people with high mana will probably have more than 50% of spiritual power left, and those with low mana will even have less than 30%. Look at the huge black shadow in the sky about two miles away. Once they meet the other party, the scene of the Pure Land Sect in the previous level will be repeated. Insufficient mana will face a powerful opponent. Now they are praying that the monks or monsters on the other side will also face difficulties and strong resistance, so that they can stand on the same starting line.
Gong Chenying frowned at this time. She didn't have any good ideas. If Li Yan hadn't suggested to rest before setting off, there would be very few people who would have too much energy left. Maybe some people would have died.
Her brain was spinning rapidly. At the current speed, they would be able to reach the ten-mile position in a quarter of an hour, but their energy would be greatly consumed by then. Looking at the huge black shadow in the sky behind her, the ancient road had disappeared. Whether it was the collapsed ancient buildings or the statues in the desert, they had turned into black smoke. There was no sign of life there. Just before Gong Chenying looked back, the swarms of black insects that flew up from time to time in the air a few miles away turned into bursts of black smoke and disappeared from the sky the moment the black shadow came.
As Gong Chenying moved forward, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. Before the black shadow arrived, if he didn't enter a battle field similar to the sphere in the previous level, could he enter the sphere?
They took a brief rest outside, because after they entered the sphere in the previous level, they could not find other entrances before the Pure Land Sect came in. As for the Pure Land Sect, as soon as they entered, a huge black shadow in the direction of their passage covered the sphere. Does it mean that they failed to pull the huge black shadow away enough? With this idea, Gong Chenying thought that maybe he could give it a try.
The next three miles were almost as they calculated. After a quarter of an hour, with the desperate efforts of the monks of the Wuliang Sect, they pulled about two miles away from the huge black shadow in the sky behind them. This was what they could do with their best efforts.
At this time, a huge yellow sphere appeared in the ancient road in front of them. Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After they launched a series of attacks in succession, they cleared some collapsed buildings closest to the yellow sphere and the remains of the statues in the ruins, and the surrounding attacks gradually decreased.
"You, you, you... be alert around, the rest of you hurry up to recover your spiritual power." Gong Chenying swept his consciousness around, looked at the sky behind him, pointed out eight cultivators in a row, and then said expressionlessly. The eight cultivators he pointed out are all in good condition at present, including Li Yan, and Gong Chenying herself also needs to recover simply. She also bears the vast majority of attacks and defenses at this level.
After saying that, a flash of light flashed in her hand, and the green long spear disappeared. She directly took out two spiritual stones, holding one in each hand, and sat cross-legged in front of the yellow sphere. The other cultivators did not dare to say more. Only Li Yan and the other eight cultivators looked at each other, and some of them smiled bitterly. In fact, they also need to repair, and their spiritual power is less than 70%, but who makes them the best people here at present.
Li Yan looked around. Although most of the attacks here have been cleared by them before, there are still red lizards and black beetles coming, but the number is very small. Gong Chenying's arrangement is of course very correct.
In about half a minute, Li Yan and his eight monks repelled a dozen sporadic attacks from black and red insects. Now they were looking nervously at the huge black shadow in the sky a hundred steps away. It seemed like a bottomless black hole and a huge mouth that could devour people. The ground there had twisted and lifted silently, and then merged into the shadow without a sound. A red lizard came in front of the black shadow, making a strange "squeak" sound and quickly ran towards Li Yan and his team. But just when it turned its head back to look at the black shadow in the sky, it seemed to be hit by a spell of immobilization. Its body swayed sharply, but its head could not move back. It watched the black shadow in the sky approaching little by little, and then it cut off the tail piece by piece like a sharp knife cutting green onions. The red blood turned black as soon as it flowed out of the body. The red lizard was obviously in great pain. The sharp mouth of its spindle-shaped head opened and closed, and the expression in its eyes was extremely painful. Li Yan could not hear any sound, as if the sound had been sucked into the sky shadow. In the painful expression of the red lizard, bright red blood flowed from its eyes and mouth, stream by stream, and the remaining forelimbs left a nearly half-foot deep pit on the bluestone ground of the ancient road, which had deeply embedded its front half body under the bluestone ground, but slowly, along with the ancient road, it turned into black smoke and became part of the sky shadow.
The other seven monks looked at Li Yan with some pleading eyes. Although the sky shadow was still more than a hundred meters away from them, the pressure they were under mentally had reached the limit, and they had the urge to turn around and run immediately. According to the speed of the sky shadow, even if it was twenty steps away from them, they should have time to rush into the yellow sphere, but this kind of depression of watching death coming was psychologically unbearable for them, but they did not dare to urge a foundation-building monk. They were not sure whether Gong Chenying, who was cultivating, had discovered the current situation. If they were cultivating like this, they should not be able to discover it. This damned black shadow was completely silent and could not be detected at all in their spiritual consciousness, but in their naked eyes, this black shadow was approaching.
Although they would keep a small part of their minds alert to the outside world when they were cultivating here, this kind of alertness was no problem for cultivators in the Condensation Stage to prevent things like black beetles and statue limbs. When these things were approaching, they would have a premonition of danger in their hearts, and the reserved part of their spiritual consciousness would also produce a sense. However, like the black shadow in the sky, they asked themselves that they could not sense it at all.
Li Yan sighed in his heart. Looking at the death god approaching step by step a hundred steps away, he was also nervous. He gritted his teeth and didn't make a sound, but stared at the black shadow that was suppressing him from the sky. He knew that if he could buy more time for the Sixth Senior Sister and the others, he would have more combat power, but he still had a certain confidence in his heart. That is, here, he didn't rely solely on his naked eyes to judge. His consciousness could sense the existence of the black shadow, and the spiritual power in his body would have different boiling performances as the black shadow approached. For now, he felt that the five elements of spiritual power in his body were running rapidly, like a frightened fish, but it had not yet reached the level that made him palpitate.
In the horrified eyes of the cultivators, the black shadow that was overwhelming the sky was eighty steps, seventy-nine steps, seventy-eight steps..., thirty steps, twenty-nine steps... The seven cultivators were all wet in their clothes at this time. They had already taken out a "Ghost Car Talisman" and a thick stack of various defensive talisman papers in their hands. If there was a sudden change, they would slap the "Ghost Car Talisman" and dozens of talisman papers on their bodies without hesitation.