"What exactly is the purple crystal? And what is the shadow that means evil invasion? Is the disappearance of the alienation point related to it?"

Xu Qing couldn't figure it out. While he was pondering the analysis, the figures of Captain Lei and others came back one after another from him. Everyone looked at him as they passed by.

Xu Qing put his mind away and his eyes flashed.

Whatever it is, it doesn't matter right now.

After repairing, it was his turn to continue taking action.

Xu Qing stood up, wiped the iron stick on his body, and made the cold light shine again. The moment Yu Cross walked by, he rushed out.

He was so fast that he was close to the chasing wolves in an instant.

The sounds of fighting and screams were mixed together, like a baptism for the young man.

Yu Shenling survived with his eyes open and survived the rain of blood. In the scattered afterglow of the sunset, his sharp edge was gradually sharpened!

This time, he persisted longer.

Time also slowly passed due to the continuous retreat and rotational resistance of the Thunder Team.

The setting sun disappeared, the bright moon hung high, and darkness fell in the restricted area, but the sound of fighting continued.

Until...when their exhaustion reached the limit, all the white pills were eaten, and the heterogeneous concentration in the body was approaching the critical point of alienation, dawn arrived.

The wolves finally began to disperse.

As the morning light fell, the last black-scaled wolf in the restricted jungle looked at them tiredly and disappeared into the distance, and the surrounding area gradually became quiet.

Everyone's body was covered with thick plasma and they were lying on the ground, panting.

Xu Qing was no exception. Even with the recovery of the purple crystal, the mental stress still made him exhausted.

"Finally... survived." Luan Ya murmured on the side, struggled to get up, and spoke softly when he looked at Xu Qing.

"Thanks."

The barbarian ghost was also panting and stretched out his thumb at Xu Qing.

In this night's fight, Xu Qing's actions and time exceeded those of Lei Dui and Shi Zi. It can even be said that without him, some of them would have been alienated before the wolves dispersed.

Only Xu Qing was lying there looking at the sky, tired but also filled with deep doubts in his heart.

In this night's battle, the speed of accumulation of heterogeneity in his body was obviously much slower than before.

He even felt as if his alienness was disappearing all by itself.

While everyone was resting, Captain Lei rubbed his brows, glanced at Shizi and the others with a serious look, and spoke hoarsely.

"This can't be an accident. The black-scaled wolves' continuous pursuit is more like something attracting them. So, take out the foreign objects you have acquired during this period and let's check it carefully. I doubt this.

...It was caused by man.”

Following Lei Dui's words, Shizi and others were convinced, so they all checked on their own and took out the foreign objects.

Xu Qing's heart was also pounding. When he was thinking about whether it was the iron piece in Ma Si's relics, Luan Ya on the side suddenly let out an exclamation and pointed towards the wild ghost.

Among the items that the barbarian ghost took out was a wooden box.

The wooden box was broken and seemed to be constantly corroding on its own. There were wisps of faint smell coming out. Since the smell in the forbidden jungle was mixed, it was difficult to distinguish it without smelling it carefully.

"Why did this thing corrode itself?" Barbarian Ghost was surprised.

Captain Lei immediately stepped forward, picked up the wooden box, and handed it to Luan Ya. Luan Ya smelled it carefully and nodded with an ugly expression.

"How did you get this?" Lei Dui looked at Barbarian Ghost.

"I bought it from the stall in the camp the day I came back. It contained insect repellent powder..." Barbarian Ghost scratched his head.

"This is made from the feces of butterfly rabbits. It will ignite itself when exposed to external stimuli and can attract scaly creatures... Black-scaled wolves are also considered a type of scaly creatures."

Luan Ya looked at the barbarian ghost and spoke slowly.

The wild ghosts stay there.

The surrounding atmosphere suddenly solidified, and Xu Qing also narrowed his eyes.

After a long while, Captain Lei shook his head.

"The wild ghosts were deceived. You can imagine who it is that could lay such a trap for us in the camp."

"Blood Shadow Team!" Cross said coldly from the side.

"With such an arrangement of the Blood Shadow Team, it's hard to say that there is no back-up plan, and we are in a bad state at the moment..." Luan Ya said hesitantly.

"So, what do you think, should we continue to go to the picking area to complete the task, or should we just evacuate?" Lei Dui looked up and looked into the distance, and spoke slowly.

Xu Qing looked thoughtful and said nothing.

The others also looked at each other, and finally Cross spoke with difficulty.

"Captain, this is not very far from our picking point, and everyone has suffered too much loss this time. If we return empty-handed..."

Lei Dui was silent and glanced at Barbarian Ghost and Luanya. The former lowered his head in guilt, while the latter looked unwillingly. After a while, he sighed softly.

"Keep moving forward. When you reach the picking point, collect it as soon as possible. Then everyone will disperse on different roads, leave separately, and meet at the camp."

Team Lei made the final decision, and after simple repairs, everyone moved forward again in the restricted jungle.

On the way, Xu Qing approached Luan Ya, took out the amber obtained from Pang Shan, and asked what it was.

After seeing the amber, Luan Ya was startled. He took it and examined it carefully, telling Xu Qing that the object was the poisonous tail of the ghost-faced scorpion.

This scorpion is poisonous, but it is not indestructible and has good medicinal properties. After poisoning, it can explode its potential in an instant, but it cannot last continuously. It needs to be detoxified immediately after the explosion, so most of them are kept by people and are valuable.

Xu Qing understood, thanked him, and put it away.

Afterwards, everyone remained vigilant, observing their surroundings closely while moving forward quickly.

But compared to before, this time they were more silent along the way.

Perhaps due to the appearance of the black-scaled wolf yesterday, most of the other ferocious beasts in this area were dispersed.

So along the way, the Thunder team did not encounter any danger. Just like this, two hours later, they finally arrived at the junction between the outside and the depth of the penalty area.

The landscape here is no longer just a jungle, there are also some hills and streams, but the water in the streams is black and not drinkable.

And in a dense jungle area, there is a path hidden, with a cave at the end, which is actually a small canyon.

When Xu Qing and others walked into the canyon, what caught his eyes was like another world.

The top here is covered by thick vines growing all around, like a roof, and the sunlight cannot completely penetrate. There are no big trees inside, and there are flowers and grass everywhere.

Fist-sized flowers of different colors filled the entire canyon, accompanied by many grasses emitting blue crystal light.

Each plant has seven leaves.

The light they emit is like stars, making the quiet canyon seem to turn into a quiet starry sky, giving it a very unique beauty.

Here is the picking point that the Thunder Team once discovered, and every such picking point is top secret and is the foundation for the team's survival.

After arriving here, because picking required special techniques, they did not let Xu Qing participate, but spread out and picked by themselves, which was faster and there was no loss.

Xu Qing paid attention to their tactics and did not forcefully join in. Instead, he sat down cross-legged and vomited silently.

After experiencing yesterday's battle, he found that his cultivation seemed to have improved a lot through continuous training, and now he had reached the critical point of breakthrough.

In order to have better survivability in the next crisis, Xu Qing did not waste time. Even in the restricted area, he still ran the Sea Mountain Art in his body and absorbed the spiritual energy from all around.

With the emergence of psychic energy, the wind started blowing in the canyon.

Lei Dui looked at Xu Qing and did not stop him. He knew very well that there was a great possibility of being ambushed on the way back. At this time, the increase in strength was the guarantee of survival.

Soon, while they were picking, Xu Qing's body gradually began to make banging sounds.

Waves of dirt overflowed from the sweat pores all over his body, melting the plasma outside. When it merged with the dirt, the flesh and blood in his body also rapidly absorbed spiritual energy, becoming stronger and stronger after being nourished.

Until the sound became stronger and stronger, and after reaching the limit, it suddenly stopped, and a roar came from Xu Qing's mind.

The blood vessels all over his body suddenly swelled under his skin, and his flesh and blood were filled with spiritual energy at this moment, as if he contained more amazing power and speed than before.

All this turned into a sharp aura that filled his body, and the spiritual energy fluctuations outside his body also spread in all directions.

Haishan Jue, third level.

Xu Qing slowly lowered his head and opened his eyes.

No one could see the fleeting purple light in his eyes, but instead of the joy of breakthrough, it was replaced by deep doubts.

What he looked down at was his own mixed shadow in the scattered sunlight.

When he was practicing just now, he obviously felt something was wrong. After the spiritual energy he breathed and absorbed, after being separated by the Haishan Jue, the pure part nourished the whole body.

And the foreignness... did not flow into his arm to form a point of alienation, but... flowed into his own shadow.

It's like a shadow swallowing up that foreign part.

After a while, Xu Qing raised his head and suppressed all doubts in his heart.

He looked at the Lei team and others who were about to finish picking, and looked far away, along the end of the canyon, and into the depths of the jungle.

Faintly, he could see some buildings far ahead, as if temples were connected together, silent in time and filled with ancient atmosphere.

"That is a building left over from an unknown era. It is also the farthest limit that we scavengers can go. We cannot go beyond it, but if we encounter danger nearby, we can go there to take shelter."
To be continued...