In a dark space, even with fireball lighting, visibility is not high. It is completely dark up to three feet away.
Although the five senses of cultivators are far superior to those of ordinary people, in this cave, they are greatly disturbed because they are filled with too rich and complex spiritual energy.
Even spiritual consciousness is ineffective in this cave, otherwise there would be no need for humans to explore the path.
A late-stage Qi Sea Realm man walked forward cautiously. From time to time, he looked back at the large army ten feet away behind him.
And every time he turned around, he would see Wang Liang waving to him, gesturing for him to continue walking forward.
At this time, he would lower his eyebrows and turn into a grimacing face, and then he would have to keep walking forward.
"Gulu."
There was silence all around, so that the sound of swallowing saliva was so clear.
Whoa, whoa, whoa—!
As the surrounding area became darker and darker, the eyebrows summoned more fireballs for illumination.
His eyes were indeed much brighter, but the disadvantage of doing so was equally obvious, that is, he himself was more exposed in the darkness.
Puff puff puff...
"Who? What is there?!"
Hearing some movement in the darkness, the splayed eyebrow was startled.
Swish, swish, several fireballs flew over, illuminating the area instantly.
There is indeed something, but it is not a living thing, but some pillars.
The tall girl breathed a sigh of relief and walked over to check it out before returning to the main force to report the situation.
As long as there is something gained, regardless of whether it is useful or not, it can be used as an excuse to return to work. This is the basic professional quality of a subordinate.
As I got closer, I could clearly see that those pillars were stone pillars, and there were quite a few of them.
The splayed eyebrows leaned against the stone pillar closest to themselves, and they saw twisted and weird tadpole characters carved on the surface of the stone pillar.
Due to his limited cultural level, he looked at it for a long time and didn't recognize a single word.
After checking a few more stone pillars and finding that they all had the same words, the fear from the darkness prompted him to leave as soon as possible.
But just as he turned around, a sudden wave of heart palpitations came over him.
In the dark, he actually felt a pair of cold eyes behind him, staring at him!
Looking back suddenly, I only saw those standing stone pillars, and nothing else.
The splayed eyebrow exhaled and comforted himself in a low voice, "What... nothing at all, I guess I'm too nervous..."
He turned his head back in relief, but when he looked straight ahead again, his eyes suddenly widened again.
At the same time, the fear in his eyes was so full that it seemed like it was about to overflow.
Because in the darkness in front of his sight, a huge black shadow emerged...
"ah----!!!"
A shrill scream cut through the darkness.
It's hard to describe what a person has to go through to make such a sound. Just listening to it makes people feel goosebumps all over their body. It's very scary.
Wang Liang's large army did not see what happened to the eyebrows.
Because after the Baziduo summoned many fireballs, for a brief moment, his figure became very clear.
But in the next moment, it seemed to disappear out of thin air, leaving only darkness.
Such a strange scene made everyone in the army scream in surprise, and some people shouted in the direction where the eyebrows disappeared.
But no matter how I called, I didn't get any response.
It was as if a living person had disappeared out of thin air.
After a while, this shrill scream came, and then silence returned, as if everything had never happened.
At this point, the majority of the troops were in panic, and Wang Liang could not help but feel terrified.
"Sir, sir, why don't we go back? There are many legends about the earth line where there is a danger of almost death..." the last remaining person in the late stage of the Qi Sea Realm advised.
Since the earth line was no longer contested by major forces, the legends about the earth line have become more and more evil.
At least most cultivators believe it to be true. Otherwise, in a place with such a strong spiritual energy, I don’t know how many people would be provoked to take risks and come here.
Wang Liang has a system, so he knows that most of those legends are too outrageous.
After thinking for a while, Wang Liang said: "Don't be afraid, there will always be guardian spirit beasts in places with strong spiritual energy."
"I guess that person just now suddenly disappeared and screamed again because he got into the other person's way."
"Next, let's go there together, find out any danger, and take action to defend against the enemy at the same time."
"There are so many of us, even if we are fourth-level spiritual beasts comparable to the Dan Formation Realm, we may not be incapable of fighting!"
As he spoke, Wang Liang also took out some pills and distributed them to everyone.
Everyone who got the elixirs' eyes lit up. They could see that the elixirs were of good quality, at least second-grade or above.
Wang Liang continued: "The pills given to you can increase your cultivation level by 50% after taking them during the Qi Refining period, and can increase your cultivation level by 20% at the Qi Sea stage."
"When this mission is completed, there will be more rewards after returning. Those who perform bravely will receive additional rewards, but..."
After a pause, Wang Liang continued with an emphasis;
"If someone escapes from battle and is greedy for life and afraid of death, I will truthfully report it to the young master after I return. You should know what the consequences will be!"
Carrots and sticks have always been a good way to control people.
With clear rewards and punishments, many people became bolder and began to move forward.
However, there are also some who are timid, walking behind the large army while whispering to the people next to them;
"Hey, do you think this place is really evil?"
"Yeah, when I came in, I felt inexplicably frightened. It seemed like there was always someone breathing behind me?"
Someone immediately protested from behind: "Nima, why can't you breathe even if I walk behind you? Go, go, you two cowards, you go to the back."
The people in the last row moved up to the front, and now the two most timid people formed a large group and stood at the end.
But this did not prevent the two from continuing to talk;
"And here, you can't explore with your spiritual consciousness. You can only rely on your naked eyes to find the way."
"Yes, there must be great terror here...ah! Sure enough, there must be great terror!"
The sudden scream attracted everyone's attention, and they all drew out their weapons and stood ready.
"Where? Where is the great terror?"
"Then, there...it's written clearly..."
Then I saw the screaming man pointing at a stone pillar covered with crooked tadpole writing.
But when you look at it from a distance, you can actually see that those tadpole characters vaguely form the shape of three characters; how terrifying!
Wang Liang was speechless for a while, then said: "Don't panic."
"This was deliberately set up by some forces before to prevent people from easily breaking into this place. It was just to scare away some timid people."
Wang Liang is sure of this because the system has told him about it.
People always like to make mysterious things to scare people, even some of the top forces in the past are no exception.
However, Wang Liang didn't notice that something seemed to move in the darkness behind the stone pillar...