Taoist Nanyang shouted: "This beast is good at hiding and likes to devour flesh and blood. Don't let it escape into the ground!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately took out a Bagua mirror from his storage bag and pointed the mirror at the Netherworld Swallowing Beast.
A ray of light blue light shot out from the mirror and shone directly on the underworld beast, making its entire body stiffen.
"Roar!"
The four-eyed and eight-legged underworld beast roared angrily, and dozens of tumors burst out on its back. Numerous poisonous needles were seen shooting out from the tumors, heading in the direction of everyone.
Before Liang Yan could take action, Yan Shuyun on the side made a secret with one hand, and a ball of ice storm appeared out of thin air in front of her. Then pushed by his hands, it was like a blooming ice flower, heading towards the Netherworld Devouring Beast below.
Call.
In mid-air, those extremely poisonous poisonous needles were frozen by the cold air brought by the ice flowers, turning into icicles and falling downwards.
After getting rid of the poisonous needle, the speed of the ice storm increased sharply, and it reached the top of the underworld beast below in just an instant.
"Roar!"
There was another thundering roar, and the ice flower transformed by the ice storm exploded on top of the underworld beast's head. Countless ice shards flew in all directions, and the ice aura froze the land hundreds of feet below like a tide.
Such a powerful collision of spiritual powers dispersed the light emitted from Nanyang Taoist's treasured mirror, and everyone could not help but feel a chill in their hearts.
When the cold air subsided, everyone looked at it carefully, only to see blood dripping on the ground, but the shadow of the Netherworld Swallowing Beast was nowhere to be seen.
"What a pity." Dugu Yun sighed softly when he saw this.
Although Yan Shuyun's attack just now was extremely powerful, the Netherworld Swallowing Beast was extremely cunning. When it saw something was wrong, it immediately burrowed into the ground and had already escaped.
"I've heard for a long time that Yan Shuyun's true ice method in the Luo Temple is amazingly powerful. Today, the old Taoist has learned the lesson. The ice flower just now actually shook away the magical power of the 'star-locking mirror' of the old Taoist." Taoist Nanyang laughed.
, but there was not much compliment on his face.
Everyone knew that the old Taoist priest was complaining that Yan Shuyun had only taken action on his own and scattered his mirror light. Otherwise, with the "Star Locking Mirror", the monster would have been impossible to escape.
After Yan Shuyun heard this, he still looked as cold as ice and had no intention of justifying his actions just now.
Before everyone entered the forest, someone was already injured, which can be said to be a bad start. In this case, conflicts are most likely to arise.
Liang Yan waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter if you let the monster escape, but let's see if fellow Taoist Tang is injured and can he still continue to move forward with us?"
Tang Shaoyu was sitting cross-legged on a boulder at this time, practicing meditation to recover from his injuries. After hearing Liang Yan's question, he immediately replied: "Please rest assured, Mr. Liang, Tang is not seriously ill, and this trip will not be delayed."
Everyone is holding back."
Taoist Nanyang pondered for a moment, took out a small bottle from his storage bag, and threw it to Tang Shaoyu, who was recovering from his injuries.
"There are three 'Resurrection Pills' inside, which can help you regenerate your broken arm, but it will take some time."
"Thank you very much!"
Tang Shaoyu took the vial with a hint of joy on his face, and then he handed it over and said, "Don't waste everyone's time because of Tang. The bamboo forest is right in front of you. Let's hurry up."
"Okay, in that case, let's set off now." Liang Yan did not hesitate, and continued to fly towards the place marked on the map with everyone who had recovered their spiritual power.
About half a day passed, and everyone was flying in the air. Suddenly, they felt that the spiritual energy around them gradually became richer, and as the distance increased, the richness of this spiritual energy continued to increase!
Everyone has been in Hell for hundreds of years and has long been accustomed to the environment with thin spiritual energy. However, when they arrived here, they felt uncomfortable for a moment.
However, they immediately reacted and heard Tang Ying from Nixia Palace chuckle and say: "It seems that what fellow Taoist Tang Jingyun said is true. This place is indeed covered with spiritual energy. Even if there are no treasures, we can practice here for ten years and eight years."
Years, it’s worth it.”
After hearing this, several other people nodded slightly. They had never been here in person before, but had only heard about this place from the mouth of the late Tang Jingyun. However, whether this was actually the case, everyone inevitably had some doubts in their hearts.
It was only now that I personally felt this rich spiritual energy that a stone in everyone's heart finally fell to the ground. A place with sufficient spiritual energy can be called a paradise in the environment of Hell!
At this time, fellow Taoist Nanyang suddenly pointed forward and said, "Look, everyone, that should be the bamboo forest that Tang Jingyun and the others entered, right?"
After everyone heard this, they released their consciousness at the same time, and sure enough they saw a lush bamboo forest not far away.
The scope of this bamboo forest is so huge that at a glance, you can't see the edge at all. Some people wanted to use their spiritual consciousness to check it, but found that their spiritual consciousness could not extend beyond fifty feet in the bamboo forest.
"This place is really weird."
Liang Yan frowned slightly.
Everyone's consciousness was blocked. He wanted to use Hunhun Kung Fu to perceive, but found that his five senses were also blocked, and he could only detect a range of a hundred feet at most.
In just such an instant, everyone had arrived near the bamboo forest. They didn't dare to make any more moves to escape. They all pressed down their escape lights and stopped outside the bamboo forest.
Taoist Nanyang was the first to speak: "According to what Elder Tang said, once you enter the bamboo forest, your spiritual consciousness will be blinded and you will not be able to tell the direction at all. Therefore, the Taoist has specially made preparations for this."
As he spoke, he took out a purple pocket compass from his sleeve. There was a feather in the center of the compass that acted as a pointer. After a slight turn, it pointed in one direction.
"It's actually the Ziji Xuanwu Disk!" Tang Shaoyu said in surprise: "According to legend, this is made from the only fundamental feather on the tail of the Purple Martial Marten. It is said that if you have this treasure, you will not lose your way even in an illusion.
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Taoist Nanyang laughed and said: "I have a good eye. I spent a lot of money to buy this thing from a casual cultivator ten years ago. I didn't expect it to be put to use today."
"Fellow Taoist Nanyang is interested, but after all, the lives of five Juyuan Realm monks were lost here. No matter how well prepared we are, we must proceed with caution. When we enter the bamboo forest later, you must obey my orders and never act alone.
Liang Yan said lightly.
"Don't worry, Mr. Liang. This place is so dangerous. Naturally, you are safe if you stay with Mr. Liang. Even if you lend Yingying ten courages, she won't dare to act alone." Tang Ying pursed her lips and said with a smile.
Liang Yan chuckled, stopped talking, turned around and walked into the bamboo forest.
With him taking the lead to enter, the others no longer hesitated and followed behind Liang Yan.
As soon as they entered the bamboo forest, they felt that the intensity of the spiritual energy had increased sharply, and they all became more and more happy. Only Liang Yan frowned slightly, feeling something was wrong.
"Although the spiritual energy here is richer than that in the outside world, it seems to be moving slowly in a regular pattern. Could it be that the entire bamboo forest is actually one big formation?" Liang Yan secretly guessed in his heart.
However, what he saw at the moment was only a corner of the bamboo forest, and he could not draw any conclusions at all, so he could only walk deeper.
After entering the bamboo forest, Nanyang Taoist led the way. He held a compass and muttered something.
The crowd followed him, sometimes heading east, sometimes west, sometimes even circling a bamboo tree three times, and then turned back in the original direction.
The six people present were all monks in the Juyuan Realm, and they were quite knowledgeable. Naturally, they knew that Nanyang Taoist was not leading them back, but that they were in the bamboo forest, and their consciousness had been blinded, and they could not tell the difference between east, west and north.
What I thought was the way back is actually going forward. People's consciousness will be deceived, but the compass will not. As long as you follow the compass, you can always enter the bamboo forest.
The few people walked slowly forward in this way. After walking in the bamboo forest for two hours, the surrounding scenery gradually changed.
The small and short bamboos at the beginning have now turned into tall long bamboos, each of which is more than ten feet high. They are like towering giant trees, shrouding everyone in a gloomy environment.
Just as everyone was moving forward slowly, Tang Ying suddenly let out a sigh, pointed at a black figure in the distance and asked:
"Envoy Liang, what is that?"
Liang Yan turned around and looked, with a look of caution on his face.
He secretly ran the "Hun Hun Gong", and after a while he frowned and said: "It's a stone tablet, it seems to be able to block spiritual consciousness. I can't see the inscriptions on it clearly."
"Could it be related to the treasure we are looking for on this trip?" Nanyang Taoist said, stroking his beard.
"Whether it is yes or not, can't we find out if we go over and take a look?" As soon as Dugu Yun finished speaking, the man had already walked over.
He was the first to set off. When everyone saw this, they refused to lag behind and followed him one after another.
Liang Yan sighed softly. Although he had warned not to act without permission, no one could resist the temptation with the treasure in front of him, let alone others who would get there first.
Everyone moved forward one after another, and only then could they clearly see the inscriptions on the stone monument when they were about thirty feet away from the stone monument.
I saw five big characters written on it, exactly:
"Anyone who sees this monument will die!"
Everyone was shocked, almost subconsciously using their spiritual power, and looking around cautiously.
However, after a long time, the entire bamboo forest was still quiet, without any movement.
At this time, everyone felt a little relieved, only to hear Tang Shaoyu frown and say: "What does this mean? Could it be that someone got there first and got here before us?"
After hearing this, Taoist Nanyang shook his head and said: "Perhaps this place was not formed naturally, but was opened by a powerful senior, and this stone tablet was left by him."
"Bah, bah, bah! You old Taoist priest, you are really unlucky!" Dugu Yun scolded angrily: "If it was really left by that powerful senior, since he said, 'Those who see this monument will die', then we can still survive now.
it's here?"
"Could it be that someone else arrived first and left this stone tablet behind to create suspicion and hinder our progress so that they could take the treasure first?" Tang Ying analyzed seriously.
Several people were talking about it, but Liang Yan remained silent. He used his "Hunting Skill" to the extreme. Normally, any disturbance around him would not be hidden from his eyes and ears, but at this moment, he could not detect anything strange.
"Is this stone tablet really just alarmist? Then what's the point of doing so?"
Liang Yan frowned slightly and was thinking secretly in his heart. However, with a casual glance from the corner of his eye, he saw a crack appearing in the middle of the stone tablet.
This crack was so small that it was almost impossible to see clearly, but Liang Yan was very sure that there was absolutely no such crack when they first arrived here!
"No, please be careful!"
Liang Yan gave a low shout, flipped one hand, and sacrificed the Purple Thunder Tianyin Sword.
Before anyone else could react, the crack in the middle of the stone tablet suddenly exploded, followed by a black tide spurting out.
Liang Yan took a closer look and saw that the black tide was actually composed of densely packed flying insects. These flying insects were no more than the size of a thumb, with two sharp needles growing from the corners of their mouths, and they carried a ghostly evil aura.
"Oh no, it's 'Bloodline Corpse Cicada'! How can there be so many of them?" Nanyang Taoist shouted in despair.
The Bloodline Corpse Cicada is an insect unique to the Underworld. It specializes in sucking the essence and blood of living people. It is extremely difficult to encounter hundreds of them, but there are at least a thousand here.
The key thing about this underworld insect is that it bursts out of blood after death, causing a very powerful explosion in the surroundings, which can not only harm the monks, but also contaminate the magic weapon.
Therefore, the monks of the four major alliances all shun this kind of underworld insects, because they swarm in groups and will self-destruct after death. It is not a problem to kill them seriously or not to kill them.
Liang Yan was the first to notice something strange. Before anyone could react, he had already launched his flying sword.
However, he had also heard about the characteristics of the Bloodline Corpse Cicada, so he had no intention of fighting these dead insects. Instead, he waved his sword and only killed the dozens of dead insects flying in front before flying away.
Back up.
"Back off first!"
After everyone heard this, they didn't hesitate at all. They all used their magical powers and flew back at the same time.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
A series of explosions sounded. Liang Yan took advantage of the escaping light and retreated towards the rear. He was about to say something more, but found that the bloody zombie cicada in front of him suddenly disappeared!
"what happened?"
Liang Yan was startled and hurriedly pressed down the escape light and stopped on the ground.
He looked around and saw that the forest was quiet and quiet. Not only was there no trace of the tide of blood-threaded corpse cicadas, even Nanyang Taoist, Dugu Yun and the other five were also missing!
This was the first time he had encountered such a strange thing. The people who were fighting side by side one moment suddenly disappeared the next moment.
"Is there a teleportation circle here, or is it someone else's illusion?"
Liang Yan thought to himself and hurriedly used the Bodhi Bright Pure Form of the "Hunhun Kung Fu". However, wherever his magical power reached, he did not find any trace of illusion.
There was a vague premonition in his heart, but at this moment, a familiar voice sounded next to his ears: