The Path to Immortality

After about another hundred feet.

Everyone finally arrived in front of the east gate of Qingyuan City, which had almost completely collapsed.

When we got here, the surrounding demonic energy almost covered the sky.

Looking up at the sky, I could only see a faint, dim light.

In the open space near the city gate, you can see eroded and decayed bones everywhere, as well as the traces left by the resistance of ordinary warriors.

From this hellish scene, you can imagine what it was like on the day Qingyuan City was destroyed.

Following the gap and crossing the ruins of the collapsed city gate, the four of them knew that from now on, they would truly enter Qingyuan City.

Although the city is dark, Fang Ping has the high-grade magic weapon [Illumination Pearl] obtained from Taoist Baihe, which allows him to clearly perceive the situation within a certain range around him, just like having the simplified spiritual consciousness of a foundation-building monk.

This rare auxiliary magic weapon had helped Fang Ping a lot in the previous two explorations.

Allowing him to explore freely without the use of lighting items such as bright light stones.

But Ji Hongling and others do not have such convenience.

Fortunately, this woman was also well prepared and sacrificed a magic weapon-level [Warm Yang Palace Lantern], letting it float above the four of them.

Under the bright light emitted by this goose-yellow lantern, the demonic energy within a radius of several feet was slightly forced back.

With the help of this lamp's illumination, the four of them were able to continue moving forward.

However, in the demonic energy, not only the sound will alarm the monsters, but the bright light can also attract some special alien monsters.

For example, the Blood Transformation Moth!

Its strength is similar to that of Ghost Wolf, and it is also in the late stage of Qi training.

Although the means are limited, apart from throwing corrosive poisonous powder and sucking the monks' brains with hard thorn tubes, they don't have any powerful abilities, but they can't resist the blood-changing moths, which like to come out in groups!

The sensing range of the Illumination Pearl is not affected by the black mist formed by the demonic energy, helping Fang Ping detect the traces of monsters earlier.

Suddenly, he sensed hundreds of blood-transforming moths flying toward everyone in dense numbers. Even though Fang Ping was determined, he couldn't help but feel a numb scalp.

"Put out the lantern, quickly!"

In the blink of an eye, Fang Ping used his fastest magic power to transmit sound to remind Ji Hongling.

This female cultivator who had perfected her qi cultivation had a keen mind. Although she didn't know what Fang Ping had discovered, she still chose to believe it for the time being and decisively put away the Nuanyang palace lantern.

Her speed was not bad, but it was not enough to avoid the already alarmed Blood Transformation Moth.

However, Fang Ping had already thought about it. While reminding Ji Hongling, he took out several bright stones from the storage bag and threw them far into the depths of the demonic energy.

The bright light stone cuts through the darkness, and under the infusion of mana, it emits a dazzling light that is far beyond ordinary.

This dazzling light immediately attracted the attention of the Blood Transformation Moth, and also gave He Yunchen and others who were still ignorant a glimpse of what they had encountered.

More than a hundred blood-transforming moths did not hesitate, and immediately they split up and chased in the direction of the Bright Light Stone, quickly disappearing into the darkness.

It wasn't until the area became quiet again that Mao Gang and He Yunchen, who were holding their breath and nervous, breathed a sigh of relief.

While Ji Hongling was surprised at how Fang Ping discovered the blood-changing moth in advance, she also secretly put away the talisman in her hand.

She has gone deep into Qingyuan City more than once. Since she dared to use the Nuanyang Palace Lantern, she was naturally prepared to deal with such a situation.

But she didn't expect that the teammates she encountered this time were reliable enough, making her prepared methods useless.

Of course, this is definitely good news.

As the episode passed, the four of them broke through the activity area of ​​the Blood Transformation Moth in the dark, and Ji Hongling took out the Nuanyang Palace Lantern again.

Under the light of the lights, after passing through a ruins and finally killing a demonized willow tree, Ji Hongling took out a simple map he got from nowhere and compared it with the nearby terrain to determine their current location.

"If I'm not mistaken, we have now entered the entrance of the vegetable market in the east of Qingyuan City."

she said softly.

He Yunchen noticed the slight hesitation when she spoke and asked, "Why, is there some danger here?"

Ji Hongling nodded and said: "Half a month ago, several junior brothers who were passing through this place unexpectedly encountered several thousand-eyed demon spiders. Fortunately, that junior brother used a tame spiritual beast to explore the way ahead, and he managed to avoid the danger. …”

"Thousand-Eyed Demonic Spider?"

Mao Gang seemed to have heard about this kind of monster and couldn't help but take a breath.

This kind of monster has also appeared in the Demon Realm of Youquan Mountain. Its strength is considered top-notch among the monsters who have completed their Qi training, not to mention that there are several of them.

To the outside world, a few people might be able to fight.

But in this dangerous demonic realm, fierce battles may attract more monsters at any time, and it is absolutely foolish to encounter them head-on.

He Yunchen also frowned when he heard this.

Although he was confident in his own strength, he would not be so reckless as to barge into the territory of several thousand-eyed demon spiders.

"Can you avoid this place?"

At this time, Fang Ping interrupted.

Ji Hongling used the light of the Nuanyang palace lantern to carefully observe the map, and after a moment said: "We can go around it, but we have to walk a long way."

"Then let's go around."

Fang Ping's attitude was very clear. Anyway, the place where [Soul Condensing Dew] was born was very random. In this case, whether to take a detour or not, and how far to go, it basically made no difference to him.

"I also agree with Senior Brother Fang's idea."

Mao Gang also didn't want to encounter those dangerous thousand-eyed demon spiders.

He Yunchen hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: "For safety's sake, taking a detour may not be an option."

Seeing that several people had the same attitude, Ji Hongling, who was still a little hesitant at first, chose to follow the good advice.

So the four of them retraced their steps for a short distance, returned to the previous intersection, and chose to take a detour to the north.

Perhaps because this place has gradually penetrated deeper into Qingyuan City, the nearby terrain is more obviously affected by earth shaking and demonic energy. Not only can you see collapsed houses and ruins everywhere, but there are also stone pillars of different sizes or cracked ground cracks rising on the ground.

Some cracks in the ground are often dozens of feet long, with strands of black air emerging from them. Looking down along the edge of the ground crack, you can't see the ground at all.

This complex and dangerous terrain made several people slow down even more.

After almost a quarter of an hour of detouring, along with a sound of rapid airflow that sounded like thunder, the ground deep in Qingyuan City suddenly began to vibrate continuously.

Fang Ping and Ji Hongling, who were not unfamiliar with this scene, both knew that this should be the underground demonic realm connected at the other end of the two-realm passage. The demonic energy moved irregularly, and then passed through the two-realm passage, causing impact and impact on Qingyuan City. .

Similar shocks are very common here in Qingyuan City, and they happen every once in a while.

Some of the more obvious impacts could even be felt in the human monk camp dozens of miles away.

Perhaps a few people were unlucky, and this time the demonic energy attack happened to be the kind that made a lot of noise.

The space not far away from the four people was affected by the impact of the two-dimensional passage, and a small gap was briefly torn apart.