Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 283 Secret Realm Exploration
After some discussion, a beam of light rose up and headed forward. In this space, all they could see was yellow sand, without any vegetation.

After walking for about two hours, we saw a towering and majestic building standing in the distance. The architectural style was completely different from the current palace. It covered a very large area, like an isolated mountain. The overall shape looked like a huge pipe, shaped like a trumpet.

"Everyone, be careful. Those fire mercury bugs are lurking underground at the entrance. They will appear once you enter their perception range." An Daoquan reminded with a serious expression.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a buzzing sound, followed by a large-scale surge of yellow sand. Insects of various sizes flew up from the bottom of the yellow sand and gathered from all directions.

The bodies of those insects are golden in color, similar to the color of yellow sand, with red wings and six legs underneath.

The insects varied in size, with the largest being about six or seven feet long, and the smallest being three or four feet. Sensing Song Xian and the others approaching, they emerged from beneath the yellow sand and swarmed towards them.

"These monsters will form a formation to attack. Everyone, spread out and attract the insects into several groups. This will make them easier to deal with. Be careful not to go too far away from the main hall. Beyond a certain distance, these insects will return. Try to save as many Thunder Yuan Pearls as possible." An Daoquan's figure flashed and headed to the left.

Several people did as they were told and dispersed.

Seeing the few people disperse, the gathered insects indeed split into four groups and headed towards the four people.

Song Xian moved away from the three people, but seeing that a large number of insects were still chasing him, he stopped.

With his speed of escape, these insects could not catch up with him, but he could not stay too far away, otherwise the insects would return to besiege other people, which would cost more energy.

Seeing the insects buzzing towards him, he formed seals with his hands and unleashed a wave of fire.

Layer upon layer of fire waves condensed together, and a swarm of insects rushed away like a tidal wave.

Just as An Daoquan had said, those insects gathered together when they saw the fire wave coming. They lined up in several rows, making a shrill buzzing sound from their mouths. More than twenty fire mercury insects chirped in unison, forming a huge sound wave visible to the naked eye, and headed towards the fire wave.

The sound waves piled up one after another, and their momentum was even louder than the fire waves.

The fire waves and sound waves are like two huge waves colliding with each other. Although silent, the collision is very intense.

The hissing of the fire mercury insects continued, and wave after wave of sound waves continued to be generated, coming towards Song Xian one after another.

After a long stalemate, the fire wave was finally submerged by the successive sound waves.

Song Xian clasped his hands together, and the fire-attributed spiritual power between heaven and earth gathered and formed a huge vortex above his head. Soon, a raging flame ignited inside the vortex, like a burning sun.

This is the second-level mid-grade magic, Yang Explosion.

The huge red sphere pressed towards the fire mercury worm like a mountain.

After being impacted by layers of sound waves, cracks appeared on the sphere, and dazzling red light shot out from within.

With a loud bang, the sphere exploded, and visible flame ripples spread out like circles, and raging flames rose wherever they passed.

Many fireballs of different sizes hit the fire mercury worm like meteorites.

The sound waves caused by the buzzing of the insects continued to be generated and collided with the split fireballs.

Under the continuous attack of dense fireballs, layers of visible ripples were burned through by the flames.

The fireball hit the fire mercury bugs, and the blazing flames immediately engulfed the bugs.

But the next moment, the fire mercury insects broke through the flames. They curled up into a ball, forming a huge golden sphere, and flew towards the fireball.

Those shooting fireballs hit the golden sphere and were shattered one after another. The burning flames were quickly extinguished as the golden sphere rolled.

More than twenty fire mercury insects gathered together to form a sphere that was about seven or eight feet in size. They were constantly arranged inside, with the insects that were curled up inside constantly rotating to the surface of the sphere, and the insects on the surface of the sphere shrinking into the inside, thus taking turns to withstand the attack of the fireball.

Seeing that the golden sphere composed of insects had broken through the fireball, Song Xian frowned slightly. These insects were indeed very difficult to deal with. He flew back and flipped his hand. A round silver bead the size of a palm appeared in his palm. This was the Thunder Yuan Bead made of Thunder Yuan Wood as the main material. He Zhi refined more than 20 Thunder Yuan Beads in total, and he got five of them.

Although the insects are difficult to deal with, with his flying speed, they cannot catch up with him at all. He will only be in danger if he is surrounded by a large number of fire mercury insects.

This is the advantage brought by cultivation. Even if the opponent is large in number and their combat power is not weaker than his, if he wants to leave, the opponent will not be able to stop him.

If he gains the advantage, the opponent will not be able to escape.

In other words, he himself is invincible.

Seeing the insects approaching, he threw the Thunder Yuan Pearl.

The Thunder Yuan Pearl flew out of his hand and collided with the golden sphere formed by the mercury insects.

With a loud bang, the Thunder Yuan Pearl exploded, dazzling lightning flashed, and rolling lightning burst out, like a sharp blade that instantly pierced through the golden sphere.

With a crackling sound of lightning arcs jumping around, the fire mercury insects that had originally condensed into a ball suddenly broke apart. Several weak fire mercury insects inside were pierced by lightning and fell directly down. The other fire mercury insects were also wrapped in lightning and were struggling to resist these lightning attacks.

Lei Yuanmu was originally the main material for magic weapons with thunder and lightning attributes, and possessed extremely strong thunder attribute power. Now that it has been refined into Lei Yuanzhu, its power is naturally far inferior to that of thunder attribute magic weapons, but it should definitely not be underestimated.

In addition, the thunder attribute restrains the fire mercury bugs, so the formation of the fire mercury bugs can be broken up with one strike.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Song Xian immediately put his hands together, and as the spiritual power in his body surged out, the fire attribute condensed, and in an instant, five palm-sized flames appeared around the scattered insects. In the blink of an eye, the flames had surged several feet, connected from head to tail, forming a huge circle of fire.

This is the second-level intermediate grade magic, Flame Siege.

Those insects were wrapped in lightning. Some died and some were injured under the lightning attack. Before they could catch their breath, a huge sea of ​​fire had enveloped them.

Under the dual attack of thunder and fire, the weaker and smaller fire mercury insects fell one after another. Only the stronger fire mercury insects rushed left and right, and escaped from the circle of fire after struggling.

Under the combined attack of thunder and fire, there were only ten fire mercury insects left out of the original twenty or so, and the rest were either dead or injured, falling one after another.

Song Xian didn't give them a chance to breathe. He closed his hands again, and with the surge of fire attribute, a vortex formed above his head again.

The second-level fire attribute magic Yang Explosion condensed and went towards the remaining fire mercury insects.
Some insects still wanted to resist, and formed into a formation again, making sharp hissing sounds.

However, the fire mercury insect group had already lost most of its strength, and the sound waves generated by this resonance were far less powerful than before.

Waves of sound wave attacks came one after another. The red ball was attacked and cracked, splitting into countless large and small fireballs that fell down.

The fireball penetrated layers of sound waves visible to the naked eye, and the remaining fire mercury ants gathered together to fight again, but they had lost most of their strength and were not as strong as before. This time the fight was a last-ditch effort.

When the fireball split and fell, Song Xian used the "Flame Siege" technique again, condensing a circle of flames to surround the insects.

After a fierce struggle, several more insects were injured and fell.

After the remaining few broke out of the flame circle, they tried to flee. Even though they were defeated, they did not disperse, but instead gathered into one force.

Under Song Xian's pursuit, the few remaining insects were killed one by one.

When he finished dealing with the group of insects and looked around, he saw that He Zhi was still fighting fiercely with the fire mercury ants in the distance.

He thought for a moment and then headed that way.

In the previous fight, although he had used several second-level spells, he still had some strength left.

When he is in full condition, he has a total of 671 points of spiritual power in his body. Using a second-grade low-level spell requires 25 points of spiritual power.

The second-grade intermediate magic requires 50 points of spiritual power.

At this time, he still has 352 spiritual power points, which is enough to deal with those insects.

The key is that we are all in the same boat. If we stand by and watch, it is really unacceptable and will also lead to disunity. He is a new member, so this point should be taken into consideration.

When he arrived at He Zhi's location, he saw him using a golden sword to attack the fire mercury ants.

Dense golden sword blades shot out like rain, hitting the fire mercury ants huddled together.

There were only a few fire mercury ants left in this group. Without saying a word, Song Xian immediately joined the battle and used the flame siege technique.

At this time, on the other side, Han Yuan was also fighting with a few fire mercury ants. He looked to the left and could vaguely see that Song Xian had joined He Zhi's battle group. He then looked to the right where An Daoquan was, and it seemed that the battle was still fierce there.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, weighed things a little, and then his body changed into a huge black toad. It opened its mouth and a steady stream of dark green gas spewed out of it.

Not far from him, a group of fire mercury insects were trapped in a huge water ball, rushing left and right trying to break the water ball.

Soon, the dark green gas flooded the entire water ball.

In an instant, the originally clear ocean in the water ball turned dark green, as if it had merged with the gas.

The fire mercury insects that were originally struggling hard gradually lost their resistance in the dark green pool and broke away from the condensed sphere one after another.

After a while, all the remaining fire mercury insects fell down and lost their vitality.

The toad transformed itself into Han Yuan's appearance and headed towards An Daoquan on the right.

When Song Xian and He Zhi worked together to eliminate the remaining fire mercury bugs, Han Yuan and An Daoquan in another battle group had also dealt with those bugs.

"These bugs are really troublesome, but fortunately we have enough Thunder Yuan Pearls. By the way, Fellow Daoist Song, how many Thunder Yuan Pearls do you have left?" After eliminating the last Fire Mercury Bug, He Zhi flashed and came to him.

"I still have four on me." Song Xian did not hide anything and told the truth. These Thunder Yuan Pearls had been clearly distributed to him. Even if he kept them on him, they would not be taken back, so there was no need to lie.

"Oh!" He Zhi nodded, his eyes changed slightly. He didn't expect that Song Xian, who was only at the first level of foundation building, could destroy the group of fire mercury ants with only one thunder element bead, while he had used three. This made him, who had already reached the second level of foundation building, feel embarrassed.

"How many are left on Fellow Daoist He?" Song Xian didn't think too much about it.

"I still have four on me." He Zhi lowered his voice unconsciously. He was indeed not very proficient in the mastery of magic.

Apart from practicing, he usually devotes most of his energy to refining magical instruments, so his personal strength is not outstanding, at least not as good as those like Song Xian and Han Yuan who have passed the selection for the foundation-building competition.

Before setting off, he refined a total of twenty-two Thunder Yuan Pearls. Because he was the refiner and had put in a lot of effort, he took seven, and the other three people each got five.

As the two were talking, two beams of light shot out from the distance. Han Yuan and An Daoquan had arrived.

The four of them gathered together and informed each other of the situation. Han Yuan had used up one Thunder Yuan Pearl and had four left.

An Daoquan used up two Thunder Yuan Pearls and still had three on him.

After this battle, several people's spiritual power was greatly depleted, so they unanimously decided to restore the spiritual energy in their bodies first, and then go to explore the pipeline building.

The four of them moved away from here, found a safe place, sat down cross-legged, took out the Qi-recovering pills and swallowed them.

After a while, Han Yuan was the first to recover the spiritual power in his body. Seeing that the three were still in a state of meditation while absorbing spiritual power, he closed his eyes again.

Not long after, the spiritual energy in Song Xian's body had recovered to its full state. He looked around and under his observation with the Eye of Truth, the spiritual power in the bodies of the three people was clearly visible.

When he found that Han Yuan was obviously in full condition but pretended to be in a state of meditation to absorb spiritual power, he was speechless.

This person really is... too cunning.

He probably guessed his intention, which was simply to show weakness and disguise himself, so that others would make a wrong judgment and think that he had just consumed a lot of spiritual power in dealing with the insects, thereby underestimating his true strength.

In fact, when several people gathered together, he discovered that Han Yuan consumed the least spiritual power and maintained the best condition, which was enough to show how strong he was.

It is no wonder that while everyone else in his treasure hunt team was killed, he was able to survive time and time again.

Not only is he extremely powerful, but he is also extremely cautious and cunning, hiding himself at all times.

After a long time, An Daoquan also recovered to full health.

Only then did Han Yuan open his eyes and nodded slightly to the two of them.

After several people recovered their depleted spiritual power, they once again came to the entrance of the black building that looked like a huge pipe.

An Daoyou walked in front, Song Xian and He Zhi followed behind him, only a few feet away, and Han Yuan was at the back.

This pipeline is like a huge cave. The stones paved around it are all black boulders. The light inside is very dim. Several people walked forward cautiously. The spiritual shields around each of them have been activated. An Daoquan, who was walking in the front, even condensed a white light shield to protect himself.

The entire pipeline building is in the shape of a trumpet, and it becomes wider as you go in.

No one spoke, only the sound of light footsteps echoed.

After walking for about a hundred feet, An Daoquan, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped.

There was no need to speak, as several people had already sensed the abnormality through their spiritual senses.

(End of this chapter)