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Chapter 223: Mist Beast Attack and Destroy the Palace
After walking a short distance, nine forks in the road appeared ahead.

At the same time, the road became narrower and narrower, less than two feet wide.

It is basically only enough for a single monk to pass through.

Faced with such special terrain, many monks were hesitant.

Even the team organized by the Zhang family, one of the Eight Great Families, stopped to organize their formation.

Seeing this, Yu Zhenyang immediately followed the planned schedule and walked to the front of the team.

Ma Wenbo deliberately took a step back and fell to the back.

Once again, they chose to avoid those competitors who seemed to be stronger.

However, since many independent cultivators also think this way, a large number of cultivators choose this route.

Fortunately, everyone consciously maintained a certain safe distance and there was no crowding.

However, this period of peace only lasted for a short three-quarters of an hour.

"Ah~!"

Suddenly a scream was heard from behind.

Xiao Chen turned around immediately, but saw only a wandering cultivator who had entered the secret realm alone to explore, and was missing his left arm.

He hurriedly stopped the bleeding and at the same time cast a defensive spiritual shield.

The shield was not pointed at the monk in front or behind, but directly blocked the fog on the left side of his body.

"Be careful of the fog, there are third-level monsters in it!"

The cultivator behind the wandering cultivator quickly warned him and at the same time cast a spiritual shield to protect himself.

He had just seen it clearly from behind. The strange monster suddenly appeared and instantly tore apart the protective mysterious light engraved on the spiritual robe.

However, because the fog blocked both vision and spiritual consciousness, no one could see the location of the monster.

No one knew whether it had escaped or was preparing to ambush its next target.

"Let's get closer and protect both sides!"

Yu Zhenyang not only immediately raised the water shield, but also turned back to give orders.

The spiritual shield has a wide protection range. It is safer for two monks to stand closer, one on the left and one on the right, to defend themselves than to act alone.

However, there are five people in their team, so they can only form two groups.

Cao Mingjie had already taken a step back and stood with Ma Wenbo.

Yu Zhenyang thought about it for a moment, then took out a Guiyuan Thick Earth Talisman and held it in his hand, saying, "Fellow Daoist Jin Guang, please keep an eye on Fellow Daoist Qiu's right side."

"I'm a physical cultivator, those beasts shouldn't dare to touch me."

This suggestion is actually quite good, but Xiao Chen doesn't like to be crowded together with others.

He has become accustomed to fighting alone and is not really used to coordinating with teammates.

So he shook his head and refused, "Fellow Daoist Yu, you should come. I can handle it myself."

Qiu Fanghui actually didn't trust Xiao Chen a little bit, and originally wanted to defend back to back with Yu Zhenyang.

Upon hearing this, he immediately took two steps forward and stood next to the other person.

Yu Zhenyang originally wanted to persuade him, but seeing the situation, he didn't say anything more.

He then instructed, "In that case, Fellow Daoist Jin Guang should walk between our two groups, and Junior Brother Ma, you should follow closer. Let's shorten the formation."

Originally, there was a full hundred feet between him and Ma Wenbo.

This is to prevent accidents, especially when facing some large-scale spells or mechanisms, so that someone can be unaffected and provide timely rescue.

But now the danger comes from the fog on both sides, and shortening the formation appropriately will also help to coordinate with each other.

It is mainly beneficial to the safety of Xiao Chen in the middle.

Although it's not necessary, it's a good idea on his part.

Because they were worried about the monsters lurking in the fog, most monks slowed down and increased their vigilance.

Some monks who wanted to pass quickly were forced to follow the crowd and walk slowly.

Perhaps this behavior worked, and nothing happened for a long time afterwards.

However, the monk in front soon discovered that the road ahead began to twist and turn.

It was no longer a straight line, but became an arc like lightning.

You have to change direction every ten feet or so, and the vision in front and behind is completely blocked by the fog.

Before Xiao Chen and the others could enter, screams were heard again.

The difference was that this time there was an immediate and violent explosion.

"Boom! Boom!..."

The sounds of fighting lasted for about ten breaths before the front returned to peace.

The monks behind tried to follow, but no new sounds were heard.

Soon Xiao Chen and others also arrived at the arc area, where they could still see fragments of the spirit shield left on the ground.

From the traces of magic left behind, it can be judged that this should be a cultivator in the middle stage of Jindan.

But it looks like he is in great danger.

"Guiyuan Thick Earth, protect me!"

Cao Mingjie directly activated the talisman, and a yellowish-brown halo condensed outside his body.

He was only in the early stage of the Golden Core Realm, so he couldn't help but feel a little worried when he saw this situation.

Although the third-level talisman has a high cost of use, you should not be too stingy when using it.

"Boom!"

"Thousand-edged thorns!"

"Seven Cuts of the Mad Blade: Breaking the Army!"

……

Soon there were more explosions, and at the same time different shouts were heard from the front and back.

It was not until this time that everyone realized that the monsters hiding in the thick fog were not only on both sides, but also in large numbers.

At this moment, they attacked several monks from the front and back at the same time.

Especially those independent cultivators who do not have a team are given special care.

In an instant, the five elements of spiritual energy in the entire passage were in turmoil, and a changing strong wind blew, mixed with the fresh smell of blood, stimulating everyone's nerves.

However, unexpectedly, no monsters appeared in the ten-meter-long path where Xiao Chen was.

So even though he could hear the fierce fighting around him, he couldn't see the specific situation clearly.

"Come a little closer, Junior Brother Ma, come here too!"

Yu Zhenyang retreated a little from the front and at the same time called on his two junior brothers to continue to shrink the formation.

"Big Brother, isn't this too dense?"

Ma Wenbo was a little hesitant. After all, in a relic, he had to be on guard against those mysterious restrictions and mechanisms.

"Third Junior Brother, be careful!"

Yu Zhenyang shouted immediately. He saw a bloody dog ​​head suddenly emerge from the fog behind Cao Mingjie.

"Click~!"

The khaki light circle immediately made a crisp sound and then fell apart.

But fortunately, he was able to delay for a moment, and with Yu Zhenyang's reminder, Cao Mingjie was able to manipulate the spiritual shield in time to block in front of him.

"Boom!"

The dog's head hit the shield, and immediately Cao Mingjie and his shield were knocked back three steps.

But it wasn't feeling well either, and stood there in a daze for a while.

"Water-pointing sword energy!"

Ma Wenbo, who was closest to him, immediately took the opportunity to draw his sword and fight back. The sword tip flashed and a sword light about a foot long fell like a dragonfly skimming the water.

However, surprisingly.

The dog head stood there without dodging or evading, and actually blocked the sword light with just the hair on its body.

"what!"

Ma Wenbo immediately widened his eyes and stared at the huge dog head in disbelief.
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"Bang~!"

A ball of ice crystal hit the dog's head, shattered on the spot and burst out a large ball of cold air.

This is a long-range spell that Yu Zhenyang specially practiced.

Not only did he give a warning, he also cast a spell to provide support.

It's just that the distance is a little far, so it's a little slow.

The pervasive cold air caused a layer of white frost to form on the nearby ground.

However, as he expected, the freezing of the entire dog's head did not occur.

It even woke up the dog, causing it to immediately retract its head into the white mist.

"This……"

Yu Zhenyang opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

What a joke, this is definitely not the defensive ability that a third-level monster should have.

There is something wrong with this relic!
And the problem is serious!
You know, when the two of them attacked, they showed no mercy at all.

They also use the spells that they are most familiar with and proficient in.

Apart from the life-and-death trump card, this is the maximum combat power that can be exerted under normal circumstances.

However, they were unable to hurt the strange dog-headed monster at all, and the gap between the two sides was even quite large.

Judging from the sounds coming from all directions, there are at least dozens of monsters here.

Now those monsters are busy hunting down wandering cultivators, but one monster that couldn't judge the situation clearly bumped into them, leaving them some time to catch their breath.

But when the other cultivators can no longer hold on, they may face being besieged by many monsters.

It will almost be a dead end then.

"Elder brother, what should I do?"

Cao Mingjie's face turned pale when he thought of this possibility: "Why don't we withdraw first?"

Now it seems that this new relic is too dangerous and beyond their capabilities.

"No, it's too late."

Ma Wenbo shook his head: "It will take at least three quarters of an hour to get out from here."

"These beasts deliberately waited until we got deep into the area before attacking us."

In fact, when the monster couldn't help but attack, they had already gone very deep into the enemy's territory. They didn't expect that there were still so many monsters lying in ambush patiently.

"Let's rush out of this area. It's impossible for a ruin to have such narrow roads inside."

Ma Wenbo's eyes flickered. "As long as we can find a side hall, or even a spacious open space, we can rely on the formation to defend ourselves."

"Ordinary spells are not powerful enough. We need to set up a killing array to deal with the siege."

They did bring a portable formation plate, but this type of formation plate must be placed strictly according to the formation diagram, so it cannot be used here in the narrow road.

Both of them looked at Yu Zhenyang at this time, waiting for him to make a decision.

"We...we..."

Yu Zhenyang knew very well that time was precious and he had to quickly decide on the team's direction of action.

But the matter was of great importance, and he was extremely conflicted, not knowing what to do for a moment.

From his perspective, a wrong choice could lead to team reduction or even destruction.

Therefore, he had to be cautious: "Fellow Daoist Qiu, what do you think?"

Yu Zhenyang decided to consult the opinion of the person with the highest cultivation level.

"Forehead……"

Qiu Fanghui was also a little panicked at this time. After all, what he was best at was using puppets to bully the minority with numbers.

But he only had four puppets, and there were countless monsters in the vast white fog around him, so he could not fully exert his advantages.

"that……"

Qiu Fanghui frowned and simply turned around and asked, "Fellow Daoist Jin Guang, what do you think?"

"Hey, where's Fellow Daoist Jin Guang?"

When he asked this, Ma Wenbo was stunned for a moment: "Wasn't he in the middle before?"

I was so focused on thinking about how to survive that I didn't notice this.

"It's over!"

Cao Mingjie immediately exclaimed, "Could Fellow Daoist Jin Guang have been taken away?"

Yu Zhenyang was a little confused. This possibility was actually not very high.

But how could a living person suddenly disappear? "Run?"

Suddenly, a familiar voice was heard from not far away.

Then they saw a figure emerging from the fog in front of them, holding the familiar dog head in his hand.

Looking closely, it was Xiao Chen.

"Fellow Daoist Jin Guang?"

Yu Zhenyang widened his eyes and looked at the scene in disbelief.

Did the dog demon just die?

"Hey, how did I get to the front?"

Xiao Chen was also a little surprised: "It's really hard to tell the direction in this fog."

"Fortunately, I remember the location correctly."

As he spoke, he dragged the dog demon's body out.

Then he reached out and dug out a golden demon pill from his stomach, which had a big hole in it.

Originally, Xiao Chen wanted to dig directly in the fog and didn't think about bringing the dog demon back. As a result, he couldn't see anything clearly in the fog.

Therefore, he finally chose to go back to the road to sort it out, so as to prevent the demon pill from accidentally falling to the ground and losing it.

"It's indeed a mutant demon pill, and it's an earth-type mutation. No wonder it's so tough."

Xiao Chen felt the active earth spiritual power in it, and immediately understood why the dog demon had such thick skin and flesh.

The misunderstanding was cleared up. It seems that not all monsters have such strong defensive capabilities.

"Fellow Daoist Jin Guang, have you gone into the fog?"

Cao Mingjie looked stunned, as if he was looking at a humanoid monster.

"correct."

Xiao Chen nodded: "This is fog, not poisonous fog, can't we go in?"

"what?"

Cao Mingjie was suddenly startled.

What Xiao Chen said made so much sense that he was speechless.

"Fellow Daoist Jin Guang, did you kill that dog demon directly?"

Ma Wenbo still found it hard to accept: "How did you do it?"

"Do these monsters have any special weaknesses?"

To be honest, we are all in the middle stage of Jindan.

His sword energy had no effect on the dog demon, so how come Xiao Chen was able to kill the dog demon directly?

So Ma Wenbo immediately thought that the problem was with the monster.

"I really don't know that."

Xiao Chen shook his head: "Maybe it has something to do with me being a physical cultivator."

It does have some connection, after all, physical cultivation has high burst damage.

Silence, all four of them were silent.

Yu Zhenyang, in particular, was filled with astonishment, suspecting that he was a cultivator with a prosthetic body.

Qiu Fanghui was very quiet from beginning to end.

It’s not because he doesn’t show his emotions on his face, but because his mind is blank at this moment.

From the very beginning, he never cared about his companion Xiao Chen.

After all, this person is very ignorant and doesn't even know how to curry favor with him, a senior who has a higher cultivation level and is expected to reach the Nascent Soul stage.

But now, Qiu Fanghui only feels grateful but also a little regretful.

Fortunately, he had never offended Xiao Chen before. After all, the two of them had hardly even spoken to each other.

But it is a pity that I was unable to make friends with such a powerful physical cultivator because of this.

"Fellow Daoist Jin Guang, what do you think, should we, uh, move forward or retreat?"

Yu Zhenyang was mature after all, so he was the first to react and immediately asked for advice.

"There's nothing to hesitate about."

Xiao Chen answered decisively: "Since we are here, let's go in and see what the ruins look like."
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"Why are there so many monsters?"

"We've been fooled, we've all been fooled!"

"There's no end in sight. I shouldn't have chosen to move forward in the first place."

……

Desperate wails filled the front of Tianxing Island.

Fights broke out almost simultaneously in eighty-one narrow roads.

The monster beast, which was at the late Jindan stage, took advantage of the cover of the fog to hunt the cultivators at will.

The winding path was longer and much longer than anyone expected.

During this process, most of the monks suffered heavy casualties, and only a few major forces were able to maintain steady progress.

However, in the seventy-sixth narrow road, the situation is completely different.

Xiao Chen took the lead and walked in front, worrying about why there were no monsters around to find him.

"Something's wrong, something very wrong."

He turned around and looked at Yu Zhenyang and the others: "Do you feel that these monsters seem to have a commander?"

"We haven't encountered any new monsters in a full quarter of an hour."

"This is obviously unreasonable."

Upon hearing this, Qiu Fanghui was the first to agree: "Fellow Daoist Jin Guang is right. I also think these monsters have a leader commanding them."

But his words cannot be used as a reference at all.

Because since half an hour ago, no matter what Xiao Chen said, he would be the first to jump out and express his agreement.

The main point is to have a clear position and no personal ideas.

Yu Zhenyang opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.

He has been silent for half an hour.

After witnessing Xiao Chen grabbing a black-spotted conch and punching a big hole in it, including the shell and flesh.

Yu Zhenyang quickly realized that he had practiced on the dog for the first half of his life.

The practitioners of magic would probably just be like Cao Mingjie, amazed that the power of flesh and blood could actually penetrate the snail shell, which was as strong as the spiritual shield.

And you can wear two layers at a time.

Precisely because Yu Zhenyang himself is also a physical cultivator, he can feel more clearly how huge the gap is between the two sides.

He just couldn't figure it out, as he was clearly practicing a heavenly-level body-building inheritance obtained from the ruins.

Why is there such a huge difference in the strength between the two?
This comparison is as if Xiao Chen is practicing the real heaven-level martial arts, while Yu Zhenyang himself is actually only practicing the mysterious-level martial arts.

Ma Wenbo grinned.

I secretly complained in my heart, weren't they all scared away by you?

To be fair, the Jindan monsters are also spiritual, and some even possess intelligence that is not inferior to that of humans.

And even if they have no intelligence, they are just a group of wild beasts.

Seeing his companions being torn in half in the blink of an eye, and fourteen of them being killed in just two quarters of an hour, he should have been scared.

What monster would dare to come here knowing it is going to die? It doesn’t need a leader at all, okay?
Because there were no monsters to interfere during the process.

Xiao Chen and his party had a smooth journey.

After walking for nearly two hours, we finally reached the end of the narrow road.

The fog in front dissipated, revealing a number of side halls and palaces, dotted with spiritual plants in between.

Although no one has taken care of it for a long time, the spiritual plants inside are a little messy, but after all, the growth range is limited by the flower bed itself, so overall it is still very good.

Looking from a distance, you can also see a wide avenue leading directly to the core area in the front left.

Ma Wenbo secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

He had thought that he could find a chance of survival by moving forward, but he never imagined that it was so far away.

Fortunately, Xiao Chen was there, otherwise they would have been eaten by the monster by now.

"Fuck, there are two white jade auspicious cloud fungi over there!"

Cao Mingjie looked towards the palace on the right and exclaimed, "They're actually using third-tier spiritual medicines as decoration. There must be something good in this palace!"

Ma Wenbo was also delighted: "Great, these two spiritual herbs alone should be worth 40,000 spirit stones."

"Luckily we came early, otherwise there would be no such good thing."

Cao Mingjie excitedly pointed to another palace about ten miles away and said, "There are three Jade Sea Vine on the wall over there. I remember one could sell for 15,000 Spirit Stones."

"I'll go pick it off first, and then come back to crack the palace."

A few spiritual herbs alone would not actually make them so happy.

But when thinking that there might be hundreds of spiritual herbs here, even a Jindan cultivator could hardly contain his excitement.

Except for Xiao Chen, after all, he had seen more spiritual medicines in the Baicao Secret Realm.

He didn't expect that the White Jade Xiangyunzhi could be sold for 20,000 spirit stones per flower. There are already 100 flowers lying in his jade box.

As for the blue sea vines, there are as many as 160 of them.

To be honest, even if all the spiritual herbs in Tianxing Island were added together, they might not be as many as those in his storage ring.

But this isn't a spiritual medicine garden, so there's nothing to compare it to.

"What a complicated restriction! Is it really that serious?"

Qiu Fanghui was already standing at the entrance of the palace, trying to open the door.

However, the palace in front of him was blessed with three layers of restrictions, and each layer had nine levels of changes.

"This is too strange. Is it necessary to set up so many restrictions in one's own palace?"

Qiu Fanghui couldn't help but complain: "If you don't know, you would think there are monsters imprisoned in there."

Of course this is absolutely impossible.

The monsters from the outside world might still be able to reproduce and thrive on the island, but even if there were monsters imprisoned in the palace, they would have died of old age if they had not starved to death after so many years.

Even some monsters have long lifespans, some even ten times that of human cultivators.

But compared with the time span of hundreds of thousands or even millions of years, it is still not worth mentioning.

Yu Zhenyang was well prepared for the possible restrictions in the ruins that might be difficult to lift.

He specially brought a set of Yin-Yang forbidden magic array to solve this problem.

Place the eight array plates in order according to the array diagram, and embed spirit stones to activate them.

Yu Zhenyang put his fingers together to form a sword, guiding his true energy to invade the palace: "Yin and Yang can be combined, and can also be separated."

Another advantage of his formation is that other Jindan cultivators can also help.

Moreover, there is no need to understand the knowledge of the formation. As long as you inject your own true energy into the formation, you can speed up the cracking process under the guidance of the formation.

What Xiao Chen had seen outside the Huangquan Palace before was based on a similar principle.

The only difference is that there are no portable array plates in the Southern Region, so at least one person who really understands array formations must be able to set up the array.

However, even with the help of the Yin-Yang Forbidden Formation, it still took a full half hour to break the palace's restrictions.

"Finally done."

Yu Zhenyang put away the formation plate and stopped at the door. He turned around and said with a smile, "Fellow Daoist Jin Guang, please go first!"

……

Xiao Chen didn't pretend to be polite with him and took the lead to walk in.

However, unexpectedly, the huge palace was very empty.

Of course, there is nothing inside. There are all kinds of bottles, jars, screens and paintings, and the quality is not low.

But there is no spiritual object that can be used for cultivation.

There are also no spiritual weapons that can be used in combat.

In the innermost master bedroom, there is a square table.

In the center of the square table was a spiritual-grade tray, with a round gem on top.

"What is this?"

Xiao Chen picked up the orb and examined it.

It is neither a spiritual weapon nor a spiritual bead, so it is hard to tell what its function is.

(End of this chapter)