My Optimized Immortal Life

After Chen Qing thought about it, he felt even more strange. In his opinion, Hou Tu and Xuan Ming were still hiding the matter of the quicksand spirits. They had been here for hundreds of years, so how could they not know that the quicksand spirits could be integrated?

These two people must have been secretly plotting to conceal such crucial information, but when the earth's energy erupted, their expressions did not seem fake, and it was obvious that the changes in the Earth-Splitting Abyss had nothing to do with them.

Chen Qing thought for a moment, but because there were too few clues, he could not come to any effective inference.

The current situation is becoming increasingly delicate. Even though Chen Qing is quite powerful, he feels some pressure.

With my strength, even if the earth's energy rises, I can still escape from the Earth King's Palace, walk outside, or even leave this place. But judging from the current situation, it is impossible to escape.

The Earth King Palace was currently resisting the Earth Qi. Even with Hou Tu and Xuan Ming guarding it, it was unknown how long the Earth Qi would last. Qing Ya and Chen Qing would definitely be needed to guard it in turn to maintain the formation, and...

The current situation in the Earth-Splitting Abyss is unclear. Both Cheng Xiao and Liu Yun are nowhere to be seen, and they are probably still staying there. This disaster must be related to them.

Whether it is Houtu Xuanming or Qingya, they are bound to cause trouble for the two of them.

Although Chen Qing didn't want to get involved, the situation was unfavorable and he had no choice.

Time passed, and twelve days were gone in the blink of an eye.

During these twelve days, just as Chen Qing had expected, Hou Tu and Xuan Ming used the excuse that they were unable to maintain the formation themselves, resulting in insufficient mana, to let the two take over the formation one by one, maintain the Palace of the King of Earth, and confine the two here. At the same time, the four of them were privately discussing how to deal with the matter of Cheng Xiao and Liu Yun.

When Chen Qing took over the formation, relying on his own attainments as a third-level formation master, he secretly learned some of the mysteries of the fourth-level formation, and also left some insignificant methods in it, which were of average effectiveness.

As for discussions, he rarely spoke, but just listened to Hou Tu and the other two, and then agreed or rejected them.

Twelve days later, the rising degree of the earth's air was not as violent as before, and began to gradually decline. However, it would probably take some time before it completely subsided.

Regarding this, neither Chen Qing nor Hou Tu and others were in a hurry.

Twelve days was not a long time for them, it could even be considered short. After seeing the upward trend of the earth's energy begin to weaken, the gloomy look on Hou Tu's face finally began to fade.

For the Earth King Palace, the Earth-Splitting Abyss is the foundation of their cultivation and cannot be lost. What Cheng Xiao and Liu Yun did this time has undoubtedly touched the bottom line of the Earth King Palace. If these two people show up, they will definitely attract revenge and attacks from Hou Tu and Xuan Ming.

Two days later, the earth's energy finally stopped rising, but the entire area around the Earth-Splitting Abyss had been changed. The original quicksand had been mixed with the earth's energy. Now, after being nourished by the earth's energy, it had turned into special sand. Ordinary plants could not grow at all. Only special spiritual plants that could absorb the earth's energy could grow here.

But before, the earth's energy was extremely violent, covering an area of ​​hundreds of miles. Except for the Earth King Palace, almost all living things were eliminated by the earth's energy. This special sand is now of no use.

After the earth energy stopped rising, the remaining earth energy in the sand was no longer able to attract the quicksand spirits. Most of the quicksand spirits once again escaped into the Earth-Splitting Abyss and no longer walked outside.

Hou Tu and the others were delighted to see that the rising of the earth's energy had stopped. They immediately sent the elders of their sect to the side of the Earth-Splitting Abyss to investigate and report the situation.

According to the elders, the earth's energy on the surface of the Earth-Splitting Abyss has returned to calm, but there are still undercurrents in its internal environment, which is turbulent and unpredictable. So the four of them decided to wait for another day before entering to observe.

Another day passed.

At this time, the Earth-Splitting Abyss had returned to its former state. The crack was tens of thousands of miles long and extremely deep, which made people feel extremely shocked when they saw it.

"My two fellow Daoists, this time we enter the abyss, the earth's energy has just finished rising and has returned to normal, so the number of quicksand spirits in the Xuanyuan is definitely much greater than before. This time, we need the two of you to take action."

Hou Tu looked at Qingya and Chen Qing. After half a month of rest, Qingya's injuries had healed almost completely. His complexion was no longer pale and gradually became rosy, and he had regained his fighting strength.

Hou Tu and Xuan Ming naturally had to take him along.

As for Chen Qing, he was not injured, so he must go in together.

Seeing Hou Tu's eyes looking at them, Qingya and Chen Qing naturally agreed immediately. Qingya wanted to find out the cause of the incident, and Chen Qing had no choice.

The four people entered the abyss, no longer separated as they did before to clear out the quicksand spirits, but gathered together to deal with the quicksand spirits that appeared on the road.

Four Nascent Soul cultivators joined forces, one of whom was in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul. Naturally, such strength could not be resisted by third-level things like the Quicksand Spirit, and they went straight down without any hindrance.

During this process, Chen Qing also took action several times and killed many quicksand spirits, but due to the sight of everyone, he could only smash the Earth Yuan Pearl and was unable to collect it, which made him feel distressed.

After several hours, everyone had descended nearly ten thousand feet, but still had not reached the bottom of the Earth-Splitting Abyss.

However, Xuanming did discover some special traces.

"Everyone, it seems someone has set up some kind of formation here, causing the void to change. Under the impact of the earth's energy, it is revealed, completely different from the surrounding area."

He pointed to an area, causing the three of them to look over there.

When Chen Qing saw it, he immediately frowned.

As a third-rank formation master, he naturally had a deep understanding of the void. It was indeed as Xuanming said, the void here had been altered by someone with great magic power, and formation patterns had been planted there to serve as the core of the formation.

Moreover, this person's methods were extremely superb. The formation pattern he arranged was completely integrated into this void. If it were not for the impact of the earth's energy, the four of them would probably not be able to detect it.

His attainments in formation formation are far superior to mine. I'm afraid it's close to the fourth level. Strange... As far as I know, neither Cheng Xiao nor Liu Yun have deep practice in formation formation. Who set up this formation?

While Chen Qing was thinking, Hou Tu and others were also thinking. Although they could sense the formation pattern, they did not have a high level of formation cultivation after all. Apart from sensing the formation pattern here, they did not discover anything else.

"Since there are formation patterns here, it means that we are not far away from Cheng Xiao and Liu Yun. You two, continue to go deeper."

Hou Tu spoke slowly at this time.

Hearing this, Chen Qing and Qingya thought for a moment and nodded.

The four continued to move forward.

At this depth, the number of quicksand spirits around has increased greatly. Almost every hundred steps, everyone has to face more than one quicksand spirit.

But Chen Qing secretly kept a watchful eye.

He noticed that even though the Quicksand Spirits that came to besiege him were in large numbers, they did not display the fusion methods they used to deal with him before.