Dual Cultivation: A Carefree Journey Through Another World, the Empress Falls into My Hands

Chapter 368 The Battle Among the Crowd

However, despite the Enlightenment Lotus being so close at hand, no one dared to be the first to make a move.

Because everyone knows that whoever makes the first move will be attacked by everyone else.

Instantly, the atmosphere in the valley began to become eerie.

All eyes were fixed on the Enlightenment Lotus, no one uttered a word, their auras surging as if they might strike at any moment.

Even Zhou Tianxing, who had previously said he wouldn't participate in the competition for the Enlightenment Lotus, now had his eyes shining as he stared intently at it.

Time passed slowly, and the atmosphere in the valley was like a pot of oil that was constantly being heated, its temperature rising continuously.

Finally, at a certain moment, the oil in the pot exploded and boiled completely.

"Do it!"

At Jin Pengyu's command, all the demon race prodigies simultaneously attacked the human race prodigies nearby.

At the same time, Jin Pengyu used his spatial teleportation technique to appear next to the Enlightenment Green Lotus.

However, although the demon race's prodigies worked together and attacked at the same time.

However, the human race's prodigies still have the advantage in numbers.

At this moment, some of the human race's prodigies have not encountered any attacks from the demon race's prodigies.

Among these prodigies was one named Nalan Xue.

"Thousands of miles of ice!"

Nalan Xue swung her sword, and the snow-white sword light spilled into the lake.

Instantly, the entire lake was frozen solid.

Even the space where the lake is located is affected by the power of ice and is temporarily frozen, rendering Jin Pengyu's space-traveling technique ineffective.

At this moment, everyone realized that Nalan Xue's cultivation aura had reached the true Martial Emperor level.

Upon seeing the space frozen, Jin Pengyu immediately made a decisive move, temporarily abandoning the Enlightenment Lotus and choosing to take action.

"Golden feathers pierce the sky!"

As a low shout resounded in Jin Pengyu's heart, countless golden feather blades shot out in all directions, centered on Jin Pengyu.

Each golden feather blade carries the incomparably sharp power of the golden rule.

In a short while, the frozen space began to shatter.

At the same time, the golden feather blades attacked indiscriminately, forcing those near the lake to defend against the golden feather blades launched by the Golden Roc.

Jin Pengyu, however, took this opportunity to try and steal the Enlightenment Lotus.

However, at that moment, several transparent and unusual figures suddenly leaped up from the lake.

These figures, though small in size, were extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, they flew onto Jin Pengyu.

Immediately afterwards, Jin Pengyu felt his blood and energy rapidly draining away.

"What the hell!"

Jin Pengyu subconsciously looked down.

He immediately discovered that a large number of transparent and slender figures were crawling on his body, sucking his blood.

Moreover, the instant Jin Pengyu lowered his head, a large number of transparent figures shot straight towards Jin Pengyu's face.

Upon seeing this, Jin Pengyu immediately opened his mouth and spat.

Immediately afterwards, a large number of golden blades flew out from the mouth of the Golden Roc Feather and attacked these transparent figures.

However, what Jin Pengyu did not expect was that these transparent figures, after being hit by the golden blade, not only did not die, but instead split in two from the wound, then into four, becoming even more transparent figures that continued to rush towards Jin Pengyu.

"He actually ignored my attack!"

Jin Pengyu exclaimed inwardly.

At the same time, Nalan Xue's attack came again.

The lake surface had already begun to freeze before the snow-white sword energy even arrived.

Upon seeing this, many thoughts flashed through Jin Pengyu's mind.

However, Jin Pengyu ultimately chose to use spatial teleportation to temporarily retreat.

As soon as Jin Pengyu left, the entire lake was frozen over by Nalan Xue once again.

However, those transparent, slender figures seemed unaffected by the ice, and continued to slowly wriggle in the completely frozen lake water.

Meanwhile, Jin Pengyu, who had already retreated, hurriedly dealt with the thin, transparent figure stuck to his body.

However, the slender, transparent figure that had already absorbed a lot of blood from Jin Pengyu was now turning from transparent to red.

Only then did Jin Pengyu realize it.

These so-called transparent, slender figures were actually blood-sucking leeches.

"So it was a leech!"

Each segment of a leech's body can survive independently; no wonder I didn't kill them earlier!

Jin Pengyu muttered something to himself, then used his spatial power to pulverize all the leeches.

However, Jin Pengyu did not notice.

After he pulverized these leeches, they appeared to be dead. However, after their bodies fell to the ground, they seeped into the earth through cracks in the ground, and then regenerated into complete leeches, returning to the lake.

At this moment, in the center of the lake, after Jin Pengyu left, no one dared to approach.

Suddenly, Zhou Tianxing, standing in the crowd, shouted:

"Everyone, this Enlightenment Lotus is a treasure of our human race."

"Why don't we join forces and eliminate all the demons first, then decide who owns the Enlightenment Lotus, lest it be stolen by the demons!"

As soon as these words were spoken, someone immediately chimed in:

“Fellow Daoist Zhou is right. The demon race has already joined forces. If we remain a disorganized mess, wouldn’t we be laughed at by outsiders!”

The voice fell silent, and although no one answered, the human prodigies present were not stupid and knew that infighting was not an option at this moment.

Thus, in the blink of an eye, all the human prodigies tacitly abandoned their vigilance against others and instead took the initiative to attack the demon prodigies.

Seeing this, Zhou Tianxing suddenly gave a wicked smile.

Chu Yunfan naturally noticed this smile.

"Could it be that the demon race wants to instigate a war between the human race and the demon race first?"

"Wait until both human and demon prodigies are severely weakened, then they can reap the benefits?"

Suddenly, an idea popped into Chu Yunfan's mind.

However, Chu Yunfan soon realized that his worry was somewhat unnecessary.

Because those human prodigies aren't stupid. They may appear to be fighting with all their might, but in reality, they are conserving their strength and not truly risking their lives.

As a result, after fighting for quite some time, not a single human prodigy was injured.

On the demon race's side, apart from a few unlucky ones, the remaining injured demon race prodigies only suffered minor injuries.

Seeing this, Chu Yunfan chuckled inwardly, then his gaze inadvertently swept over Zhou Tianxing, wanting to see his next reaction.

As Chu Yunfan expected, a hint of disappointment flashed in Zhou Tianxing's eyes when he saw that everyone was conserving their strength.

Immediately afterwards, a ruthless glint flashed in Zhou Tianxing's eyes.

Upon seeing that ruthless look, Chu Yunfan instinctively felt something was amiss.

Sure enough, the next second, several demon prodigies suddenly self-destructed.

These few demon prodigies were all at the half-step demon emperor realm.

Their simultaneous self-destruction was incredibly powerful.

In an instant, all the human prodigies near these demon prodigies were blown to pieces.

Even the soul body was severely damaged and was directly teleported away from the spatial battlefield, thus being eliminated.

The human prodigies who were a little further away had a bit of time to react and managed to defend themselves, but they still ended up with minor injuries.