Reversing the Milky Way

The battle was about to break out. In Bai Cheng's team, only he and one other person were at the mid-stage of the Qi Condensation Realm. The rest of them were at least at the late stage of the Qi Condensation Realm. In just a few breaths, each of them used a move to slaughter hundreds of the charging Blood Demon Bats. However, this did not change the overall number of them.

Bai Cheng also joined the battle. He held nothing back, directly manipulating the Thunderclap Flying Knife to shuttle back and forth among the dense swarm of Blood Demon Bats. His killing speed was no slower than that of the others, which surprised everyone present.

Just as the number of Blood Demon Bats was rapidly halved, Bai Cheng suddenly heard a buzzing sound in his ear, followed by someone's voice that he didn't know.

"Watch your back!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng immediately conjured a spirit sword in his hand and, without the slightest hesitation, turned around and swung the sword behind him.

However, the next moment, he saw something that startled him.

There was no danger behind him, but rather another inspector from the group was behind him.

If he hadn't reacted so quickly and blocked Bai Cheng's attack with his weapon, Bai Cheng would probably have accidentally injured his teammates.

Bai Cheng: "What! What's going on!?"

The person being attacked also began shouting at him.

The patrolman's teammate: "What are you trying to do?!"

At that moment, Li Hui also suddenly noticed the situation and quickly ran over to ask.

Li Hui: "Bai Cheng, what were you doing just now?"

Bai Cheng: "I suddenly heard someone transmit a message to me, telling me to watch my back, so I..."

Upon hearing Bai Cheng's explanation, Li Hui also shouted to the crowd.

Li Hui: "Everyone, gather together quickly! Don't scatter."

Upon hearing this, the others gathered together.

Ling Feng: "What happened?"

As soon as Ling Feng finished speaking, he noticed that the remaining swarm of blood demon bats began to move. They stopped attacking the group and instead began to circle around them. At the same time, everyone heard a buzzing sound, like a muffled whisper, that continued to linger in their ears.

Li Qingrou: "What is this?!"

As soon as Li Qingrou finished speaking, the buzzing sound in her ears began to transform into Ling Feng's voice.

"Kill him, kill him, kill him..."

A series of sounds began to ring in her ears, and she looked at Ling Feng in disbelief.

At this moment, Ling Feng looked at Li Qingrou with a face full of fear.

The others also experienced interfering sounds, which came from the voices of different people in their team.

Li Hui: "What on earth is going on?!"

Li Hui looked surprised and kept glancing at the others.

Zhang Qing: "I never imagined that these beasts, who seemed so insignificant, would resort to such methods!?"

After Zhang Qing finished speaking, he swept his crimson blade into the air, and the fierce blade energy rushed into the swarm of blood demon bats, instantly cutting a gap in the air.

Zhang Qing: "There are only these left, let's just wipe them all out together."

However, just as he was about to make a move, he suddenly heard a sound in his ear.

"and many more!"

It was Zheng Xie's voice. He turned to look at the other person in surprise, only to find a blank expression on the other's face. At that moment, Zheng Xie suddenly spoke.

Zheng Xie: "Big brother, what's wrong?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Qing immediately understood that the sound was made by the Blood Demon Bat.

Zhang Qing: "Damn it!"

Ling Feng: "Everyone, calm down! These are probably Blood Demon Bats imitating our voices! Don't believe them."

Just then, Li Qingrou took out a guqin from her storage bag and quickly began to play. As the strings were plucked, a gentle sound quickly replaced the noise in everyone's ears, which also calmed everyone's mind.

Bai Cheng also noticed Li Qingrou's actions at this moment. The sound of the guqin spread slowly with the fluctuations in the air, and the visible spiritual energy fluctuations rippled. Finally, he could no longer hear the noisy voices.

Bai Cheng: "Is this the cultivation path of sound waves? It's truly extraordinary."

As the music reverberated through the sealed cave, the swarm of blood demon bats seemed to realize that their mimicry was no longer affecting them. The next moment, the blood demon bats that had been circling around them rapidly contracted and attacked them from all directions.

At this moment, Li Qingrou's fingers moved rapidly, and the gentle voice in everyone's ears suddenly became exciting. Then, the visible ripples in the air seemed to transform into sharp blades. Wherever the sound waves passed, the blood demon bats were pierced by invisible blades, some even being torn to pieces. In an instant, countless blood demon bat corpses fell around everyone like rain, and the few remaining blood demon bats were all killed at this moment.

The others were also astonished when they saw this.

Li Hui: "Is this the Wonderful Sound Technique of the String Sound Immortal Sect? It is a unique cultivation method that uses music to spread one's spiritual power to the surroundings through musical instruments. I heard that very few people can master it. Once mastered, every sound wave can become an attack from all directions, making it impossible for the enemy to defend against!"

After Li Qingrou finished playing, she put her instrument away.

Li Qingrou: "Fellow Daoist Li, you flatter me. My Wonderful Sound Technique is only at the minor level of mastery. If one can cultivate it to the major level of mastery, its power will be far greater than this."

After the battle ended, everyone rested for a while. Zhang Qing then came to the corpse of a blood demon bat. Ignoring the astonished looks of everyone, he grabbed the blood demon bat's corpse, tore off its wings, and bit off a piece of flesh from its back, chewing it in his mouth.

However, after a short while, his expression turned extremely ugly, and he spat out the meat in his mouth.

Zhang Qing: "Pah! This is awful."

Upon seeing this, the others also showed expressions of disgust.

Ling Feng: "You're not convinced when I call you savages, it's disgusting."

Upon hearing Ling Feng's words, Zheng Xie spoke up from the side.

Zheng Xie: "I've already said that our customs are different. Our Mangren tribe has a history of nearly 10,000 years. If we can't survive in the harsh wilderness, we will be eliminated by the environment. I'm afraid we are one of the few tribes on this continent that can eat raw meat. Zhang Qing is one of the best in the tribe."

Hearing this, Ling Feng turned his head away in annoyance.

Ling Feng: "That's it? An outstanding one? With his late-stage Qi Condensation Realm cultivation? In our cultivation world, that level wouldn't even make a ripple!"

Zheng Xie ignored Ling Feng's mockery, giving him only a meaningful look.

Zheng Xie: "Hmph, you'll find out later whether you can make a splash or not."

Faced with these slightly threatening words, Mei Xuan, who was standing to the side, suddenly spoke up as well.

Mei Xuan: "Gentlemen, let's reconsider whether we should continue."

Upon hearing this, after a brief discussion, the group decided to continue their journey.

After traveling some distance through the cave, the path suddenly opened up, revealing a huge circular cavity in front of them.

Li Hui: "Where am I?!"

Looking in that direction, everyone saw a wall behind the huge circular cave, covered with dozens of enormous holes, each about five meters in diameter. These holes seemed to connect in different directions, making the entire underground area resemble a nest.

Li Hui: "I finally understand why there are always tens of thousands of Blood Demon Bats appearing each time. These caves are probably incubation chambers for these creatures."

Bai Cheng: "My God, so many! How many are there?"

While everyone was discussing, Bai Cheng suddenly discovered that there were also many animal skeletons left in the circular cavity in this place.

Bai Cheng: "Look!"

Hearing the sound, the group descended and discovered that the skeletons were incredibly old, many already weathered. Li Hui walked to a skeleton, stared at it intently for a long time, and then spoke.

Li Hui: "These skeletons are at least several decades or even hundreds of years old, and judging from their shapes, there don't seem to be any human-shaped bones."

Ling Feng: "Doesn't that mean the monster lairs here have been around for quite some time?"

Li Hui: "Very likely."

After a thorough search, the group turned their attention to the dozens of caves on the rock wall.

Ling Feng: "What do we do now? Should we continue investigating?"

After Ling Feng finished speaking, he noticed that Bai Cheng suddenly took out a bell and put it on his wrist, but he didn't pay much attention to it. This bell was the one that Yue Ling had given to Bai Cheng. For some time now, Bai Cheng had not known the function of the bell, so he had kept it in his storage bag. However, based on its previous function, he guessed that the bell should automatically sound an alarm when encountering a demon beast, so he took it out and put it on.

One of the patrol teammate said, "Why don't we go back now? We've already investigated thoroughly enough."

Li Hui: "No, so far we've only encountered minor monsters. If we can't find out the monster Bai Cheng described, then our trip will have been in vain."

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng immediately felt a sense of crisis.

'That doesn't make sense; I don't remember saying that at the time.'

Li Hui: "Next, we will split into pairs and continue exploring these caves. If we encounter any emergencies, we will return immediately."

Bai Cheng: "But if we separate like this, won't those blood demon bats use our voices to cause trouble again?"

Li Hui: "I've thought of that too. Our Control Bureau has special tokens for communication. We will only communicate according to the information on the tokens, and we don't need to care about what we hear."

Ling Feng: "But there are eleven people here in total."

Li Hui: "You don't need to worry about that. I'll lead the two people in the mid-stage of Qi Condensation in the team. The rest of you can act in pairs. Remember, if you encounter danger, don't be reckless. You must wait for us."

After Li Hui finished speaking, everyone began to take action.

Although Ling Feng really wanted to act with his junior sister, unfortunately, they were both just external reinforcements invited by the Surveillance Bureau, and each of them had to cooperate with a teammate from the Surveillance Bureau.

As for the other three, since they all had their own communication jade tokens, only Zhang Qing followed a teammate from the Surveillance Bureau, while the other two were arranged to be together.

This arrangement was made intentionally by Li Hui, because ever since he came into contact with these three people, he had sensed that Yue Feng was up to no good and might have some kind of conspiracy, so he had been on guard in secret.

As the operation began, the group set off according to the planned route, starting by exploring the caves on the left.

The cave was pitch black. Bai Cheng and his companions walked slowly, observing their surroundings. After some time, Zhang Ji, perhaps trying to ease the oppressive atmosphere, suddenly spoke up.

Zhang Ji: "Brother Bai Cheng, you have truly impressed me. Judging from your performance in the previous battles, you were even comparable to the late-stage Qi Condensation experts in our team. I wonder how you trained to achieve that?"

Hearing this, Li Hui was also quite interested, because from the battle just now, the skills that Bai Cheng displayed were not the kind of combat that ordinary cultivators would rely on to fight purely by comparing spiritual power.

Bai Cheng smiled helplessly upon hearing this.

Bai Cheng: "Hehe, it's no big deal. People can always unleash their enormous potential when they are fighting to the death. I think you would do the same if it were you."

Li Hui: "Don't be modest. I saw how decisive your movements were just now, and the look in your eyes clearly showed the kind of aura that comes from experiencing countless life-and-death situations. You're so young, how could you have gone through so much danger?"

Bai Cheng sighed helplessly and recounted how he was originally born in Yu Family Village, which was often in danger because it was close to the Yunluo Mountains.

And so, the group walked and chatted.

On the other side, the rest of the people were also walking slowly in different passages.

After walking for a while, Zheng Xie and Mei Xuan looked at each other.

Zheng Xie: "Let's just stay here. They shouldn't be able to find us."

Mei Xuan nodded, took out a square jade box from his chest, and opened it. A blood-red figure jumped out of the jade box.

This is a Blood Weasel, a fourth-grade spirit beast, which is naturally extremely sensitive to dense blood energy.

The small weasel landed and quickly climbed onto Mei Xuan's shoulder, then let out a sharp cry.

Mei Xuan: "It seems this road is blocked. Let's turn back."

After saying that, Zheng Xie and Mei Xuan began to return along the same route.

In fact, the three of them had a very important mission on this trip: to extract the anomaly from the Blood Spirit Flower, namely the Blood Spirit Flower Emperor.

The Blood Spirit Flower is a flower that grows by being nourished by blood and cannot survive in ordinary soil. It can only grow by being constantly nourished by fresh blood. The Blood Spirit Flower King is the final evolved form of the Blood Spirit Flower. In addition, their other mission is to eliminate all the people traveling with them.

On Zhang Qing's side, he was traveling with a patrolman in his group. The patrolman would occasionally use the token in his hand to report Zhang Qing's movements.

Zhang Qing, who was walking in front, had a gloomy expression.

Zhang Qing: "Hey! I'm telling you, at this rate, when will we ever finish exploring?!"

Upon hearing this, the inspector responded impatiently.

Inspector: "What's the rush? Don't you know that this cave is noisy and even poses unpredictable dangers?"

Zhang Qing: "Heh heh, I heard that your Inspectorate is an agency specially established by the royal family of the Fire Cloud Kingdom. How come it only recruits cowards like you!?"

The man snorted coldly and walked past Zhang Qing with disdain.

In fact, what Zhang Qing said was correct. Most of the people recruited by their Supervision Bureau were unemployed cultivators. These people were basically cultivators with mediocre aptitude, and most of them had only awakened one type of cultivation physique.

Take, for example, the man in front of Zhang Qing. He was a rogue cultivator who was over forty-six years old this year, but he was still stuck in the late stage of the Qi Condensation Realm and could not improve his cultivation. So he had been hovering around the level of Inspector.