Chapter 1673: Blockade

Hearing the old man's words, the green-haired alien race's eyes flashed with murderous light, and he suddenly stepped forward, looking like he was about to make a move.

But at this moment, the lean, withered man suddenly flickered to the side of the green-haired alien race and whispered a few words, seemingly reminding him of something.

The green-haired alien race's expression was uncertain, but a moment later, the murderous aura on his body eased, and he said coldly:

"Fine, let's see what's hidden in the valley first. If it's not that Zhi Immortal, we will each go our own way. If it is, hehe..."

After a cold laugh, the green-haired alien race ignored the old man and the woman, and with the lean man, turned into two long rainbows, vanishing into the mountain valley shrouded in demonic Qi below.

"Uncle Yan, what should we do? Do we really want to enter the valley with them?" The palace-dressed woman saw this and took a deep breath, asking the old man.

"Naturally, we enter. The magic disk had a reaction; how could we easily let it go." The old man Yan replied without hesitation.

"But those two..." The palace-dressed woman hesitated.

"If there were no Immortal Ginseng inside, these two naturally wouldn't have any reason to act. If there is one, then we should even less retreat. Otherwise, why do you think we risked entering this place?" The old man shook his head and said with a gloomy expression.

"Indeed, it is Ni'er who did not consider things thoroughly. This valley should indeed be searched." The woman in palace attire pondered slightly and said through gritted teeth.

"You also don't need to worry too much! Although my injuries from before have not fully recovered, I specifically prepared a strange treasure for this trip. If we truly obtain the Immortal Ginseng, as long as we don't fight the other party head-on, it will be more than enough to ensure we retreat unscathed," the old man said confidently.

Given the old man's status and hers, the woman in palace attire naturally believed his words deeply. Hearing this, the unease in her heart faded a bit, and she nodded without saying anything more.

Thus, the two of them flashed their escape lights and flew over as well.

However, upon entering this valley, the old man surnamed Yan immediately discovered something peculiar.

The valley, which looked exceptionally ordinary from the outside, was actually unfathomably deep. The upper half of the valley drifted with faint black demonic Qi, while the lower half seemed like an exceptionally long abyss; even when driving a magic treasure over a thousand zhang deep, it was still impossible to see the bottom.

This made the old man both alarmed and delighted.

What delighted him was that since this valley was so unique, it was highly likely that the Immortal Ginseng was truly hidden below. What alarmed him was that it was so deep below, and coupled with the dense demonic Qi, it would likely be very inconvenient to investigate.

Thinking this in his heart, the old man surnamed Yan and the woman in palace attire both took out a compass-shaped magic tool and flew straight toward the depths of the valley.

If the two green-haired alien beings were not here, they might have split up to improve efficiency. But now, they naturally wouldn't do such a reckless thing that might lead to being defeated one by one by the other party.

With the two of them one after the other, after a few flashes, they disappeared into the faint black Qi of the valley.

At the same time, in a rushing river deep in the valley, at the bottom of the riverbed, a black, shiny object with half its body buried in the mud moved, and then two green, hazy eyeballs pried open, flickering with emotionless light.

In a place tens of thousands of miles away from the valley, a giant toad several zhang tall, holding a similar compass in its mouth, was flying with seven or eight strange-looking demonic beasts.

The giant toad's two ox-like eyes swept toward the compass in its mouth from time to time; its speed was not very fast, but the direction it was heading was shockingly the location of the valley.

Closely following the giant toad was a crimson demonic beast a hundred times larger, resembling a giant dragonfly, which was also holding a compass in one hand and mumbling something in its mouth.

"My lord, I did indeed sense abnormal fluctuations in that valley, but that is the lair of that demonic crocodile. It is exceptionally fierce, and I might not be its match. I only reported it to you, my lord, so that you could handle it personally."

"Hmph, it's not 'might not be', if you went over, you would definitely be swallowed in one bite. That demonic crocodile is only one step away from stepping into the Saint stage; even the three lords would not easily provoke it. Can you be sure you didn't see wrong? Is the human magic tool's reaction truly directed at that valley? If you are wrong, don't blame me for being impolite later," the giant toad said in a buzzing voice, its expression seeming quite disapproving.

"My lord, rest assured. I have investigated back and forth over a dozen times, and I can be one hundred percent certain that the human magic tool's reaction is indeed directed at that valley," the dragonfly-like demonic beast's compound eyes flickered a few times, and it guaranteed it while almost patting its chest.

"Good. If we can truly find that Immortal Ginseng in the valley, your reward will absolutely not be lacking," the giant toad clearly did not place much hope in the words of the demonic beast behind it, and said faintly.

This was no wonder!

After it rushed out of the Demonic Gold Mountain Range with a group of mid-to-high-tier demonic beasts, although it killed most of the Spirit Realm humans who had entered from the outside in one go and used the stolen compasses to search everywhere for that Immortal Ginseng, it did not obtain any useful clues. According to the compass's dozen reactions, it had always been mistaken, and it had not discovered the slightest trace of the Immortal Ginseng.

As a result, it inevitably did not place too much hope in this operation.

It even began to consider which direction to continue searching in if there were no gains from this trip to the valley.

As for the other high-tier demonic beasts following behind, because of the consecutive empty searches these past few days, they also seemed a bit listless.

The giant toad and its party were traveling absent-mindedly, not noticing that more than ten miles behind them, a thin blood mist was following them from afar.

And within the blood mist, there was a slender shadow that was almost too faint to be seen, flickering in and out of existence.

Han Li and the Crystal Clan woman left the mountain range where the demonic ape was located. The road ahead was surprisingly smooth, and they did not encounter any more trouble on the way. As a result, they finished most of the journey in just five days and arrived at the thin mist where they had killed the human-faced vulture that day.

Seeing this thin mist, even though they were anxious to continue, they couldn't help but slow down their escape speed, discussed it briefly, and cautiously flew into the thin mist.

Han Li was expressionless in his escape light, but while his blue light flickered slightly in his eyes, both hands were each clutching a crystal-clear spirit stone, still continuously absorbing the pure spiritual energy within the spirit stones.

Although he couldn't meditate properly to recover his magic power due to the journey, with the help of a large amount of rare medicinal pills and top-tier spirit stones these past few days, he had managed to make up for more than half of his lost magic power.

However, the repair of the Brahma Saint True Demon Dharma Image was naturally negligible.

Even so, this made Han Li let out a long sigh of relief, thinking that if he encountered any powerful demonic beasts again, he would finally have some confidence.

But when his spiritual sense occasionally swept over a pitch-black spirit beast ring in his sleeve, he felt a bit depressed again.

The Soul-Crying Beast, this spirit beast that had suddenly displayed great power, was still unconscious even now.

When his spiritual sense swept over it, the magic power and physical strength that the beast had exhausted that day had already recovered by more than half; its recovery ability could be considered astonishing. But when he used his spiritual sense to directly try to communicate with the beast's spiritual sense to wake it up, there was absolutely no reaction.

If it weren't for the fact that he could clearly sense that the connection between the Soul-Crying Beast and him had not been broken, he would have almost thought he was facing a dead object.

Of course, this didn't mean Han Li truly had no way to wake the beast. It was just that after considering it a few times, he ultimately gave up on this thought.

Because based on his experience, the situation of a spirit beast falling into a self-induced slumber was generally a means of self-evolution or protection, and it was extremely taboo to use forceful means to disturb or wake it.

And Han Li had originally relied heavily on the Soul-Crying Beast, and after the strange change a few days ago, he valued it even more. It was better to let nature take its course and let it wake up on its own.

Thinking this in his heart, Han Li temporarily put the matter of the beast to the back of his mind, withdrew his spiritual sense, and looked inward at the situation inside his own body.

At this moment, in his dantian, a Nascent Soul releasing golden spiritual light but with a pale green body was holding a silver-bright fireball with its two small hands clasped in front of its chest, not moving at all.

That silver fireball, however, was somewhat strange!

Within the originally silver-bright flames, there were actually strands of milky-white fire seedlings mixed in, and within the entire fireball, silver runes were faintly flickering incessantly.

Seeing this scene, Han Li's mouth moved, and he couldn't help but reveal a trace of a smile.

There was no need to ask about those milky-white flames; they were naturally the strand of Golden Crow True Fire he had absorbed from the human-faced vulture.

Come to think of it, the fact that the Spirit-Devouring Heavenly Fire could absorb other spirit fires and some strange energies and fuse and evolve on its own was truly an incredible ability. If this continued, exactly what terrifying level it could develop to was something Han Li was greatly looking forward to.

Seeing that the Spirit-Devouring Heavenly Fire was slowly refining the Golden Crow True Fire and that no problems had arisen, Han Li withdrew his spiritual sense and kept his focus on guarding the surroundings.

Although the area covered by this thin mist was not small, Han Li and Xian Xian flew through it all the way without encountering any more demonic beast ambushes.

It seemed that the previous human-faced vultures were the only high-tier demonic beasts in this thin mist. Because they were killed too suddenly, no other high-tier demonic beasts had moved into this area within these few days.

In that case, the two of them naturally passed through without obstruction on their way back.

Because there was nothing on the way, and both Han Li and Xian Xian had walked it once before, it was naturally much faster than last time.

After half a day, they passed through the entire thin mist and arrived at its edge.

However, just as the green rainbow flew out of the thin mist, it paused and stopped in mid-air, then the escape light converged, and Han Li's figure appeared.

But at this moment, looking at the situation in front of him, his face turned slightly pale.

He saw that only two or three hundred zhang away from him, there were gusts of black wind, and shockingly, hundreds of mid-to-high-tier demonic beasts were hovering there.

At the very front of this dense group of demonic beasts, a demonic beast that had transformed into human form, broad-shouldered and thick-waisted, with a pair of pitch-black giant horns on its head and wearing black iron armor, had an upper body exactly the same as a human's, but its lower body was covered in pitch-black beast fur, and it was looking over with a trace of astonishment in its eyes.

And fifty or sixty zhang away opposite this humanoid demonic beast, there was another man wearing silver armor and stepping on a blood-colored flying vehicle, confronting it with a gloomy expression.

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