Chapter 811: Jiu Li Gray Mist

Mountain-Sea Domain, Jiu Li Forbidden Zone.

This place is the center of this domain, and also the core!

Looking from the outside, gray mist permeates, covering everything, and in the rolling, it contains endless mystery and death.

Every Great Hunt stage, as long as one enters Jiu Li, no one survives.

But the legends about Jiu Li attract generation after generation of Yan Yue Xuan Tian cultivators to follow one after another; for Ji Dongzi, it is also the same.

He once had the idea of entering to explore, but with his understanding of the Jiu Li Forbidden Zone, with some secrets that were not made public, and even more with some of his guesses... he didn't dare anymore.

"Jiu Li... that is a special name."

Ji Dongzi's gaze was deep, gazing at this piece of gray mist land in front of him, recalling the battle with Xu Qing, he had to admit in his heart that although Xu Qing was not as good as him, wanting to kill him still had a certain difficulty.

"This person can indeed be considered the number one genius of the human race in this generation."

"However, it has become the past."

Ji Dongzi withdrew his gaze, flicked his sleeve, and instantly a blurred blood shadow appeared beside him, bowing slightly to Ji Dongzi.

"Go tell Mingnan Shizi that Xu Qing has fallen."

Ji Dongzi spoke lightly, turned, and took a step, walking toward the firmament, disappearing between the heavens and earth.

In his view, for Xu Qing who entered the Jiu Li dead zone, the time of extinction was no longer important; having stained the gray mist, he was destined to be unable to leave.

Xu Qing also perceived this point!

Right now, he was in this Jiu Li Forbidden Zone, his whole body was gray mist, and his expression was very gloomy.

The moment he entered here, the gray mist of this place was like possessing life, carrying greed and longing, enveloping him instantly, wanting to assimilate him.

But this gray mist was not an exotic substance, but a kind of unknown thing.

The purple divine source in Xu Qing's body, the moment it touched this gray mist, appeared to have a feeling of being suppressed, and all the soul threads also withered, gradually losing activity.

It was as if this Jiu Li Forbidden Zone was full of hostility toward gods, so everything related to gods had to be excluded by it.

Thus, Xu Qing's divine state began to degenerate; in a short period of time, it began to be unstable.

"My purple moon divine source comes from the Red Mother... although it cannot be compared with it. The essence is the same, the status is the same, but the gray mist here can actually suppress it!" Xu Qing had realized before that Jiu Li was not simple, and now this feeling was even more obvious.

In addition, if it was just that things related to gods were suppressed, that would be fine; Xu Qing soon discovered that his cultivation power was also being excluded and suppressed.

The furnace in his secret store was extinguishing, and even the Heavenly Dao... actually had a feeling of deep sleep.

"Excluding everything?"

Xu Qing furrowed his brows; besides this, what made him caught off guard was that he perceived the special power contained in this gray mist.

Like cause and effect, it strongly bound itself to him; he... could not retreat; he tried many times, but it was all like this.

Xu Qing was silent; after a long while, he retreated a step violently, wanting to test the bottom line; all the abilities he could display in his body erupted instantly, but the next moment, his retreating body stopped.

A life-and-death crisis that exceeded Ji Dongzi by hundreds or thousands of times descended on his whole body, making Xu Qing's body tremble uncontrollably, as if it were about to collapse.

The mist all around at this moment also emitted whispering sounds; all the sounds finally turned into one word, roaring like heavenly thunder in Xu Qing's mind.

"Die!"

This word contained extreme resentment, contained monstrous anger, and the killing intent was the strongest Xu Qing had ever felt in his life; he clearly felt that if he retreated one more step, then the next moment, this Jiu Li Forbidden Zone would emit a power of extinction that he could not resist, and in an instant, he would be destroyed in body and soul.

Moving forward, because of the existence of exclusion, the further he walked, the more difficult it was, and ultimately it was highly likely that he would be excluded from everything and become a mortal.

Retreating, he was destined to perish; such a dilemma was rarely encountered by Xu Qing.

So Xu Qing narrowed his eyes, suppressed the irritability in his heart, kept himself calm, and observed his surroundings; the area where he was, although in the Jiu Li Forbidden Zone, belonged to the area close to the edge; the mist here, compared to the outside, was of course dense, but relative to the depths of Jiu Li in the distance, it was clearly thin.

So vaguely, he could also see the environment slightly; no vegetation, no mountain body, no exotic substances!

As for under his feet, it was somewhat soft; that was a swamp; in the black swamp, one could see countless skeletons; they didn't know how many years they had been immersed here, silently gazing at time, full of vicissitudes, full of desolation.

Only the sound of 'zi zi' continued and spread rapidly outside Xu Qing's divine state body.

That was the sound of him resisting the invasion of the gray mist.

But the divine state was becoming more and more unstable, making this kind of resistance unable to last too long.

"Staying in place, although it can delay the time of being invaded, there is no possibility of resolution."

"Since I cannot retreat, then... rather than waiting for death here, it is better to walk in completely and see what this Jiu Li is; perhaps... there can still be a chance of survival."

Xu Qing's eyes flashed with ghostly light, his heart was decisive, and he lifted his footsteps to walk forward.

Every step he took, he was incomparably vigilant, controlling his body not to sink into the silt, while unfolding all his strength to resist the invasion of the mist. Just like this, time passed; three hours went by; Xu Qing, walking in the Jiu Li Forbidden Zone, did not find a chance of survival, nor did he find Jiu Li; this place was too big, as if boundless, besides the increasingly dense mist, there was nothing.

What there was, was only the ground becoming increasingly soft, and the feeling of sinking was also more intense.

Thus, Xu Qing's speed became slower and slower, and finally, the fourth divine state could not support it, degenerating to the third divine state, then the second divine state, the first divine state.

Finally, all the soul threads were silent, the purple moon was in deep sleep, only the swamp remained.

"Then, under the swamp?"

Xu Qing lowered his head, looking at the black swamp under his feet; after pondering, he did not try it rashly himself, but spoke in a low voice.

"Little Shadow!"

The swamp under Xu Qing's feet appeared with some shadows, emitting a weak emotional fluctuation toward him, and even posed in a state full of burn scars, as if reminding Xu Qing that it was injured.

Xu Qing ignored it.

"Go down and take a look."

Little Shadow was aggrieved, but the experience of being suppressed for many years made it only default to the arrangement of fate; with a flicker, it sank into the silt and spread inward.

Just after sinking less than three zhang, it twisted violently, transmitting wails, and its shadow body also showed signs of dissipating.

"Pain... demon... dissipate... afraid..."

Xu Qing was unmoved and continued to perceive; seeing that Xu Qing didn't pay attention to it, Little Shadow was even more aggrieved; enduring that feeling of dissipation, it continued to spread downward.

Soon ten zhang, fifty zhang, until it reached a depth of one hundred zhang; all areas were silt.

And at this position, the feeling of dissipation on Little Shadow was clearly intense, making it unable to help but emit emotional fluctuations of begging for mercy again.

"Continue... die... afraid... beg..."

Xu Qing pondered, then spoke.

"If I die here, you will also die, and if you bring me back some opportunity, I promise you that after you die, I will find a way to resurrect you."

This voice carried firmness; after Little Shadow perceived it, its body trembled, and the next moment it erupted, forming a greater fluctuation, continuing to permeate downward.

One hundred zhang, three hundred zhang, five hundred zhang...

The power of dissipation intensified, the wailing sound was shrill, Little Shadow's body was constantly shattered, and finally it was broken into dozens of wisps, one of which returned, and the rest all spread to the depths in a suicidal manner, extremely permeating. These shadows collapsed one by one, some dissipated, and the rest split into dozens of wisps, like a large net, continuing to the depths.

The wailing continued as it shattered, until more than ten breaths passed; after Little Shadow split dozens of times here, forming hundreds of shadow threads, finally one shadow thread drilled into a depth of one thousand zhang.

The moment it dissipated there, it successfully transmitted back a scene, reflected in Xu Qing's mind.

"The moment he saw this scene, Xu Qing trembled all over, his breathing was rapid, and his expression changed."

"This is..."

Xu Qing's main body appeared on the swamp; the moment the mist invaded rapidly, the poison prohibition spread on Xu Qing's body.

As a divine source that was higher in status than the Red Mother, the support of the poison prohibition lasted significantly longer, but as time passed, as Xu Qing's heart became increasingly anxious, the amount of poison prohibition also became a weak point.

Under the suppression of this dense mist, the poison prohibition... fell into a deep sleep.

Along with it, Xu Qing's secret store also fell into silence.

Extinguished one by one.

The moment the last wisp of the secret store furnace fire was extinguished, the feeling of greed emitted from the gray mist erupted violently, as if a fierce demon that had always been wandering around perceived an opportunity and pounced toward Xu Qing; but the next instant, a bronze incense burner appeared above Xu Qing's head.

This incense burner was filled with antiquity, emitting strange fluctuations; inside, green smoke rose, about a hundred zhang high, spreading at the end, falling like a waterfall, forming circles of smoke rings, enveloping Xu Qing inside, blocking the invasion of the gray mist.

It was exactly the treasure of the Bai Ze clan member named Tian Lingzi, whom Xu Qing had killed on the Ninth Forbidden Mountain in the forbidden zone that day.

This item, in Tian Lingzi's hands at that time, had confronted Xu Qing's poison prohibition, making Tian Lingzi successfully step onto the Ninth Mountain; from this, one could see its power.

After taking it out at this moment, following the falling of the smoke rings, the cultivation and divine source that had fallen into a deep sleep in Xu Qing's body showed signs of recovery; this incense burner seemed to isolate the outside world.

Although the feeling of causal entanglement was still strong, to a certain extent, it also eased Xu Qing's pressure.

It was just... he could perceive that the consumption inside this incense burner was serious, and the things forming the incense rings were scarce, so the duration would not be very long. Right now, it was being invaded rapidly, and he feared that at most one incense stick of time, it would dissipate.

"The time of this one incense stick can allow my divine source and cultivation to recover, but it's only supporting for a while." Xu Qing's expression was ugly, gazing at his surroundings; according to his judgment, he was already deep inside, even if he hadn't walked into the core of Jiu Li. Along this way, besides the mist, there was no existence revealed. ===== CHAPTER 812 =====