Chapter 472

Therefore, the remaining three cultivators all reacted the same way: they turned around and ran back immediately. One of them even dove headfirst into the ground and vanished instantly.

They must have realized the situation was extremely dangerous, as they used the Earth Escape Technique to flee for their lives without the slightest hesitation.

The remaining two cultivators also unleashed all sorts of methods; after one of them slapped a spirit talisman onto their body, their escape speed immediately increased by more than two or three times.

Very quickly, they opened up a distance of several hundred zhang from the Purple Crystal Scorpions, giving them no further opportunity to fire their purple light rays.

Just like that, before long, the person had completely disappeared from Lin Zhangqing's line of sight.

The other cultivator was even more extreme; he directly activated a jade talisman flashing with lightning, and with a loud "Boom!", he transformed into a bolt of lightning.

He streaked a bright trail of lightning across the night sky, rapidly descending dozens of miles away, escaping to safety in one go! Seeing this, Lin Zhangqing couldn't help but frown. He had miscalculated; he should have waited for the two sides to get closer before letting the Purple Crystal Scorpions attack! A distance of over three hundred zhang was still a bit too far, which weakened the power of the purple light rays significantly; about two hundred zhang would have been the most suitable distance for an attack. It was truly a mistake!

It must have been seeing those Purple Crystal Scorpions get injured yesterday that affected his judgment; just now, his heart was set on striking first to gain the advantage.

He wanted to prevent those little guys from getting hurt again by accident. Now that three had escaped, it was a bit of a small nuisance.

Lin Zhangqing shifted his mindset and summoned all the pursuing Purple Crystal Scorpions back, letting them patrol continuously around the perimeter of the sacrificial formation.

Furthermore, he intentionally or unintentionally surrounded the last location suspected of being a Spirit-Gathering Formation, so as not to be disturbed by some ignorant cultivators later.

Of course, as for how to deal with the people who might be inside later, he would have to wait until the two of them were finished to see the specific situation! Fortunately, although there were three cultivators just now, they had escaped to safety because the distance was relatively far! But he estimated that they themselves hadn't seen clearly what those purple lights attacking them actually were! Therefore, Lin Zhangqing wasn't too worried that the secret of the Purple Crystal Scorpions would be leaked.

At this moment, Chen Zi Ya finally finished what she was doing. After thirty demon cores were thrown in, three tiny runes appeared next to the departure mark on her hand.

Lin Zhangqing and the other person didn't know the specific meaning, but that didn't prevent them from knowing that Chen Zi Ya had successfully achieved her purpose for coming in for the trial.

As long as the time was up and she could successfully leave the trial secret realm, she would naturally receive the feedback from the secret realm.

Seeing that Chen Zi Ya had finally finished, Lin Zhangqing couldn't help but ask, "How is it? Are you uncomfortable? Do you have any special feelings?"

Chen Zi Ya shook her head and said, "Everything is fine, I don't have any special feelings! It just felt a little hot on the back of my hand, and then it ended!

I saw six cultivators rushing towards us just now, but there are only three corpses around. Did three cultivators escape? Will this have any bad influence on us?"

Lin Zhangqing knew she wanted to ask if the news about the Purple Crystal Scorpions would be leaked, so he quickly comforted her, "There shouldn't be any influence! The little guys are all flying at high speed, and from the outside, they just look like streaks of purple light; who knows what is inside.

And they didn't let others see their true forms. Of course, those who ran away will definitely guess.

But wanting to guess the true nature of the Purple Crystal Scorpions based on this brief impression and a few characteristics, I estimate it won't be that easy.

Besides, after we finish our business, we will look around to see if we can find those who ran away and deal with them!"

After Lin Zhangqing said this, Chen Zi Ya felt a little more at ease, so she continued, "Then hurry up and start! I'll go see if there are any demon cores on the three dead cultivators. If there are, I'll bring them over to you together!"

Lin Zhangqing nodded and then instructed, "Then pay attention to safety, don't go too far! There might still be many cultivators with ulterior motives around, so you must be careful.

Also, when you get close to those three people, remember to stab them again in advance, so as not to capsize in the gutter!"

Chen Zi Ya nodded without saying anything else. Holding a second-tier superior defensive spiritual artifact in her hand, she walked towards the three corpses not far outside the sacrificial formation.

At this time, Lin Zhangqing directly condensed a mana imprint in his palm and pressed it onto the Spirit-Offering Pillar. After they had a connection, he threw in ten second-tier early-stage demon cores.

Sure enough, a few breaths later, the Spirit-Offering Pillar shot out a bit of red light, which landed on the back of his hand. Apart from feeling a little hot on the back of his hand, there was no other discomfort.

After looking around and finding nothing wrong, he began to throw demon cores into the Spirit-Offering Plate.

First were the thirty demon cores he had prepared earliest. After confirming that three tiny runes had appeared on his arm again,

he poured all the demon cores he had collected into the Spirit-Offering Plate. Lin Zhangqing didn't count exactly how many demon cores there were.

Anyway, he just threw in whatever he had; he estimated the number of demon cores was around one hundred.

At this time, the sacrificial formation extracted the spiritual energy from the demon cores with all its might. After it was finished, a bit of golden light flashed and disappeared, landing on the back of Lin Zhangqing's hand.

But he looked at it again and again and couldn't find anything different. Suddenly, his heart stirred.

He felt that not showing the golden light on the back of his hand should be a kind of protection from this secret realm for the disciples participating in the final competition for the opportunity.

After all, the disciples who have the confidence to participate in the final competition for the opportunity should all be relatively outstanding existences in the sect.

If their information about participating in the competition for the final opportunity was leaked because of a mark, leading to them being besieged or targeted, it would be completely not worth the loss! It would also lose the meaning of cultivating disciples, so Lin Zhangqing suddenly understood and also understood the reason why that bit of golden light didn't appear on the back of his hand!

At this time, Chen Zi Ya walked over, carrying a pile of storage bags in her hand.

When she reached his side, she couldn't help but say, "Those six people should have ambushed many cultivators who came here in the past few days.

We found fifteen storage bags on the three of them. They are truly damnable!"

Lin Zhangqing nodded. He didn't find it strange at all that Chen Zi Ya could find so many storage bags; on the contrary, he would have felt something was wrong if there weren't these things.

(End of chapter)