Chapter 98

The distance of fifty or sixty zhang, with Li Youyi's current cultivation, could be crossed in a moment.

But being in this underground spider cave with dim light, dense spider webs, and hidden dangers, it seemed unusually deep, as if walking step by step into a weird and dark nether world.

His spirit was highly tense, his five senses were fully released, and he was vigilant about his feet and all directions.

Walking forty-odd zhang towards that purple meat cistanche, getting closer and closer, Li Youyi stopped and looked back.

Ten zhang away, Yin Twenty-four's slender and thin figure was slightly blurred, but he could see her cold and beautiful face. Further away, Seeing Yao Yin by the blood river was only the size of a finger, almost completely integrated with the darkness.

Already very far.

Further ahead is the unknown area shrouded in purple fog.

How powerful the seven Phoenix-Wing Moth Emperors were, but after entering, they disappeared without a trace and haven't returned yet. As the owner, Li Youyi lost contact with them.

In the center of the purple fog, that meat cistanche was more than a meter high, emitting crystal luster and flowing light. But Li Youyi no longer had any greed for its alluring posture and the medicinal fragrance it released, but felt that it was like a snake-scorpion beauty who took off her clothes and showed her charm to the fullest, extremely dangerous.

Yin Twenty-four tightened the spider rope and nodded to him.

With a Five Seas Realm expert supporting him from behind, Li Youyi felt a bit more confident in his heart, held the Huang Long Sword, secretly mobilized magic power to activate the corpse clothing soft armor he was wearing, and then, took a step into the purple fog area.

"Whoosh!"

Like stepping into the center of a storm, his body couldn't stand steadily, left the ground, and everything in his field of vision disappeared.

Inside the purple fog area, it was not as calm as its surface, filled with chaotic power.

Li Youyi was horrified in his heart, while shouting "pull me back", he tried hard to stabilize his body, his feet landed on the ground, and he stumbled out of the purple fog area, and then, his whole person was sluggish.

He was no longer in the spider cave.

"This is... what place..."

Under his feet was fine black sand, so fine that it was like dust.

In the field of vision, the space was vast, and there were mounds like Yardang landforms, weird and rugged, full of wind-eroded ridges.

It was the light of the purple meat cistanche that illuminated this place.

A hundred zhang away was the edge of the purple light, blurred by darkness. But Li Youyi believed that in the darkness, there was a wider territory.

The spider rope on his waist had long since broken for some reason, and he looked back suddenly. The purple fog was still shrouded there, rolling in the wind, changing into various different forms.

"Li... Youyi..."

A blurred and distant voice sounded.

After a while, Yin Twenty-four drifted in the purple fog like a light leaf, and suddenly fell sideways.

Li Youyi waved his hand to strike a wisp of magic energy, she quickly found her body balance, and drifted to the ground.

With her feet on the ground, she immediately noticed that the ground here was wrong, softer than the desert, and her legs sank half a foot deep.

Release magic energy.

Her body became light, and her legs slowly pulled away.

After observing the surroundings, the shock in Yin Twenty-four's eyes became stronger and stronger: "How can there be such a weird place underground around the Nine Li Insect Valley, this doesn't look much like the nest of Flying Wing White Spiders."

"Why didn't you pull me back?" Li Youyi asked.

Yin Twenty-four glared at him, her eyes big and round: "I have already tried my best to pull, the spider rope broke, and I couldn't pull it at all."

Li Youyi realized the seriousness of the problem, while being vigilant about the surroundings, walked towards the purple fog, and said: "You shouldn't have come in! You should have taken Seeing Yao Yin and left the spider cave immediately, and gone to find the Hidden Lord for help. I feel this land... place..."

Li Youyi just took a step into the purple fog, and immediately lost his center of gravity, was rolled back by an incomparably chaotic and strong force, and thrown several zhang away.

Yin Twenty-four spat out a breath, turned into a breeze, and wrapped him.

She certainly knew what Li Youyi said was the most correct strategy, but said stubbornly: "I am in the Five Seas Realm, I have the responsibility and obligation to bring you back intact."

After Li Youyi landed and stood firm, a wary look appeared in his eyes, pointing to the purple fog, as if saying "You are in the Five Seas Realm, then you come".

Yin Twenty-four had a strong demeanor, released thick magic energy on her palms, and walked towards the purple fog, opening the way with her palms, wanting to forcibly tear open a way out.

But the magic energy on her palms dissipated into nothingness when it touched the purple fog.

The stronger the power she hit, the stronger the reaction force.

"Bang!"

Yin Twenty-four flew back and fell heavily to the ground. Li Youyi wanted to catch her but it was too late.

Her slender body was almost completely submerged in the black sand. After a while, she climbed out again, naturally embarrassed, her face full of dust, her hair bun loose, and her waist-length hair hanging down messily.

Yin Twenty-four quickly adjusted her self-state and restored the cold and proud expert demeanor: "Be careful of the black sand on the ground, if you don't use magic energy to support your feet and body, you might be buried by it, fall into the deep underground, and suffocate to death."

Li Youyi had long noticed this point, mobilized magic power to his eyes and looked into the distance, and said: "This place doesn't look naturally formed, or there are unfathomable dangers. I only hope Seeing Yao Yin can be smarter and return to the Hidden Sect for help."

"Whoosh!"

That purple fog surged again.

Seeing Yao Yin in a white cloud-shirt fell from inside.

Li Youyi sighed with his eyes closed.

Yin Twenty-four immediately stepped forward, as if hating iron for not becoming steel: "Why did you come in? We two are trapped, you should leave the spider cave immediately and go find the Hidden Lord for help."

Ignoring the two women behind him, Li Youyi searched around and found the seven Phoenix-Wing Moth Emperors.

They were flying around a wind-eroded pillar six or seven meters high, excitedly and happily gnawing on the sand on it. Li Youyi felt puzzled, used mental power to communicate with them, but received a terrifying response that made his heart creep.

They said they were eating meat cistanche treasure medicine.

But that purple meat cistanche was clearly dozens of zhang away...

What they were eating was clearly the sand on the wind-eroded pillar.

Li Youyi's scalp was numb, his back was sweating, and he hurriedly told them the truth with mental power, but it was useless. The seven Phoenix-Wing Moth Emperors firmly believed that they were eating treasure medicine.

"Not very good... ah, this place has great danger!"

Li Youyi's voice trembled, wanting to rush over and bring the seven Phoenix-Wing Moth Emperors back, but just as he took a step forward, he immediately took his foot back, afraid of following in their footsteps.

So, he mobilized mental power, engraved insect texts, and forcibly ordered them to return.

The insect texts in the seven Phoenix-Wing Moth Emperors flickered, unable to resist Li Youyi, whose mental power realm reached "square-inch bright fire", and flapped their wings and flew back. But just as they flew to Li Youyi's side, they fell to the ground, their bellies swollen like balls, hard when pinched.

Yin Twenty-four and Seeing Yao Yin had long come behind Li Youyi, naturally discovered the weird situation earlier, and were so scared that they just wanted to escape immediately.

"Hurry and go!"

Li Youyi put the seven Phoenix-Wing Moth Emperors into the insect tube, rushed to the purple fog, activated the Huang Long Sword, and slashed over.

Yin Twenty-four and Seeing Yao Yin also used their means to hit power.

Unfortunately, not only did they not open a way, but the area shrouded in purple fog became smaller and smaller after being attacked, and finally disappeared directly.

"What's going on?"

Li Youyi rushed forward, first waving his sword, then waving his hand, the area where the purple fog was before was empty, and there was nothing. His expression was extremely ugly: "This is completely stuck!"

Seeing Yao Yin squatted down and studied the fine dust black sand on the ground: "Sister, do you think this could be an ash region?"

Yin Twenty-four had long noticed, and said gravely: "Perhaps, but how is this possible, this is underground. Books record that the smallest ash region is also hundreds of miles wide."

"What is an ash region?" Li Youyi asked.

Seeing Yao Yin said: "I haven't seen it with my own eyes, just recorded in books, there are six or seven such mysterious places in the Lingxiao Life Realm. In these mysterious places, living beings are extinct and crises are everywhere, so each ash region is also called an ash hell."

"In the records, the largest and most dangerous ash region is located west of the domain province in the Western Region, which is tens of thousands of miles wide and cannot be crossed by human power. Legend has it that it is the trace left by an ancient immortal burning a life realm."

"Look at the sand on the ground, doesn't it look like ash formed after plants are burned? It's too soft, if you don't use magic energy to support your body, we will sink into the deep underground little by little."

Li Youyi didn't have much concept of the ash region, but he knew how dangerous the current predicament was, and said: "With our cultivation, I'm afraid we can't release magic energy all the time, we must find a way out as soon as possible."

Yin Twenty-four looked up, spat out a magic energy mist bridge from her mouth. Twisting her slender waist, she jumped up, stepped on the mist bridge, and went to find the top of this ash region.

Rushing up more than ten zhang, she fell back and was caught by the magic energy hit by Li Youyi.

"How is it?"

She shook her head, her mood heavy: "Can't see the top, this place can't be measured by common sense at all."

Li Youyi pondered for a moment, took out the ghost flag, unfolded it and placed it on the ground, sat on it, and used it to buffer the natural sinking of his body. He closed his eyes and used mental power to ask the three masters in the blood mud space for advice.

The three elders were knowledgeable and experienced, not comparable to those two fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls.

What Five Seas Realm expert, encountering real danger, can't rely on it at all.

Coffin Master said: "I don't know much about the Hidden Sect, but I don't know that there is such a strange place hidden. Listening to your description, it is indeed very like an ash region."

"There are many dangers in the ash region, strange and weird. The situation of the seven Phoenix-Wing Moth Emperors earlier is hard to guess what they encountered. But, it is nothing more than some mysterious power from the outside world interfering with consciousness."

"You can try your unique breathing method to make your consciousness clear and free from the influence of the outside environment."

Master Lingwei said: "You can also try mental power! I will teach you a mental technique that can practice a spirit eye."

Master Guan said: "Use golden trace veins to shine, or you can shine out the evil. As long as the yang energy is strong enough, it will be invulnerable to all evil."

Master Guan didn't mention it, but when he mentioned it, Li Youyi immediately thought of the time when the Shi Liuyu Talisman was planted, which was very close to four months. The pills the Hidden Lord said had not been received.

No one knows when the Shi Liuyu Talisman will erupt.

Being trapped in this damn place all the time will be a very troublesome thing.

Coffin Master said: "Since you can come in, there must be a way to get out. The key is that you have to see through the layout here first. I feel that this ash region looks like it was made by humans."

Li Youyi's mental power withdrew from the blood mud space, and he glanced at the two women who were trying various methods to find a way out a few zhang away. They should not have discovered that the Dao Ancestor Taiji Fish had just been activated.

"Inside the evil camel bell, some food is stored, but three people eating, I'm afraid it won't last for a few days."

He cleared all distracting thoughts and began to practice the spirit eye mental technique taught by Master Lingwei.

About three hours later, Yin Twenty-four and Seeing Yao Yin used all kinds of methods, let alone finding a way out, their magic energy was exhausted. They had to sit on the ghost flag and perform breathing methods to adjust their breath and restore their state.

"Whoosh!"

Li Youyi pinched the finger formula, held it over his head, and then slowly lowered it from his eyebrows.

The spirit light bright fire escaped from the eyebrows and condensed into a golden light eye.

According to Senior Lingwei, this is a strange technique of the Taoist sect, called "Heavenly Communication Eye", which is completely different from the mental power eye of ordinary Great Mind Masters. Even if it is just the beginning, it can break illusions, penetrate gauze, and observe subtle traces.

It is her unique skill!

Once relied on this unique skill, she defeated Coffin Master in the technique of opening the coffin, thus creating a bond and forming a marriage.

Li Youyi peeked into the distance with the Heavenly Communication Eye between his eyebrows, and the golden light shone in all directions. He saw that the positions of the wind-eroded mounds like Yardang landforms were offset, just like two worlds overlapping in the wrong place.

There is no doubt that one world is true and the other is false.

Standing up immediately, he quickly took off his upper robe, revealing strong and beautiful muscle lines.

"Whoosh! Whoosh..."

Golden trace veins appeared under his skin, like a group of dragons intertwined, walking all over his body, illuminating the surroundings.

Yin Twenty-four was startled, sitting on the ghost flag, looking up, her eyes filled with surprise, indescribably shocked. She had always considered herself a top genius, and after reaching the Five Seas Realm, she looked down on the young generation, and few people could catch her eye.

But Li Youyi standing beside her, only in the Eight Springs realm, the divine aura erupting from his body was not inferior to Five Seas Realm martial cultivators and Great Mind Masters. She suspected that once Li Youyi broke through to Nine Springs, he could compete with her with hard strength.

Seeing Yao Yin's eyes were rippling, not hiding the amazement and appreciation in her eyes at all. Li Youyi's body was simply sculpted and created by the gods, not only full of beauty, but also having a masculine charm that could suck people's souls in.

(End of chapter)