Chapter 503

At the end of the passage, there was suddenly a place full of spring vitality, only the "spring vitality" was really too abundant.

All the flowers, grasses, and trees were at least ten times, even over a hundred times larger than elsewhere; a dog-tail flower directly below had grown as large as a parasol tree.

In the distance, a expanse of red flowers and green grass stretched, with no end in sight.

Sun Bufan shouted: "I fell, I fell, holy shit, there are so many big trees below!"

"That's giant flower grass! You idiot!" Old Man Dao reminded slowly.

Sun Bufan snapped: "You think I don't know? I just didn't want to say it too seriously!"

Su Ji lightly laughed: "This old gentleman seems well-informed; the size of the plants down here is truly abnormal, calling them giant flower grass is quite fitting; I wonder if there are any other particularities?"

"What do you call him old gentleman, he's Old Stick!" Sun Bufan reminded.

Old Man Dao didn't bother with him, lightly said: "So-called giant flower grass, there's nothing special about it; this is the Demon Realm, demonic qi permeates, far denser than spiritual qi, plants and trees have long been corroded by demonic qi, so they naturally become huge."

"Ah, I see!" Su Ji, Si Tu Nan Fei, and several others nodded.

Sun Bufan widened his eyes: "He clearly didn't say anything!"

Heng Xian glanced at everyone: "Don't you feel your cultivation and spiritual power being suppressed? Are we falling down?"

A group of people had their cultivation suppressed to an extreme low; flying alone was barely manageable, but now one person was carrying several half-dead corpses, almost falling straight down.

"Uh..." Several people exchanged glances, then let out a frightened shout: "Ah..."

"Puff puff puff..."

The view shifted, figures intermingled, and finally they all fell together onto a huge leaf of some plant.

Heng Xian was the first to jump up; looking around, they were on a cluster of lotus flowers, the lotus leaves larger than houses, the nearby lotus petals like small hills, and the group had landed on more than ten lotus leaves; the leaves, bearing weight, bobbed up and down, swaying unstably.

He glanced at Lin Shuyu, Huo Yuanqing, and Xu Wei, who were standing near the center of the lotus leaf, and shouted to the surroundings: "How are you?"

"Not bad!"

"Not hurt from the fall!"

Sun Bufan, Old Man Dao, Si Tu Nan Fei, Zhou Zhan Yi, Su Ji, and others successively stood up from a lotus leaf.

Several people exchanged glances, each surveying the surroundings.

This place seemed like a lotus pond, except everything was unusually large; a single lotus leaf could cover a building, so the lotus pond might as well be a lotus lake.

"So where are we now?" Sun Bufan rubbed his nose.

Old Man Dao said: "Obviously, this is the Demon Realm!"

That's as good as saying nothing.

Zhou Zhan Yi said: "Our Great Expansion Sect has studied the Demon Realm; this kind of place is like a minor cave-treasure or minor ancient site, easy to enter, hard to leave unless you find a way out."

Si Tu Nan Fei said: "So we must survive, scout this place, and then find a good way to get out?"

Zhou Zhan Yi nodded: "Exactly!"

Sun Bufan cracked his knuckles: "Actually not bad; it's like an expedition, and I love expeditions!"

Zhou Zhan Yi warned: "In a world of demonic qi, expedition equals death, especially for those below Golden Core cultivation!"

Sun Bufan stared for a moment, then exploded: "You're trying to scare me, ask my master Heng Xian if he's willing!"

Saying this, he looked at Heng Xian: "Right, Master Heng?"

Heng Xian ignored him, instead surveying Lin Shuyu and the others nearby, and said: "The urgent priority now is to help them restore their vital energy; otherwise, even if we can survive, we'll be useless."

Everyone nodded.

Just then Sun Bufan suddenly exclaimed: "Damn! I lost someone!"

Everyone hurriedly looked over; indeed, of the three people Sun Bufan was carrying, one was missing!

Heng Xian silently counted those who had come down; besides the few awake among them, the rest remaining were:

Lingtai Mountain's Nun Yuanmiao.

Eastern Emperor Palace's Huangfu Taiqing.

Spirit Sword Sect's Du Qiyue.

Mile Temple's Monk Tiancong.

Overlord Sect's Jiang Ruoyan.

Fallen Cloud Valley's Shen Qiong and Wan Baolu.

Great Expansion Sect's Yu Qiuyi.

Blue Mountain Sect's He Bijie and Du Lingjuan.

Plus the members of Tianyuan Sect, twenty-one in total.

So…

Has the Blue Mountain Sect's Du Lingjuan disappeared?!

This girl is the second-ranked genius disciple of the Blue Mountain Sect, only inferior to He Bijie, lovely and charming; she was originally held by Sun Bufan, but now she is not on the lotus leaf beneath his feet.

"Could it be… she, like Shen Kai, is a spy?" Sun Bufan's face grew grim.

As soon as he finished speaking, Old Man Dao lashed out angrily: "Damn you, you little brat! You let her slip, and she got flung out!"

Everyone was reminded, and they quickly exerted whatever spiritual power remained, stepping on the lotus leaves toward the edge to look down; sure enough, Du Lingjuan fell into the river below, swept away by a current, but midway she was blocked by a strange mass.

"Ah, I see!" Sun Bufan exhaled in relief, lifted his head to meet the angry gazes of the crowd, and could only rub his nose, saying, "The urgent priority now is to rescue her!"

"Shh! Don't make a sound!"

Su Ji suddenly whispered a reminder.

Everyone instantly focused their attention, quietly took a look, and discovered that in the water not far from Du Lingjuan there was a house-sized toad, fixated on her, its basin-sized eyeballs rolling about, its intentions obvious without need for words!

Everyone's hearts leapt to their throats; at this moment, suppressed by the demonic qi filling heaven and earth, those present seemed to have no easy way to slay such a huge toad.

Su Ji looked at Old Man Dao: "Senior, you are well-informed; do you have any way to rescue Du Lingjuan?"

Before Old Man Dao could answer, Sun Bufan said confidently: "This is simple; it's said that toads are blind, they don't sense dead things; it's staring at Du Lingjuan merely because it was attracted by the movement when she just fell, so right now it's hard to locate her."

We only need to make some movement, disturb the toad's perception, then it won't be able to find Du Lingjuan's existence.

"Is...?" Everyone was half-believing, half-doubting.

"The 'ma' character is gone!" Sun Bufan said confidently, pursing his lips and whistling at the toad: "Whoo~"

As the whistle began, the toad was startled, its tongue shot out, wrapping Du Lingjuan and swallowing it toward its belly.

Sun Bufan's whistle stopped abruptly.

The surroundings became especially quiet!

Seeing Du Lingjuan about to enter the toad's bloody maw, Su Ji shouted angrily: "Attack!"

He tapped his foot, leapt down, and headed straight for the toad's head.

Seeing this, Heng Xian, the only one among the rest in good shape, had to spring off his foot and jump down as well.

However, he didn't land on the toad's head; instead, he fell on a withered lotus stem between the toad's tongue and Du Lingjuan, drew the Chi Mei Sword, and swung it.

"Pfft—"

The toad's tongue snapped, and Du Lingjuan flowed out with the water.

Heng Xian had no choice but to jump onto another lotus stem and reach out to grab her.

Meanwhile, Su Ji had already turned her fingers into swords, slain the toad; the huge toad let out a miserable "Ah!" cry, flipped belly-up, looking especially eerie.

(End of chapter)