Chapter 1284: How Could It Be Like This?

That day, Xu Que and his group stepped directly out of the mountain range and rushed toward the Buried Immortal Valley.

According to his usual habits, he might have visited some old friends first before starting on serious business.

But this time was different; the time left for the China Team was already... pfft, no, the time left for him was already running out!

Xu Que was worried about complications, and he was also very curious to know what kind of crisis Xuan Yuan Wanrong had encountered—whether it was a problem with herself or if she had encountered a powerful enemy.

If it was the former, and it was just a problem with Xuan Yuan Wanrong herself, then Xu Que still had time to find a solution. If it was the latter, and some powerful expert had truly appeared to deal with Xuan Yuan Wanrong, then the situation would be quite dire, and they could only rely on the souls of Xuan Yuan Qishang and Guan Chuchu to put up a fight!

So time was still very tight; there were less than three days left until the predicted day of death!

"Boom!"

Soon, Xu Que and his group pierced through the firmament and appeared outside the Buried Immortal Valley.

With their current strength, traversing this distance didn't take much time.

But now, they all stood outside the Buried Immortal Valley, stopping their advance, their faces grave as they frowned.

"How could it be like this?"

"Did a great battle take place here?"

"No wonder when we arrived just now, I felt that some places were deathly still. This God Venerable thought those people had moved, but now it seems something is wrong!"

Xu Que, Duan Jiude, and Er Gouzi were all secretly shocked.

Liu Jingning was also in disbelief.

At this moment, the area outside the Buried Immortal Valley had become a battlefield ruin, filled with craters and marks from Dharma spells, and in some places, crimson bloodstains remained. Fragments of broken Dharma artifacts were scattered everywhere, but not a single cultivator's corpse was to be seen!

It was obvious that this place had experienced more than one great battle, and at least hundreds of thousands of people had participated simultaneously; cultivators of all realms had been involved.

Moreover, they had traveled all the way from the distant mountains, and in some places they were once familiar with, they couldn't sense any cultivator's aura. Other places were deathly still; the entire Eastern Wasteland seemed too quiet, a far cry from the prosperity they had seen before they left!

"Could it be that some strange treasure appeared, leading them to slaughter each other like this?" Mo Junchen looked at the marks on the battlefield and speculated.

"That shouldn't be possible!" Xu Que shook his head, frowning. "I feel like an outside enemy attacked. There's a scent lingering in this place."

"That's right, a familiar scent!" Er Gouzi also nodded.

Duan Jiude was startled: "What scent? Why didn't I smell anything?"

Xu Que and Er Gouzi looked at each other and spoke simultaneously: "The scent of seafood!"

"Sea... seafood?" Duan Jiude immediately covered his crotch, astonished.

Liu Jingning was also stunned: "Seafood? Could it be that people from the Northern Sea have slaughtered their way here? But... that's not right. The Northern Sea has the Kunpeng Clan guarding it, and the Sea Race demon beasts there wouldn't dare to cause trouble. How could they have slaughtered their way to the Eastern Wasteland!"

"Actually, besides the Northern Sea, there seems to be another place that also hides a large number of the Sea Race!" Xu Que said in a deep voice.

He had already vaguely guessed who the invading enemies were.

Even the crisis Xuan Yuan Wanrong encountered might be related to those invaders!

"Kid, could it be those ones from the Fire Origin Kingdom back then?" Er Gouzi reacted quickly and asked immediately.

"It's very likely!" Xu Que nodded.

Back when he was returning from the Water Origin Kingdom to the Fire Origin Kingdom, he had captured several Sea Race members in the Imperial Palace—things like geoducks and giant octopuses—who had transformed into human forms to cause trouble in the Fire Origin Kingdom, but they were eventually suppressed and killed by him.

At that time, he hadn't been to the Four Great Continents yet and thought those Sea Race members came from there. But after extracting some clues, he realized those Sea Race members existed in the vast sea area between the Five Elements Mountain and the Four Great Continents. Their population was huge, and there might even be a Dragon Race living there.

But at the time, Xu Que didn't care. After killing them, he returned to the Water Origin Kingdom to prepare to meet Jiang Hongyan and set off for the Four Great Continents. As it turned out, Jiang Hongyan had left a step ahead, and Xu Que had no choice but to rush over. Afterward, he embarked on his path of acting cool in the Four Great Continents and gradually put the Sea Race matter out of his mind.

But returning this time, he smelled that scent of seafood lingering on the battlefield, and he immediately remembered that geoduck spirit from back then; the scent was too similar.

Therefore, he speculated that the Sea Race might have invaded the Eastern Wasteland, and the Eastern Wasteland cultivators had launched a resistance. After several fierce battles, the Eastern Wasteland cultivators had suffered countless casualties.

As for who won...

Xu Que's gaze slowly swept across the surroundings and finally landed on the entrance of the Buried Immortal Valley, his eyes narrowing slightly.

"Er Gouzi, go over there and smell it. See if there's any scent of seafood in that place!" Xu Que pointed to the entrance of the Buried Immortal Valley and said to Er Gouzi.

"Damn, I'm not going. Do you think this God Venerable is a dog? You tell me to smell wherever you want?" Er Gouzi said with an arrogant face.

"Go on. Maybe we'll have seafood soup to drink soon!"

After Xu Que said this with a smile, a phantom image instantly turned into a stream of light and darted forward; it was Er Gouzi.

It landed quickly at the entrance of the Buried Immortal Valley, twitched its nose, smelled it, and immediately shook its head: "Kid, there's a scent of seafood here too, but it's much fainter!"

"Go in a bit further!" Xu Que waved his hand, signaling Er Gouzi to go deeper.

Er Gouzi didn't think much and stepped forward.

However, after rushing out a few dozen meters, there was a muffled "Boom," and a black flame descended from the sky, slamming directly onto Er Gouzi.

"Who touched me?" Er Gouzi was startled, quickly landed on the ground, turned its head to look, and saw a patch of black fire burning under its feet, its eyes immediately widening.

"Awoo!"

The next moment, it let out a heart-wrenching scream, jumped out of the fire, and rolled around on the ground!

Duan Jiude and Mo Junchen's mouths twitched instantly.

This idiot was clearly completely fine. Not only could that flame not burn a single hair on it, but even that explosive slam was just like someone touching it for a moment.

Yet this idiot was determined to act as if it were in great pain; it was truly something else!

"Alright, stop acting!"

Xu Que couldn't watch anymore and shook his head, shouting.

Liu Jingning was between laughter and tears, but she also looked at Xu Que: "You discovered it long ago, right? There's a restriction formation in that place!"

"I was just guessing! But now I can be certain. The people of the Eastern Wasteland might be hiding inside, and they set up a formation at the entrance... No, they probably couldn't set up a formation of this power. Maybe the Sea Race did it, trapping them inside... No, that reason doesn't hold up either!" Xu Que speculated.

He suspected the Sea Race wanted to trap the Eastern Wasteland cultivators inside and kill them slowly.

But on second thought, that didn't seem reasonable. If the Sea Race's strength far exceeded that of the Eastern Wasteland cultivators, why didn't they just chase them inside, instead of setting up a formation at the entrance of the Buried Immortal Valley?

"Damn, Kid, come here quickly. There's a Sea Race spy hiding here!" At this moment, Er Gouzi suddenly screamed.

A Sea Race spy?

Xu Que and the others were startled upon hearing this and turned their heads to look.

Er Gouzi was standing on the ground, its claws pinching a tiny worm... No, if you looked closely, that wasn't a worm, but a fish as small as a worm!

"Damn, your Sea Race intelligence is quite high, huh? Too bad you met this God Venerable. Otherwise, if you had really crawled into this God Venerable's ass just now, I really wouldn't have been able to catch you!" Er Gouzi pulled the tiny fish, sneering at it with a playful and proud face.

【I never expected that after avoiding Germany and Brazil, I would end up falling to Colombia, actually losing to the Japanese team! If it weren't for the update, I would already be on the rooftop!】 ===== CHAPTER 1285 =====