Chapter 784: Major Disaster [First Update]

Boom!

The sound of spells roaring still echoed within the mountain peaks, accompanied by countless shrill screams. That ominous premonition was drawing closer and closer!

Soon, several figures darted across the cloudy sky, fleeing frantically as if something was chasing them from behind!

Xu Que frowned. He opened his Divine Sense, instantly covering that stretch of mountain peaks, only to discover that no one was chasing them out from there!

Then what were these people running from?

Whoosh!

Immediately, Xu Que waved his large hand. A majestic force condensed from the air, like an invisible giant hand, directly blocking the path of those few people.

"Fellow Daoists, stay your steps for a moment!" Xu Que reminded them.

However, those few seemed terrified out of their wits. They ran frantically, as if they hadn't even heard Xu Que's voice, and charged straight ahead.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Following several muffled thuds, those few people were instantly like flies being swatted, falling directly from the sky.

"Uh... I've never seen this kind of operation before!" Xu Que was speechless. He flicked his sleeves, and a gentle force surged from the air, turning into a sheet of seawater that suddenly caught them and sent them safely to the ground.

Those few were already so scared that their faces had lost all color. They got up and prepared to run, but were restrained in place by Xu Que's seawater.

The few immediately roared: "Run, run quickly!"

"Fellow brothers, nothing is chasing you. What are you afraid of? What exactly happened in that place?" Xu Que immediately walked forward and asked.

Only when the few cultivators heard this did they suddenly turn their heads. Afterward, they all breathed a sigh of relief in unison and slumped to the ground, their foreheads covered in cold sweat, wearing expressions of lingering fear.

"Hurry up and confess, what exactly happened to that mountain?" Er Gouzi darted out, pretending to be fierce as he asked loudly.

The few cultivators were already like birds startled by the mere twang of a bow; they were given a fright by Er Gouzi and nearly collapsed again!

"That's enough, Er Gouzi, stop messing around! Fellow Daoists, what exactly happened?" Xu Que asked again, already somewhat impatient.

At this moment, one of the cultivators looked at Xu Que, his lips still trembling, and said in terror: "There... there are Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes there, countless Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes. After so many years, Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes have actually reappeared on the Heaven Ascension Road. We are finished, finished!"

"Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes?" Xu Que was stunned for a moment; clearly, he had never heard of this species.

"This is bad!" Jiang Hongyan furrowed her beautiful brows at this moment and said in a low voice: "If it really is Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes, we must leave immediately!"

"Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes... are they that terrifying?" Xu Que asked curiously.

Although the name sounded quite badass, they shouldn't be this scared, right? They ran without even fighting, and he hadn't even had a chance to act cool yet. This didn't fit the style of his Exploding Heaven Gang!

"Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes are a type of living dead creature. Even if you shatter their physical bodies, they can still live. Only by accurately shattering their heads can they be killed! But this type of Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquito reproduces extremely quickly and feeds on the blood of cultivators. Once a cultivator's blood is consumed, their physical body will instantly transform into thousands of Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes, which are impossible to kill off!"

Speaking of this, Jiang Hongyan shook her head slightly and wondered: "But as far as I know, Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes were completely wiped out more than five thousand years ago. How could they reappear?"

Living dead creatures? They only die if you hit their heads, they drink blood, and then they reproduce from inside a person's physical body?

Damn, is this a combination of zombies, vampires, and aliens?

And it seems to be an upgraded, perverted version of an alien; just from one human body, it can reproduce into thousands of Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes!

Xu Que couldn't help but be stunned, but upon hearing Jiang Hongyan's latter sentence, he breathed a slight sigh of relief and smiled: "Little girl, since you also said this species was wiped out more than five thousand years ago, doesn't that mean there is actually a way to deal with this species?"

"No, there was a way back then, but I'm afraid there's no way now!"

Jiang Hongyan shook her head with a solemn expression: "I learned from ancient books that more than five thousand years ago, just over a thousand Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes nearly caused the entire Xuanzhen Continent to perish. At that time, the people were plunged into misery and suffering, and countless people died. The number of Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes expanded to hundreds of millions in just one day, and even Great Vehicle Stage experts couldn't contend with them. Later, twenty Immortal Realm experts appeared and joined forces to kill the Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes, and in the end, one Immortal Realm expert even sacrificed themselves because of it!"

"What? Twenty Immortals joined forces, and one died?" Xu Que was instantly stunned.

If that's the case, then maybe they really should run away.

If even Immortals can be killed, these Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes are truly defying the heavens!

"That is what is recorded. Almost everyone on the Xuanzhen Continent knows of this matter; it was a major disaster! If it weren't for the Immortals taking action, the Xuanzhen Continent would have been completely destroyed in just a few days!" Jiang Hongyan nodded. When she looked at that mountain peak again, her expression had become unprecedentedly serious and solemn.

At the same time, those few cultivators who had escaped had also gradually come to their senses.

They stood up from the ground, their faces pale, and said: "Two Fellow Daoists, let us leave. Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes are said to be able to devour even the heavens. I'm afraid that before long, the entire Heaven Ascension Road will be destroyed. We cannot continue to stay here!"

"Wait, speak clearly first. How exactly did these Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes pop out?" Xu Que asked.

The faces of the few cultivators changed slightly, and they looked at each other, seemingly finding it difficult to speak.

Xu Que frowned instantly and said in a deep voice: "I'll give you three breaths to speak, otherwise I don't mind throwing you back into that mountain!"

When the few heard this, they immediately shuddered and hurriedly said: "Fellow Daoist, this matter has nothing to do with us! It was an Immortal-Seeking Map spread by the Sage Palace, claiming that the road could lead to the end of the Heaven Ascension Road. As long as you enter the mountain valley and keep walking, you can find the opportunity to become an Immortal!"

"Sage Palace?" Jiang Hongyan furrowed her brows slightly when she heard this term.

The few cultivators hurriedly nodded and replied: "Yes, it is the Sage Palace! This is the Immortal-Seeking Map they spread. It is rumored to have been copied from an ancient map!"

One of them took out an animal skin map and handed it to Jiang Hongyan.

Afterward, the few continued: "Because there were people from the Sage Palace going together, many of us rushed over. We joined forces to shatter that giant rock, but never thought that there would be a nest of Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes inside that giant rock. Once the rock shattered, all the Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes flew out."

"More than three thousand people, a full three thousand people! In the end, they all died. Only we few were standing at the very back and luckily escaped."

Speaking of this, some people were already in tears.

I don't know if it was because they had survived a great disaster, or because they were reminded of that tragic scene from back then!

Xu Que could even mentally reconstruct the scene they had experienced at that time: the moment the giant rock shattered, one living person after another died before their eyes, and they had to watch helplessly as thousands of Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes crawled out of each person's corpse to continue devouring the rest.

At this rate of reproduction, three thousand people would have spawned at least three million Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes—truly terrifying!

"That's not right! If there really were that many Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes, why didn't we see them chase us out?" Xu Que suddenly asked suspiciously.

Just now, they had been keeping their eyes on that mountain peak, and apart from these few cultivators, they hadn't seen anything else fly out at all!

"They flew down that path in the valley!" one cultivator replied immediately. "I saw most of the Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes fly away inside at the time; there must be something in that path attracting them!"

"The only thing that could attract Heaven-Devouring Demon Mosquitoes more than a cultivator's blood is one other thing—the blood of an Immortal!" another cultivator said, his face deathly pale.

The blood of an Immortal?

Xu Que was stunned. Could it be that there really were the remains of an Immortal inside that path?

"Little fellow, take a look at this Immortal-Seeking Map!" Jiang Hongyan spoke up at this moment, handing over the Immortal-Seeking Map that the few cultivators had just surrendered.

Xu Que looked down and saw that the beast skin did indeed have a very detailed route map drawn on it, and there was also a pile of ancient text recorded on the side, looking like a diary or a last will and testament written by an ancient cultivator!

Xu Que scanned it briefly, then his expression suddenly changed. His eyes widened, staring fixedly at a certain spot in the text, and he exclaimed, "Space-Breaking Talisman!"

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