The wind was howling, the barrier was crumbling, the sandstorm outside was still going on, and the coarse sand was like countless knives, ready to cut everything apart.
Ye Su wanted to find You Fushi, but if she wanted to leave she would have to open the barrier, and now the barrier was the only barrier protecting everyone.
"When the sandstorm is over, we'll go find them." Xu Chengyu pushed Ye Su down again and shouted, "Protect yourself first!"
Ye Su lowered his head and lay down, releasing spiritual power on the ground with one hand, supporting the barrier with others, and using the other hand to open the communication jade plate, trying to contact You Fushi.
—No response, the communication jade plate is ineffective.
All five of them were cultivators at the Jindan realm or above. The barrier they jointly created was still unable to withstand the wind and sand from the outside world.
Ma Congqiu couldn't hold on for a moment, and the barrier on his side broke instantly, and countless wind and sand swept in.
“Senior Brother!”
"From Qiu!"
Lu Jiu beside her stretched out a hand and wanted to hold Ma Congqiu, but the dust storm was too strong, and she also had to take care of the barrier, so she had no extra strength.
At the critical moment, Ye Su threw out a ground-escaping talisman and hit it on the back of Ma Congqiu's head.
But the world below was too strange, and the earth-escaping talisman didn't work well. Ma Congqiu's head and upper body were instantly buried under the wasteland, basically maintaining an upside-down position. However, he stretched out a strong hand and tried to hold up the barrier again.
"Don't get close to me!" When Lu Jiu saw Ma Congqiu's "miserable condition", he immediately said to Ye Su in panic. He didn't know where the strength came from, but he squeezed out the spiritual power from his almost exhausted spiritual palace again to strengthen the barrier.
Ye Su: “…”
"Actually... this is pretty good." Ma Congqiu said in a muffled voice, with half of his body buried in the soil, "I can't even hear the harsh wind outside. You can try it."
"Senior Brother, please save your energy." Zhou Yun said helplessly.
Xu Chengyu looked up at the black sandstorm in front of him: "I don't know how long they will stay. We can't hold on for long."
Ye Su did not reply. She was looking for some talismans that could be used, but the effect of almost every talisman was greatly reduced.
"Congqiu, take out the spirit stones." Xu Chengyu said. He held up most of Zhou Yun's barrier, and Zhou Yun took over half of Lu Jiu's barrier. In this way, Ma Congqiu would have some buffer.
"Wait a moment." Ma Congqiu's upper body was still on the ground. He struggled to untie the Qiankun bag with one hand, grabbed a handful of it, first filled his spiritual palace and restored some spiritual power, then poured out some high-quality spirit stones and left them behind, and passed on the rest.
"The black sandstorm cannot be there forever. We just need to hold on for a while and wait for it to disperse." Xu Chengyu left some spirit stones and then handed the bag of spirit stones to Ye Su.
Ye Su lay on the ground, crushing the spirit stone in his hand, and the dim sea of consciousness in his spiritual palace gradually filled up again.
She looked at the black swirling sandstorms, then suddenly closed her eyes and looked inward.
I still can't get close to the sea of consciousness and can only watch from afar.
Ye Su stared at the sea of consciousness. This was her spiritual palace and everything inside should be controlled by her. No matter how powerful the sea of consciousness was, if it could not be used for her own benefit, it should get out of the spiritual palace.
Perhaps it was sensing the emotions of the owner of the spiritual palace, the golden sea of consciousness rolled violently, and the waves constantly hit the edge.
Ye Su stared expressionlessly at the sea of consciousness in his spiritual palace. The brighter the golden light of his spiritual palace became, the dimmer his sea of consciousness became.
After a long time, the sea of consciousness gradually calmed down and seemed to become unusually docile.
Ye Su's mind moved, and she moved to the top of the sea of consciousness. This was the first time she saw the true appearance of the sea of consciousness.
From a distance it looks like a sea, but when looking down from above it looks like a golden Milky Way, with stars floating and spiritual consciousness flowing slowly.
Ye Su couldn't see her golden elixir, it seemed that it had really dissolved into her sea of consciousness.
She moved close to her sea of consciousness and reached out to touch it in her mind. Instead of the cold feeling of water, she felt countless spiritual consciousnesses flowing through her fingers, carrying with them a misty fog.
Ye Su's mind moved, and he scooped up a handful of spiritual consciousness. Golden light rose like mist.
She opened her eyes and looked at the sandstorm outside the barrier. When she closed her eyes again, the vision brought by her spiritual sense swept across a thousand miles. It was all barren black soil and the sandstorm was raging on this land.
Among the people at the foot of the high slope, only Xu Chengyu, who was in the early stage of Nascent Soul, noticed the sudden appearance of a spiritual consciousness.
They were too close, and Xu Chengyu had no way of knowing who it was.
How could Ye Su have spiritual consciousness?
Could it be that she has been hiding her realm all along?
He was confused and puzzled, but he didn't dare to distract himself too much and could only reinforce the barrier.
Ye Su's spiritual awareness seemed to have no limits and continued to extend and expand, but he never found the three missing people.
Just as she was about to withdraw her spiritual sense, she suddenly noticed another sunken cave not far from the high slope.
Ye Su's spiritual sense stopped and he went into the cave without hesitation.
In the cave, Cheng Huaian and Lian Lian fell asleep, lying on the ground, with two animal skin ropes tied around their waists. In the middle, a man with messy hair, a beard and long eyebrows was holding the ropes in his hands.
The two men were breathing steadily and didn't seem to be injured. Ye Su just breathed a sigh of relief when the long-bearded and long-browed man lying on the ground seemed to notice that there was a spiritual consciousness spying on him. He suddenly raised his eyes and pointed a finger: "Huh!"
At that moment, Ye Su's consciousness was bounced back.
Inside the barrier on the high slope, Ye Su shuddered all over, opened his eyes, and his consciousness returned to his sea of consciousness again.
Xu Chengyu beside him was familiar with Ye Su's reaction: "Did someone find you?"
Ye Su was not surprised that he discovered that he had used his spiritual sense, and only said: "Cheng Huaian and Lian Lian are fine for the time being, there are other people inside."
She recalled the man's appearance and dress, and added, "He has been here for a long time."
"Have you been here for a long time?" Xu Chengyu thought for a moment and understood, "Who has entered the secret realm of the deserted city before?"
"It should be. The two of them are in his hands." Ye Su still couldn't find any trace of You Fushi.
She brought the person here, and she has to take him out safely.
"Since there are people alive down there, this black sandstorm will surely dissipate." Xu Chengyu relaxed a little, "Let's hold on until it disappears."
Fortunately, Ma Congqiu still had 10,000 high-quality spirit stones on him, enough to sustain them for a while.
…
About twelve hours later, the momentum of the black sandstorm finally weakened and even showed signs of disappearing.
The five people were afraid that it was just an illusion and that the sandstorm might come again, so they waited for another hour before removing the barrier.
"Fellow Daoist Lu, Junior Sister Zhou." Ma Congqiu supported himself on the ground with shaking hands, "Please help me and pull me out."
Lu Jiu and Zhou Yun held back their laughter, each holding one of his legs and pulling him out.
As soon as Ma Congqiu came out, he took the earth escape talisman from the back of his head, sat on the ground and looked at Ye Su: "The effect of your talisman is too good."
Ye Su glanced at him, and suddenly stepped onto the high slope with Xu Chengyu, looking from afar at the man who walked out of the receding sandstorm.
He was wearing a dirty and tattered robe, his hair was gray, and his face was covered with beard, so his appearance was impossible to tell.
"Who is that?" Ma Congqiu and a few others also stood up and asked when they saw someone in the distance.
"The two people behind are Cheng Huaian and Lian Lian!" Zhou Yun raised his hand to block his eyes, looked for a while and said, "They are still alive!"
Lu Jiu murmured, "Why does it feel like he's walking so fast?"
"Shrink the ground into an inch!" Xu Chengyu's pupils shrank. This was clearly a move that could only be performed by those in the fusion stage.