After the brown-armored lizard disappeared into the yellow sand, the desert suddenly returned to its calm, as if nothing had happened before.
Xu Chunniang retracted her white spear and was not deceived by the calm appearance before her. She was carefully on guard against the brown-armored lizard that might appear at any time.
At this moment, the yellow sand under her feet suddenly moved!
It was a brown-armored lizard lurking under the yellow sand that suddenly launched an attack.
Xu Chunniang held the spear in her hand, pressed it down hard, and used the force to bounce up to avoid the attack.
Then he flipped over in the air, turned the tip of the gun downward, and stabbed straight at the head of the brown-armored lizard.
The brown-armored lizard was about to escape into the yellow sand again after missing the attack, but its head was pierced through by the white spear and nailed to the yellow sand.
From the brown-armored lizard's sudden attack to its counterattack, everything happened in a flash.
Xu Chunniang pulled out a white spear and used the spear tip to cut open the body of the brown-armored lizard.
The brown-armored lizard is extremely poisonous, but the gall in its body is a sacred object for detoxification, and its effectiveness is comparable to that of a second-level detoxification pill.
As for other parts of the brown armored lizard, they are all poisonous, so they can only be discarded with great reluctance.
She used her white spear to pick out the gallbladder and put it away, then cast a fireball to burn the brown-armored lizard's body.
After doing all this, Xu Chunniang got back on the road, three points faster than before.
After killing the brown-armored lizard, she became more aware of the crisis of the Yellow Sand Desert and realized that she must leave here as soon as possible.
Xiaobai seemed to have noticed something. He lost his initial excitement, became silent, and curled up into a ball.
Xu Chunniang hurried on her way at full speed and simply put Xiaobai into the spirit beast bag.
She would avoid any monsters she encountered on the road if she could, and would only fight them when she really couldn't avoid them.
This area of the Yellow Sand Desert is extremely barren, without even a trace of any spiritual creatures. Killing these monsters is not only laborious, but the benefits are also meager, and it is a sheer waste of time.
After traveling for five days, the mountains in the distance that seemed like the horizon now seemed much closer and were no longer out of reach.
In the evening, the sky gradually darkened.
Xu Chunniang noticed the change in the sky and frowned slightly.
The experience of the past few days taught her that traveling at night was extremely dangerous.
Most of the monsters in the yellow sand desert are nocturnal. They hibernate during the day and come out to move and look for food at night.
Therefore, the number of monsters appearing at night is several times greater than that appearing during the day.
In addition to the monsters, the quicksand that can be seen everywhere in the yellow desert is also a big killer.
Quicksand looks no different from ordinary yellow sand, but no matter whether it is a cultivator or a monster, once they step into the quicksand, they will easily fall into it and be swallowed up whole.
Although monks can see at night to a certain extent, the light at night is insufficient and there are many limitations. Therefore, for safety reasons, Xu Chunniang did not choose to travel at night.
She looked around, preparing to find a corner to rest, but suddenly heard a slight "rustling" sound.
As the wind blew, the slight "rustling" sound disappeared, as if it had never existed.
Xu Chunniang did not relax her vigilance and turned to look in the direction where the sound first came from.
"Rustle, rustle."
That sound happened again!
And this time, it is clearer and more specific than before.
Xu Chunniang held a white spear in her hand and looked calmly in the direction of the sound, ready to take action at any time.
But at this moment, the "rustling" sound disappeared again.
As the sound disappeared, a yellowish-brown figure broke through the sand and bounced towards where Xu Chunniang was. It was actually a sand scorpion at the seventh level of Qi training!
The sand scorpion's tail stood up high, emitting a poisonous needle.
After the first sand scorpion broke out of the sand, the second and third sand scorpions soon appeared, and their cultivation levels were not much different from the previous one.
Facing the sand scorpion's poisonous needle attack, Xu Chunniang remained calm. A small round shield appeared out of thin air in front of it, blocking all the poisonous needles.
At the same time, she quickly stabbed the white spear in her hand, piercing the bodies of the three sand scorpions.
In the yellow sand desert, sand scorpions are the most common creatures. Xu Chunniang has encountered them several times in the past few days, so she is very good at dealing with them.
But after killing the three sand scorpions, there was no relaxation on her face, but she became more solemn.
Judging from her experience of dealing with sand scorpions in the past few days, these things always appear in a nest, and it is impossible for there to be only three.
Sure enough, not long after, the "rustling" sound appeared again. It was very faint at first, but as time went on, the sound became louder and more rapid.
In the end, this sound could be heard throughout almost the entire yellow sand desert.
Xu Chunniang's expression changed slightly. The previous waves of sand scorpions she encountered had no more than a dozen in number, but in this situation, there were probably more than a hundred.
There might be a huge sand scorpion nest nearby.
This was indeed the case. Countless sand scorpions emerged from the soil and crawled towards Xu Chunniang from several directions.
There are more than hundreds of sand scorpions, probably at least a thousand!
Behind these sand scorpions, there is another huge sand scorpion with a cold light in its eyes. It is none other than the Scorpion King who has reached the great perfection of Qi training.
Xu Chunniang and Tong Kong suddenly shrank back, put away their spears without hesitation, and rushed to the rear.
There were so many sand scorpions that even if she was allowed to kill them for three days and three nights, she still couldn't kill them all. Not to mention that the poisonous needles of these sand scorpions were elusive and difficult to defend against.
If you are surrounded by sand scorpions, you will probably be eaten until not even a bone is left!
It was already dark. Under normal circumstances, Xu Chunniang would never have galloped across the yellow sand desert, but she was being chased by thousands of sand scorpions and could not care less.
The sand scorpions were chasing very closely; under the double cover of yellow sand and darkness, they had a natural advantage.
Under the command of the Scorpion King, the sand scorpions that were originally fighting on their own became united. The group of sand scorpions closest to Xu Chunniang raised their tails and fired poisonous needles forward.
With so many sand scorpions launching an attack, hundreds of poisonous needles were activated at once, shooting towards Xu Chunniang from all directions.
Sensing the attack from behind, Xu Chunniang took out the green-patterned cauldron without hesitation and hid inside it.
All of these poisonous needles hit the body of the cauldron and were perfectly blocked by the green-patterned cauldron.
Then, she jumped out of the green-patterned cauldron and continued to run forward.
Seeing that the cunning human monk avoided the sure-hit attack, the Sand Scorpion King became enraged. With its tail raised high, he drove more sand scorpions to chase after him.
Xu Chunniang secretly groaned. Most of these sand scorpions were only at the seventh or eighth level of Qi training. Although their attack power was average, their speed was quite fast.
In addition, there are a large number of them, and there is also a Sand Scorpion King who has reached the great perfection of Qi training, lurking behind her, so the situation is very bad for her.
After all, in the yellow sand desert, in addition to the large number of sand scorpions, there are also ferocious beasts such as brown-armored lizards, gerbils, and two-tailed snakes. There is also the deadly quicksand that is everywhere. Once you step into it, you may lose your life.
If they continue to run like this, they might attract other monsters or accidentally fall into quicksand.
But if you don't escape, you will have to face thousands of sand scorpions that are endless to kill.
Just as Xu Chunniang was running and thinking hard about a solution, her foot slipped and her body suddenly sank down.