Since Gong Chenying was still in mid-air at this moment, although only more than ten feet high, his vision was much wider than that of Li Yan and the others below. What Li Yan and the others saw below was still the endless streets extending forward in a curve.
They had come across such street turns many times in the past half hour.
When many people first see such a street corner, they subconsciously think that there will be a bright future after turning the corner. However, every time they try their best to reach that place, they are greeted by winding streets and endless shops.
After experiencing this many times, many monks have placed their last hope on the number ten miles. If the situation is still like this after ten miles, it is hard to say whether they will collapse. After all, this place is like an endless vicious circle.
"After more than a hundred feet ahead, there are no more streets."
A voice without any fluctuations rang in the ears of the people below, but to the ears of the Qi Condensation Stage cultivators, this voice sounded like the sound of nature, and there was even a low cheer coming from it.
The distance was more than one hundred feet, and with the group of monks who had greatly increased their confidence running and defending, it took them less than thirty breaths to reach the street corner.
After fending off another wave of attacks from various fragments shot out from the ruins that had been smashed into pieces by Gong Chenying, the group walked carefully around the corner of the street. They suddenly saw a huge yellow glowing sphere blocking their way in the middle of the road ahead.
They hurriedly looked at Gong Chenying. At this moment, she had landed on the ground. Sweat had already wet her short hair. The black hair and sweat stuck to her heroic face, emitting steaming heat.
The fact that a Foundation Establishment cultivator could become like this in just ten miles shows how difficult this journey is. Under normal circumstances, even for a Qi Condensation cultivator who cannot fly, ten miles would only take a hundred breaths of leaping.
Gong Chenying looked at the huge yellow light in the middle of the street, then looked back at the sky when they came from. At this moment, the huge black shadow was less than four miles away from them in a straight line.
Judging from their speed, it would only take half an incense stick of time to reach here. And this is only possible when all of them tried their best to create such a small distance.
Long Chenying took a few steps to the front of the yellow sphere, with a long spear in his hand shining with green light. As his arm rotated, he made a slash of the spear and stabbed the wall of the sphere.
There was only a slight hissing sound, and the halberd had penetrated halfway. She shook her arm and retracted the halberd again, looking at the spiritual light on the sharp halberd tip.
"enter!"
Gong Chenying took the lead and stepped in.
Li Yan and the others did not hesitate. Looking at the huge black shadow floating towards them in the distant sky, they had no choice but to divide into teams and quickly file in.
Li Yan's team was the fourth group to enter. After he entered, he saw that everyone in front of him was standing there blankly, and in the front was the tall figure of Gong Chenying. She was holding a long spear in her hand and looking around. When she turned her head, Li Yan saw her tightly furrowed brows.
This was an enclosed space, approximately forty feet in size. Apart from the slight rippling water in the direction they entered, there were no other exits.
"Is the exit hidden?"
A Qi Condensation Stage disciple looked around and asked the person next to him in a low voice.
“It’s possible… right!”
Another sturdy man also looked confused and answered uncertainly.
"I wonder if the shadow outside is approaching soon. This is actually a closed space. How can we continue to move forward?"
"Can this place withstand the attack of the shadow?"
They had been ordered before they came in to obey the captain's orders and not to act on their own, so although some people were discussing in low voices, no one touched the walls of the sphere.
Instead, they were all nervous, with their hands on their storage bags. They were not sure whether there would be a sudden inexplicable attack here like on the streets outside.
Gong Chenying stood in front and looked around. The halberd in his right hand suddenly turned into a ball of green light, and with a "clang" sound, the halberd was inserted into the hard bluestone ground.
Then he quickly formed a hand seal with his hands in front of his chest, and in the blink of an eye, large amounts of yellow sand covered the sky and hit the walls.
The next moment, dense sounds like rain hitting the beach rang out in this space. Li Yan and his companions were all on full alert at the same time, ready to respond to any sudden changes.
After the dense yellow sand hit the inner wall of the sphere, only ripples were seen in the direction from which they came, while the rest of the place was like a drop in the ocean, without any fluctuations at all.
Li Yan saw Gong Chenying doing this, and after a little thought, he understood her intention. Gong Chenying did this to find out if there was anything unusual here, just like she did in the fabric shop, and at the same time, she was also looking for a way out.
Sure enough, after seeing the result of his attack, Gong Chenying turned his head and looked at the monks behind him.
"There is no way out here. I guess we have to wait for a certain trigger to happen. Then we will either be teleported to another place or suddenly meet another person. Otherwise, the trial here is a dead end."
After hearing this, everyone nodded. There was no way out. They could only wait, wait for the arrival of the dark shadow and the unknown.
"You should take this time to meditate and rest, and recover your strength as soon as possible."
After saying that, Gong Chenying didn't wait for everyone to answer. He flashed and actually flashed out from the ball wall where he came from.
Now, except for a dozen or so cultivators in the late tenth level of Qi Condensation Stage and above, the rest of the cultivators in the Wuliang Sect still appear to be calm and composed. Most of the cultivators have suffered a huge loss of mana.
After hearing this, most of the cultivators saw Gong Chenying coming out of the sphere again. They looked at each other and immediately took out their spirit stones and meditated on the spot to recover.
There were seven or eight disciples who were at the late tenth level of Qi Condensation and above. After they dispersed, they looked around the space and seemed quite interested in it. They started moving around in the space, touching the wall of the ball from time to time, and occasionally patting it gently with their palms wrapped in spiritual power.
Li Yan looked at Gong Chenying's disappearing back, his eyes flickering. He did not immediately sit down cross-legged to recover his strength. He also came to the ball wall with great interest, stretched out his hand and pressed it. A soft force bounced his palm back.
His action was seen by several Qi Condensation Stage masters, and they were somewhat surprised. They did not expect that Li Yan did not take the time to recover at this time, but was observing here like them.
However, they just looked at him for a second, then turned their heads back to continue exploring. Li Yan was just like the others, walking and stopping, occasionally tapping the wall with his palms, and looking down from time to time as if thinking. Soon he walked through the 40-foot space. When Li Yan looked up, he found that he was the only one left standing. The Qi Condensation masters obviously didn't find anything, and they were already sitting cross-legged with their hands holding the spirit stones to practice and recover.
He chuckled, then found a corner to sit down, took out a spirit stone, and closed his eyes.
He could guess that Gong Chenying went out to see when the black shadow in the sky would arrive so as to make the next plan.
Gong Chenying stood outside the sphere. At this time, a pale yellow light continued to emanate from the huge sphere behind her, shining on her tall and pretty body. Facing the dim light in the sky opposite, a magical color that flickered on her face appeared.
Gong Chenying looked at the huge black shadow slowly descending from the horizon and calculated silently in his mind. He estimated that it would take at most half a quarter of an hour for the black shadow to arrive here.
If no restriction is triggered by then, then what awaits them will be the final moment. She also doesn't know whether this glowing sphere can withstand the huge black shadow in the sky. Even if it can, how long can it withstand it
According to the information she knew, this black shadow could be slightly delayed by the blue crystal in her arms that activated the wheel of life and death. It was said that anything that came into contact with this black shadow would be turned into dust in an instant and completely disappear from this world without a trace.
The breeze blew her hair, causing her clothes to be pulled a little tighter. The huge peaks on her chest and the round curve under her slender waist were even more breathtaking, as if this figure was the lone and proud person in this vast world.
She tilted her head and thought for a while, then suddenly her figure flashed and disappeared without a trace.
After a short while, the wall of the ball rippled and Gong Chenying entered again. The halberd in her hand was gone. She glanced at everyone, then found a place to sit cross-legged with an expressionless face.
She had just determined the approximate arrival time of the huge black shadow outside, and then circled around it several times, trying to find the restriction that could trigger the restriction in this place.
But what disappointed her in the end was that, apart from the remaining attacks from the ruins that occasionally shot towards her, this huge sphere just blocked the middle of the street like a mountain, and she could not see any other directions at all.
As long as she touches the sphere, there will be a suction force tearing and sucking her into the sphere.
In other words, the spherical part that can be seen from the direction of the street is just an entrance passage and has no other use.
In this case, there is nothing else to do but wait. She doesn't believe that they will die instantly when the huge black shadow arrives. This is not the setting in the trial.
After sorting out these things, she simply sat cross-legged in the ball and took out the spirit stone to recover her magic power. Normally, it would take her even a day to recover her magic power, let alone half a quarter of an hour.
However, the spiritual energy in the secret realm is several times denser than that outside. Without the use of spiritual stones, it is estimated that the mana in the Qi Condensation Stage can be replenished in one or two hours, and the mana in the Foundation Establishment Stage can be restored to 70% or 80% in two or three hours.
Now with the help of the spirit stone, after half a quarter of an hour, Gong Chenying, combined with the existing magic power in his body, can recover to about 60% to 70% of his usual state.
But things did not go as they wished. When the time was almost half a quarter of an hour, Gong Chenying and Li Yan opened their eyes almost at the same time. Gong Chenying also sensed Li Yan's reaction and his eyes flashed with surprise again, but Aotu had already stood up and drank.
“Someone!”
The monks opened their eyes in confusion, only to see two figures standing among them, looking vigilantly at a spherical wall dozens of feet ahead.
Everyone jumped up hurriedly and quickly formed a team to be on guard. Only then did someone look at the two men again.
One of them had a curvy figure, and it was undoubtedly Gong Chenying. But the other one made them stunned. It was the senior uncle from Xiaozhu Peak who had the lowest cultivation level but a strange appearance. At this time, they couldn't help but recall Li Yan's various animal-like intuitions on the road, and thought to themselves.
"Could it be that this junior master is some kind of naturally alert monster transformed? There are too many Qi Condensation disciples here who are at a higher level than him, and none of them have ever given any advance warning..."
But this thought only flashed through his mind, because at this moment, a figure flashed out from the rippling waves somewhere on the sphere.
"Pure Land Sect?"
"Wangling Sect?"
Many voices sounded almost at the same time, but the voices of "Pure Land Sect" were more numerous and complex, while there was only one person who said "Wangling Sect", and that was the figure who had just entered the sphere.
Li Yan narrowed his eyes. When he was practicing just now, he felt that the circulation of spiritual energy on a sphere in front of him was stagnant and paused. He was suddenly awakened. Before he could remind himself, a cold voice like a clear bell rang out.
When he looked back, he saw Gong Chenying looking at him with surprise. He couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. Since he came to this secret realm, his Guishui Sutra seemed to have changed, and even he couldn't recognize it.
As both sides shouted, waves of light continued to ripple behind the other person, and figures appeared one after another, and soon there were as many as eighteen people.
At this time, the Wuliang Sect did not rush forward, but just stared at the other side coldly, as they had guessed it.
"Two roads intersect, and the final battle is coming!"
According to the information before coming here, when the monks on the two roads had their final fierce battle, the leader could not take action, otherwise the huge black shadow would accelerate the consumption of time.
Now the leaders of both teams suddenly meet each other, and for a moment they don’t know how to deal with this sudden change, so they just wait for things to develop.
The first person to come in from the Pure Land Sect was a Zen master wearing a yellow cassock. He was about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, with a thin build, a long face, dark skin, and a pair of calm black eyes.
After he saw everyone here clearly, except for the shout before, he didn't say anything else. Instead, he clasped his hands together and looked quietly at Gong Chenying. Gong Chenying already had a halberd in his hand, his lips tightly closed, and stared at the other party coldly.
The light behind the thin and dark Zen master flashed for only a dozen times, and then there was no more movement. The thin and dark Zen master turned around to look at the eighteen gray-robed monks, and a look of regret flashed in his eyes.
Now the eighteen gray-robed monks, including him, all had injuries to varying degrees. Many monks still had large blood stains on their faces and bodies. Their robes were covered in mud and blood stains, and many places were badly damaged.
Thinking of that damn muddy mountain path and the group of fellow disciples who stayed in the heavy rain to form the Eighteen Arhats Formation in order to protect them, he couldn't help but feel sad.
"Damn the rainy road up the mountain, damn the heavy rain, damn the dark shadow in the sky, and this bunch of damn Wuliang Sect monks in front of me!"