Li Yan had already forgotten his original intention of searching for the blue diamond crystal. Now it seemed as if there was a line that he could vaguely see, but it was shrouded by the mist that gathered and dispersed, making it difficult for him to figure it out for a while.
Just as Li Yan was thinking, the feeling of palpitations appeared again. He quickly stood up, and at this time several voices shouted hurriedly.
"The shadow is coming!"
“A shadow has appeared!”…
Looking back, there were already many monks standing on various places on the cliff. They were the disciples who had recovered.
As they were on guard everywhere, they discovered that in the dark sky outside the cliff, there were wisps of darker black air slowly rising from below. After all, they had gone through two levels, so they were now very familiar with this kind of black air.
As soon as the black air appeared, many of them issued warnings immediately.
Gong Chenying stood up suddenly, glanced around with her beautiful eyes, and shouted softly.
"Walk!"
As soon as the voice came out, she took the lead and walked towards the black hole in front.
In fact, there was no need for her to call on them. More than 20 monks had already gathered into teams at the first moment. However, it was no longer possible to form teams of six people. After a slight change, they formed four teams.
Li Yan quickly caught up with Gong Chenying with a few leaps.
"Sixth Senior Sister, in the next level, when we fight inside the ball, can you try your best to preserve the blue diamond crystal in the opponent's hand?"
After hearing Li Yan's voice transmission, Gong Chenying did not stop, but continued to walk quickly towards the black hole in front. The hot air flow coming from the black hole below blew her hair backwards.
"has a problem?"
She didn't turn around and simply asked through voice transmission.
"Well, I guess..."
Li Yan briefly and quickly stated his guess, but he skipped the fact that he absorbed the spiritual energy from the blue diamond crystal. It was not that he did not want to talk about it, but they were about to enter the black hole and time was running out, so he could only talk about the important things.
Moreover, he couldn't understand why Sixth Senior Sister had used the blue diamond crystal several times but didn't realize that the spiritual energy within it could be devoured and used to replenish magic power.
"Okay! But according to what you said, I used it several times before, and it only needed a lot of mana to be injected, and it could slightly delay the shadow, but I didn't find anything else. By the way, where is yours? I just saw you pick up the blue diamond crystal from the second-level monster!"
Gong Chenying knew that Li Yan wanted to study the blue diamond crystal, so she said a lot this time, which was extremely rare for her who was usually taciturn.
"That diamond crystal is ruined!"
Li Yan was stunned and had to speak.
Just when Gong Chenying was about to step into the black hole, he was stunned when he heard the words, and then looked back at Li Yan strangely, but after this look, surprise appeared in his eyes.
"Your cultivation has improved a lot!"
After saying that, she stepped into the black hole.
Li Yan then realized that he had visited the blue diamond crystal and hurriedly chased after it without hiding his aura that had just surged.
Although Gong Chenying did not ask any further questions, with her intelligence, she already knew that Li Yan's request for the blue diamond crystal was not simply the conspiracy among the three sects as he mentioned.
The blue diamond crystal might have a great deal to do with Li Yan's improvement in cultivation in two hours, but now was not the time to ask about it. Besides, this little junior brother was a little mysterious all the time. Since the master and the eldest brother had asked her to take good care of Li Yan, she would just obey their orders.
Li Yan swept his spiritual sense around. Now everyone was paying close attention to their surroundings. They didn't care too much about him approaching Gong Chenying. Gong Chenying would just say a few more words to him here, and was cold to everyone else.
Li Yan quickly practiced his skills to conceal his aura, revealing his cultivation level at the middle eighth level of Qi Condensation. Even if someone noticed that his cultivation level had improved, it was a very common thing in this secret realm.
It's not that he wants to play the pig and eat the tiger. As long as he doesn't attract too much attention, it will be fine. This is Li Yan's consistent proposition.
"It turns out that Sixth Senior Sister has already noticed the blue diamond crystal, but why are her detection results completely different from mine? After she injected her mana, she was able to activate the blue diamond crystal's function of delaying the shadow, but she found nothing else..."
While Li Yan was thinking, he had already stepped into the black hole with everyone else. What greeted him were waves of heat, flying sparks that filled his vision, and the gurgling sound of bubbles around him.
… …
In less than half an hour, Gong Chenying and his group appeared at the end of the lava path. Above them was an exit, and a yellow sphere was blocking the way.
At this time, many people's dark green robes were already spotted.
Some had burnt holes on their bodies, some had their sleeves burnt, and some had their hair and beards rolled up. At this time, there were only twenty-three people left behind Gong Chenying. Three more people were attacked by the magma monster and were dragged into the red magma, leaving no trace of their bodies.
Now, we haven’t even passed the third level yet and ten people have already died.
"This place is really weird. Those magma monsters are impossible to kill. They will reunite after being dispersed. It's really a headache!"
Mei Bucai said to Ding Yiwei beside him while panting.
He was in a very miserable state at this moment. A small part of his obese body was covered with white fat, and most of the hem of his robe had turned charred black.
There was a big hole on his back, and his underwear was burned through. The fat there was red and swollen, obviously burned.
The handsome young Taoist priest had already lost his composure by this point.
"Fatty, if you hadn't held onto my legs, I would have run ahead. You almost drowned me in the spurted poison." "Little Wei, if I hadn't provided you with a spiritual shield, would you have had time to cast the Glazed Talisman
By the way, you actually hid a glass talisman, Xiaoweizi, you have a glass talisman to protect you, but you still want to consume my mana? If I don't hold you back, do you want me to resist the poison? You are really a big shot!"
"If the magma here can be taken away and refined into fire poison, it will be an excellent material."
At this time, a monk from Buli Peak looked at the surging magma on the side of the path and spoke repeatedly.
"If you can take it, just give me one drop when you go back, and I will give you ten low-grade spirit stones."
Another monk also spoke while staring at the magma, with desire and greed in his eyes.
"How about you go get it, and I'll give you twenty low-grade spirit stones for each drop, how about that?"
The monk from Buli Peak glanced at him and said with dissatisfaction.
"That magma monster is a good thing. We don't have such a monster on Lingchong Peak. It's at least in the middle stage of the second level, and it spews out extremely poisonous substances. Even if it encounters a third-level monster, it may not be without the ability to fight. What a pity, what a pity."
… …
While the monks were discussing, Li Yan looked at the yellow sphere blocking the cave entrance in front of him, folded his arms and said nothing, as if he was frowning and thinking about something.
Their journey could be described as a mad run. The Sixth Senior Sister was even more fierce and crazy. She used all her magic power and held up a world in front of her.
As she was flying with the entire team, an inverted arc-shaped light shield appeared in front of her. Wherever it passed, it destroyed everything in its path. Li Yan had no idea why she fought like that.
As soon as Gong Chenying arrived here, he held the halberd in one hand, with a bright glow on his body, and carefully entered the yellow sphere.
Gong Chenying had been silently calculating in her mind. Although they had lost three people at this stage and it didn't even take half an hour, the opponent inside the ball should not have arrived yet. This was exactly why she was taking such a huge risk and rushing at full speed, just to get ahead of the opponent.
After passing two levels, Gong Chenying knew that as long as he fell behind the opponent, it might not just be a few deaths, but there was a 70% chance that all of them would die. It would not be as lucky as in the previous level to be able to withstand a round of attacks from monsters, but he would not be that lucky every time.
After a few breaths, Gong Chenying quickly came out again, with an expression of relief on her face. If they fought so hard and were still one step slower than the other party even after the death of three of their fellow disciples, they would be extremely unlucky.
Looking at the red cave behind him, Gong Chenying breathed a sigh of relief as he saw that the black shadow was nowhere to be seen.
Soon, Gong Chenying pointed at a dozen cultivators, and then they followed her into the yellow sphere again, while the remaining dozen people continued to stay outside. Gong Chenying asked some of them to be on guard while others to meditate and recover.
Li Yan was among the dozen or so people who entered the ball. Except for Gong Chenying, the rest of the people who entered were cultivators from Laojun Peak and Sixiang Peak. Everyone showed excitement on their faces.
There was an obscene look on Mei Bucai's fat face, and he even made eyes at several Laojun Peak monks beside him, which made several female monks who came in with them glare at Mei Bucai fiercely, as if they wanted to eat him.
A female cultivator following behind Mei Bucai pinched a piece of fat on Mei Bucai's waist with her small hand and spun him around with force, while a blush appeared on her pretty face.
Mei Bucai cried out miserably, his face turning pale. When Gong Chenying looked back, he could only close his mouth in agony...
After half an incense stick of time, Gong Chenying and the others walked out of the giant yellow ball again. Even the disciples who were sitting cross-legged in meditation opened their eyes and looked at them. Gong Chenying did not say anything, but looked in the direction of the cave from which they came, thinking silently in his heart.
"I wish they were faster!"
Time passed little by little, and when it was almost a quarter of an hour, Li Yan woke up from his practice. He looked around and saw that some people had already stood up. They were nervously looking at the black shadow that was slowly approaching, and they looked back at the yellow sphere from time to time. There was anxiety and a hint of expectation in their eyes.
"After I enter, if I haven't come out after three breaths, you will be ready to fight to the death."
Gong Chenying was also anxious. If the other party had not arrived by now, she could only say that she had miscalculated this time.
After saying this, she took a deep breath, her face extremely solemn, and then a flash of light appeared on her body, and a protective light shield rose up. She no longer hesitated, and stepped into the yellow sphere. In the rippling waves, her figure disappeared.
Li Yan and his group all gathered towards the yellow sphere. Many of them looked back frequently. The huge black shadow was only three feet away from them at this moment. A sense of destruction enveloped their hearts.
Many people had sweaty palms and were trembling slightly as they stood, feeling the bone-chilling cold on their backs. Then they turned their heads anxiously again to look at the yellow sphere, their eyes revealing uneasiness.
Li Yan also felt a chill on his back, even though there were still heat waves rolling in from the cave.
Three breaths seemed like hundreds of years at this moment, and in less than a breath, the light on the sphere rippled again, and a tall figure appeared in the blur in everyone's eyes.
Everyone's hands were already on their storage bags, ready to attack at any time. The tall figure twisted slightly and quickly became clear.
"Uncle Master!"
"Uncle Gong!
"Various low cries came out one after another, but they were all obviously filled with surprise.
It was Gong Chenying who came out. As soon as her body became solid, she immediately spoke.
"Done, come in!"
Soon he disappeared again, his voice revealing fatigue, but his jade-like face was full of doubt and his eyes revealed a look of disbelief.
Upon hearing Gong Chenying's words, many cultivators cheered in a low voice and rushed towards the sphere rapidly.
Li Yan was standing in the crowd. He saw Gong Chenying's tired expression. He felt relieved and happy for his Sixth Senior Sister.
After he entered the ball, he understood Gong Chenying's intention, but he also knew the pressure she was under. Although Gong Chenying turned around very quickly, Li Yan still saw a hint of confusion in Sixth Senior Sister's eyes.