The Quicksand Region is the most vast region among the nine regions. It is sparsely populated and, apart from the numerous monsters, its other resources are far inferior to those of the other eight regions.
Therefore, there are not many Jindan and Yuanying cultivators here. Most of them are independent cultivators who are practicing Qi and building foundation, hunting monsters in the Liusha area.
Jiang Yuebai looked at the map. Once he came out of the pass and crossed a few sand dunes to the northwest, he would reach the Silver Sand Sea, which got its name because there was mineral powder in the sand that shone silver at night.
There are two major forces in Yinsha Sea, one is the Wangsheng Temple of the Buddhist sect, and the other is the Fuhumen of the Wu sect. The two factions have been fighting for the territory near the Yinsha Sea Devil City, and there have been constant frictions for many years.
The Devil City is the remains of an ancient city deep in the Silver Sand Sea. It has been eroded by wind and sand, and the terrain inside is complex. There are underground rivers and nests of various insects and beasts. Miraculous medicines often appear underground.
If neither faction had the ability to clear out all the insect and beast nests in the Devil City, they would have already established their own sects in the Devil City.
Without connections, ordinary cultivators cannot enter the Devil City's insect nest to hunt monsters.
The wind was whistling as Sha Yingjie rode a leopard at the front of the team. A dozen cultivators in the late Qi training stage followed behind him, holding their magic weapons tightly and looking at the yellow sand with vigilance.
Zhong Shanhu, who was in the late stage of foundation building, rode a camel to guard the left wing of the team, Yu Tianlie, who was in the middle stage of foundation building, guarded the right wing of the team, and Jiang Yuebai was arranged at the end of the team.
Zhong Shanhu and Yu Tianlie were not familiar with each other before, but as veteran monster hunters who had been in the Quicksand Region for many years, they were both very experienced and could often understand each other with just a glance.
The team had been marching for most of the day, and the weather was calm. Jiang Yuebai had just yawned when an attack suddenly came from under the yellow sand.
Dozens of huge and ugly sandworms suddenly rushed out from under the sand, opened their chrysanthemum-like mouths and bit down on everyone fiercely.
There was a cry of surprise from the crowd, and everyone scattered.
Jiang Yuebai jumped up from the camel, and the sandworm instantly bit the camel, raised its head and swallowed it, with blood splattering everywhere.
“Ahhh!!”
A Qi-cultivating monk was caught off guard and was swallowed by a sandworm. Several young Qi-cultivating monks who were out hunting monsters for the first time were frightened and turned pale.
"Don't mess around! Damn it!!"
Sha Yingjie shouted in front, drew out his scimitar, stepped into the air, and cut a sandworm in half with one blow.
The two foundation-building monks, Zhong Shanhu and Yu Tianlie, have also begun to kill the sandworms. Cao Gang leads the rest of the late-stage Qi training monks, and attacks angrily, fighting with the sandworms.
There were fire bombs all over the sky, earth spikes everywhere, and the sounds of fighting and sandworms hissing were endless.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Thunder roared from the sky, Jiang Yuebai wandered in the yellow sand, using his spiritual sense to activate earth mines, which struck the sandworms one after another, blasting their skin and flesh apart and splashing juice everywhere.
"Good thunder magic!"
Cao Gang and others were amazed and exclaimed in praise.
The two foundation-building cultivators, Zhong Shanhu and Yu Tianlie, also looked deeply at Jiang Yuebai, especially her hands which were barely moving.
Confused and surprised.
With everyone working together to surround and kill the sandworms, they were quickly killed. The remaining few retracted into the sand and soon disappeared.
Sha Yingjie put away his scimitar, glanced at the crowd, and saw several injured Qigong monks, which made him furious.
"A bunch of rubbish!"
Everyone was angry but dared not say anything. Cao Gang smiled bitterly and quickly asked everyone to treat the injuries, harvest the materials from the sandworms, collect the sandworm souls, and prepare to continue on the road.
Sha Yingjie didn't pay attention to Jiang Yuebai's attack just now, and thought she was using some thunder talisman, and couldn't help but sneer.
"It's useless to rush to show off. Women will only become a stumbling block on my road to becoming a strong man!"
After the battle, Zhong Shanhu and Yu Tianlie looked at each other and shook their heads slightly to indicate that they did not see Jiang Yuebai making hand gestures at the beginning.
The looks of the two men suddenly became subtle. Casting spells without any techniques is the ability of Jindan cultivators. They even began to doubt whether Jiang Yuebai was a Jindan Zhenren.
Jiang Yuebai had no idea what everyone was thinking. He stood there recalling the process of casting the spell. The power of the earth mine was still dragged down by the spell cast by his spiritual consciousness.
"The Five Thunders Method" is a high-level thunder method. Logically, one thunder should be enough to turn this kind of low-level sandworm into ashes, but it didn't happen. It only caused serious injuries.
The previous two sections of five-hundred-year-old immortal vines were still too little. They only increased the proficiency of "Immortal Herb Sutra" by one thousand points. It would take a total of ten thousand points to raise the bloodline to level 6, which was still a long way to go.
Jiang Yuebai had a premonition when she was practicing the "Immortal Grass Sutra" this time. She felt that her Yunzhi grass bloodline had reached level 6, and some incredible changes would occur to her whole person. This made her nervous and expectant.
But before that, it is urgent to obtain essence to enhance the strength of the soul.
The team quickly got back on the road. Yu Tianlie took the initiative to give his camel to Jiang Yuebai. Jiang Yuebai thanked Yu Tianlie for his kindness and chose to walk on his own, still walking at the end of the team.
The road ahead was very dangerous. In just a dozen miles, we encountered five attacks from monsters. In addition to sandworms, there were also sand pupa snakes and other monsters that were good at living in the yellow sand.
Their levels are not high, their numbers are huge, they appear and disappear mysteriously, and they are very annoying.
Fortunately, after the initial panic, everyone gradually found the rhythm of the battle and became calm and orderly in the face of the suddenly appearing monsters.
Jiang Yuebai continued to practice casting spells with her spiritual consciousness, but no matter how hard she tried, the power of her spells was always difficult to improve.
At midnight, a sandstorm suddenly hit, and the team was forced to rest behind a sand dune in the leeward area. Cao Gang swiftly carried a formation flag as tall as a person and took several Qi-cultivating monks to set up a formation to prevent the sandstorm.
"A dignified Foundation Establishment cultivator can't even kill a Qi-cultivating monster with his magic. What a show-off."
Sha Yingjie rested his head on his arms, leaning against the sand dune.
"Jiang Fanchuan, I have to tell you, if you continue to be like this in the next few days, you'd better get out as soon as possible. Don't think that just because you are good-looking, I will tolerate you dragging your feet in the team."
Jiang Yuebai sat alone and fiddled with the medicine bottle. She thought that she had covered her face so tightly that only her eyes were exposed, but Sha Yingjie could still find out that she was pretty. He really had good taste.
Jiang Yuebai took out a 'Concentrating Spirit Pill' bought at Mingshafang and swallowed it. Under the effect of the pill, wisps of cool air rushed into his sea of consciousness from the acupuncture points on the top of his head, slowly restoring his exhausted spiritual consciousness, with a good effect.
Normally, she could only rely on Little Green to swallow the beast souls to restore her spiritual consciousness. The 'Concentration Pill' was a specialty of the Liusha Region, made from the blood thorn fruit that was only available in the Liusha Region. She had already bought the recipe and was ready to collect the materials and learn how to make it herself.
Jiang Yuebai spread out the wind net and sat cross-legged, concentrating on absorbing the medicinal power to recover. He had to perform well tomorrow and not fall behind.
Cao Gang gathered the Qi-cultivating monks together. Zhong Shanhu and Yu Tianlie sat together. A sandstorm was raging outside, and the two chatted casually.
"Fellow Daoist Yu has good skills. After this trip, are you interested in going to the Sea of No Return with me?"
"That place is too dangerous. Besides, there is nothing else in the depths of the Sea of No Return except the ruins of the Prajna Temple."
"I also heard a rumor not long ago that there is a small secret realm in the ruins of Prajna Temple, which may not have been excavated yet, so I thought about going over to check it out."
“There are so many sects eyeing the ruins of Prajna Temple. If a small secret realm is really born, it will not be the turn of casual cultivators like us.”
"Not necessarily. In any case, there's no harm in going over and taking a look."
"Let me think about it. There are too many high-level monsters in the Sea of No Return, and the situation has been too chaotic recently. I'm afraid I might go there alive but not come back alive."
As the night deepened, the sandstorm gradually weakened. Except for those who were on night watch, most people were meditating and regulating their breathing.
Jiang Yuebai opened his eyes suddenly, and the wind net suddenly captured unusual movements, which were very dense and huge, in the sand dunes within their protective formation.
"Everyone wake up, something's happening!"
Jiang Yuebai shouted and stood up, and saw the sand dunes behind him began to shake, yellow sand poured out, and a broken corpse fell out.
A peanut-sized, earth-yellow ant crawled out from under the corpse.
Immediately afterwards, the entire sand dune collapsed, and tens of thousands of densely packed ochre-colored ants rushed out like a broken dam.
At the same time, Jiang Yuebai's wind net sensed a person flashing behind the sand dune.
This is... a premeditated sneak attack!
(End of this chapter)