People often say "There are no inns on the road to Huangquan". This sentence has various interpretations, and the most straightforward one is that this road is not easy to walk. Since it emphasizes "no inns", it means that for "people" who take this road, there may be a need for inns along the way. In other words, this road to Huangquan is long and difficult to travel. If this road only takes a day or two to complete, or you can fly to the other end in one go, then who needs an inn
Therefore, although everyone on Ye Zan's side was very surprised to feel that his magic power was suppressed after setting foot on the road to hell, they didn't think much about anything else. If you can't fly, then you can't fly. The three teams in front can walk over, and your own side is no worse than anyone else. It's no big deal to move your legs and feet.
However, just when everyone was about to continue walking forward, Ye Zan retreated from the Huangquan Road and said to everyone: "Everyone, wait a minute, just in case, let me make some preparations first, and then we can take the Huangquan Road again." ”
After hearing Ye Zan's words, everyone was curious and puzzled, but they didn't have any objections. After all, they had seen too many magical methods of Ye Zan. So, everyone turned back and followed Ye Zan back to the gate of hell with curious eyes, watching what other methods Ye Zan was going to use.
Ye Zan returned to the gate of hell, raised his hand and raised the jade ball into the air. Following the light beam falling from the jade ball, tall insect soldiers appeared around everyone. These bug soldiers are the lowest predators among the bugs. They have sickle-shaped forearms like a mantis, mouthparts like large iron pincers, and their carapace has a metallic sheen. Although the strength of these insect soldiers is only at the foundation level, without mana, they are probably not weaker than these powerful souls.
Ye Zan not only released the insect soldiers, but also opened his own extra-dimensional space, allowing some of the insect soldiers to enter the extra-dimensional space.
On the Huangquan Road, with his magic power suppressed, Ye Zan could no longer use the jade ball, but the opening of another dimension would not be affected. It is impossible for Ye Zan to take a large group of insect soldiers on the road together, so after leaving a certain amount of guard force, it is most suitable for the other insect soldiers to be placed in a different dimension.
In this case, if there is any threat on the Huangquan Road, and the insect soldiers guarding outside cannot resist it, Ye Zan can also release the insect soldiers in the different dimension space. Although the space in the different dimensions is limited, after having the jade ball, Ye Zan has moved many things into the jade ball space, so it is no problem to put one or two hundred insect soldiers now.
Everyone around Ye Zan is no stranger to these insect soldiers. After all, Ye Zan has publicly used the insect soldiers more than once. Especially before, when they blocked the three sects' coalition forces, whether it was Demon Dao's Li Luan and Su Ying Zhenjun, or Zhenjun Wenhua and others who were opponents at the time, they had all seen Zerg Dao soldiers.
"These...are the Tao soldiers trained by fellow Taoists, right?" Zhenjun Wenhua asked with a complicated expression.
Although in the previous battle, Ye Zan's Zerg Taoist soldiers did not play a crucial role. However, Zhenjun Wenhua and others are still quite envious of having such a Taoist team.
Since the catastrophe ten thousand years ago, the monastic civilization in the realm has gone downhill as a whole, and even the top sects have found it difficult to assemble a team of Tao soldiers. Moreover, this is not only a matter of making up the numbers, but also involves the training of Dao soldiers. The resources that need to be poured in are not a small amount for any sect.
Not to mention the second-rate sects of Wenhua Zhenjun and others, even those top-level sects with ancient inheritance have no longer included training Taoist soldiers in their plans. In their opinion, the resources for cultivating Taoist soldiers might as well be used to cultivate a few outstanding disciples.
"Oh, that's right." Ye Zan responded casually.
In fact, there is still a difference between the insect soldiers released by Ye Zan now and the real insect soldiers. These insect soldiers have built-in smart chips in their brains, which can improve their intelligence to a certain extent and also facilitate their control with auxiliary chips. In order to be able to form a large formation under the control of the brain worms, the real Zerg Taoist soldiers cannot have built-in smart chips, otherwise conflicts in consciousness will easily occur.
In addition, these marauder insect soldiers are specially trained for single-target combat, and are better at direct face-to-face combat. Their bodies are more flexible, and their attack and defense capabilities have been greatly enhanced. They can be said to be standard killing machines. If these predator insect soldiers and ordinary Zerg soldiers were to face each other, the Zerg soldiers might not be able to hold on for even a minute. However, if the Zerg Tao soldiers are allowed to form a large formation, no matter how large the number of these predators, it will be useless.
True Lord Qinghong glanced at the insect soldiers around him, nodded and said, "Yes, with Tao soldiers like Xiandi, even if there are any obstacles on the road to Huangquan, we can go straight through."
Although the power of the soul is powerful, 99% of its strength is supported by mana. Without this mana, it would be like falling from the sky to the ground.
Although the body of the powerful soul is stronger than those of ordinary mortals, it is not so strong that it is indestructible. Without the protection of mana, the powerful soul will be injured and bleed if struck by a sword, or even die due to the failure of body functions.
Everyone didn't have much fear before, just because there were three teams walking through the Huangquan Road in front of them, they didn't think they couldn't make it. At the same time, the past events of the three teams in front also made them subconsciously ignore whether there might be any threats on the Huangquan Road.
But now, with these ten predator insect soldiers and Ye Zan's preparations in the different dimensions, it is indeed a great guarantee for everyone. After all, there are no absolutes in the world, and no one can guarantee that there is really no such thing as a contingency. Maybe the other party deliberately let those three teams go, waiting to deal with Ye Zan and his group.
This is really not impossible. What are the intentions of those three teams, and what is the purpose of Ye Zan's team? The Tianyu Dao Ancestor must have already known it. Therefore, among these four teams, the one that poses the greatest threat to Tianyu Daozu's plan is probably Ye Zan's team. In particular, Ye Zan's performance along the way and the various magical methods he used were enough to make him feared by Tianyu Daozu.
After being prepared, Ye Zan put the jade ball into his body, and closed the door to the different dimension, leaving only ten predator insect soldiers outside, and then said to everyone: "Please wait for a long time, we Let’s go now.”
Ten predator insect soldiers, guarding Ye Zan and his party, made a "swish, swish, swish" footsteps, and stepped onto the ground of Huangquan Road again after leaving the ghost gate. The moment they set foot on the road to hell, everyone once again experienced the feeling of having their magic power suppressed all of a sudden, but they felt a little more at ease than before.
Although Ye Zan and his party had no mana to use, their bodies were still stronger than mortals after all, so their speed was not too slow. The group of people traveled so fast that they covered hundreds of miles and took more than three hours. Judging from the results from the high-altitude detectors, they had already walked almost a quarter of the way.
It has to be said that this Huangquan Road really needs an inn. This is because Ye Zan and the others have good physical strength. If it were those ordinary dead souls, this Huangquan Road would really be difficult to walk.
Moreover, in addition to the long distance, the Huangquan Road is not a smooth road. The road is rugged and full of thorns, and it also has to go uphill and downhill continuously. It can be said that just walking on this road to hell is already a kind of punishment for most "people". No wonder it is emphasized that "no inn".
On both sides of Huangquan Road, there are neither high mountains nor dark forests, but seemingly endless prairie.
But why did Ye Zan and the others prefer to take the Huangquan Road instead of going around it? It's because the spaces on both sides are actually extremely distorted. They seem to be unobstructed. If you walk in, you will be lost in it, or even torn apart by the distortion of space.
It is said that when the soul of the deceased walks on the road to hell, he will see his life's past from both sides of the road. If walking on the Huangquan Road is a "physical" test, then the "scenery" on both sides of the Huangquan Road is a test or whipping for the soul.
Of course, there is also a saying that this is the last chance for the deceased to look back on his or her life. After all, when you get to Naihe Bridge, you will drink Meng Po Soup and forget all the memories of your past life.
However, it may be because the underworld has been destroyed, or Ye Zan and others are still strangers, anyway, they have not seen their past along the way.
Even Ye Zan and others had to choose to stop and take a breath after walking on such a road for so long. However, this stop was bad. Although there were no ghosts to urge them to beat them, they were surprised to see that they and others were moving backwards quickly.
"Can't stop, you will go backwards if you stop!" Seeing such a scene, Ye Zan didn't know what it meant, so he quickly reminded everyone.
Of course, even without Ye Zan's reminder, everyone had already discovered this and had to cheer up again and move forward. However, there is inevitably a time difference between stopping and walking. Anyone who steps a second late will be pulled far away, and the originally tight formation of everyone is suddenly separated.
"Be careful!" Ye Zan discovered this problem and immediately reminded everyone again. He didn't know what would happen in this situation, but he felt that something might happen. At least, if it were him and he saw the target's formation dispersed, he would definitely think that this was an opportunity to take action.
Sure enough, just after Ye Zan shouted "Be careful", he saw countless black shadows pouring out from both sides of Huangquan Road.
These black figures all looked close to human form, but their bodies were twisted out of shape. Each of them looked like the body fragments of many people had been put together. On some shadows, you can even see many faces, while some shadows have no face at all, some shadows have both legs as arms, some shadows are half big and half small, etc.
Obviously, these black shadows must be the dead souls buried in the spaces on both sides during these countless years.
"Be careful, don't stop, move forward while fending off the enemy!" Ye Zan reminded everyone, and at the same time gave instructions to the insect soldiers to fend off the black shadows for everyone.
Ten predator insect soldiers were originally guarding both sides of the crowd. Now, after receiving Ye Zan's order, they immediately waved their scythes towards the emerging black shadow. Fortunately, these undead ghosts are not "immune to physical attacks". They will also be chopped into pieces when faced with the scythes slashed by insect soldiers.
As for the others, of course they were not idle. They continued to move forward according to Ye Zan's reminder while waving the weapons in their hands to defend against the enemy. After all, ten predator insect soldiers are not enough to block all angles, and there will always be some undead ghosts leaking in.
Although everyone can't use magic power, they can still perform martial arts without any problem, and their martial arts are definitely not showy. Therefore, although these large numbers of fierce ghosts frightened them, they were only frightened.
Ye Zan led the crowd, and under the cover of the predator soldiers, they continued to move forward along the road while fighting the fierce ghosts that kept pouring out. If there were no predator soldiers, maybe they would have suffered some damage this time, but Ye Zan was essentially a person who cherished his life.
Although there are only ten marauder insect soldiers, the space on Huangquan Road is so big. Even if there are millions of ghosts around, there is still so much room to fight with Ye Zan and others. These ten predator insect soldiers who specialize in fighting are enough to work together to build a solid defense around Ye Zan and others.
The group of people just walked and killed like this. They didn't know how much time had passed along the way, and they didn't know how many evil ghosts they had killed. Even the predator insect soldiers, with Ye Zan's constant supplements, are no longer the original ten.
You know, Ye Zan had prepared nearly two hundred insect soldiers in another dimension. After such a long period of fighting, apart from the ten insect soldiers outside, there were very few insect soldiers left in the different dimensions. It can be seen that although Ye Zan and others did not suffer any damage along the way, it does not mean that the journey was easy.
At this time, everyone around Ye Zan was really very lucky that Ye Zan had made such preparations before. Otherwise, with just these people, it would be impossible for a few of them not to die when their magic power is suppressed.
"Everyone, please work harder, we will soon reach Naihe Bridge!" Ye Zan said to everyone while releasing all the insect soldiers in the different dimensions. Of course, after all the consumption, there were only six insect soldiers left in the extra-dimensional space.
However, now that we have reached the end of Huangquan Road, the addition of these six insect soldiers has played a big role. These six insect soldiers rushed forward, waving their huge sickle arms, as if they were cutting leeks, and chopped down the evil ghosts blocking the road one by one. Ye Zan and others, protected by ten other insect soldiers, rushed forward and saw a large river appearing in sight, which was the legendary Wangchuan River.