The five clan leaders and the official Du Zhong all returned to the square.
During the time they were entering and exiting the cave, people in the Five Elements ** Array kept touching the forbidden mechanisms, getting injured and dropping out of the competition.
Among the ninety-five disciples participating in the local-level group competition, more than forty people from the four major sects and official groups have withdrawn from the competition, excluding the female disciples from Yihua Palace.
In addition to those who withdrew from the competition, there were more than ten people who successfully exited the Five Elements ** Formation and returned to the square. Among them were the three disciples of Fangcun Mountain who escaped death.
Even the disciples of Fangcun Mountain have gone out into the battle, where are our sisters from Yihua Palace
It was the last twenty minutes and no disciple from Yihua Palace had withdrawn from the competition, but no one had passed successfully either, which made Ye Feng worried for them.
When he met Li Yanzhi just now, he had secretly instructed Li Yanzhi to go to the water level in the north, where the life gate was.
Li Yanzhi followed the direction indicated by the compass to the northern Kan water level of the Five Elements Formation. In front of her was a canyon between two high mountains. As long as she passed through the canyon, she should be able to leave the formation.
Suddenly, three dark shadows emerged from the dimly lit woods nearby. Thinking they were ferocious beasts hiding in the woods, the beautiful disciples immediately formed a battle formation.
More than twenty shining and sharp swords instantly formed a murderous sword formation.
Nie Qingwu's clear and loud voice came: "Are you girls from Yihua Palace? We are the official disciples participating in the competition."
Recognizing Nie Qingwu's voice, Jiang Yuxin and Lan Ling'er hurried over to greet her.
"It's Sister Qingwu."
"Haha, I see you again. We are almost at the final stage of the formation. If we persist, we will win. Come on."
Nie Qingwu cheered Jiang Yuxin and Lan Ling'er up.
"Sister Qingwu, you should also work hard."
Li Yanzhi knew that Nie Qingwu was one of Ye Feng's good friends, so she smiled and said, "Sister Qingwu, let's go together. There are only three of you left."
Jiang Yuxin asked with concern: "Sister Qingwu, what danger did you encounter?"
"Oh, let's not talk about it..."
Nie Qingwu told Jiang Yuxin and the others about her experience of joining the battle.
She led the official fifteen earth-level disciples and entered the Five Elements ** Array from the direction of the Kanshui Palace in the north.
Just like what happened to the disciples of Yihua Palace, they soon encountered formation mechanisms and swamp traps.
Beneath the mist, there is a seemingly endless marshland grassland.
Several people accidentally fell into the muddy trap. The trap seemed to have a strong suction force. Once they fell in, they would be submerged in seconds.
They did not give up or abandon their companions. They built a human ladder and took off their clothes to twist them into ropes. Only then did they rescue their companions who had fallen into a muddy trap.
Just when they thought they could rely on this method to safely cross the swamp, they were attacked by a level three ferocious beast, the blue-tailed lizard.
As a result, only ten people passed the swamp.
Then they entered a maze of trees filled with fog, complex terrain, and deep and dense forests.
Before entering the formation, everyone prepared a compass, but it seemed that something interfered with the magnetic field, causing all the compasses to malfunction.
Nie Qingwu had participated in field battles and had extensive experience in surviving in the wild. He identified the direction by distinguishing the depth of leaves, the marks of stones, and the occasional sunlight that penetrated through the mist into the woods, and by finding many reference objects.
In the end, only Nie Qingwu and three others walked out of the maze; the other seven were all separated.
Nie Qingwu sighed and said, "Walking through the boundless forest, one feels lonely and lost. You watch the people around you decrease one by one, and you don't know when it will end. It's really despairing."
Li Yanzhi gently patted Nie Qingwu's shoulder and comforted her: "Sister Qingwu, this is just a small five-element magic array. No matter what dangers we encounter, as long as we don't give up hope, we can defeat them."
Nie Qingwu showed an envious look: "You have so many people, I won't be lonely if I can go out with you."
Everyone was moving towards the final goal. From another path, three burly men came over. They were wearing tight vests, revealing their rock-like bulging muscles, and holding two-meter-long triangular spears in their hands.
The barrel of the triangular spear seemed to be made of fine steel, and was coated with a layer of electroplating on the outside, making it look very shiny. The sharp triangular tip reflected a cold light in the sunlight.
When the three men saw the beauties of Yihua Palace, all of them were beautiful and charming, they all showed ugly and vulgar sneers at the same time. They looked at each other and blocked the beauties' way.
"Hey, aren't these the sisters from Yihua Palace?"
"Hello, beauties."
"Don't you feel lonely, beauties? Let your brother accompany you."
"Move aside, we don't know you."
Guessing that the other party was a disciple of Taiyi Sect, Li Yanzhi and the others ignored the strong man, walked past them, and continued to walk forward while talking and laughing.
Knowing that the beauties in Yihua Palace were not easy to mess with, the big man watched the beauties walk by and swallowed his saliva: "The front is the Ferocious Beast Valley, you have to be careful, don't let the ferocious beasts scratch your face."
"Don't let your clothes be torn."
Nie Qingwu glared at them in disgust: "Shameless, you look so wretched and your mouth is so long, you'd better be careful."
A shameless person is most afraid of being called shameless. The three big men immediately became so angry that their eyes widened.
"Whoever is talking, stand up for me."
"Damn it, you want to die."
"Believe it or not, I tore your clothes..."
The big man was spewing shit and saying very ugly things. Then a blue figure flashed by and there were loud sounds of someone being slapped in the face.
Five finger marks appeared on the face of each of the three men. They touched their faces in surprise. They didn't expect that the disciples of Yihua Palace would dare to take action, and they didn't expect that they would act so quickly.
I clearly saw the white little hand coming towards me, but I had no time to dodge.
The three men immediately became malicious, their eyes were sinister and evil, and they raised the three sharp spears in their hands.
Lan Ling'er showed no fear at all and sneered, "If you dare to curse me again, I will tear your mouths apart, stuff the Three Treasures into your mouths, and eat up your tongues."
The three-colored poisonous scorpion lay on Lan Ling'er's shoulder, its transparent wings buzzing. As long as Lan Ling'er gave the order, it would immediately take off and dive into the big men's mouths.
Looking at the three-colored poisonous scorpion, a chill and fear rose from my heart. How could an ordinary scorpion be so colorful, with wings and able to fly
According to common sense, the more colorful the poisonous creature is, the more evil and vicious it is. They don't want this three-colored scorpion to get into their mouths.
The cold and eerie sword lights were dazzling.
Seeing the big man speaking rudely and wanting to fight with Lan Ling'er, the sisters of Yihua Palace shared a common hatred and immediately drew their swords.
Just now they were all gentle and charming, as lovely as rich young ladies, but in the blink of an eye, they turned into sharp-tongued tigresses with sharp swords in their hands and raised eyebrows.
The big men's expressions suddenly softened. No one dared to speak again and they all stayed away.
(End of this chapter)