Ye Li carefully walked into the dark jungle in front of him. In this jungle, there grew a kind of tall tree with a very large crown.
Each of these trees is as thick as a person can hug, and is covered with a large number of dark green vines. The bark is black-brown and the leaves are gray-green, which looks very dull.
With the huge tree canopies looming above, the light in the jungle is not strong even in broad daylight, and it looks like dawn.
Ye Li walked towards the depths of the woods. He felt vaguely that he had seen the trees in front of him somewhere before, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
The woods were very quiet, even dead silent. Not to mention monsters, Ye Li didn't even see a single insect.
In such a weird atmosphere, Ye Li felt more and more depressed as he walked. He felt as if he had entered a world without any sound. In the dead silence, he could even hear his own heartbeat.
However, because of this, he was even more reluctant to give up exploring this place. There must be a reason for the strangeness. Since the Rune Secret Land was a place of trial, then this place was probably also a trial, and there would definitely be benefits after passing it.
Ye Li looked around as he walked. As he went deeper into the jungle, he soon could no longer see the previous way out. All around him were strange big trees.
Just when he was nervous, suddenly an extremely strange wave swept through him. Ye Li only felt a moment of trance in his mind, and then returned to normal.
Not knowing what was going on, he immediately assumed a fighting stance, looking around nervously. His spiritual power also instantly radiated outwards, trying to explore the surrounding environment.
However, at the moment when his spiritual power had just left the center of his eyebrows, an extremely powerful mysterious force suddenly descended upon him, and actually forcibly pressed his spiritual power back into the sea of spiritual consciousness between his eyebrows.
Ye Li felt that his natal talisman seemed to move slightly, and then returned to calm.
After trying several times, Ye Li finally confirmed one thing. It seemed that he could not let his spiritual power out of his body here. He could only rely on his eyes to observe his surroundings.
However, the light here was dim and there were countless tall trees blocking his view, so he couldn't see very far about the surrounding environment.
In this situation where his perception was restricted, he suddenly felt a surge of uneasiness in his heart, just like walking with a blindfold. Even if there was a flat road ahead, he would still feel a little worried.
Ye Li gritted his teeth and continued to move forward through the gaps between the trees. Without the help of his spiritual power, he could only keep observing his surroundings with his eyes.
Suddenly, a rustling sound came from all around. Just as he was startled and looked around, the strange sound suddenly disappeared completely.
Ye Li knew that the situation around him must have changed, so he immediately added the Light Body Talisman and Spirit Bell Talisman to himself, and then tried to climb up the big tree next to him to check.
Just when he had climbed up the tree and was about halfway up, a wall of air appeared in front of him without warning, blocking him below.
Ye Li tentatively sent out a fireball with an explosive talisman, which blasted towards the air wall above his head.
However, he found that the fireball passed through the air wall unhindered, and when it was about to hit the treetops, it suddenly exploded into a ball of fire aura, and then disappeared into thin air.
Ye Li knew that this must be a restriction of some kind of trial. After entering the jungle, he could only move forward and backward on the ground and would not be able to climb to the top of the tree by trickery.
He quickly jumped down from the tree, and the rustling sounds around him rang out again. This time it seemed to be closer to Ye Li, and was accompanied by bursts of stench.
Ye Li heard it clearly this time. The rustling sounds came from underground, as if something was moving quickly inside the ground.
The stench of decay also emanates from underground.
The strange sound was getting closer and closer to him. Although he didn't know what was approaching him, he thought it would not be a good thing. He didn't dare to hesitate and rushed out in a direction with quieter sound.
When he started to run faster, the rustling sounds around him no longer moved slowly towards him, but chased him underground at an extremely fast speed.
The foul smell around him became stronger and stronger, making Ye Li feel nauseous.
"Damn it, what on earth is chasing me? I can't use my spiritual power now, I can't investigate at all."
Hearing the rustling sounds around him, which did not go away as he escaped, but instead got closer to him, Ye Li became more and more uneasy.
After running for a while, the rustling sounds behind Ye Li had already reached a distance, and more noises were heard from other places around him at the same time.
Knowing that he could not escape from the opponent, Ye Li simply stopped and flicked out a flowing fire talisman with a flick of his finger.
However, this time the flowing flames did not surge around him like a tide as usual.
The flowing flames gathered very slowly, and only a small, sparse patch of fire appeared around him.
Ye Li then remembered that the spiritual energy in this jungle was very thin. Talismans like the Flowing Flame Talisman that relied on the gathering of a large amount of fire spiritual energy would obviously be greatly affected.
He had no time to change the talisman, and drew another earth fire spring. However, he lost the power of spiritual consciousness to control it out of his body. He could only throw the talisman from the air to the ground in the target area when releasing the earth fire spring talisman.
And when the Earth Fire Spring was released, his Flowing Flame Talisman chased and entangled it, barely increasing the power of the Earth Fire Spring.
In the blink of an eye, a fountain of flowing fire rushed out from underground not far away where the rustling sound was most intense.
The powerful impact instantly lifted up the soil on the ground, and the air waves brought by the heat current made the stench in the forest even more obvious.
As the flaming fountain erupted, the underground soil was uncovered, and the source of the rustling sound was finally exposed in front of Ye Li. Hundreds of long, flesh-red, sticky worms as thick as a child's arm, like earthworms, crawled out of the ground.
These long worms were like maggots, constantly wriggling and entangled. After being exposed, they no longer hid, but drilled out of the ground and crawled quickly towards Ye Li.
The flames from the flowing fire fountain continued to burn these worms, but it seemed that only their skin was burned, emitting a burnt smell.
Most of the flames were absorbed by the worms when they burned their bodies and did not burn them.
The worm's body continuously secretes yellow-brown mucus, and it is this liquid that emits the foul odor of a rotting corpse.
“Soul-eating maggots, these are soul-eating maggots!
How could there be such a monster here? This is a group-living monster in the Lingdan stage!"
The moment he recognized the monster's identity, Ye Li's face showed an expression of extreme shock and fear.