Ye Li didn't expect that there would be such high-level monsters here that he could not resist at all, but a moment later, new doubts arose in his mind, because he could hurt these monsters, although only on the surface.
For a true Lingdan-stage demon beast, not to mention his Flowing Flame Fountain, even his Flowing Flame Finger could not hurt the opponent in the slightest.
These monsters are exactly the same as the soul-eating maggots he had seen in the illustrations in terms of their morphological features and fighting methods. Ye Li couldn't help but guess that the reason why the level of these soul-eating maggots was lower was because of the restrictions of the rune secret land.
After all, the monsters here are all condensed from spiritual energy. Although they have the same characteristics as the monsters outside, their levels will not exceed the Lingwu period.
The disgusting rustling sounds around him were getting louder and louder, and Ye Li was completely surrounded by soul-eating maggots.
He had just been running away and found that the surrounding environment was almost unchanging. No matter which way he walked, there were big trees beside him and he couldn't see the end. He was even completely lost in his direction.
Now he was completely surrounded and had no other choice but to fight.
Ye Li forced himself to condense the flowing flames, creating a sea of fire around himself. The originally dense forest easily caught fire after being burned by the flames.
However, the flame that had just appeared was quickly extinguished by the soul-eating maggots.
The attributes of this maggot-like monster have always been a mystery, because the only characteristic it exhibits is the ability to burrow into the ground, which is similar to that of a terrestrial monster.
But ordinary earthworms will burrow into the ground, which does not explain their properties.
These monsters do not have any attacks with any attributes. Their method of attack is to devour all the attribute spiritual energy emitted by the talisman master.
Ordinary talisman attacks cannot hurt them at all. After the talismans attack them, they will be gradually absorbed.
Of course, their swallowing ability also has its limits. The reason why they are classified as Lingdan-stage monsters is because the soul-eating maggots encountered outside can only swallow the attacks of Lingdan-stage talisman masters at most. The attacks of the Deification Stage exceed their swallowing limits.
As for the soul-eating maggots here, Ye Li estimated that they were only at the Spiritual Mist Stage. If he could launch an attack beyond the Spiritual Mist Stage, he could kill them.
Thinking of this, he hurriedly drew a flaming finger and shot it towards the group of soul-eating maggots.
The flame instantly cut through the space and shot into the dense group of soul-eating maggots. However, what made Ye Li feel despair was that his flame only shot down one of the soul-eating maggots. The slightly weakened flame was soon devoured by the other soul-eating maggots.
The Soul-Eating Maggot that he shot in half was not dead at all. Its body was broken into two pieces, and after twisting wildly on the ground for a while, it turned into two smaller Soul-Eating Maggots like earthworms.
Ye Li knew that his attack could not hurt these soul-eating maggots at all, so he could only turn around and flee into the distance.
At this moment, he suddenly felt a surge of despair in his heart, and the stench around him made him feel as if he was in a grave.
While running away, he continuously shot out streams of flaming fingers at the maggot group. However, it was all in vain. After consuming the spiritual energy emitted by his talisman, the soul-eating maggots became even more excited and accelerated to chase after him.
More swarms of soul-eating maggots began to emerge from the ground not far in front of Ye Li to block his way. Just as he was about to turn around and run to the other side, another group of soul-eating maggots suddenly emerged from under his feet.
The slippery maggot body instantly wrapped around his feet, causing him to trip to the ground.
Just as Ye Li was about to struggle, more soul-eating maggots emerged from the ground and crawled all over his body like a tide.
The spirit bell talismans around him were devoured in the blink of an eye. With his arms entangled, he couldn't even draw talismans because the spiritual energy could not be condensed at all.
He felt that the spiritual energy in his body was being sucked out bit by bit by the soul-eating maggots, and even his strength was gradually disappearing.
Ye Li could even feel the disgusting, sticky surface of the Soul-Eating Maggot's body suddenly extending out sharp thorns, piercing into his body and starting to suck his blood.
But after a moment, Ye Li, who was surrounded by soul-eating maggots, began to feel his spiritual energy gradually drying up. He continued to lose blood and even felt dizzy.
Just when he was in a critical situation, the natal talisman in his mind suddenly shook violently, and a purple mist burst out and swept across his sea of consciousness.
Ye Li only felt a sharp pain in his brain, and then he gradually woke up. The scene in front of his eyes suddenly became blurry, and then there was a change. He found that he had changed from lying down to standing up.
The purple mist in his brain was like boiling water, constantly rolling in his sea of consciousness.
A large amount of fog gathered towards his eyes, causing him to feel intense burning pain in both eyes. The world in front of Ye Li suddenly turned purple.
The dense woods that were originally distributed around him gradually changed from a solid state to a virtual shadow, and dark stone pillars appeared inside the big trees.
The stone pillar appeared very blurry under the shadow of the big tree, but Ye Li could still see the countless golden runes engraved on it.
He looked down at himself and found that the soul-eating maggots that had been crawling all over his body had completely disappeared. He was now standing alone not far from the edge of the "jungle".
In other words, the path he just walked and then ran was all an illusion.
Ye Li saw clusters of thin gray mist rising from the surrounding stone pillars, intersecting with each other in the air, flowing along the position of each stone pillar, interweaving into a huge rune formation, covering the land.
At this moment he finally understood that this was not a dark jungle at all, but a huge and strange formation.
What he just saw, felt and heard were all fake. He had been lost in his mind since he entered this formation. If it were not for the vibration of his natal talisman, he estimated that he would have been completely trapped in this formation.
Just as he was thinking, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his brain, and his natal talisman began to emit a strong suction force.
The thin gray mist that permeated around him seemed to feel the suction of his natal talisman, and gradually condensed in the air, transforming into strands of thick gray light, which began to converge with Ye Li as the center.
The extremely dense purple mist in Ye Li's mind instantly turned into a large layered and alternating net, enveloping his entire sea of consciousness.
The gray mist that was sucked in continuously poured in from the center of his eyebrows, and after being filtered through the layers of purple energy net surrounding his sea of consciousness, it turned into an extremely pure mysterious force and merged into his natal talisman.