Now Yang Qi is still some distance away from breaking through to the middle stage of the Eight-Star Martial Emperor, so there is no need to worry too much about this matter. On the rest of the journey, Yang Qi and others will continue to encounter attacks from strange creatures. Yang Qi will collect more and more dead jades. By practicing with the dead jades, his cultivation is only a step away from the middle stage of the Eight-Star Martial Emperor.
Because his cultivation was only one step away from breaking through to the middle stage of the Eight-Star Martial Emperor, Yang Qi did not rush to start the breakthrough immediately. Instead, he collected the Death Jade he had obtained, and after fighting with the strange creatures and making sure that the strange creatures would not harass him, he began to retreat and break through to the middle stage of the Eight-Star Martial Emperor.
Because apart from harassing others, strange creatures generally will not attack practitioners again within a short period of time after an attack, and this period of time is relatively safe.
"Brother Yang, are you ready?" Li Xuan looked at Yang Qi seriously.
“Ready!”
Yang Qi nodded and looked at the defensive formation in front of him. This formation was arranged using a formation plate. In addition to the formation, there was also an isolation formation inside, which could be used to practice without being disturbed by the outside world.
Whoosh~ Whoosh~
As Yang Qi finished speaking, several figures flew out of the formation. The registered practitioners had a distinct grey-black tint to their bodies, and their life aura obviously had not reached the high-level Martial Emperor level.
Although the defensive formation in front of him was quite powerful, there was still death energy in the area isolated from the dead zone. When Yang Qi was in seclusion to break through, he was unable to maintain the power of time and space to isolate himself from the erosion of death energy, so the death energy in the formation had to be extracted.
It is impossible to completely remove the death energy by simply relying on the means of Yuanli, and it will take a very long time. In order to save time, several practitioners in front of them entered the formation and directly absorbed the death energy in the formation, making the formation a place for practice.
"Thank you, fellow Taoists!"
Looking at the practitioners in front of him, Yang Qi bowed slightly.
Although absorbing the death energy would not lead to death, the fact that several people helped him absorb the death energy in the formation was a great favor, and he would never forget this favor. However, now that everyone was in the dead zone, it was unknown whether they could leave alive, so naturally there was no such thing as repaying the favor.
"Brother Yang, there's no need to be polite. If it weren't for your help along the way, we would have perished long ago." The leading cultivator said with a smile.
The ones responsible for absorbing the death energy were several Seven-Star Martial Emperors. After absorbing the death energy, they needed to recover their vitality and could not fight for a short period of time. However, their strength was originally the lowest among the crowd, so the impact was not great. On the contrary, if it were not for Yang Qi, they would have probably died along the way with their strength. Now that they can help Yang Qi, they feel fortunate in their hearts, at least they can contribute to the team.
Whoosh~
Yang Qi did not hesitate, and entered the formation directly. At this time, the formation was shrouded by the rich heaven and earth energy, which resisted the erosion of the dead energy from the outside world. Before the formation was broken, the formation would not be threatened by the dead energy. The person in charge of controlling the formation was none other than Lin Xian, who was at the peak of the Martial Emperor.
Phew~
Yang Qi took a deep breath, then quickly sat down cross-legged, took out a dead jade and began to refine it.
…
Li Xuan looked at the people who stayed outside the formation, and then slowly said, "Everyone, Brother Yang has already started preparing to break through to the middle stage of the Eight-Star Martial Emperor. The time when he is in seclusion to break through is the most dangerous time for us, but we must ensure that Brother Yang's seclusion and breakthrough will not be disturbed."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's faces became solemn. During the time that Yang Qi was in seclusion, he would not be able to use Yang Qi to force out those hidden strange creatures. Once they encountered strange creatures, they would not only have to fight, but also have to ensure the safety of the formation.
The best outcome, of course, is that those strange creatures do not attack them, but this possibility is not great, so they have a high chance of being attacked by strange creatures.
"Brother Li, don't worry. Unless all of us are dead, we will never let those strange creatures disturb Brother Yang's breakthrough." A seven-star man said calmly.
After entering the Death Zone, they had already put life and death aside. In the past, they relied on Yang Qi's means to survive until now. Now is the time for them to repay Yang Qi.
Li Xuan nodded slightly. Not only the Seven-Star Martial Emperor, but all of them were like this. Since they chose to enter the dead zone, they had no extravagant hope of leaving alive. What they had to do was to explore more information based on the information left by their ancestors and leave hope for the younger generations!
"According to the previous three teams, except for a few people who need to recover their vitality, the others will take turns guarding the formation." Li Xuan said in a deep voice.
"yes!"
Hearing Li Xuan's words, everyone immediately responded.
…
Originally, Yang Qi was only a step away from reaching the middle stage of the Eight-Star Martial Emperor. Now, after absorbing the energy from the Death Jade, he quickly broke through the restrictions of the middle stage of the Eight-Star Martial Emperor. He only needed to absorb enough vitality from heaven and earth to officially enter the middle stage of the Eight-Star Martial Emperor.
Wow~
The mountains of Yuan Crystals around Yang Qi began to transform into pure Yuan Qi of heaven and earth and merged into Yang Qi's body. He continued to refine and absorb it, and his aura also began to rise rapidly.
Woo~woo~
Just when Yang Qi absorbed the essence of heaven and earth to break through to the middle stage of the Eight-Star Martial Emperor, the practitioners guarding outside the formation heard bursts of howling sounds coming from afar. Strange creatures were attacking!
Li Xuan's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he shouted coldly, "Accept the challenge!"
"war!"
The team responsible for protecting the law at this time immediately guarded the outermost area, ready to deal with the strange creatures that were about to kill them, while the other two teams were divided into two echelons to guard the formation where Yang Qi was in seclusion.
The worst situation still happened, but no one regretted it. At this time, they had only one thought, which was to block the attacks of the strange creatures and protect the formation where Yang Qi was in seclusion.
"The war has begun!"
Lin Xian, who was in charge of controlling the formation, saw the practitioners at the outermost edge who were already fighting with the strange creatures. A hint of gloom appeared on his face. Without Yang Qi to restrain those strange creatures, this battle was destined not to be easy.
It seemed to confirm Lin Xian's guess. The outermost practitioners were completely at a disadvantage after just fighting. Except for a few nine-star Martial Emperors who were able to hold on, the seven- and eight-star Martial Emperor practitioners became complete living targets and could only rely on consuming their vitality to delay the attacks of the strange creatures.
"replace!"
The battle lasted only more than ten breaths, and Li Xuan had to order the team guarding the third line of defense to switch with the team of the first line of defense, while the team of the first line of defense immediately withdrew to the third line of defense and began to recover as soon as possible.
Buzz~Buzz~
The practitioners of the third line of defense also fell into a disadvantage when they fought with those strange creatures. Some Seven-Star Martial Emperors had to use their secret methods to desperately delay time, and their secret methods almost all consumed the essence of life. (To be continued)