After hearing what Li Xuan said, Yang Qi couldn't help but fall silent, because he knew that what Li Xuan said was correct. His strength must be improved in order to bring more help to the team. However, it was a little difficult for him to accept the sudden loss of so many companions who had experienced life and death.
"For our group of practitioners, as long as we go further and discover more information, it will be enough. If by chance one or two of them can leave the dead zone, it will be a blessing for our Juekong Realm." Li Xuan said in a deep voice.
“Is this responsibility?”
Yang Qi thought to himself that although it had not been smooth sailing since he embarked on the path of cultivation, he had never experienced the feeling of the future of billions of lives resting on him. He just wanted to protect his relatives and friends.
But now, he felt a sense of responsibility from Li Xuan and others. It was the responsibility of the strong. The peak Martial Emperors of the Endless Universe were seeking ways to surpass the Martial Emperor realm, and the high-level Martial Emperors of the Absolute Sky Realm were seeking a glimmer of hope for the creatures of the Absolute Sky Realm. This was all responsibility, the responsibility of the strong, the responsibility of exploration!
"Hurry up and recover!"
Just as Yang Qi was thinking about himself, Li Xuan's voice spread again, and the practitioners began to recover in turns.
"That is..."
Yang Qi stayed behind to protect everyone because his energy consumption was not high and he had an inhibitory effect on strange creatures. However, he saw a special scene out of the corner of his eye.
Two injured Nine-Star Martial Emperors came to the corpse on the ground and collected all the useful resources, including Taoist soldiers, from the storage rings left on the corpse.
Once entering the Death Zone, no one knows how long they can survive. Once a practitioner dies, any useful resources they leave behind will be collected and left to the living practitioners to help them hold on longer!
Seeing this scene, Yang Qi sighed in his heart. This was a helpless move. After all, whether fighting in the dead zone or resisting the erosion of death energy, it would consume resources. Even if they had prepared a lot, they dared not say that they could find the temple before these resources were consumed. All the resources that could be used should not be wasted.
In addition to collecting the remaining resources of the fallen practitioners, the two Nine-Star Martial Emperors also left some treasures that recorded information on the corpses, making it easier for later practitioners to learn about the fallen practitioners and obtain the information they left behind.
This battle was extremely brutal. In order to prevent any more accidents, the practitioners who took turns to rest were divided into two teams. The first team only recovered some of their vitality and replaced the second team as the guardian. Fortunately, there were no strange creatures attacking during this period, so the second team could recover their vitality in peace.
Yuntian came to Yang Qi, handed the storage ring containing the dead jade to Yang Qi and said, "Brother Yang, this is the dead jade we collected."
"Eight?"
Looking at the dead jade in the storage ring, Yang Qi was stunned. He did not expect that during his retreat, everyone had collected so many dead jades.
However, when Yang Qi thought that these eight death jades were obtained by ten practitioners with their lives, he felt uncomfortable. He had discovered that only one of the practitioners who helped him absorb the death energy in the formation was still alive. Before the retreat, Yang Qi thought that he would have a chance to repay them, but unfortunately most of them have died now.
"Brother Yun, can you tell me what happened during my retreat?" Yang Qi looked at Yun Tiandao.
Yuntian nodded, without saying anything, and told Yang Qi what had happened during his retreat. At the beginning, without Yang Qi, they were obviously caught off guard to deal with the attacks of those strange creatures, which led to the death of their companions at the very beginning.
After experiencing two attacks from those strange creatures, Yuntian and others became more skilled in dealing with the attacks of those strange creatures and basically suffered no losses.
However, before Yang Qi came out of retreat, Yun Tian and his companions encountered a huge crisis. This time, it was not a single attack by a group of strange creatures, but the same kind of continuous harassment as before. When Yang Qi came out of retreat, it was the third wave of attacks they resisted, and it was in this battle that five of their companions died. If Yang Qi had not come out of retreat in time, there would have been more practitioners who died.
Without Yang Qi to restrain those strange creatures, this kind of harassment and attack would be simply fatal to the team. Under this offensive, it was extremely difficult for Yuntian and others to recover their energy and vitality.
"I didn't expect so many battles to happen after I went into seclusion." Yang Qi sighed.
Although Yang Qi had guessed before the retreat that Li Xuan and others would encounter attacks from strange creatures, he did not expect that Li Xuan and others would encounter them so many times and the battles would be so brutal.
Yun Tian heard this, but said calmly, "Entering the Death Zone is to risk one's life and then to survive. It is good to be alive, but death is not terrible."
Having decided to enter the Death Zone, they have already put life and death aside. Now seeing the death of their companions, they care even less about their own life and death.
The two chatted for a while, and after the second team had fully recovered, Yuntian and the others also began to continue their healing. Because almost everyone was injured, it took nearly two days for everyone to fully recover.
Then, everyone left this tragic battlefield and continued to explore and move forward, looking for the temple.
As Yang Qi's strength increased, his ability to restrain strange creatures became stronger. On the rest of the journey, Yang Qi was still the same as before. He was mainly responsible for restraining the opponent's concealment methods when encountering strange creatures. The rest of the time he used the dead jade to practice.
As they went deeper, it became easier to obtain the Death Jade. Of course, the battle became more intense. Even with Yang Qi, the team was reduced in number again, with only thirty people left.
After refining countless dead jades, Yang Qi's Phoenix Nirvana Body finally reached the perfect level. Even if he was fatally injured, if he was in a place with strong fire attribute, he could be reborn from Nirvana!
“I didn’t expect that the effect of the Phoenix Nirvana Body reaching the perfect level would be so obvious. The recovery ability of the physical body alone can almost resist the erosion of death energy.” Feeling the terrifying recovery ability brought about by the perfection of the Phoenix Nirvana Body, Yang Qi was also filled with emotion.
This level of recovery is several times stronger than the Phoenix Nirvana Body at the peak of maturity. It is not just the recovery that is enhanced, but there seem to be some special changes. It is a pity that Yang Qi is not a real Phoenix after all, and his understanding of the Phoenix Nirvana Body is limited. What other effects it has, I am afraid he will have to experiment to find out.
The Phoenix Nirvana Body reached the perfect level, which further improved Yang Qi's ability to save his life. In addition to the Phoenix Nirvana Body, his practice of the Source God Scripture also greatly improved. However, the effect of practicing with a dead jade has been greatly reduced. Yang Qi estimated that if he absorbed another 10 or 20 dead jades, the effect of the dead jades would be almost zero. (To be continued)