Immediately, everyone dispersed and began to explore the edge outside the temple where there was no deathly aura. With the temple as a reference, they did not have to worry about getting lost. However, everyone still had to guard against strange creatures, so they did not dare to disperse too far.
As time passed, people continued to observe in depth and gradually gained a better understanding of the area around the temple. It was found that the ground around the temple would not only erupt with death energy when practitioners entered. Even if no living creatures entered, death energy would still erupt from the ground.
Unlike the death energy that hits the practitioners, part of these death energy that erupts on its own will be suppressed to the ground again under the power of the temple formation, while the other part will be directly dispersed and eventually merged into the death energy outside the formation.
"No wonder the dead zone keeps expanding."
After realizing all this, everyone finally understood why the dead zone continued to expand. The death energy kept erupting and then being dispersed. The dispersed death energy spread on its own, and the dead zone would naturally continue to expand.
However, the real reason for the expansion of the dead zone is not because it was dispelled by the temple's formation, but because the ground near the dead zone will erupt with death energy. It is precisely because of the continuous eruption of these death energy that the dead zone will expand. Even if there is no temple formation to dispel it, the result will be the same.
If there were no dispersal and suppression of the temple formation, the death energy gathered around the temple would be many times thicker. If a martial emperor entered it, he would definitely die. Now that the temple formation has suppressed and dissipated it, the death energy has condensed into a liquid lake. Although it seems more dangerous, the death energy has become much more stable. As long as the means of the way of time and space are used, the erosion of the liquefied death energy can be resisted, which gives practitioners the opportunity to go to the temple!
However, the traceless eruption of death energy still became a huge problem blocking everyone from going to the temple. If they didn't solve this problem, they could only rely on luck if they wanted to go to the temple.
Li Xuan came to Yang Qi and asked, "Brother Yang, have you found anything?"
Along the way, Li Xuan also discovered that Yang Qi not only had amazing talent and potential, but also had the means to restrain those strange creatures. His vision and even thinking were much stronger than those of ordinary high-level martial emperors. Therefore, after some investigation, Li Xuan found Yang Qi and asked him about his findings and opinions.
"The eruption of death energy is almost invisible, but..."
When Yang Qi said this, his eyes fixed and he said in a deep voice, "It seems that there is no trace to be found, but the four cultivators who explored the way before all died. Judging from the frequency of the death energy eruption, it is totally unreasonable. In other words, the cultivators entering this area must have triggered some kind of changes, which caused the death energy to erupt exactly at the cultivator's location."
Although the dead air in this area would erupt irregularly, the frequency of this eruption was not too fast, but the four cultivators who were exploring the way were hit by the erupting dead air. This was too coincidental. If it happened once or twice, it would be fine, but it happened four times before, which could not be explained by coincidence.
“Brother Yang and I have the same opinion. As long as we find out what changes are caused by the practitioners entering it, even if we cannot completely avoid the eruption of death energy, we can definitely reduce the chance of encountering the eruption of death energy to a minimum.” Lin Xian on the side said in a deep voice.
The greatest danger for practitioners going to the temple is the death energy erupting from the ground. As long as they can avoid being harmed by the death energy, going to the temple will naturally be much safer.
"But we still don't know the cause of the death energy eruption." Yang Qi smiled bitterly, and then said helplessly, "Let's see what everyone has discovered first!"
Li Xuan and Lin Xian on the side nodded. Although the three of them had made some discoveries, these discoveries were only what they had discovered. Other practitioners might have made other discoveries. By combining everyone's discoveries, they might be able to find some clues.
Immediately, Li Xuan gathered everyone together and asked them to tell him about their previous discoveries.
"I found that there is no pattern in the eruption of the dead energy. It may erupt at any place and any time." An eight-star martial arts practitioner in the late stage said with a wry smile.
“That’s the information I observed.”
As soon as these words were spoken, several practitioners immediately echoed them. It was obvious that they had observed the same situation.
“I think that although the eruption of death energy is irregular, when a cultivator enters that area, the path they walk will increase the chance of encountering an eruption of death energy.” A cultivator said in a deep voice.
"I think so too."
As soon as this practitioner finished speaking, several practitioners agreed with him. It was obvious that when they were observing, they not only focused on what they saw, but also combined the conclusions drawn from the analysis of the previous attempts to explore a safe route to the temple.
Then, several practitioners shared their discoveries, but they found that there seemed to be nothing special about them. Yang Qi, Li Xuan and others all noticed this.
In a blink of an eye, Yuntian was the only one who had not spoken yet. Yang Qi and others immediately looked in the direction of Yuntian, expecting him to speak.
Yuntian felt everyone's gazes and said hesitantly, "My findings are similar to theirs, but I do have a guess."
"Brother Yun, feel free to tell us if you have any guesses. We don't have any clue right now. If you have any speculations, you can verify them." Yang Qi looked at Yun Tian and said.
Li Xuan and Lin Xian on the side also nodded in agreement. Now they just wanted to pool their wisdom. Even if the speculation was wrong, it didn't matter.
“Brother Yang said before that the temple has a magic to suppress and disperse the death energy erupting from the nearby ground. We at the Martial Emperor level seem to be unable to perceive this power, but it does exist.” Yuntian said.
Everyone nodded. Whether it was Yang Qi's previous actions or their observations during this period, they all discovered that the erupting death energy would be suppressed and dispelled by an invisible force. This was the reason why there was no death energy within a thousand feet of the temple.
Yun Tian took a deep breath and immediately said, "Since this power exists, I guess it is because we practitioners entered it and blocked this power, so it is easier for the death energy to erupt from where we are."
this…
After these words were spoken, everyone fell silent.
The principle that Yuntian talked about was very simple. It was like when a cultivator attacked, but someone blocked his attack with their physical body. Even if the attack succeeded in killing the cultivator, the power would definitely be weakened. The same principle applied to the invisible force.
Yang Qi looked at Li Xuan and Lin Xian standing aside. They nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with Yun Tian's guess. In fact, not only the two of them, but also Yang Qi himself, agreed with this guess. (To be continued)