A few miles away.
A thin blood mist suddenly spread from a towering old tree with yellow branches and leaves, and gradually transformed into a beautiful figure with graceful curves.
The mysterious woman in spirit form seemed to turn the blood mist into a veil, covering her increasingly clear and exquisite figure.
Her slender feet were stepping on a dead branch, her face was hazy and shrouded in blood mist, and she was looking towards the huge movement ahead.
Zhou Qingchen ran violently, breaking stones and destroying trees, and broke through with the momentum of destroying the rotten and the dead.
Behind him, Hong Tai was riding a snake and chasing closely, taking out blood-red spears and stabbing at him from time to time, and performing many exquisite spells in succession.
In the air above Zhou Qingchen's head, there was a deep red mountain suspended, which was the materialization of the powerful spiritual power.
Most of the venom from Hong Tai and the python's spears fell on the deep red mountain. Somehow, the red mountain was stimulated by Zhou Qingchen to form, but it helped him block several waves of deadly attacks in succession.
The red mountain, which was not a physical entity, also gradually faded under the repeated bombardment of the man and the python.
It seems that it won’t be long before the mysterious Red Mountain that has been protecting Zhou Qingchen will collapse and disintegrate. At that time, Hong Tai will really kill him.
Seeing that Zhou Qingchen's escape speed was not faster than the python under him, Hong Tai seemed to be at ease and not in a hurry at all.
When the mysterious woman on the tree was looking at Zhou Qingchen and Hong Tai, "spiritual demons" gathered from all directions. Among them, the majestic Luo Meng, who was as big as a mountain, floated behind her like a door god.
Like Luo Meng, there were several "spiritual evil spirits" condensed by strong men in the Tongmai realm, hovering in the air behind her, like gods and demons protecting her, making her look amazing.
"It should be that deep valley."
The woman who had been trying hard to condense her spirit body looked in the direction where Zhou Qingchen rushed out and heard the sound of fierce fighting.
Suddenly, she felt something and looked to another place.
I saw a tall figure with unusually shriveled flesh walking alone in the dense forest.
The man's flesh and blood seemed to have been eaten away from the inside, leaving only a piece of human skin wrapped around a huge skeleton.
His clothes were torn at the heart area, and on his chest there was a lifelike phoenix, flapping its wings like a tattoo.
The man with a distorted and painful face seemed to be following the guidance of the divine phoenix in his chest. He was breathing heavily and was heading towards the black water pool like a brutal and ferocious beast that was about to lose its mind.
"A poor man whose heart was devoured by the phoenix marrow."
The woman shook her head slightly.
With just one look, she knew that the man's heart had been invaded by the phoenix marrow, which had devoured his flesh, blood and internal organs. Only the heart was left in his body, and he was currently in a half-dead state.
When the totemic phoenix tattoo flies away from his chest, his bones will be shattered and his soul will be destroyed.
"In the valley, there is another bone containing phoenix marrow. He was attracted here by the phoenix bone."
The woman immediately had an idea.
She is currently in spirit form, and is preparing to accumulate magical powers to recast her body. If she has the Phoenix marrow of the Heavenly Phoenix as a catalyst, the potential of her newly recast flesh and blood body may surpass her original one.
Thinking of this, the woman's eyes gradually brightened, and she planned to plot for the possible phoenix marrow in the valley.
…
In the deep valley.
“Buzz!”
A number of miniature magic swords, as thin as cicada wings and only as long as a finger, flew out from behind Jinyang and quickly approached Pang Jian.
Pang Jian was running towards the Black Water Pond, turning his head frequently to look, and saw those miniature magic swords getting closer and closer, stabbing towards his back like willow leaves.
Only when the flying sword is too close will he be forced to stop and swing his dragon-patterned spear to block it.
Amid the "ding-dong" sound, flying swords would still pierce his arms, adding to the wounds on his body.
When the flying sword was a little further away and would not immediately launch a new round of attack, he endured the pain and moved forward in silence.
"Black Water Pond!"
Until now, he had no idea what was dangerous or strange in the pool. Just because his father had designated the Black Water Pool as a restricted area, he believed that there must be something unusual here.
What's more, there is a phoenix bone right in front of him, stuck in the black water pool.
As the wounds on his body increased, he even began to expect the earth to shake again, crack open again, and some unknown evil to rush out and indiscriminately kill everyone present.
And he could take advantage of the chaos to escape.
After being targeted by Jinyang, it was difficult for him to escape from the valley by his own strength and he could only rely on other magical powers.
The black water pool that was designated as a restricted area by his father and the phoenix bone whose mystery has not yet been revealed are his support.
"If there is anything strange, I hope it will be revealed quickly."
He used his blood-stained arms to randomly hit the approaching flying swords and finally arrived in front of the black water pool.
"Both arms, as well as the vital parts of the chest and back, seem to have been specially tempered."
Jinyang followed leisurely, controlling the seven "cicada wing swords" skillfully and controlling the strength carefully, leaving only bloody wounds on Pang Jian's body.
He quickly figured out where Pang Jian's tall and strong body had been cleansed and tempered.
"He's obviously not at the Marrow Cleansing Stage, how did he do it?"
Jinyang was not in a hurry to make any move, nor did he intend to kill with thunder and lightning. Instead, he thought and observed, trying to pry the truth out of Pang Jian.
"call!"
The seven "cicada wing swords" suddenly stopped in mid-air, and pointed at Pang Jian's waist, abdomen, eyebrows, chest and other vital points from different angles.
Looking at Pang Jian, who had a black pond behind him, he smiled slightly: "There is a pond behind you, where else can you retreat to?"
"It's the pool!"
The water in the pool was deep and cold, and nothing below was visible. Pang Jian, who was an excellent swimmer, struggled forward.
The dragon-patterned spear in his hand was too heavy in the water, which affected his swimming speed, so he immediately threw it into the center of the pool.
“Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!”
Seven “cicada wing swords” whistled above the pool.
After hearing the whistling sound of the sword, Pang Jian shrank under the water and continued to swim towards the dry bone.
The inky black water completely obscured Pang Jian's body, and the seven "Cicada Wing Swords" and Jin Yang could no longer see his figure.
"A cultivator like you can't hold your breath underwater forever. I'm not afraid that you won't come out."
Jinyang was not in a hurry. He controlled the seven "Cicada Wing Swords" to fly across the water, waiting for Pang Jian to show up so that he could find out the mystery of Pang Jian.
Underwater.
Pang Jian was in the freezing cold water. He opened his eyes but could not see anything clearly. The water was just as black as ink as what he saw from the outside.
But his activities underwater were no different from those in other lakes. Relying on his previous sense, he still swam desperately towards the dry bones.
He saw the dry bones as one of hope.
He held his breath, knowing that there was a "Cicada Wing Sword" waiting for him to show his head above his head. He had to control the buoyancy of his body as much as possible to avoid accidentally showing his head before touching the dry bone and attracting the fatal attack of the seven spiritual swords.
After a while, he actually touched the dry bone in the dark underwater world!
When his hands touched the dry bones under the water, his blood quietly seeped into the phoenix bones under the water without him seeing.
The Phoenix Bone suddenly produced a secret suction force, continuously absorbing his blood.
Pang Jian, who was trying very hard to hold his breath, gradually found that he could see the surrounding scene under the pitch-black water.
Not only can you see the extremely thick and broad phoenix bones, but you can also clearly see the "cicada wing swords" flying overhead underwater.
The color of the water did not change and remained as black as ink.
What changed was the withered bone of the phoenix that fell from the sky and was stuck in the pond. A bright light was released through the bone, which dispelled some of the darkness.
It was also at this time.
“Boom!”
With the Black Water Pond at the center, the surrounding ground suddenly shook, rocks rolled down the mountain wall behind the pond, and some tall trees fell down.
The rugged valley ground seemed to be torn apart by a divine power from underground, and gradually became torn into pieces.
There are deep ravines that appear as the earth shakes abnormally, covering all areas of the valley.
“Another earthquake!”
Han Duping, Shangguan Qin and Ning Yao, who had experienced this once before, felt the vibration of the ground and fled for their lives.
"Get out of here!"
Shangguan Qin's voice was filled with fear and tears. She was a real witness to the tragedy and she had already anticipated what would happen next.
Rather than being captured and humiliated by the dark ghost, she was more afraid of the terrifying vines that would emerge from the ground and eat away her flesh and blood.
"If an earthquake occurs near the bones, deadly vines will burst out! I will die, and you won't be able to escape!"
She screamed desperately at the Dark Ghosts.
Ning Yao, on the other side, also stopped fighting with the besiegers and said the same words as Shangguan Qin, wanting those people to let her go quickly and leave first.
"After the earthquake, terror will emerge from the ground?"
Several small leaders of the dark ghosts looked at the fear on Shangguan Qin and Ning Yao's faces, as well as Han Duping's irritability and anxiety, and didn't know whether they should believe them.
At the same time.
The man with a divine phoenix totem on his chest, who looked like a skeleton wrapped in human skin, began to flap the wings of the divine phoenix on his chest desperately.
He immediately realized that time was running out, and without further hesitation, he rushed towards the valley as fast as he could.
"Ouyang Duanhai! You are Ouyang Duanhai, how did you become like this?"
The dark ghost leader, who was wearing a golden mask, couldn't help but scream when he saw the intruder who was just skin and bones and neither human nor ghost.
"Ouyang Duanhai?"
Shangguan Qin was stunned, and looked suddenly at the person who suddenly broke in, staring at his face.
"Duan Hai? No, you are not him! You are definitely not him!"
Shangguan Qin screamed like a mad woman. She couldn't believe that her former handsome lover had turned into such a horrible person now.
This time she took the initiative to volunteer to enter the Cenji Mountains as an appointment with Ouyang Duanhai. Her ex-husband was also killed by the two of them.
Ouyang Duanhai is the person she truly falls in love with and the love of her life.
"Xiao, Xiaoqin?"
The person who came like a ghost seemed to have a glimmer of intelligence in his eyes when she called out the name "Duan Hai".
The visitor gathered his remaining willpower and looked at her, trying hard to confirm her identity. Gradually, a hint of excitement finally flashed in the depths of his chaotic and dull eyes, and he shouted, "Leave here! Xiaoqin, leave this bloody Shura field quickly! I, I will help you... survive!"
At this moment, he forgot to seek the last glimmer of hope for his life and attacked the dark ghost practitioner.
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(End of this chapter)