Ying Muqing gasped when he heard this. Things that contained spiritual energy? Then, to these mist leeches, weren't the cultivators here like moving sources of spiritual energy?
"Then how come those who went to explore the foggy area before were fine?"
Gu Yao and Chi Changye both looked at him deeply. He was too naive. Ying Muqing didn't understand at first, but he soon knew why they didn't answer him, because seeing it with his own eyes was more shocking.
Not long after Ying Muqing asked this question, there was another scream of horror. Several cultivators who were controlling their magical instruments in mid-air suddenly lost control and desperately scratched their own bodies. It was visible to the naked eye that some parts of their bodies bulged out, as if something was trying to drill out. One of them even couldn't bear it and shouted:
"Kill me quickly! Give me a quick death!"
Not long after he shouted, the scream of horror still echoed in the sky above the canyon. The cultivator exploded with a "bang", but not into pieces. A black and purple thing emerged from the blood mist, and then opened its mouth full of sharp teeth, sucking the blood mist around it in an instant.
The screams of horror continued one after another, and then several other cultivators exploded into blood mist in the air, and the same black and purple thing appeared and swallowed the remaining flesh and blood.
Ying Muqing felt cold all over, because he recognized it. These cultivators had one thing in common, that was, they had all been to the foggy area before, and they had no other abnormalities when they came back. But now the situation plus Gu Yao's explanation before, what happened was clear. They were unknowingly drilled into their bodies by the mist leeches, and the cultivators' flesh and spiritual power fed these mist leeches, and finally broke out of their bodies.
Not only Ying Muqing was stunned, but also the other Longxian Sect cultivators, especially the ones who rushed down the fastest, shivered all over, as if their bodies were also itching and wanted to scratch. Ning Hui, who fell behind, also lost his reaction. How could this be? How is this possible? The cultivators of Tianlin Continent, including Tian Feirong and Xiao Pangzi, on the edge of the cliff, also swallowed their saliva and felt scared. They were lucky that they didn't covet the blood ruby fruit, and honestly listened to Chi Changye and stayed behind. Otherwise, the fate of those cultivators who exploded and died and whose flesh and blood were eaten by the strange things would also happen to them. This scene after scene, stimulated them to the point that their scalp was about to explode.
"It's you! Did you deliberately set us up? Did you deliberately watch them die?" Ning Hui yelled at Gu Yao uncontrollably.
Ying Muqing touched the cold sweat on his forehead and looked at Ning Hui unhappily. If Gu Yao the alchemist had this ability, he would have attacked their Longxian Sect cultivators long ago. Could anyone escape?
It was just that he had discovered it but didn't say it, but from the standpoint of both sides, Gu Yao the alchemist had a reason not to tell them the truth.
Ying Muqing was grateful in his heart, feeling that his intuition had saved their lives, and this intuition was brought to him by the abnormality of Gu Yao and Chi Changye, so he cast a grateful look at Gu Yao and Chi Changye.
Gu Yao didn't bother with this person, and carefully looked at the scene below, and said, "Can we go down now?"
"Yes, hold my hand." Chi Changye stretched out his hand, and Gu Yao quickly grabbed it.
These two people had no reaction to Ning Hui's words, as if they hadn't heard his questioning, which made Ning Hui almost gasp, this blatant disregard was more unbearable for him than slapping him in the face, Ning Hui's eyes were almost spitting fire.
Chi Changye's eyes flashed with a smile, and he took out a newly made thunder armor talisman in the secret realm and slapped it on Gu Yao. This was a rare thunder-type defensive spirit talisman, and it was of the eighth grade. The method of making it came from the jade slips he had robbed from Lou Huaijing and others in the attic, and he had just hunted down a thunder-attributed monster, whose fur and other materials could be used as the raw materials for making talismans.
Gu Yao's body was immediately wrapped in a layer of thunder light armor, and he became a thunder person. Chi Changye also added a layer of spiritual power shield to himself, and then flew down with Gu Yao. Ying Muqing saw this and gritted his teeth, adding a layer of fire-type protective shield to himself, and then followed.
He thought, although the mist leeches fed on spiritual energy, the things of thunder and fire attributes should have some restraining effect, as long as he didn't let these ghost things drill into his body, it would be enough.
It had to be said that this made Ying Muqing guess right. When he followed behind Gu Yao and Chi Changye through this area, the mist leeches flew over, but they seemed to be wary of the fire attribute spiritual power, and just took advantage of this hesitation time, Ying Muqing increased the speed of flying down, while using spiritual power to knock these mist leeches away.
At this time, he saw Chi Changye calmly use sword energy to strangle the mist leeches. Any mist leeches that came close to him were instantly strangled to pieces. This was not what moved him the most. What shocked him was that Chi Changye's control of sword energy could be so meticulous.
The mist leeches were not big in size, and Chi Changye didn't waste his sword energy. He only used a small strand, just enough to strangle the mist leeches. Even when several mist leeches attacked at the same time, he instantly controlled several strands of sword energy and hit those bugs separately, without missing any.
Unlike Chi Changye, other people had a hard time killing these mist leeches. The mist leeches' skin was very tough and slippery. When they used swords to chop them, the blades slid over their bodies, unless they used extremely fast speed, concentrated their strength on one point, and quickly pierced through them. This required a high level of control over strength and spiritual power.
If they couldn't do that, it would be better to do as Ying Muqing did, and drive these mist leeches away. They just had to use this gap time to get through here as quickly as possible, and they could ensure their own safety.
Gu Yao found that he couldn't kill these mist leeches either, and didn't waste much spiritual power, just tried to knock them away as much as possible, but most of them were killed by Chi Changye, so the two of them were faster than the others. Although they started a little late, they didn't arrive at the bottom of the canyon much later than the others.
Ying Muqing also followed them to the bottom of the valley, and looked back at the dense black and purple spots in the air, and the other fellow disciples who were struggling to break through, and realized how lucky he was. Just because he chose to follow behind Chi Changye, the path he took had fewer mist leeches because Chi Changye had solved a lot of them, which greatly reduced his pressure.
The benefits he could see were also seen by other cultivators, and some who were late followed this path.
"Thank you, Brother Chi and Gu the alchemist, the two of you take care!" Ying Muqing said gratefully, knowing that the two sides were opposed, and staying here couldn't bring any benefits to the two of them, so he turned around and went to the Longxian Sect side after thanking them.
Chi Changye and Gu Yao cast their eyes on the blood ruby tree and the monster beast that was coiled around the tree. The roots of the blood ruby tree were planted on a spiritual vein, and also connected to an underground fire vein, plus other special factors, causing the stem and branches of the blood ruby tree to be like blood-red ruby, and the veins in it were clearly visible.
The blood ruby tree was not very tall, and there were no leaves. Now there were nine red ruby fruits hanging on the bare branches. The spiritual energy that was sucked in from the sky was injected into the whole tree, and then transported to its fruits by the trunk.
When they arrived here, this process had not been interrupted, and the ruby fruits became more and more transparent, as if they were not fruits, but exquisite ornaments carved from blood jade.
Just then, the spiritual energy that surged from all around became less and less, and the vortex in the sky was almost sucked dry and gradually dissipated.
"Not good, could it be that there is not enough spiritual energy?" Someone worried, and at this time a faint fragrance that was refreshing to the heart and spleen came out, but it seemed to be lacking in strength.
If it couldn't mature, then the effect of the blood ruby fruit would be greatly reduced, at most it would help to improve the cultivation, but it would be difficult to use it to increase the success rate of forming the core.
The monster beasts below also became restless, growling constantly, and their eyes looking at these intruding cultivators also became unfriendly, as if it was because of their arrival that the blood ruby fruit couldn't mature.
There were more than a dozen monster beasts below, and their strength was at the peak of the foundation building stage, and they seemed to be only a layer of paper away from breaking through.
Perhaps it was because of the special environment here that it didn't let the monster beasts outside gather here, and the current fragrance was also limited to the valley, otherwise it would spread out, and the monster beasts outside would also smell the wind and move, and that would surely be a bloody fight scene.
But now these monster beasts were eager to move.
Suddenly a small crystal snake rushed out, aiming at the blood ruby fruit hanging on the branches. It seemed that one of the fruits was about to fall into the mouth of the crystal snake, which opened its mouth. These monster beasts were clearly worried that the spiritual energy supply was insufficient and the ruby fruit could not mature. If they waited any longer, perhaps this ruby fruit would slowly dissipate and return to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so they couldn't hold back.
Not to mention this crystal snake couldn't wait, a iron whip snapped from below, hitting the crystal snake and whipping it away. It turned out that there was an iron lizard lying under the tree, and the iron whip was its tail. The tail was strong and powerful, and even the crystal snake, whose strength was not much different from it, couldn't bear it.
"Not good, these monster beasts can't wait, we have to act together, we can't let these monster beasts succeed!" A foundation building cultivator from the Longxian Sect shouted, if they didn't act, these fruits would fall into the mouths of the monster beasts. They had to stop them, maybe after a while they could still support these ruby fruits to mature.
"Brother Chi, please help me." The man looked at Chi Changye.
"Okay." Chi Changye drew his purple thunder sword, "Xiao Yao, you back off and protect yourself."
"Okay." Gu Yao quickly left this place where a melee was about to happen, and found a safe place to stand, and his eyes didn't leave Chi Changye and those monster beasts. At this time, the blood ruby fruit seemed to be not that important.
Ning Hui also arrived, and saw Gu Yao's move, his eyes flashed a dark color.
"Act!"
The first batch of more than a dozen cultivators attacked the monster beasts together, and the monster beasts also had red eyes, and threw down the ruby fruits and pounced on these cultivators. A battle between cultivators and monster beasts began at the bottom of this valley, and the momentum was so great that the cultivators of Tianlin Continent who stayed on the cliff above could feel it, and they all leaned over and looked down.