Chapter 1206: Hou Tu Wu Tomb
This entire underground cave world is the real Hou Tu Ruins.
Fu Qingshan controlled the divine weapon to repel the first and second level earth armor rhinos that kept pouring in from all around, while paying closer attention to the movements in the air. Above his head, there was a half-moon-shaped jade wheel, emitting rays of light, forcing dozens of first and second level soul-devouring pythons to be difficult to approach.
This half-moon-shaped jade wheel treasure is the very famous "Spirit-fixing Divine Moon Wheel" in the Divine Realm. It is a top-grade immortal weapon with very powerful defense against spiritual attacks. Even when encountering evil spirits before, Fu Qingshan was reluctant to use it, but he didn't expect to use it here.
Although this treasure is powerful and the divine moon light it radiates can repel the soul-devouring python, it also consumes a lot of divine consciousness.
In the void of Hou Tu Ruins, there are first and second level soul-devouring pythons swimming everywhere, and even occasionally there are third-level soul-devouring pythons that appear and disappear. No one dares to release divine consciousness to explore the surroundings.
The Soul Devouring Python's induction of the cultivator's soul and consciousness is even more terrifying than that of evil spirits. It is conceivable that its ability to devour the soul and soul has reached an extremely terrifying level.
Fu Qingshan's "Spirit-fixing Moon Wheel" is indeed extraordinary. Under the protection of this treasure, his consciousness can not only safely avoid the induction of the Soul Devouring Python, but also see the entire Hou Tu Ruins world clearly.
In his perception, although the Earth Armored Rhinoceros is not large in size, there are tens of thousands of them, densely packed and spread everywhere. The Soul Devouring Python is very large in size, floating in the air. Although there are not as many as the Earth Armored Rhinoceros, there are also thousands of them.
The Earth Armored Rhinoceros occupies the ground, and the Soul Devouring Python occupies the air, almost making the entire mushroom jungle of Hou Tu Ruins airtight. Especially near the Hou Tu Wu Tomb, at least 40% of the Earth Armored Rhinoceros and Soul Devouring Pythons have gathered.
Fu Qingshan sensed through the "Spirit-fixing Moon Wheel" that a new earth spirit origin was being born on the Houtu Witch Tomb. Judging from its growth rate, it might be able to escape from the Houtu Witch Tomb in a few hours.
According to the information purchased, the birth of the earth spirit origin is also the time when the Houtu Witch Tomb derives the divine soil. Once this moment is missed, when the earth spirit origin escapes or is swallowed by the surrounding soul-devouring pythons, you can only wait for the next hundred years to have a chance.
Fu Qingshan knew very well that the earth-armored rhinoceros gathered around the Houtu Witch Tomb was not targeting the earth spirit origin, but the divine soil of the witch tomb. The earth-armored rhinoceros is a terrible beast with both offensive and defensive capabilities among the earth-eating monsters. It mainly feeds on various spiritual soils, immortal soils and divine soils, and occasionally eats some beasts of other categories.
If a body-refining practitioner or a martial arts practitioner provokes them, they will also devour the practitioner cruelly. Of course, this situation is extremely rare. The earth-armored rhinoceros gathered around the Hou Tu Wu Tomb are the most powerful in the entire Hou Tu Ruins. Most of them are at the peak of the second level, and a few have reached the third level.
It is conceivable how difficult it is to compete for the divine soil of the Wu Tomb from the mouths of these earth-armored rhinoceros.
The largest of the soul-devouring pythons gathered around the Hou Tu Wu Tomb is more than 900 feet long, which is the highest-level soul-devouring python in the entire Hou Tu Ruins. It is like a king, staring quietly at the earth spirit origin growing on the Hou Tu Wu Tomb.
There are dozens of soul-devouring pythons about 300 to 800 feet around. Their target is also the earth spirit origin on the Hou Tu Wu Tomb. However, due to the fierce power of the king-level soul-devouring python, no soul-devouring python dares to approach the Hou Tu Wu Tomb.
They are waiting here eagerly, naturally waiting to snatch the earth spirit origin that escaped from the mouth of the king-level soul-devouring python.
Fu Qingshan's bitter expression on his face became heavier as he withdrew his eyes from the Hou Tu Wu Tomb in the central area.
In this expedition, he overestimated his own strength, thinking that with his current ninth-level peak cultivation of Yuanti and the peak of the late Mahayana, he should be able to easily seize the earth spirit origin and divine soil from Hou Tu Ruins. Who would have thought that this would be the case.
In the peripheral areas around Hou Tu Ruins, in addition to them, there were three other expedition teams, all of which were under the attack of the Earth Armored Rhinoceros and the Soul Devouring Python, struggling to hold on, and there was no chance or hope of attacking Hou Tu Wu Tomb.
"Brother Fu, is there really no chance? In more than two hours, twelve earth spirit origins will be born on Hou Tu Wu Tomb, and twelve groups of witch tomb divine soil will be derived. As long as we get an earth spirit or a group of divine soil, this trip will be worth it. Do we really have to give up?" Several people broke through many difficulties and broke here. Seeing that they were about to reach Hou Tu Wu Tomb, they had to give up and retreat. Dugu Shouque was quite unwilling.
"What if we don't give up? Can we still rush over?"
Fu Qingshan laughed at himself. He could see the situation at Hou Tu Wu Tomb through the "Spirit-fixing Moon Wheel", but Dugu Shouque and others couldn't. Naturally, they didn't know that the place was now surrounded by the most powerful earth-armored rhinoceros and soul-devouring pythons.
Not to mention them, even if all the adventurous monks who entered the Divine Land Tempering Martial Hall were gathered together, they might not be able to get through.
"Could it be that the Hou Tu Wu Tomb has been surrounded by the second and third level earth-armored rhinoceros and soul-devouring pythons?" Although Dugu Shouque couldn't sense the situation at Hou Tu Wu Tomb, he could guess it.
The third-level earth-armored rhinoceros is equivalent to a cultivator with the late Mahayana cultivation level, but because of their terrible defense ability and bizarre attack methods, their overall strength is more terrible than that of ordinary late Mahayana cultivators.
The third-level soul-devouring python is even more terrible. Any cultivator below the late Mahayana will have his soul and spirit directly absorbed by them if their consciousness is slightly sensed by them. It is more powerful than evil spirits.
Fu Qingshan nodded dejectedly, without any intention of hiding anything.
"In that case, there is really no other way. Let's retreat." Dugu Shouque said bitterly. Of the people who came in with him, only Hu Tianjiao was left. If Hu Tianjiao had not been a core disciple of the demon sect, and had not only three life-saving talismans made for her by her master, but also life-saving methods given by her master, she would have died outside.
After the four decided to retreat, they immediately turned back without any hesitation and rushed to the Houtuxu Gate hundreds of feet away. The earth-armored rhinoceros and soul-devouring pythons on both sides were extremely spiritual. Seeing that they took the initiative to retreat, they did not intercept them, but instead got out of the way.
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An hour passed quickly.
Wu Yan in the cave was the first to stand up, and offered the Xuanhuang Gourd, holding it above his head. To prevent accidents, Wu Yan also took out the Xuanhuang Order and the Xuanwu War Flag, and held them in his left and right hands.
The others had been waiting in the cave for a long time. Seeing that Wu Yan was ready and ready to go, they stood around Wu Yan one by one, waiting with concentration, as if facing a great enemy, and followed Wu Yan to the cave exit.
Many people held some immortal treasures and talismans that could save their lives at critical moments in their hands, intending to escape in time if they were really in danger.
But they also knew that if Wu Yan's treasures could not resist the Dragon War God Light, they would probably have no chance to sacrifice immortal weapons or talismans to save their lives.
The group quickly walked out of the cave and appeared in the area covered by the Dragon War God Light.
At this moment, Wu Yan used his magic power to activate the Xuanhuang Gourd, and used his spiritual consciousness to guide the direction of the Xuanhuang Gourd, and walked forward slowly.
The range of the Xuanhuang two-color light emitted from the Xuanhuang Gourd was much larger than the range that Wu Yan had thrown into the Dragon War God Light before, and it steadily protected everyone in a safe area.
The dragon war divine light descending from the sky, after being refracted by the two colors of black and yellow, could no longer hurt anyone. However, everyone did not dare to be careless, and still followed Wu Yan carefully and slowly.
This time, passing through the dragon war divine light area was a great test for Wu Yan. He not only had to continuously use his true essence and magic power to maintain the two colors of black and yellow in the black and yellow gourd to resist the dragon war divine light, but also had to pay attention to the speed of the people around him to avoid accidents.
As they walked along, everyone smelled a strong and nauseating bloody smell in their noses.
This strong and pungent bloody smell was not smelled by everyone before entering the dragon war divine light area, and it suddenly appeared after entering this area, which was really bizarre.
Everyone realized that the bloody smell came from the ground under their feet, and they looked down in surprise, but saw that the ground was not ordinary soil, but yellow soil solidified by black blood.
This yellow soil is not ordinary soil, but loess formed by the condensation of the Rehmannia Qi from the Xuanhuang Qi. However, these loess are now filled with dark dried blood and have lost their original Rehmannia flavor.
What is even more bizarre is the blood that has melted into the loess. I don’t know when these bloodstains were made and what kind of blood they were made of. They have already dried and condensed and turned dark.
“Could this be the Xuanhuang divine blood? But how is this possible? I heard that only the disciples of the Xuanhuang Patriarch can condense the Xuanhuang divine blood, and other clans cannot refine it. The Xuanhuang clan disappeared from the Three Realms in ancient times. Even if their blood dried and solidified, it would definitely not last for such a long time. What exactly is this place? It’s too weird, right?”
Mu Feng looked at the dark dried bloodstains underground and the loess that completely merged with these bloodstains with a look of horror, and said in shock.
Everyone looked at each other, and stopped walking, turning their eyes to Lin Qi.
Lin Qi smiled bitterly and said, "Don't look at me, I don't know what's going on. Let's go quickly, this is not a place to hesitate."
Everyone couldn't figure it out, but they knew he was right, so they went forward again.
After walking for nearly three quarters of an hour, everyone felt that the bloody aura in front of them had weakened a lot, and the dragon war light above their heads had also weakened a lot, so they knew that they were probably approaching the Houtu Ruins Gate, and their spirits were lifted.
"Everyone be careful, there are another hundred feet ahead, and we will reach the Houtu Ruins Gate. There are earth-armored rhinos and soul-devouring pythons squatting there, it's very dangerous." Wu Yan reminded at the right time.
Everyone then offered their treasures and moved forward cautiously. Even Wu Yan put away the Xuanhuang Order and Xuanwu Battle Flag in his hand, raised his hand to circulate the power of the Holy Yuan, clenched his palm and bent his fingers, so that he could use the Four Symbols Magical Power at any time.
Facing the Earth Armored Rhino and the Soul Devouring Python, Wu Yan felt that his natal immortal sword might not be able to achieve success, so he decided to win by surprise.
A hundred feet away, passed in a moment. Just as everyone was offering immortal weapons and treasures and preparing to attack forward, they heard Wu Yan suddenly say: "Wait a minute!"
"Who?!" A sudden shout came from the direction of the Houtuxu Gate, startling everyone and stopping.
"Is it Brother Fu? I am Wu Yan!" Hearing the shout, Wu Yan felt that it sounded quite familiar, and couldn't help but shouted in surprise.