The mysterious fog was hazy, and within it, vertical eyes appeared one after another. They belonged to the same race as the creature just now.
"Creak." Like a death knell, it rang in Ye Xingchen's heart.
"So many …" Ye Xingchen sucked in a breath of cold air.
The creatures he fought just now were not very strong, but they were very strange and difficult to deal with. Now, there were dozens of them, which made his scalp go numb, and a chill ran down his spine.
"I can only take out the Middle Arcana puppet."
Ye Xingchen's divine sense connected to the interspatial bag, and he took out the puppet. However, he found that he could not use it in the underground grotto-heaven. There was a power of law in the space that suppressed the puppet.
Ye Xingchen reluctantly withdrew the puppet, and looked into the depths of the fog. The creatures with vertical eyes did not attack, as if they were waiting for orders.
"I can only attack." Ye Xingchen took a step forward, found a direction, and rushed over.
"Swoosh!"
His glabella flashed, and the Stop Spirit Rune was activated. The creatures with vertical eyes nearby were affected, and stopped for a moment. Ye Xingchen disintegrated the Taiyi Qi, turning it into hundreds of tiny threads, and shot out like meteors.
"Pfft!" "Pfft!"
The Taiyi Qi was so sharp that it cut through the creatures as if they were tofu. In an instant, dozens of creatures with vertical eyes had their legs severed.
"Creak!"
All the creatures with vertical eyes screamed at the next moment. Their shrill cries made one's hair stand on end, and their scalps go numb.
"Bam! Bam!"
A few creatures with vertical eyes near Ye Xingchen swung their sickle-like claws, slashing at him.
As the claws slashed, the space seemed to tremble.
Ye Xingchen withdrew all of his Taiyi Qi, condensed it into a longsword, and pointed it in three directions. With a few cracking sounds, the claws fell to the ground.
He took the opportunity to fly forward, and suddenly, a huge creature with vertical eyes appeared in front of him, breathing out a terrifying aura.
The creature with vertical eyes was ten meters tall. Its vertical eyes were golden, and so were its sharp claws. It was as if they were forged from gold and flashed with a metallic luster.
As soon as it appeared, the vertical-eyed creatures around it all knelt down. Clearly, it was the king of these vertical-eyed creatures.
'What a powerful aura. It's definitely on par with a mid-Maxi-level expert.' Ye Xingchen could feel a pressure weighing down on him like a hundred thousand mountains.
The injuries from Ming Xin's sneak attack had not yet healed, and now that he had encountered the astonishing pressure, the blood in his body churned, and a trickle of blood leaked out from the corner of his mouth.
The king of vertical-eyed creatures was faceless, but Ye Xingchen could sense mockery and ridicule from its giant golden vertical eye.
"Chi!"
While Ye Xingchen was distracted, the golden vertical eye shot out a beam of golden light, trying to penetrate him.
In the time it takes for a spark to fly off a flint, Ye Xingchen unleashed the entire piece of Primordial Divine Iron in his Qi Ocean and placed it in front of him.
Bang!
The golden light struck the Primordial Divine Iron, and he was sent flying by a huge force.
While he was flying, Ye Xingchen used part of his True Qi that he had fused with the Primordial Divine Iron to retrieve it. At the same time, he activated the Primordial Divine Iron Qi, which crisscrossed and formed a dense sword net, blocking the incoming vertical-eyed creatures.
"Pfft!" "Pfft!"
Some vertical-eyed creatures tried to break through the sword net, but the sword qi struck their bodies and cut off their claws.
Ye Xingchen made use of this time to retreat. The Yin Yang Cauldron in his body quickly revolved, refining the strange True Power that Ming Xin had sneakily injected into his body. His True Qi recovered at an even faster speed, disappearing into the grey mist.
The golden vertical-eyed creature was obviously angry. It squeaked, and shot out a beam of golden light towards the direction where Ye Xingchen had escaped.
Its huge body followed closely behind, and stopped after a few steps. In front of it, a huge creature appeared. It looked like an ancient Tao Tie, with a human face and a goat body. Its eyes were located under the armpit, and its head and mouth were huge, as though it could devour anything.
The golden vertical-eyed creature trembled, and quickly retreated. The Tao Tie opened its mouth, and sucked in fiercely. All the vertical-eyed creatures in the surroundings fell into its mouth. The golden vertical-eyed creature escaped hundreds of feet away, but it could not escape the fate of being devoured by the Tao Tie.
The Tao Tie devoured all the vertical-eyed creatures, and the eyes under the armpit scanned the surroundings before disappearing into the gray mist.
Ye Xingchen shuttled back and forth in the gray mist. He did not know how long he had been running, or how far he had flown, but he was still spinning in the gray mist. From time to time, a huge body would pass by him.
"Hoo hoo …"
There was a wind blowing in the gray mist. Ye Xingchen was surprised to find that the gray mist around him was fading at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was as though the sun had risen and melted the gray mist.
"Rustle …"
It was as though there was a creature crawling, and in a split second, it was far away.
In the next moment, Ye Xingchen found himself in an unfamiliar environment.
He looked around and found himself in a valley. This valley was different from the other valleys, and there was jade everywhere. Be it the rocks, flowers, trees, or mountains, they were all made of jade. Under the illumination of the huge fireball in the sky, they were all glistening.
"This is … a jade mountain?" Ye Xingchen was astonished.
What entered his eyes was all jade, sparkling and translucent, and dazzling.
He casually picked up a piece of jade, and it felt warm and soft to the touch. There was a faint trace of spiritual energy flowing within it. Ye Xingchen circulated his cultivation technique, and the spiritual energy flowed into his body through his meridians, nourishing his body.
What surprised him was that the trace of spiritual energy was extremely gentle. As it flowed through his meridians, the injuries on his body healed significantly.
Ye Xingchen looked around and did not sense any danger. His body was injured, so he sat cross-legged in the valley and absorbed the surrounding jade spiritual energy to heal his injuries and nourish his meridians.
Before he started cultivating, he opened the system and exchanged a few lower grade fifth-grade healing spiritual pills. He swallowed them to complement the jade spiritual energy in this place.
After a night of rest, Ye Xingchen's injuries were basically healed. The eighteen meridians in his body were nourished by the jade spiritual energy, and they shone brightly like Stars.
He felt that his cultivation level had made some progress, and he was showing signs of entering the ninth level of the Transcendence Realm.
"There are jade mountains all around here. There must be chalcedonies here." Ye Xingchen prepared to go deeper into the valley to find chalcedonies.
Chalcedonies were the crystallization of jade spiritual energy. Not only could they be used for cultivation, but they could also be used for healing and alchemy. They were extremely useful.
For example, the Fire Yuan Marrow could also be considered a type of chalcedony. However, it was a fire-elemental chalcedony, while the chalcedonies in this valley were non-elemental chalcedonies, suitable for all martial artists to absorb and refine.
The valley was huge. After flying for 15 minutes, Ye Xingchen still had not reached the end.
"Dong, dong …"