Whoosh!
Figures streaked across the ground below, before rushing into the black primordial forest like a swarm of locusts.
Mu Chen's gaze was tightly locked onto the black primordial forest. After a long while, his face slightly changed. That's because he discovered that there wasn't much activity coming from within, even after thousands of such huge groups had rushed into the forest. It felt as though the black forest was an isolated space.
Mu Chen and Luo Li exchanged glances, while frowning their brows. This situation was a little strange.
"Prepare to move out. Everyone, be careful."
Mu Chen pondered for a brief moment, before decisively waving his hand. There was no such thing as a free lunch in this world. If they wanted to obtain benefits from the ancient ruins, they would have to take some risks.
Hearing Mu Chen's words, Xu Huang and the rest nodded their heads, before rapidly circulating the Spiritual Energy within their bodies. Lin Zhou and the rest hastily followed suit. After knowing the strength of Mu Chen's group, they clearly planned to tightly hug onto this thigh.
"Let's go."
Taking a look at the groups from the other three Great Spiritual Academies, who were starting to get restless, Mu Chen no longer hesitated as he took the lead and shot out. In a short span of a dozen breaths, he had landed before the black forest. Looking at the jet-black colour, he felt as though this place was the mouth of a demon, causing people's hearts to palpitate.
Taking a deep breath, Mu Chen didn't hesitate much. With a tap of his foot, his figure shot into the forest like a wisp of smoke. Behind him, Luo Li and the rest rapidly followed.
Darkness enveloped over, engulfing Mu Chen's figure, causing him to slightly pause. All the activity behind him, including the sound of the wind, seemed to have disappeared in an instant, while the entire region turned incomparably deathly silent. Such a change caused Mu Chen to be startled. However, upon seeing Luo Li and the rest appear behind him, only then did he feel relieved.
"It seems that there is no way to transmit sound out of this forest. Similarly, the sound from the outside cannot enter this place," Lin Zhou said.
Mu Chen nodded his head as he swept his gaze around. This forest was filled with giant trees that towered into the skies. These giant trees were similarly jet-black in colour, with lush branches that hid the skies and covered the earth as they spread out. A radius of a hundred feet was completely covered by them, to the point that even sunlight was unable to penetrate through. Therefore, this forest appeared extremely dark and gloomy.
Mu Chen's group of ten gathered together as they slowly and carefully walked into the forest. Boundless Spiritual Energy rippled around their bodies. Any slight movement from the grass or wind would attract their violent attacks.
However, when Mu Chen and the others carefully moved forward for a few minutes, they were surprised to find that they did not encounter any attacks. The forest was silent, although the trees were extremely dense.
But strangely, it didn't give off any sense of vitality.
"Wait!"
Mu Chen's footsteps suddenly came to a halt. His eyes were solemn as he looked ahead. There were more than ten sets of eerie white bones on the ground.
"Eh?
Looks like people have entered this place before. "Looking at the white bones, Xu Huang and the others spoke out in astonishment.
"Not before … these bones should be from the groups that have entered this place before." Luo Li said in a soft voice.
"What?"
The faces of Xu Huang and the others instantly changed. In such a short period of time, even if they were killed, there shouldn't be only bare bones left. Furthermore, the flesh and blood on their bodies had completely disappeared.
Nodding his head, Mu Chen solemnly looked around and said in a soft voice, "Be careful.
There's something strange about this forest. "
Along the way, they did not encounter any attacks. In fact, they did not even see the silhouette of any beasts. This forest seemed to be basically devoid of any living things. However, the white bones before their eyes clearly told them that there was definitely something frightening within this dark forest …
Quietly closing in, the ten of them did not notice that the ground beneath their feet had faintly trembled for a moment.
Bang!
The black leaves covering the ground suddenly flew up as numerous black rays of light shot out. At lightning speed, they wrapped around the waists of Xu Huang, Lin Zhou and the others, pulling them into the air.
This sudden and unforeseen event caused everyone to be shocked. Looking over, Mu Chen saw that the black rays of light were actually black vines. However, there was still fresh blood flowing on the surface of the vines. As the vines wiggled about, the blood was devoured.
Being entangled by the vines, the faces of Xu Huang, Lin Zhou and the others greatly changed. However, they did not panic too much. Immediately circulating their Spiritual Energies, their hand blades brought about swift and fierce gales as they violently chopped at the vines.
However, when their palms, which were sufficient to split apart mountains, landed on the vines, they were only able to leave behind shallow traces of blood. The defensive capabilities of the vines were exceedingly strong.
Chi!
Suddenly, black tree thorns approximately half a metre long shot out from one end of the vines. With a swish, they brought about remnant shadows as they pierced towards the throats of Xu Huang and Lin Zhou without the slightest bit of mercy.
Instantly, the eyes of Xu Huang and Lin Zhou filled with horror.
Swish!
However, just as the incomparably sharp black tree thorns were about to pierce through the throats of the two, an exceedingly swift and fierce sword light shot out, streaking across the black vines. With a puff, it had actually chopped them apart, causing Xu Huang and Lin Zhou to fall from the sky. Falling onto the ground, they hastily crawled up, their bodies tensed up.
"Thank you." The faces of Xu Huang and Lin Zhou turned pale!
With lingering fear in their hearts, they thanked Luo Li!
In response, Luo Li gently nodded her head, while her jade-like hand grasped onto the longsword. Although the defensive capabilities of the vines were astonishing, under the Luo God Sword, they were as weak as paper. However, these things were impossible to guard against, and were especially troublesome to deal with.
Mu Chen's gaze slowly swept around, before finally focusing on those giant black trees within the forest. After an instant, his pupils furiously contracted as he roared, "Careful, there's something strange about those trees!"
Whoosh!
At the instant that Mu Chen's roar rang out, those giant black trees in the surroundings, which did not show any signs of activity earlier, started to crazily tremble at this moment. In the next instant, black vines hid the skies and covered the earth as they explosively shot out from those giant trees, hiding the skies and covering the earth as they enveloped towards Mu Chen and his group.
Everyone's faces turned pale from fright as Spiritual Energy erupted from their bodies. Various kinds of Spiritual Artifacts appeared in a flash, while swift and fierce attacks shot towards the incoming vines.
With the Devouring Dragon Demonic Spear in his hand, spear glints swept out. Any black vines that entered the range of his attack would be instantly shredded to pieces. However, amongst the ten of them, the one who had the easiest time was clearly Luo Li. The Luo God Sword was too swift and fierce. Wherever the sword light passed, countless vines would be sliced apart, with the cuts appearing as smooth as a mirror. As black blood dripped down, it corroded holes into the ground.
The ten of them formed a circle, sending out boundless attacks that completely obstructed the incoming vines. At this moment, the ground around them was seemingly covered in broken vines.
However, the attacks coming from the vines seemed to be endless, causing them to appear exceedingly frightening.
"If this goes on, we'll be dragged to our deaths here!"
Zhao Qingshan clenched his teeth as he spoke out. They did not possess a Divine Artifact like the Luo God Sword, so wanting to chop apart those vines required quite a bit of effort. If this continued, their Spiritual Energy would be quickly depleted. Once their Spiritual Energy was depleted, what awaited them would definitely be the same outcome as those white bones.
"Break through!"
Mu Chen decisively roared out. In the next instant, he and Luo Li took the lead to rush out. As the demonic spear and divine sword shot out, they forcefully ripped apart a crack in the vine attacks that hid the skies and covered the earth. Taking advantage of the crack, they explosively shot out, with Lin Zhou and the rest closely following behind, not daring to fall even half a step behind.
Hiding the skies and covering the earth, the vines filled the entire forest, appearing akin to squirming tentacles, a ghastly sight to behold.
Chi Chi!
However, just as Mu Chen and his group were rapidly moving in an attempt to break free from the attacks of those vines, the black demonic trees in their surroundings suddenly started to tremble. In the next instant, dense black mist gushed out from their bodies, gushing out from all directions.
"Careful!"
Luo Li was the first to discover the black mist that was rapidly gushing towards them. Immediately, a sword light shot out. However, this time, the sword light only pierced through the black mist, not destroying it.
Hearing this, a frown appeared on Mu Chen's forehead as he sent a palm patting out. Boundless Spiritual Energy brought along boundless gales as it howled out, causing the black mist to retreat a little. However, very quickly, the black mist swirled back towards them once again.
"Ah!"
Just as Mu Chen was feeling troubled by the black mist, a miserable shriek suddenly rang out from his back. Shooting his gaze over, he saw a person from the group from the Desolation Spiritual Academy making contact with the black mist. In the next instant, his hand started to wither at an astonishing rate, with blood, flesh and blood appearing to have been devoured, leaving behind bare bones.
Raising his blade, Lin Zhou chopped off the arm of that member, before dragging him as he hastily retreated into the protection of his group.
In the blink of an eye, the severed arm had turned into white bones, with all of its flesh and blood disappearing without a trace.
"Damn it, that's poison!"
Said Lin Zhou as he clenched his teeth. "That poison's too overbearing! Furthermore, it has the ability to pierce through Spiritual Energy! I simply don't dare to touch it in the slightest!"
"We seem to have been surrounded by the poison mist," said Mu Fengyang with a bitter laugh.
At this moment, their group had already come to a stop. That's because the poison mist that hid the skies and covered the earth had already pervaded the air in front of them. They had already entered a dead end, unable to advance, and unable to retreat.
At this moment, a dark expression appeared on Mu Chen's face as he looked at the scene before him. Truly, every step one took while rushing into the ancient remnant was filled with danger. If they were not careful, they might end up being used as fertilizer to nourish the demonic trees.
"What should we do?" asked Luo Li as her eyebrows faintly knitted together. The situation before them was rather thorny.
A glint flickered within Mu Chen's eyes. Looking at the layers of poison mist that were surging over, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. Extending out his right palm, four of his fingers curled up, while his middle finger extended out. Ferociously, he pointed towards a strand of poison mist.
Seeing his actions, Luo Li was so frightened that her little face turned a shade paler. The poison mist here was extremely overbearing. If she were to come into contact with it, it would be a serious matter. However, just as she was about to take action to stop Mu Chen, she was astonished to see that the frightening poison mist fluctuated, before unexpectedly being sucked into Mu Chen's middle finger …
"Are you alright?!" asked Luo Li anxiously as she hastily grabbed onto Mu Chen's palm.
Smiling, Mu Chen shook his head. Looking towards the incomparably overbearing poison mist, a grin appeared on his face. That grin no longer had the dread from before. Instead, it was as if he had seen some sort of mysterious treasure.
This poison mist was extremely powerful. At this moment, his "Poison Finger", which had been exhausted due to his battle with Mo Xingtian … could finally replenish the poison mist once again.
(After thinking about the plot for an entire night, I've only written the second chapter now.)
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