Since they were phantoms, then it must be soul attacks. Lu Li's soul had been strengthened in the Den of Ice and he was protected by the dragon soul. He was not afraid at all.
He walked forward slowly. The phantoms began to move. They dashed toward Lu Li like a gust of wind. In the blink of an eye, they had reached Lu Li.
Two phantoms snuck into Lu Li's body and then into his mind.
Lu Li was relieved. As soon as the two phantoms entered his mind, the dragon soul began to devour the two phantoms.
The two phantoms could not stand it any longer and were devoured soon.
Lu Li waited for a moment to make sure that he was safe.
He pressed on. This time, he attracted five phantoms. Lu Li stopped to see if the dragon soul could stand it.
The Dragon Soul was still very reliable. The five shadows rushed into the Dragon Soul and were easily devoured.
Lu Li sped up. Many phantoms whooshed toward him, but they were all devoured by the dragon soul. Lu Li pressed on without any danger.
The tunnel was winding. Lu Li could not tell how long it was. It took him the time for three incense sticks to burn. Finally, he reached the end.
What shocked him was that … there was no exit at the end of the tunnel!
There was no exit at the end?
There was no fork. What was going on?
Lu Li did not believe it. He asked Blood Fairy to check. There was no exit and there was no illusion at the end of the tunnel.
"Boom!"
Lu Li punched at the stone wall. A muffled sound came from it. Lu Li's fist could not crack it. The stone wall was horribly hard.
Lu Li was strong. The average stone wall would not be able to stand him. There could only be one explanation — the stone wall was protected by strong runes.
Blood Fairy's investigation proved this. There was no illusion here. Just like the other stone walls, there were strong runes. There … was no way out.
"Go back!"
Lu Li thought about it and decided to go back. There must be a way out. Where were the people that came in?
Since he could not see them, they must have left through the exit.
Judging from this, the exit was likely to be at the entrance.
Lu Li ran all the way back. At the entrance, he dashed in at once.
After a flash of white light, Lu Li found himself in a desert. His speculation was right. The entrance was the exit.
"There are footprints!"
Lu Li looked around and was cheered up. At least some of the older warriors or the younger generation had made it here.
Lu Li checked the surroundings for a while and then ran along the footprints.
"There are a lot of footprints. That group of old guys definitely wouldn't be afraid of anything. They should be flying directly. These footprints are most likely left behind by the younger generation."
Lu Li became even more excited after some thoughts.
After running for the time it took for half an incense stick to burn, he found that there were no more monsters attacking him, so he sped up.
He noticed that a group of people were heading north, but he didn't know if they were on this floor.
Bang!
All of a sudden, without any warning, when Lu Li jumped onto a sand dune, the dune exploded. A huge black skeletal hand reached out in a flash.
Lu Li had no time to react. He was grabbed by the black hand and pulled down the dune.
"Huh?"
Lu Li was taken aback. He had been using the Trace of Great Path but he didn't sense anything wrong. He didn't sense any movement. The hand reached out like a ghost.
Lu Li's body was restrained by the strong force. Luckily, Lu Li's body was strong so the hand couldn't crush him.
Lu Li used the Trace of Great Path to sense something. He sensed a skeletal beast that was grabbing him and dashing down the dune.
That beast didn't have any signs of life. It was more like an Undead. It was an ape-like Undead beast with thick skeletal hands. If it weren't for the fact that Lu Li had a strong physical body, he would have been killed.
"Buzzing ~"
Lu Li took out the Relic iron and smashed at the skeletal hand.
The skeletal hand was strong. The Relic iron made a muffled sound when it was smashed. But there was a crack.
Lu Li was cheered up. He kept on smashing with the Relic iron. Soon, the skeletal hand was cracked. Lu Li flew out like an arrow.
"Swish ~"
Another skeletal hand reached at Lu Li. This time, Lu Li was prepared. He punched out. A shadow of his fist whooshed out and landed on the skeletal hand.
"Bang!"
The skeletal hand trembled. Lu Li flew up with the help of the airwave and soared into the sky.
However, as soon as he was in midair, he sensed something was wrong. He sensed some ripples of divine patterns.
"Oh no!"
At this moment, Lu Li's heart skipped a beat. He felt a strong sense of danger.
His eyes darted around like lightning, and soon, he saw a shocking scene.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang ~"
It was as if a hornet's nest had been poked. Many sand dunes exploded at the same time. Following that, many skeletal beasts roared out. There were those in the shape of bears, wolves, dragons, apes … there were skeletal beasts of all shapes and sizes.
All of the skeletal beasts shared a common characteristic. Their bodies were extremely large. Every single one of them was either hundreds of feet tall or hundreds of feet long. All of their skeletons were black in color. Furthermore, there was a black aura swirling around them. Their eyes shone with a dark light.
Four to five hundred!
Lu Li saw four to five hundred sand dunes burst open and four to five hundred skeletal beasts dashed out. Many skeletal beasts raised their heads and roared, making shrill noises. Lu Li's heart skipped a beat at the sight of their ferocious might.
"No wonder they are running close to the ground!"
Lu Li realized something. It was not that those people were being cautious. There must be some powerful people among them who had seen something and decided to walk in a low-key manner.
"Run!"
In a split of a second, Lu Li made up his mind. He took out the Godspeed Boat and dashed in. He controlled the Godspeed Boat to fly up.
He knew there were divine patterns in the sky. The higher he went, the more skeletal beasts he would attract. But he had no other choice.
Even though the skeletal beasts here might not be able to kill him, he was not sure that he could get away easily.
The number of times he could use the Relic iron was limited. On the off chance that he was trapped, he would be tortured to death by the skeletal beasts.
He had given the Godspeed Boat back to Lu Li. The Godspeed Boat was fast. Lu Li was confident that the skeletal beasts could not catch up with him.
As long as the skeletal beasts could not catch up, what was there to be afraid of?
"Swish!"
Soon, the Godspeed Boat broke through the sky. This time, it had poked through the hornet's nest. There was a shocking scene below.
The Godspeed Boat transformed into a beam of light as it flew past. Countless sand dunes beneath it exploded one after another as giant skeletal beasts leaped out and charged towards the Godspeed Boat.
There were only hundreds of skeletal beasts at first. But as the Godspeed Boat moved, there were thousands of skeletal beasts.
As the Godspeed Boat flew, the number of skeletal beasts would increase to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands …