Chapter 27

The two teams merged into one, and the number of people became even greater.

The two young masters, Huanmang and Jiuxiao, took the lead.

Jiuxiao pulled his sister Jiuyun between the two of them, deliberately creating an opportunity for them to come into contact.

Huanmang subtly moved aside and turned around to call out, "Jitang!"

Jitang subconsciously answered, "Ah?" and was pulled to Huanmang's side, sitting next to Jiujun.

The nine eagle-like eyes instantly fell on Ji Tang, sharp and fierce, scrutinizing him without any concealment.

Jitang was pulled so hard that he almost bumped into Jiujun, and even leaned towards Huanmang. His gaze on her became more inquiring.

Ji Tang squeezed out his voice from between his teeth, "Why are you using me to block your peach blossom?"

Huan Mang's eyes flashed with apology, and he said weakly, "Do me a favor. If he drags his sister over here, I'll drag my sister over too. We all have sisters!"

"What sister?" Ji Tang glared at him. Seeing that he kept winking at him, his sharp eyes, which were originally full of vigor and vitality, drooped slightly and softened a lot.

"If you don't like her, just find a way to reject her yourself. Using me as a shield is even worse than rejecting her directly." Ji Tang said without waiting for his answer, and retreated directly to Su Jinzhou's side.

She retreated suddenly, and the two pairs of eyes that were on her turned back and met her gaze.

Jiujun turned her head away immediately in surprise and nervousness. Jiuxiao looked at her coldly and slowly turned his gaze away.

Ji Tang cursed inwardly, "Brother and sister, is there anyone who is as deceitful as him?"

Huanyue looked at Huanmang's somewhat stiff back and asked, "Are you going to call him brother?"

Jitang glanced at him.

Huanyue: "...Just pretend I didn't say anything."

A group of people entered the swamp one after another.

The fog here was so thick that I could only see what was in front of me. Beyond that, I could only vaguely make out the outlines of three or four people in front and behind.

Huan Mang: "Breathing too much of this mist is harmful to your body. Everyone, use your spiritual power to protect yourselves!"

Ji Tang circulated the nightmare energy to protect himself, and then went to see Su Jinzhou.

I don’t know if it’s because of the night and the fog, but his face looks a little pale.

Ji Tang looked at him again. The spiritual power protecting his body was uneven in thickness, which showed that there was a problem with the control of the spiritual power.

"Your spiritual power is not right." Ji Tang moved closer and stretched out his hand to explore. As soon as his hand touched his spiritual power, the spiritual power trembled violently. Then, a gap appeared in the spiritual power touched by Ji Tang, and the surrounding spiritual power became thicker.

Su Jinzhou groaned.

Ji Tang frowned, "What's going on?"

Su Jinzhou: "My spiritual power is out of control and keeps trying to burst through my body. I'm suppressing it. This feeling is very similar to when I advanced from the Foundation Establishment Stage to the Opening Stage."

Ji Tang was surprised and said, "That means we have to cross the level!" She looked around and said, "This place is not suitable for crossing the level. There are too many people here. We have to find another place."

Ji Tang was about to look for another place when Su Jinzhou grabbed her wrist.

"Not so soon. We can wait a little longer. Otherwise, it will be very troublesome to explain."

"But the fog here is harmful to you." Ji Tang thought, "How about I use my nightmare energy to protect you first, and you should stop using your spiritual power for the time being, so as to avoid making your spiritual power more unstable."

Su Jinzhou withdrew his spiritual power and accepted Ji Tang's nightmare energy without any rejection.

As the team continued to go deeper, the swamp became larger and larger. With nowhere to stay, everyone gave up picking herbs and flew forward on their swords.

Ji Tang asked Su Jinzhou to share the flying sword with her.

The two of them had ridden a flying sword together in the royal hunting ground before, and Su Jinzhou didn't notice his presence. He stood behind Ji Tang naturally.

It’s just that other people don’t think that way.

Sharing a flying sword is a rather ambiguous matter.

Most flying swords are long and thin, so the space for standing is limited. When two people ride together, they will inevitably be very close to each other.

Generally, there are only a few types of people who ride on flying swords: fellow Taoists, relatives, injured people, or mortals who cannot fly swords.

Su Jinzhou is not Ji Tang's relative, he is not injured, and he is not a mortal. From this point of view, the fact that the two of them ride on the same sword together is even more ambiguous.

From the moment they entered the swamp, two inquiring gazes were always vaguely on Ji Tang.

One cold scrutiny came from Jiuxiao, and the other curious observation came from Jiuyun.

It was not until Su Jinzhou and Ji Tang shared the flying sword that the two gazes were suddenly retracted as if they had agreed upon it.

They flew over a large swamp and finally found a place to land, stopping at a higher point in the middle of the swamp.

It's said to be high, but it's not that high. The ground is surrounded by swamps and is only slightly higher than the swamp.

There were some dead branches sticking out of the swamp, large patches of moss and reed grass everywhere.

There were so many of them that they couldn't fit in one place, so the rest of the people settled down in the slightly higher ground around them.

Huan Mang came to the center of the group and said frankly, "The last time I came here, I discovered a demonic beast living at the bottom of the swamp. What do you think?"

Jiu Xiao was puzzled: "Why didn't you take action last time?"

Huanmang spoke frankly: "We don't have enough manpower."

If the Tuowei Dragon Clan had not joined this time, they would still not be able to deal with the monster.

Jiuxiao pondered and said, "What is the cultivation level of that demon beast?"

Huanmang shook his head, "I don't know, it's above me."

Jiuxiao was surprised: "It's above you?"

Ji Tang secretly clicked his tongue.

Huan Mang is now in the middle stage of Lingji, which is one level higher than Ji Tang's middle stage of Xindong, and three levels higher than Su Jinzhou.

This level of cultivation is considered top-notch among the same generation of dragons. Even he cannot see the cultivation level of the monster, which shows how powerful the monster is.

Jiu Xiao hesitated. He had brought his people into the secret realm and was responsible for them. "Let's discuss this."

Huan Mang, being the young master of the same clan, understood his concerns and said, "Okay."

Huanmang sat next to Huanyue, and formed a small circle with Jitang and Su Jinzhou.

He asked, "What do you think?"

Jitang: "Risks and opportunities coexist. It depends on whether you want opportunities or security."

Huan Mang was also hesitant. "I've seen a monster once, but I couldn't recognize it. Its skin is extremely thick and hard, so it should be excellent material for refining weapons. If the skin is so valuable, the bones and pills are even more valuable."

"But the monster is incredibly powerful. More than twenty of us failed to take it down before, and we escaped from the Misty Swamp with serious injuries. Even though we have more people this time, we don't know if we can deal with it."

Su Jinzhou: "You brought us into the Misty Swamp this time. Herbs are secondary. You're really here for the monsters, right?"

Huan Mang wiped his face and said, "Yes, I originally wanted to come here to investigate the situation, but I happened to run into Jiu Xiao and his group. Jiu Xiao's strength is at the early stage of spiritual silence. If the two of us join forces to attack, and with everyone's combined strength, we may be able to kill the monster."

Ji Tang hesitated, "But..."

Su Jinzhou: "Let's see what everyone says."

Ji Tang leaned in closer and whispered, "You never know when you'll cross levels. It's dangerous to get involved now."

Most cultivators will choose to go into seclusion in advance when they are about to reach a higher level, and they will definitely choose an absolutely safe place for their seclusion cave, so that they can concentrate on their practice without being affected by external forces.

Not to mention killing monsters, even a bug is impossible.

Su Jinzhou lowered his head in agreement and whispered in her ear, "I think we still have time after dealing with the monster. Since the monster is so powerful, it will definitely be a good opportunity, and it may be very beneficial to you."

Ji Tang shrank her neck. Her ears were very ticklish. As soon as she felt Su Jinzhou's warm breath, half of her arms were covered with goose bumps.

Ji Tang: "With so many people here, even if there's an opportunity, it won't necessarily benefit me. It's better to be safe..."

Su Jinzhou: "Risks and opportunities coexist."

Ji Tang laughed dryly, "You remember it clearly."

Huanyue saw the two of them separate and asked with a half-smile, "Have you finished biting my ear?"

Jitang scratched his ears subconsciously.

Su Jinzhou did not miss her slightly embarrassed expression - although only for a moment.

He brought the topic back to the previous moment. "We've been in the swamp for so long and no monsters have emerged. Should we first check to see if the monsters are still there?"

Huanmang gestured for them to look at the swamp. "Everywhere here is its eye. Just stare at the swamp for a while and you'll see."

Hearing this, several people stared at the swamp.

The swamp seems calm, but if you look at it carefully for a while, you will find that bubbles are emerging from the swamp at an extremely slow speed. When the bubble bursts with a "pop", a thumb-sized ball will appear at the broken place.

Jitang stared at the ball closely.

The sphere was grey and slowly rotating. A smaller black circle soon appeared above it. Just when she thought the black circle would slowly emerge from the swamp, it suddenly and rapidly moved above the swamp surface and stared closely at Ji Tang.

This turned out to be an eyeball.

Jitang is not afraid of being stared at. When he is annoyed by being stared at, he will retaliate with fierce eyes.

Immediately afterwards, Huan Mang pulled the man up from behind and said anxiously, "Close your eyes, close your eyes!"

Jitang was lifted up by him so much that his feet were almost off the ground, so he naturally couldn't stare at the eyeball anymore.

She kicked her feet, "What are you doing?!"

Su Jinzhou stood up at some point and put his hand on Huanmang's forearm. Because he used strength and spiritual power, Huanmang's hand holding Jitang loosened slightly.

Ji Tang's body tilted, and Su Jinzhou supported him and pulled him to his side in an instant.

"Someone from my tribe had looked into that thing's eyes before and became blind!" Huan Mang said, observing Su Jinzhou inconspicuously.

Is this person a little overprotective of her sister?

Ji Tang was stunned: "Blind? This eyeball can hurt people with its gaze..." She met Huan Mang's helpless eyes and guessed, "Is it an illusion?"

Huan Mang: "I think it's very likely that one of the media of illusion is the eyes, and monsters attack the enemy through these eyeballs. Did you feel anything else just now?"

Jitang shook his head: "No."

Huan Mang: "Well, the tribesmen who were injured before were only injured in the eyes. We still don't know if these eyeballs have other means of hurting people. It's better to be cautious."

Jitang: "Got it."

Huanmang changed the subject and said, "Eat more. It's too light."

He turned too fast, and Jitang was a beat late in reacting: "..."

Jiuxiao also returned at this time. "I have discussed with the tribesmen, and we have agreed to fight the monster together."

Huan Mang breathed a sigh of relief and patted his shoulder. "Okay, then let's discuss how to deal with it."

The two of them gathered together to discuss, but Jiujun did not participate and quietly came out from behind Jiuxiao.

Jitang has already seen her.

"Do you think she will come?"

Su Jinzhou noticed that although Jiujun's eyes were evasive, she would always look at Jitang as if unintentionally, "Judging from her personality, she doesn't look like someone who would come over."

As soon as he finished speaking, Jiujun seemed to have made up his mind and moved towards Jitang step by step.

Ji Tang chuckled, "Junior brother, you need to practice your eyesight more."

After saying that, he stood up and faced Jiuyun.

Jiujun didn't expect Jitang to stand up suddenly. She was startled and took several steps back.

Ji Tang counted for her and whispered, "Well, these few steps back are much more than the steps she took forward."

Su Jinzhou was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

Ji Tang glanced at Huan Mang's back and said, "You're always looking for trouble."

Huanmang, who was discussing how to deal with the monster next, felt a chill down his spine and shuddered.