Gobi Desert.

Finding a place in this vast desert is no easy task.

Apart from Su Qing, everyone else was already completely dumbfounded.

"If we go north for another two hours, we'll reach the Sandworm Cave." Su Qing raised her hand to shield her eyes from the scorching sun.

Everyone wrapped themselves up tightly in robes. It has to be said that the further north you go, the stronger the sandstorms become on the Gobi Desert.

They had a relatively smooth journey, except for a few blind sixth-tier demonic beasts, which the two Foundation Establishment peak cultivators dealt with together, while the others didn't have to lift a finger.

The two Foundation Establishment Peak cultivators already felt that their cultivation had improved considerably. If they could go into seclusion to cultivate, with the help of the pills given by Su Qing, they would definitely be able to break through to the Core Formation stage.

Shui Qingchen and Qiu Feiyang both felt that the bottleneck in their cultivation was beginning to loosen. If they could form their Nascent Souls, they would be able to serve as protectors after returning to their sect.

They were originally Core Formation stage elders, in charge of a mountain peak. If they reached Nascent Soul stage, they did not plan to change their cave dwellings. However, their status in the Xuanling Sect would be completely different.

One of them is an alchemist, and the other is a weapon refiner. After they become Nascent Soul cultivators, they will both be Nascent Soul Grandmasters. The spirit stones they can earn at that time will definitely be a hundred or a thousand times more than they are now.

Both of them looked at Su Qing, who was walking at the front of the group.

Su Qing is absolutely a genius. Once the sect competition ends and Su Qing returns to the Xuanling Sect, even if she is not a Nascent Soul cultivator, she will definitely be at the level of a Xuanling Sect protector.

As for Xuan Qingye.

Sigh, let's not compare anymore.

Xuan Qingye has already reached the third level of Core Formation. Although it is not as frightening as Su Qing's fourth level of Core Formation, it is still beyond their reach.

The Seven Star Pill that Su Qing refined was very suitable for her to stabilize her spiritual root.

Su Qing's five elemental spiritual roots and thunder spiritual root in her dantian were not innate, but rather acquired through cultivation and fortuitous encounters. Each time she broke through, she needed elixirs to stabilize her spiritual roots in order to balance the constantly rotating vortex in her dantian.

The Seven Star Pill contains seven kinds of spiritual herbs, covering the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, as well as the lightning attribute. When it was formed, it even absorbed the tribulation lightning. The Seven Star Pill is really too perfect for Su Qing.

Su Qing really wanted to change the wind-attribute spiritual power in the Seven Star Pill to the ice-attribute spiritual power, so that it could match Xuan Qingye.

Unfortunately, in places like the Gobi Desert, it's impossible to find any spirit herbs with ice attributes.

However, Xuan Qingye has Snow Soul Pills, which, when taken together with Seven Star Pills, are extremely beneficial to his cultivation.

As the sun began to set, Su Qing finally stopped.

Before everyone's eyes appeared a vast, flat desert.

There wasn't a breath of wind here, which was really eerie.

"This is the sandworm's territory," Su Qing said, tossing a spirit stone into the flat desert.

Then, everyone saw a vortex appear around the spirit stone.

The vortex actually swept up the spirit stone, and in the blink of an eye, the spirit stone had disappeared without a trace.

Su Qing threw out ten spirit stones again, and ten whirlpools appeared in the desert. As the sand flowed, all the spirit stones sank into the sand.

“There are too many sandworms here. Anything that gets close will be swept up by the sandworms and fall into the quicksand,” Su Qing said. “But don’t worry, although these sandworms occupy this desert, ordinary sandworms are only as powerful as third or fourth-tier monsters.”

Upon hearing that it was only a third or fourth-tier demon beast, everyone relaxed.

"However, the Sandworm King is not so easy to deal with; it is an eighth-tier super monster. But as long as we don't get close, it won't easily detect us," Su Qing explained.

Su Qing was the first to jump into the desert. Quicksand formed around her, and soon she was swept into the desert.

Then, Xuan Qingye jumped down as well, followed by the others.

The whirlpool swallowed everyone up in the desert, leaving no trace.

Underground, Su Qing was surrounded by more than a dozen sandworms. Although these sandworms were only at the third or fourth level of combat power, there were many of them.

Tiny lightning snakes appeared on Su Qing's body. These small lightning snakes were extremely agile and quickly pierced into the sand worm's body.

The sandworm trembled, then quickly stiffened and became still.

After getting rid of the dead sandworms, Su Qing quickly found Xuan Qingye by following the fluctuations of spiritual energy.

Xuan Qingye's ice-attribute spiritual power made dealing with these sandworms very easy. The sandworms around him had long been frozen into ice sculptures, and with a light touch, they turned into a pile of ice shards.

Everyone fell to roughly the same spot, and after getting rid of the sandworms, they quickly found their companions.

For Core Formation stage cultivators, dealing with ordinary sand worms is an instant kill. It's just a pity for the two Foundation Establishment stage cultivators. At this moment, the sand worms around them are increasing, and the two who are being overwhelmed feel like they are about to suffocate and die.

Suddenly, the sand worm that had been wriggling stopped moving.

The two then discovered that all the sandworms were dead.

After digging out the sand worms, the two finally breathed a sigh of relief. They were lucky to have survived. They had no choice but to continue cultivating; if they didn't form their core soon, they might die in the Gobi Desert at any time.

"Follow me." Su Qing said. She was very familiar with the Sandworm Cave and it would be easy for her to find a place where the Sandworm King couldn't find it.

The Sandworm King wasn't actually that difficult to deal with, but killing it left them with one less layer of protection.

"This is it."

After passing through the narrow sandworm cave, the space suddenly opened up, revealing a very large area.

This space has been fixed in place by the sandworms' mucus, so the sand won't flow down at all; it's actually a good place for cultivation.

Su Qing turned around and set up a defensive barrier to block the entrance to the cave.

"This is a warehouse built by the sandworms. Anyway, they have plenty of warehouses, so we'll just occupy one that they won't notice."

Defensive arrays and spirit-gathering arrays were set up here, turning this sandworm's warehouse into a cultivation cave, making cultivation here much safer.

While they were cultivating in the Sandworm Cave, the cultivators who entered the Gobi Desert faced great challenges, and news of cultivators being killed kept reaching the outskirts of the Gobi Desert.

"How could there be such a large number of casualties all of a sudden? What? Even Nascent Soul stage cultivators have been killed?"

Meanwhile, on the Gobi Desert, the three guardians solemnly put away their weapons. They had just hunted down a group of cultivators: one at the peak of Core Formation, two at the early stage of Core Formation, and two at the peak of Foundation Establishment. None of them posed a threat to them. However, just before the peak Core Formation cultivator died, he sent out a signal, which attracted a Nascent Soul cultivator.

It took the three of them working together to barely kill this Nascent Soul cultivator.

"Isn't the Gobi Desert supposed to be sparsely populated with spiritual energy? How come there are so many human cultivators here?"

The Great Protector's expression was grave: "Quickly find that female cultivator, kill her, and then return to report to the Demon Lord!"

"yes!"