Mo Xingjue quickly dealt with the puppets chasing Le You and Shangguan Meng, and when he returned with his sword, his brows furrowed deeply.
"What's wrong?" Liu Haozhi asked.
"My spiritual power is draining away." Mo Xingjue's expression was solemn. At first, he thought it was his imagination, but after he attacked the puppet several times, he became certain of his suspicions.
Liu Haozhi was startled. "What's going on?"
“If we don’t use our spiritual power, the rate at which our spiritual power drains from our bodies is slow and almost imperceptible. But if we do use our spiritual power, the rate of loss is obvious.” Mo Xingjue said with a grave expression, “I suspect we have entered some kind of formation, a formation that absorbs the spiritual power of cultivators.”
hiss--
Everyone gasped in shock. "Does the cultivation world even have such a formation? This must be the work of an evil cultivator."
"I felt something was wrong as soon as I entered this place. There was a chilling wind blowing in, and sure enough, there was a problem."
"There is no spiritual energy here, probably because of this formation."
"Everyone, hold onto the spirit stones in your storage bags. We can't absorb any spiritual energy here, and there are a constant stream of puppets. Once we run out of spiritual energy and have no more spirit stones, we'll be doomed."
“There should be disciples from other sects here. We can go find them, gather together, and fight against those puppets.”
"I also think it's better for everyone to get together."
Everyone unanimously decided to unite the disciples of the major sects.
On Li Ze's side, there were no fluctuations of spiritual energy; only icy baleful aura surrounded him, so no puppets dared to ambush him. While other cultivators struggled to fight off the puppets, he was like a fish in water, almost becoming one with the baleful aura.
Unable to distinguish day from night in the white fog, Li Ze felt as if a long time had passed, yet it also felt like only a day or two, or even just a few hours.
His cultivation level has advanced from the mid-Foundation Establishment stage to the late-Foundation Establishment stage, and he is now heading towards the peak of Foundation Establishment. It is likely that he will form his core soon.
If it were someone else, even if they had enough murderous aura, they might not be able to advance so quickly, because if their mental state is not up to par, having murderous aura alone is not enough.
But Li Ze was different. He was already in the Nascent Soul stage before Ji Lin killed him, and he had lived in the interstellar space for twenty or thirty years. Not only his state of mind, but also his divine sense was enough to support him to advance to the Nascent Soul stage, or even the God Transformation stage.
After an unknown amount of time, when Li Ze's cultivation reached the Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, he forced himself to stop. There were not only many unknown dangers here, but also countless cultivators. If he accidentally leaked even a trace of demonic energy during his advancement to the Golden Core stage, those cultivators would definitely attack him en masse and kill him without hesitation.
Cultivators and demons are natural enemies, without exception.
If you can't break through, then go find someone first.
Li Ze allowed the malevolent energy to adhere to the surface of his body, and he endured the rapid drop in body temperature.
The fact that he could remain unharmed in this ruin for so long could be attributed either to the ruin itself being harmless, or to the malevolent energy emanating from it. His intuition told him it was the latter.
Meanwhile, a few days later, Mo Xingjue and his group found teams from several sects, such as the Tianyu Sect, the Chidan Sect, and several smaller sects.
Their situation is similar to that of the Floating Sect; they came in with over a hundred people, but now there are less than ten left.
When Mo Xingjue and the others found them, they were being attacked by a group of puppets. If they had been any later, they would have been in trouble too.
After being rescued by Mo Xingjue, Fengwu burst into tears. "Senior Brother Mo, please help me find my junior brothers and sisters."
“Our people are missing too, and we’re looking for them as well. Senior Sister Feng, why don’t we all search together?” Shangguan Meng suggested.
Fengwu naturally wouldn't refuse, "Okay."
Next, everyone exchanged information and gained a deeper understanding of this secret realm.
"It seems this really is a large formation, a formation that absorbs spiritual energy. This shouldn't be an ancient ruin, but rather the cave of some evil cultivator. We've been tricked."
"What do we do now? Is there anyone who can break this formation?"
“This is probably not easy. Not to mention that we can’t see it, even if we could, a formation set up by a Nascent Soul stage or even a Body Transformation stage would be difficult to break. I suspect that this formation is controlled by a powerful divine sense, which is the owner of the cave. He wants to achieve some sinister purpose by absorbing our spiritual power.”
"What sinister intentions?"
"resurrection!"
Upon hearing this, everyone present shuddered and involuntarily huddled closer to their fellow disciples.
"Therefore, I have reason to suspect that what we have lost is not only our spiritual power, but also our vitality!"
It's easy to check if your life has been taken away; just look at your physical and mental state. After checking themselves, everyone was so scared they almost cried.
"I thought I was just tired."
"Me too."
What should we do now?
As soon as the question was raised, everyone looked at Mo Xingjue in unison.
In the white mist, no one could see Mo Xingjue's expression. Mo Xingjue didn't say what to do, but only reminded them, "The puppet tide is coming again."
For the rest of the time, everyone was either killing puppets or holding spirit stones to absorb spiritual energy. Soon, a thick layer of stone dust accumulated under their feet, which was the dust that turned out when the spiritual energy of the spirit stones was exhausted.
"The tens of thousands of spirit stones in my storage bag have now dwindled to only a few thousand. If this continues, I don't think I'll last much longer."
"You still have several thousand left, while I only have a few hundred."
"Use it sparingly."
"There's no way to save it; either we'll run out of spirit stones or we'll lose our lives."
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